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June 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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That guy has asked me a question.
I know the answer to it, but I've forgotten it.
I'm trying to look it up.
That's why I'm a little late here.
Greetings, my friends.
The Rush Limbaugh program.
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It's a special Thursday edition of Open Line Friday.
Come on, Donovan, I gave you this script.
Why did you have to deviate from it?
Everybody always thinks they can do it better.
I was so hecked up.
I was so looking forward to the special open line Friday on Thursday.
But it works.
Thanks, Johnny.
Johnny Donovan only yelled at him once in 16 years, and I'm not going to do it twice in one day.
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If you want to be on the program, email address rush at EIBNet.com.
We'll not be here tomorrow.
That's why we're doing open line Friday on Thursday today.
Won't be here on Monday either.
I am moderating a panel discussion tomorrow from 10 to 12 noon in Washington of the Reagan Building, the largest auditorium they have in there.
I think 650700 people.
It's a discussion featuring the brains behind the TV show 24.
As you know it's my favorite show.
Joel Cerno, Robert Cochran, and Howard Gordon are the brains behind the show.
The cast members that will be on the panel, uh Chloe, Marriage and Marilyn Raiskub, uh President Logan, uh.
You want you want President Greg Itson is his name.
You want to you want you wanted to autograph it as President Logan or as Greg Itsen?
Both.
All right.
I'll see.
I don't usually ask people for their autographs.
I'm usually signing them.
Want me to go up and ask for autographs.
Uh and uh let's see who else goes.
Oh, Tony, uh Tony Almita, played by Carlos Bernard is also going to be there.
Michael Chertoff, director of Homeland Security.
Uh will lead off the panel discussion tomorrow.
Also, a couple scholars from the Heritage Foundation.
Um the title of this is 24 and America's image in fighting terrorism.
Fact, fiction, or does it matter?
Uh and uh we're gonna have all kinds.
I've got a list of questions to ask all these people.
Uh we're gonna try to get this done.
Chernoff's gonna go, I think go for 15 to 20 minutes, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and then after that we'll go uh the rest of like hour and thirty-five minutes uh for the actual panel, excuse me, with the uh 24 people.
I tell you what right now one of the questions I'm gonna ask is this show 24 numerous times a season, deals with the whole concept of the ticking bomb.
The ticking time bomb, would you torture somebody?
Would you torture somebody, a suspect if you knew that he knew where the nuke was or the weapon was that it was going to detonate and kill hundreds of thousands of people?
Uh since torture seems to be, and of course, on that show it does, and the American people watch this show, and I guarantee you.
American people watch this show, and one of two things, many things go through their mind, but one of two things.
Do we have anything like this CTU?
Is there a Jack Bauer out there?
Um they ask that, and uh and they ask uh, does this have any effect on people in government who watch this show?
So there will be a lot to discuss.
Now, as a special uh uh added bonus uh for subscribers at Rush Limbaugh.com.
We are going to offer live streaming from 10 to noon on the website, www.rushlimbaugh.com.
If you are a subscriber to the website, the live video webcast will start at 10 tomorrow morning.
Now I have to have to cover my bases.
We are we're not doing this ourselves.
We're partnering up.
Uh there are three parties.
We have to go through the Heritage Foundation and the Reagan Building, the Reagan Center itself.
They've assured us that they can handle the load that we will put on the uh on the servers, and we feel confident that that can happen.
We've been working all week.
Uh uh our web people have to make this happen.
We're we have put up a link.
We're gonna put up a link to the live video stream at the top of the homepage for Rush 24-7 members about an hour before the event starts.
So at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, uh, that link will go up at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It'll be available for subscribers only.
I wish we could make it available to everybody, but the costs that we're incurring here to do this are such that we we simply, if if if the millions of people in this audience accessed it, I uh the cost is simply something we can't give away.
So it's we're not earning a whole lot on this, uh trying to cost it out so it's uh zero sum game as best we can based on the number of subscribers that we have.
So all you'll have to do, all you subscribers and members will have to do is click on the link and watch it.
An archived version will be made available at a later date, just like I go out and do a rush to excellence tour, and we videotape it, we put it on CDs or DVDs rather, and sell and make available later, so it will be made available at a later date archive version at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Now I know some of you haven't subscribed, and you're probably thinking this is just a come on.
No, it's not just a come on.
Uh, since I'm not going to be here tomorrow, I'm going to be somewhere where I can be seen and observed, and we're just making it available to subscribers.
Not going to cost them a dime.
They're already paying for it.
Um if you want to subscribe, I mean, I I'll give you the come on here since you expect it.
If you want to subscribe, do it the cheap way.
Subscribe for a month, just uh sign up for $695.
Uh, it's an effect of $695 pay-per-view.
If you want to look at it that way, that's a one-month subscription.
Um with the next 29 days, you'll have total access to Rushlimbaugh.com to make up your mind whether you like it and want to continue to pay for it either monthly or you can buy it in one year, two-year, or 25-year increment.
No, I'm just kidding on the 25 years, but if you want to subscribe, it's just 695 essentially is as a pay-per-view event.
And it's going to be fun.
We've got a big dinner tonight.
Wish I could tell you where this is I'm I'm so excited, but I can't, I just do not announce where I'm going in advance.
Uh we've got a big uh big dinner of all the participants tonight in the uh panel uh at uh at 8 o'clock, but I am uh am hosting, co-hosting, and then uh we've got a really cool lunch tomorrow uh after the panel is over, and then Sterno and a bunch of us are uh going to take a guy's weekend to the Dominican Republic.
Uh and we'll be back Monday afternoon.
Uh the program will be back uh on Tuesday.
We've got Roger Hedgecock will be hosting the program tomorrow, and on Monday, Paul W. Smith from uh WJR in Detroit.
As I said yesterday, Paul W. Smith already preparing and doing uh homework for the show.
Uh so we you'll be left in um in good hands.
Now, quickly before we go to the break, you remember when Clinton signed the Family Medical Leave Act back in 1993.
It's one of the first things he signed uh shortly after his tax increase came.
He signed this thing, and I said, folks, I know how these liberals work, and this is not a solution to problem.
It's the creation of a whole new one.
And this is true.
I said, what what good is twelve weeks off if you can't afford it?
And what what you know who among us can take three months off work without being paid?
Who can do that?
It's only a matter of time, folks, before paid family medical leave is coming, and it'll be nationwide, and uh the employer will have to pay for the substitute.
Worker while the uh employee takes the leave.
Lo and behold, Time magazine.
Every new parent knows that having a baby means weeks without sleep.
Should it also mean weeks without a paycheck?
I I could have told you this was I did tell you this was going to happen.
Well, that's the stark choice, confronting Shannon Thomas, 21, a pre-scruel teacher in Southeastern Massachusetts.
Her employer, the Boys and Girls Club of Taunton, agreed to hold her job for about six weeks after her June 18th due date, but didn't offer any paid maternity leave.
My rent, my food, the hospital, those costs aren't gonna go away, she said.
So she quit.
She quit her $500 a week job three weeks ago and applied for state welfare assistance.
I'd rather work, but I had to get whatever help I could.
So she quit and signed up for welfare.
And of course, it figures at Time Magazine would find this person.
I'm not kidding you.
That's what it says.
So as she takes her improvised leave, lawmakers in Massachusetts are hammering out what they hope will be a better alternative.
The Massachusetts legislature plans to vote this week on a bill that would give all employees in the state twelve weeks of paid medical leave annually, 100% of their pay, up to $750 a week, plus the guarantee to hold their jobs to care for newborns or sick relatives.
And pretty soon sick dogs and cats and leaking swimming pool, uh, what have you.
If the bill passes, it would mandate the most generous paid leave policy in America.
It's the first of twenty-four similar proposals pending this year.
Family-friendly and popular with female voters, most of the bills are enjoying wide bipartisan support, says Deborah Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families.
We're seeing real movement toward more paid leave.
I'm sure you are.
I mean, this is let's grow.
Well, the employer pays for it.
Well, the employer pays the employer's got to pay the employees' leave up 750 bucks a week and keep the job open, and then, assuming the employee has work that matters, uh that r has to be replaced.
So you're paying two people while one of them isn't there, holding the job open for the one that's not there to come back.
I don't know what you do with the employee that's been moved in there.
Uh if you hire a new, I don't know, but it's it's the it's the it's the business.
The business that will pay for it.
This is no different than than what Maryland did to Walmart in its own in its own way.
Uh, and it's going to spread nationwide.
Um, well, yeah, see, that's an interesting question, because what's going to happen here, you know, businesses are not dumb folks, and most businesses, particularly small businesses like a boys and girls' clubs, they don't have a stash of cash in the back room that they're not using.
Oh, 750 a week for twelve.
Oh, yeah, we we got that covered, sure.
They don't.
Now, if you're an employer, and the objective is to get fixed costs nailed down as much as you can get the expense side, including labor, nailed, so you at least know what you're dealing with in terms of what you have to earn in order to break even a show of profit.
Um, how many women of child rearing age are going to be hired?
Now, it'll never be said during interview, you're not being hired, why you could get pregnant on me.
And I would you would cost me double when you're not here.
It won't be said.
How many women are actually going to get hired?
This stuff always has a cause and effect.
This will lead to new legislation.
And it'll it'll just keep spiraling, and what you'll get is more and more government control over how businesses hire and operate and what they pay, and that's what the Libs want.
Okay, I got lots of stuff here in a stack of stuff, and I want to get to some of this stuff because it's just too good to uh pass up.
In the uh in the first place, I I I heard about this uh uh last week when I was down in Florida, but it had not it had not made news outside of Miami, so I didn't uh do anything about it.
Now it has.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, has asked a federal judge to stop the Miami Dade County Scrual District from removing a series of children's books from its libraries, including a volume about Cuba, which depicts smiling kids in communist uniforms.
The ACLU and the Miami-Dade County Student Government Association argued in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Miami uh yesterday that the screw board should add materials with alternate viewpoints rather than remove books that could be offensive.
Last week the board voted six to three to remove Vamos a Cuba and its English language version, a visit to Cuba.
From 33 schools, they said the books were inappropriate for young readers because of inaccuracies and omissions about life in Cuba, which is a communist dictatorship.
The book is by Alta Schreier.
It targets students ages five to seven.
It contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba's communist youth group and a carnival Celebrating the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
The district owns 49 copies of the book in both Spanish and English.
The Scroll Board also decided to remove 24 other books in the series, including ones on Greece, Mexico, and Vietnam, despite not having uh received a complaint about those books and without having reviewed the books in its administrative process.
The whole controversy began in April when a parent who said he had been a political prisoner in Cuba complained about the book's depiction of life under communist rule.
The lawsuit alleges the book's removal violates students' rights to a free press, and that the volumes were removed without due process.
So what are we to conclude from this?
The ACLU shows what they really stand for.
I mean, they want communist propaganda made available to five to seven-year-olds in the Miami school district.
You can't teach anything about the Bible.
You can't teach anything about creationism.
You cannot teach a whole bunch of things that might offend people, but they can teach kids that communism is good.
Pete in Napa, California.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Megadiddle is rushed from the looney land of the left.
Thank you, sir.
Um I've always wondered this uh for many years, but I was just wondering, do you have an error parent for the golden EIB like when you uh decide to hang it up?
We are looking.
We have been looking um I can't tell you how many years there just isn't anybody.
Um I don't know how else to say it.
Well, you did say that you're gonna you're not gonna stop until everyone agrees.
Well, no, I I it's it's not, but you have to plan for emergencies.
Uh you know, I could get married, my wife could hate radio.
I slap myself.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Um I'm really in a good giddy mood here, folks.
You have to take all this as it comes.
Uh no, I w uh in a way, uh you know, the the you know the old slogan uh uh earn money while you sleep.
You heard that?
Well, it would be good to have somebody out there to groom and get ready uh to assume or even give them their own show or whatever.
Uh but it's um you know there's a there's a whole stable and cadre out there.
One of the things that I have found, and I I probably shouldn't say this because I'm gonna anger some people.
I I don't I don't uh I don't generally talk about this business much.
But I uh there are a lot of people that are that are in broadcasting today who have no foundational experience in it.
They come from other fields, uh and they have been judged to have uh brilliance or uh uh they're funny or what have but but broadcasting's like any other business.
And it's a talent, and it is uh uh uh you have it or you don't.
You could you can hit a 90 mile an hour fastball or you can't.
Uh the difference in the major leagues is they don't put people on the field who can't.
Uh in broadcasting, people who can't do it put out there all the time.
Uh now, uh and and and actually, in a sense, you could say in one sense that's good because everybody was clamoring uh more voices.
More voices, more diversity, more well, we've got 'em.
You may not understand what they're saying half the time, but they are out there.
Uh most of these liberal talk show hosts have no clue.
They've never done it before.
And you can tell the moment you listen to them.
You go to sleep.
They're boring.
Um I'm told I never listen, I don't have to listen to know that.
Uh so, you know, if if if I were actually in charge of trying to find the next successful broadcaster in this format, I wouldn't be looking in this format.
Might maybe depending.
But I'd be looking at somebody playing records, doing music, learning the trade, learning brevity as a soul of wit, learning a bunch of different things that go into making a a decent broadcaster, not just somebody who can talk and tell you what they think.
Because uh there are a lot of people that can do that.
But it's um it's it's something that uh it really hasn't crossed my mind yet because I mean, in the sense that you're asking about I have no thoughts of retiring.
I I really don't.
I I'm what else would I do?
Well, that's good, because I I you know I want you around for the next, you know, 30, 40 years.
Well, let's see.
I'd be uh thirty, forty years.
Ninety-five?
Yeah, we could do that.
Yeah.
You'll do that.
That'd be awesome.
Well, thank you very much.
I I appreciate that.
I I honestly, folks, I don't even think about uh uh retiring.
Doesn't it doesn't other people do Rush, right?
You're gonna quit someday.
Uh doesn't cross I guess I love this.
I mean I uh what what reason is there to go away?
It doesn't make any sense.
Nothing else I want to do.
Back after this, stay with us.
Thank you.
Open line Friday on Thursday, eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two is the number.
We go to Lakeland, Florida.
This is Brian.
Uh great to have you, sir, on the program.
Oh, Rush Diddles from Lakeland, Florida.
Thank you, sir.
I had a football question for you, uh, being that you're a Steelers fan.
Yes.
I was curious why the Pittsburgh Steelers logo only appears on one side of their helmet.
Well, that was because when the Steelers in 1962 first logoed their helmet helmet with the uh U.S. Steel logo, they got permission to change the U.S. Steel logo to Steelers.
Art Rooney was having financial problems, couldn't afford logos uh for both no, that's not.
That's here's here's why.
I do know this, and a lot of people ask this question.
They're the only NFL team where the logo is only on one side of the helmet, and it's only on the right side of the helmet.
When they when they got this logo, got this permission from U.S. Steel to uh change the logo and put it on the helmet, their equipment manager, the guy named Jack Hart, was told to put it only on one side of the helmet because they weren't sure they were gonna like it.
Uh because they had had no load, they used numbers on both sides of the helmet up until that time.
So they were they had a uniform change and they put the logo on the right side only.
It just it was randomly chosen uh on the right side.
In nineteen sixty-two, the Steelers went nine and five, and they became that was the winningest team in the history of the franchise since the nineteen thirties.
They had never had a great season like that.
So they they left the helmet alone.
If it was this is uh plus everybody was curious about it.
How come you only got that on one side?
They figure they had it a marketing thing, and they were a little superstitious about the logo being only on one side, having a factor being a factor in the fact that they went uh uh nine and five.
Uh so they changed the helmets from from gold to black.
Uh they were they were gold helmets when they first put the logo on, changed the helmets from gold to black.
That made the logo uh stand out even even more.
Um and so they just decided to leave it that way.
Uh uh because it was uh it was tied to their great season and everybody was curious about it.
And that's that's it.
There's no grand plan to it.
It's just one of these things that happened.
I appreciate it.
I always wondered.
Okay, now you know, Brian, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Chicago and John, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it's an honor and a privilege to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I'm very jealous with the uh 24 uh symposium going on tomorrow.
I'm just gonna have to catch the website.
But listen, a couple days off, you're gonna have uh the audience is gonna be down, everybody gets down when you're off the uh off the air.
I was wondering if you could reminisce back a little bit.
One of my favorite stories that you have ever told is the story of that little seal in Alaska when he was released back into the wild.
And I I don't want to tell any more than that.
I could not do it justice that you do.
I'll just sit back and and hopefully let you take it away and uh enjoy it again.
Yeah, be glad too.
It was this it was an otter, uh, which which makes it even better.
L little sea otter.
It was um it was an interesting day.
Uh uh what was his name?
Joseph Harwood uh was piloting the Exxonvaldees.
He had consumed uh massive quantities of adult beverages.
And uh Harwood ran aground uh in Prince William Sound and a huge oil leak ensued and panic erupted.
This is the environmentalist wanko's lived for this kind of crisis to prove that oil is bad.
And this oil seeped into the sound, and it just got all over the otters, it got all over the birds that were in there, got all over the beach, all over the rocks.
It was a it was an absolute mess.
In fact, it was sort of funny to watch people trying to clean the uh oil, the crude oil off of rocks with paper towels and dawn dishwasher detergent.
Uh uh dishwashing detergent.
So anyway, uh uh they they gathered up as many otters as they could.
Everybody loves otters.
You know, otters perform for human beings.
They go on their backs and put their little paws up there and they smile at us and we go, oh, our hearts melt.
So they got these waters and they cleaned them up.
And I think the cost was fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars per otter.
Now we know this happened because the insurance company that paid for this actually released the story.
After the sound had been mostly cleaned up, mostly by nature, by the way.
Nature will clean up oil spills because oil seeps into the ocean from the floor of the ocean every day, and the sea just eats it up.
That's rotten stuff out there at brine and saltwater.
It'll attack oil and clean it up and get out of get it out of there in record time.
Nature does these kinds of things.
So the Prince William Sound pretty pretty much cleaned, and it was time to release the first otter back into the wild.
It was it was a great day.
Everyone was very happy because what they thought was uh uh an incident was going to destroy the town and destroy their lifeblood and forever relegate them to misery.
They finally got it all cleaned up, and it's time to release the first otter, and they let all the kids out of school, had bands out there, and uh everybody's happy.
It's sort of like a parade.
Everybody gathered on the bank there, and they rolled a little otter out, the first otter in a cage on wheels.
And they wrote it, and everybody's excited, and the band are playing, and the kids are standing there with their moms and and their dads.
Look, mom, look, mom, there's the otter.
Oh, cool.
They roll the thing down to the water's edge.
Everybody's excited, hearts are pounding.
They open the cage door on the ocean side of the cage, and the otter swims out, jumps out there, and does what otters do, turned over on its back, puts little paws up like this.
People are going, yay!
All right, mom, look, we're back.
The otter's okay, good.
It was supposed to symbolize a massive re-release of cleaned up otters.
And the otter, of course, had its back to the open uh water.
Uh it was looking at the human beings on the shore, acting like idiots, but it was still entertaining them.
And about a hundred feet out, fifty feet out, out of nowhere, this giant orca surfaces at killer whale and just swallowed the otter.
The band stopped playing.
The kids looked at their parents.
Mommy, mommy, what happened?
What happened to your otter?
Well, nobody had the guts.
A whale ate it.
The insurance company sitting there watching, damn, $75,000 down a whale gullet.
And it was a great illustration of animal rights and the laws of nature.
But that's that's that's the story.
Now there have been people come along and dispute the story.
That Limbaugh made it up.
No, it was in an insurance company publication.
And I laughed, I'll admit, uh, that I left.
Not because I like the otter being killed, but that's just that's what happens out.
The otter had been paying attention rather than entertaining a bunch of human beings.
It might not still have had a chance.
But uh the whale, obviously hungry.
There hadn't been much in that body of water for a while because of the oil spill.
You hear about Ozzy Gheon, the manager of the Chicago White Sox.
He's from Venezuela, by the way, which is which is where Hugo Chavez is from.
For the second time in two years, the White Sox manager, Ozzy Gheon, has come under fire for an insensitive comment toward homosexuals.
He apologized Wednesday for calling a writer with whom he's been feuding a uh.
Can I am I allowed to say this, quoting him?
He used the F-word, he called him a fag.
I think the writer is Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun Times, who appears on ESPN's around the horn show.
Uh he apologized for calling Marriott that that tame term, but said he doesn't think Ghean doesn't think that he should be suspended for the comments.
He sidestepped a question about the possibility of sensitivity training.
I will apologize to people I offended because I should have used another word, uh, he said before uh yesterday's game against St. Louis Cardinals.
I should have called him something different.
Uh Gheean didn't leave out many profanities in an angry 90-second criticism of Mariotti at the end of a 40 minute session with reporters before Tuesday's game, faulting the writer for not showing up in the clubhouse of the dugout before or after critical columns.
Guian on Tuesday said that Marriott can kiss my effing ass.
Mariani, who is also a regular commentator on ESPN, said he believes Gheon should be suspended for the slur.
Richard Levin, spokesman for Major League Baseball, said, We're looking into it.
He said he didn't want to speculate on the possibility of Major League Baseball ordered sensitivity training.
Anybody have any guesses what's going to happen here?
He offended somebody at ESPN.
At any rate, you know, it's I don't know.
People are going to misunderstand.
This is guys.
This is sports.
It's amazing.
Men do these things.
But he said it in the presence of others and so on.
I I can understand all the sensitivity to this.
But these.
Um, no, no, no, Mr. Snerdley.
You're you're dating yourself.
Uh it used to mean cigarette.
It used to be cigarette.
And and uh uh gay used to mean happy.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, the doctor of democracy, America's truth detector, general all-round good guy, harmless lovable little fuzzball, open line Friday on Thursday.
Some stories out of Ohio.
Uh these are just too good.
Medicaid officials in Ohio.
Say that they'll not immediately be able to enforce the deadline, July 1st.
That requires Medicaid recipients to prove their U.S. citizenship.
This is a federal requirement.
And the state of Ohio says, we can't, we can't, we can't.
Ohio says it needs more time to advise people who may be at risk of losing their health care coverage.
October 1st is now the target date for enforcement in Ohio.
Uh Congress has, you know, passed legislation earlier this year intended to keep illegal aliens from improperly receiving Medicaid.
New guidelines say that people applying for Medicaid must produce a passport, a birth certificate, or other documentation proving that they are citizens.
Critics say that locating these documents could be difficult for the mentally ill, the homeless, and Democrats who have a tough time uh having photo IDs uh taken for their right to vote.
It's really tough thing to prove you're a citizen, folks.
They really have to people in Ohio understand this.
Very, very tough to find your passport.
Very, very, very tough to find your birth certificate.
Really, really tough to provide other documentation.
So they're gonna wait.
Democrats in Ohio are accusing Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell of playing politics with his campaign website for governor.
Democrats say, I'm not kidding about this.
The Democrats say that Blackwell's website has a voter registration form that's easy to use.
And that's not fair.
It's the Democrats are accusing Ken Blackwell of playing politics with his campaign website for governor.
They say that his website has a voter registration form that's easy to use.
Voters can simply fill out the form online, print it out, and mail it in.
And that's it's just too easy.
On the Ohio Secretary of State's website, users are required to print the form and fill it out by hand.
But on Blackwell's site, you can fill it out online on your computer and then print that out.
And that's not fair.
Democrats said that is too easy.
I'm not making it up.
Jennifer Brunner is the Democrat candidate for Secretary of State.
She accuses Blackwell of wanting to make it easier for his supporters to register to vote.
Folks, I know you're sitting there.
You don't believe this.
These are the people that's right.
These are the people who brought us motor voter.
These are the people who can't figure out butterfly ballots.
These are the people think they're getting shafted by D-bold voting machines.
A spokesman for the Blackwell campaign denied the claim that it's easier to register on.
Come on, Ken, don't deny it.
Say it's easy.
You you're interested in people participating in the process.
Responding to the criticism of spokesman for the Secretary of State's office says the state will make its website more user friendly.
Just amazing.
And then there's this.
This is from all AP.
I'll AP.
The headline's enough here.
Ohio's 2000 and 2004 elections still not over for some.
President Bush is uh almost midway through his second term.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Roble, uh Alice Robey Resnick is nearly retired, yet the elections that got them there are still subject of contention in Ohio courts and in political circles.
They're not going to give up.
The Democrats they're going to keep investigating pre-war intelligence until they find something that went wrong.
They're going to keep for this election cycle, they'll do it for 08.
Try this headline.
This is Associated Press.
Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy labs.
According to two different studies, the lessons for humans, clean living may make us sick.
The theory here is that if you put yourself in near antiseptic conditions, your immune site or your immune system weakens because it doesn't have that much to do.
And then when you when you get yourself into a circumstance where there's real, you know, dirt germs, whatever, your immune system is not is not able to deal with it and goes nuts, making you even sicker.
But if you live, you know, in a rat's nest, if you're uh if you're not that oriented toward uh uh antiseptic hygiene, uh surround yourself with some uh dirt now.
Your immune system's gonna kick butt.
And it's gonna take a lot to make you sick.
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Scott in Jackson, Mississippi.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday on Thursday.
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I'll get right to it.
Uh, I'm a 13-year army veteran.
I believe I've got a plausible scenario as to why our State Department of White House would not reveal too much information or even any information about these weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.
I want to hear it.
Well, it it's it's like this.
American population has to understand nuclear chemical and biological weapons by their nature are difficult to develop, even more difficult to transport, to maintain an inventory and to deliver for use.
As a result, depending on the level of refinement that our intelligence community finds with these weapons, it's very possible that we can determine exactly which laboratory in what country, and around the time these these weapons were developed.
The foreign policy implications of that information, if it were, say, for example, a member of the UN or UN Security Council Nation, and it was after 91, given the sanctions put on Saddam.
I think our president has the wisdom to keep that information quiet and use it as a foreign policy bargaining chip, if you, if you will, rather than a I told you so or got you in a domestic, you know, uh political situation.
What do you think?
Well, it sounds plausible uh as you mention it.
And in fact, uh Lieutenant General uh McInerney was on Fox last night, essentially said the same thing, only different circumstances.
He said that he's pretty convinced that the weapons of mass destruction were moved out of uh of Iraq into Syria, three locations into Syria plus the Bacau Valley.
He thinks the Russians were instrumental in actually moving them, uh, but the Chinese and the Russians uh or the Chinese and the French were all involved as well.
Those are three members of the U.N. Security Council.
And uh his theory is the president does want to call them out.
There's Security Council members and so forth.
Uh the only uh uh you know, I I'm I'm open to anything that makes sense to me because nothing I come up with myself does.
Uh but you're right, I'm oriented toward the domestic policy implications of it.
However, uh if we if we're if we're playing those uh aces in the hole cards by having I don't see it helping us with the Chinese.
I don't know if it's helping us too much with the Russians, but your scenario it makes sense as far as it goes, and I appreciate your phone call.
We'll be right back.
Close it out.
Okay, gotta go, folks.
Gotta slip out of here, flight of D.C., big dinner tonight.
Don't forget the 24 panel tomorrow, homeland security, 10 to noon at the Reagan building, streamed live for subscribers at Rushlinbaugh.com.
The link will be up about nine o'clock tomorrow at W.rushlinball.com.
Uh see you on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend.
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