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July 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 27, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
This portion of the Rush Limbaugh program dedicated to Chicago, Chicago City Councilwoman Tony Preckwinkle.
My I have some questions.
I wonder, does Tony Prickwinkle know Carol Shakeshaft?
*crickets*
And I'm also wondering if Tony Preckwinkle has a son named Peter.
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Well, you know, it it's this is really uh sort of strange.
I'm I'm surprised the second state in the row has done this now, the Washington Supreme Court.
You know, and that's that's not even a Democrat state.
That's a far-left state.
I mean, you got pockets of reasonable people out there, but this is a it's a far-left state.
And the Washington Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gay marriage yesterday, dealing the gay rights movement its second major defeat in less than a month in a liberal leaning state that was regarded as a promising battleground.
That leaves uh Massachusetts as the only state to allow gays to get married.
It was a five-to-four decision.
And the court said a lawmakers have the power to restrict marriage to a man and a woman, and it left intact uh Washington State's 1998 Defense's Marriage Act.
Earlier this month, New York's high court dealt gay couples a similar blow uh when it upheld a state law against same-sex uh marriage.
Uh Wednesday's ruling surprised and delighted gay marriage opponents given Washington State's liberal politics, particularly in Seattle.
Uh John Russell, the field director for the Conservative Faith and Freedom Network.
This is more than we could have imagined.
We're shocked and we're pleasantly shocked.
We're we're prepared for the other direction.
So were they.
Uh disappointment uh was perhaps greatest in Seattle, home of the state's most visible gay community.
The state representative Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat, and one of four openly gay state lawmakers said there aren't words to describe how hurt people in the gay and lesbian community are.
There's a lot of tears, and there's a lot of anger out there.
Emotion.
Excuse me, my friends.
I'm getting teary myself.
Just a second.
I normally don't do this with the microphone live, but the story has overcome me.
There's a lot of raw emotion out there in this uh story, he said.
Uh the state Supreme Court overruled two lower courts that had found the ban violated Washington's constitution privilege and immune immunities section.
Okay.
Now Michael Steele.
This is sort of odd.
The first the first uh story here is that President Bush, despite you know what Steele is saying?
Steele is saying if I were get this right, he's saying I I uh this was supposed to be off the record.
He said it's supposed to be off the record.
Now you don't Michael, come on, Lieutenant Governor.
I've never met him.
Lieutenant Governor, this you know, you knew what you were doing.
I mean, you don't go to lunch at a steakhouse.
Inside the beltway of the nation's capital with nine drive-by media journalists, and expect your identity to not be leaked.
You don't.
Anyway, anyway, President Bush, however, despite all of this, I love the guy.
Absolutely love the guy.
I still want to go to Maryland for him.
If he doesn't want me there, though, I won't go.
But I'll go if he does.
But I support him.
He's a great Republican.
And I think we need him in the Senate.
Tony Snow told reporters Bush still supported Steele, wanted him to win.
The president, the first lady, the president's father, Carl Rove.
Why, this administration's been in Maryland campaigning for steel already.
We want him to become the next uh U.S. Senator.
Look, the president understands what politics are about, and he wants Mike Steele to be elected as a senator.
Next, uh Steele said it was just a joke.
Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele on Wednesday called President Bush his homeboy.
And reversed course on having the president campaign for him, so he was joking when he described his um Republican affiliation as a scarlet letter.
So I've been quoted as calling the president my homeboy, you know, and that's how I feel.
It's a term of affection, respect for his leadership of our country at a difficult time.
Uh now the post quoted him, the well, didn't quote him, an unnamed candidate as saying the GOP controlled Congress should just shut up and get something done.
The Iraq war didn't work.
We didn't prepare for the peace.
The response to Hurricane Katrina was a monumental failure of government, and that there's a palpable frustration right now in the country.
Um I need it, I need some help on this.
Because I keep hearing this.
I was just, I just saw and I was reading it, because I couldn't listen to it.
David Rodham Gergen of the famed Harvard Kennedy School, whatever it is, was on Fox, and I cast the president's poll numbers are out and they're down again.
Well, and Gergen sounded very uh very learned.
Uh actually he may be very educated.
He's not very learned, but nevertheless, he's trying to sound learned.
And he's um is sitting there saying, Well, you know, there's just a sense of unease out there.
Pulpable unease.
Um gas prices, um, uncertainty about the economy and so forth.
And you know, I I need to ask your s you you people to help me out on this.
I, no matter where I go, I don't I do not hear that.
And I don't get it.
Now, I I understand as I said last hour that we're at Wall.
And of course, that's that obviously is going to upset people, but in the general, these people are trying to say, and then Michael Steele is echoing it here.
They're trying to say that there's a general malaise out there.
Now, I remember a melee in the late 70s in the first part of the 1980.
I mean, I remember 20% interest rates.
I remember was 20%, 14% unemployment.
I remember all that.
Uh and and I I remember back then I wasn't making a whole lot of money, and and it became worth less and less every month, it seemed as inflation kept climbing.
Uh I remember melees.
Uh I look at this economy and I look at the massive growth.
I guess just in the last 33 months, we have added uh 20% to the GDP.
We've grown in the exact same amount of the entire Chinese economy in just the last 33 months.
We look at all the new homes that are being built.
I know the home prices up, the uh uh the dream house, the first home, whatever it is, uh prices up, but it all every prices always go up.
Uh except on consumer electronics when the rich, as was explained yesterday by the first batch of these things that come out that lowers the price for everybody else, those prices do go down.
Comp USA guys were in here just the other day.
What do you mean?
Do I have this thing in here?
Yeah, I got this thing in my pocket.
One of the things that they are going to be uh uh pushing here coming up soon, for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
Did I need one more switch?
Let me zoom in.
This this thing looks just like a what we what does this look like?
A PES dispenser.
Looks a little bit just part of a PES dispense.
This is a four gigabyte flashcard.
Four gigabytes.
This is this has got as much data as you can put on a DVD.
And it uh I think it's a hundred and I'm uh don't quote me on the price, I don't remember exactly 129 dollars or something like that.
I can remember I bought a Mac SE 30.
The SE 30 had a 30 gigabyte hard drive, and it was something like $1,800.
Here's four gigabytes.
If you're not careful, you'll lose this thing.
It's plastic, drop it around, just plug it into your USB port on your computer.
It was 16,000 pictures on this thing.
The prices are coming down.
Technological advancement is at an all-time high.
We're advancing th the first 103-inch plasma TV was announced the other day.
I mean, we folks, uh it's changing so fast.
I don't get this palpable uh what did he call unease.
Uh this this palpable nervousness or uh what have you.
I I you know when I go out and talk to people, the things that they're upset about are liberals.
They're upset about Democrats.
Some of them are upset that Bush isn't forceful enough here or forceful enough there, but in terms of the overall you know, I'm folks, I uh I I really have to be honest with you about something.
If there is a palpable unease in this country, or what what is the word?
I want to get the exact word palpable frustration.
If there is a palpable frustration in this country right now, then I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna look you right between the eyes and tell you you are a spoiled brat.
Yes, you are.
You don't think they're spoiled brats out there?
Um I'm not talking about forget strip ideology out there.
I'm talking human beings.
Lebbe let me give you a little comparison, may I?
Let's look at the power outage in Queens.
How long did the power outage in Queens go?
Was it uh did they get it fixed, eight or nine days?
For this thing is 179, four gigs, but it's reusable, not like a DVD.
Four, it's it's it's it's amazing.
I I I've been playing around with it just to play around with it.
At any rate.
How long did it go up there?
How long was that power?
Nine days.
But the power's back on, right?
All right.
Okay, just make it the power's nine days.
Now, I understand that was tough.
That's hard.
Power goes out in the middle of summer, air conditioning's not on, food goes to hell, uh, no fans work, phone, who wants the phone to work anyway when you live in New York.
There's always somebody on the other end.
Uh you've got, I mean, virtually no relief.
They had to pass out ice, and we think the world's coming to an end.
And it was just uh when did Mr. Carrier invent air conditioning in the late 40s, I believe.
It was just something like 60 years ago.
That was everyday life in this country, other than fans and so forth.
Do you know that how would you like to be in Israel right now with rockets raining down on you?
I'm saying there everything is relative, but Victor Davis Hansen has a piece.
I should have printed it out.
Victor Davis Hansen has a piece.
What happens if the 70s happen again?
What happens if interest rates all of a sudden shoot up to 14% or 20% and unemployment goes to 14%?
What happens if the Chinese call in some of the massive debt that they're holding in our in our T bills?
What happens if there's just a little shakeup?
Here we're doing better than human human beings have ever done, and there's this palpable frustration out there.
I I if there is, I understand it, things are relative.
Our expectations are based on our experiences.
So it's like my dad and mom kept constantly, you've got to save money and you've got to go to college.
Why?
Great depression.
Why, if it does a depression, you won't get a you won't get a job without a college degree, and if there's another depression, without savings account, you're not gonna have any money at all.
I said, Dad, I didn't live through the depression.
I can't I could I can read about it, try to understand it, but I can't I can't relate to it.
The formative experience in his life.
It was the it was the one of the one of the building blocks of the way he and my mother tried to raise my brother and me.
They were constantly harping on uh the experiences they went through in the Great Depression.
Well, that I you'd have heard my my rant on this.
We have such relatively cushy lives compared to our parents and grandparents, and we've had to go out and invent traumas to tell us we have stress in our lives.
The stress is real because we create it.
Stress is there, but it's a different kind of stress.
It's man-made, all these new syndromes that we've got.
What is this palpable frustration?
Is this just a drive-by media line?
Is this a liberal line?
It really exists out there?
There's a palpable frustration among a majority of Americans, Mr. Snerdley?
Well, that's what they're trying to they're trying to say that a majority of Americans is at a palpable frustration.
Um There's a secondary thing about that that bothers me if it's true, and that is the idea that anybody in government can fix your palpable frustration is absurd.
I'm I'm a little long in this segment.
I've got to go.
Think about that.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Hi, welcome back.
Uh correct myself on the uh the date of air conditioning in um uh residential settings.
I thought it was the 40s.
It actually started in 1924.
Willis Havilland carrier.
Uh the well, he's he's credited for inventing air conditioning.
He actually wasn't the first one to do it, but he's the first one to do it safely and economically.
Somebody would come up with a system prior to his.
Uh he actually air conditioned a uh Brooklyn printing plant uh in 1902, just a year after he graduated from Cornell with a uh master's in engineering.
And the uh what was the name of his machine?
What did he got a patent for the apparatus for treating air?
The apparatus for treating air, and he understood it to key was removing humidity from the air.
Uh as well as as generating cool air.
Um, which air conditioners don't that's what they do, both do uh do both things.
Cooling for human comfort rather than industrial need began in 1924, uh noted by the three carrier centrif uh yeah, centrifuge chillers installed in the J. L. Hudson department store in Detroit.
Shoppers flocked to the air conditioned store.
The boom in human cooling spread from the department stores to the movie theaters, most notably the uh Rivoli Theater in uh New York.
Uh in 1928, the first residential weather maker and air conditioner for private home use uh uh was developed.
I think I think it was actually the 30 or 40s when buildings uh uh office buildings began to be air conditioned.
Now, point is I'll tell you what, folks, I think about it all the time.
I don't know how people.
It was not cooler back then.
Don't see it wasn't cooler back then.
1955, you can go back, but the dust bowl don't give me this.
It was cooler then.
It's been like the you know, this summer may be hotter than ever before, they're saying sunspots probably.
Okay, so let's say average temperature is ninety-five this year versus ninety-three.
I defy you to go outside and be able to tell whether it's ninety-three or ninety-five.
By the time you get there, it's hot.
And in July, in most places, it's hot.
And it wasn't that long ago that they there was no air conditioning.
And take a look at the way people dressed.
Multiple layers of of clothes and so forth.
They were just used to it.
There was nothing else.
I mean, there was no other expectation.
Uh you know, nobody thought to live in their refrigerator.
Uh don't know what inspired Mr. Carrier to get going on his idea.
Uh anyway, I've got the the Victor Davis uh Hanson uh column on all this, and I do want to share some excerpts with uh you in the next half hour.
But Jim and Coral Gables, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Uh thanks, or I heard you talking about uh I mean, I'm a loyal listener.
I've listened to you for a long, long time, and I've heard you make the same argument about the minimum wage over and over again.
Yes, yes.
That if ten dollars is good, why not twenty?
Why not thirty?
Why not 40?
Right, right.
Right.
Well, there's a balance to everything.
It's like if one Viagra is good, why not ten?
Why not 20?
Why not 30?
Uh you just got to balance things.
$10 is a good level for a minimum wage.
If you're working 40 hours a week, you should make a living.
I love you people.
That's one of the silliest arguments I've ever heard.
We're talking about economics, not personal behavior here.
And econom let me let put it to you, put it to you this way.
Um uh, Jim.
What do you say 30 Viagra?
Um the the raise in the minimum wage, Jim, all of you, all it is is a tax on business.
That's the that's the real disguised purpose of it.
It is a tax on business.
And And when an arbitrary increase in labor costs, such as the minimum wage is forced on a business, guess what happens?
Some people lose their jobs.
Most small businesses do not have piles of money sitting around.
Oh, you want us to raise the minimum?
Fine, we'll go back to our bank account there.
We just have piles of money unused, and we'll use that.
No, they've either labor cost or labor costs, and they're fixed, or they you try to fix them as best you can uh over the course of a year.
That's why they negotiate long-term union contracts so business know what their fixed costs are going to be.
You try to nail down as much of that as you can.
Well, if you're going to force an arbitrary minimum wage on somebody, somebody's going to lose their job, or the price for your service or product is going to go up.
There's a ripple effect.
This is just a hidden tax on business, is all the minimum wage is.
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All right, what was uh what was that last guy from uh Coral Gables?
What was his name, HR?
I forgot his name already.
Jeff.
All right, Jeff and Coral Gables.
You talked about balance.
And see, and I I I knew that when people started calling about this, it's compassionate.
There has to be a balance.
You don't take 30 or 40 Viagra, you take whatever you take, or whatever.
And I understand that people's argument, but you have to understand that there is no sense of proportion or balance in the whole concept.
The moment you start asking yourself, to me anyway, with the the the whole, the simplest way to disqualify the minimum wages when you start asking yourself, okay, what would be fair?
What would be well you're already making an arbitrary judgment, not based on balance.
Five dollars an hour, five fifteen, now we're gonna raise it to seven or whatever, ten.
These this is all arbitrary.
Well, we think uh businesses can afford this.
Uh businesses should be able to absorb the uh the increases here and provide much needed uh uh uh wage uh increase uh benefits for lower income workers.
It's all arbitrary.
Because I thought the purpose of the minimum wage was to be nice to people.
And ten dollars an hour ain't nice when you could do twenty.
When you could do thirty.
Nobody's talking about trying to write a strike a balance here.
Nobody's trying to find that perfect thing that defines a livable wage, livable according to who.
Let's define that.
You start letting the government mess around in defining livable wage, folks.
I'm telling you, I know you're a bunch of softies out there and you fall for this.
It's just it's this compassion, and you're not paying for it, you know, old Zeke down at the hardware store is gonna pay for it.
Uh doesn't affect you, and uh, you can make yourself feel good by uh by supporting it.
Uh Gino in St. Louis, Gino, you got your power back yet.
Good morning, Mr. Linda.
How are you doing today?
Good.
Do you have your power back yet?
Uh I'm not actually from St. Louis, sir.
I'm from Chicago.
But I'm a truck driver.
Oh, so you're in St. Louis?
Yes, sir.
I got it.
Okay.
Okay.
Now the reason I think you're missing the point here.
The reason that they don't want Walmart in Chicago is it destroys the flavor and the smell and the feel of a town.
And you know, in Chicago, I could use a little smell difference, but you can't tell the difference between any of the suburbs around Chicago and they Walmart does have them rings.
Schomburg, uh, uh Mount Pleasant, uh, Stoke.
They're all about the same going in and out.
It's uh it's a darn strip mall.
You do have a Walmart, you have a Kentucky fried chicken, a Taco Bell, uh Hey, hey, hey, let's not discriminate.
Don't do whether the illegal immigrants are getting hit hard enough.
Don't start talking about Taco Bell in a bad light.
I I like I like the food net, but that every town looks exactly the same.
And why would you go to Chicago to shop at a Walmart that looks like the Walmart you have in your town?
Well, it's not the that's I don't think that's the right question.
I but you know what you're doing?
You you have you have fallen prey, and I know you're a smart guy.
You have fallen prey to the argument that Walmart destroys mom and pop locations, stores, and the individual aromas and flavors of neighborhoods, right?
That's that's what they that's what they use to to spin this and try to create a public groundswell against Walmart.
Uh hell I went through that in my little town and it didn't involve Walmart.
It involved a mall in my little town, Main Stream, Mainstream Street.
We got a mall there.
Just hang on.
Let me tell the story.
Little town, 25,000 people, Main Street was it.
My dad's law office was there.
Every store that counted was on Main Street.
Woolworth's the whole thing.
Right out of right out of it's a good life, wonderful life, that Christmas movie of Jimmy Stewart.
That was our main street.
Broadway, which fed into it, and Broadway was the street that the teenagers all cruised in their jalopies trying to build cool on Friday and Saturday night, and the kids didn't do homework like me did it Monday through Friday nights, too.
But then all of a sudden they built a mall.
Now I don't I forget how how um uh long ago this was.
It's not that long, a 20 years, 25, build a mall, and the main street merchants tried to stop it.
The mall was gonna be anchored by, I think a famous and bar, which St. Louis store at the time, and maybe a Macy's or something like that.
It was gonna be a mall.
It was going to attract people from three different states Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky.
And the main street guys, the bulwark of the town, the backbone of the town.
Why they were they were up for they were just uh perplexic.
They didn't know what to do, and they started recruiting people to try to stop the mall from being built.
This is this is normal.
This has happened throughout the nation's history.
Now you could say, uh, Gino, that there are malls everywhere around them.
In fact, most kids, when you ask them where they live, they'll identify their neighborhood by which mall they're closest to.
I live next to the gardens.
I'm out there near the garden.
Oh, okay, I know where you live.
Uh so Walmart is they didn't create any of this.
Walmart didn't start any of this.
And by the way, Main Street and Cape Girardeau is still open.
There are restaurants, there are stores.
They're not they're not the same stores you'll find in the mall, but main streets alive and cooking down there, just the the business that were there either stayed and gave it a run or relocated out to the mall or what have you.
Things, I mean, things, things are constantly in uh in in progress like this.
I mean, I can't I I just had another example of this off the uh tip of my tongue, and I can't think of it.
But the the whole notion that this is all about saving mom and pop stores is really not what this is about.
What this is about is unions.
Pure and simple, it's about unions.
The unions are threatened by Walmart because Walmart doesn't pay union wage.
They're not union employees.
But the the people that would work at the Walmart for that rate, they couldn't afford to live in that place anyways.
And by jacking up Walmart's rates a little bit, they're not going to be able to do that.
Well, sell their product for a little bit more for that store price.
You know something to peace.
Dalton is not begging for Walmart to come in.
Don't understand the fear.
Do you know how many people who work in San Francisco can afford to live within 50 miles of it?
Uh it would stun you how few.
They're now commuting from Sacramento.
That's an hour and a half commute some days to get into work in San Francisco.
I understand that.
It's not Walmart.
This Congress lady, she just does the It's liberals.
She's just getting a lot of leg work out of this minimum wage thing.
I mean it's nothing to do with the people who couldn't care.
Are you a union driver?
No, sir.
I'm a uh no, I'm a company driver.
Don't know unions.
All right.
Well, I know there wouldn't have been anything wrong with it.
I was just, I was just, I was just curious.
I'm not a big union fan.
My father was a union uh worked for a trucking company his entire life, and I didn't really care for it because you were just a number.
Well, my dad represented union people, so we've got we're s we're even.
I like knowing the guy that signs my paycheck, and I like uh yeah, I don't want to come from some corporate office.
Here's the thing about this.
Who do you have in a Chicago City Council?
Liberal Democrats.
Who do liberal Democrats claim, and I'll bet a lot of them are are are minorities, uh people of color, black.
What what are they what what is what is the thing that liberal democrats want to be known for the most, other than that they hate war and they hate Bush.
Protecting the little guy.
Standing up for the downtrodden, the forgotten, the stepped on, the kicked aside, the trampled upon, the near dead, the hungry, the thirsty.
Who does Walmart serve?
The trampled upon, the downtrodden, the hungry, and the thirsty.
Walmart serves and exists to serve their constituents.
And yet the Democrats, it's just like the Kelo decision.
The liberals all were for the kilo decision because they will they're gonna be loyal to a government before they'll be loyal to any human being.
Rich, poor, white, black, doesn't matter.
I mean, they'd sell Jesse Jackson down the road if it meant something about government getting big.
My point with this is that you've got a bunch of frauds out there who are I mean, Walmart is made to order for the Democrat constituency.
Look at the liberal enemies list.
If you want to find out the other Exxon Mobil, big pharmaceutical, big food, Walmart, big box stores, all take a look at their enemies list.
It's the backbone of America.
It's the people that are technologically advancing the country.
It's the people doing the inventing, it's the people that are uh making it possible.
You know, you you bring up all these oil execs after their record profits, and you grill them up there in Congress.
I would love for one oil exec to say to member of Congress, what the hell have you done to deliver one drop of gasoline to anybody in this country?
In fact, you're standing in our way of doing it.
And you have the guts to chew me out because of our profits when we don't even control the price the price of oil worldwide.
You're talking to the wrong crowd.
What have you guys ever done to produce oil?
What have you done to produce any uh uh derivative of oil that helps this engine of this economy run?
It's absurd.
And so the the the liberal Democrat enemies here are the people that make the country work.
It is stunning.
At Walmart, I put that in in the uh uh put Walmart in that in that category.
Now what did you just shout at me about Walmart?
What did you decide?
Who?
Well, I no, I know that Snerdley shops at Walmart too.
I'm I didn't mean to portray that Walmart was only for the downtrodden and the miserable and so forth.
I'm just saying they're a discounter.
You know, it's like at Christmas, do you know, folks?
I don't know about you, but only at Christmas time do people shop for bargains.
The drive-by media has a routine uh series of pieces.
Christmas sales lagging, customers waiting for bargains.
Really, is that new?
Customers look for bargains every damn day, and they find them at Walmart.
Uh I didn't mean to portray Walmart as uh, you know, only open to uh uh that group of people.
No, a lot of people shop there, but I'm just telling you, that's the Democrat constituency.
And they're out doing everything they can to keep their constituents from getting into these stores and saving a little money.
It's it's just it's absurd.
I gotta run.
Uh uh quick time out here, folks.
Uh stay with us.
Don't go away.
Say, Mike, grab uh audio soundbite number six.
This uh lunatic uh Eamon Al-Zawahiri uh back with a new uh new video.
By the way, uh reporter on CNN said, Yeah, this is exciting.
He's wearing the white turban today.
Means he's no longer in mourning for Zarkawi.
And they were also excited he's got a new set.
He rather just sitting in front of a bunch of cloth.
Looks like Al-Qaeda's built a set.
They're very excited about the I mean, even technological advancements taking place with Al Qaeda.
So um uh here's Zawahiri.
Uh I will translate this as uh let's see as we go.
You can't fool us.
You think you're gonna get away with allowing the Hezbows to get all the buzz and all the attention.
We thought the drive-by media in America loved us.
But they love the Hezbows.
Well, Al Qaeda's still number one terrorist group.
Understand, Al Qaeda's number one.
The Hismos are trying to steal our audience and trying to steal our fame and to steal our credit.
Okay, so we haven't done much lately.
Our ratings may be down.
We have our own TV studio now.
Katie Couric turned us down, CBS Patermore.
You will notice us.
Screw you.
You will die everywhere.
That's as much as I can understand.
That's it.
That's that's uh Amon Al-Zawahhiri uh this morning on Al Jazeera Television.
Uh here's a shocker from uh Reuters, actually the World Health Organization.
Uh the as many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun.
The sun's killing more people than the automobile.
And we can't ban the sun.
And by this has nothing to do with global warming.
This is uh skin cancer, malignant skin cancer.
About 48,000 deaths every year caused by malignant melanoma, 12,000 uh by other kinds of skin cancer.
Ninety percent of such cancers are caused by ultraviolet light uh from the sun.
Radiation also causes uh sunburn and skin aging and eye cataracts and it'll kill you out there, folks.
It'll just kill you.
This next headline I am not making up.
This is a story out of Switzerland.
I'm not making this headline up.
Bears must stick to rules or be shot.
A month after neighboring Germany gunned down an errant bear named Bruno, the government has issued guidelines on how the animals can avoid a similar fate in Switzerland.
Now, would somebody tell me who is gonna tell these new rules to the bears?
Are they gonna post them in the woods for them to read?
Are we gonna prepare DVDs for them?
Maybe send them FedExes.
How are we gonna get the new rules to them?
And how long do they have to learn them and then to comply?
I'm not making this up.
The Bear Strategy published on Tuesday maintains that bears and humans can coexist peaceably, but enables regional authorities to shoot to kill if public safety is threatened.
So the bears, they have to stick to the rules.
If they threaten public safety, they can be shot.
Somebody's gonna have to tell them this.
I'm not making it up.
Uh uh, I'm holding it here for those of you on the Ditto camera to be able to see.
What's this?
What's this?
Oh, there's a uh uh a new survey out there that says America's amateur golfers are an unhealthy group, according to an unscientific online survey published by the uh in the August issue of golf digest.
Among the results from the 514 mostly male subscribers who responded, 66% are overweight.
Uh they uh well they have bad health routines.
Eat cheeseburgers out there, smoke cigarettes.
Uh regardless, whatever their physical condition, golfers seem to be enjoying themselves.
Uh I'm an amateur golfer, and I uh don't see hardly any of that.
Most of the places I play, everybody's walking.
I don't, because I hate it.
Everybody else is.
Quickly, uh uh let's see.
Uh, give me give me line three.
That looks Mark in uh in North Dakota.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey Ross, thanks for taking hip off.
You bet.
Just a quick thought.
If it's such a good idea for the Chicago City Council to make the big box retailers pay ten dollars an hour, why not uh make everyone pay ten dollars an hour?
It's really helped the little guy out.
Why to make every in fact, in fact, there were some in Chicago, some members of the uh city council who voted against this because it didn't do that.
It would have had even more votes if uh I don't know which side of this uh Tony Preck winkle it was on, but she voted for it, uh obviously.
We're dedicating this uh uh hour of the program to her.
Well, it may be because of small business impact.
I don't think that's what it was.
Uh uh this is it, it's targeting Walmart.
It's purely targeting Walmart.
It's all it is.
It's it's not targeting other business.
It's targeting Wall.
They don't want Walmart there.
I I think they don't want them there.
You know what's else absurd about this is that these people are waiting three years to do this.
What you know the minimum wage in three years, five years, they're gonna be close to whatever their so-called living wage is anyway that they've mandated uh as $10 an hour, but it doesn't go into effect until um until 2010.
Okay, I'm gonna try to find out still how the bears of Switzerland are going to be informed of the new rules they have to follow or else they get shot.
Uh may not have that information for a couple days, but we will be working on it.
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Lowdown.
And that is the lowdown for today, but we'll be back open line Friday already tomorrow.
See you then, folks.
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