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Aug. 18, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Okay, ditch the music there, Ed.
Let's see if Mike from Aspen is still with us.
Mike, are you there?
Hey, Rush.
Okay, thank you so much for holding on.
I really appreciate it.
To recap, if you're just joining us, Mike was a caller in the previous hour.
I didn't have enough time to answer his questions at all, and I've held him over until now to do it.
And Mike, I'm going to summarize what you asked me, and you tell me if I've got it right.
You basically started off by saying that you agree that Walmart needs to be unionized because people need some job security and benefits and so forth and so on.
And then you wondered why CEOs make so much more money than sales clerks or average employees that you couldn't walk into Walmart and get the kind of compensation package, golden parachute package that CEOs get, even if they quote unquote wreck the company.
They still walk away with millions and lifetime benefits and so forth.
Is that pretty much your question?
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's take the there's there's a basic premise, I think, that you need to understand, first and foremost.
And it is this, there is no guarantee of equality of outcome in America.
There is a hoped-for guarantee of equality of opportunity, economic or otherwise, but there are too many variables.
Some people have more education than others.
Some have more talent than others.
Some have more ambition than others.
Some are willing to work harder than others.
And those are the factors that determine where you go.
Plus, what you want to do.
Some people love the job they have.
Some teachers love being teachers.
They just love it.
But they go into it knowing what it does pay and what it doesn't pay.
And that's not going to change.
People say, well, my God, it's not fair that we're paying all these lame-brain athletes, gazillions and teachers who are responsible for molding the future of America, only making $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
Fairness is not an aspect here.
The market is what determines things.
And to say that the market ought to be governed by fairness means that we ought to have somebody just arbitrarily decide what's fair.
It may well be that you have people who think athletes who are generating tens of millions of dollars deserve as a commission a large percentage of it since there are people willing to pay athletes to watch what they do.
Nobody's willing to pay a teacher to watch them do it.
And so the revenue that teachers generate is incalculable.
There isn't any unless you want to track their students and go through life and then say the teacher deserves a percentage.
But that would be impossible to do.
can't structure the economy that way.
So what this boils down to in your example of Walmart sales clerks, everyday employees versus the CEO is that a CEO and sales clerk have entirely different values to a company.
It's just the way it is.
Do you understand that?
Does that make sense to you?
Yeah, but I think the important thing is what you touched on earlier is a sense of, you know, I think the American public wouldn't mind so much if there was a sense of equality in how everybody was treated, you know, for, you know, say, you know, making a company better or ruining a company.
You see problems with Exxon and things where, you know, the guys that were running the company knew the company was going down, and so they decided to pocket as much as they could.
No, no, no, not Exxon.
They did it for selfish reasons, because of the money that they've accumulated in the lifestyle that they were.
You've got to stop that.
You have to stop during, you're putting a lot of things out there, and I can explain them all to you, but you've got to slow down a little bit.
In the first place, Exxon is not in the tank.
Exxon's not going.
The percentage of Exxon earnings that occurred during Lee Raymond's CEO.
He got $400 million to go away when he retired.
That $400 million, if you gave it back to the company, might result in a one-half of one cent decrease in the price of gasoline at the pump for half a day.
I mean, I was talking about Enron.
I'm sorry.
Enron.
Well, the guys at Enron are dead or are in jail.
Yeah.
But see, they have lawyers, though, that can try to overturn that.
Well, that's the legal system.
Are you wanting to deny them lawyers?
You want to just put them in jail right off the bat for what they did without having a right to defend themselves against the charges?
Who told us what they did?
The media told us that we're getting sidetracked.
Mike, we're getting sidetracked.
We're not going to defend ourselves.
The easiest thing to do would be to take a lie detection test.
Come on.
Now you're making me think I'm wasting my time.
No, you're not wasting your time.
Yes, I'm totally waiting because you're not hearing a thing I'm saying.
You are simply talking to me on the base of raw emotion.
You're not thinking about anything.
Let's go back to you said equality.
We need some equality.
There's no such thing in life.
Calm down, Rush.
Calm down.
And there's no such thing as fairness in life.
Okay.
None whatsoever.
You make your own.
You make your own equality.
You make your own opportunity.
You make your own fairness.
I have to admit, I became a born-again Christian about three years ago.
And part of that is the understanding of giving of myself.
And by doing that, it enriches my life and it enriches other people's life.
It's hard to do in a society when it's all about me.
And maybe that's some of the reasons why people in other countries have a thing against us is because we're all about it.
All right.
All right.
Hold it.
We're way off.
We're way off topic here.
And you're slowly convincing me you're beyond help here.
All you can do is enrich your life, Mike.
You can't enrich anybody else's.
If that happens, it's icing on the cake.
You might be able to enrich your kids' lives and so forth, but you've got to enrich yourself first.
But thinking the rest of the world doesn't follow you when you enrich yours doesn't mean that there is failure or a flaw in a system or whatever.
Too many people, too many different personalities.
I don't know where you got educated on this stuff, but it's a shame because there's a world of opportunity out there for you.
Your life is spent in resentment.
You're resenting what other people have that you don't have, and you think it's because the system is unfair.
And you think people are stacking the deck against you and others like you.
And you're free to do it, but you're going to be living an illusion.
The deck, the deck's stacked against everybody.
It's very competitive out there, Mike.
Nobody's going to give you anything, particularly on the basis of what somebody else has and what you don't have.
Nobody's going to say, you know, Lee Raymond at Exxon, he's got 400 million and old Mike and Aspens.
He's only got 30,000.
That's not right.
We're going to fix that.
It's up to you to fix that.
Become Lee Raymond.
Become a CEO, but you're never going to do it being a member of a union.
And that's the first thing that you mentioned.
You said the first part of your question had to do with, you think Walmart should be unionized.
Take a look at unionized labor in America today.
It's at its smallest percentage of the workforce ever.
General Motors is laying off people left and right, canceling pension programs.
And that's a problem, General Motors.
They made the deal, but the golden goose is dead.
You can't continue to pay people who don't work for you.
And that's what they agreed to do because the gun was held to their head.
You can't pay people who are no longer producing anything for you.
Pin perpetuity in life when you're talking about millions and millions of workers and their families and this sort of thing.
The disparity of CEO and employee pay goes to the value of each.
And I do think that capitalism, capitalism is essentially the expression of freedom.
And that's why the left hates it.
The left despises capitalism because it encapsulates freedom.
But there do need to be restraints.
There does need to be accountability.
There have been numbers of occasions where a CEO of a company that is in the tank is kicked out the door with a retirement package and so forth.
He may have negotiated that on the front end.
Maybe part of the deal.
Company may have no choice if they really wanted the guy.
And that's what you have to do, Mike.
You have to find some place where somebody really wants you, where you do something nobody else can, or you do it better than anybody else can, and the sky's the limit.
Many people find that by going into their own business and becoming their own boss.
This is a country where you can create your own job if you want to.
It all goes back to what I said about ambition and desire and hard work and what you're willing to put into it.
But if you think a union is going to protect you for the rest of your life, it's a mistake.
You have to do that.
You're looking for all these outside sources to equalize things and make you feel good about your circumstances.
And now you're going all over the place saying, oh, well, this is why they hate us around the world.
One of the reasons they hate us around the world is because nowhere else in the world is as prosperous as we are.
Nobody else around the world is as affluent as we are.
Nobody else in the world has the same economic opportunity that we have.
And that causes a lot of resentment, too.
But you're going to be left out of this train as it keeps on chucking down the tracks if you allow yourself to be obsessed with resentment and jealousy and envy over things that have nothing to do with you.
In a practical sense, what does what happened to Ken Labor have anything to do with your life?
What in the world does it have to do with your life?
You're an Aspen.
Aspen ain't cheap.
You know, a lot of skee bums in Aspen.
A lot of retired, wealthy, rich people.
You're surrounded by people who ought to be role models for you.
But you're hung up on Ken Lay and all these other people.
And the bottom line is their lives don't matter unless you compare yourself to theirs and think, I'm getting screwed by some unknown force that is legislating unfairness.
Or you've got to grab hold of yourself.
And you have to understand you live in a country with the greatest economic, educational, and otherwise opportunities ever known in human history.
And to sit out there and lament how unfair and how hard life is, well, join the crowd, pal.
I mean, from the time I was 28 to 33, I made $17,000 to $18,000 a year.
I started at $12, $12,000 to $17,000 a year.
And I was mad that I wasn't being paid what I thought I was worth, but there were people that would do it for nothing.
Was it a baseball team?
Groupies would have gone to work there for nothing.
Valuable experience wouldn't trade it.
But it was educational for me.
And I'm around ball players making millions.
And they're saying, hey, want to go to Aspen this weekend in Russia?
And I have to make up an excuse.
No, I can't go.
I'm busy.
Couldn't afford to go.
We've all been there, Mike.
Some of us get out of it by deciding, you know, I don't like this anymore.
And you watch others, they become role models.
But if you're going to sit around and think a union's going to do for it, if you're going to sit around and think that it's life is just generally unfair, that CEOs make money that's not right and so forth, then you're going to continue to be where you are, and you're going to be unhappy and miserable at the same time.
And there's no excuse for that in this country.
Back in a second.
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Look, folks, there's a phenomenon out there, and it's called a lucky sperm club, and we're always going to have it.
There's some people who only have to be born, and financial riches and security are theirs.
But you can't get caught up in resenting that because you were left out at a lucky sperm club because there's nothing you can do about it.
You want some members?
You want some names, members of the Lucky Sperm Club?
Ted Kennedy is a member of the Lucky Sperm Club.
All he had to do was get conceived, survive the abortion, and get born.
And there are countless of them out there.
Jay Rockefeller, Lucky Sperm Club.
I mean, there are a lot of them.
Many of them are in the Senate.
Many of them in the Democrat, but Lincoln shape.
Well, Ned Laments not the Lucky Sperm Club.
That's Lucky Ring Club, you know, Matrimony Club.
John Kerry is not Lucky Sperm Club.
John Kerry is, you know, he's the Lucky Matrimony Club.
There's any number of ways to get there, Mike.
But you're never going to get there by lamenting and resenting and all that.
Gilmore, Texas, Mike, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
How you doing, Rush?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
I can't believe I'm talking to you, but I work at Walmart, and I just got two questions to ask you about unions.
Yeah.
Why don't unions, like, build these department stores and manufacture places and show us how you can pay all these exorbitant wages and benefits and be competitive?
And number two, as Mike before me called and said, CEOs ruin companies that still get the millions.
Have unions ever done that, companies?
They still get the millions, don't they?
I didn't hear everything you said.
Who gets, here's where I lost you.
Okay.
Still get the millions and have what ever done to the company?
What did you say?
Have they ever done the...
First, why don't unions, like, build a store and compete with Walmart and show us...
I heard that.
I heard that.
And number two, have unions ever ruined a company and run it in the dirt and still got the benefits out of it?
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Yes, yes.
Have unions ever ruined a company?
Yeah.
That's a great point.
When a company goes south, we always assume it's management and a CEO that screwed up, and it may well be.
But they also could have a bunch of lackadaisical, worthless couch potato employees who aren't doing the work, who aren't making the product right or showing up on time.
Who knows what?
But the unions and the employees are always the victims, according to the Lyft.
It can never be their fault.
It's always the upper management types.
This is the class envy that exists throughout our society.
There's one thing about Walmart.
Walmart's there to serve its customers.
Unions are there to serve their union dudes.
No, no, no, no.
Unions are there to serve the Democratic Party.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that too.
I mean, no, that's whenever you see, whenever you see a union building or union office, just think of it as a satellite office of the Democrat National Committee.
Yeah.
Can I add one more thing you left out yesterday on Mr. Carter?
That his two great achievements was the Windfall Gas Tax and the Department of Education.
Windfall gas tax, Department of Education.
Oh, yes.
Well, you know, we're being a little hard on Jimmy Carter.
Don't forget he was attacked by a killer rabbit when he was out there on a boat in a canoe or something.
And he fought off that killer rabbit bravely with valor and courage.
And we got to give him credit for something.
We have to be balanced.
So Jimmy Carter did deal effectively with that killer rabbit that was out there on the river.
I think it was someplace in Georgia.
Brad in Atlanta.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Appreciate what you do for our country.
I had to call and just make a comment.
I was very disappointed to hear the comments from Andrew Young.
I have a high regard for him.
I wasn't quite as disappointed when I heard those comments as I was when he endorsed Cynthia McKinney.
And then I thought, man, the dots are connected there somehow.
And then...
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You mean his last election he endorsed Cynthia McKinney?
In the runoffs, when Cynthia was forced into the runoffs with.
Man, I missed that.
Did you know that, Snerdley?
I didn't know that Andrew Young endorsed Cynthia McKinley.
Did he appear with her on stage?
What was it?
A commercial?
What did he?
You know, I think, if I remember correctly, he was actually on television in the background or what have you.
And I was very disappointed in that.
But to tie it back together with something else, he said, you want to talk about the wills of the voter, the voters?
Well, you saw the will of the voters in that runoff election.
Yeah, well, but see, no, that wasn't the will of the voters.
It was the will of the voting machines.
The voting machines sabotaged Cynthia McKinney's re-election bid in that runoff.
Yeah, we do have a lot of problems.
The will of the voters, when that doesn't work, it's the will of the voting machines and how they've been tampered with by, in this case, Democrat opponents.
Democrats sabotage the Democrat, according to Cynthia McKinney.
You can go nuts trying to keep track of these people in their mind thoughts, folks.
This is just not possible to do.
Let me ask you people a question.
Do you remember Eastern Airlines?
Eastern Airlines at the airlines, at the time that it went belly up, defunct, out of business, bankrupt, whatever, was run by former astronaut hero Frank Moorman.
And the upshot of it, I'm going to spend a lot of time on this, not necessarily.
The union represented the machinists at United took them out on strike.
And I don't know how long it was, but it was a very short time after that.
And they just folded up shop.
They were gone.
Now, the union leaders who encouraged the strike still had their jobs, probably still do somewhere along the lines.
Either that or they're working on their pensions.
Nobody wants to talk about union CEOs and how well they do.
Now, let me also say this about that.
I have nothing personally against people that want to be a member of a union.
That's what you want to do.
That's fine.
My problem is with the political nature of union leadership.
Many union workers have their dues and other stipends taken from them, and it's purely to fund Democratic Party operations, regardless of the individual condition of individual union workers.
If you join a union, you have to understand what you're getting into.
You are saying you're no different than any other worker.
And your salary, your hourly wage, whatever, is not going to be negotiated on what you do at all.
It's going to be negotiated on the basis of what your union leadership can score out of the company.
You can work overtime and you can try to become a foreman or a supervisor, but doing your union job better than the next guy is not going to mean anything to what you earn.
As long as you know that going in, that's cool.
And if what you want is what you think the union is providing for you, you don't have to worry about negotiating.
You're going to get your guaranteed percentage increase every contract period.
Fine, you probably go on strike a couple times.
As long as you know what you're going into, then fine.
When people start complaining with full knowledge of what their future held, that it didn't work out, that's when some of us start cocking our heads and say, wait a minute, what didn't you understand about this?
So, I mean, there was a story the other day, a little more than that, maybe a month ago, all the tumult at General Motors.
A 31 or 34, I think it was one of the two year old General Motors employee was told, we're going to buy you out.
We can't afford to keep you anymore.
We'll give you a compensation package and signario, signaria, we loved having you here.
He's 31 years old.
His life was over.
Never forget the quote in the paper.
Don't remember it specifically here, but he didn't know what he was going to do.
His life was over.
And I read this, and I said, this is a shame.
This is a shame.
Obviously, this young man's whole life had been prepared to work at a union.
And working in a union meant once you got the union job, you were set the rest of your life.
You had security, pay whatever it was, then you lose it.
What am I going to do?
So it was, hmm?
What were the other?
Well, that's the pension plan.
Well, there are some retired laid-off workers who are being paid full salaries for not working.
And a company can't be productive paying people that don't produce anything.
I mean, that's that's that's just General Motors just went, I, you know, that's screwy decision to do that, to agree to do to it.
But I guess you do it to stop a strike.
You do it because the guns held to your head in a competitive environment like that.
But I've still, this young man, this had his future was gone, didn't know what he was going to do.
Working for the General Motors was the only ambition and the only opportunity he thought he had.
Now, that has to, I mean, although there are families that are rooted in union work and they're great and so forth.
But with the country like ours and with the opportunity that exists out there, all you have to do is watch television.
You see it.
And I've always seen examples of people more successful than I, and I said, I can do that too.
Don't know how yet, but I can.
I live in a country that permits it.
Some people don't have that inculcated in them.
Some people don't have, they're not taught that.
They're taught resentment.
They are taught class envy.
And they are actually made, this is part and parcel of liberalism, by the way, they're actually made to be happy when people they think doing better them are suffering.
Even though that doesn't change their life at all, they still supposed to feel better.
That's the whole root of raising taxes on the rich, by the way.
Because Democrats have not succeeded in increasing lifestyle and substantively of the middle class.
Republicans do that with tax cuts and jobs and job opportunities.
Democrats focused on minimum wage and welfare and social programs and things for you to do when you don't amount to anything.
Conservatives have a very greater vision of you, more respect for you.
Conservatives look at you and think you have all kinds of ability and opportunity if you're exposed to it and educated about it.
Liberals look at you with contempt, think you don't have any brains, can't make the right decisions.
You need them to provide for you, to protect for you with the minimum wage and AFTC and food stamps and whatever else.
And you're supposed to appreciate it.
And then when you don't, they're going to raise taxes on the rich and you're supposed to feel happy about this.
I want that CEO screwed.
I want him to pay more taxes.
It doesn't change their lives a bit.
The Democrats want them to be made happy as a result of this.
It's no different than the argument that my mom used to make to me every night at the dinner table.
You better eat everything on your plate.
There are starving kids in China.
Oh, if I eat everything on the plate, starving kids in China are going to feel better?
Don't sass me, she said.
But it's the same thing.
It's an attempt to get you to fall in line with what those who have power over you, in this case, parents, in my case, in your case, liberal Democrats, want you to do to keep you in line.
Here is Roy in Chandler, Arizona.
Roy, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Longtime listener, first-time caller, and I just want to God bless you and thank God that we have you and Sean to speak the truth out here in America who really needs to hear it.
This Jimmy Carter thing has gone way out of proportion.
You know, people forgot, and I think the younger generation don't even have a clue as to what we were going through back when he was elected president.
You know, we were just coming off of the Watergate issue.
We had absolutely no trust in politics.
This country's moral deprivation was going down the tubes.
And I think the only reason why Carter was elected president was because obviously Nixon was a Republican, and we needed to get our morale back, our morals back.
Now, wait a minute.
Carter ran against Ford.
Yeah, I realize that, but Ford replaced Nixon, so there wasn't a whole heck of a lot of people.
I know it was the Watergate election.
That says there's no question.
It was Watergate aftermath.
Yeah, so we needed to get our morals back first.
And so Carter's purpose and sole purpose in that era, you know, he had a brother Billy, Drank Billy Bear, could relate to the all-American family.
And I think we needed that as part of the healing process.
So then when President Reagan, who is got elected to office, Carter gave us our morals.
Reagan gave us our morale and our backbone back.
And for two terms, he got this country strong.
And then we had two terms of Clinton, who benefited from what Reagan did.
And look at how rich everybody got so quickly.
And for the two terms that Clinton was in office, look at how rich everybody got.
But then, as soon as George Butch took over, we had 9-1-1, the dot-commers were dropping like flies, and everything that— But wait, wait, wait, wait.
You're leaving something crucial out here.
You're right in the sense.
Firstly, I dispute the whole notion that Carter gave us our morality.
But that's for another day.
Because, frankly, I'm getting tired of talking about Carter.
But if Carter gave us our morality, Clinton gave us our immorality.
I totally agree with you.
All right.
And, you know, Carter was a Christian, and, you know, we actually did need to get back on track.
But, you know, as soon as George Bush took office, look at all the dot-commers that were dropping like flies because of the Clinton administration for eight years.
Everybody got rich quick, and then our president takes over, and everything Clinton did went down the tubes.
They got rich on phoniness.
There were companies that had no value that were selling for $200 a stock for a share of stock.
But I don't even lay all that on Clinton.
I think a lot of the corporate excess, but Enron, all that was happening during the Clintons' term.
But, anyway, Jimmy Carter gave us, I don't get the morality business.
I know he was a Christian and all that.
It was just a disaster.
An utter disaster.
Well, we know a little bit about the woman that disrupted the flight from a Heathrow to Dulles, a thing that had to land in Boston earlier.
Her name is, what's her name?
Catherine Mayo.
She's 59 years old and lives in Vermont.
And some people have done some research into this woman.
She was talking about Pakistan, and she urinated on the floor of the airplane and all that.
But she's also a journalist.
Ladies and gentlemen, not a big one, but she still writes down what she thinks.
And here's a sample of her writing from something called State of the Union, 2003.
This was found on the Pakistan Times website.
And so she wrote State of the Union 2003.
That's her column title.
I'm sorry, it's on the Pakistan website.
Listen to this.
I think the U.S. people have forgotten that President Bush didn't win the election.
Telling you, this is what is driving them nuts.
He only got the job because they couldn't decide what to do with pregnant Chads in Florida.
When President Bush announced that God was telling him to bomb Iraq, my stomach turned over.
He has no right to include God in his State of the Union address.
It's forbidden by law.
Somebody already showed what George Washington did.
It's forbidden by law.
The church and state are completely separate in the United States.
No politically elected person can use religion for his own ends.
The government of the U.S. has changed in the last few months, and the citizens of the country haven't noticed yet.
It's become an oligarchy.
Its leaders rule with a wave of their hands, laughing into their sleeves.
They can create any truth they want, and they can create proof that it's real.
They are accountable to no one.
The people of the U.S. don't have power anymore.
That's what the Muslim world needs to understand.
When President Bush says that he is God, the ordinary people go out and shovel the snow out of their driveways.
There's nothing else they can do.
You know, I think she qualifies for the New York Times op-ed page.
Well, sounds like the judge, Anna Diggs Taylor, in Detroit.
I'm telling you, the two things that bugged the left, the fact that they don't think Bush won the election, and it was stolen, and he is a man of God.
And they, folks, you do not know.
I am just telling you, you do not know how that scares the hell out of liberals for somebody to admit being a man of God.
They just are intimidated.
They are scared to death of it.
Don't forget, when was this?
1993, the inaugural week before Clinton?
And they've got all these liberals up there on the Washington Wall, and they're singing songs.
You're going to read the Franklins up there and all these, and they're singing songs that describe themselves having just gotten out of jail.
We are set free.
We shall overcome.
Whatever.
It was just, it was unreal.
Ron Silver, back when he was a lib, you know, they did a flyby of military jets, and Ron Silver was offended.
How dare they do that during this week?
Somebody jabbed Ron and they were saying, Ron, those are our jets now.
Oh, yeah.
If you want to understand the rage of liberals, just it's you know how they hate you, hayseed Christians in the South.
They despise you.
You're a hicks, hayseeds, gun racks in the back of the pickup.
You know how much fun they make of anybody who's religious?
Pat Robertson doesn't matter.
The Hezbollahs, ladies and gentlemen, are passing out money.
The Hezbollahs are giving away money now.
The passing out hundreds of dollars to people.
This is all money from Iran.
The figure now to rebuild Lebanon from all this destruction, $7 billion.
U.S. is rushing aid to Lebanon.
An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, and they are using footage from Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 911, ladies and gentlemen.
So, liberal propaganda now being used by Iraqi dissidents, if you will, militants, in order to defame the United States.
In Indianapolis, the Reverend Sharpton said that many potential young black leaders fall under the spell of the gangster mentality and are preventing themselves from making a positive impact in politics.
The key to leadership is having the individual initiative to change the status quo, said the Reverend Sharpton, spoke during an annual conference of the National Association of Black Journalists.
And in global warming news, a volcanic eruption in Ecuador's Andes Mountains destroyed three villages, killed at least one.
How do you destroy three villages and kill one?
This must have been a very surgical volcanic strike.
This is an associated press story.
How in the world do you do that?
Oh, wait, left more than 60 others missing.
Okay, so obviously it killed more than one.
One body recovered after the overnight eruption of lava from Tungurahua in the country's high Andes.
Four others believed to be under the rubble.
Well, global warming can't do that.
Can't do that, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's see.
Do I have There's one more thing here in the stack, and I can't.
Oh, this is unbelievable.
The Department of Homeland Security, our buddies at WorldNet Daily found this out.
The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the busiest airport in the nation.
That's Chicago's O'Hare.
Happened on June 21.
Muslim officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations behind-the-scenes tour of customs screening operations at O'Hare Internet.
I don't understand.
And I'll bet you they weren't looking for Viagra either.
It's been a great week, folks.
And we'll do it again in the coming days.
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Be back at it on Monday.
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