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Nov. 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program here on Thanksgiving Eve.
Earlier, we were calling on the personal journal of Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony to talk about what actually happened in the first Thanksgiving, why it was actually held, and the impetus behind their feeling of Thanksgiving to God for the blessings the pilgrims experienced there in the Plymouth colony, and to themselves, to the Indians, for teaching them what corn was.
They didn't know what corn.
By the way, corn was a plant in the United States, the New World, the Americas, was not known in Europe, was not a plant in Europe.
So they had to learn about corn, although they knew about it.
This was something new, relatively new.
And they also had to learn before Adam Smith, before capitalism had its chroniclers, they had to learn again that people with private property are going to work harder on that private property than people who hold everything in common.
And that was an interesting story to tell today earlier in the program.
So now I get this email in response to that segment.
Roger, I enjoyed your filling in for Rush today.
Special thanks for quoting my ninth great-grandfather, William Bradford III, Governor of Plymouth Colony.
Even my teacher nieces fail to challenge the texts they use that disparage their own personal ancestor.
That's how bad it is, ladies and gentlemen.
The descendants of Mr. Bradford don't challenge the kinds of texts that elementary school kids are now taught and mistaught about Thanksgiving and what it means.
My goodness.
Well, a front page New York Times today, a pretty interesting article that I commend to you for actual reading.
Pretty interesting article.
The headline is: perfect killing method, but clear targets are few.
Perfect killing method, but clear targets are few.
Someplace called, interestingly enough, Karma, Iraq.
C.J. Chivers is the reporter.
Here's the report: quote, the sniper team left friendly lines hours ahead of the sun.
They were a group of Marines walking through the chill, hoping to be in hiding before the mullahs' pre-dawn call to prayer would urge this city awake.
They reached an abandoned building.
Two Marines stepped inside, swept the ground floor, signaled to the others to follow them to the flat roof, where they crawled to spots along the walls in which they'd previously chiseled out small viewing holes.
And it talks about these sniper teams, and they used to be very effective.
In 2003, one Marine sniper killed 32 combatants in 12 days.
One Marine killed 32 insurgents in 12 days.
Many others had double-digit kill totals during tours in Iraq.
By this summer, however, sniper platoons with several teams had typically been killing about a dozen insurgents in seven-month tours.
So what has happened?
Well, you have to read the whole article to get down to it.
First of all, snipers have customarily, says the Times, trained to work in two-man teams who hide and stalk for days, seeking targets half a mile or more away.
Two-man teams are now not allowed in Iraq because of the killings of two groups of snipers earlier in the war.
In Ramadi in 2004, four Marine snipers were killed without firing a shot.
Apparently, they were surprised in a shooting position by a bunch of insurgents.
They were killed.
2005, a six-man sniper team for Marine Reserve Unit was killed in Haditha, and that also ambushed to an ambush.
Now, 10 Marines dead.
The reaction of our warriors, the Marine commanders, according to the New York Times, has been to hesitate to send out small teams.
The snipers say it inhibits their work.
They are not getting out there.
Sergeant Joseph Chamblin is quoted, leader of battalion's first sniper team.
He said it was an overreaction.
He said, quote, it's sad they got killed, but when you think about it, we have been here three years going on four, and we have only had two teams killed.
That's not dramatic.
He said snipers were willing to assume the risk of traveling in pairs.
The sergeant said, quote, it's a war.
People are going to die.
The American public needs to get over it.
They need to get over that and let us do our job, unquote.
Amen, Sergeant Champlin.
God bless you.
To Betty in Washington, D.C. Betty, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hi, how are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm okay.
I just want to tell you that passing a CR, a continuing resolution, would not be a bad thing for taxpayers.
It would absolutely.
Okay, let me go back and set this up.
Betty is talking about I was criticizing the Republicans for allowing this huge appropriations bill with a Christmas tree of earmarks, hundreds of millions of dollars to just simply be dumped in the Democrats' lap.
Continuing resolution, leave the appropriations bills to the new majority.
And if they think it's such a culture of corruption, let them deal with it.
All right, Betty, go ahead.
Well, a continuing resolution would fund the government.
Now, I would prefer it goes until September 30th.
If that would take it to a full fiscal year, it would fund the government all the discretionary spending at this year's level.
That means no increase except maybe an inflationary increase.
And it would mean no pork barrel projects.
So you could save taxpayers $17 billion if this is done.
Yes, but that assumes that it does the whole fiscal year.
You know what's going to happen.
There is going to be a bipartisan coalition, quote unquote, to keep the pork, pass the appropriations bill, and jack up the cost, price, and intrusiveness of Federal Government.
That's what has happened every other year.
Well, no, I mean, I think during Reagan's time there were continuing resolutions that last a long time, and it happened during when Gingrich was in.
The important thing is to keep the pressure on.
Now, they may just pass it till January and then leave it with the Democrats.
That means the Democrats would have to deal with most of the appropriation bills for 2007 plus 2008.
I don't think they'd want to do that.
I think they'd pass a CR right until September 30th, and you would still be saving taxpayers a lot of money, and there would be no pork for most of the fiscal 2007 appropriation bills.
So this isn't a bad thing.
There are some great conservative senators who are trying to strip the appropriation bills that Senator Coburn and DeMitt.
I'd encourage you to talk to them.
I mean, if they succeed in doing this, we'll save a lot of money.
As of this morning, they said they had given up.
A lot of them, you are right, had said in the Senate, we are going to show the voters that we do stand for fiscal responsibility.
We are going to strip out these earmarks.
We are going to pass our appropriations bill in the Senate.
And the Democrats and Republicans put up such a stink privately, apparently, that these few courageous senators have now said, okay, well, we will just do the CR.
And like you suggest, that keeps the spending at last year's level, but only till January.
I don't think we can assume that the Democrats will continue the continuing resolution until September.
That's one possible outcome.
But another possible outcome is that a coalition of supporters of earmarks, Pelosi is certainly one, Bill Thomas on the Republican side, the head of the Appropriations Committee till January is another.
People who think Jerry Lewis is another in the House, Republican, that thinks that earmarks are just fine and dandy.
Well, the public does not.
And I think that the Republican Party, let me see if you disagree with this, lost a big opportunity to stand together, strip the earmarks out, Republican and Democrat, and say to the Democrats, okay, you don't want to do this, then we'll also affect all the stuff you want and give you a clean appropriations bill and pass it that way.
I would agree that getting rid of the earmarks is absolutely important and it needs to be done.
And the Republicans have failed, most of them anyway.
There are a few heroes both in the Senate and the House that have tried to do that.
I would encourage your listeners.
I mean, the Democrats did a lot of talking about getting rid of earmarks before the election.
In fact, Van Holland in Maryland and Rahm Emmanuel have an earmark bill that does it, and it's pretty good for reforming earmarks.
Take a look at it and encourage them: hey, you guys wanted this before you got elected.
Let's see if you pass it now.
It would identify all the earmarks.
It would really restrict on who could get them.
So let's see them put their actions where their mouths were before the election.
And I think that will happen in January, and it does have some political benefit.
I guess the point I'm making is that I think people like Emmanuel do those sorts of things knowing it will never pass, knowing that eventually the public will see them as champions of trying to do the right thing.
But in secret, the Mirthas and others of the Democratic side, and notoriously Robert Byrd of West Virginia on the Senate side, will have their way as they have for many, many decades now, and that is to pump up the spending and to do it whatever way they can, including these earmarks.
We all need to keep the pressure on and tell them no more pork barrel.
Well, where's the Republican leadership in doing this, other than the few heroes you talk about?
And I'm with you on those.
I love those guys.
But the point is, they are few and far between.
Well, I mean, we can all hope that with this recent loss, they've learned, but we need to keep reminding them why they lost, and that's because the Republicans are now perceived as the party of big government.
And until they get rid of that mantle, they're not going to get back into the majority.
Amen.
We agree on that, and I think we just did hold their feet to the fire.
Betty, I appreciate the call.
Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush.
Let's see.
Do we have time to try?
Let's take our break and then we'll come back to Dexter and the rest of your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
After dinner.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush today, 1-800-282-2882.
Have a very happy Thanksgiving, and I hope it's with family and cherished loved ones, and that you get a chance to just drop to your knees on the blessings of this society of this world.
This is a remarkable civilization.
Remarkable, perhaps, and maybe in the future it will be known as a civilization that didn't quite realize, didn't appreciate the extent to which it was remarkable and unique, and even had in its elites, academia, and in its media elites, a certain attitude that was fashionable that America is not unique or wonderful.
It is, in fact, the source of all the evil in the world.
In other words, the first country that's been this successful in the world to turn around and adopt and adopt at its elite class the mantra of its enemies.
It's a remarkable moment in history, my friends.
Here's Dexter in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Dexter, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Good afternoon, Rochner, and a happy Thanksgiving to you in advance.
And happy Thanksgiving to you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes, sir.
I just want to make a comment about the global economy as it changes and merges.
We here in the United States really need to refocus towards re-educating ourselves in order to adapt And even revamp, if necessary, our education system.
We need to get our own selves re-educated, i.e., the skill sets and such that were used in time past are eroding.
We can think that we can continue to progress or succeed using the same skill sets.
However, I believe it's not nothing new.
We really need to re-educate ourselves individually and collectively in order to move forward with the changes that are coming our way.
Otherwise, we'll go to the norm, which is the blame game of blaming other people, others, I think, roots or whatever, for our lack of success.
India, case in point, they're really getting on the bandwagon, if you will, and reinventing or revamping the way they do business and doing quite well.
So, kind of nervous, what, but those are my comments.
No, I got your point, Dexter.
Let me ask you, have you done this yourself?
Yes, sir, and continuing to do so.
I'm 42, but I believe that you're never too old to get back into college or some educational institution, be it a trade, vocational trade, as long as it is utilized to, again, equip yourself, ourselves, individually and collectively in order to take advantage of the opportunities that are quite evident and clearly out there and available to all.
It's a matter of working hard, you know, and not blaming someone else because they have adapted and are doing well, be it another country or another individual, if you will.
That's how I feel about it.
Well, Dexter, I got to tell you, we don't know each other, right?
No, sir.
And I don't think we've ever met, and I've only heard you for what's been a minute and a half or so of your exposition of your beliefs in this thing.
And I got to tell you, just based on this conversation and absolutely nothing else, this is the greatest statement of what America is about I've ever heard on this program when I fill in for it.
This is the greatest statement because what you've said is expect change, adapt, educate yourself, take personal responsibility, don't blame anybody else, and go forward and do it.
Yes, sir, I believe that wholeheartedly.
And what I've seen, I mean, I'm no super educated individual, but what I've seen is that people that do not attempt to change or adapt with the changes that are inevitable, they're coming.
I mean, that's just how it is.
They have a tendency to get hate, form hate groups and so on, and focus on the person that has done the hard work, you know, to study and put up the long hours and the sacrifices of TV and games and all kinds of other stuff to beather, his or herself.
And people see them living in nice homes, have nice vehicles driving in, all the little standards, if you will, that show success, if you will.
People blame or want to hate on those people, but I think that you really need to stop doing that and to simply find out what it is we need to do as individuals and collectively as a country to help ourselves or better ourselves.
And I really want to re-emphasize that we really possibly need to even revamp our educational system the way it stands right now.
It seems to be dumbing down whatever initiative underway, be it openly or probably not covertly, but just under the sheets.
Again, I'm a little nervous there, but I think that people are, there's some other kind of effort going on with our education system that needs to stop.
Really need to refocus, pay the teachers the quality salaries and such that they deserve, and therefore be more people getting into the education arena with the skill sets, the knowledge and such to be able to teach our children to, again, be able to compete in the global economy as it will indeed evolve into.
Well, again, Dexter, a great statement.
Let me ask you more about yourself.
Are you in the armed forces?
Yes, sir.
I'm 24 years, United States Marine.
Well, God bless you, and thank you for your service to the country.
Another Marine.
See, we got a lot of them out here in San Diego, Marines, and I love every one of them.
I mean, these are people facing reality straight ahead, just as your statements suggest.
Of course, we have challenges.
Of course, there's a change.
Of course, there's globalization.
Of course, there's competition.
And what you have to do, you individually, you and I individually have to do is get ready for the competition, get ourselves prepared, get ourselves educated, and make it happen.
And Dexter, God bless you.
That's exactly 100% right.
I appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
God bless you, and thank you for your service.
There's a Marine, ladies and gentlemen.
I love it.
Bob in Youngstown, Ohio.
Bob, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hi, Roger.
How are you today?
Good.
Good, good.
First, may I say without no pun intended, to Professor Laffer, he was a laffer.
We're from the Rust Belt of Ohio, and he said the economy is the best economy in years.
Well, it can't be.
When you have a trade imbalance of billions of dollars equals lost wages, lost jobs.
We have a national debt.
Two generations won't pay off.
And if we are such a great country and our economy is so great, why do we owe every Tom, Dick, and Harry around the world?
That sounds like voodoo economics.
Bob, did you listen to Dexter's call before?
Yeah, and I'm still laughing.
Bob, thank you for your call.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
There are the two extremes.
Here's a guy.
Oh, woe is me.
We're going to hell in a handbasket.
There's nothing that can be done.
Everybody else is to blame.
Somebody's got to save us.
Those are the people who vote Democratic.
Dexter says, hey, you know what?
Everything has changed.
Everything is competition.
It's a natural state of things.
Americans arm themselves, get educated, get their head on straight, don't blame anybody else.
Get out there and compete.
That, ladies and gentlemen, between those two calls, I think I could have talked all day and not as clearly given you the two sides of this debate in the United States of America and the two bedrock constituencies of the two major political parties, one that is a party of dependence and despair and despondence and tearing down America, and the other the party of competition and independence and personal responsibility.
I wish the party leaders in Washington and the Republican Party reflected our base.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh, and this is the Thanksgiving Eve.
We want to wish you, obviously, from everyone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies the very best on this Thanksgiving weekend.
Enjoy it.
Give thanks.
Remember God.
Remember our forefathers who sacrificed so much to get us here and those people today who are sacrificing so much to keep us free.
And there's one who isn't.
I think I've waited 35 years to have this discussion with some kind of an audience because I remember Vietnam.
I remember Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State, to President Nixon.
I remember peace with honor, the idea that we would have peace with honor with the North Vietnamese in the famous Paris peace talks.
What that really meant, that phrase so used, overused by Mr. Kissinger, what it really meant was a phrase he used later, a, quote, decent interval.
In other words, wait till we get out and then, you know, do what you're going to do.
In other words, a planned defeat.
Henry Kissinger planned America's defeat in the Vietnam War.
And when I saw the other day, my blood boiled, when I saw the other day this idea that there can be no military victory in Iraq.
Mr. Kissinger knows nothing about the military.
Whatever he knows about the military is wrong and always has been.
The military won the war on the ground after the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, not meaning to go back and rehash all those old wounds, but just as a prelude to say that when he told BBC, you know, the British, quote, if you mean by military victory in Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the Civil War under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible, unquote.
You cynical, real politic manipulator, I am so fed up with your crap over American history and your influence.
You immediately ought to shut the hell up because you are, you, sir, have damaged this country beyond belief.
Now see how much better I feel.
Man, I've just left all that with you.
Now I just feel like a new person.
Here's Bashia, is it in Henderson, North Carolina?
Hello there, welcome to the Rush Program.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
I hardly know how to behave in the presence of such an intelligent, attractive man.
Well, you're already doing very well.
Go ahead.
Well, I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am for my Constitution.
At this time of the year, I'm very grateful to know that the Constitution provides really only for a strong national defense.
It doesn't provide for strong social programs.
My grandparents came over here and they never accepted or looked for any kind of handout.
In fact, for us to be on the dole would have been a terrible, terrible thing.
It was called relief at the time.
And my grandparents came over here because they had an opportunity.
We were Polish and we were not allowed to speak Polish.
We were supposed to be Americanized.
My mother never went out of the house with an apron on or a babushka.
She Americanized herself immediately.
And so my gratitude is that I have a Constitution that we can fall back on.
And I hope the Liberals, and this is my argument against every liberal who comes against me, is our Constitution provides for nothing else except a strong national defense and to hell with the social programs.
I'm really, you know what?
If we don't protect our borders, we don't have civil rights.
We don't have abortion rights.
We don't have women.
We don't have any kind of rights.
And as far as honor, you know, to win with honor or to leave with honor, Honor comes with winning.
Look at any wrestling match in any high school or basketball.
The honor comes with the winning.
Masha, thank you very much for being a great American, for having learned what America is about at the knee of your immigrant parents, my grandparents in the same vein, exactly the same experience, exactly the same way that we became, in effect, in the family, prouder and stronger Americans than those we found around us, you know, converts or like that.
But it's a it's it's the it's a and our laffer was touching on this.
It is true that as immigrants come in waves, they come legally, they come to be Americans, they come to escape the quote old country, as my grandfather put it, they come to have the opportunity, to enjoy the opportunity, not the guarantee, not the streets paved with gold.
You know, that was what many of immigrants were told.
No, the streets are paved with opportunity, and your hard work may make you some gold in the future, but it may take a couple of generations to do it.
I think I'm the first college graduate in my family on both sides forever.
And I feel humble about that and grateful tomorrow, too, for that, because a lot of people in my line, on both sides, my mother and father's side, sacrificed a lot that I might be here.
And I don't ever want to forget that.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I appreciate your call.
Thank you.
All right.
The Russian Limbaugh Program continues.
Let's try Bob in Youngstown, Ohio, back in the rust belt, Bob, where everything is just going to hell in a handbasket.
Hi there.
Hello, Roger Megadittos.
I'm happy to say, in an unfortunate, ironic situation, I am from Youngstown, but I don't live there now.
My comment is in response to Bob, who is currently literally living in Youngstown.
It's the exact attitude that I left 20 years ago that has kept that Still Valley area in the condition that it is in now.
In fact, it's gotten worse since I left.
Every industry that tries to come into the area has mostly, if it's not controlled by the unions, it's pushed out and suppressed.
And therefore, the workers and people suffer.
My heart goes out to them.
They have to look at their leadership that they elect, and it's a blue section of the state.
You've got to look to your leadership, and you can't be pointing fingers to everybody else.
And if that's my message to the Youngstown people, is you've got to look at yourself and get some clean up your political leadership.
Well, amen to that, Bob.
Thanks very much.
I think that's just a great insight.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned of a quote frightening lack of leadership in global warming, unquote.
Now, where did he make this moronic statement?
He made it at a conference, at a conference on global warming in Africa, the United Nations Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
Now, there's a couple of things wrong with this whole idea.
First, the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out that the idea of blaming some man-made threat for a problem of poverty, a problem of environmental degradation that is caused by environmentalists' own misguided policies.
John Burlau came through with this at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
He says, for example, malaria.
Malaria is killing the Kenya economy as well as the people there.
It is resurgent in Kenya.
It has occurred, of course, malaria epidemics many times before, but now it is recurring after they stopped using DDT because the environmentalists demanded they stop using DDT because DDT harms the environment.
Well, it certainly harms the environment of that which causes malaria.
It kills the environment of that which causes malaria.
And therefore, the people of Kenya for a short while were protected from malaria.
Now they're back into it.
The malaria rate is soaring.
Does Kofi Annan have anything to say about that?
Absolutely not.
Nor, on a more visceral level, does he have anything to say about the fact that the 6,000 people or whatever it was who attended this conference in Nairobi, Kenya, flew in on airplanes, drove around in range rovers and SUVs and barked constantly about the need to stop the man-made intrusion into and emitting greenhouse gases into the natural environment.
Between their mouths, their SUVs and their planes, quite enough greenhouse gas has been emitted into the environment for me.
They ought to cancel the conference next year and protect and save the planet.
Save the planet, cancel the conference.
Tom in Ridgewood, New Jersey, next on the Rush program.
Tom, go ahead.
Roger, let me thank Bob from Youngstown writing this admission real fast.
Okay.
He's talking about how terrible this trade deficit is.
Let me explain the trade deficit in common terms.
If I make, let's say I'm a union plumber and I make $40 an hour, and I pay somebody to come in and clean my house for $10 an hour, I save money.
That half cleaner comes in, spends $2,000 for $20, and off she goes.
And I say to myself, well, I'd be $160 out of my time.
So it makes more sense for me to pay somebody to come in and do that job.
Now, I did that myself.
My time's worth $500 an hour.
I paid somebody to come in and clean my house for 10 years.
She got paid $10 an hour.
I never saw a dime from her back.
Average.
She never bought a house from me.
But you know what?
She now runs a company over a 10-year period.
She now runs a company that cleans houses.
She's a millionaire.
She's throwing it out of clean house.
That's how capitalism works, Bob, you idiot.
Tom, thanks for the call.
I'm as outrageous as you are.
But we're going to take a break and cool off.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Back after this.
Well, down in Florida, I can't believe this.
Global warming nuts.
Snowflakes spotted in central Florida.
Snowbirds have come down there to escape the cold weather.
Good luck.
Miami's supposed to break 70 maybe today.
I wonder if that's happened nighttime in the 40s.
We in San Diego are still 60s and early low 70s here.
By the way, maybe this is contributing it.
For whatever reason, methane, which is one of the greenhouse gases, along with carbon dioxide, the environmentalists like to focus on.
Methane levels are no longer rising.
They have stayed nearly flat in the atmosphere for the past seven years.
This is researchers at the University of California, Irvine.
The findings suggesting methane may no longer be as large a global warming threat as previously thought and provides evidence that methane levels can be controlled.
So here again is the arrogance.
We have controlled methane levels, leak-preventing repairs to oil and gas lines and storage facilities, for example.
Coal mining, rice paddies, natural gas production.
We have done more to contain man's destructive effect on the environment.
Do you know that one volcano spews out more methane than probably the entire world has ever spewed out artificially through mankind's activities for the last thousand years?
In any event, for whatever reason, methane gas is not increasing.
And then this from the New York Times: this is when you know that people who are environmentalists don't have a single clue what they're talking about.
I'm just going to read this article.
You'll get the point.
You won't need a further explanation from me.
Quote: Here's the headline: Many nations' forests regrow.
Study finds.
Quote: A large and growing number of countries are reversing the long-standing trend toward destruction of their forests.
A surprising new analysis has found.
Peka Kaupi of the University of Helsinki, Finland, the lead author of the study, which appears today in the proceedings of the National Academy of Science, says, quote, from the new data, it seems possible that we could reverse a global trend that many people thought irreversible.
The study goes on to say that deforestation can be defeated by planting trees.
This is in the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen.
Yikes.
Brian in Abilene, Texas, next.
Brian, welcome to the Roche Limbaugh program.
Hi, how are you?
I wanted to make a comment about Kofi Annan's remarks in Nairobi about the global warming.
I think it's an absolute insult to the people of Africa that he goes to Africa, the continent that has got famine, AIDS, civil war, all this other strife, and he talks to the people of Africa about global warming.
I mean, on the priority scale, the people of Africa, this is at the absolute bottle.
They don't care about global warming.
Stop the civil war, stop AIDS, get some leadership in all the other problems of Africa, and worry about global warming in places that it's a problem.
Yeah, can you imagine in Africa, I can't get enough to eat.
I'm dying of AIDS, and this guy's talking to me.
I should get rid of my SUV.
I don't even know what SUV is.
Yeah, I've been to Africa.
I've been to Nairobi, the one nice place in Africa.
I've been.
I'm in the military.
I've been there a couple of times.
The place is falling apart.
Global warming is not their issue.
And we need the leadership in the dictators and the civil war and the AIDS and everything else.
I don't care about global warming in Africa.
Give me food.
Stop people from killing me.
Stop all the other stuff.
Kofi Annan needs to get some priorities.
And the leadership of the problem is the entire UN.
They have no leadership.
They have no role.
They have nothing.
Well, they have leadership and they have a role.
And unfortunately, it is to destroy the United States of America based on all the evidence I've been able to see.
Pretty much, yeah.
Yeah.
Stand in the way of the world.
All right, Brian.
Hey, thanks.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks for your service to our country, my friend.
I appreciate it a lot.
And I just want to, again, because we live with this here and we live with the border.
We live with things that you live with as well here in San Diego.
One of the things we live with is here's our local utility, our much reviled electric and gas company, that wants to bring in a new transmission line from the Imperial Valley out east in the desert across the mountains to San Diego to bring solar power.
They just signed a deal to build a solar, a company's going to build a solar power plant out in Imperial Valley where it sunshines quite a bit and bring that solar power, the electricity from this photovoltaic, photovoltaic solar energy plant into San Diego.
Easy enough for you to say.
Anyway, into San Diego.
And I'm thinking to myself, I heard this announcement.
The environmentalists have finally triumphed.
This is terrific.
They're going to get solar power.
They're not going to burn coal or oil or natural gas even, much less the dreaded and hated nuclear.
Here we're going to have a solar power plant.
Do you know that the environmentalists are totally opposed to this line?
Oh, it comes across.
It comes across the Borrego National Forest, the National Desert.
It's a desert.
It comes across a desert, okay, with this line.
It's not harming anything.
And it's going to bring solar energy into San Diego County.
Every environmentalist in San Diego County is opposed to this line.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is the lesson for everybody everywhere.
Don't ever believe what environmentalists say.
We want solar energy.
We want alternatives.
We want to get away from dependence on foreign oil.
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
Because presented with those alternatives, they'll still oppose them.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush.
Back after the we're thankful for ZZ Top and many other blessings coming into this Thanksgiving season.
I'm with Newt Gingrich, who wrote today in Human Events Online: Thanksgiving is a unique holiday for this unique nation.
There is no other place that I know of that acknowledges our need as a nation and individually to give thanks to God.
Here is George Washington setting aside the first Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, a public Thanksgiving and prayer proclamation, in which in part he says that the new United States of America has obligations to God.
He wrote, It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.
And when you look around the table tomorrow, you will know both the blessings, the responsibilities, and the gratitude that all of us have for family, for this wonderful nation we live in, for the communities that we can always make better and we always strive to make better.
This is a unique nation with a unique mission, and it seems to me this unique radio program helps us to keep that in the forefront.
Rush, thanks very much for allowing me to sit in.
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