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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 uh the personal journal of Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony to talk about what actually happened in the first uh Thanksgiving, why it was actually held, and uh the impetus behind uh their feeling of thanksgiving to God for the blessings the pilgrims experienced there in the Plymouth colony, and to uh themselves to the Indians for teaching them how 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, uh, although they knew about it.
They'd had na this was something new, a relatively new.
And they also had to learn uh before Adam Smith, before uh capitalism had its uh uh 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.
Some place 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 mulah's 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 combats and combatants in twelve days.
One Marine killed thirty-two insurgents in twelve days.
Many others had double dill 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.
Two thousand five, a six-man sniper team from Marine Reserve a Marine Reserve unit was killed in Haditha.
And that also ambushed to an ambush.
Now, ten 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're 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've been here three years going on four, and we've 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 actually be Okay, let me go let me go back and set this up.
We might have people just talking about the f 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 a continuing resolution would would fund the government.
Now I I would prefer it goes till September 30th.
That would take it to a full full fiscal year.
It would fund the government uh 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 dollars if this is done.
Yes, but that assumes that it does the whole fiscal year.
You know what's going to happen.
There's 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's happened every other year.
Well, no, I mean I I think during Reagan's time there were were continuing resolutions that last a long time, and it happened during uh when Gingrich was in.
Um the the important thing is to keep the pressure on.
Now they 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 two thousand and seven plus two thousand and eight.
I don't think they'd want to do that.
I think they'd pass a CR right until September thirtieth, and you would still be saving taxpayers a lot of money and there'd be no pork for most of uh the fiscal two thousand and seven appropriation bills.
So this isn't a bad thing.
Uh uh there's some great conservative senators who were trying to strip the appropriation bills that Senator Coburn and Demit.
I I'd encourage you to talk to them.
I mean, they if if they succeed in doing this, we'll we'll save a lot of money.
As of this morning, they said they had given up.
Uh a lot of them, you're right, had said in the Senate, we're 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 uh the Democrats and Republicans put up such a stink privately, apparently, that these few courageous senators have now uh said, okay, well, we'll just uh 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 out possible outcome.
But another possible outcome is that a coalition of supporters of earmarks, uh Pelosi is certainly one, Bill Thomas on the Republican side, the head of the appropriations committee till January is another.
Uh people who think Jerry Lewis is another uh in the House, re Republican that thinks that earmarks are just fine and dandy.
Well, the public does not.
And I think that the Republican Party, and 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.
Oh, I 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, um Van Hallen in Maryland and Ema um Rahm Emanuel have an earmark bill that does it and it's pretty good for reforming earmarks.
Take a look at it and and encourage them, hey, you guys wanted this uh 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.
Um so l let's let's see them put their uh put their uh actions where their mouths were before the election.
And I think that will happen in January, And it does have some political benefit.
Uh the I guess the point I'm making is that I think people like Emmanuel do those sorts of things, knowing it'll never pass, knowing that eventually they will uh the public will see m see them as champions of trying to do the right thing.
But uh in secret, uh the Merthas and and and others of the Democratic side and uh notoriously uh Robert Byrd of West Virginia on the Senate side will will have their way as they have uh for many, many decades now, and that is to pump up the spending and to do it whatever way they can, including these earmarks.
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 the point is they are few and far between.
Well, I I I mean, we can all hope that with this recent loss, they 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 sh uh get rid of that mantle, uh they're not gonna get back into the majority.
Amen.
We agree on that, and I think we just did hell hold their feet to the fire.
Betty, I appreciate the call.
Roger Hedgecock in for rush.
Uh let's see, do we have time to try let's take our break and then we'll come back uh to Dexter uh and the rest of your calls at 1 800 282-2882 after the Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush today, one-eight hundred two eight two two eight eighty two.
Have a very happy Thanksgiving, and I hope it's uh with uh family and cherished uh loved ones, and that uh you get a chance to just drop to your knees on the blessings of this society of this world.
Uh this is a remarkable civilization.
Remarkable perhaps, and uh maybe in the future it will be known as a civilization that didn't quite realize, didn't appreciate uh the extent to which it was remarkable and unique, and even had at its in its elites, academia and uh in its uh uh media elites, a certain attitude that was fashionable that uh 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 uh the Rush Limbaugh program.
Good afternoon, Roger, and uh happy Thanksgiving to you in advance.
And happy Thanksgiving to you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Uh yes, sir.
I just want to make a comment about the uh global economy as it changes and merges.
Uh we uh here in the United States really need to uh refocus uh towards uh re-educating ourselves in order to adapt uh uh in e and even uh revamp if necessary our education system.
Uh we need to get our own selves re-educated, i.e., uh the skill sets uh uh such that we're used in time past our eroding.
Uh we can think that we can uh uh continue to uh progress or uh 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 uh uh move forward uh with uh the changes that are uh coming our way.
Otherwise, uh, you know, we'll go to the norm, which is the blame game of uh uh you know, blaming other people, others think groups or whatever for our uh lack of success uh uh you know, India case in point, they're really uh getting on the bandwagon, if you will, and reinventing or revamping the way they do business and uh doing quite well.
So um kind of nervous what, but uh I I those are my comments.
No, I got I got your point, Dexter.
Let me ask you, have you done this yourself?
Uh yes, sir, and uh continuing continuing to do so.
Uh I'm 42, uh, but I believe that you're never too old to uh get back into uh college or uh some uh educational institution, uh be it a uh a trade, vocational trade, as long as it is uh uh uh utilized to uh again uh equip yourself, uh allows individually and collectively in order to uh take advantage of the opportunities that are uh uh quite evident and clearly uh out there and available to all.
Uh just a matter of working art, you know, and uh not blaming or uh uh someone else because they have a depth and are doing well, Uh be it another country or another individual, if you will, uh uh that's how I feel about it.
Well, Dexter, I gotta tell you, uh we don't know each other, right?
Uh no, sir.
And and I don't think we've ever met, and I've only heard you for what's been a you know a minute and a half or so of your exposition of your beliefs in this thing, and I gotta tell you, just based on this conversation, and absolutely nothing else, this is the greatest statement of what America is about I've ever I'm I've ever heard on this program uh when I fill in for it.
Uh th 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 whole heartily.
And what I've seen, I mean, I'm no super educated individual, but I, you know, what I've seen is that people that do not uh attempt to change or adapt uh with the changes that are inevitable.
They are coming.
I mean, that's just how it is.
Uh 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, uh to study and put up the long hours and and uh you know the sacrifices of uh you know TV and games and all kinds of other stuff to beat her his or herself.
Uh and you you know, people see them living in nice homes, have nice uh uh you know uh vehicles driving in, all the little standards who, if you will, that you know, show success, if you will.
Uh people blame or want to uh hate uh on those people, but uh I think that you really need to stop doing that and uh to simply uh find out what it is we need to do as individuals uh and collectively as a country to uh uh 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.
There seems to be uh dumbing down uh uh whatever initiative underway, uh be it openly or uh probably uh uh you know, not covertly, but just under the sheets or uh again, I'm a little nervous there, but I think that people uh there's some other kind of effort going on with the education system that needs to stop.
We really need to refocus, pay the teachers, the quality uh salaries and such that uh that they deserve, and uh therefore be more uh people uh getting into the education arena uh with the uh the skill set, the knowledge and such to be able to teach our children uh uh to to again be able to compete in the global economy as is uh as it will indeed uh evolve into.
Well, again, uh Dexter, a great statement.
Let me ask you more about yourself.
Are you in the armed forces?
Uh yes, sir, I'm uh twenty-four years, uh United States Marine.
Well, God bless you, and uh and thank you for your service to the country.
Another Marine.
I mean I see we got a lot of them out here in San Diego Marines, and I love every one of them.
I mean, that the 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 uh a 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 and uh Dexter, uh 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, uh, the Professor Laffer, he was a laugher.
Uh 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.
Uh Bob, did you listen to Dexter's call before you?
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 ch uh 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 uh the United States of America and 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 in the Republican Party reflected our base.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh and uh this the uh Thanksgiving Eve.
Uh we want to wish you obviously from everyone here at the Limbaugh Institute of for Advanced Conservative Studies the uh very best on this Thanksgiving uh weekend.
Enjoy it, give thanks, uh remember uh God, remember our forefathers who sacrificed so much to get us here, and those people today who are sacrificing so much to keep us uh free.
This uh and there's one who isn't.
I think I've waited thirty-five years to have this discussion with some kind of an audience because I remember Vietnam.
I remember Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State to uh President Nixon, I remember peace with honor, the idea that we would have peace with honor with the uh 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 gonna 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.
Uh 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 an 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, who I've just I've just I've just left all that with you.
Now I just feel like a 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 didn't weren't they would they never accepted or looked for any kind of uh 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 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 the house with an apron on or a babushka.
She uh 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 to win with honor or to leave with honor, honor comes with winning.
Look at any wrestling match in any high school or basketball.
honor comes with the winning.
Mascha, 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.
Uh exactly the same experience, exactly the same uh uh 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 uh it's it's the it's uh and our laughter 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, uh to they come to to to have the opportunity to enjoy the opportunity.
Not the not the guarantee, not the uh streets paved with gold.
You know, that was 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, uh, but it may take a couple of generations uh to do it.
I think uh I think I'm the first college graduate in my family on both sides forever.
And uh I feel humble about that and grateful tomorrow, too, for that, because a lot of people in my line uh in both sides, my mother and father's side, uh, 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 Rush 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.
No, Roger Megadinners.
I'm happy to say in an unfortunate ironic situation, I am from Youngstown, but I don't live there now.
My my comment is is uh in response to Bob, who is currently literally living in Youngstown.
It's the exact attitude that I left twenty years ago that has kept that uh Steel 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 their leadership that they elect, and it's a it's uh it's a blue section of the state.
You gotta look to your leadership, and you can't be pointing fingers to everybody else.
And if that's my message to the young sound people, is you gotta look at yourself and get some clean up clean up your political leadership.
Well, amen to that, Bob.
Thanks.
Uh thanks very much.
I think that's just a great insight.
UN Secretary General Kofi Anand has warned of a quote, frightening lack of leadership in global warming, unquote.
Now, where did he make this moronic statement?
Uh he made it at a uh conference.
At a conference on global warming in Africa.
The United Nations conference in uh Nairobi, Kenya.
Now there's a couple of things wrong with this whole idea.
First, uh the economic um the competitive enterprise institute points out that uh the idea of blaming some man-made threat uh for a problem, a problem of poverty, a problem of environmental degradation that is caused by environmentalists' own misguided policies.
John Burlow 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 Anon 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 uh and barked constantly about the need to stop the man-made intrusion into and uh emitting uh 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 spank Bob from Youngstown right in 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 bucks an hour.
And I pay somebody to come in and clean my house for 10 bucks an hour.
I save money.
That clean the half clear comes in and spends two hours for 20 bucks and off she goes.
And I say myself, well, I'd I'd be 150 dollars out of my time.
So it makes more sense for me to pay somebody to come in and do that job.
And now I did that myself.
My guy'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.
Every she never bought a house for me, but you know what?
She now runs a company over a ten-year period.
She now runs a company that cleans the houses.
She's a millionaire.
She's throwing it out on a 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 Hodgecock 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 for uh to escape the cold weather.
Good luck.
Miami's supposed to break 70, maybe today.
I wonder if that's happened.
Uh nighttime in the forties.
Uh we in San Diego are still sixties and early seven uh low seventies here.
By the way, maybe 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 uh atmosphere for the past seven years.
This is researchers at the University of California Irvine.
Uh 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.
Uh leak preventing repairs to oil and gas lines and storage facilities, for example.
Uh coal mining, rice patties, natural gas uh 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 gonna read this article.
You'll get the point, uh 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 longstanding trend toward destruction of their forests.
A surprising new analysis has found.
Pekka Kaupi of the University of Helsinki, Finland, a 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.
Uh Brian in Abilene, Texas, next.
Brian, welcome to the Rush 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, aid, 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 fallen apart.
Global warming is not their issue.
And we need the leadership in the dictators and the civil war, in 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 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.
Stand in the way of the city.
All right, Brian, hey, thanks.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks for your service to our country, my friend.
I appreciate it a lot.
And I I just want to, again, because we live with this uh here, and we live with a border, we live with things that you live with as well here in uh San Diego.
One of the things we live with is here's our local utility, our much reviled uh electric and gas company that wants to bring in a new uh 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, uh a company's gonna build a solar power plant out in Imperial Valley where it sunshines quite a bit, and uh and bring that solar power, the electricity from this uh photovoltaic, soto photovoltaic solar energy plant, into San Diego.
Easy enough for you to say.
Anyway, into San Diego.
And I I'm thinking to myself, I heard this announcement, but the environmentalists have finally triumphed.
This is terrific.
They're gonna get solar power, not gonna burn coal or oil or natural gas even, uh much less uh the dreaded and hated nuclear.
Here we're gonna have a solar power plant.
Do you know that the environmentalists are totally opposed to this uh line?
Oh, it comes across it comes across the Barrago National Forest, uh the National Uh uh desert.
It's a desert.
It comes across a desert.
Okay, with this line is 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 Hitchcock, filling in for Rush.
Back after the We're thankful for Z Top and many other blessings coming into this uh Thanksgiving season.
I'm with uh Newt Gingrich, who wrote today in Human Events Online uh 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 uh 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 uh 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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