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Dec. 11, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 11, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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These pictures of the pelican are awesome.
You did it right.
You had the open windows behind you, so didn't screw up the uh F-stop, the aperture, the DNA, whatever.
Awesome.
So I'll have when the next break, I'm going to send these up to Coco at the website.
It'll put them up there.
Superb greetings and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Moving on, lots of stuff in the snacks of stuff today, and here we go.
The United Nations has downgraded man's impact on the climate.
Okay, here we go.
Mankind, this is, by the way, in the Sunday US Telegram Sunday Telegraph of the UK, mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed.
A United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.
Who's been saying this for 18 years?
I have.
We don't need a United Nations report.
What do you bet this thing gets suppressed before it's officially released?
Like their secondhand smoke report got suppressed when it was learned that secondhand smoke isn't deadly and hardly makes people sick.
It's all a smoke screen.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organization has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25%.
Here's a quote.
The overall effect on global warming since the Industrial Revolution is less than had been thought due to the unexpected levels of cooling caused by aerosol sprays, which reflect heat from the sun.
Now these people are desperate indeed.
If they're going to claim new data on aerosol sprays is the reason that they were off the mark by 25% on human impact and 50% on ocean rising, you read the whole story, you'll find out that the ocean rise that's been predicted is 50% off.
They banned this stuff forever ago because they knew it was bad, these aerosol sprays, uh, but it was making things hotter or colder when they told us it was bad.
I don't remember, they probably don't remember which either.
I don't know what aerosol sprays were originally to what was the problem they were causing.
Now all of a sudden aerosol sprays may be a cure for global warming.
Uh it is just it's just more evidence that uh that all of this is is nothing but politics.
And as I say, most of the people who talk about global warming in the science community will talk to you about well, there's a consensus.
Yes, there's a consensus among scientists that it's happening.
If there's consensus involved, it isn't science, folks.
Use your brains on this.
This is simple common sense.
Science is or isn't.
As uh as a good example, you could have a consensus of scientists who say that the sun revolves around the earth.
And by that definition, they would be right.
But they're wrong.
The earth revolves around the sun.
That's the science.
Regardless what consensus on anything says.
And there can't be any science if there is consensus, according to computer models or what have you, that we are warming the planet and that human beings are responsible for it.
Uh all absurd.
In uh a related story.
How many of you have been uh treated and remember, hearing for the last how many numbers of years that global warming caused by man, primarily evil western nations, is causing species after species after species to become extinct.
We're losing them at the rate of what, a hundred a day, a hundred a week, whatever the scare numbers are.
Try this.
And by the way, before I get to this, we have discovered new species living high atop uh mountains in islands, new birds, new bugs, new weeds.
We're discovering all kinds of things that we never knew existed on the planet before, while at the same time being told that we're wiping species out.
Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding Creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined at one site, nearly two miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degrees Fahrenheit.
Water surrounding the site was a chilly 36 degrees.
Well, now stop and think of that for just a second.
Two miles deep in the ocean, there's a hole.
There's a hole.
And out of this hole, 765 degree Fahrenheit water is bursting.
I don't know where the hole goes.
Maybe to China, who knows?
And around this warm water are a bunch of shrimp that we never knew existed before.
An underwater peak in the coral sea was home to a type of shrimp thought to have gone extinct 50 million years ago.
Wonder what science will say about this now.
More than three miles beneath beneath the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic, researchers collected a dozen new species eating each other or living on organic material that drifts down from above.
Animals seem to have found a way to make a living just about everywhere, said Jesse Osuble of the Sloan Foundation, discussing the findings of year six of the census of marine life, added Ronaldor, a senior scientist with the census.
We can't find any place where we can't find anything new.
Well, who knew?
You know, I I don't know why these people are so surprised.
Who are we to think that we have learned everything there is to know, particularly about the oceans?
We have no way of surviving.
We can go deeper into space than we can in the ocean.
We can go higher in the atmosphere than we can in the ocean and survive.
It takes really special equipment, and you can't stay down long, and you can't you can't live down there, and so we're doing these these probes and so forth.
There's so much we have no clue, and yet our vanity has led us to believe we know everything.
To how many millions of years species went extinct long ago and all of a sudden we discovered them again?
Maybe they never were extinct.
In fact, could they have gone extinct if they exist again?
Somebody explained that one to me.
Some scientists help me out here.
How can something become extinct and all of a sudden, fifty million years later, bam o it's found hanging around 756 degree water in a hole in the floor in the ocean.
Aussubel said there are nearly 16,000 known species of marine fish.
70,000 kinds of marine animals, a couple of thousand have been discovered during this census.
Off the coast of New Jersey, twenty million fish swarming in a school the size of Manhattan.
These are just some of the discoveries.
And the highlights of the 2006 Ocean Census.
Others are these shrimp, clams, and mussels living near the superhot thermal vent in the Atlantic where they face pulses of water near boiling despite shooting into the frigid sea.
In the sea surrounding the Antarctic, a community of marine life shrouded in darkness beneath more than sixteen hundred feet of ice.
Sampling of this remote ocean yielded more new species than familiar ones.
Twenty million fish swarming in a school the size of Manhattan off New Jersey.
Finding alive and well in the coral sea the type of shrimp called the uh Neoglyphia Neocalodonica, thought to have disappeared millions of uh years ago, researchers nicknamed it the Jurassic Shrimp.
So I just remember I started this program 1988.
Remember Ted Danson?
We've got ten years to save the oceans, or we're dead, and so are they?
Ten years we're polluting and destroying the oceans.
And since 1988, according to the scientists and the environmentalist wackos, it's only gotten worse.
Why look at all the oil spills?
Uh look at all of the garbage, no doubt dumped overboard from cruise ships.
Look at all the sewage, look at all the condom.
Remember all the condoms that were washing up on the shores of uh of the Hamptons and so forth back in the late 80s and early 90s.
I mean, the stories have been out there.
We're destroying the planet, folks.
We're killing everything.
We Americans.
We prosperous Western civilization types are destroying the planet because we're selfish, we're wasteful, we are evil, and we don't care about those who are less than We are other peoples and the animals.
Now, lo and behold, the 2006 ocean census is discovering a bunch of uh new organisms and fish and shrimp and clams and mussels that nobody knew existed before.
And in a story that is truly, truly rich.
The U.S. Congress on Saturday sent the White House legislation that updates laws designed to prevent overfishing in U.S. waters.
President George W. Bush is expected to sign into law the bill which would require commercial fisheries to set conservation plans within a two-year period beginning in 2010.
It would create a 10-year permit system that would still allow limited access in some waters that have been overfished.
Meanwhile, I hearken back to the story here off the coast of New Jersey, 20 million fish swarming in a school the size of Manhattan.
Discovered the ocean census, but now we gotta prevent overfishing in U.S. waters.
And in a related story from the UK independent, cow emissions are more damaging to the planet than CO2 from cars.
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment.
It's not the car or the plane or even George Bush.
It's the cow.
A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests, and wildlife.
You see how ridiculous this all has been and how silly...
And ridiculous it continues to be.
There are more details on all this, plus your phone calls.
We'll take a break and be back and continue before you know it.
Okay.
So I just fired off those pictures that you took in there, Brian, up to Coco at the website, uh we'll get them processed and posted uh ASAP.
This uh this is beautiful pelican.
It came as a total surprise.
These two ladies out in the Great North within uh with in Washington, actually, uh heard me say once that the pelicans my all-time favorite bird, and they had this sculpture commission, and it's huge.
And the pictures that Brian took of it during the break will um uh illustrate just how how large it is.
And we've and we've turned it into a religious symbol, folks, uh uh in our in our holiday decorations here.
We have a little Santa Claus hat atop the uh the pelicans.
Just cute.
Cute as it can be.
Walter in um in uh Mandeville, Louisiana.
You're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Listen, I wanted to tell you that you know the state bird for Louisiana is the pelican.
You need to come on down here, man.
If not just to look at the birds, maybe you can help us out with the crazy.
Let me tell you something.
I've got more pelicans flying around outside my bedroom windows uh and sliding glass doors.
They're out there on the beach.
Uh they're they're they're just huge.
They fly in formation.
They look like wise old men to me.
Yep, that would be a good analogy.
I wanted to tell you about the election.
Did you hear about our new elec uh new uh election down here that you're gonna be able to do?
Yes, of course, over the weekend.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, has uh has won re-election by scaring uh everybody and think his opponent was uh was for gay marriage.
And now what's really fascinating about this is that Congressman William Jefferson demanding to be put back on the ways and means committee, which Nancy Pelosi made him resign from when they found $90,000 coal cash in his freezer.
What's also interesting about it is that she's gonna have a little problem because this guy from uh West Virginia, this Mulholland or whatever his name is, he has he went to Congress with two cents in his pocket, now worth eight billion or eight million or some such thing as this.
I forget the exact numbers, and he's gonna be head of the ethics committee.
He's gonna be head of the ethics committee, so how in the world can uh can she tell Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, hey Bud, you're not appearing on the Ways and Means Committee.
Well, Russ, you see the national picture.
I see mostly the local picture, but he was re-elected with only 15% of the vote.
Now they're saying that uh Harry Lee might have had something to do with that to put the Jefferson Parish voters out because they want him back in so they can get him out and put Jefferson and put uh Harry Lee's guy in there.
So there's a lot more going on behind the picture that nobody Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You are more informed than I, if you're right.
Let me see if I understand this.
Are you are you saying that uh well who could possibly arrange a low 15% vote turnout?
Well, Harry Reed, you're talking about the Senate Democrat leader from Nevada, dingy Harry Reed.
Jefferson.
You said Harry Reid might have had something to do with this.
Harry Reeds and no, no, no, no, no, no.
Harry Lee.
Harry Lee.
Harry Lee is the is the Jefferson Paris Sheriff?
Oh, the sheriff.
Okay.
Okay.
See, this is classic illustration of the challenge I have with my cochlear implant.
If the caller would simply be quiet, we could communicate here.
Now, this is a classic illustration of the problem I have with my cochlear implant.
I thought you said Reed.
So in fact, so did my um so did uh the person that transcribes calls in case I can't hear them.
Uh in fact, we all thought you said Harry Reid's.
It probably was caller error here.
Um so you you might have meant to say Harry Lee, but uh we all heard it as read.
So that's why we're confused.
So Harry Lee, the local sheriff, uh arrange for a low turnout because he wants Jefferson thrown out of office eventually and himself that's the only way they can get that guy in is by having Jefferson thrown out because his guy.
Uh Rush, I don't know.
Some loyal over there.
I don't know.
I just I just heard it yesterday.
When all the fallout from the election was a good thing.
Well, you know, it is it is it is Louisiana.
Wouldn't wouldn't rule uh wouldn't rule anything out.
But nevertheless, uh uh Congressman uh William Jefferson, Democrat uh Louis Louisiana wins it.
Not surprised at all.
He will end up on the uh Ways and Means Committee because she can't throw this other guy off the ethics committee.
I mean, if she you think she wants to start her term as speaker in a big battle royal with the black caucus.
Do you think she wants that?
The this is uh this is this is uh is gonna be interesting to watch.
As I I tell you, we we're having fun with it now, but you uh you wait, ladies and gentlemen, until they actually take office.
I mean, here we go.
Foley's gotta go, all these Republicans have got to go, Congressman William Jefferson, $90,000 coal cash in the freezer gets in the way of the recovery efforts in the uh Hurricane Katrina aftermath, uh reelected in a uh in a runoff.
It's the Democrat Party.
What can we tell you?
Uh Kay in New Orleans, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's so great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Pleasure to have you with us.
I'm a registered Republican living in uh Orleans Parish.
I'm a small business owner, and I'll tell you how Sheriff Harry Lee did it.
Some things came out about uh Jefferson's opponent the week before the election.
I read Such as what what kinds of things?
Oh, okay.
Well, you're screener.
Okay.
Um she was on a documentary that was seen on HBO blasting Sheriff Harry Lee and his department after Katrina, and she didn't have her facts correct, and she angered a lot of the voters down here, especially the white voters.
And when I found out that it was her, that she was the one that did it, and he went on TV and told everybody, he suppressed the white turnout.
Harry Lee did.
Yes, he did.
I was unaware of that about her, and and she was supposed to uh oh, all the polls had her winning.
Uh it was supposed to be a close race, but she was gonna win.
She had the support of uh Republican business people.
She had support uh money-wise from uh the white vote.
The uh state Democratic Party had endorsed her.
She had big endorsements from big Democrats, but the week before the election, Harry Lee got out there and told it like it was, which is what he does, and when everybody found out about her, they stayed home.
So you are applauding uh the efforts here of uh of Sheriff Harry Lee.
Oh, he's great.
Uh everybody loves him down here.
He's got about a 98% approval rating.
All right.
So so but but your the result is the result is Congressman.
Congress in other words, you had no you had no choice down there.
Yeah, I I stayed home and all my fr uh neighbors I talked to, uh, and most of them are are uh you know I'm in a white, mostly white neighborhood.
They all stayed home.
Let's not bring race into this, shall we not?
It's only going to muddle and cloud the walls.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay, well, he he just uh he suppressed the vote.
They we did not go out and vote because it was like, as Harry Lee said on TV, anybody but her.
Okay.
Was the previous guy right that Harry Lee wants to sabotage Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana down the road to get his own guy in there?
I got five seconds, yes or no?
Sir, I've heard that too.
And his name is Derek Shepherd.
Derek Shepard, right?
We'll keep a sharp eye, because uh, you know, it all depends on whether Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana gets indicted, and then whether he refuses to go after that.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I want to go back to this story from the uh UK independent cow emissions more damaging to the planet than CO2 from cars.
Now we laugh about this, but I want to get serious about it because there's there is something really serious that needs to be said over and over and over again.
I've I've I've talked till I'm blue in the face about this for most of my um star-studded and sterling uh broadcast career.
Uh we go back and forth.
It's automobiles and CO2, it's what whatever the hell, industrialization, American prosperity causing all this climate destruction and so forth.
And we went through a period of time earlier uh in the in the last decade where it was cow flatulence, and remember the people were saying we gotta we've gotta we gotta stop eating McDonald's burgers and so forth because we'll need fewer cows and steers, and that way we'll need not to clear cut as much land for them to eat and so forth.
So these things are quite quite cyclical, and we're now back to this.
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment.
It's not the car or the plane, or even George Bush, it's the cow.
United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, to forests, and to wildlife.
Now that is just extreme to the max.
It is nonsensical, it's insulting.
A 400-page report by Food and Agricultural Organization entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chicken, pigs, and goats.
But in almost every case, the world's one and a half billion cattle are most to blame.
Livestock are responsible for 18% of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, more than airplanes, and all other forms of transport put together.
Now, for those of you who worship the planet and not God, would the planet do this to itself?
I mean, it's understandable that a planet would have evil human beings that would destroy it, but would the planet really allow such creatures as cows to evolve or be created, however you planet worshippers look at it, so that they could eventually destroy it.
How do you people rationalize what you believe?
Like I I believe, I'll be I'll be honest, I don't want to offend anybody.
It's Christmas time.
I believe in God.
And I believe the God of creation.
I don't think anything else can explain the complexity and the mysteries that is the universe or that are the universe.
And this little speck in it called Earth.
And I refuse to believe that the God of creation, capable of such beauty and magnificence, would create as a natural functioning entity in his creation.
Uh something that just living its life as he created it to do would destroy the planet.
But Rush, but Rush, God created man, and man has created nukes, and nukes could destroy the world.
No, they couldn't.
Nukes might destroy some people, and if we set enough of them off, it might destroy all of us.
But that would happen either.
But it wouldn't destroy all of life.
Cockroaches would survive, and I am not kidding.
Organisms that we've just learned live two miles deep in the ocean would survive.
The Earth would survive.
This whole concept of destruction of the planet is silly, superfluous, stupid, and insane because it isn't possible.
Now talk to me about an asteroid running into us or something of the sort, and then we can talk.
But the idea, even those of you who worship the planet.
The idea that a cow, because the UN now says so, that a that livestock are responsible for this climate crisis, and that's going to lead to problems the likes of which mankind has never before seen and could wipe us out and cause severe rising sea levels, wipe out cities, oh my lord, it's over.
Because of cows, because of cattle.
One and a half billion of them.
My God, what what kind of idiots do we have in this country that fall prey to this stuff?
They must be gotten too early with teachers and school and cartoons and so forth.
And that idiot gore on Oprah.
You know, kids with nothing better to do after school watching this stuff, mommy, mommy, mommy, we're destroying the planet.
Algorith said so, it's so terrible.
Scaring people left and right.
Send your pennies to the United Nations kids and save the planet.
The report concludes that unless drastic changes are made, the massive damage done by livestock.
That sentence itself, that fragment of that sentence, right, is just neophyte.
It's insulting and is ludicrous.
The massive damage done by livestock will more than double by 2050 as demand for meat increases.
Aha.
Demand for me.
Aha.
Vegetarians have become militant in recent years, and this will fuel their militancy.
I want to tell you what this is really all about, folks, and I want you to listen close and I want you to listen fast.
This is not about cars.
It is not about cows.
It is certainly not about emissions.
It is not about global warming, and least of all, it is not about greenhouse gases.
What this is all about is American prosperity, American freedom, and American exceptionalism.
We are despised because what we bring to the world and because of what we offer to the world.
And the short version of an upcoming brilliant monologue is we need to be cut down to size.
What this is about is a new global community with the United Nations in control.
You see, it apparently to the world's socialists' dictators and tyrants is fiscally impossible to bring the rest of the planet up to United States living standards.
The only way to equalize things, therefore, is to lower Americans' living standards.
This has been happening in education, outcome-based education.
We rather than take the fastest learners and the brightest kids and encourage them, we hold them back so as not to humiliate those who don't do as well.
It's happening throughout our culture.
Achievement is being punished.
Underachievement is being excused and even celebrated as some sort of victimhood.
The imperfections in humanity are embraced as normalcy so as to make those who don't have as many imperfections feel guilty.
This is happening throughout our culture.
It's the whole point of uh the well, it's it's not the point, but it's the it's the propaganda behind tax increases on the rich.
It is all designed to make the non-rich think the rich are gonna be gotten even with.
But that's a myth as well.
As I have pointed out, let's say you make 50 grand a year and somebody making 150 gets tax increase.
They pay more tax, your life change.
Your life any better?
Any of the money they're paying in tax to the government gonna come back to you?
No.
Are you able to buy any more food or buy a better car?
No.
No, and you're not supposed to, you're supposed to feel happy somebody else got punished.
Good old Schaden Freud, taking pleasure in the misery of others.
And this has become a tenet of liberalism.
And it is decided that when people are prospering and are achieving, uh, more so than others rather than take, and this is this is tentative liberalism too, Rather than take those at the bottom and attempt to educate them, improve their lives, and lift them up.
What liberalism does is go to the top and say, you're too big for your britches, bud, and try to bring people down to size.
Liberalism lowers achievement, lowers standards, all in the name of making everyone equal.
They take away incentives to hard work.
They level the playing field so no one has to try to get up a hill.
They are trying to make us all moderates look at the Iraq surrender group report.
The whole purpose of that is to unite everybody in mushiness.
To unite everybody in surrender, to unite everybody in the notion America can't win a war.
America cannot achieve.
America can't do it anymore, and we are to unify around this.
American exceptionalism to the left and to the worldwide socialist tyrant dictator thug community is to be feared and ended.
Of course, nobody expects the John Carries or the Ted Kennedys or the Hillary Clintons of Bill Clintons, the John Edwards, the John Corzines, the Nancy Pelosi's, the Harry Reeds, to give up their wealth.
Nobody expects them to lop off some of their achievement.
Their planes, their yachts, their seven SUVs, their five houses, or their cattle ranches like Ted Turner and Sam Donaldson.
No, it's about getting rid of the American middle class, folks.
At no previous time in history has a middle class been so large.
You might find a large middle class in India right now, and it is thriving.
Most cultures have a tiny elite, special privileges, and a huge working class.
Look at Mexico.
Look at South and Central America.
Look at most of the Arab countries.
America has skewed the equation with an ever growing educated, prosperous middle class.
They own cars instead of bicycles and rickshaws.
They have a leisure time.
They can wander around airports threatening to sue because there's no menorah up or too many Christmas trees.
Or they can walk around getting offended over whatever they've got time to do because they've got too much time on their hands because we have so much prosperity.
They have central heat and air conditioning in their homes instead of huddling around a fireplace like they did in Apocalypto.
I saw it last week.
It's also why they hate what Bush tried to do in Iraq.
Lord knows having a many United States of America in the Middle East, why that'd be a disaster for them.
It is why they encourage a tidal wave of uneducated illegals in the U.S. It brings the whole lot down.
It dilutes us.
It is all about lowering standards, punishing achievement.
It is all about reducing prosperity and freedom and exceptionalism in this country because the rest of the world will never be able to reach our standards.
They could if we just had a greater distribution of capitalism, but that doesn't go along with dictators, thugs, and tyranny.
This is what the environmental movement is.
This is what the animal rights movement is.
This is what every leftist cause is about, every cause behind every cause, such as global warming, the environment, you name it, you will find socialists and liberals.
Socialism is the ultimate goal.
Environmentalism, unionism, feminism, peacism, vegetarianism are simply the means to get there.
Now, in truth, let's take this cow report at face value.
Let's say that the cow emissions are more damaging than cars.
Well, if that's true, let's move off the automobile as the cause of global warming, since research doesn't seem to support that anymore.
And let's move into another area of scaring people.
Cows.
Cows are going to kill us.
Cows are causing environmental destruction.
See how many people buy that.
See how many people believe that.
So even now the UN has put out this big report that it's cow flatulence, more damaging to the planet than CO2 from cars.
This will be ignored.
The car will continue to be attacked because it's not about pollution.
It's not about cars, it's not about cows, not about emissions, global warming, or greenhouse gases.
It's about cutting America down to size.
You know what else amazes me about all this?
I mean, just putting it point blank.
You you cannot, you cannot go anywhere in commune with nature and not be in awe of the majesty and the beauty, the complexity, the genius behind it all, and certainly didn't us.
And yet, I'm basically describing nature.
And yet, isn't it fascinating that those on the left look at this and see destruction?
They look on the left, they see no beauty.
They hide their motives behind wanting to preserve beauty, but all they see is destruction from natural forces.
Methane from cow f uh gas.
Uh I I I've I've seldom encountered an entire group of people so obsessed with doom and gloom and apocalyptic thought apocalyptic thought.
It runs the gamut from politics to nature to wherever.
These people are obsessed with everything being destroyed.
While there's no evidence of it in the history of the world.
Always rejuvenates and recycles.
How you can look at this creation of this planet and see destruction of natural forces and not be awed by its beauty is beyond me.
Now try this.
This is from the Associated Press, and this is how it works.
And by the way, I I want to stress, folks, I'm not obsessed with the environment.
I am obsessed with capitalism and its preservation, and this is an attack on capitalism and the uh the systems here that have made this the richest and greatest country in the history of human civilization with more opportunity and prosperity each and every day than the day before.
And it is under assault, and the environment and all these other causes and isms are simply the means by which the people are trying to get to that destruction of the exceptionalism of this country, and here's how it happens.
Jill Cody, by the way, Datelaine, San Francisco, Jill Cody used to feel guilty whenever she drove her car or flew on an airplane.
Now why?
Why?
Because she has been pummeled her whole life with how she is creating a crime against nature.
She's polluting, she's wasting, there are people starving around the world.
She's enjoying her life, she is helping to create the destruction of the climate to keep us all alive.
Why shouldn't she feel guilty?
She worried about pumping heat, trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and contributing to global warming every time she drove her car.
But the San Jose professor found a way to ease her conscience.
She paid a San Francisco company called Terapass to offset emissions from her car and air travel by investing in wind power and reducing farm pollution.
I'm part of the Thaluthan, not the problem, Fed Cody, who sports a terapath decal on the decade-old lecthod that she drives about 6,000 miles a year.
Now I don't feel guilty when I drive my car.
As anxiety over global climate change rises, a growing number of companies and nonprofit groups are offering eco-conscious consumers a chance to compensate the planet for the carbon emissions they generate when they fly, drive, use electricity or heat their homes, so-called carbon offsets are becoming increasingly popular.
But critics say they're just a way to assuage consumer guilt and do little to combat climate change at worst.
They can encourage consumption and prevent people from making carbon-cutting lives.
This is so patently absurd.
The woman has been made guilty by her own biases, liberalism, no doubt.
She's been pummeled by the media all these years.
Now she's convinced that putting a decal on her car is helping cut emissions, and so she's driving with less guilt and probably more thinking somebody else is making up for her unfair over you.
This is how this stuff works.
This is how you make people hate your own country.
Back in just a sec.
Hey, I have a question, folks.
I want to spend a whole lot of time on it.
Whatever happened to the bird flu that was going to wipe us out?
Whatever happened to it.
What happened to bird flu?
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