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Jan. 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 3, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, yes, yes, I know.
We're back.
Lots to do here.
Final hour, busy broadcast day.
Rush Limboy, EIB Network, and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you on the program, folks.
800-282-2882 is the phone number if you want to join us.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Snerdley and I were discussing the NFL playoffs at the break here at the top of the hour.
I asked him what he thought of his cowboys backing in, sneaking in, and he said, it doesn't look too good.
I don't know.
If Parcells can get the quarterback's head turned around, Parcels says the quarterback down there, Tony Romo, has got an overconfidence problem.
We're going to rein him in.
Seattle has a porous secondary.
I mean, the Cowboys Terrell Owens and Terry Glynn could have a field day.
You never know what's going to happen.
Which it reminded me.
Where is it now?
Reminded me that some strange things are going on in Philadelphia involving the Iggles.
As you know, Donovan McNabb was hurt earlier in the season.
Jeff Garcia has taken over quarterback, and they won the NFC East.
This has caused Mama McNabb, who has been made famous with the Campbell Soup commercials, to become concerned.
This is amazing.
Wilma McNabb actually wrote something on her son's website, DonovanMcNab.com.
And she said, we want our team to win and even go to the Super Bowl and win it in Miami, especially if they continue to play as they have.
But oh, oh, if they win the Super Bowl without my son Donovan, what would be the real outcome with the fans?
Would they crucify him?
Maybe then the trade talks would begin.
Offseason madness, worse than last year's fiasco.
But guess what?
I guess I'll have to take the beating if it comes.
I would have to hope that scenario of the madness would not happen or be that bad.
Let's wait and see.
You know, I love mothers and everything, but you've got to keep them away from the website.
Mother putting on your son's website?
You're worried to fans of Philadelphia are going to crucify your son if they go to the Super Bowl without your son as the quarterback?
And then over the weekend in the New York Times, there was an article on McNabb that, of course, mentioned me, referred to me as marginalizing McNabb way back, whenever the year was, during my ill-fated tour with the ESPN pregame show.
And this story is all about McNabb's thoughts on the plight of black quarterbacks.
And I think it's Bill Roden, William Roden, that wrote the story.
And he concludes that Philadelphia will lose its soul if it throws him over the side, throws him overboard for Jeff Garcia, who is the current Philadelphia quarterback, who says, hey, I'm just trying to win.
This is Donovan's job.
It's not mine.
I'm just trying to win.
So what is all this talk about the pressure and the plight of black quarterbacks?
I thought the media didn't care about that, and that's why I was lambasted for pointing it out.
But here, how many years later, we get a story on, and now, and Mama McNabb, you know, got her little blurb there on our son's website, and everybody's concerned about the pressure McNabb's facing because team's winning without him.
Philly may crucify him.
It may throw him overboard.
Now Bill wrote in the New York Times is talking about the pressures faced by black quarterbacks in the NFL.
I thought I knew I was right all along, which is why I never felt the need to apologize.
How about this headline?
Science told, keep your hands off gay sheep.
Yes, this is from the UK Times.
Scientists conducting experiments to change the sexuality of gay sheep in a program that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of gay rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes.
It raises the prospect that pregnant women can one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their kids will be gay.
Experts say that in theory, the straightening procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers to be worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.
Now, who was it that warned of this a decade ago?
It was odd.
It was I, ladies and gentlemen, might have been longer than 10 years ago, and it took place during a discussion of abortion and genetic engineering.
And at the time, I pointed out that in this genetic engineering, we're going to have to be very, very careful with this.
And we're already seeing a story before I left for the break about how we're able to determine now that a kid may be prone to overweight, red hair, and freckles.
And the mother says, I've got to give birth to that.
And they abort the child.
And the mother says, unless you've walked in my shoes and worn my bra, you can't possibly understand what it's like, so you can have no opinion about it.
I then, in the process of the abortion debate, I said, folks, if you want to wait, just it's going to happen somewhere down the road, somebody's going to be able to discover the gene that causes homosexuality or the hormonal imbalance, whatever it is, and they're going to be able to tell a pregnant couple, your child has this hormonal imbalance that might lead, oh, no, we wouldn't want to do that to a child, and abort the child.
And I said, you wait.
The biggest shift in the pro-life, pro-choice movement will come from gays who will not want to see themselves bred out of existence.
So they'll become the biggest pro-lifers you've ever seen.
And lo and behold, it's happened here.
Scientists are experimenting on gay sheep.
And activists are telling, hands off those gay sheep.
You cannot do this.
Do not.
What are you shaking your head for in there?
You can't believe what?
That I'm talking about it or that it's happening.
It's happening.
And I told you 10 or 12 years ago it was going to happen.
I mean, I'm not trying to be a CI told you so here, but if you're going to keep toying around, they're going to learn a lot more.
I mean, I'd be hesitant to predict what's going to happen in the next 10 years, but there's no question we're choosing or going to be able to choose who lives and who doesn't based on the convenience of the living in any way you can imagine.
Anyway, on a related story, housework can cut the risk of breast cancer.
Women who exercise by doing housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, says a study.
The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found that doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing a sport.
Dusting, mopping, and vacuuming was also better than having a physical job.
The women in the Cancer Research UK-funded study spent an average of 16 to 17 hours a week cooking, cleaning, and doing the washing.
All those things that the feminists wanted to protect you women from having to do.
Experts have long known that physical exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer, probably through hormonal and metabolic changes.
Dr. Leslie Walker of the Cancer Research UK said something as simple and cheap as doing the housework can help.
But of all of the physical activities, only housework significantly reduced the risk of both pre- and post-menopausal women getting breast cancer.
Housework cut the breast cancer risk by 30% among the pre-menopausal women and 20% among the post-menopausal.
Now, let's see what happens with this.
It's going to be very interesting, ladies and gentlemen, because the minute you tell anybody that, say, oat bran can eliminate the risk of people will run out and buy it like crazy.
You tell them that what's the latest Omega-3.
You tell people Omega-3 will extend their life and do Omega-3 is going to be, you know, you're going to get a salt shaker of Omega-3 to put on everything you eat.
If they tell you that stopping eating trans fats will extend your life and prevent cholesterol and all that, wow, well, ban it from New York City and other places.
Now, let's just see how much this study influences women doing housework.
How many women will say to their husbands and sponsors?
No, you stop the dishes.
I have to do the dishes.
I won't get breast cancer.
No, don't clean the floor.
I will vacuum the floor.
Do we expect this day?
And this, by the way, is a survey of 200,000 women.
This is far more than any trans fat study, which, by the way, I found something else over the break.
The top 10 health myths of last year.
And in the top 10, is that trans fats cause increased cholesterol and all that?
It's a myth, according to some science group.
Doesn't matter.
All somebody has to do is tell us something's going to kill us, and we'll man it, we'll stop it, other than the car, or the sidewalk, or crosswalks in the street.
We won't ban the, you know, people get killed crossing the street.
It's riskier than driving.
Percentage basis.
But now, being told that housework can reduce breast cancer by 30% pre- and post-menopause.
Yes, let's just see the upward spike in women doing housework after this news gets out.
We'll be right back, my friend.
Hi, welcome back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't have time to go through this whole thing.
This is a hoot.
It is an absolute hoot.
It is from the New York Times Sunday magazine on Christmas Eve.
As I printed it out, the pages didn't print at least eight pages.
And I highlighted a bunch of it.
I've got a link to this.
Coco, you got a link to this.
It's What's Wrong with Cinderella by Peggy Orenstein.
This is a true femini babe.
And her daughter likes growing up to be a princess.
And she can't understand what's gone wrong.
Come on.
I continued my voice rising.
It's 2006, 1950.
This is Berkeley, California.
Does every little girl really have to be a princess?
These poor feminists, their daughters all want to be Disney princesses.
They want to buy Barbie dolls.
They want to have Barbie dolls.
They want some knight in shining armor on a white horse to come rescue them.
The poor pretty girl needs a man to save her and complete her life.
And this woman is writing about the trauma she is going through as a feminist, raising her daughter.
As a feminist mother, not to mention a nostalgic product of the Granimals era, I've been taken by surprise by the princess craze and the girly girl culture that's risen around it.
What happened to William wanting a doll and not dressing your cat in an apron?
With her Marlowe Thomas, I watch my fellow mothers, women who once swore they'd never be dependent on a man, smile indulgently at daughters who warbl so this is love or insist on being called Snow White.
I wonder if they'd concede so readily to sons who begged for combat fatigues and mock AK-47s.
Here's how this piece opens.
I finally came unhinged in the dentist's office.
One of those ritzy pediatric practices tricked out with comic books, DVDs, and arcade games.
I'd taken my three-year-old daughter for her first exam, and till then I'd held my tongue.
I'd smile politely every time the supermarket checkout clerk greeted her with, hi, princess.
I ignored the waitress at our local breakfast joint who called the funny face pancakes as she ordered her princess meal.
I made no comment when the lady at Long's Drugs said, I bet you know, I bet I know your favorite color, and handed her a pink balloon rather than letting her choose for herself.
Maybe it was the dentist's Betty Boop inflection that got to me.
But when she pointed to the exam chair and said, Would you like to sit in my special prince's throne so I can sparkle your teeth?
I lost it.
Oh, for God's sakes, I snapped.
Do you have a princess drill too?
The dentist stared at me as if I were an evil stepmother.
This story is a hoot.
Again, Peggy Orenstein, and let's see, what does it say about Peggy Ornstein, a contributing writer for the magazine?
Her book, Waiting for Daisy, a tale of two continents, three religions, five infertility doctors, an Oscar, an atomic bomb.
This is the title, A Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother, will be published in February by Bloomsbury.
It cannot be a book big enough to put that whole title on the cover.
Anyway, we'll link to it at rushlinblaw.com later this afternoon.
We update the site to reflect the contents of today's show.
This is Jason in New Braunfields, Texas.
You're next, sir.
Appreciate your patience.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Happy New Year to you.
Same to you, sir.
I've always thought something, and I wanted to ask you this question.
You were talking about toughness in the first hour, and I knew when people didn't flock out to see the movie about United 93 that we were going to lose the election in November for many of the same reasons you outlined, just a general overall loss of toughness.
And I wanted to ask you if you think it would have been better that the Americans had defeated the Russians militarily versus politically in the Cold War.
Because I think a lot of this oprification of America began when we didn't have to go mono-amano with the Russians back in the day.
You know, I hadn't thought of that.
And rather than just give a knee-jerk answer that would appear on liberal websites, I would like to think about that because it is an interesting point.
It's dangerous to play the if game.
I mean, we don't live in a TiVo world.
We can't rewind it back then and change the outcome.
It is what it is.
But it does give thought.
I always love explaining motivations or understanding them so I can explain them.
I mean, it's one thing to tell people that John Kerry and Al Gore are actually not interested in preserving the institutions and traditions that made this country great.
They would as soon turn over our national defense to the United Nations.
People don't want to believe that.
They don't want to deal with it, don't understand it, don't want to try to get their arms around it.
And so, because their question, why would they do that?
Most Americans cannot understand why any American would want to destroy the fabric that keeps this country a sovereign nation.
They just can't understand.
They wouldn't.
Most people don't want to consider it.
And so in trying to explain why I think that people on the left are elitist and have this desire to be globalists and so forth, I have to come up with a motivation for people like Gore and Kerry and whoever else.
Well, like that other guy that called earlier about winning the peace.
I mean, you know, I can describe that guy for the audience perfectly.
I mean, he couldn't even handle being asked how old he was.
He probably drives a Subaru legacy, has all of his presets on FM to NPR, and now no longer Air America.
He sifts white wine and puts his kids in timeout versus spanking them.
I think, yeah, but see, Here's the thing about all this, is that something made this guy this way.
And something's kept him this way.
He's 45 years old.
So we can come up with all the humorous explanations for what he is.
But how do you explain how it happened?
Well, you can say, okay, got caught up in conflict resolution class somewhere along the line in school, had a bunch of pacifist professors, could be his parents, who knows?
But if that guy hadn't called and hadn't said the things he said, and I just tried to explain to people, there are people like that out there.
Most people would say, oh, come on, Rush.
I mean, they're not.
I can't believe that.
Really, you're exaggerating a little bit.
Now, no, of course we're not.
So to try to explain why the American people, get back to your original point, why the American people, to me, have become a nation of pacifists.
And I think there's so many factors that it would be difficult to go back and say, if we had really achieved a big-time military win over the Soviets, then we'd be a little tougher than we are today.
And I know what your point is, that we won the Cold War without firing a shot and we did it with words and doctors and nurses and clean water, but we didn't.
We did it with deterrence and we did it with a robust and strong military and a president who everybody feared had the will to use it.
This is still a world governed by the aggressive use of force and it always will be.
But we have a country, God love it, that is so affluent with so much opportunity for prosperity every day that people who don't want to realize and deal with the fact that we face an enemy that would like to wipe us out don't have to.
They're not needed to win it.
And if they don't think they're needed, it may as well not be that big.
It might as well not be that large a matter.
But I think it's a cumulative thing that has been creeping up on us for years and years and years.
And I think as Shelby Steele has written, one of the things that's happened is that, and this has been a slowly creeping thing too, ever since even prior to civil rights movement.
But the multicultural curricula in all the schools today has successfully imposed a bunch of guilt on American people.
We are guilty because we're a majority.
We're guilty because we're the biggest.
We're guilty because we're the most powerful.
We're guilty because we're the richest.
Because what did we do to become all that?
Well, the first thing we did was kick the Indians off their own land while they were at one with nature.
And then we imported racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and we destroyed the environment.
We're destroying the planet with global warming.
We deserve a comeuppance.
We deserve to lose in Iraq.
We deserve to lose everywhere else.
We need to get ourselves cut down to size.
All of this guilt has, it's what allows illegal immigration to go unchallenged by a whole lot of people.
Just a number of things.
So to cite one example as the primary cause would be a difficult thing to do, but I appreciate the call.
We are out of time.
Back after this with much more.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I know.
Never hurts to hear it again and again.
El Rushbo, talent on lawn from a God.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
All right.
I want to go back to December 22nd.
This story came out after the last broadcast of the year.
22nd was when I left for vacation.
It came out that night, posted at 9.18 Eastern Time.
Broadhead calls for Nyphong to step down as prosecutor.
In response to Mike Nyphong's decision Friday to drop charges of rape in the Duke La Crosse case, Duke President Richard Broadhead questioned Nyphong's conduct and called for the DA to relieve himself of his duties in the case.
I thought, well, you know, maybe you should step down along with him, Mr. Broadhead.
You're the guy that threw your players under the bus the first moment of an accusation.
The coach, nobody talks about the coach.
The whole lacrosse program was shut down for a while, and the coach was canned.
And now all this is utter BS.
And I saw a piece by Susan Estrigen.
I guess it was ran Estrich.
Okay, anyway, it was about Nyphong.
And she was lamenting, and Life Wong has made a mistake.
He's got to go, but she couldn't understand why he would do this.
Surely he couldn't do this just to win an election.
And I was shouting at the columns, Lucy's a Democrat.
Of course, he would do it to win an election.
But the point is, even she, and she's a warrior, and she is a war professor at USC, the University of Spoiled Children.
And, well, that's what they call it.
And she said that she just proved the point that nobody thinks law enforcement would be corrupt.
Nobody thinks law enforcement would do anything wrong, other than Republican members of Congress.
They are lawyers, lawmakers.
And it was amazing to read her piece about this.
Broadhead, the university president, the minute this allegation was thrown around, these three kids may as well have been guilty.
The lacrosse program had to be shut down.
The coach had to be let go.
I think maybe Mr. Broadhead is just hoping folks will forget his own despicable actions here by calling for Nyphong to step down.
Then there was a piece in the Los Angeles Times that ran on New Year's Eve, big news day, of course.
Duke's recovery from a rush to judge it.
Why do they have to put me in every story?
There was a headline about Saddam's execution over the weekend about rush to execute Saddam considered what Jesus, I'm being blamed for that now.
Duke's recovery from a rush to judge it.
What you read and hear or read and hear about Duke University's out-of-control athletes and parties is far from the truth.
It's by Michelle Scoob.
Here's an excerpt.
Privately, people who rallied to the defense of the victim tell you they were snookered.
As they do, a different posse prowls the airwaves and internet.
This one wants not the Duke La Crosse players brought to heel, but Mike Nifwong.
And along within the highest stratum of the Duke University hierarchy, including the president Richard Broadhead, it was the university, these critics argue, that failed to stand up for its students, its customers, if you will.
And the story goes on to talk about all these people, all these great leftists who believed this accuser and Nyphon now talking about how they just got snooker, Mr. Limbaugh.
We just got snookered.
Here's a quote from somebody named Kensington.
And I'm sorry I don't know the first name, but it shows up earlier in the piece.
Kensington, Kensington, Kensington.
We're going to find out this is a male or female.
Why does it matter?
It just does.
I'm curious.
Men and women think differently.
Ned Kensington.
It's a guy.
One who has come to understand the critics' distemper is Ned Kensington, who Kensington, who last March was among those calling for Justice Swift and certain.
I am outraged, he said back then, that 40 Duke students know what happened and won't come forward.
Today he speaks in tones measured and a little rueful.
I'll be frank with you, says Kennington, a former faculty member who lives near the campus.
I trusted that Mike Nyphong was talking in a careful, judicious way when he called the lacrosse players hooligans.
Wasn't long after that I felt betrayed, and I regret what I said at the time.
Oh, well, I guess cleansing the soul healthy.
Duke is another quote here from Ned Kennington, the former Duke prof. Duke is populated by a faculty that is very socially conscious.
I think I am guilty of that.
But this case was fueled by Ny Fong's assertions, which fit into our preconceptions.
Exactly right.
What are the preconceptions?
Rich, white, brute, predator athletes on the lacrosse team.
Of course, you can't get more elitists than lacrosse.
And what was the alleged victim?
A bedraggled poor stripper trying her best to put herself through college and earn a living for a daughter.
It's so demeaning she has to strip in the first place.
And these white elitist SOPs lured her into that little dump of a house.
It fit the preconception.
This is the way the liberal mind works.
At least Mr. Kennington has had a soul cleansing about this and realizes that he got hooked and cooked and tricked by Nyphon.
Now, Nyphong, late yesterday, he had it sworn in yesterday, of course, in private.
There was no media allowed.
But late yesterday at a press conference after, I think, in Durham, Nyphon said this.
Durham has some healing to do.
And I need to be part of that healing process.
And I need to have something to do with how we move forward in light of the events that have brought all of you here.
Because you're not here today for swearing in.
You're here today because of things that happened over the course of the last year.
This is akin to a star athlete spitting on an opponent on the field.
And after caught and found, you know, that wasn't me.
That's not who I am.
Yes, it is.
You did it.
Here's Nife.
I'm not attacking T.O.
I couldn't even think of who did it.
T.O.'s not the only one.
Bill Romanowski.
I don't know.
Athlete punches out athlete.
I'm sorry.
That's not who I am.
Yes, it is.
You did it.
Nyphong is trying to take the third person.
He's trying to assume the role of spectator here.
Well, I know you're not here for swearing in.
You're here because of what happened in the past year, and I got to help with a healing process.
Well, then resign.
You are the wart.
Nyphon is the pus that is oozing from the wart.
He wants to cause the healing.
He cannot be the wart.
And the, what's the medicine you put on burns and what was it, a little yellow tube?
What is it?
We've got some back there.
Neosport.
Yeah.
You can't be the pus and the neosport at the same time.
You are one or the other.
This is amazing.
Here's Oprah Winfrey.
The drive-bys, I'm sure you've all seen this now, reporting that the Oprah donated $40 million to build a screw in South Africa for a small and select group of impoverished girls.
Most of the drive-by media, however, did not make the connection with this quote from an interview that Oprah did in Newsweek.
This is on American Schools.
She said, quote, I became so frustrated with visiting inner city schools, I just stopped going.
The sense that you need to learn just isn't there.
If you ask the kids, the inner city schools, what they want or need, they'll say an iPod or some sneakers.
In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys.
They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
Now, this is quite cosmies-esque of the Oprah.
And it's in Newsweek, and the fact there hadn't been any hubbub about this proves nobody reads Newsweek.
If she had said this on television, there would obviously have been a bigger reaction to it.
No, she's not out of touch.
The Oprah will never be out of touch, or neither she is out of touch.
Well, iPods and sneakers are school uniforms here, Mr. Snerdley says, fine and dandy, but she's saying that's wrong.
And she's not going to fund that.
That's all she's saying.
I became so frustrated visiting inner city screws that I just stopped going.
The sense you need to learn just isn't there.
By the way, it's iPods and sneakers in schools.
Try this in the Associated Press story out of Michigan.
A man who awoke inside a garbage truck that was about to compact its load on Thursday in Oak Park, this is last Thursday, was rescued after making a cell phone call to the cops.
The man was scavenging for bottles.
Can we assume he was homeless?
I mean, the homeless have seen the dumpster diving video.
He's in the dumpster.
Actually, in the garbage truck.
He's an actual truck.
Scavenging for bottles when he fell asleep in the dumpster.
Well, actually, he was in the dumpster, and a truck came by, picked up the dumpster, dumped it in the truck, and that's when he woke up.
He awoke when the container was unloaded into a truck.
He told a cops he didn't know which truck he was in, but gave a dispatcher the location of the dumpster he fell asleep in.
The police checked several trucks, including one in a parking lot.
An officer went, pounded on the side of the truck.
Somebody pounded back.
He was buried in the garbage.
Cell phone, though, still got a signal.
But here's the thing.
This is a homeless guy with a cell phone.
Homeless guy with a cell phone.
Remember, you people won't remember this.
We did a series of homeless updates, but there were homeless advocates and activists years ago who wanted to make sure homeless people had a computer so they could use email to stay in touch with relief agencies and authorities.
And everybody laughed about it.
They got cell phones.
So homeless have cell phones.
Inner city schools have iPods and sneakers.
And Oprah is in South Africa because nobody here cares about learning.
A couple quick things here before we go back to the phone calls here on the EIB network.
Walmart, this is not going to go over well.
Walmart stores will start moving many of its 1.3 million employees from predictable shifts to a system based on how many customers are in stores at a given time.
The move promises more productivity and consumer satisfaction, but it could demand more flexibility and availability from workers in place of reliable shifts and predictable paychecks.
So they're going to start scheduling people to work when the stores are busiest.
And they're going to start unscheduling people.
Now, there's the union that can't stop it because they're not unionized.
This is going to cause the fur will fly.
And talking about the passivity of the American population, folks, you know, there's always this avalanche of year-end stories, best and worst, in and out, resolutions and all that.
There's a story here that women make more New Year's resolutions, but men keep more of the ones they make.
I found, I have here in the stack today, five stories on how the secret to acceptance these days is apologizing.
Sorry is the magic word.
They are all from the Associated Press.
Everyone must admit to their shortcomings, their frailties, in order to achieve acceptance.
We must embrace the imperfections in each other.
We end up treating those imperfections as valor when we admit to them.
We all have to, if we just all run around admitting how screwed up and deficient we are, we can be appreciated because we understand truth.
Sorry seems to be the easiest word is the first story I had.
Actually, it's an AV story that runs in the L.A. Times.
In show business, the highest form of art these days is the apology.
Saying you're sorry.
And it's true, and it all stems from guilt.
Make no mistake.
I'll save these for tomorrow.
We'll have plenty of time then.
Marion, Tucson, I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Happy New Year.
Same to you.
My comment was back to the breast cancer study, that the women who do housework have less breast cancer.
That's what the UK study of 200,000 women concluded.
The housework, as opposed to other forms of physical activity, has a 30%, well, reduces chance of breast cancer pre- and post-menopause 30%.
Do you think that could be because maybe the women that stay at home and have a clean house and take care of their family are happier?
Then there's more endorphin.
I'm a job well done so you don't feel bad about your life.
You know, I'm an expert on a lot of things, but I'm not going there.
I couldn't dare speculate on the happiness of women based on doing housework.
All I know is that feminists are not happy.
They are women not happy to read this.
Well, that's because many of them don't have happy families and loving husbands and a great house to clean at home.
Well, I think they've got the house to clean.
But they have someone else to clean it.
Well, you know, I appreciate you bringing it up, but the story doesn't comment on the happiness of the women in the study who were told by doing housework.
I still think, folks, that the primary reaction to this is, as I said earlier, any health news that tells us we can live longer by eliminating something in the diet, we'd do it.
I mean, right then and there.
Or we take it if it's a supplement.
Anything that can reduce cancer.
Don't smoke, don't smoke.
Save your heart, save your lungs, no cancer.
Here, housework, reducing cancer.
I just don't see a big advocacy movement here for women doing more housework.
It'd be interesting to see if it happens.
John in Washington, you're next on the EIB Network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Couldn't be better, sir.
You were pretty good for two hours.
The last time I saw you on November 16th down at the Warner Theater.
Oh, that was fun.
That was a lot of fun.
Thank you.
Yeah, I was a white-haired guy in the front row showing you that I received a limbo letter that day, and you grabbed it out of my hands and autographed it for me, and I didn't expect that, but I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
You're more than welcome, sir.
I'm a nice guy.
Spread the word.
I wanted to get back to this fellow from Ohio, I guess.
He mentioned Parma, Ohio, and that you have to give peace a chance.
You know, it's not just parents.
You're going to run the same.
You run into people from Defiance, Ohio.
It's something in the water or something.
A lot of people like this.
Well, with the last election, I can understand where he's coming from because there are a lot of people that felt the way he did.
They're sick of the war.
But his idea that you can just establish peace because it's the right thing to do isn't borne out by history.
And I'm looking at yesterday's Washington Post, and there's an article in there by Stephanie McCrummin about Somalia.
And apparently, the only reason they got peace there after all these years is they drove out the Ethiopian forces, drove out the Islamic terrorists.
Exactly right.
Here is the story.
Defeated Somali Islamists fled their last stronghold and headed toward the Kenyan border Monday in what looked like the end of nearly two weeks of war with the Ethiopian-backed government.
The lesson here is you win over terrorists with force.
The Ethiopian government was not going to take an Islamic regime in Somalia.
And they went in there and they wiped these guys out as they were in the beginning throes of establishing their little terrorist haven or whatever.
It took two weeks and they ran them out.
And there is a lesson there.
And it did bring peace, well, in their world terms, to Somalia.
But pacifists in peace have never understood what peace.
Peace to them is surrender, basically.
I've got to run here, folks, out of time.
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