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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 Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you on the program, folks.
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Snerdley and I were discussing the NFL playoffs at the uh at the break here at the top of the hour.
Uh asked him what he thought of his cowboys backing in, sneaking in, and he's that doesn't look too good.
I don't know.
Uh if Parcells can get the quarterback's head turned around, is gonna Parcel says a quarterback down there, Tony Romo has got an overconfidence problem.
You're gonna reign him in.
Seattle has a porous secondary.
I mean, the cowboys Terrell Owens and uh Terry Glenn could have a field day.
You never know what's going to happen.
Which it reminded me, where is it now?
Reminded me that uh some strange things are going on in Philadelphia involving the uh the Igles.
As you know, Donovan McNabb was hurt uh earlier in the season.
Jeff Garcia has taken over quarterback, and they won the NFC East.
This has caused Mama McNabb, uh, who has been made famous with the Campbell Soup commercials to become concerned.
This this is amazing.
Wilma McNabb actually uh wrote something on her son's website, Donovan McNabb.com.
Uh 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?
Uh maybe then the trade talks would begin.
Off season 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.
Um let's wait and see.
You know, love mothers and everything, but you gotta keep them away from the website.
Mother putting on your son's website, you're worried the fans of Philadelphia are going to crucify your son if they go to the Super Bowl without your son as the quarterback.
Uh and then over the weekend uh in the uh uh in the New York Times, there was an article on McNabb that of course mentioned me, uh referred to me as marginalizing McNabb uh way back whenever the year was uh during my ill-fated tour with the ESPN pregame show.
And uh 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.
I don't this is Donovan's job, it's not mine.
I'm just I'm just trying to win.
So, what is all this talk about the pressure and the plight of black quarterbacks?
I thought 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's got her little little blurb there on our son's website, and everybody's concerned about the pressure McNabb's facing because teams winning without him.
Philly may crucify him, may throw him overboard.
Now, Bill Rhode 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.
Uh how about this headline, Science told, keep your hands off gay sheep.
Yes, this is from the uh 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 the yews.
Uh it raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their kids will be gay.
Experts uh 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 ten years ago, and it took place during a discussion of abortion and genetic engineering.
And at the time, I pointed out that if this genetic engineering, we're going to be very, very careful with this.
And if 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'm not going 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 are 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 uh uh from 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 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 see I told you so here, but I mean if you're gonna keep toying around, we're gonna learn a lot more.
I mean, I hesitate to predict what's gonna happen in the next ten years, but there's no question we're we're choosing or going to be able to choose who lives and who doesn't based on a convenience of the living in any way you can imagine.
Uh 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 gonna be it's gonna be very interesting, uh, ladies and gentlemen, because if the minute you tell anybody that, say, oat bran uh can eliminate the risk of people will run out and buy it like crazy.
You tell them that uh what's the latest photo um omega-3?
You tell people omega-3 will extend their life and do eh, omega-3 is gonna be, you know, you're gonna get a salt shaker of omega-3 to put on everything you eat.
If they if they tell you that uh uh stopping eating trans fats uh will extend your life and prevent uh cholesterol and all that, well, we'll ban it from New York City and ever other places.
Now let's just see how much this study influences women doing housework.
How many women will say to their husbands and spouse, 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 ten health myths Of last year, and in the top ten 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 ban it, we'll stop it, other than the car.
Uh or the sidewalk.
Uh or crosswalks in the street, we won't ban the.
You know, if people get kicked killed crossing the street, it's it's riskier than driving.
Percentage basis.
Uh, 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 Stick.
Ha, welcome back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to uh 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, uh the print pages didn't print, at least eight pages.
And I highlighted a bunch of it.
We're 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 this is a true Feminazi 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, they have that their daughters all want to be Disney princesses.
They want to buy Barbie dolls, they want to have Barbie dolls, they want to they want they they they want some knight shining armor on a white horse to come rescue them.
Uh 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 granules 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 warble 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, until 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 Orstein, 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, and Oscar and 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.
They it it cannot be a book big enough to put that whole title on the cover.
Anyway, we'll link to it at Rushlindlaw.com later this afternoon we update the site to reflect the contents of today's show.
This is Jason of New Brunfils, Texas.
Uh your 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.
Um, for many of the same reasons you outlined.
Just a general overall loss.
It's 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 ultrafication of America began when we didn't have to go mono a mono with the Russians back in the day.
Yeah I hadn't thought of that and I rather than just give a a knee jerk answer that would appear on liberal websites I I would I would like to think about that because it is it is an interesting point.
It's dangerous to play the if game though I mean you we don't live in a TVO world.
We can't rewind it back then and and uh change the outcome it is what it is but it does uh give thought and I always love explaining motivations uh or understanding them so I can explain them.
I mean it's one thing to tell people that John Kerry uh and 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 can't they can't 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 they're questionable 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.
I 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 piece.
I mean, you know, I can describe that guy for the audience perfectly.
You see, 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 sticks white wine and puts his kids in timeout versus spanking them.
I think yeah but you see here here's here's the thing about all this is that something made this guy this way and something's kept him this way is forty five years old.
So we can 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 he got 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 i i if that guy hadn't called and hadn't uh 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 they'd really can't believe that they're really you're exaggerating a little bit.
Now we're not no of course we're not so so i when when you know you 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 you know 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 active, 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 might may as well not be that big it might might as well not be that large a matter but I think it's a cumulative thing that 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 it's it 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.
Why 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.
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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 uh left for vacation.
Uh came out that night, posted at 918 Eastern Time.
Broadhead calls for Nifong to step down as prosecutor.
In response to Mike Nyphong's decision Friday to drop charges of rape in the Duke Lacrosse case.
Duke President Richard Broadhead questioned Nifong'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 Estridon.
Oh, I guess it was ran uh Estrich.
Okay, anyway, it was it was shit was about Nifong.
And she was lamenting, you know, Lifong's 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, Susie'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 uh at USC, the University of Spoiled Children.
And, well, that's what they call it.
And she said that uh she just proved the point that that you know 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.
Now, Broadhead, the university president, the minute this allegation was thrown around, these three kids may as well have been guilty.
A cross program had to be shut down, a coach had to be let go.
I think maybe Mr. Broadhead has this 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.
Why do they have to put me in every story?
There was there was a headline about Saddam's execution over the uh 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.
What you read and hear or reading here 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 Lacrosse players brought to heel, but Mike Nifong.
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.
Um, if you will.
And the story goes on to talk about all these people, all these great leftists who believed this accuser.
And Nifong now talking about how they they we just got thnooker, Mr. Limbaugh.
We just got snookered.
Here's a quote from somebody named Kensington, and I sorry I don't know the first name, but it shows up earlier in the piece.
Kensington, Kensington, Kensington.
We'll 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 critic's distemper is Ned Kensington, who uh Kennington, 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 Knife was taking in a or 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 Nyphon's assertions which fit into our preconceptions.
Exactly right.
What are the preconceptions?
Rich brute predator athletes on the lacrosse team.
Of course, you can't get more elitists than lacrosse.
And what was the alleged victim?
Oh 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 the strip in the first place.
And these white elitist SOBs lured her into that little dump of a house.
And they 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 Nyphong.
Now, Nifong, late yesterday 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, uh Nyphong said this.
And um 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 this is this is akin uh to a uh star athlete spitting on an opponent on the field, and uh after caught in finds, you know, I probably that wasn't me.
That's not who I am.
Yes, it is.
You did it.
Here's knife.
I'm not attacking T.O. I wouldn't couldn't even think of who did it.
TO's not the only one.
Bill Romanowski, but they all I don't know.
Athlete punches out athlete.
Oh, 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 you're you're here because of what happened in the past year, and I got a help with a healing process.
Well, then resign.
You are the you you're the wart.
Nifong is the pus that is oozing from the wart.
He wants to cause the healing.
He cannot be the wart.
And the uh what's the medicine you put on Burns and uh what was it, a little yellow tube?
What is it?
We've got some back there.
Neospor, yeah.
You can't be the pus and the neosport at the same time.
You are one and the uh or the other.
This is this is amazing.
Here's Oprah Winfrey.
The drive-by is, I'm sure you've all seen this now, reporting that the Oprah donated forty 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 uh in Newsweek.
This is on American Schools.
She said, quote, I became so frustrated with visiting inner city schools, I 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 Cosme-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.
Well, she's not a Oprah will never be out of touch.
Neither she is out of touch.
She will never.
Well, IPODs and and sneakers are school uniforms here, Mr. Snerdley says fine and dandy, but she's saying that's wrong.
And she's not gonna 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 from 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 bottle.
Can we assume he was homeless?
I mean, the homeless have seen the dumpster diving video.
He's in the he's in the dumpster.
Actually, in the garbage truck.
His actual truck, scavenging for bottles when he fell asleep in the dumpster.
Uh said well, actually he was in the dumpster and the truck came by, picked up the dumpster, dumped it the truck, and that's when he woke up.
He awoke when the container was unloaded into a truck.
He told the 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.
Uh the 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 computers that could use email to stay in touch with uh relief agencies and authorities.
And everybody laughed about they got cell phones.
So homeless have cell phones, uh, 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 uh phone calls here on the EIB network.
Walmart, this is not gonna 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 that uh 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 gonna start scheduling people to work when the stores are busiest.
And they're gonna start unscheduling people.
Well, they there's the union that can't stop it because they're not unionized.
That's just gonna cause the fur will fly.
And talking about the passivity of the American population.
Folks, you know there's always these this avalanche of year-end stories, best and worst, in and out, uh, 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 Snack 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.
Uh 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.
Uh sorry seems to be the easiest word is the first story I had.
Actually, it's an AB story that runs in the uh in the LA 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.
Uh Marion, Tucson, I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
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 postmenopause 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 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 I couldn't, I couldn't dare com uh speculating the happiness of uh of women uh 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.
Uh but they have someone else to clean it.
Well, you know, it's it yeah, I'm I appreciate your bringing it up, but the story doesn't comment on the happiness of uh of the women in the study who were told that by doing housework though.
I still think, folks, that the primary reaction to this is as I said earlier, any health news that uh that tells us we can live longer by eliminating something in the diet, well, we do it.
I mean we right then and there.
Or we take it if it's a supplement.
Uh anything that can uh reduce can don't smoke, don't smoke.
Save your heart, save your lungs, no cancer.
Uh here, housework reducing cancer.
I just don't see a big advocacy movement here for women doing more housework.
I'd be interested to see if it happens.
John in Washington, uh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Couldn't better be better, sir.
The last time you you were pretty good for two hours the last time I saw you on November 16th down at the Warner Theater.
I was like, Well, that was that was fun.
That was a lot of fun.
Thank you.
Yeah, I was a white-headed 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 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 want to get back to this fellow from uh Ohio, I guess.
He mentioned Parma, Ohio, and that uh you have to give peace a chance.
You know, it's not just parents Parma, you're gonna run the same.
You run into people from Defiance, Ohio.
It's a it's a it's uh it's something in the water or something.
There are a lot of people like this.
Well, with the last election, I could 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 uh his idea that you know you can just establish peace because it's the right thing to do, uh isn't isn't borne out by history.
And I'm looking at yesterday's Washington Post, and there's an article in there by Stephanie McCrumman 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 uh the Islamic terrorists.
Exactly right exactly right.
Here is the uh the story.
Defeated Somali Islamists, fled their last stronghold and headed toward the Kenyan border Monday in what looked like the end of a nearly two weeks of war with the Ethiopian backed government.
The the the lesson here is you win over terrorists with force.
The Ethiopian government was not gonna take an Islamic regime in Somalia, and they went in there and they wiped these guys out as they were in the beginning uh throes of establishing their uh little terrorist haven or whatever.
It took two weeks and they uh they ran them out.
Uh and it there is a lesson there, and it it did bring peace.
Uh well in their world terms, uh, to Somalia.
Uh but but pacifists in peace have they never understood what what what peace peace to them is surrender, basically.
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