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Feb. 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Me.
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I don't care how people attack me.
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In order to get along or even to expand the size of this audience.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's broadcast excellence hosted by me, El Rushbow at 800-282-2882, and the uh email address is Rush at EIB net.com.
Well, this is gonna tick you off if you haven't heard about it.
Uh Mexican trucks be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States, according to plans being hatched in Washington.
These are not new plans, they've been out there for quite a while, but the news has only recently been made public, and it drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates, and members of Congress.
Not to mention uh the uh the people uh in this country upset uh over the open borders policy of much of the immigration proposals that are now flirting and circulating around in Congress.
By the way, if you if you wanna if you want to know about open borders, just ask our Native Americans about them.
If you want to put open borders in perspective, ask the Cheyenne, ask the Sioux.
And they'll tell you the problem of having leaky borders.
Will they ever tell you?
Uh interesting here, labor leaders don't like this, nor do safety advocates, because you know, you get trucks coming from Mexico, they're not governed by uh global warming emissions, transmission emissions, transmission rules, basically a bunch of junk.
A bunch of clap trap vehicles driving their way deeper and deeper into the United States.
All these people said that Mexico has substandard trucks, low-paid drivers that'll threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs, and endanger motorists on the northern side of the Mexican border.
The Bush administration announced last Thursday its plan to have U.S. inspectors oversee Mexican trucking companies that carry cargo across the uh the border.
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday, this program will make trade with Mexico easier and keep our roads safe at the same time.
Uh she announced details of the plan to let 100 Mexican trucking companies travel beyond the border area while she was in El Paso at the Bridge of the Americas, which connects to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Teamster's President Jim Hoff has said they're playing a game of Russian roulette here on America's highways.
Now the Bush pilot project will let Mexican truck companies travel from Mexico throughout the United States and back.
No hazardous material shipments will be permitted.
The first Mexican trucks expected to drive into the U.S. beyond the border area in about two months, according to the transportation secretary.
Also the National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hurstman questioned how the U.S. could spare sending inspectors to Mexico when only a tiny percentage of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. truck companies are inspected every year.
They lack the inspectors to conduct safety reviews of at-risk domestic carriers.
Situation only gets worse if resources are diverted to the border.
Now, one-fourth of all U.S. trucks are taken off the road after random inspections because they're so unsafe, she said.
An even higher percentage of Mexican trucks are taken off the road at Texas border crossings.
Peter DeFasio, a Democrat from Oregon, uh chairman of the House Highways Committee said Congress will keep a close eye on the program.
Mexico responded to the announcement by saying it'll allow trucks from 100 U.S. companies to travel across its border as well.
Now this is look it.
This is what it is.
It's absurd.
It's it's it's just it it makes no sense.
But I told you people, you d you after the November elections, there's no way you should be surprised at this.
You know darn well what the immigration plans are in the Senate, uh, hatched by Senator McCain.
You know the White House position on this.
Uh I'm not saying you shouldn't be mad.
I know this ticks you off, but the idea that this would uh surprise you, you know, elections have consequences, folks.
Uh but what I find fascinating about this uh is all of the criticism here.
The very criticism being mounted to oppose Mexican trucks seems to me to be as valid as opposing illegal immigrants, but yet some of the people who have no problem with illegal immigrants, like labor unions are all bent out of shape now, but a bunch of trucks coming in here.
It's one thing to have millions of illegal immigrants cross the border, and people not say a word about that, but now we've got some trucks coming in, and all hell is breaking loose.
It seems rather hypocritical on this.
Jimmy Hoffa says, Well, while they're playing a game of Russian roulette on America's highways.
The critics say that Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that'll threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs, and endanger motorists on the northern side of the Mexican border.
You could say the same thing about the illegal immigration, period.
But they don't.
Now all of a sudden specific oxes are being gored, and we find out what people actually think about the whole thing when it affects them.
I think it's I think it's uh I think it's actually funny to uh tell you the truth here, folks.
Looking for something.
I think I've got something here that relates to this.
No, guess not.
Maybe it's in another stack.
Because I know there's something.
It's on the tip of my brain.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Is that in your stack?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it's something about the Bank of All right, the Bank of Amigo.
Let's see if it's the last thing I have on the stack here.
Uh, yes.
Yes.
Get this.
Even as the federal government is starting to crack down on companies that hire illegal immigrants, it's been helping those same workers send money home cheap.
Dubbed Directo a Mexico, the Federal Reserve sponsored service, allows customers without social security numbers to wire money through the Fed system to Mexico's central bank at little cost.
In September, the Fed ex What is going on?
First, we got the Bank of Amigo letting people get credit cards without Social Security numbers.
And now the Bank of Amigo is out there backing up the planet.
Oh, this makes perfect sense.
We can explain it.
Let you and I go try this.
And the next thing we know, the Federal Reserve will be sending an investigator to look at us on money laundering and so forth.
The program has attracted the attention of conservative immigration activists and members of Congress who say financial institutions shouldn't cater to illegal immigrants.
Representative Brian Bilbra, a Republican from Solano Beach, California, who leads the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, said directo a Mexico and programs like it should be stopped, and that participating banks were profiteering from illegal immigration.
Bill Bray is also targeting Bank of Amigo, which this month announced plans to uh grab the Bank of Amigo spot, H.R. Mike have it standing by.
Perfect time to uh to play it.
Bill Bray targeting Bank of Amigo, uh, which this month announced plans to offer credit cards to immigrants without SSNs, drawing complaints.
It's illegal for a landlord to do it, illegal for an employer to do it, should be illegal for financial institutions to do this.
Bank of Amigo has said that it complied fully with all banking and anti-terrorism laws that govern customer identification, which permit the use of forms of ID other than social security numbers.
So we got Mexican trucks coming in, the same people opposed to Mexicans coming in, or not opposed to Mexicans coming in illegally, are now bent out of shape about a bunch of trucks pouring in across the border.
And now Bank of Amigo, Well, is being joined with the Federal Reserve to enable illegals who earn money here to wire it home to Mexico with uh uh much less cost and much more ease.
Here is uh the way the Bank of Amigos operating.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, the EIB network.
I mentioned this story earlier, and I want to get into it a little bit more detail.
It was uh Sunday in the Washington Post, Clinton fights to keep impeachment taboo after spat with Geffen campaigns know to expect swift reprisal for any hint of the scandal.
That's exactly right.
That's the old testicle lockbox.
This story explains exactly why there have been no defectors, no leakers, no tell all books from eight years of the Clintons in the White House.
They have made it plain anybody who goes off the reservation is going to be destroyed.
Here are the details.
Senator Hillary Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field.
Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband.
A commandment, folks.
It's amazing how she can issue these sweeping orders, these commandments, and the drive-by media, and any Democrat opponent just falls in line and obeys.
Well, we'll see if they obey.
We'll see if somebody brings up her husband's impeachment.
Now there's a great line in this story that was uh that was uttered here by her advisor and spokesman Howard Wolfson.
He said, in the end, voters will decide what's off limits, but I can't imagine the public will reward the politics of personal destruction.
Earlier in the week, Wolfson dismissed references to President Clinton's conduct as under the belt.
If he really said that, does he know what he said?
Of course Clinton's conduct was under the belt.
It was below the belt, it was under the belt, it was there was no belt.
That was the whole point.
There couldn't have been.
Politics of personal destruction?
Who invented this?
It's always been part of politics, but I think the Clintons own it.
Dave in Fort Lauderdale, welcome to the program.
You're next.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Great to be here.
How you doing?
Thank you.
I'm fine, sir.
Just a quick thought.
The left seems to think that it's okay for two men to be married or for two women to be married.
but why is it not okay for someone to have more than one wife Shouldn't they be defending that?
Well, it is interesting, isn't it?
Uh when you when you when you say that traditional marriage between a man and a woman is discriminatory, and then when you couple that with the left, as they have been doing the last uh number of years, redefining family, you would have to conclude, and this question has been raised and it has been asked.
If marriage is no longer between just a man and a woman, if it can be between two men or two women, why not three?
Why not throw your dog in there?
Why not be able to marry your dog?
Why not be able to marry your cat?
Um which, I this is totally unreliable, but I've got to ask this question.
I'm going to illustrate my ignorance on this, but I don't care.
This is how you learn.
Did you hear about this Jaguar that mauled a zookeeper in Denver?
Jaguar was named Jorge, or George, J-O-R-G-E.
They got the Jaguar from a Bolivian zoo, six years old, cute little thing, uh, saw a picture of it, and they had just imported uh a sixteen-year, a 16-month-old female to mate with George.
They had this zookeeper who violated a policy and went into the exhibit area with the animal there, and the animal molder.
So they went in there, the other zookeepers heard the cries of distress from the crown.
They went in there to um uh rescue the worker, and the Jagu war began to approach the other people.
Now, Jaguars, I have uh because I was curious about this, uh, uh looked them up, and and uh people that deal with them say that they are the meanest, most unpredictable cat in the big cat world, even more so than lions and tigers and uh uh cougars, and so that the jaguar there's just that they're just unpredictable.
But they shot and killed the thing.
Now, uh I know that that that when an alligator, somebody out in the wild uh attacks uh a human being and kills the human being, they find the beast and they put them down.
Understand that, but my my question uh if if the people in the zoo area, the exhibit area killed the cat because it was approaching them and they felt threatened, and it's understandable.
What I I don't understand why in a zoo circumstance when a when a cat, a big cat like this, does what a big cat does.
A jag war is a jag war.
And if it's the most unpredictable and the meanest cat of all the big cats, why would you kill it for doing what it does?
Uh well, I know, but even even even if it hadn't attacked the other rescuers, and it didn't say attack, it was saying it was approaching.
Uh with a j I they couldn't take any chances.
In this case, I understand it.
But um there there are times where the animal uh is put down anyway, whether it's threatening anybody else or not.
And I've never understood, it's just being what it is.
You know, Jaguar is a Jaguar.
Tiger's a tiger.
Uh and and and when they when they do what they do, uh, and these are not trained, these are not circus and they're not performing out there.
This is a zoo.
And I've never understood why what what what is the um uh the reason why you automatically kill a predator animal when it kills a human being when that's what predator animals do.
There's a part of me that understands it, but uh not not uh not totally.
Um but anyway, if you wanted a jag war in your family, what what's the once once you tear apart the definition of marriage?
Uh then why why because it's gonna happen if this if this if this becomes mainstream, uh, and that is the dissolution of the traditional definition of marriage, well then you know some people are gonna come along and say it's discriminator.
Look at I want to marry two people.
Why can't I?
Well, we got uh laws of the books of polygamy.
We'll change it because it's discriminating against me.
I want to come home every night, and I want to have two relationship discussions with my wife or husband or whoever.
I don't know.
Once once you know, that's the thing about this is once you tear down a tradition, and once you tear down an institution, make no mistake.
There are going to be all kinds of oddballs that are going to want to pervert that institution and tradition as dramatically as they can.
Ed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Russ, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Uh not to belabor the point, but on the Mitt Romney thing, uh I just want to blow it out to you uh last month's issue of the AARP magazine uh had a little survey in it right at the beginning of the book.
Uh it was titled, Is America Ready for It was the Obama thing.
Is America ready for Obama?
And uh of course the response was yes.
And uh then the next question was is America ready for a woman president?
And of course, the overwhelming response was yes.
But what really appalled me was the third question.
Is America ready for a Mormon president?
Well, let me ask you this.
Dingy Harry is a Mormon.
He is.
Dingy Harry's a Mormon from if Dingy Harry were running for president, do you think we'd see stories about polygamy in his background or in the Mormon church at all?
Do you think the same drive-bys would be trying to destroy Dingy Harry were he running for president?
If any Mormon Oh, I doubt it.
AARP probably contributes to Vinji Harry.
What's that?
Say a little slower.
I said I wouldn't be surprised if AARP contributes to Dingy Harry.
Well, probably uh probably true.
Um anyway, I I look, there's there's no question it's a lot of controversy and fear over Mormons and uh and so forth uh uh in this country, but the uh as to run a hit piece.
I mean, the the fact that his grandfather, great-grandfather were polygamous is no bearing on him.
He's not lived his life that way at all.
This is a pure hit piece.
It's not based on his Mormonism, it's happening because he's conservative.
We will be back.
Yes, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Look at that, we just have a half hour left here.
Time is rocketing by as it does here, the fastest three hours in media.
The Sunday Times uh Sunday Times of London.
Uh U.S. generals will quit if Bush orders Iran attack.
Meanwhile, three Middle Eastern countries have granted Israel permission to fly over their airspace on their way to Iran.
I think Qatar is one.
The United Arab Emirates is another, I forget the third.
Found that uh stunning.
I I would like to know the list of these because you can't find them.
We don't know who these generals are.
You know why we don't know who these generals are, because they're not named in this story.
Uh and I think this is part of the problem that Bush has had in Iraq, has had to do with the generals.
And uh some of the embedded uh bureaucracy, the Pentagon's never been fully on board for this.
A lot of Clinton holdovers, folks, the State Department, CIA, Pentagon.
They're all over the place.
And Bush didn't get rid of them.
Um stuff.
But this story, U.S. generals will quit if Bush orders Iran attack.
This is one of the lamest stories.
Uh uh Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter in Washington are the uh writers.
Uh they have a source who knows some folks in British intelligence, who know four or five generals and admirals.
We've got fourth generation anonymous sourcing here for this story.
That's sure good enough for them to run the Smear America story.
This is this is I'd like to know who these generals are, but of course we'll never find that out.
Will we?
Uh fuel-saving gasoline electric hybrid cars don't save as much fuel as thought.
This, according to the new government fuel economy ratings available to public for the first time.
A new ratings go into effect beginning with 2008 models, a few of which will soon be on sale, but now it's possible to tell what rating 2007 and older models would get using the 08 standards.
Uh the government's fuel economy website has a program that makes the comparison.
If you click on the button that says compare old and new MPG ratings, it'll show that vehicles typically bought for their fuel efficiency use significantly more fuel than the previous ratings have said.
Now, all well and good, but what does this tell us?
It means that the miles per gallon rating up to now have been bogus.
They have been worthless.
Because now they're going to revise them.
And here is an example.
The Prius.
Toyota's best known and best-selling gas electric car drops to 48 miles per gallon in the city under the 08 testing procedure from a 60 MPG rating under the current system.
It's a 20% decline.
Highway mileage uh rating falls about 12% to 45 miles per gallon.
And other cars are similarly affected.
But 45 miles per gallon is still not bad.
Uh but it ain't 60.
It isn't 60.
And of course, with the time the battery bow.
I'm not even getting teachers' unions all upset at Steve Jobs.
Took a while, but the California Federation of Teachers has invited Steve Jobs to either attend an annual convention next month or offer a public apology for his insulting comments to California's teachers.
Should jobs fail to apologize or neglect to attend the conference, where he is encouraged to speak with the people who educate California's children and hear from them what the situation is like, the California Federation of Teachers will create a new award specifically for jobs.
We'll call it the Rotten Apple Award for the individual who best personifies the need to think differently about public education and teachers' unions.
This from the CFT President Mary Bergen in a letter to uh Steve Jobs.
So typical Stalinism, folks, you're not with the Union.
You either gotta change and get your mind right, and you gotta come talk to them, and you gotta learn how your mind's wrong, and they can get your mind right otherwise.
They'll name an award after you that seeks to humiliate and embarrass you.
It took a while, but uh and this is not a national organ.
This is the California Federation of Teachers' jobs, of course, lives in uh in uh Northern California.
Here's uh Reggie, Chicago.
You're next, sir.
Thank you for waiting uh to be on the EIB network.
Okay, uh quickly, can I can I chime in on this Governor Romney Garbage?
You know what the the Liberals sure about this uh Governor Romney is that he's clean, he's been married to the same lady for thirty-six years.
He's fresh.
He's not uh been in the he's outside the beltway, and he's by hands down the most articulate uh uh Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan.
And they fear that, and they know this guy can win.
That's why they're all over Governor Romney.
I think they've the same thing with George Allen.
I mean, uh any anybody that is a Reagan-like conservative or is thought to be is gonna be targeted.
I agree with you a hundred percent.
And he's and he's quick on his feet, and they don't like that about Republicans.
They they they they like the ones that are fumbling with their words and and stuff like that nature.
Well, and they also like the Republicans like uh like McCain that agree with Democrats that Republicans suck now and then.
Uh my my original call was about uh Mayor Giuliani.
He uh uh he he says that he's pro-choice.
He w and then he says that he wants to appoint judges like uh Scalia, Thomas and Roberts.
Those judges want to overturn Roe v.
Wade.
So why would he want to appoint judges that want to overturn something that he favors?
It's a very, very shrewd question of yours.
It is, and I'm I'm I'm gonna answer it for you as I understand the uh Giuliani camp uh uh has structured this because uh they know that it's problem.
Uh that they know that his uh his his pro-choice positions uh present a problem in the uh in the primary circumstances here when you're going out and trying to get the Republican base to vote for you.
So what they've done and what what they've come up with, you pretty much nailed it.
Uh what Rudy is saying is yes, I'm pro-choice, but I don't think this ought to be a federally mandated or a judicially mandated decision.
And I think this decision ought to be decided democratically by the American people.
And as such, I don't think Roe v.
Wade is good law, and I'm all for appointing federal judges and Supreme Court justices who um who would overturn it.
And he he's never named Thomas, by the way.
This is very important.
He never names Clarence Thomas.
He says Scalia and Roberts, or Scalia and Alito.
But he does he doesn't name Clarence, at least I've not heard him name Clarence Thomas.
So so th this this is a way of ameliorating his personal pro-choice position, because what he's essentially saying is, yes, I am, but I'm not gonna force that on the party, and I don't think the party should have to adopt.
In fact, I think the American people ought to decide it democratically.
I think it ought to be I think Roe v.
Wade ought to be overturned, and I'm going to appoint strict originalists and constructionists to the Supreme Court, and that is meant to mollify any in the Republican base who fear his pro-choice position.
This is why I say and have been saying that that it's important here that you know there there really isn't a Reagan conservative out there.
So the Republican Party is going to be nominating somebody who is not what I would call a Reagan conservative.
But at the same time, let's not redefine what conservatism is to fit these candidates when they're not.
And that's what I see and fear happening.
I mean, I whoever wins the Republican nomination is going to win it, but let's not start redefining conservatism so that these guys are it, because they're not.
Thank you, Russ.
You bet.
Glad you called.
Jack Willen in uh in uh what is it, can I Alaska?
Hi, Jack Willen, welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi there.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you just fine.
Okay.
Well, it's a big thrill to talk to you.
So this is a very exciting day for me.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Listen, are you actually in the running?
There's a little bit of um uh confusion uh amongst some of my colleagues about are you an official candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Well, the Nobel.
The uh the there there there are two ways to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
One is for the Nobel Committee to accept it itself nominate you.
Uh-huh.
And the other is uh uh unsolicited nominations.
And there are the there's a it's not clear when you go to their website whether unsolicited nominations are accepted uh or whether they the case can be made for both ways.
My nomination for the Peace Prize was made by the landmark legal foundation and submitted to the Nobel Committee, and they have not rejected it.
Uh they've it.
It's gotten to them, and we haven't heard anything from them rejecting it, so uh we're we're taking it as a serious nomination.
Well, listen, if it came down to where it was between you and Al Gore, who do you think's chances would be better?
Say if they uh had to do a debate.
Who do you think would be the stronger candidate?
No, no.
Wrong question.
There's no question I'm the stronger candidate for peace.
Uh but but who would get the award is an entirely different man.
It's not it's not who's the stronger candidate.
What you tell me.
What does global warming or dealing with the so-called climate crisis have to do with world peace?
Well, you know, I have to give Al Gore this that it's not a bad legacy to at least open people's eyes and be a good steward of the planet and to really think about our habits.
You know, he's an intelligent man, and whether or not you agree with the global warming issue being caused by us, I I believe that he has uh you know good intentions and and he's intelligent, and I have to give him credit for that.
I I just really can't run him off.
I'm glad you I'm glad you said that because the people that designed the war on poverty had great intentions, but they destroyed the black family.
And the people that designed the war, uh the the the uh uh all these other social programs had great intentions, but they failed miserably.
I want to honor results.
And I I uh I you know, anybody be honored for their great intention.
I mean, everybody has good intentions except criminals.
Okay, and another note.
You know, the polygamous thing, everyone knows there was a big interview not too long ago where they had one of the biggest uh polygamists in Canada.
It was one of the the nightly news shows that that did a an hour long um look at their life, and it's the women that bring home the money that the men, they don't really they're it's not really their worry about where the where the money's coming from.
All the the wives go out to work during the day.
Even better.
You know, and you can't tell me that there's not a little bit of Viagra going on there.
I'm sorry, but I have to think there's a prime market right there.
How do you know that?
Oh, come on, Rush.
These guys are fifty, sixty years old.
Come on.
Does it mean anything?
Well, I don't know.
Well, how do you know?
You don't you just said you don't know.
You're look at what you're doing.
You're you're assuming all kinds, and you're imputing tremendous uh success and progress and great works to Al Gore when he's done nothing but concoct a buy uh the documentary that's full of falsehoods and untruths.
You know what?
Listen, I think uh Bush could redeem himself just a little bit more if he could really learn to pronounce nuclear the correct way.
What?
Are we having a conversation?
Are we just playing ping pong back in here with sentences?
Okay, thanks.
You bet that's Jacqueline from uh Canai uh Alaska.
Maybe something to this global warming thing up there.
Yeah, back in just a second.
And we're back, El Rushbo, as you know, talent on loan from God.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's go back to January 27th, shall we?
I have here excerpts from a newspaper story.
Uh this is from the UK Daily Mail.
Just looked it up there on the uh website or on the internet.
And it's uh January 27th of this year, and here's the headline of that story.
A drunk and a bigot.
What U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama has not said about his father.
Now I'm only bringing this up.
I ignored this when it originally hit on January 27th.
I'm bringing this up because it's Mitt Romney business.
We have discovered that his father was not just a deeply flawed individual, but an abusive bigamist and an egomaniac whose life was ruined not by racism or corruption, but his own weaknesses.
At the age of twenty-three, Obama's father headed for university in Hawaii, leaving behind the pregnant wife and their baby son.
Relatives say he was already a slick womanizer, and once in Honolulu, he promptly persuaded a fellow student called Anne, a naive 18-year-old white girl to marry him.
Barack Jr. was born in August of 1961.
Obama Sr. forced to return to Kenya, where he fathered two more churrin by uh by Kizia.
He was eventually hired as a top civil servant in the fledgling government of Jomo Kenyatta and married yet again.
Just reading to you what it says in the UK Daily Mail on January 27th.
Drive by Media has not picked this up.
This is from uh my hometown.
Well, it's actually an AP story, I guess.
Yeah.
The length of the screw day is under review across the country and in Congress.
Boston school principal Robin Harris used to see the clock on her office wall as the enemy.
It's steady ticking, a reminder that time was not on her side.
But these days she smiles when the clock hits 155, because there are still two more hours in the school day.
Two more hours to teach math and reading, art and drama.
She runs the Fletcher Maynard Academy, a combined public elementary and middle school in Cambridge.
That's experimenting with an extended eight hour school day.
It's not as rushed and frenzied.
This school serves mostly poor minority students, is one of ten in the state experimenting with a longer day as part of a six and a half million dollar program.
Eight-hour school day, eight to five or nine hour school day with uh time off for lunch.
Hey, go either way, you know.
It's uh either offer more time for indoctrination or uh or more time for real education.
Uh as woefully inept as economics and history are taught these days in school.
It's enticing to me.
Plus, all these, you know, his extracurricular activities, just a bogus bunch of wasting time to occupy the kids until the parents get home.
Turn them into productive hours.
Uh Steve in Houston, uh, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Howdy, Russ.
Diddle.
Thank you, sir.
I'd just like to point out that uh Al Sharpton's a bigot and a racist, and now we have proof.
After all, he is related to Strom Thurmond.
Now that's a take I haven't heard on this.
I figure if they're going to go after Mitt Romney, we might as well uh bring up Strom Thurman.
Well, here are the uh here are the uh details.
Prominent black activist Al Sharpton has learned that he is descended from a slave who was owned by ancestors of the one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond.
New York Daily News reported this yesterday.
The series of revelations came to light after the newspaper offered Sharpton a chance to delve into his family history with the help of genealogy experts from Ancestry.com.
Among the unearthed data was an 1861 slave contract that confirmed that Coleman Sharpton was sent from Edgefield County, South Carolina to Liberty County, Florida, where he would work until given his freedom at the end of the Civil War.
Incontrovertible data showed that the woman who owned Sharpton's great grandfather was related to Strom Thurmond.
Uh Sharpton said, This is chilling.
It's amazing.
Maybe I'm the revenge of Coleman.
It's just going to serve to keep Sharpton's business alive here for the rest of his life.
If it was ever going to be curtailed, it now won't be.
Quick timeout.
Stay with us.
We'll be back.
That's it, folks.
Sadly, out of busy broadcast moments.
But there are more, 21 hours from now.
And it'll be every bit as entertaining, informative, educational, and exciting as these past three have been.
I can't wait.
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