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March 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 1, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Then Trumpet Fanfare.
Time for a global warming update.
I love that.
The crazy world of Arthur Brown, one of our three global warming update themes in rotation.
Snow emergency has been declared in Minnesota, ladies and gentlemen.
It's March.
And it means that Punk Satani Phil was lying through his teeth.
When he said we were going to have an early arriving spring, plus like a tornado warnings all over the uh the South and the Midwest.
And of course, PMS NBC just published the travel itinerary for the body of Anna Nicole Smith on her way to burial.
They really did.
5:30 a.m. tomorrow, casket will be driven to Miami Ashton International Airport, board a private plane, fly over to Nassau.
Telling you this country is in therapy.
If you were not here at the uh beginning of the program, it will repeat this.
A former Canadian defense minister is demanding that governments worldwide disclose and use sacred alien technologies, space alien technologies that have been obtained in alleged UFO crashes in order to stem climate change.
Paul Hellyer told the Ottawa citizen yesterday, he's 83 years old.
I'd like to see what alien technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation.
That that could be a way to save our planet.
His theory is that these UFOs have gotten here with some court of super advanced propulsion.
It's real fast, it doesn't pollute because nobody is blaming global warming on the aliens.
Oh, take that back.
I take that, I stand correct.
Michael Crichton has done just that.
In a speech, Michael Crichton to make a point suggested that aliens are responsible for global warming.
His point was if you believe in UFOs and if you believe in aliens, you are a prime suspect.
You're an easy target to believe in the hoax of global warming.
Now, uh when you when you hear this, this is a real guy.
He's 83 years old, and he really thinks that the world's governments ought to admit that they've all got UFOs hidden away.
We ought to examine them, find out what propels them, what kind of fuel, what kind of propulsion, because obviously it's clean and it's quick and it's big and it doesn't pollute.
Now, this is not unusual.
If you think this is kooky, then correct yourself.
This is emblematic of the entire global warming movement, folks.
It's no more outrageous and is just as credible as this whole carbon offsets scam.
I can't, you know, we ought to go into business at EIB selling carbon offsets.
We could become gazillionaires.
All we'd have to do is tell people look, you can buy carbon offsets from EIB and continue to drive whatever you want to drive.
Just don't change anything.
We'll handle it for you.
And you don't even have to know what we're gonna do.
Just trust us.
We will take steps here at the EIB network to reduce carbon footprints so that yours can remain as large as you want it to be.
And all you have to do is pay us, say a hundred thousand bucks.
100,000 bucks, and you can live guilt-free.
It's a time it is time to call to corner the carbon offset mark.
This is a this is it's just as absurd as this idiot uh who claims that examining UFOs could solve global warming.
Another story.
This this is so dear to my heart.
This was uh in the Atlanta Urinal Constipation.
Uh on the 26th of February, so just two or three days ago, and the headline Cars Improved the Air.
You know, this is something that uh I don't mention enough.
I've I've talked about this Over the course of the many stellar years of this program's eminence.
However, it doesn't come up enough.
This is by Dwight R. Lee.
The motto of all environmentalists should be thank goodness for the internal combustion engine.
But it's not, is it?
The internal combustion engine is enemy number one, is it not?
The internal combustion engine is the target.
Fossil fuels are burned by the internal combustion engine.
For those of you in real line, well, you know you've got three or four of them stacked up on concrete blocks in the front of your house.
The abuse heaped on the internal combustion engine by environmentalist Wacos was never justified, but a recent story on cow flatulence in the British newspaper, The Independent, makes the environmental benefits from gasoline-powered engines even more obvious.
Based on a recent study by the Food and Agricultural Organization, the Independent reports that livestock are responsible for 18% of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
Now remember we discussed yesterday with Roy Spencer that greenhouse gases do not cause global.
Well global warming or greenhouse effect is a natural thing here.
Many of you believe that the greenhouse effect is something that never existed on the planet until Americans invented the automobiles started driving around and building smokestacks and polluting, and that's not true.
The point is that livestock are responsible for 18% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere more than cars, more than airplanes, and all other forms of transportation put together.
And that is true.
Long before global warming became an environmental concern, however, the move from the power provided by animals to that provided by gasoline had greatly improved the environment.
The emissions that came out of the tailpipes of horses were much more lethal pollutants than those now coming out of the tailpipes of cars.
Horse emissions did more than make our town and city stink.
They spread fly-borne diseases and polluted water supplies that killed people at a far greater rate than the pollution from cars and trucks ever have.
This is oh so true.
You know, our favorite thing, conventional wisdom says that automobiles, the internal combustion engine have been an environmental disaster.
And this guy has the gonads to ask compared to what?
You know, you watch Westerns and those things are sanitized.
You don't understand it back in the old days when the horse and buggy or the horse or the primary mode of transportation, the ox or what have you.
Manure was everywhere.
It was in the streets, you had flies, you had insects flying around, you had it was it it stunk, it was a literal m.
Why do you think the buggy whip was eventually gotten rid of?
You know, human beings are always trying to improve their standards of living.
Human beings have always, since the beginning of time, tried to improve their lifestyles.
They've tried and they have sought uh and have succeeded in finding a more advanced way of living.
And it is those those advances which are now coming under attack by global warming hysterics, hoaxers, and plain out and out liars.
And it's the the it's based in the notion that everything in the past was pristine and beautiful.
It was like the Garden of Eden.
Before we came to this continent, uh, before we polluted it with syphilis and horses and all that why it was it was pristine, and even after that, uh it was we it was all nature.
Anything animals do.
That's fine, that's nature.
What man does, see, we are exempt from nature because we are evil, particularly American men and women.
Uh you ought to you ought to research this on you if you don't believe me, but you should, because it was, you know, this is this it just is logical, it stands to reason, and it is uh irrefutable uh that back in the days when horses and so forth were the primary mode of transportation.
You ever been to a horse farm?
You ever been to a barn?
You ever walked into a barn?
Imagine living in a town that smelled like one and looked like one, no matter where you went.
In front of the saloon, in front of the blacksmith's place, in front of the uh bordello in front of your house.
That's what it was.
The internal combustion engine cleaned things up, made life easier, and it's now under attack by a bunch of people that uh frankly, folks, should not be given anywhere near the time of day.
And they still don't get it.
Because they don't want to get it.
Still have some more global warming news in the stack.
We'll get to it as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
Uh and ears.
Uh by the way, we had a drive-by call from Joe and West Palm Beach, Rush, surprised at you.
Uh yesterday you were gave us the details of the story.
A uh Florida legislator wants to uh outlaw the use of the word illegal immigrants and aliens.
Doesn't like either term when talking about illegal immigrants or aliens, because it's humiliating and it's uh to put down, and besides uh this this uh uh woman uh who's from Miami, this legislator said the aliens uh reminds her of uh of a people from out of space, out of uh space.
And so Joe in West Palm Beach says that uh uh we should be talking about uh space immigrants.
The uh guy up in Canada should be talking about space immigrants, not aliens, because you can't can't talk about space aliens flying UFOs because it's actually you could because those those are people are from out of space.
But you see, that they are they are screwing around with the uh with the language again.
Uh if we're not careful.
You know, this stuff doesn't just go away when these people propose this.
It gets laughed at at first.
Uh but it just keeps percolating.
Uh if not here, somewhere else.
Get used to it, get ready.
Susan in Colfax, Wisconsin.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Uh I was asked to get right to the point, and it was about the the word that is used uh wasted in regard to soldiers, and I just wanted to say how much that hurts people who have lost somebody in war.
Oh, I totally understand.
You're you're talking about Senator McCain last night on the uh letterman show in his informal announcement for the uh presidency.
Yes, and Obama uh also mentioned it, and uh it's been mentioned by others too, and um it is so hurtful.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate with some people on this.
I understand wasted hurts.
Yeah.
Uh I I want to give Senator McCain the benefit of the doubt.
I I think he misspoke and I think it was unfortunate.
I think this is the way.
I can't speak for Obama.
I I think I think Democrats do think that there's no such thing as valor in war because they're anti-war, and anything that happens in war is bad.
And I do think that about them.
And McCain um I I think, you know, he's been a supporter of the war, Susan, but he has been very publicly opposed to tactics.
He's been very public opposed, publicly opposed to the way that it has been waged.
And I think that's the context in which he meant wasted.
I think what he's and I'm again, I'm just guessing, but what he's saying is that we haven't fought this thing to win it.
We've been in sort of a stalemate for too long.
And if we're going to commit to winning, let's go win it.
And that's why he's been supporting the additional troops uh for the surge, which according to Ralph Peters today in the New York Post is working big time.
Yes.
What do you have to be in a war that you win in order to be called a hero?
Is it an unpopular war?
I mean, were the men in the at the Alamo were their lives wasted?
The term wasted is r wrong to whether the tactics are bad or not.
These men answer the call to their country, and if they put their life on their line for their country, you can't put that in the context of wasting.
I I uh I'm not defending the use of the word, and I don't and I I agree with you totally that it's it's misused every time it is uh when when it's related to uh the deaths of uh of of a military personnel anywhere in a rock, anywhere else in a in a in in combat.
Uh uh My idea of a wasted life is a life not well lived.
And when you choose to live your life with valor and courage and um commitment, you you just can't use that term, and that's why it's so bad.
Amen.
Talk about I uh look, I still think it was more a slam against the president than it was the soldiers.
Oh, I'm so tired of the president being slammed.
I love him.
Uh I got grief Yesterday last night because I was perceived as slamming the president on this uh on the good neighbor policy with uh with with the Iranians.
But by the way, uh look, Susan, thanks for the call.
You're dead on right.
You're you're you I I I I couldn't agree with you more, and I appreciate the call.
I'd love to compliment you, but I I guess I can't do that today.
So sure you can't, because I'm under orders to accept compliments to learn how to do it better.
Because normally, see, when I get a compliment, I get all nervous, and no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And and and the people have told me you're denying people who want to compliment you uh the pleasure it gives them to do so.
So I'm I'm uh basically I'm being I'm being told I need to learn how to receive better.
Oh, well, I yeah, I can understand.
You are humble and you're a decent man, and that kind of flattery um embarrasses you, and that's why we love you.
Well, thank you, sir.
That's right.
I don't consider myself anything special, and that's all I uh that's why it does, it embarrasses me.
You're right.
This is when I get a present.
You know, I get a birthday present.
I haven't lived done anything but live a year.
Big deal.
Um that is I also agree with you about Valentine's Day.
I don't go for all that stuff either.
So congratulations.
That makes that makes two of us.
Yeah, it's just commercialism as far as I'm concerned.
And if you love somebody, you tell them when when them when it moves you to do so.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You have no truer words have ever been spoken.
No truer tell them when you feel moved to.
Yes.
Not when they demand it.
Exactly.
Stabs the worst thing it can possibly happen.
That's coercion.
Love has nothing to do with that.
It takes away the sincerity of it.
Oh, I wish I could talk to you all day.
I know.
See, that's that's accepting a compliment.
Uh that that's uh people think it's that's arrogance and egotistical, but it isn't.
I appreciate it, Susan.
Thank you.
We love you, Raj.
Thank you.
Love you too.
Appreciate it.
Uh she's she's she's right about this way.
I understand exactly what she's talking about and and how the word can upset uh especially people who have lost family members uh in combat, this one uh particularly.
All right, a brief time out.
We'll come back.
We'll continue here in mere moments on the EIB Network stay with us.
Thank you.
You know, I I mentioned this uh in our last call.
The good neighbor uh uh meetings, good neighbor policy between the Iraqis, the Iranians, the Syrians, and us uh have a few items on this today.
I caught hell last night from a couple people in the email.
I'm sick of you bashing Bush.
It's bad enough when I have to listen to other Republicans bash Bush on cable DV.
You don't know what you're talking about, Felusia.
You're talking about anything, solder, and now here you are.
It's not gonna affect the policy at all if we talk to them.
The war plan stays the same.
Why are you gonna sick and turn you bashing Bush?
And we're all over the place.
Uh I don't no, no, no, no.
I'm not I've not heard from the White House.
I thought uh didn't don't expect to hear from the White House.
Get my mind right on this.
Uh and I I wrote a couple of these people back last night.
I said, Look, you have to understand where I'm coming from.
I want to back these guys.
But six weeks ago, they say this has no chance.
And I applaud them to the roof.
Because this is the why this this notion well they the email says, Well, we too we talked to the Germans in World War II.
We talked to the Japanese at World War II.
We it isn't the same.
We we didn't go out there and say we weren't going to and the level of talks that we had with the Germans and the Jap.
We didn't get together with the Germans to figure out how we solved the problem with Japan, and we didn't get together with the Japanese and ask them how can we solve the problem with Hitler.
Uh so I uh you know this but I see what I mean when I say I am the bulwark and the rock.
None of this moved me, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm just sharing with you the the uh criticism and the grief and the veritable shouting.
Some of this stuff was an all caps, which means people are shouting.
And I said, I want to support these guys.
You people gotta know this.
But I mean, we go on six weeks ago, two weeks ago.
They tell us this is never gonna happen.
We're never our workers.
We isolate our enemies.
We don't sit down and break bread with them and have tea and play the state farm good neighbor jingle.
And then lo and behold, they do it.
And then they slough it off on the Iraqis.
And they say it's the Iraqi.
Well, the Iraqis told us the Maliki told us they're going to talk to them regardless, so we're going to go along.
And I'm just saying it it really.
It really from my standpoint, six weeks ago, they say they're not going to do it.
I praise the move.
I defend it.
I support it.
What am I supposed to do now?
Just cast away what I really think in order to be a cheerleader.
Apparently that's what some people uh in in the audience want, but that that's not me.
Now let's look, let's look at the stack here.
Uh first up is a New York Times story Iran to take part in Iraq security conference.
Uh the good neighbor uh meeting.
The top Iranian national security official Ali Larajani indicated Wednesday that Iranian officials would probably take part in a regional security conference on Iraq next month, uh, which would include the first high-level diplomatic contacts between American and Iranian officials uh in more than two years.
Yeah.
And prior to that, we talked to him all of time.
Talk to him.
Carter talked to him until he lost his voice.
His cardigan got holes in it.
The EU's been talking to the Iranians about nukes, and the nukes are growing.
And the UN's been talking to them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of great track record out there on talking to them.
Well, what harm can come of it?
What what what harm could come talking to?
Doesn't mean the war plan's gonna change.
Well, I'm not sure about that.
Uh one of my fears is that the the decided the decision to throw in here might mean that somebody up there thinks, ah, they said we're at the end of our rope, we got to find a new way out of this.
It's a genuine fear that I have.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki set a date on Wednesday for the conference.
It is to be held March 10th in Baghdad.
Let me call up the calendar here.
I need to find out what's happening on March the 10th.
What day of the week is that, March?
It's a Saturday.
Slow news day.
Make sure this.
Yep, March 10th is a uh Saturday.
So Maliki is deciding when it's going to happen, and it's going to happen in uh in Baghdad.
The agenda will be how to rescue Iraq from a civil war that claimed at least two dozen more lives.
Now, this is the New York Times, and I'm naturally skeptical.
But uh, for the sake of discussion, let's assume that this sentence is accurate.
The agenda will be how to rescue Iraq from a civil war that claimed at least two dozen more lives.
A civil war is what will happen if we leave.
There is no civil war in Iraq.
There might be some sectarian violence going on in a part of Baghdad, one city, but it is not the country.
There are no civil war in the north, there are no civil war in the south, there's no civil war in the West.
And it's arguable that what's happening now is a civil war.
But anyway, here's the agenda.
We're going to bring the Iranians in who are responsible for this and ask them what we can do to rescue Iraq from a civil war.
The Iranians are sponsoring and funding.
And they're and they're providing personnel and of course the bombs and uh and explosives.
All right.
So the New York Times, Iran to take part in Iraq security conference, the Good Neighbors meeting.
Uh the Associated Press has a story.
Iran's participation at summit uncertain.
Iran's level of participation at Iraq summit uncertain.
Arab nations still have doubts.
Iran's level of participation remained uncertain today, as Iraq pushed ahead with plans to hold a March 10th conference with its neighbors and key Western countries on the Iraqi security crisis.
Some Arab neighbors like Egypt, for their part, still have grave doubts the gathering will accomplish much.
Iraqi foreign minister um Hoshar Zabari said Wednesday the Iranians had agreed to participate in a meeting with Iraq's other neighbors, but he said that they've got some questions about a separate session that will be held the same day with the five permanent UN Security Council members, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, and the Chicoms.
His word seemed to indicate that Iran was at least partly unhappy with the arrangements for the conference.
Iran has had little public comment on the conference so far, beyond saying it would weigh attending the generally supported regional efforts to stabilize Iran.
Yeah, and in the in the meantime, uh in a story dated today.
Now the story is Wednesday for the New York Times.
Oh, yeah, Iran's gonna be there big time.
Thursday, it's not shooting it.
Iraq's gonna show up.
Today, later today, this news hit.
Iran's president blamed the United States and Israel for the world's problems Thursday.
This is about the billionth time he's done it this year.
In a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments came as Iran and Sudan face mounting international criticism, criticism.
Iran over its nuclear activities and Sudan over the conflict in Darfur.
In his uh lecture Thursday titled Iran and the World, Ahmadinejad reiterated his arguments that he's made repeatedly throughout the standoff with the U.S. and its Western allies over Iran's nuclear activities.
There's no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless America or the Zionist fingerprints are seen there.
Ahmadinejad told his audience in Farsi, translated into Arabic.
He urged Muslims to rally behind Iran and accused detractors of Iran's nuke program of trying to prevent a developing country from making scientific advances.
This is nothing new for Mahmud to run around and say that the world's problems are caused by the Israelis and by the us, uh the Americans.
So I do remain uh skeptical of a good neighbors thing.
I know a lot of you think that it's a tripwired, that it's gimmick, and it's and if it's tactical, then I I will back off.
As I said yesterday, I was very clear about this.
This just a tactical move.
And it doesn't affect any other aspects of the policy, the war plan or whatever, then fine, go out and have your tea and crumpets and like a good neighbor.
Um well, but you say that, HR says a lot of neighbors that don't like Iran when they get together.
Well, guess who's going to Saudi Arabia?
Mahmoud Ahmad Dinijad is going to make his first official state visit to Saudi Arabia.
You're going to go up there and he's going to go talk to the uh to the royal family about about whatever.
Well, you you might say, I would too if you were Mahmood, because uh the Saudis are afraid of everybody there's afraid of the Iranians.
Well, so why buckle to them?
Everybody's afraid of them.
So we're gonna buckle to them.
If it's if this is not tactical, if this is strategic, if it if if we're really, really, really serious about having the Iranians solve this problem, count me out.
That's all I'm saying.
We are entrepreneurs here at the EIB network.
We see an opportunity.
We seize on it.
That's right.
They can do spirit.
Um when we see a trend, folks, we get out in front of it.
All right, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
This is Steve.
You are next, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Uh, Russia, it's really an honor to call you.
Thank you.
Rush, yeah, in your ongoing admonition for us to follow the money trail.
I wanted to ask you if you knew uh who sells these carbon uh uh offsets, uh, who has the right to sell them, and where do I get a distributorship?
There is there's this outfit in California.
I'm gonna have to reconsult the Schwarzenegger story on his jet.
Because he is he is uh uh is he's I don't know these buying carbon, but there's a company that sells carbon offsets in California.
And is the next break I will get it.
Um and I it's it's a it's sort of a strange name, it's why I can't remember it.
Uh Russia.
I don't think they're I don't think they're offering franchises, though.
Listen to this phrase.
Since there's no controlling legal authority, who's to say that I can't uh counterfeit these things and start selling them on eBay?
Uh nothing.
There's nothing you you go out and sell them.
All you gotta do is say you're gonna go plant some trees.
Yeah, hey, not now for the case.
And then and then and then just realize if somebody says what trees are you planting?
Well, the lumber companies are planting trees every day because they chop them down every day for paper.
So uh uh and a number of things.
So the trees are being planted every day, and we're taking care of your carbon footprint for X amount.
This is this is a way to make sure you do not have to uh uh uh sacrifice any of your precious power usage.
Now, if this isn't a now, if this is an affront to the whole world, does the whole world get a piece of the action?
Like if Al Gore burns his lights a little bit too long one night, does he send the aborigines uh a check for it?
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What what what what I don't know that Gore is Garb go here.
I let me here's here's I've got a story from the AP.
This is this is an incredible story, by the way.
Um it it is it is a rewrite of the first story on his power usage at his house.
Uh and and even by the standards of the Associated Press, it's it's just off the wall here.
Uh group skeptical of global warming notes gore's home as big energy user.
Following criticism by a conservative group of Al Gore's large home energy consumption, a Gore spokeswoman defended the former vice president's lifestyle, saying he invests in enough renewable energy to make up for the power consumption at his home.
So now this this think tank or this this uh watchdog group has become conservative since the story was first reported.
That's the Tennessee Center for Policy Research issued a statement saying that Gore was not doing enough to reduce his own electricity consumption and hence emissions of carbon dioxide.
The group disputes that global warming is a serious problem.
Now, this is the big this is the the I guess the kicker.
The utility records show that the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about twelve hundred dollars last year for its its homes, ten thousand square feet.
Uh they used about a hundred and ninety-one thousand kilowatt hours in two thousand six.
Uh according to bills reviewed by the associated press, the typical Nashville house uh uses about fifteen thousand six hundred kilowatt hours per year.
The group said that Gore uses nearly two hundred and twenty-one thousand kilowatt hours last year, and that his average monthly electric bill was about thirteen hundred fifty-nine dollars.
Spokesman for the group uh said his group got its figures from the Nashville Electric Service.
But company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never gave it any information.
Now the Gores have not denied any of the figures because you don't have to get permission from the utility company for the figures.
They are public.
They are available.
Those records are public and the Gore camp has not even disputed them.
Now, this is the P. Gore, who also owns a home in the Washington area, has said that he leads a carbon neutral lifestyle to b to balance out other carbon emissions.
The Gores invest money in projects to reduce energy consumption, said uh his spokesman Callie Kreider.
Now, nowhere in this article is a shred of proof that Gore is carbon neutral.
And in fact, I would submit to you that carbon neutral is impossible as long as you are breathing.
It's not possible to be carbon neutral.
This whole thing is a scam.
Uh so his his carbon neutrality comes from solar panels and compact fluorescent bulbs.
You know, uh if he's doing all of that, his bills wouldn't be so high.
Since this uh environmental environmentalism is the religion of the left, doesn't this sound an awful lot like the selling of indulgences during the Middle Ages?
Yeah, I've had a bunch of people uh uh make that comparison.
You could you could basically correct me if I'm wrong here.
You can basically go to the church and get permission to sin.
For money.
For money.
Just give the church money and they would they would uh absolve you of the thing.
If if you speak against environmental uh environmentalism they will uh bring you up uh before the Inquisition.
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