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March 2, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Ah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo, ladies and gentlemen.
It's time for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
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Rush Limbaugh program on Friday.
Let's hit it live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Well, I want to assure you today, ladies and gentlemen, we will have time for phone calls.
Even though I am loaded, I've got a global warming stack that's almost as big as the regular news stack.
And there's some really great news in here about Al Gore.
A blogger has uncovered that the carbon credits, the carbon offsets that Al Gore buys are actually from a company that he owns.
And they don't sell credits to anyone other than him.
You you can't buy them off their website.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's even better than that.
I just want to warn you, all this.
At the end of the program, I made this point.
The carbon offset stuff, uh, these carbon credits that just lay in the groundwork for a future tax increase, perhaps uh international or global tax increase on everybody for all of this.
Hey, great to have you with us as we kick off another uh exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
Open line Friday means that when we go to the phones, the show is yours.
You can talk about whatever you want.
I don't have to care about it, which is a cardinal rule on Monday through Thursday.
If I don't care about it, we don't talk about it.
Uh telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com, or I have a sea turtle update.
Sea turtle light update.
I'm sorry to keep bugging you people about, but I have to.
I I can't, I can't keep this in.
I had um had some friends over for dinner last night.
There's a bunch of golf buddies.
The uh the Honda Classic is in town here this week.
Up at PGA National had some people over, and uh the sun goes down here about six twenty-five this time of year.
By the way, we got a new date for daylight savings time this year, March the 11th.
So um, in uh, you know, less than uh less than two weeks, uh it'll be 725 here, 7th one the sun goes down.
So I was out.
I wanted to see because I got my outdoor lights on a timer.
And as you know, uh beginning in March 1st, even though the turtles don't arrive here until May, we have to turn out the backyard lights, particularly any lights that light the ocean or the beach.
I don't have any of those, but I light some of the palm trees and some of the other landscaping in the back.
And it is said that that can distract these poor little hatchlings and they can be attracted to the lights instead of going to the ocean where they're supposed to go.
So since I had bleated and moaned and whined about all of this yesterday on the program, I suspected that there would be numerous spies out on the beach, environmentalist wackos roaming the beach looking for violators of this serious ordnance.
So I wanted to make sure that the auto timer worked and that at sundown and the lights come on automatically, the lights in the back were not on.
And they were.
So we had to make a mad dash uh and and uh go back to the uh the the equipment room and get all the appropriate lights turned off.
It took about 15 minutes after sundown to get this done.
And then lo and behold, after dinner last night, as we're leaving the dining room and making our way back to the library.
You walk through one of the living rooms and you can see through the sliders you can see all the way out to the beach in the ocean.
And and damn, if there if there wasn't a bulldozer on the beach at night with all kinds of lights on it.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, what is happening is that uh we live on the north end of the island here.
We live near the uh what's called a Lake Worth Inlet, and they have to dredge the inlet every year to get the sand out of there so the cargo ships and cruise ships can get in there to the port without any problem, and they ditch the sand on our beach, which is great.
I mean, that's that's that's fine.
A bulldozer's out there leveling the sand that's being deposited on the beach.
Now here it is, the first day of lights out of turtle season air bulldozers on the beach.
Bulldozers walking.
I mean, it is just the the whole thing is it is just beyond my ability to comprehend other than to chalk it up to the power of the environmentalist wackos over little town council here.
Um They are allowing construction on the beach until April 30th, and they got bulldozers on the beach now at night, and that's going to be the case for the next month.
It takes a month to dredge the inlet.
There could be bulldozers on the beach, but I got to turn my lights off, and I wanted them on last night because I wanted to show my guests what the landscaping lighting looks like in the back.
Had to turn them off, and there's a bulldozer running around out there.
What if some turtles showed up?
They're going to get run over by course the turtles don't show up this time of year.
It's just one of the reasons why I am a conservative, ladies and gentlemen.
This is just typical government bureaucracy that uh in many cases ordinances and laws are passed for literally no reason that makes uh that makes any sense.
And I saw that bulldozer out there, and I pointed it out to my guests.
Look at that.
That I told him what was going on.
A bulldozer.
The bulldozer's been out there for a couple weeks, and it's going to be out there for another month.
And they got pipes on the beach and all that to distribute the sand as it's pumped out of the uh out of the inlet.
What are the turtles going to do when they don't show up until May?
All right, I'm sorry.
I just had I had to I had to get it off my chest.
Number two.
Uh half hour news hour, second episode, Sunday night, 10 p.m., the Fox News Channel.
Last week was a rerun.
Last Sunday night was the Oscar telecast.
A half hour news hour in a rerun was the highest rated show on cable in the well, the the cable news universe uh Sunday night.
So we got a brand new episode coming Sunday at 10 p.m.
I um I, of course, am in both episodes, therefore I have seen both episodes.
I think this one's even funnier, particularly the uh the opening skit with me as president and colder as vice president.
This is uh a little fireside chat without the fire.
And I was told yesterday that they had posted a clip of the fireside chat on YouTube, but I can't find it.
Uh so I don't uh uh I forget who it was that was going to to uh upload it, but it uh if it's there, I I can't find it in the normal search fashion, looking under half hour news hour.
Well, I keep reminding you during the course of the program and some computer wizards that are maybe a little bit more competent than I. We'll see if we can find that clip that supposedly went up uh yesterday afternoon.
All right.
Uh House Judiciary Subcommittee approved today the first in what is expected to be an avalanche of subpoenas to Bush administration officials.
I've been wondering where this was, but it's now beginning.
They will explore corruption and mismanagement allegations on everything from pre-war Iraq intelligence to the mishandling of the response to Hurricane Katrina, which is going to be interesting because look at all the devastation from the tornadoes.
Is anybody asking where's Katrina?
Is anybody asking where's Bush?
Is anybody saying Bush sent those tornadoes in there?
Remember all of the idiocy and the lunacy we heard about uh Hurricane Katrina.
But here come the subpoenas, and this is this is the the primary purpose of this just to hassle the Bush administration, subpoena a bunch of officials, get them up there under oath, uh, and basically try to isolate the president politically from being able to accomplish anything.
Uh the first round of subpoenas concern the recent controversial firings by the Bush administration of seven U.S. attorneys, some of whom were pursuing public corruption cases against Republican members of Congress.
Now, I you know, I haven't talked about this.
Uh I have been meaning to, but it hasn't risen to the top of any stack.
It's sort of not been on the radar.
But you know, this is this is much ado about nothing.
U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
People have forgotten.
When Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, one of the first things he did was to fire every U.S. attorney and replace them with his own.
And you won't find that in any of these news stories.
Now you're going to try to find stories, or you will find stories where they're trying to come up with some corruption case here, the Bush administration getting rid of these U.S. attorneys because they're trying to cover corruption and make sure these attorneys the cases will go forward with the new U.S. attorney.
Cases don't die when the attorneys go away.
U.S. attorneys change All the time.
Bill Clinton got rid of every U.S. attorney that was in office.
George Bush did not.
George Bush left a lot of Clinton's U.S. attorneys.
Just like he left a lot of Clinton plants in the CIA, Clinton plants at state, Clinton plants at the Pentagon.
It was all part of the new tone, I guess, trying to promote unity and good vibes, and can't we all get along in this sort of stuff?
I mean, the number of U.S. attorneys that Bush has gotten rid of pale in comparison to uh to what Bill Clinton did.
What is this?
This is 2007.
Uh 2006, there was a Democrat U.S. attorney in the uh U.S. attorney's office of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, which is one of the largest U.S. attorney offices in the country.
And Bush left uh uh a protege of Chuck Schumer in that office until a guy named Mike Garcia was uh appointed to replace him after five or six years of the of the Bush administration.
And nobody said anything about that when it happened.
But now they're trying to raise hell over these seven or eight U.S. attorneys, and that's what the subpoenas are for uh the uh the first round.
So keep a sharp eye.
Lots to do on the busy broadcast today.
Uh, we find out that uh census records and genealical records indicate that forebears of uh Osama Obama.
Let me start this again.
Basically, there's a history of slavery in Obama's family.
On his on his mother's side.
Uh we have this.
It's in the uh it's in the Chicago Tribune.
We also have a Yes.
I said there's a there's a there's a uh Obama's mother had slaves.
Four bears, relatives of Obama's mother had slaves.
And it's in the uh it's in the Chicago Tribune.
Many people know that Barack Obama's father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas, but an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now.
It appears that four bears of his white mother owned slaves, according to a genealogical research and census records.
The records, which had never been addressed publicly by the Illinois Senator or his relatives, were first noted in an ancestry report compiled by William Adams Wrightweisner, who works at the Library of Congress and practices genealogy in his spare time.
That would mean it's his hobby for those of you in Rio Linda.
The report on Wrightweisner's website carries a disclaimer that it's a first draft, one likely to be examined more closely if Obama is nominated.
Not only that, um we we also have uh have found out that uh Wright Wisner's research identifies two other presidential candidates, John McCain of Arizona and John Edwards of North Carolina, as descendants of slave owners.
Three of McCain's great-great-grandfathers in Mississippi owned slaves, including one who owned 52 slaves in 1860.
Two ancestors of John Edwards owned one slave each in Georgia in 1860.
And now we know that Al Sharpton's uh relatives were owned by relatives of uh of Strom Thurman's uh uh family out there.
So um, I guess I guess we could say that if, since since Obama has his on his mother's side, the four bears of his uh mother had slaves.
Could we not say that if Obama wins Democratic nomination and then wins the presidency, he will own Al Sharpton.
Real question is um.
You know, when when it we end up having to pay reparations for slavery.
Where's the money for Obama's uh family gonna go to him?
He may be interested.
Let me see if I can find something very quick.
I don't know if I put it at the top of the stack, but there's uh this this this whole thing here.
Ah, yes!
Here it is.
Um there's a there's a big march in Selma, Alabama coming up.
And as you know, as I have mentioned to you, Hillary is uh losing in polling data at least, uh uh significant portions of the black vote to Barack Obama.
So it turns out now that Bill Clinton has rushed in to save Hillary with black voters.
Uh Derschlik will join Senator Clinton at a commemoration of the 1965 March in Selma on Sunday, bringing his star power and popularity as the first black president in America to a weekend of events that had been shaping up as a showcase for the candidacy of uh Barack Obama.
It'll be the former president's first major public appearance with his wife since she launched her campaign late yesterday after organizers initially said that the former president had not committed to attend the Clinton campaign announced that he indeed would be making the trip after all.
Arthur Davis, or Arthur Davis, uh Democrat Alabama congressman who has endorsed Obama and whose district includes Selma said, I think the Clinton camp sending a signal they will aggressively contest Barack Obama for the African American vote.
Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what do we contest Obama for the African American vote?
It used to be hers.
What is this contest business?
How the joint Clinton trip came about was a subject of some debate.
Clinton's advisors, her advisors, dismissed the suggestion that Bill is rushing in at the last minute to help her standing among black voters, but they admitted that the decision was made yesterday, more than a week after Hillary Clinton made her plans to go to Selma.
So it'll be pandering on parade.
Representatives of a party that has done more to destroy the black family and break up whatever economic opportunities minorities in this country have had are going to go pander to these people as though they are their savior and their last hope, which is, you know, a a crock.
Uh and now it's it looks like Hillary needs Bill to save the day down there because Barack, despite the slave ownership and his mother's history, is uh is looking strong, guess he getting blacker out there because we had we had a bunch of stories last week's not black enough.
Uh obviously something has changed out there uh because it'd be being perceived as being blacker uh by enough uh African American voters.
I'm wondering, I haven't checked today, because frankly uh didn't have the time to spend on it.
But I wonder if there is uh serious, serious, serious mental instability and perhaps potential suicides awaiting to occur at the Kook Fringe left.
George Soros has purchased recently two million shares of Halliburton.
Halliburton shares reportedly went for an average purchase price of thirty-one dollars and thirty cents a share.
That put Soros' total uh investment in Halliburton at around sixty-two point six million dollars, or about two percent of his uh total portfolio.
Uh now, what's interesting is that you know Soros out there twenty-four million dollars uh in the last uh presidential cycle to fund all these 527s uh and to heap all kinds of criticism on Halliburton.
Cheney used to run Halliburton.
Uh Soros uh supported campaign finance reform for years, only to then say that defeating Bush was the central focus of his life, and that's when he sunk the 24 million dollars of his own soft money into the uh into the campaign.
Uh, you have to wonder what the uh what the little uh uh nerds at Moveon.org and the Center for American Progress and John Podesta's group, what are they doing today?
They're gonna have to manufacture stories that Soros is taking over Halliburton to make sure that it doesn't do what it was doing when Cheney ran the joint and so forth.
They've got to be beside themselves.
Halliburton has become one of the it's just a buzzword for corruption and lying and deceit as far as the left is concerned, and here's their guru now buying two million shares of Halliburton.
And it just it just doesn't get any any any better than this.
And we've been barely scratched the surface here.
We got a we got a peace update, as I said, a huge global warming stack.
The Democrats are becoming hilarious here with this back and forth and their ideas on what to do about Iraq.
All that coming up.
Let's grab a phone call quickly.
Uh let's uh go to the phones.
We're gonna start Philadelphia with Al.
Next up you are.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Uh, thank you, Russ.
I'm glad to talk to you again.
Uh, Rush, the man from your home state of Missouri, John Ashcroft, is do we have any conservative more Reaganess than him?
Uh, you know, it's interesting you bring this up.
James Gilmore went to CPAC, former governor of uh of Virginia, I think he went to CPAC, uh conservative political action conference.
And he's uh he said he's uh he's gonna go out and say McCain's not conservative, Romney's not conservative, Giuliani's not conservative.
Uh Gilmore's gonna say that he is Reagan-esque uh conservative.
Uh as to Ashcroft, uh pretty down the line conservative, but he's not going to run for president.
I know I've not he did uh put himself in that position about eight years ago.
He was considering it.
Yeah, but I I haven't seen any indication that uh not since since he lost the Senate race uh uh to the governor's wife, but he has all the uh prerequisites.
He's uh uh uh one time twice time elected governor and attorney general of Missouri.
And uh, of course he was the national attorney general.
I understand, but you can't but we can't go out and chase pipe dreams.
I mean, uh it'd be it'd be great if we could, you know, somehow clone Reagan.
Uh, but but you know, that didn't happen.
We got to deal with what's out there and uh and what exists.
I haven't seen any evidence that John Ashcroft is interested in elective office at all.
That's right, a man of legend, living legend, way of life, doctor of democracy, truth detector, utilizing talent on loan from God.
All right, this is hilarious.
Let's let's take a look at the latest in the escapades of the Democrats and uh what they want to get done with the war in Iraq.
AP story.
Democrats are considering cutting President Bush's 142 billion dollar request for military operations in uh Iraq and Afghanistan next year by 20 billion dollars, said Senate budget committee chairman Kent Conrad yesterday.
Conrad said a final decision has not been made whether to impose the 20 billion dollar cut.
It was just a few hours later, another story crossed the wires.
Democrats nix idea of military budget cuts.
Just hours after floating the idea of cutting 20 billion dollars from President Bush's 142 billion dollar request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad was overruled by fellow Democrats on Thursday.
It's uh nothing any of us are considering, said Senate Madora majority leader Dingy Harry Reed.
Now, here we have it's less than three months since they won the election.
And they out there, like I said yesterday, they claimed that that election gave him a mandate.
Get us out of Iraq, cut the funding.
The American people want to bring them home.
Obviously, that's not the data.
And I'm folks, so this came up at dinner last night, too, that this this discussion, and I could I can't tell you how many people at the dinner table think that the vast majority of the American people want us out of Iraq.
And the polling data on this cannot possibly be accurate.
It can't possibly be true.
Otherwise, the Democrats and Republicans, as feeble as they are, would have been joining with them to get them out of there and cut the funding.
The Democrats don't even have the guts to do it themselves, even though they claim a mandate from last year's election.
See, the bottom line is that the American people don't want us to lose.
They don't want soldiers defunded in the middle of battle.
They don't want uh soldiers denied reinforcements, and they certainly don't want soldiers uh told uh that there will not be updates in equipment.
Uh this is the the the uh Merthus slow bleed.
The Democrats are just they're flailing away here.
They can't get anything done on this.
And and uh uh yet you would think that it would be a snap crackle and pop if the polling data about the attitudes of the American people on this were uh were accurate.
A Wall Street Journal headline, House Democrats set to retreat from effort to cap troop levels.
If I were writing headlines today, the headline would read House Democrats cut and run from Mertha.
Mertha's the guy that can't get anybody to go along with his idea.
The uh the New York Post also talks about the Democrats blocking a $20 billion war cut.
That's the headline.
What they don't say in the headline is that the $20 billion cut in funds was proposed by a Democrat.
So Democrats block a cut proposed by a Democrat.
This is Kent Conrad.
New York Times.
Senate Democrats vow to confront Bush on a rock, but are still working out the details.
Senate Democrats are getting testy where their inabilities to pass anything comes up.
Quagmire, the Democrat Quagmire, and that's what we have continues.
My gosh, it's time to pull a Democrats out of the Senate, folks.
They can't get anything done.
We're just marking time.
They're shooting themselves.
It's a circular firing squad.
In order to save them from each other, we need to get them out of the Senate.
Use their same policy and plans for the war in Iraq.
And these people are sitting ducks, their bodies all over the place in the Senate.
They make a proposal, other Democrats shoot it down.
Senate Democrats somewhat defensive about their internal divisions, which have left them open to criticism that unlike the House, they have yet to weigh in with a strong vote on the war, even though public dissatisfaction contributed to their election gains in November.
I'd continue to just uh refute that.
That that that is not what last year's election meant.
And if it did, none of this would be happening.
Little common sense here, folks, is all you need to apply.
Uh Patty Murray, Senator from Washington, said, Well, hey, we've only been in a majority for six weeks.
Cut us some slack.
Getting a little testy here when their inabilities to pass anything comes up.
So the Democrat quagmire continues.
And get this.
Senior Democrat advisor said yesterday he's disappointed and dismayed by the efforts of House and Senate Democrats to change administration policies in Iraq.
And he predicted they'll either lead to further division and stalemate in Congress on the war.
If you stand back, the whole debate's been pretty frustrating.
The bigger problem is that Democrat leaders'proposals are not going anywhere, such as some revised authority for the war.
You know who said this?
Panetta.
Leon Panetta, former Clinton chief of staff, sitting out there in California at the Panetta Institute in Carmel, which is a gorgeous place.
If I had an institute outside the EIB building, I'd go there too.
But I mean, he's sitting out, he can't believe the ineffectiveness of the Democrats, and they are in the majority.
Problem in the Senate, as I have told you, is that the Democrats are pretty much powerless.
It's Mitch McConnell that runs that place in the House.
The Republicans have no power whatsoever.
It's just the way the House is structured.
Nothing uncommon about it.
When you uh lose the majority, you have no power to the Senate, though.
You need sixty votes, and if all you've got's fifty, plus Lieberman teetering, you got zilch zero nutta.
Uh the Republicans can stop anything the Democrats do, but the McConnell hadn't even had to step in on this.
Conrad got shot down by Reed.
Anyway, Panetta said, these efforts are doomed.
Either they're going to be blocked in Congress or they're going to vetoed by the president.
The end result is that it'll make us more divided and impotent on war policy.
I don't know if he's talking about the Democrats.
I suspect he is, or just the country at large.
Uh, but he's just frustrated their proposals aren't going anywhere.
It'll uh it'll be impotent.
And they've promised their left-wing cook fringe base.
They promised them we're gonna get them out of Iraq, we're gonna get them out.
We heard you.
And they can't even agree amongst themselves on uh on how to do it.
And a Democrat advisor at the Brookings Institute, Michael O'Hanlon, a senior foreign policy analyst there, who advises Democrats on national security issues, said, you know, a lot of the Democrats' efforts have been pointless.
Just as I predicted.
I told you they were not going to be able to get anything done.
The American people are not behind them on this, despite what they say.
The 2006 election returns meant.
Here's Dan in Springport, Michigan.
Welcome, sir, to open line Friday on the EIB network.
Hi, Ross.
Thank you.
You better in the past played a speech from Charlton Heston in which he speaks about how impossible it is for humans to destroy the earth.
And with all the talk of global warming, I was hoping sometime you could play that again.
Yeah, we you uh excuse me.
Uh the uh your call's been on board for a while.
We had a chance to find it.
What it actually is, I think is a forwarder and intro in uh in an early chapter in a Michael Crichton book.
I think about Jurassic Park.
I think it's from Jurassic Park.
And uh uh Charlton Heston called here one day and asked to read it on the air.
And you know, when Moses calls you and uh and is really passionate about something and wants to read the tablets to you, you get out of the way and do it.
We've got it.
We've we've kept it, it's in our archives.
This is, and thanks, Dan, for The call and the reminder about that.
We have so many things in our archives, impossible for all of us to remember everything that's there, but this really is powerful, and it it goes great uh today with all of this uh hysteria on global warming and destroying the planet.
Here is Charlton Heston from the opening chapters of uh Jurassic Park as written by Michael Crichton.
You think man can destroy the planet?
What intoxicating vanity.
Let me tell you about our planet.
Earth is four and a half billion years old.
There's been life on it for nearly that long.
Three point eight billion years.
Bacteria first, later the first melt of cellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea on the land, then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years.
Great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away.
All this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval.
Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving in endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years.
Earth has survived everything in its time.
It will certainly survive us.
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once, and all the plants, all the animals died, and the earth was clicking hot for a hundred thousand years.
Life would survive somewhere, under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice.
Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again.
The evolutionary process would begin again.
It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety.
Of course, it would be very different from what it is now.
But the earth would survive our folly, only we would not.
If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what?
Ultraviolet radiation is good for life.
It's powerful energy.
It promotes mutation, change.
Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation.
Many others will die out.
You think this is the first time that's happened.
Think about oxygen.
Necessary for life now.
But oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine.
When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on Earth.
Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas.
Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life.
Nevertheless, life on Earth took care of itself.
In the thinking of the human being, a hundred years is a long time.
Hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.
It was a whole different world.
But to the Earth, a hundred years is nothing.
A million years is nothing.
This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale.
We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try.
We've been residents here for the blink of an eye.
If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
That's the key.
We haven't the humility.
This is the whole this wraps up this whole global warming argument.
We are we we uh we so lack in humility, and it's a contradiction too, because on the one hand, the environmentalist wackos consider it's irrelevant.
We're no more important than the average rat or dog or insect.
Uh and in the other moment we are we are so powerful, and we're so negative, and we're so destructive that we humans are destroying the planet.
And don't get confused.
Global warming, they're not worried about what it'll do to humanity.
That's not the way they pitch it.
They pitch it the world.
The fragility of our climate is in crisis.
And of course, uh Charlton Heston, their reading from Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park, puts this in uh in in a great perspective.
In fact, it it it passage is is is uh one of the things that helped formed my whole thinking uh on the on the on the concept of the complexity of all of this uh that is our planet and and the impotence that we really have to do anything about it.
the idea that that uh we do by improving our standards of living, that those characteristics of our existence will destroy this is frankly it is just absurd, and I contend you cannot believe in God and believe what the global warming crowd believes.
You can't.
The two do not go hand in hand.
You have to actively not believe in God and believe in something else as a replacement in order to hold this catastrophic climate crisis view that they all have.
They are panicking out there in the drive by a media and on the left over a possible third George W. Bush Supreme Court nomination.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A story from uh ABC News in their blogs.
It's by uh Jan Crawford Greenberg.
She's their their legal correspondent babe.
And uh she writes about today's arguments in a lawsuit over President Bush's faith-based grant initiatives, and how it went at a dizzying pace.
And she says, as intense as the arguments were, and as fun as it was seeing uh John Roberts in action, the real drama of the day occurred at the end of the argument.
Typically the justices rise to the bench, they turn around, leave the courtroom for their chambers in very short order.
Usually spectators wait no more than a few seconds before the last justice disappears behind the red curtains, then the court officers allow all the uh reporters the gallery to uh file out of other exits at the front and sides of the courtroom.
But today.
We all were held in place for nearly a half minute more, an eternity to a TV reporter, as Justice Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg slowly collected her things and carefully left the courtroom.
Justice Suter lingered behind at his chair, waiting to walk alongside her almost as if he wanted to see if she needed assistance.
It was strikingly odd.
I was standing next to Jim Vincini of Reuters.
We looked at each other with some alarm.
No one could recall seeing Ginsburg in such slow motion, and it immediately begged the question of her health, which of course begs the question of whether any of the justices are going to be leaving the court any time soon and give George W. Bush his third nomination.
Oh no!
I've predicted with confidence that no one else will leave by design, and I've flatly rejected any suggestions that Justice Ginsburg was not at the top of her game physically.
She'll be seventy-four next month.
She's active in social, said to be recovered from her bout with cancer, but we were concerned.
The court's public information office said this afternoon that Ginsburg's absolutely fine.
She did ask several of the questions during the argument.
She was focused and involved.
So perhaps the twist uh she twisted an ankle during her workout.
She does exercise regularly.
But it still made me the guessing.
It was a twisted ankle that made her exit slowly.
Still made me think I'd better start pulling those possible retirement files together as Justice O'Connor showed us all in 2005.
Big surprises can happen.
There is panic.
There is panting.
And the drive by media and the American left.
Oh no, Bush might get a third nomination.
How can this possibly be?
Here is uh Bill in Cincinnati.
Bill, welcome.
We have about a minute here, but I wanted to squeeze you in.
Sure, uh retired firefighter ditto, Roger.
Thank you.
Love talking to you.
Hey, talking about the media panting.
Uh you joked in uh in your opening how uh Bush hadn't been blamed for the tornadoes yet yesterday, but essentially MSNBC did just that last night about 7.30, as early as 7.30 by way of blaming FEMA.
They had a FEMA rep on and were and really questioning him about their preparation uh for these tornadoes, and then they turned around and asked uh Senator Richard Shelby if he thought FEMA had done enough yet on these tornadoes that just happened.
Well, what did uh what did Shelby say?
I asked with baited breath.
Well, he kind of was he kind of was surprised at the question, believe it or not, and said he and then said uh ask me tomorrow.
Yeah.
Well, look at this is history repeating itself.
It's uh it's uh you're I I I missed it because I don't watch whatever network you mentioned.
I can't I can't but watch the cable news channel.
I can't I can't tell you in how long.
I applaud you for having the courage to do it out here, Bill.
I can't gonna go back to the archives.
They have a peace update to lead off the uh monologue segment of the next hour, followed by a global warming update.
A huge stack we have today.
It's all coming up straight ahead.
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