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March 13, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3

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	Mr. Snerdley tells me that a number of you people have been calling today wanting to talk about the propaganda of the movie 300.
	That infuriates me.
	You're going to worry about a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, and you're gonna soak up like an idiot sponge.
	Everything in Al Gore's stupid propaganda tripe.
	I'm getting no calls complaining about the propaganda of Al Gore's movie, but a bunch of you dunderheads want to talk to me about the propaganda, and Srdley hadn't put any of them up because he didn't know I was going to talk about this today.
	Greetings and welcome back.
	Rush Limboy here, the EIB Network, amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic first, second, third, fourth hand cigar smoke.
	Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
	So people think I'm making up the story about the excursion in North Pole being canceled.
	People are trying my patience today.
	Not all of you, some of you people you know who you are.
	This is an AP story, a North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming, was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.
	Frostbite in an excursion to the North Pole to prove global warming.
	Why isn't everybody in this country hysterical over this?
	The explorers, Anne Bancroft and Liv Arneson on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arneson suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries and some of the electronic equipment.
	Well, I feel like laughing my little ass off, folks.
	This is just I just love stories like this.
	Phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller, all these arrogant snobs who think they've got all the answers.
	Can't go study global warming in the North Pole because they got frostbite, and it's so cold or batteries are dying.
	Meanwhile, the polar bears are threatened.
	They repaired the snowshoe with binding from a ski, but Atwood said the patch job created pressure on Arneson's left foot, led to blisters that then turned to frostbite.
	Then there was the cold, quite a bit colder, Etwood said, than Bancroft and Arneson had expected.
	It's the North Pole, you idiots.
	What are you expecting to find?
	Palm trees up there.
	One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.
	Nowhere in this story is there any questioning of the global warming scare that is being promulgated by a bunch of leftists.
	Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warning was scuttled in part by extreme cold tests.
	Irony.
	It's not irony, it's hilarious.
	They were expecting or experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming, but one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.
	Okay.
	Stuff just burns me up.
	Now on to the movie 300.
	How many of you people know about the Battle of Thermopylae?
	One of the most famous battles in all of battles.
	The Battle of Thermopylae happened in 480 BC.
	That's 480 years before Christ.
	What happened was the Persians were on the march to try to take over Greece and a bunch of Peloponnesia.
	Now Greece had a bunch of different city-states.
	Sparta was one of them.
	And I don't know how much you know about the Spartans, but there is a reason why the term Spartans means spart.
	Uh Spartans lit they they were they they were all born and bred to be nothing but warriors.
	There was not one convenience in their lives.
	I'm just speaking of the times.
	There was no leisure.
	The Spartans, I mean, there were their their homes, their houses, there were there was there was no these were just pure 100% warriors.
	It was the reason they lived.
	300 of them withstood A battle at the Thermopylae Pass in the face of thousands of Persians.
	And they were led by their king, Leonidas, if I'm pronouncing this right.
	There is now a in in Greece, there's now a huge monument to him.
	Now they were wiped out, but they delayed the thousands and thousands and thousands of oncoming Persians long enough that the uh rest of the Greek army was able to hit them off in naval battles and uh and and other areas.
	They, in fact, there was a traitor involved in this, and I forget the traitor, the traitor hooked up with the Persians and gave them an alternate route beyond a Thermopylae Pass to get where they were headed.
	Uh and and that that was a factor in this true uh in this in this story.
	Anyway, this movie 300, which was filmed in Canada and totally filmed inside a warehouse.
	Not one frame of this movie was shot outdoors.
	Uh and it's it set a box office opening weekend record for the month of March, anyway, at over 70 million dollars.
	So lo and behold, an Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie 300 for insulting the Persian civilization.
	This is from an Iranian news agency.
	Javad Schmuck or Sham Kadri, an art advisor to President Mahmood Ahmadinejad, accused the new movie of being part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological war aimed at Iranian culture.
	He was quoted as saying, following the Islamic resolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture.
	Persia is what Iran now is.
	For those of you in Rio Linda.
	The movie's effort would be fruitless, they said, because value is an Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans.
	Yeah, there might be some license taken with this.
	I haven't I haven't seen the movie.
	I doubt, for example, that the Spartans wore leather speedos into battle, which is how they're I mean, this is a beefcake movie.
	But nevertheless, uh history is history, and this has been well documented.
	Just another evidence here that these people, you left us to Hollywood times, you are you are in their crosshairs if they ever get here.
	Mark my words.
	Anyway, the Iranians are way behind this is not the first movie depiction of the Battle of Thermopylae.
	I think it was 1962.
	Somewhere in the early 60s, there was a movie called The 300 Spartans.
	And uh uh who was it?
	Richard Egan was in the movie.
	Um the the Persian king was Xerxes, that was his name.
	And I don't know, I don't I just remember Richard Egan, a girl I was dating at the time had a crush, Richard Egan.
	Not in 62, I was only 11, but later on.
	Crush on Richard Egan.
	Should have been my first clue the whole relationship thing was a failure.
	Anyway, um after that was a crush on Tom Jones.
	Anyway, this where where were the Iranians back in 1962 when this movie came out?
	I mean, this is just pure uh pure poppycock.
	There's no attempt to dismirch the Persians here.
	This is a movie.
	I mean it's absurd even to be talking about it.
	It's a movie, period, but it's meant to portray and it's a stunning.
	See, if you can.
	I think uh who is it?
	The History Channel or Discovery.
	Somebody has done a great, great piece.
	I saw it years and years ago, about the Spartans in general, and they focused on uh the Battle of Thermopylae.
	Uh and the and the 300 of them.
	I mean, it was it was uh something incredible.
	I gotta take a quick break here.
	We'll do that and be back and continue after this.
	Do not go away.
	Oh, don't tell me I'm seeing what I'm seeing.
	Alberto Gonzalez at a press conference saying I acknowledge mistakes were made here in the firing of these eight U.S. attorneys.
	Don't give them that.
	Why don't you just put a gun in your mountain?
	Shoot yourself.
	That's the only thing that's gonna make them happy, Alberto, is if you commit suicide on camera.
	I acknowledge mistakes were made.
	Peter Pace, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, said yesterday that he considers homosexuality to be immoral, and the military shouldn't condone it by allowing gay soldiers to serve openly.
	He likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral.
	I don't believe a U.S. is well served by a policy that says it's okay to be immoral in any way.
	So they wide-ranging interview in the Chicago Tribune.
	You ever notice there's never anything other than a wide-ranging once when they write a very narrowly focused interview?
	Wide ranging.
	I don't believe the U.S. is well served by a policy that says it's okay to be immoral in any way, Pace told the newspaper.
	He's a native of Brooklyn, a 67 graduate of the Naval Academy.
	He's the first Marine to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said he based his views on his upbringing.
	Said he supports the Pentagon's not ask, don't tell policy, which gay men and women are allowed in the military as long as they keep their sexual orientation private.
	The policy signed into law by President Clinton in 94 prohibits commanders from asking about a person's sexual orientation.
	He said, I think that homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral.
	We should not condone immoral acts.
	He's not backing down despite pressure.
	Not backing down at all.
	He did say just now that he probably should have kept his personal views private.
	Should not have said this, but he's not backing down.
	All right, let's talk about the Democrats, the war in Iraq.
	The closest thing, this is uh what is this?
	AP.
	The closest thing uh Congress has to a peace movement, 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring Tupes uh troops home swiftly, faces a dilemma.
	The lawmakers in back uh can back a Democrat plan they think is too weak, or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause.
	It falls to one of their strongest allies, Nancy Pelosi, to persuade them to accept a less aggressive stance.
	Pelosi working feverishly, not only to avoid code pink protesters, also to scrounge together enough Democrat votes to pass a war spending measure that would force the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by 2008.
	Leaders circulated a draft on Monday, and the House is set to weigh in and out as early as next week.
	And then the uh the next story uh with this Democrats abandoned war authority provision.
	Top House Democrats retreated yesterday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran, as the leadership of the Democrats concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq War.
	Now you know what this means.
	It's not so easy in the driver's seat, is it, Democrats?
	Much more fun being the grumpy old no-idolls in the back seat.
	Are we there yet?
	Are we there yet?
	Didn't have the guts to put it in the bill, did you?
	That the president can't go into Iran.
	Didn't have the guts, did you?
	You don't want the responsibility, do you?
	No, you just want to be a bunch of backbenchers, even when you're in the majority, belly aching and moaning and whining and accusing everything that happens in Washington of being a conspiratorial crime.
	So let's see if I understand this.
	The Democrats are essentially saying that President Bush should agree to the Pelosi surrender plan because it helps her bring together the various factions in her caucus.
	I mean, that's that's what the drive bys are saying.
	It's so hard on Miss Pelosi.
	She's got such a tough job balancing all these different factions in her caucus.
	Fine.
	Let the President bail her out.
	Let the President agree to her surrender plan so that she can keep her caucus united.
	The language was worked out so as to bring on board her libs and her so-called moderates.
	Whether or not it does that is uh another issue, though.
	These far leftists want to cut off funding, but that doesn't have a prayer, so she hopes a certain deadline would bring them along.
	A deadline that is also meaningless, a deadline to get the troops out.
	Now let's listen to even the even the media is laughing about this.
	I want to take you to an audio soundbite from Sunday, CNN's late edition, John Roberts filling in for Wolf Blitzer.
	And I his guests are Lindsay Graham and Senator Joe Biden, and they play a tape, a video tape for these guests to comment on last Thursday when Pelosi and Obi, David Obi of Wisconsin went out there and announced this this brilliant plan.
	I want you to listen to the whole bite.
	When these resolutions were unveiled later in the week, uh they were convoluted to say the least.
	Take a take a quick listen to some of this press conference.
	Must be out of uh a combat role.
	By October.
	Uh I mean by August of 19 uh 19.
	2007.
	2008.
	If they meet the city.
	I'm sorry, that's right.
	Well, if they haven't made any progress by July, we begin the hundred and eighty days.
	They haven't made any.
	If they haven't made the president cannot demonstrate progress by July, we begin the 180 days.
	What's it?
	Is it July 1st or 31st?
	July 1st.
	Joe Biden, how how how do you pass or enforce something you can't even explain?
	That was the CNN anchor, who will normally do his best to make these people look like wizards, was himself forced into laughter, asking Joe Biden, putting Biden on the spot.
	How do you pass or enforce something you can't even explain?
	This was an absolute joke.
	Now the point about all this is that you have to understand this is not about the war.
	It's not about winning the war, it's about losing it, but it's not even about that.
	It's about purely partisan political calculations for 2008.
	That's what your Democrat majority is involved in here as regards the national security of the United States.
	It's not about the national security of the United States.
	It's about the perpetual power and security of the Democrat Party.
	You know, the Liberals, in trying to sell this and build up their own competence, they're out there saying Bush didn't finish a job at Torabora.
	You know, nobody's ever asked this question.
	What do you mean finish the job?
	Would liberals have even started the job at Torabora?
	Well, I ask because they didn't start it in 1993 when the World Trade Center first blew up and they didn't do anything in ninety four or ninety-five or ninety-six or ninety-seven or ninety-eight or ninety-nine when there were terrorist attacks against Americans all over the world.
	What makes you think they would have started in 2002 or three or four or five or six?
	Where is the history that Democrats are going to take to fight the terrorists?
	Bush didn't finish the job at Torobora.
	Here's why liberals can't conduct a war.
	First, they insist on giving six months advance notice the war is going to start.
	Now they want to give six months' advance notice of the war is going to end.
	Who's next on this?
	John in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	You are up, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hi, Russ.
	This is uh John.
	Uh my name's John Walker from Lancashire uh mean from Langster, Pennsylvania.
	And uh I listened to you uh uh quite a bit.
	And uh the one thing I I got out of this movie uh the 300, I mean not the one thing, but there was many messages, and I don't even know if they tried it.
	But the um when I was a kid I had learning disabilities, and my mother used to tell me about the story about Leonidas and the 300, and the one thing that I got out of this was that their politicians couldn't agree on going to war or not going to war or funding the war or anything, so he had to take his personal guard, not the uh Spartan army, but just his personal guard up to fight this horde of in uh invaders who were gonna overtake Greece completely.
	That's true.
	He did have a support.
	There were 700 um others, I forget lesbians.
	They were sort of like the Democrats of the day.
	They were just there watching and trying to come up with a deadlines to quit when it didn't work.
	Right.
	Even in the movie, they show a guy uh drop a bag of gold with uh uh with uh uh Xerxes' face on it or whatever.
	I don't know if that ever actually really happened or whatever, who was a politician, but you know, it's like Soros having his coffers filled from from Iran or whatever for um uh well let me tell you about Xerxes.
	The the Iranians, by the way, if any of you Islamo fascists in the audience in Iran, uh uh the Iranians, but the Persians back then had uh great respect for warriors who were opponents.
	Uh but this Xerxes was so outraged at what 300 Spartans did to his army that when they found the body of Leonidas or Leonidas, they beheaded it.
	They beheaded the body, and they didn't return the body to the Greeks for 40 years.
	That's that's how agitated and irritated they were over this loss, and that's how bummed out that Xerxes was over, he lost his army to 300 people.
	Right.
	And then finally when they fought at the Battle of Plataea against the whole Spartan army, his men were already scared, and they were supposed to be the best in the world.
	Anybody would have been scared of the Spartans.
	These people, I mean the movie is awesome.
	You've got to see it.
	Well, I'll see it.
	I'll see it.
	This is I unfortunately didn't get a screener, uh a previewing screener for this, so I'll see it when it comes out on DVD.
	Because I don't, I don't, I don't go to theaters.
	I can't go to theaters.
	Yeah, I don't go that much, but uh one thing that it's just that my mother told me this story all my life because I had learning disabilities, and now that I I have my own business of commercial diving and uh diving education and glad you got to go.
	Thanks for the call.
	We'll take a quick break here and be back after this.
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	Snurdley, you'll like this story.
	This is from the UK telegraph.
	Brilliant men always betray their wives.
	Einstein's affair should surprise no one, says Desmond Morris.
	It's all in the genius's genes.
	So Albert Einstein did not, after all, spend all his waking hours chalking up complex symbols on a blackboard.
	According to letters newly released this week, he devoted quite a bit of it to chasing ladies and with considerable success.
	By the way, Einstein was no looker, gang.
	He'd make a freight train take a dirt road.
	But it didn't matter, he's a genius.
	To many, the idea of Einstein having ten mistresses doesn't fit the classical image of the great remote genius.
	Why was he wasting his time with the exhausting business of conducting a string of illicit affairs, affairs that would cause havoc with his family, damaging especially his relationship with his sons.
	The answer is that he, like many other intensely creative men, was overendowed with one of the human male's most characteristic qualities, the joy of risk taking.
	Every creative act, every new formula, every groundbreaking innovation is an act of rebellion that may, if successful, destroy an old existing concept.
	So every time a brilliant mind sees a new possibility, it's faced with a moment of supreme risk taking.
	The new formula, the new invention, may not work, may turn out to be a disaster, but the man of genius like Einstein has the courage to plow ahead despite the dangers both on and off the intellectual field.
	Not that Einstein's by any means an isolated instance.
	Indeed, far from being the exception, he's closer to the norm where great men in sex are concerned.
	During a presidential visit to Britain, JFK, which is debatable how great a president he was, but we can't because he's martyred, once shocked an elderly Harold Macmillan when he complained to him that if he didn't have sex with a woman every day, he suffered from severe headaches.
	Kennedy was insatiable and impatient.
	He was reported to make love with one eye on the clock, and to be through with a girl as soon as he'd had sex with her in three different ways.
	This the original hookup, by the way.
	You high school kids and college kids think you've created something new with hookup.
	You know what hooking up is?
	Sex without relationships.
	No encumberments, no drama, no relationship analysis, just get in, get it, and get out.
	And of course, these college kids think, wow, we are trendsetters.
	No, no, no, no.
	Hooking up has been going on since the Battle of Thermopylae.
	And even before.
	By the way, there was no Islam at the Battle of Thermopylae.
	It hadn't been invented yet.
	The prophet hadn't been born, so you know, all this garbage about the Iranians being upset.
	The movie is uh depicting Islamic culture's BS.
	Anyway, uh back to Kennedy.
	He kept an eye on the clock and to be through with a girl as soon as he had sex with her in three different ways.
	If possible, he preferred two girls at once and seduced almost every young woman he met, from starlets to socialites, secretaries to flight attendants, uh, and strippers.
	But then the compulsion in dominant males to take the highest of risks, a compulsion that seems to be innate is one that dates back to prehistoric times.
	Our aberrail relatives, the monkeys, speak for yourself, Morris.
	I'm resent that too.
	I did not did not used to be a monkey.
	If I did, why are there still monkeys?
	They simply fled up into the high branches when danger threatened, and while feeding, all they had to confront was a fruit or a berry.
	But when our early ancestors came down to live on the ground, they had to give up scampering aloft to escape and also had to face data.
	Why?
	If it always worked, why'd they give it up?
	Let me move forward.
	Men with brilliant minds whose creativity brings them enormous success sometimes find themselves in a curious situation.
	They are so highly rewarded by society for their achievements that they are unable to limit their curiosity to new problems in their special fields, starts to spill over into other areas.
	Novel sexual experiences, for instance, suddenly seem irresistible.
	It's not the mating act itself that's so important.
	That varies very little.
	It's the thrill of the chase, the excitement of a new conquest that drives them on, and the beauty of it all in the rear view mirror when it's over.
	Once the conquest has been made, the novelty of the affair soon wears off, and another chase begins.
	Each illicit episode involves stealth and secrecy, tactics, strategy, the terrifying risk of discovery, making it in the perfect metaphor for the primeval hunt.
	Aiding and abetting these erotic adventures is the fact that the fame, power, and wealth that these especially brilliant men have received as rewards for their achievement make them very attractive figures to the opposite sex.
	They may have a face like an angry hippo, but thanks to their high status, they somehow manage to ooze sex appeal, much to the disbelief and dismal and dismay of the handsome failures who carry out menial tasks for them.
	Yeah, how many of you people have seen this?
	This happens all the time.
	Some slinky babe with the ugliest guy you have ever, ever seen.
	What in the world?
	Not about that.
	The great philosopher Bertrand Russell, who, for all his undeniable intellectual brilliance, could never have betted a woman on the looks alone, was described as suffering from galloping satiriasis.
	The satyr is the male version of a whore, S. A. He claimed he could not see a sexual partner as sexually attractive for more than a few years, after which he had to cast her aside and go make a new conquest.
	He had affairs with a long line of women, a few of whom he later married.
	They included a young secretary, the wife of an MP, the daughter of a Chicago surgeon, a researcher, an actress, a suffragette, several teachers, the wife of a Cambridge lecturer, and even his children's governess.
	His private life was described by one biographer as a chaos of serious affairs, secret trysts, and emotional tightrope acts that constantly threatened ruinous scandal.
	This was risk-taking of the highest order.
	Picasso also was a sex glutton, described by a friend as being obsessed with sex.
	The genius of the sentiment, Charlie Chaplin, was an even more active sex addict, capable he said of six bouts a night.
	As a young man, he visited brothels, was attracted to talented and important women, managed to seduce a cousin of Churchill's, the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, actress Paulette Goddard, Mabel Norman, and Paul Dinegri.
	William Hurst's girlfriend, Marion Davies, Rosebud.
	Wonder how many people think Rosebud was a sleigh.
	It was, but that's not all it was.
	Talking about the movie Citizen Cain.
	However, uh Chaplin's sexual risk taking eventually led to his downfall.
	He was driven out of America as a debaucher.
	His legacy forever tarnished, but uh then men with great talent or power from Elvis to Clinton to Toulouse Latrec fit the bill.
	Genius, risk takers, not satisfied with the normal and mundane.
	That's in the UK uh Guardian.
	Here is Dan in Charlottesville, Virginia.
	Hello, sir.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Thanks, Rush.
	You know, if uh if brilliant men like taking risks so much, how come uh none of the scientists are willing to challenge global warming?
	Uh brilliant men like taking There's no sex involved in that.
	That's the good thing.
	And plus, we're talking about money too here.
	I mean, you you go against the global warming uh doctrine here, and you're gonna have trouble getting money from researchers.
	Ah, that's a good point.
	That's actually why I called.
	I'm uh physics graduate student at the University of Virginia, and I'll tell you what, for the better part of you know, ten years I've been studying science and global warming's not part of the curricul.
	Not in physics.
	I doubt it's in the curriculum in chemistry, a very small subset, I think, of scientists really study it at all.
	I think the reason, I mean, we talk about the the scientific consensus.
	That's the great appeal of global warming.
	Well, the reason there's a consensus is just is out of laziness, I think, more than out of knowledge.
	Uh I don't doubt that at all.
	I I think that these things develop an inertia, and there's identity associated with it.
	You get yourself involved in one of these things that sweeps the planet, and you're part of an accepted clique.
	Everybody wants to be part of the big group.
	Everybody nobody wants to be an outsider.
	Nobody wants to be laughed at, thought of as a nerd or whatever.
	You get involved in one of these big movements and uh uh make you feel good about yourself.
	Then there's money from research for research on the other end of this.
	Uh, because all kinds of UN will fund any kind of research, it'll prove its agenda.
	Many governments will do the same thing, and let's face it, scientists are not entrepreneurs when it comes to earning money.
	A lot of them need grants, research grants, and this uh and this kind of thing, which is why they hold up as many people as they can in private sector and that sort of thing.
	And that's what as an aside.
	One of the interesting things to me about embryonic stem cells is that uh there's so little private sector money in it because there haven't been any results.
	That's why everybody in that area of research is going to the government, because that's the only place they can get it.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's true.
	But your point is that laziness is is driving this more than any scientific discipline.
	Sure.
	I mean, the scientists that that they poll to say that uh all scientists, you know, support global warming, they're no more experts than the guy who, you know, who rents out DVDs at blockbuster.
	Well, but but the the it it's it's incorrect to say that that most scientists do, or that all scientists do.
	Oh, it's certainly incorrect to say that I'll be.
	You you're you are a uh graduate, you get a physics degree, did you say?
	That's right.
	All right.
	Well, uh I something I keep saying, and I picked it up from Michael Crichton because it made total sense to me.
	I'm a layman when it comes to science.
	It makes total sense to me.
	Uh, and I've asked a number of people about it.
	I want to get your opinion.
	How can there be consensus in science?
	Science is not up to a vote.
	When you were in class getting your degree, were you guys allowed to vote on what science is and is, or what you were you taught certain absolutes in order to learn what you had to learn to get your degree.
	Well, we were definitely taught absolutes.
	There's there's not a whole lot of room for I mean, you can interpret the results and stuff, but you really based on several axioms.
	A lot of the problem is a lot of it is accepted just kind of on faith because there's so much information that one person can't take it all.
	And so if you get enough people preaching something like global warming, the rest of you know, well, not uh clearly not the rest, but a lazy scientist will be will be quick to say, oh, okay, well, this guy studied it.
	My field is lasers, not meteorology, so I'll just take his word for it.
	Yeah, exactly right.
	And the dirty little secret is there isn't a computer model or 500 that can factor because the human mind can't do it yet, because a computer model is only good as the input.
	You know, what you put in, what you get out.
	There's no computer model that can deal with anywhere near the complexity of the climate of this planet.
	The whole thing's bogus.
	Thanks for the call out there, Dan.
	Appreciate it.
	We'll be back.
	I'll see if I can squeeze in some uh delectable audio soundbikes when we come back.
	You guys in there, have you seen a Casino Royale, a most recent Bond movie?
	Oh.
	Maybe the best Bond movie ever.
	When did I watch it?
	Sunday night.
	Just it right up there with Goldfinger.
	But I mean, it was just unbelievable.
	I wanted to mention this.
	It just came out on DVD.
	That's how come I know.
	All right, to the audio sound bites.
	Let's go to me, uh, shall we?
	Yesterday on this program talking about Hegel Mania.
	Let me tell you something.
	There's gonna be a lot of really PO'ed national reporters who dragged themselves out there for this.
	You could have done this with an email.
	Could have done it with the facts.
	Besides, how do you pad an expense account if you're a reporter and you go to Nebraska?
	Yes.
	Nothing against Nebraska, it's just things are cheaper there.
	How do you pad an expensive report when you when you go to Nebraska?
	You tell you listen to this montage, Chris Janssen at PMSNBC, Wolf Blitzer, Data Bash CNN, uh Michael Kacinski, MSNBC, Brit Hume, Pat Buchanan, Wolfblitzer, Bill Press, James Carvel.
	You tell me if I don't know the drive by media.
	A lot of people were surprised that it was sort of a non-announcement announcement.
	What was Hegel thinking?
	It was a Seinfeld press conference about nothing.
	We're still waiting for that big announcement.
	But the problem is the press conference is already over.
	After considerable fanfare that brought some reporters from Washington all the way out to Omaha.
	I hope a lot of these reporters didn't file their expense accounts to fly to Lincoln, Nebraska for that way.
	There was a huge buildup to what he was going to say.
	We were anticipating an announcement.
	This was one of the biggest con jobs ever perpetrated on the press.
	I mean, you're getting there, you're ready for the guy to go out in the shotgun formation, standing about, you know, five yards behind the center, and he is 15 yards back getting ready to punt.
	We all got excited, thought it was going to be something different.
	Yeah, but at least he didn't cry like Pat Schroeder when uh she got out of the race.
	He didn't really get out of the race.
	This isn't delay his decision.
	Uh his brother Tom Hagel was on MSNBC last.
	I had him all lined up, and the guy ended up.
	I don't even know if I'd vote for my brother, he said.
	Uh uh here, here's the question.
	Is David Gregory uh grab number 10?
	David Gregory says, uh Tom Hagel, Chuck Higgle's brother.
	Would you vote for him, though?
	Can you can uh can he can he count on his brother's vote?
	Well, who knows who'll be running, right?
	You're not gonna commit yet?
	No.
	Because I don't I don't want to turn uh our relationship into uh the you know, I guess subjected to all the political problems that are gonna arise.
	Come on, Tom, it just means your brother doesn't rev you up out there as a presidential candidate.
	His own brother wouldn't vote for it.
	Okay, we'll move on.
	Democrats still peeved about Halliburton moving over to Dubai.
	They think it's about escaping taxes.
	Here's Henry Waxman.
	We're looking very carefully at this move and what it may mean for national security for American taxpayers.
	I've asked uh my investigative staff to find out the the answers to these questions.
	National security, you've been trying to bury this company.
	You and your party have been trying to destroy this company, and now you equate them with national security because they're over there in Dubai.
	Little bit of Sheila Jackson Lee, Halliburton's in her district.
	Unfortunately, their office is located in the 18th Congressional District.
	It is unfortunate that the arrogance of this company would suggest that they could make announcements in the brightness of sunlight on Sunday and not engage their local community leaders, their employees, and others who might be vested in the relocation of corporate headquarters.
	You know, you people stop the tape.
	You people are the biggest damned hypocrites.
	You sit there.
	You've tried to destroy this company, you've accused them of of of war profiteering, trying to get over there to get the oil with Bush and his buddies.
	You've accused them of undermining America.
	Now they're leading your little district out there.
	What about the employees?
	You should have thought about that when you started berating them all to hell and making them act like they were an enemy of the country.
	People are just absolutely stupid.
	I can't stand the hypocrisy and the irony of these people.
	One more before we go.
	This is Patrick in Tampa, Florida.
	Tampa Patrick, welcome to the program.
	Thanks, Rush.
	Uh, Mega Airport Screener Ditto.
	Thank you, sir.
	Yes.
	I've been listening to you since the days of the gurgling cod, so very long time listener.
	Uh I'll get right to it.
	I'm a airport screener.
	I'm hoping I'm not going to get fired for talking about this.
	The bill that's in uh before the Senate now about giving us collective bargaining, they're twisting this bill to make it out where we're getting collective targeting.
	And the bill actually just takes away dictatorial power given to the TFA administrator.
	He has more power than any federal bureaucrat in the entire country.
	Why do you want to unionize?
	What possible reason do you want to unionize for?
	Uh I don't want to unionize.
	I want to be a Title Vederal employee.
	And that's the one.
	But they're trying to, but you're going to end up being a member of a union.
	This is Democrat Party payback to them for don't you understand that you are going to be a member of a union.
	Absolutely.
	I'm an axe, like I said, I'm a hardcore Republican union organizer.
	But but then what are you upset about?
	Oh, what oh my God.
	I thought you were upset because they're saying that this bill is about giving it to the union.
	It's not.
	It's about taking away the power from Tip Howley.
	He can fire us at will.
	He can do it.
	Well, okay.
	Uh it may be about that, but it's it's this is nothing more.
	This politics.
	This is playing politics with national security.
	Look at you're gonna become a member of a union, you're gonna be able to go on strike.
	Bin Laden's gonna know when you're on strike.
	Bamo!
	Another couple of explosions.
	Happy, happy days, AFL CIO.
	Back in just all right, folks, another sterling, exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is now Histoire.
	But we will be back uh tomorrow.
	Do it all over again.
	Then I'm looking forward to it.

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