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May 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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No, you you tell them, you tell them I don't want to be harassed during the middle of the show about stuff like this, and they know it, and you're just helping them harass me, so you tell them that I'm blowing them off.
Greetings.
I'm sorry about that, folks.
This always happens.
Take care of this stuff in front of you in a distance in various.
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According to Sky News in the uh UK, our planet is just five years away from climate change catastrophe.
But all is not lost because it can still be saved.
This according to a new report, the uh Worldwide Fund for Nature uh warns governments that they have until 2012 to plant the seeds of change and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions.
If they fail to do so.
The WWF's vision for 2050 warns generations to come will have to live with the compromises and hardships caused by their inability to act.
We've heard this over at Ted Danson, 1988.
We don't clean up the oceans, we got 10 years, uh we will not recover.
Uh it's it's just used to be, they say ten years.
Now it's five.
We only get five years.
Al Gore's out there uh putting forth the same stuff.
And the drive-by's Time magazine's got a story.
Will he run?
Will he run?
He's set up perfectly to run.
I'm telling you, I'm not happy out there with their field either.
I mean, they're not all that happy with Obama.
I don't think he's inexperienced, not all that happy with Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Uh some of them are the Democrats said, Time magazines have really been pushing uh alternatives to Mrs. Bill Clinton.
They've been pushing Obama big time.
Now they're uh Well, Obama's fading into polls at time to maybe go to go to the uh Ace in the Hall, that would be Al Gore.
Going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
I you know, it's gonna bum me out.
I mean, I didn't expect to win.
It's just an honor to be nominated for the uh Nobel Peace Prize.
I firmly believe I've done far more for world peace and liberty and freedom than uh than Al Gore has with his global warming move, but we all know the Nobel Peace Prize is not about peace.
It's about advancing uh, it's about advancing liberalism.
Now I want to uh d try to be as brief with this as I can.
I mentioned this at the at the beginning of the program.
Uh I have uh all th throughout the history of this program, uh starting in 1988.
Uh I have you know, I love to share my passions, and I have shared with uh the audience, because I look we we have a connection, you and I. I mean, I'm not just here pontificating and you out listening.
This is not like a classroom where your students and you just sit there and listen.
There was an interactivity here, and not just based on the phone calls.
We have we we we work well together.
We have a connection.
And uh and and part of that is that, you know, within the limits that I've set for myself it makes sense, I divulge some of the things I do in my personal life because those are things I try to do that I enjoy.
I've gotten to a very, very rare place in life.
And I wish everybody could get there.
It is something that that that sadly very few people ever achieve or have happened to them, and that is that for all intents and purposes, I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.
Uh professionally, personally, you name it.
There are occasionally things that that we all have obligations and so forth.
But I mean, I don't have to take on something I really despise because I have no choice.
Uh and so I I have I've reached a point where uh I've I'm I enjoy life.
I enjoy being an American.
I enjoy the opportunities.
I enjoy being able to go places and see things and meet people.
I enjoy, and I when I do this, I enjoy coming back here to the golden EIB microphone and sharing it with you.
Now, something came up yesterday after the program.
Uh because I I uh spent some time on on yesterday's program talking about those things, and not as much time devoted to quote unquote the issues.
And there's uh been this nagging little group of people, probably Ron Paul supporters, that every time I do this, stick to the issues, stick to the and it's a small group of people, but they're vocal and they're out there each and every time.
And I've mentioned this to you on uh on previous occasions.
Yesterday some people said, You know, you you you you just didn't spend as much time on the issues.
It talked about going to Oakmont uh and other people wrote, Well, how did you play it?
Tell us more about it.
How about 288-yard par 281-yard par three?
They do have a 281-yard par three at Oakmont for the U.S. Open from the tips.
I didn't play the tips.
We played uh we played the blues, which are two sets of T's up.
Uh we played about six I th I've sixty, eight hundred yards.
I think the whole course seventy-two or seventy-four, don't remember.
Uh, but it's it's the hardest golf course I've ever played, and it does it's it's it it made me appreciate the talent and skills of professional golfers more than any other course that I've played.
But I had a great time, and I met the membership.
I said, come back and tell people this, and there's a couple other personal things, plus a story about running into Bill Clinton last night.
Uh, and it got me to thinking.
It got me wondering.
We hear all the talk about the angst that permeates our culture, that there's a general melees or uh unhappiness.
There people are just they're on edge.
The war has people uneasy.
For whatever reason, we're not winning it fast enough, we're losing it.
Uh whatever.
It just it just doesn't seem we've got all of this talk about this food is going to kill us, that's gonna kill us.
So a lot of people are on edge.
A lot of people are are sort of this is the theory, anyway.
A lot of people are tense out there, uh nervous.
And here I come on the radio, happy go lucky, holly and jolly and all this, and just having a good time and and uh with my life as much as I can, sharing that with you.
And uh somebody said to me, Well, you know, it's one of the problems.
Uh uh people want to be comfortable in their misery.
Uh and when you don't sound miserable, they think you're not in touch.
They think that you may not really understand what their lives are like every day.
And it's sort of a repeat of the argument, uh, you know, I've lost touch.
That that comes up now and then too.
I've always looked at this a little different way.
Uh I've had periods of time in my life where I go through angst, and I have days where I go through it.
But I don't want to live that way.
And I don't want it to be what defines my attitude.
And I don't I don't want to go through the news every day and have to come in here.
By the way, I've never tried to relate to you.
I've never tried to understand what it is you want to hear and and say it.
Uh, I I do have empathy when it comes to the kind of subjects issue-wise, but in terms of, you know, w I I don't moisten the finger, stick it in the air, and figure out what you want.
I'm not a politician.
I don't do polls to find out what I should say or what I should wear or any of that.
Uh but it got me to thinking, is it really that bad out there?
Is it it among us?
Now I know that liberals and a Democrat are in a constant state of agitation, a constant state of misery.
That's their natural existence, though.
That's they're born that way, and they they do seek out people who are suffering in the same suffering.
They want to suffer.
They want to be made to feel like they are suffering, and life is uh is just impossible.
And then they gotta and they blame everybody but themselves for their play.
I've always tried to be optimistic within reason, not falsely so.
I've always tried to be of good cheer and laugh and have fun, because I think that that is in itself inspirational and motivational.
And we only get one life.
And uh we're all raised in different ways as to how we should live it.
Some of us have been raised deeply religious.
There's virtue in suffering, there's virtue in uh uh in in in a hard life because it it's conditioning, it trains, repairs, uh it's real, uh, and and uh there's rewards for it later in life.
Uh my grandfather, who was a great, great, great man.
He loved his work, and he did uh his his family time was his was his uh enjoyment of lifetime.
Uh the work, worked, worked, worked, worked, home, office, day and night, traveled on business and this sort of stuff.
He's always at home, though, for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the holidays, Easter.
Uh and uh his view was that there's plenty of time to have have fun after you have can completed the serious part of your life, which is your work.
That combining those two things would lead to a loss of focus on one's work because obviously people like fun more than work, unless your work is your fun.
In my case, that's what happened.
That's another very fortunate thing for me.
Uh And so I I grew up, even going on vacation feeling guilty.
Well, this is this is I'm I really should be enjoying myself.
This is not right.
Little tinges of it.
I still did it.
You know, still went on the vacations, I still took them and so forth.
There's some of that that still happens now.
I on Tuesday, when I was at Oakmont.
I said, eh, audience is not going to like this.
Even when they just taking a lot of single days and so on.
I know I'm very sensitive to this, but at the same time, we only get one, and it needs to be as as diverse and well rounded as you can make it, because you want to I don't believe life is to be suffered.
I don't believe that's the intention of life.
I don't believe that's the intention of creation.
It's uh it's a sad reality for um uh all too many people, but it isn't necessary.
It's like a certain economic circumstance is not permanent, doesn't have to be permanent.
Uh people have more power over their lives than they know.
They're not raised with the notion they have power.
We're raised with the no well, we go to school and we're in prison because the teacher's the boss, the principal's the boss, at home, the parents are the boss.
In our younger years are raised with a whole notion of we don't have any choices.
We're kids, we can't do anything.
In fact, we can't even get answers to questions.
It's just yes or no, and do what I say.
That conditions you trains you, and you grow up, then you work for the boss.
Everybody has a boss.
There's always an authority.
You see a cop cart, uh-oh, slow down, whatever.
If I got my driver's license, all of these things.
And people end up can very easily feel trapped in thinking that that they're they're very tight confines and boundaries that trap them.
Uh, even that they're stuck in things they don't want to do, but you have more power than you know.
You have all kinds of ability to change your life and take control of it.
That's change.
Change is new, it change is difficult, and taking control is assuming responsibility.
And it's always easy to fall back on.
Well, I couldn't get that done because a boss wouldn't let me offer.
I couldn't get that done because it rained.
So the yards growing up from another five, whatever.
Uh it's it's tough to take full responsibility.
Like own or talk to people who have been an employee than go down and own their own business.
And you ask them how much their life, even if they didn't make as much money at first, you ask them how much their life improved.
Because the feeling of being in control, of having the power over over your future.
With I mean, nobody's totally scot-free in this way, but uh there's a lot more power that more people have.
I'm simply trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have been presented to me or that I have created.
And I'm not trying to laud it over anybody.
I'm genuinely trying to share it.
Uh and if it if it's a problem because there's so much angst and so much misery, uh, and and uh I'm losing my ability to relate to and understand the audience, uh that's tough because I've I've I've uh when I've been talking, not listening to people on the radio, but throughout every w wherever you are in life, there's always somebody who'd done more, who goes more places, who has more money than always.
Uh I've always been inspired by the I've I've always um boy, that would be fun to do, but fun to be able to do one of the things I've been working for.
Oh.
I've been in this business for 40 years, minus five years at the Kansas City Royals.
They still haven't, by the way, found any decent national anthem singers since I left.
And that was 1983.
So uh I wanted to just put this out on the uh on the table.
Uh because some people it is easy to relate to.
If a host comes on and is mad and at a foul humor, yeah, that's how I feel.
I'm mad as hell and so forth.
I uh if I'm if I am that way on a particular day, I tell you.
But uh maybe I should say I'm sorry for enjoying life.
No, that's not me.
Not gonna do that.
And who knows, I may not be enjoying it tomorrow.
You never know what's gonna happen, folks, and that's why.
Now there's hope that I will be miserable tomorrow.
It's hope that I'll be miserable next week.
Hope that I'll be miserable in November of 2008.
There's hope that I will lose this perch of joy and joviality and rejoin you uh later on down the road.
Be back after this.
I tell you that Clintons, I just they get support from all over the place.
Uh Jenna Jameson as the most recent uh Famous American to come out and endorse uh Hillary Clinton.
Jenna Jameson, uh called the world's most famous porn star, uh, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, uh, talked about Hillary Clinton in an interview with PR.com on May 17th, which that's today.
This is the 17th, correct?
Uh question, who's who's your favorite Democrat front runner for 2008?
Obama, Hillary, or John Edwards?
And Jenna Jameson, uh, the world's most famous porn stars.
I love Hillary.
Uh I think I think in some way she pretty conservative for a Democrat, but I would love to have a woman in office.
I think I think it'd be a step in the right direction for our country, and there'd be less focus on war, more focus on bettering society.
Uh well, uh uh, what about you find the climate of the adult industry changes uh w when there's a Republican administration versus Democrat?
Oh, absolutely, she said.
Jenna Jameson, the world's most famous porn star who has endorsed Hillary said the Clinton administration was the best years for the adult industry, and I wish that Clinton would run again.
Love that.
Doug and Benita Springs, Florida, nice to have you on the program.
Megadillos, Russia.
Thank you, sir.
Last hour you mentioned that uh President Bush has become a little bit more partisan lately.
And I just had a general question.
Do you think uh politicians advance their cause better by attacking the other side or by pointing out the benefits and strength of their own positions and you ought to do I think you gotta do both because when you're attacking the Democrats, you're defending yourself.
The way they've been on the rampage.
Uh Republicans need to fight back on some of this stuff.
I'm talking about the guys running for office, the the uh political uh aspirants.
But at the same time, you do have to have an agenda.
You have to you have to give reason uh people reason to vote for you so that you have a mandate.
People respond to ideas.
You know, Reagan, two landslides in a libs all said, well, that's just slick marketing and packaging.
The American people were fooled.
Nope.
People loved Ronald Reagan personally, they heard him, he communicated, they knew what his policies were.
Very simple.
Cut taxes, rebuild the military, and wipe out the Soviet Union.
Yeah, but like on the uh on the Iraq war, all you hear is uh the Democrats attacked.
They don't have any idea uh or of what to do, and the Republicans they never play up the strength of the outcome of a you know a.
No, because they're scared, they're scared because they they believe that the will of the people that they're they're it's easy for them.
This this kind of makes me mad too.
The Republicans are saying, yeah, we lost uh the House, uh, we lost House Senate because of Iraq.
No, you didn't lose it because of a rock.
It's a convenient little excuse.
Because when they say we lost it because of Iraq, they're shuffling the blame for their loss on Bush.
The Democrats do not have a plan for Iraq.
You say, yes, they do.
It's called defeat.
And their plan for Iraq, having us get out of there is gonna Ed Koch has a column.
A Democrat.
Ed Koch has a column today that if they succeed in defeating the United States, if the Democrats succeed in defeating the United States military, pulling them out of there, we are going to face 20, 30 years of hell in this country.
From the militant Islamists who are going to be so emboldened.
Democrats don't think that'll happen.
They must not think that'll happen.
They must think that the way to win this is to lose it.
They must well anyway.
You can say that the that one of my biggest beefs for the debate last night was there wasn't nearly enough criticism of Democrats.
And I know the host and the moderators try to limit that because it's a Republican primary, but the answer to your question is both.
Uh the dangers posed by Democrats' success need to be spelled out.
The pitfalls, the problems, the the sunsetting of tax cuts, the uh the welcoming back of an even if you think the Republicans have been spending like nuts, wait till the Democrats get control, folks.
I mean, you may think it's bad out there now, but y you say it can't get any worse.
It can, and it would you combine massive new spending with the with the termination of the tax cuts, which is going to add up to a tax increase.
You combine that with the resulting economic slowdown.
If you give them full reins on power to start messing around with the economy based on global warming, uh it can it can most certainly get worse.
And and the Republicans have a duty, I would think, to spell this out.
You don't have to personally attack Democrats to do it.
This is about ideas.
I believe people respond to ideas.
I think people love learning.
I think people like being exposed to actual thoughts uh that they can learn from that inspires them and motivates them because that's that's what's going to keep them inspired and motivated through the election.
You just can't run run around ripping Democrats for the sake of it.
There has to be a reason to it, and there's plenty of reason, and there's plenty of substantive reasons to criticize and attack Democrats and their ideas and policies.
Primary one is they're trying to hide what their real ideas are from everybody.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
That's Bo Diddley.
We got some bad news about Bo Diddley.
Uh he was performing somewhere, I think in Colorado and suffered a stroke.
He is in the hospital.
He's in intensive care uh in Omaha.
I don't have a story right in front of me.
I guess in Creighton, uh the Creighton Hospital.
And the stroke affected a left side of his brain, uh, which speech and speech recognition.
He's 78 years old.
Uh and he's always been a big friend of the show.
Uh I was sorry to see that, but we played the bump here and I wanted to acknowledge that.
Now I was just talking about spending.
I have a radical idea.
You know all this complaining that's going on out there about the deficit.
The deficit's too high.
We're back.
All these things are cyclical and they repeat.
And now we got to do something about the deficit.
And then people get all worried about it.
You, you get all worried about oh, the deficit, oh my God, what's gonna happen to interest rates?
Oh, the national debt, oh, the Chinese own it all.
Oh, what?
And you just keep churning out there.
Well, I can eliminate the deficit and create a surplus overnight.
And tell you how to do it.
It's radical.
Never happened, but I can tell you how to do it.
If I were in charge, I would do it.
They just announced the Democrats just announced their new budget, 2.9 trillion dollars.
A figure we cannot conceive.
The human mind cannot conceive that amount of money.
And yet, with the introduction of every new budget figure, there are cuts.
Draconian cuts.
Kids are gonna starve at school.
Uh by the way, we're adding a school dinner program simple.
I gotta find that school dinner program now, in addition to school lunch and school break.
Where's that?
Uh slow.
No, it's not a joke.
I've got it somewhere here in the stack.
I'll try to find it.
School dinner somewhere.
At any rate, the budget 2.9 trillion dollars.
All we would have to do to eliminate the deficit is cut spending to 2.6 trillion.
It's just am.
Instead of a deficit, we'd have a surplus.
Well, you oh, well, Rush can't, we can't do that.
Yes, we most certainly could.
We won't, but we most certainly could cut spending from 2.9 to 2.6 trillion dollars.
It's in there.
All this redundancy and stuff.
They say it's all titled up uh bottled up and entitled.
It's in there, and we could do it.
Why we can cut back everywhere else, folks.
We can cut back on trans fats.
Why we can ban trans fats.
Why we can cut back on smoking.
We can ban smoking.
We can we can do we can cut back on everything.
We can we can cut down on eating food.
Where there are any number of things that we can do.
And they tell us all the time.
The the global warming people are telling us we've got to cut back on our lifestyles.
We've got to cut back our carbon footprint.
We've got to drive smaller cars, we've got to cut back.
They keep telling us we've got to cut back.
Government's the only place they can't cut back.
And tough sell because so many people are dependent on government.
Over half the population gets some sort of a check from the government every month.
That's by design, by the way.
So the government is one people just look at it with uh with a reverence.
Oh no, they can't cut government.
Well, where would we be without the government?
Well, nobody's suggesting we eliminate it.
The idea that it is the one entity that's exempt from cutting back is absurd.
Here's uh here's Barry, Watertown, Connecticut.
Your next, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Uh, like you, I am frustrated with The people who don't understand uh the pricing of oil and they look to point blame, and I think that they just feel helpless with the commodity nature of oil and how on a whim it can jump up and down.
And I have a thought whereby we can use that dynamic to our advantage.
Um we can create the whim in the marketplace that turns prices down in our favor, and it's very simple.
If today we passed all kinds of laws about how we were going to take oil out of our own soil in Alaska, we were going to explore the Gulf, and we had a mandate of how many millions of barrels we were going to get out of our own soil per day at some future date.
We wouldn't have to put one shovel in the ground, and tomorrow the commodity price of oil would dive down, I bet.
We could save prices on gas quicker than any other method of trying to squeeze it out of the corporations or however else they feel they want to do it.
Hmm.
I uh I have to I I I missed some of that because the the computer that transcribes what you're saying uh crashed and uh it it crashed right when you said uh Helena Wimak and jump up.
You were talking about the uh uh the uh uh the the public reacting to these things, is it creates fear, things going up and down.
Bre briefly, I I hate to do that.
Run that by me again one more time.
We can use the dynamic of commodity pricing to our advantage.
If we do something like proposed legislation to begin drilling at Anwar or exploring for oil, or have a unified determination by law to extract how many millions of barrels of oil a day out of our own soil, and we pass that legislation today, tomorrow the world price would drop.
And that would be the quickest way to reduce prices rather than trying to.
Oh, well, yeah, yes, yes, yeah.
But you know, you uh uh just proposing the legislation would not accomplish that.
It has to pass.
Well, I'm talking about no wait.
When you talk about affecting the markets, when the Democrats, the environmentalists rev up to just the proposal, that's gonna alert the markets, and it's gonna happen in the U.S. And the price is gonna go up.
Anything that can cause the price to go up, like fear of uh Ahmadinejad nuking uh Israel.
There's all kinds of things out there that cause the futures market to go crazy, the commodities market.
Uh and I've I you know I I uh what we really need to do is do the drilling.
What we really need do the exploration and become more independent.
I hear the Democrats talking we need energy independence, but never do anything to actually get us there.
Well, and and this is my point.
I'm not saying stop short of doing it, but I'm saying m many people probably feel that we could propose that, we could start to drill it, but we're still never gonna see that oil or that gasoline to impact our supply.
I'm saying that if we are determined we're unified and we make a pledge and and uh pass it, then the world price is gonna have to recognize it and supply and demand would take over.
And I agree with you that you know we w perhaps technology and alternate fuels one day are gonna save us, but in the interim, we need a lot of oil, and it's up to you know what the what do we want to pay for it.
Well, that's I know the interesting thing uh about what you said.
I'm I'm I'm more interested in tracking what it is that causes the jitters uh for people on the on the price of gasoline.
And f frankly, I'm not buying the notion that everybody's out there wringing their hands over it in the first place.
I look at the driving statistics, driving is up, gasoline consumption is up.
Uh it all of these all of these fears, these these these stories about uh angst among drivers, I I don't I don't believe it uh exists to the extent that it's being reported.
I think it uh drive buys report things through their political prism.
But as to your your specific, uh the futures market might bid down the price based on a future uh increase in supply that might also cause them to bid up the price uh to get as much as they could before it comes online.
I understand what you're what you're saying.
You're using market forces to bring down the price rather than people, no Exxon and Shell, they ought to just lower the price out of fairness.
Uh and and your your point is valid, and I appreciate it.
Henry in Warren, Michigan.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Uh Rush, it's uh great honor and pleasure to be on on the radio with you, and uh thank you for taking the call.
Thank you, sir.
Uh first of all, and and four quick points.
Um a listener since eighty eight when you were still on at uh only two hours, and I remember one of your first calls we had an unemployed depressed black man that uh well the next day called and you had a guy offer him a job.
Do you remember that one particularly?
Yes, I well, maybe not that specific, but that's happened a lot of times on this program.
Yes, and that that's what caught that's what got me to listening to you.
And it was like in August of eighty eight when you first started.
Yeah, that's right.
That's when it all started.
History was made that day.
And uh I'll tell you what, I don't have an older brother, but in many respects I I look to you as my older brother, and kind of like you listened to your dad.
I kind of listened to you and kind of grew more conservative as as I've as I've taken on uh a lot of ideas that you brought up.
And I'm drinking coffee out of a super soaker induced rush mug, if you remember those.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Uh what I wanted to say is this I fear today the country, the U.S. is gonna go one hundred percent socialist from uh political standpoint because of the floodgates, because you import a mindset, and that's what what they've actually done now is is with this uh law.
If it actually uh gets signed by uh by Bush, I think we're we're gonna go uh economically, we're still good.
We're gonna be like Europe.
Well, what are we talking about?
Well, hold it, hold it.
What are we talking about?
The immigration bill?
Yes.
Okay.
So we're i we're importing socialism.
Uh in effect, we're we're we're giving the last vestiges of a 50-50 uh country.
It's now going to split and it's gonna turn over to the socialist side.
Yeah, but we're also exporting a lot of liberalism and screwing up the countries we're competing with out there.
Well, I don't know about that.
Yes, we are.
We've been doing it for a long time.
But wait till the Chinese get their own version of the nags, it's gonna happen.
Okay.
Uh last questi last last real quick point.
I think I'm having a Reagan moment.
Remember when Reagan said that uh he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left him.
I had that same moment.
The Republic GOP has just left us, and they're gonna hear silence on voting day because a lot of us who volunteered last couple of elections that wrote checks and that were voting Republican are just gonna wave at the at the guys coming to the door and saying, go somewhere else.
No, you know, no one uh no GOP lives here.
I'm very disappointed.
Not only if if if this goes through as is, the Republican Party in 08 could well be doomed, but so could we as a country.
In the sense that if if I have this great fear that the first thing that's gonna go by the wayside in this immigration bill is the whole concept of border security.
The signs are there.
The fence only gonna be so big that just they'll have they'll do cursory roundups, tell us the big numbers that but uh it it it's gonna be easier for malcontents, not not talking about Mexicans.
I'm talking about terrorists to get in here.
And and with with the relaxation here, with loss of incentive to control the border and and even have a definition of legal and illegal.
Adam, I'm I'm troubled by it.
But I don't think the country's finished yet, because I don't think the American people are gonna put up with a country being finished, and I know that I, as host, am not going to put up with the country being finished, as there's nowhere else I want to live.
So we're gonna do everything we can to save the country, and I think we will.
Uh but you can do that in a lot of ways, other than just voting for people.
You got a lot more power in your life than just who you vote for, because you can't win every election, and if you start losing them and you get bent out of shape over losing every election, you're defining your life by that.
And there's there's much, much more to life than who wins or loses elections, believe me.
That's why.
My success is not defined by who wins elections.
Uh never has been, nor does it my objective.
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I have said over and over again, ladies and gentlemen, don't doubt me.
Do not doubt me.
Mere moments ago, I referenced a story in the stack about school dinners.
They upstart snurdly on the IFB.
It's a joke, right?
It's a joke.
Here's the story.
It's from uh New Jersey.com, NJ dot com.
The Jersey Journal is from Hobulkin, Mr. Snerdley, your old stomping grounds.
The community food bank of New Jersey, in conjunction with the boys and girls club of Hudson County has opened a kids' cafe.
Uh the second such meal program in Hudson County, the tenth in New Jersey.
It's on Jefferson Street in the Miles Square City.
And beginning, uh this is from the list past Monday.
So beginning this past Monday on the 14th of May, the uh this out this they're gonna serve free meals five evenings a week to low income children active in after school programs where they're partnered.
Following the after school program activities, parents can allow children to stay at school and have dinner, said Mira Nigro, the food bank's director of communications.
The program, under the auspices of America's second harvest, that's capitalized.
Ash would be the acronym.
It's a national food bank network, was designed to combat hunger during the summer months when school lunch programs are unavailable, and children are more susceptible to malnutrition.
That's what it says.
I'm just reading it to you there.
Malnutrition sets in in New Jersey in the summertime when the schools aren't open.
Big problem out there.
Participating children typically between the ages of six and twelve.
A core focus of the program is to provide meals that are both nutritious and this is crucial.
Culturally diverse.
Culturally diverse, free.
Well, you can imagine what a culturally culturally diverse meal is.
One night eat Chinese.
The next night eat Italian.
The next night you eat hummus.
Next night eat couscous.
Next night, fried goat's eyes.
Next night, steam sea lion claws.
The next night, frozen raccoon.
Who knows?
It's all kinds of uh different meals.
And uh that's that's uh starting in uh in Hoboken.
Uh here is Dave in Houston.
Dave, thanks for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB network.
It's an honor and pleasure to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I was just kind of comparing, you know, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill.
You know, you to Reagan and Tip O'Neill had a little more honor and a little more morals than you know, Clinton did, but a few hours, you just got together and you enjoyed yourself, you know.
We didn't get to family and wait a minute, wait a minute.
This is not Tip O'Neill and Reagan.
They got together for a beer after a hard day arguing over social security.
That's not what this was.
I've never argued with it.
But this was a chance meeting.
Well, I don't actually.
I don't believe in coincidence uh with with the Clintons.
I don't, I'm not sure this is a chance meeting.
Uh made this reservation last Friday.
All kinds of chance to find out that I'm going to be there.
So, but it was it was for all intents or purposes of chance meeting.
He's walking in, sees me, stops at table.
Come back.
But you can do it after hours.
You know, you can go there and relax and you know enjoy company of somebody else on the opposite side, you know.
Yeah.
Where Clinton's looking for, you know, a buddy to hang out with, you know, where it's like uh the mayor from LA or whatever, you know, just hang out or whatever, enjoy themselves afterwards.
And it was a chance meeting for you guys, but I'm just comparing you to Reagan.
After hours, you can just turn it off and just enjoy the company in New York.
Well, yeah, I was there when there was a social occasion.
I wasn't I was not out there on a any kind of a work or political mission out there.
Anyway, I I uh I appreciate the call.
Speaking of which I don't have much time to get this in there.
Uh the New York Post, we're talking about the uh uh school dinners.
When are we gonna start school cocktail parties?
That's that's if we start school cocktail.
Now that that's something, folks, that I can really look forward to because you've got to have cocktails before dinner.
School cocktail parties.
They've less they're trying to refine these kids and educate them.
Talk about diversity, think of the different kinds of adult beverages we can expose them to, or at least, well.
Your parents could show up for the cocktail party.
School cocktail party.
New York Post has a story today about grocery stores, bodegas, storefronts, growth, and how the difference uh what the difference is in the food in Harlem versus the Upper East Side.
And in in, of course, in the grocery stores, the bodegas in Harlem.
It's all dangerously high in fat, calories, fried stuff, uh, and the Upper East Side, much, much healthier.
Uh I need to print out this graphic to get the details so that I can read it.
But it's uh they attribute the difference to uh uh l not as much interest in the health of African Americans on the part of uh food business.
Back after this.
Yes, I am going out to dinner tonight.
And it's entirely possible I could run into Castro.
Who knows?
I mean, he might be here getting medical coverage, medical treatment.
Meeting with Michael Moore.
Never know.
Anyway, open line Friday tomorrow, folks.
As always, we'll look forward to it.
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