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June 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 27, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, and greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
I am Rush Limbaugh, the man who runs the country.
You know it, and I know it.
And we are here.
We're here for three busy broadcast hours on the most listened to radio talk show in America, a program that frightens and scares the American left to the point that they want to deny this program's constitutional access to the First Amendment.
Great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
We've had John Kerry join this debate now of a fairness doctrine who served in Vietnam, by the way, John Kerry, uh Dick Durbin from Illinois has joined now the fairness doctrine debate, urging that this uh be reinstituted and so forth.
I keep getting emails from people.
I can't believe you're not worried about folks.
I don't worry about anything.
I just I've I've gotten to the point where I don't worry about it.
It's uh we'll deal with this like we have to deal with everything else that comes along in life.
Uh spend time worrying about things.
Uh you waste time.
Look, I don't know what's going to happen.
Well, I'm not going to sit here and tell myself all kinds of negative stories.
Oh, gee, my career's over.
Oh, this is horrible.
What am I going to do?
Oh, no, no.
Not the uh way I deal with things.
I this this is par for the course.
I mean, this hush-rush stuff has been going on since uh well for the last fourteen or fifteen years, maybe longer than that.
So uh Congressman Mike Pence uh from Indiana in the House, a former radio talk show host himself, a big, big, big uh uh uh how should I say this?
Uh well, I was his idol when he was a young talk show host, and he took that experience and got elected to the House of Representatives, and he's offered less legislation that would uh prevent uh the reinstitution of the fairness doctrine without certain congressional uh uh uh action in the sunlight and so forth.
Uh now this could be overturned by another Congress.
If it passes, you never know where it's gonna go.
But there are people fighting this.
The Republicans are gearing up for this, uh, at least in the House.
Uh the problem will be in the Senate.
There's some Republicans in the Senate probably would have loved for me to be shut up about now.
Uh and uh so that that I take that as a badge of honor, too.
But don't worry about it, folks.
I mean, we it's it is what it is, gonna be concerned about it uh when we get close to see how this works out.
But look, we're dealing with a whole different environment than we were back in 1980 uh well and throughout the eighties.
Uh back then, talk radio didn't have nearly the kind of audience it has today.
We've got an army of millions of American voters that won't put up with it.
We've got successful, we've got two thousand radio talk show stations, uh radio stations doing talk in this country.
There's more divergent opinion in this country than ever with the internet.
The idea that radio needs to be singled out is not going to fly.
Uh I don't doubt they're going to try.
And uh when any times powerful elected officials of the United States government get any gear, yeah, you have to take uh take it seriously and deal with it as we will.
But uh I appreciate all your uh concerns about it.
As you know, I am the man who runs the country.
Uh and I have to be dealt with, quote unquote Trent Lott.
So each day I make pronouncements over what will happen in this country because I am the man who runs the country.
You know it and I know it.
So here are today's announcements.
Every senator who voted for this immigration hoax will have to have a town hall meeting with 100 non-citizens on the legal waiting list.
The 100 will have total access to every one of these senators, and they will be saying and be able to ask them, we are playing by the rules.
What's wrong with us?
Why can't we get Z cards immediately too?
Why are those of us trying to get into your country legally being denied this opportunity and being limited in our numbers?
Where people who are not playing by the rules are being granted instant access.
Uh what is this touchback or touchdown they're gonna have to do?
Go back.
Why, Mr. Senator, uh is is the how is this going to work?
And by the way, can I make a point about that?
Have has anybody stopped to think this has hit me this morning?
Has any we we keep hearing that, well, we can't deport 12 million people.
Well, who do you think you are?
Why we couldn't round them up?
Well, they can't deport 15, 20 million people, we can't do it.
Well, how the hell are we gonna make all these people go back to their home countries touch back and come back in?
If we can't deport them, how are we gonna deport them?
Obviously, we can deport them, and this is something that Senator Lindsey Gramnesty of South Carolina says, hey, this is a big deal in the bill.
Why, this addresses many people's concerns.
Yeah, but we keep hearing we can't round them up.
We don't know where they are, they're living in the shadows.
How are we gonna find them then to deport them?
Uh if we can't deport them.
This is just more of the snake oil that's uh that that's being sent our way.
Uh by the way, each of these town halls with these legal applicants, applicants for legal entry to the country will be televised.
Each senator will answer other things, among other things, why are those playing by the rules considered to be the stupid ones, and the ones not playing by the rules considered to be the smart ones?
Why are those still waiting to get into the country legally?
Why can't we get Z visas too?
And another question that they will be allowed to ask, how is it that a great country such as the United States of America can have such dumb senators?
And uh depending on their cooperation, the senators' cooperation or lack of cooperation later this week as the man who runs the country, you know it and I know it, will decide whether or not to keep them in office.
In the country I wrote.
Well, I mean, if they say I'm running the country, then I'm gonna run the country.
Uh with no pay cut.
Uh that's why I don't run for office.
Now, one of the nicest guys on television, I know this guy, I've met him, I have been interviewed by him, one of the nicest guys on NPR.
Uh, and if memory serves me, one of the nicest columnists in the Washington Post, Juan Williams, talking about the amnesty bill said it's just a nice thing to do.
He's in in in one, two, three, five words, he summed up the liberal argument for amnesty.
It's a nice thing to do, and it really is.
Remember the story I've told you about the major TV personality in this country getting into an argument with me and a friend of mine out in Palm Springs, California.
We fired facts and figures, all kinds he didn't care, didn't matter to him after a while.
He only knew what he had read in the New York Times.
Finally he said, I don't care about any of this.
If some poor person from around the world who ported of color was to come to my country and make a better life, I'm not going to stand in their way.
It's just a nice thing to do.
And how can anybody argue with that?
A nice thing to do.
I mean, it's even hard for me, the man who runs America, you know it and I know it.
To argue with that sentiment, it's a nice thing to do.
All I can do, uh ladies and gentlemen, is look at other nice things we did and maybe examine how they turned out.
It was really nice to declare war on poverty.
It was it was so nice.
It was just nice to give a woman a right to choose.
It was nice not to disturb our pristine nature to get filthy oil.
Now let's see how all of these turned out, shall we?
It was nice to declare war on poverty.
It's the longest war in our history, and it's the costliest.
We have we have spent over six trillion dollars on the war on poverty, and guess what?
No end in sight, it didn't end poverty, but it did destroy the family structure in the inner city to the point now that fifty-six percent of all African American kids live in single parent homes, and most of the single parents are mothers.
Uh did anything ever sound so nice ending poverty that ended up so badly.
And of course it was nice to not disturb the pristine nature of our country to get filthy oil.
Did anything ever sound nicer than alternative energy?
Oh, we got so sentimentally attached to this notion of alternative energy biofuels and ethanol and so forth, cheap, clean, non polluting fuels, sounded nice forty years ago with synthetic fuels, and it sounds nice today with biofuels.
And the result is our heads are filled with nice thoughts, and our independence is threatened with not nice dictators from Mahmoud Ahmadini Jad to Hugo Chavez and the Saudi kings.
We are totally dependent On the importation of foreign oil it's so nice.
And that's so nice, folks, to not tear up our country.
At the same time, that's right.
We were not nice to them.
We were mean as the nations of the world's lone superpower.
We were bullies.
And so it's nice to have them with their hands around our throats.
And of course, it was so nice to give a woman a right to choose.
That was.
It didn't sound nice to oppose abortion or to tamper with nature, but it did sound nice to give a woman a right to choose.
Now it's cost us 40 million births, 40 million needed workers since 1973.
That's how many Americans have not been born, and guess what?
How many illegals are here?
And why do we need them?
Because we're short bodies.
We aborted them because it was so nice to give a woman a right to choose.
Forty million contributors to Social Security snuffed out because we were nice.
If that wasn't nice enough, it caused us to find these forty million immigrants, legal and illegal, to fill a bill.
Did anything ever sound s that nice and end up that not nice?
As we now suffer through the nice ideas on immigration and the nice results that we will not get.
We can look forward to, gosh, it's so nice to save the planet from global warming.
It's just nice.
We can why can't we just be nicer to people?
Why can't we just get along?
Why can't we just sit around and let the country be destroyed?
At least we'll be nice in the process.
We will like ourselves.
But our children and grandchildren will hate our guts.
I have to tell you about this because this happened here in uh in Florida.
Man with a headache finds bullet in head, is the is the headline.
A woman was arrested yesterday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.
St. Louis County Sheriff's Deputies initially thought that Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but they later realized the couple's story didn't match up, according to the sheriff Ken Mascara.
Among other things, I am so glad I'm not named for eye makeup.
Well that would be.
At any rate, April Moyland, 39 arrested Tuesday, was in the process of being charged with attempted murder, uh, said Mascara.
Uh more than 45 woke up at 4 30 in the morning, thought he had suffered an aneurysm more than his wife had elbowed him in his sleep.
April Moyland eventually told authorities she accidentally shot the husband.
It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.
I'd he was a husband.
That's what he did to deserve it.
Here and say he was a husband.
Well, okay.
You're laughing.
I I've got a I've got a story here.
You know how we've uh we've chronicled uh, ladies and gentlemen, over the course of the many years of service to America on this program, which now runs America.
You know it, and I know it, that the feminist movement has sought to create the impression, and in many cases they've succeeded, that men, that fathers are predators.
I and they need to be on the lookout for this.
Well, there's a there's a story now here from the uh Virginia Pilot newspaper for years campaigns to stop sexual crimes have focused on encouraging children to speak up about abuse.
State health officials are trying a new tactic now.
The latest push, at least in Hampton Roads, Virginia, is to educate adults on how to spot and stop sexual offenders.
The Stop It Now campaign launched locally in in Hampton Roads, will urge people to call a helpline if they see an adult whom they suspect of having a sexual relationship with a chow.
Billboards and posters this this is this is abuse.
Billboards, and I've got the picture of it.
Let me show this to you, uh, those of you watching on the ditto camera.
Let me zoom in here so you can get a sharp eye on the poster.
Now if you look closely, what you see there is a young girl's hand, we are to believe, and her father's hand.
And that is the billboard accompanying this Stop It Now campaign.
Stop father abuse of daughters.
That's uh ladies and that's now I'm I'm well just why I showed you the picture.
I'm dead serious.
Billboards and posters show an adult hand holding a child's hand with the words, it doesn't feel right when I see them together.
That's the tagline.
You might not have been able to read that.
Then it has the phone number to call to prevent child abuse.
Uh Rebecca Odor, spelled as in foul odor, uh, who directs the sexual and domestic violence prevention division for the State uh Department of Health said officials hope to reach people who might feel uncomfortable reporting a relative or acquaintance to law enforcers.
We want to teach them to trust their instinct.
And if it doesn't feel right, we want them to take action.
Uh uh.
So if y if if you if you look at something, you're out in the mall somewhere and you look at something, you see a father holding hand.
Now, does anybody think that a mother holding hand with a son would arouse any suspicion?
Of course not.
Of course, nobody's gonna say that doesn't look right to me.
But you're gonna have some oddball feminists or people that believe that garbage running around the malls, the grocery stores, the dad's in there holding little girls' hand after being uh educated on this uh sexual abuse campaign to stop it.
I feel something's not right about that.
And so you call this number, and this poor guy.
Ooh, zoomed too tight there on the ditto camp.
Sorry about that, ditto cameras.
Uh you have the you're gonna have the uh this poor guy's gonna get a visit from somebody.
Uh, you were seen uh walking in the tomato section holding your daughter's hand, and some people had bad feelings about it.
Have you been abusing the tri this is this is where it's been headed.
This is this is how this stuff all starts.
Men are predators, fathers beat up their daughters sexually abuse them.
This is the most innocent looking picture you can find, this billboard.
Here's the way to deal with this, folks.
We gotta we gotta we gotta cut to the chase.
In order for fathers to have any sense of security and freedom as they go about their lives as men.
We need to ban father and daughter activity.
Zero tolerance ban on father-daughter activity.
And by men, if they display any affection whatsoever for their children, red flags ought to go up on everybody's brain.
And while you're at it, stop men from holding hands with their boys.
I mean, you know where that leads.
You know it and I know it.
Actually, that'd be okay.
You know, in our culture today, that'd be actually that'd be progressive.
That that would be uh uh That'd be cool.
Uh want to talk about this fire out of Lake Tahoe.
Because it's fascinating.
There are two schools of thought on who's to blame.
One school of thought is global warming.
The other school of thought is environmentalists.
Now we can't have it both ways.
I got this from my buddy Noel Shepard at Newsbusters.com.
Depending on which newspaper you read Tuesday morning, the wildfires in Lake Tahoe were either caused by global warming or by environmentalists in Northern California.
The number one paper in the region, the San Francisco Chronicle, chose to blame the fires on overdevelopment in Tahoe, and of course, on global warming.
And here's an excerpt.
From gold rush clear-cutters to modern home builders, people have brought changes to the Tahoe Basin that have fueled the intensity of this fire.
It's 2500 acres, and it's by the way, it's flared back up again.
Uh just letting nature handle the recovery isn't an option after 150 years of human activity and mismanagement.
And then there's this.
The Forest Services uh Forest Services Guy noted that even the climate has come under human influence as evidenced by global warming and increased forest fires.
However, the people that live out there say it's the environmentalists.
They won't let us clear cut, or not clear-cut, they won't let us thin out these forests.
They they they they've they make this stuff remain as it is.
It's nothing but it's it's it's a it's a fireplace.
It's a tinderbox.
Uh it's uh the thehoe regional planning agency said that they were angry at bureaucrats and environmentalists who made cutting trees and clearing of land difficult.
There was always too much red tape, they say, now it was too late.
Guys, I hate to get political.
This is again the guy from the uh Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
I I hate, I hate to get political, but environmentalists wouldn't let us cut down the dead trees.
People in the Bay Area, however, were led to believe the fires are all due to overdevelopment in Tahoe, and the media's favorite culprit for every problem on the planet, of course, is global warming.
It's a disgrace this kind of disparity in reporting.
But of course, in the San Francisco Chronicle, you have agenda reporting.
And in uh in the in the case of the people charged with preserving the Tahoe area, how in the world is development out there start fires.
That's so global warming responsible for everything.
But the truth of the matter is the environmentalist wackos in this country are the instigators of more of these kinds of problems than people want to admit, and they're afraid.
People are afraid to fight them.
Back after this.
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All right.
You know, we had this story before Father's Day from Time Magazine, and in which uh two female writers talking to three female shrinks, biologists, anthropologists, sociologists, zoologists, or whatever, went out there and said that uh, yeah, Father's Day is coming up, but fathers may not deserve the award.
They may they may not deserve the honor because so many of them are absent.
So many of them are just shirking their responsibilities.
What seems to me now, given what we've just learned from Hampton Roads, Virginia about this stop abuse campaign, that Time magazine should retract their anti-Father's Day story.
It seems to me that these fathers are absent and not hanging around and doing the right thing by staying away from their kids.
Seems like these guys are ahead of the game.
These guys are prescient.
These guys get it.
Fathers are doing the right thing by staying away from their kids.
They're not getting any trouble.
They're not going to be said to be abusers.
And of course, they just set up the libs to expand the welfare state.
Liberals ought to love these guys that uh have nothing to do with their uh with their kids.
Um K. Bailey Hutchinson's uh Hutchinson's amendment just went down to defeat 53 to 45.
Uh so much for that one, I guess.
Um I'm not gonna make any predictions.
I'm I'm I'm hearing rumblings that some of these uh guys, as I said yesterday, that voted for cloture to get debate started on the amendments are gonna change their minds uh tomorrow on the on the cloture vote.
I'm not gonna give any names.
I've heard of one in particular who is is leaning that way, but we'll just have to wait and see uh on this.
The bottom line is you know it and I know it.
They want this amnesty, they're gonna get it done somehow.
They're gonna they're gonna stop till they get it done.
Here's the thing, though.
If this bill is killed, this is the thing to automotive and inspire all of you.
If this bill is killed, it's dead for two years.
It is dead for two years and maybe more in a in a procedural sense.
Uh and and so it's it's it's worth the still still fighting for this.
Now get this.
I read this story today.
I had no idea this was going, because I'm not a home fixer-upper guy.
Uh I so I had no clue.
I I have never been to a Home Depot.
Home Depot is I've driven by them, Mr. Snerdley.
Snurdley's all worried that I'm losing touch.
That if I admit I've never been to a Home Detail depot that you are going to think that I'm out of touch.
I have nothing in common.
I buy things at Home Depot.
But I don't go.
At any rate, listen to this.
Home Depot, tired of being forced by local governments to accommodate the day.
I mean, this is what it's come to.
Home Depot, tired of being forced by local governments to accommodate the day laborers who turn up at its store parking lots seeking construction work.
So uh Home Depot turned to Congress for help.
The Senate could respond this week by attaching lingo to the immigration bill that would prohibit city councils from requiring home Improvement stores to pay for shelters or other services to help maintain orderly day labor sites.
The amendment sponsored by Senator Johnny Isaacson, a Georgia Republican, is designed to curtail a practice in the California communities of Mountain View and Burbank, where city councils recently have forced Home Depot to build facilities for day laborers on site or elsewhere to hire security staff and offer bathrooms in order to get the permits necessary for its operations.
Can I translate for it?
Because this is drive-by media mumbo jumbo.
Home depot has to go out and build homes, shelters, bathroom facilities, either on their site or somewhere nearby for the illegal immigrants.
Don't give me this day labor garbage for the illegal immigrants who show up every day hoping to find construction jobs.
Local governments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities, including Illinois and Washington have imposed or are considering similar measures.
The local mandates, said Senator Isaacson, are a costly intrusion for home improvements.
Costly intrusion for home improvements.
That's not even the half of it.
Services for day laborers, he said in an interview, should be the responsibility of local governments.
And forcing companies to provide services as a condition of obtaining permits amounts to extortion.
It's exactly right about that, but it gets even it's even worse than this.
You're talking.
Well, in a sense, you could be talking fascism with governments requiring businesses to do this is certainly socialism.
Yes, the local government's having to deal with the problem, but the root of the problem is the federal government's lack of enforcement on the southern border, said Senator Isaacson.
Well, of course, that is the root of all the problems in this issue.
Others, however, say the home improvement companies do have a responsibility to maintain safety and to prevent nuisances among the labor markets that they attract.
Besides, they say it's not Washington's business.
Laura Massius, the mayor of Mountain View, California near San Jose, said the overriding issue to me is it's all about Congress reaching way deep into the city level and legislating in areas where they really have no business legislating.
We're not a one-size-fits-all country.
There are different matters and different needs that cities have.
Now, Home Depot spokesman said day labor concerns have arisen in only a small percentage of the company's 2200 stores.
And in those cases, he said the company works with local officials to develop solutions.
We understand it's an issue in certain we're losing everything.
This is outrageous.
This is just patently absurd.
Uh now, Massius, the mayor of uh of uh Mountain View said, Well, local governments impose requirements on developers all the time based on specific case-by-case needs.
Once you're part of a community, there are land use responsibilities, whether it's a center for day workers or traffic congestion remedies or park fees.
To have it always fall back on the cities, that comes back on the taxpayers, and it just doesn't seem fair.
So picking on one business is fair, or picking on the one industry, the home improvement business.
Who do you think is paying for this?
Home depot's customers are paying for this.
But these libs think they're soaking it to some big business.
She said, if you if you want to build and make tons of money from our community, we're going to want something in return, said the mayor of Mountain View, California.
That's what it's come to, folks.
Nowhere, nowhere in this story, is the fact that there are illegal immigrants causing all this to happen.
Mentioned.
We start with the phones in Reading, California.
James, you're up first today.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Megadetto's Rush from the People's Republic of California.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to call and comment about the Lake Tahoe fires.
One thing I'm not really hearing.
I keep hearing about global warming.
Uh, I haven't been hearing about the poor forestry management over there.
Uh, one of the reasons everything's burning is with all the environmentalists living there, they don't allow any removal of dead wood or undergrowth.
Yeah, I know.
I just did a story about this, and the problem with it is you've got the environmentalists who've got the local uh the outfit that manages this outfit this stuff, totally intimidated.
Oh, yeah.
They're dead dead wood, they're not allowed to cut down.
They're Not allowed to thin these forests at all and take away some of the fuel uh that a fire would feed off of.
Then you've got the San Francisco Chronicle other liberal newspapers.
No, this is not the problem of environmentalism.
This is global warming and uh and development.
Uh too many people live there, shouldn't be living there.
We're destroying uh pristine nature.
It it's you know, it's frankly uh ridiculous.
The idea that human beings are the only ones that are unable to alter our environment.
We are the one I mean, we're part of nature as much as anybody else is, and every element of nature alters the environment in order to thrive, and we do too.
The idea that we are immune from or are not allowed to uh interact with uh with nature uh because we destroy it and we disturb it and so forth is another one of these bleeding heart left-wing belief systems that has its roots in It'd be so nice if we didn't cut down that tree.
It'd just be so nice if people didn't live that close to the lake.
Just be so nice.
Uh and of course, that's the emotional appeal that gets everybody.
Oh, how can we harm these poor people?
We we are a nice people.
We want to be.
And the end up not being nice to ourselves.
What?
Uh uh Well, we just had a question asked by one of my observant staff, ladies and gentlemen.
How does a fire start because of global warming?
Uh the fire doesn't start because of global warming, but the inability to put it out and to keep it from spreading.
High winds, unusually high temperatures, lack of rain, making the timber dry and just lethal.
That is because of global warming.
Oh, well, of course.
Well, because those forest fires started by lightning and lightning is nature.
But a forest fire where human beings live is not nature, it is destruction.
Can't believe you still haven't figured this stuff out after 19 years of listening.
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So you'd figure out how global warming can start a forest fire.
You know what starts hurricanes.
Teenage.
No, teen.
Teenage smokers.
Tina, this is a story.
Beaumont, Texas.
I got a couple of environmental stories that you will not believe.
Teenagers in a southeast Texas County were more likely to smoke cigarettes if they or their family members were affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita.
Uh actually, I I misspoke.
The cigarette smoking doesn't cause them.
Hurricanes cause smoking.
Hurricanes, and it's a study links hurricanes to teenage smoking.
I kid you not, the study by the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston surveyed more than 5100 middle scrual and hascral students in Jefferson County six to nine months after the hurricanes made landfall.
Physical damage is easy to see.
The psychological damage of the hurricanes was pretty well hidden, said Alfred McCallister, behavioral scientist and an author of the study.
Hurricanes had an emotional impact on a youths, and we need to recognize that and give them the help they need.
Otherwise, they use tobacco as a crutch, and then they become addicted.
Come on.
So global warming is actually responsible for kids smoking.
Because it's global warming that causes the hurricanes.
Now, remember a week or so, it has to be two weeks ago now.
We told you that the northern spotted owl was back in the news, back in trouble, and numbers of pairs of northern spotted owls continuing to dwindle out there.
Despite all of the preservation of pristine old growth forests, where we were told for years in the 80s and 90s that only the spotted owl could thrive if it didn't have pristine old growth forest, why it would die out.
Despite the fact that pictures of them living in the red K in the Kmart sign were all over the place.
So this story to the Christian science monitor, Northern Spotted Owl's decline, revives old concerns.
Most agree that this could reignite the timber wars of the eighties and nineties with lawsuits flying and activists tree-sitting to stymie loggers whose livelihoods depend on access to national force.
And that's what the spotted owl controversy was about in the uh in the first place.
However, this story does mention one thing and leaves out something else that's crucial.
Get this.
Now, folks, this is this is a a great illustration of how you should be skeptical of everything you read and see in the drive-by media.
Because when the spotted owl controversy was up, we were telling you that this argument that they will only live in old growth forests was wrong.
It couldn't possibly be true because they were spotted living elsewhere.
In fact, Warehouser or somebody was uh, you know, they replant trees when they cut them down.
The people in the wood business and the timber business need product.
A tree just to crop just takes a little bit longer than a stalk of corn to grow, but they plant these things constantly.
They've found northern spotted owls living in uh in young trees, uh certainly not old growth.
But what's old growth anyway?
Oh, old growth mithrilimboth trees that have been here since the creation of time.
Oh, give me a break.
Yes, those beautiful redwoods mithrilimball, they're they're a hundredth and hundredth of years old.
Yeah, well, we're all here thousands and thousands.
Those things are as old as the planet, we can climb to the moon on them.
Idiot.
Remember these people calling talking to me about this.
Now listen to this.
The latest recovery proposal tries to incorporate new information about where spotted owls prefer to live, which is not always old growth forests.
Really?
Yes, we've had years of intensive study on the northern spotted owls, so we've learned a lot more about it, a lot more about the habitat that it needs, and it's not quite as dependent on big blocks of old growth as we thought before.
So all of this in the 80s about the spotted owl and putting the timber business out of it was a hoax.
They knew then it was a hoax.
And now they've got the guts to report it.
What this story doesn't mention, ladies and gentlemen, about the dwindling numbers of spotted owls.
Do you guys remember the story on this two weeks ago?
You know what's happening out there?
There's a predator owl out there called the barred owl, and pardon my French, but the barred B-A-R-R-E-D and the barred owl is kicking the ass out of the northern spotted owl.
And they're intermingling and mating with them.
So you've got the northern spard bowl or owl or whatever.
So these big bar owls are coming in there, they're taking over, they're wiping out some of the northern...
This story doesn't mention that as one of the reasons why there are dwindling numbers of northern spotted owls.
But this whole they're raping female spotted owls.
If you're going to need a an abuse billboard anywhere, put it out there in the great Northwest Forest to get these barred owls to stop picking on a northern spotted owl.
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Speaking of this Tahoe fire, I forgot to mention this.
They have a restriction out there that you can only cut timber, I think it's 10 or 12 feet from your house.
I'm not sure about the number.
But this guy broke the law.
He's a hell with it, and he cut it 50 to 70 feet away from his house.
His house is the one standing.
His house is standing.
A lot of his neighbors who followed these regulations houses have burned to the ground.
Fire department people out there, fire experts have been warning, not just in Tahoe, the Eldorado Forest, you guys are sitting on a powder keg out here.
But uh, you know, this the Diane Feinstein and some other people introduced legislation to uh thin out some of these forests.
The Sierra Club's been appealing it uh for ten years and holding it up.
And it's just another, and there are countless illustrations.
It's just another illustration of all this do gooderism, and it's just so nice to look at those trees.
It'd be so mean to cut them down.
They have feelings too.
And of course, what about nature?
And what about tourism?
We love watching those trees.
They're so nice to look at.
They're so pretty.
Yeah.
And now we're talking about the dead ones.
All every one of these do gooder, nice or motivated by nice ideas that the left have.
Every one of them is wrong.
Every one of them ends up causing destruction, either to families or to property, or the the the overall culture.
It is it is just it's not even arguable.
That the liberalism, uh among all these other things, is just destructive under the guise of being nice.
Yes, being nice and compassionate and thoughtful and feeling good about yourself.
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