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July 6, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 6, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It's Rush Limboy and the EIB network.
And it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we are back for the final hour of our excursion into broadcast excellence today on the EIB network.
And remember on Friday, when we go to the phones, the show is all yours.
Talk about whatever you want.
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Make a comment.
Wine, complain, moan, be of good cheer.
Whatever strikes your fancy.
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So I just took a look out the uh the north windows of the EIB Southern Command.
Because I checked the checked the uh weather radar before I did that, and uh no rain here, but but the sky is pretty dark up there in the north, and I'm sitting there and I'm looking at bolts of lightning.
And I haven't mentioned this because I'm not a whiner and a moaner.
And I'm not whining and moaning now.
But Monday night, I think it was Monday night this week.
Yep, Monday night of this week.
About seven o'clock, one of the biggest boomers that I can recall sitting through went went through the neighborhood where I live.
And there were lightning bolts that I swear I could see out the window, and the thunder was left.
Even I mean, the cat's hair was standing on end.
And didn't lose any power, didn't think anything of it.
Uh no big deal until I tried to leave.
Gates were fried.
Couldn't open the gates.
So had to do a walkthrough, and I have um I have a number of little houses on my property that I've purchased so that I can be surrounded by friends.
And one of them, well, actually, two of them, one of them was totally fried.
Every piece of electronic, I've got surge protection redundancy like you wouldn't believe, and that was fried.
There must have been a direct hit on one of the poles uh close to this house.
Because I mean a satellite dish, all the television says it toasters, everything gone.
Uh humidor computer was gone.
Uh my yes, the humidor.
Well, that's big deal because I could lose those.
You know, if the if the cigars get too hot in there, uh the the some of them uh the there's the tobacco beetle is what it is, and they can come to life, the larvae's in there, they come to life, they bore out through the center, bore perfect holes coming out of there.
The cigars are ruined.
Uh uh so I can't access the internet.
Yeah, go ahead and laugh about it.
I and I won't know if I lost any cigars, for it takes these things a little while to perk up, but it it you know I had to open the door to the humidor because the uh rest of the air conditioning worked.
Um I've told you guys about my smoke eater that I have in my library, which is thermal displacement.
It works for the air handler up on the on the second floor of the library, and I have a switch underneath my desk, and I hit the switch, it turns it on and off.
The wire from the air handler to my desk was fried.
The uh security and the alarm system in that one house was fried.
And I've got huge surge protection in there.
I mean, it w the the the it was a direct hit.
There's nothing you can do.
You can't there's nothing you can do to protect yourself in the direct hit.
So I'm in looking out the windows here, and I'm seeing these lightning bolts.
I'm thinking they're hitting my house again.
Uh, just uh it it was just amazing, and uh the rain was as hard as it could be.
I mean, this is nothing unique.
It was just the biggest storm I've been through in a long time, but I didn't know till the next day how extensive the uh the uh the damage was.
I've got a 62-inch uh plasma up in the gym in the exercise room.
That was fried.
Uh all of the remote control units have crestron systems in these houses.
They all fried.
I still don't know the extent of the dam, but it may have to be rewired some of this stuff.
Some of its uh uh Ethernet, but but uh I didn't lose anything in the in the uh in main house, uh which just a stroke of luck, uh As it uh turned out.
I'm just lucky neither of these places uh actually started scorching into flames.
Because I wouldn't have known it, because the alarm systems were fried at the uh at the same time.
At any rate, we have another iPhone winner to an and I got an email from a guy, Rush, you need a have you played with your iPhone?
Have you have you have you learned about it?
Yes, of course I have.
It's a it's a great little toy.
Great well, it's more than a toy, but great little thing.
The question was can I play your podcast?
Yes, it's an iPod.
It is an iPod, it is an internet browser, it is uh a phone, and it does email, and it's got and it it does text messages too, SMS messages.
Uh but it does so much more than that.
But as an iPod, it stores pictures and music on it and videos if you want, and podcasts.
So, yeah, I mean that's one of the reasons why we're giving ten of them away.
Today we uh the drew the winner's name for the third iPhone.
He is Norman G of Osio, Minnesota, lives right outside Minneapolis, listens to us on KTLK, FM 100.3.
Uh so he gets his iPhone.
It's an eight gig iPhone, which is the biggest of the two that they're selling, four gig and eight gig.
The um uh also that it's a two-year service contract that you must sign with ATT to use the phone uh and to activate the phone, actually.
So that that's about it's close to fifteen hundred dollars.
Every winner gets a check from us for fifteen hundred dollars to pay that, plus a one-year subscription to Rush 247, which is our website, and a 100 gift card uh from Boca Java.com.
This is superb coffee and uh other accessories and accoutrements.
And it's easy to be registered to win one of these things, and it doesn't cost you anything.
We have the we have a flash email that we send out about an hour after every program called Rush in a Hurry, bullet points, little paragraphs of practically everything that happened on the program subject-wise.
Some of them have hyperlinks so that you can listen to portions of monologues and so forth.
It's just a heads-up little summary of what was on the program and give you an idea of what the full-fledged updated website will look like when that happens about 6 p.m. Eastern time.
And a rush in a hurry thing, all you have to do is enter your email address and bam okay, you're registered, and if you registered months ago, you're still registered for the contest.
You don't have to register again today.
Uh still eligible.
Uh but it's a great little thing.
If you miss the program on a daily basis or now and then, uh this thing will be sent whatever email address you give it, give us, and you'll find out what was on the program.
When that happens, when you find out what was on the program, you will be so disappointed, you'll be so regretful that you missed it, that you'll want to see the entire website when you get home, and you'll want a podcast of the program.
You can and we deliver those with one switch through iTunes, which is what the iPhone uses to uh sync and uh and upgrade.
I'll tell you why I like this.
I like it, hey, I like Apple products.
And I like new and innovative things, and this this is that.
Uh I'm I'm not a techno geek that's going to try to examine every little problem with it.
To me, it's fascinating.
I I think uh I think what they do at Apple's amazing.
It just is.
And I've had other devices.
The problem is syncing them up.
I mean, what good is having a phone if you're if you're if all the phone numbers that you have on you I keep all mine on my computer, I'm not gonna sit there, folks.
I've you know the numbers that I've got.
I'm not gonna sit there and enter all of that personal information for everybody I know.
Email address, text message address, phone number, all these things, uh street address.
I'm just not gonna do it.
And some of these other devices I've had uh will sync up on the device, but they screw up the motherboard, if you will, the primary program.
I don't know how, I don't know why, but it's just the syncing has always been I cross my fingers every time I've done it.
Got to the point that I really wasn't syncing up very much, so I wasn't really up to date.
Uh email addresses matter to more to me than anything else, because I I never fact I haven't given anybody the number to this phone.
I don't even know what the number is.
I'd have to look it up.
So that way I know it will never ring.
Or if it does ring, I know it's gonna be a wrong number, and I don't have to answer it.
So but but this is it it syncs up just like an iPod does with whatever you want it to sync with, be it your pictures, the music, the songs you want to listen to, the uh contact information in your Rolodex program, uh all of that.
So it really is a and it's it's fun to use, And it's uh it's amazing the things that you can do with the display and sizing text.
I mean it's it's got Wi-Fi in it, which is which is wireless.
Like our network here is wireless, and I have a wireless network at home, so uh don't rely on slow download speeds for the uh for the edge network, which is what they use.
It's it's as fast as a computer is when I'm on a wireless network.
Snurley's got one, he's experienced the same thing.
So you download a web page.
Now a web page is a three and a half inch screen in the on the iPhone.
That's pretty small.
You can enlarge it.
You can double tap the screen, it'll magnify it, and then you can make it even larger than that.
You just pinch your fingers to zero in on something, uh slide them across the display, and it makes it larger or smaller, depending on which direction you go.
Uh it's it's revolutionary.
It's worth all the hype.
That's why we went out and got ten of them to uh to give away.
And as I say, where the third one was today, we've got seven more to go, the next one on Monday.
Congratulations again to Norman G of Osio, Minnesota, listening on KTLK FM 100.3 in Minneapolis.
Uh all you have to do to register to win one of these babies is sign up for Rush in a hurry, the flash email we send out about an hour after the program, do it at rushlimbaugh.com.
No charge, it's L Freebo, and that registers you.
Quick timeout will be back.
Lots more still to do, so sit tight.
You know, in every collection of great people, such as you, there are always going to be the smart asses.
Dear Rush.
Many years ago, way before you were born in 1752, Ben Franklin invented a device to prevent lightning damage to homes.
He called it a lightning rod.
And uh Rush, it works.
Perhaps it's time for you to have one installed.
I find it hard to believe that you did not have one.
That would be the first thing I would have if I lived in Florida.
Uh I doubt that he wants to sell me one.
I thought I explained.
The strike hit the power pole.
It fried a transformer.
It was it I have more than lightning rods.
I am well protected.
The redundancy, the search for all of this stuff that I'm just that this was not a direct hit on the house.
It was a direct hit on the pole that feeds two houses.
And I'm sorry.
There are not a whole lot you can do when that happens.
Except deal with it.
And then with the wise acres that you have to deal with after you uh tell the story.
All right, now I have to say that anybody from the Fred Thompson campaign listening out there, I have to I have to correct something that appeared yesterday in an article at the National Ledger.
Fred Thompson slammed by AP style over substance.
Fred Thompson must have someone very nervous.
An associated press hit piece borrows a phrase from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, and claims that Fred Thompson is all style and no substance.
The lead?
Fred Thompson's easygoing, no nonsense style is clearly clearly his strength, and undoubtedly has helped him soar in presidential polls, but it may only get him so far.
Now National Ledger is is not the author of the story, the AP is, they're just recounting it.
But I have never said style over substance.
What I have said is symbolism over substance.
That has been the phrase.
I'm stunned that anybody at uh Drive By Media would remember that I ever used the phrase.
I used it in conjunction with the creation of the phrase words mean things.
So the way this thing is written, it could make it sound like I'm the one saying he's got no style.
Or no substance.
Because it's just, and I haven't said a thing about that.
So I just wanted to uh correct the record.
Barack Obama urged spectators at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans to help change the course of American history by addressing the social ills brought to light by Hurricane Katrina.
The Illinois Senator reminded the crowd gathered Thursday that New Orleans was plagued by poverty, failing screws, high crime and murder rates for far too long before the catastrophic storm even hit.
Well, okay, let's let's say that he's factually correct.
Uh Senator Obama, who was running at New Orleans all those years?
Who was running Louisiana all of those years, Senator Obama?
So can we add something to his litany here?
He reminded the crowd gathered Thursday that New Orleans was plagued by poverty, failing screws, high crime, and murder rates for far too long before the catastrophic storm even hit.
All brought to the citizens of New Orleans by Democrats.
He didn't say that, of course.
I'm adding that.
So uh he's using this, his campaign theme, get this is change.
Oh, that's unique.
There hadn't been a politician, I don't think has ever run for office that hasn't run unchanged.
That's it's it's really brilliant for his team to come up with this.
And he runs around and says, You gotta do something.
We gotta do something.
Well, what have you done?
Mrs. Clinton, of course, is trying to say she's the candidate of change, too, but that's not going to fly because she's every bit as entrenched in the inside the beltway culture as anybody could be.
Uh heard about this China public restroom.
It has a thousand stalls.
They're flush with pride in a southwestern Shikom city where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music, and more than one thousand toilets spread out over thirty-two thousand two hundred and ninety square feet.
Officials in Chong Ging are preparing to submit an application to the Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world's largest.
We are spreading toilet culture.
People can listen to gentle music and watch TV, said Liu Zhao Qing, an official with the uh foreigner's street tourist area where the bathroom's located.
After they use the bathroom, they'll be very, very happy.
Uh some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several that are topped by the bust of a woman resembling the Virgin Mary.
There also plans to build a supermarket nearby, which will sell toilet related items.
Well, that's a pretty damn good capitalist marketing marketing idea for a bunch of Chicoms.
Four-story bathroom.
One thousand stalls, music and television.
I don't have to tell you what all else is going to go in there.
Or going to go on in there once this uh gets started.
Tim and Mac Allen, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Thanks for waiting.
You are on Open Line Friday.
Uh hi, Rush.
I'm uh I'm a rush baby.
I'm 17 years old.
Um I listen to you when I can, usually just during summers.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
You said you're seventeen?
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Yes.
Uh I've been listening to you since I was small.
Uh I love your show.
So anyways, uh I'm calling here today, Rush, because uh my father, who my mom and I kid around and call him a closet liberal, um, we're we're staunch Catholics.
And uh he recently jumped on the out war train and decided not he's getting a new car and he's deciding not to go with the big SUV that he wanted because he needs to reduce his carbon footprint because the Vatican told him.
I'm just wondering how can I I saw I'd seen the Vatican did get involved in uh global warming.
I did see that.
Yes, sir.
And uh I'm telling you how how can I convince him this is a hoax or you know, a political ploy by the Democrats?
Um now we're talking religion.
And I don't know how I could convince you to get him to believe that the Pope is full of it.
I I just I just I don't I don't think uh that's even my purview.
The only thing you might try, since he is is devoutly religious.
Uh-huh.
The only thing you might try is say, well, Dad, the whole global warming thing is nothing more than a religion.
It has the same elements as any other religion does.
It has its garden of Eden, it had pristine, everything was fine and dandy, it has human sin, it has human destruction.
It has salvation.
Salvation is what your dad just did.
Your dad just admitted guilt.
He didn't buy what he wants to buy because he's been convinced that buying that would destroy the planet.
Well, your dad's probably very moral and probably doesn't violate the moral teachings of other elements of the church either, because he doesn't want to participate in the destruction of society.
Yet the point is, and they both require faith to believe nobody can prove either of them.
Faith is required in both of them.
But he ha does he have any political sense at all.
Is he interested like in the in conservatism and liberalism when it when it comes to public issues?
He used to be a Democrat and then he married my mom, and this is during the Jimmy Carter uh BC before Jimmy Carter.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I get it.
I understand what's coming next.
Hang on.
Don't hang up.
Um we got a commercial where it coming up.
We're gonna get this done somehow.
Do delimit a national treasure, a living legend, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
And the man who runs America, you know it, and I know it.
We are back on open line Friday, and we go back to Mac Allen, Texas, and Tim, who is seventeen years old, his father is right about most everything else, but did not get the kind of car he wants to get because he believes in global warming.
Well, not yet, sir.
He still has time about a month or two before he gets into cars.
Well, I I di this is uh your timing could not have been better.
We have to speak to your dad in areas and ways that he can relate to and understand.
Uh you tell him that what what what I don't care you tell him that the people that made that SUV made it to help people.
Yeah.
You tell him that the purpose of that SUV is to facilitate uh a number of things in his life that he wants, and there's nothing wrong with getting what you want.
I mean, they make them, they're legal.
Uh it's it's obviously going to have some benefit other than just satisfying a desire.
Tell him not to abort the SUV.
He used to actually listen to your show, but uh you've become too stressful for him.
So he used to listen to the show, but it's become too stressful for him.
Yes, sir.
Oh, that's too much.
I I love the show.
I listen to it every summer.
What is what in the world can he find stressful about it?
It must mean that he knows he's wrong about things and just doesn't want to be reminded of some of them.
Yeah.
It has to be that, uh, Tim.
It really can't be.
There's nothing stressful here.
This is a good time every day.
Um tell him not to abort the SUV.
Tell him tell him that that that SUV deserves to have parent and owner.
Okay.
It'd be much better off in your driveway or garage than you know, out in the weather getting beat up on the lot.
Uh-huh.
Uh need somebody that loves it.
All right.
Especially SUVs, because they have minds of their own, you know.
They just listen to the news.
Seriously, Tim.
Uh do you have a computer?
Uh yes, sir, I do.
Are you a subscriber to Rush Limbaugh.com?
No, sir.
You are.
Uh, sir, I'm not.
You're not.
No.
Well, you are now.
This is worth it.
Oh, thank you.
I'm sure that there are a lot of people in the audience thinking that you just ran a big scam here to get a free subscription, but I think you're better than that.
I don't think that's what you were trying to do.
There is you when you we'll we'll we'll have you signed up here by the end of the day.
Okay.
So when the call is over, don't hang up.
The information to you to make it happen.
And you go to Rushlimbaugh.com on your web browser, and go to the essential stack of stuff and go to the global warming section.
Everything that we have said here on this program that debunks all of the myths, all the scientists that we have consulted that agree that uh there is no man-made global warming.
Nobody's denying the planet is warming up in places.
But whether or not we're causing it, it's a liberal trick.
It is a liberal plot that's designed to make people like your dad do just what they're doing, feel guilty about getting what they really want, and your dad's gonna feel better about himself because he thinks he's saving the planet and so forth, when actually all he's doing is voluntarily rolling back the uh the lifestyle that he and his family could have.
He clearly can afford the SUV, so he's not gonna buy it, and this is they want him to feel guilty.
They want him to feel like he bears some responsibility for the global warming and the destruction that is part of it.
Uh also tell him this.
I love this line.
Some some people it makes an impression on, some doesn't.
Okay.
But if you if you look at the science of this, uh we always hear that a consensus of scientists say, now You you've probably had some science classes in your education so far.
You've probably not been told this.
But science cannot be defined by the consensus of a bunch of scientists.
Consensus.
Science is not for vote.
I mean, you could have a consensus of scientists say that the sun revolves around the earth and the global warming people say that's evidence.
That's enough evidence for us.
And it's it's not.
And I'll tell you when you get to the essential stack of stuff, we've got links to two things there I want you to find.
Uh they are speeches by Michael Crichton who has been brilliant on this.
He's he's so talked about it, he's tired of talking about it anymore, but there's a bunch of stuff there.
You read it and print out what you find is the most persuasive for your dad.
But the real thing to do is you you I I would tell him uh and don't tell him you talk to me.
Don't tell him I put these words in your mouth.
Okay, just you you tell him, Dad, do you really think that your buying that SUV is gonna lead to the destruction of the planet?
True.
Make him think about it in in real precise terms.
And then if he says yes, ask him how.
How in the world can a single car well you'll say we'll add up all these other SUVs?
Oh, we've got all these airplanes flying around and nobody's talking about getting rid of them.
We got all of these space shuttles flying around, we got all kinds of uh vehicles that fly big trucks on the highway.
Nobody's talking about getting rid of them yet.
They just want individuals to get rid of what they want, and after they come for your car, they're gonna tell you your house is too big.
Yeah.
And then they're gonna tell you that your lawnmower is too noisy, and then they're gonna tell you that the food you eat is causing global warming, and trying to get you to stop eating beef.
Uh well, this is all happening.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
At Al Gore's Live Earth concert in Britain and in London, uh at Wembley Stadium, PETA is trying to get him not to sell hamburgers and hot dogs because environmentalists don't eat meat, they say.
Supposedly.
Yeah, supposedly.
Anyway, you have a chance to win this because you want your dad to get what he wants, right?
Yes, sir, I do.
And how much of you wants the SUV as well?
Well, I have my own truck, but I'd like him to get in big SUV so he can travel in.
Well, wait a minute.
If you have your own truck, how come he's not suggesting you get rid of yours?
He bought it.
I mean, I don't know.
It's a Toyota.
Sorry.
Well, then just apologize.
Is it a little truck?
Toyota makes little things.
It's a Tacoma, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh well you you you give it a best shot, but you you log on to the website, read about global warming and the essential stack of stuff, and then you take it to him, whatever you want to print out or try to remember, you'll dazzle him.
Okay.
You'll say, Where did you learn this?
I said, You just tell him, Dad, I go to school.
I'm an educated guy.
And I want you to have what you want.
All right.
All right, thank you, sir.
Yeah.
And by the way, what kind of SUV does he want?
Uh he wants a suburban uh Z. Choice.
He wants a General Motors sub Well by Gush, their suburbans.
Tell them that the president's security detail uses suburbans.
Tell him that every presidential candidate uses suburbans to show up at public events.
Because it's true.
That's true.
Okay.
And they're no better than he is, probably not as good.
You got all kinds of ammo here.
You gotta be confident, upbeat, optimistic.
Don't be defensive.
All right.
Yep, be respectful.
He is your father.
Yes, sir.
And you want to get spanked.
Tim, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it very much.
Uh Larry in Penn Valley, California, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh, hello, Rush.
Uh you're you're just you're doing a great job trying to wake us up, and I just hope more people will listen to you.
I think I have a an another good reason to uh know what's coming across our borders.
Uh eight or nine years ago, a Russian colonel by the name of uh Lunav defected to our side.
Uh his front in this country, he worked for the uh TAS newspaper.
Uh he wrote a book.
I don't know if I should mention the title of it.
Sure, go ahead.
Uh it's called In the Eyes of Your Enemy.
And he's warning us that his job in this country was to find sites for the suitcase sized nuclear weapons.
And he said that uh we better pay attention to this because as far as he knows, they could be here.
Now we're we're worrying about countries developing atomic weapons, but he said in Russia, a hundred and fifty of these eighty-eight pound weapons disappeared.
And he testified before our Congress.
Now, wait, wait, wait just a second now.
I was gonna say something that the suitcase nuke is not a practical reality yet.
I'm talking about something that an average looking person could carry around without suspicion, and something that weighs eighty eight pounds isn't.
I understand I remember the story, and I know that a bunch of those things are missing.
And there have even been novels that I've read written about those missing things.
Well, I haven't heard any more about Colonel Lunav.
I'm sure he has to stay in hiding.
But I've never heard if it if but the Congress decided whether the man was legitimate or not.
But it's something that to keep in mind when we have our borders so open.
Well, you know, former KGV spy could have been coming in planning all kinds of false stuff.
That's this it's uh it could go either way on that.
But you look at your overall point is is right.
It goes back to border security.
And there was a poll earlier today, the AP, interesting, they published the results of the poll after the Senate bill goes down to defeat.
But the poll talks about how it's overwhelming.
Like uh 80 percent, 75 percent of the American people don't trust the government to protect the border, either from uh bad people entering it or from an epidemic.
They just don't trust the ability to government to protect us domestically right now.
And it was more that than it was the amnesty provisions that caused people to have angst in opposition to the uh to the to the bill.
Uh you know, the the but your your example here of Luniv and his claim that a hundred and fifty suitcase or quasi suitcase style nukes were missing from the old Soviet Union just underscores the point that you have to you have to ask yourself why in the world there was no border security.
The border security discussion in this immigration bill was was purely for show and it was designed to convince us and buy us off, if you will, that nobody bought it because there hasn't been any serious effort at border security since the eighty-six bill.
Why is what's in this to make us believe something's changed?
And it was clear that the effort on the part of these people in support of the bill would just get these people in here.
Just legalize them and get them in here for whatever reason.
You know what it could have been?
Folks, it could have been something as silly as this.
It could be that a bunch of American food companies have decided that America's eating styles are getting too healthful.
You know, we're all being told, don't go to fast food, don't drink all that sugar stuff, don't do all that because it kill you.
You need to eat healthier.
They're trying to take all that stuff out of the schools.
It could have been something as silly as these companies lobbying Congress to let these new customers come in who aren't concerned with eating healthfully.
Who knows?
I mean, that's that's uh you know, uh out of my top of my head example, but I mean, just uh the the bottom line is they didn't care about it.
Why do they not?
When they can see what's happening in the UK, when they can see how porous borders around the world have led to all kinds of other problems.
How in the world could they not see the vulnerability?
Do they just think, eh, we'll roll the dice, it probably isn't gonna happen.
We got systems to take care of it.
Is it it just it none of it made any sense?
It still doesn't.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back much more straight ahead.
You know, on uh uh Monday, maybe it was this past Monday or the two Mondays ago.
Juan Williams was uh talking the previous Sunday on the immigration bill and and why it would be good to do.
It's just nice thing to do.
This would be a nice thing to do.
Just legalize these people would be a nice thing to do.
Well, I kind of ridiculed that.
You can't make being nice.
I mean, that's that has a potential to be hugely problematic if you start trying to be nice to everyone.
Some people don't deserve it.
You can be nice, but you don't have to you don't have to assassinate yourself or ruin your own life in the process of being nice.
But now this story, this is definitely not nice.
What happened to this woman?
Um 62-year-old grandmother, Jennifer Brown.
Uh let's see, where did this this is in the U.K. She entered a cake competition, a cake bake competition.
And she baked a victorious sponge cake, and she won second place.
And she was delighted when she heard that she had won second place until she found out she was the only entry.
She was the only entry, and she comes in second.
Officials at her village little party, their FET, apparently felt that her baking just wasn't worthy Of a first class ribbon.
Said she was a little taken aback at the uh at the decision.
It was the first year that the Fed had held a cake competition, judging by the way her cakes are usually wolfed down, she thought she was in with a chance.
Uh now that's that this is just not nice.
Just not.
I mean, the 62-year-old grandmother wants to help the community into the cake baking contest, the only one who does and they get second place ribbon.
That's just not nice.
Jim in Anaheim, California.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Thank you, Rush, for uh giving me an opportunity to be on the radio.
I'd like to thank Homer Thomas that turned me on Streetport, Louisiana.
Well, thank you, Homer.
Uh, I would like to let you know the corruption in the Department of Interior and the National Park Service.
In 1994, they made a preserve in the Mojave Desert.
And uh they surrounded all of us people, and then they burn us out.
We own land like everybody else.
We had it since 1970.
Uh, the same thing.
Every time a fire starts on federal property, there's a thing called delegation of authority that has to be given by the owner, whether it's Park Service or whoever, to uh the Department of Forestry to fight the fire.
They tell them how and when and where to fight the fire.
Most of the time, they have to work on the direction of biologist, archaeologist people of this nature.
Right, that's really cool.
They have to consult the manual during a forest fire.
That's exactly what they have to do.
And what they do, they push the cost of fighting the fire over onto the individuals that get their places burnt up, like Tahoe, and uh other places throughout California.
Uh, and by doing that, the cost of fighting the fire becomes the local fire department's problem, and by then it's out of control and even if it's on federal land.
Yes.
The federal land, uh, the fire gets too big on federal land and it goes to private land.
It happens almost every time.
Well, plus there's all kinds of rules that they've let certain fires burn.
Uh yeah, and and there's also um what didn't the people in in Tahoe was that uh the environmentalists have won out and you can't clear out the deadwood.
Well, that's that's a misnomer, also.
It's the federal government stopping them from doing it.
Uh well, but who are the feds bowing down to?
The feds are bound down to the environmentalist wackos.
And there are probably a bunch of environmentalist wackos in the Fed Forest Service.
I mean, you know, there are.
That's what libs do is infiltrate these institutions.
Yeah, that I lost mine because there's a large uh cactus in the area in the desert tortoise area, and they thought they were preserving that.
Only they burnt 70,000 acres of a 200,000 preserve that say to the public that they're gonna protect that at all cost.
What were they protecting?
Nothing.
It was their uh they have a rule that if it starts, they don't have to put it out.
You know, I'm gonna tell I mean I'm gonna give you another example.
You know all the problems, there's nothing to do with forest fires, but it's an attitude.
You know the problems that we have had with the space shuttle and the foam that comes off those external tanks, and they worry every launch now that the the pieces of that foam are gonna put chinks in the heat shield of the uh of the shuttle, and they're very concerned.
Do you realize this did not used to be the case?
Launch of a shuttle never posed a danger.
It was not until they came up with this rule you had to get rid of Freon as a refrigerant and a coolant.
So they had to use other things, the foam and so forth.
So you could say that the federal government, with its rules, be it NASA, whoever really institutes them, getting rid of Freon uh universally, has actually they're they're saying to the shuttle crews, we're more concerned about damage to the environment than we are about your safety.
It never had to worry about this stuff before until Freon went away.
Uh and it's it's it's just absurd, but it fits the liberal template.
We are the predators.
We deserve the damage because of all that we've caused, and we deserve to find out what it's like to get hurt and die because we've caused so much environmental damage ourselves.
Blah blah blah.
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Well, what a fun day.
What a great excursion into broadcast excellence.
All of you were great, even you wise acre emailers.
I enjoy you all.
Hope you have a great weekend, and we'll be back here Monday and rev it all up again.
See how well.
Well, you know, live earth is going to be said to just be over the top, whether it is or not.
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