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July 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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All right.
All right.
I'm going to move on.
I'm going to get off of the Democrats.
I'm going to get off of their stupid debate tonight, stupid YouTube debate.
I'm going to leave it behind because, frankly, it bores me.
I'm just sitting here trying to perform a public service.
It's coming up to, I frankly couldn't care less about what Russ Feingold's saying or Harry Reid say what they're doing.
But you need to hear about it because I want you to get as frustrated and fed up as everybody else with what they're doing.
But I want to move on from it now because there's other stuff out there, and it's actually more enjoyable than talking about these lughead Democrats.
By the way, this business of the flood, the floods in China and the floods in Great Britain, a new report out saying human activities now, there's no question about it.
Consensus is agreeing that human activities have spurred global warming.
It's largely to blame for the changes in rainfall patterns.
What is meant here, when they say human fingerprint, they actually mean the fingerprint of warming, which is assumed to be due to mankind.
I got a note from Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who, as you know, has appeared on the program.
He's a climatologist and a specialist in this, and he specializes in precipitation.
And he sent me a note.
He said, weather-wise, the reason these floods are taking place, at least they're being attributed to the jet stream being much farther south than usual, which is the same as saying cold air has been farther south than usual.
Well, there's not supposed to be colder air with global warming.
But there is how many, I lived in Sacramento back in the mid-80s, as you know, huge flood out there one year, huge flood.
Nobody was talking about global warming then.
Everybody was saying, yep, 100-year flood.
Everybody's known.
Floods like this happen.
They have happened since the beginning of time.
They are, of course, weather-related, but the audacity to say that the human fingerprint is on these floods now, it's what it is.
It's audacious.
It is not scientific.
It is purely political.
It's just the jet stream being further south.
Now, if somebody can explain to me, and I'm open to this, if somebody can explain to me what humans are doing to move the jet stream, I would love to hear it.
I want to know how we're doing it.
Because if we're doing it, then we ought to be able to stop it or reverse it.
If the jet stream is too far south, then we ought to be able to move it back to where it quote unquote ought to be, which is further north.
It's chilly in a lot of places.
I've been checking weather on my iPod.
I mean, it's barely 70 degrees in New York City today.
This is July 23rd.
It's in the Midwest where it ought to be nearing 100 degrees.
In places like Kansas City and St. Louis, it's nowhere near it.
A cold front moved through the south last week.
It was colder in parts of Alabama last week than they can remember it being this time of year ever.
But that, too, see, that's because of global warming.
The jet stream and so forth.
But again, if we're causing it, ladies and gentlemen, we can correct it.
We can stop it.
After three years on the ADD drug Ritalin, kids are about an inch shorter and 4.4 pounds lighter than their peers, according to a major U.S. study.
The symptoms of childhood attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder usually get dramatically better soon after kids start taking these drugs.
But the benefit may come with the costs, as James Swanson, Ph.D. director of the Child Development Center at the University of California at Irvine.
Yes, he says there is a growth suppression effect with the stimulant medications like Ritalin.
It's going to occur at the age of treatment, and over three years, it will accumulate.
Whether these kids eventually grow to normal size remains a question.
Kids entered the study in 1999 at ages seven to nine.
The current report is a snapshot taken three years later.
The ten-year results won't be in for two more years.
The big question now is whether there is any effect on these kids' ultimate heights.
Watson says we don't know if by the time they're 18, they will regain their height.
It was last week or two weeks ago.
We had a story on Americans are getting shorter.
And tall people are becoming rarer.
And they attributed that to what?
Global warming, didn't they?
What was it?
What was the reason that Americans are getting shorter?
Well, yeah, it's right, the measure of health in society is what it was.
Yeah, we're getting more obese, we're getting wider, we're getting shorter, not as tall, and so forth.
Now we know one of the factors may be Ritalin.
Which takes us to Barack Obama.
Since we're talking about children here, on Tuesday of last week, Planned Parenthood's annual public affairs conference in Washington, Barack Obama, referring to Republican Alan Keyes in sex education, said this.
I remember him using this in his campaign against me, saying, Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergartners.
You know, which I didn't know what to tell him, but it's the right thing to do.
You know, to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in the schools.
Kindergarten.
Barack Obama sex education in kindergarten.
Now, the next day, July 18th, on a campaign trail, Mitt Romney responded to these comments from Obama by saying this.
How much sex education is age-appropriate for a five-year-old?
In my view, zero is the right amount.
Instead of teaching about sex education in kindergarten to five-year-olds, let's clean up the ocean of filth, the cesspool in which our kids are swimming.
All right, amen.
Rado, rado, rado, rado, radon.
This is all part of the Democrats' effort.
If you listen to Obama and Hillary and Edwards, they want abortion on demand paid for by the taxpayers.
They want national universal health care for everybody.
They just want total control over your life, now to the point of sex education in kids.
Well, this finally woke up somebody who has been dormant and lying prostrate for a little while.
Jocelyn Elders, remember her, the sturgeon general from the Clinton administration.
She was on Fox and Friends this morning.
Gretchen Carlson talked to her.
He said, look, Senator Obama last week said that he would agree with certain types of sex education for kindergartners when it comes to teaching them what appropriate touching is, what inappropriate touching is.
I assume you agree with Barack Obama to the full capacity, or do you have a differing opinion at all?
I agree with Mr. Obama to the full capacity.
I feel that we should have age-appropriate, scientifically based evidence, sex education taught in schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Okay, so as for kindergartners, what would be appropriate?
To teach them that there are certain places on their bodies nobody is to touch.
If they do, they should tell somebody.
But if somebody's touching them in ways that makes them feel uncomfortable, you know, so much more sex goes on above the neck than it does below the waist.
Hmm.
That's why I've been missing out all my life.
I've been heading in the wrong.
I've been heading in the wrong direction.
Sex takes place above the neck.
She would know from the Clinton administration, wouldn't you think?
No wonder I've been bombing out.
I've been zeroing in in the wrong places.
Let's go back, shall we?
July 11th, 1999, Fox News Sunday, Elaine Bennett and Jocelyn Elders, Tony Snow, hosting the show, said, Dr. Elders, you earlier said that we shouldn't confuse, that we shouldn't be guilty of innocence.
Is that an overly innocent way of looking at the way the world works these days?
You know, if we want to talk about teaching children sexuality education, it starts at birth.
And it's self-esteem, it's how you feel about yourself.
It's all of those things.
Let's go even further back from the woman who just told us that more sex goes on above the neck than it does below the waist.
This is audio from my TV show, December 12th, 1994.
Some days it feels that Fargo, long ago.
Here is Jocelyn Elders talking about masturbation.
In regard to masturbation, I think that that is something that's a part of human sexuality, and it is a part of something that perhaps should be taught.
So my only question, since she thinks that masturbation should be taught, and she met in, you know, grade school, masturbation should be taught, and more sex, much more sex, goes on above the neck than it does below the waist.
She must know this.
How do you masturbate above the neck?
All right, since we're talking about sex, kindergarten, and all this, I want to share with you an editorial from the Investors Business Daily, actually an opinion column.
It was from July 20th, posted on Friday, last Friday.
Senator Hillary Clinton ignited few fireworks, speaking before the nation's largest teachers union over the July 4th holiday, but one proposal is proving explosive.
State-run preschool for all families.
Her proposal, which was introduced Thursday in the Senate last Thursday, would give the states $28 billion over five years to incorporate the nation's 120,000 preschools, now run in firms, churches, and storefronts, into a government-run system.
The former Goldwater girls come a long way from the Western ways and neighborhood values that she once embraced.
Her universal preschool idea is sparking heated debate over the back fence and in policy circles, but the question's basic.
How much control should the government have in raising and teaching our young kids?
Now, what you have to remember about this, she's saying that the government should take over small, independent preschools.
What are small, independent preschools?
They are independent and private businesses.
A preschool is a private business.
You send your kid to a preschool that's not part of the state education system and you're paying for it.
You obviously know you're sending your kid to a private business.
Hillary Clinton wants to come in and essentially nationalize them all under state control.
I'm telling you, these people, if they get power, if they win the White House, the first thing that they're going to do is go after an outlaw homeschooling.
It's going to happen so fast it will curl your hair.
They want control over every aspect of your kid's life, even now suggesting sex education in kindergarten.
And let's not pull any punches.
We all know what that's about.
We all know what sex education in kindergarten is all about.
And these people are loony, folks.
They're painting Mrs. Clinton here as a moderate.
But compared to Obama and Edwards, I mean, they're all suggesting the same thing.
Government-provided abortion, socialization of the health care system, taking your kids at age four now, and getting them into their state-run, government-run kindergartens.
They're basically taking away your choice, and they're taking away your kid.
You want to send your kid to a preschool that you pay for.
Mrs. Clinton wants to shut them down and taken over by the states, just like she wants to seize the profits from Exxon, as she said.
Oh, and speaking of that.
Did I put this on the bottom of the stack?
The, what did I do with this?
Maybe it's blitzed.
Yes, federal appeals court has ordered Shell Oil to stop its exploratory drilling program off the north coast of Alaska, at least until a hearing in August.
The order issued last Thursday by the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals comes after the Federal Minerals Management Service in February approved Shell's offshore exploration plan in that area.
Vessels currently located in the area shall cease all operations performed in furtherance of that program.
It need not depart the area, said the Ninth Circus.
Opponents contend that the Minerals Management Service approved Shell's plan without fully considering that a large spill would harm marine mammals, including bowhead and beluga whales.
They say polar bears could be harmed, and they question whether cleaning up a sizable spill would even be possible in these icy waters.
So here we are, the same damn people demanding energy independence, standing in the way of drilling that an oil company, Shell, had been granted the right to do.
And the Ninth Circus, they are the most overturned appellate court at the U.S. Supreme Court, but this is not anywhere near the U.S. Supreme Court.
What do you think the odds are that Shell will ever get the right to drill back now that they've been ordered to be suspended?
Slim to none and Slim has left town, as they say.
Here's Jeff in Kansas City, Missouri.
Hey, Jeff, welcome to the EIB Network.
Kansas City Strouds Dittos to you, Rob.
Thank you, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
Hey, I wanted to make a comment about show 24 that you mentioned earlier.
Actually, the producers of the show are being very consistent because if you look back on the history of the show, the presidents they've had in the past have been two black males and one white male, of which the white male turned out to be the evil of all the presidents.
So them introducing a female is just being very consistent with what they've already done.
Here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
Now, you know, it's time for full disclosure.
I have become friends with many of the creators and producers of the program.
I don't know any more than you do about this, but I do feel it necessary to disclose this or to remind people.
I've disclosed it countless times before.
The one thing that I've noticed, and I'm just speaking as a fan here, other than the first black president on the show, Dennis Hazebert, every president has been a wuss or has been corrupt or has been weak, has been malleable.
If this first female president is an iron fist and is totally competent and is what we all expect the president to be, what will be your reaction to that?
Well, then definitely that would be going toward the angle of a Hillary, you know.
I think actually the white president being corrupt actually played into the hands of bringing a second black president, and that's kind of my feeling on it.
But that was just what I initially thought when I first thought or heard about the female president.
Now, if they do make her a very strong person, yeah, I think a lot of people would portray it as being that angle.
But yet, like you said, the first black male president was very strong.
And I don't think even bringing in his younger brother was in any way trying to maybe shape Obama for the presidency, do you?
No, of course not.
I don't think this is about shaping Hillary for the presidency.
But everybody's going to talk about it as though it is.
They already are.
There's stories out there already about how Gina Davis' show as a president bombed out, and the producer of that show claimed it was done specifically to prepare the American people for the likelihood of a real female president, Hillary.
He admitted it.
These guys, I know them.
They just want to write a television show that has surprise after surprise after surprise in it.
And they studiously avoid trying to attach elements of the show to actual real-life political events because they start filming next month and the first episode's not going to run until January.
And they don't know what's going to be happening in real-life politics in January.
So they're just trying to put, you know, as they've always done, they're just trying to write a very unpredictable, fast-moving, fast-paced show that has all these different surprises in it.
And they have to, they're in the seventh season.
They've got two choices at 24, I think.
They can start to recycle the same old things that worked in seasons one through four or one through five, or they can try to go in a whole new different direction.
But that's the choice they face because last season was a ratings disappointment for the last half of the show.
So that's, I'm sure they're shaking things up.
I just brought it up today because I know that people are going to start when the show starts airing.
Why would this make news, by the way?
Why does it make news?
Because people are going to correlate it to the real presidential campaign.
And guess what?
The show is going to debut next January, right about the time we're getting all hot and bothered about the Hawkeye caucus and the New Hampshire primary.
So you know that the people are going to link it.
I'm telling you that the producers are just trying to do an entertaining television show with a new element they haven't done before.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Probably about it.
I know I'm.
Well, my initial point is having the two black male presidents and now the female president, they are going against the norm of society because that has never happened to this point.
Exactly.
So you're right.
There's a precedent here for this kind of a decision.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, wait a second.
No, that's correct.
You know, I've forgotten.
I apologize.
We have already had Jeff, our first black president.
Real life.
Yes, I'm sorry.
Real life.
Bill Quit.
He probably thinks that he was the first female president, too.
Probably had to grate him to talk about on Good Morning America what a great female president that his wife is going to be when he thinks he's been at first.
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Tim in Winonskill, New York.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
That's pronounced Winanskill, New York.
It's about 50 miles east of Albany.
Never heard of it.
Probably will never go there, but I appreciate the pronunciation correction.
I had to repronounce it to people all day long wherever I happen to be traveling.
So it's Winenskill.
Feels correct.
Yeah, okay.
Well, I apologize.
But that won't take away from accuracy rating because that's not an opinion.
Well, the reason for my phone call, Fox News ran a story a little over a week ago about that the FBI could actually turn your cell phone on and listen to your conversations even when your phone wasn't on.
And there really hasn't been any plan.
Wait, just a second.
They can turn your phone on and listen to your conversation even when your phone's not on.
So how will you have a conversation when your phone isn't on?
Well, I found out between seeing that report and talking to you is that there is technology through the cellular phone companies that will allow them, with permission of the FBI, to actually turn your phone on even when your phone is off and listen in.
The technology does exist.
And my question to you is...
No, but wait, wait, wait.
Hold it.
Before you get to the question, I have to understand this.
If your phone is off, then there's no way you intend to have a conversation.
So even if they can turn it on, you're not having a conversation because you think it's off.
So what are they listening to?
The reason it's true is even when your phone is off, there's continual signals going to the local.
I know that.
I know that, but you're talking about them listening into a conversation that you're having when you're not having one.
Well, let's listen to the conversation that's going on in the room, even though you may not be talking on the phone, and that's the scary part.
Okay, let me see now.
I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, I'm holding my new iPod.
The iPod is off.
iPhone.
I'm saying the iPhone is off.
Are you suggesting to me that if the FBI wanted to, they could call AT ⁇ T, this is a service provider for iPhones, and turn this phone on, even though I don't know it's on, and they could be listening to me right now talk to you on this phone that's off.
That's exactly what the report on Fox said.
And the only play I've been seeing on it is on the blogs on the internet where it is getting some play.
And I'm flabbergasted.
This isn't a national outrage.
I'm just flabbergasting.
Now, I heard the story.
I don't remember this detail, but I do remember the aspect that the FBI is able to listen in on cell phone conversation, but I was not aware that my innocent little iPhone here that's powered down could be turned on.
Actually, what he's saying is it doesn't need to be turned on.
Right.
Well, it's not, well, no, what he's saying is, what he's saying is that this thing is constantly sending out a signal, whether it's on or off.
And when it's sending out a signal, the thing is, this doesn't sound workable to me.
I'm trying to understand this.
I'm not talking to anybody on the phone.
So if I think it's off and they turn it on or they tap into what's happening with the phone, you're saying they can hear a room conversation through the phone microphone, not listening to a phone call itself, just listening to what the microphone or the phone's picking up.
That's how I understood the story.
That it was a way for Big Brother to be able to listen in.
And the outrageous part of the story was that the federal government claimed that they were going to use this technology against organized crime.
As if organized crime is the biggest, the biggest issue facing our country today.
It just sounds like BS.
You mean like what's going on in ENBA?
Right.
Yeah, let's find out if the referee was actually taking money for the game.
So organized crime's the biggest problem, not terrorism.
Well, that's what the story was.
Well, look, we've been, even while talking to you, we have been researching this, and we found a story about this on ZDNet.
So I'm not going to have time to read it until the next break, but I'll look at that.
And I'll be able to more accurately comment to you once having read the details of the story.
Can I ask you before I go?
All right, your phone's breaking up.
So FBI probably listening in here.
And hope he's okay out there.
Rick and Rochester, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Giga dittos to you, Rush.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
Thank you very much.
Listen, I just wanted to share my disappointment over the weekend with Vice President Dick Cheney.
Under the premise that it's easier to get forgiveness than permission, I'm disappointed that Vice President Cheney seemingly missed a golden opportunity, a two-hour window as President of these United States to turn Iraq into an ocean of glass while President Bush was under the knife.
Easier to get forgiveness than permission.
I mean, there would have been plausible deniability on President Bush's standpoint.
And he knew that the operation, the procedure, was coming, so he could have pre-planned, pre-positioned the generals.
Well, why not?
Why are you disappointed about that?
Why don't you prefer that he take action against Iran?
Well, I mean, that could have been phase two.
He could have done the first part in the first hour, made sure that that could have been still underway.
Well, look, funny thought, no chance of ever happening.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the president had five polyps removed during a colonoscopy recently.
And I just wanted to let you know again that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Carl Levin, and Dick Durbin are doing fine, having been removed from the president's colon.
Dale in Salt Lake City, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you on.
Hey, thank you very much, Rush.
And from a former Democrat, I really appreciate all you do.
I just had a quick question for you.
You're well connected.
Yep.
I think you are.
And I think you know what really is happening with the war.
I know it's going to be a topic of conversation here with the Democrats tonight.
And just from your perspective, I mean, what do we need to do over there?
Is things going well?
Do we need to add more troops?
Are the troops, do they have their hands tied behind their back?
What do you feel is really going on in Iraq?
I'll tell you, I think the surge is working.
I believe the generals and what they've said, that the security measures are really beefing up.
And there's all kinds of great news out there today.
There's a story from the Times Online in the U.K. Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks.
Sickened by the group's barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces.
Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person's face with piano wire to teach others a lesson.
Dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the U.S. military in a hostile Baghdad neighborhood.
The groundbreaking move in Dura is part of a wider trend that started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with a coalition against the extremist movement.
Colonel Ricky Gibbs, who commands the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees this area, says they're turning.
We're talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq, and they want to reconcile and have peace.
We've also, we captured the number one Al-Qaeda in Iraq guy, and he's talking.
And he's admitting that this whole thing of al-Qaeda in Iraq is a myth.
It is a myth that they have created in order to perpetuate the notion that there is a civil war going on in Iraq where there isn't.
There is no al-Qaeda in Iraq.
It's just al-Qaeda.
Operatives from Pakistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, other places are pouring into the country.
These are not native Iraqis that have joined al-Qaeda.
They're having to import these people.
And the surge is working.
And this is how you beat them, is you turn their own people against them.
And that apparently is happening.
I don't have any inside information into what's going on over there.
I'm connected, as you say, but I don't know anything more than what anybody who has access to media and what the generals are saying.
And I think one of the indications, incidentally, that things are going better than anybody thought they would is the Democrats' desire to kill the surge now rather than wait until September when the final report from General Petraeus comes out.
I think they're desperate to get this done and over with because they cannot withstand good news politically.
They just can't withstand it.
They've already told us that we have lost.
So I think there's an uptick.
I think things are happening.
When you have the bad guys start turning on each other, and when you capture bad guys, they start giving up information.
You're obviously on the right track.
It's taken some time.
Don't know how long it'll be sustained, but this can be won.
And it can be done with the vision that the president has had.
And that's what scares the Democrats, frankly.
Back in a sec.
And welcome back.
All right, we've got the details here on this cell phone being activated by the FBI, activating the microphone even when you think the phone is off, being used as an eavesdropping tool.
This story is from last December.
This story is almost a year old.
December 1, 2006, the FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations, remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
It's called a roving bug.
It was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques like tailing a suspect or wiretapping.
Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardido and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations.
The FBI views Ardido as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national mafia.
The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan.
He ruled that the roving bug was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect's cell phone.
Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique functioned whether the phone was powered on or off.
The only solution you have to this is to peel your battery out of there.
It's the only thing you can do.
If you have an iPhone, you can't do that.
You have to send the phone to Apple to get the battery replaced.
I mean, you can take the phone apart if you want to, but it's not as simple as in other phones.
Now, here's the thing about the judge, Lewis Kaplan, approved the roving bugs.
So there was judicial oversight.
Precious judicial oversight, like the FISA court.
Precious judicial oversight here before they activated the program.
So how does this violate anything?
If a judge approved it, how does it violate anything?
Well, I'm just reacting to they can, well, I've known for a long time.
I know how cell phones work.
I've been told for years that when you think your phone's off, don't make the mistake of thinking it's not transmitting.
You can be tracked.
If somebody knows your number, you can be tracked.
The company can find out where you are.
I first heard about this when I lived in Manhattan.
People were crossing the George Washington Bridge or the 59th Street Bridge.
And I forget how I found out about this.
I forget.
There was an event that alerted some consumer that his phone was being tracked.
Oh, it was, it was, I tell you what it was.
There were thieves, electronic thieves, stationed on the Manhattan side, and the people crossing the 59th Street Bridge were having the phone numbers stolen.
Because the phone's broadcasting all the information, whether it's on or off.
And that's where I first learned that all this is possible.
I had not heard of this particular story.
And I don't know what's triggered this in the last couple of days because I'm aware of this story being brought up again.
But it's a year old almost, well, nine months old.
Jerry in Orlando, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thank you.
You bet.
Great to talk to you.
Regarding your session on the children and the drugs that they're taking affecting their height, I just wanted to tell you that I have a son who started taking Ritalin when he was three years old.
He took it for a good 10 years.
Wait, A three-year-old doesn't start taking a drug.
It is given to him.
Well, okay.
So you gave him the drug.
The doctor prescribed it.
Yes.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
And he's 6'4.
And I just wanted to let you know that I'd be grateful if it was stunting his growth a little.
So it isn't true.
Well, it wasn't in our case.
Like I say, he took it for a long time.
Well, see, this is the thing.
We've got this story.
This is a great illustration.
We've got this story that says they think that taking Ritalin stunts growth.
And they won't know for sure because they've only studied age seven through nine.
They don't yet know if the growth that is stunted, they think that's actually happening, but they don't know if it's permanent once the child gets off the drug.
Is your son still taking it?
No, he's in his 30s now.
But were you aware that Ritalin is a stimulant?
Yes.
Well, the story says so, yeah.
It went at speed, right?
It was explained to me back in those days.
Well, I know, Aderoids, it's this version of speech and amphetamines.
It's stimulant.
It gets going.
Well, no, it's a stimulant that stimulates a very, very small part of the brain that allows you to concentrate, is the way it was explained to me.
Yeah.
When my son was younger.
Well, was your son hyperkinetic, hyperactive?
Oh, extremely so.
And did the Ritalin slow him down?
Yes, but if he was already wound up, you had to kind of nail him down and sit him still for it to take a hold.
If you didn't, it didn't work at all.
Really?
Yeah.
Sounds bad.
Very sad.
Yeah, it was.
He was an extreme case.
But he doesn't need it now.
Well, I don't know.
Okay, Mom.
That's a matter of debate.
Thanks.
Thanks for the anecdotal evidence.
We appreciate it.
All right.
Back in just a second, my friends.
Sit tight.
Speaking of Iraq, there are a couple other stories here that indicate great news.
And this is along the lines of the al-Qaeda underlings becoming informants, being so outraged at what the barbarity they're seeing.
This is in the Washington Times today.
Iraqi Tribes Reach Security Accord.
The thrust of the story, that 25 local tribes have joined the U.S. against Al-Qaeda.
This is the first agreement between the Sunnis and the Shia.
25 local tribes.
Something is happening over there.
Members of the 1st Cavalry Division based at nearby Camp Taji helped broker the deal Saturday with the tribal leaders who agreed to use members of more than 25 local tribes to protect the area around Taji from both Sunni and Shiite extremists.
So you couple this.
Something's happening.
I mean, I don't know enough here to understand all, but something different, something new is happening with people from the Sunni and Shia agreeing with us, uniting with us against al-Qaeda.
Tells me that the surge is working and they've reconciled at least to the extent that they want to defeat Al-Qaeda.
They may not have reconciled to get along with each other forever, the Sunnis and Shia, but they have reconciled to defeat Al-Qaeda.
Also, they're working and meeting on the oil revenue law over there.
Oil law stalls in Iraq as bomb aims at sheikhs, but they're still meeting about it.
What do you bet they get their oil law fixed in Iraq before we fix Social Security?
Have a great day, folks.
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