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Aug. 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 9, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Story out of Madison Wisconsin, a diapered monkey.
A monkey wearing a diaper allegedly bit a young woman on the thumb yesterday outside a state street bar.
The small black and white monkey, 12 to 18 inches tall with a long tail, bit the woman around 1 a.m.
In front of State Street Bratz and then the monkey ran off.
Police spokesman said the monkey was still on the lamb.
This guy was in the beer garden at State Street Brats letting women pet his monkey, said the cop, adding that the 20 year old victim attempted to do so and the monkey bit her.
She uh suffered four puncture marks to her thumb, two on the top and two on the bottom, which that kind of makes sense if you get bit by a monkey because it's got upper teeth and lower teeth.
It's amazing what you learn in these stories written by the drive-by media.
Police today were able to contact a monkey's owner lives in a second-story State Street apartment.
The police spokesman said animal control officers being called in to quarantine the monkey for observation to make sure it's not.
Oh, they found it, says here.
It ran off.
They said a monkey was still on the lamb.
Then they said we're being called into quarantine or maybe they haven't found the monkey.
Yet they did find the monkey.
I was going to say, how do you miss a monkey in a diaper?
Okay, I had to really struggle with whether or not to even report that story because it's just too tempting.
You know, with FCC regulations the way they are, it is just just too tempting.
I got a note here from uh, our official climatologist, Roy Spencer, University OF Alabama AT Huntsville.
He is a um, a genuine scientist and has been doing some research and he released the research today uh, in geophysical research letters and he has had no inquiries on this from anybody in the drive-by media.
The research is actually very interesting.
The widely accepted, albeit unproven, theory that man-made global warming will accelerate itself by Creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in a new research, in new research from the University OF Alabama AT Huntsville.
Instead of creating more clouds, individual tropic warming cycles that served as proxies for global warming actually saw a decrease in the coverage of heat-trapping cirrus clouds, says Dr. Spencer, principal research scientist at UA Huntsville's Earth Systems Science Center.
This was not what he expected to find.
All the leading climate models forecast that as the atmosphere warms, there should be an increase in high-altitude cirrus clouds.
For those of you in Riolinda, those are the clouds that look like feathers up there.
So, as the atmosphere warms, there should be an increase in high-atmosphere cirrus clouds.
That increase would amplify any warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases.
That amplification would be called positive feedback.
What we found in month-to-month fluctuations of the tropical climate system was a strongly negative feedback.
In other words, as the tropical atmosphere warms, cirrus clouds decrease.
That allows more infrared heat to escape the atmosphere to outer space, which, my layman's observation, would mean that the Earth has its own built-in cooling system.
Ladies, how amazing would that be?
That the Earth has its own built-in cooling system.
To give an idea of how strong this enhanced cooling mechanism we found is, if it was operating on global warming, it would reduce estimates of future warming by over 75%.
Until we understand how precipitation systems change with warming, I don't believe we can know much of our current warming is man-made.
Without that knowledge, we can't predict future climate change with any degree of certainty, said Spencer.
He and his colleagues expect these new findings to be controversial.
No, Dr. Spencer, expect them to be ignored.
I know some climate modelers will say that these results are interesting, but they probably don't apply to long-term global warming.
But this represents a fundamental natural cooling process in the atmosphere.
Let's see if climate models can get this part right before we rely on long-term projections.
So, this is groundbreaking.
He didn't expect to find this.
And no inquiries from the drive-by media.
And there probably won't be.
You've heard, in fact, hey, Mike, I want you to grab something.
I just thought of this.
Zell Miller, governor of Georgia, singing Wolverton Mountain and all those songs about how they want to improve the brain power of Georgia's babies and so forth.
And you, I know you know what I'm talking about out there.
You look it up in our archival profit system, there should be relatively easy to find.
I can see him.
I got a camera up there where he is, and I can see him feverishly.
In fact, I'll wait for you to find that, and I'll do this next story after you have found it.
In the meantime, Homo erectus.
Okay, he got it.
Here's the story: recordings.
Homo erectus.
What's that about?
Sit tight, folks.
Just stick with me on this.
And we'll get that one back up for you in a second.
Recordings that claim to stimulate baby brain development may actually slow vocabulary development in infants if they are overused, according to researchers on Wednesday.
They have tried this in Georgia, ladies and gentlemen.
They actually did that in Georgia.
They put together a CD to give away with music that was going to stimulate the growth of these young infants' brains.
And now there's federal research that says it doesn't happen.
For every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos and listening to this stuff, infants between 8 and 16 months understood an average of 6 to 8 fewer words than babies who did not watch the videos or listen to the music, said Frederick Zimmerman at the University of Washington.
Older toddlers were not harmed or helped by these audios or videos.
The most important fact to come from this study is that there's no clear evidence of a benefit coming from baby DVDs and videos and so forth, and there's some suggestion of harm.
The bottom line is the more a child watches baby DVDs and videos, the bigger the effect.
The amount of viewing does not matter.
Libs.
Oh, I know she was huge.
Jane Fonda was huge.
I'm big on this.
This is just.
Parents and caretakers are the baby's first and best teachers.
They instinctively adjust their speech, their eye gaze, and their social signals to support language acquisition.
Watching attention-getting DVDs and TV may not be an even swap for very warm social-human interaction at this young age.
Old kids may be different, but the youngest babies seem to learn language best from people.
This is from Andrew Meltzoff, a psychologist who worked on the study.
Isn't it amazing, ladies and gentlemen, what they actually, what these liberals learn?
It's just amazing that babies do better with mom and dad, and they learn to talk better from being around actual human beings than from audio and video recordings.
Isn't it amazing?
Why, who would have ever thought to investigate this were it not for these liberals who always have a better way than nature?
They just always have a better way, because we are just so busy screwing it all up, aren't we?
We'll be back.
All right, here we go.
Homo erectus is how the story I got interrupted on begins.
Homo erectus, long viewed as a crucial evolutionary link between modern humans and our tree-dwelling ancestors, may have been more ape-like than previously thought, ladies and gentlemen.
This, according to scientists unveiling newfound fossils, revealing an ancient skull and a jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree, Homo erectus and Homo habilis.
A team of Kenyan scientists said that they were surprised to find that early female hominids were much smaller than males.
The skull was the first discovery of a female Homo erectus.
It suggests mankind's upright ancestors may have been physiologically closer to modern gorillas and chimpanzees.
I always thought that was the case.
I never thought we came from baboons.
I always thought we came from apes.
I mean, that's what that's what these.
I'm not saying I believe that.
I mean, this is what we've always been told.
Why is this news?
Well, maybe the chimpanzee part is new.
I've known some guys that look like chimpanzees.
That could be true.
Suggests mankind's upright ancestors may have been physiologically closer to modern gorillas and chimpanzees, which also exhibit big differences in size between males and females than had been supposed.
Who's this?
This is Dr. Emma Mbua, one of the team, said this sexual diamorphosis is considered a primitive character because it occurs in other apes.
He said this could also mean the sexual behavior of Homo erectus was more like that of apes, where individuals, especially males, mate with several partners, sometimes in a few hours, than that of its more monogamous human success.
Ah, the good old days.
Damn evolution.
Kip, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush and major dittos.
The discussion regarding Sparta and the promotion of homosexuality, I've been sitting here trying to find it in a copy of John Keegan's A History of Warfare.
I know somewhere in this book he goes into this, and it's been about 15 years since I read it, so I'm going from memory.
But I do recall that there was apparently one article that he could find that tried to promote this argument that the Spartans did this.
And as I believe, if I recall correctly, Keegan debunked that article, and he also called into question the motives behind the authors that they were promoting.
Yeah, yeah, you know, that's the thing.
Abraham Lincoln was gay.
Okay, yeah, I guess.
The same kind of stuff.
Hey, look, it doesn't get much to get the drive-by-media to print something.
You get an approved liberal group or even a fake liberal group that has an approved-looking logo on a fax machine, put the release out, and they'll run it.
Well, all I wanted to call and say was that Keegan debunked this at least 15 years ago.
And I think he liberally quotes Hansen in his book, too.
Yeah, I'll bet.
Well, I don't have a way of getting hold of Dr. Hansen even as we speak, but I'm going to try to do that because I've never heard this before, and I've done a little reading and educating myself on the Spartans.
And long before the movie 300 came out, because I was fascinated when I first heard about that society and culture that they had and structured for themselves.
And I'd never heard a thing such as what Mike Ravel was out there saying.
But I don't know for sure, so that's why I have to rely on a noted scholar and expert in this field, such as Dr. Hansen.
Thanks for the call out there, Kip, Santa Rosa, California.
This is Chris.
I appreciate your patience, sir.
Hey, Rush, Mega Dittos from Reagan Country out here in California.
Thank you.
Hey, one question on the bridge collapse in Minnesota out there.
Couldn't we say that this is a fault of union labor?
Not to pick on those guys too much, but the Libs keep saying that it was tax cuts or spending for the war that neglected the bridge.
But, you know, this bridge was built by union labor and it was maintained by the union guys.
You know, the government inspectors, they got to be part of the union.
You know, couldn't we say that, you know, union labor could be?
I get your point.
I get your point, and it's a good point.
The knee-jerk reaction is something like this happens.
Oop, we're not paying enough taxes.
Bush is distracted.
Too much money going to a rock.
And then everybody picks it up and becomes the mantra.
And you're right.
Hey, this thing failed for some reason.
Exactly.
I mean, not to pick on the union guys.
I know you've had a couple calls the past couple days.
We're not taking a union guy.
You're making a rhetorical point here.
Yeah.
You're simply talking about what were people's first initial reaction goes to.
First, we need more taxes.
Why are we spending too much money on a rock?
Why the government's not doing enough to maintain the bridges because it doesn't have the money because Bush cut taxes and blah, So you're saying, hey, why couldn't we create just another as ridiculous, if you want to say, assumption?
Because we don't know yet.
Exactly.
All of these theories are ridiculous.
We don't know.
Exactly.
So we can go out and say, yeah, well, who built the damn thing and who was maintaining it?
Who was inspecting it?
I mean, I sort of did that the first day when I pointed out, isn't it strange how all these infrastructure disasters are happening in blue states and blue cities?
Right.
And if we find the body of Jimmy Hoffa in there as well, then hey, I think, you know, that's another piece of the puzzle that Bridge is not as old as Jimmy Hoffa has been sucking concrete.
Well, it was worth a shot.
True.
Anyway, Chris, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
Detroit, Michigan.
This is Harriet.
You're next.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
The comment that I have is that you missed the point that the volunteer, we have a volunteer army now, and therefore the people that do join join because of the love of country and also the love of their family to keep them safe.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm confused.
What point did I miss?
Well, you're talking about loving the person in the foxhole with you.
Senator Gravel said that.
No, but I mean, that's the point that you've been talking about.
And I'm saying you don't have to.
You don't have to send husband and wives together because it's because of the family at home, because people love their country so much, that they are willing to go and protect us.
I understand all of that.
I'm not making, you know, you don't think that I was being critical of our financial forces, do you?
No, no.
I just think that that was a point that you missed making.
No, no, no.
I was making a larger point within a different context.
Mike Gravelle said that the Spartans were not fighting for their country or their city.
They were fighting because they loved the man next to them.
Right.
And the servicemen do have great respect for the men that they fight.
I know that what he was trying to, the buddy system, we all know that exists in the military.
Right.
But you don't have to, you know, men can bond without becoming gay.
Oh, absolutely.
And so this is something these clowns are totally missing in all this.
But that my only point in saying, well, hey, if that's what made Spartans such great warriors, then let's put men and women who husbands and wives in the foxhole.
We're just trying to illustrate the, should I say, the futility of his argument.
Right.
No, I understand that, but I just thought maybe, you know, your listeners, because a lot of people, and especially on the other side that happen to listen to you, too, very often forget we have a volunteer army.
You know, they say, well, I'll let President Bush's kids go or someone else's kids.
Yeah, that's right.
You know, and they don't realize they're going for a reason.
I agree with you totally, Harriet.
Well, they love their country and they're protecting their families.
This is how they, those who join, have made the decision to do so.
We are in total agreement on this.
It's just that you don't know it or are not aware of it, which symbolizes countless years of problems that I have had.
Be right back.
Stay with us.
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Well, whites are now in the minority in nearly one in ten U.S. counties, and that increased diversity, fueled by immigration and higher birth rates among blacks and Hispanics, is straining race relations and sparking a backlash against immigrants in many communities.
Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau, Washington-based research agency, said, yeah, there's some cultural shock out there, but I think there's a momentum building and it's going to continue.
As of 2006, non-Hispanic whites made up less than half the population in 303 of the nation's 3,141 counties.
This, according to figures from the Census Bureau, that they released today, non-Hispanic whites were a minority in 262 counties in 2000, up from 183 in 1990.
The biggest changes were in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, home to New Orleans.
The share of non-Hispanic whites in Orleans Parish grew from 27% in 2005 to 34% in 2006, while the share of blacks dropped from about 68% to 59%.
I thought more of them left than that.
Anyway, many of the nation's biggest counties have long had large minority populations, but that diversity is now spreading to the suburbs and beyond, causing resentment in some areas.
Now, wait a second.
I thought it was not supposed to happen.
I thought diversity is what made America great.
I thought the diversity was what we were all supposed to strive for.
Diversity.
Diversity is the defining characteristic of American greatness.
This is what the libs have been telling us.
So how can this be?
We are diversifying all the hell.
And it's causing resentment.
Actually, it is.
There was a survey on it.
You want to know.
No, no, we had research on this about a month ago.
I remember the story.
We'll have to go back to my Coco, find it in the archives of the website before the end of the program because we did a story on this.
Somebody, it was a guy, a liberal at Harvard or Yale or something, who had done a research project on diversity, and he thought it showed so bad that he wasn't going to release it because it was an election year, and he thought it would hurt Democrats and hurt liberals to release this.
And so he was going to try to massage his analysis of his research.
We know that diversity is causing these.
And the liberals, here's the dirty little secret.
This is exactly what they want to happen.
They want everybody roiled against each other.
They like it when there's racial strife because it gives the Jacksons and Sharptons a reason to exist and keeps the black vote up.
They love divisions between men and women, the feminists and all this, because it keeps people preoccupied at war with one another.
They love creating this kind of crisis.
They don't want tranquility.
They don't want calm seas.
They love there being giant waves out there throwing everybody all over the place.
If you doubt me, go back and explain to me why they were so hell-bent on having amnesty for 12 to 20 million illegals.
The Democrats are the party of minorities and keeping minorities poor and even continuing to call them minorities when they're no longer minorities.
It's a, you know, minority equals victim.
Victim equals special treatment by the government.
Liberals run the government.
They're in charge of what these people have and don't have.
Keep them just on the bare edges of existence.
It's hideous.
This is exactly what they've wanted to happen all this time.
This guy does this story or does his research.
His scholarly research, expecting to show how diversity is creating love and devotion and new peoples orienting themselves around strange cultures and coming together in one giant kumbayan.
He's found just the opposite and didn't want to release it.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, we have just received this urgent request from the Pentagon.
I was misinformed.
I thought that was in a Pentagon from a Democrat National Committee.
All right, Jim in Glendale Heights, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rye.
Glad to talk to you.
I'm still laughing about that last little piece.
You want me to go somewhere else and give you some time to cover?
Well, I think I've recovered.
Okay, good.
Yeah, you've been talking today about how the 90s were the hottest decade on record, according to the mythologists in the Global Warming Group.
I came across some writing from Christopher Horner.
He's a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Info.
Oh, yes, yes.
And he has put together a list of the top 10 global warming myths.
And his number nine on there is the 1990s were the hottest decade on record.
And he debunks it with several things.
But one of the most important things, he says, is that in the early 90s, several hundred reporting stations in the Soviet Union went down because of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
And obviously, the Soviet Union is a pretty cold country.
And if you lose all these reporting stations in the colder climates, you're going to get a hotter reading.
So it's the collapse of the Soviet Union is global warming.
That may indeed be true.
That's a little hard to believe that they willingly did.
I mean, if the Soviet Union, can you imagine the Soviet Union goes down, even the thermometers fail?
Yeah.
Apparently.
Apparently they couldn't afford to keep up the, you know, the reporting stations.
And so they just...
What is it to the reporting station?
It's a little wood hut with a thermometer in there.
You send some Bolshevik in to read it.
You know, an email a result somewhere.
Look, even if that happened, even if, if that happened, why wouldn't they just take last year's average and factor it in?
Well, his point in his...
To leave it out like that.
Yeah, well, his point in here is that everybody knows that, but nobody reports it.
See, the drive-by.
Because there's an agenda.
Yeah, there certainly is.
And don't forget, well, the story today about the spike in 1988 and 89 that NASA knows is incorrect and hasn't corrected.
Right.
You know, that's a factor to all proof there's an agenda.
Bottom line is 1998, folks, the reputed warmest year on record was not.
And the global warming scientists know it, are suppressing it because they need that as the benchmark to say that the next five or six years is going to be outrageous, even hotter in 1998, when in fact the warmest year on record as established now was 1934, long before the modern era of global warming debates began.
Jim, thanks for the phone call.
Vienna, Virginia next.
This is Kevin.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
This is Kevin, and I'm a retired Special Forces Sergeant Major, and I wanted to comment on that senator talking about the Spartan fighters.
You are a retired Special Forces Sergeant Major.
Yes, sir, I am.
I've been to where one of the places people like you train, and I'm in awe.
Well, thank you, sir.
I appreciate everything you do, and I believe you met with my 7th Group Sergeant Major back then.
I've heard the story, Sergeant Major Ivan Ivanovo.
Sergeant Major Ivanov.
Yeah, I haven't told that story in a lot.
Did you know him?
Yes, sir.
He was my group Sergeant Major many years ago.
Well, I'll have to tell that story again because it's hilarious.
It's hilarious.
Anyway, I know that's not what you called about.
No, sir.
I wanted to talk about that senator talking about the Spartans training with homosexuality for war.
The Spartans also had another tradition.
I don't know how true that one that the senator quoted was, but they did not.
Well, I don't know either, but I do know this.
I do know this, Kevin.
Whenever I want to know anything about history, I consult Mike Revelle.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's very true.
What else were they known for?
Well, the tradition was that the warrior, the Spartan warrior, when he would leave home to go fight and go off to battle, the mother would give the shield to the son and basically say, come home with your shield or come home on it.
And when she means by come home on it, it means coming dead.
They would carry him back on his shield.
And so that tells me that the Spartan warrior was also fighting for country and love of family and things like that.
And I believe that the senator is getting the definition of love wrong, too.
He's disturbing it or twisting it because there's many different words.
There's many different definitions for any different words.
Like if you take Spanish, they have caliente and calor.
Both mean hot.
One for heat, one for spicy.
We in English have one word for hot, and it covers both.
Well, in Greek, and I don't speak Greek, but they have many different verbs, like four different verbs for love.
One for like amur, for love, like, you know, amorous.
You know, you're in love with your wife.
They have a love for another word for love, meaning love or respect for God or country, or another one for the love for your brothers or other men, the respect you have for other fighters.
And he's misusing the wrong verb for love when he's describing this.
I don't know that he's misusing it or he just doesn't know.
And I would opt for the latter.
Well, that's probably true.
He's twisting it for his own purposes.
Well, you know, you are absolutely right about different languages.
This is a funny story.
This is back in the 80s, and I was working in Sacramento, and one of the things the radio station did was have hosts like me sponsor trips to various places in the world, taking audience members who would pay for it, and the travel agency would advertise it.
I did one to Italy, and I did one to Hong Kong.
And the one in Italy, before I went, I said, I got to go to the Hassler Hotel because the Hassler Hotel was always on lifestyles of the rich and famous.
So I want to say, what the big deal was.
So they had this rooftop restaurant, and my brother was on a trip with his wife and a bunch of friends.
We got up there, and the waiters start serving.
My brother, instead of saying grazi, would say grazate.
And these waiters would just start laughing, giggling amongst themselves, and went on for the whole meal.
And as they kept laughing, my brother kept saying grazate whenever they filled the water, whenever they brought something out for the table, grazate.
And we said, what does this mean?
And he said, I don't know.
I just made it up.
So we finally asked, on the way out, we find his waiters, what was so funny about?
Well, this is what they told us.
Sometimes that can mean really sincere thanks from one man to another.
Just like you were saying, there are different ways in Greek language to express love and so forth.
Now, I don't know if that's true, but that's what these waiters told us.
So they thought, they start giggling amongst themselves that my brother was sending them some sort of a signal when he would just mess it around with the word grazi.
We had no clue what it was.
That's great.
But anyway, I appreciate your call.
Did you say you're retired former specialist?
Yeah, you're retired specialist.
What are you doing now?
I own my own business, sir.
I'm a consultant for the government.
I changed when I retired from the military.
I got into computers.
This was pre-September 11th.
And so I went from commander to computer geek.
Well, you have a wide and varied career then.
Well, I hope you're consulting the government to get smaller.
Thanks much.
Great call.
We'll be back here in just a second.
And we bump into Tommy Tightpants here.
Tom Jones, not unusual.
All right, here's the story.
I knew I was right about this.
It's a John Leo column from June 27th.
We talked about it on this program on June 28th.
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so.
His five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating short- and medium-term influence on the social capital, the fabric of associations, trust, and neighborliness that create and sustain communities.
He fears that his work on the surprisingly negative effects of diversity will become part of the immigration debate, even though he finds that in the long run, people do forge new communities and new ties.
His study reveals that immigration and diversity not only reduce social capital between ethnic groups, but also within the groups themselves.
Trust, even for members of one's own race, is lower.
Altruism and community cooperation are rarer.
Friendships fewer.
The problem isn't ethnic conflict or troubled racial relations, but withdrawal and isolation.
He writes, in colloquial language, people living in ethnically diverse settings appear to hunker down.
That is, to pull in like a turtle.
And so, you know, they do this story here.
Whites are now in the minority in nearly one in 10 U.S. counties, and they talk about how the societies are being roiled where this is happening.
Yeah, it is true.
But it's not because of racism or anything like that.
People aren't choosing it.
You know, it's like anything else to do with liberalism.
They force all this stuff on us because we don't know what's best for ourselves.
So we got to go do this.
We got to have that done.
We got to have this tax raised and so forth.
So there you have it.
We'll re-link to John Leo's column on this research tonight at rushlinbaugh.com.
Here is Russ in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good's been a lesson since 88.
Thank you.
Commenting on the bridge collapse, I saw where that bridge was built in the 1960s.
And back in the 1960s, most roads were built to emulate the New Jersey Turnpike, which was the biggest and best at the time built in the 50s.
And the maximum weight of trucks allowed on roadways back then was 40,000 pounds.
And today, it has slowly creeped up to where the maximum weight is 80,000 pounds.
Double.
And a lot of truckers know how to get around that, too, because they know where the waste stations are and so forth.
So no one ever mentioned that.
I just thought it was worth passing it on.
I appreciate that.
I had not heard that.
Nobody had passed that bit of information on to me.
It's a nice try to blame the truckers here.
Everybody knows it's the SUVs.
All right.
So all it took here was about three inches of rain in three hours to bring the nation's largest mass transit system to its knees.
It's yesterday morning in New York.
First thing I want to know is when did George Bush design the subways in New York?
And second, how come liberal politicians never ever get blamed or even questioned when you have an infrastructure failure like happened yesterday in New York?
See you tomorrow, folks, Open Line Friday.
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