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Oct. 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 25, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, folks.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
I am America's real anchor man, America's truth detector.
A doctor of democracy.
Documented to be almost always right.
98.8% of the time.
We have an hour of broadcast excellence remaining.
By the way, programming note, I will be out tomorrow.
I have decided, ladies and gentlemen, that what's fair is fair.
And so tomorrow I am suspending myself.
Uh if I lost my temper yesterday.
Uh and I apologized for it, but I got in that first hour yesterday, I got I was just, I was fit to be tied the way the Democrats and the drive-bys are trying to politicize this disaster of the fires out in Southern California.
And an idiot called here and wanted to know why the feds didn't just go out there and help out, because they're there that is supposed to protect us.
And I just I counted, I tried to count to ten before exploding, and I only got to five.
And so I have decided uh if if I'm going to suspend my own staff members uh when they lose their tempers with callers on the phone, as is recently happened to Mr. Snerdley, uh that I'm going to suspend myself.
So we got uh Jason Lewis coming in tomorrow, uh, and he will be doing the uh program as I serve my one day suspension.
Yes, Mr. Snird.
No, I don't fake being sick, Mr. Snerdley.
No sick outs for me.
It's a one-day suspension, pure and simple.
That's uh that's all it is.
All right, let's I want to go back to the fires here for just a second.
Um this is a an AP story by Noki Schwartz from Los Angeles.
The wind-driven infernos that are scarring vast swathes of Southern California's landscape may leave more than just a temporary path of destruction when they're finally extinguished.
The wildfires could leave a legacy of environmental devastation that will be evident for years to come, scientists say, especially in areas that have been scorched several times recently.
Some of the damage may never be reversed.
Invasive weeds and grasses could crowd out native plants and shrubs, accelerating erosion and leading to more frequent wildfires.
Pine stands that have been a signature feature of many mountainside communities could become just a memory in places.
Small birds, rabbits, and other animals dependent on California's rapidly disappearing native vegetation, will struggle to maintain a foothold, while some endangered species will find themselves locked into increasingly imperiled islands of refuge.
They won't know what the hell's going on.
Will find themselves.
You think the endangered species even know they're endangered?
Think they run around talking to each other about it.
My gosh, we're locked here.
We don't have anywhere to go.
They just they will thrive.
They will do what they have to to thrive.
Scientists say that it'll take years to know the extent of the long-term damage.
They also say that not all the news may be grim.
Nature has a way of providing pleasant surprises.
What is arrogant, arrogant?
People.
The fires burning across San Diego County, covering much of the same territory, stripped during the 2003 cedar fire, an area that had started the slow process of growing back.
After this week's blazes, those young native shrubs may not come back because they are not mature enough to have dropped seeds.
That could allow more flammable invasive plants to take root.
You want to get rid of native shrub land, this is how you do it, said Rick Halsey of the California Chaparral Institute as he watched a hillside burn near his home in Escondido.
The problem now is you get a habitat covered by exotic weeds, and that can regenerate every single year, carry a fire every single year.
California's natural landscape is engineered to benefit from periodic fires.
Really?
Many native plants actually need fires to germinate.
You know, we uh admittedly the fire's bad.
It's uh it's uh we see it on television and hear the reports, and it's it's uh it's horrible.
I have two things here.
There was a huge fire in um 1910, in August of 1910.
Uh it was called the Big Burn.
You can read about this in popular mechanics.
It was in Idaho and Montana.
Uh and it was whipped up by a cold front.
You know how many acres burned in the big burn in Idaho and Montana, August of 1910?
Try three million acres.
I don't think we're up to even 400,000 yet in California.
I'm not trying to diminish this fire.
Don't don't don't don't please don't misunderstand.
It's just that everybody wants you to, this is the worst it's been.
You just heard this report that I read.
Eco disaster awaits.
A fire is Mother Nature, folks.
And it does what it does.
If we weren't around, that fire would not be put out.
Now here's an interesting little passage from the popular mechanic story on the big burn that I want to share with you.
Because I have caught grief.
I can't tell you how much grief I've caught over the years when I have made the statement that we have more forest uh more forest land, more tree covered acreage in the country today than we had back at the founding.
They ask, why did the big burn burn why did it burn three million acres?
Because we had too many trees.
Well, we don't cut them down.
Because fire has not been allowed to thin forests naturally.
Land that has historically had 30 trees per acre now has between 300 and 3,000 trees per acre, resulting in plenty of fuel for the next lightning strike.
In fact, the area of forest land that burned between 1994 and 2002 more than tripled from two and a half million to seven million acres.
And this goes back to the fact we're not thinning the forests because the environmentalist wackles, those trees are precious.
You can't cut down those trees, where this is horrible.
Earth first, an early movement in the logging business trying to shut them down.
The spotted owl controversy was all part of this.
But you uh we're in this you can't you we want to preserve the pristine nature of uh of the forest and what have you.
Who can define pristine?
Pristine, you'd have to go back to creation of what the hell was it?
Was there even a North America continent creation?
Doubt it.
So what is pristine?
We we've let these people take hold of uh of us and policy under the guise that they're preservationists.
They're preserving things, and they're making sure that nothing is destroyed.
Mother Nature destroys herself or elements of herself all the time.
Stuff grows back.
Uh now they got this doom and gloom going on in California, all that the hell's gonna freeze over, we're gonna be overrun by wild weeds, and there are gonna be fires every there are fires every year in Southern California.
There are mudslides every year, too.
We do what we can to thrive, and that means alter our environment.
The next thing I looked at, 1936 was the hottest year on record for this country.
It is important to note that 1936 was a time when there was no CO2 hysteria.
Nobody worried about how much carbon, dioxide, carbon emissions, footprint, none of that was happening in 1936.
Uh is a 1936 is a time when it could be argued, or couldn't be argued, actually, that man pumped the atmosphere so full of CO2 that he caused the planet to get sick and global warming.
There was nothing going on in 1936 like it's going on now.
So if you go Google 1936 and California wildfires, this is what you find.
The article, by the way, was written in uh in May of this year, May 16, 2007.
It's a Reuters story.
During Santa Anna conditions, fires can be sparked by lightning or by people through arson, machinery running uh running their dry brush, campfires, carelessly tossed cigarettes.
Though California wildfires make worldwide news as the latest natural disaster to befall the state, experts say they have been occurring regularly since before the region was settled to the Europeans.
It's a natural phenomenon.
It's just part of Mother Nature's way of cleaning out the forest, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant.
Sometimes we hear this is the worst fire Season ever, but it's really an ongoing thing.
Now, if there was a worst fire season in the last century or so, Berlant said that it would probably be 1936, when flames swept across more than 1,250 square miles of California, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island.
So all these people out there trumping global warming is the cause of this.
It's absurd.
It's asinine, 1936, the hottest year on record, and also the worst fire season on record in California.
Flames swept across more than 1,250 square miles.
So 1936, hottest year on record, sun a little hotter that year, man's ego a lot smaller in 1936.
No one was accusing FDR or Hitler of messing around with Mother Nature as happens today.
It was a hot year.
It was probably no coincidence that California experienced historic number of fires.
The only problem is it wasn't George Bush's fault back then.
You couldn't blame SUVs or Al Gore's private jets or any of the usual suspects or culprits today.
In 1936 for this huge fire in California, you cannot blame a single man.
You cannot blame a single woman.
You cannot blame man, period.
You can blame the weather, you can blame the sun, you can blame Brother Nature.
Well, Mother Nature, I look at nature as my brother.
Nevertheless, the inconvenient truth here is that the sun warms and cools the planet.
It's been hotter in the past, it's going to get cooler in the future.
There's nothing we can do about it, not even Al Gore in his movie.
Reuters, May 16th, 2007.
Worst California fire season, 1936.
Back in a second.
Ah, my computer's in here.
It's running a little sluggish because I'm running a major dupe of the primary hard drive.
A backup duplication getting ready to install Mac OS 10.5 Leopard over the weekend.
Well, I I actually won't be doing it.
Uh computer geek will need to be doing it, but uh I gotta get a backup uh for the current system in case there's a problem with the new one.
I don't think there will be, but anyway, it's making a computer act a little sluggish because it's taking so much of the uh four processors to run it dupe as fast.
Uh 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, this is Randy in Jacksonville, Florida.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, everyone.
Thank you.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, I just wanted to point out um uh by the way, I'm a first-time caller, so it is definitely a pleasure talking with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Um, just wanted to point out actually um that just everything going on with the Democrats right now, and let's say, for instance, because I had to point this out to a friend of mine who's not really a liberal, but he's a Democrat.
Um they used with you.
And what they did is uh they basically took out of context um the script.
Um my friend kind of bought into that, so I showed him the script, and I said, now tell me what this says, and realistically.
So once you read the script, he really understood what it meant and what you were trying to say.
Well, the the point I made to him, let's just say the Democrats are really good people and we can find the inherent worth in everybody.
Now, if that's the case, and they really are good people and they have good intentions, problem you that you're finding is they they don't grasp situations very well.
So therefore you've got guys in power that really can't understand what's going on.
Uh when you say guys in power, you talk about elected Democrats?
Or are you talking about so your friend didn't get it until you showed him the transcript?
Correct.
Uh so what what what is the question?
Or what is your point?
What are you what do you uh I'm I'm having trouble hearing you.
What is it you're saying?
Okay, the point I'm trying to get across is let's just say that the Democrats were I mean, we kind of know what's going on with the smear tactics and everything, but let's just say they really are good people.
And the the the fact that the normal everyday people like myself, for instance, we can we can listen to your read script or the transcript and understand what it means, yet let's just say they are good people, and they and they go on a smear campaign for you.
They don't understand the the transcript or what you said, so they're taking it out of context, which means um if they really are good people, they just simply can't grasp the concept.
Well, you know, this this goes to I I think actually a point that a caller made yesterday.
I th I was thrown off because I thought you were going to say normal people didn't buy the smear.
You're you're making it sound like normal people did buy it until they found out what was um uh the truth.
But you know, you talk about grasp concepts.
We had a caller yesterday who who said something to me that uh that I I actually thought was somewhat profound, and I I don't I don't uh I hadn't thought of it myself uh uh in uh because I'm not that introspective, but but this guy my memory, he made the point that the Democrats do everything with emotion and no rationality.
They are just totally irrational.
Everything is about emotion to them.
We are supposed to feel sorry.
We're supposed to have our feelings hurt.
We're supposed to be crying over global warming.
We're supposed to be crying over the forest fires.
We're supposed to be crying, we're supposed to be upset over virtually everything.
And the what what the caller yesterday was calling about was that, you know, I had spent a period of time rejecting the Democrats' assessment, the political assessment of this fire.
It's Bush's fault, it's global warming's fault, uh, we don't have enough National Guard to fight it because they're off at Iraq because it's Bush's war and so forth.
I made the point yesterday, I said that those things would never occur to me.
I when I watched the pictures of this fire, I put myself in the position of owning a home or a business or piece of property out there, and the total helplessness that you have to feel.
I mean, people are going back to neighborhoods that have been fire ravaged and they're finding nothing.
They're finding shells of what was once their home.
Yeah, there was a lot of stuff in those homes and stuff so forth, but the stuff in there that they also lost is what made the home a home.
None of it's left.
It's all gone.
You can say, yes, there's insurance.
But what do you do tonight?
What do you do tomorrow?
What do you do for the next six months, a year uh waiting on insurance to come through?
Do you have to rebuild the house?
Do you say, screw this, I'm gonna go buy house in another neighborhood where there's no uh not as great a fire potential.
Can you even do that because you've located near schools where your kids go?
Uh these are the kind of things that I think about the caller yesterday called and said, uh you exhibited genuine compassion.
The liberals exhibit phony compassion and no rationality about anything whatsoever.
And I think it it is uh I something I never looked at in that way uh until the caller had pointed it out.
So when you say that these Democrats just fell for the smear because they didn't know the context, of course they would.
They're not rational.
They're not curious.
They have a world view, they have a narrative, they live their lives according to templates, and when uh uh if if they're very politically uh uh oriented and motivated, then of course I'm enemy number one.
They hear something bad about me.
Gotta be true.
I'm an enemy, I'm a bad guy.
It has to be true.
No curiosity about this is what I was talking earlier, though.
I think that the Democrats are reaching the point where they have smeared so many people for so many years that rational people are beginning to say, gosh, they can't all be this bad.
I mean, Democrats don't just mildly criticize, they smear, they lie about and they try to destroy people, and they portray people as the most disgusting, despicable human beings walking the planet.
From Judge Bork to Clarence Thomas to Leslie Southwick to uh uh Miguel Lestrada, I mean, the list is endless.
Uh it's uh th there's a there's a term that's now evolved to be borked uh over over what they did to Judge Bork.
And after a while, and this has been going on for so many years, and it happens frequently, any time there's a judicial nominee, any time there's a uh attorney general nominee, any time there's a new cabinet nominee.
The Democrats' tactic is not just to oppose and criticize on policy, it's to smear and try to destroy personally.
So my only point is at at some point with a more aware public, and you'd have to say with the existence of us here in the new media, there is a more aware and informed public that there's been, say that there was in 1986 when Bork got borked, 92 when Clarence Thomas got borked.
Now people, they don't get away with it as they didn't get away with it with me, they didn't get away with it with Southwick.
They still get away with it.
But at some point, if they're not, if they're not doing it yet, people are going to say, these people just all can't be that bad.
Let me ask you this, folks, staying on the subject of fires.
Anybody out there off the top of your head happen to know in what fire we experienced the greatest loss of life in U.S. history.
Anybody know?
If you said San Francisco, you would be wrong.
If you said Chicago, you would be right.
It happened October 8th, 1871.
It also occurred during strong winds after a cold front passage.
As many as 2500 people are believed to have perished, second only to the September 11th attacks.
The Great Chicago fire occurred on the same day that the great forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan were mostly ignored.
Prestigo, Wisconsin was rapidly completely consumed by fire where a tornado of fire threw train cars and houses into the air.
No historical evidence that global warming was claimed to be the cause of the Great Chicago fire.
And how did it start?
It started in a totally natural way.
God's creation, a beast, a beast of burden, the essence of pristine nature.
A cow was in a barn.
The barn built by human beings to shield the cows during cold weather and to provide milk for the young children of Chicago.
A cow kicked over a lantern.
Nobody claimed that the cow was upset over global warming.
I mention all these statistics only because the hysteria that accompanies fires in the midst of a political crusade to establish a hoax as legitimate, that being man-made global warming to the point that we're going to destroy the planet and it's a catastrophe and so forth.
Last night on CNN, there was a report.
Anderson Cooper.
Greenland's ice sheet, 40% of it gone in the past 40 years.
Not true.
It is total and outright false.
It is an incorrect assertion.
Greenland has cooled since the 1940s.
The uh the melt rate from 1920 to 1930 was twice as fast as the current melt rate in Greenland.
Now, this mistake was verified with a Greenland scientist this morning, the CNN mistake.
The scientists said that if Greenland lost as much ice, 40% of its ice as CNN reported last night, there would already be a 10-foot surge in sea level.
Now it's possible that Anderson Cooper meant to say the Arctic had been reduced by some similar measure, but he didn't say Arctic.
He said Greenland.
And it's uh it's in the transcript.
People looked at the transcript for this.
So there's gonna have to be CNN's gonna have to issue a correction on this if they have it already.
Forty percent of the Greenland ice sheet has not melted.
But why was the mistake made?
If it was a mistake, why was it because Al Gore's got this movie that all these confounded libs, irrational, not curious, totally emotion-driven, hear that Greenland's melting, oh my god, the sea level's gonna, and they believe it.
And they uh they're finding all kinds of artifacts in Greenland.
It was so warm in Greenland once that people live there.
Uh you know, they was lush and so forth.
Yeah, back during the Viking days, even before that.
But that's that's not the point.
The point is this is a robust and Glaring error.
Forty percent of Greenland has not melted.
And the melt rate today is not as fast as it was between 1920 and 1930.
But they make the mistake and they don't check it because Gore's got his movie out there, and that has become the template, the narrative.
Greenland's melting.
Now the forest fires in California, all this hysteria about them in terms of global warming.
What really ought to be the focus in uh in in California, well, there are too many things that should be the real focus of fires in California.
Uh but the fact that global warming is responsible, and we don't have enough National Guard, the politicizing of a human disaster, or a disaster for humans, is just beyond the pale.
It's pathetic and it's sick.
And the same thing's happening in every other arena of uh extreme weather or climate conditions based on this this whole political notion that global warming is.
This is George in in Blue Jay, California.
Hi, George, nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a retired firefighter that spent twenty-seven years fighting brush fires in Southern California.
I have to tell you, you're right on the money.
Brush fires are a natural phenomena that are good for the environment.
Where we get into problem, is the environmentalists that won't let us thend the trees like what happened in Lake Tahoe, or people that build houses and put shake shingle roofs on and we cannot protect their houses.
That's where we get into trouble.
But they're a natural phenomena and they're good for the environment.
You know, we're looking something up.
I I had a story in my um well one of my books about a guy who built a essentially built a moat uh all around his house.
He lived in a fire prone area and he built this moat around his house, this big trench, and filled it with water to stop the fire, and it did.
And a guy got sighted and fined for violating environmental regulations.
And it was the same thing was happening up at Lake Tahoe.
If you'll recall, there were people that said the hell with the regulations, I'm gonna go out and clear the brush, I'm gonna get rid of this dead wood before the fire gets to my house.
And they were also in trouble.
The environmentals got mad at them.
This the idea you can't touch this stuff that it's prison.
All we do is is uh screw it up and it's it should be here and not have to interact with us is uh is obscene.
What what do you think the big problem putting these fires out right now is?
Well, right now is uh a lot of it just the training.
Uh we have a lot of firefighters who aren't sufficiently trained to do it, like up here where I am up in Blue Jay, California.
Where's that?
For people who don't work.
Lake Arrowhead.
Lake Arrowhead, California.
That's where running springs, that's where the big fire.
Now I don't leave.
I stay here and protect my house.
And if I didn't stay here and protect my house, I could come back and it would be burned down, like what happened to about two hundred homes around here, just because the water system, they didn't put enough money into the water system, they spin it on something else instead of fire protection.
So there's a problem.
It's a different priority.
George, what what could you do to protect your house if the fire's headed for you?
What do I do?
What can you do?
Well, first of all, I make sure that all the combustibles are away from the house, make sure I don't have a uh uh shake shingle roof, and I have a fire hydrant right on the corner, and I hook up fire hoses and I get out and actually can uh protect it after it goes by.
I keep but what happens is if there's nobody there to protect it and the little fires get going around it, then of course the house is gonna burn down because there's nobody there to protect it.
But uh what about this gel substance that they're using to coat houses that the fire retired?
Does that really work?
Yeah, that really works, and class A foam really works, and you can foam your own house.
You can actually buy foam that you can spray your house, and firefighters in LA County and Ventura County are using Class A foam and houses that they don't want to stay there, they can't uh don't have the manpower, they can spray the house with the foam and leave, and the foam protects the house very well.
So there are a lot of things that homeowners can do to protect their own house that uh that right now it just uh I I would do if if I was a homeowner in Southern California living in a brush area, which I am right now.
Well, I appreciate your call.
George has been very enlightening.
Tell me something before you go.
I I've heard about this gel stuff uh that you uh I don't know how you put it on the house, but I guess you douse it uh with uh with some kind of a hose or something.
And the gel goes on and it it is is very fire retardant, and then it just didn't rinse it off once the fire's gone and it's gone.
Now, how does this I'm I'm looking at thirty and forty foot flames.
Are you telling this this gel will repel that kind of fire?
Yeah, the the fire won't go through it.
It's a fire repellent and the fire will you know it it it is designed to where the fire will not reach the combustible beneath the gel.
It repels the fire.
Now, for uh if it's on there for a long period of time, yes, it will wear off.
It's only effective for a short period of time from what I understand.
Yeah, yeah.
But uh but you know, right before the fire, you cover your house with this gel, yes, it'll protect it.
Appreciate that.
George, thanks much for the call and best of luck to you out there.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
We'll be back in just a second with much more broadcast excellence.
Sit tight.
Back to the phones.
We go to uh Cynthia in Reading, California, not threatened by fires.
Nice to have you with us, Cynthia.
Megadiddleshrash.
Thank you.
I'm a first-time caller, and I wanted to mention how much our family appreciates your support of the armed forces.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
And I also wanted to mention that my husband's mother actually used to babysit you when you were a crumb cunt cruncher down in Cape Girardo.
No, no, no, no, no.
Your husband's mother used to babysit me.
Yes.
Her name is Bar her name, her maiden name then was Barbara Wallace.
Barbara, I wonder how old I was when Barbara Wallace was babysitting me.
Well, she's in her early 70s.
So your guess is as good as mine.
Boy, you know, my memory is is just inflappable.
My memory is is impeccable.
But I don't I don't remember I wouldn't remember the last name, Barbara.
I must have been really, really, really young.
Yes, her and her sister, the Wallace family.
Did her sister babysit too?
Yes.
What was her name?
You know, I don't know her sister's name.
Well, does she ever talk to you about this and how it changed her life?
No, I would like to think that maybe she helped change your life into your conservative.
Good answer.
Great answer.
Well, I tell you what, on the day we talked to Lynn Cheney about what it was like to grow up.
Yes.
Yes, they she served as a pastor for 40 years.
Her and her husband just recently retired.
No kidding.
Well, that's this is fascinating.
You tell her I said hi.
I will do that.
Anything else that I should know that you know about me.
No, but if I find out any other stories, I'll be sure to email them to you.
Please do.
Get some babysitter stories.
I'm sure I was hell on wheels.
I will find out for you, Resh.
Okay, Cynthia, thanks so much.
I appreciate it.
This is uh uh Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and this is George.
Yep, George, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Megadiddles, Rush.
Thank you.
New listener, but I love it every way, every day.
You get me through the week.
How'd you find the uh program, George?
Actually, I owe ditos to my friend Scott at work.
They left uh radio on continuously and finally convinced me to pick one up and start listening.
Well, congratulations.
Welcome home.
Thank you.
So I have some insurance information from you.
Uh you mentioned uh Greenland, and it uh brought back uh memory from when I was working in college.
I worked for a project where we were uh picking through material that had been brought back from Antarctica.
And uh in that process we discovered beetles, moss, ferns.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
W wa wait a second.
You were pi pi packing or picking some material?
Picking through material that okay, okay.
You were sorting through it.
That's correct.
So from a frozen tundra you found beetles, moss, ferns, and that sort of thing.
And pieces of wood indicating the climate in Antarctica was at least as warm as it is in the northern reaches of the continents today.
Well, what it could also mean is that Antarctica itself used to be somewhere else on the planet and ended up being down there at the South Pole uh long before who knows.
I mean, we've there's there's some guesses that scientists can make on continental shelves and uh shelves and that kind of thing, but uh it's entirely possible that the bottom of the planet could have one day uh been scorching hot.
Uh uh it anything's possible.
With it is we we just don't know, but it could also be that Antarctica was not where it what where it is now when that stuff that you found was in it.
Yeah, it wasn't where it is today, but it uh it wasn't that far off either.
It was further northern than climates, But it was still one of the southernmost continents all the time.
Well, it's interesting because uh uh all of this is in relation uh f uh, my friends, to the fact that uh we are living in this era where where man-made global warming is going to cause unprecedented, never before seen catastrophes in Harworth.
Now we're learning, uh, if we'll admit it, face up to it, uh that all of its bogus, we don't know one-tenth of what we think we know, and it's a it's wise to try to find out.
Uh, but the idea that we have the ability to melt 40% of green with affluent lifestyles.
That remains the key.
Thanks very much.
This is Mark and uh in Lakeside, California.
Mark, nice to have you with us.
Welcome.
Well, actually, it's an honor.
I uh usually am a regular listener, but the last couple of days I haven't been able to tune you in.
Um I'm a survivor of the the cedar fire uh from 2003 in the Southern California area, east of East County, San Diego.
And uh this uh this current fire, we're uh where we live is about five miles south of the um of the witch fire and about five miles north of the Harris Fire.
So we didn't really have any uh you know any real problems.
We didn't get evacuated anything, but there's a there's several things that were different from the two fires.
One, as with the cedar fire, the community outpouring, just the people there that were helping, um backhoes, uh flatbeds with graters on them, water trucks, you know, all that stuff, plus all the community outpouring to Qualcomm.
I think on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday, they actually put out a call to hold off on items until the weekend because they actually had too much.
Um that was before FEMA showed up, or I shouldn't say before FEMA showed up, but man, everything that anything that FEMA can do to help us, I'm sure we're gonna be appreciated.
And they're they're an after-responder to as opposed to first responders as they should be.
Um they're there to provide backup, and uh, I know as one San Diego and we'll we'll welcome it.
But this um there's you know, talking about the environmental aspects of this, uh, you know, the brush clearing, there's been a little more of that going on in the last couple of years because they learned that from the cedar fire.
Also, there've been a couple of communities that were actually designed with this type of thing in mind, and they experienced zero loss.
Uh 4S Ranch up by Escondito's one that I read in the paper.
But uh it it was r uh again, it was an extraordinary event.
I uh I never thought I'd see anything like the Cedar Fire, but you know, wow.
Well, let me tell you what we're what you you're out there, but let me tell you what we're seeing.
Those of us who watch, and we've had a bunch of people call from San Diego yesterday.
What we're seeing is 100% self-reliance.
We are seeing people band together to help each other.
You just mentioned they had more supplies at Qualcomm than they needed.
Uh we're not hearing a bunch of whining and moaning.
Uh people are not asking, where's the government?
Uh the only people complaining are the Democrats and the drive-by media.
The people involved in this have accepted it for what it is, dealing with it for what it is.
It is what it is.
They can't change it.
They're dealing with it, and they're doing it in an optimistic way, and they're and they're they're it's very admirable to watch uh the way people are handling this disaster out there.
That's what we who are not there who watch it on TV see, and it's inspiring.
In the midst of all this destruction and what has to be.
I I, you know, uh again, I put myself in the in the in the in the shoes of people who've uh lost everything or have been on the on the verge of losing everything.
And it's nowhere any of us would want to be.
Uh and I watch them and I listen to them uh on television dealing with this sort of thing, and they're asked questions of people drive-by's are begging them to complain and begging to whine and begging them to blame somebody, and they're not doing that.
And it's uh it's a great lesson for everybody who's watching this to learn how to deal with these kind of things and get past them.
Okay, folks, got to speed out of here.
Remember, Jason Lewis uh will be in here tomorrow working the program on uh open line Friday.
I haven't suspended myself.
I've got uh I've got some business matters I have to take care of, and unfortunately they happen smack dab in the middle of these hours.
You can't really suspend myself.
You you people in there buy that, and you got a long way to go.
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