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July 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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With all his flip-flopping around, he should have been glad I said the hand in the goner.
Hey, Jesse, you don't look so good.
You want to go shake somebody down?
No.
We can do something easy like march out in front of a fast food place against greasy food and calories.
No.
Are you sure?
It'll make you feel better?
Well, it would be fun to shake some green from the machine.
Hey, is your mic still on?
Are you kidding?
You think I'm that stupid?
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we turn to the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley.
This is Bo Snerdley, official Barack Criticizer for the EIB Network, Black Enough to Criticize, and with medically certified slave blood.
I have a special announcement.
Senator Obama, the recent threat from Reverend Jackson to surgically remove your testes presented you with a rare opportunity, and sadly, sir, you let that opportunity slip by.
Mr. Jackson stated his reasons for wanting your castration, sir.
That was that you talked down to black people.
What have you said exactly that inspired those comments?
You said that blacks, particularly black men, should take more responsibility for themselves and for their families.
Unlike every other thing you say these days, Mr. Obama, that represents a fairly consistent point of view from you.
You respond to this by sending a campaign spokesman out to accept Reverend Jackson's dubious apology.
That's that?
This was your moment, sir, to claim the mantle of civil rights leadership from Jackson, who, by the way, has had his own family values problems a while back.
You let it go.
Shame on you, sir, for not standing up to this civil rights bully and for forcing him and not forcing him off of the national stage.
And now a translation for our EIB Brothers and Sisters in the Hood.
Yo, B, strap in, yo.
This is going to take a minute.
What up with you letting Jackson pose on you like that, yo?
Homie goes on Fox, says you're dissing black people, talking down to the brothers, says he wants to cut off your baby makers, yo, and all you do is send some punk spokesman out to accept his apology?
Yo, here's the 411, yo.
You could have stepped out on that OG Jesse.
For those of you in the hood out there in Rio, that OG, that's old gangster.
Okay, check it out, yo.
Jesse's yappy with you because you dissed him?
Come on, yo.
When you say brothers need to step up and give their families their props, the brother goes ill on you?
Man, brother man thought you were talking about him, right?
That's what's really what's up here.
He thought you were telling him he needs to step up with his baby mama, that girl who he got jiggy with back a few years ago, yo.
He got her out the news quick, yo, didn't he?
Now, Jesse wants to break you off downstairs because you actually talking about black men stepping it up.
What's Jesse done anyway, yo?
He gets paid by a bunch of scared Wall Street ICE people, yo, anytime he talks about a boycott?
Yo, my brother, this was your moment, man.
You the HBIC, you the head brother in charge, and you let OG step off on you like that.
What's up with you, Lo?
You lost your mind, man, and your baby makers.
Then you got the nerve to send out little Jesse to take out OG Daddy, Jesse.
Come on, yo.
Instead of handling your business yourself, man, you letting your funkies run the show, man.
You need to get a set, bro.
That concludes our statement.
And that is the official Obama criticizer vo snurdly.
But isn't that the point?
It needs to get a set, but if the Reverend Jackson had his way, there wouldn't be a set to get.
So it could well be that he hasn't got a set to begin with.
If the official Obama criticizer's translation for EIB Brothers and Sisters in the Hood is to be believed, and I have no reason not to, we may have actually learned something here from Trenton, New Jersey, ladies and gentlemen, a local Republican club.
I better wait.
I happen to think that we've had cars driving off the road while audience members are laughing.
I think they're probably splitting their sides right now.
Their guts probably hurt a little bit.
I'll give you people time to finish laughing here so you can hear the next story coming up from the EIB network.
I think such time has now passed.
So we now go to Trenton in New Jersey.
A local Republican club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its website.
The slogan on the website read, Obama loves America like OJ loved Nicole.
The Pemberton Republican Club had posted a slogan that referenced OJ Simpson, who was, of course, acquitted in the murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, back in 1994.
Bill Layton, the Burlington County Republican chairman, said the posting was not authorized by the party.
I think it's despicable.
I completely denounce it.
The Republicans are doing a lot of that these days.
They're denouncing, they're renouncing, they're distancing from all kinds of things.
Another Ed Cuck with a K, the webmaster of the club, did not respond to a message left at his home, but he told a Philadelphia Inquirer that he saw the slogan on an internet site, and he copied it under the club's webpage as a joke.
Cuck said, look, I just want to apologize to anybody who was offended because that wasn't our intention at all.
Well, what was the intention then?
Richard Per, chairman of the Burlington County Democrat Committee, decried the slogan, comparing Obama to O.J. Simpson, an accused murderer who was found civilly liable for his ex-wife's death is reprehensible, Perr said.
Moreover, it's a veiled attempt at inserting race into the political arena for which the Republicans should be ashamed.
The racism and bigotry is alive and well in the Democrat Party.
Okay, a brief time out here.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to take a break.
We'll come back more if your phone calls coming up, so sit tight.
Great illustration from the media monopoly known as the Associated Press here on the kid glove coverage for the Lord Messiah, Barack Obama, by David Espo.
This is a story about the Lord Messiah Obama's shift in voting for telecom immunity in the FISA bill.
Reading this story is the twilight zone.
Begins this way.
Senator Barack Obama's vote in favor of an anti-terrorist surveillance legislation on Wednesday marked an about face on the issue that left him comfortably in the bipartisan middle, no matter the criticism from John McCain nor the discomfort among liberal Democrats.
Now, David Espo says here's a special correspondent.
This piece is not labeled commentary.
Why should anything at the AP be labeled commentary?
It all is commentary.
Right out of the bat, we get an opinion and instructions from David Espo to the reader on how they are to interpret this.
And it's absurd.
Senator Obama's vote in favor of anti-terrorist surveillance legislation marked an about face on the issue that left him comfortably in the bipartisan middle.
Given the choice, this is, who's this quote from?
Given the choice between voting for an improved yet imperfect bill and losing important surveillance tools, Senator Obama chose to support the legislation set his office, even though it contained a provision that the Democrat presidential nominee in waiting had flatly opposed.
Translation.
With the general election looming, preventing another terrorist attack, Trumped fears that privacy rights might be violated.
Now, hell's bills, folks.
You talk about giving somebody a pass.
Here is a man, a member of a party which has for the last year or longer done everything it can to weaken America's defenses and ability to be forewarned via surveillance of the next terrorist attack.
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Democrat Party have tried to undermine the FISA court.
They've tried to undermine the FISA bill.
They have stood in the way.
Every time it's come up for a vote, though, after all they huff and puff that they do, they eventually pass it.
This passed two to one.
Now, if it's important for Obama to size up the need to prevent another terrorist attack with an election coming, why was it irrelevant to protect the country from a terrorist attack a year ago when the election was not right around the corner?
And yet, Mr. Espo, the special correspondent of the Associated Press, finds absolutely nothing contradictory, finds absolutely nothing troubling about this whatsoever.
So, a year ago, Obama could rail against Pfizer, rail and get his all-left-wing troops all railed up about the fact that Bush is spying on them, intercepting their phone calls, reading their computer emails, violating everybody's civil rights.
Now, all of a sudden, when there's an election out there, it's okay because we got to stop terrorism.
A year ago, two years ago, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Democrat Party, trying to ensure defeat against terrorists in Iraq.
Now, with an election coming up, according to the AP, well, it's fabulously fine that Obama do a 180 because we've got to stop terrorist attacks.
I don't mean to be harsh here, ladies and gentlemen, but this is somewhat new.
The Democrats placing defense against terrorism attacks at the top of their priority list.
I'm not going to say they don't care about it, but clearly it has not been one of their priorities.
Undermining it has been.
But now, all of a sudden, the election's coming up and the presidency is at stake, and the Democrat Party thinks, you know what, we better do a flip-flop here.
We better get our guy out there saying we care about terrorist attacks too.
We want to be shut down before they happen.
And right here, slavish sycophant, this Espo guy is going to die of anal poisoning before it's all over.
He's following Democrats around so close to their rear ends.
I mean, that's just one of many examples in this story.
The dirty little secret is Obama may have voted for this, and he may be doing all these so-called tacks to the center, T-A-C-K-S.
But none of it means anything.
What we have here, we don't have a flip-flopper.
We have a politician of convenience who I swear you will, I don't think you can pin down what he can, but I mean, the average voter, the average person listening to this paying scant attention, has no idea who Obama is.
And that's, I think, one of the points is to try to obscure the fact that he is a radical leftist who wants to expand the federal government at whatever the cost, including individual liberty and freedom, but knows he can't get elected saying that.
But this is just more a great example of the incompetence, the inexperience that this man brings to the table, contrary to the image of a transcendent candidate, a transformational candidate.
Somebody, somebody out there in the Democrat Party, some of you leftists who buy into this whole Messiah thing, would you tell me what is different about anything Obama's doing?
As a former Clinton advisor said in the LA Times today, Reagan didn't tack to the center.
Reagan moved the electorate to the right.
That's why they hated Reagan.
That's why they fear Reagan.
That's why they fear conservatism.
Everybody else is in this for show.
Obama moving to the center is for show.
Obaine, McCain joining the left and so forth.
That's to create, craft, and maintain an image.
And yet nobody's got the guts to actually do what moves the electorate when done properly with an articulate charismatic leader.
Back to the phones, Melanie in White House, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Thanks very much.
I'm calling about Operation Chaos Phase 2.
Yes.
I find it interesting that the Democrats are seeking the input from all of us, and I just wondered has McCain sought input from us.
Yeah, well, here's what they think is going on.
That is an excellent point.
McCain does not seek input from you, but the Democrats are welcoming it.
Right.
That is a very brilliant observation.
Let me go back to my stack here.
I've put this stuff away in the when I finished with this last errand.
I should not have done that.
Put it in the other stack.
In case you're just joining us, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrat National Committee yesterday, their platform committee heard about phase two of Operation Chaos, where I am dispatching qualified troops to the over whatever, 600 platform committee hearings all over the country, 47 states.
Because the Democrats are going through this big show of having as many Americans, voting class Americans, show up and help write the Democrat Party platform.
So we'll help are going to invite us in.
Let's send a bunch of conservative Operation Chaos operatives in there and start helping the Democrats come up with a conservative platform.
It's all a big show.
And I mean, nobody that goes in there is going to have one thing to do with writing the Democrat Party platform.
That's going to come down to Obama if he can figure out what it's going to be.
But you're, and the Democrat Party has now responded to this, and they're welcoming ditto heads in.
They've heard about it.
Come on in.
We're happy to have Limbaugh's people.
We've even invited me to show up.
And ABC News on their blog last night ran the story of this.
Operation Chaos, the Democrat National Committee Platform Committee was working on this.
But it is an interesting observation that you have.
Thank you.
Melanie, it's sort of sad, isn't it?
It is, definitely.
Well, I'm glad you called.
Thanks so much.
It's always a thrill to hear from people named Melanie.
Thank you.
Okay.
Bob in Calari, California.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, it's Toleri, Bob from Toleri.
All right, all right, all right.
So don't start doing Obama on me here.
I'm sorry.
Look it.
Look it.
We got to resurrect a mantra from the Reagan era, and that is we've got to say no.
We've got to say no to B Hum because he's only got 143 days of experience.
That smells.
You know, he's telling us we've got to speak Spanish or we got to learn Spanish and that smells.
And then I'm pumping gas every three days in my truck to work trying to make, and that smells because it's doubled in price.
So, you know what?
We got to just handle it.
Okay, right.
He's got 143 days of experience.
He cannot speak Spanish.
He's just embarrassed that Europeans think of the bitter clingers the way they do.
And of course, he, the only thing he's ever said about your rising gas prices is that he's upset how fast they went up.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limbaugh on Castrate Thursday, a special summer spectacular of the EIB network John in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Nice to have you, sir, here with us.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
Mega Dittos from a college conservative up at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Thank you, sir, very much.
It's an honor to speak with you.
I just had a call to tell you that I'm a political science major up there, and every day in school, I'm just pounded with liberalness.
I mean, I see it, I hear it, but I attribute it to you, my father, and my grandfather, that I've learned the values of conservatism.
And once you learn the values of conservatism, seeing all the liberalness in college just makes you proud to be a conservative.
Not only that, it makes it impossible for the liberals to shake you.
You know, I mean, they can make you mad, but they can't talk you out of what you believe.
By definition, something, an organization or an individual that is not conservative will eventually become a liberal.
Because conservatism is a daily applied intellectual achievement or activity.
Liberalism is not.
Liberalism is one of the most gutless choices you can make.
You just sit around and feel bad about your country, feel bad about yourself, look for reasons to feel good about it, see suffering, say, oh, I hate to see that.
Think you're a good person after you see it and care about a bunch of things you didn't cause, so forth.
Liberalism is so damned easy, it's embarrassing.
Conservatism takes some application, and that's why you are so far ahead of the game.
You and others like you at universities all over the country are going to be the generation who are going to straighten all this around.
And I agree, sir.
And also to all those parents out there listening who kids are going away to college in August.
You know, teach your kids the value of hard work, and that hard work is what gets you things, not just sitting back.
You know, teacher kids between a privilege and a right.
You know, teach your kids the right to life.
Well, you know, you, I'll tell you something.
You've hit on something here.
Teaching your kids between what you know, the difference between a privilege and a right, teaching kids the value of hard work.
This is just, I mean, you want to hear what the opraization of America has come to.
Try this story.
Eve Pigeon, spelled just like the bird.
Eve Pigeon watched the large group of crumb crunchers, many of them laughing and chatting excitedly as they boarded their bus for summer's sleepaway camp.
They just couldn't wait, said Eve Pigeon, whose eight-year-old daughter Zoe was among the young campers.
And then Eve Pigeon looked around and noticed something else.
There weren't any children crying about leaving for summer camp.
It was the parents who were crying.
These days, camp leaders and family counselors say it's an increasingly common dynamic.
It used to be the homesick kid begging to come home from camp.
While that still happens, they've noticed that it's often parents who have more trouble letting go.
They call it kid sickness.
Kid sickness, a condition attributed in large part to today's more involved style of parenting.
Observers also say that it's only being exacerbated by our ability to be in constant contact by cell phone and computer, as well as many parents' perception that the world is a more dangerous place.
For leaders at many summer camps, it's meant that detailing, or I'm sorry, dealing with parents has become a huge part of their jobs.
Eve Pigeon, again, it was nothing, nothing for our mothers to send us away for two months.
We were their jobs 24 hours a day, so perhaps they needed a respite.
They perhaps didn't ache for their kids on a daily basis, as working parents do.
Before little Zoe went to camp last summer, her mom, Eve Pigeon, loaded her daughter's backpack with stationery and stamps, since the only way she was allowed to contact her family was through handwritten letters.
Both her parents, who are divorced and Zoe's younger brother, Ben, wrote to her often, but as they watched their mailboxes each day, nothing came.
The family frantically checked the camp's website where photos of campers were regularly posted.
Her mom took some comfort in that.
I could see she was immensely happy.
Her smile's so big it must have hurt her cheeks, said Mother Eve Pigeon, but still no letters.
Even after she sent a fax to the camp that read, Zoe Pidgin, write to your mom right now.
All caps.
Bob Ditter, a therapist who works with the Crumb Crunchers, adolescents and families in Boston, has acted as a consultant to camps since the early 80s, and he says he hears stories like these all the time.
He says, something to be said for a parent who cares, but not to the point of becoming a helicopter parent, a term used for parents who constantly hover over their, you know, we are out of whack.
We are 180 degrees out of phase.
I can't tell.
I had to go to summer camp.
I was talking about this with Snerdley this morning.
I hated it.
I despised it.
Little bus showed up at seven.
Summertime is supposed to sleep late after having to get up early every day to go to stupid school.
Then here comes a little bus with all these little kids I didn't care a whit about having to spend time with.
And the bus chugs off to some stupid farm.
There was no air conditioning out there.
The only exciting moment was when he gave you Kool-Aid about noontime, had bologna sandwiches with cheese on it, not even any mayonnaise.
And I have to, you know, I hung around where the adults were because they had a radio in there.
I remember living Elizabeth Palis Age Park by Freddie Cannon.
So what year would that have been?
63, 62, whatever it was.
And I'm sitting around, I'm listening to some of the tunes on the radio, and my parents got reports back I wasn't socializing with the kids.
That's damn right.
Out there kicking stupid balls around, avoiding cow chips out there.
I never understood.
It was for a week, and it was the most dreaded week of the summer.
It made me actually wish for school because it was like 7 o'clock, and my mother was never happier than when she put me on that bus.
My mother never cried a whip.
My mother might have cried when I got home, but she did not cry when she put me on the bus.
And now parents are crying because the kids are going to summer, and the kids obviously like it because they're living with their hovering parents day and night, ask, how do you feel?
Is everything okay?
What can I do for you?
Let's be friends.
All that stuff.
Yeah.
How's your self-esteem?
Did you learn anything in conflict resolution today?
I mean, these mothers are like little Barbie dolls.
Just pull the string on the back, and the mother repeats the report.
Kids, give me a break, mom.
I got a chat here going.
I got a text going here with Zeke.
So Zeke arranges to go to the summer camp that little Zoe went to, and everything's hunky-dory, and mom's sitting there crying about it.
What a.
No, that cute little picture of meeting in the New York Times magazine on Sunday.
No.
Dawn asking a question.
That rap family vacation.
That was down in St. Panama City, Florida.
That picture was taken out there on the Gulf of Mexico.
Anyway, back to the phone.
I can't.
So we've had this brilliant student from the University of Florida talking about parents teaching their kids right and wrong and so forth.
Can you imagine how distressing it is to a kid to be put on a bus to go to summer camp and there's your mom crying her eyes out?
What kind of confidence is that?
Mom, should I stay?
You seem so upset.
Kid probably saying, that's okay.
She'll get over it.
Get us out of here.
Jack, where are we at?
Southborough, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, wonderful to speak to you, and I hate to criticize you because I love you, but I think you made a mistake on the reason Barack voted for the FISA bill.
That's doubtful, but give it a shot.
Well, I believe Maya Daly's brother runs one of the large telecoms.
So Barack, being a loyal Chicago hack, was told to vote for it, and he did.
Could be.
I don't doubt that.
That's fine.
You could be very right.
And if you are right, I would applaud you.
But it's not surprising to me.
What I was commenting most about, and in fact, if that is the reason, that's even worse.
Well, of course.
Jack's going to follow.
Bay Daly will direct him what to do.
Well, but no, it's worse for this reason.
Remember, my focus in that story was the special correspondent from the monopolistic Associated Press David Espo, who said that he was comfortably moving to the center now, and that he switched his mind on this because with an election coming up, it's very important to prevent another terrorist attack.
Well, why wasn't that important a year ago?
Why wasn't that important a year and a half ago?
Now, I know maybe they want to position Obama, so I don't think it helps him, however, they try to justify this change in opinion on this.
Whether it's Mayor Daly pulling the strings or whether his brother pulling the strings or whether or not Obama really, you know, American people really do care about another attack.
I better get out in front of it.
Either way, either way, what it means is that the last year and a half, two years of Obama have been a lie, have been a fraudulent presentation of who he is, or else this is one of the two is.
We don't know who the guy is.
He is a very deceitful candidate.
And I will tell you one thing.
Of course, I'm not voting for him, but he tends to wear thin on you.
I'm getting it now, which means in three months the general public will agree with me.
He isn't somebody you enjoy constantly seeing, learning from, hoping to change things.
I have to agree with you on that, too, especially when out there trying to emulate the Kennedys.
Yeah, no, he's very artificial, and I'm hoping only in time that Senator McCain brings more passion to his campaign.
And one other thing that I'd like you to push that I'm pushing, and I've written the McCain campaign, I would like to see the United States drill for oil and use that money to pay my Social Security and my Medicare when I become 65 years old.
Why would I push that?
Now, how that's an Obama idea.
In fact, that sounds like the way Obama might shift on drilling.
I'm going to use the money to pay for your retirement.
Well, let us be the first to use it.
The Social Security is broke.
Medicare is broke.
We have lots of oil.
Let's get it now and let's ignore our retirement.
But that's not, that's not.
No, no, no, no.
Now that's straight out of the playbook.
Liberalism.
Well, not really.
Social security is a lot of money.
They owe us the Social Security.
If they signed a contract with us, they were going to pay us.
They are going to pay you.
Now, with what money?
You're not.
Kids and grandkids who aren't born yet.
I say use the oil money to pay them.
No, you can't use it.
You've got to use the oil money if you have to gasp it.
The oil.
You are becoming a selfish citizen.
This is unbecoming of you to say this on this program.
No, I want that oil, and I want it to help pay my Social Security.
Your Social Security is going to be paid.
Oh, not the way things look now, Mr. Rush.
Jack, have you reached retirement age yet?
No, I can't afford to retire.
Well, because Social Security is not enough for you?
Oh, God, I couldn't manage on that.
No, I want to live in Manalapan near you and get myself a new G5.
Well, let me tell you something about oil money.
By the way, speaking of that, I'm going to ask you a question.
I was thinking about this driving in today.
I keep hearing about this 55-mile-an-hour speed limit.
In fact, I've got to take a break.
John Warner, Republicans pushing this.
A lot of people have, because we're hearing about how many hundreds of thousands of gallons a day or barrels a day of oil that we can save by cutting the speed limit back to 55.
And of course, this is bogus.
I have a question about that when we come back.
Don't go away.
Folks, I can't keep a straight face here today.
As you know, in order to stay abreast of what the drive-bys are doing, I suffer the punishment of having drive-by cable networks on here, my two TV monitors, which the ditto cam, in fact, sits right between them.
And poor Martha McCallum, Martha McCallum at Fox, is doing her roundtable discussion today with, what is it, I think it's two or three of these.
No men is the point.
No men in this roundtable talking about the Reverend Jackson's comment regarding the genitalia of Barack Obama.
And I'm sitting here thinking, okay, here are these three babes, and they're talking about Jesse Jackson and his desire to cut Obama's nuts out.
And I'm thinking, finally, they have impaneled some experts, people who have experience in what you're talking about.
Sorry.
Just sharing, ladies and gentlemen, the neuronic impulses that are flowing through the deep, dark crevices in my mind.
Yes, Mr. Snurderly, what?
We have not seen anything from Mrs. Clinton on this testicle comment from the Reverend Jackson, but I imagine she might feel her turf's been invaded.
I mean, that would be my reaction.
Now, the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit.
Now, let me get to this here.
What is the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit based on?
I think it is actually an attempt to control and punish, but the theory is that it will somehow save gasoline and oil by, whatever, hundreds of thousands of barrels, gallons a day.
I can't remember the calculation that I read.
Now, that was done way back when because there was a shortage or a supposed shortage.
I mean, the shortage was real.
It was contrived, but we had an access problem because OPEC was playing games.
There is no shortage now.
There's not a shortage, period.
In fact, with the airlines cutting back and people driving less, there's probably incrementally a bigger supply with India and China not subsidizing their population's purchase of gasoline to the tune they used to be.
Supply is probably creeping up as one of the reasons that the speculation price is falling.
So I got to thinking, okay, 55 miles per gallon in your car is going to save X. Why don't they tell the airlines to throttle back to 300 miles an hour?
You want to talk about this guy on the phone a minute ago talking to me he wants a G5 and wants the oil money to pay his Social Security.
I don't know how often people think about this, but you start talking about even Obama's dinky little MD-80.
You start talking about 730s airliners.
They measure fuel in those things by pounds because they have to calculate the weight.
Now, jet fuel, depending on where you get it these days, and I've seen it as high as over $8 at FBOs in New York, and I think it's still averaging around 5.5 or just this under $5 right now.
But think of how much of that could be saved if they told airlines they have to throttle back.
But they never do that, do they?
And you know how many airlines, flights, and jets are in the air every day?
Why don't they tell them to throttle?
You know, if they throttle back, you know, most of these planes will cruise.
This is an average of 500 miles an hour.
It varies.
But you throttle back to three.
You totally backlog.
I mean, you clog the air traffic control system unless you modify schedules.
You expand and lengthen the people's passengers' travel times from destination to destination.
And you might burn less fuel, but you're putting more hours on the engines, which leads to more expensive maintenance.
Yeah, the hybrid plane.
Here I am trying to be serious.
A staff can't even take.
I just got a note from a guy who claims he's a commodities speculator.
He told me to tell you he's working hard right now to bid the future price of oil back up.
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