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July 31, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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And we're back.
Broadcast Excellence, hosted by me, Rush Limboy, your guiding light, America's real anchorman, the doctor of democracy, the truth detector, all combined as one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
As we are celebrating our 20th anniversary all week, gearing up to the big day tomorrow, telephone number, if you'd like to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
The recession is on hold.
Democrats are dumbfounded and dismayed and disappointed.
The economy grew last quarter at an adjusted 1.9%.
And of course, we have here a headline in the New York Times.
GDP grows at tepid 1.9% despite stimulus.
So we got 2% economic growth for all intents and purposes.
There is no recession.
The growth last quarter was 0.9%.
So the trend is upward.
And it's tepid.
1.9% despite the stimulus.
Anybody could have told you the stimulus wasn't going to have that kind of an impact on the economy.
It was a bribe for votes on the part of both parties.
And from the Associated Press, retailers are already talking about price increases of up to 15% this year on holiday goods, from staples like tree ornaments and toys to luxury gifts like European handbags and clothing.
The main cause, soaring energy prices.
While most consumers are just starting to think about back to scruple shopping, retailers are already preparing for the critical holiday season.
And you are going to have a bad, bad Christmas, folks.
It is going to be bad out there.
It's going to be horrible.
In bad shape.
Now, the Obama tour has not helped in Florida, Ohio, or Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University swing state poll.
With likely voters concerned more about energy than the war in Iraq, Barack Obama's recent tour did not help.
Senator McCain has gained on the Democrat frontrunner in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University swing state polls yesterday.
Okay, that's good news, right?
McCain's up there.
Obama got no bump.
Obama's actually starting to lose some ground in the polls, right?
Try this.
Republican Senator John McCain engaged in increasingly sharp attacks on Barack Obama, pledged that if elected president, he would work closely with Nancy Pelosi.
He praised her as an effective leader and an inspiration to millions of Americans.
Senator McCain said, yes, I do.
I respect Speaker Pelosi.
Hey, she's one of the great America success stories.
How are you?
He said this during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle or some Chronicle prior to a, yet, San Francisco Chronicle, prior to a fundraiser at the Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco.
We talk about Senator Clinton and her inspiration to millions of Americans.
Speaker Pelosi has been an inspiration as well in a role that is in many ways more powerful than the president, McCain said.
Then Senator McCain had high praise for the 2000 Democrat presidential candidate Al Gore and his advocacy on the issue of climate change.
What can we say?
He's going up in the polls.
Actually, he's not Obama's going down.
It's a referendum on Obama.
Senator McCain, he just said yesterday, inflate your tires and get tune ups, and we won't need a drill for oil.
Senator McCain, You're running for president.
Nancy Pelosi wants to castrate you if you become president.
She's not going to work with you.
This is just.
Unless you bend to her wishes.
Passing on such a great, great opportunity.
I mean, it's just out there begging to be taken.
We could wipe the country with Democrats in this election.
We could.
If somebody has to go out there and act like, ooh, it's really cool.
Are there really great inspirational people?
Right, she's inspiring millions of people.
Her book is at number 900 on Amazon.
By popular demand, ladies and gentlemen, countless requests to replay the call from yesterday from Jennifer in Colorado Springs.
Anyway, back to the phones to Colorado Springs.
Jennifer, you're next on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Well, Rush, you might change your mind about that.
I'm kind of angry.
All the accolades that you're receiving are literally making me sick.
And in fact, my doctor, believe it or not, actually, maybe tongue-in-cheek, but wrote me a prescription for lowering my blood pressure.
And that is that I listen to your program as infrequently as possible.
Because in reality, you are the one who believes that you are the Messiah, not Obama.
And what's more, you're very sexist.
You're very sexist.
You think that the Democrats are sexist and racist.
You are absolutely the epitome of sexism.
Do you want to know why I think that?
Not really, because you're wrong.
I don't like to hear people tell me why they believe something when they're dead wrong.
I don't even know if you're really suffering high blood pressure.
Why are you even listening?
Well, maybe I'm a masochist and I can't help myself.
I don't know.
I know.
I don't think that's what it is.
I think you're constantly enraged and angry, and you need reasons to stay that way.
And I'll tell you why I kill the bill.
I'm going to stay enraged.
Because every day it seems that you find a way by innuendo or any other means to put women down.
It's not by innuendo.
It's not by innuendo.
I do it directly.
I put down liberals.
If they happen to be women, I put them down.
There's no innuendo about it.
Can I give you an example of your direct comment?
I'd love to hear it.
Do you recall your comment?
I think it was about three months ago.
You were talking about Hillary when she was running against Obama.
You said that women are trying to move into a man's world.
If you had said that about Obama or a black person, you'd be off the air right now.
You'd absolutely be off the air for a while.
Wait a second.
Why would I be off the air if I had accused Obama into moving into a man's world?
No, into, listen, if it were the same thing if you accused Obama of moving into a white man's world.
Oh.
Oh, off the air.
Well, that would never even occur to me.
There are black politicians all over the country as there are female politicians, but the presidency up till now has been a man's world.
Okay, you're not doing anything to change.
What's the big deal?
Hillary puts her pants on one leg at a time like all the other guys do?
I mean, why are you bothered by this?
See, like all the other guys do?
Yeah.
See, this is something I've been wanting to ask you for a long time.
Why is it that you always call Hillary Clinton Mrs. Clinton and you never give her the respect of calling her Senator Clinton?
Are you trying to demean her?
I do call her Senator Clinton sometimes.
I listen to you practically every day, which is why I have high blood pressure.
And I have never heard you.
You really, you need to go take a test.
You're not.
There's something not right here about you, Jennifer.
What's not right about you is I think you're insecure.
No, Jennifer, I'm trying.
Jennifer, please, I'm trying to help you.
Women have rejected you.
I'm trying to help you.
Women love me, Jennifer.
You had better get used to this.
And this is your way of leveling the playing field.
I'm not trying to...
I don't believe, you know, I don't believe a playing field can be leveled, Jennifer.
See, I am based in reality.
But, Jennifer, my concern for you is that you may die listening to this program from high blood pressure, and you don't have to, you can turn it off.
You may be committing a slow form of suicide here on purpose.
That's not right.
I know it.
I know it.
So, you know, I know I don't always listen to my doctor either.
So, you know, I don't really know.
You're a woman.
You don't listen to men, period.
Uh-huh.
Well, men don't listen to women, so that's there's equality right there.
I listen to everything that you've said.
Uh-huh.
And you've had a sexist reaction to it, too.
I enjoy, you know, this is my first opportunity to talk to you.
I'm really happy I got through.
I really am.
Well, I'm glad you did, too.
But I'm worried.
If I could say, could I say one more thing?
I'm in the Colorado Springs area, but I listen to K-How Radio in Denver, and you are a topic of conversation almost daily.
And women are calling in and talking about your sexism and the phenomenon of your ditto head women calling in and treating you as if they love you following your sexist remarks.
It doesn't make sense.
You know, if you want the real sexism in this country was on display in the Democrat primaries, and it was aimed at Mrs. Clinton by Democrats.
The real racism in this country was on display, the Democrat primaries aimed from the Clintons to Obama.
I helped Hillary Clinton, Operation Chaos.
I kept her in the race.
If you listen to this program as often as you say, you would know that I did everything I could to help her and did.
Operation Chaos was so important, it's now the subject of academic study.
Jennifer, I appreciate the phone call.
I'm glad you got through too, but I am worried.
This is the first, you're the first caller ever who has admitted, I mean, you're a masochist.
It's unhealthy.
I think you need to lighten up a little bit.
What you think is sexism is simply me poking fun at liberals, which, of course, that has been taboo for a long time.
And there you have it from yesterday, Jennifer, Colorado Springs, the first caller in my memory to admit the program is killing her, and yet she can't stop the suicidal behavior.
One final story here before we go to our obscene prophet timeout.
At least one of many large lake-like features on the Saturn moon called Titan, studied by the International Cassini spacecraft, contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said on Wednesday.
Scientists positively identified the presence of ethane, according to a statement from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which is managing the Cassini mission, exploring Saturn, its rings, and its moons.
Liquid ethane is a component of crude oil.
We have the building blocks on the moon Titan, Saturn moon, Titan, the building blocks of crude oil.
The Democrats in the House, the Democrats in the Senate had better, before their August recess, put a bill into play and get it passed and set up to the White House for signature that there will be no drilling for oil ever in a history, remaining history of the universe in time on Titan.
Hi, Russ.
This is your friend Clarence Thomas.
Virginia and I congratulate you on your great, great career and thank you for all you're doing and for giving us just such great information and entertainment and laughs and everything else.
You've been a great friend and a great patriot.
We wish you many, many more years, and we hopefully will see you soon and spend a lot more time together.
Congratulations, my friend.
Goodbye.
Wow, Justice Clarence Thomas.
You know, he's become a very close friend, and he's one of these people that I wish everybody could know him the way he is rather than the way he's constantly portrayed.
He's one of the happiest, the most jovial, most intellectually engaged people.
I have never seen him since the Anita Hill sub.
I've never seen him in a bad mood.
I have never seen him less than jovial.
He's just and his wife, Jenny, they're just two of the nicest people.
It's an honor to be able to count them among my friends.
Ladies and gentlemen, Cookie Gleason has found an inconsistency.
Audio sound bite number six.
Cookie Gleason has found an inconsistency in this program.
She says the feminists may have a point about me in one regard, and that is that the math does not add up.
Kathy, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Kristen's in a top 10 list of names.
Kim is one of those names in my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Ellen, one of my all-time favorite top 10 female names.
Elizabeth is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Allison, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Here's Lori, also in my top 10 favorite girl names.
Leslie, that's one of my top 10 all-time favorite female names too.
Lauren, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Laura, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names, too.
Nancy's in my top 10 favorite female names list.
This is Nina, one of my all-time favorite top 10 female names.
Tina, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Tanisha, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Tracy's one of my top 10 all-time favorite female names.
Prissy is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Sarah's one of my all-time top 10 female names.
Susan, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Barbara's in my all-time top 10 list of female names.
Melanie is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Martha, love that name.
Martha, one of my top favorite female names.
Megan is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names, too.
Michelle is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Morgan, one of my all-time top 10 female names.
Cheryl is one of my all-time top 10 female names.
Oh, Amy, one of my top 10 all-time favorite female names.
Hi, Jeanette.
It's one of my all-time favorite, top 10 female names.
Jenna is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Jenny, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Jennifer, one of the top 10 all-time favorite female names.
Jill is one of my all-time top 10 female names.
Jane's in my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Hey, all right.
I was wondering about that.
That is.
She sent me a note.
She sent me a challenge that you will not have the courage to play this.
And of course, I rose to the challenge.
From ABC News, a blog, Jan Crawford Greenberg reporting McCain's new strategy.
I saw this, my head came close to exploding.
We just had the story from the San Francisco Chronicle about how McCain admires Pelosi, is very inspired by her, as are millions of Americans, ditto, Mrs. Clinton.
Part of the calculus now is how his VP choice will further sharpen McCain's message.
There is significant support among McCain top advisors that he make a transformative pick who would change the Republican Party, someone who would appeal to moderate Republicans and Democrats.
This pick would be somebody who, like McCain, has taken the unpopular stands, made the hard calls, and stood firm on principle.
A person who fills that bill, these advisors say, is Joe Lieberman.
So significant support among top McCain advisors that he make a transformative pick.
You know something?
The Republicans don't want to win this election.
They don't, I don't care.
McCain may not, he does want to, but these people around him that are giving him this advice, they must not want to win this election.
He was at the top of the ticket.
He's transformative.
He's enough.
We don't need two guys on our ticket trying to appeal to moderate Republicans and Democrats.
McCain can handle that himself.
Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal today, the headline of his column is McCain stupid.
On Sunday, he said on national television to solve Social Security, everything's on the table, which of course means raising payroll taxes.
On July 7th in Denver, he said, Senator Obama will raise your taxes.
I won't.
This is not a flip-flop, right?
Senninger.
This is a sex change operation.
What I'm asking is, does John McCain have any mental focus?
Does he have the intellectual discipline to avoid being outslicked by Barack Obama if he isn't abandoned by his own voters first?
Is John McCain stupid is the headline.
And he concludes, there is a reason the American people the past 100 years elevated only two sitting senators to the White House, JFK and Warren Harding.
It's because they believe most senators, adept at compulsive compromise, have no political compass, and it'll sell them out.
Now voters have to do what they prefer not to do.
Yeah, Senator McCain has honor and country.
Another month of illogical, impolitic remarks, and Senator McCain will erase even that.
Absidé, coherent message for voters.
He'll be one-on-one with Barack Obama in the fall, and he will lose.
So there we have it, folks.
Republicans close to McCain.
We need a transformative figure.
Hey, look at it.
If you like the way the government's going now, and you like how big and bloated it's gotten, and you want the Republican Party to become that, you've got your choice here.
Hey, Rush, it's America's Anchor.
Hang on a second.
Well, anyway, it's the anchor of NBC Nightly News in New York, an interested listener.
Let's put it that way.
It's Brian Williams congratulating you on a great run.
I know you're just getting warmed up.
Go get him.
He was going to call himself America's Anchorman, and he stopped himself because he realized he's not.
Brian's another one of these guys people don't know about.
He is hilarious in private.
He is as funny as he can be.
It's a shame that in the solemn world of the presentation of the news in the drive-by media, he does not get to demonstrate that.
Back to the archives as we celebrate our 20th anniversary tomorrow.
We're doing a little more each day as we build up to tomorrow.
To the archives we go.
Is this Clinton country in the Atlanta?
And off, sir, we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks.
And we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor and you re-elect.
And you re-elect old Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're going to start on the 96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton as I re-elect him on the next minute.
And I feel we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks.
And we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor and you re-elect.
And you re-elect old Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're going to start on the 96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton as I re-elect him on the next minute.
As I re-elect him on the next minute, this is Clinton Country in the Adam.
Senator Kennedy, what is it, 1994, 1995?
What needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor and you release a re-elect him on the next minute and you re-elect Old Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're gonna start on the 96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton as I re-elect him on the next minute and off.
So we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor and you release him on the next minute and you re-elect OK Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're gonna start on the 99 Senator Kennedy 1994 1995, for the 14 or 13 years ago.
We first.
We first played that, that soundbite on the television show and then brought it over to radio okay, to the phones, to Moran, Pennsylvania.
Mark, thank you for holding your next on the EIB network.
Hello, hello.
I think we've got a real dilemma here.
We got Barack Obama acting like a candy ass.
Anytime somebody says they don't agree with whatever he stands for, you know.
He says, you know, put more air in your tires and get tune-ups.
I mean, come on people we, we got enough energy in this country to last for centuries.
In Pennsylvania we used to be one of the coal kings.
Coal everywhere, and now you can't burn the coal because you've got the environmentalists.
But on the other hand, I don't see much coming from McCain.
And if he's going to have to lower himself to to work with Nancy Pelosi, then I guess he gets the candy.
You know what he was doing.
You know what.
He said this out in San Francisco and that's her district, that's where she's from.
But it still made my head want to explode.
It made me want to puke.
What was he get?
This is not how he's going to.
First, he's not going to win the presidency by going to San Francisco to get Democrats to vote for him.
It just isn't going to happen.
And I'll tell you something, this this this, this business of his advisors saying he need to find a transformative figure moderate, Republican or Democrat as his vice president.
I have suggested on several previous occasions that the blue-blood country club Rockefeller Republicans would just as soon get rid of the conservative base of the Republican Party, because it embarrasses them and a whole host of other reasons.
And this is you.
Put these two things together.
You're right.
You're absolutely right, Mark.
Here we've got We've got a Democrat presidential candidate who is a child.
He may be the Messiah, but he's a child.
He's a baby.
And he has not learned to think.
He only repeats what he has been taught.
I still can't get over this business telling people to inflate their tires properly and get tune-ups in order so we will not have to drill.
Democrat Party is invested in no drilling.
They're invested in defeat in Iraq in a sane political environment.
They'd be toast.
They wouldn't even be viable.
Here is Pronounces Bava.
Bava in Brooklyn.
Hi, Baba.
Nice to have you on the program.
First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your 20 years.
Thank you.
I remember 10 years ago when I first listened to you.
Before that, I read a book that today I consider really, really stupid.
It was about you, and it was called Russian War is a Big Fat Idiot.
But I wasn't really involved in politics.
I was busy with kids and a home and, you know, and things like that.
But then I started working with my husband, and every day I listened to the radio, and I turned the doll onto your program, and I heard you talking about Israel.
And I'm an Israeli.
I was born in Israel.
And I'm like, I went, oh my gosh, I wish all Jews would talk about Israel the way you do.
And I started listening to you on that day, and I realized you actually helped me realize that I am a conservative.
I wasn't registered in any party before that, but on the day that Hillary Clinton announced that she's actually running for Senate from the state of New York, I became a registered Republican.
And so, and, you know, since then, I have been listening to you, and more and more.
I am a conservative.
More than a Republican.
I'm really very, very conservative in every possible way.
I love hearing you say that.
I love hearing you say I'm a conservative because you're saying it with pride and you're saying it with conviction.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And I have to tell you, I work in the healthcare industry.
A small part.
I collect money from insurance companies.
And every day, I'm convinced more and more that socialized medicine is going to be a disaster, an absolute disaster.
And that's, you know, especially if you look at the economic climate that we're in, at the growth is happening, but if you look at the credit crisis, the mortgage problems in the housing industry, imagine piling socialized medicine on top of that.
I just, I shudder to think about it.
Well, I'll tell you what's going to happen.
The sympathy play that the Democrat Party will mount upon the death of Senator Kennedy will lead to the push for one of his signature issues, which is socialized or nationalized health care.
And they'll probably call it Kennedy care or some such thing.
And it's going to be, they're going to really be tugging at people's heartstrings emotionally.
It's going to be tough for elected members of Congress to resist this.
How could you deny the one thing Senator Kennedy devoted his life to?
Have you no heart?
And what about the children?
Be prepared, Baba, because it's going to be an onslaught.
And it really scares me.
It really scares me.
I see what's happening today, and it just people are not going to get health care.
They're just not going to get it.
Exactly what's happening in England is going to happen here.
And you're not going to have doctors.
You're not going to have people going into medical schools.
It's already starting to happen.
Doctors are already opting out, and they're setting up fee-for-service business.
You give them a retainer, like a lawyer, then you can go see them off insurance, off Medicare, off this kind of.
Doctors here are already opting out of this.
I also, I heard on the Prit Hyung show two nights ago that doctors are signing patients that they're not going to go to a lawyer if something wrong is going to happen.
They're going to go to an arbitrator and they're going to be bound, but the arbitrator says, and I think there's a limit to what the doctors can pay like $40 million or something in these arbitrating agreements.
Yeah, well, that highlights another problem: the medical malpractice insurance courtesy of the tort bar, led by estimable people such as John Edwards.
Yeah.
When he's not hiding out in the basements of hotel bathrooms, avoiding reporters from the National Inquirer.
That's right.
Baba, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Great to have you.
Appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
Here is Scott in Jacksonville, Florida.
Hi, Scott.
Nice to have you on the program.
Jack Bauer and Allen Brothers Megaditto.
Thank you, sir.
Happy anniversary.
I've been listening to you since 92.
I've told my wife's grandfather, who's 93 years old, World War II Bombardier, to listen to you.
He's listening to you right now.
My father-in-law, so many people I've told about you.
The one thing I had told Bo that thinking of these last 20 years, Rush, what you've brought to us.
I remember you on PBS with Norm Ornstein when you talked about the House banking scandal.
Your impressions you've done over the years, Judge Hirschner, Senator Hollings, James Carville.
I remember Kennedy's in Jeopardy.
I mean, what a great, I mean, I think it was about a week of Kennedy's in Jeopardy you did.
I remember the day when people called in from across the country saying how you changed their lives.
Like they lost jobs, but because of you, they found new jobs doing something they love to do.
I want to thank you for Mannheim Steamroller and for 24, and especially for Allen Brothers.
And I just want to thank you for being there these past 20 years.
Well, you've got a great recollection of things.
I had forgotten about the Kennedys in Jeopardy game, and I don't know that we found it when we were going through any of the archives, but that was hilarious.
It was a week-long series based on the TV game show Jeopardy, but it was called Kennedy's in Jeopardy, and it was hilarious.
If we're unable to find it by tomorrow's program, and we've had a couple people, this has been an arduous project going back and trying to find all these things, and we've been working on it for quite a long time.
We'll try to find that.
Also, the Judge Hirchner, if you don't remember Judge Hirschner, this was during the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, ladies and gentlemen.
And they had all these advocates for both Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill come up and testify.
And of course, the advocates for Anita Hill not only advocated for her, but had horrible things to say about Clarence Thomas.
And they had this woman up from San Francisco, Judge Susan Hirschner.
She was like a low-level judge, a little up from night court, but a staunch, great lib.
And her husband was somehow there, but liberal activists.
And you've heard the description of somebody with a tight butt and just, this woman is that times 10.
And she's sitting there, and she was just one of these most properly spoken.
In case we don't have that, I will do my impersonation of Judge Susan Erchner when we return from this time out.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, El Rushbo, talent on loan from God.
All right, take yourself back in time to the Clarence Thomas Anita Hill hearings in that Senate hearing room.
And imagine, if you will, a middle-aged woman trying to look like she's Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Whitish blonde hair parted in the middle, some bangs over the forehead, sitting as erect as if somebody stuck a pole down her mouth.
And nothing moves when she speaks.
And of course, these senators are asking her questions.
And when it came time to describe the virtues of Anita Hill, Judge Susan Hirchner said something along these lines.
Senator, senator, I have to say that Anita is so pure.
See, Senator Anita Hill has never had a barrel movement.
She has never soiled a toilet in her bed.
That's how clean and pure center Anita Hill is.
Now, she didn't actually say that, but it was close.
I mean, she was...
She smacked her lips at times.
Yeah, and Cookie right now is trying to track down actual audio of Susan Hirchner.
And we may have it.
And then you can compare my impression of Judge Herchner with how she really speaks.
Now, get this.
From the Raleigh News and Observer.
Apparently, they're going to have a back-to-school retail sale.
The state's going to eliminate sales tax.
At one minute past midnight tonight, cash register bells will ring as the state's seventh annual sales tax weekend starts, and budget-sensitive shoppers will be ready.
The National Retail Federation reports that parents intend to spend an average of $600 on screw supplies, up $30 from last year.
And of course, many intend to shop carefully.
Who wrote this?
Vicki Lee Parker.
The chickification of the news.
By the way, before I continue with that, it reminds me of a story.
A small increase in water temperature among sensitive fish like the South American Pajari can result in a population that is 98% male.
That, my friends, is a good thing.
Global warming there might be an added benefit because this would avoid the chickification of the seas.
Chickification of the newsroom.
Gas prices have retreated a bit in the past weeks, writes the News Observer, but they remain high with costs soaring for many household items.
Skipping the 6.75% state sales tax on computers, scrool supplies, clothing, and other products is an attractive issue, even in a gloomy economy.
The Retail Federation estimates national spending for kindergarten through 12th grades this year will reach $20.1 billion.
And she goes on to talk about how it's not going to be saving that much money, but it's worth it.
And then, in a companion story, right up Obama, right?
I mean, right up Obama's alley here, how to shop smart.
This weekend, when you go out screwl shopping for your kid in North Carolina, a triangle family with screw-aged children, three screw-aged children spends $200 per kid will save $40.50 on taxes.
With such small savings, it's important that it all goes to your pocket.
So try to avoid some things that eat into your savings.
And here comes the nanny chickification preaching to the readers of this newspaper.
Don't use lots of gas driving all over looking for deals.
Map out the stores you want to visit and try to limit your travel to one area.
If you charge your purchases on the credit card, be sure to pay off the balance within your allotted grace period.
Paying interest on tax-free purchases defeats the purpose.
Check your receipts.
Make sure the store didn't charge you tax on a tax-free item and stay within your budget.
If you plan to spend $200 per child, stick to that.
Think ahead.
If you do have extra cash, now may be a good time to get an early start on your Christmas shopping.
Vicki Lee Parker, the Raleigh News and Observer.
The chickification.
I'm sure she's a wonderful woman, a nice woman will look.
I know it is very sexist.
Very sexist to mention that the writer of that story was a nanny mothering.
I just sent one of the staff members out, ladies and gentlemen, to properly inflate my car's tires and to get it tuned up.
I'll report back, hopefully before the program's over.
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