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I just saw a little blurb on Fox mere moments ago saying that after years and years of trouble, the dollar is starting to strengthen.
The oil price is down over a buck and a half today at $18, $118 and some change.
Yesterday, Cisco delivered terrific earnings, and they said that their outlook for the next two quarters was good.
The IT spending, corporate information technology spending, is not falling.
Dow Jones industrial average up 331 points yesterday, down six today.
NASDAQ is up.
Federal Reserve decided to hold line on interest rates, meaning they're also not going to raise them anytime soon.
So there's a lot of economic news out there that's good.
Gasoline price, national average below $4 a gallon out there.
And folks, get this.
Mookies, boys.
The Mahdi army have packed it in.
From the Wall Street Journal, good news out of Iraq is becoming almost a daily event.
In just the past week, we learned that U.S. combat fatalities, five, dropped in July to a low for the war, that key leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq have fled to the Pakistani hinterland.
Troop deployments will soon be cut to 12 months from 15.
And that Washington and Baghdad are close to concluding a status of forces agreement.
And now this, Shiite cleric Mokhtada al-Sadr, Muki, is going to announce Friday that he will disarm his Mahdi army, which was raining mortars on the green zone in Baghdad as recently as April.
If you couple Muki standing down with the near total defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq, this means that the United States no longer faces any significant organized military foe in Iraq.
It also marks a major setback for Iran, which had used the Mahdi army as one of its primary vehicles for extending its influence in Iraq.
So what has happened in Iraq in a year or so is something nobody ever thought would happen, and that is we have won.
I don't know that they're close to declaring victory, but no, and Muki, Mokhtadar al-Sada, you know what he's going to do?
The Mahdi army is going to be restructured into a social services organization, if you can believe this.
The Mahdi army is going to become a bunch of community organizers.
And because of the ego of Barack Obama, I fully expect at some point in the campaign, not too far from now, where Obama will suggest or make mention of the fact that in his discussions, while he was in Baghdad.
By the way, Mike, grab that tune.
I want to hear this tune again.
One night in Baghdad, we had that during Obama's little summer intern tour.
Just give me a quick flash when you have extricated it from the profit memory.
Thank you.
He's got it ready to go.
Obama is going to say in his discussions, while he was in Baghdad, he discussed with various elements the use of opposition forces in a productive way to help secure our policies in Iraq.
So now we got Mookie and his boys are going to become community organizers.
And of course, that's what Obama did.
And who better to advise Mookie than Obama?
Seriously, that's what he's going to do.
They're going to give social services, education, social justice.
So I guess Mookie's throwing his hands in with the left over there.
He's going to throw down the weapons and start disrupting the society, much like the civil rights organizations here in this country have tried to do to ours.
That is white comedian Paul Shanklin as the Messiah, the one, the most merciful Lord Baruch Obama.
It is true, ladies and gentlemen, the only thing over-inflated in this country is Obama's ego.
Not only could Obama's over-inflated ego cost the country trillions of dollars, Obama's over-inflated ego could cost lives.
If a bunch of morons and thunderheads who want to show their patriotism and their at oneness with the one and go out and start over-inflating their tires and start having blowouts and accidents, as I say, we need an ego gauge, not a tire gauge.
We need an ego gauge, ladies and gentlemen, to try to keep Obama's ego in check.
A rectal thermometer, perhaps.
Get this.
It's depressing.
A poll finds that 78% of New Yorkers, state's in recession.
The state is in recession.
The state is a social services economy.
Quote unquote, Governor David Patterson.
A social services economy means it's a welfare state.
It is in a recession.
They have higher, a combined higher tax rate in New York than they have anywhere in Europe.
Yet a poll finds that 78% of New Yorkers favor raising the income tax on New Yorkers who make $1 million or more per year as a way to get out of the state's fiscal crisis.
They're already paying the highest combined tax rate in the country, and still it's not enough.
78% of New Yorkers agree with this.
This poll, by the way, shows support for a proposal by the New York Assembly's Democrat majority to help fill a projected $6.4 billion deficit for the coming year.
Opponents say a higher tax will drive employers away and might drive some employees away.
Is that Michelle my bill?
They let her out?
She making a speech in Pennsylvania.
Must be desperate.
They let her out.
She'd been undergoing a makeover of some kind.
Anyway, this is a Quinnipiac University poll.
78% of New Yorkers raise taxes, income taxes, on people who earn a million dollars a year or more.
Back after this, my friends, with much more sit-tight.
I have to say, it is hilarious.
It is hilarious.
Have you seen this ad?
The ad for the Nissan.
A bunch of Arabs in full Arab dress are outside the front of a hotel, either getting into their limo or getting out of their limo, but there's a huge stretch white limousine.
And one of these Arabs notices this puny, tiny little new Nissan car.
And these Arabs look at it and they start pointing at it and they attack it.
One guy, one Arab actually jumps on the roof on the windshield in the hood and starts beating the car, claiming, you made me lose my home.
You made me lose my air conditioning or whatever it was.
I've not been able to hear the whole thing.
And it's hilarious.
And now, a leading Arab commentator on Saudi TV who works at the pleasure of the royal family has demanded a worldwide Arab boycott of Nissan because of this ad.
But it's clever.
It's clever.
I mean.
See, this one Arab go nuts attacking this car.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, back to the phones.
People here patiently waiting.
Oh, before we get.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
A couple things.
Couple things.
We have a hurricane forecast revision.
Yes, we do.
A combination of factors has spurred the veteran meteorologist William Gray of Colorado State University to boost his predictions for the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
These elements include an early tropical cyclone season in the deep tropics, hurricane-enhancing ocean surface warming in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, and low pressure patterns at sea level in the tropical Atlantic.
Gray predicted that, or now predicts there'll be 17 named storms this season rather than 15.
They have boosted the number of hurricanes by one to nine and the number of major hurricanes from four to five.
Dr. Gray is calling for a very active season.
He predicts that there is a 43% chance at least one major hurricane packing sustained winds of at least 111 miles an hour will make landfall on the eastern seaboard, including the Florida Peninsula.
So what Dr. Gray is saying is that there is a 57% chance that no hurricane will make U.S. landfall.
Simple math tells me this.
Time magazine.
Remember the cover, the story they did when they discovered that boys and girls were born different?
Couldn't believe it?
Laura Blue, writing in the latest issue of Time magazine, Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
This is Time magazine.
Why do women live longer than men?
This is as easily understood.
This is known just as it is known all over the world that boys and girls are born different.
Tell me, why do women live longer than men?
Tell me.
Nope.
Let's turn it around.
Why do men die earlier than women?
That's the question.
Why do men die earlier than women?
Because they want to.
John, in West Germany, we have a call from West Germany here on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Air Force Dittos from Stingdahl and Air Force Base.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Did you see Obama when he was just there?
No.
No, he bypassed us, remember?
That's right.
I forgot.
Sorry.
I forgot.
I forgot.
You know, I don't understand why Obama is stopping with the tire inflation.
I really think they should make it mandatory now that car companies make all new cars without air conditioning.
You know, air conditioner is a huge waste of fuel.
Oh, yeah.
That is huge.
You turn on the air conditioner.
You are impacting your gas mileage a lot.
Absolutely.
By tons.
And I've turned off my air conditioner now completely.
Well, I guess you're being a good citizen.
I would never do that.
I don't care what they do.
I don't care what they do.
I'm not doing that.
I won't.
I'm not.
But, you know, you're right to point these kind of things out, though, because this is the kind of control that these people want to exert over us.
They'll try and pass it.
They will.
They make it control.
They'll make it voluntary.
They'll get some wacko environmentalists living in San Francisco where they never need air conditioning to do it and say, see how much money we're saving.
By the way, folks, let me ask you a question.
Did you know that if you used a Renaissance water heater, you could save as much oil as there is in NWAR?
Absolutely right.
If you use a Renaissance tankless water heater, you will save as much energy as we would get drilling in NWAR.
And if you use a Renaissance tankless water heater and inflate your tires, you are going to discover oil underneath your house.
That's right.
You no longer need to start wasting money.
I just love throwing this stuff right back at them.
It's so silly.
Anyway, the Renaissance tankless water heater is a brilliant invention.
It does heat water only when you need it.
It doesn't waste a lot of energy heating water you will never use.
It won't blow up.
That water tank you have, folks, if it's over seven years old, it's just waiting to blow up on you.
But a Renaille tankless water heater will not do so.
And you don't want 30 or 40 or 50 gallons of a ruptured water heater tank all over your basement or kitchen or wherever you have the thing.
Never happened with a Renaissance tankless water heater.
Plus, you'll have all the hot water you need, no matter who's in the house doing what with the hot water.
Go to foreverhotwater.com and check the savings.
There's a little calculator there.
You can see how it works.
You'll be fascinated.
Foreverhotwater.com.
You find out how much you will save every month, which will lead to even more oil from NWAR.
Sam in Pittsburgh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Russ.
Yeah.
Thanks for taking my call, longtime listener.
Thank you, sir.
I want to bring up the subject about gasoline.
I think we need to switch back to leaded gasoline, and we'll have more fuel in our tanks at a cheaper price.
But we'll probably need the Lord to overturn the laws of the EPA to push this on us.
I mean, you'd have to – we start polluting – They say you destroy the catalytic converters.
Well, catalytic converters were designed for leaded gasoline.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, sir.
That's right.
Obama told me that.
It slipped my mind.
So with leaded gasoline, what you're getting at, we would need all these different formulas for various pollution control areas throughout the country.
Right.
That's more of the shortage.
We're wasting more oil by getting all the lead out of the gasoline.
Well, you know, it's a great idea.
We're going to turn back the hands o'clock of time.
Let's do it.
But the problem, the problem, Sam, and I don't misunderstand this.
But then the kids, you know, they would start drinking it and they get lead poisoning.
It's bad enough the stuff from China coming in.
One of my old-time favorite bumper tunes, The Isley Brothers Fight to Power.
This is a red letter day.
I mean, this is a red letter day.
Another sea, I told you so.
Way back in the spring, it might even predate that.
We had a call on this program from somebody who said, but rush, but rush, if Obama is elected president, isn't that going to just take care of most of the racial strife in this country?
Because, I mean, how could they keep calling us racist if a black man is elected president?
I said, you don't understand the race business.
It will get worse.
If Obama is elected, the race business will expand.
The accusations of racism in this country will increase.
But rush, but rush, you say.
How can this be?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a printed story from the far-left-wing-leaning editor and publisher website.
The question of how strongly race will play out in the November election, that is, how many whites will prove to be colorblind, has dominated the discussion of racial politics in the Obama-McCain race so far.
But coming this Sunday, the New York Times magazine looks at what the Obama candidacy ultimately means for blacks.
The cover story by frequent contributor Matt Bay is titled Post-Race at the Times, and its preview asks, is Obama the end of black politics from the New York Times teaser.
For older black leaders whose road to Washington began with civil rights marches in southern jails, the prospect of a Barack Obama presidency is gratifying, but unsettling as well.
In post-race, contributing writer Matt Bay asks what a black president would mean for black politics.
The slowness of old Washington hands, Charlie Wrangell, John Lewis, the Reverend Jackson to embrace Obama as a torchbearer, as a torchbearer was one sign of wariness in the absorption of black politics into American politics.
How about that?
The absorption of black politics into American politics.
What the Sam Hill does that mean?
The absorption of black politics into American politics?
Now, get the rest of the way the sentence finishes here.
It's one sign of wariness that the absorption of black politics into American politics could ironically mean a decline of black influence.
So I told you they are worried about this because once Obama gets in there, if it happens, the biggest problem they've got is that black people have been raised to be inferior.
They've been told they're inferior.
That's what keeps them in line.
That's what keeps them angry.
It keeps them agitated.
When you're inferior, when you're told you're inferior and you feel you're inferior, you're blaming somebody else for being better than you, and it keeps you all upset.
And this is what the race industry and business has relied on, among other things.
But how do you keep people inferior when one of their own, quote unquotes, the president?
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the great fear that the race industry has about Obama's election.
Not to mention the fact that Jesse Jackson is jealous as hell of him.
Jesse wants to, you know, castrate the guy.
And don't think that's going away just because he got caught.
Now, here's the truth of the matter: it is not going to mean the end of black influence.
Mark my words.
If, indeed, Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States, virtually every criticism mounted against him, his policies will be said to be rooted in racism.
I guarantee you.
It's already happening now.
All you've got to do is mention his stupid trip to Germany.
It's racist.
All you've got to do is run an ad that puts Paris Hilton and Britney Spears racist.
They're already doing it.
Some, you're skinny.
If you run it, you run an ad that says Obama's skinny, or you do his stories, that's racist because you're focusing on how he looks.
And when you're focusing on how he looks, you're noticing his skin color.
That's who wrote that?
The Noah, Timothy Noah Slate Magazine.
No, you forgot the ears.
That's what some of us just can't avoid noticing about Obama's the Dumbo ears.
We don't see his black skin.
He does.
He talks about it all the time.
You people talk about it all the time on the left.
As did E.J. Deion Jr. yesterday afternoon, MSNBC Live, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, said to him, does Senator Obama have any responsibility for the way the campaign shifted toward race last week for having opened it up with his saying, you know, they're going to come after me and mentioning John McCain by name.
Race is going to be an underlying factor in this election, whether we like it or not.
I think Obama is going to have to deal with a certain amount of racial feeling among those voters who aren't pure racists but may feel, as they would put it in polls, uncomfortable.
And so I think to have this warning now might actually help Obama in the long run.
All right.
So here's E.J. Deion Jr. suggesting that Obama is going to have to deal with a certain amount of racial feeling among voters who aren't pure racists, pure racists, pure racists.
Aside from the pure racists, people who are uncomfortable voting for Obama are racist too.
See how this works?
Of course we have the pure racists.
And wink, wink, we all know who they are, don't we?
Yeah, we all know where they live, don't we?
Yeah.
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Redneck Riviera in Florida.
Yeah, we know where they live.
Gun racks in the back of the pickup.
Go to church every day.
Yeah.
The bitter clingers, we know who they are.
We know who the bitter, bitter racists are.
But also, says Deion, people who are uncomfortable voting for Obama are racists as well.
So what they're setting up here is that anybody who doesn't vote for the Messiah is a racist.
Were we racist because we were uncomfortable with the haughty John Kerry?
They're the ones that keep this alive, and I'll tell you why.
It is a distraction.
They're trying to keep everybody on defense.
They know that the Republican Party has certain elements in it that will do anything to avoid being called racist.
No, Pleo Come here.
No, no, I'm not.
I really, I want to friend black people.
I'm not a racist.
They know that.
They want to intimidate them into not criticizing anything else about Obama.
His stupid tire gauge plan.
I still, folks, I am 57 years old, and I cannot believe that I spent an hour and a half of this program talking about that idea.
Hi, welcome back.
Nice to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush Lindboy here, looking for well, it's got to be another stack.
Let me grab a quick phone call.
Chester Spring, Pennsylvania.
It says, Judd, nice to have you here, sir.
Welcome.
Thanks, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
I think today is the best show you've ever had.
It's been terrific.
I've really enjoyed it.
You know, it's interesting you say this because I'm setting an email record in the public email account.
We're getting five times what we normally get in the course of the three-hour program or the tire gauge garbage.
What have you liked about today's show, Judd?
Well, I'll tell you, being on hold is terrific because we get to listen to all those bumper things, and those are terrific.
And then, so you don't get the commercials.
But more importantly, I mean, if nothing else, Clinton talking about monogamy being important, followed by Mookie turning into a social service organization and this total nuttiness about the tire gauge.
It has been a fun show.
I'll have to agree with you since you put it that way.
It's been frustrating to me.
I'm 57 years old, and we're discussing something that six-year-olds understand.
It's just silly.
I've found myself on the edge here of coherence a couple times.
Well, Rush, I'm 66, and unlike you, I've actually figured out what the strategy is, what Obama's strategy is.
There's really a subtle nuanced strategy to this tire gauge thing.
What is it?
It involves an oil company conspiracy, a government program, and a campaign slogan.
Now, the oil company conspiracy is known by anybody who's ever used one of these 50-cent fill up your tire with air gauges at any fast food place or anything.
None of those things come close to working.
You either put in too much or too little.
You have no idea how much you put in.
It's just kind of, you know, in the few times that I'm used to.
Ryan, how do you know if a gauge is even accurate?
Exactly.
I can't trust that either.
So obviously.
You've got an oil company conspiracy here because why else would it be so inaccurate?
The oil companies are obviously putting out these kinds, this kind of technology that's going to cause you to either over-inflate and under-inflate and never have your tires correct.
So that's the conspiracy.
Well, what's in it for the oil companies to do that?
Oh, is it like big tobacco?
The oil companies want to kill their customers?
Yeah, of course.
That's it.
Now, the government part of it is this is going to lead to a government program because now, once this problem is identified and I've just identified it, now you're going to have to have a government program to fix these things.
And you're going to have to have an agency of testers, people to go out and test them, monitor them, make sure they're working, find the fast food people who are not taking care of it.
So you've got an entire government program to make sure, because now that it's been identified, that proper inflation of tires is so important, obviously we're going to have to spend an awful lot of money in the government to take care of that.
Tire pressure checkpoints.
Absolutely.
And you can have a whole agency and it helps employment and all the other things.
And then the most subtle nuance thing about the whole process is he gets a campaign slogan out of this.
Because it's going to take 10 or 15 years for the government to get these pressure things tested and checked and everything else.
So in the meantime, people are going to have to either go out and buy expensive handheld measuring devices or they're not going to be able to do that.
And that's going to create a tire gauge gap, kind of like the missile gap that never existed back in the 60s.
You're going to have wealthy people who can afford the tire gauges and poor people who can't.
No, no, wait, wait, wait.
You have wealthy people who have staff to use the tire gauge to measure the tire pressure.
Yes.
Minor correction.
I just want to keep your mind.
No, no, that's why you're the host.
See, I picked out the subtleties in what Obama has said.
Well, you were talking nuance.
I wanted to stay online here.
No nuance.
So there it is.
There's.
Well, I can totally believe it, but what I know is true is that somebody was talking to Obama, and he mentioned this tire gauge thing, and Obama had never heard it before.
And he went out, whoa, really?
Whoa, that's coup.
That's coup.
And then he goes out and says it.
And now he's backed up into defending it.
And the drive-bys are circling the wagon.
I don't want to start with this again, though.
I just tell you, folks, this whole, do you realize this whole thing is premised on the fact that someday soon we're not going to need oil?
Do you realize what will happen to your life if there is no oil?
You have no clue.
It's not just gasoline and motor oil and stuff.
Here's Joy in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Hi, Joy.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, hi, Rush.
Mega Ditto from beautiful East Tennessee.
Thank you.
I just love the humor that has been on your show today and the humor that's being interjected into the grant campaign.
And I wanted to tell Obama that I learned from my father 40 years ago to check the tire pressure in my tires.
Yeah, see, that's another thing.
This elitist runs around assuming everybody's driving on flat tires.
Yeah, that was crazy when I heard that.
I laughed all the way down the road.
I was like, you know, I never check my oil and I don't check my tire pressure.
But one of the other reasons I called, I must have missed a show where you talked about gasoline, not gasoline, but oil that's used in plastics.
And your screener also mentioned cosmetics.
And while I was on hold.
Oil is used in candles, paraffin.
Yeah, yeah.
It's everywhere.
Oil is everywhere.
Johnson's baby oil.
KY Joe, it's all oil.
Yeah.
So, you know, I haven't heard figures on how much is used in that, but I think while I was on hold, it just kind of hit me.
The cosmetics industry, it would be interesting if Obama got into it.
Yeah, I just have to go to the president, you know, okay, ladies, you can no longer wear your makeup.
So do away with the makeup industry.
I got a guy here I think wants to list some of these things.
Yeah.
Joy, thanks.
Oh, he's gone.
He's just.
Oh, Susan.
Susan in Paradise, California.
Pasadena, sorry.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Congratulations on 20 years and 20 years more.
I've been listening to you for 20 years.
Thank you.
My husband works or owns a plastics company, and he was just saying the other day: if you raise or don't have oil, everything in your house, everything in your office, there are so many things that are made of plastic that is oil-based.
And if you look in your office, your computers, your trash bags.
Everything.
Ziploc bags.
I mean, open your refrigerator.
The hole inside of the refrigerator is made of plastic.
Yes.
Everything in there.
And look at your top.
It's a found yogurt container.
But, I mean, oil is everything, and, you know, I'd love to find a substitute for it, but it's really...
There isn't!
It's organic.
It's a commodity.
And the earth keeps making it.
It's like getting mad at cotton, getting mad at sugar.
But the liberals hate it.
They hate a commodity.
And look at what we do.
We go out and we take a commodity and we convert it because we think we're smarter than God and nature into something called ethanol.
So we create moonshine out of corn, and it's just causing all kinds of problems, residual ancillary problems, whereas there's nothing wrong with the original thing.
Just the hubris, the ego of the left.
Sometimes difficult to deal with.
Quick time out.
All right, remember, we'll be back tomorrow, rearing up, rearing up, revved up, rearing, and ready to go and all that.