Here's something for you people to think about, you environmentalist wacko and paranoid pollution people.
Why is it okay for trees to leave their waste products scattered all over the place?
They do.
It's okay for trees to spread waste all over the place, but why can't we?
I mean, trees have crowded out other species of plants, reduced their numbers.
Why do we give nature a pass on its pollution, but not ourselves?
In fact, what is pollution anyway, my friend?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday.
One of my favorite days of the week, and I would think it'd be one of Mr. Snerdley's, but apparently not.
Very stressful day for Mr. Snerdley, which is fine.
At least you earn one day a week.
Here's the number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, there's a lot of news out there about Caroline Schlossberg, who is seeking the Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton.
Now, what we have here is a vanilla liberal woman who I think, you know what, I think she's bored.
I think she's bored, and I think she's overcome with this family legacy business.
She likes attending pointless meetings and eating lunch with other rich liberals.
But now it has been uncovered by the New York Daily News that her voting record is already spotty.
City Board of Elections records show that Caroline Schlossberg failed to vote in many elections since she last registered in New York in 1988, including votes for the Senate seat she hopes to fill and numerous Democrat face-offs for mayor.
Doug Muzio, Baruch College political scientist, said it doesn't speak to a deep-felt commitment to the electoral process when he was told of Caroline Schlossberg's ballot breakdowns.
Records show that Schlossberg never pulled the lever for any of her fellow Democrats in city primary races for mayor in 89, 93, 97, and 2005 when Republicans won three of the four.
She was also AWOL for the primary and general elections in 1994 when Pat Moynihan was running for re-election to the seat that Schlossberg hopes to hold.
Aides to Schlossberg, who yesterday said she was running in part because this is no time to sit out, conceded yesterday night that at times the daughter of the late president has done just that.
She has set it out.
Caroline Schlossberg recognizes just how important it is to vote.
She has a very strong record of going to the polls that her spokesman, Stephan Friedman, she's not voted on a handful of occasions over the last two decades, probably because her candidates didn't need her.
Well, no, it turns out they did.
Her candidates lost.
I also saw some videotape mere moments ago.
As we mentioned yesterday, Caroline Schlossberg went up to Harlem, probably stunned to know that there were streets up there north of 110th, and dined at Sylphia's soul food restaurant with the Reverend Sharpton.
Now, Caroline Schlossberg is, what was the name that Tom Wolfe gave these women in Bonfire of the Vanities?
It was a great, great social skeletons or something.
She's rich and she's thin, and thin, rich is in.
Emaciated, thin, rich is in.
So I was stunned.
I just saw some videotape with Caroline Schlossberg sitting next to the Reverend Sharpton, and she was eating voraciously, which surprised me because when you look at Caroline Schlossberg, you don't think she focuses on eating too much.
And then something else hit me.
That was a major faux paw.
Ladies and gentlemen, other than when you've gone to a rubber chicken banquet dinner with a politician, when's the last time you saw a politician eat on TV?
They are advised never to do it.
Nobody looks good eating.
You know, some people have this annoying habit.
One of the most annoying habits that people have gets to me most people at Smack.
I'll leave a table.
I will leave a table.
I mean, how can somebody be so unaware of how they sound?
Rush, they may have dentures.
Fine.
Take them out and gum it.
Some of them, you know, the Terrytown mob would always spit their olive seeds out while at the table.
I mean, there's some things that you just don't do.
And I watched her, and Sharpton was not eating anything.
His hand was up at his mouth, and his head was, you know, he had his chin on his hand.
And she is diving into whatever she ordered.
And she is like Henry VIII, both hands, fisting it in there.
And I'm saying, this woman is, she doesn't know what she's doing.
She doesn't even understand this basic.
You do not allow yourself in public to be photographed eating.
You just don't do it.
Would you, let me, you, you know this instinctively.
Let's say you're posing for a picture around holiday time and somebody grabs you, hey, hey, sit next to Aunt Sally over there.
We need a picture.
And if you got your mouth full, you say, hold on, let me swallow.
Because you don't want to be pictured with your mouth full.
Man, she was just, that's, that is an social x-ray.
Social x-rays was Tom Wolf's term.
Social x-rays.
You could see right through them.
Anyway, this struck me.
That's not cool.
Ms. Schlossberg is, there's an etiquette here that's not even understood.
I mean, her mom, I guarantee her mom would never be caught eating in public.
And popes, you know, the White House had a dinner for the Pope last summer, and he didn't even show up.
And they had the dinner anyway.
So why didn't the Pope show up?
The dirty little secret is popes do not eat in public, much less with a camera around.
You just don't do it.
Well, on the campaign trail, it's a different thing, Dawn.
You know, when you're going into these little diners and having waffles and pancakes, but even then, you are photographed in the dimer diner.
You're photographed leaving your tip for the waitress, unless you're Hillary.
You're photographed sitting next to the cornbread with the voters in Iowa, but you don't eat anything.
And Obama was, he was ravenous.
And the press was following at his diner saying, can I just eat my waffle?
He was just ravenous.
He wanted him to get away so that he would not be photographed eating.
And here is Caroline Schlossberg just oblivious.
And Sharpton's looking at her like, hey, babe.
I mean, if anybody would be caught eating in public, it would be Sharpton.
Do you realize the discipline that must have required for Sharpton to sit there with all those candies in there for lunch?
And all of a sudden, the cameras show up and he can't eat what he's ordered from the Sylvia's menu.
Also, when it comes to Caroline Schlossberg, this is from the Seattle Times, New York's Assembly, will examine whether a charity that U.S. Senate hopeful Caroline Schlossberg helps run was properly granted an exemption that allows her and other officials in the organization to avoid disclosing details about their finances.
Democrat Assemblyman James Brennan questions the decision by the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board to exempt the fund for public schools from a state law aimed at airing the financial dealings of charities.
Schlossberg, who wants Hillary's seat, is vice chairwoman of this non-for-profit.
Now, the law requires most volunteer directors of charities working with state and muni governments to disclose investments, outside pay, and other financial connections.
It was passed partly to assure that charities are not shadow agencies of the governments that they support.
So, more questions are being raised, ladies and gentlemen, about this.
Did you see?
I had this in the stack yesterday to talk about it.
Did you see that Burger King has launched a beef-scented body spray?
Now, you may be grimacing, but these people are into making money.
Apparently, people like, they've done some surveys, they like the way the inside of Burger King restaurants smell.
And of course, what's being cooked inside of a Burger King restaurant is french fries and burgers.
I mean, this is actually pretty brilliant.
Beef-scented body spray.
You realize that for many patrons, this will be an improvement.
These fast food companies know how to make a buck even during a recession.
Now, this doesn't interest me, but I will wait for the French fries-scented body spray.
I might get interested in that.
And we're thinking of adding some things now to the EIB store at rushlimbaugh.com because of this.
Trans fat soap on a rope, MSG facial cream, vegetable oil, hair gel.
I mean, I could corner the market on this stuff, taking the lead from Burger King in their beef-scented body spray.
Governor Schwarzenegger says that he's going to veto the Democrat budget we talked about, that it raises all these fees that are really taxes.
They're not called taxes, so the legislature, the assembly, doesn't have to vote on them.
He says he's going to veto the budget plan.
It's an $18 billion package of budget cuts and tax increases.
He says it doesn't do enough to revive the state's spiraling economy and close a projected $42 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half.
Governor Schwarzenegger says that Democrats watered down the spending cuts and increased the taxes from the package that he was negotiating with them.
He says he wants an economic stimulus package that includes private sector partnerships with government and help to keep struggling Californians in their homes.
Now, why do you think Governor Schwarzenegger wants to keep Californians in their homes?
You think it's humanitarian?
Next story.
I know how to organize a show.
The median home price in California dived 38% in November from a year earlier as foreclosures propped up sales but eroded prices.
The median home price dropped to $258,000 last month from $414,000 in November.
Indicators of market distress continue to move in different directions, said DataQuick.
They're out of San Diego.
They did the survey.
Foreclosure activity is at or near record levels.
Financing with adjustable rate mortgages is near an all-time low.
Okay, so he's going to veto the budget for now.
California home prices dive 38%.
There's a companion story.
California posts 8.4% jobless rate, the third highest in the U.S.
And all this coming on the heels of a Schwarzenegger op-ed somewhere, Newsweek, I guess, where he wants us to follow his lead on infrastructure spending and so forth.
So home price is down 38%.
Budget vetoed, 8.4% jobless rate.
Why does Arnold want to keep people in their homes?
Why does he want relief?
Very simple, ladies and gentlemen.
So they can't leave.
The lower the home prices go, the less likely it is existing homeowners can sell and split for Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, more reasonable places to live.
They can't leave.
He doesn't want them to leave because he needs their tax money.
You know, we had a discussion yesterday on this program about work and bosses.
We had a woman call from, well, I forget where she was calling from, but she was talking about how her husband works, a car company, and needs the union to look out for them, protect them.
And this led to an ongoing discussion about work.
Everybody has rotten bosses and is just something you have to put up with, blah, blah, blah.
I don't want to repeat it.
It was good, but it's on the website.
What would you do?
Let me put yourself in the position of a boss.
And on a Friday during the Christmas season, an employee approaches you and says, could I have Monday off to do Christmas shopping?
I have a late start.
We have Saturday and Sunday when stores are open.
But an employee wants Monday off to Christmas shop.
Now, I'm boss.
If I say no, do you realize how inconsiderate I will be?
How unfeeling?
How domineering?
There's two days here, Saturday and Sunday.
Stores open, sun up to sundown and beyond.
Need Monday off to Christmas shop.
At least the employee's being honest.
Not asking for a sick day, not calling in sick on Monday and lying about, but actually asking for a day off to go Christmas shopping.
I granted the day off, ladies and gentlemen, for one reason, to spur economic activity and to justify my positive vision of the future of this country.
Matthew in Cincinnati, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Matthew?
Time.
Hi.
Hello.
Hi.
Hey.
In light of your previous story, it's Christmas time, and it sounds like the liberal media is once again comparing Barack Obama to Jesus.
There's no room in the end.
Yeah, I was on the verge of saying this, but I knew that somebody like you would call and get me off the hook and say it yourself.
Let's go to the grab audio soundbite number 10, Ed.
The city of Washington is having some trouble finding suitable accommodations for the incoming Queen and the president.
She wants to stay at Blair House, but it's booked and nothing else will do.
This is some Good Morning America Today, a montage of the correspondent David Wright.
And you'll also hear ABC News Cokie Roberts.
The Obama family asked for an early check-in at Blair House, the presidential guest quarters across the street from the White House.
But the Bush administration said no.
Apparently, Blair House is booked.
The White House kindly offered up temporary accommodations on a nearby military base.
The Obama's politely declined.
They've also apparently ruled out his Senate apartment.
The couple told 60 Minutes Michelle Obama has never slept there.
The future First Lady recently stayed at the Mayflower, the hotel that's probably eager to have famous guests other than Elliot Spitzer.
But hotel rooms in this city are now in short supply.
There are all kinds of fancy hotels in Washington.
They are likely to be booked because of the inauguration, but I suspect they'd make some room for the Obama family.
I do too.
And by the way, the inauguration is not until the 20th.
And I don't think these rooms are booked for two weeks.
They just want to move in there from the 2nd to the 15th.
But the caller is right.
Marion Joseph heading into town.
There's no room at the inn.
Oh, how horrible.
How could Washington be this vicious?
How could the Bush administration be so mean and inconsiderate and insensitive to deny the Blair House?
Well, apparently it's booked, and the tradition says you don't get in there if you're the incoming president until the 15th of January.
Seth in Lee Acres, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good day, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Megan Dittos.
Changing pace a little bit on the conversation today, actually.
I'm looking for some education on the NFL and the playoff seating for this year.
Oh, the playoff seatings.
How can I help?
Well, it seems that the AFC South is going to have a bit of a dilemma because I believe the Titans have already clinched the AFC South.
They've clinched.
Yeah, but the important thing is they've clinched at least a number five seed.
No, no, the Titans.
Now, the Colts have clinched the five seeds.
Oh, Colts, that's right.
Colts have number five seed.
They did it last night against the Jaguars.
Right, and they've already handed the Titans the AFC South title.
Right.
But if the Titans lose this weekend to the Steelers, and I presume they will because of the injuries, and then they got the Colts the last week of the season, and they lose to the Colts, and because I'm a Colts fan, I presume they'll lose that game as well.
Doesn't that then mean the Colts will be the AFC South champions?
And how will the NFL handle that?
No, it could well be, but no, the tiebreaking formulas here are intricate.
Off the top of my head here, I don't have them in order, but first off would be head-to-head competition.
So, you know, how are the Titans against the Colts this year?
They're not the first game, but if the Colts win the second, then they'll be.
Okay, so they split.
Then it would come down to conference record.
It'll be identical.
Then it'll come down to division record.
No, that I'm not sure about.
No, division record first, then conference.
Well, the division record would likely be the tiebreaker, but then conference and then common opponents and then points.
And it gets even more intricate than that.
Now, I haven't.
You know, I'm going to look this up.
I know exactly where to go to find out what's going to happen depending on these scenarios that you spelled out because people have already got it posted at various websites.
Okay.
But I think the Titans are guaranteed a week one bye in a home game.
The only question for the Titans is whether they're number one or number two seed.
But if they lose to Pittsburgh and to Indy, I mean, I guess I'm thinking that the Colts should have that either number one or number two.
Don't think about it.
I'll find out here in a minute.
Okay, I checked a couple different places.
My instincts on this are right.
The Indianapolis Colts are probably the number five seed.
And even if the Titans lose on Sunday to the Steelers, the game between the Titans and the Colts the last game of the season is apparently meaningless to both teams and their rankings in the playoffs because of all these previous tiebreakers I mentioned.
And the likelihood is that you'd get backup quarterbacks playing and so forth.
And so on.
It was a cursory look here, but everywhere I've looked, the possibilities here do not mention Indianapolis moving up.
Now, it's possible that the Steelers, well, after landing, if the Steelers had lost to Baltimore last week, they could have gone from the number two seed to number six based on that's how important last week's game was.
But the Titans do not face this.
They've got a conference record, a division record that is better than Indy's.
Remember, Indy lost a tremendous number of games at the beginning of the season.
They've lost two games more than the Titans have.
And I don't think there's anything Indianapolis can do to move up from the number five seed in the AFC.
What's at stake here this weekend for the Steelers and Titans is the number one seed.
And that means you get a home field throughout and a bye week while a wildcard team's slugging it out with the number three seeds who do not get a bye week.
Now, the Steelers, if the Steelers beat the Titans this week, they then have to beat the Cleveland Browns the following week to get the number one seed, regardless what Tennessee does.
It's not enough for the Steelers just to beat Tennessee.
That'll go a long way, but they still have to beat the Browns, which should be a fait accompli, given the Browns have their bags packed, as do the Seattle Seahawks.
Jets probably have a good chance of winning Sunday, even though they're 0-3 on the West Coast this year, but the Seahawks have their bags packed.
And that could work against them, too.
You play loosey-goosey when it doesn't matter, when there's less stress, less pressure.
So you never know.
And then Sunday night, the Giants and the Panthers, and this is big.
Also at stake here is the number one seed in the NFC, home field throughout.
And then tomorrow night, Dallas has got an amazing two-game.
Baltimore is playing for the number six seed when they play Dallas.
Dallas is playing for a high seed, a low seed in the NFC.
They're on the cusp right now, but they've got to beat the Ravens, and then they have to beat the Philadelphia Eagles on the final week of the NFL regular season.
Jenny in Nevada City, California, I'm glad you waited.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you so much, Rush.
Oh, my goodness.
It's such an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I've been listening to you since you were in Sacramento.
I guess I'm on Rush, baby.
Well, you are.
I am just so frustrated right now with California and listening to Schwarzenegger saying how we need help.
We don't need help.
What we need is to close our borders.
We need to send every illegal immigrant, alien, whoever, back to where they came from.
And I don't care where they came from.
But we're paying for all of their health care, their welfare, everything else.
And I just, I don't know how to get my voice heard to every stupid California politician that needs to get their head out of their you-know-where to realize this.
This is the number one problem in California.
And I need your help.
Yesterday on this program, we had a discussion of the inflated prices of many goods and services in this country and the reasons why.
I think long-term leveraged rollover debt that's backed up by nothing has contributed greatly.
I don't want to repeat the whole discussion, but it comes down to, give you an example, and we used health care.
If health care were priced so that the average patient consumer could afford it, why we'd have a whole different picture.
Band-aids would not cost $300.
Now, people rush, right?
Band-aids do cost $300, but why is it?
And most people think it's greed on the part of health care providers, because this is what the Democrat Party and the media has done.
All business, all big business people, they are greedy.
And when you're sick and you can go nowhere else, they are going to rape you.
So a band-aid is $300, a bed overnight, $600 to $800, depending on the hospital you go to.
They do all these tests on you that you don't need just to jack up the price.
The reason a band-aid in a hospital is $300 is because hospitals are forced by law to treat people who do not pay, i.e., many of the people you just talked about.
So you're right.
If those people were not putting stress on the system, in other words, if everybody was paying, then market forces would reflect a little greater reality in health care.
And this is not contained just to health care.
There are a lot of items and services that are.
How many how many stimulus checks went out to people that should not have gotten them?
I mean, the money is being bled out of the United States and sent to other countries.
We didn't stimulate our economy.
We stimulated every other country's economy that the money is being sent back there for.
Well, why do you think that is?
I mean, you're smart.
Give me an idea.
Why do you think this is happening?
I think it's because we've got politicians that are too stupid to tell employers, hey, if you're caught with an illegal employee, totally fine.
No, You are an informed average citizen, I can tell you.
You live in Nevada City, California.
You're looking at your state, and you're looking at things that make literally no sense.
You're looking at health care, welfare, childcare, education, whatever it is, payments made by you and other American citizens via your taxes to people who are not citizens.
And you're saying, how come nobody else can see this?
The state is running a $42 billion budget.
Taxes are at an all-time high and going up.
New fees are being added on.
The people doing this have to know the problem.
Why don't they fix it?
The answer is very simple.
These people are looked upon as future voters if they can be made legal with a program like Amnesty.
And don't think that that's not going to come back once the Obama crowd gets in there.
And they're going to be working with Senator McCain on this, and we're going to get glorious stories about how there's bipartisanship.
And the defeated Republican presidential candidate is not bitter at all.
He is eager and willing to help Obama work on a signature issue of comprehensive immigration reform, which will be amnesty.
And this time there are going to be fewer Republicans around to stop it.
What can I do as an average citizen to get the word out and make people realize this and start seeing what illegal immigration is really doing to our country?
See, this is the frustration.
That's why I came to you.
Everybody knows.
But no one's talking about it.
Oh, yeah, why not?
Wait a second.
Not one economist.
Wait, wait a second.
The economists are just part of the Washingtonian elite crew.
I know, I know.
But what do you mean nobody's talking about it?
We stopped it last summer.
Oh, two summers ago.
Stopped it.
But then we started it up again.
Well, no, what's happened is that they're going about trying to get it incrementally now rather than in one big fell swoop via things like the ships, ship program, the children and infants health program that they'll throw in a little inclusion for illegal immigrants there.
Look at politicians want those votes and they want the eventual contributions those people are going to make out of out of gratitude.
However, I have to tell you, there is some good news to report here.
I don't know how much, but deportations are up sharply.
I'll be happy at paying for it.
I'll tell you something else.
With the economic recession that we're in, I'm reading, I don't know what the numbers are, but a lot of illegal immigrants are just leaving.
A lot of them are being laid off.
A lot of them being fucked because they'll be the first to go.
And they're leaving and they're returning to their home countries.
Not to say they won't be back when things kick up, but there is some progress being made.
And this is one of the reasons why some of the talk on this has died down because the people talking about it live in the real world and it's a less pervasive problem right now because other problems are overshadowing it.
But mark my words: the you know, elections have consequences and agendas are important, and this is something that will rear its head.
And I'll tell you how it's going to happen.
Once we start coming out of the recession, hopefully, fairly soon, once that starts happening, the same argument will be made.
Well, hey, business needs some labor, and these are jobs Americans won't do.
The standards are much higher.
We're going to go through a whole cycle again because the media will advance whatever it is the Obama crowd and the McCain crowd want advanced on this because they would love to see it too.
Anything conservatives oppose, economists that you're talking about, the media Democrats will be in favor of.
So it's a cyclical thing, but about the only thing we can do to stop this is to just raise hell, like happened last time.
And believe me, hell will be raised.
People have not gone to sleep on it.
They don't think the problem has been solved, and they'll be adamantly opposed to it if it's tried in a massive way again.
Back after this, folks.
Ha, how are you?
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair than a human being should be allowed to have.
It is Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882.
So when was this?
Back in November, I had a dinner party.
You tell me if you think this is insulting.
I had a dinner party for golf buddies were in town.
I had a bunch of additional people.
I had about, I got 20 people, 22 people over, and one guy, and I served Allen Brothers, a combination, Allen Brothers strip, 16-ounce strips, and 10-ounce fillet mignon.
By the way, I got the greatest Christmas present, a friend of mine in Kansas City, who was at the, he was there at the founding of KC Masterpiece, the barbecue sauce, and then the restaurants.
A friend of mine sent me a branding iron with the EIB logo.
So you stick the branding iron, you heat it up, and then you brand your steaks with the EIB logo before serving them.
It's cool.
It is really cool.
But you need a big steak because he sent me a big brand.
I get two of them.
In fact, one for the prime rib and one for either a strip or a fillet.
But anyway, so I serve a 16-ounce strip or 10-ounce fillet.
And one of the guests, you tell me if this would offend you.
One of the guests said, you know, this Allen brothers are really good, but I think there's something better.
I said, it's not possible.
I've tried them all.
He said, have you heard of this?
I said, no, I've never heard of that.
He said, I'm going to send you some.
And I'm sitting here thinking, here I have just, would you ever tell a host who prides himself on serving the best that there's something better?
Would you ever do that?
I am stunned that this guy was a liberal.
Well, a quasi-liberal.
So today we got these things.
We got the things that are supposedly better than Allen Brothers.
I don't even remember the name, but Brian brought.
No, I don't want to know the name.
Brian brought the box into me to look at it.
And I said, is that it?
Is that it?
Not only is this guy insulting me and telling me he knows something better, what he sends me, you need a microscope to look at it.
So he's a tight one in addition to an insulting guy.
It makes me even more loyal to the people at Allen Brothers.
And this brand, I'm going to look into selling these things at the EIB store because it's so cool.
Brand steaks, the serving of people, they just, ooh, what is this?
How did you do this?
I said, I have a special grill out there with a special barbecue pit.
Anyway, AB Steaks.
ABsteaks.com.
Oh, I got to remind Augusto to make sure to confirm with Allen Brothers that the woman in Wisconsin is going to get her prime rib on Monday.
Monday's the 23rd, right?
Tuesday's the 23rd.
Tuesday's the 23rd.
22nd is the day the employee wants off to shop.
Who's next?
Nick in Salisbury, Maryland.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you doing?
Oh, by the way, this is the guy who hung up.
Well, your phone died, I'm told now.
Yeah, right.
He wanted to talk to me about cars and pollution and how can I be so exactly.
Yeah, give it your best shot.
I answered your question, but he has a follow-up, I'm told.
Yes.
Well, you had an excellent line on that, and I appreciate that because I'm a fan of yours.
But what I've got to say is— That's, by the way— You said we don't have the— Hang on, hang on, we don't have the power to get out.
Hang on just a second.
My friends, while I appreciate all of you who call, say I'm a big fan, it's not that unique anymore to be a big fan.
So it's no big, don't expect extra credit for telling me you're a big fan.
Now, what was it you were saying?
Well, I said, you said we don't have the power to affect anything on the earth as humans.
No, nope.
I said, we don't have the power to affect the climate.
We cannot steer a hurricane.
We can't stop one.
We can't dissipate one.
We can't create one.
We can't steer a tornado away.
We can't stop snowstorms.
We can't stop ice.
But we can't stop or start anything like that.
Nothing of major catastrophic consequence.
It's absurd.
Okay.
Yeah, we can make grass grow with a little sprinkler.
All right, hang on.
Now, we don't have a button we can push to make things happen, right?
But we do have habits that we have that can make things, as far as our habits go, that make things happen.
Like if I take my roof shingles out back and light them on fire and make a big black smoke go up in the back, now what would you say if you were my neighbor?
I'd say you're stupid.
Right, exactly.
So that's what Al Gore's saying.
He's saying, you're my neighbor, and you're taking roof shingles and lighting on fire.
Look at the example you just gave me.
Do you know anybody other than fraudulent insurance claims of people setting their shingles on fire?
Well, you've got other things.
See?
No, no, no.
Just mean you come up.
No, you come up with these.
If you're going to do an analogy, it has to be analogous.
Okay, well, hang on one minute.
Here's the better analogy.
Here's the better analogy.
Lightning strikes a major forest in Southern California, and 250 homes are destroyed, and big black clouds are in the sky.
We didn't do a damn thing, and there's more pollution there than your shingles or your car.
And then a rainstorm comes in, and all the evidence of the smoke is gone.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you global warming people out there, an observation that has been noted by scientists, and I don't want to alarm you here, since late June, people have been paying attention to the daylight change pattern here that's become a crisis.
Approximately two minutes of daylight is vanishing every day since the end of June.
That's an astonishing rate.
Two hours or two minutes of daylight.
And if this continues, we will be in total darkness by next July.
Furthermore, this light is leaking to the southern hemisphere.