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April 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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As you people who are regular listeners to this program know, you know that I am highly dubious of the effects of exercise, particularly on losing weight.
And we have had many arguments amongst ourselves here in the staff, and virtually everybody I know, and even you on the phones, when I start talking about exercise, all of you seem to think I don't know what I'm talking about.
You're wrong, you say, you call me and tell me I'm I've never said exercise bad for you.
I've just said I hate it.
I have I have never said no, what am I gonna apologize for?
I'm not wrong about this.
I've never said exercise is bad for you.
I've never said that you shouldn't do it.
I'm just saying exercise as part of a weight loss regime is not going to result in losing weight.
Losing weight is simply a result of less intake of calories.
It's pure and simple.
Now to show you how ridiculous, by the way, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882, the phone number if you want to be in their program to show you how ridiculous this exercise business is.
This is from LiveScience.com.
Exercise good even after heart failure.
Do the editors even read these headlines?
Now I know what they mean.
Okay, you go through about a heart failure, you get your heart pumping again, you go to the hospital again, then exercise is good for you.
But that's not what this headline says.
This headline says exercise good even after heart failures.
Your heart stops.
That's not a problem.
Go jogging.
This is a kind of propaganda, the pro-exercise industry is out there promulgating.
The benefits of exercise keep mounting.
Now scientists say regular exercise is safe even for people who have heart failure and may slightly lower their risk of death or another hospitalization.
And what they mean is after it.
Who have who have survived it?
The finding is from the largest and most comprehensive clinical trial to examine the effects of exercise in chronic heart failure patients.
Chronic heart failure.
Could it possibly be that one of the leading factors in chronic heart failure is exercise by people who are not heart healthy?
Well, look at the way this is read, written.
The finding is from the largest and most comprehensive clinical test to examine the effects of exercise on chronic heart failure patients.
According to an announcement today from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes for Health.
Study also found that heart failure patients who had regular moderate physical activity to standard medical therapy report a higher quality of life compared to between the next episode of heart failure.
Because that's what chronic heart failure is.
Well, I know I always say golf is exercise, but when I say that I get poo-pooed.
I get poo-pooed.
People say this what do you mean golf exercise?
Well, you go out try walking five miles on a hilly terrain and so forth and so on.
I mean it's this is the point.
Even the exercise Nazis, even when I say I do get some exercise, and I walk to the car every morning.
I mean, I I walk golf courses.
That's not exercise.
That's just walking.
These same people say you need to get on a treadmill for 30 minutes a day.
Try four hours.
Yeah, but Rush, but you don't do it every day.
This is true, and sometimes I do take a golf cart because I'm I've been in training for the new wheelchair with a motor on it.
I figure if you can drive a golf cart, you'd be able to drive one of those.
You know, I knew this name Laura Richardson.
I knew um you know, you think I should tell them snartly.
I I don't like to go public with this kinds of information, but it would buttress my case.
Um I have been on a diet.
I started March the 9th, I think.
Yeah.
Let me check the date here.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
March the Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Started March the 9th.
Today is day 27.
I have lost 27 pounds.
27 pounds in 27 days.
No, I'm not gonna tell you how, because I've done every diet, but they all work.
This is the point.
There's not a diet out there that doesn't eat of the grapefruit.
They all work.
It's, of course, the maintenance and and uh all that that's the trick for people, and it always has been the trick for me.
But 27, and I have not exercised.
And when I tell people that, well, then you're losing too fast.
Or you're not gonna tone your skin, which is gonna be flabby and f no, not the case.
You know, I'm the expert in this.
I've done this, I can't tell you how many times in my life.
I know what happens, I know how diets go, I've done it, I know how it's it's I can predict it when I start one of these things.
Just on the basis I feel.
I can tell whether the diet's working or whether it isn't working.
I don't even need the scales.
I don't need to test how clothes fit, or I know it just on the base of how I'm fitting or feeling, and that's I've done it.
But I've just done this with uh with with as others would define it, no exercise.
Yeah, I've played golf, but I do that anyway.
You know, I'm not I haven't, I haven't stepped up any exercise regimen other than you know, normal what I do.
If I could, would I play four or five days a week?
Uh I don't know.
Maybe three.
Maybe four or five, but but that that's the reason I say no, not four or five, is because uh the more I play the worse I get.
You know, the more days in succession.
That's just me.
It's just it's uh.
How long am I going to do the diet?
Well, the great thing about this one, I don't even feel like I'm on one, other than, you know, mentally I know I'm on one.
There's certain things that I, you know, uh no adult beverages, uh, and certain kinds of no fried foods and that kind of thing.
It's about 1,500 calories a day, but you don't measure it.
It's it's the way it's all put together.
Uh I don't know.
I I figure, I figure I'll go another 75 pounds.
Ought to have that, ought to have that done by um September, August, or September.
If not, if not sooner.
We'll see.
What I'm thinking of doing this time, I'm thinking of losing 25 more than I want, so I have another year of fun and frolic to put it all back on.
That's my philosophy, is you can lose it in six months, and whatever you lose in six months takes three years to put back on.
And that's those three years are just fun as they can be.
So it's all it's all about the attitude of the hell you look at this stuff.
But I figure 25 or 24 more pounds.
Uh si uh what did I say 27?
It's 63.
53 or 63 more.
I'm not sure.
We'll just see.
I'm not even really thinking about it.
Is this happening?
Now back to the news.
Laura Richardson, I knew this name rang a bell.
Laura Richardson, member of the Congressional Black Caucus, who said in an interview after getting back from a visit with Castro that she found she didn't find life in Cuba what she'd always heard, that people have no homes and no shoes and no shirts and no ice cream.
She found that her constituents live in more squalid conditions than she saw in Cuba.
And I remembered this name, and we dug deep into our archives.
And this is a story from the uh the Daily Breeze in California from May 21st of 2008.
Representative Laura Richardson lost her Sacramento home in a foreclosure auction two weeks ago, left behind nearly $1,000 in property taxes.
A year ago, the story was reported.
She's a Democrat from Long Beach, California.
She had a home in the Sacramento area.
She appears to have made only a few payments on the house, which she bought in January of 2007 for $135,000.
After buying the house, she hardly had time to live in it.
Three months later, Representative Juanita Millinder McDonald died, and Richardson, then a freshman member of the State Assembly, launched a campaign to replace her in Congress.
Well, no wonder, because I bet I'll bet Castro does not foreclose on people in Cuba.
She got foreclosed on, she lost her house.
She there's no private property in Cuba, so you can't get foreclosed on.
And no wonder she thinks her constituents have it worse.
We'll be back.
Much more straight ahead.
We'll go to your phone calls after this.
Stay with us.
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Starting in Stanton, Virginia, with Alex, great to have you here, sir.
Welcome.
Megadito's rush, uh longtime listener, website, newsletter subscriber, and I think this will be the sixth or seventh time I've been on the air with you.
I'm calling about the Cuba thing, and something you said.
You said everybody knows that the Cubans are living in squalor and it's a hellhole.
And I'm not sure that's correct.
Um, one, Michael Moore told everybody.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, hang on just a second.
You're sure what are you not sure is correct, that everybody knows it or there or that it's a hellhole.
Oh, no, it's a hellhole, but I'm not sure everybody knows it.
And one reason is Michael Moore told everyone they've got the best health care in the world, which isn't true.
But I I I follow Cuba very closely.
I work at a conservative think tank, organic food's my issue.
I'm the world's most vocal non-believer, blah, blah, blah.
And I I followed Cuba very intensely because we've been told for 15 years that Cuba is an organic paradise.
They they lost the uh fertilizer and pesticides and went organic and we're told, oh, it's wonderful down there.
And I've been trying to find the reality for six, eight years.
And we just found out a couple of weeks ago that uh from a leaked at a Shea report that 84% of Cuba's food is imported.
They're so poor, you there's a mandatory hitchhiker policy.
Well, but there's hitchhikers.
There's there's a second reason for that.
The reason that 84% of Cuban's food is imported is that I don't know what percentage is, but a large percentage of it is exported.
They don't have any other way of producing income.
They do not have a private sector.
They do not have a free market.
So the only way that they can really generate income or investment, if you will, is to sell things.
Um, you know, at one time some central and South American countries are going to invest in a phone system.
Look, it everybody talks about the embargo, and there are a lot of people who think that it hasn't worked.
Uh and the per what's the purpose of the embargo?
By now, a lot of people have forgotten.
The embargo is uh put on in 1960, 61, 62, whenever, by uh by JFK after the uh the Bay of Pigs fiasco failed, and Infidel chose up with the uh with the Soviets and so forth.
So we put the embargo on, and this was supposed to put such economic pressure on them that they would be forced to go democratic and free, and you'd have to say that if that was the objective of 50 years, it has not worked.
But to say that Cuba is what it is, which is a squalid plantation, a hellhole, to say that Cuba is that because of the United States is so mistaken and so erroneous.
We are the only nation in the world that does not trade with them.
The UK trades with them, the European Union trades with them.
Canada, the Chicoms, Hugo Chavez, the world trades with Cuba.
There's just not much Cuba has that the world wants.
Tobacco, sugar, sugar's the big E. Some citrus.
There are a lot of people that freak out over Cuban rum and Cuban uh coffee and cigars, the tobacco industry, but that stuff's all exported, the vast majority of it is.
How can you say that Cuba is what it is simply because we don't trade with them when the rest of the world does?
Cuba's what it is because of the Castros.
Cuba's what it is is because it is a communist dictatorship with no freedom and no free market.
And it does, if we trade what Castro and his regime take all the money For themselves personally and for the military, and to run their political prisons, and to run the state subsidized the state-owned businesses.
Sugar, tobacco, rum, coffee, what have you.
Basically, as I say, it's a plantation run by despots.
So the whether you, you know, you want to say Cuba's in the dire straits.
That's what Castro tells his people.
So in the midst of all this, we hear that Castro's Cuba has the best health care in the world.
With all of this is a lie.
And you have American leftists who believe this stuff, and they have this lionage view of Fidel Castro as well.
I mean, really are.
We re we really are a bipolar country.
One of the arguments against lifting the embargo, just lift the embargo, and we start trading with them.
Uh the idea that that money is going to end up in the back pockets of Cuban citizens is ridiculous to think that all the money the UK sends in trade to Cuba ends up in the back pockets of Cuban citizens or Canada.
Because it doesn't.
It ends up with the leaders.
Now I happen, you know, I'm a big cigar guy, love cigars.
I'm a cigar aficionado.
And there are a lot of guys that smoke cigars who would just pray this embargo ends because they want to be able to legally get Cuban cigars, because they think that Cuban cigars are the best tobacco in the world.
And they think as Americans it's ridiculous that they don't have access to the best because some antiquated 50-year-old embargo policy that hasn't appeared to work and doesn't make any sense.
Well, let me tell you what's going to happen.
If that ever does happen, if you're a big cigar guy and you want to be able to legally get Cuban cigars, I happen to know I've I've I've talked to the domestic manufacturers both in the Dominican and in um in um Nicaragua, every other place that we imports in Tampa.
What's gonna happen is you've got the cigar you got the Cuban cigar brands, uh Hoyo de Monterey, Partigus Punch, uh Romeo e Julieta, and you've got the domestic cigar companies, which have built those own brand, their own brands, those the same brands here in the United States, and they've built them up and they've invested and they have built their tobacco factories and cigar rolling plants and so forth.
What's going to happen if that embargo is ever lifted, the first thing is going to happen is that domestic cigar manufacturers are going to go to the commerce department and they're going to say we want first dibs on raw Cuban tobacco to um blend with our own cigars that we make in the Dominican or in Nicaragua or whatever.
We they are going to start they're going to do everything they can to prevent the direct import of Cuban cigars under the brand names that they have been marketed.
It's not going to be a panacea.
It's going to be a mess.
If that embargoes ever lifted, you're going to have the Cuban exile community that's also going to go to State Department and Commerce Department are going to demand their land back.
It it if it ever happened, it would be a mess.
I'm not saying it shouldn't happen.
Do not misunderstand.
I know some people think it's worked, some people say it hasn't worked.
But you know, the reasons that some people want it lifted would not provide the immediate gratification they think that uh that it that it would.
So and and Obama's not going to do that anyway.
He's he's going to restrict uh lift restrictions on family going down there and money going down there and this uh this sort of thing.
But it this this uh the embargo.
Do I think it should be lifted?
I I um I actually don't because I don't think it's gonna change the life of anybody in Cuba.
The only way the embargo should be lifted is if somehow the the Castros are gotten rid of and you keep Hugo Chavez out of there in the aftermath.
But that's my point here, the rest of the world trades with Cuba, and they're still a hellhole.
The rest of the world trades with them.
Just because uh we don't does not define whether you're a rich or poor country.
It's up to you whether you're a rich or poor country.
Anyway, let's uh let's go back to Syracuse, New York.
This is Natalie.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rosh.
It's an honor being on your show.
Thanks for having me.
You bet, great to have you here.
I'm just calling because I went to Cuba three years ago, and I went from Havana all the way down to Santiago and what kind of visa did you go on?
A religious visa?
I went and visited my my husband was born in Cuba.
He's an American.
I went with him and my in-laws to visit family from kind of one end of the country to the other.
So I had the unique opportunity to see the real Cuba.
And I really I wanted to comment.
There's so many things that I'd like to comment on, but it's specific to what you've talked about today.
The refineries, the sugar refineries, there were about 40 of them pre-Castro.
And in Castro's infinite wisdom and government ability to run these refineries, they only have about seven or eight of them now.
And they've closed down throughout the countryside, and they do export 100% of their sugar, as you I think mentioned with the previous caller, and they import second-rate sugar.
And I mean, even to get sugar in one of their hotels, you have to ask for it because the Cubans that work in the hotels aren't even allowed access to it.
It has to come from management to get one packet of support.
Right, right, because the Cuban employees would steal it.
Yeah, I've I know a lot of people have traveled to Cuba, and the reason they go will give you their reaction to it.
I mean, if if I know people go down there just because they want smoked cigars and think it's a great place.
They can get the cigars.
Everybody has their own different reason for wanting to go down there.
But I appreciate your uh confirming uh the fact that they export pretty much everything.
And and of course, Castro didn't know from a sugar mill to a tobacco farm.
But he's running them all, and that's why there are very, very few of them left.
I have a little comparison for you that I want to make.
I want you to think about this.
Last week, the North Koreans, the Norks, uh, as as they are affectionately known, the Norks, led by Kim Jong-il, launched a missile.
It uh it went over Japan and landed ostensibly on target in the Pacific Ocean, which is a huge target to miss.
Kim Jong-il arranged celebrations and big uh massive displays of pride by ostensible Norc citizens over this great achievement because what he's claiming is they now have a satellite in orbit.
The Norks have a satellite.
They don't have a satellite, there's no satellite up there.
But the Norks have put out this, and they got the people out there cheering, oh wow, really the national pride here.
We Norks, we put up our first satellite.
We're we're we're really coming along.
So this is pure propaganda.
Now, at the same time, Kim Jong il knows that there's no satellite up there.
He's lying to his people.
He's lying to his population, he's lying to the world about successfully launching a satellite.
Now we come to the United States of America, where the government of Barack Obama has stimulated the economy with not just an $800 billion stimulus package, a $700 billion TARP payment for the I don't know how many trillions have now been used to stimulate the economy.
And the government is telling everybody that this is great stuff and it's gonna have great effect.
There's gonna be great.
It's all propaganda.
And Obama knows full well that his stimulus package is not going to stimulate anything but government.
It's not going to stimulate jobs.
It isn't going to stimulate private sector jobs, it's not going to stimulate economic growth.
After all of this stimulus, we're still being told 10 uh percent unemployment to the 10% unemployment.
Uh the the banking crisis is far from over despite all the stimulus.
So you've got propaganda in North Korea, you've got propaganda coming out of Washington, D.C., the propaganda spread by media in both places.
And it's just it's breathtaking.
You got the Congressional Black Caucus down in Cuba, basically, basically endorsing and recommending communism.
Under the rubric of this is what Dr. King would want because Fidel's interested in more about Dr. King.
And the media is going.
Yeah, baby.
Communism.
And the government just keeps spending more and more money and plans on raising taxes more and more.
No results to show for it, but What is the cry of the great unwashed?
At least they're doing something.
At least they're doing something, and the world doesn't hate us anymore.
Fine.
That's your tangible result.
That's just it's I don't know, it's not a breathtaking to watch all this.
As the one place you thought this would not happen.
Communism.
The endorsement of it, the celebration of it.
That's our opposition to that way of life as one of the modern era foundations of this country.
And look how easily it apparently can crumble.
Here's Jack Willin in Rochester, New York.
Jacqueline, thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so honored to speak to you.
I'm an English teacher in a suburb of Rochester, and you said something a couple weeks ago that really struck my heart, and it was when you were talking about the smallest minority in our society being the individual.
And I just wanted to thank you for that, because I've been using that in my class as the overlying principle for a lot of the discussions that I've been having, and I'm just thrilled that you you gave me such great prodder.
How old are your students?
I'm a high school teacher.
High schools.
What's your what's your students' reaction when you uh go through the whole concept of the smallest minority in the world is the individual.
And if you claim to be for minority rights, but you care nothing for the individual, then you cannot claim you're for minority rights.
What's what's the reaction your students have?
Well, you know, we've been kind of talking about it, and it's kind of it's very interesting to listen to them because you know, we're reading it in context of a couple books that we're using in class, and they're seeing it in a different light.
That, you know, so much is being squandered by looking at people as m as group instead of what they can contribute individually.
So it's just been an amazing conversation.
Well, you probably can't get into this in school because of this the separation of things, but uh you familiar I think this is a good illustration of the battle that we face.
You're familiar with Newsweek magazine's latest cover.
Uh I forget the exact headline, the exact wording, but you're basically no longer a Christian nation.
The United States no longer a Christian nation.
I've seen it.
Are the United States not a Christian nation?
Now, and then of course you've always you you you've got people who who want to conform and not cause any ripples, who's oh, yeah, yeah, we wish you're not a Christian nation.
Judah, Christian ethic.
We are different religions here.
We're combound by our common values.
You can't listen to a speech by George Washington.
You can't listen to his inaugural address.
You cannot listen to his annual Thanksgiving or read them.
You cannot read them without without hearing him reference God, the almighty, and how this nation owes its existence to God and our thanks to God for the vision in founding this nation uh with uh with people treated as he made them.
Uh yearning spirit to be free and so forth.
There has been a constant attack since to disabuse people the notion that this nation has a religious founding, and from that religion springs morality and our basic uh understanding of uh you know where freedom comes from.
It's it's it's it's a it's it's got religious roots, and people are threatened by religious roots because they're threatened by religious people.
And this this it all dovetails because the the effort is massive to get people, particularly in schools to conform, uh and to think as a group, to behave as a group, and to look at other people as members of groups.
People are easier to manage that way.
People are easier to control, they're easier to program, easier to educate, they're they're easier to prepare what you want them to be prepared for if they consider themselves not individuals, but rather members of some group, even being an American as a member of a group.
But being an American is to be uniquely individual as ordained by God and chronicled in our founding documents, and it is this individuality, This recognition that no two people are the same, that no two people have the same talents, ambitions,
or desires, it is this and the notion that self-interest, not selfishness, self-interest propels the individual to do extraordinary things, which when a whole population of people behave this way, you get a great country.
Yes, I know I'd agree with you.
I totally agree.
Well, I hope you're I hope your students.
I hope red fl I hope lights, I hope bright light bulbs are going off in their brains when they hear this.
I can't thank you.
I can't thank you enough for tackling this and trying to teach it to them.
Before you switch to another caller, I do have a beef with you, though.
Can I can I bring up my beef?
You have a beef with me.
Yes.
By all means, it's beef week, so f fire fire away.
You were talking about the electrical meters that were going to be installed that were going to monitor electrical use.
Yes, the thermostats, yes.
Well, my husband heard that and is not too happy.
We were looking at getting um either a big screen TV or a select comfort bed.
And he is trying to put me off of spending that and and putting money into the economy because he thinks Obama is going to be looking at our electrical meters and complaining about how much energy we're spending.
And he's using the Matthew.
Let me tell you something.
This this is I'm glad you brought this up.
Because I I simply listened to what Obama said.
He talked about in a White House meeting with one of these groups that he uh then sent off into work groups.
He said, and we're working on um on new thermostats that uh will report your electronic usage and will let you know when you are over your limits.
What?
Now a lot of people are saying that talking about this is this this is conspiracy kooks that believe in this.
Obama said it.
And it's and the first time he said it was not the first time he's talked about it.
He's is is mentioned in some of his uh writings and so forth.
This is uh this is why all to discredit something in this country, all you have to do is ah, that's a conspiracy theory, because conspiracy theories are only believed by kooks.
And nobody wants to be a kook, so you don't want to be considered a kook, just like you want to be uh falsely accused of being a racist, so you shut up about it.
But Obama said it.
And and Google's working on it.
In some states, they've already got them.
Now they're being they're being promoted as a great help.
A great help to you in using your electric usage so that you can save money.
But the individual would say it's none of their damn business how much electricity I use as long as I pay for it.
It's none of their damn business how much water I use, as long as I pay for it.
It's nobody's business.
If a utility is providing it and I use it and I pay for it, it's nobody's damn business how much.
If I want to keep my house at 65 degrees when it's 95 outside, I'm an American.
If I'm willing to pay to do that, fine.
But we have the guilt trip.
Well, you're you're using more than your share.
You are causing people in Africa to sweat when you're causing malaria, and you're causing people in America not to get their fair share of electricity.
Is this not fair?
We're wasting it.
We're destroying the plant.
All these pressures are brought to bear on you.
Stopping me from spending money.
It literally is stopping me from spending money.
Because what I don't know what my you know, I'm gonna start judging my carbon footprint.
I not have a big screen TV and I don't for fed.
Look, see, this is the thing.
I'm glad you said this.
You are behaving exactly as they want you to.
You are living your life in fear.
You just said it.
You're afraid your husband wants a new TV or something, you're afraid to go get it, because you think somewhere down the road this administration is gonna be monitoring how much you're using, and you're gonna knock on a door uh from some government official chiding you, or you're gonna get a note, you're gonna get a letter and a warning and so forth and so on.
Um the only way this stuff can be beat back is if people behave as individuals and say, oh, really?
You're gonna guilt I'm not gonna let you guilt me in and not getting a TV.
I'm not gonna let you give we have a we have an economy that needs recovery.
We have an economy that needs people going back to work.
What we don't need, and this is believe me, not by accident, we don't need people like you afraid to engage in commerce because you're afraid that what the government's gonna do.
Because next thing you know, you're gonna be afraid to call here and tell me about it.
Because you're afraid some government agent's going to overhear you.
The only way to stop this stuff is not well, you we're not gonna stop it by uh caving to it.
You gotta stand up for your rights as an American, as endowed by our founding documents, and as an individual.
And if your husband, if you want a select comfort bed, believe me, there is no energy provided by a utility company that will be used in your select comfort bed.
All the energy utilized in the select comfort bed will be provided by you and your husband.
There's no reason for not to go out and get a select comfort bed.
Television's different things, but screw them.
It's just like Earthniter or whatever they did to turn everybody, turn the lights out, turn them all on.
Resist the tug of popular sentiment.
Back after this.
As usual, talent on loan from God.
I just found out C SPAN is re-airing my CPAC speech tomorrow night, Thursday night at 8 p.m.
And I know there's nothing on television Thursday night at 8 o'clock anyway, so uh shouldn't have too much competition.
C SPAN Thursday night at 8 rerunning the CPAC speech.
A lot of people getting a lot of mileage out of that beyond me.
All right, Robert in Carrollton, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to make a point about the climate engineering you were talking about earlier.
Yes.
About them wanting to uh shoot uh pollution parts in the atmosphere.
It's real obvious.
Uh, you know, the the whole global warming which got downgraded to climate change, you know, it's there they want to create the crisis so they can pass.
I think, you know, they're their socialist ideas in the guise of greening America.
Uh yes.
I just, you know, just want to, you know, tell people that.
Oh, uh oh, I thought I thought I I misunderstood.
I I thought um yeah, I I I thought you were asking me a quote.
Uh uh, you mean they're trying to create the crisis by shooting the stuff up there.
Exactly.
Oh, well, if that's their idea, they're gonna bomb out.
Because shooting the stuff up, what if they solve the problem?
See, the worst thing about it, the worst thing that could happen to the global warming people is for their solutions to work.
It's the same thing in the race industry.
If we actually ended racism, do you realize what a disaster it would be for the Reverend Dax and Reverend Sharpton and the whole race industry.
Well, look, you could you could you could what you could do what you could you could launch some missiles loaded with sulfur.
You can have the missiles discharge the sulfur into the upper atmosphere, you could replicate what happens when a volcano goes off, you could cause some cooling somewhere, and you could claim you solved the crisis and give yourself credibility, yep, because you could cause cooling in a certain area if you dumped enough stuff up there.
Um the but the whole point here is that if if they solve it, if they do that, if they would actually launch a bunch of pollutants, let's just let's play for a minute and say this would work.
I this is purely hypothetical.
But this is why this is bogus and won't happen.
It means we don't need to stop driving SUVs to fix it.
It means we don't need to stop using electricity.
It means we don't need to go smaller cars.
It means we don't need windmill and solar and all that.
All we need is some rockets and sulfur and we can cool a planet for a while, then what's the big deal?
We can go on living the way the worst mistake they could make if all they want to do is is I mean, in a political sense, if all they want to do is claim credit for their brilliance working.
But it's all absurd.
It it's it's just literally absurd.
Um the the they created the crisis long ago.
Their problem now, Robert, is that public polling suggests that fewer and fewer Americans think that it's a crisis at all, and fewer and fewer think that it's a problem.
And so they've gotten so wacko and extreme with their apocalyptic forecasts and so forth, that they're just all over the park now.
It's pure it's always political.
They just in fact, Al Gore, who was it said the other day?
Well, it's clear.
Uh private sector democracy is uh is not enough to get this done.
Well, I gotta take a break because of the constraints of the programming formats broadcast clock.
Back in a sec.
Let's see now.
I'm still struck by this.
Barack Obama, Fidel Castro wants him to succeed.
Fidel Castro wanted George Bush to fail.
Wants Obama to succeed.
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