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Nov. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 12, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right, we're back, El Rushbo here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Great to have you here, folks, a telephone number.
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Pete Hookstra, a Republican from Michigan.
You know, they've been looking at this uh uh uh the the Hassan, Nadal Hassan guy.
Have you seen the video of his apartment?
There's nothing in there.
It looks like he's living in abject poverty, but he was making almost six figures a year.
So Pete Hookstrom said sources outside the intelligence community learned about Hassan's possible connections uh to uh Pakistan.
He might have been wiring money to Pakistan.
Uh which, of course, is facing a massive uh Islamist insurgency, widely believed to be uh Osama bin Laden's hiding place.
Ed Marsi has this at uh hotair.com, would appear to indicate that the Nadal Hassan was something other than a loner who cracked under the strain of uh pre-traumatic stress disorder.
The man who made $90,000 in annual salary, but live like a pauper may have sent money to Pakistan, according to Pete Hookstra.
And which would explain one mystery that has arisen since the shooting, but apparently didn't push anyone to connect a few dots before it.
Hassan's finances have been a mystery since last week when the Army major and psychiatrist allegedly shot.
He's not been charged, by the way, with 13 counts of murder.
He earned more than $90,000 a year, had no dependents, yet lived in an aging one-bedroom apartment that rented for about $300 a month.
So now we have the possibility of overseas money transfers to Pakistan.
At about the same time the FBI was made aware of repeated communication between Hassan and a 9-11 figure in Yemen.
Meanwhile, Hassan, a well-paid medical professional, lived a lifestyle of near poverty despite living by himself, and no one in the intelligence community fought this required further investigation.
Is this really just political correctness?
By gosh, I hope that's all it is, because if it's something else going on here, folks, we are in more trouble than I even want to contemplate.
If we have militant Islamists in the United States military, who are known or highly suspected to be militant Islamists, and we're looking the other way, despite all kinds of evidence that should be sounding warning bells and raising red flags.
You have to wonder, is this just political correctness and incompetence going on?
Boy, I uh I hope it's just peace.
It's bad enough if that's what it is, because that's going to be tough to fix.
But if it's something else, as in this is purposeful, then we've got we got a bigger problem than you can possibly imagine.
And I as I say, I hope it's hope it's not that.
Audio sound bites, top of the soundbites, soundbite number one.
This is last Monday in Seattle at a Swedish medical center press conference.
Pelosi spoke to the press.
A news reporter, Shamari Stone said, Do you think it's fair to send people to jail for not buying health insurance?
For a long time now, people who haven't had health care or provided it have placed the burden on others.
Everybody is paying the price for uncompensated care.
I don't need to tell you that in a hospital.
And so what this is is to say we all have to do our part, and that is the point of the bill.
But madam speaker, I'm just trying to understand.
If you don't buy health insurance, you go to jail.
Well, you can answer my question.
There is uh there is uh uh uh I think the legislation is very fair in this respect.
There you have it.
I mean, it's not a mistake in there.
Yeah.
What are you in for?
Yeah, I'm I'm here for rape, incest, and murder.
What are you here for?
didn't buy health insurance.
Uh We all have to do our part.
We all have to do our part.
Now we're gonna, as I mentioned uh an hour ago, we're gonna purge Obama's gonna purge all the Republicans from the Federal Civil Service, retroactive to five years ago.
We keep our eyes on Venezuela to find out where we might be headed, and we put and Cuba.
I mean we're talking about political prisoners here.
And it's unconstitutional anyway for the federal government to mandate that anybody buy anything.
And don't give me this automobile insurance because not everybody has to buy it.
People that don't have cars don't have to buy it.
People that don't have driver's licenses and don't drive don't have to buy it.
And automobile insurance you buy to protect against people that hit you or that you hit.
You you uh you buy it, you're not insuring yourself per se.
It's just it's it's the analogy just doesn't work.
So um, yesterday in Washington, the Speaker of the House continued speaking to the press and described her health cell health care bill as such.
I'm confident.
I'm hopeful that we will have a bill for as a Christmas present to the American people.
A Christmas present to the American people.
Yeah, imagine they're gonna give us all this wonderful Christmas present stuff.
We can get them anything.
Uh rather have coal is um is right.
From Reuters, the uh White House is looking to cut its budget deficit by using some unspent funds from the U.S. government's troubled asset relief program, TARP money, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.
This is a joke, right?
This is a joke.
This is like you owing a big balance on your credit cards.
You go out and borrow $15,000 to pay off your credit cards and think you're out of debt.
How stupid do they think we are?
Members of the Obama administration are still debating the idea, the paper said, adding that the administration would like to keep some of the unspent money in case of emergencies.
Like what?
22% unemployment?
You know what we need?
You know, instead of one of these stupid summits out there on jobs, a job summit at the White House, which I guarantee you is is going to be either a small business shakedown with the unions, or it's just a show.
It's community organizing in action.
You talk about it, you talk about it, you talk about it, you come out with a optimistic press release at the end of the day, and nothing happens.
But it may it's made to look like you care.
You know what kind of summit we need?
We need a summit of the unemployed.
That's who Obama needs to talk to.
A summit of the unemployed.
Bring them to Washington and ask them what they think needs to be done here.
We should well, you know, we could do that, snurdly.
We could we could do a little on-air town hall unemployment summit right here on the same day he's doing his job summit.
Book it.
We're gonna do that.
Whenever they announced a date for this, we're gonna do a full three-hour unemployment summit, talking only to the unemployed, getting their ideas for what ought to happen.
That's what we're gonna do.
We'll counter it with our own.
And our summit's gonna be a lot bigger than theirs, and our summit's gonna be heard by a lot more people in theirs.
And we're not gonna be able to lie about our summit because our summit's gonna take place live with no script and no teleprompter, and we're not even gonna know who the guests are.
We're just gonna invite every unemployed to call.
Now, you're gonna have to cooperate with us on this day, folks.
If you have a job, you gotta stay away.
We're I it's not that you won't have any good ideas.
We just want to talk to the unemployed.
We want to find out, because nobody's doing stories on these poor people.
Nobody is doing in fact, the stories we get and how wonderful it is to be unemployed.
Stories on how they're coming together with their families, they're relearning values like sharing and doing with less.
Oh, yeah, we're not getting any sob stories at all.
We're getting marvelous stories.
It's a wonderful thing to be on, but it's a great thing to be laid off by Boeing.
It's better to be laid off by Boeing than to still have a job at Boeing.
Who was it that reported that?
Some AP, NBC, whatever it was.
Now, there is one exception.
And that's from the state controlled New York Times.
The New York Times uh finds suddenly uh that the um forced family time of unemployment isn't working.
Job woes exacting a heavy toll on family life.
It's from the Woodlands, Texas, which is near Houston.
Paul Bockmouth's nine-year-old daughter Rebecca began pulling out strands of her hair over the summer.
His older child Hannah, 12, has become noticeably angrier, more prone to throwing tantrums.
Initially, Mr. Buckmouth, 45, did not think his kids were terribly affected when he lost his job nearly a year ago, but now he cannot ignore the mounting evidence.
I'm starting to think it's all my fault, Mr. Buckmouth said.
As the months of unemployment have worn on, his job search travails have consumed the family.
Even though the Bachmouths were outwardly holding up on unemployment benefits, their savings and the income from the part-time job held by his wife Amanda.
But beneath the surface, they have been a family on the brink.
They have watched their children struggle with behavioral issues and stress-induced disorder.
He finally got a job offer last week, but not before the couple began seeing a therapist to save their marriage.
For many families across the country, the greatest damage inflicted by this recession has not necessarily been financial, but emotional and psychological.
Children, especially, have become hidden casualties, often absorbing more than their parents are fully aware of.
Several academic studies have linked parental job loss, especially that of fathers, to adverse impacts in areas like scrual performance and self-esteem.
The extent that job losers are stressed and emotionally disengaged or withdrawn, this really matters for kids, said some expert here in policy.
The other thing that matters is parental conflict.
This has been shown repeatedly in psychological studies to be a bad family dynamic.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Somebody's contradicting the drive-by's.
If somebody in the drive-by's is contradicting the drive by's.
New York Times finally doing a story.
All this forced family time, where families were coming together.
And getting to know each other on a more personal basis, spending a lot of quality time together.
It ain't working.
When the mail is in the home.
Here's a subtext of the story.
See, you probably think I got sucked in by this.
You probably already know what the real point of this story is.
Here, before I tell you what the real point of the story is, let me give you another example.
Robert Sick, S Y C K, 42 of Fisher's Indiana, lost his job as a call center manager in March.
He's been around his 11-year-old stepson Cody more than ever before.
Lately, however, their relationship has become increasingly stained.
Mr. Six said with even little incidents setting off blowups.
His stepson's grades have slipped.
The boy has been talking back to his parents more.
You probably think this is all about the woes and the hardships that unemployment causing families across the country, but you would be wrong.
Because you see, folks, uh the template for unemployment is it's good.
It's helping families come together, and it's teaching worn-out forgotten values like sharing and doing with less and so forth.
And the New York Times is not contradicting that template.
This story's not about, oh my gosh, why can't these people find it?
This story is all about how a family implodes and goes to hell when the father's around all the time.
This is an anti-father, anti-mail story.
Get the guy out of the house or the family's destroyed.
The problem with families is fathers.
Thank you, New York Times.
Aren't you people fortunate you have me to interpret this stuff for you?
You know, this I'm thinking about this, uh this reducing the deficit with some TARP money.
Why don't we just cut to the chase?
Why doesn't Obama just write a check for the entire whatever the national debt is?
Just write a check for twelve and a half trillion, whatever the national debt is, and pay it off.
Why, why, why, you know, just nibble around the edges at this?
Why take five or six hundred billion dollars from TARP and apply it to the devs?
Just write a check for the whole thing.
If you don't want to go for the national debt, just write a check for one and a half trillion and give yourself a uh uh 200 billion dollar surplus this year.
Just write a check for it.
Simple.
And how about how about a summit to figure out ways to balance a budget?
You know, we're doing a summit on jobs, balancing the budget that's complex too.
Get some union leaders, left-wing uh bloggers in there to toss around some ideas, and then uh after they leave, write the check.
Just just write a check and and and write it off.
How about a summit on what to do when a Muslim extremist jihadist is in the military doing whatever the hell he wants and maybe sending money to Pakistan?
Why how about we do a summit on how the hell our military is being corrupted here, and who knows what other institutions are being corrupted and infiltrated?
And let's do a summit on how is it that a guy can be paid $90,000 in American taxpayer dollars and be sending that money over to Al Qaeda or whoever in Pakistan?
We need a summit on that.
How about how about Obama?
You can you convene a summit to better explain global warming when record cold temperatures are everywhere.
We need a summit for that too.
And this is not the first Obama summit back in February 23rd, 2009.
President Obama took a step forward toward cutting the nation's budget deficit at a White House summit, a difficult task facing the new president a week after he signed a one trillion dollar stimulus bill at the Monday afternoon summit, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, economists, independent experts, and advocacy group representatives will discuss social security, health care, and defense costs that have led to a projected 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
These summits obviously have worked so well in the past, this budget summit, when they all broke out into groups, you remember that?
We laughed at them.
They had groups that reported back to Obama after two or three hours of meeting, and voila they had solved the deficit?
And will it look at us now?
This is uh look at I know it's it's it's funny, but it is well, it is funny.
There's there's no getting around the fact that this is funny based on the incompetence of it all, but it's not incompetence that's driving this.
You you and I are being played for the biggest bunch of suckers that these people think have ever trod the earth.
All right.
A couple of audio sound bites this afternoon in Nueva Ork.
At Columbia University, CNBC held a town hall event called Keeping America Great, a summit, uh, with Berkshire Hathaway's CEO Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
The moderator Becky Quick says this is a very pivotal moment in history.
People have a lot of questions about the economy, about our entire system of capitalism.
Mr. Buffett, over the course of the last year, was there ever a time you had doubts about capitalism and about our way of life?
No, there was not a time.
If there had been last September when we invested a lot of money, that was when the country was looking into the abyss.
And uh, you know, the money was flowing out of money market funds, the commercial paper market died and everything.
We we put eight billion dollars to work in just a matter of uh a few days then.
So I never lost confidence in the system.
Uh this country works.
You know, we've got 200 years of uh of proof.
You know, this is this is just I'm not gonna sit here and refute the brilliance of Warren Buffett as an investor and strategist.
But I have to question the common sense the guy has.
We are in the midst of an assault on capitalism.
Buffett may have confidence in it, but his president doesn't believe in it.
Uh here's Becky Quick again says to uh Gates, Bill, what do you think about my question?
This country still has the best universities, the best science, and you know, we're in a tune our system of capitalism.
The fundamentals of the system, a marketplace-driven system where we invest in education and uh uh great infrastructure for the long term.
That's continued.
And you know, I bet there's inventions that took place even that fall in that darkest hour.
People were working on new drugs, new chips, new robots, and things that will make life better for everyone in the decades ahead.
All right, well, somebody needs to get Hold of Obama and tell him something because Buffett says he got faith in capitalism, and Bill Gates says that he has faith in uh in capitalism.
I wish Becky Quick would have asked both of them, do you see any capitalism going on out there?
You think that there's inventions, and you think that there's new drugs, and you think that there's robots, and you think all of this, but where is it?
And who's got the jobs making all these things that you say are being produced by our capitalist markets?
Uh but she didn't ask that.
You know, they're in they're in awe when they get these two guys up and ask them anything.
And just like the aliens in V, uh, this new ABC mini-series that fell the press, just like Obama, you'd not you're not going to answer any question that makes us look bad.
You can't even ask a question to make us look bad.
Well, these guys don't want to ask a question that might make these guys look bad, so that's not where they're gonna say.
Do you see any capitalism, Mr. Buffett?
Say, grab uh, let's see, grab Gates again.
I have a I have a I have a question here uh on for Bill Gates after his uh sound bite, his answer to the question, uh you've had your doubts about capitalism, about our way of life, everything okay out there.
This country still has the best universities, the best science, and you know, we're in a tune our system of capitalism, the fundamentals of the system, a marketplace-driven system where we invest in education and uh uh great infrastructure for the long term.
That's continued.
And you know, I bet there's inventions that took place even that fall in that darkest hour.
People are working on new drugs, new chips, new robots, and things that will make life better for everyone in the decades ahead.
All right, now I here's here's my question for Bill Gates and Microsoft.
If working on things that make life better for everybody in the years ahead, as Gates said, if we got people doing that, then why are we punishing them?
Why are we targeting them?
Why do we regulate them?
Why do we obstruct them?
Why do we denounce them?
Why do we point fingers and blame at them and say they are the people ruining the country?
Why do we besmirch them?
Why do we impugn them?
Why do we raise their taxes on it?
These are the people doing all of creating and venting out there.
Why in the world are they the enemy?
They are the enemy of the Democrat Party and this administration.
Why do we punish, smear, and denounce the inventors, producers, job creators, and wealth creators?
Let me tell you something.
I was I was uh just a moment ago, I was trying to find the date in December for the job summit so that we can plan our unemployed summit.
And I I couldn't find it, but I found this buried in a Fox News story at the White House.
Obama held a fiscal responsibility summit in February, a health care summit in March, an Afghan Pakistan summit in May.
It's November.
We still haven't made a decision.
These summits do Zilch Zero Nada.
They are community organizing left-wing shows.
He's also attended G20 and G8 meetings abroad, as well as attended Russia, Mexico, NATO, and America's summits.
And let's not forget the Beer Summit.
With the skip Gates and that stupid cop from uh from Cambridge.
Meetings, meetings, meetings, summit after summit after summit looking busy while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.
If we need a summit, in addition to our summit of the unemployed that we're gonna do here, we need a real summit where we can bring in the smartest free market economists and educate Obama on how jobs and wealth are created.
Actually, rather than a summit, how about Obama just do a little reading?
He seems to have enough time here.
Uh Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, Adam Smith, scores of others, maybe he can subscribe to the new conservative bestseller book list that the Huffington Post is calling for.
Here's the truth, folks.
I gotta say it.
I have to say it again.
Obama is open to learning and understanding.
He is on a mission.
He's not open, when his mission succeeds the rest of the nation's actions, people, the whole country fails.
That's his mission.
His success is the failure of capitalism, or the destruction of capitalism.
What we are witnessing is a failed presidency.
It's evidenced each and every day.
We are in the midst of a failed presidency.
We are being led by a destructive ideologue.
Who is on a mission?
He's told us to remake this country.
Back to the phones.
This is Pearl in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Nice to have you on the program, Pearl.
Yes.
Um I'm on.
You're on.
All right.
Um I agree with everything that you have said, Rush.
I'm a I love your show.
And um I just have a question, a couple of comments to make, if I could.
Sure, go ahead.
Um, I'm um I'm just absolutely terrified of the debt we're accumulating.
And I feel like and uh wonder what your opinion is that Obama would sign any bill, no matter how uh you'd sign the health care bill, uh no matter how much it cost, even if it was several trillion dollars, and no matter how much how many taxes it gets on low income people.
Um and I wondered if you would agree with that, and also uh Pelosi gave millions of dollars from uh for uh uh what it when Marsh mice research in California.
Uh well, SSI for senior low income people um uh was cut three times this year.
Yeah, but uh Obama's gonna be sending you a two hundred and fifty dollar bonus check to make up for your cost of living uh allowance that's not gonna happen this year.
Oh, well that's wonderful.
I'm so happy over that.
No, you're absolutely you're absolutely right.
Obama will sign anything that says health care reform on it, no matter what the price, no matter what the cost, no matter what the taxes are, no matter what the taxes are on who, he will sign it.
Mm-hmm.
I agree.
Um I you know, I hope seniors, if this passes, I hope seniors turn themselves in en masse to jails instead of paying their premiums.
I hope they do.
Wouldn't that be a good one?
You know what now?
Here we go, and I know here's my media tweak of the day.
Here's my media tweak of the day.
Adolf Hitler put people in jail to reduce his unemployment numbers.
And Nancy Pelosi, who called us, a bunch of Nazis running around with swastikas, just said that it's very fair to jail people who don't accept the burden of paying for health insurance.
Well, you go.
I mean, f history is history.
I'm not gonna sit here and ignore it.
I'm not gonna PC this program.
I'm gonna PC this audience.
Thanks, Pearl, great to hear from you.
Madison, Alabama, Lynn, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush.
Yeah.
Hi, it's my birthday.
This is the best president I've ever gotten.
Thank you very much, and uh and happy birthday to you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I won't tell you how old I am.
I'll keep that.
Some girls have to have their secrets.
But anyway, um I was calling to tell you what's gonna happen at the of the um summit they're gonna have.
What's that gonna happen?
They're gonna bring all these brilliant people in.
And then Obama's gonna say that he has a solution.
And then he's gonna make us weigh a month for that.
Then he's gonna say that he heard that somebody stole some paper clips from one of the companies.
So there was some corruption going on, so he's got to find another way.
And then he's gonna just put it off indefinitely.
Well just like he did in Afghanistan.
No, no, I don't no, no, well, no, no, he's not gonna he can't on this, he can't he's he's gotta have some sort of announcement.
And he's got if if I understand the guy, what he'll do is target who he thinks are the real enemy here, and that is small business.
Look at I just in, you know, in answering the this Bill Gates comment.
You look at folks at the Democrat Party enemies list.
It is big oil, it is big pharmaceutical, it is big retail, it is any big capitalistic enterprise that earns a profit.
And of course me.
Which is a capitalistic enterprise that earns a profit.
But aside from that, I mean, all conservatives are his enemies.
What he's gonna do if he does anything, but let me put it a different way.
It's meaningless.
I just went through the list of all the summits he's had.
He had a budget deficit summit in March.
It's growing at an all time high.
He had an Afghanistan Pakistan policy summit in May.
He does nothing but have summits.
He convenes people in the White House.
He sends them into work groups.
The sycophant media with their tongues on the floor, going, ha, he, hecitedly report all this going on as though something's been accomplished when nothing ever is, but everybody feels like something has happened, that there's Washington is working on the problem.
Washington's working on the problem.
Oh, that should make everybody feel better.
Try this story if it makes you feel better.
Federal officials now say.
Now say.
Federal officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu, about four times the estimate they've been using.
The new higher figure was first reported by the New York Times.
It includes deaths caused by complications related to swine flu, including uh pneumonia and bacterial infection.
Oh, is that how you get it up?
That's like saying people died of smoking when smoking's never listed on the death certificate.
Yeah, I died of fat.
Person died because he was obese.
Yes, this person died because of trans pets.
You don't ever see this stuff on the death certificate.
So now they can gin up the number of swine flu deaths by a factor of four by including deaths caused by complications related to it, like pneumonia and bacterial infections.
Until now, the CDC had conservatively put the U.S. swine flu death count at more than 1,000 officials this week said they're working on an even more accurate calculation separately.
The World Health Organization said Thursday doctors should not wait for lab confirmation before giving antiviral drugs to pregnant women and other at-risk groups with suspected swine flu.
Okay, uh this is horrible.
Do you know that 4,000 swine flu deaths is more than Hurricane Katrina killed?
Do you know how many hurricane Katrina deaths there were, Brian?
You remember?
1,800.
And do you remember the hysteria that went along with that?
1,800 Katrina hurricane deaths, 4,000 swine flu deaths, vaccine shortage.
It's it's it's it has been totally mismanaged.
It is incompetent, it is another Obama and government failure.
And now we're up to 4,000 with the flu.
This is like the number of uninsured Americans, folks.
The number changes to fit the current agenda, the template of the day.
No wonder people don't believe or trust what the government's saying.
One day a thousand deaths, now it's four thousand.
One day it's 30 million unsured, one day it's 47 million unsure, one is three million homeless, and it's 500,000.
When nobody knows Jack, you're making it up to fit the agenda item of the moment.
I hope Obama does a summit on bikinis and invites me.
I mean, he's doing a summit on everything else.
And by the way, um, the media tweak of the day, Hitler put people in jail to lower the unemployment numbers.
Another media tweak, that's how Dachau started.
We have 35 seconds.
If we if you think we should bleep or edit this out, I frankly think we should not.
That isn't say anything about Obama there.
I'm just I'm just giving a little historical truth.
Is this all about Pelosi?
This is all how many seconds we got before we bleep it?
20?
I'm not gonna bleep it out, snurdly.
Look, this is Pelosi.
She called us Nazis, swastikas during the tea parties.
Now they call us teabaggers.
She said it's okay.
Put people in jail for not buying health insurance.
Well, historical Okay, well, we can't bleep it now, Sturdley.
The uh the delay delay went by from Quinnipiac College.
There's a new poll out.
Obama is losing Ohio.
For the first time, Republican Rob Portman is inching ahead of the two Democrats in a 2010 race for Ohio U.S. Senate seat, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Also for the first time, Obama voters disapprove 50 to 45% of the job he is doing.
Ohio voters disapprove 53 to 42 percent of the way the president's handling the economy and disapprove 57-36% of the way that he's handling health care.
The Democrat wave that swept through Ohio in 06 and 08 may be cresting, according to Quinnipiact.
This is what snarly thinks this is gonna be happening all over the country.
I do too.
But remember who we're dealing with here when we're talking about elections and polls and so forth.
Uh Quinapiac says Ohio voters are not happy with the president's handling of health care and the economy.
The fact that they're now split, uh whether he or the Republicans in Congress are better able to handle health care should be a very worrisome number at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, since the GOP is still pretty much a four-letter word in most of America.
And there's no need for that, by the way.
The GOP is a four-letter word in most of America because it's being run by rhinos.
Republicans in name only.
Well, this is fascinating stuff.
Okay, we got time for calls.
We do.
This is uh Brenda, or is it Breda?
Brenda in Upland, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine and dandy.
Appreciate your call.
Thank you.
Um I was calling about um the think tank that Major Hassan was in that you mentioned yesterday.
Yeah, the George Washington University uh International Policy Center for Strategic and International Social Studies, uh the self-defense studies, uh foreign policy, so whatever you want to do is nonpartisan.
Nonpartisan, it was it was but it was an eight-month-long or nine-month-long transition seminar.
Yes, and you know, if I I got a PDF copy of it and I started reading it, and I thought it was really, really interesting.
I mean, there's suggestions here, of course, is you know, closing get Gitmo, uh relabeling the global war on terror.
Where we heard that before.
Um they talk about man-made disasters versus natural disasters.
I mean, to their credit, they actually use the word terrorism in this report, but they call it a major hazard and say that it is not an existential threat to the U.S. because we're too big and too popular.
But keep it all in the context of this was crafted and formulated with a terrorist.
Hello.
Uh, and somebody who at the time was known to be one, or at least consorting with them and emailing them and uh and now we have learned perhaps even sending them moolah.
Sending money to Pakistan.
It's unbelievable.
How did we get to a point in this country where a terrorist can help shape our foreign policy and our domestic policy?
Especially before Obama was elected, I know.
Yes.
Oh, yes, I understand that Obama didn't appoint him to this, but this proposal was given, it was set up to give to the next administration.
And as I as I read off, you can see that large portions of this has been incorporated into where we're at today.
That's why I said, you know, when when I it this is this is almost too fr to too too frightening to contemplate.
By the way, what kind of dog you got back there?
I'm sorry, she's a chihuahua.
Oh, no wonder you've got a yapper.
Oh, she's uh well, she just decided to start when I got on the phone.
Right, because she's jealous.
Now thank you.
Right, she's paying, she's paying uh you're not paying enough attention to her.
Oh, I know.
I know.
She's terrible.
She's terribly spoiled.
Well, what animal isn't that lives in a home.
That's true.
That's what they're for.
Now when I when I saw the possibility of this guy sending money to Pakistan, here's a guy being paid in U.S. tax dollars.
Uh he's Palestinian.
He's born in America, but he's Palestinian.
He's shouting a lahu Akbar, and everybody that was involved from all the agents of the Army, the Pentagon, the FBI, they knew this.
I don't know about the money, but they knew it.
And they said, Well, a constitution of First Amendment, yeah, we can't do anything about this.
There doesn't rise to the level of a threat.
And I'm thinking, I hope it's just not.
I just hope it's PC that that hamstrung these people, because if it's if it's something other than that, if it was a willful look the other way, we're in trouble, folks.
Now, the I think the Washington Post has an interesting story on this Hassan Nadal thing.
Uh intelligence officer unnamed said that since the FBI was in on much of this, it may be that things were treated as a criminal inquiry, uh, where you have to deal with a reasonable doubt, uh, all kinds of restrictions, rather than terrorism.
And this is this is why the left-wing's prosecution of terrorism as a criminal matter is not going to stop terrorism from taking place.
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