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Dec. 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in Markstein, no supporting paperwork whatsoever, but underwear fully loaded and ready to blow.
Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow.
And then the great Walter E. Williams will close out the year for us at the EIB network on New Year's Eve.
That's a that's a great treat.
Don't don't miss that.
We're gonna talk uh uh uh a little later about uh uh Barack Obama's year and uh the year in stimulus.
Uh a majority of people now, according to the Rasmussen poll now think the stimulus uh actually harm the economy rather than doing anything for it.
And actually, if you look at this list that I mentioned in the last hour, the top ten uses of the stimulus funds, it's hard to argue on that.
Uh for example, uh ten thousand dollars and three hundred and forty-six, ten thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars went to a heating and cooling company to provide escort services for other companies performing a laser scanning survey at a courthouse in Honolulu.
Now, I can't believe this.
Escort services, ten thousand dollars for is that Elliot Spitzer type escort services?
Um actually, if it was Elliot Spitzer type service, because what what was his uh what was his hooker, three hundred dollars an hour?
Yeah, yeah, three hundred uh three hundred dollars an hour.
And uh so he for ten thousand three hundred dollars that's basically a day with Elliot Spitzer's hooker.
But actually, if you can charge it to the stimulus package, that's a great deal.
So we don't know whether that is we don't in fairness, we don't know whether that is Elliot Spitzer type uh escort services.
Uh on the other hand, we have this intriguing uh item.
A hundred and sixty-eight thousand three hundred dollars to the escape massage parlor in Midlothian, Virginia.
That's part of the stimulus package.
They got uh the escape massage parlor in Midlothian, Virginia got $168,300 uh $300.
So uh don't I know why Mr. Snerdley, Mr. Surly wants to know what was so stimulating.
Well, I don't I couldn't really say, but apparently leading indicators were way up, so you don't want to worry about that.
Uh that's uh anyway, we'll talk we'll talk a bit more about some of these uh actually I should have billed that last joke to item number three, the 712,000 dollar research grant to develop machine-generated humor.
Because basically, once you once you once you hear that 168,000 has gone to a massage parlor in Virginia, uh you don't really need machine-generated humor.
It's generating itself.
Anyway, Mark Stein InfoRush on the uh on the Rush Libre Show.
Great to be with you.
Always an honor to be with you.
You know, Mr. Snerdley mentioned when we talk about the lazy boy recliner, he didn't quite believe me.
I didn't believe it myself when I I saw it because I'd seen all these images of Gitmo.
Because you know, around the world everyone thinks of Gitmo as the new gulag, the new American death camp.
And so there's all these kinds of plays about Gitmo, there's movies about Gitmo.
Uh this book of poems I mentioned about Gitmo.
This is very typical, actually.
Um the the uh the poems book about Gitmo shows uh a close-up of a man's ankles shackled to the floor.
Now it's true they do shackle the guys when they interrogate them at Gitmo.
But what you don't see in that picture, which obviously isn't a real picture from Gidmo, because if it was, they'd have to crop it severely, because what you'd see is that the ankles are then resting up against a lazy boy recliner.
This is what we couldn't we couldn't get over when I went down to Gitmo a couple of years ago.
And we all thought this was cool.
Wow, like like you interrogate the Yemeni guys in the lazy boy recliner.
And I sat in it and asked the guy if I could sit in it, and he said sure, and somebody took a picture of it, and as I mentioned earlier, the picture is you know sitting in a Pentagon filing uh cabinet uh cabinet somewhere.
But all these th the other one, this movie they made about Gitmo um uh showed some like emaciated figure hanging from the walls, right?
The average weight gain of a Guantanamo detainee is eighteen pounds.
Uh And so if you try to shackle them to the wall, the wall's gonna collapse.
Because they this and and this is where Amnesty International is going after the all the wrong issues on Gitmo.
The Australian guy uh who was in Gitmo, I can't what was his uh name?
There was a famous Australian uh David Hicks.
David Hicks.
And uh his lawyer, while he was in Gitmo, he was this Australian jihadist.
Uh and while he was in Gitmo, he was called the Australian Taliban.
While he was in Gitmo, all the newspaper reports back in Australia talked about this emaciated ghost, his eyes are dark and sunken, uh and then suddenly gets released, and amazingly, the emaciated sunken, sallow ghost, uh turns up in Australia and people are horrified by, quote, his chubby appearance, unquote.
Uh average weight gain in Gitmo.
This is un this is a first for death, this is American innovation.
Normally, in a if you go to a death camp, if you like went to a death camp run by the Soviets, the Chinese, the Cambodians, uh, Idi Amin, you name it, the point of a death camp is that they starve you to death.
The American death camp, this is the American cunning for you.
You come in as a lean, wiry, fit uh Afghan jihadist, and you and you waddle out as a corpulent New Jersey lard butt.
That's what they do to you.
Average weight gain, eighteen pounds.
And that's what Amnesty International should be complaining about.
They should be saying, Look, how can we return these guys to become fit productive members of the worldwide jihad when they can barely get out of the lazy boy recliner?
They can't strap on average weight gain, eighteen pounds.
How do you strap on the suicide bomber belt?
Yeah?
Okay, admittedly, you've got a bigger pair of underpants to put the explosives in.
So there are some, it's swings and roundabouts, gains and losses.
But this is this is the point.
Average weight gain there, 18 pounds.
And Mr. Snadley asked me what the food was like.
As I said, I was there for Ramadan.
And uh and Admiral Harris, who was then running the joint, Admiral Harris, we arrive, and there's all the the bigwigs from the camp in the room, and he goes, This is our head army guy, this is our head Air Force guy, this is our head FBI guy, this is our head CIA guy, and this is our Ramadan pastry chef.
Who makes the best backlava in the Caribbean?
And we and it was right.
The backlava was fantastic.
Uh you can't get now.
I'm telling you, if you're if you're in charge of personnel at the Rich Carlton, say, now you know Obama uh I think he promised a year ago to close Gitmo within a year.
Okay.
So it should be any day now, if he means what he says.
And so this guy, this Ramadan pastry chef they've got at Gitmo is presumably on the market.
So if you're at the Ritz-Carlton, or if you're at the four seasons in New York, you get on the phone to Gitmo and you sign up this uh Ramadan pastry chef, because I have never tasted backlava like that.
And it would be a shame.
I don't know why I don't know what his background is, but it would be a shame if he was, you know, reduced to like just uh running the uh the in-house canteen at the at the basement jail uh in Yemen.
Yeah, maybe maybe you could work at the White House.
Actually, that's not a bad idea.
Yeah, nice White House pastry chef.
But anyway, I'm just it's just a suggestion.
If you're if you're um uh if you work for the Ritz-Carlton or or the Four Seasons, you might like to get on the phone to the Pentagon and say, hey, we'd like to sign up your uh pastry, we'd like to sign up your Ramadan pastry chef.
Uh but anyway, now the the Gitmo torturing, torturing people with backlava and lazy boy recliners.
That's all that.
And actually Mr. Snerdley has been looking skeptical uh during this.
If you go to if you go to Russia's uh Rushlinball.com and you get the club Gitmo stuff, that stuff is actually uh within the realm of plausibility, and that is what is so horrifying for it.
These uh these two guys they released some guys back to Pakistan, and uh somebody found them and interviewed them three months later, and they said, Oh, this is terrible.
It is uh it is so but life in Pakistan is so much worse than than uh being in Gitmo, the endless nights under the Caribbean moon as we eat our backlava and recline for another three hours of gentle questioning in the lazy boy recliner.
Uh these guys, they're back in the hell of Pakistan, having to work for a living, lousy backlava, uh it uh didn't so you think, well, okay, that's Pakistan, it's not a first world country.
They released a couple of the British detainees back to the English West Midlands.
And again, a couple of couple of months later, newspaper catches up with them and said, Hey, you're free now.
Free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last.
They say, Oh no, life sucks.
The weather here is so lousy.
It's like uh in the in the winter it's fifty-four and cloudy, and in the summer it's fifty-five and partly cloudy.
The weather was so much better.
We looked we looked so much healthier when we went Guantanamo.
So now they've said we can't keep torturing these people.
We can't keep torturing these people with the backlava and the lazy boy recliner.
So we're sending them to art school in Saudi Arabia.
And it alas, it hasn't worked out, because two of the art school graduates from the Saudi Arabian Art School Therapy Rehabilitation program, instead of making a career, you know, they could be being profiled in Vanity Fair at the New Yorker, but they said, ah, we know we're not interested.
We want to get back to the jihad.
So they uh they went to Yemen and they were the masterminds of this plot, which has now been confirmed.
It's confirmed by the Yemeni Information Minister that this guy, this guy, this uh lone extremist, as the president of the United States calls him, was actually uh uh selected, recruited, taken uh to uh Yemen and given training,
uh, and despite, and incidentally, by the way, anybody with Yemeni stamps in his passport uh or indications of travel to Yemen, I think ought to be selected for profiling because Yemen is like freelance jihadist central right now.
Uh but the idea that this guy is just sort of a lone wacko, uh it was absolutely disgusting that the president actually stood up and told that to the American people uh yesterday.
So we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about some of this um uh fantastic stimulus money to massage parlors and other interesting elements straight ahead.
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I was uh on a radio show with Sting years ago, and um I uh uh we were in the pub afterwards, and uh I said to him, I always loved his early songs, and uh I'd always wanted to do big uh an album of big uh cover versions of sting songs in big swinging Sinatra Nelson Riddle arrangements called Songs for Stinging Lovers.
And the color drained from his cheeks, and he went to the men's room almost as long as that guy did on the uh on the on the flight into Detroit the other night.
I don't I know I know people I knew he's not sting isn't a you know, obviously Sting isn't like a big hero to um uh to to Rush listeners.
He's like he's got he's big on the all the rainforest and the guy.
Well, he was the he was for a time in the eighties, he was never photographed except accompanied by guys with those bones through their noses.
Uh he was so wound up about the uh rainforest.
But um I loved uh uh I I love Sting, uh, that song what from around Yeah, uh an Englishman in New York, uh, that that that song.
The one I loved, Every Breath You Take.
And he said, which is a terrific song, terrific rock song, 1983, something like that, 1982, 83, Sting.
And uh I uh and he published his complete lyrics last year, Sting, and he says uh uh everybody understood that this was really a an anti-Ragan song protesting against missile defense.
I've loved that song.
Where did where did that come out?
1983, I've loved that song for a quarter century.
Never occurred to me it had anything to do with Reagan.
Don't believe sometimes the songwriter isn't always the best judge of these things.
Anyway, that's Sting.
He's a he's uh he's a sweetie.
He was he was um he and his wife, you know, they're very concerned about the environment.
And they were they worked out some malicious uh uh journalist worked out.
They hold these uh big banquets at his stately home in it because like all these all these rock stars live in palaces, and they live like where, you know, twenty years ago it was a duke or a Marquis living in the place, now it's a rock star.
And so they hold these big banquets at the at their stately home and only serve organic food.
But a malicious journalist because they want to save the planet, but this malicious journalist worked out that they have their organic food flowed in from Italy, and as a result, Sting's carbon footprint is like up there with Al Gors.
And it's always so much harder to save the planet that you than you think.
Uh anyway, Mark Stein in for Rush.
I just had a great email from Lyle, by the way, who says that, you know, uh Obama wasn't impressive yesterday.
And he needs to show that he's really serious about what happened on Christmas Day.
Uh and that the best way to do this would be to appoint an underwear czar.
And I think this is this is an excellent idea, and I will be passing it on to the Homeland Security.
And then the underwear could uh could keep the President fully briefed.
So it would all it would all work out.
Let's go to Casey.
Casey in Spokane, Washington.
Casey, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Great to be here.
Uh good good to have you.
Now uh you you called in because you weren't that happy about uh my approach to the uh latest uh latest Guantanamo solution.
Yes, you made some fun of the uh Saudi Arabian uh art therapy program.
But uh did you happen to know that the hero of the uh the Christmas Day airline uh event was an artist.
The Dutchman hero is uh Phil Baker.
That's right, that's true.
So I'm I yeah, I should say I'm not being artophobic here.
Now this this guy, as you mentioned, this guy who saved the day on the plane was a filmmaker.
A Dutch filmmaker, and people are uh people do stereotyping and they think you know the Europeans are a lot of panty wastes and all the rest of it.
But in fact, the Dutch filmmaking demographic has been targeted by the Jihad.
Theo van Gogh was killed by a jihadist in uh the streets of the Netherlands.
This guy uh he said to him, Can we talk?
And in response, the jihadist shot him eight times, all but decapitated him, and skewered a triumphant victory note with a knife through his chest.
Uh so as Dutch filmmakers go, this guy on the plane, by just uh seeing these flames shooting from the guy's body and hurling himself at the guy and getting him into a chokehold, that is the better response.
So we're certainly not opposed to uh members of the artistic community uh uh g f uh flying into uh uh flying into action like that, Casey.
Are you an artist, by the way?
Yes, I am.
Now do you do you paint?
Do you uh uh work with uh Dutch filmmakers?
What which which are uh I wish I did uh work with film, but I'm a painter.
Oh right, right.
So you didn't you w you felt I was cheapening uh the art profession by mocking the Saudi art school therapy course.
You're not a graduate, by the way, you're not a graduate of the uh Saudi art school, are you?
I'm not so I'm not gonna get you on a no-fly list or whatever.
I just want to know whether they have any non-jihadist graduates.
So you might well get me on a no-fly list.
I uh I'm glad that you knew about Theo Van Gogh, you know that uh that was virtually ignored in the media.
Yeah, and you know what was interesting about that and the you know Hollywood at the Oscars every year, they have the big weepy death montage where they show all the uh the old actors from the days when the films were watchable who passed away that year.
Um they they do the the so it came up, they had this this director, that choreographer, this uh actor, that actress, all in a big long row.
They didn't mention all these big bro brave courageous artists, didn't have the guts even to include the one motion picture director who'd been murdered that year in their pathetic little montage.
It was it was pathetic, Casey.
That's right.
Well, uh we better not get ourselves murdered on the street in uh Amsterdam.
No, no, no.
That's uh that's that's true.
Well, thank you for your call, Casey, and I'll try to ease up on on the j on the old jokes about artists.
I don't know what they teach in this Saudi art school.
But you know, evidently whatever it is, it didn't work.
You know, I don't know what techniques they do.
Is it the little pointerless thing where they do those little dots?
Uh whatever that uh d Surrey, that's right.
The French painter Surrey, and he does all the little dots, and it just looks like little disconnected dots.
And then when you step back, you see that it's a lot of people uh having a picnic in the park.
And uh presumably with these guys it's the other way.
They do all the little dots, and then they step back and they say, Oh, yes, that looks like People in the park when you blow them to pieces and they fly into little particles.
Oh yes.
Now I see the whole point of the Saudi art school.
Anyway, we promise not to do any more pointalism jokes, Casey.
That's the only pointulism joke of the day.
We're not going to do that.
But uh thank you thank you for your call.
W uh uh Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Crayon therapy.
It works in, you know, when little Jimmy in uh in in uh kindergarten is being naughty if you send him in to, you know, draw his expresses fears and angers in crayon it can often help.
Why would we think that wouldn't work with a global movement committed to the destruction of the United States?
Why didn't we try that with the Nazis and the Communists?
Bound to have worked.
Could have saved us a bunch of trouble.
Oh, this this bumper music is like from my disjoggy days now.
It's like this is uh this is taking me way back.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow uh for us, and then uh the great Walter Williams will be here on uh on New Year's Eve.
Uh uh terrific, actually terrific butt bumping me.
I'm a bit of a bit of a sucker for that uh for that stuff.
You know, this Yemen story, the Yemeni government complaining that the United States should have told them about this guy before they issued him a visa.
He lived there for a year from two thousand and four to two thousand five, and then again uh until December this year.
Yemen's foreign ministry said uh Monday that Abdul Mutalab received a Yemeni visa after authorities were reassured that he had several visas from a number of friendly countries, including to the the United States.
So they say, well, you know, obviously we were gonna let this crazy guy into Yemen.
I mean, why do we need that's one thing that that's not a job uh the Yemenis won't do.
The Yemen is lining up to do the crazy jobs.
We don't need to import crazy guys.
We got we got tons of them right here.
We only let this guy in because the United States said he was okay.
The United States said State Department sold proprietrix, Hillary Waddham Clinton said there was nothing wrong with this guy.
That's the it's uh by the at the rate this is developing, by Wednesday, Yemen will have put the United States on a list of rogue states.
This is Yemen is furious, furious, they're shocked to discover that the United States uh approved this guy for to go and live in Yemen.
How could they possibly do such a thing?
Uh also in other in uh now I'm getting all this underwear stuff.
After I said that we need to appoint an underwear who would keep the president fully briefed, I'm getting all this email of people saying uh uh we'd need a congressional subcommittee chaired by Barbara Boxer.
I'm I'm not uh we're not gonna we're gonna leave the underwear.
Uh the underwear thing, but you when you look at this guy's underwear, what he managed to get in there.
We clearly you should only be able to fly if you're wearing a thong.
This is the kind of we gotta start thinking outside the box, outside the boxes in this case.
We've got to start thinking outside the boxes if we're really gonna really gonna tackle this.
Let's go to Cliff in Austin, Texas.
Cliff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Cliff, great to have you with us.
Thank you, Mark.
Happy Tuesday from the land of Texas Longhorn.
Yeah, happy Tuesday to uh just a bit just a bit.
I love Texas Longhorns, but Austin, uh you have more kind of liberals prowling the streets there than you do Texas Longhorns, don't you?
You're in the kind of liberal heart of Texas there.
Pretty much.
It's it's kinda similar to a small San Francisco, I'd say.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's it's a company town with a where the company is government and they tend to trend liberal for uh obvious obvious reasons.
But it it is in the Lone Star State, and uh you are one of the few still functioning jurisdictions in the United States.
So congratulations to you for that.
You're not you're not you're not bankrupt and looking for federal bailouts the way the California and New York are.
No, I I'm personally I am I am unemployed, though I have been for a couple of months.
You know, for right now I'm just gonna enjoy it.
I needed a vacation anyway.
Uh that's that's a very uh that's a very calm and equitable way to look at it.
And I hope things uh improve for you in 2010.
Uh hope things look better by by this time next year.
And I w I wanted to tell you, uh Mark, you're definitely one of the main ingredients of the excellence in broadcasting for sure.
And I also really enjoy when you uh sub for Sean Hannity.
You you're great on there too.
Oh, on the uh on Fox uh when I'm on uh Fox uh TV on the news.
Yes, sir, sir.
Okay.
Uh anyway, my point was is uh back to this uh Obama calling this guy a uh uh an isolated extremist.
Uh well, you know, him uh Gibbs and Napolitano, They all in the same day put their feet in their mouth.
They they all seem to to breed the uh hook and mouth disease there.
Uh anyway, uh in the same breath almost, Obama says we won't rest until all who are responsible for this are held accountable.
So he just he totally contradicts itself, and he's done it so you know, so in in his words, uh speaking stupidly, he does it all the time.
Yeah.
And uh and as far as this this uh panty terrorist, uh if he ever does find his seventy-two virgins, it sounds like he was burnt bad enough, he will never be able to use the excuse with his virgins that this has never happened to before it's cold in here, you know.
Now you're being now you're being cruel.
But I tell you I tell you one thing, I don't care if you're being cruel, because one of the interesting things about this whole uh suicide bombing business is the I is the idea of telling young men, who are often, as the Washington Post bleeds for this guy today, who are often lonely and depressed, is you can get all the sex you want in heaven.
The idea of paradise as a brothel uh is a disgusting concept.
This idea of these seventy-two virgins who who will pleasure you in all eternity.
And this imam, there's this big shot imam in Egypt who who clarified the position.
They've got like a dial in imam.com or something in Egypt.
And uh this guy goes, this guy's concerned, you're becoming a suicide bomber, but I'm very concerned, you know, there's seventy-two virgins.
Like, when you wear them out, are they still virgins?
I don't understand that.
And uh and and this and this and this guy resures him, no, they're like pristine and virginal, they don't get old, they don't get overweight, they don't get saggy, they never require any expensive surgery.
They're not like John Kerry, you don't have to send him in for Botox touch-ups every few weeks.
They're just stay in the same pristine condition all day long.
And we should mock that, because th the the it's dis it's a disgusting concept.
Heaven as a brothel.
And you know, it would only take one ghost of one of those terrorists that's burning in hell right now to come back to Earth and tell all these fools, hey, it ain't so.
Yeah.
Maybe they'd stop trying to do this.
And and these people here lately that are trying to blame uh the Bush administration again, saying these policies that are in place were policies he he put in place, so this is now his fault.
Well, they're they're so smart and they tell us they're so smart all the time, they should have caught what was wrong in these policies by now.
They've had a year and changed it.
No, no, you know what was silly about that is on January the twentieth, President Obama stood appearing before a crowd of seven hundred million people in the streets of Washington, and he said, uh, we're starting, this is day one, this is year zero, like Paul Pot did in Cambodia.
Everything starts today.
He was uh quoting Fred Astaire.
We're gonna pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start all over again.
That was Barack Obama on January the twentieth.
And now they're saying, Well, look, come on, these are all the Bush policies.
We didn't look them over.
In January the twentieth, he was saying, we're revising everything that Bush did.
We're not in the torture business.
We're starting from scratch again.
We're looking at everything.
We're I've issued this executive order saying, look at this, look at that, everything starts from scratch.
And I was saying, well, you know, these are the Bush policies.
So we we we haven't looked twice at them.
We just assumed uh, you know, we took over on January the twentieth, but it's just like basically uh a uh a new face on the same old, same old.
Uh you can't expect us to have looked at all these uh these policies.
It's that's what when he was when he was standing up there tap dancing around to pick yourself up, dust himself off, and start all over again on January the twentieth, that's not how he was doing it.
This is there's a slight contradiction there, you may have noticed.
And there's a there's also the ongoing lack of transparency, and Robert Gibbs is now claiming that that there was a whole bunch of this health care uh issue that was that was on C-span, but it wasn't the important parts that we w we want to see and need to know about.
Now that they're down to the nitty-gritty in the heart of it, they could really uh change all that if they put this on C SPAN, what's what what we've got coming now, but I'm sure they won't.
No, no.
We knew we you need to look at this stuff.
It's the corruption.
Thank you.
Thank you for your thank you for your call, Cliff, and uh and uh as I said, I hope uh I hope you do uh uh find better luck on the employment front in in the year twenty ten.
But this stuff that the government is pulling, the federal government is putting, the federalization of American life is not gonna do anything for you on that front.
We're propping up failure, we're rewarding failure, we're institutionalizing failure.
If it weren't for these things like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, if it weren't for uh federal protection of inefficient workplace arrangements at government motors, the market works very efficiently to bleed failure out of the system and restore it.
Uh it punishes failure and replaces it with stuff that works.
Right now we're rewarding failure at the federal level, and we're gonna get a lot more of it uh on health care, i in the automobile industry, in the property business, and everything else.
Thanks for your call.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, in for us on the EIB network.
The governor-elect of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, wants the federal government to move I can I can't say this without laughing.
Governor elect Bob McDonnell, Richmond, Virginia, Dateline Richmond, Virginia.
I can't get through this without a laughing.
This is hilarious.
This is like that machine-generated humor that the stimulus package gave $700,000 to.
Governor elect Bob McDonnell wants the federal government to move forward with offshore energy exploration off of Virginia's coast.
Good luck with that.
You're w right now at the moment, they've turned off the uh the the faucets uh to to the water supplies for the most productive farmland in the Lower 48 out in California because of this uh this uh delta smelt, this two-inch fish that they say the farming uh would this the his he's threatened by this by this farming.
So they're subsidizing farmers now to in the interest of saving the planet and lowering the carbon footprint of the United States, they're subsidizing farmers across this land to turn productive farmland into forests.
Uh they're gonna give you money to take that nice meadow where you grow corn for the biofuel and instead put up a bunch of trees because hopefully the trees will reduce the carbon emissions of the United States.
Uh in in California, uh they're they've they've turned off the water to the most productive farmland.
You can't do uh anything in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with oil, where the people who actually live north of 60, they're tired of living in a dump and they'd like to, and they'd like to get a little bit of that nice uh United States American dream kind of lifestyle they've heard so much about.
Uh but instead people have said, no, this pristine Arctic wildlife refuge is home to the world's largest mosquito herd, and we cannot possibly do anything uh that would that would risk environmental damage to the breeding grounds of the world's largest mosquito, so we have to we can't put we can't do anything there.
So the idea that they're going to be doing any kind of ex energy exploration off the coast of Virginia is completely is completely uh beyond the realm of political possibility.
Because this is like is this suburban Virginia where all the kind of beltway insiders commute from?
Is it near that Virginia massage parlor that got 160,000 from the stimulus package?
Nobody is wanna nobody's gonna want to come out of their federally subsidized massage parlor.
And by the way, isn't that a terrible indictment of the United States?
I mean if if massage parlors are no longer profitable, we might as well pack in capitalism.
Because if even that requires federal subsidy, then we're done for.
You know that's that's just that's crazy talk.
Uh Elliot Spitzer, I mean, at least when he was that was Elliot Spitzer when he was paying $300 an hour, he didn't stick that tab to the uh government of New York, did he?
That was I believe that was actually he wrote a personal check for that, didn't he?
I I think so.
God God bless you, Governor Spitzer.
I mean, this idea that somehow now we're gonna have federally subsidized massage parlors.
Uh but anyway, if you're like if you're say a big shot congressman and you're at your federally subsidized massage parlor in Virginia, You don't want to be walking out the door after you've had such a great time with your leading indicators and be confronted by these unsightly oil derricks off the Virginia coast, do you?
So this idea of Governor McConnell, m uh Governor McDonald, that anything is gonna happen for serious energy independence in the United States.
Meantime, we're transferring all the money, all the energy money in America is going to so-called green solutions.
So which is the biggest boondoggle of them all.
Al Gore Carbon Billionaire, Al Gore Carbon, Al Gore has made more money buying carbon credits from himself than his father got uh made from investing in Occidental Petroleum.
The idea you're a fool if you want to invest in oil exploration uh in gas exploration uh off the coast of the United States, you're a fool.
You're better to get mixed up in some cockamami carbon credit scam and and uh and in return for you uh buying carbon credits, some jihadist back in the cave at Yemen will agree not to use his satellite phone for three months and thereby reduce his carbon footprint.
Now that that is a far more productive use of your money than investing in energy exploration off the coast of Virginia.
We're done with that.
We're done with that.
Carbon credits, by the way.
This is a great line.
Uh Joan Nova, who she's a lady who uh uh writes about these issues on the internet.
She had a c great line.
You know, basically uh carbon credits are the subprime mortgages of international trading, and that is absolutely right.
That's that in a in a uh in a nutshell.
Um this is this is the problem when you have uh government manipulated capitalism.
When you provide incentives, essentially what is happening now in the federal government uh under these bogus causes such as environmentalism is we are providing incentives for people to divert billions of dollars into what are really scams.
And so we're not gonna get any energy exploration.
And by the way, I think a lot of this problem goes back to the fall of 2001.
You know, we were talking about presidential approval ratings uh uh yesterday.
Nobody's approval rating has been as high in living memory as George W. Bush's were in the fall of 2001.
And if ever there was a time to have just railroaded through uh drilling in Anwar, that was the time to do it.
Uh to say that uh d you you can't have it both ways.
These guys uh the say, oh, well, we can't keep giving money to uh to to all these uh our enemies.
Essentially we're funding the war on terror every time we gas up uh at the gas station and then say, oh no, but we can't possibly do this, that, or anything else in the United States because there's a little fish that might be discombobulated or the mosquitoes breeding grounds might shrivel by a half acre here and a half acre there.
You're not serious about it.
The Democrats are not uh the demo you be b somebody called up yesterday and said, Oh, if there's so much air air security, we'll all go back to trains.
You couldn't have wood-fired trains in the United States anymore, uh shoveling uh everything in to keep the train running, because they wouldn't let you chop down the trees to run those trains.
You can't have anything.
Basically you'll be walking everywhere, or better yet, staying in your homes where it's easier for Nancy Pelosi and everybody to keep track of you.
So there's not gonna be any energy exploration, not gonna be any energy in the United States.
Uh one-800-282-2882, Mark Stein on the Russian Inbo Show, more to come.
Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network.
You know something I forgot to mention when we talk about energy, the likelihood of energy exploration off the coast of Virginia.
Uh not only are we not allowed to find anything except these bogus uh these bogus green energy, uh energy efficient things, so-called in the United States.
Uh but the but the de so we're for we're forced to depend on oil from from uh Saudi Arabia and all the rest of it.
Uh what happens next?
The Democrats, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats decide they want to sue OPEC.
Do you remember their big thing from about a year, year and a half ago?
They decide they're gonna sue OPEC.
The the source, the source of uh the global economies energy, uh, and they decide they're gonna su uh sue it.
A great a great Canadian blogger, Kate McMillan said that if she owned the world's oil companies, she'd have gone to that Copenhagen conference and announced her immediate retirement and that the companies were going out of business.
Uh that's that's the best way to respond to this poser environmentalism and poser energy efficiency uh that the de the Democrats and the world's liberals are imposing on us.
Mark Stein sitting in for rush, Mark Davis is gonna be here tomorrow.
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