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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 anchorman sitting in Mark Stein, 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 great treat.
Don't miss that.
We're going to talk a little later about Barack Obama's year and the year in stimulus.
A majority of people now, according to the Rasmussen poll, now think the stimulus actually harmed 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 10 uses of the stimulus funds, it's hard to argue on that.
For example, $10,000 and $346, $10,346 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?
$10,000 for, is that Elliot Spitzer-type escort services?
Actually, if it was Elliot Spitzer-type service, what was his hooker?
$300 an hour?
Yeah, $300 an hour.
And so for $10,300, 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.
In fairness, we don't know whether that is Elliot Spitzer-type escort services.
On the other hand, we have this intriguing item, $168,300 to the Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, Virginia.
That's part of the stimulus package.
The Escape Massage Parlor in Midlothian, Virginia got $168,300, $300.
So don't either.
Mr. Snerdley, Mr. Serley 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.
Anyway, we'll talk a bit more about some of these.
Actually, I should have billed that last joke to item number three, the $712,000 research grant to develop machine-generated humor.
Because basically, once you hear that $168,000 has gone to a massage parlor in Virginia, you don't really need machine-generated humor.
It's generating itself.
Anyway, Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the Rush Limbo 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 reclining, he didn't quite believe me.
I didn't believe it myself when 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.
This book of poems I mentioned about Gitmo, this is very typical, actually.
The poems book about Gitmo shows 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 Gitmo, 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 get over when I went down to Gitmo a couple of years ago.
And we all thought this was cool.
Wow, like you interrogate the Yemeni guys in the lazy boy recliner.
And I sat in it.
I 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 sitting in a Pentagon filing cabinet somewhere.
But all these, the other one, this movie they made about Gitmo showed some like emaciated figure hanging from the walls, right?
The average weight gain of a Guantanamo detainee is 18 pounds.
And so if you try to shackle them to the wall, the wall's going to collapse.
And this is where Amnesty International is going after all the wrong issues on Gitmo.
The Australian guy who was in Gitmo, I can't remember, what was his name?
There was a famous Australian, David Hicks.
David Hicks.
And his lawyer, while he was in Gitmo, he was this Australian jihadist.
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.
And then suddenly he gets released.
And amazingly, the emaciated, sunken, sallow ghost turns up in Australia and people are horrified by, quote, his chubby appearance, unquote.
Average weight gain in Gitmo.
This is a first for death.
This is American innovation.
Normally, if you go to a death camp, if you like, went to a death camp run by the Soviets, the Chinese, the Cambodians, Idiar Meen, 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 Afghan jihadist and you waddle out as a corpulent New Jersey lardbutt.
That's what they do to you.
Average weight gain, 18 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, 18 pounds.
How do you strap on the suicide bomber belt?
Okay, admittedly, you've got a bigger pair of underpants to put the explosives in.
So there are some swings and roundabouts, gains and losses.
But this is the point.
Average weight gain there, 18 pounds.
And Mr. Snowden asked me what the food was like.
As I said, I was there for Ramadan.
And Admiral Harris, who was then running the joint, Admiral Harris, we arrive and there's all 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 it was right.
The backlava was fantastic.
You can't get, now, I'm telling you, if you're in charge of personnel at the Ritz Carlton, say, now, you know, Obama, 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 Ramadan pastry chef because I have never tasted baklava like that.
And it would be a shame.
I don't know what his background is, but it would be a shame if he was reduced to like just running the in-house canteen at the basement jail in Yemen.
Yeah, maybe he 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 the Four Seasons, you might like to get on the phone to the Pentagon and say, hey, we'd like to sign up your pastry, we'd like to sign up your Ramadan pastry chef.
Uh, but anyway, now the gitmo torturing torturing people with baklava and lazy boy recliners, that's all that.
And actually, Mr. Snerdley has been looking skeptical during this.
If you go to if you go to Rush's rushlinmore.com and you get the club gitmo stuff, that stuff is actually within the realm of plausibility.
And that is what is so horrifying for it.
These two guys, they released some guys back to Pakistan, and somebody found them and interviewed them three months later.
And they said, oh, this is terrible.
It is so, but life in Pakistan is so much worse than being in Gitmo, the endless nights under the Caribbean moon as we eat our baklava and recline for another three hours of general questioning in the lazy boy recliner.
These guys, they're back in the hell of Pakistan having to work for a living, lousy baklava.
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 months later, a newspaper catches up with them and said, hey, you're free now.
Free at last.
Thank God Almighty Fitlas.
They say, oh, no, life sucks.
The weather here is so lousy.
It's like in the winter, it's 54 and cloudy.
And in the summer, it's 55 and partly cloudy.
The weather was so much better.
We looked so much healthier when we were in Guantanamo.
So now they've said we can't keep torturing these people.
We can't keep torturing these people with the baklava and the lazy boy recliner.
So we're sending them to art school in Saudi Arabia.
And 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 and the New Yorker, but they said, ah, we're not interested.
We want to get back to the jihad.
So 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 lone extremist, as the President of the United States calls him, was actually selected, recruited, taken to Yemen and given training.
And despite, and incidentally, by the way, anybody with Yemeni stamps in his passport or indications of travel to Yemen, I think ought to be selected for profiling because Yemen is like freelance jihadist central right now.
But the idea that this guy is just sort of a lone wacko, it was absolutely disgusting that the president actually stood up and told that to the American people yesterday.
So we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about some of this fantastic stimulus money to massage parlours and other interesting elements straight ahead.
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I was on a radio show with Sting years ago, and we were in the pub afterwards.
And I said to him, I always loved his early songs.
And I'd always wanted to do an album of big cover versions of Sting songs in big swinging Sinatra Nelson Riddle arrangements called Songs for Stinging Lovers.
And the colour drained from his cheeks.
And he went to the men's room almost as long as that guy did on the flight into Detroit the other night.
I know people, he's not.
Sting isn't a, you know, obviously Sting isn't like a big hero to Rush listeners.
He's like, he's got, he's big on all the rainforests and the guy.
For a time in the 80s, he was never photographed, except accompanied by guys with those bones through their noses.
I was so wound up about the rainforest.
But I loved Sting, that song from around, yeah, an Englishman in New York, 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 he published his complete lyrics last year, Sting.
And he says, everybody understood that this was really an anti-Reagan song protesting against missile defense.
I've loved that song.
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 sweetie.
He and his wife, you know, they're very concerned about the environment.
And they worked out, some malicious journalist worked out.
They hold these big banquets at his stately home.
Because all these rock stars live in palaces.
They live like where, you know, 20 years ago it was a duke or a marquess living in the place.
Now it's a rock star.
And so they hold these big banquets 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 Gore's.
It's always so much harder to save the planet than you think.
Anyway, Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
I just had a great email from Lyle, by the way, who says that, you know, Obama wasn't impressive yesterday.
And he needs to show that he's really serious about what happened on Christmas Day.
And that the best way to do this would be to appoint an underwear czar.
And I think this is an excellent idea.
And I will be passing it on to the Homeland Security.
And then the Underwear Tsar could keep the president fully briefed.
So it would all work out.
Let's go to Casey.
Casey in Spakane, Washington.
Casey, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Great to be here.
Good to have you.
Now, you called in because you weren't that happy about my approach to the latest Guantanamo solution.
Yes, you made some fun of the Saudi Arabian art therapy program.
But did you happen to know that the hero of the Christmas Day airline event was an artist?
The Dutchman hero is a filmmaker.
That's right.
That's true.
So I should say I'm not being artaphobic here.
Now, this guy, as you mentioned, this guy who saved the day on the plane was a filmmaker, a Dutch filmmaker.
And 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 the streets of the Netherlands.
This guy, 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.
So as Dutch filmmakers go, this guy on the plane, by just 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 members of the artistic community flying into action like that, Casey.
Are you an artist, by the way?
Yes, I am.
Now, do you paint?
Do you work with Dutch filmmakers?
What's your.
I wish I did work with film, but I'm a painter.
Oh, right, right.
So, you didn't, you felt I was cheapening 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 Saudi art school, are you?
I'm not going to 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'm glad that you knew about Theo Van Gogh.
You know, that was virtually ignored in the media.
Yeah, and you know what was interesting about that?
You know, Hollywood at the Oscars every year, they have the big weepy death montage where they show all the old actors from the days when the films were watchable who passed away that year.
So, it came up, they had this director, that choreographer, this actor, that actress, all in a big long row.
They didn't mention all these big, 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 pathetic, Casey.
That's right.
Well, we better not get ourselves murdered on the street in Amsterdam.
No, no, no, that's true.
Well, thank you for your call, Casey, and I'll try to ease up 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 did.
Is it the little pointerless thing where they do those little dots?
Whatever that surah, that's right, the French painter Surah, 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 having a picnic in the park.
And 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 pointillism jokes, Casey.
That's the only pointilism joke of the day.
We're not going to do that.
But thank you, thank you for your call.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Crayon therapy.
It works in, you know, when little Jimmy in kindergarten is being naughty.
If you send him in to, you know, draw his express his 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 work.
Could have saved us a bunch of trouble.
Oh, this bumper music is like from my disjoggy days now.
This is taking me way back.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow for Rush.
And then the great Walter Williams will be here on New Year's Eve.
Terrific, actually, terrific bumper me.
I'm a bit of a sucker 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 2004 to 2005.
And then again, until December this year, Yemen's foreign ministry said 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 United States.
So they say, well, you know, obviously we want to let this crazy guy into Yemen.
I mean, why do we need that's one thing?
That's not a job the Yemenis won't do.
The Yemenis are lining up to do the crazy jobs.
We don't need to import crazy guys.
We've 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 sole proprietrix Hillary Rodham Clinton said there was nothing wrong with this guy.
At the rate this is developing, by Wednesday, Yemen will have put the United States on a list of rogue states.
Yemen is furious, furious.
They're shocked to discover that the United States approved this guy to go and live in Yemen.
How could they possibly do such a thing?
Also, now I'm getting all this underwears stuff.
After I said that we need to appoint an underwears who would keep the president fully briefed, I'm getting all this email of people saying we'd need a congressional subcommittee chaired by Barbara Boxer.
We're going to leave the underwedge.
The underwear thing, but when you look at this guy's underwear and what he managed to get in there, clearly, you should only be able to fly if you're wearing a thong.
This is the kind of thing we've got to start thinking outside the box, outside the boxes in this case.
We've got to start thinking outside the boxes if we're really going to really 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.
Just a minute.
I love Texas Longhorns, but Austin, 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 kind of similar to a small San Francisco, I'd say.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it's a company town where the company is government, and they tend to trend liberal for obvious reasons.
But it is in the lone star state, and you are one of the few still functioning jurisdictions in the United States.
So congratulations to you for that.
You're not bankrupt and looking for federal bailouts the way the California and New York are.
No, personally, I am unemployed, though.
I have been for a couple of months.
For right now, I'm just going to enjoy it.
I needed a vacation anyway.
That's a very calm and equitable way to look at it.
And I hope things improve for you in 2010.
I hope things look better by this time next year.
And I wanted to tell you, Mark, you're definitely one of the main ingredients of the excellence in broadcasting for sure.
And I also really enjoy when you sub for Sean Hannity.
You're great on there, too.
Oh, on Fox, when I'm on Fox TV, on the news.
Yes, sir.
No, sir.
Anyway, my point was back to this Obama calling this guy an isolated extremist.
Well, you know, him, Gibbs, and Napolitano, they all in the same day put their feet in their mouth.
They all seem to breed the hook and mouth disease there.
Anyway, in the same breath almost, Obama says we won't rest until all who are responsible for this are held accountable.
So he just totally contradicts himself.
And he's done it, you know, in his words, speaking stupidly.
He does it all the time.
And as far as this panyterrorist, if he ever does find his 72 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 the Fort Colden here.
You know you're being cruel.
But I'll tell you one thing.
I don't care if you're being cruel because one of the interesting things about this whole suicide bombing business 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 is a disgusting concept.
This idea of these 72 virgins who will pleasure you in all eternity.
And this Imam, there's this big shot Imam in Egypt who clarified the position.
They've got like a dial in imam.com or something in Egypt.
And this guy goes, this guy's concerned, I'm thinking I'm becoming a suicide bomber, but I'm very concerned, you know, there's 72 virgins.
When you wear them out, are they still virgins?
I don't understand that.
And this guy reassures 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 just stay in the same pristine condition all day long.
And we should mock that because 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 these people here lately that are trying to blame the Bush administration again, saying these policies that are in place were policies he put in place, so this is now his fault.
Well, 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 20th, President Obama stood appearing before a crowd of 700 million people in the streets of Washington, and he said, We're starting, this is day one, this is year zero, like Pol Pot did in Cambodia.
Everything starts today.
He was quoting Fred Astaire.
We're going to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start all over again.
That was Barack Obama on January the 20th.
And now they're saying, well, look, come on.
These are all the Bush policies.
We didn't look them over.
In January the 20th, 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.
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 haven't looked twice at them.
We just assumed, you know, we took over on January the 20th, but it's just like basically a new face on the same old, same old.
You can't expect us to have looked at all these policies.
That's how he was standing up there, tap-dancing around to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again on January the 20th.
That's not how he was doing it.
There's a slight contradiction there you may have noticed.
There's also the ongoing lack of transparency, and Robert Gibbs is now claiming that there was a whole bunch of this healthcare issue that was on C-SPAN, but it wasn't the important parts that 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 change all that if they put this on C-SPAN, what we've got coming now, but I'm sure they won't.
No, no, we knew you need to look at this stuff.
It's the corruption.
Thank you for your call, Cliff.
And as I said, I hope you do find better luck on the employment front in the year 2010.
But this stuff that the government is pulling, the federal government is putting, the federalization of American life is not going to 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 federal protection of inefficient workplace arrangements at government motors, the market works very efficiently to bleed failure out of the system and restore it.
It punishes failure and replaces it with stuff that works.
Right now, we're rewarding failure at the federal level and we're going to get a lot more of it on healthcare, 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 Rush on the EIB network.
The governor-elect of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, wants the federal government to move.
I can't say this without laughing.
Governor-elect Bob McDonnell, Richmond, Virginia, dateline, Richmond, Virginia.
I can't get through this without 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.
Right now at the moment, they've turned off the faucets to the water supplies for the most productive farmland in the lower 48 out in California because of this delta smelt, this two-inch fish that they say the farming would he's threatened 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.
They're going to 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.
In California, they've turned off the water to the most productive farmland.
You can't do anything in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with oil weather.
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 United States American dream kind of lifestyle they've heard so much about.
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 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 energy exploration off the coast of Virginia is completely is completely 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's going to want to come out of their federally subsidized massage parlour.
And by the way, isn't that a terrible indictment of the United States?
I mean, 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 just, that's crazy talk.
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 government of New York, did he?
That was, I believe that was actually, he wrote a personal check for that, didn't he?
I think so.
God bless you, Governor Spitzer.
I mean, this idea that somehow now we're going to have federally subsidized massage parlours.
But anyway, if you're like, if you're, say, a big shot congressman and you're at your federally subsidized massage parlour 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, Governor McDonnell, that anything is going to 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, 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 made from investing in Occidental Petroleum.
The idea, you're a fool.
If you want to invest in oil exploration, in gas exploration off the coast of the United States, you're a fool.
You're better to get mixed up in some cockami carbon credit scam.
And in return for you 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 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.
Joan Nova, she's a lady who writes about these issues on the internet.
She had a great line.
You know, basically, carbon credits are the subprime mortgages of international trading.
And that is absolutely right.
That's that in a nutshell.
This is the problem when you have government manipulated capitalism.
When you provide incentives, essentially what is happening now in the federal government 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 going to 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 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 drilling in Anwar, that was the time to do it.
To say that you can't have it both ways.
These guys say, oh, well, we can't keep giving money to all these our enemies.
Essentially, we're funding the war on terror every time we gas up 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 – somebody called up yesterday and said, oh, if there's so much air security, we'll all go back to trains.
You couldn't have wood-fired trains in the United States anymore, shoveling 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 going to be any energy exploration.
There's not going to be any energy in the United States.
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Mark Stein on the Russian Inbo Show.
More to come.
Mark Stein, in for Rush 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.
Not only are we not allowed to find anything except these bogus green energy, energy efficient things, so-called in the United States.
So we're forced to depend on oil from Saudi Arabia and all the rest of it.
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 going to sue OPEC.
The source of the global economy's energy, and they decide they're going to sue it.
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.
That's the best way to respond to this poser environmentalism and poser energy efficiency that the Democrats and the world's liberals are imposing on us.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow.
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