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Feb. 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 5, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you, ladies and gentlemen?
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yep, yep, yep.
Yahoo! Open line Friday.
When we go to the phones, callers are totally in charge of the content.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbow at eibnet.com.
Reuters, jobless rate hits five-month low, but payrolls fall.
That headline says it all.
So much lying and obfuscation.
We welcome to our program.
It's an annual event the Friday before the Super Bowl.
The Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson on the phone with us from Seattle to discuss the upcoming Super Bowl, the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts.
So Hutch, great to have you here, sir.
How you doing, my bruh?
Very good, my brother.
How are you doing?
How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
I can't complain one bit, but we better take care of first business first.
Tell Catherine I say hello and looking forward to meeting her.
All right, I'll do that.
I'm going to see her tonight at our little Super Bowl client dinner that we're having down in Miami.
Be careful down there in Miami, man.
You know, they don't like white people down there.
Hey, Hutch, what do you think about my idea to, in honor of Black History Month next Monday, to serve the staff fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, and watermelon?
I think you got one thing missing.
What?
Me.
You know, the biggest problem with that, man, if there's anyone else that was conservative, already been cooked and barbecued themselves.
Amen, bro.
They've already been cooked.
Fried chicken on a Black History Month.
What in the world is this world coming to?
Well, that's the sign.
It's an NDC commissary at 30 Rock.
There's a sign at the door when you walk in.
It's since been taken down, but they're serving and honoring Black History Month fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, and they're not serving the watermelon.
Well, you know, you have to understand now that liberals are not prejudiced.
They're very sensitive.
Yes.
Yes.
Very politically correct.
Hey, let me read a headline here to you.
Okay.
NFL owners, players lining up lobbyists for the labor showdown.
National Football League players have hired a new union chief from Washington's top lobbying firm and hired his former colleagues to help influence Congress.
Now you get lobbyists and unions and politicians.
What could possibly go wrong with this?
Just the fact that getting representatives will go in and try to tell the players what they need to do.
Hey, these guys don't want to lose money.
They got a great contract.
You know, the NFL Players Association is nothing like the National Baseball.
The Baseball Players Association got it packed, bro.
They know how to take care of their players.
Well, what they're talking about here is an 8.
I'm told this is what DeMora Smith is saying, that the owners want an 18% pay cut.
What I know about this is that Paul Tagliabu, back, I think, in 2006, did a revision to the CBA.
That bumped up the players' take to 60%.
And it also allowed for an uncapped year in 2010 if there wasn't a renewal.
And the owners think they got screwed in that deal, and they're just trying to reset it.
They're trying to reset it.
Yep.
And the owner of the Ravens, Steve Bashoti, came out a couple days ago and said that there are some NFL teams losing money.
And he cited, well, he didn't say which ones were, but he did mention Jacksonville having to put tarps over 10,000 seats to make sure that they don't have blackouts.
And he said that there are some teams where the middle linebacker, you'll love this, is making more than the owner.
Well, I wish I was still playing Mike linebacker.
And you'd be making more than some owners if Bashoti.
I think that's a flat out lie, Rush, because every owner's going to split Super Bowl money.
Now, there is revenue sharing.
And revenue sharing.
I mean, it's the greatest monopoly in all the world.
Well, there's a court case for the Supreme Court that may come down and say that.
Good.
Good.
All right, well, let's talk about the game.
Are you jazzed about this at all?
I'm going to tell you something.
This is probably one of the finest contests that we're going to see in a long time.
This is the first time, Rush, that we've had the number one team, the number two team, the number one quarterback, and the number two quarterback are going to be playing each other in the Super Bowl.
Well, that's true.
It is, isn't it?
It's the first time two Dome teams have made it to the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
You're looking at the first time in the final four that you had three of the top four teams that made it.
Who would you have rather, would you have rather seen Brett Farr, Brett Farr Brett Favre rather than the Saints?
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
I think that the contest is the contest.
I hated that the first Super Bowl was played two weeks ago.
That's the thing I hate.
So that was Indianapolis and who?
No.
The first Super Bowl, man, was the Vikings and the Saints.
Oh, the Vikings and the Saints.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, that was a game, bro.
You know that as well as I was.
Yeah, it was a game.
But, I mean, for Crying Leather, five turnovers.
The Vikings had five turnovers, fumbles and interceptions.
That's what pressure does to a team, bro.
I guess.
That's the difference between winning and losing in the big game.
In any game.
Yeah.
All right, so you're excited about the matchup.
I'm excited about the matchup.
But I'm excited about a total different reason than most people.
Well, tell me why.
Because I think that there's so many things that people are not taking into consideration with the Saints.
And by the way, now, what kind of friend do I have that's going to agree with Obama about who is probably going to win this game?
Hey, who's agreeing with Obama?
I made my pick before he did.
I'm not agreeing with him.
I can't help what he thinks.
Go, okay, go ahead, get out of it.
Both are still on the same team.
All I know is that it's a kiss of death when this guy picks a basketball winner when he endorses a political candidate.
Now he's picked the Super Bowl team.
It's the kiss of death.
It's worse than making on a cover of Sports Illustrated.
It's a kiss of death when the Hutch says that, hey, with all the things going on, everyone knows that everything is pointing towards the Saints.
Everybody knows that.
Everyone knows, you know, Baltimore is not playing the Saints.
They're playing a city.
They're playing history.
They're playing the future.
But there's one thing wrong.
Wait a second.
There's a guy over there called Peyton Manning.
Wait, wait a second.
You're saying the sentimental favor to the Saints, and everybody's talking about the Saints as a powerhouse here?
Oh, yeah.
Because of New Orleans, because of Katrina, because they've never been there before.
Absolutely.
Rebuilding.
Why are you leaning towards them?
Well, I don't want to say why.
Because it has nothing to do with football.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm with you right there, see.
You and I are together on that one.
That's the thing that drives me the nuts the most, and that is our buddy, the owner of the Colts.
Yeah, I must say that factors here.
That thing is tearing me apart.
I'm telling you right now, bro, this guy was not a fan of my best friend.
Jim Hearsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts.
And frankly, you know, I know I shouldn't react this way.
And I've met Peyton Manning on the golf course a couple times, but I frankly, I'm tired of reading stories.
Is he the best quarterback ever?
And if he wins his second Super Bowl, he will be the best quarterback ever.
Well, he is the best quarterback ever, Rush.
You think he's better than Montana?
Oh, for heaven's sakes, yes.
Well, I don't even think they're in the same ballpark.
How many Super Bowls Montana have?
I don't care how many Super Bowls.
He's got four, Hutch.
He's got four.
Yeah, but look, you think Manning's going to quit after this year?
Yeah.
This man is still going to win.
No, he's going to play after this year.
That's right.
He's going to win some more Super Bowls.
Don't worry about that.
But he's the technician of the game, Rush.
He alone showing up can win the game.
Drew Brees showing up by himself can't.
I didn't put Drew Brees in the equation.
But look, that's a bunch of hyperbole.
Are you saying Manning showing up one against 11 can beat him?
I'm saying that he can take the other 10 and beat any team on the field.
Oh, that's the old Bum Phillips thing.
Hey, babe, I'm going to tell you.
You know what it says?
Errol Campbell to the right, Errol Campbell to the left, Earl Campbell up the middle.
Until you stop him left, right, and up the middle, that's where we're going to run.
Yeah, well, that's what Bum Phillips, my all-time favorite NFL coach, Bum Phillips said about Don Schuler.
He can take urine and beat urine.
And beat his.
And he can take his in and beat urine.
So that's what you're saying about Manning.
He can play for any team and make him a winner.
Oh, yeah.
Just having him on the field is a general.
And that's why I had to remove all my emotions from Jim Hearsay.
I had to remove all of it.
I don't like the guy.
I don't like what he said about you.
I don't care if anyone hears it.
You know, give him a phone call, personally tell him the Hutch does not like him.
He messed up one of the greatest opportunities in the NFL.
And I think I ought to start a campaign, Rush, for NFL commissioner.
Oh, that would be fun.
Let DeMorris Smith react to that.
All right.
I got to take a break here, but I want to find out what you're throwing away emotionally here in order to pick Jim Hearsay's team.
Okay.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away with the Hutch.
And we're back, Rush Lindbaugh with the Hutch, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson, Antioch Bible Church in Seattle.
Okay, you are going to share with us your emotional reasons for wanting to pick the Saints, but you're going to broom them and you're going to go with the Colts.
What are these emotional reasons?
Oh, you know, just before we get into that rush, you know Fergie, part owner of Miami?
Oh, yeah, Fergie, the.
Black-Eyed Pease?
Yeah, Black Eyed Pease, a lead singer.
Yeah, you know that they had a song came out about a year and a half, two years ago, Let's Get Retarded, and they made them change it.
Really?
Did Fergie sing it or did William sing it?
I think it was the whole group.
Whole group sing it.
Yeah, and it caused a stir, and they changed it.
But Emmanuel can get away with what he said.
Bruh, America needs to wake up.
So they actually had a song, Let's Get Retarded.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, Let's Get R-worded.
Yeah.
And they had to change the words.
No kidding.
Absolutely, my brother.
I didn't know that.
It's rare that somebody tells me that somebody tells me something I don't know.
That's why you and I are close.
That's exactly right.
And I know that you got my back.
Let me tell you what's going on that a lot of people are not taking into consideration, I believe.
One, emotionally, I got to remove myself from the owner of the Colts and just concentrate on the teams.
Number one, I think if any defense, any defense of the Colts shows up, the game could be over at halftime.
Well, speaking of that, I got to ask you about Dwight Freene.
And they're playing games with this ankle of his, whether he's going to play or not.
Let's say he doesn't play.
I mean, that's going to put somebody not nearly as good on the right side of the end.
And the so-called experts are saying that's going to start a shootout.
Breeze is going to have a field day because the Colt defense is not going to be able to get any pressure on him because they'll be able to double-team Robert Mathis on the left side.
Oh, yeah, but how good has he been lately, though, Rush, with that bad hand and injuries that he's had?
Raheem's just going to have to step up.
You mean Freeney?
No, if Freeney doesn't play, Raheem's going to have to step up because they're talking about going ahead and operating on him, on Dwight.
Right.
You know, he may not even play at all.
Well, I know.
It's confusing.
They're trying to keep everybody off guard, but he's getting better.
Less pain today.
He's out walking on the beach, trying to keep the flexibility in the ankle out there.
Might be playing, might not be playing.
But I just want to know if he doesn't play, are these guys right?
Does this open up a shootout for Breeze?
No, I don't think so.
I think that they already got the game plan set if Freene doesn't play.
All right.
And Ray Raheem is just going to have to step up, bro.
And, you know, you got the other defensive in.
You got Robert Mathis.
He's going to have to step up.
You had Antonio Johnson going to have to step up.
And, you know, and Daniel's going to have to step up.
But these guys are going to have to do their job.
That's what they're paid for.
And that's why I'm saying: if any aspect of the Colts defense shows up, this game could be through and over at halftime.
I'm telling you.
All right.
Well, keep a sharp eye on that.
Please do.
Now, the big problem we got is with the offense, if the crazy red stallion stands up out there and get the offense fired up for the Saints.
The crazy Red Stallion stands up.
Jeremy Shocky.
Oh, Shocky.
Oh, that boy, man.
He's on a bum knee, too.
I'm more interested in that.
I'm more interested in the Saints defense.
I need to ask you a question about what happens in the NFL.
I'm reading today that there are bounties out on Peyton Manning, that there are cash rewards being offered Saints defensive players for putting him out of the game.
Does that stuff actually happen?
We heard that about Buddy Ryan when he coached Eagles.
That stuff actually happened in the NFL.
If it is, it is not talked about in the locker room, bro.
You do not talk about that kind of stuff in the locker room, and you don't let the news people know about it.
Well, the news people are talking.
They're asking Colts.
Of course they are.
They're asking the Colts' offensive line if they've heard about this.
Well, they're trying their best to make news, Rush.
This is the quietest Super Bowl ever.
There's no controversy going on.
Right.
And no badasses out there getting drunk and getting arrested with prostitutes.
This is a total different Super Bowl that they've ever had to deal with.
Well, what's that say about these two teams?
Clean Winter.
The truth is, they are very disciplined.
Very disciplined.
They are very disciplined.
Which coach do you like here?
It doesn't matter.
I mean, either coach is fine.
I mean, but, you know, they're both rookies.
Well, Sean Payton's not a rookie.
He's been around four or five seasons.
Yeah, but I mean, Super Bowl?
Oh, Super Bowl.
Yeah, okay.
They're both rookies going to the Super Bowl.
That's why I'm worried about the Saints.
Why?
Because Colwell's been there before.
And there you go.
All right.
There you go.
Okay.
Saints are going to blitz.
They blitz every play.
They blitz everybody.
They're going to get busted.
Don't blitz my man if you're not willing to get burned.
If they do get burned on these blitzes, do you expect them to dial them back?
Because they haven't been dialing them back.
If they keep getting burned, and they haven't got burned much.
I mean, they've got a pretty good record.
But that's a defensive philosophy.
They're putting a lot of faith in Darren Sharper back there.
Oh, yeah, but they hadn't played my boy Peyton, have they?
No, they haven't played.
I want to ask you another question about Peyton Manning.
Sure.
All these audibles he calls to the line, how many of them are fakes?
How many of that is just style trying to screw up a defense or buy time to see what the defense is lining up in?
I don't think any of them is fake.
He's too much of a technician.
And I think everything he calls Rush is from the line, what he sees, what he reads for the defense, where he sees what side of the line, the strong safety everyone's lined up on.
How do you reflect to the formation that he's in?
And then he reads from the line.
That's what makes him such a great quarterback.
Okay, so he's actually in charge.
He's the offensive coordinator, actually, playing the game.
Absolutely.
That's why it didn't change that much when they changed head coaches, bro.
Well, but they didn't change offensive coordinators.
Nope.
But you got your general on the field, not on the sideline calling plays.
Yeah, I think Dungie has picked, understandably, the Colts 38-17, 34-17, something like that.
I'm going to tell you: if there's any defense shows up on the Colts side, people are going to be mad at the second half when they advertise for the second half of the Super Bowl.
Well, you know, the.
The Colts' defense is an underrated unit because of Manning.
Everybody focuses on the Colts' offense, but when they do show up, they are damn good.
Ask Bill Belichick.
I'm going to tell you right now: when they show up, they're good.
But boy, very often, very seldom do they show up, Rush.
Got one more question before we have to go.
Tim Tebow, the controversy here over the ad with he and his mother.
My boy.
I'm going to tell you, I'm prejudiced.
I'm going to tell you, I'm prejudiced.
We work with his dad from our church in the Philippines, you know.
I did not know that.
Yeah, he's part of our admissions program at the church.
Okay, Tim Thibaut's dad is?
Yeah.
We've learned a lot here.
Here is the ultimate pro-choice question.
A mother faced with the possibility of dying during pregnancy or giving birth.
Ultimate choice.
She chose to give birth, and now the nags don't even want the story told.
That's right.
So no longer is pro-choice, pro-choice.
They have now confirmed pro-choice is pro-abortion.
That's exactly right.
But it always has been.
I know.
But now they've demonstrated it.
Now they're demonstrating 3 million.
We got 3 million.
Hey, Rush, remember when I came down to Florida to do that movie?
Yeah.
And you wouldn't come down and have dinner with me?
What do you mean?
We wouldn't come down to have dinner with you.
Hey, we finally got it finished.
I wanted to let you know, and I want to send you my book.
Can I give you the name of it?
Yeah, four seconds.
Hope is contagious.
Hope.
And I want you to read it.
I want your honest opinion about it.
All right.
All right.
I'll give it to you.
And now we continue with Open Line Friday.
By the way, if you didn't hear it, the name of the Hutches book is Hope is Contagious.
And he's going to send me a copy of it.
And when he does, I shall read it and review it and pass it on to you.
Did you hear what Michelle Obama did?
Did Michelle, this is the ABC News headline, did Michelle Obama send the wrong message with obesity comments?
She basically admitted that her two girls were fat, but that she didn't see it happening because she was so close to them.
You know, she's big on obesity, childhood obesity.
Michelle Obama has earned accolades for making healthy living and eliminating childhood obesity a priority.
And when it came down to personalizing the issue in relation to her daughters, the remarks touched a nerve with some people.
The first lady made the issue of healthy eating personal last week at an event in Alexandria, Virginia, where she kicked off a campaign addressing the issue of childhood obesity.
We went to our pediatrician all the time.
I thought my kids were perfect.
They are.
They always will be.
But the doctor warned that he was concerned something was getting off balance, and I didn't see the changes.
And that's also part of the problem or part of the challenge.
It's often hard to see the changes in your own kids when you're living with them day in and day out.
We often simply don't realize that those kids are our kids and our kids could be in danger of becoming obese.
We always think that only happens to somebody else's kid, and I was in that position.
So Michelle Obama threw her kids under the bus.
She has hinted to the world that her kids are fatties.
But see, that's by the way, satire, satire alert, the following may be offensive.
The real problem is that Michelle Obama has a doctor, a pediatrician, who no doubt is getting ready to rip her off.
Her husband has warned her about these pediatricians.
Pediatrician might have lied to Michelle Obama about them being fat as an excuse to do surgery.
You know, Obama has warned us about pediatricians.
They schedule unnecessary surgeries, remove kids' tonsils just to line their pockets.
And it looks like those scheming ripoff specialists are doing it again here.
Warning, satire alert may be offensive.
This time they're using phony obesity warnings as a get-rich-quick scheme.
Michelle ought to know better than this.
Her husband has warned all of us about how pediatricians make it up, do false and phony surgeries.
If she doesn't think her kids are fat and the pediatrician does, who's right?
And if they're not fat and the pediatrician says they're fat, what's the diabolical purpose that he has in mind?
Diane in Bluffton, South Carolina, welcome.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Years ago, I bought your book, See, I Told You So.
I've been a fan since then.
My question would be: if I were a first lady, at this point, I would be more worried about children not getting enough to eat than too much to eat.
Why would that be?
Well, because of our economy, because of families.
Oh, yeah.
More and more families unemployed, so less and less food.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That would be my concern instead of at this point, children that weigh too much.
Well, but, you know, the thing is, her husband is really laser-like focused on jobs now.
And he's got that handled.
I hope you're laughing with me because I find that very amusing.
Listen, the first lady has to do something with kids.
All first ladies do something with children.
Well, I know, but let's feed them.
Let's worry about that they're getting enough to eat.
And I'm sorry, I just felt that this, her problem with obese children is not our problem right now.
There are other things she could focus on.
Frankly, I agree with you.
I think this focus on obesity and that somehow only the government can fix it and only the government and attention from the government can solve it.
It's all rooted in the notion that parents don't know what the hell to do, that parents are irresponsible.
People cannot live their own lives.
They cannot make their own wise decisions and the proper judgments.
And it needs nannies and government bureaucrats and so forth to come in like the mayor of New York.
No trans fat, no salt, calorie counting labels on every food product, whatever the hell it is.
Frankly, it wears me out.
Listen to this from the Associated Press.
A political newcomer who won the Democrat nomination for Illinois lieutenant governor said that he has no intention of leaving the race after details emerged about his arrest for allegedly holding a knife to his former girlfriend's throat.
Where were the drive-bys on this?
Scott Lee Cohen, in his best Charlie Sheen impersonation, struck a defiant tone even after running mate Governor Pat Quinn predicted he would have to leave the race.
Cohen said people should wait for all the facts to become known.
There are questions.
I'll provide all the answers honestly and openly, said in the statement yesterday.
He did not return calls from the state-controlled Associated Press.
Police records show that the woman had been arrested for prostitution.
Cohen said he did not know that at the time.
He told WTTW-TV that he met her for a massage therapy and believed she was a masseuse.
Cohen denied hitting her and said their relationship was tumultuous.
Chicago politics.
You can't make this up.
Now, remember, George Allen was drummed out of the Virginia Senate race because of the word maca.
And here we've got a candidate for lieutenant governor been arrested for holding a woman with a knife at her throat.
He said, oh, no, no, no, wait a minute.
I got answers.
There are questions and I'll have them.
Don't worry about it.
I mentioned this earlier in the program.
Dina Belandi, the chickification of the news, Associated Press.
That historically all-white club known as the U.S. Senate is likely to lose what little diversity it has after the November elections.
Two white men will be competing for President Obama's former seat in Illinois, now held by Roland Burris, the chamber's lone African-American.
Appointed by the scandal-tainted former governor, Burris will not be seeking a full term.
In contests in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina, black candidates face daunting challenges to join the August body from difficulty raising cash to lack of name recognition to formidable rivals.
Blacks comprise 12.2% of the nation's population, but you would know it in the 100-member United States Senate.
Come next year, the total number could add up to zero.
David Bosaitis, senior political analyst, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
It certainly is not a desirable state of affairs.
Now, notice the article is only talking about the diversity of skin color, not the diversity of political thought.
In truth, if the Republicans take away more seats from the Democrats' supermajority, the Congress will be more diverse.
It will be more diverse.
Who has written the idiot that wrote the Deanna Belandi?
Deanna, if the Republicans take away a lot of seats, it will be more diverse in the way diversity counts.
But of course, in the minds of state-controlled associated press, the color of one's skin is far more important than the content of their character.
In fact, the way I read this, Snerdley, the AP seems to be suggesting that with Senate seats, once you go black, you can never go back.
Once you go black, you can never go back.
Seems like that's what they're saying with Senate seats.
And if you go black and then you go back, somehow, somehow, some horrible thing has happened.
Also seem to be demanding racial quotas for our elected officials.
In Honor Black History Month, I thought the election of Obama was going to put an end to all this kind of nonsense.
Didn't you?
I mean, that's what we were told.
You go black, you'll never go back.
But apparently, that bit of philosophy here is being blown to smithereens.
AP's disgruntled about it.
I mean, you can almost read that.
You can see the tear stains on the paper here of the writer.
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Say, folks, you may have forgotten about this, but of course I haven't as host.
We joined with the UK in offering the Taliban a buy-off, you know, offer them $100 million, maybe up to $300 million to give up Dewa and take government jobs and start plowing the fields and doing all this.
And they have rejected it, predictably.
They have rejected it.
The Afghanistan Taliban has rejected the objective of the London Conference.
Now, this statement from the Taliban, I've got a whole story here, but they're just livid in this statement.
And they cite the Koran and they cite their religion.
See, Obama runs around.
He's part of the loony left that says the only reason there is terrorism is because there is poverty and lack of opportunity.
And that's not correct.
It's a religion.
It cannot be bought off.
These people are not doing what they're doing because they're poor and have no way out.
The left thinks poverty is responsible for everything.
This is a religion.
And if it's not faced that way by Obama and his people, we're going to have ongoing problems with them above and beyond what we already would have.
Jill in Centennial, Colorado, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Here in Metro Denver, Colorado, we are in among the top three of the nation in job loss.
We are hemorrhaging jobs among the top three in the nation.
In Metro Denver.
Yes, sir.
And our mayor, Denver Democrat Mayor John Hickenblooper, I mean Hickenlooper, actually said that job loss and unemployment is more a state of mind.
And also, regarding the snowblowers that they're having trouble being delivered out back east, gee, they are having a hard time getting 18 wheelers to deliver the snowblowers.
Three things there.
One, why are they having a hard time?
Gee, they're small business, independent truckers.
Two, what are they going to have to pay for their diesel fuel to ship the snowblowers out there?
And number three, what are those snowblowers going to run on?
Solar power or electricity or combustion engine.
Well, you know, I made that point during a previous snowstorm that I think what will happen is all the environmentalist wackos ought to get out there and personally street the sweeps with their street, sweep the streets with their shovels and everything else.
Because if it were up to them, we wouldn't have any snowblowers.
We wouldn't have any snow plows because there's no way a snowblower, snowplow is going to run on wind energy or thermodynamic energy or whatever the hell else energy that they're talking about.
Your mayor actually said that unemployment is a state of mind?
Yes, and people have lost their jobs for saying that.
But also, getting back to the snowblowers, how are they going to get them in anyway regarding the truckers and independents?
Well, why?
If the truckers are out of business, is that what your point is?
They're going to be because of the high prices they have to pay in diesel fuel, as well as the fact that they're being run out.
Yes, what you said.
Well, plus there's nothing to ship.
I mean, they've got the fuel.
Well, they have the snowblowers.
They're just having a hard time getting the truckers, the 18-wheelers, to get them in there.
I know, because the truckers have dialed it back.
We've had calls from the truckers.
Nothing's moving out there.
But diesel fuel price is going up, as is the gasoline price.
But they could just factor that into the delivery price.
The problem, a lot of these cities that have bought the snowblowers can't pay for them, don't have the money for it.
But I'm most intrigued by the fact that unemployment is a state of mind.
You've got a Democrat mayor, is this supposed to comfort people?
Are you supposed to, if you don't have a job, are you supposed to, yeah, I do.
Yeah, yeah, I got a job.
And it turns it around for you?
If you just say, yeah, I got a job when you don't have one, that fixes the situation?
Does he mean continued unemployment is a state of mind?
Whatever, he's a Democrat, and he's trying to mitigate circumstances for his own party, no question.
The National Weather Service just sent out the following for D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.
Generally across the region, 20 to 30 inches of snow will fall by Saturday evening.
And from an Australian newspaper, and I've told you people this, I don't know how many times, aerobic exercise is a waste of time.
International research by the University of London found that aerobic exercise doesn't benefit everyone in equal measure.
The shame of it all.
See you Monday.
We will be here on Monday.
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