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Feb. 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hi, my friends, how are you?
That's another Friday here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network as we complete another mad cap week in what I think, ladies and gentlemen.
I think I've figured it all out now.
Obama's secret plan.
Try to get me to retire from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I think that's his secret plan is to get me to retire.
Remember, folks.
People ask me all the time, Rush, how long are you going to do this?
And I said, I'm not stopping till every American agrees with me.
And Obama is making that happen.
I mean, it's I it's amazing to watch out there.
Greetings and uh welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Open Line Friday.
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No, I I mean this.
It's as if Obama is on a mission to get every American to agree with me.
Uh and he has the Democrats uh working with him hand in hand.
It was just a few months ago.
I'm serious about this.
It was just a few uh weeks, months ago, it felt immoral to take a day off, given what the nutty professor was doing each and every day, multiple times a day.
We had to deal with this professor.
He never took a day off, he never took an hour off.
But now I mean, has there ever been a better time to take off than in the past several years?
Christmas Eve was even tough to take off.
Because the assault on this country was uh was in full swing.
So don't worry, folks, I'm not gonna fall for this trick.
I'm uh I'm not no, no, I'm not gonna retire.
Because I don't think it's gonna be possible for Obama to make every American agree with me, but he's on a he's on a roll.
I mean, you want to go through the uh you want me to go through some of the lists.
By the way, did you see it snowed in Rome?
Rare snowfall in Rome as cold snap grips Italy.
This is the biggest snowfall since uh 1986.
I happened to be there during that snowfall.
It was a listener trip when I was working KFBK in Sacramento and a cheap travel agent that booked us in some dormitory of some uh nearby college, and we got over there 14 inches of snow when we woke up the first day.
And it was uh and it was just freezing.
Cold as it could be.
I saw that today.
And wasn't it just um wasn't it just earlier this week we all heard when we're talking about global warming uh getting a real blow with all these snowstorms on the East Coast, the uh the pro-global warming people say, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I mean, look at there, no snow, and it's not it's not even not even below 50 degrees up there for the winter Olympics.
Snow, rain, and fog may replace gold, silver, and bronze this weekend at Whistler Mountain, side of the Alpine skiing events at the 2010 Winter Games, Olympic meteorologists at the venue predict inclement weather through Sunday, making it increasingly likely that the men's downhill on Saturday and the women's supercombined on Sunday could be delayed because of a blizzard.
Uh also, you know, it is amazing to watch, it really is amazing to watch all of these pro-global warming people who admit that it's all a political issue, try to tell us that warm air creates more snow.
So newsbusters went out and compared temperatures during these recent snowstorms to seasonal norms.
And in Washington, the normal average temperature, December 18th and 19th, is 39 degrees.
The actual average temperature on those two days was 30 and 26 when they had some snow.
February 5th and 6th, normal temperature, 36.
The actual temperatures 34 and 27.
And February 10th, the average temperature is 37.
It was 25.
Uh, on the the actual temperature on that day, so the temperatures are not warmer, causing all of this snow.
Uh, ladies and Gentlemen, and it it's it's it's hilarious for me to watch all this.
Global warming, they say causes more snow, right?
Well, then global cooling would cause less snow.
I mean, different ways of saying the same thing, right?
I mean, as one who is possessed with a tremendous amount of logic and uh critical thinking capability, that would have to be true.
But when there is less snow, the alarmists say that's because of global warming.
When there is more snow, they say it's because of global warming.
Now you cannot have it both ways.
Otherwise, you're contradicting yourself and proving that all you are is on a political mission.
Now we've heard from all the experts, all the members of Congress, all the experts in the media telling us that these these record snowfalls are just proof of global warming.
Well, let's go back to the audio sound bites.
We have uh a bunch, about seven of them here.
March 21st, 2002 from the Senate floor.
Not enough snow was falling back then.
Robert Byrd said this proved global warming.
We need a climate change strategy badly.
Look at the kind of winter we've had here in Washington.
One snow.
Three inches.
What can we expect for the spring and summer season?
What's going to happen to our focus?
Our last off.
Our economy.
This is serious.
I've lived a long time.
84 years.
Something's going on out there.
I don't need a scientist to tell me that.
We had better do something about it.
Uh, you gotta listen to this, folks.
These are Democrats complaining global warming proved by no snow.
No snow in Washington, 2002 proves global warming.
Yesterday and the day before, all of this snow in Washington proves global warming.
They both can't be right.
Here's Barbara Boxer, October 29th, 9th uh 2007 on the Senate floor.
He also remarked that the most optimistic climate models for the second half of the century suggest that 30 to 70 percent of the snow pack will disappear.
Now, no wonder we have people visiting our offices who are just already hurting from the recreation industry in this nation.
They see what's happening, they see the handwriting on the wall.
We have to act.
The ski industry was visiting her office.
By the way, do you know why we have President's Day?
The ski industry.
The ski industry lobbied for a three-day holiday during the height of ski season in February.
So that's one of the reasons why there's a president's day.
So here just three years ago, almost three years ago, uh, well, two and a half years ago, Barbara Boxer, worried, not enough snow.
Ski industry complaining, global warming.
Uh, snowmobile association upset two, April 22nd, 2008, in Washington, Senator Amy Klobushar, Minnesota on the Senate floor.
I heard it from uh the head of our snowmobile association who testified at a forum that I had uh with our governor on climate change uh in January because they've seen decreasing snow levels.
I hear about it from ice fishermen because they have seen that it takes longer for the ice to freeze and they can't put their fish house out.
Oh, man, global warming as recently as 2007 because there's no ice and there's no snow.
Now we have record snows, and it proves global warming.
Barbara Boxer, March 19th, 2009, Environment Public Works Committee hearing.
Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snowpack in the Western Mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood.
Lack of snow could threaten the water supply.
Lack of snow due to global warming.
Dify, same theme, June 21st, 2005 on the Senate floor.
The Sierra Nevada snowpack is the largest source of water.
The snowpack equals about half the storage capacity of all of California's man-made reservoirs.
By the end of the century, the shrinking of the snowpack will eliminate the water source for 16 million people.
Are you catching this, folks?
This is out and out.
BS.
These are full-fledged lies brought about by a political allegiance to a leftist scam and hoax called global warming.
We may have snow in all 50 states.
By the time this weekend is over, it may it, in fact, it did snow in Northern Florida.
Uh thinking an Air Force base.
We it's they're getting twelve inches of global warming in uh in Montgomery, Alabama.
Twelve inches of global warming rate in Alabama.
And it's cause of global warming, ladies and gentlemen.
And yet two years ago, five years ago, three years ago, the lack of snow was due to global warming.
I'm playing all these just to illustrate for you that these people have no idea what they're talking about.
They're simply pushing a political agenda.
Barbara Boxer again, October 29, 2007, Senate floor.
The potential consequences will be devastating for our families in the future and for the world.
Now we're seeing the early warning signs.
People can come down to this floor and say whatever they want.
We've seen melting of snow.
We have seen melting of permafrost, increased temperatures, warming of lakes, rivers, oceans, changes in the seasons.
We've seen none of that.
We haven't seen any changes in the seasons.
Twenty-five years ago, 14 inches of snow, 26 years ago in Rome, it's happened again.
Uh, is that a trend?
Is it an anomaly, or is it just nature?
Could it just be nature?
J. Insley, representative Democrat Washington on the House floor ski industry again.
The ski industry in in the Cascade Mountains in Washington essentially was shut down this year.
My son's a ski patrolman.
He worked for three days this year.
There was no snow.
And having this no snow is consistent with what the models predict will become a significant problem for us in the future.
That's July 20th, 2005.
No snow, global warming.
Oh, the models are telling us huge problems now.
Record snowfalls, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington.
It's global warming.
They cannot have it both ways.
You can't say when there's less snow, that's global warming, and when there's more snow than normal, that's global warming.
They're trying to, but it will not pass the smell test.
Very seriously, ladies and gentlemen, this global warming hoax, this climate change stuff borders on criminal corruption.
Criminal political corruption.
You think of all of the billions that have been spent ostensibly to protect things and people from global warming.
And it's all been a scam.
It has been a huge, nothing more than a huge transfer of wealth.
It is a giant scam.
It is political corruption what has happened.
It's funny to listen to these people make fools of themselves.
And I love doing it, and it's not very hard.
Just play their own words.
I just got a note from a good friend.
Way to go, rush very smooth.
You made them look foolish, I replied, easy.
They are.
But they're also dangerous.
This is political criminal corruption, what is happening here.
And they have, just as they have ensnared the media to provide all kinds of propaganda for all the other political corruption that comes from liberalism, the Democrat Party et al.
They're doing it in global warming as well.
Think of the money that need not have been spent on any of this.
It's an abstract and here's here's just it's getting crazier and crazier.
From uh from stop theacl u.com.
And this actually is from a uh let me see, hang on just a second.
This is, I think, uh yeah.
Basically from the UK telegraph, Elizabeth Bad uh Elizabeth Badinter or Badinter.
Yeah, that's it.
Elizabeth Bad Inter.
Um a le well that's I don't know how to put it, but I'm I'm covering it both ways, Dawn, and I think this probably pronunciation works well.
We're talking about a feminazi here.
Wait till you hear the story.
Elizabeth Bad Enter, a leading French feminazi, has warned the green movement is threatening decades of improvements in gender equality by forcing women to give up their jobs and become Earth Mothers.
Mrs. Bad Enter claims that a wholly reactionary alliance of green politicians, breastfeeding militants, back to nature feminazis, and child psychologists is turning French women into slaves to green fads like reusable nappies And organic food.
So even the Feminazis are breaking off from the militant global warming environmentalist wackos.
Elizabeth Badinter, a leading French Feminazi.
The, by the way, the uh mayor of a town in Brazil.
And I'm not sure what the name of the town uh yeah, Sao Lorenzo.
Southeastern Minas Geta State has banned funk and rap music as the Brazilian carnival begins.
Somebody do that.
Poll date at Quinity in the country.
Quinnipiac University, February 11th.
U.S. voters split on Obama down on everybody else.
American voters remain deeply divided about Obama's job performance, giving him a 45-46% job approval, but disapproval of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress tops two to one.
This could explain why only two percent trust government to do what's right almost all of the time.
Where have I heard that phrase?
Only two percent trust government to do what's right almost.
Things are getting so bad for liberals, folks.
I'm almost beginning, I'm not gonna go all the way, but I'm almost beginning to feel sorry for them, and this is why I say I think Obama has a secret plot to get me to retire based on my claim, and I'm not gonna do so until everybody agrees with me.
In no particular order.
The stimulus sporculous slush fund has failed.
Obamacare has been rejected by a large majority of Americans.
Obama's poll numbers across the board are in free fall.
Obama embarrassed himself twice in Copenhagen.
Obama's buck is stopping with his inner circle of Chicago thug advisors.
They're being blamed by the left for Obama's failed presidency.
Not George W. Bush.
Do you realize what a meaningful transformation that is?
All of these people on the left.
From Douglas Wilder to any number of D.C. pundits are blaming the Chicago thug acracy for Obama's slip-ups, not Bush.
And forgetting that Obama is one of them.
You're not blaming me.
They're blaming the thugocracy from Chicago.
Alec Baldwin has melted down over another incident with his daughter.
The deficit and unemployment are destroying the Obama fiction.
And the country's identified Obama's policies as the problem.
Democrat candidates were humiliated in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, and guess what?
Patrick Kennedy has said he's not running for re-election in Rhode Island.
He's got a 62% disapproval.
Some people, some people speculate that he might be planning to move back to Massachusetts and run against Scott Brown in a couple years.
I don't think that's what's going on.
We're down to the last surviving Kennedy brother, and that's in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama-Kennedy.
And it's not looking well.
I mean, Camel Knot?
Anybody?
Camel Knot?
The only bad thing about this is that we were going to pick up a seat in Rhode Island.
That's four to one Democrat.
Now with Patrick getting out of there, Democrats might hold that seat.
We'll have to wait and see.
Generic polls favor Republicans by huge margins.
Sarah Palin is getting write-ups now in the state-controlled media.
Barack Obama would kill for Joe Klein and David Broder the same day wrote 90% lauding favorable pieces of Sarah Palin.
Of course, then there's Robert Gibbs.
We have to feel sorry for Obama because of Baghdad Bob Gibbs.
Guantanamo Bay still open.
Obama will not drop the idea of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
Michelle Obama has told the world that her daughters are fatty.
Climategate, a total hoax, has been exposed.
Record cold temperatures worldwide over the past year.
Mind-lumbing blizzards and Al Gore nowhere to be found.
Not even in the igloo in Washington.
That Jim Inhofe built for him.
Obama embraces bank bonuses after trashing them for a year.
Obama prematurely and awkwardly gives away the lie of not taxing the hell out of the middle class.
Joe Biden has, in effect, said mission accomplished to Bush and Cheney for their brilliant policy in Iraq.
By claiming it's one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration.
And the Tea Parties are working.
And, last but not least, more and more and more Americans agree.
agree with me.
Your host, L. Rushbow, they hope Obama fails.
More and more Americans hope Obama fails.
And there's this story from the politico.
Family feud Pelosi at odds with Obama.
Is she throwing Obama under the bus?
I'm wondering if this is all just a, you know, a fake.
House Speaker Pelosi's increasingly public disagreements with Obama are a reflection of something deeper, the seething resentment.
Some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.
And then, of course, Dingy Harry has pulled the jobs bill.
He's reducing it from $85 billion to $15 billion, once again savaging and screwing, thankfully for us, though, the Republicans in the Senate.
This is how the trick works, folks.
You come up with an $85 billion jobs bill, and we went through yesterday what's in this bill, and there's nothing in it about jobs other than the these uh screwy little one-time tax credits.
If you hire somebody and pay them $106,000 a year, ha ha.
Uh the rest of it was just uh just pork.
Slush.
And so Dingy hits $85 billion.
So Dingy Harry, shocking everybody and pulls the bill and says, we're gonna, we're gonna save $70 billion here.
We're just gonna have a $15 billion jobs bill.
There's no saving $70 billion.
We're gonna spend $15 billion that we don't have.
And that's exactly how baseline budgeting works.
Hell, big savings here.
We're gonna save $70 billion.
No, no, no, no, no.
You're gonna spend $15 billion.
And that's not even going to be accurate.
Let me ask you a question, folks.
Who has done more damage to our way of life and that of free people around the world?
The SDS Weather Underground, students for a Democrat Society of 60s munch, the Bill Ayers types, or the man-made global warming weathermen.
I would maintain to you that the man-made global warming weathermen from your local meteorologists with some exceptions, to these idiots on cable TV, to everybody in the Liberal Democrat Party who believes this and wants to advance it as a political issue, has done more damage than even Bill Ayers wanted to do.
And BBC.
BBC, this is interesting.
The BBC's coverage of global warming is is just it it's embarrassingly biased.
It's pro every scam and every item of the hoax, and do you know why?
The BBC has 12.5 billion dollars of their pension funds invested in climate change investments.
12 and a half billion dollars of the BBC pension fund, that's for their employees, is invested in climate change investments.
Scams like carbon trading and all those other crazy things that are nothing more than financial scams.
And lest we forget, folks.
Remember the University of East Anglia, the climate research unit.
Whoever sent those emails to show that a giant scam was taking place.
They were first sent to a BBC weatherman who sat on them.
And he had to send them someplace else because the BBC did not act on it.
Here's how absurd, and it gets more absurd each and every day.
And Snerdly.
Sturdly, I want you to listen to this because Snerdley's a vegetarian, and a lot of you vegetarians out there, you think that you're saving the planet.
You think that you people are the God's gift to the future of mankind.
And some of you are militant vegetarians and you run out there in Berkeley and you demand places like Burger King sell veggie burgers so that they go out of business.
If you don't like what Burger King sells, don't go there.
And if you don't like the fact that a lot of people eat beef, stuff it and go ahead and eat your tofu.
Leave us alone.
From the UK telegraph, becoming vegetarian can harm the environment.
Adopting a vegetarian diet Based around meat substitutes such as tofu can cause more damage to the environment than beef, according to a new study.
That's all you need to know.
That's that's all that's all you need to know.
An increase in vegetarianism could result in the collapse of British farming.
It has often been claimed that avoiding red meat's beneficial to the environment because it lowers emissions and uh less land is used to produce alternatives.
But a study by Cranfield University, commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund, the environmentalist wacko group found a substantial number of meat substitutes, uh soy, chickpeas, and lentils.
Uh Garbanzo beans, for those of you in uh in real linda, that's what a chick pea is, were more harmful to the environment because they were imported into Britain from overseas.
So I love it.
Now you vegetarians who think you're God's gift of purity.
You now, it's on your shoulders.
You're destroying the environment along with the rest of us carnivores.
Screw you people.
You understand where this is all headed.
Who the hell are any of these people to tell any of the rest of us how to live?
Which takes me to a piece by the great and genius Thomas Sowell.
The fallacy of fairness.
This appeared this past Tuesday at Town Hall.com.
If there is ever a contest, to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking and to actions to carry out that thinking.
My nomination would be the word fair.
It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it.
This mushy vagueness may be a big handicap in logic, but it's a big advantage in politics.
All sorts of people with very different notions about what is or is not fair can be mobilized behind this nice sounding word in utter disregard of the fact that they mean very different things when they use that word.
Some years ago, for example, there was a big outcry that various mental tests used for college admissions or for employment were biased and unfair to many individuals or groups.
Fortunately, there was one voice of sanity, David Reisman, I believe, who said the tests aren't unfair.
Life is unfair, and the tests measure the results.
If by fair you mean everybody having the same odds for achieving success, then life has never been anywhere close to being fair anywhere or at any time.
And by the way, this word fair, he's exactly right about this.
We have commented on this before.
This word fair and the concept of fairness is the primary foundational building block between or used by the left to coerce people into supporting their policies.
It's only fair or it's unfair, and we've got to leave all the playing field and blah, blah, blah.
It suckers people in all the because who's against fairness?
It's like who's against dirty water?
Or who's against clean water?
Who's against clean air?
Nobody.
Same thing here.
Who's against fairness?
Life has never been anywhere close to being fair anywhere or at any time.
If you stop and think about it, it's hard even to conceive of how life could possibly be fair.
Even within the same family.
And listen to this, folks.
Even my family proves this.
Even within the same family, among children born to the same parent and raised under the same roof, firstborns, on average, have higher IQs than their brothers and sisters, and usually achieve more in life.
You doubt you doubt Dr. Sol, Snertley?
You this is research.
This is the whole point.
You can't accept it because it doesn't sound fair.
It doesn't sound logical to you, but I was tweaking David, but it's right here.
I was tweaking my brother, but it is.
Read it to you again, without my editorial comment.
That it's even proven in my family.
Even within the same family among children.
Stop and think about this, folks.
Get my family out of this.
Many of you people are firstborn, and this is to give you the permission to admit that you know you're smarter, or maybe you don't want to maybe your brothers and sisters are dumber than you are.
And you've noticed it, but you don't want to mention it because I mean it's just not fair.
Even within the same family, among children born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, the firstborns, on average, have higher IQs than their brothers and sisters, and usually achieve more in life.
Unfairness is often blamed on somebody, even if only on society.
But whose fault is it if you were not the firstborn?
Since some groups have more children than others, a higher percentage of the next generation will be firstborns in groups that have smaller families, so such groups have an advantage over other groups.
Despite all the sound and fury generated in controversies over whether different groups have different genetic potential, even if they all have identical genetical potential, the outcomes can still differ if they have different birth rates.
And this doesn't even account for ambition, desire, and all the other.
Twins, twins, have an average IQ several points lower than children born singly.
Whether this is due to having to share resources in the womb or having to share parents' attention after birth, the fact is what it is, and it certainly isn't fair.
Many people fail to see the fundamental difference between saying that a particular thing, whether it's a mental test or an institution, is conveying a difference that already exists or is creating a difference that would not exist otherwise.
Creating a difference that would not exist otherwise is discrimination, and something can be done about that.
But in recent times, virtually any disparity in outcomes is almost automatically blamed on discrimination, despite the incredible range of other reasons for disparities between individuals and groups.
Nature's discrimination completely dwarfs man's discrimination.
Geography alone makes equal chances virtually impossible.
Geography.
The geographic advantages of Western Europe over Eastern Europe in climate, navigable waterways, among other things, have led to centuries of differences in income levels that were greater than income differences between blacks and whites in America today.
Just the fact that the lay of the land is different in different parts of Europe meant that it was easier for the Roman legions to invade Western Europe.
This meant that Western Europeans had the advantages of the most advanced civilization in Europe at the time, the Romans.
Moreover, because Roman letters were used in Western Europe, the languages of that region had written versions centuries before the Slavic languages of Eastern Europe did.
What's fair about that?
The difference between literacy and illiteracy is a huge difference, and it remained huge for centuries.
Was it the Slavs' fault that the Romans didn't want to climb over a whole lot of mountains to get to them and conquer them?
The Romans said to hell with the Slavs, we don't want to go to the trouble of getting there.
They went the easy route.
They took to Western Europe, conquered them, and voila.
Written language, advanced civilization hits Western Europe long before Eastern Europe.
Those living in Western Europe in the days of the Roman Empire, the idea of being conquered, many slaughtered by the Romans probably had no great appeal.
I wouldn't want to be conquered and slaughtered, but their descendants would benefit from their bad luck.
And that doesn't seem fair either.
Point is, folks, there's no such thing as fairness.
It is impossible.
It's just like, you know, the whole concept of equality is much the same thing.
It's not humanly possible.
No two people are equal.
Not even twins.
There are differences, as we have noted in their IQs.
The uh the whole notion you can have equality before the law.
You can have equality of opportunity, but you cannot have equality of outcome.
You cannot have equality of result based on fairness or anything else.
But yet this is the primary impetus the left uses to solicit support for their agenda.
Don't fall for it anymore.
You've been warned.
We'll be back.
Someday, someday.
I'm patient.
It's been twenty and a half years behind the golden EIB microphone.
Yet someday, you are going to learn not to doubt me.
I checked the email during the break.
Come on, Rush!
You didn't even cite any proof for this stupid survey that says the firstborn are smarter than everybody.
You you can't prove that.
Just because Soul says it, you didn't cite it, you did silly.
All right, all right, all right, right, right.
It's a you know it's a good thing.
It's a good thing that I love myself.
It's a good thing I have a lot of confidence.
Otherwise, you people would have beat me down eighteen years ago.
June 22nd, 2007 from CBS News.
Birth order may affect IQ uh IQ scores favoring firstborn children, according to a new study published in the journal Science, shows about a two-point gap in average IQ scores among firstborn men and men with living older siblings.
They studied 244,000 teenage men in Norway.
Others served, and this is just one of them.
CBS No, the s the site for it is the journal science.
Which I will admit has also gone along publishing a bunch of gunk on global warming.
I'll admit that.
But I think this is something that our audience can prove it to themselves.
Logically, well, you can't say it's logically possible.
That's the point sturdy.
Logic and science don't go hand in hand.
Science says it's possible.
Research, not logic.
If you want to apply this test to your own family, try it.
Are you not the firstborn?
Is that what this is all about?
You're the second born.
Aha.
We need a president, by the way, folks.
The Obama's failing us in so many ways.
Climate fairness.
You know, really, is it fair?
Uh all the snow happened on the East Coast twice.
Need somebody to redistribute the snow over a wider area so there'll be less snowfall.
Aggregate total.
Uh hell, you know, the safeway trucks are just now getting back into gear in Maryland to restock the grocery stores there.
What's fair about that?
It's not fair, especially and this is where Obama lives.
We what we need is a president who would press for redistribution of temperatures.
It's the only fair thing to do.
I didn't choose a climate I live in, and why should I have to sit here and put up with it?
It was forced on me.
Forced on me.
One might say that people in Hawaii, for example, have an unnatural, unjust advantage because their climate's better than mine.
It's pretty all the time.
You imagine, where would you rather be?
Yugoslavia, Serbia, or Hawaii.
What's fair about that?
To the phones.
It's open line Friday.
This is Melanie in Toledo, Ohio.
Hi, Melanie.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Raj.
It's great to talk to you today.
Thank you very much.
Um, in the past, you've always talked about when you were young, how you always wanted to be older because you knew your life would get better the older you got.
That's true.
Well, my question for you is have you, or do you ever think that you'll reach a point where you can say to yourself, I have everything I've ever dreamed of and more.
Life cannot possibly get any better than this.
Well, I don't look at it that way.
Uh uh, I I would never say, well, this is maxed out to hell with it.
Uh and I'm gonna go check in and have the uh have the doctors uh turn off life support.
Uh or put on the life support so they can turn it off.
No, I I um you you're very right.
When I was 10, I wanted to be 16 and drive.
When I was sixteen, I wanted to be twenty-one.
When I was twenty-one, I wanted to be thirty.
When I was thirty-four and scrounged together enough of a down payment to buy my first little s shack that was called a house.
The guy who sold it to me said, Don't sweat it.
Nobody's gonna let you make any money until you're 40.
It's just the way it works in this country.
Now that's not so much true anymore, because you know, a lot of bright guys on the internet that's changed all that, but it's the way it did used to be that way.
Um, I the the way to express it now is that I still look forward to each new day.
Because each new day is better than the day before.
Every day presents, if you look for it, if you're open to it, new opportunities.
Well, whether you want to access them or not, they're still there.
So, no, I I haven't gotten to the point yet where um I gee, I wish I was younger.
I might.
I'll let you know when it happens, but it hasn't happened yet.
Well, that's what everybody loves about you is your optimistic outlook.
Well, I'd be foolish not to be one.
I mean, look at my my life is blessed.
My parents wouldn't understand mine.
They would not believe it.
My father would not believe it's possible.
Primarily because I didn't go to college.
But even beyond that, he didn't he thought that you had to inherit money in order to have that kind of uh of success.
Uh That's just they grew up in the Great Depression.
And uh World War I or World War II.
Thanks to call Melanie.
Back after this.
The Kansas Senate, ladies and gentlemen, the Kansas Senate approved yesterday a resolution calling on the federal government to cease and desist from passing onerous mandates on the states.
And the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, has frozen spending.
Frozen it.
And the Democrats in New Jersey are having fits.
I cannot wait to report these two bits of news to you, plus lots of other stuff too.
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