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April 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to come and study here.
And and little old ladies from Indiana, concerned about levels of federal spending, uh, get six months in an Al-Qaeda training camp in Waziristan.
Everything's included, uh complimentary goat from room service and uh and free use of the executive latrine at the back of the cave.
By the way, Rush has a great column in today's uh Wall Street Journal about uh Bill Clinton returning to the scene of his outrageous opportunism from 15 years ago, and in effect uh demonizing uh half the American people as uh as terrorists just itching to blow as Timothy McVeigh's in waiting.
We'll get to that uh column uh a bit later.
So even though Rush is off today, uh we will uh get to his Wall Street Journal column.
It'll be just like having Rush here.
Uh his words uh but uh but read in a sinister foreign accent, like that uh like that bit in iron man where the uh terrorists in the cave said Islamic terrorist type things, but they they for some mysterious Hollywood type reason they were really Bulgarians or whatever.
So we'll get to Rush's column a bit later.
We're coming to you live today from uh WNTK, New London, New Hampshire, home of Central New Hampshire's leading mini roundabout.
WNTK was one of the very first uh Rush affiliates way back when, uh 20 years ago, and uh we're very happy to be here.
Normally when I I guest host uh for Rush, I fly out of Burlington, Vermont and do the show from Rush's studios in New York.
But as you know, uh when Vermont Airspace is closed due to excess levels of bovine flatulence, uh instead I drive down to WNTK and uh and do the show from here.
But in fact, the the bovine flatulence levels are safe today.
It's very manageable out there.
Um but the uh the giant Holstein cloud of bovine flatulence has drifted out over the Atlantic and merged with the volcanic ash from Iceland and shut down European airspace for another week.
Uh unf uh uh so it it's not the bovine flatulence that uh that meant we couldn't fly out from Burlington, Vermont today.
Apparently they got carried away during the Earth Day celebrations.
Uh you know the way every politician likes to plant a tree for Earth Day, and unfortunately, Vermont is already 93% forested, so they're nowhere left to plant any trees except the uh landing strip at Burlington Airport.
So now it's 94% for forested.
Well, it's great to be here for three hours of substitute host level excellence in broadcasting, and being as how it's the end of the week, that means Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
Yes, 1800-282-2882, as Rush always says.
Monday to Thursday, the show is under the control of a highly trained broadcast specialist.
Uh, but there's no highly trained broadcast specialist here today.
There's only me and what do I know?
So anything you want to talk about, go for it.
1-800-282-2882.
Um, usually when I'm I'm uh uh guest hosting for Rush, uh I talk about Uyghurs, the the Muslims from China that Obama sprung from Camp Gitmo and relocated to a beach in Bermuda.
And for some reason, uh I got into a Uyghur groove, and uh people keep sending me Uyghur updates now, and I'm now like the the go-to guy for all your 24-7 Uyghur news needs.
Uh and then when I was here a couple of weeks ago, you might remember I got talking about MOOCs.
Uh, you know, man boobs.
And with the uh the best will in the world, I can't honestly say that moobs or Uyghurs are really the pressing geopolitical issues of the moment.
So uh call up, we'll talk about whatever you want to talk about, except Uyghurs or Moobs.
Unless, of course, you've got some interesting uh news about Uyghurs with Moobs, in which case our call screeners will move you to the front of the queue.
Other than that, give it your best shot.
Uh Rush's repos to Clinton in the uh Wall Street Journal.
Uh Obamacare, it's the dawn of month number two, uh, and it's getting more expensive by the day.
Financial regulation, we'll talk about that.
Iranian nukes, the new gay character in Archie Comics.
Did you see this?
They've introduced the On the on the front of uh uh I think it's the latest edition of Veronica, which is uh one of the uh the Archie Comics, Veronica is trying her womanly wiles on uh a new boy at Riverdale High called Kevin.
And Kevin is extremely resistant to Veronica, and this turns out to be because he is the first openly gay character at Riverdale High in uh in uh Archie Comics.
Uh so this is a landmark development there.
Of course, in the Democratic Party, they're way more advanced than Archie Comics.
They've uh they've reached the next stage of uh sexual identity politics.
This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Uh Veteran Representative Babette Joseph's Democrat Philadelphia, last Thursday accused her primary opponent, Greg Kravitz, of pretending to be bisexual in order to pander to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender voters, a powerful voting block in the district.
I outed him as a straight person, Representative Joseph said during a fundraiser at the Black Sheep Pub and Restaurant, as some in the audience gasped.
But but uh but Greg Kravitz, this challenger, who may or may not be bisexual, and we only have uh representative Joseph's word for it that he's just pretending to be bisexual.
He's furious at having been outed as a closet heterosexual, and uh Kravitz, 29, insists that he is, quote, sexually attracted to both men and women, and called Babette Joseph's comments offensive.
It's of course it is, it's grossly offensive uh to imply that this man is heterosexual.
Uh Mark Siegel, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, said, We've hit a new high point when candidates are accused of pretending to be gay in order to win a seat.
So this is what it's come to now.
Don't take when candidates are trying to pander to you by insisting that they're gay or bisexual or transsexual or whatever, don't take their word for it.
Because I think this this could be a huge issue in the Democratic Party.
We've got all these fake uh fake bisexuals, fake gays, fake transsexuals, uh, who may, as far as we may, for all we know, secretly be clos deeply closeted heterosexuals.
I wouldn't be surprised if Barney Frank hasn't just been putting it on for the last 20 years, you know.
We don't know.
So this is a new trend.
Just as uh just as Archie Comics introduces an openly gay character, uh it turns out it turns out that the Democratic Party has a secretly non-gay character.
There may be a few more of those lucking lurking around in the party.
HR has just made the most he has just asserted that Veronica is actually Vern.
So your say your point, HR, is that Veronica is a uh has is a transgendered is a secretly a transgendered male, a male to I don't know.
I don't know.
Jughead.
I think Jughead uh, if anyone was going to be transgendered in the Archie Comics, I think it would be Jughead.
Anyway, 1800-282-2882, the searing gay issues in both uh the uh Democratic Party and in Archie Comics.
Happy post-Earth Day, post-Earth Day.
Uh yesterday was Earth Day.
It also was uh take your daughter to work day.
Uh is it is that normally the same day?
I don't remember that in in previous years.
Um I I always thought uh Earth Day was uh, you know, take your tree to work day.
But apparently Nancy Pelosi was taking questions from uh daughters of journalists yesterday.
Um actually they asked rather better questions than the journalists.
Uh her answers, though, were even worse than usual, but you kind of everything.
Uh so yesterday was Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
Unless, of course, you're in uh Waziristan, where it's uh take your child bride to work day.
They don't have take your daughter to work day.
Well, you can take your daughter to work day, uh, but they uh they generally have to uh then uh be you know make her a victim of an honor killing.
Um so uh yesterday was Take Your Daughter to Work Day, uh which I guess makes today uh suddenly remember you left your daughter at work day, but it was also Earth Day, and Mrs. Obama said uh the girls, and and the Obamas seem to be taking their daughters to work.
Mrs. Obama said the girls uh pressing priority is they're very concerned about saving the tiger.
And that uh she and President Obama talk with them about saving the tigers once a week.
I don't know why.
How many tigers can they have at the White House?
I didn't know about this.
It's all new to me.
Um I was here, now I come to think about it, the day after Earth Day last year.
I don't know why Rush always takes the day after Earth Day off.
Um I don't know whether he's all tucked out after spending the afternoon uh planting trees.
Uh but he will be back.
He will be back Monday, and in the meantime, Rush never rests.
He does have uh this piece we're going to be talking about uh later in the show uh about Bill Clinton and uh l and liberals playing the violence card uh that he's written in the w in the Wall Street Journal.
So take a look at that, and uh if you've got a copy of the journal line around, we're gonna be discussing that a bit later.
Uh Earth Day, President Obama and Vice President Biden flew on separate jets, by the way, from Washington to New York uh to help plant trees and say what you like, but when you're looking for fellows uh who know how to dig a huge hole, Obama and Biden are the guys you need.
Uh maybe with like Harry Reed, Barney Frank and uh and the rest of the crew with them.
As I said, I live in a uh a township in um New Hampshire that's uh 90% forested.
But you can never have uh too many trees.
It's like that bumper sticker you see in in Vermont all the time.
More trees, less bush.
So on Earth Day, I always like to uh plant some trees, get the tree cover in my town up to maybe 97, 98%.
So I'm out all day in the yard planting trees.
But then you know it's the morning after the holidays over and it's time to take down the trees, big pain in the neck, having to take down the trees the day after Earth Day.
And so yesterday I just instead, for the first time, just planted artificial trees with the nice silvery tinsley branches, and then, you know, like Ron Paul's artificial Christmas tree in his campaign Christmas message two years ago, you can just take them down and put them in the attic uh till next year's Earth Day.
Anyway, in honor of post Earth Day, I'm gonna be recycling all my post-Earth Day jokes from uh from last year's show in the in the course of the show.
So we'll talk about Earth Day, the waning politics of environmental fearmongering.
They're really playing to diminishing returns these days.
Did you did you celebrate Earth Day?
And if so, what for?
Uh, did your school insist that the uh the children participate in Earth Day?
And if so, uh what for?
Uh we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about financial regulation.
The these regulators are really they're watching out for you.
They're watching out for you, the little guy.
They're particularly watching out for you, the little guy, if you happen to be uh have a side career going as a hardcore porn movie actor, uh, because there's a story in the papers today that says the SEC regulators are spending most of their time sitting around watching hardcore porn movies all day.
And so you like, actually, but if you're a regulator, you don't want to take your, you know, uh you need a break from work.
And uh clearly, you know, what's going on uh in those porn movies is is pretty darn unregulated by the standards of these things.
So you can understand why they need to take a break from their hardcore regulation of you and relax with a nice porn movie during business hours.
So we'll talk about that and anything else you want to talk about.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein InfoRush on the EIB network.
Uh great to be with you.
Rush will be back uh on Monday.
Breaking news.
Breaking news.
Millions face tax increases under Dem's budget.
Uh President Barack Obama's Democrat allies in the Senate, uh, who promised to cut the deficit by almost two-thirds.
They're now saying uh not just uh an average for thirty million people paying an average thirty-seven hundred dollars, but just on health care alone, Obamacare is gonna cost uh more than advertised.
A new report by the econom economists at Health and Human Services uh in cr will figures out that the uh increase uh will be a third increase in health care spending was uh is gonna be a third of a trillion dollars.
Now think about this.
We were told that the reason that America had to get with the program and move in the same direction as the rest of the Western world uh with the governmentalization of health care, is that America uh if you just leave it to three hundred million uh Americans to make three hundred million uh individual decisions consistent with principles of individual liberty, they're spending too much.
And so to control costs, we have to governmentalize the whole thing.
And now it turns out uh there's gonna be a uh uh at least, and this is from the Health and Human Services guys, uh, the uh there's gonna be at least an extra third of a trillion dollars uh more uh in in the uh in the amount of money that Americans spend on health care and they're gonna have to get that from somewhere and I wonder if you've got any idea who they're gonna get it from.
Yeah I think they might be getting it from you uh if you're still one of the people foolish enough uh to be working in the private sector in the United States.
But there are interesting developments in health care.
According to a study carried out by doctor and researcher Anne Vries at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, fat people have a different gut flora than thin people.
And you can use thin people's poop inserted into fat people and help them lose weight.
In one trial of a poop transplant, a woman was cured from an intestinal disease by having her son's healthy fecal matter injected into her own.
intestine.
I don't understand from this story uh they explain rather graphically that uh to insert this fecal matter they use your nose I don't know why they put it in through the nose it seems like a long way to go uh but they insert a tube into your nose and uh and shove it down to your intestines.
Uh and apparently this is a terrific way this is a terrific way of uh controlling weight problems is to insert other people's fecal matter down your notes.
Don't try this at home by the way I know you may be thinking oh I don't have much plan this weekend.
I might try I might maybe try that on Saturday night.
Don't try this at home.
You need a highly trained medical specialist.
By the way my prediction is uh that after Obamacare's been operating for about five or six years this will be the only uh procedure you'll be able to get you won't be able to get your hernia fixed you won't be able to get a hip replacement surgery but you will be able to have other people's fecal matter inserted down your nose.
It'll be the cure for everything.
You'll go to the doctor and you'll say, Doctor, doctor, I feel terrible.
I fell off the roof this morning and I think I've broken my leg.
And he'll say, just take two quarts of fecal matter and call me in the morning.
And that will be the one procedure you'll be left with under Obamacare.
So that's an interesting medical new development out of Amsterdam.
And I'm sure, you know, that could control costs because eventually they won't need hospitals.
you'll just be able, people will, it'll be like drive-thru it'll be like going to Dunkin' Donuts or Burger King you'll just be able to go in the drive-thru lane they'll pump the stuff up your nose and you can swipe your uh a credit card or or or bill it to uh Obamacare and your next door neighbors and be out of that.
So we'll talk about new developments on the unaffordability of health care to come, and anything else you want to talk about, 1-800-282-2882.
We're supposedly in the era now of financial reform, and conservatives have to get real about this.
Conservatives have done a brilliant job in the last year of reminding the American people that this is a
country that does not instinctively look to government and to bigger government and to government fixing more and more of the problems uh in your life and when you look at uh for example the new Pew poll it shows very clearly uh that Americans in fact want the government and the federal government in particular to do less with less money and to just uh get out of the way to just get out of the way.
We could do just fine if you guys would just keep out of the way, stop microregulating us and get your hands out of our pockets.
But the one exception to this is that uh the cheap demonization of uh of Wall Street uh continues and uh and people are still very uh think oh the government needs to regulate Wall Street more needs to regulate Wall Street more.
The reason why the United States got into half these problems is because of an over-regulated financial sector that, in effect, incentivized the behavior of some of these so-called Wall Street fat cats.
But Obama understands that demonization works.
He keeps calling this reform now.
It's his new term for it.
He calls it Wall Street reform.
You get that?
Sometimes he's demonizing health insurers.
Sometimes he's the Democrats are out there demonizing people at party uh parties he understands very carefully at the Tea Parties he understands very carefully And very cleverly what words uh resonate.
So he's now stopped calling this financial reform, because that sounds as if uh as if the government might be interfering with your uh right to make money and your right to invest your money, and he's and he started calling it uh Wall Street reform uh because that demonizes the so-called Wall Street.
He's in fact uh demonizing a zip code.
This is what the President of the United States has been reduced to uh in his peculiarly petty and petulant way.
He's demonizing a zip code, Wall Street reform.
Uh we're gonna we're gonna talk about that because at some point, at some point conservatives have to make the case uh that uh American the American financial sector is regulated, is already over regulated, and what we're gonna be doing uh if we regulate it further is gonna be great news for Hong Kong, it's gonna be great news for Singapore, it's gonna be great news for the stock market in Frankfurt, uh, but it is going to make it much harder for companies uh to access any equity here in the United States.
We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
Great to be with you.
Rush returns Monday.
This was this was the story I mentioned earlier.
Uh SEC and pornography.
On a day when uh this from ABC News, on a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level government regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street.
This is why we need more regulation, uh, because the regulators we've got are just sitting around watching pornography uh all day long.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the f sheriff of the financial industry looking for financial crimes like Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
Um but of course that's like ask I mean let's be honest, that's like rather boring, isn't it?
It's like lots of numbers, it's all kind of highly complicated and technical.
Wouldn't you rather be looking at uh, you know, Debbie does Wall Street or something for a couple of hours?
That's a much better better way to pass the time.
One senior attorney, one senior attorney, at SEC headquarters in Washington, spent up to eight hours a day accessing internet porn.
When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, right, he's got a government computer.
You know, when you've got it, when you want to store internet porn, you've got to do it on your own dime.
You've got to do it on your computer.
He's got a government computer, but he completely filled it up with pornographic images.
So then he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices.
This is why we need to build a brand new purpose-built SEC uh center in Washington, because they don't have enough room in the existing building to store all their pornography.
An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period, and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.
This is the only good news, by the way, that that the the micro-regulatory state regulating every aspect of your life will be so boring uh that rather than ruining your life, the regulators will just while away the happy hours at your expense watching hardcore pornography all day.
Uh because it's the one on regulated it's the one largely unregulated industry left in the United States.
Although uh I think it was last month the California occupational safety and health standards board uh voted to set up a committee uh to examine uh whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots in California, because they say they want to submit the um uh the uh the the the porn movie industry to the same uh uh standards of hygiene uh as hospitals and medical clinics are required to meet.
Uh and actually, uh oddly enough, uh if you've ever been in a uh National Health Service Hospital in, say, Scotland, it does approximate in hygienic terms to one of the rather rougher pornographic hardcore shoots in Thailand, in my experience, and it's a long time since I've been on a pornographic movie set.
Let's go to Brad in Marble Falls, Texas.
Brad, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, hi, Mark.
Uh, I have another reason here why uh heterosexual man might claim to be homosexual.
Right.
I have in front of me the last page of a application to do work for Fannie Mae.
Right.
And on section one, it it talks about being an H E R A qualified vendor, and that stands for Housing and Economic Recovery Act 2008.
Right.
Right.
Business has to be over fifty percent owned by African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, women.
Right.
Could just say no white males.
I don't know why.
Yeah.
They say it the long way.
But then in section two, and I'm reading verbatim here, Fannie Mae also considers other categories of diversity and eligibility criteria.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans engendered owned businesses.
Right.
So the mess yeah.
So the message here is clear, Brad.
You do not want to be in the embarrassing position of being unable to check any of those sexual diversity boxes.
Yes, sir.
Well, you've got to go for it.
I had this, because one of the things for us sinister foreigners is like we've, you know, the rest of the world has been going down this path well ahead of America.
So we're kind of old hands at this.
My pad in London years ago, I got a form from the local council.
It was a kind of mini local census thing.
And it wanted to know whether I was A, gay, B, lesbian, C, bisexual, D, transsexual, E, heterosexual.
And heterosexual coming at the bottom of the list pretty much let you know what their priorities were.
So naturally, I just checked transsexual just on the off chance that there might be some kind of special government grant or program in there that I could access down the line.
My advice to you always, Brad, in Marble Falls, as anywhere else in this great republic, is always check the transgendered box.
Because that way you can access them um uh more opportunities.
And that's certainly true when you're filling in a form from uh Fannie Main.
Right.
Really?
H they fix up your dates for you, HR as well, is that right?
That's great.
That's terrific.
Brad in uh Barble Barble Falls, uh, Texas.
By the way, Brad, what what box did you check on that?
Oh, is Brad gone?
I yeah, no, I just I just couldn't check, but but you know, to me it's a foreshadowing of of what some people want in this country.
They want the government to control an ever-increasing percent of the employment.
Right.
And then and then once I mean Fannie Mae is a huge, huge agency group.
You know, right now residential uh real estate, you've got uh uh the distressed part of the market is what's booming, and uh you know, I'm a building contractor, all these houses need painting and carpeting and and things.
Yeah, but but but but Brad, you're never gonna be able to paint a house or shingle a roof if you're a heterosexual white male.
Who the hell has ever heard of that?
I don't think I don't I don't know what it's like in Texas, but I tell you something.
In this part of Northern New England, it's entirely uh normal to see entire crews of transgender people from the Pacific Islands shingling your roof.
That is that is basically the way of the future.
You gotta get with the program.
And under Obamacare, by the way, you don't even have to pay for your sex change.
Just check the transgender box and get on with it.
It'll all work out swell for you.
Well, I guess you know, the these other categories have a certification.
I don't know what the certification process would be, but I think I think well, you don't want to be like that fake uh that closeted heterosexual guy in the Democratic primary in Philadelphia.
You know, when when they come round to check, when they send the IRS agents very uh round to verify that you're entitled to your sex change sex change construction industry bonus, you want to be able you want to be able to show you've had all the relative uh construction and remodeling done at that particular part of the part of your body uh so that you meet all the existing criteria.
Hey, Brad, is business pick it up again, by the way, in the construction industry in Texas.
Well, I can say the distressed part.
Right, right, yeah, that's true.
Well, uh they're doing a great job, though, in incentivizing the uh the transgendered Pacific Islander construction industry.
So think great things should come of it.
Don't despair.
Thank you for thank you for your call brand.
Do you know this is the by the way, this is the reason that uh You shouldn't have big government.
Because what this is basically sexual apartheid now.
You know, the the liberals got mad because in South Africa uh they regulated your life according to whether you were black or white or colored.
Uh the term colored in South Africa uh meant you were uh mixed race.
And and liberals here got mad about it, and they had uh uh they waged a big campaign, uh free Nelson Mandela, uh they pressured companies and corporations to withdraw and pull out of South Africa and all the rest of it.
This is sexual apartheid.
Why should you have to take if you do have well and also I don't even get it?
The point of being transgendered, by the way, is to be able to if you're a man and you decide uh you want to have your old wedding tackle snipped off and become a woman, the point is to pass for a woman.
What is the point of having paying a lot of money to have a big expensive sex change, you've got fabulous hair, you've got bee-stung lips, uh, you've you've you've got uh uh a fantastic breast that would stop a train.
Uh but but uh but at the same time you have to tell every government employee comes around and is, well, no, actually, I I have had a sex change, just in order to access the government money.
That should some transsexuals should bring a class action suit and take it to the Supreme Court of the United States as an affront to their dignity.
I thought the whole point of having a sex change was that so you you were a man, but now people just accept you as a woman.
People don't say, as you're walking down the street, oh yeah, there goes that big trans uh transgendered contractor who used her sex change to access all the uh all the big bucks in Washington.
What's the point of having the sex change then?
These this is where big government leads, folks.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show, live from uh WNTK in New Hampshire.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Open open line Friday.
Um you remember that story from a couple of a couple of days ago.
This was some big shot uh Imam, Big Shot Ayatollah in Tehran, the big uh Friday prayers guy.
Uh and he attributed the increase in earthquakes.
He's he's sounding uh as scientific as uh Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell these days.
Uh Hoyo Hoyatollah slam, Kazm Sadiqi.
I don't know whether Hoyatollah slam is like a category.
It's like the category that comes after Ayatollah, you're a Hyatollah.
But he or if it's his first name, it's kind of a bad it's an awkward way.
Hoy Ayatollah, he might be Ayatollah Hoyatola, or it might be his first name, uh, or it might be his title.
Hoyatollah slam, Chasm Sadiqi, was quoted as saying that many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity, and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes.
Um so I'm surprised they didn't bring this up at the big Copenhagen environmental summit last uh last year that it's all these slatterly Western women going around who are causing the big uptake in in earthquakes.
And uh Jen, I think uh lady called Jen on the uh uh at a at a uh a website called Blag Hag is now on Monday, she's encouraging women uh to uh to test this theory scientifically, and uh she wants women all around the world to wear the most revealing uh clothes, least modest dress you can, and uh test uh Ayatollah Hoyatola's big theory and see if we can't uh cause some like huge earthquakes around the world.
Maybe we can get that uh volcano in Iceland to blow again and uh take out European air traffic uh till the end of the year.
So she's gonna she's gonna test this theory.
And I think it's a shame they didn't do this on Earth Day, by the way.
Uh because environmentalism is a religion, and uh Ayatollah Hoyatollah, or whatever he's called in Tehran just seems to have got a slightly different take on it.
Uh but it we i but uh uh uh she's encouraging women to uh dress immodestly on Monday and see if you can cause like a giant boobquake on the other side of the planet.
Uh so I will be interested to follow that.
I I take scientific issues very seriously, and I obviously it would be entirely uh uh culturally insensitive to mock Ayatollah Hoyatollah as uh some uh no nothing.
He's the big shot Friday prayer guy in Tehran, so that's a competitive position.
He had to certainly demonstrate uh uh a lot of uh acute insight uh to get to that position, and if he says uh that uh immodestly dressed women are causing earthquakes, I'm inclined to take him at his word for it.
But this uh but the thesis is going to be tested scientifically this Monday, so wear revealing clothing and see if you can't uh cause like uh maybe an earthquake, uh tsunami that kills uh hundreds of thousands of people, maybe get a couple of volcanoes in Iceland to blow, and we will demonstrate that this Ayatollah Hoyatola guy is actually uh right on top of things.
Let's go to Ron in Sterling, Virginia.
Ron, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
Uh, you are uniquely qualified to answer this question.
With the passage of Obamacare, what on earth is going to happen to the Canadian health system?
Because the only reason it's worked so well all these years is because the United States was right next door.
Yes, that's true.
That that was the functioning part of the Canadian health care system.
There's a uh if you if you take uh whatever that one is, is it uh I-87, I think it is, the one that runs from New York up to Montreal, like uh a hundred yards south of the border, they got a big uh hospital there with all the signs uh pointing north saying Canadian checks at accept it.
Uh that basically the basically Canadians who couldn't get treatment in their own uh in their own timely treatment in their own country, because of course if you're prepared to wait six or seven years, uh they'll give you the operation if you haven't died by then.
Uh but uh the people who couldn't get timely treatment could could uh have the safety valve of the United States.
Now the uh uh the safety valve, I guess, is gonna be uh Costa Rica or wherever or wherever you can get to.
But uh people who do not live in overly regulated societies sense opportunity.
There will be medical tourism.
If you take some of these uh ramshackle colonies in the Caribbean, the Turks and Caicos Islands, for example, uh I I love the Turks and Caicos, but they don't have the kind of uh high-end tourism to quite the same degree that the Bahamas do.
It would be terrific for them to just to open up uh a couple of hospitals there and uh and make uh treatment available for people who can't get timely treatment in the United States now once the United States has uh has taken up a a bureaucratic and governmentalized system.
So that's the thing to to to keep an eye out for, Ron.
As prices skyrocket here, you could you could go and be treated in uh it doesn't have to be India, as I said, it could be somewhere like the Turks and Caicos uh for uh ten percent of the cost, uh, which leaves you enough money left over to have uh a uh to cover your airfare and all the rest of it.
Uh so I think we're gonna be seeing a lot more of that.
By the way, Ron, you're not you're not like uh our caller from Texas a couple of minutes ago, Brad.
You're not planning on having a sex change to access government money, are you?
Oh, of course not.
I I am uh going to be in part of the uh minority of uh of uh white heterosexual males.
Oh, that's uh you're determined to be the last functioning white heterosexual male in America.
Absolutely.
Last man standing in a very literal sense.
Uh well, Rod, that that speaks well for you.
But if you ever do, if you ever do suddenly feel the urge, you know, uh there's like a big stimulus package that's uh that you can access if you decide to go and have the sex change.
Just take my word for it.
Never have your sex change done in a government hospital.
There's some things it's worth, you know, paying the extra dollar and going private for.
And uh, and that's one of them, because uh you if if you notice there's like uh huge, I mean, I'm not I don't spend a lot of time at transsexual beach resorts, but there's uh there's uh clearly a measurable difference between those who've had it done in state-of-the-art American facilities and say having it done in a government hospital in northern Scotland.
So it's worth uh just a personal tip for me.
If you're planning a sex, I know you're committed to being the last heterosexual male uh in the lower 48, but if you ever decide to just get with the program and go for the sex change, don't get it done in a government hospital, Ron.
Hey, thanks.
Thank you for that great advice.
Yeah, well, we we try it's not it's not just like airy theoretical speculating here.
We like to give good solid practical advice on this show too.
Thanks.
Thanks for your call, Rod.
Have a great weekend.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more still to come.
Open line Friday, government regulation.
The government regulators are all sitting around in the SEC downloading so much pornography, they filled up their government computer uh and have to start storing it on CDs in the closet behind them.
That's that's that's where big government uh gets you.
And uh I'm proud to say that uh I personally defy big government.
I got uh I got a letter uh from the state of New York earlier this week uh informing me that I was in noncompliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance, whatever that is.
I've no idea.
Uh by the way, have we sorted that uh out?
Uh uh to oh no, Tiffany's shaky says, Oh, it's too early to start making.
My assistant is shaking her head and saying it's way too early to start making jokes and insulting the Bureau of Compliance because we're not yet in compliance with the we're still in a state of non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
I'm proud to be in a state of of noncompliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance, and I hope to bring that up to a perfect 50-state non-compliance uh record.
Uh there's uh there's something very Orwellian that uh the government is so tin-eared that it doesn't i i it thinks it thinks nothing of creating an agency called the Bureau of Compliance uh and uh and and having the letterheads printed.
That's a big part of what's the problem.
Uh Rush Limbaugh in the Wall Street Journal today, quote, few presidents have sunk so low as Bill Clinton.
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