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May 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 6, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, folks, I need to uh issue a warning or make an explanation here.
This is a totally, I don't know what it is, biorhythms, karma, I don't know what it is.
But nothing about this day is making sense to me.
Uh I'm not sure that I'm actually conscious and awake.
No, no, no.
It's it's I don't know how to explain this.
But I've got I got uh in the news today, I've got all kinds of people saying this and that.
None of what anybody thinks is interesting is interesting to me.
Uh and the stuff that does interest me uh is I'm still not sure why it does.
So it's it's this is gonna be very, very weird today.
Uh because I look at the stacks of stuff here, and maybe in five stacks I got three things I really care about.
The the rest of it is just, okay, I gotta do a service here and get involved in this because this is new as it needs to be discussed, analyzes only.
I can, but I don't know, it's tough to explain here.
Uh it's it's it's not that I don't care about it, it's that I'm I'm can I I'm confused.
I've got all kinds of people all fired up about all kinds of stuff, and I can't for the life of me understand why.
Well, um, though, sternly I do get confused at times.
It's just that I never admit it.
Uh here I am admitting it.
Anyway, Rush Lynn Baughir, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, telephone numbers 800-282-2882 to eat.
Well, I'll give you an example.
There's a there's a column today in the New York Daily News.
Michael Daly wondering why we have not been told the names of the customs officers that pulled Nosehair Shadeg, whatever his name is off the airplane.
Uh what's his name?
Faisal uh Chavaz.
What a and we've met the t-shirt vendor, we've met the cops, we've met everybody.
This guy's wondering why we haven't met the customs guy.
I couldn't care less why we haven't met the customs guy.
I don't understand why anybody cares about it.
I'm having to dig deep.
The only thing I can come up with is that the administration is trying to say they were on the case from meant from moment one when they weren't, that really blind luck is is all that enable us to get hold of this guy for his bomb not to go off.
And maybe they're not introducing us to the customs guys because doing so would focus on how little the administration actually did.
But but that's not news.
This administration looks at all of this as an annoyance.
They look at anything that has it get anything that gets in the way of advancing the transformation of American society and the transformation of our economy is simply an inconvenience to them.
Terrorism is an inconvenience.
Afghanistan's an inconvenience.
They'd really rather not have to deal with it, and when they do deal with it, they'd rather not have to talk about it.
They just want to take credit for everything when it goes right when they had nothing to do with it.
Here's an LA Times story that we would never see.
If a Republican were in the White House.
Now let me put this in perspective.
This oil spill in the Gulf, the media, the administration, their allies, have been talking about this as a apocalyptic disaster, correct?
It's bad.
It is horrible.
It is, oh my God, this is going to destroy so many things.
This is what are we going to do about it?
Here's the LA Times headline.
Oil spill seen as energy opportunity for Obama.
Now you and I all know that he does look at every crisis as an opportunity to expand his power and to grow the government.
There's no question about it.
But here you have the media actually pointing that out in an encouraging way.
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico could give the president new momentum for his stalled climate bill, environmentalists say.
He needs a response as big as the spill is, said Wesley Warren, the program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council In Washington.
So here you have a bunch of environmentalist wackos who are supposedly distraught and just beside themselves over the ecological disaster here and the destruction.
And they see an opportunity for Obama to advance more legislation to give him more power and control and expand the federal government.
Which, I mean, they're exposing their agenda right before our very eyes.
They're not doing anything to hide it here.
I just, in the media falling right in line with this, uh, this would be no different.
If 9-11 happened, we haven't had any, we've had 11 deaths here, but let's say 9-11 happens again, and the media says this is a great opportunity for Obama to burnish his skills as an anti-Jihad pro-American president or what have you.
I mean, it is just maybe one of the things that's bothering me today is that I don't feel like I'm in my country.
You remember that piece we had the other day that was written in the American thinker, somebody said I finally figured out how I feel like a foreign force is occupying our country.
None of that just seems comfortable or or familiar.
There's a story out there that yesterday, Cinco de Mayo, some American school kids wearing t-shirts or clothes the American flag were sent home.
Can you imagine on the 4th of July if a bunch of Hispanic students show up at an American high school wearing a Mexican flag to be sent home?
No, I'm not kidding.
They were sent home.
Three or four students were sent home or told to change clothes because on Cinco de Mayo they were wearing a t-shirt with the American flag on it.
Now, you know damn well that on July 4th, there's no school on July 4th, but if on July 4th, some Hispanic student showed up somewhere with a Mexican flag, you think they'd be sent away or sent home?
No.
So we've got this tragedy out here in the Gulf, and everybody's looking at it as an opportunity for Obama to advance more power and legislation to control a country.
Nobody's concerned about the effects of the spill.
Some of the media taking great uh steps here to blame Dick Cheney for this.
So what we're learning here is that when there is genuine destruction, when there's a real problem, they don't care.
The environmentalist wackos caring about global warming, they don't really care.
They're illustrating and telling us without a doubt what the real agenda is here.
Oh, yeah, we got a big spill out there.
We got a massive explosion.
Why, this is going to really help.
Maybe we can cement the idea of no more oil wells, no more drilling by Americans anywhere around the world, especially in our own territory, and an opportunity for Obama to get new momentum for his stalled climate bill.
Now, if you have to say that Obama needs new momentum, you're admitting he doesn't have any.
So a crisis that that is doing great harm to this country and the people of this country is looked at as an opportunity for the president of the United States to capitalize on a disaster to advance an agenda.
And so it really doesn't matter to me why I don't know the names of the customs guys that took the jihadist off the plane.
And when we have American kids wear an American flag and Cinco de Mayo kicked out of school, it doesn't really matter to me who the customs guys are or a lot of other things.
I've got the stuff in the stack here, and we're going to get to all of it.
Some of it's funny, some of it's hilarious.
Some of it is uh is uh eye-opening, while the oil slick spread, the Interior Department chief of staff rafted with his wife on the work-focused trip in the Grand Canyon, this ABC News Jake Tamper.
Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf, and they were on this in day one, don't forget, because they say the Coast Guard was there.
That's why the Coast Guard's there any day.
The Coast Guard's down there every day.
The fact that they show up in an oil doesn't mean Obama called on you.
Obama didn't do anything for 12 days.
And after 12 days, they're surveying this.
How can we turn this to our advantage?
How can we turn damage destruction, loss of animal life, loss of economic opportunity for Gulf fishermen?
How can we turn this into a political opportunity for the president of the United States?
And that's what's got everybody salivating and the media all excited.
Maybe Obama can rebound here.
Maybe we get the climate bill back on track, cap and trade.
Yeah, all based on a hoax.
So though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior Chief of Staff Tom Strickland was in the Grand Canyon with his wife last week participating in activities that included white water rafting.
Other leaders of the Interior Department were focused on the Gulf, joined by other agencies, but Strickland's participation in a trip that administration officials insisted was work focused, raised eyebrows among other Obama administration officials.
And even within his own department, sources told ABC News.
Well, what was the top official in charge of analyzing terror threats?
Did not cut short his ski vacation after the fruit of kaboom bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day.
So what is it with these?
See, this stuff is just an annoyance to them or an opportunity.
They're either on ski trips or they're what?
Raffing in the Grand Canyon.
Work related.
And then from Bloomberg.com, the headline, remember what we said yesterday.
You are judged by the strength of your enemies.
Obama combo limbaugh focus on Los Suns jerseys in NBA playoffs.
Obama, limbaugh, focus on Los Suns jerseys in NBA playoffs.
President Obama spotlighted the decision by Phoenix to wear Los Suns jerseys in an NBA playoff game.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh accused the team of cowardice.
Phoenix happened to win, so the media is all excited.
Because they think the Suns stuck it to me.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Willie Geist this morning on Miss NBC.
Rush Limbaugh an act of cowardice, pure and simple.
Here they are last night.
Wearing the uniforms.
A lot of support from the home fans there.
And the jerseys worked.
Apparently.
They leave the series 2-0.
Yeah, it had nothing to do with how well the Suns players played.
The Los Suns jerseys had an effect on the victory.
And then here from Bloomberg TV's in the loop, the sports anchor, I don't know if it's Michelle or Michael Steele.
It's uh spelled Michelle Steele, but the way thing it could be a guy.
Hell who knows.
The Suns played basketball and politics.
I had to do with Arizona's controversial new immigration law.
In fact, Steve Nash and his teammates wore jerseys that said Los Sons.
The team's owners saying the team wore the jerseys to celebrate diversity and to protest a new immigration bill.
Believe it or not, Rush Limbaugh did not like it, calling it cowardice, pure and simple.
Phoenix won the game and took a two games to none lead against the Spurs.
That's not why I didn't like it.
I, of course, yeah, I did say it was cowardice.
The team's buckling here to a bunch of public uh uh or PC pressure.
Well what I what I what I said was look at don't don't tell us this is all high-minded.
Tell us you're doing this because you're a bunch of liberals.
Tell us that you're wearing these jerseys because you're a bunch of liberals and you want to side with a certain political point of view here.
Don't try to tell us you're all high-minded, better people than we are, that you're more compassionate and more understanding.
Have some guts.
The cowardice was hiding behind PC.
What I want to know is, did they give everybody who attended the game amnesty?
What would be the equivalent?
Not having to give a ticket, not having to show papers.
Let everybody in free, no parking charges, no concessions charges, and no papers required, no ticket.
I mean, if you're gonna go all the way, let's go all the way, not just halfway.
And then here's Obama.
Uh Cinco de Mayo speech yesterday in Washington, a small portion of it.
I know that a lot of you would rather be uh watching tonight's game.
The Spurs against uh Los Sons from Phoenix.
Well, all right, all right on right on President of the United States here siding against the American people.
And yesterday, this is uh White House, Rose Gardens, Cinco de Mayo, the president distorting the Arizona law and ripping it to shreds again.
The answer isn't to undermine fundamental principles that define us as a nation.
We can't start singling out people because of who they look like or how they talk or how they dress.
We can't turn law-abiding American citizens and law-abiding immigrants into subjects of suspicion and abuse.
We can't divide the American people that way.
That's not the answer.
That's it's not who we are as the United States of America.
And that's why I've instructed my administration to closely monitor the new law in Arizona to examine the civil rights and other implications that it may have.
So uh once again we have the race card being thrown down.
Uh we can't divide the American people that way.
Um course, who is dividing America?
It's Obama.
Obama's with comments like this.
The answer isn't to undermine fundamental principles that define us as a nation.
We can't start singling out people because of who they look like.
I, you know, I predicted, I predicted that he would almost say this exact thing three or four weeks ago.
I said he's gonna go out there.
He's gonna say, there's two people.
Don't like the cover your skin.
Oh, I like the way you look.
Don't think you should be American.
He did it.
He did it yesterday.
We can't start singling out people because of who they look.
We're not.
We're looking at people who are legal versus illegal.
In this, we can't turn law-abiding American citizens and law-abiding immigrants into subjects of suspicion and abuse.
We're not.
We're not turning law-abiding immigrants into subjects of suspicion and abuse.
Totally distorting this law, still doing it.
And he wasn't through.
I was pleased to see a strong proposal for comprehensive reform presented in the Senate last week, and I was pleased that it was based on a bipartisan framework.
I want to begin work this year, and I want Democrats and Republicans to work with me because we've got to stay true to who we are.
A nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
So um he wants the bill.
He wants the amnesty bill.
He wants it.
He wants their votes.
Umicism is not found here.
The cynicism is not found in the hearts and minds of the American people.
The cynicism is found at the highest levels of our government.
From the uh from the White House on down.
All right.
A little long here, as sometimes happens in the opening monologue.
Quick time out.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge of societal evolution.
Ladies and gentlemen...
Look, I know I was just I was just making a point here about about the customs officials.
I know exactly what's going on here.
They want bureaucrat heroes.
They they want to fight the perception that government employees aren't of any use.
Remember, that's one of the things that Clinton said.
That the right is trying to criminalize government employees.
Remember, he's out there doing all this.
So these customs and border protection guys are heroes.
That's what we are.
That's what the administration wants to convey for doing their jobs.
Now, you know, I run into customs people all the time.
And 99.9% of them are salt of the earth, the greatest, some of the greatest people I've ever run into.
So the administration trying to keep these names under reps is uh is is precisely because they're trying to downplay the fact that the the Obama administration had nothing to do with foiling the plot.
They were the last to arrive at the party.
That's why.
It's very simple.
Do you know?
I I bet I'm gonna shock a lot of you people with this next bit of information.
Do you know that Cinco de Mayo is not a Mexican holiday?
Do you know that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexicans' Independence Day?
Cinco de Mayo is not even a real holiday in Mexico.
Cinco de Mayo was created by Corona Beer to promote beer sales in the U.S. and around the world.
They don't even get the day off in Mexico for Cinco de Mayo.
We've turned it into a holiday here that has pure political purposes for the American left.
Cinco de Mayo was a minor battle during a time when the French were invading Mexico, and you know that has to be a long time.
The French don't invade anybody, they surrender now.
Mexican Independence Day is September the 16th.
What Cinco de Mayo actually commemorates the victory of the Mexican army over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 during the French invasion of Mexico.
I know this sounds very strange.
The French invasion of Mexico, but they did they did try it.
So no, it's it's uh it's it's not religious.
Um I'm sitting here, I'm watching all of this.
Obama is just all about dividing the American people by race and by class.
We are a nation of legal immigrants.
Look at how he's trying to distort what is happening in Arizona.
From here's something else from his Cinco de Mayo speech yesterday.
We gather to market day, become as celebrated here in the United States as it is in Mexico.
It isn't celebrated in Mexico.
They don't even get the day off in Mexico on Cinco de Mayo.
So here we have Obama who doesn't even believe in separating people because of their race, and he then proceeded to introduce every member of his cabinet who even had one drop of Latino blood in their veins.
He did not come to unify.
He has come to divide, and he's doing a good job of it.
Right, welcome back.
Something else.
I want to I don't want to replay the soundbite, but but Obama said in his Cinco de Mayo speech yesterday, he said, I want to say it again, just in case anybody's confused.
The way to fix our broken immigration system is through common sense, comprehensive immigration reform.
What that means is the way to fix illegal immigration is to legalize it.
That's what that means.
Common sense, comprehensive immigration reform is amnesty.
We've tried it once, it didn't work.
It led us to where we are today.
So fixing illegal immigration is to legalize it.
So can we extrapolate from that?
That the way to fix our drug problem is to legalize drugs.
Do you know that Mexico has legalized drugs?
I want you to think about that for just a second because we're told by the drug legalization advocates here, such as legalize marijuana or legalize heroin or cocaine or whatever, it'll take the crime out of it.
And we can tax it.
And we can raise revenue for the precious government.
And people are gonna get drugs anyway, Rush, just like they're gonna get sex anyway.
We can't stop these kids, they're gonna do it.
So there's no point in teaching um abstinence.
So we just legal, okay.
Mexico has legalized drugs.
If Mexico has legalized drugs, and if legalizing drugs takes the crime out of it, then what the hell's going on in Arizona?
Why the hell are there Mexican drug gangs anywhere if they have legalized drugs?
And they have.
I ain't lying to you.
They've legalized drugs.
They ought not be drug gangs.
The only drug gangs ought to be the government and our tax enforcers taxing the sale and use of the stuff, right?
Because that's the benefit from it.
So legalizing drugs hasn't worked in Mexico, yet Obama says, look, it we gotta we gotta make sure here.
Uh say again.
The way to fix our broken immigration system is through common sense comprehensive immigration reform, which he means is to legalize it.
Okay, let's keep going.
Prostitution.
Elliot Spitzer, anybody, we still don't know.
If you read the papers on Elliot Spencer Klan No.
he's a Democrat after all these years.
Is the way to fix prostitution to legalize it?
I mean, this is where the left is taking us.
Legalize all the deviants, legalize legalize all of the things we know are culturally destructive.
Um let me let me take it even further.
Let's go to the health care bill.
When millions of people fail to buy insurance like Obamacare mandates, will the solution be just to do away with the law?
Well, why not?
We have illegal immigration, the immigrants are failing to abide by the law.
They're being aided by people like the Phoenix Sons and Obama, anybody else who wants to encourage law breaking and lawlessness, so people don't buy health insurance as mandated by Obamacare.
Should we just do away with the law?
Ha ha, you think we're gonna do away with the law.
No, we're gonna enforce the law that Obama wants to enforce.
Absolutely when the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes, according to Obama, should we just do away with the tax laws?
I mean, where does this stop?
If we're gonna look at lawlessness and say, you know what, the way to fix this is just get rid of the law, all right, fine.
Um you don't like the fact that you can't turn your lights on in a summertime on the beach because the turtles, fine.
Ignore it.
Get rid of the law.
Or the ordinance.
Mexico legalized Snerdley's eyes are bugging over.
He doesn't believe in Mexico legalized everything.
They legalized marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD heroin.
Everything's legal.
Why in the hell are there drug gangs in Mexico?
Why is what's happening in Arizona happening?
You know, it's an epidemic epidemic of child sex abuse out there.
Why not just legalize it?
Why not just get rid of it?
All of these laws are just people breaking them anyway, and and and why where do we stop with this?
If the law doesn't mean anything, if the way to fix a problem that's been created by the existence of the existence of a law is to ignore the law, why have the law in the first place?
I don't know where you people on the left draw the line here.
It's sort of like the minimum wage argument.
You always advocate $10 an hour.
What about $15?
Yep.
What about $20 an hour?
No, no, it's a little bit too high.
Why?
Why is $20 an hour too high?
Why can we legalize immigration, illegal immigration, but we can't legalize drugs?
Where do you why why?
What's the thinking here?
Well, Mr. Limbaugh, the legalization of drugs while some people on my side of the army might relevant and love it would certainly lead to the destruction of our culture and it would promote the wanton worthlessness of many citizens.
Oh, okay, fine, Mr. Castradi.
So what happens if we then uh legalize illegal immigrants?
Uh and they come that's the different thing.
These people just want a better life, Mr. Limbaugh.
They're thinking, they're thinking a much better life than they can have in our native country line.
What about the people in this country who will be harmed by it, just like people who would be harmed by the legalization of drugs?
Mr. Lumbo, you're missing the point.
It's a matter of compassion and people wanting to improve their life.
No, it's not.
At some point, if we're gonna say that the solution to a problem brought about by the existence of a law is to get rid of the law, then apply that to every other law.
We can't stop bank robbery, can we?
Let's just make it legal or rob banks.
People want a better life.
People don't have enough money.
You ought to see some of the signs that are being carried in these protest marches last Saturday.
I'll have to dig one out of here.
Uh I threw it away because I didn't think I'd have any practical application.
Is that somebody's carrying a sign?
And I don't know where.
It looks like it's Los Angeles, but I can't tell.
But we want free house.
We want f we want job.
Uh we want no taxes.
Uh we want uh, and we're gonna keep you America owes us this, and we're gonna keep attacking and killing the police in Arizona until you give us this.
Basically is what the sign says.
And then let's now that I've told you that, let's go to the audio sound bites number eight.
May the second, Danbury, Connecticut, New Hope Baptist Church, the Reverend Sharpton delivered a sermon.
So many of us that act as well to struggle for close to justice, that the struggle for right is over.
Don't realize that the struggle is not over until we achieve the crop.
Someone was saying to me the other day.
We've achieved the dream of Dr. King.
And that's all that was not Dr. King's dream.
A great man.
I'm working for the president and supported the president.
But the dream was not to put one black family in the lighthouse.
The dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
President Obama being in the White House can help us get there.
Well, we're not there yet.
So I guess President Obama has not ended the race business.
I remember so many people calling here before the election.
Rush, don't you think the election of Obama would actually help solve some of the racial problems and discord.
No, it's only going to make it worse, I warned.
And I said, So now here is the uh the Reverend Sharpton.
We have to all be equal.
Um the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
Is that what Martin Luther King stood for?
That's not what Martin Luther King stood for.
It's not we make everything equal in everybody's house.
So everybody should have one of everything.
No, no, no, no, no, where the world is this stop.
Okay, you go to Pier 1, you get everything in there.
Then you go to Macy's, you get everything in there.
Then you go to uh Walmart, you get everything in there, and everybody should have one of everything in their house, and until that happens, like if if I have uh if I have a 25-foot high definition screen, we're not equal till Sharpton has one that I pay for.
So that you have the sign we want a free house, we want jobs, no taxes.
America owes us this.
We're going to keep attacking police and Arizona until we get it.
That's a sign.
I have a picture of it from one of the rallies this uh this past Saturday.
Brief time out here, folks.
The fastest three hours of media rolling right on.
Another uh Emirates airline flight, ladies and gentlemen, has been called back to the gate at JFK Airport because of a security concern.
Sources tell NBC eyeball news that Emirates Flight 204 ready to take off for Dubai when it was told to return to the gate.
Customs and border protection blocked the plane from taxi on the runway, and there are reports the flight was asked to return because a passenger on board is on the federal no-fly list.
This must be uh the white male in his forties that they found on videotape in Times Square on Saturday.
I'm sure they've been looking for this guy.
By the way, a lot of people said, Rush, look at the smiling picture of this jihadist.
They always put the smiling picture of this guy, Shazad on there.
Where's his mugshot?
The federal mugshots are not permitted to be broadcast.
Federal mugshots are not released.
I asked Andy McCarthy that question this morning.
He gets the answer is it's it's uh it's uh all about federal charge is a uh serious thing.
It can be damaging your reputation.
They don't release uh mugshots.
That's why we're seeing the smiling family man shot of uh of the well state charges, but the feds are the apparently it's a it's a it's a DOJ thing, it's a long, long-standing thing.
Uh they don't release federal mugshots, uh, other than at trial after conviction.
Uh is what I was what I was told.
So another Emirates jet stopped prior to takeoff at JFK because somebody on board was on the no fly list.
Now, this guy's been on no fly list since 2009.
Uh, and I'm sure it's this 40s white male guy that was changing his shirt that they've been desperately looking for to hang this crime on.
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Here is.
Here's the sign.
Well, here's the picture that's got this on me.
Read the exact sign.
Give us free health care, jobs, no taxes, house, food.
You owe us America.
We will shoot more police in Arizona until we get free.
That's just an anecdotal thing.
I mean, it's one guy carrying a sign, but there are all kinds of people out there.
Here's audio sound by 22.
Now, this is last night in Morgan Hills, California, CBS Eyeball News Channel 13.
Reporter Kiet Dole, or Kit Doe, filed this report on the Live Oak High School American flag wearing students who were sent home.
Some Hispanic students were upset, and the school feared it would start a fight.
Matthew, by the way, is part Mexican.
Our Hispanic vice principal was taking their side and thinking that we were being racist towards them, so he was discriminating against us.
For some students to wear red, white, and blue on Cinco de Mayo.
You guys were trying to start trouble.
We're in America, we can't wear our own colors.
The boys refused to take off the shirts.
They were not suspended, but they were sent home.
The irony?
Dominic Maciel's mother is white and his father is Mexican.
I think it was disrespectful to my country if I flip this inside out.
So they were sent home because the authorities thought they were trying to start trouble.
And Cinco de Mayo is not even official Mexican holiday.
Start trouble.
American flags.
Start trouble by wearing American colors.
Start exactly right in the Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area, Morgan City, Morgan Hills.
Right.
American flag, American colors, red, white, and blue, are now judged in certain parts of the country as trouble.
Or provoke hate speech, uh provocative.
This was they were trying to incite violence.
That's what they were accused of.
Incite violence.
Wearing American colors.
Yes, inciting violence.
That's why they were sent home.
They were sent home.
They were viewed as troublemakers.
In the Bay Area.
Try this.
From a cheering Associated Press.
A 13-story mosque is planned.
Wait for it.
A 13-story mosque is planned.
Wait for it.
Near the World Trade Center site.
In a building that was damaged by airplane debris on September 11th, 2001.
A lower Manhattan Community Board.
You think Khalid Sheikh Muhammad would not have an impossible time getting a jury of sympathetic peers?
Apparently not.
A lower Manhattan Community Board said yesterday it supported the 100 million dollar mosque and cultural center.
The project is aimed at creating a space for the neighborhood's growing Muslim population.
Supporters say the history associated with the damaged former department store building was one reason to pick it.
Some 9-11 victims' families said they were offended by the idea.
Massapiqua resident Rosemary Kane called the plan despicable.
She lost a son on 9-11.
The American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative said the project would help to improve relations between the West and Muslims.
So we have a 13-story, $100 million mosque in a building damaged during 9-11.
Now, what happens?
Say the Israelis want to construct a an embassy near the World Trade Center, not far from this mosque, under the guise of um of uh improving relations between uh Muslims and Jews.
I wonder how that would fly.
I have a story from 2006 in the Arizona Daily Star.
It's uh out of Tucson.
Back in 2006 and 2007, the story is about a man who was arrested for burning a Mexican flag.
In Arizona.
Arrested for burning a Mexican flag.
Now, nobody gets arrested for burning the American flag.
In fact, they are celebrated.
They're elevated to hero status.
And they have the ACLU and others coming after them to defend them.
Try this news headline from the AP.
Productivity gains slow, signal job growth ahead.
U.S. companies running out of ways to increase productivity from leaner workforces, a sign that they may need to step up hiring in the months ahead.
How does that how does that compute?
Productivity slows, signals job growth.
And wait till you see some of the coming hassles, tax increases and so forth in the health care bill.
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