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June 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruit and plain.
I am Rushlin bought this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
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Wall Street Journal today on the op-ed page, the drilling experts speak out on the Obama Deepwater Moratorium.
Now, what this piece does is explores yet another ugly facet of the Obama regime, namely its daily load of lies.
Now the case in point here is the use of the names of a number of drilling experts who the White House claimed were in support of its drilling moratorium.
In fact, the experts were not asked about the wisdom of such a moratorium.
They have said forthrightly that they oppose it.
Using their names was flagrantly dishonest.
They signed the recommendations, and Obama's goons added the moratorium ban after they signed it.
They were not informed that they were being asked to endorse a drilling moratorium.
But what's a little thing like intellectual honesty when you have ideas that will save the world?
Before the Obama administration sweeps under the carpet the controversy over the drilling experts it falsely used to justify its moratorium, the incident bears another look, not least because it undermines the purely political nature of a drilling ban that now threatens the Gulf Coast economy and drilling safety.
When Obama last month announced his six month deep water moratorium, he pointed to an Interior Department report of new safety recommendations.
That report prominently noted that the rec recommendations it contained, including the six-month drilling ban, had been peer-reviewed by experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.
It also boasted that Interior Department people consulted with a wide range of other experts.
The clear implication was that the nation's drilling brain trust agreed that a moratorium was necessary following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Well, as the journal has noted, the opposite is true.
In a scathing document, eight of these experts that the administration listed in its report said their names had been used to justify a political decision.
The draft they reviewed had not included a six-month drilling moratorium.
The administration added that provision only after it had secured sign off.
Now the administration says it's as much to do about nothing.
So the journal decided to call some of these experts themselves.
And their information and concerns are revealing.
The report they agreed to uh agreed to did address moratorium.
It recommended a six-month ban on new deep water permits.
Yet Benton Baugh, president of the Ray Oil, said in at least two separate hour and a half phone calls among interior and the experts, there was no discussion of a moratorium on existing drilling.
Because if anybody had made that suggestion, we'd have said that's craziness.
Can I translate this for you in simple language?
The Obama administration gets hold of some oil experts via the Interior Department.
And they said, We're talking here, we think we may ought to temporarily have a moratorium on future new rigs and drilling offshore.
We figure out what happened here.
These experts say it's a good idea.
And they signed it.
The Obama administration puts out a different document, saying that they had agreed to a moratorium on existing rigs.
They've said we never saw that.
That was not in the document they asked us to sign.
They are using our signatures for a political process.
Folks, this is this is I I don't know how to characterize this, and what are these experts going to do?
They're doing as much as they can do here by going public in the Wall Street Journal with it, but they see what's happening to Hayward.
They see what's happening to British Petroleum.
Sorry, BP.
They see what's going on here.
So this administration operating as organized crime as a thugocracy Is basically intimidating any opposition into silence and just shutting up.
The scope of this, now I'm not naive enough to think this stuff hasn't happened before, but the scope that with it happens in this administration every day on every ass and everything they touch turn sour.
Everything they say they're trying to fix gets broken worse than it was.
But to lie to oil drilling experts and reissue a document that they actually didn't sign to buttress your indefensible position.
If this is this is the kind of gang stuff they make comedy movies out of.
Except this isn't funny.
This is for real.
You want to hear how the regime operates, Henry Waxman, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Waxman doing all the talk.
Now they the Democrats, they couldn't wait slice and dice.
They couldn't wait to uh question Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP.
Here are three sound bites, Henry, Nostralitis Waxman.
It's clear to me that you don't want to answer our questions.
Because isn't it true that you've served your life in the in in BP?
You've only recently become the CEO, but haven't you been in this business most of your professional life?
I've been in this business twenty-eight years.
Twenty-eight years.
So you should have some knowledge about these issues.
And I sent you a letter in advance asking you going to be asked these questions and to be prepared to answer it.
How can you explain this decision where you ignore not you yourself, but people that work for you who should have known that it was your directive to be a laser on safety?
How could they have ignored these warnings from people right within your company?
All right.
Now we got two more sound bites here, but I'd like to know who gets to investigate Henry Waxman.
I'd like to know who gets to investigate the executive branch.
Now, you know there is a procedure for that.
You remember Watergate?
That was all done by the legislative branch.
Remember good old Sam Irvin, Senator Sam, and all those committees in Congress, John Dean was testifying too.
The problem here is we got one party rule.
The Democrats are not going to investigate the administration.
This is another reason why these elections in November are so crucial.
But then, even after the Republicans win, they're going to have to have the gumption and the courage to go ahead and start investigating some of these things, and they're going to have to be fearless about it.
Here's our second soundbite of a waxman electuring Hayward.
I'm not prepared to draw conclusions about this accident until such time as the investigation has concluded.
Well, this is an investigation.
That's what this committee is doing.
It's an investigatory committee.
And we expect you to cooperate with us.
Are you failing to cooperate with other investigators as well?
Because they're going to have a hard time reaching conclusions if you stonewall them, which is what we seem to be getting today.
I'm not stonewalling.
I simply was not involved in the decision-making process.
I've looked at the documents.
And until the investigations are complete, both yours and others.
No, no, but that's somebody else's conclusion.
What's your conclusion?
I haven't drawn a conclusion, Mr. Chairman.
Now, whether this is about what happened, what went wrong.
They don't know what caused it.
There's no way he can have drawn a conclusion yet.
They're still trying to find out.
I don't think.
You'd probably have to show Waxman a picture of an oil rig to have him understand what one is, and yet here he is, trying to act like the expert in all of these.
Waxman then got the last word on this.
My time has expired, and I I I'm just amazed at this testimony, Mr. Hayward.
You're not taking responsibility.
You're kicking the can down the road and acting as if you have nothing to do with this company and nothing to do with the decisions.
I find that irresponsible.
I don't understand that.
I don't I haven't heard all the hearings, but uh somebody help me out here.
Is is BP actually running around these exact same.
We didn't do it, it's not our problem.
They're paying 20 billion dollars into a slush fund, they've set up a hundred million dollar foundation to pay benefits for out of uh out-of-work oil well and oil rig workers because of Obama's moratorium.
They've apologized.
I mean uh uh I've missed something.
Are they running around saying that they don't really have any responsibility or culpability here?
You know, the Democrats are using leaked BP emails and launching this witch hunt, uh, the same ideas ignored the climate gate.
There's there's a whole bunch of emails here that they have leaked that they say point to some grand conspiracy with BP, and they're just laser-like focused on them.
But the uh global warming, the Hadley unit, those emails, which pointed out that giant hawks.
Nobody cared.
Nobody wanted to look at those, but now they're leaking BP emails to try to prove there's some sort of cover-up conspiracy or what have you.
Dismiss those global warming emails unimportant.
What's really important is who leaked them.
That's what we're gonna find out.
Who is the culprit here?
Well, they don't care who leaked these, they care about the substance of these leaked BP emails.
All right, we'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
Thanks for your patience.
Be right with you after this.
It was last June 11th, by the way, there was a story on uh on how these uh moratorium drilling experts were totally exploited, uh misused, well, it they they they were defrauded essentially.
And uh the the story was all out there last week, but we have a one-party media as well, so no big deal was made about it.
About all that happened was the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar apologized to these experts for uh having mistakenly accidentally put their name to a document they had actually not signed.
We're sorry, uh, but there's nothing we can do about it now.
Now, this this this business, we play these waxman sound bites.
Understand Waxman doesn't care what he gets here.
Waxman doesn't care about any information.
He's asking questions for which there are no answers right now.
What Waxman and these other Democrats want is for Hayward and any other BP exec to say things under oath that they can't possibly know one way or the other.
This is a show trial.
If we were back in the era of Stalin, this is what happened in Stalinist Russia.
It's exactly how show trials work.
If you translated this into Russian, folks, this is exactly what would be going on in the old Russia, the old pre-Soviet Union days.
Now, Waxman, and these they don't care what the answers are.
This is about humiliation, this is about trying to save their own bacon come election day in November.
That's why this is a show trial.
This is not about finding what out happened and preventing it from happening again.
This is not about one bit of substance.
Purely and simply a fraud.
Here is Scott in Jacksonville, Florida, as we kick off our round on the phones today.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush, sleep number megadiddos.
Thank you very much.
And um just wanted to ask you a question.
It seems like when the Nigerian oil minister wakes up in the morning and sneezes, oil goes to two hundred dollars a barrel.
But we have over what, a million gallons of uh oil skewing out from the deep water horizon every day.
And oil and gas is staying about the same.
What's up with that?
Well, now what do you think, Scott?
You sound like a reasonably intelligent guy with just a tinge of conspiratorial attitude in you.
What do you think is going on here?
What do you think explains it?
Well, you know, I guess Heritage Foundation could help us with it, but I think it's the speculators.
I think the speculators have uh worked over the years to drive up the price of oil.
But as a consumer, I mean, I I mean, Rush, what did they always say?
It's the summer driving season, the new fuel blend is coming out.
Give me a break.
I I want to know the truth.
What's going on and why isn't gas, you know, four bucks a gallon.
Well, now gasoline prices aren't inching up.
I mean, there's no there's not a dramatic increase, but they are inching up in uh in certain parts of the country.
Uh and at some point this is going to have an effect on supply and demand.
But I think there's also another interesting aspect of this.
You know, markets are what they are, and Obama does not yet control the oil market.
Now you would think with the moratorium on U.S. offshore drilling, meaning oil that is not going to be brought to the surface, oil that's not going to be brought to market, therefore oil not going to be sold and refined, plus the oil being lost every day from this rig disaster.
Something has to be going on here.
The supply has to be affected.
Why isn't the price going up?
Uh, and and because the supply is going down.
And one of the I think the dirty little secret here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is that the supply of oil in the world is so massive that a six-month moratorium on U.S. drilling or the regurgitation, this this leak doesn't really affect it that much.
The speculators do have quite a lot of uh uh impact on the price of oil on the futures market, and you don't see them bidding the price up.
You really don't see the price being bid up in massive amounts like it miraculously got to $150 a gallon or a barrel, uh what was it, a couple of summers ago?
So it's an interesting question, but I think overall, and I still believe supply and demand ultimately is the uh is the arbiter in these kind of things.
And all this talk about we got a finite supply of oil, it may be finite, but I mean it's 300 300 years plus finite.
Look at you know what I heard about this this this well, if they're not able to cap it, if every effort to plug this doesn't work, guess how long it's gonna go on?
Decades.
There's that much oil in this one well that it could spew oil for decades if they don't stop it.
That's how much, and look at the pressure that that oil's coming out at.
So there's there's there's a there's a lot of crude out there.
Now the conspiracy people, I think those of you who think that there is a wizard of oz behind the curtain who sets gasoline prices, don't you think if that person existed, you'd be up to five dollars a gallon right now?
And who could complain?
I mean, the president's just shut down American offshore drilling indefinitely.
They say six months, but they say that we're only going to have the toll on the bridge until we pay for the bridge.
Well, the bridge been paid for for a hundred years, we still pay the toll.
So I don't know how long this moratorium is going to go on.
We have all this crude leaking into the Gulf.
You'd have to think that this wizard back there behind the curtains, oh man, I got the best evidence yet, the best justification to jack up the price of oil so I can get gasoline back up to four four bucks a gallon, maybe four fifty.
Why isn't that happening?
Why isn't it happening?
It's an interesting question.
The answers will be found in the laws of supply and demand.
Do you know that oil prices actually went down in May?
And this list this leak happened on April 20th, I think, April 21st, but prices went down in May.
What the oil speculators know, what they know is that the moratorium in the United States is not going to impact the supply.
Well, these 33 rig operators in the Gulf or just go to Brazil, or they'll go to Nigeria, or they'll go to the North Sea, or they'll go wherever they have to go, and they'll just bring more oil out there.
The overall supply on the market's not going to be affected by this.
The speculators know this.
Also, if you want if you want to get into conspiracies, and I, you know, I kinda love tweaking people's conspiracies.
Since we acknowledge the fact that there might be a wizard of Oz, I know Ted Baxter thinks there is.
Ted Baxter thinks there's a wizard of Oz out there that's got his hands on a little gear shift that turns an oil price, a gas price up and down.
Okay, so this guy's out there.
Well, maybe this guy's in charge of getting Democrats elected in November.
Maybe this guy's keeping gasoline and oil prices down so that Democrats, the party in power, don't get hurt by it.
I mean, if we're going to start doing conspiracy theories, let's throw them all up against a wall and see which ones of them stick.
Now the oil pressure coming out of there, that's determined by methane gas.
Now, can I can I put this in perspective for you?
Methane is what cows uh expel.
Methane.
And remember they say we got to stop eating McDonald's and beef because all that methane is going to destroy the environment, global warming.
You look at the amount of methane that is forcing the oil out of that rig or out of that that that the leak, out of the hole in the ocean floor.
So remember, when did gasoline prices skyrocket?
Since we want to play conspiratorial games here, when did gasoline prices hit that magical $4 a gallon?
Happened to be during the campaign of 2008, didn't it?
When did the economic so-called disaster and crisis happen?
Why that happened around September, August of September of the 2008 campaign.
2006.
The 2006 campaign is when the oil price went to gas price went to four bucks.
Campaign of 2006, when the Democrats took the house back.
The economic crisis, 2008.
So if there is a magical wizard behind the curtain controlling gasoline prices, maybe he's keeping them down.
Summer driving season.
It's already tough out there economically.
People are out of work, but they still want to go try to have some leisure.
Take the kids on a vacation, maybe to go to the lake rather than the than the beach.
Still got to have the money to be able to get there.
If it gets tough economically worse than it is, who gonna get blamed?
The party in power always happens.
So you keep gasoline prices low through November, and maybe you help your chances as the party in power.
maintain your seats.
But when the Democrats wanted to take over Congress in 2006, that's when we had four dollar a gallon gasoline.
So could be any number of explanations as to why oil prices and accompanying gasoline prices don't seem to be reacting at all to the moratorium and the leak.
But again, just looking at the laws of supply and demand, the speculators know that, okay, the U.S. is gonna stop drilling, but nobody else is.
Brazil's ramping up.
The Mexicans are not going to stop drilling in the Gulf.
Nobody else is gonna stop drilling, only us.
So the supply will really not be affected.
Back after this.
That's right, folks.
It's open line Friday and Thursday today.
We're back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Here it is.
April 24th, 2006 press release from Nancy Pelosi.
With skyrocketing gas prices, Americans can no longer afford a rubber stamp Congress.
April 24th, 2006.
The gas price spiked upwards to $4 during that uh that year, and of course the Republicans were the party in power.
Now the Democrats are the party in power, and gasoline prices are falling.
In a lot of areas of the country, they're falling.
Not inching up, they are inching up in certain parts of the country, but they're overall falling.
And folks, oh no, look at this.
National Geographic.
Here it is.
Ominous pre-Katrina conditions now in Atlantic Ocean.
Current warm waters, calm winds resemble those preceding the worst hurricane season ever.
And before they even start the story, there is a picture of some poor guy on the top of his van clinging for dear life during the floods of Hurricane Katrina.
Here I'll show you on a duty.
Look at the size of that picture.
I'm not going to zoom in.
Just trust me, that's poor Schlub on the top of his van about to be submerged in a flood after Katrina.
That's the picture that goes with the text of the story.
The text of the story starts underneath the picture.
And it reads this way.
It's already been forecast to be extremely active, but the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season may be shaping up to be something even worse.
A replay of 2005, the most active and destructive Atlantic basin hurricane season in history.
The warm ocean temperatures and weak winds recorded this past May were similar to those of May 2005, the year that spawned Hurricane Katrina.
Such patterns are definitely ominous and foreboding, said Chris Ebert, the lead hurricane forecaster for the private forecasting company Impact Weather based in Houston.
Okay, folks.
It's suicide time.
I mean, you got the oil out there in the Gulf, you got Katrina type conditions, you got an economic disaster.
Ah, you got the Euro, you got the European Union falling apart.
What's the point in living?
The BP leak, why go on?
Who even wants to wake up anymore and face certain death consequences.
Forecast for us in June by not just the drive-by media, now National Geographic.
Frankly, I wish they'd stick to pictures from Africa.
That's why I read the magazine when I was a kid.
You'd have to buy Playboy.
You could get National Geographic.
It was true, Dawn.
And you you you were you were being cultured when you opened the pages of National Geographic.
It is no different than what you saw in Playboy.
Well, I'm slightly different.
But when you boil it all down to the essence, there wasn't much difference.
Who's next?
Joplin, Missouri, this is Tracy.
You're on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Negative is from the Showy State Rec.
Thank you, sir.
Very much a ma'am, very much.
I just wanted to call real quick and make a comment regarding how impressed I have been with Bobby Gendal over the last week.
And the fact that, you know, I hate to see crises like what is going on in the Gulf, and I've talked to a lot of people about it.
It's an absolute tragedy.
But sometimes, unfortunately, it gives us an opportunity to see what real leadership is.
And you know, when I hear all these people on Capitol Hill that are sitting there and talking about how they're beating up BP because it's, you know, they're looking out for the best common good.
This guy's down there with his sleeves rolled up and actually trying to do something to save what they've got left.
And to me, I mean, I hate the tragedy and everything else, but sometimes, you know, I think we can pull something great out of it, which you know what, some of the leaders that are out there in this country that are making a difference may just rise to the top.
Well, yeah, I understand that, and actually I agree with your philosophy, uh, and that is there's always good in everything that happens if you look for it.
The good does not negate the bad.
Nobody is artificially trying to lessen the impact of the leak, but like you say, some people are surfacing here exhibiting genuine leadership.
And a lot of them are in the Republican Party.
Michelle Bachmann, the the women, the women of the Republican Party, Jan Brewer, the governor, Arizona, Sarah Palin, of course, Michelle Bachman, Chris Christie, the uh the governor of New Jersey.
There are a lot of leaders showing up here, and they they deserve every ounce of support they can get because uh they're showing a lot of courage.
They're very few people in their line of work willing to go up against this administration in any substantive way whatsoever.
Bobby Gendal just gets tired of waiting for the federal regulatory By the way, the Fed's not taking credit for this decision.
Obama in his speech the other night, yep, yeah, we're gonna build those berms.
Those berms could have been started weeks ago if it weren't for the paperwork and the bureaucracy that Bobby Gendal had to go through.
That's why he finally said, hell with it, I'm just gonna do it.
What are you gonna do?
Put me in jail, Merry Beth Atlantic City.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh hi, Rush.
Um, I just wanted to say uh something very quickly.
I am president of the Animal Rehabilitators Alliance in New Jersey, and what we are is a bunch of wildlife rehabilitators that rehabilitate wildlife like they're doing in the Gulf, and you re-release animals, and our numbers have dropped considerably from over 130 a decade ago down to 23 throughout the state.
Um this is a big problem with our fishing game that has caused this to happen.
Um a few years back, BP Energy had taken an interest in our group and saw the need for the word to get out of what a wildlife rehabilitator is, wanted to educate the public and do what they could to help increase our numbers, which we're still working on.
They were gracious enough to hire a company to design brochures for our organization and pay for lump of uh these brochures to be passed out to get the word out.
This company is not evil like what everyone says.
They did this way before the spill.
Um this bill is a terrible thing, and things like this do happen.
I think the person that saw the bad equipment at the time before they went to cap the well, should be held up on charges for not reporting that.
I think all the is being collected for the BP Energy should be put towards helping the wildlife, doing the cleanup, not the hundred million dollars to help um people that are going to be out of work.
There's a more important issue here, and I think that is what needs to be dealt with.
And people need to know that corporations are good.
Corporations help.
They have the money, they help, they see the need.
We're a very tiny group, and they took interest in us.
And that's just proof enough for me that they do have a good heart.
I'm sure that they didn't intend for this to happen at all.
And they're not going to be able to do that.
That is the point.
No, no, that that is the point.
But we live in an era where the Democrat Party is actually trying to convince people that BP wanted this to happen.
That BP, that oil companies in general hate the earth, hate the climate, and hate people, and they hate animals.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be in the business.
Oil's nothing more than a giant poison.
And anybody involved in it needs to be in jail.
And it is, it's it's fascinating to try to understand the leftist mindset on this, that all corporations exist to kill their customers and wipe out the countries in which they are in operation.
I mean, it's just absurd.
And sadly, they have convinced a lot of people.
Let me tell you what what Bobby Gendle knows.
And let me tell you what Bobby Gendle had to go ahead and just make his own mind up building these berms.
The oil that remains in the Gulf, and I know a lot of you people are just going to have a fit when I say this because you think I don't know what I'm talking about, but I do.
And Prince William Sound is the evidence for it.
And it as is the constant leaking of oil from the ocean floor around the world every day.
The oil that's in, that remains in the Gulf, eventually is going to be evaporated, emulsified, eaten alive by the ocean.
It's not going to happen overnight, but they'll take care of it.
The danger is the oil that gets ashore.
And that's what Bobby Gindle knows.
The oil, once it gets ashore, uh, then you have real ecological problems.
You know, oil's comparatively easy to dispose of in the water, but once it gets to the beaches, the marshlands sinks into the soil.
It is almost impossible to clean that up.
So all these delays with the booms and the berms and the other things to keep the oil off the beaches is much more devastating than we're hearing.
And I my friends, I'm telling you here that I will repeat it.
I think one of the reasons Obama delayed the request from Bobby Gindle is because he's a Republican.
They needed this disaster.
Well, they wanted it.
They exploited it.
And for a Republican to move in when Obama had done nothing and to actually make a visible difference.
That could have a huge impact on saving the way of life along the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Mississippi, Alabama's well, that won't do.
That won't do, but Jindle knows, and a lot of other people down in those areas know that once the oil gets into the soil, in the beaches, the the marshlands, the wetlands, it's almost impossible to clean up.
But Obama.
I know you folks, you're gonna just shocked when I say this.
Obama needed oil-soaked beaches to make his propaganda points.
Obama needs pictures of pelicans immersed in oil.
So he can continue his jihad against oil.
He needed the photo-ops if he was going to stop any further offshore oil production in our lifetimes.
And now he's got them.
Because nobody wants this.
And the more he can make it look like this is always going to happen when you drill offshore.
He told some whoppers in that speech of his.
He said that uh we uh we've run out of places to drill on land and in shallow.
We have most certainly have not.
We haven't run out of places to drill in this country.
The environmentalist wackos in partnership with the Democrat Party will not permit drilling anywhere but way, way offshore in deep water.
Now the rehabilitation of these animals.
This is a sad thing.
You know, pelican next to the eagle is my favorite bird.
I cringe at these pictures.
These birds don't know what's going on, and then the fish and the goal, they have no idea what they're swimming in do.
But the rehab, remember the story of Prince William's sound, it cost ninety thousand dollars per otter to try to save them, and most of them died anyway.
A valiant effort.
We know this because the insurance companies that were involved made it plain what it cost them.
$90,000.
This was a story once of the otter that was saved, reintroduced to Prince William's Sound, let the kids out of school in a marching band.
The saltwater taffy machines were going, the corn dogs, everything gathered there on the beach.
And they had the otter in a cage, and it's uh let out of the cage, it's swimming out there on its back, put a little paws up, and everybody goes oh, it's silk in it.
And after a while, some giant killer whale surfaced and swallowed the thing.
And the marching band stopped, and the kids looked at their parents and said, Whoa, whoa, whoa, what happened?
What happened?
Well, Daniel Wright, you just saw it, kid.
Whale was hungry, the otter just happened to I'll show off for you, get in the way of the uh whale's mouth.
The insurance companies, I paid 90 grand for that.
There were reports the other day that the uh that claim the rehabilitation uh is gonna cost a lot of money and is not very effective.
But our compassion as human beings is going to require that we do it.
And we're gonna have to see it.
We're gonna have to see the efforts being made to uh rehab and clean up the uh uh the birds cleaning a single pelican.
I looked this up the other day.
Cleaning a single pelican can require 300 gallons of water.
300 gallons.
I gotta go.
A little over time here in this segment.
We'll be right back.
Okay, following the National Geographic scare piece on the uh hurricane season of water temperature conditions.
We got a little dispatch here from the uh official climatologist at the EIB network, Dr. Royce Spencer.
He says, take a look at the current sea surface temperature departure from normal image.
It's a second one here.
He gives me a link.
Note that there is cold water in the North Atlantic and the tropical eastern Pacific.
The cold warm pattern in the Atlantic is classic and is called a North Atlantic Oscillation, ENAO.
Combined with a La Nina expected in the next few months, the natural, natural hurricane cycles should be in high gear.
But knowing the whims of Mother Nature, I would not venture an actual predicted number of storms for this year.
I'll leave that to others.
Fine, Roy, I'll make a prediction.
There will be between zero and forty storms this year.
There'll be between zero and forty to become hurricanes, between zero and forty that become major hurricanes, and between zero and forty that uh impact the United States Gulf or East Coasts, and between zero and forty who wipe out a city.
There you have it.
My prediction is going to be more accurate than anybody else's out there.
You uh you wait and see.
Patty in Memphis, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
It is an honor to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations.
Congratulations on your uh wedding.
I'm just thrilled to uh talk to you, and I thought you're the best person to talk to about this subject of our programs lost and twenty-four.
Oh, yeah.
I have loved these programs.
I have just been a part of them, and what are we going to do, Rush?
What are we going to do?
No, I know a lot of you probably laughing at uh at Patty here, but I you know I can relate here.
Uh Lost and 24 were appointment television for me.
Well, for my DVR, if I couldn't watch them live, I would watch them on the uh on the DVR.
I know everything comes to an end.
And I, you know, I don't know what TV shows are going to replace them.
But however, I didn't know that 24 was going to be a big part of my life until I went to Afghanistan and watched the first season on DVD on the airplane over there.
And uh, same thing with lost.
It took me a while to get into that.
So there'll probably be a couple of replacements come along at some point.
I have no idea what they're gonna be.
But it's a sad thing that they do end.
Uh yeah, the 24 guy, get this.
Get this.
I talked to some of 24 guys.
You know, they're doing a movie.
They're gonna do 24 movie.
But but but get this none of the people who worked on the 24 TV show are going to be involved.
From what I've heard from highest sources, because movie people think TV people don't know anything about movies.
So the movie people don't want the TV people to have a single thing to say about the 24 big screen movie.
Now that's where they are right now.
I don't know if that's gonna hold up.
But um at least that's the that's the scuttle button.
Now get this.
This is from human events, what looked to be an impending showdown between the Democrat-controlled New Jersey legislature and Republican Governor Chris Christie over the state budget for fiscal 2011, maybe over before it began.
Democrats in the state assembly publicly conceded this week Christie's budget would pass largely intact with Democrat support.
Christie won.
Back after this.
All you have to do is take them on.
Here's a good way to look at this, folks.
For the Democrats, big government sometimes makes mistakes.
The private sector, though, commits crimes.
And when the government makes mistakes, the answer is bigger government, more government to fix the mistake.
When the private sector makes mistakes, the answer is to destroy it and criminalize it.
And by mistakes I mean accidents, acts of nature, whatever, like this.
But this means we have to destroy the oil industry.
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