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	Cast the three hours in media rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, the truth detector, doctor of democracy as always, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have right here behind this golden EIB microphone, telephone number.
	If you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
	Why do you listen to this program?
	Well, there are many countless reasons.
	But among the reasons you listen to this program is that we do not do conventional wisdom.
	We do not march in lockstep.
	I don't care where you go today, right now, turn on any network.
	Go to any drive-by media website, and you're going to see luxurious praise of Obama of all the courage it took to do this, to stand up for what is right, even if it means blowing the Afghanistan policy wide open and causing some problems temporarily.
	This was a courageous gutsy, right?
	This was right in the line of duty along with Lincoln and McClellan.
	It is right in line with Truman and MacArthur.
	And it's none of that.
	That's BS.
	I wish I could say the word.
	It is total BS.
	We have an incompetent little child who's got a giant chip on his shoulder about this country running it.
	The essence of this today, getting rid of McCrystal and replacing with Petraeus, let me again read to you from Vanity Fair.
	When Senator Obama's turn came to question General Petraeus during the week that moveon.org ran the betraus ad, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, all these Democrats calling Petraeus a liar, and today they embrace him.
	That's a story.
	And here's Obama.
	When his turn came to question Petraeus, Obama lectured Petraeus on the futility of his mission, the surge in Iraq.
	He used up his entire seven-minute allotment, giving the general no chance to respond to anything he said.
	Among the things Obama said to Petraeus, we have now set the bar so low that modest improvement in what was a completely chaotic situation is considered success, but it's not.
	This continues to be a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
	The whole war, Petraeus' surge, pronounced by Obama an utter mistake, chaos.
	No chance of success.
	Today, who does Obama hire to run the same kind of operation in Afghanistan?
	The very man he lambasted as a senator during hearings, essentially called him a liar, agreeing with Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and others, and then saying that his policy wouldn't work.
	He had no basis, in fact.
	Today he hires him.
	Everywhere else in the media, I don't care who it is.
	What a courageous move.
	This puts him in the league of Harry Truman.
	There's no such comparison.
	MacArthur was trying to change U.S. policy.
	MacArthur, I mean, one way of looking at it really was wanting to go rogue.
	Well, he wanted to win, you know, Patton did the same thing.
	Patton wouldn't want to stop with the Germans.
	Patton, see, if we don't take care of these Russian, well, he had a Patton had a loose, I mean, if we don't take care of these SOBs right now, we're going to have to deal with them down the road.
	I'm here.
	I'm here, Ike.
	Let me go get them, Ike.
	Nope.
	Come home.
	He was right.
	MacArthur might have been right, too.
	The point is, There's no comparison between those two guys and what McChrystal did.
	Read this Vanity Fair piece or the Rolling Stone piece when it comes out.
	You're not going to find any criticism of Obama from McChrystal.
	But it wasn't just Obama who lambasted Petraeus to his face.
	We have set the bar so low, Obama said to General Petraeus, modest improvement in what was a completely chaotic situation is considered success, and it's not.
	This continues to be a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
	Yet he hires him today to basically replicate his success in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Meet the Depressed, September 9th, 2007, Tim Russert interviewed Joe Biden.
	Question, Joe Biden, welcome back from Iraq.
	What did you see?
	What did you hear?
	What did you learn?
	Well, what I saw, heard, and learned is a little bit what you heard from General just a moment ago.
	There's a big disconnect between the truth of the matter and the reality.
	I mean, the truth of the matter is that the Americans, this administration's policy and the surge are a failure.
	And that the surge, which was supposed to stop sectarian violence long enough to give political reconciliation, there's been no political reconciliation.
	Surge is a failure.
	Today's vice president, Vice President Bite Me, says that this was a failure.
	The surge, the policy, a failure.
	And that surge has been an utter failure.
	Vice President Joe Bite Me, Meet the Press, September 9th, 2007.
	So Tim Russert said, well, Senator Bightmey, General Petraeus said in a letter to his troops that we have not had the political reconciliation we thought we would have at this time.
	It's been much slower, but there's some hope.
	And then he added this, my sense is that we have achieved tactical momentum and wrested the initiative from our enemies in a number of areas of Iraq.
	We are, in short, a long way from the goal line, but we do have the ball and we're driving down the field.
	Is that what you expect him to say tomorrow?
	I expect him to say that.
	I think he's dead flat wrong.
	The fact of the matter is that this idea of these security gains we made have had no impact on the underlying sectarian dynamic.
	None.
	None whatsoever.
	Can anybody envision a central government made up of Sunni-Shi and Kurds that's going to gain the trust and respect of 27 million Iraqis?
	It's not going to happen.
	It did happen.
	It did happen.
	Let's don't forget, Senator Bite Me was the guy who wanted to divvy up Iraq into three different countries, basically.
	SUNY Shi occurred because they would never unify.
	And we were going to be the reason why.
	We were going to be the reason why it would never happen.
	So here you have today's president, today's vice president, ripping General Petraeus a new one in every forum they had the opportunity to appear.
	And today, they hire him and sing his praises.
	But Rush, but Rush, don't you think it means they've learned?
	No, it doesn't mean anything of the sort.
	It means that there are a bunch of lying sacks at you-know-what, back during the hearings when Petraeus was talking about the surge.
	It means that they were entirely political.
	They were putting their own party's political future ahead of the U.S. military's victory in Iraq.
	Simply, it was despicable.
	It was dishonorable, and it's dishonorable today to have these two people running the show.
	And yet, Wherever you go, we're hearing nothing but praise, accolades.
	Obama, wonderful.
	Oh, he has the same temperament and abilities as Truman and Lincoln.
	That is why you listen to this program, among many other reasons.
	Petraeus, I don't know, been called a duty.
	That's why he accepts it.
	He's been called a duty.
	He's a bigger man than Senator Bite Me and President Obama combined put together, quadrupled.
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	And let's not forget, folks, our glorious and wonderful state-controlled media, Chris Matthews, called Petraeus' appearance before the Senate and House committees on his surge in Iraq a dog and pony show.
	He said it a dozen times.
	We played a montage of him saying it over and over again, calling Petraeus' appearance a dog and pony show.
	Is it rushlimbaugh.com?
	Oh, I got the website here, the link.
	I mean, it's just that's the real essence of the story.
	Petraeus was a dog in pony show.
	Now all of a sudden he's a hero.
	Now all of a sudden, General Petraeus is most favored military status among the American left and the American media.
	They hated his guts when he worked for Bush.
	They said his surge wouldn't work.
	It was a waste of time.
	And he was nothing but chaotic.
	Today he's hired to replace McChrystal.
	Now about that.
	General Petraeus is the head of CENTCOM and now replaces the four-star who reported to him.
	McChrystal reported to Petraeus.
	Now, that means we are still short a four-star general here at CENTCOM because McChrystal's gone.
	And the four-star general is not a part-time job.
	I don't know what this means for Iraq if the head of CENTCOM is now spending all of his time in Afghanistan.
	There has to be more to come on this.
	You just don't get rid, and you people in the military, I'm sure, understand what I'm talking about.
	You don't just get rid of a four-star and not replace him.
	And especially the four-star who was reporting to Petraeus is gone, so now Petraeus goes to Afghanistan to replace the guy reporting to him.
	We've got a vacuum of four-stars now.
	And Petraeus was in charge of Afghanistan and Iraq as the four-star in charge of CENTCOM.
	So now what?
	Now do we pull out of Iraq?
	There has to be more to come on this.
	This is disastrous.
	The reason there's some smart people out there who said that Obama would not get rid of McCrystal for this very reason, that we're on the verge of implementing the full force of McChrystal's strategy.
	We're on the verge of implementing it.
	You kick the four-star leader out of this.
	The effect on the troops, morale, everything else can't possibly be good.
	I don't know how negative it is, but they love this guy.
	This guy was special ops in Iraq.
	This guy was down in the tunnels and the trenches with them.
	He didn't hang back in the air-conditioned quarters.
	He went out there with them.
	McCrystal, I mean.
	So now we've put her on a roller coaster to hold Iraq policy.
	And the guy that nothing against Petraeus here.
	I mean, he's a general.
	He accepts the command.
	But this is an absolute.
	It's a circus.
	It is a circus all to project the supposed political acumen and leadership characteristics and qualities of our man-child president.
	Yeah, he's not going to take any guff.
	He's not going to be insulted and dissed by a four-star like that.
	Not our guy.
	Not Barack Obama.
	He's not going to take any of this.
	Fine.
	Well, we'll sit around and we'll wait for see what the policy initiatives are.
	Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, this is Bob.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush.
	Rush, I have a couple things.
	Number one, I'm a Vietnam veteran, senior citizen, and a Tea Party advocate.
	I regurgitated at Obama's speech today about McCrystal.
	He just really doesn't understand it.
	When you hear it all and look at it and listen to it, you'll say, my God, how could the guy lie like this?
	I am glad that McCrystal did not join the Chicago mob that he's got in power now.
	You're happy he resigned, you mean?
	Hello, I'm happy he resigned in the sense I'm sure he was forced to resign.
	There's no question.
	You cannot do that to the Messiah.
	Exactly.
	Because nothing is bigger than Obama.
	I did listen to your program about the corporate generals the other day.
	And to put this in perspective, I served with generals in Vietnam.
	And it is a shame that we have to go through this.
	Oh, one other question.
	When you were just talking, there were one other point.
	This is Obama's way of downsizing the military.
	He might not replace him.
	Look at all the savings he's gotten.
	Look at all the savings he's got.
	He's not going to save that much with one absent four-star.
	Downsize the military.
	Look, I have no doubt that's coming.
	But not because of something like this.
	The reason the downside the military is coming is budgetary.
	Oh, yeah.
	You make book on it, folks.
	Obama's gone, all these deficits, all the debt, all the spending, all these entitlements.
	These are things for people.
	These are good.
	We're going to have to honor these commitments.
	We're going to have to cut back on military spending.
	We're just going to have to.
	That's what the left have been wanting to do ever since I've been alive.
	And here now is their minds, a legitimate opportunity to do so.
	Yes, what's the question?
	Okay, the question, who do I think is the bigger hero to the people in Afghanistan, McChrystal or Obama?
	You mean the average ordinary citizen?
	Oh, our troops.
	Oh, you want to know?
	Who's the oh, who's the bigger hero to our troops in Afghanistan, Obama or McChrystal?
	Come on.
	That's not even a question.
	Well, I don't know.
	Yeah, Petraeus better win this whole thing in a year because we're going to start withdrawing next July.
	July 2011, we're going to start drawing now.
	We've given a timeframe.
	So Petraeus has a year to pull this off.
	Bob in Kalispell, Montana.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush, Big Sky Dittos from the entrance to Glacier National Park.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	I have a comment here about, I guess I'm the only one that has thought about this, and a few years in the Marine Corps didn't really make me a military expert, but it seems to me that taking the CENTCOM commander and replacing the Afghan commander is a big demotion for Petraeus.
	Well, in a sense, in a sense, it is because CENTCOM commander, he's in charge of both Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Now you're sending him to Afghanistan to explicitly, expressly lead that effort.
	We're a four-star short demotion.
	Yeah, I can see where you could look at it that way.
	Well, I don't know what really the, I don't know why Obama would want to demote Petraeus.
	I don't think he's.
	Unless he wants to saddle a loss on Petraeus, unless he wants this thing to be lost and have it be Petraeus' fault.
	Well, yeah, you might be asking yourself, or he might, Obama might be saying, who else can I trust?
	I don't know why he trusts Petraeus.
	I mean, if I'm Petraeus, I'm not a military guy, so I don't know.
	But if I have been told, if I had been told, and I'm a liar to my face, and I think Petraeus is a warrior general.
	If Petraeus is a corporate general, I was discussing earlier this week, then he's playing the game and going along with it as it needs to be played.
	But I've always thought Petraeus is a warrior general, his purpose.
	Go out there, kill people, and break things, kill bad guys, and emerge victorious.
	That's what he did with the surge.
	And to me, the proof that he was a warrior general was the attacks on him by the likes of Obama and Bite Me and Harry Reid and all the others when he showed up to give a preliminary report before he even said a word.
	We had that General Betraeus ad from moveon.org.
	I don't think Obama, you know, there was a vote to condemn that ad, and I'm not sure.
	I don't think I'm not sure.
	No, Obama did not vote to condemn it.
	Obama did not vote to condemn the Petraeus ad.
	He didn't vote.
	He called in sick, or as they say, voted present.
	Hillary voted against the condemnation of the ad.
	I don't know what Senator Bite me did, but there was a vote to condemn the ad.
	Obama didn't vote on it.
	So now Petraeus runs the show, and we are a four-star general short at CENTCOM.
	Brief time out.
	We'll be right back and continue on the fastest three hours in media.
	This is Rod Stewart with Ronald Isley and the remake of this old heart of mine.
	A fabulous tune out there.
	Happy to have it in the bumper rotation.
	Get this.
	This is from Reuters, New York State's pension fund.
	Plans to sue BP to recover losses from the drop in the company's stock price due to a disastrous oil spill, according to the controller, Thomas DiNapoli.
	New York's Common Retirement Fund has a long history of serving as the head lead plaintiff in shareholder lawsuits.
	DiNapoli, in a statement, said the fund owned more than 19 million shares when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded.
	I mean, this is hilarious.
	From the Department of Unintended Consequences.
	So here's a bunch of liberals in New York getting exactly what they want.
	They got a crisis.
	They got an oil spill.
	We move out of the clean energy.
	And all of a sudden, they're going to sue BP for their investment loss because of the pension problems.
	I want to tell you what the spin of Obama is going to be.
	It's because we have it here from Chris Matthews.
	I have what he said prior to Obama speaking this afternoon, announcing the fate of General Petraeus.
	And it's right along the lines of what I've been saying.
	You're going to be hearing it all afternoon and all night on cable TV.
	What a magnificent guy.
	He rose to the equation, Obama did.
	I mean, he is a huge leader.
	Why, he's in the same category as Truman and Lincoln.
	Why?
	He's taking control of the situation.
	Here's the spin.
	This is Chris Matthews.
	He's asked by Andrew Mitchell, should have Obama even got involved in this?
	Shouldn't have Pentagon Brass have dealt with this McChrystal thing?
	Why did Obama get involved in it?
	The president may benefit here.
	There is a question that's been raised in his handling of the oil spill about chain of command and executive authority.
	And here's a chance for him in a somewhat way or somewhat in a personnel manner to insist on his role as commander-in-chief in a way that hasn't been so clear during this whole oil spill matter.
	BP has been the front institution, not the United States government, in this whole hard down there in the Gulf.
	And I think it's hurt the president's standing.
	Yeah, he's let BP run the show.
	He said, now, now he's on top of things.
	He's got, he took care of McCrystal.
	It's going to help him out here.
	He's looking like a leader now.
	That's what the spin's going to be.
	Obama finally taking control.
	Obama finally kicking ass.
	Obama finally asserting his authority here.
	Here is, let's see.
	I don't want to play that.
	Well, let's do here's a little bit of what Obama said.
	Talking about the resignation of McChrystal, we have some bites.
	Here's the first one.
	War is bigger than any one man or woman, whether a private, a general, or a president.
	As difficult as it is to lose General McChrystal, I believe that it is the right decision for our national security.
	The conduct represented in the recently published article does not meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general.
	It undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system.
	And it erodes the trust that's necessary for our team to work together to achieve our objectives in Afghanistan.
	Oh, give me a break.
	If there's anything eroding the trust of a team working together, it's you and your administration.
	Talk to anybody in the military who is a warrior and not some corporate military person, and you'll hear that exact assessment.
	Here's some more of what Obama said.
	It is my duty to ensure that no diversion complicates the vital mission that they are carrying out.
	That includes adherence to a strict code of conduct.
	Our democracy depends upon institutions that are stronger than individuals.
	That includes strict adherence to the military chain of command and respect for civilian control over that chain of command.
	I've just told my national security team that now is the time for all of us to come together.
	Doing so is not an option, but an obligation.
	I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
	All of us have personal interests.
	All of us have opinions.
	Our politics often fuels conflict.
	But we have to renew our sense of common purpose and meet our responsibilities to one another and to our troops who are in harm's way and to our country.
	Now's the time for all of us to come together.
	Why are you not together?
	Here's the question.
	Why do you have to come together?
	Has McChrystal exhibited this kind of rogue behavior before in his career?
	Before Obama came along?
	Do we know?
	Here's another exciting presidential sound bite.
	General Petraeus fully participated in our review last fall, and he both supported and helped design the strategy that we have in place.
	Stop the tape.
	It's the exact strategy that you condemned when it was implemented in Iraq.
	Recue this.
	It was the exact strategy you condemned, and Hillary Clinton condemned and accused Petraeus of lying when he implemented it for Iraq.
	And now all of a sudden today he praises it.
	And nobody's pointing this out.
	They're all on the same page.
	What a wonderful leader.
	Obama's arrested control.
	He's finally exhibiting his authority.
	We finally got him doing what he wanted, acting like an adult.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Well, the real story is here.
	What the hell has changed about Petraeus?
	How come Petraeus is a savior now?
	Back in 2007, he was a worthless loser.
	Now all of a sudden, he can take over the gig.
	General Petraeus fully participated in our review last fall, and he both supported and helped design the strategy that we have in place.
	In his current post at Central Command, he has worked closely with our forces in Afghanistan.
	He has worked closely with Congress.
	He has worked closely with the Afghan and Pakistan governments and with all our partners in the region.
	He has my full confidence.
	Yeah, when did that start?
	No, I want to know.
	When did that start?
	Because Obama didn't say anything indicating he had any confidence in Petraeus back during the Iraq war.
	And here's the last bite.
	I think it's the last bite we have, is it?
	Yes, thankfully, it is the last bite that we have.
	We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war.
	And until we acknowledge that reality, we can send 15,000 more troops, 20,000 more troops, 30,000 more troops.
	I don't know any expert on the region or any military officer that I've spoken to privately that believes that that is going to make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.
	Well, it made a big difference to McChrystal.
	It's a big difference.
	He didn't get the boots on the ground that he asked for.
	He didn't get the rules of engagement that he saddled with.
	But we elected the guy, so we live with it.
	Yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
	Susan, Philadelphia, welcome to the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rosh.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	You bet.
	I'm a registered nurse, and I was intrigued by your conversation with these children becoming obese from the school food.
	That was kindergarten, don't forget.
	Now, this guy's kindergarten was feeding his daughters when she came home and you saw her getting fatter.
	I'm so in awe by that call.
	I can't even comment.
	It's just profound to me that someone could actually think a child could eat enough calories in that window from a school and then not have any contribution elsewhere from home and what they're eating when they're not at school.
	I'm just dumbfounded by the whole thing.
	But I go around with this with my own children who go to school and they're not allowed to buy because we're an educated society and anybody, all of us who are educated, we know the food there is poor.
	It's nutritionally empty.
	And I don't understand why don't we just eliminate the program?
	Can we save money for the schools?
	Because the kids would starve.
	There's nobody else to feed them.
	That's what we're told.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Where are the parents?
	Well, exactly right.
	Where are the grandparents?
	You know, I mean, even if today's parents are worthless schlubs, at least the grandparents are old enough to remember certain values.
	The grandparents wouldn't let them starve.
	Well, it's the easy way out.
	It's just let somebody else do it.
	I mean, I pay a few bucks.
	I can't relate to that.
	I wouldn't let anybody else take care of my damn dog or my cat.
	I can't relate.
	And those are animals.
	I can't relate to having somebody else take care of the kids.
	That's not what school's for.
	School's supposed to be to educate, not feed.
	Well, they got to eat.
	I mean, come on.
	They got to eat when they're there.
	These are young kids.
	Well, yeah.
	Remember, we had a very in-depth study last week that confirmed that teenage boys eat a lot.
	Remember that?
	I mean, we needed a.
	I don't know how much they spent on this.
	Teenage boys eat a lot.
	We took a study to confirm that.
	There's nothing people can do about it.
	They eat a lot.
	And if they don't get it at school, they're going to get it somewhere.
	Well, that's the thing, Rush.
	I don't think it's socially limited to or limited to a socioeconomic group.
	People with money, I mean, I work with physicians.
	They feed their children the same garbage.
	These chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese are all chemicals.
	There's no nutrition.
	It's cultural.
	It's so much bigger than the schools.
	Yeah, I guess.
	I don't know.
	I ate all that stuff, and I'm alive and healthy and fine and dandy and successful.
	But I didn't eat chicken McNuggets.
	I didn't have chicken McNuggets, but I love macaroni and cheese.
	My mother made it for me.
	She'd have to send me to school for it.
	And it was not every day, but we had macaroni and cheese.
	Let me ask you a question.
	You can eat that.
	That's not the point.
	I mean, you've got to eat a well-rounded diet, and that's fine.
	But chicken McNuggets or nuggets are just leftover garbage chicken, ground up, pressed, frozen, fried, fried, frozen, and warmed.
	It's not really even food.
	Now, come on.
	Look at that.
	You know, they say that about hot dogs, too.
	And sausage.
	Well, there's some meat in sausage.
	I mean, some real meat.
	They say that about bacon.
	It's the absolute worst stuff you can eat.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, bacon actually comes.
	It's actually naturally how it occurs.
	It's a meat that you butcher and you eat it.
	Some of these other things are just, I mean, I wouldn't feed them to my kids.
	I don't eat them.
	My husband doesn't eat them.
	Well, that's fine.
	I mean, that's wonderful.
	That's fine.
	But it's gotten so bad when they're out of chicken McNuggets in Port St. Lucie, Florida, residents there called 911.
	So they must be putting something addictive in them as well.
	Well, I think things that are laid in with salt, sugar, and fat all taste good.
	And I think anybody who's trying to sell a food product uses those ingredients because they taste great.
	And that's how white people will eat them.
	There is no question.
	No question.
	Fat tastes great.
	There's no question about it.
	No question whatsoever.
	Now, I maintain God gave us taste buds.
	And with our taste buds, we know what tastes good and we eat it.
	What's the problem?
	We all can't be Lance Armstrong.
	We all can't be Michael Phelps.
	We all can't be string beans.
	We are all individuals.
	Some of us are destined to be round.
	Round is a shape.
	Even round people are in shape because it's a shape.
	What is this quest for everybody being the same?
	I'm not shouting at you, Susan.
	I know exactly, I know your point, and it's a valid one.
	But this idea that everybody's supposed to be the same.
	We're supposed to eat the same thing.
	We're supposed to have the same reaction to what we eat.
	We're supposed to have the same concerns for nutrition and so forth.
	Last time I looked, the life expectancy in this country is skyrocketing.
	We're not dying.
	We're not dying off.
	Despite some people's best efforts to make it happen.
	Back.
	I actually, I don't think that I have had chicken McNuggets.
	I don't think I've ever had any chicken.
	I haven't had anything from McDonald's in years and years and years, but Dawn says they're gross.
	I've never had any of them.
	So I don't know what, but all I know.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	If I'm out of touch on that, I'm proud to be out of it.
	So fine.
	I'm out of touch.
	I haven't had McNuggets.
	You know, making a little observation here as a highly trained broadcast specialist.
	Look at what we've had going on here today.
	We have had a major, major story involving national security.
	We have had the oil gusher is full-fledged now because the cap, some robot down there ran into the cap.
	So we're going full bore on the oil spill again now.
	We've had any number of domestic policy issues on the judge and the moratorium.
	And look what got people fired up today was the dumpster diving video comment by Baghdad Jim McDermott.
	I mean, we've had our share of McCrystal calls, don't misunderstand, and they've been good.
	But what people have been fired up today about is this diving business for food and how rotten the school food is.
	And the schools are turning their kids fat.
	And they see the evidence of it every day when the kids come home.
	It's like, oh, I forgot to do it last night.
	We got the cutest picture of Abby and Wellesley in the kitchen last night.
	I meant to upload it to the website.
	I'll do it tonight.
	We send the dogs away to school every day, and I don't notice them coming home fatter.
	In fact, I come home and they wolf down food.
	I think the place goes cheap on them when it comes to food.
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	Worries have increased.
	Users are going to fall prey to the same virus and malware problems that can plague personal computers.
	But the big thing industry experts are worrying about is identity theft.
	When a phone is lost or stolen.
	Or if somebody can find a way, send you an email that's got a virus in it, you happen to open the attachment.
	iPhone, smartphones, a few taps or clicks can access email accounts, bank balances.
	I mean, it's an accident waiting to happen.
	I mean, even some of the phone companies themselves have accidentally displayed other people's account information when people have logged in to adjust theirs.
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	So I want to leave you with a thought today, ladies and gentlemen.
	Notice that the moment President Obama took his focus off the leak in the Gulf, the moment he and Salazar lifted their boots from BP's neck, started focusing on McCrystal, what happened?
	BP took the cap off the hole and let the thing start gushing oil again.
	Obama cannot multitask.
	He has a laser-like focus on one thing, and he lets it off the Gulf leak.
	And now we've got a full-fledged gusher again.

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