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Nov. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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We had Valita here uh a couple of minutes ago talking uh talking about uh who was going to pat down President Obama when he showed up at the airport.
And HR did make the very good point that at least uh that way we would get a definitive answer to the interesting question uh that James Carville posed as to uh as to exactly uh uh the uh the degree to which his junk is filling out the nether regions down there.
This interesting I wouldn't normally talk about this, but this is a highly respected Democratic Party figure in James Carville who has raised this question, and at least that way, uh if uh President Obama was to be patted down when he went through security, we would get an interesting uh we would get the definitive answer uh to to that one.
We might get a twofo if he's got his birth certificate down there.
All kinds of who knows what he's keeping down there.
So President President Obama uh Valita, Valita in Windsor, Ontario, thinking it would be interesting to see uh what uh w what it would be like if the president went uh through uh the uh metal uh detector.
It is uh it is great to to be uh with you.
Uh she's in uh uh w Windsor Ontario.
Where am I?
I'm uh uh I'm in Vancouver on uh I think I'm speaking in Vancouver on Sunday, which isn't in the isn't in the country.
Uh no, I I'm speaking I'm speaking not to the uh no, I'm think I'm speaking uh yeah, in the rank downtown Vancouver.
But that's uh they don't they we've got no affiliate in Vancouver, have we?
Uh because it would be illegal uh up there if we did have an affiliate, it would be a hate crime under Canadian law.
So it's probably just as well we don't.
But um I love I sp I'm I spoke I was uh I did an event, I think it was the day after the election with Fred Thompson and Howard Dean up in Calgary.
And uh it was they were talking about the election results.
But at the end, just for a wind up, I made a reference to Howard Dean's famous I Have a Scream speech, you know, where he said, uh we're going on to Iowa, and we're going on to South Carolina, and we're going on to Guam, yeah.
And uh and I said, I just threw it out to him.
I said, uh, hey, hey, uh Governor Dean, can can you do a Canadianized version of that speech?
And we'll give you bonus points, not just for the provinces, but if you get all three territories uh correct.
And he just launched into it, and he goes, and we're going on to Newfoundland, and we're going on to Manitoba, and we're going on to Saskatchewan, and we're going on to the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
Yeehaw.
And say what you like about say it's out there.
You can find it out there on the internet.
It's got to be on YouTube or something like that.
But uh say what you like about Governor Dean, but I actually thought that was rather uh sporting of the uh of the old in I think he I think he I would like to see if he could do that with, say, all uh member nations of the organization of the Islamic Conference.
Because it could be a great opening act for him if he ever plays Riyadh.
So I was I was im I was impressed by this.
Say w say what you like about uh uh Governor Dean.
But if you uh if uh if the uh if the g the governor is um is a kind of neighbor of mine, because I'm on the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River, and I can only get a Vermont uh TV station uh through my many years of the Dean governorship.
So I had no idea what was going on in my own state, but I I lived with exclusive interviews with Howard Dean, like six nights a week.
Because there's like uh there's basically three people, there were three people uh for Channel three to interview.
There was like Ben and Jerry and Howard, and like Ben and Jerry are semi-reclusive.
So Howard was like the only guy, uh the only guy around available for interview, and he um uh so I I got the it was the nearest I ever hoped to come to experiencing the immense variety of North Korean television, because it was like uh it was like just watching the uh the Kim Jong-il show every night.
They'd say coming up tonight, an exclusive interview with uh Governor Dean.
Uh if you miss it, there'll be another exclusive interview along in twenty minutes time.
And uh uh uh so for for all that I thought it was very sporting of him to just launch into impromptu unrehearsed, this uh Canadianized version of the famous I have a scream speed.
I thought it was actually quite interesting.
A lady said to me afterwards that she thought it indicated, if nothing else, that he was and he was kind of at ease with himself.
Because this was the speech that totaled his his presidential dreams.
Imagine if Obama out of nowhere had suddenly launched into, and we're going on to Guam, and we're going on to the US Virgin Islands, and we're going on to you know.
Imagine Imagine if he'd done that and everything had come crashing down.
I don't think Barack Obama would be sufficiently relaxed about it to be doing it a shtick in Calgary a couple of years later.
So I thought that was kind of uh cute for Governor Dean.
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It will be good by me, but not for a not for uh whatever it is, uh best part of an hour or something.
You see this, the IPCC official.
This is the international panel on climate change.
You know, these are the guys who make up all this stuff about uh a third of the world's population, they're gonna be without water because all the glaciers are going to melt by 2025 and all this nonsense.
Uh the uh uh an IPCC official, Otmar Edenhofer, gave an interview to uh New Zerker Zeitung uh and um he was talking uh he's talking about really uh the massive redistributive element uh in climate policy.
Because climate policy is supposedly uh a way uh to uh to transfer wealth from first world countries all the way uh to other countries.
Now he's actually come clean.
Uh he he says this is how he puts it.
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community.
Did you even know that was possible?
This is twenty-first century colonialism.
We don't take the land anymore, we take the air above the land.
Uh so one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy.
Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this.
One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.
This is almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole, unquote.
So this is IPCC official Otmar Edenhoefe giving the game away by saying that uh so-called environmental policy is nothing to do with saving the environment anymore.
That was a useful it's not forget about stuff like deforestation, the ozone hole, uh the carbon levels and all the rest of it.
It's not about that.
It's about taking money from the part of the world that functions uh and giving it uh and giving it to everybody else.
So in other words, it's a redistributive uh racket.
Um the environment is an amazing thing.
It's the it's the most ingenious pretext for big government ever devised.
And not on a state level and not on a national level, but on the global level, because everything's in the environment.
Uh Every what isn't in the environment.
You know, government transport policy is about transport and government agriculture policy is about agriculture, but government environmental policy is about everything, because everything's part of the environment.
Your town, your county, your planet, and of course you.
Which is why, as we've discussed on this show before, we have things like uh Sheryl Crow demanding limits on how many sheets of toilet paper you can use and uh and and the guys who want to ban two ply toilet paper, which would devastate the Canadian economy, because of course the uh Canadians are the house of sound of two ply toilet paper and uh and and this this is uh this would be totally devastating to the Canadian economy.
Uh th but they're getting l more less and less uh coy about telling us what's really behind it.
Do you know Thomas Friedman, the great big thinker at the New York Times?
He he writes these love letters to China every every week or two, and he pines he he bemoans the fact that the United States is not like China.
It cannot just get the job done.
It cannot just decide what we need to do and do it, because we suffer from the defect of of of being a republic uh with uh elected uh legislators who are accountable to the people, and you'd have no idea how that how messy that that awful horrible democratic republic stuff can be when you need where you urgently need to get the the stuff done.
So Thomas Friedman writes these objectively disgusting and uh totalitarian love letters in the New York Times every couple of weeks, where where he to use his phrase, he says, Why can't we be China for a day?
In other words, why can't for one day a year the United States be governed by a totalitarian Politburo that could just pass all the environmental laws we need and get the job done uh in a day.
And I think you're you're gonna see a lot more of that as they're panicking.
They've had the worst year in their lives, the environmental movement, since the leak of the uh East Anglian emails and all the rest of it, and that what what and the Copenhagen conference turned out, which was uh actually an embryo world government they wanted to set up there, and uh we should be very grateful that it was the Brazilians, the Indians, and the Chinese who saved the Western world from basically driving itself off a cliff.
Um the they're becoming less and less shy about the uh the the essentially anti-democratic uh totalitarian thinking uh behind behind the environmental uh behind the environmental movement.
Uh so because everything's in the environment, the environment is basically the biggest pretext for big government ever devised in the world.
And this guy from the IPCC uh comes out and says, it's not about the environment.
You know, quote, one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.
This is almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, unquote.
It's just about big government for its own sake.
You know, at their annual at their annual Monday uh night poker game in hell.
I would bet Stalin, Hitler and Mao are kicking themselves.
You know, ooh, it's about leaving a better planet to our children.
Why didn't why didn't we think of that?
Uh no jack boots, no goose steps, just a soft and easy, incremental, fluffy totalitarianism all the way.
It's it's about big government on a scale never yet seen, and every so often uh the mask uh drops.
Uh when the chips are down, says Mayor Hillman, senior fellow at the Policy Studies Institute in London, quote, I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it.
This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not, unquote.
Who needs Mussolini?
Who needs Stalin when you can when when you can justify anti-democratic uh this has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not.
You say this stuff and the co-eds, the co-eds of the colleges they go, oh, it's so nice he wants to save the planet by taking away democracy and all our rights and imposing on people something they don't want.
Uh this is the truth about the environmental movement, and they're getting less and less effective uh at hiding it.
Uh not the earth is your mother, but the earth is your fur, basically is is b would be the Thomas Friedman uh bumper sticker.
Why can't we be China for a day?
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Breaking news, the Maxine Waters trial uh apparently has been uh cancelled.
She she also got into a Charlie Wrangle kind of problem that seems to have uh seems to have uh worked out pretty well for her.
They've cancelled they've canceled the trial, they've cancelled the trial, but they didn't cancel Wesley Snipes' trial.
He's he's going to jail for uh for three years for the for uh for tax evasion.
I wanted to find that Thomas Friedman, New York Times quote.
This is the way th Thomas Friedman in environmental policy uh says this, quote, about China.
Quote, one party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks, but when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people as China is today, it can also have great advantages.
That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the twenty-first century, unquote.
Yeah, okay.
Forward to where.
You know, I love the way uh guys like Thomas Friedman.
He's what passes for a great thinker at the New York Times.
And his point is that look, all the all me and my pals, when we sit around the dinner table, we all uh we we all agree on what needs to be done.
So why why does this awful democratic thing, these Tea Party guys, they go out they go to town hall meetings, they nominate their candidates, they get their candidates elected in the general election.
Why should the enlightened views of great thinkers like Thomas Friedman be derailed by people like that?
It doesn't happen in China.
China is a one-party autocracy.
But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, it can have great advantages.
That's the New York Times today.
That's the New York Times in 2010.
Uh he writes these pieces every couple of weeks, Thomas Friedman.
Channeling uh uh Friedman channeling is in a Walter Girante, basically uh saying, wow, you know, totalitarian sci societies are kind of a a turn on.
I love the smack of firm government.
And these guys really know how to deliver it.
And they're getting more and more open uh about coming clean by saying that that is what that is that is actually the end game, you know.
So he says they can they can decide.
They can decide on the politically difficult.
Now what does that mean?
Again, this this is basically politically difficult.
What does that mean?
It means that nobody would vote for it if they had a free vote on it.
So by politically difficult, he means uh an elite like him deciding what is best in your interest, what is best in your interest.
The politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the twenty-first century.
Forward to where?
Forward to where, forward into darkness.
Uh, we should be very worried when uh a guy can write a column like this for the New York Times, and in fact, write it every couple of weeks, praising a totalitarian society.
And uh and nobody among his editors thinks, whoa, Tom, wait a minute.
This is the United States of America.
We we've been a we've been a free republic for uh a quarter millennium now.
W and you're saying we should be m we should have the government structure of China?
Whoa what's the deal with that?
Nobody ever says that.
Nobody ever says that uh to him.
And now as we see, and we don't need to, in fact, because the Chinese are just going the great guns all on their own, as uh has came up in the last hour.
Eighteen percent of this fabulously allegedly fabulously successful IPO uh for General Motors yesterday, eighteen percent of it got bought up by the Chinese government.
So as I was saying, you know, the next environmentally friendly vehicle that will be rolling off the production line in Detroit after the Chevy vault, it'll be the Chevy Rickshaw.
That's the history, that's the history of Detroit.
From Dinosaur, see the USA and your severe Chevrolet, from Dinosaur to Rickshaw, from from from uh from an American icon uh to a company that uh the Chinese uh are buying up simply because they've got nothing else to do with their money, because they own all the U.S. treasuries uh they they want to own and they're getting rich off uh American debt, and they can buy anything they uh uh buy anything they want.
Uh environmental policy.
By the way, these two subjects are connected.
Uh one reason why everything is getting uh outsourced to countries like China is because people like Thomas Friedman talk up the regular now he's married to some heiress or whatever.
You look at his carbon footprint, it's up there with Al Gors.
The th the environmentalism is really about returning us to the uh divine right of kings.
Uh and it literally so in when you t take an environmentalist like the Prince of Wales, who's always attacking consumerism because it enables pe peasant the peasants to move out of their hovels and get a nice little uh uh detached house in a subdivision somewhere.
Uh but metaphorically, Divine Rider Kings, when you listen to all these grandees like Thomas Friedman uh and Al Gore lecturing us from their huge carbon footprints on how they need those carbon footprints because they know best, but we don't need to live that way at all.
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Let us go to Nancy in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Nancy, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Well, thank you, Mark.
How are you today?
I'm I'm doing good.
How are you?
I'm I'm pretty good.
Uh although I'm I'm quite bothered by all the opinions that uh the opinionators are saying on the radios and the TVs concerning the TSA screeners.
Right.
Why wh why are you bothered by that?
My husband happens to be one.
Oh, so w so wait, so you get enhanced pat downs uh when he uh uh at night too.
He brings his work home with him, does he?
Well, uh well we'll we'll talk about that later.
Oh, okay.
But no, uh I think uh you know, the listeners have to realize that the employees that have been doing this since nine eleven and all the different changes and all the threats that have come down and how much they have to check for and how they actually do if you think about it, put their life on the line every day.
They search a bag, whether it's a small airport, whether it's a bigger airport, and now they have to do this evasive pat down and they had to go through the training themselves.
Well, well, wait a minute.
You say that, you say that, but let's take let's uh take your husband or any other T S E TSA employee, but you you're married to a a TSA guy.
So you know you know this.
Now when when they introduced, which came up after the Panthe bomber tried to uh blow his underwear up over Detroit.
So then uh I assume what happened then uh in the fullness of time, a few weeks, a couple of months later, they say we are now going to be performing enhanced pat downs.
So for example, if a bag goes through the scanner and something goofy shows up on the screen, you then have to give an enhanced pat down, and this is what it involves.
And you say they had to go through the training yourself.
So when your husband was going through the training about how to slide his hand uh r round the upper thigh of a one of his fellow Americans, i didn't he say, Hey, wait w wait a minute, what what the hell is going on here?
Well, I'm sure he did.
But um you you kinda have to it's such a gray line in between.
It isn't if you're on the receiving end of it.
You know when it's been crossed.
Do you think they really want to do that?
Do you do you really think that they want to have to do that?
Now my husband, you know, is a screener.
He's been a screener for eight or nine years and gone through some different uh, you know, uh well, and uh different uh head of the you know, head of Department of Homeland Security.
And I I just I just want the listeners to think of the people that are on the front line that are being uh trained and and uh asked to do this, and yes, I know it's invasive.
I understand that.
But let n Nancy, let's just go back to what you were saying.
He's been doing it for eight or nine years.
So in other words, he you're saying he was really one of the first TSA employees when they Now it's gone uh in the uh in the last uh few years, it's gone from sixteen thousand employees up to about sixty seven, sixty-eight thousand employees.
Well, I don't know the numbers because we're basically at a small regional airport.
Right, right.
But I've seen I as I said, uh yet on yesterday's show, I flew down from Burlington, Vermont, which is also a small airport.
And I look at the numbers uh when you're at the check-in desk, for example, uh the the guys standing be uh that airport, the guy standing behind the US Air and United check in counters are TSA guys who are inspect they've got the suitcases open and they're going through them right there.
Right, in the checkpoint, not in the in the well these ones specific checkpoint.
Yeah, these ones do it actually, they go through the checked baggage uh at at the airline desk.
Then you go uh in through to the so called sterile area and you're and you're and you're going and I look at the numbers uh like yesterday I added uh uh whatever it was at Burlington, Vermont.
There's no nobody flying out of there.
But yet there was like seven or eight TSA guys for, as you say, a small rural airport of no particular significance.
There has been a huge I mean your your husband has got you say he's got eight or nine years of experience.
He must be working with a lot of people who do not have anything like that experience, who are just part of this general explosion in manpower they've had.
I don't know.
A few of the people that he's worked with had been there just about the same time.
So uh and how do they how do they feel then about the how do they feel about the feeling business?
Well, I haven't been able to talk to really anyone, any of the other screeners.
I just haven't had a chance.
I'm kind of just coming through it, you know, from uh if you look at the employee, you know, this he's not being paid thousands and you know, a whole great big federal salary.
He doesn't have some of the federal benefits that the other federal employees do have, even though some people will you know tout that he's getting paid tremendous amount of money.
He's not and it it's just it just kind of distresses me that these guys are working hard to try and do their job and trying it and all listen and trying to keep people safe on the airplanes.
And that's it.
That's all they're trying to do, and they're getting all kind of hassle for it.
And it's unfortunate because it's coming down from higher up.
And you know, what are they supposed to do?
But but Nancy, you know the way people didn't like uh what did they used to call them back in back in the uh day, meter maids.
The Beatles sang a song uh about it.
They didn't like because these people were people in uniform who stroll down the sidewalk and and put a ticket uh under your wiper or haven't you ever seen the parking wars?
Yeah, no, exact exactly.
I'm saying the all these people do is like stick a ten dollar fine under your wiper uh uh and uh and say uh uh because you parked in the wrong spot.
And they're loathed.
And they're loathed.
The people who who uh hand out the parking tickets are j generally loathed.
Just for that.
It's not a big deal, is it?
You know, you you park twenty minutes longer in these guys, you d these guys it's not for parking twenty minutes.
It's for like putting putting their hands in your underwear.
And uh this this is why it's not difficult to understand.
If you've seen did you see those pictures in the Denver Post, Nancy?
Well, no, I have not seen the pictures, but I want to also say a lot of the TV has been using old footage.
If you see um uh old footage with a white shirt, that was all the way.
Oh no, no, no, no.
I know, I know, I know they've changed their shirts.
They ch And that's a whole other issue, by the way.
I don't even know it is okay, because we went from white to blue.
Yeah, well, what was the cost of that?
So you like had sixty originally the TSA had sixteen thousand guys in white shirts, and now they've got sixty-eight thousand guys in blue shirts.
Oh my, you know what?
Whatever uh what look, I don't quite agree with all the the brew haha that's going on.
I understand it.
Right.
And I'm trying to, you know, help my husband work through this because he has to deal with it.
Right.
You know, is one thing when they had to take off their shoes.
I understand it.
I don't always agree with it, but then his opinion is okay, well, if you don't want to deal with it, you don't want to be safe, and I know it's invasive, etcetera, et cetera, et cetera.
At least we're not using the scri the the the uh X-ray machines.
They don't have those um at our small airport.
You know, just think of the people that are doing it.
Do you really think they want to do that, but they want to keep it.
No, but I don't but when a guy's don't want to do it, don't fight.
No, but it this isn't uh when a guy's got his hand in my pants, I'm not really interested in how he's feeling.
I'm interested in how I'm feeling.
Ah, and and I I like I no I understand.
But the ask ask your husband that when he when he comes home uh when he comes home this evening.
After a 14 hour day, so he's like too exhausted to give you an enhanced pat down, I take it.
Uh when he when he comes uh when he comes uh uh when he comes uh when he comes home and he's just giving you like the uh the light the light kind of little bright like the old wanding thing.
He's not he's not in the mood for an enhanced pat down, but but he's prepared to just like wand you lightly.
And uh ask him seriously, though, whether he thinks he thinks of all the people he's given this pat down to.
You look at these people.
Uh Because we're talking mainly about internal flights in the United States.
We're not talking the guy at Yemen, the guy who boards the the uh air the plane in Yemen, he's not getting the enhanced pat down.
Uh the guy who uh aboards uh boards the airplane in Islamabad, he's not getting an enhanced pattern.
Well that's actually a problem because you well, exactly a whole other subject.
Exactly.
But you're saying that in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Burlington, Vermont that uh just every other little airport in between.
Yeah, uh everybody's getting the enhanced pat down.
Now you ask your guy, I'd be interested to know uh and uh he can get he can get back to us because Russia'd be interested to hear this too, whether he feels that that is seriously whether ninety-nine point nine nine percent of the underwear that he's had his latex fingers on, uh whether that whether that made any contribution to to uh American security.
I know he's just like he's just doing his job and all and all the rest of it, uh Nancy.
But and I'm sure it's not great for you that you don't like to think uh uh when he comes home from uh from night uh uh uh uh night after a hard day's work what he's actually been doing all day.
It's because I would imagine I would imagine the first thing you want him to do is go to the bathroom and wash his hands.
But um but you know, I I understand I understand your point, but this is not necessary.
And th this is not necessary to American safety or American security.
And if he thought about that, if he thought about all the people he's patted down, he knows that.
He knows that.
So you tell you you you ask him about that and have him uh get back to us, because Russia'd like to hear that too.
Great to take you a call, Nancy.
Uh that was Nancy, whose husband is TSA.
So she she she was being enhancedly patted down before being enhancedly patted down was cool.
Uh that's uh that's Nancy calling from Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Let's go to John in San Diego.
John, you're live on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hey, Mark, how are you doing?
I just wanted to kind of share something.
I'm not sure that a lot of your viewers or a lot of your listeners are are really aware of.
You know what the number one greenhouse gas is in the atmosphere?
The number the number one greenhouse vapor.
Right, right.
And it's over it's responsible for over ninety percent of what we call what what's classified as a greenhouse gas.
But how do you demonize water vapor?
I mean clouds.
How do you monetize we got to get rid of those clouds?
You know, I mean it's just it just doesn't have that ring of, oh, we got to get rid of the the the carbon in the atmosphere.
And the reality is and anybody can go to the web look up on Wikipedia, you know, water vapor is like ninety-two, ninety-four percent.
CO2 is actually a bit player in the whole thing.
It's at 300 parts per million or thereabouts, which is like point oh three percent of the atmosphere.
If we were to eliminate all the CO2 that came from mankind that's generated, you know, we would we would still have over 90 percent of it is generated naturally.
I mean, from volcanic action and other things like this.
So it's really hard to understand why we focused on let's let's just assume for one second that global warming is actually happening.
Let's just assume for one second that you know that we need we want to do something about it.
Why would we even be focusing on on carbon dioxide as being this big demon and the one in the area of attacking it, because even if we eliminated a hundred percent of what came from from manned generation, we'd still have well over 90% of that left.
Yeah.
The real the real contributor is is water vapor.
But you know, John, your state is doing a grand job of waging war on uh water because you have all there's this guy.
Have you seen this American Express commercial where there's this kind of uh metrosexual guy uh who who's saying, I'm proud to be a dam buster.
And what he means by that is he goes around getting dams decommissioned throughout the United States, uh things like the environmentalists, what's that dam in Ventura County that the in in California that the uh environmentalists are uh targeting.
I don't remember, but I do I have seen those commercials and uh and I and I know what what you're talking about.
And they and they call themselves the dambusters.
You know, for you for guys like me, dam dambusters was The uh the great British war movie about scientists coming up with the bouncing bomb that destroyed the German dams uh for f that that crippled industrial production uh for Germany in the Second World War had a terrific great marching music theme.
Bom, bump, bump, bump, the dam busters, terrific.
Now we don't bust the enemy's dams, we're busting our own.
Because the because the environmentalists and the rationale behind this is that water doesn't count as renewable energy.
This is where all the uh eco-mumbo jumbo gets completely out of control.
Water does not count as a renewable uh energy source.
So they say, oh, you know, we have to we have to uh we don't damn the torpedoes, torpedo the dams.
Because hydropower doesn't count as as renewable energy.
So uh uh and that's the way they think in your own great state.
If you went if you went up the coast of California and you went uh went to Sacramento and you said to them, hey, why don't we build a new Hoover Dam?
People would look at you as if you were insane.
Whatever you feel about uh big government types eighty years ago, they were happy to build the Hoover Dam now.
They're waging a war on dams, and they're waging a war on hydropower uh and saying that uh that the water power is devastating the atmosphere.
So they're only one step away from demonizing clouds, John.
Well, I just find it very interesting when when you keep hearing all this focus on the carbon dioxide when the reality is it's a bit player in the whole global warming scenario of what they're proposing here, and that if you really really wanted to get to the heart of what is supposedly ca causing global warming, you would be I would think you would be focusing on what is the main cause, which is water vapor.
But when's the last time you ever heard anybody saying we needed to do anything about the water vapor in the atmosphere?
Never.
It's always CO2, and it and it appears to be the bit player in the whole project.
Right.
So basically the the CO2 are the equivalent of the eighty-year-old nuns being being uh patted down at the airport, while the while the clouds of water vapor are the equivalent of the uh Islamic terrorists, uh and we're all and we're and we're not actually waging uh waging concentrating our energies.
The environmental movement isn't concentrating its energies on the main source of the problem here.
Exactly.
If if their main purpose, their stated goal is that global warming is happening, we've got to do something about it, and the focus is always on these carbon credits or CO2, totally ignoring what is better than ninety percent of uh what causes purported global warming, which is water vapors.
I just think that was a very interesting insight that I don't really hear a lot of people talking about.
No, that you you've got a good point there, John, and I'm going to challenge Al Gore now, because he's been quiet, uh he's been quiet lately.
I'm gonna challenge Al Gore to have the guts to make a uh to make a an awareness-raising single.
He should do a cover version of I've looked at clouds from both sides now, because they're up there, they're as you said, they're 95% of the problem, and we're not uh and we're not addressing them.
The environmental movement, if it's serious, has gotta has gotta propose a serious cloud reduction program, no matter how much money it takes.
We need to get serious about having fewer clouds in the sky if we are gonna save this planet.
Mark sign in for us more to come.
The world makes a lot of sense.
Uh clouds are responsible for 95% of the climate change uh out there.
Uh the Chinese are uh buying uh General Motors, and the uh government has the right to stick its hands on any American genitalia it cares to.
We have suddenly learned a lot uh in the last three hours, and uh I've had a ball.
A rush will be back on Monday to take you uh through to Thanksgiving.
Uh but now oh I see the uh TSA agent is just uh waiting outside the door, come to come to give me my tertiary pat down.
I wonder I do wonder what this involves.
But oh, oh, look at that.
They're putting on the uh extra sensitive latex gloves.
I can't wait for this.
Uh it's been uh it's been great fun.
Mark Stein sitting in on the EIB network.
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