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December 23, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
	Honoured to be here.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever, but under the terms of the DREAM Act, I get to attend the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies at the in-state tuition rate.
	Tis the Christmas season at the EIB network, or as I like to think of it, the lame duck session of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	No lords are leaping, no turtle doves, just a lame duck guest host in a pear tree.
	Tomorrow, it's the best of Rush for Christmas Eve, and this weekend, three hours of EIB approved Christmas music.
	Only the best stuff.
	None of your Barney Frank Christmas album, none of your Timothy Geithner Christmas album.
	Strictly the best.
	And you can listen to it on your new Rush app, the Rush Limbaugh app for iPhone and iPad.
	And after just one day, it was listed as the number one most popular app over at the Apple store.
	And it's completely free to get the app, but you have to be a Rushlimbaugh.com, Rush24-7 subscriber to get the full use of it.
	But you can get all the details at rushlimbaugh.com.
	I think I might give it to Her Majesty the Queen, because if you recall a couple of years ago, last year, President Obama gave the Queen an iPad, an iPod, loaded with Obama's speeches.
	I think actually you can only get two of Obama's speeches onto an iPod, and even if you've got the maximum mega wattage or whatever you call it, you can only get two.
	Maybe you can get two and a third speech if it's a very short one.
	But I would think by now the Queen is a bit tired of listening just to Obama's speeches on her iPod.
	So I may get the Rush Limbaugh app for her iPod just to cheer her up.
	Breaking news: Steven Spielberg has denied that he's been hired by Nancy Pelosi to give the Democrats a facelift.
	This was a report in the Washington Post that Nancy Pelosi had signed Steven Spielberg, acclaimed Hollywood director, to advise Speaker for soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats on building a stronger brand, building a stronger brand.
	And Steven Spielberg's spokesperson, Marvin Levy, has said that this story is utterly false and that the great director is certainly not going to be giving the Pelosi Democrats a facelift.
	I was looking at it.
	Yeah, I think it would have been the big reunion with George Lucas.
	There would have been a lot of need for the full Star Wars special effects on Industrial Light and Magic for all that.
	But he's not going to be working his industrial light and magic on Nancy Pelos.
	I was looking forward to it.
	You know, Botoxic Park.
	You know, they think November the 2nd, the Democrats are finally extinct.
	But no, no.
	Someone manages to find a few traces of DNA.
	And on a remote island somewhere, they manage to recreate big government.
	Oh, yeah.
	There'd be huge, giant big government Democrats recreated and stalking this island.
	The biggest political dinosaurs in the world, Stimulosaurus Rex and the Velocity Spenders, and the scene where the scene where the stimulus, the guy is just like the guy's just sitting in the outhouse trying to get on with his business and just having a quiet life.
	And then suddenly the Stimulosaurus Rex comes in and trashes the outhouse and reduces it to nothing.
	And it's all over for them.
	I thought that's what I thought that could be.
	How long is it since Spielberg's had a really big movie?
	I can't remember.
	It's like years now.
	I see the governor of South Sinai was claiming that the Israelis were putting GPS on sharks and were terrorizing Egyptian tourists at the Sham al-Sheikh resort.
	This is the governor of South Sinai, was saying that the Israelis had put GPS on the sharks and directed them to terrorize the Egyptians at the Sham al-Sheikh resort.
	And I was thinking that would sound that would actually be a kind of a good sequel to Jaws, wouldn't it?
	Jews.
	Because who's behind Jaws?
	It's the Jews.
	That would be what the South Sinai governor would recommend if he was talking to Spielberg.
	But anyway, Spielberg has denied that he is going to rebrand the Democrats, and he will not be giving Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats a facelift.
	So we will have to do without Botoxic Park this holiday season.
	Obama, the comeback continues.
	Prometheus rebound.
	That was the big story.
	It's getting even bigger today.
	This guy, I love the way that the media can just turn on a dime when it comes to this guy.
	It's just like it barely seems 20 minutes ago that Obama was like, Mr. Wimp, Mr. Nancy Boy, Mr. Fairy Pants.
	He was caving to the Republicans and everything.
	He gave it up on his Obamasaurus overspending bill.
	He gave it up on the Dream Act.
	What a loser.
	What a wimp.
	What a pansy.
	And now suddenly the story is: Obama bestrides the world like a colossus again.
	He's had the most terrific week that anybody has ever had in the history of lame duck sessions.
	Since the very first lame duck session was held 200 years ago, back when it took three months to come by jackass from northern Maine to Washington or whatever the reason, historical reason for this lame duck session period between November and the start of the new Congress is he has had the greatest lame duck session in the history of lame duck sessions.
	He is back.
	His magic powers are restored.
	This is the new media narrative.
	He now says that it's time to pivot and focus on jobs and the economy.
	That's awfully big of you.
	That is very big of you, Mr. President.
	He goes, this has been a season of progress for the American people.
	We now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth and jump-starting the economy.
	Well, I'm glad you're going to be getting around to it now, as opposed to all the priorities of the last few weeks, you know, like gays in the military and the federal regulation and grade school bake sales and all the other priorities of the last couple of weeks, and that you're now going to be turning to jobs and jump-starting the economy.
	The strange thing about this, though, is that this is exactly the same thing.
	How long has he been in office for now?
	He's been there for two years, President Obama, and it's like every year he announces that he's now going to focus like a laser, as the former president used to say.
	He's now going to focus like a laser on jobs.
	The Drudge Report has his pledge today.
	Today, Obama pledges singular focus on economy.
	Then they give us the headline from a year ago: Obama to focus hard on economy.
	Then they give us the headline from two years ago: Obama to put renewed focus on economy.
	The more he focuses like a laser on the economy, the less economy there is.
	We've got a 10% unemployment rate.
	It's a lot higher if you're a young person.
	It's a lot higher if you're black.
	It's a lot higher if you're living in certain cities in certain parts of the country.
	This economy is dead.
	This economy is not growing.
	You look at this unemployment rate, which has increased on his watch.
	Yet Obama has now decided that after prioritizing for the last month, don't ask, don't tell, and what was the other big achievement?
	Oh, the Food Safety Act.
	The food, that's absolutely.
	I'm so reassured that now, you know, if you hold a bake sale in an American schoolhouse, your cookies and your muffins will come under federal regulation.
	The ability to prioritize is what one looks for in a chief executive.
	And, oh, oh, and new start.
	Yeah, that's the.
	I got a couple of emails complaining because Mike played an excerpt for my disco single, disco version of Marshmallow World on the show yesterday.
	And I don't see why, because it is the disco era.
	The STAR treaty is from the disco era.
	It's a KC and the Sunshine Ban Treaty.
	Why are we pretending that we're in a bipolar world and Russia is still a superpower?
	Iran is shipping missiles to Venezuela.
	These missiles will be able to reach the southern United States.
	Why is America's ability to develop missile defense that would resist those missiles?
	Why is that being mortgaged to the Russians?
	This crazy guy, Kim Jong-il, I believe it's his 19th anniversary now.
	They're having big celebrations in North Korea.
	They've broken out the extra light bulb, the one they keep in the attic for parties.
	And they're having big celebrations.
	It's his 19th anniversary.
	Kim Jong-il, you remember, he fired a nuclear weapon, or whatever it was, a rocket, his no-dong rocket.
	By the way, that is a great name.
	That is the best name for any rocket on the planet today.
	The no-dong rocket.
	This is the Kim Jong-il specialty.
	So he fired his no-dong at Hawaii and it drops into the Sea of Japan.
	And people say, oh, well, there you go.
	There's nothing to worry about.
	He's a nuclear madman, but he's not very good at it.
	He might aim for Hawaii, but it'll land in the Sea of Japan, or it'll hit Fiji, or it might go completely screwy and wind up on Belgium.
	Who cares?
	The guy isn't, he's not a very good nuclear madman, so there's nothing to worry about.
	Now, why should the United States' ability to develop a missile defense to protect Hawaii from Kim Jong-il's no-dong on the event that he fine-tunes the no-dong and it actually goes in the direction he's firing it, why should America's ability to develop a missile defense system be mortgaged to the Russians?
	This is a disco era treaty.
	This is Casey and the Sunshine Ban Treaty.
	This is Donna Summer's last dance of a treaty.
	This is the most ridiculous and ludicrous international treaty that has been signed.
	A disco era treaty for the 21st century.
	Mr. Snadley says I'm wrong.
	Why am I wrong?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Dingy Harry says this.
	He's like, did you have a said this treaty finally shows that Obama deserves his Nobel Prize?
	They gave it him two years ahead of schedule.
	I love that.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	I like, so they gave him his Lifetime Achievement Award when he was 17, but he's now at last belatedly earned it.
	Well done.
	That's Senator Reid's justification for the Start Treaty.
	His justification for the Start Treaty is that it legitimizes Obama's Nobel Prize.
	That's good.
	So it doesn't make the King of Norway look like a chump.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	What it will do when you've got incoming no dong from Pyongyang, we don't know, but at least the King of Norway hasn't got egg all over his face now because the Norwegians gave this thing to him.
	1-800-282-2882, Obama, he's back in the game.
	He's no longer, he was Mr. Wimbercouple.
	He was getting sandkicked in his face by Mitch McConnell, but that was last week's story.
	Now he's back.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for rush.
	Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	The latest wiki leak.
	The latest wiki leak involves Anna Nicole Smith.
	U.S. diplomats blamed the late Anna.
	I mean, this is disgraceful, by the way.
	I think they should throw the book at this Julian Assange and that gay Welshman who downloaded all the stuff onto the Lady Gaga CD.
	I mean, have you no decency?
	They're now leaking stuff about Anna Nicole Smith.
	U.S. diplomats blamed Anna Nicole Smith for bringing the government of the Bahamas close to collapse.
	Did you ever think when they invented the English language?
	Did you ever think there would come a time when the English language would have the need for those words in that order?
	U.S. diplomats blamed Anna Nicole Smith for bringing the government of the Bahamas close to collapse.
	And it's a tragedy that Anna Nicole is no longer with us because we could do with her in Tehran and Pyongyang right now.
	We wouldn't have all this trouble in the world today if she got back from Nassau and we'd say, hey, thanks a lot, Anna Nicole.
	We're putting you on the plane to Tehran.
	Work your magic with Mahmoud Ahmedina Ahmedina Chad.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Talking about this, the great Obama rebound, Obama rebound.
	People are annoyed at the way it went over the lame duck session.
	A lot of conservatives who voted on November the 2nd are annoyed because November the 2nd seems like a long time ago now.
	Do you remember what Golden Meyer used to say about the Palestinians?
	The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
	It can be like that with the Republican Party, too.
	The Republican Party never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
	There was a wonderful moment when Harry Reid was forced to withdraw that Obama-Nibus spending bill because what it meant was that he was like Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
	Do you remember they had an election in the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos lost and he pretended he hadn't lost for a month and six weeks and eventually he had to back down and recognize that there had been an election and to accept the result of that election.
	And when Harry Reid withdrew that Obama nebulous spending bill, Harry Reid was being forced to recognize that there had been an election and to acknowledge the result of that election.
	That the people had voted enough with the spending.
	We want less spending.
	And their response, when the Democrats tried to respond with another gazillion dollars of spending and were forced back town, it was a great moment.
	And it's an important moment.
	It's an important moment because it reminds us of one of the many great truths of Milton Friedman.
	Milton Friedman used to say that the solution to our problem isn't to elect the right people, the so-called right people, because if you wait for that to happen, you're going to be waiting forever.
	He said the important thing is to establish a climate of opinion in which the wrong people have to do the right thing.
	And that's what happened when Harry Reid had to back down and withdraw that Obama Nibbs spending bill was that the wrong person was forced to do the right thing.
	And that's the best situation you can hope for in politics.
	Because anyone who's tried to get anything done through their elected officials knows that, generally speaking, the political class doesn't want to get out in front.
	Very few of them want to get out in front on big issues, on difficult issues, on controversial issues.
	They want to take the easy option.
	So what you have to do is create a climate in which the easy option is the right thing to do, so that even the worst people, like Harry Reid, the wrong people, are forced to do the right thing.
	That was Milton Friedman's great insight into the political scene.
	And it looked for a moment when he withdrew that Obama Nibus spending bill as if we might be there.
	And then what happened?
	Then we saw the usual reach across the aisle types like Olympia Snow.
	We saw the usual bipartisan mumbo jumbo from Dick Luger on the Start Treaty.
	And it was almost as if not just Harry Reid was ignoring November the 2nd, but that half the Republican Party were ignoring November the 2nd as well.
	And that is why these guys, you've got to remember that what matters is to create the climate, as Milton Friedman said, in which the wrong people have to do the right thing.
	It's not just that Harry Reid is the wrong person.
	Olympia Snow is the wrong person.
	Dick Luger is the wrong person.
	But we're stuck with them.
	They ain't going anywhere.
	Although I'd be fully in favor of primary challenging the life out of Olympia Snow up in Maine in two years' time.
	But the point is, until that happens, you've got to create a climate in which the wrong people are forced to do the right things.
	And somehow, the longer this lame duck session went on, the worse it got.
	And we weren't doing that.
	And so Obama's standing there with all this nonsense claiming great victory, and the Obami boppers in the media are hailing him.
	Oh, it's great, isn't it?
	It's like he's back on form.
	He's got a terrific.
	He was last year's boy band a week ago.
	He was a has-been.
	He was nothing.
	Mitch McConnell had cleaned his clock and the Republicans were getting everything.
	And now we've seen the media do basically do a 180-degree pivot, and the Colossus is back.
	The new reborn Obama bestriding bipartisan reach across the aisle, Washington, saying that this is what people voted for on November the 2nd, that they voted for a bipartisan approach to getting the job done.
	No, you got the job done in the first two years and it was a total disaster.
	That's what people want.
	People want the job to be undone.
	That's what they voted for on November the 2nd.
	They voted to send people to Washington to get the job undone.
	More to come.
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	Let us go to Shannon in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.
	Shannon, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, thanks.
	So, my question is: how could you say that a man with nuclear arms isn't a threat because he couldn't aim?
	I didn't say, I'm saying that's the point.
	I'm saying it's like when you've got it's like one thing, if you're on the New Jersey turnpike and there's a guy on the other side who knows how to drive an 18-wheeler and he's got the license to drive an 18-wheeler, or whether your crazy old grandma's got the 18-wheeler and she's coming across the median at you because she doesn't know how the hell to drive it.
	That's the point about Kim Jong-il.
	He's a nuclear madman who isn't very good at it.
	And that's, by the way, the crazy world we live in.
	The wealthiest societies in human history, from Norway to New Zealand, are incapable of projecting meaningful military force to their own borders.
	While nickel and dime basket case states like North Korea, which has a GDP down in the basement with Congo and Zimbabwe, North Korea is a nuclear power.
	Well, we can't bomb the world into peace, that's for sure.
	And killing doesn't stop killing.
	And as an educator, I can't see proliferating all the hate that you're proliferating on your radio station because what it's sounding like to me is that it's biased.
	Yes.
	And you're regurgitating Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
	Yes, it's biased regurgitate.
	As a school teacher, I just can't say that.
	No, no, no, no.
	As an educator, we don't say school.
	That's what school teachers, what we said in the one-room schoolhouse back in the 19th century.
	Now we have to say, oh, as an educator, like you said the first time, as an educator.
	Now, listen, on the hate thing, by the way, and on the nuclear proliferation and hate proliferation, I'll give you me on hate proliferation.
	You can have that as a Christmas present.
	But on nuclear proliferation, this is what I mean about disco-era nuclear policy.
	Back in the early 70s, there were five nuclear powers, the same five permanent members of the Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and China.
	And the left was all worried about nuclear war.
	They wrote plays about it.
	They made movies about it.
	They had novels about it.
	Rock groups made concept albums about it, all with the mushroom cloud on the poster.
	They all had the same mushroom cloud on the poster.
	Now the same thing about Jews.
	It doesn't make it right.
	No, no, no, no.
	What I'm saying now is that now that every nickel and dime loser on the planet is going nuclear, nobody in the left is bothered.
	By the way, you're shall I shall I say what?
	I'll tell you why the proliferation thing is wrong.
	It's not the technology.
	You can't undo technology.
	So there's a difference between New Zealand being nuclear.
	Is not going to save everything.
	We think that technology is just going to save everything, but it's the people.
	It's within the hearts of the people.
	Well, let me ask you a question, Shannon.
	I'm not going to find a bipartisan, let me say this, a bipartisan agreement.
	So by just sitting on the radio and pointing a finger, that's not going to help this world be a better place.
	Well, no, you know what would you know what would make the world be a better place?
	Shannon, let me ask you this.
	You're an educator, so you'll have no trouble with this.
	How many people have died in the Congo so far this century, in the first decade of this century?
	I couldn't give you that exactly.
	Well, no, it's not good.
	Why don't you take a shot at it?
	See if you can get close to the nearest 10,000, 100,000, whatever you want to do.
	How many people have died in the Congo so far this century?
	This century?
	This century?
	Yes, since the year 2000.
	Since they dropped the ball in Times Square?
	Let's say like 600,000 people.
	I don't know.
	Oh, the six is right and nothing else.
	You're a zero short.
	Six million.
	Six million.
	Now, that's an interesting number, isn't it?
	Because six million, didn't six million people die?
	You just mentioned Hitler and the Jews.
	Six million people died in Germany in the Third Reich under Hitler in the 1940s, and they said never again.
	It happened.
	It's just happened.
	The never again happened in the last couple of years, and it didn't even make the papers because there wasn't a way to blame it on George W. Bush.
	And do you know how those six million people died?
	There wasn't any nuclear weapon involved.
	They died with machetes.
	They were killed with machetes and with cannibalism.
	In North Kivu province in the Congo, there was a group.
	There was a group called Les Fasseur, which ate the pygmies.
	The two sides in the Congolese civil war agreed on nothing else except that pygmies make a delicious entree.
	They ate them.
	There were no nuclear weapons involved.
	They ate and they macheted to death millions of people.
	Nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons in the hands of the United States of America, are not a threat to world peace.
	I didn't say that.
	What I did say is that killing other people and using those nuclear weapons and spending money on nuclear weapons is not going to make our world a better place.
	All the money that we are investing in military, we could have classrooms with a lot of people.
	Oh, now you say that because you're an educator.
	America spends more.
	I'm not going to advocate for my profession.
	Yes, you're an advocate.
	Hang on a minute.
	America spends more per pupil than any other nation except Luxembourg, which is a small, wealthy country that can fit in your rec room.
	Luxembourg is about the size of your basement, right?
	And it's a very wealthy country.
	And America spends more than any other country on education per pupil except Luxembourg.
	And at least Luxembourg is something to show for it.
	No disrespect to your fine profession, Shannon, but our math scores are in the toilet.
	We come down there between Uzbekistan and Croatia in the international rankings on math.
	How do you make it better?
	And you need to ask those questions.
	Right.
	And then you need to see.
	No, you need to answer them.
	You're the educator.
	By looking at both sides of the spectrum.
	Okay, well, what's the answer to our math scores?
	And even though I'm obviously biased, I'm going to say that I know that we need to protect our country.
	But I'm going to say that the money that we put into protecting our country should not be more than what we're using to feed our children, what we're using to educate our children.
	Well, you don't have to, but you don't have to worry about that.
	We are spending more on, as you put it, educating our children.
	I'm not sure I'd use that term because I think American education, by the way, let's throw this out there as a cheery pre-Christmas thought, is actually the biggest structural defect in the nation today.
	The prioritization of mumbo-jumbo cults like self-esteem.
	I mentioned the math scores where we're down, we're sort of 45th in the world rankings.
	But we have the highest self-esteem about our math.
	For some reason, the OECD took a survey of what children thought about their math scores.
	America came number one in self-esteem about its math scores.
	Whereas, in fact, the countries that are the best, Finland, I think Finland was number two and Hong Kong was number one in this test.
	They had the best math scores, but much lower self-esteem about their math.
	We had lousy math scores, but we had great self-esteem about our math.
	Is that the system you're willing to defend, Shannon?
	I'm not defending anything right now.
	What I'm just saying is I'm saying, I'm going to say it one more time, that you need to really see both sides and have a bipartisan view to really make the world a better place.
	Right.
	Because if you have two kids fighting, two two-year-olds fighting over the same toy, nothing, they're just going to fight, right?
	Right.
	I've looked at life from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow.
	It's life's illusions, I recall.
	I really don't know life at all.
	All we are saying, Shannon, is give war a chance.
	Merry Christmas to you.
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas, Shannon.
	Actually, it's been terrific fun.
	It's been terrific fun talking to you.
	I always like talking to educators.
	You learn so much.
	Mark Stein, Infor Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
	Christmas at the EIB network.
	Lots more still to come.
	Christmas at the Rush Limbo Show.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Any more libchicks out there, do call.
	I love.
	I shouldn't really say this, but to be honest, I find that kind of sappy liberal give piece a chance thing when the gals are doing that.
	I find it a kind of a turn-on.
	Years ago, the BBC always used to, you know, these political panel things where they'd put you up against some kind of rabid Marxist feminist type, and they'd say, oh, we've got some real fireworks here.
	We'll stick a right-wing nut like Stein opposite this Marxist-feminist type, and it'll be terrific television.
	And I'd always wind up just kind of going all moony and getting, because I'd always fall, there's a side of me that falls for the left-wing chicks.
	So any left-wing chicks out there, educators especially, educators.
	I love that term, educators.
	Before we had educators, we used to have education.
	Remember, you'd have like the little old school mom with her gray hair in a bun teaching in the one-room schoolhouse, all eight grades?
	And then we got educators.
	And suddenly, it got amazingly expensive, and the math scores totally collapsed.
	So we'll have to figure out.
	There's probably no connection between those two events.
	I don't want to be implying there's a correlation, but it'd be interesting to know.
	But that is, you know, that is the truth.
	The point I was trying to say to Shannon is an important one.
	Nuclear weapons in the hand.
	Her problem, as I tried to suggest gently, because it's Christmas, is that this proliferation thing is completely outmoded.
	No one would lose a moment's sleep if we read in the Washington Post that Norway was thinking of developing nuclear weapons.
	The point is that Norway can't defend itself and North Korea's nuclear.
	And Iran's offering to give nuclear weapons to Sudan.
	Sudan is doing a terrific job.
	The Muslim Sudanese, the Janjaweed, with the support of the government in Khartoum, are doing a terrific job of killing all these black Muslims in Darfur.
	And they're doing it with machetes.
	They ride in on horses and they kill people with machetes.
	But that's very manpower intensive.
	Wouldn't it help if a country like Sudan had some high-tech weaponry so it could just kill large numbers of people far more simply?
	And that is the reality in the world today.
	The nuclear technology is not the problem.
	Where is this president?
	Why hasn't he got a machete proliferation treaty?
	Millions of people have died in low-tech wars on our watch in the last 10 years of the 21st century with the most basic technology, and actually not even machetes half the time.
	I mentioned the way that both sides in the Congolese civil war at the Pygmies in West Africa, this guy, General Butt Naked in Liberia, he liked to eat alive his enemies' children.
	So there's nothing, there's no technology involved in that.
	Mr. Snerdley says people don't believe him.
	No, General Butt Naked.
	He and his troops like to go into battle naked, right?
	Like as if they were trying to pre-clear at Newark when it gets crowded and you want to fly out for the Christmas vacation.
	Much easier to go along there naked.
	General Butt Naked, hence his name, because I don't believe he was born with that name.
	General Butt Naked liked to lead his troops into battle naked.
	And they ate.
	They ate the hearts of 40,000 children in Liberia.
	And this is the world we live in.
	The threat to the world today is nothing to do with nuclear proliferation.
	Let's pretend it's the 70s.
	Let's get our flared pants out and listen to Casey and the Sunshine Band and have a 1970s nuclear treaty.
	And what's pathetic about this START treaty, by the way, is that this is supposed to be Obama's issue.
	He suddenly stands up in the middle and where was he?
	In Warsaw?
	He was somewhere in Eastern Europe.
	He stood up in Warsaw and he said he wants a world without nuclear weapons.
	He and Shannon.
	Obama adopted Shannon, the Shannon's policy on nuclear weapons.
	He said, all we are saying is give peace a chance.
	I've looked at clouds from both sides now.
	And he said, I want a world without nuclear weapons.
	This is his issue.
	And this lazy, pathetic man has got nothing original to say about it.
	He signed the disco treaty, the START disco treaty, under the glitter ball with President Medvedev, the 1977 disco treaty.
	Boogie nights.
	Good for you, Mr. President.
	It's got absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the world today.
	This is the total, completely, it's not the weapon.
	It's not the technology.
	You can't uninvent that.
	Nuclear weapons exist.
	It's like uninventing the iPod.
	Nobody un-invents the iPod.
	Nobody uninvents the internal combustion engine.
	You deal with it.
	You either deal with it or you make it obsolete.
	Nuclear technology is there.
	All you can do is make it obsolete with missile defense.
	And all you can do is recognize that in the world today, what matters is not what weaponry you've got, but whether you're prepared to kill.
	In Afghanistan, our guys are dying from people who are using string and fertilizer to make IEDs, improvised explosive devices.
	Every time we figure out something, a way to stop what they're doing, they don't upgrade their technology, they downgrade it.
	They were using wire, but we could use metal detectors to figure out where the wires were.
	So then they downgraded to string, string.
	They haven't invented a string detector.
	What matters is not the technology, but whether you're willing to kill large numbers of people.
	And in Afghanistan and in Sudan and in North Korea and in Liberia and in Congo, there are people willing to kill large numbers of people.
	Shannon, poor old Shannon, with this, I've looked at life from both sides now.
	Why don't you try it someday?
	Why don't you actually try looking at it from the position of some Waziristani jihadist or some Liberian warlord or some if you want to look at life from both sides now, look at it from the point of view of the poor Congolese pygmy who's being eaten by his enemies?
	If you're gonna talk up empathy, try some real empathy.
	Lots more still to come.
	Oh, Felice, Felice Navidad, Felice Navidad.
	What a splendid thought.
	Here's more news from educators.
	The principal of a public school in Brookline, Massachusetts, is asking parents to fill out permission slits before their children can participate in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
	You'll have to check the box saying, Yes, my child will participate in the Pledge of Allegiance, or No, my child will not.
	They've also defined the words under God as meaning, quote, there is one supreme entity for every citizen, unquote.
	I didn't know there was one for each citizen.
	If you haven't got yours yet this Christmas season, go along to the DMV in Massachusetts with a valid form of picture ID, and I'm sure they'll be able to get probably about six weeks by the time you get it.

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