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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	Twas the Rush Before Christmas.
	Uh tomorrow it'll be a Best of Rush for Christmas Eve, and uh then three hours of uh terrific uh hand picked Christmas music by Rush for the Christmas weekend.
	Monday, uh Mark Belling is gonna be here live for the post Christmas show.
	I don't know what it is, December the twenty-seventh, a public holiday in the United States.
	It's the day after Boxing Day.
	I don't know what it is.
	It is an official holiday.
	It should be.
	Oh, it's not.
	Mr. Snerdley is getting annoyed.
	He doesn't want to it's called it's uh we we could do with more federal holidays.
	It would stimulate the economy if people were able to sit around the house more.
	Uh but uh Mark Belling will be here live on Monday, and I'll be uh back a little later in the week.
	Uh breaking news, the CIA has launched a WikiLeaks Task Force.
	That's the name of it.
	WikiLeaks Task Force, WTF.
	WTF.
	Isn't that a great government acronym?
	Maybe all I would be in favor.
	Uh I don't know whether if Harry Reid uh has still got time in the lame duck session, I think we should pass a law renaming all federal agencies WTF.
	That is my favorite federal acronym.
	The new CIA uh WikiLeaks Task Force, WTF.
	That's in fact that's my favorite acronym since the um uh what is it?
	It's the Islamic group in the Philippines, the Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines, whose acronym is MILF.
	So MILF is the I mean you gotta you gotta know I mean these normally these Islamic groups are fairly well informed on the decadence of uh of Western culture.
	So you've got to figure that when Al Qaeda and the other guys all get together for the uh for the big for the for the for the big Islamist jihad summit that they're all secretly tittering behind their backs at the representative from MILF.
	But anyway, uh uh Oh uh there's uh and it must be hell when you're trying to Google Google your secret contact in MILF on the internet.
	You gotta like plow through 30,000 pages of entirely irrelevant material before you come through to the group head office in the Philippines.
	But anyway, the the uh the CIA, the CIA have now effortlessly gone one better, and they've announced the WikiLeaks task force, WTF.
	So just if you if you know something about the the it's a a serious business this because as we saw in this latest WikiLeaks, you know, uh where uh Anna Nicole Smith brought down the government of the Bahamas.
	This is serious stuff, and the CIA are taking it seriously, so they formed the WTF task group to deal with it.
	So just Google them on the internet, WTF.
	It'll you'll find it, you'll find it very easily.
	I mentioned yesterday that there were no that uh I couldn't stand the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, and even the parrot is a lousy.
	Uh I I maybe I should take that back.
	A an Islamic group in the United Kingdom has launched a nationwide poster campaign denouncing Christmas as evil.
	The evils of Christmas.
	On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me an STD.
	That's uh that's another acronym, a sexually transmitted disease.
	On the first day, this is the evils of Christmas from this Muslim group.
	You can uh find it, uh you can see the poster at Xmas is Evil dot com.
	Uh they but they've got these posters all over up all over London, Birmingham, Manchester.
	On on the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me an STD.
	On the second day, debt, on the third, rape, the fourth, teenage pregnancies, and then there was abortion raves, claiming God has a son, blasphemy, exploitation, promiscuity, nightclubs, crime, paedophilia, paganism, domestic violence, homelessness, violence, vandalism, alcohol, and drugs.
	That just sounds like the perfect liberal Christmas party right there.
	But in fact, I don't in fact uh Islam is very opposed to this.
	So they say in Islam we are protected from all of these evils.
	We have marriage, family, honor, dignity, security, rights for man, woman, and child.
	The evils of Christmas from a Muslim group in the These are posters.
	Just uh uh final shopping day before Christmas.
	You're strolling down Piccadilly in London, and they've got the evils of Christmas.
	On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me an STD.
	Another thing I mentioned yesterday, that is actually uh one of the more interesting variations of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
	Another thing I mentioned right at the end of the show yesterday, I quoted a headline uh and noted it without comment.
	Uh uh a former inmate at Gitmo.
	Guantanamo Jews used witchcraft on prisoners and made me feel a cat was trying to penetrate me.
	And uh and and I had a couple of uh uh uh a couple of lists that say, Oh, come on, you're just making this stuff uh stuff up.
	No, because you can find the full transcript now.
	It was an interview on Al Jazeera with Walid Mohammed Hajj, who was released from Gitmo, uh and unfortunately he didn't get the same deal the Uyghurs got where they relocated him to Bermuda at US taxpayer expense.
	This guy had to go back to the Middle East.
	So he's Walid Mohammed Hajj, and he's telling the Al Jazeera interview, he goes, Yes, the most common method to wear down the brothers was witchcraft.
	And the interviewer goes, How did they do this?
	And Walid Mohamed Hajj goes, There were Jews among the staff of the Guantanamo base, and they would set traps.
	Witchcraft was used on most of the guys.
	But by the grace of Allah, through frequent reading of the Quran and invocations of the names of Allah, we managed to withstand this.
	So the interviewer, instead of saying, Okay, that's all we got time for, because like you gotta figure the Al Jazeera guy, right?
	He he must know.
	Either he thinks this is very plausible, uh because most of us, when the guy starts talking like this, we'd realize, okay, this isn't gonna look so good for the kind of cause of jihad and the iniquities of the Americans.
	But instead the Al Jazeera interviewer goes, How did you know that somebody was under a spell?
	And Walid Mohammed Haj goes, Well, for example, somebody would take his clothes off all of a sudden.
	A person would suddenly see his brothers and sisters naked before him.
	And the Al Jazeera guy asks, and they weren't really there?
	Oh, absolutely not, it was as if he was in a different world.
	I remember an incident with the guy who sat next to me, when they brought the milk, he began to urinate into the milk.
	I said to him, Why are you urinating in the milk?
	That's when we knew he was under a spell.
	After he had recovered a little, after we read Quranic verses to him, he said to me, the birds on the barbed wire would talk to me and tell me to urinate in the milk.
	When the guards pass by my cell, the sound made by their pants talks to me.
	The sound made by their pants talks to me.
	That's that's what we're doing now.
	Now I hope, I hope Amnesty International and the NGOs are up on this, that uh that the guards at Gitmo have got talking pants to wind up the jihadists, okay?
	This is just like the detainees.
	I hope there's pro bono lawyers all across the Eastern seaboard who are who are recognizing that this that not only is Obama failed to shut down Gitmo, he's introduced new torture techniques.
	Okay, we're not just playing Christina Aguilera CDs to them like we did in the hated days of the Bush Cheney regime.
	We've now got guards with talking pants, according to Walid Mohamed Hajj, an alumnus of Club Gitmo.
	And the interviewer goes, Did they ever use witchcraft on you?
	And he goes, uh uh once when I was sleeping, I suddenly felt that a cat was trying to penetrate me.
	It tried to penetrate me again and again.
	I recited the Quran verse again and again until the cat left.
	Walid Mohammed Haj.
	Freed from Gitmo to tell the truth about what is going on there.
	Why couldn't Eric Holder have let this guy be tried in New York?
	That would be that would be the trial of the century.
	That would be a hotter ticket than Spider-Man the musical.
	I would love to hear Walid Mohamed Haj's a testimony uh in the uh in in uh in in in his uh in in his court case uh in New York.
	Uh that is what we that is what we're up against here.
	And as I said, the fascinating thing to me about that is that the Al Jazeera guy is just sitting there nodding his head thoughtfully, as if, you know, he's getting some real hot dope exclusive here on all the on all the Jew witchcraft that's being practiced on the uh blameless detainees at uh at Guantanamo at Guantanamo Bay.
	But here's the thing for you for for for President Obama who says that Guantanamo is the biggest recruiting true tool for jihad on the planet.
	Okay, so you close it.
	Let's say you close it and uh and you house these guys at a minimum security uh prison in Florida, say, or Illinois or wherever you want to put it.
	Do you really think that they're not then gonna be going back to Al Jazeera and still telling stories uh about secret Jewish cats trying to penetrate them after the Jews have used witchcraft on them.
	In other words, and let's accept your absurd proposition that Guantanamo Bay and what goes on there is the biggest recruiting tool for jihad.
	Do you think listening to Walled Mohammed Haj telling his fellow Middle Easterners all about the Jew witchcraft at Club Gitmo, do you really think that's going to go away when you put them in a nice minimum security uh prison in Illinois or wherever it is?
	Because I get the feeling I get the feeling that you know Walled Mohammed Hajj would have just as interesting stories once he got back from the to tell you once he got back from the minimum security uh uh prison in Illinois.
	Uh Mark Stein Yeah cat cats uh cats do cats do have cats cat cats yes cats do have nine lives Mr Snerdly says that that is a lot of penetrating it's true I don't feel they need feline via Viagra do they?
	You know when a cat is all tuckered out he just one of the other uh eight lives kicks in and he's yeah but that that is true.
	If you feel yourself being penetrated by a cat just read the Quran.
	It generally works.
	I find I find that.
	It's not by the way it doesn't work with every animal.
	Like if you're walking in the woods to ensure your maple syrup saplines are secure from terrorists and uh you find some horny moose uh bull moose coming on at you don't read the Quran to him because it doesn't it doesn't work on a moose it it just gets uh yeah it just gets them turned on you really don't want to you know you you don't want to try that doesn't work with anybody.
	But uh as the CIA would say WTF, WikiLeaks Task Force Wiki WikiLeaks Task Force.
	This is by the way the crack intelligence unit did you we talked about that yesterday the guy the director of national intelligence on uh on uh with Diane Sawyer and uh the director of national intelligence of the global superpower she asked him about the biggest terrorism story of the week he looks like a deer in the headlamps.
	He looks like a jihadist in the headlamps when when a big tabby cat is coming on to him.
	He he hasn't a clue what she's talking about.
	So now we have WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks.
	These guys have leaked just about everything that could be leaked.
	They're now leaking stories about Anna Nicole Smith uh subverting the government of the Bahamas which which tells you they've moved on now.
	Well first they were just like leaking confidential stuff uh about the Iranian nuclear program, relations with China, relations with Russia.
	They're down to Anna Nicole Smith destabilizing the the Bahamas now.
	So there's nothing more to leak.
	We've leaked everything.
	Uh Lindsay Lohan destabilizing the government of Papua New Guinea.
	We might we might be down we might be down to that.
	Paris Hilton destabilizing the South Sandwich Islands there might be there might be a memo or two to leak about that.
	But basically they've leaked everything the State Department has to leak so now the CIA has formed the WTF task force.
	We go the acronym for all acronyms your tax dollars at work WTF.
	Mark Steinfrarus border Christmas at the EIB network, Mark Stein Infrarus let's go to Eric in Bellingham, Washington.
	Eric, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show thank you Mark enjoying the show.
	Great uh great to have you with us.
	You're just like uh tucked up uh hard against the British Columbia border there.
	That's right.
	And uh but but but you're still in the United States right?
	Just barely Okay, okay we just want to we just want to check it out the um comment today is on uh Shannon's uh uh Shannon's call she uh she errs in not knowing her history she believes that uh nothing is solved by conflict and uh uh I think she needs to look at the Second World War for instance where we uh uh we fought a war against Japan and and uh uh Germany uh we were victorious and
	they're both our allies today.
	Well and you can start either one of those wars and on the and the other part of that is we're in North Korea uh we fought a war in the fifties uh it wasn't resolved and therefore we're still fighting it today.
	That's right and the and the and the war we didn't win the other side the other party to that conflict has uh has now gone nuclear exactly uh and uh and uh th that is that is the issue there she mentioned as uh as people do if you don't know anything about history it's the easiest thing to break uh uh bring up Hitler kill killing all the Jews.
	Well you know uh If uh if we'd done something about Hitler uh uh a lot earlier, he wouldn't have been able to kill six uh six million people.
	It's not her fault, Mark.
	She lives in a in a bubble.
	Uh all her friends, I'm sure her cocktail parties, they all they all agree with one another.
	They never really hear the other side.
	No, and they think because they have all the nice words, because they have all the words like, oh, compassion and social justice, uh that th that that that's all you need, that somehow they're amulets that will ward off all the evil spirits in the world.
	And and it's not.
	Um and and you learn that the hard way.
	You learn that the hard way, that when uh sometime one day, one day you'll if you don't have the the good fortune uh to live in a shishy little American college town, uh in a lot of other places on the planet, you open the door to hard faced men and you discover that your peace t shirt doesn't actually do anything to keep you safe.
	It doesn't do anything to keep the peace.
	In the end it's just a t shirt with some obsolescent stupid nineteen sixties um ripoff of the Mercedes symbol on it.
	Uh and it doesn't can't actually keep you safe.
	It doesn't do anything, doesn't work.
	Uh uh you're you're right, uh you're right about uh uh about that, Eric.
	And as you say, as you say, it's the unresolved wars uh that that cause the problem.
	Now you look at you look at the two problems we face today.
	We got a nuclear North Korea, right?
	A nuclear North Korea, because we didn't win the Korean war.
	We didn't bother winning it.
	It wasn't a big deal.
	We thought, okay, we'll just call it we'll have a draw.
	We'll call it a draw, everyone gets to go home with a prize.
	So uh on one side of the line you've got a a uh a dynamic first world economy that requires the United States to defend it, and north of the line you've got a basket case that's gone nuclear.
	That's what happens when you don't win wars.
	Just that little Korean peninsula is actually a microcosm of the world we're uh heading into.
	Then you take uh then you take Iran.
	Uh uh Iran seizes the uh the um uh US hostages.
	Jimmy Carter never liked the Shah, so he doesn't care about the Shah.
	He d won't sell uh he won't sell bullets to the Shah's police force, uh all the r uh uh or even rubber bullets.
	I think he wouldn't send uh uh I think they he he stopped uh selling rubber bullets to the Shah's police force so the Shah falls and we get these uh guys, the Ayatollah Homani, but don't worry, they're just like kind of European socialists, it's not worth making a big deal about.
	They seize the US Embassy, take everybody hostage, uh th uh that's an act of war.
	Nobody does anything.
	They uh take out mob contracts on uh on foreign novelists like Salman Rushdie and murder his translators and publishers.
	Nobody does anything.
	Uh they blow up a community center in Buenos Aires.
	The speaker of the Iranian Parliament, the speaker of the Parliament, okay, they're Nancy Pelosi.
	The the Iranian equivalent of Nancy Pelosi.
	Say what you like about Nancy Pelosi, but she's not blowing up community centers on the other side of the planet.
	As far as we know, as far as we know.
	Um this guy, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament masterminds an operation to blow up a community center in Buenos Aires.
	And still we do nothing.
	And the net result of uh thirty thirty-three years of doing nothing now is that they're going nuclear.
	Uh in the end, in the end, being willing to take action, decisive action early, does actually stop the killing.
	And and you're right that that's one thing that Shannon doesn't seem to understand.
	Let's go to Ron in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Ron, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Yeah, how are you doing, Mark?
	I've been waiting forty-eight almost fifty minutes for you, but it's worth it.
	Yeah, and I'm I'm glad you waited.
	Yeah, well, I got I got two things.
	If you can give me a little bit of my time back, I'd really appreciate it.
	I don't know anywhere else to go.
	I've got a question and I've got a solution.
	The question first is about the first responders.
	I give my heart to the uh police and the fire department, having been a military person and having lived in New York, as you can tell by my accent, it's pretty close to yours, but uh uh I'm from New York.
	That's true.
	We sound like drawers.
	Not York.
	Not York from New York.
	Anyhow.
	Anyhow, um what they have such a strong union and and health benefits, uh that I'm wondering why their union and health benefits don't kick in for the problems that they're having.
	And I also wonder for the life insurance that they have for those poor guys that gave their lives as heroes, why none of that kicks in.
	Why is it that if something happens to someone at Katrina but the rest of the country, which we're willing to always help everybody, we're the the most giving country in the world.
	Uh we we give to everybody, but I I I look at this union structure in New York, which is one of the strongest for the fire and police.
	And yet no one talks about what benefits are coming out of that or what life insurance is coming out of that.
	No, and and that that question is uh is uh is worth answering, and I'll answer that.
	But you said you said you also had a solution you wanted to propose to Zebra.
	Uh uh uh uh you know I I'll get off the line, but I got now a solution or something.
	Okay Social Security.
	Right.
	What's your solution?
	My solution to Social Security is that if you turn 18 after December 31, 2010, you will not get social security.
	You've just you've just solved the social security problem.
	We gotta hold it there back in a moment.
	Uh thank you.
	Thank you for your uh thank you for your call, Ron.
	The Rush Limbaugh Show continues on the EIB network after this.
	Yeah, deck deck the hall with bows of Holly.
	Don we now are gay apparel.
	Uh Rush uh isn't here, but he has left you a Christmas uh present.
	The uh the new Rush Limbaugh app for the iPhone and iPad.
	It's the number one most popular app in the Apple app category.
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	And and if you're a Rush 24-7 subscriber, you'll now be able to watch Rush live on the dito cam from your iPhone or iPad.
	Uh and any any queries you have, there there's bound to be one or two little glitchy things that uh that are in there that we'll we'll tweak and uh when we get to the Rush Limbaugh app uh 1.2 or 1.5 or whatever they call it, uh they'll all be taken care of.
	But but get this get this app.
	Uh you can find out all about it if you go to Rush Limbaugh.com where there's also tons of other rush content, and it's almost as if Rush is still here and you don't have all these lame duck guest hosts clogging up the airwaves.
	Uh Rush Limbaugh.com uh or go straight to the Apple store and uh type in Rush and download your Rush Limbaugh app.
	Now we had Ron uh just before uh the break, and Ron was asking uh which is an entirely reasonable question about all these first responders, uh and he's going, Well, these are the these are the people who have d don't they have terrific health plans anyway?
	In other words, these are not people, these are not part of the 30, 40, 70, 260 million unemployed, uninsured, uh health care uninsured people in America that Obamacare was meant to fix.
	These are not part of the four hundred and thirty million uninsured Americans that Obamacare was intended to fix.
	These are the people who have the best health care plans, public sector uh unionized workers, they have the best health care plans in the country.
	Now, l let's just take uh James the Droga, who is the gentleman that the bill is named after, James the Droga, 911 Health and Compensation Act.
	Uh he was a New York City police detective uh who spent some time at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, and he developed a cough in uh I think in uh shortly thereafterwards, and it wouldn't go away.
	So in 2004, uh he was put on permanent disability uh status.
	Um and uh that meant uh that uh he was on about $90,000 a year, inflation uh uh take uh uh it was at uh uh inflation linked so that it would go up according to inflation.
	Uh with all medical expenses uh taken care of.
	Basically, uh he he he had so he he was retired, but he had ninety thousand a year and he had his medical expenses taken care of.
	Now uh then the same year, the nine eleven victim compensation fund also gave him a cash award.
	Uh so he got an a uh uh an additional payment, uh a not insignificant payment on on top of this.
	Uh that was also, by the way, uh paid for by the taxpayers.
	Uh in other words, the the uh New York City uh taxpayers paid for the ninety thousand a year index linked to inflation and the medical expenses, then a broader group of American taxpayers paid for the nine eleven victim compensation fund.
	He died in in the year two thousand and six.
	Um uh it doesn't seem to actually have been anything to do with nine eleven.
	According to the New York City chief uh medical examiner, uh he injected himself with ground-up prescription drugs in uh solution.
	Uh James Zodroga.
	Uh but uh but the but the point here is that he had some of the best in the in the in the years in the last years of his life when he was taken ill, he had some of the best uh uh medical care available to anybody in the United States of America.
	All his medical expenses taken care of, plus an additional cash award from the 911 victim uh compensation fund.
	Um there's something either wrong uh with the uh the health care plan, or there is something wrong with the municipalities who signed off on these health care plans if they do not cover the firemen and police detectives uh for the sicknesses that they got at the World Trent Trade Center site.
	In other words, these aren't pre-existing conditions because nobody knew what the hell these these conditions were until they uh they went to the uh the World Trade Center site.
	So in other words, whatever it is they got at the World Trade Center should have been covered by their health care plans.
	So either their health care plans, which are some of the most lavish in the country, are not what the municipality was led to believe, or the municipality, simply because these are public sector unions and it's money no object is throwing away huge amounts of money on on plans that don't actually deliver what it is that they're supposed to be doing.
	But either way, either way, if you think about it, if you think about it for a moment, these are public sector unions who have some of the best health care uh in the country.
	So if they're not being covered, if they're not being covered by whatever it is that happened to them at 911, then something has gone very badly wrong, either in the health care plans they've signed on to uh or or in the due diligence uh that these lavishly remunerated public sector unions are uh uh are uh uh uh uh uh are doing on the on their so-called health care plans.
	This is the great issue, by the way, in in the uh in in America today as it is in in much of the the Western world.
	The New York Post had a story just yesterday.
	We we'll we'll take uh we'll just like take one example out of it.
	Uh if you're a school teacher in Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, New York, uh, and uh your final salary is a hundred and ten thousand dollars, that translates into an annual pension of seventy-eight thousand dollars, two hundred and twenty-five, exempt from state and local income tax.
	And you know what state and local income tax is like in New York.
	Uh it's it's one of the most tax jurisdictions in the country.
	But if you're a teacher uh and you get this pension of seventy-eight thousand dollars, two hundred and fifty-five, uh, you don't have to pay state or local income tax on that.
	So you retire at fifty-nine, fifty-nine, on seventy-eight thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars a year.
	And let's say you have a typical American life expectancy.
	So you get paid eighty thousand dollars tax-free to sit around the house uh for the last twenty years of your life.
	Uh police and firemen, by the way, in uh in New York get even more than that.
	Get even more than that.
	Uh the other thing that's not factored into that is that your health care is all taken care of.
	You you keep the uh you keep the same health benefits you got while you actually uh being a teacher and going to school and going to school every day.
	Now you you you you look at this.
	This it this is something that in many parts of the country is written into law.
	So it's not something you can even uh you can't change it, you can't roll back it.
	You can't have a vote in your state legislature that ends it.
	Uh this is something, this particular pension, no matter how unaffordable these ones are, all the ones that have been done up until December 31st, uh, 2010 or whatever, they're all there.
	They're all embedded in law.
	You can't roll them back, even though there is no money to pay for this stuff.
	Uh the New York Times had a story uh this morning about some small town in Alabama, Prit I think it was Pritchard, Alabama, that has basically decided just to stop paying the bills.
	It had uh it's uh it's uh it's a s uh city uh near Mobile, a small city near Mobile, and it's got no more money.
	So it just decided to stop.
	And I think I think probably uh if you're like a ringy-dink little small town in the middle of nowhere, uh you can probably get away with that.
	Nobody is gonna let Los Angeles get away with that.
	Nobody is gonna let New York City get away with that.
	Nobody is gonna let Chicago go away with get away with that, because you would have mass civil disobedience, you would have riots, uh the federal government will be stepping in to come out with some Greek style bailout uh for these municipalities that have done these deals.
	But it but in the end that won't work either.
	That won't work either.
	Because when you've got somebody, when you've got somebody who's 401k is worthless because the economy never recovered, and because there's still a crippling unemployment rate, so the kids never left the house, so you're still paying for them because there's no jobs for them to do, and you've still got the lousy uh debt on their on their college education you never got any return on investment for,
	and you're not able to retire, you've still got to go to work every day because the 401k got wiped out, and you're going to have an impoverished retirement if you ever do stop working.
	And there's this Yonkers school teacher living next door on her eighty thousand tax years, she's fine, she's able b bodied, she's sixty-two, uh she's getting eighty thousand dollars a year to sit at home all day.
	You are gonna have something close to uh to civil war in this country.
	Because you're you basically got setting up two unequal classes of citizenship.
	And actually at some point, you know, we talk about the whole reparations uh reparations business.
	At some point, at some point uh and the reparations argument, by the way, is that people is is that the racist whites took the fruits of the black labour and used it to enrich themselves.
	So they're sitting on the plantation porch uh uh uh having uh uh uh having their uh cocktails every night uh at the expense of all the back breaking labor that the the the the the black people did.
	That's exactly the same when you've got the eighty thousand dollar retired school teacher uh sitting next to the guy who's seventy eight and still having to go to work every day.
	Uh they're gonna be demanding reparations.
	You're gonna be on the you're gonna be have something close to civil war if this situation is not uh changed in some basic fundamental way.
	And that, by the way, is the reparations issue uh that anybody looking ten, twenty years down down the road in America is going to be talking about.
	Mark Stein in for rush, lots more to come.
	The Holly and the Ivy.
	Don't worry, they're both covered by the new food safety bill uh passed by the House of Representatives.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, let's go to Bill in Bakersfield, California.
	Bill, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Merry Christmas, Mark.
	Merry Christmas to you two.
	Thanks.
	And hound dog diddles to the king of talk radio.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Um calling about this thing with the uh teacher partially.
	My wife's a teacher at a at a Catholic school, and a couple of years ago they went to um oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara.
	Right.
	And while they were traversing the waters, you could see all the oil in the water.
	And there you know, the thing is that the the President has just shut down all this oil drilling on the coast of uh, you know, the East Coast.
	Right.
	And in the Gulf.
	And this whole thing with the energy, I mean, they keep talking about alternate energy when we have completely natural energy seeping out into the water off the coast of Santa Barbara.
	Over six hundred gallons a day into the water.
	Yeah, you're another five million cubic feet of natural gas into the air.
	And it's something I've not heard anybody really addressing.
	No, you're you're right that the environment produces this naturally.
	I mean, uh the the way the left talk about oil, they think it's something like, you know, Dick Cheney cooks up in the Halliburton laboratory.
	But it's in fact, as you say, it's seeping up uh uh uh up uh in the uh in the water, in the sea, natur entirely naturally.
	But you what what you're missing here, Bill, is is that the left wants to have all the privileges of a first world lifestyle uh without having to look at any of the nasty, unpleasant industrial type stuff that you have to do to produce it.
	They're like uh uh they're like uh the uh in H. G. Wells story, the Eli the Eloy and the Morlocks, when he takes the time machine into the future.
	And the Eloy are these effect people who just lie around all day and and the Morlocks do all the work uh buried away underground, out of sight, out of mind.
	So as far as the left is concerned, uh th they want all the unpleasant uh industrial work to be done out of sight, f out of mind far away, either by the legions of the undocumented or by outsourcing it to uh Chinese uh uh factories, uh, or in the case of uh energy uh by getting it from uh foreigners who do not share our interests.
	But the idea of actually taking uh the energy that is produced within the jurisdiction of the United States uh uh uh uh offends uh uh offends the uh the utopian fantasy in in which they want to live, and that's why they don't want a piece of that bill.
	Well, Mark, the the whole thing is a political deal, apparently by the Democrats, because the last year in February of 2009, the then state attorney uh or Lieutenant Governor John Garrandi and a two-person panel shut down an effort by the oil companies to horizontally drill from existing platforms to get this oil out of there.
	Right.
	In addition, in July of 2009, the California Democrat Assembly voted again no to you know retrieving this wasted oil and and natural gas and are citing environmental concerns.
	Yes, because your state is your state is bankrupt, but still uh Arnold Schwarzenegger and everybody underneath him thinks the priority is to make it even more environmentally friendly, which means even more expensive to do any kind of business in the state of California.
	So even as the state was going broke on uh Schwarzenegger's watch, uh with the help of the Democrats in Sacramento, all they all they wanted to prioritize, you've got this crazy thing in uh in uh in California where they want to shut down all the dams.
	They they uh they uh yeah uh water water doesn't count as renewable energy in California.
	Under the environmental protection bill that your crazy legislature passed, uh water isn't a renewable source of energy.
	Because uh water apparently uh water water apparently uh increases the emissions.
	Uh so it doesn't count as a natural renewable source of energy, even though you know you put a bucket outside and it mysteriously you have a little bit of rain overnight and it fills up.
	But it's not a renewable source of energy.
	This is again, it's it's it's the way they want the the privilege of a first world lifestyle uh without uh any of the uh industrial infrastructure that's necessary to produce it.
	And that's why your great state, Bill, uh unfortunately is kaput.
	And uh I'm sorry to leave it with you on that on that cheery note.
	But do you do you do still live in a beautiful state, and I do uh I do love uh Bakersfield in particular.
	So uh Bill, have a have a Merry Christmas and great to talk to you on the Rush Libre Show.
	Mark Snyder, the EIB Network, Border Cup.
	Uh I'm dreaming of a of a white Christmas.
	Oh, I hope we're not getting into driving Miss Nancy stuff there again.
	Um Mark Stein for Rush.
	You know, a couple of weeks ago a lady called up uh Rush uh the day after I'd been guest hosting and said, Why don't why don't you thank why don't you thank any of your guest hosts and uh and rush said uh you know that basically letting us do the show is is thanks enough.
	And that I think that's a reasonable point.
	I work for the BBC for years, and they never let me host any decent shows.
	I was in Canada for years.
	The CBC, the C the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the you know, the phone never stopped not ringing.
	Uh I come to the United States and I get to host America's uh number one radio show.
	And I believe, I believe this is uh correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Snerdley, but I believe this is one of the jobs Americans will do.
	It's about the last one.
	Uh what are the last jobs Americans will do?
	So I'm very uh I'm very glad to be here.
	And uh yeah, it's been outsourced to cheap foreign labor like everything else in this country.
	But there but no, I'm uh I'm I can't thank this country enough.
	And I can't thank Russia for letting me uh letting me host this show, particularly at this time of year.
	Enjoy all the blessings of this season.
	We'll have a best of rush tomorrow from me and mine to you and yours.

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