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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
	Twas the rush before Christmas.
	Tomorrow it'll be a best of rush for Christmas Eve and then three hours of terrific hand-picked Christmas music by Rush for the Christmas weekend.
	Monday Mark Belling is going to be here live for the post-Christmas show.
	I don't know what is December the 27th 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. Snurley is getting annoyed.
	He doesn't want to.
	We could do with more federal holidays.
	It would stimulate the economy if people were able to sit around the house more.
	But Mark Belling will be here live on Monday and I'll be back a little later in the week.
	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.
	I don't know whether if Harry Reid 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 Wikileaks Task Force, WTF.
	In fact, that's my favorite acronym since the 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 got to know, I mean, normally these Islamic groups are fairly well informed on the decadence of Western culture.
	So you've got to figure that when Al-Qaeda, the other guys all get together for the big Islamist Jihad Summit, that they're all secretly tittering behind their backs at the representative from MILF.
	But anyway, and it must be hell when you're trying to Google your secret contact in MILF on the internet.
	You've got to 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 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 it's a serious business this because as we saw in this latest WikiLeak, you know where 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.
	You'll find it very easily.
	I mentioned yesterday that there were no, that I couldn't stand the song the 12 Days of Christmas and even the parodies are lousy.
	Maybe I should take that back.
	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 another acronym, sexually transmitted disease.
	On the first day, this is the evils of Christmas from this Muslim group.
	You can find it, you can see the poster at xmusisevil.com.
	But they've got these posters up all over London, Birmingham, Manchester.
	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, Islam is very opposed to this.
	So they say in Islam, we are protected from all of these evils.
	We have marriage, family, honour, dignity, security, rights for man, woman and child.
	The evils of Christmas from a Muslim group.
	These are posters.
	Just a 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 one of the more interesting variations of the 12 Days of Christmas.
	Another thing I mentioned right at the end of the show yesterday, I quoted a headline and noted it without comment.
	A former inmate at Gitmo, Guantanamo Jews used witchcraft on prisoners and made me feel a cat was trying to penetrate me.
	And I had a couple of lists that say, oh, come on, you're just making this stuff up.
	Because you can find the full transcript now.
	It was an interview on Al Jazeera with Walid Mohammed Hajj, who was released from Gitmo.
	And unfortunately, he didn't get the same deal the Uyghurs got where they relocated him to Bermuda at U.S. 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've got to figure the Al Jazeera guy, right?
	He must know.
	Either he thinks this is very plausible, because most of us, when the guy starts talking like this, we'd realize, okay, this isn't going to look so good for the kind of cause that 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 Hajj goes, well, for example, if 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 what we're doing now.
	Now, I hope, I hope Amnesty International and the NGOs are up on this.
	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 recognizing that not only has Obama failed to shut down Gitmo, he's introduced new torture techniques, okay?
	We're not just playing Christina Aguiera 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 Mohammed Hajj, an alumnus of Club Gitmo.
	And the interviewer goes, did they ever use witchcraft on you?
	And he goes, 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 could an Eric Holder have let this guy be tried in New York?
	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 Mohammed Hajj's testimony in his court case in New York.
	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 he's getting some real hot dope exclusive here on all the Jew witchcraft that's being practiced on the blameless detainees at Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay.
	But here's the thing: for you, for President Obama who says that Guantanamo is the biggest recruiting tool for jihad on the planet.
	Okay, so you close it.
	Let's say you close it and you house these guys at a minimum security prison in Florida, say, or Illinois or wherever you want to put it.
	Do you really think that they're not then going to be going back to Al Jazeera and still telling stories about secret Jewish cats trying to penetrate them after the Jews have used witchcraft on them?
	In other words, 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 Walid Mohammed Hajj 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 prison in Illinois or wherever it is?
	Because I get the feeling, I get the feeling that, you know, Walid 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 prison in Illinois.
	Mark Stein, yeah, cats do cats do have cats, yes, cats do have nine lives.
	Mr. Snadley says that that is a lot of penetrating.
	It's true.
	I don't feel they need feline Viagra, do they?
	You know, when a cat is all tuckered out, he just one of the other eight lives kicks in.
	Yeah, but that is true.
	If you feel yourself being penetrated by a cat, just read the Quran.
	It generally works.
	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 sap lines are secure from terrorists and you find some horny moose, bull moose coming on at you, don't read the Quran to him because it doesn't work on a moose.
	It just gets, yeah, it just gets them turned on.
	You really don't want to try that.
	It doesn't work with anybody.
	But as the CIA would say, WTF, WikiLeaks Task Force.
	WikiLeaks Task Force.
	This is, by the way, the crack intelligence unit.
	We talked about that yesterday, the guy, the director of national intelligence with Diane Sawyer, 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 a big tabby cat is coming on to him.
	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 subverting the government of the Bahamas, which tells you, they've moved on now.
	First, they were just like leaking confidential stuff about the Iranian nuclear program, relations with China, relations with Russia.
	They're down to Anna Nicole Smith destabilizing the Bahamas now.
	So there's nothing more to leak.
	We've leaked everything.
	Lindsay Lohan destabilizing the government of Papua New Guinea.
	We might be down to that.
	Paris Hilton destabilizing the South Sandwich Islands.
	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.
	There we go.
	The acronym for all acronyms, your tax dollars at work, WTF.
	Mark Schneider for Rush bordercom.
	Christmas at the EIB Network.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Let's go to Eric in Bellingham, Washington.
	Eric, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Well, thank you, Mark.
	Enjoying the show.
	Great to have you with us.
	You're just like tucked up hard against the British Columbia border there.
	That's right.
	But you're still in the United States, right?
	Just barely.
	Okay, okay.
	We just want to check.
	The comment today is on Shannon's Shannon's call.
	She errs in not knowing her history.
	She believes that nothing is solved by conflict.
	And I think she needs to look at the Second World War, for instance, where we fought a war against Japan and Germany.
	We were victorious, and they're both our allies today.
	You couldn't start either one of those wars.
	And the other part of that is we're in North Korea.
	We fought a war in the 50s.
	It wasn't resolved, and therefore we're still fighting it today.
	That's right.
	And the war we didn't win, the other side, the other party to that conflict, has now gone nuclear.
	Exactly.
	And that is the issue there.
	She mentioned, as people do, because if you don't know anything about history, it's the easiest thing to bring up, Hitler killing all the Jews.
	Well, you know, if we'd done something about Hitler a lot earlier, he wouldn't have been able to kill 6 million people.
	It's not her fault, Mark.
	She lives in a bubble.
	All her friends, I'm sure, her cocktail parties, 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, that that's all you need, that somehow they're amulets that will ward off all the evil spirits in the world.
	And it's not.
	And you learn that the hard way.
	You learn that the hard way, that when sometime, one day, one day, if you don't have the good fortune to live in a she little American college town, 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 1960s rip-off of the Mercedes symbol on it.
	And it doesn't can't actually keep you safe.
	It doesn't do anything.
	It doesn't work.
	You're right about that, Eric.
	And as you say, as you say, it's the unresolved wars that cause the problem.
	Now, you look at the two problems we face today.
	We've 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 on one side of the line, you've got 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 heading into.
	Then you take Iran.
	Iran seizes the U.S. hostages.
	Jimmy Carter never liked the Shah, so he doesn't care about the Shah.
	He won't sell bullets to the Shah's police force, or even rubber bullets.
	I think he stopped selling rubber bullets to the Shah's police force.
	So the Shah falls, and we get these guys, the Ayatollah Khomeini.
	But don't worry, they're just like kind of European socialists.
	It's not worth making a big deal about.
	They seize the U.S. Embassy, take everybody hostage.
	That's an act of war.
	Nobody does anything.
	They take out mob contracts on foreign novelists like Salman Rushdie and murder his translators and publishers.
	Nobody does anything.
	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 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.
	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 33 years doing nothing now is that they're going nuclear.
	In the end, in the end, being willing to take action, decisive action early, does actually stop the killing.
	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 48, almost 50 minutes for you, but it's worth it.
	Yeah, and I'm glad you waited.
	Yeah, well, I got two things.
	If you can give me a little bit of my time back, I'd really appreciate it because 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 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 I'm from New York.
	That's true.
	We sound like yours.
	Not yours.
	Not yours from New York.
	Anyhow, anyhow, they have such a strong union and health benefits 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 most giving country in the world, we give to everybody.
	But 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 that question is worth answering, and I'll answer that.
	But you said you also had a solution you wanted to propose to that, Mark.
	You know, I'll get off the line, but I got now a solution for something.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Social security.
	Right.
	What's your solution?
	My solution to Social Security is that if you turn 18 after December 31st, 2010, you will not get Social Security.
	You've just solved the Social Security problem.
	We've got to hold it there back in a moment.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for your call, Ron.
	The Rush Limbaugh Show continues on the EIB network after this.
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	Now, we had Ron on just before the break, and Ron was asking, which is an entirely reasonable question about all these first responders, and he's going, well, these are the people who have, 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, healthcare, uninsured people in America that Obamacare was meant to fix.
	These are not part of the 430 million uninsured Americans that Obamacare was intended to fix.
	These are the people who have the best health care plans, public sector unionized workers.
	They have the best health care plans in the country.
	Now, let's just take James Zadroga, who is the gentleman that the bill is named after, James Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act.
	He was a New York City police detective who spent some time at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, and he developed a cough in, I think, shortly thereafterwards, and it wouldn't go away.
	So in 2004, he was put on permanent disability status.
	And that meant that he was on about $90,000 a year, inflation take, it was inflation-linked so that it would go up according to inflation, with all medical expenses taken care of.
	Basically, he was retired, but he had $90,000 a year and he had his medical expenses taken care of.
	Now, then the same year, the 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund also gave him a cash award.
	So he got an additional payment, a not insignificant payment, on top of this.
	That was also, by the way, paid for by the taxpayers.
	In other words, the New York City taxpayers paid for the $90,000 a year index linked to inflation and the medical expenses.
	Then a broader group of American taxpayers paid for the 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund.
	He died in the year 2006.
	It doesn't seem to actually have been anything to do with 9-11.
	According to the New York City chief medical examiner, he injected himself with ground-up prescription drugs in a solution, James Zadroga.
	But the point here is that he had some of the best, in the years, in the last years of his life, when he was taken ill, he had some of the best 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 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund.
	There's something either wrong With 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 for the sicknesses that they got at the World Trade Center site.
	In other words, these aren't pre-existing conditions because nobody knew what the hell these conditions were until they went to 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 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 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 9-11, then something has gone very badly wrong, either in the health care plans they've signed on to or in the due diligence that these lavishly remunerated public sector unions are doing on their so-called health care plans.
	This is the great issue, by the way, in America today, as it is in much of the Western world.
	The New York Post had a story just yesterday.
	We'll just take one example out of it.
	If you're a school teacher in Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, New York, and your final salary is $110,000, that translates into an annual pension of $78,225, exempt from state and local income tax.
	And you know what state and local income tax is like in New York.
	It's one of the most taxed jurisdictions in the country.
	But if you're a teacher and you get this pension of $78,255, you don't have to pay state or local income tax on that.
	So you retire at $59, $59 on $78,255 a year.
	And let's say you have a typical American life expectancy.
	So you get paid $80,000 tax-free to sit around the house for the last 20 years of your life.
	Police and firemen, by the way, in New York get even more than that.
	Get even more than that.
	The other thing that's not factored into that is that your health care is all taken care of.
	You keep the same health benefits you got while you actually being a teacher and going to school and going to school every day.
	Now, you look at this.
	This is something that in many parts of the country is written into law.
	So it's not something you can even, you can't change it.
	You can't roll back it.
	You can't have a vote in your state legislature that ends it.
	This is something, this particular pension, no matter how unaffordable these ones are, all the ones that have been done up until December 31, 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.
	The New York Times had a story this morning about some small town in Alabama, I think it was Pritchard, Alabama, that has basically decided just to stop paying the bills.
	It's a city near Mobile, a small city near Mobile, and it's got no more money.
	So it just decided to stop.
	And I think probably if you're like a ringy-dink little small town in the middle of nowhere, you can probably get away with that.
	Nobody is going to let Los Angeles get away with that.
	Nobody is going to let New York City get away with that.
	Nobody is going to let Chicago get away with that because you would have mass civil disobedience.
	You would have riots.
	The federal government will be stepping in to come out with some Greek-style bailout for these municipalities that have done these deals.
	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 whose 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 debt 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 80,000 tax year.
	She's fine.
	She's able-bodied.
	She's 62.
	She's getting $80,000 a year to sit at home all day.
	You are going to have something close to civil war in this country because you're basically setting up two unequal classes of citizenship.
	And actually, at some point, you know, we talk about the whole reparations business.
	At some point, at some point, and the reparations argument, by the way, is that people is that the racist whites took the fruits of the black labor and used it to enrich themselves.
	So they're sitting on the plantation porch having their cocktails every night at the expense of all the backbreaking labor that the black people did.
	That's exactly the same when you've got the $80,000 retired school teacher sitting next to the guy who's 78 and still having to go to work every day.
	They're going to be demanding reparations.
	You're going to have something close to civil war if this situation is not changed in some basic fundamental way.
	And that, by the way, is the reparations issue that anybody looking 10, 20 years 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 passed by the House of Representatives.
	Mark Steinin for Rush, let's go to Bill in Bakersfield, California.
	Bill, you are alive on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Merry Christmas, Mark.
	Merry Christmas to you too.
	Thanks.
	And hound dog dittos to the king of talk radio.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I was calling about this thing with the teacher partially.
	My wife's a teacher at a Catholic school, and a couple years ago, they went to 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 the thing is, is that the president has just shut down all this oil drilling on the coast of the East Coast 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 and estimate over 600 gallons a day into the water.
	Yeah, you're getting another 5 million cubic feet of natural gas into the air.
	And it's something I've not heard anybody really addressing.
	No, you're right that the environment produces this naturally.
	I mean, 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 in the water, in the sea, entirely naturally.
	But what you're missing here, Bill, is that the left wants to have all the privileges of a first world lifestyle without having to look at any of the nasty, unpleasant industrial type stuff that you have to do to produce it.
	They're like in H.G. Wells' story, the elawyer and the morlocks, when he takes the time machine into the future.
	And the eloy are these effete people who just lie around all day, and the morlocks do all the work buried away underground, out of sight, out of mind.
	So as far as the left is concerned, they want all the unpleasant industrial work to be done out of sight, out of mine, far away, either by the legions of the undocumented or by outsourcing it to Chinese factories or in the case of energy, by getting it from foreigners who do not share our interests.
	But the idea of actually taking the energy that is produced within the jurisdiction of the United States offends the utopian fantasy in which they want to live.
	And that's why they don't want a piece of that bill.
	Well, Mark, the whole thing is a political deal, apparently, by the Democrats, because last year, in February of 2009, the then state attorney or Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi 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 retrieving this wasted oil and natural gas and are citing environmental concerns.
	Yes, because your state is bankrupt, but still, 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 Schwarzenegger's watch with the help of the Democrats in Sacramento, all they wanted to prioritize, you've got this crazy thing in California where they want to shut down all the dams.
	Water doesn't count as renewable energy in California.
	Under the Environmental Protection Bill that your crazy legislature passed, water isn't a renewable source of energy because water apparently increases the emissions.
	So it doesn't count as a natural renewable source of energy, even though 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 the way they want the privilege of a first world lifestyle without any of the industrial infrastructure that's necessary to produce it.
	And that's why your great state bill, unfortunately, is kaput.
	And I'm sorry to leave it with you on that on that cheery note.
	But you do still live in a beautiful state, and I do love Bakersfield in particular.
	So, Bill, have a Merry Christmas and great to talk to you on the Rush Libor Show.
	Mark Stein on the EIB Network Border Cup.
	I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
	Oh, I hope we're not getting into driving Miss Nancy stuff there again.
	Mark Stein for Russia.
	A couple of weeks ago, a lady called up Rush the day after I'd been guest hosting and said, Why don't you thank any of your guest hosts?
	And Rush said that basically letting us do the show is thanks enough.
	And I think that's a reasonable point.
	I worked for the BBC for years, and they never let me host any decent shows.
	I was in Canada for years.
	The CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the phone never stopped not ringing.
	I come to the United States and I get to host America's number one radio show.
	And I believe, I believe this is, correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Snurdley, but I believe this is one of the jobs Americans will do.
	It's about the last one, one of the last jobs Americans will do.
	So I'm very, I'm very glad to be here.
	And yeah, it's been outsourced to cheap foreign labor like everything else in this country.
	But I can't thank this country enough.
	And I can't thank Russia enough for 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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