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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	On the 10th day of guest hosts, Rush Limbaugh gave to me 10 guest hosts are leaping.
	But fear not, EIB listener, the 12 days of guest hosts are ending early.
	Rush returns live tomorrow.
	It's only the 11th day of Christmas, but Rush is so eager to launch a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting that he'll be here guest hosting for the pre-scheduled guest host live at 12 noon tomorrow.
	So no 11 guest hosts guesting tomorrow.
	America's Anchorman will be back.
	And so for today, it's your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein.
	Honored to be here.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Still a little stiff from being bent up in the trunk of the car when we crossed the northern border.
	You know how it is.
	You book the Lincoln Town car, but the guy shows up in a 1984 Honda Civic with a barbecue.
	He's returning to Home Depot in the trunk.
	So I'm a little stiff from being wedged in there.
	We're coming to you live from the Rush Limbaugh Show's newest studio, Ice Station EIB, as HR christened it.
	Ice Station ERB in far northern Grafton County, New Hampshire.
	So far north that Mitt Romney has yet to host a 2012 exploratory rubber chicken night in this town.
	Actually, Mitt is so flushy as a rubber turducken.
	But Ice Station EIB is on the air.
	Last week, we were assisted by Mr. Snerdley at Southern Command in Florida because Nanny Bloomberg prevented him flying into New York to produce the show.
	So he was unable to get to New York City thanks to Nanny.
	But today, I believe HR has managed to penetrate the snowbound wastes of Nanny Bloomberg's Midtown Manhattan.
	So he came through New Jersey.
	The tunnel, they haven't put the plowed snow in the Lincoln Tunnel then and blocked it up, have they?
	Okay, okay.
	So he landed at New Jersey.
	And in fact, I want to take back a lot of my criticisms of Nanny Bloomberg's big government last week because of this story of your heartwarming big government at work in the New York Post.
	Suicide jumper saved by pile of trash bags.
	This was a man in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York who jumped from his ninth floor apartment window, but survived because he landed atop a mountain of uncollected trash bags that the New York City Sanitation Department had decided to leave frozen in the snow.
	So he threw himself off the ninth floor of his apartment building, but he only fell about 18 inches before he landed on the uncollected trash bags left by the New York City Sanitation Department.
	Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg.
	It's big government at its finest.
	It just goes to show, you know, this could be the whole solution, by the way, to the whole death panel problem.
	I think if you merge the Obamacare death panels with the New York City Sanitation Department, it should all work out fine.
	So I want to withdraw my criticism of the New York City administration of Nanny Bloomberg somewhat.
	But then we have this story also from the New York Post, which is about a group of on-duty sanitation supervisors.
	They're under investigation because they were buying booze and partying it, partying it up in their cozy department car for hours on Monday night, last Monday night, after the blizzard stranded a bus three blocks away.
	So while taxpayers of New York were stranded on this city bus and shivering on this city bus all night, stuck in it, the guys who were meant to plow and clear the streets were in fact boozing it up.
	They were observed buying six packs of beer from a Brooklyn store and then walked back to their car, passed the stuck bus, and just stayed in the parked car parking beer.
	Now, I was critical of Nanny Bloomberg's incompetent administration last week.
	So I don't want to jump to conclusions about New York City sanitation department workers boozing it up all night long when they're supposed to be clearing snow.
	Because you may remember there was a story, I think it was a guy from Slovakia a couple of years ago.
	And he'd been driving through the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia in his car when he got buried by an avalanche.
	And he opened the window to try and claw his way out.
	And instead, all the snow kept coming in through the window.
	And he realized he could never do it that way.
	And he looked around, and with the inventiveness that one associates with the wily Slovak, he spotted the dozens of half-liter bottles of beer he happened to have on the back seat.
	And he had a drink, and midway through the first beer, he realized that he could urinate on the snow to melt it.
	And apparently he did.
	I think the headline at the time, as I said, this is like three or four years ago now, the headline was man-peed way out of avalanche.
	He drank so much beer, apparently he got kidney and liver problems, but he successfully urinated his way through the avalanche.
	So I feel certain that when this deplorable New York Post story, casting aspersions on New York City sanitation department supervisors boozing it up all night, I feel sure they were only chugging their way through all these six packs of beer from the Brooklyn convenience store while people were stuck in city buses a couple of blocks away all night long.
	I think they were just chugging their way through all these six packs of beer because they had realized that it would be actually far more environmentally friendly instead of using these snow plows to clear the snow, actually just to urinate the snow off the city streets of New York.
	And judging, yeah, they might, well, I don't think, no, no, that's just the wrong way of looking at it.
	I've had a suggestion that maybe in that case they should have given some six packs to the bus passengers and they could have contributed.
	No, because we want a government regulatory urination regime in New York.
	Yeah, it's a union.
	You can't just have ununionized urinators urinating all over New York City streets.
	You know, they've got to be unionized urinators.
	Otherwise, the big government thing just falls apart.
	Otherwise, any homeless people on the streets of New York would just be urinating all over the city.
	And that would never do.
	So we only want unionized urinators with gold-plated pension plans to clear the streets of New York.
	And judging by the rate at which they've been clearing the snow from New York City streets, that's working out just grand.
	I used the phrase last week, the pansy left.
	And I was careful to explain this wasn't just a cheap insult, but it was actually George Orwell's term, George Orwell.
	It's a literary quotation.
	George Orwell used to call them the pansy left.
	And I mention that because it's not clear to me the left always picks up on these literary allusions.
	You may remember Richard Wolfe on MSNBC, who was mocking Sarah Palin for saying she reads C.S. Lewis.
	And he'd never read any C.S. Lewis.
	And to the pansy left, the defining proof of Sarah Palin's ignorance is that she cites an author you've never read.
	You know, it's not like the smart lefties who pretend to read Maya Angelou or Rigoberto Menchu or the other unreadable sludge of identity group boosterism.
	So I want to make clear that the pansy left is a term from George Orwell.
	And I said it was great at solving problems that didn't exist.
	And I was talking then, you know, and Nanny Bloomberg is a great example of that.
	Nanny Bloomberg, he can't put salt on the roads, but he can take the salt out of your fast food joints.
	That wasn't a problem in New York City, but he decided to concentrate on that rather than on snow removal.
	He's a monument.
	He's a monument to the triviality of big government.
	Big government inserts itself into every aspect of your life to no useful purpose, though.
	And we were talking at that point about the curly fry light bulb, the CFL, the curly fry light bulb.
	I believe that's what CFL stands for.
	And I read out the official state of Maine guidelines on how to dispose of a curly fry light bulb and listed the convenient 14 easy steps if a curly fry light bulb happens to break in your house.
	You just need duct tape, latex gloves, baby wipes, a drop cloth, a pack of playing cards, two mason jars, and a new carpet.
	I mean, who doesn't have that within handy reach of every light bulb?
	And it was pointed out to me by several listeners that, as much as we might like to mock the pansy left for this legislation, in fact, 314 members of the House of Representatives plus 86 senators, 86 out of 100 senators, and one president, named George W. Bush, passed this thing into law a couple of years ago, 2007.
	So it was admirably bipartisan.
	86 out of 100 senators and a Republican president passed the curly fry light bulb law banning Edison's great iconic invention.
	And I would like to suggest in today's show that we roll back this thing, that a useful demonstration of the seriousness of the Republican House of Representatives would be if it undoes that vote and restores Edison's great iconic invention, U.S. patent number 223,898, granted on January 27, 1880.
	If they restore that to legality in the United States, it would be a great demonstration of the Republican Party's seriousness in the times we face.
	Just because there's a pansy left is no reason why a pansy right should be so eager to climb into bed with them.
	Now, is that likely to happen?
	Well, look, the guy who heads the relevant committee is a fellow called Fred Upton.
	And Fred Upton is a man who actually was responsible for drawing up the Curly Fry Light Bulb Law.
	So he, in part, gave us this Curly Fry Light Bulb Law.
	And so I'm not persuaded that this is the best sign of health and seriousness by the new Republican House, that this guy is the one in charge.
	And in fact, if you look at his own state, he's from Michigan.
	And if you look at the list on the state of Michigan thing, it's even longer than Maine.
	It's not just a convenient 14-step disposal plan for your curly fry light bulb.
	They've got like an 18-step disposal plan because you don't just need the drop cloth and the baby wipes and the pack of playing cards and the two mason jars and the new carpet.
	You also need additional items like an eyedropper.
	You know, an eyedropper for putting drops in your eyes, panel, you need an eyedropper.
	Just to throw out a light bulb, the light bulb they're making us all have, because they banned the light bulb that doesn't require you to have a pack of playing cards, two mason jars, a new carpet, and an eyedropper handy when you happen to break them.
	And so I would like the Republican Party to demonstrate its seriousness in one easy way in the new House by voting to repeal the Energy Independence and Security Act that banned Edison's great defining invention from the age of American dynamism in the late 19th century.
	Let's not kill dynamic America by banning all the stuff that made this country great for no good reason.
	Just because there's the pansy left solving problems that don't exist, there's no reason for a pansy right to get into bed with them.
	Fred Upton is going around now pretending he's a conservative, that this idea that he's just some rhino-squish pansy right guy from Michigan is all a lot of who he got up by his opponents.
	And in fact, he's seen the light and he's now Mr. Conservative.
	Well, he can demonstrate it by undoing the absurdity of this particular nonsense.
	1-800-282-2882-Mark Stein in for rush.
	Don't forget, rush back live tomorrow.
	Yeah, Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	Rush back tomorrow.
	Talking about this guy, Fred Upton, who heads the relevant committee in the House of Representatives, the new Republican incoming chair.
	I'd like to see that.
	I'm sick of this pansy left laws on problems that do not exist.
	There was no need to ban Edison's light bulb.
	And just looking at what Fred Upton's own state, the official state of Michigan recommendations for what you need to have handy when a curly-fry light bulb, the CFL, breaks, you need an eyedropper, duct tape, playing cards, a small artist's paintbrush.
	Now, I don't know whether that is an artist's small paintbrush or a small artist's paintbrush, such as, say, Toulouse-Lautrec might have had to have.
	But whether it's an artist's small paintbrush or a small artist's paintbrush, and you don't want to get it wrong, you need one of those as well to absorb the mercury beads.
	You also need foam-type shaving cream.
	But wait a minute.
	I thought, isn't that foam-type shaving cream, isn't that what was causing the hole in the ozone layer?
	So in other words, to introduce the environmentally friendly light bulb, we're going to need to have far more of the old foam type shaving cream.
	That's for your pets' feet, because if your pets go anywhere near the broken bulb, you've got to apparently put shape.
	I don't know whether you actually have to shave their feet, but it's not clear from the official state of Michigan recommendations, but you need foam-type shaving cream.
	It's no good, by the way, just mixing it up yourself with the old brush like they do in the silent movies with Charlie Chaplin, where he shaves half the guy's mustache off.
	You can't do it that way.
	You've got to have the foam type shaving cream.
	And you also need rubber shoes.
	You've got to have shoe covers as well.
	This is if you're...
	Now, as a listener said yesterday, when the next San Francisco earthquake strikes and Nancy Pelosi laughs, millions of bulbs break, they're going to have a class action suit.
	But this is just, by the way, if something goes wrong, but even just being in the presence of a non-broken bulb raises certain health issues.
	Britain's Health Protection Agency, which is a leftist big government agency, says you should not be within a foot of a curly fry light bulb for more than one hour a day.
	In other words, to do this three-hour radio show with environmentally friendly lighting, I have to sit in the dark for two-thirds of the show.
	Although, you know, they may force us to keep the lights on.
	And those of us in the guest hosts union, me, Mark Belling, Mark Davis, we're going to have one hell of a class action lawsuit against the EIB network when we all come down with various strange illnesses in 10 years' time.
	According to the BBC, by the way, also a lefty organization, the constant, if barely perceptible flicker of the CFL can trigger headaches, migraines, and epileptic seizures.
	Medical charities in Britain are demanding an opt-out for, quote, vulnerable people because of the risk of epileptic fits, skin rashes, and other environmentally friendly side effects from this superb product.
	I love that phrase, by the way, vulnerable people, because the genius of big government is to make us all vulnerable.
	That's the thing.
	It assumes we're all children, we're all vulnerable children, so we all have to be regulated by the big nanny state.
	And because the big nanny doesn't actually suffer from what the writer Austin Williams calls the poverty of ambition, what it means is that as in this light bulb business, so-called progressives are actually at war with progress.
	That's why the stimulus failed, because the stimulus didn't stimulate anything except government.
	Even in blue states now, the Vermont stimulus czar said the stimulus totally failed in Vermont.
	It doesn't create any real jobs, doesn't create any real economic growth.
	Because big government, 21st century style, when your progressives are at war with progress, they're at war with prosperity, the result is what we have under Obama.
	We have money, no object government spending tons of money, but to no great objects.
	Obama's, I think she was the Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
	I think she still is, a lady called Deanna Archuletta.
	She told an audience in Nevada last year, you will never see another federal dam.
	And she didn't just say this as a kind of tragic announcement that we couldn't afford to build them anymore.
	She promised them, she pledged them that the old-style federal government in FDR's day built the Hoover Dam.
	The new style federal government just regulates the kind of light bulbs you can have in your house.
	It's micro-regulatory trivia, solving problems that don't exist.
	If you don't like the phrase the pansy left, I used to, do you remember Howard Dean when he ran for president in 2004 and he revealed that he'd quit the Episcopal Church over a doctrinal dispute about the bike path in Burlington, Vermont?
	And I started calling them at that point the bike path left.
	And that's the terms they think of.
	They think, oh, well, if we close the Hoover Dam and convert it to a fish hatchery, if we carpet the land with bike paths, then this will get the economy booming again.
	Now, that worked for Clintonism in the 90s, because the times were good, we were prosperous, nothing much happening.
	We could afford leftist trivia like Al Gore's federal toilet tank regulation.
	But we can no longer afford the trivia of the left's poverty of ambition.
	That's why the stimulus failed, because the left no longer understands the fundamentals either of government or of economic regeneration.
	So the result is we spend a trillion dollars and have nothing to show for it.
	Nothing at all.
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	Let's go to Carol in St. Louis.
	Carol, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you once.
	Happy New Year.
	Hi.
	Well, I want to first call and talk about the reason that George Bush signed it was because that was an appropriations bill.
	Okay.
	And you know how those go.
	Right.
	The reason I have done an enormous amount of research on these bulbs because I hate them so much.
	Do you know that the reason all the mercury mines closed in California, because the mercury sold all the jobs, we've actually lost jobs, and GE had to ship all the jobs, the incandescent bulbs to Mexico and China.
	Right.
	So we've closed all those factories down so we can make these bulbs in China and Mexico.
	And it's all because of the mercury.
	Right.
	So everybody who is too lazy to recycle these bulbs will now put them in their trash.
	The trash and the mercury will now seep into our water supply.
	But I don't see any environmentalists upset about that.
	No, no, no.
	No, exactly.
	Nobody wants to make that.
	So as you say, we've outsourced the product.
	And I don't even know whether actually there are any environmental benefit to importing a mercury-laden light bulb from China rather than having the Edison light bulb made at an American factory and traveling to your living room 200 miles up the road.
	By the time it now they all have to come from across the ocean because another characteristic of the pansy left is they want the benefits of a advanced, prosperous society without having to see any of the industrial activity that goes to produce it.
	So as you say, they don't want anything involving mercury or any factory requiring the use of mercury to be in a pristine state like California.
	So all this has to be done.
	All this has to be offshored to China and everywhere else.
	And as you say, in 20 years' time, we're going to have massive mercury seepage and people with birth defects and all kinds of other things and kidney damage and epileptics are going to have like this 9-11 first responders bill, except it will be a gazillion billion, zillion, bazillion, trillion or whatever the number is up to by then in the class action lawsuit.
	Carol, this is the insanity.
	You say you don't like it, but what can you as a freeborn citizen do about it?
	Well, you know what I've done?
	Well, I've looked into it, and the first ones are to go out of the 100-watt incandescent bulbs.
	I have literally half my basement filled with light bulbs.
	I have a lifetime supply.
	All my cute little chandelier bulbs, all my specialty bulbs in my kitchen, I have an entire basement full of them.
	And that's the last man standing.
	I refuse to ever use those in my lifetime.
	That's good.
	As you say, the 100-watt ones are the first ones to be banned.
	In fact, I think this very month they go out of circulation in Europe.
	And the price of the curly-fry light bulb replacement is apparently about to triple now that there's no longer any alternative.
	Because that's also how these things work.
	But you can do something else too, you know.
	If you don't like these 14-step plans that the state of Maine and the state of Michigan and no doubt your own great state imposes on users of light bulbs, then I think it's appropriate if you do break one of these light bulbs and you are concerned about disposal and you are concerned about it maybe seeping into the sewage system and leaching out into the environment,
	then I think it might be appropriate actually to, when you do break a bulb, to mail it to your legislator who voted to introduce this curly fry light bulb.
	Because I'm sure they wouldn't have done it if they weren't responsible people who knew the responsible way to dispose of them.
	So maybe the best thing to do with a broken bulb is just to pack it in a box and mail it to your congressman in Washington.
	And I'm sure he, or your senator, and I'm sure he'll know how to dispose of it.
	Well, it's funny that the EPA now is so concerned about lead.
	Why are they not concerned about mercury?
	It's just as bad.
	Yeah, no, no, no, I know, I know, because it's in fashion.
	It's like Al Gore has now come out against ethanol.
	We diverted the corn production part of the energy system.
	And as a result, there were third world people starving all over the map.
	There were food riots around the planet because geniuses like Al Gore, the United States Congress, and the European Union, all the people who drunk the ethanol, decided that they were going to make corn production part of the energy supply system.
	And Al Gore has now belatedly recognized that like so many of his other terrific ideas, this one was a complete bust, a complete flopperoo.
	And all it did was cause fetching attractive people of many lands in bucolic, unspoilt corners of the world to starve to death or get trampled to death in food riots because pampered, prosperous, decadent Western lefties like Al Gore decided to make corn production part of the food supply.
	And that's exactly how it's going to go with this mercury-lead thing.
	In a couple of years' time, the environmental winds will change direction, and all the finger-in-the-windy types in Congress will decide that we now need a new regime and a new massive expensive cleanup to do to mercury light bulbs what we did to lead paint.
	This is the stupidity.
	The government created this problem and government will need a massive new expensive regulatory regime to correct the problem.
	Thank you for your call, Carol.
	But do think about that.
	The best way, the easiest way, instead, if you don't find all the 14-step disposal plans confusing, maybe easiest just to mail that broken CFL light bulb to the senator who voted for it.
	Thank you for your call.
	Carol in St. Louis, we're talking about what I quoted George Orwell on, the pansy left, the pansy left, solving problems that don't exist.
	And it applies to everything.
	I laughed my head off the other day when Katie Couric decided that one of the great issues, burning issues of the year, was the rampant rise in Islamophobia in America.
	She thought it was very disturbing that the objections to the proposed ground zero mosque.
	And she decided that this was one of the biggest underreported stories of the year.
	And to show how serious she was, have you noticed Katie's taken to wearing these reading glasses to give her a kind of more gravitas, like President Clinton does when he wants to offend.
	No, no, Katie isn't old.
	Have you not seen that video on the internet of her dancing like the most abandoned cougar in town at the CBS Christmas party, CBS News Division Christmas party?
	All the regulars, like Bob Schieffer, looks like his pacemaker's about to explode, you know, as Katie is doing her, Katie is doing her wild abandoned dance on the dance floor.
	It's out there on the internet somewhere.
	But when she wants to be serious, when she's not doing the Cougar Town dance at the CBS office party, she wears these reading glasses like Bill Clinton does.
	You know, when he has his spectacles pushed down the end of his nose, like he's trying to determine whether that's his 10 a.m. intern shuffling towards him across the broad loom, or maybe it's a rabid armadillo that Al Gore brought in for the Earth Day photo op.
	You don't want to get confused on that.
	So when he has his spectacles pushed down on his nose, so does Katie.
	And Katie did it when she was telling us that the big story, the big underreported story of the year, was the rampant increase in Islamophobia.
	And there's no Islamophobia.
	This is like Nanny Bloomberg, the guy who can't plow the streets and whose first responder system now depends on the sanitation department leaving mountain-high stacks of uncollected trash outside 10-story apartment buildings for suicidal New Yorkers to jump down onto.
	Nanny Bloomberg deplored the way at the time of the Times Square bomber said he was very worried that there could be a backlash against Muslims from the knuckle-dragging citizenry of New York that he has the misfortune to rule over.
	Janet Ncompetano, the Homeland Security Secretary after the Fort Hood thing, said she was worried about that.
	How many times the American people have to ace that test?
	There's no problem here.
	There's no problem with Islamophobia, but decadent, useless lefties want to solve problems that don't exist.
	Mark Stein, infra rush, more ahead.
	Mark Stein, infra rush on the EIB network, talking about the pansy left solving problems that don't exist, listening to Katie Couric, who has driven CBS news ratings down to, I believe, the lowest ever measured audience for a network newscast, was recorded by Katie last year.
	That shows sad that the very idea that they thought by hiring Katie would be a way to freshen up the show.
	But when you hear her say, well, I think one of the big unreported puts on her serious thinker spectacles, well, I think one of the unreported stories of the year was the rampant Islamophobia.
	Why not try this one, Katie?
	You never know.
	You might actually get a few viewers over this one.
	Car bomb in Egypt kills at least 21 outside Christian church.
	Islamophobia, entirely fictitious epidemic.
	The targeting of Christians around the world is one of the great unreported stories in the American mainstream media.
	Okay, you say, well, New Year Mass, you come out of New Year Mass in Egypt and you get blown to pieces.
	Who cares?
	Egypt.
	Okay, what about Iraq?
	Because that's basically a dependency of the United States government.
	That government is kept in power by a U.S. military power.
	And they have had two Christians, this just the other day, two Christians killed in a campaign in the central Baghdad district of Al-Ghadir on the remaining Christian population.
	When the United States liberated Iraq in 2003, there were between 800,000 and a million Christians living there.
	That number has halved.
	It halved on our watch.
	There was a massacre at a Baghdad cathedral in October.
	More than 50 people were killed.
	These are real people, Katie.
	It's not a fantasy problem like the fictional outbreak of Islamophobia from knuckle-dragging American rednecks that you think is one of the underreported stories.
	But it's easy for you to put your serious thinker spectacles on the end of your nose, stop doing the cougar dance for 15 seconds and say this is one of the great unreported stories of the year.
	Let's go to Scott in Los Angeles.
	Scott, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Happy New Year to you.
	Happy New Year, Mark.
	How are you?
	I'm doing great.
	Great.
	Hey, there was a lady that called in.
	I'm in California here, the land of these mercury light bulbs, and I've listened to you refer to these as like curly fry light bulbs.
	That's right.
	And the reason I was calling in is I think we need to start indoctrinating the left and calling these things and referring to them as mercury light bulbs starting right now and not call them the CLF or curly fry.
	I think you need to start getting the point that these have mercury in them and they have put these into our house by law.
	Right.
	Right.
	So just actually call them mercury light bulbs.
	Mercury light bulbs.
	Please start referring to them that way because then we get to see, I mean, they came in, they don't want mercury thermostats in our house.
	No.
	They don't want the mercury Game Boys thrown into the dumps.
	They're terrible for society.
	Yet I have, every time I flip on the light in my living room, we have recessed light bulbs.
	I'm going to have to have five mercury light bulbs on in my house for each one of those times I flip on a light.
	Right.
	And as you point out, the left is so, for example, secondhand children's books have had to be withdrawn from secondhand bookstores because of some particular type of printer's ink that the left has determined may have some particular health problems 20, 30 years down the road.
	If your kid licks all the colored print off the book and he's got like a 30 book a day habit that this could increase his risk from particular types of whatever over the course of his lifetime, the left is terrified about that, yet it's installing mercury in every light bulb socket of the United States.
	And as we said, you're in California.
	The next earthquake, the next earthquake, even the mild earthquakes, that little one wherever it was, San Diego a couple of years ago didn't really do a lot of damage, but it certainly cracks a few light bulbs, doesn't it?
	Even a small earthquake is going to have all kinds of toxic mercury all over your living room, that the federal government put, the federal government more or less ordered you to stick in your light socket by order of the state.
	That's true.
	Well, you're right.
	Mercury light bulbs.
	Okay, maybe I'm being too kind on the government, calling them curly fry light bulbs.
	It's because it's true.
	It's a sad but true fact that actually just being genial about this stuff doesn't always get you anywhere.
	Maybe we need, I ought to consult with Governor Palin.
	She might just say, let's cut to the chase and call them death bulbs.
	And she's not wrong on that.
	The Curly Fry light bulb, the mercury light bulb, says Scott, in Los Angeles, As we examine George Orwell's pansy left and its preference for solving problems that don't exist.
	1-800-282-2882-Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	Lots more still to come.
	Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	By the way, just go back to what Katie Couric was saying.
	I loved her solution for the rampant outbreak of Islamophobia in America.
	She said, What we need is a sitcom, a Muslim sitcom like The Cosby Show.
	In fact, even here, she's not really thinking outside the box because there already is a Muslim sitcom up in Canada on the CBC called Little Mosque on the Prairie.
	And the only reason I know this is because when the Canadian Islamic Congress filed their hate crimes charges against me, they cited as evidence of my Islamophobia my review of Little Mosque on the Prairie, which I'd failed to find sufficiently funny because it's a comedy about moderate Muslims and I'd only found it moderately funny, mainly because it's not comedy, it's propaganda.
	I was asked about it at a speech in Washington and I replied airily that Muslim is the new gay.
	And that line was cited against me in the Canadian Islamic Congress indictment of me as an Islamophobe.
	And then I tried to explain that I meant it as a compliment.
	And that only made things even worse.
	So Katie is, even in this, Katie is a little backward because there already is, as I said, this Muslim sitcom in which the Muslims get all the best lines and the non-Muslims are all uptight, prejudiced, drearily provincial hicks.

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