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Jan. 31, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 31, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program now documented to be almost always right 99.6% of the time, an accuracy rating that's unparalleled, unequaled.
I mean, nobody nobody even dares reference their accuracy rating in comparison to that one.
It's just no point in it.
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Let's go back June 16th of 2009.
And by the way, folks.
I know all of this is redundant, and I know you know the answer to the question is rhetorical, but I just I just want to mention it anyway.
As the old, what would happen if Bush were president during something like the uprising in Egypt?
By the way, Snerdley, you think the Muslim Brotherhood will blow up the uh pyramids?
You don't.
You don't think they'll try to blow up the Sphinx or the pyramids?
Let's well, I maybe they let some hat group do it, but you think I wouldn't be surprised.
I mean, look at what they've done to things that that were that were uh found in Afghanistan.
Anyway.
Ah, sorry, if this were Bush, can you imagine the scrutiny the media would be applying to Bush?
All of the stories asking why Bush didn't see this coming.
All the stories about the Bush intelligence apparatus.
Where was the CIA?
Where was the defense intelligence agency?
All the media would be filled with stories like that.
How come no one saw this coming?
Well, the same question needs to be asked about Pharaoh Obama.
Why didn't Defero see all this coming, particularly given his wonderful relationship with these regimes and their people?
Obama went over to Egypt, made a speech, outreach to all of Muslimdom.
The clothes really even grew a quasi-mustache there for the appropriate facial hair during the speech.
Where is the scrutiny?
Why no questions about the lack of intel on this?
Why no questions about foreign policy screw ups?
You notice how Mrs. Clinton escapes all criticism.
Hell, folks, I mean Obama goes to a going-away party for a for a staffer that's not going away.
On Saturday night at the home of a media babe, with other members of the state control media there Saturday night while Egypt is in flames.
And the only interest the media has in Esther is hey, how come we weren't invited?
But now, you know if this were Bush, oh geez, there would be hearing where where are the Republicans on Capitol Hill demanding where's the intel on this?
Can you imagine the Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the Senate and in the House demanding hearings already?
How come we didn't know this was coming as a major ally?
What's going on?
Here's Obama, June 16th of 2009, in the Rose Garden, uh President uh Li Myung Bak of the Republic of Korea.
They had a joint press conference, and here is Obama.
You've seen in Iran some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not productive, given the history of U.S. Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling.
The U.S. president meddling in Iranian elections.
Oh I will repeat.
And what I said yesterday is that when I see violence directed at peaceful protesters, and I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place.
Mm-hmm.
It is of concern to me, and it's of concern to the American people.
And now I'm gonna go play golf.
So we won't meddle.
We're not gonna meddle in Iran.
But here's a Washington Post headline on a story today.
It's written by Karen DeYo.
Obama administration aligns itself with protests in Egypt.
With call for orderly transition.
On Sunday, Obama firmly aligned himself with the protesters.
Under the guise that they are democratic.
Well, the protesters are the Muslim Brotherhood.
We want to meddle in Iran.
We're happy to meddle here.
You go figure it out.
Cold truths about electric cars, cold weather shortcomings.
I know you thought that I was just stringing you along, right?
You thought he said he was going to mention this, and he's not.
He's still talking about Egypt.
We're there now.
This is by Charles Lane in the Washington Post.
Now, I want to recall for you, ladies and gentlemen, I, your host, the lovable, harmless little fuzzball El Rushball, was pummeled for daring to be critical of the Chevy Vault.
Remember?
Even a friend of mine at Obama Motors got on board with the criticism of me saying, I didn't know what I was talking about.
Well, we have a critique now of the Chevy Vault.
All electric cars in the Washington Post are pretty brutal, warning potential buyers that driving an electric car in the cold in the snow may not be a good move.
You might not be able to move.
Because cold weather wreaks havoc on batteries.
Here's a pull quote.
The subsidized market niche, this subsidized market niche, the electric car, is just one well publicized malfunction away from disaster.
Perhaps a volt battery will overheat and burst into flames, as some computer batteries have been known to do.
Or maybe a leaf driver will suffer frostbite while stuck in the next blizzard.
Let's just hope one of his neighbors pulls over to help him out.
This by Charles Lane.
Count me among the many thousands of Washington area residents who spent Wednesday night stuck in traffic as this snowstorm sowed chaos all around us.
Being carbound in sub-freezing weather for six hours can make a guy think.
I counted my blessings.
The situation could have been worse, though.
My fellow commuters and I could have been trying to make it home in electric cars, like the ones Obama is constantly promoting.
Most recently in his State of the Union speech.
It's a basic fact of physical science that batteries run down more quickly in cold weather than they do in warm weather.
And the batteries employed by vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf for the Chevy Volt are no exception.
The exact loss of power these cars would suffer is a matter of debate, partly because no one has much real world experience a draw on.
But there would be some loss.
Running the heater to stay warm or the car radio to stay informed would drain the battery further.
But you never thought of that, did you?
How many of you ever calculate how much your mileage, your your gasoline mileage is worsened by using the radio.
It's not.
Nor the heater.
AC is a different matter, but the heater, it doesn't affect it.
Well, here's how electriccar.com or proelectric website candidly summarized the matter.
All batteries deliver their power via a chemical reaction inside the battery that releases electrons.
When the temperature drops, the chemical reactions happen more slowly, and the battery cannot produce the same current that it can at room temperature.
A change of 10 degrees.
Get this now, folks.
A change of 10 degrees can sap 50% of a battery's output.
In some situations, the chemical reactions will happen so slowly and give so little power that the battery will appear to be dead when in fact it's if it's just warmed up, it'll go right back to normal output.
You know, I myself, ladies and gentlemen, know this from actual real world experience.
When I was a young child, single-digit age, visiting my uh maternal grandparents in the Bootheel, Missouri city of Kenneth, my mom grew up.
And uh grandfather was I had some batteries in some kind of a transistor radio and they were dead.
My grandfather said, here, just put them on top of the radiator for about five minutes.
I said, Well, won't they blow up?
No, no, they'll just recharge them and you'll you get another ten minutes out of them.
Now these were not rechargeable batteries.
These were long before that.
So I just put the batteries on top of the radiator for ten minutes.
It was winter time, popped them in the radio, bam.
He was right for ten minutes they worked.
Wasn't much, 10 minutes, but it proved the theory.
Now, in a car where all power is supplied by a battery pack, you can see where this would be a problem.
The batteries don't produce as much power, so the car has less power.
The batteries also have to work harder, so the effective range of the car is significantly reduced.
Charge time will also be longer.
Cold has a negative impact on all aspects of battery operation.
So how many of you have a heated garage?
Well, if you don't, all it's pointing out here is that charging your new electric car is going to take a much longer time in the winter than it will in the summertime.
Unless your garage is heated.
These are things people have not thought about.
They also haven't thought about how much coal it's going to take.
That's another matter.
Alongside the negative impact on the battery's cold also has a negative impact on the driver as well.
Drivers need to be warm to operate the vehicle effectively.
So on top of the reduced range and power of the batteries, just from the temperature, they also must operate the car heater to keep warm, and the car heater will further reduce the range of the car because the battery is powering it, not an internal combustion engine.
I know what you're saying, folks.
I know, and I I hope you're saying it.
I hope you're walking right into the trap.
But rush, but rush, the volt has a gasoline-powered engine.
Right, I know.
Why does it have one?
Do I need to answer the question?
You think I need it?
Why does the vault?
I don't know if the leaf does, but listen, I don't want to harp on the vault.
It's that the electric car is a as a as a as a genre.
Why does it need a combustion internal combustion engine, a gasoline-powered engine?
So that remember, the average is 40 miles to a charge.
But that depends on all kinds of things.
What if you end up in the cold weather?
You get 20 miles to a charge.
You haven't even gotten to work, maybe.
Certainly not home from work after you're getting there.
You gotta have some way it.
And then you learn that the backup delivers 300 miles versus 40 on your primary engine.
Why is it there?
And you realize you're paying twice for the electric version of the same car with an internal combustion engine.
Well, yeah, if it's hot, you gotta run the air conditioner, and that's all gonna come off the battery.
See, and in a um this markets work.
Internal combustion engine provides electricity.
There's an old thing called an alternator in there.
At any rate, if you live in an area where the winters get extremely cold, and all electric vehicle will have to be garaged and equipped with some kind of plug-in battery warmer for it to be effective in the coldest months of the year.
Keep these thoughts in mind if you're planning an electric car purchase.
We don't want you finding out the range of your car has been cut in half when it's five below zero and you're 15 miles from home.
Now, gas-powered cars are in hardly invulnerable.
Plenty of motorists run out of fuel on Wednesday night's mega jam, but my hunch is that electrics would have faced much similar problems or worse, and the many electric car drivers who did manage a limp home Wednesday would have been out of options the next day.
You can't recharge if you don't have electricity.
And hundreds of thousands of customers were blacked out Thursday because of the snow.
So even if you did get home, you weren't able to recharge.
General Motors has tested the Volt's battery and coal conditions, say it includes a margin of reserve power for such weather.
Indeed, the volt comes equipped with a backup internal combustion engine, so you need never fear as long as the tank's full of premium gas, by the way, only premium works.
Of course, burning gas sort of defeats the green purpose of the 41,000 car, but at least you won't die of exposure on the road.
As for the leaf, touts a 100-mile range under optimum conditions, that's mild weather and no big hills.
Nissan if you ever big hills are gonna deplete your battery.
Now, if if the cars were cheaper than gas-powered cars of equal performance, these cold weather risks might be acceptable, but electrics are substantially more expensive than cars of greater capability and will be for years to come.
Frankly, I don't know why anybody would consider buying one, especially if he or she lives north of the Mason Dixon line, Paul or Charles Lane in the Washington Post.
He had a job as of Friday, uh the 28th when this was published.
American spectator Doug Bendo.
Electric cars paying more for less performance.
The big spending Michigan brothers, Sander and Carr 11, want to increase subsidies for economic or uneconomic electric cars.
They would double existing tax incentives, costing a couple billion dollars a year.
Even today, that's still a lot of money.
Unfortunately, as is typical when people spend other people's money to invest in their preferred inventions, politicians have come up with a product which nobody wants to buy unless they are paid to do so.
The most obvious shortcoming with electric cars is their limited range.
Winter exacerbates the problem, which means that unless global warming really accelerates, anybody living anywhere that temperatures drop below freezing risks getting stuck with a dead battery.
The latest debilitating snowstorm in Washington caused.
This guy then starts quoting the Charles Lane story that I just shared with you.
Now what's the point?
The point is that there are a lot of sheep out there.
They think buying an electric car can save the planet.
It's gonna be uh what do you call it?
A uh uh fashion accessory.
You're driving around one of these things as I'm better than you.
I care more than you do.
It just illustrates the absolute idiocy of liberals and how terribly drastically dreadfully wrong they are about things.
It's not an improvement, and it will not save anything, including maybe you if you happen to be in one at the wrong time.
Actually, Ed, before those two, I want let's do number 11 and then 34 and 35.
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Mohammed Al-Baradai, who uh no friend of the United States, uh Nobel Prize laureate.
That means he won a Nobel Prize.
He's a past winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, they give him away to anti-America.
He got a peace prize because he stood away while Iran was nuking up.
No, this is the UN's Alberadi.
Mohammed Alberadai, the atomic energy dude, yeah.
I know he despises our guts.
He despises our guts and Sunday morning CNN's Farid Zakarius GPS.
He talked to uh former International Atomic Energy Agency General Director Mohammed Al Baradai.
You've heard Obama's statements in which he says that he's asked Mabarak to act on his promise to change to bring democracy.
Do you want you want him to do more of that?
I can tell you in honesty, as a friend of the US, that your policies right now is a failed policy.
It's a policy that is lagging behind, as a policy that is having the effect here in Egypt, that you are losing whatever left of credibility.
This is an honest advice by it is absolutely has no credibility here in Asia.
There you have it.
Our public no credit, I mean we don't delete you, Egypt doesn't delete you, Obama's but it's hundreds, we don't elect you, you stinky unusucky on a hundred.
If you don't have any activity, you just out of rotten.
So here's Gibbs, the White House Press briefing mere moments ago.
We have said all along that there are legitimate concerns and grievances had by the Egyptian people for a long time.
We're not picking between those on the street and those in the government.
I'm not going to get into a series of hypotheticals.
I think you heard yesterday very clearly the Secretary of State say there must be an orderly transition.
That a whole range of issues, some which I just talked about, have to be addressed.
Right.
That there has to be meaningful negotiations with a broad cross-section of the Egyptian people.
Right, including opposition groups.
Right, right.
That go to answering the very core of the freedoms that people desire.
We don't take sides.
We don't take sides.
Wait till you hear, however, what he said next.
As loud as you need it on the EIB network.
Happy to have you as we serve humanity simply by showing up.
Okay, so Gibbs at the White House press briefing says we're not taking sides.
But that there must be an orderly transition.
That's what we just played.
That's a there must be an orderly transition, but we're not taking sides.
A reporter said, hey, Gibbs, can you define what you mean by orderly transition?
A transition has to include an orderly transition, has to include a process of negotiations with a broad cross-section of the Egyptian people, including those that are in the political opposition at the moment with the current government.
Well, I mean, I don't think the grievances are going to be met unless there's some measure of uh of that involved.
They've stepped in it here, is what this means.
We don't take sides, but there must be an orderly transition.
Well, we just mean uh process of negotiation with a broad cross-section of the Egyptian people.
A process of negotiation with a broad cross-section of the Egyptian people with the current government.
Well, I just I don't think the grievances are going to be met unless there's some measure of that involved.
So they've stepped in it here.
And they're they're try they're trying to try to worm and weasel out of this.
Uh the official program observer has a question.
What would it be?
Mm-hmm.
Uh, don't you tell me.
The question has been asked.
What is the overall United States foreign policy?
Not just with Egypt, but everywhere.
What is the objective of U.S. foreign policy?
That is a good question.
I don't know, I I haven't heard them say.
Well, I mean, maybe Mrs. Clinton may have said something somewhere down the line since she got the gaggett state.
I I don't recall it.
I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
I what one thing I do know is that I I I wager that a majority of the American people think that the Obama regime's foreign policy is uh what's best for the United States around the world.
That's wouldn't you think that's what most Americans think most presidents are engaged in policies with nations around the world that are in our own best interests.
But this regime has looked the other way when the Iranians have nuked up.
Uh, or they don't look at all.
Play this play this oh baradide by it again.
This this to me, this this Mohammed Al Baradai, a former head honcho of International Atomic Energy Agency, uh former, it's number 11, the former international atomic energy agency, Mohammed Alberadai, who told us that the Iranians, you guys are worried about them, and you shouldn't be.
All they're doing here is trying to get some nuclear power to modernize their country.
They're not weaponizing.
Now, Alberadai has well, his name's been tossed into the ring here as a replacement for Mubarak.
And he was on with Farid Zakaria.
Farid Zakaria GPS.
I didn't know that Farid Zakarius' show was a navigational aid in an automobile.
Apparently it is.
And Farid Zakaria, GPS, asked Mohammed Alberadai, you've heard Obama's statements, says he's asked Mubarak to act on his promise to change to bring democracy to Egypt.
Do you want uh do you want him to do more than it?
I I don't know who Zakaria means, Obama or Mubarak here, but question do you want him to do more than that?
I can tell you in honesty as a friend of the U.S. that your policies right now is a failed policy.
It's a policy that is lagging behind, is a policy that is having the effect here in Egypt that you are losing whatever left of credibility.
This is an honest advice by it is absolutely has no credibility here in Asia.
So, if I could sum up, Mohammed Al Baradai is telling us that our policy in Egypt has no credibility.
As far as I know, our policy in Egypt has been to point a finger with Barics.
You better you better loosen up there, bud.
Better have more freedom there, more elections or what have you.
And Bardi is saying that we barak hasn't done that, and because we haven't really forced him to it, that we have no credibility.
None whatsoever.
Is it fleeing of the U.S. for me?
You're putting it field, but behind.
I'll stop.
They're gonna then say Achmadini's eyes mad at me and start attacking me for that.
Wind farms be calmed just when needed the most.
This is from the UK telegraph.
Wind farms in Britain generated practically no electricity during the recent cold spell, raising fresh concerns about whether they could be relied upon to meet the country's energy needs.
Despite high demand for electricity, as people shivered at home over Christmas, most of the 3,000 wind turbines around Britain stood still due to a lack of wind.
The failure of wind farms to function at full tilt during December forced energy suppliers to rely on coal-fired power stations to keep the lights on, meaning more greenhouse gases were produced.
That's the big concern, not that people didn't die.
Experts feared that as the government moved toward a target of generating 30% of electricity from wind while closing gas and coal-fired power stations.
Cold still winters could cause a problem in the turn things like this over to the left, folks, and it life expectancy plummets.
It's just a shame.
It just they're just try this.
February 10th of last year, ABC News.
Most of the jobs are going overseas, said Russ Choma of the investigative reporting workshop.
He analyzed which foreign firms had accepted the most stimulus money.
According to our estimates, about 6,000 jobs have been created overseas, maybe a couple hundred have been created in the U.S. If you read through the story, you'll find that two billion dollars in stimulus money was spent on wind power in this country, and it produced no jobs.
It's a bust.
All of this green technology stuff is a bust.
And this next story for classic learning opportunity.
Classic.
This is from AOL News by Andrew Schneider, the senior public health correspondent for AOL News.
Letting sleeping dogs lie in your bed can kill you.
Medical researchers have long shown that contact with pets can often help both the physically and the mentally ill.
But now, veterinary scientists say sleeping with your pets increases the chances of contracting everything from parasites to the plague.
What are you to do?
Most U.S. households have pets, and more than half of those cats and dogs are allowed to sleep in their owners' beds.
Dr. Bruno Chomel, a professor at the University of California, Davis, and Ben's son, chief veterinarian for California's Department of Health, say in a study to be published next month's issue of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's emerging infectious diseases that you could die sleeping with your pet.
The experts are both experts as experts in zoonoses, which are diseases or infections transmitted from animals to humans.
Now I've warned you.
Every week we get a story like this from some sector of our country.
Something you eat's gonna kill you, something you don't eat is gonna kill you, something you drink is gonna kill you, something you don't drink is gonna third, fourth hand, secondhand smoke from a mile away can kill you.
It's just you know the drill.
Now we have an alleged new medical emergency.
Sleeping with your pets could be fatal.
Fatal.
So here's how this works, folks.
The social engineering aspect of the reporting of bogus studies and proclamations of experts is amusing to observe.
This is a perfect example of the ridiculous reporting done on ridiculous studies.
It's at AOL.
Now, this is the same formula used to promote gun control.
It's the same formula used to promote seatbelts, light bulb bands, electric cars, use of cell phones, hairspray, terrorism, global warming, smoking, health insurance.
First, you create a problem.
Out of nowhere, after millions of years, some two veterinarians have discovered you can die.
Sleeping with FIDO.
So you create the problem, then you use manipulated research and data to prove a danger that you want to exist.
Or a couple of unprovable and weird anecdotal examples.
You use rhetoric and innuendo to instill fear among the masses.
You then promote the myth that regular people are helpless.
You can't do anything about this.
Only government can solve the problem for you with a regulation preventing you from sleeping with your dog or cat.
Then legislators race each other to file bills to address the so-called problem to protect you.
And find some corporate entity to blame.
Who is it that's known all along your dog can kill you in bed but hasn't told you?
Is it Ralston Purina?
Who is it?
Big pet food, big pet drug?
Who is it that's known this?
You use this manufactured emergency to convince people to part with more of their own money to pay for a new government bureaucracy to address the problem.
In the very end, you get this quote the risk of getting sick from being close with your pet is real, but most of the diseases they pass on to humans can be identified and eliminated by regular veterinary care.
So after two pages of you can die, you can die, you can die.
Stop sleeping with your pet.
We need a new government agency.
We need legislation.
Uh, really?
Um, no, just more regular veterinary care.
Also, it's a couple of guys who are vets or teach people to be vets who come out with a study saying you can die, you could die if you sleep with your pets.
You get to the end of the story.
No, if you just have more regular visits to your vet, all's fine.
In the meantime, a genuine crisis is uh attempted.
The creation of a genuine crisis.
Let's run a test, folks.
I don't know how widely spread this AOL story will be, but let's just see.
The rest of this week, how many of you start hearing from people who've heard that you could die sleeping with your dog or cat in bed?
Heard it on the radio, saw it on television.
It's real.
You gotta go to the vet to check it out.
We'll just see.
We'll be back after this.
All right, so I guess we can assume here global warming, more people are gonna die because more people are gonna be sleeping with their pets.
It's a risk, folks, it's a risk that all of you must take.
What if the um has the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?
I mean, no, I'm not comparing them to pets.
I just wonder if you get diseases from sleeping with people and animals and so forth.
Where do these studies in the hilarious thing is they call me a fearmonger.
And you got all these clowns out there writing all these stories about you're gonna die tomorrow if you do something entirely normal.
And for which there's no evidence anybody's ever died.
You ever seen on the desk to take it died because he slept with Fido.
Haven't seen it.
Valentine's Day is two weeks from today.
And I know most of it, so what?
I'll deal with it next week.
Okay, you'll deal with it next week.
Well, why put it off?
You know what?
You'll you if you say you'll deal with it next week, it's gonna it's gonna subconsciously bother you all week if you don't do anything about it.
You got a project out there, you know you have to get it done.
You put it off, you put it off, and then when it's finally done, don't you feel a sense of achievement, accomplishment?
You got it behind you.
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Uh, Brandon, Los Angeles, glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIV network.
Russ, an awesome, awesome honor to talk to you about.
Thank you very much, sir.
Ten years I've been waiting to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh try to get to my point quick.
Um, you know, I've been listening for 10 years, and you know, today, just the comments, the other hypocrisy that's going on with our our president Barack Hussein Obama, uh saying that the Egyptian government should cow to.3% of their population.
Uh, in in, you know, and and bend and bend over backwards for them.
It is just ridiculous.
When almost 80% of Americans were against health care reform, and it was shoved down our throat.
Now, I'm a little sensitive to this because I am in the healthcare industry, and my wife is as well, and she lost her job because of uh basically because of the changes that are coming through with the Brandon, Brandon.
You are so right, and other and in addition to that, you are excellent.
You made a brilliant point in 30 seconds, and that way that's how you have impact.
The shortest number of words, fewest number words, shortest amount of time, greatest impact.
Yeah, we got to listen to 0.3% of the Egyptian people.
They better listen to 60% want no part of health care, and screw them.
Great point, Brandon.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
We will be back after this.
I got an idea for you, Tea Party people.
It's patently obvious that there's a greater affection for the Muslim Brotherhood than for the Tea Party.
Change your name and put Muslim in it somewhere.
Call them calls yourselves um Muslim Muslim uh uh in a tea call you the Muslim teabaggers, something like that, and I guarantee you that you'll have a newfound respect from the uh from the regime.
Think about it.
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