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April 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now, this this is the uh this is the greatest watch.
Vince Flynn gave this to me at the uh at the Spring Fling.
It's a it's a Panera.
I've got people emailing me about my watch.
It's a Panera.
It's made Minneapolis or Minnesota.
You take it thousands of feet down in the ocean.
Next time I go, I'm gonna wear it.
It's just gorgeous.
It's it's it's uh it's a matter of people asking me about it.
Panera, yeah.
It's uh P-A-N-E-I-R-A.
That's uh Panera.
It's a great watch.
I I enjoyed live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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I got a new car.
I'm getting a new car after the program.
Eight miles to the gallon.
I can't wait to get in the thing and find a Prius and give them an anal exam with my front bumper.
*Clears*
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Saw it again today, Space Shuttle, Enterprise this time, flown from Washington to New York.
Uh numerous flybys over New York City.
It's eventually gonna end up on the Intrepid, the Air and Space Museum, the intrepid, the aircraft carrier.
Do you know the intrepid, for those of you old enough, by the way, it's a great place to visit if you have not been to the Intrepid on the west side of Manhattan.
They've got an SR-71 uh Blackbird on the deck now.
It's it's uh antique aircraft, World War II era aircraft, Vietnam era aircraft.
Uh they're gonna have to move some out because that's where they're gonna put the shuttle.
They're gonna put the Enterprise.
The Enterprise was the first shuttle that they tested whether or not the thing could glide back to Earth with no power.
Shuttle came back from space with no power.
So they took it up at Edwards Air Force Base, I think they tested it, took it out there and put it on top of a 747, and they dropped it.
See what happened.
They knew what was I mean, the engineering and aerodynamics, they knew it was gonna happen.
They said to make sure it worked.
And of course it uh it did.
I'm watching, I uh I have to tell you, I I'm just I'm an aviation buff like my father was, and I'm a I've got a soft spot in my heart for for NASA, the old NASA particularly, but the space shuttle.
And I'm I'm I'm I'm looking at American technology on display, not just the shuttle, but the 747 as well, and realizing that this administration has ended the manned space program.
It's uh it's nostalgic.
And again, I I couldn't help but tell myself there's not a battery in the world that could have made this happen today.
There's not a battery powerful enough to even taxi that 747 out to the runway with the shuttle on top of it, much less take off and fly anywhere.
And yet there are people who continue to want to force upon us the electrified mobile sector, as it's called.
The electrified Mobile sector, which means electric cars, golf carts, and uh that kind of thing.
So anyway, uh just I don't know.
It's the end of an era in uh in the United States.
The shuttle is about the size of a DC9, if uh if you're familiar with that.
And getting it on top of that 747 and flying it around.
Oh, yeah, massive crane.
Massive crane to lift it up and put it down on the uh stop and think of the 747, being built nobody ever thinks of putting this is 200,000 pounds, 200,000 pounds on top of a 747.
You can easily put that much in it, but on top of it.
Think of how strong the thing has to be to support that.
People don't think about these things.
And I don't think people um are cognizant.
I think they're aware of the power required to make this simple flyby happen.
In this era when we're talking about batteries and electrified mobile sectors and uh and all this.
Anyway, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh lot to do on today's program.
I mean, there's some unbelievable stuff on the program today.
Uh still trying to track this down as to whether or not it's true.
It's a story in the UK Daily Mail.
And even the Daily Mail is alluding to the fact that this may not be true, that it might have been a story ceded by pro-Mubaric forces.
But the story is, yes, I'm gonna get to the GDP.
You just be paid.
Well, I just started.
It's a three-hour show.
I'm gonna get.
By the time I finish talking about the GDP, there won't be anything else left to be said about it, like everything.
So it'd be cool.
I want to tell you about this Egyptian thing.
Wait till you hear this.
The UK Daily Mail is reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood has passed a law granting husbands permission to have sex with their wives up to six hours after the wife has died.
That's exactly right.
Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives for up to six hours after their death.
The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament under the control of Muslim Brotherhood.
It will also see I read this and I said the nags are coming after me.
The now gang is coming after me.
And meanwhile, in Egypt, you will be able, husbands permitted to have sex with their wives up to six hours after the wife has died.
It will also see the new law, will also see what do you mean a widespread problem.
What do you no?
I uh look, um, not an expert here on Sharia law.
I'm not an expert on this.
I don't know if this is new or if it's been practiced and uh they just finally had to codify it because it's been going on for so long.
I don't I the the Daily Mail, the UK Daily Mail, who reports the story is holding out the possibility that this could be bogus.
As is what I mean, seeded by pro-Mubaric forces to embarrass the Brotherhood.
Which of course has a very, very tight relationship with Obama.
The Brotherhood was here.
The Brotherhood had White House meetings, and they're not.
I mean, before they were elected heads of state, the Brotherhood is more welcome in the White House than Boehner is.
For example.
Now, in addition to oh oh oh, oh, by the way, lest you think that this is sexist.
Wives also have permission to have sex with their dead husbands in Egypt for six hours after he has died.
But nobody has figured out yet how to successfully perform sex on a male corpse.
But I'm told that engineers are working on it.
Dawn's shaking her head says, This can't be true.
It can't uh I know that's the initial uh knee jerk reaction to this.
But it hit, I first heard it yesterday afternoon when I got home and immediately started working on uh on on uh today's program.
The new law which allows all this post-death sex will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding, the getting rid of women's rights of getting an education and employment.
The law will now make it possible for women to be prohibited from getting an education or a job.
Meanwhile, the nags are coming after me.
Egypt's National Council for Women is campaigning against the changes, saying that marginalizing and undermining the status of women would negatively affect the country's human development.
Now, the subject of a husband having sex with his dead wife, snerdly asked about this.
Where did this come from?
The subject of a husband having sex with his dead wife arose in May of 2011, a year ago, when Moroccan cleric Zamzami Abdul Barry said marriage remains valid even after death.
And he also said that women have the right to have sex with her dead husband.
In that's in Al Arabiah.
But again, uh performing sex on a male corpse um maybe they know how to do that down in Columbia.
We'll find out.
Folks, do you remember?
I will never forget this.
And we had this uh video, in fact, on the uh Rush Limbaugh television show back in the 90s, back when Bill Clinton was president, they discovered a mummy, a I think it was a Peruvian mummy.
And they named the movie Juanita, uh the mummy, they named the m the mummy Juanita was an Incan mummy, newly discovered on display at the National Geographic Museum.
Uh and when they first discovered this thing, they did somehow uh Clinton made reference to it.
I will never forget, you know.
He actually said this, folks.
And this ties into the uh uh uh necrophilia story, uh Muslim Brotherhood.
Clinton said, you know, if if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out.
That's a good-looking mummy.
Don, you weren't with us then, but don't doubt me.
This is this actually happened.
And nobody was surprised that Clinton would look at a hundred-year-old mummy and see a sex object.
So I'm wondering if Clinton's been to Egypt.
Now, since there was so much doubt about this, I decided to look further, and I've got a story here from the New York U, I'm sorry, UK telegraph from last year, May of 2011.
An Imam in Morocco issued a fatwa stating that necrophilia is religiously acceptable in Islam.
He said that a husband has the right to have sex with his dead wife.
The uh the Imam, whose name is Zamzami Abdelbari, said that marriage remains valid even after death, which does not cancel the marriage link.
He took his evidence, a Quranic verse which says that Muslim believers will go to paradise with their wives.
Sheikh Zamzami said that the husband has the right to have sex with his dead wife.
He added the husband may wash the body of his dead wife and have sex with her.
He said that the woman also has the same right, but failed to explain how a woman can manage to perform sex with the corpse of her dead husband.
However, Sheikh Zamzami tempered his most unusual fatwa by stating that uh necrophilia is a disgusting act that would best be avoided, but it's okay to do it.
And so a year later, the story has shown up that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt now wants to make this common place.
Now, the local source for the UK Daily Mail story is Al Arabiya, which is have to admit here, they're such a respected media outlet.
They were the first people in the world to get an interview with Obama once he was inaugurated.
Oh, but speaking of that, folks, you know, I always have these Monday holidays that the staff doesn't tell me because I'm not focused on vacation days or holidays.
I'm one of these people that doesn't first ask about those things.
And so I'll show up here on a Monday holiday, not knowing it's a holiday.
Is Monday or Tuesday next week a national holiday?
Well, I know Tuesday's May Day, it's been comedy day, but it's also the anniversary of when Osama was done in by Obama.
And it's an election year, and I has somebody made that a national holiday that I don't know about.
Speaking of which, there are um there are some um Oh, what was going to tell you about the intrepid, the intrepid that the aircraft carry.
Do you remember Gus Grissom?
I think it was in a Mercury capsule, one of the first uh Mercury capsule, Gus Grissom, was plucked out of the ocean by the intrepid.
That was the aircraft carrier, the one that's on display in New York now, that's the museum.
It was the intrepid that that plucked Gus Grissom out of the Indian Ocean way back uh during the Mercury program.
If I'm if I got this right, Grissom was a little off course.
No, no, that was another astronaut.
Grissom landed, but panicked.
Well, no, you're supposed to stay in the thing and in the capsule, and then the aircraft carrier comes along, plucks you out, and then you you are hoisted, you get out of the mercury capsule on deck, and he blew the hatch, wanting to get out of there, and it flooded, and they couldn't, it gets so much water in it, the helicopter couldn't lift the capsule out, they lost it.
Uh it went, it went down the bottom of the ocean.
Maybe James Cameron can go get it when he gets back from the Titanic, or wherever else he is down there with the blue mermaids.
Uh, and and but yeah, that was the intrepid that uh that that got got Gus Grissom out of the uh out of the ocean.
It's just so much American history that's on display here today, just with that one shuttle flight.
Swiss newspaper is reporting that a woman starved to death after embarking that this is liberalism, folks.
By the way, just let me the the predicate here is this is liberalism.
Swiss newspaper is reporting that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off of sunlight alone.
Somebody got hold of her and said that food will kill her.
Somebody convinced her, probably not somebody, probably a decade worth of news reports about this food will kill you, that food will make you more prone to cancer, this food will make you more prone to leukemia, this food will make you more prone, kidney disal, whatever, so she probably got scared to eat anything.
Then she heard about all the good vibes from vitamin D in sunlight.
Then she was told that drinking too much that could be bad for so this woman believing all this liberal garbage and then getting involved in spiritualism, stopped eating, stopped drinking, lived off of sunlight alone, but not for long.
The Zurich newspaper reported Wednesday that the unnamed Swiss woman in her 50s Decided to follow the radical fast in 2010 after viewing an Austrian documentary about an Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years.
Now this would not be the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi did eat and he meditated, had cosmic consciousness.
He drank, he did all that stuff.
So it wasn't the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Nor was it the uh Maharushi.
There have been similar cases of self-starvation in Germany, Britain, and Australia.
The prosecutor's office in the Swiss state of Argaw confirmed Wednesday that the woman died January 2011 in eastern Switzerland, trying to live off of sunlight alone.
This is liberalism.
Come on, Mether Lumbaud, you have to blame everything on that's probably more close to being true than it is not, Mr. New Castradi.
I should have suspected this.
I didn't.
I should have.
I wasn't thinking.
All of the reaction emails I'm getting to the story out of Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood now permitting sex with your dead wife for six hours after her death.
One question I had on my own was who provides the contraceptives when you have an Egyptian guy has sex with his dead wife.
I got an email.
An email from a guy who said, How did the Egyptian men know that their wife is dead when they're having sex with them?
I should have known that I was going to get this kind of stuff.
And now all the wizards are smarter saying, hey Rush, ever heard of rigor mortis?
Ever heard of rigor mortis?
I mean, I could that that could be a way for the wife to continue the um coital relationship post uh post death.
Don't know enough about rigor mortis and how long it lasts and what all it affects.
But it sounds uh sounds good to me.
A correction.
There's a I said that Gus Grissom blew the hatch.
The official story is the hatch blew itself.
Um July 21, 1961, Gus Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight.
It was a suborbital flight of 15 minutes, same as as uh as Alan Shepherd's.
John Glenn was the first to actually orbit the Earth.
Alan Shepard went up there first for the first suborbital 15 minutes.
Same thing with Gus Grissom, his was the second, the name of his capsule was the Liberty Belt 7.
And after splashdown, the emergency explosive bolts unexpectedly fired, blew the hatch, causing water to flood in a spacecraft.
Grissom got out fast of the open hatch and into the ocean.
He was nearly drowned as water began filling his spacesuit.
Nearby helicopter tried to lift and recover the spacecraft, but it was too heavy, and they ultimately cut it loose.
And then it uh sank.
Now Grissom asserted that he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow.
NASA looked into it, they eventually concluded that he was correct.
Initiating the explosive egress system required hitting a metal trigger with the with the side of a closed fist by the astronaut.
It was rigged so that it could not accidentally happen.
And uh when the astronaut had to hit that switch, the trigger, with the side of a closed fist with a lot of force, it unavoidably left a large bruise on the astronaut's hand.
Grissom did not have any bruising.
Still controversy remained, and fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Shira at the end of his October 3rd, 1962 flight, remained inside the spacecraft till it was safely aboard the recovery ship and made a point of deliberately blowing the hatch to get out, bruising his hand in support of Grissom.
So, I was wrong when I say Grissom blew the hatch.
The hatch just blew.
Wasn't supposed to happen, but it just did.
Okay, gross domestic product.
Uh, folks, you know, open mind Friday's kind of loosey-goosey sometimes, and we uh uh a lot of us uh fatigued at the end of the week looking for lightheartedness.
But this is some serious stuff, and it confirms every instinct that every person alive in this country knows.
There isn't any economic growth.
There's government growth, but there isn't any private sector growth.
There's no growth in jobs.
A hundred and twenty thousand jobs were created last month, according to the news from yesterday.
Uh it's it's just pathetic.
It is why Obama is running around making things up about the war on women and a student alone interest rate doubling, which, by the way, Boehner, the Republicans are going to vote today on a bill to make sure that the interest rate does not double on July 12th.
And remember yet, that's a Democrat law.
2007, the Democrats ran both the House and the Senate.
That's when they took over the House.
They won the elections in 2006.
Pelosi was Speaker.
And the Democrats, looking forward to 2012 being an election year.
They thought that Hillary was going to be president in 2007.
They thought they had successfully demonized all Republicans with the um uh never-ending assaults on George W. Bush.
So they were confident they were going to have a uh Democrat in the White House in 2012.
They're going to win in 2008.
So they started playing a political game with a student loan interest rate, and they essentially cut the student loan interest rate in half, and then wrote legislation that would restore it in July of 2012, knowing full well people wouldn't remember five years ago that it would just appear as though the student loan interest rate was doubling.
Which that's exactly what it's going to look like.
And guess who's running the House?
The Republicans.
And so the point was it was an insurance policy.
The Democrats are always, they're like the Soviets.
They're always looking a hundred years down the road, not just to tomorrow.
So they they put in place this scheme where the student loan interest rate would appear to double when all it was doing was being restored to what it had always been.
And all the better if the Republicans ran the House.
Now, if the Republicans were not running the House, if the Democrats are still in charge, then of course they would pass legislation canceling the increase.
It wouldn't be an issue, nobody'd know anything about it.
It'd just be same old low interest rate.
But the Republicans are running the House.
It's scheduled now because of Democrat legislation to restore to what it was, which is going to appear to be doubled in July.
So the Republicans are readying legislation to prevent that from happening.
It'd be very interesting to see how the Democrats in the Senate vote on it.
And the Democrats in the House as well.
So all this being used by Obama to divert attention from what is a destroyed U.S. economy.
I don't know how else to describe it.
We're living in an era where the President of the United States and his party have launched an all-out assault on the United States private sector economy.
And they've been pretty successful.
They have not failed.
Not from their perspective.
GDP growth revised down to, well, not revised now, at 2.2%.
With six months to go, until election day, time just ran out for Team Obama.
This is our buddy Jim Pefecukis here writing at the American Enterprise blog.
Time just ran out for Team Obama to run any sort of plausible morning in America reelection campaign.
And it's not just that the U.S. economy grew at a subpar 2.2% annual rate In the first quarter, it's that this may be about as good as it gets for the economy this year.
Most analysts have been looking for the second quarter to be no better than what this 2.2% is, and maybe even worse.
Now, Obama's budget that he just announced in February predicted 3.
something percent growth, I believe.
And Petha Kucas makes a point.
He says that the gross domestic product report also shows that the Obama administration needs to re-jigger its economic forecasting models, which keep predicting a boom is right around the corner.
And here are some recent Obama regime economic forecasts.
In August of 2009, the White House, after having a half year to view the economy and its $800 billion stimulus response, predicted that GDP would rise to 4.3% in 2011, followed by 4.3% growth in 2012 and 2013 as well.
In August of 2009, Obama predicted the GDP would be 4% growth in 2014.
This is what they said the stimulus would do.
The stimulus happens in February of 2009.
In August, they had a half year.
Stimulus is in force for a half year.
Then they issued their forecasts.
And they credited the stimulus.
Yep, this stimulant's gonna bail everybody out.
Stimulus going to get 4.3% economic growth.
We are at 2.2 half of what Obama forecast in 209.
In its 2010 forecast, the White House said that it was looking for 3.5% GDP growth in 2012, followed by 4.4% next year, and 4.3% in 2014.
Again, we are at 2.2% economic growth.
In its 2011 economic forecast, the White House predicted 3.1% growth that year, 4% growth this year, and 4.5% growth in 2013.
In its most recent forecast, the White House predicted 3% growth this year and next, and then back to 4% after that.
Every one of Obama administration forecasts has been way wrong.
They have been predicting that a boom is right around the corner.
They make their predictions after such things as the stimulus or other Obama legislation, like the American Jobs Act or the health care bill, after much legislative, then they come out with their forecasts, this is going to cause a boom.
And all it's doing is destroying the U.S. economy.
There can be.
Again, for those of you new to the program, what was the stimulus?
Stimulus $800 billion spending, right?
Well, where did they get it?
One of two ways.
You either print it, well, three ways.
You print it, you borrow it, or you tax it.
But in either of those ways, the money comes from the private sector, except when you print it.
Well, even then it's going to have an impact on the private sector.
The point is government doesn't have any money, folks, until it takes it from someplace or prints it.
Government does not create wealth.
Government redistributes wealth, destroys wealth, but it does not create wealth.
So you have this $800 billion stimulus, highly touted.
Obama, the Democrats, this saved the day.
This is going to bring our economy, it's going to fix all that bad stuff at George W. Bush did.
So they're going to put $800 billion into the economy, they told us.
They didn't even do that.
The money went to unions.
The money went to state employees.
The money went to state governments.
The money did not go to shovel ready projects.
The money did not go to rebuilding roads, schools, and bridges.
And by the way, speaking of that, as the the point I made yesterday, look at the kind of jobs Obama was thinking of creating with that stimulus.
Ditch digging.
The vision that Obama and the Democrats have of work in this country is a hundred years old.
Assembly line jobs, union jobs.
It's a hundred years old, fifty years old.
There's nothing high-tech new forward thinking about the kind of work they envision.
Anyway, follow me on this.
$800 billion that they want you to think that's coming from someplace, but it's gonna end up in the private sector.
But where did they get the $800 billion?
They got it from the exact place they're putting it.
There was no stimulus.
By definition.
In mathematics, whatever.
The $800 billion that Obama supposedly injected in the private sector had to be taken from the private sector first.
It was a wash, a net zero.
There was no new money.
Given away, but all there was was redistribution of money.
One of the biggest scams ever run, but everybody that's not aware of this, wow, man, this is good.
Notice that it didn't work.
All these economic forecasts for economic growth, wrong by half.
Wrong by factors of two.
It didn't work.
It couldn't work.
It never had a chance to work because it's impossible.
It was word games.
And so we end up with the economy growing in 2011 at 1.7%.
1.7% after forecasting four and a half percent.
1.7%.
Look at the ChICOM economy.
The Mexican economy is growing at about 4%, folks.
Gotta be back after this.
Don't go away.
It's a day of learning for me.
I love that.
I know so much.
I don't learn every day.
Gus Grissen's space capsule was recovered.
And it is restored on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere.
I did not know.
I had no idea that they had recovered it, but it has been recovered.
James Cameron did not do it.
And it is uh it's on display.
Here's John in Syracuse, New York, as we start on the phones today in the first hour.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Ross.
First of all, uh, it's an honor to talk to you.
I'm a huge fan, and um everything you say makes my day better.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that, sir.
Sure.
Listen, uh, I was telling the producer, I um I'm an AMP mechanic and I work on 747 for a living.
And uh one of the aircraft that I work on was the one that took home's uh space shuttle to Discovery.
Um that was the final flight it took to its resting place.
What is uh what what is an AP mechanic?
Uh airframe and power plant.
Um it's a license you have to have to work on commercial aircraft.
Cool.
Airframe and power plant.
And so you you did maintenance on the 747 that flew the the uh the the that piggybacked the uh discovery.
Right, yes, sir.
Uh I was in the military ten years, and I I worked on KC 10s, which is a DC 10 offset.
Right.
And uh I got to be an AP mechanic, uh, and I've been doing that for eight years now.
And when we flew that space shuttle home, uh we brought mechanics on the aircraft in case we had to divert in case of emergency.
Uh we do it quite often uh in you know, for test flights or uh uh what's it like what's it like flying on a 747 that shuttle on the top?
That is the roughest, most absurd ride I've ever been.
I'm you know, I was I I'm so glad you called because I wanted to ask somebody that wondering what it's like in it.
I'm I assume that the wings uh on the on the shuttle give it some additional lift.
Uh and I didn't know if that worked in conflict with the uh with 747 or worked against it, but I can imagine that would be bumpy.
No, absolutely.
It's not it's not made to do that.
Uh, you know, aerodynamically, it's it's made just to fly standalone, but when you put something like that on top of it, um it's you know, it's like you put well, pretend you're putting it on top of your vehicle and drive like that.
You can only imagine.
No, it's right with the It's like putting an obstacle up there.
Although it it it it is aerodynamic, but it's uh just the wings on the shuttle are aerodynamic and not all that much.
Well, that's fascinating.
I I've I always wondered what that was like, and I'm not surprised.
I appreciate the call, John, and we will be back.
Got some great sound bites.
Leslie Stahl interviewing a CIA interrogator at Club Gitmo coming up on 60 Minutes Sunday night.
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