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	Yes, America's Anchor Man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever, living in the shadows and loving it.
	Rush returns live to take you through the rest of the week for full strength all American excellence in broadcasting starting tomorrow.
	We are in day ten, officially day ten of the sequestered hell of America.
	So uh if you're there on the front lines as the raw sewage is pouring down the street and uh and under your door jam, uh then uh call me and let me know.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Vivid live reports from the searing hell of sequestrated America.
	one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	Uh I think uh in the last hour I said uh uh seventeen states were reporting cholera outbreaks.
	I believe it's actually up to a nineteen uh now.
	We uh we'll also be keeping you up to date on uh on the any insider info we get on the Papal Conclave.
	Uh the the Papal Conclave Uh is supposed to start tomorrow, and the New York Times is urging the uh urging the Cardinals to appoint the first transgendered Pope.
	Uh I I said I thought we would get the first Canadian Pope, and uh he's a guy called uh Marc Willet, who uh was Archbishop of Quebec.
	He's his name doesn't his name looks all funny because it's uh a French name, so it's uh spelt O U E double L E so Americans will be pronouncing it Mark Mark Ui, oui.
	Who's he?
	Uh but a good way to remember it is uh Cardinal Willette is the way to bet.
	If you're uh he's the chap you want if you're looking for a pontiff.
	Just a little mnemonic to help you remember.
	He'll be the he'll be Pope by the end of the week.
	Bet your money on it.
	Canadian Pope.
	Everything is Canadian now.
	Every dam on the Connecticut River is Canadian.
	The biggest bank in the Northeast, uh T D Bank, is Canadian.
	It's called uh its slogan is America's Neighborhood Bank.
	That's how you know it's Canadian, because Canada is in the general neighborhood of America.
	Everything is Canadian now, including the Pope.
	It's it's Canada's world, the rest of you guys just live in it.
	Uh so uh we'll we'll keep you up to date on that if we get any breaking.
	And we also had the breaking news that Kwame Kilpatrick is uh has been appointed Pope.
	No, just kidding.
	He's going to jail for uh conspiracy uh he's been convicted of conspiracy and racketeering and taking two hundred thousand his fundraiser uh gave him for his personal account two hundred thousand dollars from out of her bra, which is one hell of a bra.
	It must be like that bra Howard Hughes built for Jane Russell, incredible.
	And then we amongst all the other important stories of the day, we got uh detail uh uh derailed uh as it were by these incidents of Josh uh Welch uh uh in Baltimore eating a Poptart at school into the shape, nibbling a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun.
	They're now trying to pass a state law to prevent kids being suspended uh for eating baked goods into the shape of firearms.
	But then, also on the baked goods and firearms front, uh we reported from Michigan uh that an elementary school had confiscated a boy brought home uh thirty chocolate cupcakes.
	Uh this is a kid called Hunter Fountain at Shaw Elementary School in the town of Cara, a nine-year-old boy, uh they had plastic figurines on them representing World War II soldiers, and they were confiscated.
	Uh and the parent is annoyed because the uh uh he's he the father is annoyed because he thinks it's vile they lump true American heroes with psychopathic killers.
	Which is true.
	The school doesn't discriminate between the uh members of the US armed forces and uh deranged mass murderers.
	They're that's all the same.
	They're all equally bad.
	Uh and the principal says um in our uh uh living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions.
	So there's no respect for a kid who might like to decorate his cupcake the way he won.
	You can't have that kind of respect.
	You know, your right to decorate your cupcake uh ends at the point at which the plastic soldier on the top of your cupcake's gun meets the end of my nose.
	That's where your right to decorate uh the the first your First Amendment Rights to express yourself on your cupcake end uh when they're when they're providing a menacing, intimidating environment.
	Now the thing about this, I find odd about all this stuff, is that right now we have the most politically correct military in the history of warfare.
	A guy, a a guy uh who is an obvious loon and actually gives a power point presentation, he's the first jihadist to give a power point presentation uh to representatives of his victims explaining what he's gonna do to them, Major Hassan, and uh and and uh and uh and the uh his employees are so paralyzed by political correctness uh they think he's psychotic, but instead of doing anything about him, they just they just promote him.
	So he winds up at Fort Hood and he winds up on a desk shouting Alahu Akbar, gunning down fourteen of his comrades.
	And uh the official report on it says it's workplace violence and says it's uh it's post uh traumatic stress syndrome.
	He hadn't actually been deployed anywhere.
	He'd never been anywhere, uh except the United States.
	But he he's he he he'd got pre-post-traumatic stress syndrome from the stress of planning how to kill his fellow American soldiers.
	So we now have uh evolved from that from post-traumatic stress PTSD, we've now got in our schools Poptart stress uh disorder.
	So we got we we're evolving as a society.
	Uh they call that workplace violence, workplace violence, when a guy's on the desk gunning down his colleagues uh shouting alahu Akbar, that's the official report.
	Then I see this thing this morning.
	The head of the US Pacific Command points to climate change as the greatest national security threat.
	Now you may have been following the news and notice that North Korea has scrapped the 1953 armistice with South Korea.
	So uh this morning, this weekend, the Korean war officially resumed.
	The armistice is dead.
	They've ripped it up.
	The Korean war is back on.
	It's back on, it's happening, it's on, it's now.
	Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the war.
	The Korean war is back.
	Uh scrapped the 1953 uh armistice with South Korea.
	Uh but the man in charge of America's Pacific Command says in the Boston Globe that the chief long-term security threat in the region is climate change.
	Admiral Samuel Lochlear III warned that uh global warming is going to cripple the security environment, and that whole nations could be displaced by rising uh rising uh uh sea levels.
	Um North Korea isn't one of them, unfortunately.
	No one's gonna wash Kim Jong on away.
	But that's the thing.
	He says that the greatest security threat America faces in the Pacific is climate change.
	You're thinking uh you know, he's this the guy can't get a break.
	They're politically they've got all the politically correct stuff, same as it's a politically correct military, and they still can't get their scary plastic toy soldiers into an American grade school, even though they're hot for climate change and all the rest of it.
	Now we have uh now we have this other story uh about an Air Force chaplain uh who was awarded a bronze star.
	Now, when it says Air Force Chaplain has been awarded a bronze star, I immediately thought of the great World War II song Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.
	You know that, based on a true story uh about some uh uh some uh chaplain uh in uh uh who uh w uh who uh I think it was I forget what I I forget where he was flying to or from, but he was basically urging uh the guy he was helping pass the ammunition uh as uh uh as the plane was uh taking out its enemies.
	Now, that's what chaplains used to be like.
	This Air Force chaplain has been awarded a bronze star.
	If you're not familiar with the Bronze Star, by the way, it's the fifth highest combat decoration.
	Hold on to that thought, by the way, combat decoration, uh the tenth highest US military award in terms of uh precedence, and it's supposed to be awarded for uh acts of uh heroism in a combat zone.
	Uh this guy got it for a PowerPoint presentation on how to treat the Quran and other Islamic religious materials with sensitivity.
	Uh Lieutenant Colonel John Trainer, uh an Air National Guard uh has uh from uh from Springfield, Ohio, received the prestigious Bronze Star for his PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material uh when a for example it points out that when a Muslim writes down even a few verses from the Quran on a piece of paper that piece of paper immediately
	gets the same protected status.
	So for example if a if if some guy from the Taliban writes out his secret plan to blow up a US base in Kandahar on a piece of paper to distribute among the lads and then just to sort of puck them up a bit and inspire them a bit he he writes one of the more cud blood curdling verses from the Quran on the on that piece of paper.
	T it becomes a a holy uh religious uh piece of paper that you have to treat with the proper religious respect.
	You can't just say we found the secret plans in which they're coming to blow up the base.
	You have to recognize that it has the same holy status as the holy book of the Quran and uh and and treat it with multicultural sensitivity.
	This guy got the bronze star for a power point on how to treat Islamic materials with greater sensitivity.
	And by the way, this happened this news comes today on a day in which uh two more US troops uh died as the result of an inside job killed by one of the guys uh that uh the trained uh with tax uh American tax dollars and provided with his weaponry uh by American tax dollars but the priority for us is to even as even as the guys we track we don't have to bother about the enemy here Hamid Karzai is claiming that uh is refusing to see Chuck
	Hagel uh because the US government is in league with the Taliban according to him no they're not formally in league with the Taliban it's just that the entire history of the Afghan war only makes sense if the US government were in league with the Taliban.
	But it actually isn't isn't we we don't need to be in league with the Taliban.
	They they're winning back the country all by themselves.
	They don't need us.
	We're giving PowerPoint presentations on the proper way uh to handle pieces of paper that have verses of the Quran written on them and uh and so they don't need us to be in alliance with them.
	They're winning a backlog but he's refusing Hamid Kazai is refusing to see Chuck Hagel because uh the because he says the uh uh US military is in league with the Taliban.
	Uh and in fact the reality is the opposite the opposite is is is the reality.
	We have the most politically correct military that has ever existed in the history of warfare and yet they're still too big and scary to permit their plastic soldiers to be on cupcakes in an American grade school.
	That is the world we have built uh that is the America of the twenty first century.
	Mark Stein in forush lots more straight ahead one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two Mark Stein in for us on the excellence in broadcasting there.
	Well I'm just doing corrections today.
	I get everything.
	I got everything wrong today.
	A m uh a military uh caller spoke to H uh and uh just a moment ago and said well you've got to distinguish between the bronze star I think it comes it comes with a special uh V thing, V for valor thing, uh the bronze star for Valor,
	and then the Common or Garden Bronze Star, which this uh particular well this is one of our brave men in uniform by the way, so if you get annoyed by this, if any serving military or veterans get annoyed by this, take it up with this guy, H. I was being dim, who said quote any well connected puke uncoat can get a Common or Garden Bronze Star.
	So it doesn't surprise him that they're giving away bronze stars for the most multiculturally sensitive PowerPoint presentation on on on the appropriate kind of kid gloves to handle the Quran with.
	So anybody apparently anybody can get a bronze star.
	I certainly hope this school teacher in Maryland who took down the seven year old with the with the Poptart uh got got a bronze star for it at the at the at the at the very least.
	Let us go to uh Linda in Fargo, North Dakota because in honor of the new Canadian papacy we're only taking calls from Canadian border states today.
	Let us go to Linda in Fargo who is live on the Rush Limbo Show.
	Linda great to have you with us.
	Thanks it's great to hear to hear you every day or that you're substituting for Rush and I just want to say it's a great station I appreciate you being there.
	No well that's uh that's good.
	The uh Rush Limbro show's been here every day for uh getting on for a quarter century now and Rush hasn't got plans uh to go anywhere for the next quarter century.
	So we'll be on your station for a long time.
	I wanted to talk to you about that bison management program.
	I grew up in Montana and uh being a big cattle state.
	The bison management program is a big deal because a lot of the bison in Yellowstone carry a disease called brucelosis that will cause cattle to miscarry.
	So if the catt if the bison that are on Yellowstone get off of the national park and into some of the areas where cattle are ranged simply by uh them grazing around where some of the bison droppings may be uh receive this disease and it could devastate uh a lot of the cattle industry in the area.
	So having that bison management program continuing through any kind of financial crisis is a big deal.
	Now this is this is boos brucellosis.
	I think it's like when when I was a boy, they used to call it uh uh Maltese fever, I think.
	Uh it's from the it's the uh unpasteurized milk and uh animal droppings.
	Is that right?
	I'm not really a cattle expert.
	I just know that uh there was every time uh for a long time when a bison would get off of the range or off of the national park, they would have hunters right there waiting pretty much for them at the border of Montana for a while to shoot them down so they wouldn't get into the state.
	It was such a threat to the economy.
	Yeah, no, no, that's uh that's uh uh that that's true, and it can uh and it and it can I think it uh I think it can actually uh i i uh in rare cases it can actually impact humans too as well.
	So that's uh that's the well thanks for clearing that th thanks for clearing that up, Linda.
	Uh you knew there was a reason uh for this uh bison management uh business, and that's it.
	That if uh if they don't actually keep 'em on uh the grounds of Yellowstone and they start leaving the bison droppings, then it can uh i impact the uh cattle and the cattle get sick.
	And it does that's right, it does infect uh pr I've I have a vague, vague, vague memory of uh something like about this from my school days.
	And I believe it can it affect can affect uh not just pregnant cattle, but actually uh uh pregnant uh women as well.
	So thank you for your call, Linda.
	That's another pleasure.
	I've I've been getting everything wrong.
	So that's the that's like every good it's it's not just the seven-year-old uh and it's uh uh uh and the uh the uh and the rest of it.
	Oh, and by the way, we had a uh Native American who uh who also called in, uh whose name was uh was White Eagle, uh Native American who pointed out uh that in fact the reason why the bison management program cannot be uh cannot be cut back on is because it's covered by treaties.
	It's covered by tre apparently it's covered by treaties between the white man and the red man, so it it's uh predates, you know, it's beyond the jurisdiction of the sequester.
	It's like the United States does not have sovereignty over the bison management program.
	It is covered by treaties uh between uh Georgia Third and and uh and the uh and the tribal nations.
	So I've no idea whether that is actually correct.
	I'm issuing a correction here without establishing whether that correction is actually correct, but I just like the sound of it anyway.
	So I'm I'm happy to stick with that.
	I like the idea of when everything else is a total room, when everything has been cut, when social security has been abolished, when seniors are starving there and no prescription drugs, when everything else is gone.
	There will still be the bison management program uh because it's covered by the uh the the treaty between uh goes back to Plymouth Rock.
	Nothing can be done about it.
	Uh so it's covered between uh uh that's according to this uh this uh Native American who called in with the name Whitey White Eagle.
	And I mean if that doesn't establish him as an authentic Native American, I don't know what what does.
	So I'm happy, I'm happy to set the uh happy to set the record uh straight on that.
	Uh anyway, that remains really the most uh devastating uh news of the day on the sequester front that the the plough trucks have not been out in Yellowstone uh because of the uh because of the sequester um and uh and we will try and keep you up to date and bring you up to news and any other uh breaking developments as the sequester nation crumbles before your very eyes but if you do have any personal first hand accounts of how you're being devastated by
	the sequester uh then do call us one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two this is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush and don't forget Rush returns live on the EIB network tomorrow.
	Hey great to be with you Rush returns uh tomorrow uh I I I I mentioned earlier this story this uh grade school in Michigan where they confiscated the cupcakes that have the little plastic toy soldiers on.
	You're wondering why they do that.
	Here is from the Colorado Senate where Democratic Senator Mary Hodge blocked attempts to allow, you know, everyone's with the gun control now.
	You can't let anyone have high capacity magazines.
	They're passing this law in Colorado.
	And Mary Hodge, at one point it looked as if they were going to allow active military members to,
	uh to have these high capacity magazines and veterans and Senator Mary Hodge uh argued that they should not be allowed to have high capacity veterans and serving military should not be allowed to have this is serving military too by the way veterans and serving military should not be allowed to have high capacity magazines because quote some of them come back with significant mental health problems unquote.
	This is this is an interesting glimpse into the into the psyche and actually matches what that principal was saying at that elementary school that the fact that you know how to use the gun is uh all the more reason why you're too crazy to be allowed to have one.
	This is how a Democratic Senator in Colorado this is essentially the rationale of a Democratic uh capac uh Senator in Colorado uh that veterans and serving military should not be allowed to have high capacity magazines because quote some of them come back with significant mental health problems unquote.
	In other words uh veterans serving military can't be allowed to have guns because they're crazy.
	The fact that they've been in the army, the fact that they've been in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting America's enemies testifies to the fact that they're too crazy to be allowed to have guns.
	That percolates down, and so when a nine-year-old boy brings birthday cupcakes with little plastic soldiers on in American uniform, the principal cannot distinguish between a plastic figure in a U.S. military uniform and a psycho who kicks the door down and decides to open fire on the kindergarten.
	To her, they're all just crazy extreme male-type figures with guns.
	And this, by the way, gets to the heart of why this kind of stuff happens in our schools, by the way.
	It's the inability.
	It's the loss of any sense of proportion, and it's the loss of any sense of judgment.
	Because, look, it's not a difficult thing.
	Are you really comfortable trusting the well-being of your children for eight hours a day to someone who cannot tell the difference between a psycho and a psycho?
	a pop tart between a psycho and a cupcake.
	Now the the the the most of these uh people with mental health problems are people that you know they seem a bit funny but nobody wants to be judgmental and yes everyone nobody's very surprised uh by most of the people who show up and perpetrate these uh the mass shootings when you talk to those their neighbors and all the rest well you know who's always uh but uh a school is institutionally forbidden from making that judgment about people.
	So it ends up in a crazy judgment free world where the guy who, yes, he's a bit odd, but he's like a kind of peaceful guy and everybody loves him and he's no threat to anyone, or the fella two desks away who's also a bit odd, but you're never quite sure when uh he's just gonna lash out and it's gonna turn into something more than that,
	or the fellow three desks further on, who's just a cute kid who happens to uh to uh his his dad was in the army, so he likes to put toy soldiers on his cupcakes, or the guy who's uh just your healthy, well adjusted, normal all American buyer who likes scoffing down on Pop Tarts uh and they and occasionally nibbles them into shapes just to amuse himself.
	And one day, you know, he might uh he might nibble it into the shape of a gun, but the next day he might nibble it into the shape of the the diploma he got for acing his anger management class.
	Uh but the the fact that the fact that you're entrusting your children to people with no judgment, with no sense of proportion.
	How do you seriously think when people talk now about how to make our schools safe, how to make our schools safe, uh a principal who can't tell the difference between a psycho and a cupcake is not the person to be entrusted with that task.
	These are not small things.
	They're revealing uh uh of the absolute lack of judgment and lack of any sense of proportion uh in large parts of the United States today.
	Here's another example, by the way.
	This is your last day to drink all super size sugary drinks in New York.
	New York, you are no longer a free city.
	Tomorrow, from tomorrow, you will no longer be able to buy twenty ounce size uh Coca-Cola's or mountain dews or whatever you want to buy.
	The maximum limit, the cola crackdown of Mayor Bloomberg.
	Uh the uh he he can uh he can regulate the sugar out of your drink, but he can't regulate any salt onto Fifth Avenue when the uh snowstorm strikes.
	Mayor Bloomberg, uh this is tomorrow the last day in which uh sugary drinks more than sixteen ounces can be legally sold in New York City.
	New York City.
	Uh so if you want to go out and exercise your right to drink free or die, live sugary or die, uh give me sugar or give me death.
	This is your last time.
	This is your last chance today.
	Now, Starbucks has announced that it's going to uh continue to serve venti sized drinks.
	These are twenty ounce drinks, uh and it plans to uh say it can it can uh i it will be able to uh uh get around the law because of the milk content.
	Uh the milk content.
	Now, Mayor Bloomberg has said the Starbucks plan is ridiculous.
	So you know when you buy one of those things that's the uh ginger hazelnut caramel macchiato in the venty size that's twenty ounces and the things like three thousand calories or whatever, that apparently circumvents the law because it's got milk uh in it.
	Uh Mayor Bloomberg calls Starbucks plan ridiculous.
	He's not gonna take their refusal to comply with the sixteen ounce ban lying down, and he has made it uh his mission to ensure that Starbucks is brought into compliance.
	This is this is uh the mayor of uh America's great iconic East Coast city, uh, clobbered by so-called superstorm Sandy, clobbered last week, you know, flights cancelled and all the rest of it from some rinky-ding little nothing of a storm.
	They're naming the storms now, by the way.
	What what's up with that?
	It's not enough, because there aren't enough real hurricanes.
	They've taken to naming these feet Nancy Boy Storms giving them name.
	Like this one that clobbered New York last week was supposedly Storm uh what was it?
	Storm s Storm Saturn?
	Storm Saturn, I think it was uh last uh last week.
	I don't know why they're naming them after the um uh naming them after planets, but uh the poundly they are.
	So Storm Saturn clobbered New York last week.
	Bloombone can't do anything about that.
	Next week it'll be Storm Pluto, and Bloomberg won't be anything uh won't be able to do anything about that.
	The week after that it'll be Storm Uranus.
	Storm Uranus, you might want to get extra batteries for that.
	Uh this is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
	A guy who can't he can't get anything done that would make a difference to New York lives, like a simple storm barrier, uh he he can't he can't regulate uh he can the the he can regulate the amount of soda you can have in your cup, but he can't regulate the amount of water that goes into the New York subway system when some little rinky dig storm why what kind of free people allows a guy to tell them the maximum uh the maximum amount of soda they can drink.
	This is this is just cr this is crazy stuff.
	Crazy stuff.
	If you bring a if you bring a twenty ounce uh soda drink to your grade school in New York, do you get suspended for that?
	This is what this is what it is now.
	The age of hyperregulation, uh the age of laws against anything.
	By the way, the Daily Mail has a fascinating story today that shows uh a study of a mummified corpse that shows that heart attacks and strokes may have plagued the ancient world.
	Now they're studying uh the mummy of Hattie.
	They put him they put the mummy of Hattie through uh is a a woman from uh s nine hundred AD, a Peruvian woman of nine hundred AD in her forties, and they ran her through the scanner and they discovered that she died of arteriosclerosis.
	She died of some heart problem or stroke problem in her forties in Peru in 900 AD.
	Now what was her problem?
	Was she drinking the 20 ounce soda uh from the first primitive burger king that opened up in uh Peru in 900 AD?
	Uh long before, long before uh any modern vices came along, this poor old mummy uh already had hardening of the arteries.
	Poor woman dies in her forties.
	Nothing, no mayor Bloomberg around to tell her to lay off uh the twenty ounce soda soda things.
	But in New York, this is your last day.
	So go on and hoist one and drink to your lost ho go and get one of those disgusting sugary drinks.
	Twenty ounce sugary drinks and hoist one and toast your lost freedom, New York.
	You know, the the the New York self image, hey, who's tougher than you?
	Nobody, all that kind of stuff.
	Yo, Vinny, all that kind of stuff.
	And you've got like this big nanny telling you what size soda you can drink.
	What size soda?
	Come on, guys, at some point you've got to draw a line under this stuff.
	1 800 282 2882 Mark Stein in Farush, more to come.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Steve in Idaho Falls, uh, in compliance with uh our edict uh celebrating the incoming Canadian papacy.
	We're only taking calls from Canadian border states today.
	So Steve in Idaho Falls qualifies.
	Great to have you with us, Steve.
	Hey, Mark.
	Hey Thanks for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	Here, my question is You know, as we all sit out here in the great Obama sequester hurricane.
	And they're always throwing out this Obama is always throwing out that we've already cut two point five, two point six trillion dollars.
	Right.
	But now, you know, they want to do the eighty-five billion dollar cut, and it seems like it's just the absolute end of the world.
	Yeah, that that you're right.
	That two point five trillion I think that's the figure he used in his State of the Union uh thing.
	He he said something like Could you explain it to us what that two point five trillion dollar cut was and why that just didn't devastate this country like the eighty-five billion is going to do.
	Well, I I think if you look at it, that's that's was what he brought up in the State of the Union.
	He said that uh he'd reduce the deficit by more than two point five trillion.
	And I think he then he yeah, he said he said basically now we just need to finish the job.
	Just a few more nickel and dime savings here and there, and America will be restored to fiscal health.
	And nobody understands this because he's run deficits of over a uh trillion dollars every year he's been president.
	Uh he he added six trillion dollars to the national debt and all that.
	So nobody can figure out what this two point five trillion it is.
	And I think there was I think uh last fall there was a um there was a golf trip to uh Tiger Woods that he decided to postpone at the last minute.
	Uh and then uh the the uh that Rurit Ruritanial and Ruretanian ceremonial detachment that was standing around Michelle Obama At uh for her uh Oscar presentation.
	Originally I think they wanted to have two hundred guys out there, but they cut it back to like seven or eight.
	Uh so I think that's where the main two point five trillion dollars of savings have come from.
	But this but this forty-four billion, uh, because it's not actually eighty-seven billion, Steve, it's actually only about forty-four.
	This forty-four billion is apparently responsible for everything that matters in American life.
	So clearly, in, you know, whatever it is, a three point six trillion dollar federal budget, uh, it would be easier just to keep this forty-four billion and cut the remaining three point six trillion, which obviously is not doing anything important.
	Uh but you're right, he's he said that he's saved two point five.
	He's managed to redu he says he's cut the deficit by two point five trillion.
	I don't even know what that means.
	He's raised the and he's put six uh trillion dollars on the national debt.
	So it went from ten trillion to sixteen trillion in his first term.
	But maybe he means that he was actually planning to increase it to eighteen point five trillion, so that therefore it counts as a two point five trillion dollar savings.
	Or maybe it's just that the bison management program is now for the first time in its life fully funded.
	But nobody knows, nobody knows what he managed to do.
	Maybe those bison maybe those bison had an even more lavish program and he's cut back on it.
	Nobody knows what this is.
	What's your best idea of it, Steve?
	What do you think that 2.5 trillion savings is?
	Pardon?
	What do you think that 2.5 trillion actually went to save, Steve?
	You know, it it's it's just like uh everything else that you get from the politicians, it's they throw out this number thinking that it's the big shiny object, and when it comes to explaining it, they don't have a clue themselves.
	They just love to throw that number out there and think they will just take the bait and go with it, you know.
	It just it drives me out of my mind.
	Yeah, uh you're you're right.
	I I noticed that this kind of zero's inflation that we've had.
	It's like uh when uh uh what's her name uh was saying that uh a hundred and seventy million lost jobs from the sequester.
	Uh w and which is more jobs than there are in the United States.
	She just said 170 million, because actually if you don't big up the number, if you don't stick a bunch of extra zeros on the end of it, and if you're an American politician, it's like their minimum unit now.
	It's it's like the it's like Zimbabwean dollars.
	Uh that they actually can't they can't there's something in their head.
	If they go to if they go to buy a uh a newspaper and a coffee uh at a uh at a diner back in their home district and the guy goes, okay, that'll be uh that'll be a buck eighty-five.
	They go, Oh yeah, a hundred and eighty-five billion dollars.
	That sounds very reasonable.
	They can't actually they can't comprehend now.
	They understand they have no credibility if they're talking in units of less than a billion dollars.
	Thanks thanks for your call, uh Steve.
	He's right, though, to point out that uh Obama managed to cut uh by his own words two and a half trillion dollars from the federal budget without anybody noticing.
	But this forty-four billion dollars that's being cut now, this is the straw that broke the bison's back.
	Uh these there there are just going to be every protected species on the endangered species list is just gonna be roaming free because there will be no federal management program.
	Uh yeah, there will be the pain the pain the pain is here now, HR.
	It's not coming soon.
	Uh you you turn on you turn on your shower back in uh back back back in your place, and uh it's just like fecal coliform from the reservoir now, the crumbling reservoir, uh that all the bison who've broken free from the national parks, the smelt, that smelt out in California that they've shut down the far farming for.
	That little smelt is crawling all over that state because they're no longer properly credentialed and licensed and trained fed they're no longer people who have taken out six-figure loans to go and get master's degrees in smelt management, govern being federally mandated government smelt managers.
	And all those smelt are just roaming free, the smelt will be m mating with the buffalo and mutating into one giant smelter low.
	Uh s uh and that will uh we we face a hideous future because that forty-four billion dollars was all that's holding this country up.
	Lots more ahead.
	Yes, Marion uh Nessel, Nestle, Marion Nessel, professor of nutrition at New York University, supports the uh Mayor Bloomberg ban, and she compares uh twenty ounce soda, venti size drinks as Starbucks calls them, uh, to drunk driving.
	So this is your last day.
	This is the last day New Yorkers will be free to have twenty ounce soda drinks in uh Mayor Bloomberg's uh New York, where they're now giving names to the uh to to the winter storms like Saturn and Uranus.
	I think they should I think it's about to we should move on for that, and we should actually give names now to the winter weather advisories that the uh federal government i issues.
	I think we should say, oh, you know, uh winter weather advisory Nigel or Winter Weather Advisory Derek.

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