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	Yes, America's Anchorman 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 10, officially day 10 of the sequestered hell of America.
	So if you're there on the front lines as the raw sewage is pouring down the street and under your door jam, then call me and let me know.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Vivid live reports from the searing hell of sequestrated America.
	1-800-282-2882.
	I think in the last hour, I said 17 states were reporting cholera outbreaks.
	I believe it's actually up to 19 now.
	We'll also be keeping you up to date on any insider info we get on the Papal Conclave.
	The Papal Conclave is supposed to start tomorrow, and the New York Times is urging the Cardinals to appoint the first transgendered Pope.
	I said I thought we would get the first Canadian Pope, and he's a guy called Marc Oillette, who was Archbishop of Quebec.
	His name looks all funny because it's a French name, so it's spelt O-U-E-L-L-E.
	So Americans will be pronouncing it Mark Oui, Oui.
	Who's he?
	But a good way to remember it is: Cardinal Willette is the way to bet.
	He's the chap you want if you're looking for a pontiff.
	Just a little mnemonic to help you remember.
	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, TD Bank, is Canadian.
	It's called 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 Canada's world.
	The rest of you guys just live in it.
	So we'll keep you up to date on that if we get any breaking.
	And we also had the breaking news that Kwame Kilpatrick has been appointed Pope.
	No, just kidding.
	He's going to jail for conspiracy.
	He's been convicted of conspiracy and racketeering and taking $200,000.
	His fundraiser gave him for his personal account $200,000 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, amongst all the other important stories of the day, we got detail derailed, as it were, by these incidents of Josh Welch in Baltimore eating a Pop-Tart 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 for eating baked goods into the shape of firearms.
	But then, also on the baked goods and firearms front, we reported from Michigan that an elementary school had confiscated.
	A boy brought home 30 chocolate cupcakes.
	This is a kid called Hunter Fountain at Shaw Elementary School in the town of Cara, a nine-year-old boy.
	They had plastic figurines on them representing World War II soldiers, and they were confiscated.
	And the parent is annoyed because 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 members of the U.S. Armed Forces and deranged mass murderers.
	That's all the same.
	They're all equally bad.
	And the principal says, 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 wants.
	You can't have that kind of respect.
	You know, your right to decorate your cupcake 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 your First Amendment rights to express yourself on your cupcake end 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 who is an obvious loon and actually gives a PowerPoint presentation.
	He's the first jihadist to give a PowerPoint presentation to representatives of his victims explaining what he's going to do to them, Major Hassan.
	And his employees are so paralyzed by political correctness, they think he's psychotic, but instead of doing anything about him, they just promote him.
	So he winds up at Fort Hood and he winds up on a desk shouting Allahu Akbar, gunning down 14 of his comrades.
	And the official report on it says it's workplace violence and says it's post-traumatic stress syndrome.
	He hadn't actually been deployed anywhere.
	He'd never been anywhere except the United States.
	But he'd got pre-post-traumatic stress syndrome from the stress of planning how to kill his fellow American soldiers.
	So we now have evolved from that, from post-traumatic stress, PTSD.
	We've now got in our schools Pop-Tart stress disorder.
	So we're evolving as a society.
	They call that workplace violence, workplace violence, when a guy's on the desk gunning down his colleagues, shouting Allahu Akbar.
	That's the official report.
	Then I see this thing this morning.
	The head of the U.S. Pacific Command points to climate change as the greatest national security threat.
	Now, you may have been following the news and noticed that North Korea has scrapped the 1953 armistice with South Korea.
	So 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.
	Scrapped the 1953 armistice with South Korea.
	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 Locklear III warned that global warming is going to cripple the security environment and that whole nations could be displaced by rising sea levels.
	North Korea isn't one of them, unfortunately.
	No one's going to wash Kim Jong-un away.
	But that's the thing.
	He says that the greatest security threat America faces in the Pacific is climate change.
	You're thinking, oh, you know, 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 now this other story about an Air Force chaplain 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 about some chaplain who, I think he was, I forget where he was flying to or from, but he was basically urging the guy.
	He was helping pass the ammunition as the plane was 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.
	The 10th highest U.S. military award in terms of precedence.
	And it's supposed to be awarded for acts of heroism in a combat zone.
	This guy got it for a PowerPoint presentation on how to treat the Koran and other Islamic religious materials with sensitivity.
	Lieutenant Colonel John Traynor, an Air National Guard, has from Springfield, Ohio, received the prestigious Bronze Star for his PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material.
	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 some guy from the Taliban writes out his secret plan to blow up a U.S. base in Kandahar on a piece of paper to distribute among the lads, and then just to sort of pug them up a bit and inspire them a bit,
	he writes one of the more blood-curdling verses from the Quran on that piece of paper, then it becomes a holy religious 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 treat it with multicultural sensitivity.
	This guy got the bronze star for a PowerPoint on how to treat Islamic materials with greater sensitivity.
	And by the way, this happened.
	This news comes today on a day in which two more U.S. troops died as the result of an inside job killed by one of the guys that trained with American tax dollars and provided with his weaponry by American tax dollars.
	But the priority for us is to, even as the guys we try, we don't have to bother about the enemy here.
	Hamid Karzai is claiming that he's refusing to see Chuck Hagel because the U.S. 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 U.S. government were in league with the Taliban.
	But it actually isn't, we don't need to be in league with the Taliban.
	They're winning back the country all by themselves.
	They don't need us.
	We're giving PowerPoint presentations on the proper way to handle pieces of paper that have verses of the Quran written on them.
	And so they don't need us to be in alliance with them.
	They're winning a battle.
	But he's refusing.
	Hamid Karzai is refusing to see Chuck Hagel because he says the U.S. military is in league with the Taliban.
	And in fact, the reality is the opposite.
	The opposite 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.
	That is the America of the 21st century.
	Mark Stein, Infra Rush, lots more straight ahead.
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	Mark Stein, Infra Rush, on the excellence in broadcasting.
	I'm just doing corrections today.
	I get everything.
	I got everything wrong today.
	A military caller spoke to HR just a moment ago and said, Well, you've got to distinguish between the bronze star.
	I think it comes with a special V thing, V for Valor thing, the bronze star for Valor, and then the Commonwealth Garden Bronze Star, which this particular, 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, HR was speaking to him, who said, quote, any well-connected puke, unquote, can get a Commonwealth Garden Bronze Star.
	So it doesn't surprise him that they're giving away bronze stars for the most multiculturally sensitive PowerPoint presentation on the appropriate kind of kid gloves to handle the Koran with.
	So apparently anybody can get a bronze star.
	I certainly hope this school teacher in Maryland who took down the seven-year-old with the Pop-Tart got a bronze star for it at the very least.
	Let us go to 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 you every day 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 good.
	The Rush Limbaugh Show has been here every day for getting on for a quarter century now, and Rush hasn't got plans to go anywhere for the next quarter century.
	So we'll be on your station.
	We've been around for a long time.
	I wanted to talk to you about that bison management program.
	I grew up in Montana, and 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 brucellosis that will cause cattle to miscarry.
	So 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 them grazing around where some of the bison droppings may be receive this disease and it could devastate 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 brucellosis.
	I think it's like when I was a boy they used to call it Maltese fever.
	I think it's from the.
	It's the unpasteurized milk and animal droppings.
	Is that right?
	I'm not really a cattle expert.
	I just know that there was every time 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, that's that, that's true, and it can, and it and it can.
	I think it, I think it can.
	Actually, In rare cases, it can actually impact humans too, as well.
	So, that's that's well, thanks for clearing that.
	Thanks for clearing that up, Linda.
	You knew there was a reason for this bison management business, and that's it.
	That if they don't actually keep them on the grounds of Yellowstone and they start leaving the bison droppings, then it can impact the cattle and the cattle get sick.
	And it does, that's right, it does infect a vague, vague, vague memory of something about this from my school days.
	And I believe it can, it affect can affect not just pregnant cattle, but actually pregnant women as well.
	So, thank you for your call, Linda.
	That's another thing.
	No, my pleasure.
	I've been getting everything wrong.
	So, that's the seven-year-old and it's and the and the rest.
	Oh, and by the way, we had a Native American who also called in, whose name was White Eagle, Native American, who pointed out that, in fact, the reason why the bison management program cannot be cut back on is because it's covered by treaties.
	It's covered by treaties, apparently, it's covered by treaties between the white man and the red man.
	So, it 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 between George III 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 happy to stick with that.
	I like the idea of when everything else is a total ruin, when everything has been cut, when social security has been abolished, when seniors are starving, there are no prescription drugs, when everything else has gone, there will still be the bison management program because it's covered by the treaty goes back to Plymouth Rock.
	Nothing can be done about it.
	So, it's covered between that's according to this Native American who called in with the name White Eagle.
	And I mean, if that doesn't establish him as an authentic Native American, I don't know what does.
	So, I'm happy to set the record straight on that.
	Anyway, that remains really the most devastating news of the day on the sequester front: that the plow trucks have not been out in Yellowstone because of the sequester.
	And we will try and keep you up to date and bring you up to news on any other 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, then do call us.
	1-800-282-2882.
	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 tomorrow.
	I mentioned earlier this story, this grade school in Michigan, where they confiscated the cupcakes that had the little plastic toy soldiers on.
	If 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 have these high capacity magazines and veterans.
	And Senator Mary Hodge 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 an interesting glimpse 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 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 senator in Colorado, 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, 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 boy brings, a nine-year-old boy brings birthday cupcakes with little plastic soldiers on in American uniform, 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 Pop-Tart?
	Between a psycho and a cupcake.
	Now, most of these 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 by most of the people who show up and perpetrate these mass shootings.
	When you talk to those, their neighbors and all the rest, well, you know, it's always.
	But 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 he's just going to lash out and it's going to turn into something more than that.
	Or the fellow three desks further on who's just a cute kid who happens to, his dad was in the army, so he likes to put toy soldiers on his cupcakes, or the guy who's just your healthy, well-adjusted, normal, all-American guy who likes scoffing down on Pop-Tarts and occasionally nibbles them into shapes just to amuse himself.
	And one day, you know, he might nibble it into the shape of a gun, but the next day he might nibble it into the shape of the diploma he got for acing his anger management class.
	But 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, 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 of the absolute lack of judgment and lack of any sense of proportion in large parts of the United States today.
	Here's another example, by the way.
	This is your last day to drink all supersized 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 20-ounce size Coca-Colas or Mountain Dews or whatever you want to buy.
	The maximum limit, the cola crackdown of Mayor Bloomberg.
	He can regulate the sugar out of your drink, but he can't regulate any salt onto Fifth Avenue when the snowstorm strikes.
	Mayor Bloomberg, this is the last day in which sugary drinks, more than 16 ounces, can be legally sold in New York City, New York City.
	So if you want to go out and exercise your right to drink free or die, live sugary or die, 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 continue to serve Venti-sized drinks.
	These are 20-ounce drinks.
	And it plans to say it will be able to get around the law because of the milk content, 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 ginger, hazelnut, caramel, macchiato in the Venti size that's 20 ounces and the things like 3,000 calories or whatever, that apparently circumvents the law because it's got milk in it.
	Mayor Bloomberg calls Starbucks plan ridiculous.
	He's not going to take their refusal to comply with the 16-ounce ban lying down.
	And he has made it his mission to ensure that Starbucks is brought into compliance.
	This is the mayor of America's great iconic East Coast city, 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's up with that?
	It's not enough because there aren't enough real hurricanes.
	They've taken to naming these Ethiop Nancy Boy storms, giving them name.
	Like this one that clobbered New York last week was supposedly Storm, what was it, Storm Saturn?
	Storm Saturn, I think it was last week.
	I don't know why they're naming them after planets, but apparently they are.
	So Storm Saturn clobbered New York last week.
	Bloomberg can't do anything about that.
	Next week, it'll be Storm Pluto, and Bloomberg won't be able to do anything about that.
	A week after that, it'll be Storm Uranus.
	Storm Uranus.
	You might want to get extra batteries for that.
	This is ridiculous.
	Absolutely ridiculous.
	A guy who can't get anything done that would make a difference to New York lives, like a simple storm barrier, 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.
	What kind of free people allows a guy to tell them the maximum amount of soda they can drink?
	This is crazy stuff.
	Crazy stuff.
	If you bring a 20-ounce soda drink to your grade school in New York, do you get suspended for that?
	This is what it is now.
	The age of hyperregulation, the age of laws against anything.
	By the way, the Daily Mail has a fascinating story today that shows a study of a mummified corpse that shows that heart attacks and strokes may have plagued the ancient world.
	Now, they're studying the mummy of Hattier.
	They put the mummy of Hattie through a woman from 900 AD, a Peruvian woman of 900 AD in her 40s.
	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 40s in Peru in 900 AD.
	Now, what was her problem?
	Was she drinking the 20-ounce soda from the first primitive Burger King that opened up in Peru in 900 AD?
	Long before, long before any modern vices came along, this poor old mummy already had hardening of the arteries.
	Poor woman dies in her 40s.
	Nothing, no Mayor Bloomberg around to tell her to lay off the 20-ounce soda things.
	But in New York, this is your last day.
	So go on and hoist one and drink to your lost, or go and get one of those disgusting sugary drinks, 20-ounce sugary drinks, and hoist one and toast your lost freedom, New York.
	You know, 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 in compliance with our edict 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 $2.5, $2.6 trillion.
	Right.
	But now, you know, they want to do the $85 billion cut, and it seems like it's just the absolute end of the world.
	Yeah, you're right.
	That $2.5 trillion.
	I think that's the figure he used in his State of the Union thing.
	He said something like that.
	Well, could you explain it to us what that $2.5 trillion cut was and why that just didn't devastate this country like the $85 billion is going to do?
	Well, I think if you look at it, that was what he brought up in the State of the Union.
	He said that he'd reduced the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion.
	And I think he then, yeah, 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 trillion dollars every year.
	He's been president.
	He added $6 trillion to the national debt and all that.
	So nobody can figure out what this $2.5 trillion is.
	And I think there was, I think last fall, there was a golf trip to Tiger Woods that he decided to postpone at the last minute.
	And then that Rauritanian ceremonial detachment that was standing around Michelle Obama for her Oscar presentation.
	Originally, I think they wanted to have 200 guys out there, but they cut it back to like seven or eight.
	So I think that's where the main $2.5 trillion of savings have come from.
	But this $44 billion, because it's not actually $87 billion, Steve, it's actually only about $44.
	This $44 billion is apparently responsible for everything that matters in American life.
	So clearly, in whatever it is, a $3.6 trillion federal budget, it would be easier just to keep this $44 billion and cut the remaining $3.6 trillion, which obviously is not doing anything important.
	But you're right.
	He said that he's saved $2.5 trillion.
	He's managed to reduce.
	He says he's cut the deficit by $2.5 trillion.
	I don't even know what that means.
	He's raised the, he's put $6 trillion on the national debt.
	So it went from $10 trillion to $16 trillion in his first term.
	But maybe he means that he was actually planning to increase it to $18.5 trillion, so that therefore it counts as a $2.5 trillion 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 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's just like everything else that you get from the politicians.
	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 that we'll just take the bait and go with it.
	You know, it just drives me out of my mind.
	Yeah, you're right.
	I noticed that this kind of zeros inflation that we've had, it's like when what's her name was saying that 170 million lost jobs from the sequester, 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 like Zimbabwean dollars, that they actually can't, they can't, there's something in their head.
	If they go to buy a newspaper and a coffee at a diner back in their home district, and the guy goes, okay, that'll be a buck 85.
	They go, oh, yeah, $185 billion.
	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 for your call, Steve.
	He's right, though, to point out that Obama managed to cut, by his own words, $2.5 trillion from the federal budget without anybody noticing.
	But this $44 billion that's being cut now, this is the straw that broke the bison's back.
	There are just going to be every protected species on the endangered species list is just going to be roaming free because there will be no federal management program.
	Yeah, there will be.
	The pain is here now, HR.
	It's not coming soon.
	You turn on your shower back in your place, and it's just like fecal coliform from the reservoir now, the crumbling reservoir 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 farming for, that little smelt is crawling all over that state because they're no longer properly credentialed and licensed and trained.
	They're no longer people who have taken out six-figure loans to go and get master's degrees in smelt management, being federally mandated government smelt managers.
	All those smelt are just roaming free.
	The smelt will be mating with the buffalo and mutating into one giant smelter low.
	And that will, we face a hideous future because that $44 billion was all that's holding this country up.
	Lots more ahead.
	Yes, Marion Nessel, Nestle, Marion Nessel, Professor of Nutrition at New York University, supports the Mayor Bloomberg ban and she compares 20-ounce soda, Venti-sized drinks, as Starbucks calls them, to drunk driving.
	So this is your last day.
	This is the last day New Yorkers will be free to have 20-ounce soda drinks in Mayor Bloomberg's New York, where they're now giving names to the winter storms like Saturn and Uranus.
	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 federal government issues.
	I think we should say, oh, you know, winter weather advisory Nigel or winter weather advisory Derek.

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