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Dec. 30, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, on the sixth day of Christmas, Rush Limbaugh gave to us a third-rate Canadian guest host.
But don't worry, the season of guest hosts is drawing to a close.
I'll be here tomorrow.
Best of Rush on New Year's Day.
And then Thursday, January the second, Rush returns, the indispensable man to start a new year of full strength.
All American, all authentic excellence in broadcasting.
But for the moment, we're here live at uh Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
Uh Mr. Snerdley is uh running the show uh down in New York.
We had we had snow all yesterday afternoon and night uh here at Ice Station E. I.B. that that wet, sticky snow that looks so pretty the morning after uh when it's clinging to the branches and power lines just before they all fall down on top of your cars as they're driving along.
So it looks terrific.
Um December 30th, of course, uh, for any Scottish uh listeners out there, it's the day before Hogman A. My Boxing Day special didn't didn't go down well uh last week on Thursday.
Uh I got I got barraged by hate mail from people saying, it's not if you want to celebrate Boxing Day, go back to Canada Stein.
It's not Boxing Day here.
Uh there's no such thing as Boxing Day in America.
In America, the day after Christmas is called Cinco de Mayo.
Got it?
Uh so uh okay, where we won't we won't do the Boxing Day thing.
I think today, December 30th, it's Republic Day in Madagascar.
And it's also the day of the declaration of Slovakia as an independent ecclesiastic province.
The day so happy day of the declaration of Slovakia as an independent ecclesiastic province to any Slovaks listening.
I think it sounds snappier in Slovak, but because of the hostility to our Boxing Day special, uh, we're gonna hold off on the Malagasy and Slovak recipes until the uh third hour of the show.
Uh uh Ted Cruz, by the way, this Boxing Day, this hostility to Boxing Day has obviously got to Ted Cruz because he has now announced Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, has uh hired lawyers to officially renounce his Canadian citizenship.
He expects the process to be completed sometime in 2014.
This is a report in the Dallas Morning News.
By the way, I may uh speaking as a Canadian, I had no idea.
This is news to me that it's that um complicated to uh renounce your Canadian uh citizenship.
It's certainly not difficult to acquire.
Half the genocidal butchers in Sudan have got uh Canadian passport in the back of their pocket in case uh things uh go a bit rough uh over there.
But apparently uh Ted Cruz has hired again.
I didn't even realize you needed to hire a team of lawyers.
I just uh thought you had to call 1-800 uh I'm no longer Canadian and say, hello, I don't want to be Canadian anymore.
I didn't realize you had to pay half a million dollars in legal fees, but apparently Senator Cruz, he was not aware of his dual citizenship until it was brought to his attention by the newspaper earlier this year.
Uh though his mother was an he was born in Calgary, Alberta.
Uh his mother was an American citizen and his father a Cuban citizen at the time, and Cruz became an automatic Canadian citizen just by being born in that country.
That's that's the bad luck that can befall a guy, even as he exits the womb.
Uh Cruz told the Dallas Morning News he hasn't attempted to renounce his citizenship previously because he wasn't even aware he had it.
By the way, there's millions of Americans like that walking around.
They're not aware, they're not even aware they may be carrying the dread Canadian gene within them, but they are.
They just don't know it yet.
It could activate at any moment.
Um his mother told him he would have to make an affirmative act to have it claimed.
Uh so he would like have to go to a hockey game or uh buy the Celine Dion Christmas album or something like that.
Um he said there was no reason at that time to retain counsel to analyze Canadian law.
By the way, I've been on the receiving end of Canadian law.
It's certainly not worth retaining counsel over uh because it wasn't relevant to anything I was doing.
Uh he he he says, however, that he does not bear any ill will.
Unlike the people who hammered me uh for doing a Boxing Day special on Russia's show last Thursday, uh he says, Senator Cruz says he does not bear any ill will toward uh America's northern neighbor.
Uh he says, Yeah, thanks, thanks.
Renounce it's the love that dare not speak his name.
I'd like to see if he if he'd been uh Mexican, whether they'd have made him renounce his Mexican citizenship.
Uh but he's apparently having to renounce his uh his Canadian citizenship.
The last acceptable phobia.
You know, I wish you know what he sounds like to me?
I mean, I don't like to complain.
But it's like when uh it's when like when Phil Robertson says he doesn't personally have any hill ill will toward the gays, you know.
He's uh just thinks it's uh he personally doesn't uh can't see the attraction of it.
Uh he Phil Robertson explained in graphic detail why he'd rather be heterosexual than homosexual, and likewise Ted Cruz has laid it out in graphic detail why he'd rather be American or Canadian.
And he said he doesn't bear, you know, he mindful of God's injunction that we have to love everybody.
Uh he says he's not uh showing any ill will toward America's northern neighbor.
It's it's yeah, that's right.
Mr. Sadley says so this analogy, uh Canadians are the homosexuals.
Basically, Mr. Sadly is right.
Canadians are the homosexuals of North America.
And Ted Cruz is saying he's got nothing against them personally, it's for God to judge.
He will leave it for God at Heaven's Gate to sort out the the fornicators, the Sodomites, and the Canadians.
And that's Ted Cruz's basic, but he's just saying he personally can't see the attraction of it, and he's not having any part of it himself.
So uh so I I'm hoping, I'm hoping that there's a an equivalent to GLAD, this gay group, CLAD, a Canadian, uh Canadian group that will call up uh AE or the United States Senate, because I think this is this is the last acceptable hatred, Mr. Snerdley.
But uh Ted Cruz has basically said he he doesn't want to be he doesn't want to be Canadian.
So he's he's uh he's read the writing on the wall after the uh after all the hostility to the Boxing Day special of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh 1-800-282-2882.
By the way, before I forget, uh I'd like to address a bit of unfinished business from uh Thursday's show.
If you remember um Debbie from uh St. Louis called up about the uh uh the transgendered grade school.
And if Debbie uh from St. Louis is listening again today and wants to call back, uh I'd be delighted to speak to you because I'd like to say this uh to you, but if not, um we'll uh we'll get to it in the final part of the show.
Uh also happening today, this is really the big story today.
This uh this ship of global warmongers uh that went to the Antarctic to look at all the way the Antarctic ice has disappeared, uh, because they understood that the science was settled and that uh global warming is a fact and only uh deniers and denialists deny that uh climate change is happening.
And uh this uh this ship, this uh ship got stuck in ice.
Apparently the Antarctic ice didn't know the science was settled and and uh froze the ship in place.
A Chinese icebreaker got stuck in the ice itself.
The ice is so thick, by the way.
Uh the uh uh Chinese icebreaker got stuck trying to rescue them, and an Australian icebreaker on the way to rescue the Chinese icebreaker is now saying it may have difficulty um getting uh to uh getting to them and rescuing them.
Uh on board, it's that this ship, I believe it's a Russian ship, uh, but on board are scientists from the University of New South Wales, journalists from the Guardian newspaper.
This may well be The Guardian, you'll recall are the ones uh who are in bed with Edward Snowden and have all the NSA stuff that uh the NSA's been recording on it.
So this may be the NSA's uh simple way of getting their own back on the Guardian.
They've got but they've got scientists from the University of New South Wales, climate scientists, uh journalists from The Guardian, and dozens of tourists who've paid to be on board this ship.
Uh it's recreating Sir Douglas Mawson's exhibition uh expedition of 1912.
He he's the um great Australian geologist uh and his famous Antarctic expedition of 1912.
Uh dozens and dozens of tourists paid to be on this ship to go and see that in fact there is no ice at Antarctica and they were expecting to see seeds of uh global warming devastating the Antarctic ice, and instead they're stuck in Antarctic ice and no one can get to them at all.
And I love the idea.
By the way, if you're if you're wondering who will survive, because we're probably about three days from them all starting to fight and uh then decide which one's gonna get eaten first.
Uh my bet is the uh the slippery devious duplicitous hacks uh from The Guardian in London will eat the tourists.
If this is when they make the movie version, uh the it'll be the uh devious hacks from The Guardian who eat all the tourists.
But basically, I mean, uh tourists, tourists, these are sort of uh global warming tourists uh taking tours of the apocalypse.
They expected to see scenes I mean they they've every right to ask for their money back, I would think.
They expected to see signs of global warming devastation, and instead they're stuck in ice, you know.
So it's it's like the um well it's like uh the love boat.
It's that this is basically the uh the environmentalist equivalent of the love boat.
Um The ice boat soon will be watching a polar bear drown.
That's what they were expecting.
They were expecting to take a cruise, they'd be with their fellow apocalyptic doom mongers, uh, and they'd be enjoying the melting ice and the polar bears drowning before they were, and they're saying, Oh, all those settled scientists, it's it turns out, and instead they're stuck in ice.
The ice is so thick, the icebreakers can't break the ice.
The Chinese icebreaker got stuck in the ice.
Now a new icebreaker is on its way to try and rescue them.
So spare a thought for them.
That's like, you know, that's that's like going on like a singles cruise and uh discovering that in there are no other singles on the on the ship.
They've they've gone there to see all the devastation of the Antarctic, and instead they're stuck in thicker ice than there has been in years.
I'm uh by the way, I take an interest in this because I'm currently being sued by Dr. Michael Mann, the guy who invented the global warming hockey stick.
And I mocked his hockey stick, and and chaps don't like that sort of thing, so he's suing me for mocking his hockey stick.
Uh and we were in court, and my legal team uh tried to break the ice by by offering to shake his hand, but he refused to do so.
So you can't break the ice with these guys, whether you're in the courtroom with them, they're uh that insecure apparently, uh, or whether you're down in the Antarctic in the special ship on the earth.
So all these all these guys are stuck in ice.
Uh we'll we'll bring you up to date.
If they start eating if they start eating each other before the show ends today, we will bring you uh updates on that.
In fact, we may skip.
No my case no, my case wasn't thrown out of court uh the first day, Mr. Surly.
You're absolutely right about that.
Um the it was uh it was rather astonishing to me too, but it looks like uh it may well be going to trial in in which case uh I sa I certainly hope that in jury selection we uh we we probe the potential jurors for how boxing day phobic they are because otherwise I'll be looking at a 30-year spell in jail.
Uh anyway, we'll talk about we'll talk about uh that if we get news on how many of them have been eaten by uh the uh climate scientists uh in the course of the show.
We will also bring you uh uh a look at uh the latest developments in Benghazi.
There was a very interesting story in the New York Times that read strangely as if it had less to do with events that happened in Benghazi and more to do with uh getting Hillary Clinton out of a few bumpy questions at uh county fairs in Iowa and New Hampshire in the next couple of years.
Uh and also relate not unrelated to Benghazi.
This is fascinating.
From the New York Post, the personal email account of a State Department whistleblower was hacked, and four years worth of messages, not just his personal email, but uh emails detailing alleged wrongdoing at the State Department were deleted.
This is the uh computer of Richard Higby, the diplomatic security service criminal investigator who mysteriously had all his emails from the last four years deleted.
Uh and that uh curiously uh happened uh uh just uh the same day as the New York Times ran this revisionist story on what happened in Benghazi.
We'll talk about that.
We'll look back at the year that was and ahead to the thrills of 2014 to come.
Mark Stein in for rush, lots more to come.
Hey, Mark Stein, in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting uh Network.
All kinds of strange things happened over the Christmas period.
Uh the Nativity at Claremont United Methodist uh church in uh where's this?
At in Califor uh in California, somewhere in the Los Angeles area.
Uh in their manger scene, uh they replaced uh baby Jesus with uh Travon, baby Travon, slumped over in his hoodie as a pool of blood spreads over his manger.
He's swabbled in a hoodie with a pool of blood spreading over his manger.
The the photo I have here of the scene uh is um it's it's it's cropped, so I can't see what whether they've gone the whole hog and whether they have the three wise men bringing him bags of Skittles or whatever, and whether the uh the wise men are played by the Reverend Al Sharpton and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
But this has been this this is the scene at uh the United Methodist Church in Claremont, California, showing their version of the Nativity with Baby Jesus replaced by baby Trayvon and a pool of blood uh spreading over the bed of straw.
So seasons greetings and Merry Christmas from the Claremont United Methodist Church.
Uh I mentioned, by the way, this uh ship that's stuck in the Antarctic ice uh of climate change uh uh uh uh uh groupies who who basically gone on the sort of uh official cruise of uh the Algore Inconvenient Truth movie.
Uh they've they've they've gone on a kind of global uh apocalypse cruise, and uh instead of seeing the devastation and the absolute uh uh no lack of ice and uh polar bears uh dying and all the rest of it, uh they're stuck in thick ice over 15 feet thick.
This, by the way, is summer in Antarctica.
It's it's uh cause uh because there were a little there were a couple of seasons behind us down there on that end of the world.
So it's winter here, but it's summer down there.
And uh it's summer in Antarctica and uh they're all stuck in fifteen feet of thick ice.
And uh I said I suggested that the uh Guardian journalists would be eating the environmental tourists first.
But if they had were sensible, they'd both team up and eat the climate change scientists on board.
We'll bring you up to speed on that.
But it never stops.
Nothing I love the way, by the way, all the climate change tweeters are saying, uh saying uh d you you know the way like when there's heavy snow, they say weather isn't the same as climate.
Gosh, only only really stupid people say weather's got nothing to do with climate.
Yes, it's it's it's it's eighty-seven degrees and sunny is a sign of global warming, and if it's 30 below and there's three feet of snow, that's a sign of global warming, and if it's fifty-four and cloudy, that's a sign of global warming.
Well, it's the same thing, just like Antarctic ice.
There's all these prissy little tweeters from the climate change groups uh now saying, no don't don't display your ignorance.
Everybody knows that thick ice that you ship gets stuck in is a sign of global warming.
Everything is a sign of global warming.
But they take it seriously.
Here's the latest proposal um that meat should be taxed.
The journal Nature Climate Change, which is one of those big peer-reviewed journals that they're all keen on, has now said that meat should be taxed uh to encourage people to eat less of it, uh, so reducing the production of global warming gases from sheep, cattle, and goats, according to a group of scientists.
Now they this boils down to what's come up on this show before, which is the bovine flatulence, it causes more global warming than your SUV.
If you stick your SUV in a field and you stick a flatulent Holstein in a field, the flatulent Holstein will cause far more global warming than your SUV will.
Uh, but they don't like to say that because then it sounds just like, you know, a big sacrifice.
We're gonna get all the cows and pile them up on a big fire and burn the cows uh to uh to help cut uh methane emissions from all these.
So instead, they're gonna do it gradually by taxing meat.
So they're going to tax meat so that the uh flatulent Holsteins emit less methane.
If you would stop going uh, you know, to the the steakhouse out on the edge of town, or if you got there you just had a little bit of a salad, you had like a curly end dive or something, and you didn't have the big T-bone steak.
Uh so they're gonna cut back on uh tax meat in order to cut back on bovine flatulence, the latest genius idea from the guys who want to save the planet.
Yes, Rush returns live Thursday, January the second for authentic full strength excellence in broadcasting as he launches uh another year on America's number one radio show 2014.
Uh I think uh regardless of uh how you feel about Obamacare or uh Benghazi or any of the this stuff, uh I think there's no doubt that uh conservatism, and I use and I mean conservatism, by the way, not the Republican Party.
Well, what happens to the Republican Party we shall see in November.
But the principles of conservatism, uh uh core principles, uh going back to Mrs. Thatcher's great line that the facts of life are conservatives, uh uh conservative, received a boost uh in the course of this year.
If you go back to where we were a year ago, a year ago, the big story was supposedly how Republicans were doomed, demographically doomed.
They were the party of dead white men, and they were represented a dwindling constituency, and they had to do this to reach out to Hispanics and do that to reach out to this, and uh the all everything was about the problems in the Republican Party.
Big government damaged its brand in the course of this year.
Uh uh the the great thing about the rollout of uh of of Obamacare was that in the months beforehand, Obama exempted so many of his base.
He exempted the big unions, uh he exempted all kinds of crony capitalists uh who could uh who who knew the right number to dial in Washington and all the rest of it.
And what happened on October the first was that uh basically the the the brunt of Obamacare's launch was borne by the individual mandate, which as he kept saying is just oh five percent of the people in the country.
Who cares about them?
A large number of those five percent uh included media figures, included artsy figures, included anybody uh who doesn't work for a big or medium-sized business and is self-employed and has to uh look for their own pr make provision for their own health coverage.
So it clobbered a lot of the people who were actually fans of Obamacare, uh who happened to be freelance writers.
I love that.
I love that piece in the Los Angeles Times by some guy who said when he he'd always been in favor of Obamacare, he never realized that he was gonna be its first victim.
Uh the New York Times ran a story on all these liberal uh artsy types who discovered that they were gonna be clobbered by uh that their plans had their plans had been cancelled, and so they'd tried to go onto the website and got nowhere with it.
And by the way, do you remember what Nancy Pelosi said?
I think this was uh a couple of July fourths ago.
She said uh we should we should uh celebrate particularly uh this July the fourth, because finally, thanks to Obamacare, we truly have the right to pursue happiness.
Now you don't have to stay in a job you're unhappy with uh because it's got health care coverage.
Now you can pursue your dreams to become an artist, to become a writer, to go and compose that opera you've always wanted to write.
We win for a golden age of American ballet and sculpture, because now you didn't have to do that dreary office job just because it provides health coverage thanks to Obamacare.
you could go and write that opera and still have fantastic health care coverage.
And the first the fur the very first victims of Obamacare were all in this New York Times story.
All those people who sit around the Garrett uh every day writing their operas, uh writing their ballets, doing their sculpture, because they're in the individual market and their health care plans got cancelled, and the replacement plans cost four times as much.
And uh instead of a uh uh uh a thousand dollar deductible, it's a uh eight thousand dollar deductible.
And all these people are learning the price of liberalism.
Because if you're like if you are like a uh a choreographer in New York, liberalism generally comes without a price.
It's just something to talk about at dinner parties.
You know, you say, oh, yes, I think that's absolutely disgraceful that there's people with no health care coverage in America.
That's why I fully support Obamacare.
Well, now you've joined the people with no health care coverage in America.
How does that feel?
You're paying the price for your liberalism.
Liberalism comes with a price tag, uh, and this year a lot of the people who discovered that price tag were were some of Obama's most enthusiastic supporters.
And in the broader sense uh the failure of Obamacare nailed the lie of these guys.
You know, uh Obama is always going on about how it's not about big government, it's not about small government, it's about smarter government.
And I think he has a hashtag for that, too.
I think he uh when he tweets these little these these incredible insights of his.
They come with this little hashtag he puts on his tweets.
I think he's the first president with a hashtag, in fact.
I don't think, to the best of my knowledge, uh Franklin Pierce never had a hashtag and uh Chester Arthur never had a hashtag.
So I think he, Benjamin Harrison may have had a hashtag.
I don't wanna I we should check with uh the historians before we definitively rule on that.
But he may be the first ever president with a hashtag, which is hashtag SmarterGovernment.
Uh, because that's his pose that it's not about ideology, it's not about left wing, it's not about right wing, it's just about all the greatest minds on the planet who've all got these advanced degrees from Harvard and Yale, and they've thought about these issues for years.
They've sat around in the faculty lounges of the most eminent citadels of learning, thinking great thoughts all their lives, and finally we have given them the keys to the car.
And all these great thinkers who are not, they're not ideologues, they're not socialists or capitalists, it's not about left or right, big government, small government, it's just about hashtag smarter government.
Uh and the hashtag Smarter Government Technocrats have made the biggest disaster.
They can't do it.
They couldn't do it.
They're people who have never done anything, they're people who've never made payroll, the people who've never run a hardware store.
John Kerry, I think his only private sector experience was he spent two weeks as the sleeping partner in a donut stand in Boston.
That's his only private sector experience.
There's less private sector experience in this administration than in any administration going back a century.
And yet they thought they could governmentalize one sixth of the economy, uh governmentalize basically the equivalent of governmentalizing another G7 economy, and and that having given it a hashtag, it would all work.
Oh, look, uh, how's the uh how's the Obamacare plans coming along?
Hey, great, we've we've uh we we hired this really cool guy, and he said, why not try uh tweeting with a hashtag SmarterGovernment?
Oh, great, that's good.
Any other news?
No, no, everything else seems to be working fine.
They they got the hashtag and never gave the rest of it another sort.
So big government damaged its brand in the course of 2013.
Disastrously, because say what you like about FDR or LBJ, uh, and they keep saying this.
They keep saying, oh, there were a few glitches of social security, there are a few glitches in med.
There was no glitches on the scale of what has happened with Obamacare.
Uh there's nothing compared to that in the launch of Social Security or in the launch of Medicare.
So they're they're trashing their own idols there.
They're trashing FDR and LBJ when they when they say that.
Because it isn't true.
But I love the latest explanation.
This is from uh Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat delegate in Congress uh for the District of Columbia.
She said on Monday uh that uh a negative propaganda campaign has con by Republicans has confused Americans.
The enrollment is so low because uh people think the law has been repealed.
She was an MSNBC earlier today, and she said there's millions of people out there who'd like to sign up for Obamacare, but they think the law has been repealed.
So that's why they haven't signed up.
This is the latest talking point from the Democrat Party on why the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are a total bust.
It's because millions of people out there, they'd like to sign up, uh, but there's been so much negative publicity from Republicans that they think the law has been repealed, so they can't uh sign up.
By the way, uh uh Yeah, everybody smart has signed up already, Mr. Sadley.
That's right.
So they're now having to they're now trying to attract the no information voters uh and persuade them that in fact Obamacare they've got to explain to them that Obamacare has not been by the way, it's i the reason people may think Obamacare has been repealed is because every other day the President of the United States is going on television and saying,
Oh, well, we're not putting into operation this part of the law, and we're not putting into operation that part of law, and we're staying this and we're withdrawing that and we're repealing this, and we're so it it would be entirely reasonable for a semi-informed person to think that Obamacare had in fact been repealed.
Um you could see how that kind of confused By the way, I'm gonna try that uh on April the 15th, because uh if you remember, there was like a bit of bad publicity about the IRS this year with Lois Lerner.
And I think it's not unreasonable, it would be not unreasonable if, say I think it's one point two million people have enrolled for Obamacare now.
So why don't one point two million people pay your taxes on April the fifteenth, and the rest of us can say, oh, well, there was so much bad publicity about the IRS.
We thought the agency had been abolished.
Uh that's the that's the latest talking point of Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat delegate for the District of Columbia.
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Let's go to Eddie in Lakeland, Tennessee.
Eddie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, sir.
You are glaring proof that global warming is a hoax.
Think about the millions of buffalo that roamed uh Western Plains and the millions of wilder beasts that roam Africa, and I'm sure there's uh a few bull poots in that.
Right.
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam.
So you're saying on your theory, then back in the old little house in the prairie times, uh there would have been far more uh global warming from the Buffalo flatulence than there is around today.
I would think so.
That you couple that with uh the British burning all the coal back then.
That was the only source of heat.
They burned all the trees, so they started burning coal.
Yeah, you never you never know.
It was a different different time.
I mean, maybe people I I'm I said I'm not a historian, but maybe somebody should look into whether all those uh smoke signals that the Indians were sending up were really being sent up by the Indians.
Uh there could have been a whole lot of uh Buffalo smoke signals uh distorting the picture back then.
You're right, though, that uh that uh that in fact as I understand it, um the uh the uh that actually uh when you look at uh an America that was ninety percent agricultural as it was at the beginning of the Republic, you go back two hundred years,
and you talk about people who all had a most homes uh across the country had a small number of cattle, and uh people didn't didn't uh uh at that point, people didn't worry about the dangers of bovine flatulence uh and all the rest of it, and certainly didn't propose taxing meat.
I don't know.
I think it's important that we all make our contribution.
My uh the um I just bought a a uh new Holstein and uh it's a hybrid.
So, you know, that does do its part to lessen uh the dangers of boba bovine flatulence.
But by the way, we don't want to introduce the the point of this meat tax is to decrease bovine flatulence.
Uh the European Union uh seriously proposed to direct bovine flatulence tax.
And it's it's it's in it's interesting in the kind of limits of uh of government stupidity.
Because when they when they said we're going to tax bovine flatulence, and because it was a European Union racket, then immediately it's like Obamacare.
Bovine flatulence is the Obamacare of Europe, is the minute it was proposed, uh everybody wanted exemptions.
So for example, the the Bulgars would be paying less for their bovine flatulence than the Irish were, because the Bulgars uh had got some kind of Bulgarian uh bul Bulgarian bovine flatulence exemption.
So they were paying far less per cow emission than the Irish would have been paying.
So the whole thing collapsed.
And uh so now they're proposing this meat tax.
And if you think about it, this is this is so this is this is actually a uh a perfect glimpse of the liberalist mindset uh because it says uh it it it it understands that if you want to actually say to people, uh, we're gonna kill all the cows so they can't uh release their flatulence emissions and destroy the planet anymore, people would kind of Peter would be mad about it.
Peter wouldn't be happy about that.
Uh and instead this way they're saying we're going to introduce we're going to introduce a meat tax, and people say, Oh, what's that about?
And they won't know, and it'll just be another twenty or thirty percent on the cost of uh whatever uh you pay for your stake, and that way they and that's actually how liberalism thinks, because uh it's a kind of basic principle of life that uh direct government is the the more the the more direct and close to you government is uh the better i it functions.
That's why town government in many parts of New Hampshire functions reasonably well, because if you wake up on a morning like this and your road isn't hasn't been ploughed of snow, you can call the town highway agent.
He's listed in the book, and he'll say, Oh, I'm sorry about that, we should be getting to you in about twenty minutes.
If it's being done at county level, state level, national level, or like the environmentalist movement at international level, who do you call?
Where do you go to call?
And so liberalism, for its big projects, loves to do it at one remove.
And a meat tax is the perfect way for them.
Uh by the way, spare a thought for these guys stuck in the ice in the Antarctic, because if they introduce this meat tax too soon, those guys uh uh and the uh that will uh reduce global warming.
The Antarctic ice will get even thicker, and those guys will be in that hell of that uh uh uh of that uh uh uh environmental eco-cruise ship, where they're already, even as we speak they're they're they've uh they've uh eaten the uh lounge singer in the cabaret.
Uh the hell of that ship, because they will be stuck in ice now for the next four summers.
Mark Stein in Farush will take more your calls straight ahead.
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Uh I'll be here tomorrow.
We got a best of rush for New Year's Day, and uh don't forget Russia returns live on January the second.
Uh just really report on how sharks around Western uh Australia have now been uh fitted with transmitters, so they tweet their presence uh w wherever they happen to be uh instantly.
They s they sort of uh uh tweet involuntarily, uh, as it were, like Anthony Wiener, I suppose that's the closest uh analogy.
We're keeping track on that.
We're also looking at the fate of the global warming uh cruise ship which is stuck in the Antarctic ice.
These are the guys who uh a bunch of climate scientists, left-wing journalists from the Guardian, Edward Snowden's favorite newspaper, uh and uh and then a bunch of tourists who all paid a large amount of money to go to the Antarctic and see how all the ice had melted and all the creatures and wildlife were dying, and it was but they were supposed to be looking at scenes of devastation, and they say they're instead that they're stuck in the ice.
And the um the the climate scientists uh absolutely uh stunned by uh this.
They uh they they said they'd never seen anything frost up that fast since Michelle saw Barack with the Danish Prime Minister.
So it was absolutely uh appalling to them.
They they were truly stunned by what they'd been uh been looking at.
We're also following the uh in uh next stage of Obamacare.
Uh, because Obamacare's new test starts basically at midnight tomorrow, as they drop the ball in Times Square.
Uh people will be discovering so far it's just been a paperwork problem.
Uh, but beginning on New Year's Day, people are going to be going to the pharmacy, they're going to be going to the doctor, they're going to be going to the emergency room.
And the worry for the administration is if there are people who think they've enrolled, but it turns out they haven't uh completed the convenient 32-step enrollment program, and they aren't haven't paid, and they don't have coverage.
And they're going to be told that uh, yeah, you can have these pills, but you're going to have to pay full freight for them.
Yeah, the doctor will see you, but you're going to have to pay full freight for it.
And that will be the next stage when Obamacare ceases to be just a paperwork problem and becomes a genuine health problem.
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