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December 30, 2013, Monday, Hour #2

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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, but not for much longer.
	He will return Thursday, and in the meantime, this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Coming to you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
	If you're fleeing the country, do swing by and say hello.
	You can't miss us.
	There's a big sign on the highway saying Last Rush Guest Host Before the Border.
	Don't worry, the show is under full control of executive authority because Mr. Snerdley is in New York City.
	So it goes from Ice Station EIB in New Hampshire to New York, out to California, up to the satellite, and thence to the world.
	And this is how Reuters is reporting the news from Hawaii.
	The serenity, the serenity, I love the headline.
	The great thing about when I worked at Fleet Street, the editors always used to teach a lesson about the kind of grabbing headlines they wanted you to use.
	The headline was supposed to grab the reader and draw him in.
	And they had a rather obscene term for this that I can't use on the air, but that this was the desired quality a headline ought to have if it was going to draw the reader in.
	All headlines involving Obama take on the same character as he himself has.
	They become sort of passive and detached.
	So this one says, Obama faces smattering of protests on Hawaiian vacation.
	Now, I don't know whether this is just Reuters downplaying things.
	You know, Louis XVI faces smattering of protests on Versailles vacation.
	Is it like that?
	Tsar faces smattering of protests on Winter Palace vacation.
	Is it like that?
	We don't know.
	But at any rate, Reuters says Obama faces smattering of protests on Hawaiian vacation.
	The serenity of President Barack Obama's Hawaiian vacation was rattled a little on Saturday when demonstrators aired grievances against unmanned aircraft.
	By the way, unmanned aircraft are what non-Reuters reporters call drones.
	And they're not.
	By the way, I gave my kid a drone for Christmas.
	You know, he's like Amazon wants to deliver things by drones.
	A drone, it's not the fact that it's unmanned.
	It's the fact that it's being dispatched across the oceans to go and kill a bunch of people.
	And so the fact that it's an unmanned aircraft is not what they're protesting about.
	The unmanned aspect, unless they're members of some kind of aircraft trades union, and they're protesting against the fact that now the aircraft don't require pilots or whatever to fly them.
	But I got my kid one of these, my youngest boy one, these little drones.
	And I don't know what you do.
	Apart from if you're not going using it to kill jihadis in Waziristan, I don't know what you do with it unless you unless you just send it over to hover across the street outside the bedroom window of the hot girl in Sits Across the Class from You that you've always had an eye.
	Unless it's like that, I have no idea what you use these things for.
	But they're not protesting the unmanned nature.
	They're protesting the fact that they're going to kill people.
	Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Obama's motorcade.
	Now I love that.
	By the way, that's great writing just there.
	What's wrong with this sentence?
	Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Obama's motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs.
	I think the idea is that the president visited the gym and the motorcade, the motorcade itself didn't actually visit the gym.
	So that's poorly written.
	Well, actually, I don't know.
	It's a close call because, in a sense, the motorcade does visit the gym.
	I don't know whether they actually all get out of the motorcade and surround the exercise bike or the treadmill that he's on just to secure it or whatever.
	I should imagine the motorcade stays outside, but maybe I'm wrong.
	Anyway, the motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs with slogans including drones unethical and illegal, U.S. bases out of Hawaii, presumably, and close Guantanamo now.
	Others express their opposition to genetic, genetically modified foods.
	This is how the revolution begins, folks.
	I know it's depressing.
	You think, well, we got Benghazi, we've got the IRS, we've got Obamacare, we've got all this.
	What are people going to take to the barricades over?
	They're going to take to the barricades over genetically modified food.
	It marked a second day of peaceful protests surrounding Obama, who is spending a two-week vacation with his family.
	This is how close we are to the tipping point.
	On Friday evening, as many as 27 protesters turned out to demonstrate against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Pact being negotiated between the United States and several Asian and South American countries.
	There's a strange phrase.
	Where's the phrase in this?
	Let me see if I can find it.
	I'll have to have another.
	Yeah, there's a protest zone.
	That's the thing.
	There's a designated protest zone.
	That's right.
	Against unmanned aircraft and other issues.
	The demonstrators add grievances in a small protest zone near the First Family's upscale rented house.
	Okay?
	This is your First Amendment in action.
	There's a designated protest zone.
	It's a small protest zone.
	So if you want to be sure, if you've got your protest against genetically modified food and you've got your protest against Benghazi, you've got your protest against drones, you've got your protest against Obamacare, you should apply for a permit to the Bureau of Protest Zone Compliance, and they will then issue you a permit that will tell you when you can go and stage your designated protest in the designated protest zone near the First Family's upscale rental house.
	But Reuters is yeah, no, yeah, no, no, no.
	Mr. Snowley is so cynical.
	He's just said, well, no one will ever see it because how near is the protest zone to the first family's upscale rented house?
	Well, it's true that probably when, you know, Michelle ducks out to go to the supermarket and Barak has the Danish prime minister over to sit in her bikini by the pool.
	It's probably true that you can't see the designated protest zone from the pool.
	But there's a sporting chance that somebody in the 40th car of the 40-car motorcade will be close enough to see the people making the protests near the first family's upscale rented house.
	But it reports he's had a warm hundreds of onlookers swelled around his motorcade for about four blocks on Friday now.
	I honestly can't make head or tail of what this who is this piece buyer?
	I can't understand what he's saying.
	Is it the motorcade that stretches for about four blocks?
	That sounds a bit short for a presidential motorcade these days.
	Or is it the hundreds of onlookers who swelled around the motorcade that stretched for four blocks?
	You can bet the hundreds of onlookers, by the way, never got anywhere near the motorcade because even the most insignificant car in the 40-car motorcade, you can't risk getting any American citizens there.
	After the family dined at Nobu, an award-winning Japanese fusion restaurant in Waikiki, as the motorcade pulled away for the 15-mile drive back to Kailua, by the way, 15-mile drive sounds a lot longer than it is because, in fact, the motorcade itself is about 12 miles long.
	As the motorcade pulled away for the 15-mile drive back to Kailua, the crowds clapped, cheered, and waved, snapping photographs with their cell phones.
	Because it's nothing is, you know, when you look back on the Obama era, nothing sums it up better than getting a cell phone shot of the back of the 40th car in the motorcade as it goes past you.
	So, this is how these are the things people are annoyed about now in Obama, with Obama in Hawaii.
	They're sunda protests about genetically modified food and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Pact.
	So, that's a sign, I think, that the revolution's coming.
	The revolution's coming.
	It's just small things like that that can just start the whole thing off, start the whole thing off.
	Bigger story, the biggest story this week was a story in the New York Times yesterday about Benghazi, a deadly mix in Benghazi.
	And it has its share of the reporter, by the way, here is David Kirkpatrick.
	And he's got like, he does that thing.
	You have to give credit to the New York Times for this.
	He's their Cairo guy, and he's been in Benghazi, and he's gotten lots of those little details that give the appearance of authenticity to it.
	September the 9th, American diplomats dined with the militiamen on Twinkie-style cakes again.
	It's a cryptic description.
	I take it that means they weren't actual Twinkies, but they were some Libyan approximation of Twinkies.
	And the militiamen said that they wanted to build a partnership with the United States, especially in the form of more investment, and specifically asked for Benghazi outlets of McDonald's and KFC.
	Two days later, essentially the same group of people who had been in this meeting were responsible for storming the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi and killing Ambassador Stevens and three others.
	And there's a guy in this, a militia leader called Ahmed Abu Qatala, who is walking around Benghazi openly right now.
	And his movements are known.
	The only time in the course of this attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the only time that the fire, the enemy fire, abated was when Abu Qatala apparently entered the compound, the diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
	But this guy, Abu Qatala, he's walking around.
	He's in his favorite cafes.
	He's still there.
	Everyone knows what he's doing.
	Everyone knows his whereabouts.
	Why is he still walking around, right?
	Why is this guy who figures all the way through the New York Times story on Benghazi, why is he still walking around?
	You know, this guy is what happened in Benghazi is unusual.
	People think it happens a lot, but it doesn't.
	It's 30 years since an American ambassador was killed.
	30 years.
	It's an unusual event.
	But because it would be inconvenient to play up its unusualness two months before a presidential election, instead, the ambassador was dead and the other guys were dead and it was no big deal.
	And this guy, Abu Katala, is still openly walking around.
	What is fascinating about this is there appears to be no move, even though he's quoted by name in the newspapers, even though he's been filmed sitting in his favorite cafes, even though everybody knows where he is, except apparently the world's biggest military belonging to the world's only superpower, which has no intention, apparently, of lifting a finger to avenge the death of an American ambassador.
	And that's not that's well, yeah, what difference can it possibly make?
	It could make a difference.
	In the real world, it does make a difference.
	Because in the real world, I'll never forget this.
	This was an aide to Gromyko who was asked in 1979 what would happen if the Ayatollah Khomeini had done to the Soviet embassy what he'd done to the American embassy.
	And the guy looked at his watch and he said, it's 11 o'clock.
	By one o'clock, there would be no more Tehran.
	And that's why, generally speaking, Soviet embassies and Russian embassies and whatnot don't get seized.
	So when you let these things go unpunished, you're licensing more of it.
	You're licensing more of it.
	But that's in the real world.
	In the unreal world in which the New York Times operates, they're thinking that Benghazi has to be neutralized as a story before Iowa and New Hampshire.
	So it's not really...
	Benghazi is a town in Libya, but what matters more is the likely reaction out in Iowa or New Hampshire.
	This is designed to liquidate the issue for Mrs. Clinton in those jurisdictions rather than do anything to avenge the death, the deaths of four Americans whose memory she trashed by standing over those coffins at Andrews Air Force Base and telling lies about them, telling lies about why they were dead.
	This story is about making Iowa and New Hampshire safe for Mrs. Clinton, not about making Benghazi safe for American diplomats.
	Mark Stein Farush will take your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Pam in Hobart, Indiana.
	Pam, did I pronounce your town correctly, Pam?
	Hi, Mark.
	How do you say, is it Hobart, Hobart, Indiana?
	Hobart, Indiana.
	Okay, that's great.
	That's great.
	Not Hobart.
	Kind of like losing connection here.
	Okay, well, let's try not to lose the connection.
	What's on your mind today, Pam?
	Well, I just wanted to say, you know, when this affordable health care was being first talked about, one of my friends, she was real adamant about that it was going to be like a payroll deduction like your FICA is.
	And I kept telling her, no, it's not.
	It's more insidious.
	You know, you've got to pay attention.
	Well, now to make a long story short, she's been out of work for almost two years.
	She applied for under the exchange, and of course she has no income, so she can't go that route.
	So they suggested that she would be comparable to the Medicaid.
	So she has applied there three times, and they have officially denied her, and she's got a letter of denial.
	So she's like, well, welcome to my world.
	Everything has been out of pocket for me.
	So now everybody has to pay like I have to pay.
	Everything is out of pocket.
	Right, right.
	And she thinks that is the right way to go.
	Yeah, you made an interesting point there, Pam.
	She basically assumed that it would be easy, that it would be like that this whole Obamacare thing was going to be like FICA.
	It'd be on your pay slip.
	There'd be some little bitty itsy bitsy number, and the costs of healthcare were going to be deducted from that.
	And she's like, your friend is like a lot of people.
	She thought healthcare reform was going to be easy.
	And that's the opposite of what they've done there.
	They've massively, massively complicated everything to the point where people who, your friend sounds like the kind of person that government healthcare is meant to help.
	She's got no means of support.
	She's out of work for two years.
	So if she gets sick, she has no way of reaching into her purse and paying for it herself.
	So if you're going to have government intervention in healthcare, someone like your pal is the kind of person it's meant to help.
	Yet she doesn't qualify for any of the things.
	She's been rejected by, she doesn't qualify for the exchanges because she's got no income.
	She's lost her own insurance.
	She's been denied Medicaid.
	All they've done with this healthcare reform is introduce even more gaps for her to fall through, as it were.
	But the delusion on the part of liberalism is that all this could be done easily.
	And she sounds as if she's thinking of it that way, that it was that whatever it was, it wasn't going to be anything you had to think about or anything you had to work at.
	And that's actually the opposite the way it's turned out, Pam.
	Rid of this Obamacare.
	Yeah, yeah.
	What's your solution?
	If we had to, if you were sitting in John Boehner's position now, what would you do?
	I would still keep it as a free market and to open up these insurance policies to be able to go from state to state, more open market there.
	Yeah.
	There was always ways to help with people that didn't have insurance.
	I mean, I know, for an example, me, I had to have surgery four years ago for the first time.
	I had no insurance, nothing.
	And I went straight to the hospital and applied for financial aid there.
	And I was expecting that maybe I would get 40% of that bill taken off.
	They took everything off for me.
	So there's ways.
	No, you're right.
	You're right, Pam.
	That 40% cash discount is automatic.
	I think, in fact, Rush got that when he had his heart problems in Hawaii.
	And he was talking a couple of days later when he got back from Hawaii a couple of years ago that he'd just written a check for it.
	But in fact, that's just the start of it.
	And the reason hospitals do that is because there's now so many third-party interventions from insurers and governments that there is no price on an opera.
	I don't know what operation you're having, but if you're having a hernia operation, there's no market value on a hernia operation in the United States anymore.
	It could be a bazillion dollars or it could be 60 bucks because there is no effective market in healthcare pricing anymore.
	And that is what's driving the costs of healthcare up as much as anything else.
	Third-party intervention.
	We'll talk about that and a lot more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Yes, great to be with you.
	New Year's Eve, I'll be here.
	New Year's Day, Best of Rush, and Rush, the man, the indispensable man, the big voice on the right, returns to launch another year of excellence in broadcasting on Thursday, January the 2nd.
	I've just had a tweet from Jay Knight, who we were talking about that ice, big eco-apocalyptic global warming cruise that's got stuck in the ice in the Antarctic.
	And Jay Knight says, can we rename the ship HMS Inconvenient Truth?
	I name this ship HMS Inconvenient Truth.
	God bless her and all who sail in her.
	HMS Inconvenient Truth, stuck in the ice.
	Chinese icebreaker tried to reach them, failed.
	This is summer in Antarctica.
	Summer in Antarctica.
	The ice is thicker than ever.
	And now, I know as I say this that the climate, the climate change guys, the global warmongers will be tweeting, well, you know, thick ice is not incompatible with global warming.
	Ice is a sign of global warming.
	No ice is a sign of global warming.
	Thick ice is a sign of global warming.
	Blazing hot sun, rising sea levels, desert scorched earth is a sign of global warming.
	But low sea levels and lush green pine snows are sign of global warming.
	And if it's 53 and cloudy, that means the global warming is out of control and you should flee for the hills.
	Run now.
	Don't stop to pack.
	Don't do anything.
	Just get the hell out of there right now.
	At some point, if everything that happens proves your theory, it is not a theory.
	It is not a theory.
	You're like those guys who, on the primitive islands, when they say the gods of the volcano are angry, so we better toss some virgins into the volcano.
	And then the volcano doesn't stop erupting.
	They say, well, that's a sign that the volcano is even angrier.
	And then when the volcano stops erupting and you still want to toss some virgins into the volcano because it's fun and you've gotten hooked on the habit, you say, well, that doesn't mean that the gods aren't.
	Everything is now proof of global warming.
	I mentioned the state, the protests in Hawaii.
	We're kind of looking back on some of the things in the last year and looking ahead to what might happen in 2014.
	And the protests in Hawaii do not suggest a great swell of public anger, at least in Hawaii, towards Obama.
	But elections are decided by a thin sliver of people in the middle.
	And for a lot of that thin sliver of people in the middle, big government's brand was damaged this year.
	Now, it may well be that round about September, October, they do what they did last time, which is that they know they've got a compliant media that will fake things for their president and will downplay things for their guy and will sledge things under the carpet for their party.
	And that may well happen again.
	But unless people are extremely stupid, in which case they well deserve the government they've got, then this last year, I think, has been devastating for big government's brand.
	The lie of the last year, the big lie, the lie of the year, according to PolitiFact, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period.
	If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period.
	These things are not true.
	If you do like your doctor, you're in big trouble because you may get another plan, but the plan will have a restricted network.
	The plan will have a restricted range of hospitals.
	A lot of doctors, a lot of hospitals don't want to be part of this thing.
	So you might be able to get another healthcare plan, but you'll have to drive further and further to see a doctor you're less and you don't want to see, who would not be your choice of doctor in a free market.
	And again, all the aspects, that was necessary.
	That was necessary to get this thing over the finish line.
	It was necessary for that lie to survive the 2012 election.
	Because if people had known that there was going to be this much chaos and this much uncertainty and all the rest of it, then it would have had an effect.
	And in the end, for whatever reason, Obamacare did not really have a significant effect in last year's election.
	And it remains an open question whether they'll be able to pull that off this time.
	But if you're paying attention, this is the way it's going to be.
	You're in for more expensive health care with a smaller range of doctors, a smaller range of hospitals, less quality health care, less quality health care, and as consolation, a high deductible and coverage for all kinds of things you're never going to get.
	So if you're a 58-year-old guy, you'll have a perfect plan if you ever need to have a hysterectomy or whatever.
	By the way, some of these things shouldn't be part of plans.
	And they're why insurance isn't insurance anymore.
	Insurance is for things that are generally unlikely to happen, but that are expensive if they do, like your house burning down or your car flipping over on the interstate.
	So when you have health care plans that cover your flu shot, that's not insurance.
	You know, you should be paying for that.
	You should be paying for your flu shot.
	You should be paying for your contraception.
	You're not insuring when people say, oh, oh, that's the great thing.
	This new plan will cover, they will have to cover my contraception now.
	Contraception is not an unforeseen event.
	It shouldn't be.
	It's one of those things where if you need to factor it into your life, then it should not be something that is addressed by insurance.
	And that's why this thing is going to – the question now is the next stage.
	What happened?
	Which way does healthcare reform go after Obamacare falls apart?
	Does it go towards a full-blown government plan or does it go to something sane, which would be people paying something for doctor visits, whether it's $50 or whatever, and at the same time having affordable insurance for catastrophic health care that is nothing to do with employment or anything like that.
	So the question is where it goes next.
	And that's the big question that we'll start to see if some of these stories for what happens after January the 1st turn out to be rather worse for the government than necessary.
	Florida, this is one of the things they were protesting about in Hawaii.
	They were upset about the drones.
	At the same time, every state now wants to be in with a shot at big drone money.
	The FAA has announced six states that will develop test sites for drones.
	Now, this is the critical next step for getting drones into U.S. skies.
	They didn't test them.
	They previously just been testing them on large stretches of Waziristan and Yemen.
	And nobody cares about that.
	So they could drone away to their heart's content.
	But they now have now announced funding for research sites that will test drones for use in the United States.
	And the six sites that are going to get them are Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas, and Virginia as states that will host drone research sites.
	So if you're walking along, so like Texas, you might be walking along a dusty main street in the Texas panhandle, and you might be accidentally drowned from the skies.
	Don't worry, it's just part of an ongoing research project.
	But the states that didn't get in are upset about it now.
	Florida is, Florida is upset.
	USA Today reports that Florida is upset that it was not part of the drone development and testing.
	So I'm actually relieved.
	I'm going to be in Florida in about a month's time.
	First week in February.
	I'm on tour in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, Miami, doing a little tour of Florida.
	And I'm kind of relieved that there won't be drone testing while I'm there, but Florida is bad that it is not getting any of the drone testing money.
	And this is the point now at which the guy who was on, the former head of the NSA, he was on TV and he was talking about Edward Stowden over the weekend.
	And he was saying, I don't know why he's attacking us from the security of Russia.
	Russia is one of the biggest big brother states on the planet.
	Look, these guys, the Benghazi whistleblower in the State Department mysteriously just had his computer hacked and four years of email disappeared.
	De Spiegel is running a story.
	If you're wondering, by the way, you see that stuff in the newspapers about, oh, UPS and FedEx failed to deliver for Christmas.
	Everything everybody ordered and they paid for the express shipping to get it there on Christmas Eve and it didn't turn up on Christmas Eve and FedEx and UPS said they're awfully sorry.
	It wasn't delivered till the 26th and they deeply regret that and it won't happen again.
	There's a story in De Spiegel about how the NSA, if people order computers and your name turns up on a watch list and you order a computer, the NSA intercepts the computer as it's being delivered from Microsoft or wherever you buy it via UPS or FedEx.
	They intercept the, or the United States Postal Service.
	They intercept the delivery and put something in the computer so they can see everything you're typing as you type it.
	This is a story in De Spiegel, the German magazine.
	It's not apparently worthy of being reported here, so I don't know how much credence you want to give to that.
	But they managed to, where, say, you do something and you get an error message, and you know with Microsoft Windows, it says there's been a flaw in this process, and we'll now report it to Microsoft Windows.
	Apparently, they intercept that program and it goes straight to the NSA.
	So this is the next day.
	You may think it was just FedEx and UPS delivering your computer a day late, but there could be a whole bunch of other stuff going on.
	This is the world we live in, folks.
	Mark's sighted for us.
	We'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush Friday in our New York studio.
	Friday made the point.
	When I said I was on tour in Florida in February, it sounded like I was just motoring around Disney World or something.
	That, in fact, is not what I'm doing.
	I'm going there to appear live on stage in these various towns.
	What did I say?
	Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, and Miami.
	I believe Mr. Snerdley will be coming along to see us.
	And if you want to get tickets for that, you can go to steinamite.com, which is S-T-E-Y, Stein with a Y, S-T-E-Y-N, as in, why do I have to have this foreigner talking about Boxing Day on my radio show all the time?
	S-T-E-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E dot com.
	So I'll be live on stage in Florida.
	And believe me, the way this New Hampshire winter is going with all the global warming, I'll be glad to get down there for a week of glorious Florida sunshine starting in Jacksonville.
	And hope to see you down there too.
	Let's go to Annie in Addison, Illinois.
	Annie, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Oh, hi, Mark.
	It's an honor just to talk to you.
	I know it's not open line Friday, but that lady that called when you were on vaccination, she said her six-year-old knew she was transgender at age three.
	Right.
	Well, I've got two boys who are 19 and 15 who each preferred pink and purple when they were all the way through first, second grade.
	And my husband was a little apprehensive, but they grew out of it.
	I mean, it's not a three-year-old.
	How can a three-year-old know or a six-year-old no?
	I mean, I just didn't want you to feel bad because you're my favorite villain.
	No, no, I don't feel bad, but I was wrong not to make the point you did there, Annie, because I don't think a six-year-old is a basis on which to disrupt either medically, such as by arresting, giving them hormones to arrest the growth of this or that, or by requiring them to use the girls' bathroom at the grade school or whatever.
	So I was wrong, Annie.
	And you're right to correct me on that because as I was thinking about it afterwards, I shouldn't have accepted the idea of a six-year-old transgender thing.
	I'll make one exception, Annie, here.
	I think that there were people, there used to be people who were born, they'd have a kind of botched birth, and it wasn't clear they'd have malformed genitals or whatever, and it wasn't clear what sex they actually were.
	And sometimes the doctor would make the wrong call, and they'd have a miserable childhood.
	And in adulthood, something would have to be corrected.
	And again, I don't really care about anything that people want to do to themselves in adulthood.
	That's their call.
	It's a different matter if they want to get Obamacare taxpayers or whatever to pay for it.
	But we're talking about something that is really just within living memory.
	I mean, this doesn't go back a long way.
	The first British woman to ever have a sex change died, I think it was last year, last year, maybe the year before.
	And she was a lady called Roberta Cowell, who when she was a man had been a famous World War II fighter pilot.
	And in the 1950s, she became the first British woman to have a sex change.
	And in those days, it was all done at the fringes of the map.
	You had to go to Morocco to have it done.
	It wasn't done in hospitals in the Western world.
	And now, as always, we have a situation where people think it should be done, not when you're an adult, but when you're a confused teenager, or even more, when you're just like a six or seven-year-old who happens to have an older sister, and so there's not much around the house to play with except dolls or whatever.
	And that's, I think, you know, Annie, don't feel bad for me because I dropped the ball on that one, so to speak.
	Oh, no.
	A behavioral doctor told me my boys would fight for the rest of their lives because of the difference in the age.
	And I said, not if mom has anything to say about it.
	So I made sure that they played well together or they just, you know, sorry, you go read a book.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it's another, and the thing about these, don't forget what you're up against too, Annie.
	It's like it's one thing about decisions that parents make at home.
	But the pressure, by the way, the pressure, which is why this California thing is so bad, to change every single school in the state, the pressure is to make the concept of a transgendered seven-year-old or a transgendered eight-year-old seem entirely normal.
	And it's not.
	This is all very recent.
	And We may be ruining far more lives than were ever ruined in the old days by letting people just sort of work this stuff out for themselves when they were an adult, by actually forcing children down roads they don't want to go to.
	They may just be messed up.
	I don't blame any kid for being a messed up kid, given the state of the education system these days.
	And we may just be the cause of, and again, what you have to attach this to, Annie, is that the radical left is committed to the abolition of family.
	And by that, that requires the abolition of gender, too.
	And I don't even like using the word gender because that in itself is an evasion.
	The abolition of sex.
	Sex is male and female.
	Gender is used by the left.
	I think the last time I looked, there were up to like seven or nine different variations on it by the time you consider the various forms of transgender and all the rest of it.
	And so they're committed.
	That's what's going on here.
	They're committed to the abolition of gender.
	And the more they can normalize the concept of a transgendered second grader or whatever, Annie, the more they're committed to it.
	So thank you for calling me out on that.
	And I was wrong to take her at face value there.
	That's why Rush does this show five days a week for a quarter century and why I can barely hold my end up once every couple of months.
	But we'll keep trying.
	Mark Stein for Rush more straight ahead.
	America's number one radio show, Mark Stein in for Rush behind the golden EIB microphone on the day before New Year's Eve.

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