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April 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Views Express been a host of this program documented to be almost always right seven percent of the time and nobody even close, folks.
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I, L. Rushbow, your host, the all-knowing, all caring, all feeling, all sensing, all everything, Maha Rushi on Friday.
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Yes, sir, rebub.
Open line Friday.
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And we talk about.
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It can be something that totally confuses me.
It can be something that makes no sense to anybody but you.
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So mere moments ago at La Casablanca.
Josh Ernest did the daily press briefing.
I guess Carney's uh the Red Sox game, I don't know where he is, is gone.
And the during the QA, Ed Henry of Fox News said to the White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest, the chief executive at Mozilla resigned yesterday because there was this controversy in the last couple of days that several years ago he gave a thousand dollars to an effort to uh ban same-sex marriage California Prop 8.
President himself in 2008, when this person donated $1,000 to that cause, was also against same-sex marriage.
Does the White House think that even though the president has evolved on this issue and now supports same-sex marriage, that there should be tolerance on the issue and that there should be other views heard.
Well, I certainly understand why an issue like this has been in the news and why a lot of people are talking about it, but I'm not gonna be in a position to weigh in on the decisions made by a private company like this.
No, of course not.
Absolutely.
We're not gonna weigh in on the decisions of a private company.
You can bet that if Brendan Icke had been removed for supporting same-sex marriage, the White House would have something to say.
Hobby Lobby is a private company, and I think the White House has said a lot about it.
The Catholic Church is a self-contained church.
They've had a lot to say about the Catholic Church.
Fox News, a private company, and Obama has had a lot to say about Fox News.
I am a private citizen.
They've had a lot to say about me.
Obama can't even pretend to be on the side of tolerance, not just not even once.
They have to run away from this.
They didn't decline comment on Sandra Fluck.
They didn't deny decline comment on Trey Von Martin.
They didn't decline comment on Jason Collins.
But, well, certainly understand why an issue like this has been in the news and why a lot of people are talking about it, but I'm not gonna be in a position to weigh in on decisions made by private company.
The decision wasn't made by a private company.
That's the whole point.
That is the entire whole point.
Frank, what's his name?
Frank Darn this thing.
Just a second here, folks.
Hang on just a second.
I don't understand.
Frank Newport.
Gallup poll.
Why in the world that line doesn't print?
I do not know.
Frank Newport runs a Gallup poll.
And they've just out today.
Americans show low levels of concern on global warming.
The current level of worry on global warming.
Current level of concern is 34%.
34% in the Gallup poll are concerned about global warming.
That 34% is the same number that it was in 1989.
That's what Gallup has revealed today.
34% were very concerned about global warming.
2014, 34%.
This is why they are in a state of panic.
Because they have failed to gin up anywhere near majority worry or concern on this.
People so far are uh rejecting the idea that they are to blame for destroying the planet and therefore must pay higher taxes and must agree to bigger, more oppressive controlling governments.
People are just not signing on to that.
Therefore, the global warming people today have come out and said, well, this just means that we are entitled to exaggerate and make things up in order to get people's attention.
Go check climate depot.com.
I'm not making that up.
Two renowned there are such things, climate scientists have said that they are totally justified in exaggerating and making things up to get your attention and your money.
Americans' concerns, this is from the actual Gallup poll.
Americans' concerns about global warming and climate change have held steady over the past year, while concerns about other environmental threats tested by gamlop have increased.
The percentage expressing a great deal of worry about pollution of drinking water as well as contamination of soil and water by toxic waste increased by seven points.
Worry.
How can people in this country not be worried about everything given what the news is every day?
Hell, people are worried about coffee.
People are worried about virtually everything.
Worry and concern is what is the news?
Now I want to get back because I asked the caller who said, Rush, it's finished, it's over.
I mean, I well, Mayan's collapsed, we're in the process, we're going to collapse here.
And I wanted this guy tell me what he meant.
What does it look like?
What is collapse look like?
And I want to run through this again.
I want to tell you where we're headed.
If there aren't changes, what we will look like.
The road that we are on takes us back to the Great Depression.
That's what things will look like.
People lined up for food, shelter.
It's gonna it's gonna be ugly.
People losing their savings and their pensions and their investments in any number of ways.
A, they just become worthless.
The value of money evaporates.
Government prints too much, too much in circulation, or the government takes it, confiscates it.
Come on, Rush, they can't take the folks.
The uh Reverend Zax himself has personally suggested that government actually confiscate everybody's pensions.
He says there's trillions of dollars there.
We need it.
We need it for benefits.
Don't think that can't happen.
Your pension, your investments.
How about this?
Those of you that are invested in tax-free municipal bonds.
What happens if one day the IRS, not Congress, not Ways and Means Committee, not piece of legislation.
What happens if one day a new regulation is written that removes the tax exemption for municipal bonds?
Your municipal bonds are then worthless.
If they all of a sudden, if somebody decides to try that.
There's all kinds of muni bonds, tax-free.
Ross Perot, at one time, the vast majority of his portfolio, billionaire, was in tax-free munis.
I don't know if that's the case now.
Meaning that when you sold the bond, you paid no income on no tax on the income that the bond had generated over the over the life of it.
What if somebody just takes that away?
There's any number of little things that government can do to get its hands on money when it doesn't have any more of its own.
How about government deciding to nationalize businesses?
Ah, Russia, come on, that can't happen.
Well, who owns General Motors?
One of the reasons I keep telling you what the latest in Venezuela is, is because of my fear that we could someday look like that.
I don't care anything about Venezuela other than how it relates to the United States.
You know, Venezuela's an object lesson.
Venezuela is run by people who are running our country today.
Same people, same philosophies, same same theories.
What is going to keep us from becoming Venezuela if these people keep up?
Nothing, folks.
That's the point.
We're not immune just because we're the United States of America.
We're not immune.
If a bunch of leftists can destroy Detroit, can destroy Venezuela, can destroy Cuba, can destroy Germany.
Leftists can destroy this country.
Some would argue they're in the process of doing it.
You want to know what it looks like?
I'm telling you.
Athens, Rome, Egypt.
As I said, they're all still there, but they're nothing compared to what they were.
In fact, Rome, outside of St. Peter's, one of the greatest attractions is what it was.
The ruins, the Roman Empire.
Egypt Ditto.
Great pyramids, the Sphinx, which look like my basset hound.
Egypt today.
It's there, yeah, but not in any sense.
It's all glory.
Athens.
They're all still there, but they collapsed.
Germany, look at Germany, in 100 years has gone from all powerful to defeat in World War One to depression to the rise of the Third Reich.
The Nazis and Hitler.
Look at all the hell it unleashed.
And then it's defeat and collapse and depression all over again.
And then after that, the country's divided, East Germany, West Germany.
And then it gets united again into its current state, thanks largely to the Western powers of United States, Great Britain and Canada.
My point is the uh the world and the history are full of examples.
And when we talk about this society collapsing, what are we really talking about?
We're talking about the destruction of our society, which includes our culture, and don't for a minute think that it isn't under assault.
It is.
It's under assault by people who do not like what the old definition of normalcy was.
Who don't like what the old definitions of virtue and right and wrong were.
They don't like any of that.
Because for some reason they thought it didn't include them.
And they don't want to be oddballs.
It's all got to be redefined.
So that it includes them and excludes you.
you.
You get right down to it.
We're talking about the destruction of our governing system.
That's underway.
I never thought that I would actually live to see the United States Congress willingly give up its power to the executive branch the way it has happened here.
When I grew up, people that ran the House of Representatives, it was all Democrats back then, but even when they were Democrat presidents, there's no way they fought tooth and nail.
They were trying to steal executive power.
They were trying to thwart presidents often.
As designed, that's what the separation of power is all about.
Throw in the Supreme Court as well.
Now the executive is just amassing power, and members of his own party are suggesting that their purpose in the House of Representatives is to write executive orders for him to sign.
Thank you, Sheila Jackson Lee, slash idiot.
But that's a dramatic change in our governing system.
Checks and balances that you were taught growing up, Civics 101, there aren't any, or they're not being used.
The economic system collapsing.
The Federal Reserve has decided to pick winners, and they are on Wall Street.
Not Main Street.
Part of the problem is that when you are living on the bubble as a nation, and we are, and by that I mean we're living on borrowed money, we're living on future earnings that haven't even been created, we are spending future tax revenue that hasn't been collected because the money that would generate that tax has not been earned yet.
You don't see it.
When you're in the bubble, you don't see it.
When you're in the housing bubble, the dot-com bubble, you don't see it until the bubble bursts.
But we can't keep this up.
We cannot keep spending money that we don't have.
We can't spend tax revenue that has not been collected because it's got to be collected from somebody at some point.
We are spending tax revenue that your grandchild, who's still crawling around in the kitchen floor is going to someday earn.
That's whose money we're spending.
Maybe your grandchild's kids.
Earnings are being spent right now.
So everything seems fine.
On the surface.
You can still live your life.
You get in your car, you drive to where you want to go, you uh you want to turn on e entertainment TV or TMZ, you can.
You want to keep up with the Kardashians, you can.
You want to um you know worry about whether the British chef Nigella Lawson can get into the country or not?
You can worry about that.
Well, that was the big story at page six today, snurdly.
Some British female chef Nigella Lawson was denied entry into the country.
Well, I don't know what she did.
I don't know why she's in the news.
I'm sorry, I'm not up to speed on it, but apparently she's married to some guy or divorced some guy who doesn't like her and is making her life hell.
And for some reason, they I assume that this woman has got a TV show somewhere, which is why she's news.
But yeah, you can still get in your car, you can still pick up your phone, make a phone call.
You can still watch your big screen, you can still fill out your brackets for the NC2As, the March Man.
Is that over with yet?
If not, was this the final weekend coming up?
Well, why do they call it March Madness then?
Why is it finished in March?
That's never mind.
I don't care.
I have nothing against it.
Can you get jobs in this?
No, you can't get the job that you want, but you can still eat, and you can still get your phone, and you can still watch your big screen, you can still go to the NC2As, you can still do, you can follow the NFL draft.
But the main thing is even if you don't have a job, you get your food stamps, you can still eat.
You can uh stay in a heated uh domicile.
That's the point.
You don't realize it.
You don't have a job, fine.
You're into what your fourth year of unemployment benefits.
Yes, sir, rebub, fourth year, and they'll probably be extended the next time some Democrat gets in trouble around election time.
I gotta take a break.
I just saw.
Folks, I went way long in the opening monologue.
Much longer than I should have, and I've only got a minute here in this segment.
That was very, very bad form.
That was that was poor execution of the programming format.
Uh normally I have guidance.
Normally, sometimes I have shouting in my ear saying, but uh that did not occur.
So I was just lucky I caught it myself here.
The point is that folks, there have always been voices throughout history.
Every generation thinks it's in its last days.
Every generation has people that think it's worse now than ever before.
Always voices throughout history warning about coming doom in societies and republics that start sliding into tyranny, and those voices have been ignored largely by their contemporaries.
If you want to find out how democracy ends and what happens, read De Tukville.
Read Alexis De Topo, Democracy in America.
Be right back.
Let me mention this before I forget to, because I promised that I would.
It's this uh polling data that's out from Stan Greenberg and uh his his company Democracy Corps.
What happened here is today we are releasing our first survey of the 2014 landscape, a cooperative endeavor conducted with Democracy Corps for NPR, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner conducted the calls on March 19th to 23 and compiled data.
Survey polled 840 likely 2014 voters nationally.
Sample contains six percentage points more Democrats than Republicans, 37% Democrat, 31% Republican, consistent with other national polling of likely voters.
They discussed this on NPR.
That's another story.
The poll predicts a Republican wave in November.
I was one of the first public personas to go public with that prediction.
And then I was concomitantly ridiculed and castigated and told to shut up and stick to what I know about and so forth.
Really made fun of, laughed at and all that.
And then others, after I concomitantly broke the ice, others began to pop up with their prediction of the same thing.
All the while telling me I didn't know what I was talking about.
And now this poll predicts much the same.
With seven months to go before the election, a political environment looks remarkably promising for Republicans.
Six factors create that environment.
They are number one.
The midterm election in the sixth year of a president's term has always been bad news for the party controlling the White House for a hundred years, and this year looks like no exception.
The one time the pattern did not hold was 1998, when Clinton had an approval rating in the mid-60s, because people liked sex in the Oval Office.
The second factor is The demographics of midterm elections favor Republicans over Democrats, and that's a turnout factor replicating 2010.
Number three, Obamacare remains unpopular, especially among independents.
Who it says here hold the balance of power in midterm elections.
Independence really don't like Obamacare.
Oh, speak, little side note.
I had this in the sound bites yesterday, but I didn't get to it.
Doesn't matter.
Ron Fournier, for the first time I'm aware of in recorded modern history, said that if the Democrats continue their land basing of the Tea Party, it's going to send independence running straight to the Republican Party.
You never hear that.
What you hear is if you Republicans don't shut up about Obama, the independents are going to get really ticked and are going to run back to the Democrats.
They never say the opposite.
But Ron Fournier did say that the Democrats are running the risk of sending the independents right into the arms of the Republicans.
Number four, President Obama's job approval remains stuck in the low 40s.
Factor number five.
The generic ballot is essentially even, which has historically been good news for Republicans.
The generic ballot, we say, okay, voting Republican or Democrat.
If the Republicans are showing up even, that means they're way ahead, because normally the Democrats win that.
Theoretically, it's because there are more Democrats than Republicans.
And factor number six, the Senate seats up in 2014 strongly favor Republicans.
Anyway, this bunch is is is projecting a wave election for the Republicans.
Yet the pollsters showed up on morning edition yesterday and didn't talk about any of this.
They talked about how much better Obamacare's doing in the polls.
And they talked of all kinds of they spun it all up for the Democrats on on when they got on the NPR talking about it.
None of what I just read you from their own press release did they discuss.
I've got the sound bites here, but I gotta get some calls in.
Richmond, Virginia, this Matthew.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello, how are you?
Good.
Thank you.
It's a beautiful day today.
I wouldn't know.
I'm inside.
Oh dear.
I'm not in, I'm not outside either.
But I love to the wonderful weather because I have a business that deals with photography.
Oh, cool.
And in my photography business, I use a quote drone.
I say quote drone because drones think they have a bad rap.
They've done it.
Did you happen to see, did you happen to see yesterday, maybe the day before, a North Korean drone crashed in South Korea.
And it was it was they said it was a North Korean drone, and I believed it.
It was just the cheapest, looked like a model airplane.
It was light blue, about twenty-four inches long.
I mean, it it just it it looked tip.
I mean, just a pathetic.
If that was the best they have, it's just a it was the funniest thing.
How big is your drone?
Mine fits in uh about a suitcase kind of size.
It's about twenty-four inches by twenty-four inches.
It's it's actually what's called a quadcopter.
It's got four propellers on it.
Okay.
So is it is it actually I mean, you call it a drone because of what it does, but it doesn't look like what most people think a drone looks like a fixed-wing aircraft.
No.
It's it's a it's uh it's basically like a helicopter.
Right.
And you control it on the ground with sticks and so forth.
Uh yeah, with uh it's got a monitor on it, so I can monitor it through my cell phone or iPhone or something like that.
And so it's got a first-person view on it, so I can see where I'm going and take pictures and high definition video with it.
How high is your drone go?
It has the potential of going up to six hundred feet.
And what kind of fuel does it use?
How long can you keep it in the air?
It uses batteries, and those batteries last about twenty to twenty-five minutes.
Really?
I know I just I just there's just a story here on the news that uh that a drone crashed on the highway and a guy ran over it.
But it was a military-looking drone.
It had a fifteen-foot wingspan and all that just ran out of fuel I guess or did something.
Some guy ran over it, didn't know what had happened for a while.
Well the uh the FAA has been trying to crack down on the use of these things even quote commercially and they just tried to find someone who is who shot a video I guess it was last year at UVA um un University of Virginia right here in Virginia where I am let me tell you something Matthew I have watched some videos that taken with contraptions like yours and they're some of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Well if you watch any commercial on TV you've probably seen them being used because anytime you're you see a car driving down the road and they have a shot of uh of it circling around that car, they use a drone.
Right.
So you what kind of photography do you you you still video or both?
Both still video um I'm using it primarily right now for real estate.
It's uh it's a high demand kind of market that's has never seen this before and you get totally new shots to be able to see everything differently.
Um what do you mean you properties you want to sell?
Not I'm selling but real estate agents and brokers they want to sell their properties.
They want people to be able to look at their properties and not have some standard picture that looks like somebody shot it with their cell phone looking out their car window.
They want to be able to see a a property in one picture and see what it looks like.
See what the house looks like, see what the front yard looks like in the backyard.
Right.
Some of it all in one picture.
What the bird sees before it drops on your window.
Yeah and not what you see on you know one of those websites that has maps on it, what which I won't name, but you know something that's clear, something that's gives them a good idea of do I even want to spend the time to look at this property.
So you've got the FAA you're afraid they're gonna clamp down and not let you essentially stay in business.
Well what happened is this person at UVA shot uh a movie for UVA to uh endorse their school and help publicize their school and he was slapped with a ten thousand dollar fine from the FEA and a judge Judge Patrick Garrety um basically ruled in favor of the uh defendant and said that FAA couldn't do it.
They didn't have the the right to there's no quote law on the books right now that stops them from shooting this video and using it.
Yeah well all it takes is one regulation now we don't even need laws anymore as you well know Matthew.
Yes exactly uh well this is fascinating.
D is is this the primary use of primary way you now stay in business with drone photography or do you do s other kinds of photography without using the drone.
In other words if they if you if you were ever outlawed the drone was outlawed would it wipe your business out well it would definitely change the nature of it because right now um using it to like I said to to see everything different.
What kind of camera lens do you put on this?
Well some of some of the models um have cameras actually built into them.
And some of the higher end models um that professional and cinematographers use fifteen thousand dollars for the drone.
That's not bad in terms of c corporate investment capital how how many drones do you have?
Right now I have one uh yeah one that I use primarily well uh the only thing that I can think is gonna happen is that while you're flying your drone around some busybody who doesn't like electronic cigarettes is going to see the thing thinking you're spying on her while she's in her bathing suit in the backyard and try to get you on invasion of privacy.
Well I'm uh I have kind of a background in uh some stuff that helps me out so whenever I shoot a property my big thing is always get a release from whoever owns it or whoever the you know has a right to it.
So I only fly over the properties that I know that I can.
Or public space.
So I don't even go there.
Literally.
Well, it doesn't matter.
You don't you might not even have to go there.
You're some busybody finds out what you're doing and is not even in your drone's line of sight is this gonna go after you because they're busybodies.
Yeah, uh-huh.
Yeah.
That's always a possibility.
Well, I think that's where you ought to prepare yourself for opposition to your business to come from, is from people that think that you're invading their privacy.
I mean, as far as they know, they see your drone, it could be the NSA.
Remember now, don't laugh, Matthew.
Everybody thinks the NSA is spying on them.
Most people don't know that their lives are so boring the NSA wouldn't care.
Most people think the NSA wants to find out what they're doing.
They see your drone up there.
Oh no, no, I'm just taking pictures for a real estate broker.
Yeah, that's what you say.
But we know what you're really doing.
And if they get sympathetic, that's the that's what I would steal yourself for.
I think it would be fun.
In fact, I have a drone.
I was given one of these helicopters he's talking about.
Yes.
Neighbors have seen it, but they don't know whose it is.
Matthew, I'll tell you something else you're gonna have to keep a sharp eye out for out there, is people that want to shoot your drone down.
Just sportsmen are gonna see something up there.
Oh wow, let's be I've got a thing, I got a brochure here for the National Association of Drones Sportsmen.
And it's uh it's icon's logo is four drones in the crosshairs of a shotgun site.
And it's all about the case these guys want to make for shooting down drones if they get too close to something you're interested in.
The National Association of Drone Sportsmen.
This is not gonna end well.
It's just it too many people are gonna see a drone want to shoot it down, others gonna think it's an invasion of privacy.
Uh anyway, I hope Matthew, he's he probably gets four hundred bucks for every shoot.
It's probably earns his living, he's probably got a five thousand dollar device.
UAV, they're called.
Unarmed aerial or unmanned aerial vehicle.
Next thing they have is these drone guys are gonna arm them.
Put BBs on them or something.
If the NADS guys show up and try to shoot them down, the drone's gonna fire back.
You know, in your backyard.
And it isn't gonna be the FAA that calls you, it's gonna be ATF.
Have you a great weekend, folks?
Have a wonderful, restful, relaxful, or irritating.
Whatever, whatever you do.
I hope it's great.
And uh, we'll be back here on Monday, revved up and ready to hit it from the get-go.
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