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April 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever and loving it.
Rush is out in California today, and as you know, he's having surgery, and he's got pretty much the best doctors on the planet, but it's always a risky business when you have any kind of surgery.
So we wish him all the best with that.
And it means that we have a season of guest hosts.
If you can't stand the lousy guest host who's on right now, don't worry, there'll be another lousy guest host along tomorrow.
It's like the number 29 bus.
You wait for ages and then four come along all at once.
Tomorrow for Good Friday, we have Buck Sexton is here.
And am I right on this, HR?
This is Buck's first time guest hosting, is it?
Yes, he's debuting with us.
And it'll probably be a fiasco, but give him a supporting cheer anyway.
Buck Sexton.
And then next week, we've got old lags like Mark Belling and Eric Erickson.
And then I think Buck's back again.
And Rush will return.
Rush will return sometime around midweek.
Midweek might stretch a little bit toward...
It's all playing by ear, by Rush's ear, which is the one they're operating on.
And I love the way.
Whenever I guest host, I always get a certain amount of hostile email.
And a lot of it is, who does Rush Limbaugh think he is?
Like, take it all this time.
He's having an operation.
I was on the air when he had his heart troubled in Hawaii.
And he was, if I'd had heart trouble in Hawaii, I'd have been released from hospital and I'd have picked up my vacation where I left off and added another two weeks at the end of it just to make sure.
Rush couldn't wait to get back in the plane, fly straight home and preempt the pre-scheduled guest host and start guest hosting for the pre-scheduled guest host.
That's how he, and it's the same thing here.
He's itching to get back.
He's itching to get back.
But it depends on medical advice, depends how the operation goes and all the rest of it.
So he will be back at some point.
If all goes well, he'll be back next.
But give the guy a break.
I mean, if I was having an operation on my ear, I'd want to go to the Bahamas for a month afterwards.
So he's like itching to get back in the game as soon as he can, as he can.
And we wish him all the best on this.
It's amazing the technological innovation.
The first implant he had, I think, was over a decade now.
It's like 12, 13 years ago, something like that.
And it was amazing.
If you remember that dreadful show when Rush said that he'd lost his hearing, people thought that was it.
And an incredibly cruel thing.
It's like, I don't want to insult Rush by a girly boy comparison, but it's like a ballerina discovering she's got to have a leg amputated and you think everything is over.
And instead, he had this amazing new technology, the sort of technology and medical innovation that pre-Obamacare America was famous for.
And he was able to carry on doing what he does better than any guy on the air today.
And hopefully this will all go well and he'll be back here itching to get back at it next week.
But as I said, in the meantime, it's the season of guest hosts.
Buck Sexton, Mark Belling, Eric Erickson, all to come.
I'm here today, 1-800-282-2882.
And the big news today, a Fox News poll, Fox News poll, the headline says that six in ten, sixty percent of American voters think Barack Obama lies to the country on important matters some or most of the time.
I want to use that headline, by the way, because according to this poll, Fox News poll, released today, it's actually this.
37% think Obama lies most of the time.
37% think Obama lies most of the time, while another 24% says he lies some of the time.
An additional, so that's like 61% right there.
We're getting up to two-thirds.
61%.
Another 21%, another 20% of voters say Obama only lies now and then about peripheral stuff like your healthcare plan.
He only lies now and then.
That's 81% of Americans think their president is a liar.
15% of Americans, 15, 1, 5% of Americans think he never lies.
So I don't know who's in that group.
Chris Matthews, Beyonce, Jay-Z.
I don't know how you get up to 15% on that.
But 81%, 81% of Americans think Barack Obama is a liar, their president.
And I find that interesting because the whole point about politics in a civilized society is that you're supposed to assume the honor and integrity of people participating in the political process.
If you are one of those sad people with nothing better to do than watch question time from the House of Commons in London or Ottawa or Canberra, I think they show bits on it on C-SPAN 2, 3, 4 and 5 an hour.
You can see it basically anywhere.
You notice they will say when the socialist guy stands up and says that the Conservative guy is just trying to smash working families and drive them to their deaths, the Conservative guy stands up and says, with respect to my right honorable friend opposite.
In other words, all that stuff, the honorable friend, right honourable, you fellas have that here too.
In Congress, is it not the case?
The congressmen are called the honorable this and the honorable that, aren't they?
That's where it comes from.
They're meant to be honorable people.
You assume they're honorable.
Lying, lying, lying is the worst thing you can do in the political world.
In the most famous British sex scandal, the Profumo scandal, in which the Secretary of State for War, this is early 1960s, was sleeping with a woman who was also sleeping with the Russian military attaché at the Soviet embassy in London.
He had to resign.
His career was destroyed not because he slept with some tart, but because he lied to the House of Commons about it.
In other words, lying, lying.
The presumption that a civilized political society depends on the fact that these guys are not lying.
And that's true here, too.
It's like instead of putting up with some wacky foreign comparison, the founding father of this great nation, George Washington, the supposedly apocryphal story about his own mayor Culper.
You know, I cannot tell a lie.
I did cut down that cherry tree.
And nobody there's some doubt as to whether that story has ever happened.
But the fact that that story is told about George Washington testifies to how valued honesty is.
And we don't have that now.
So you just get this weasely stuff from Obama.
81% of Americans think Obama is a liar, you know.
And so if he were had a cherry, I cannot tell a lie.
Cherry trees were cut down.
That's why I'm challenging Republicans in Congress to support the Affordable Cherry Tree Act I've proposed.
If you like your cherry tree, you can keep your cherry tree, unless the Secretary of Cherry Trees determines you'd be better off if your cherry tree were replaced by a stick with a redboard ball bearing stuck on top of it.
You know, we're going to get the guy who made that cherry tree video and that riled everybody up and we're going to throw him in prison.
I mean, this is 81% of Americans have just replied in a poll that they think the president is a liar.
So we'll talk about that today, 1-800-282-282.
On the subject of polls, a remarkable headline in the Washington Post.
I think they're doing this to discredit the lying poll.
Like, you know, what do these guys, what do these guys know?
Most Americans say Obama is not black.
This is the other big poll today.
27% of Americans say President Obama is black.
And this is part of, this is why the Washington Post is criticizing the Pew Poll.
27% of Americans said President Obama is black, while 52% say he's mixed race.
That's because he had a white mother and a black father from Kenya.
And yeah, and that's usually having one out of two parents being white would be enough to make you mixed race.
But he's like Elizabeth Warren, you know, Elizabeth Warren, who I think is one 60, claims to be, claims to be 164th Cherokee.
And on the basis of that, the University of Harvard promoted her as their first woman of color for years.
Elizabeth Warren.
We'll get to Elizabeth Warren later because I hope she gets into the race.
The old, the woman with the Cherokee cheekbones from Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
But she claimed she was promoted as Harvard University's woman, first woman of color.
She's the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of white out.
You can't get whiter than Elizabeth Warren.
But she's got a new book out today complaining about how people are mocking her, how hurt she was by people mocking her as a Native American because she claims to be one 132nd Cherokee or whatever it is.
But anyway, that's what's going on here.
The Washington Post thinks that 52% of Americans are wrong for saying that Obama is mixed race.
And they're basically operating the one drop rule, I would say, that if you've got one drop, or even if you know him, one drop, if you'd just like to have one drop, like Elizabeth Warren, she just self-identified as potentially having one drop, then you should be allowed to.
So the American people are wrong to identify President Obama as a mixed race president.
But whether 81% of them are wrong to think he's a liar is something we're going to be talking about in the hours ahead, including in one of those fish rots from the head down type deals, whether Lois Lerner and the IRS and the Department of Justice and now the Census Bureau have also been corrupted by this culture of lying.
But that's the big headline today.
81% of the American people think the President of the United States is a liar.
And apparently, that is just business as usual in this great republic.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Yeah, guest hosts boogieing down through the Easter period.
On the Rush Limbaugh show, Buck Sexton here tomorrow.
Mark Belling and Eric Erickson will start the week with you.
And Rush will return when he is fully installed with his new bionic ear.
He will be better than ever, and he's itching to get back.
And all being well, that should, as HR says, everyone's playing it by ear, but it should be midweek, Wednesday, if all goes well.
I was talking about that poll that said 81% of Americans, to some degree or another, believe that the President of the United States is a liar.
15% don't.
That's basically the media and Hollywood.
And that's it.
And 81%.
And what does this mean?
Well, Lois Lerner, in a big breaking development in the whole IRS thing, it turns out that nobody's even pretending now.
This whole thing, if you remember, the official explanation is that this was just a few rogue, low-level employees at some obscure Cincinnati branch office that it all got a little bit out of hand at this obscure little branch office in Cincinnati, and they started targeting people who, by coincidence, all happen to be of a conservative persuasion.
It turns out, in fact, from the discovery under Freedom of Information requests of various emails yesterday, that in fact Lois Lerner and the highest levels in the IRS were coordinating with the Justice Department about whether they could actually prosecute, whether they could actually prosecute Tea Party types.
Now, again, again, this is corruption at one level because when you have the revenue agency of your country that is corrupt, that's about as basic corruption as it can get.
And it's something to think about on Tax Day.
You can faithfully, I don't even know why people bother with coming up with an accurate kind of tax return anymore because there's no, as Don Rumsfeld said in that letter that Rush talked about yesterday, there's no correct answer.
It's not only that you can go to 10 different accountants, you can earn a relatively small amount of money, like 40 grand a year, and go to 10 different accountants and they'll give you 10 different answers what you owe.
But if you call 10 different IRS agents, they'd tell you 10 different answers too.
Nobody knows the correct answer to the question.
As Don Rumsfeld said, there is no correct answer to the question, how many taxes do I, how much in taxes do I owe?
Because the tax code has been complicated beyond the capacity of the human brain to understand it.
So it's now all, you just hope to be in that murky penumbra where you've claimed enough of your deductions, but not too much that it all gets a bit too assertive and you attract the attention of the IRS.
You just hope to swim in that murky penumbra where whatever number you come up with won't be enough to attract their attention.
Now we learn that they're so corrupt that they're liaising with the Justice Department of the United States to see if Tea Party groups can actually be prosecuted for applying for 501 C3 and 4 status.
So it's now a different kind of thing.
It's the Justice Department.
So the IRS is corrupt.
The revenue collection agency is corrupt.
The Justice Department of the United States is famously corrupt.
If it decides to prosecute you, it wins, I believe it's now 94% of its cases, which is up there at Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-un levels of successful prosecution.
In fairness to North Korea and Saddam's Iraq, they actually held the show trial.
They'd actually take you into a joke court with a joke judge and a joke prosecutor and actually pretend to have a trial before they string you up around the back of the courthouse 10 minutes afterwards.
That's not the way they do it.
That's the way they do it here.
If you attract their attention, the Federal Justice Department, you will wind up settling.
Because if you decide to exercise your right to trial by jury, they'll demand even more punishments for making them having to go through the trouble of proving you guilty.
So it's a very serious business when the revenue agency and the Justice Department of the government are colluding in ganging up on its political enemies.
I mean, this is real Banana Republic stuff now.
That's clear Banana Republic stuff now.
Now we'll go to the third thing, the census.
They have changed the way, they are changing the way the census collects insurance information from American citizens.
Now, that's amazing, isn't it?
Just at the very moment when the entire insurance industry is transformed by Obamacare, the census, which is supposed to collect just basic information, factual, undisputable information that can be compared going back across the centuries to whenever the first sentence was the first sentence, was first census 1790 or 1800.
You're supposed to be able to compare back across the decades, back across the centuries, the information you're taking in.
Instead, they're changing it to obscure the fact that, to obscure knowing the truth about how Obamacare has deformed the insurance market in the United States.
And my senator, Judd Gregg, who was my senator before Kelly Ayot became senator, so he stepped down a couple of years ago.
And if you remember, he was offered after the 2008 election because Obama wanted to get to 60 senators.
He wanted to take some Republicans out of the game.
He was offered the job of Commerce Secretary.
And interestingly, he gave the reason why he would not take the job was that Obama had changed the rules so that the director of the census reports directly to White House staff.
So even how many people live in your household, what size home do you have, how many children do you have, all the most basic factual information of the census is now being politicized by an increasingly corrupt government.
Justice Department, healthcare, census revenue collectors, the whole deal.
Yeah, great to be with you.
Don't forget, Buck Sexton will be here tomorrow.
Rush will return around about the middle of next week, all being well.
I wanted to talk about specifically about this IRS email.
The devastating one here is from David, a guy called David Fish, who's acting manager of IRS exempt organizations Technical Guidance and Quality Assurance, which is some kind of title.
He must have the world's longest business card.
He sticks it into his jacket pocket.
It must be coming out the bottom of his pant leg.
Lois, he sent it to Lois Lerner.
And this is about where they discuss the targeting of the Tea Party groups and the Conservative groups.
And he replies, what can I say?
Tell Ruth, who's a U.S. Treasury official, she needs to get on the stick and that the next election cycle is around the corner.
This is obviously a wonderful idea.
That's why we suggested it.
This is a civil servant, a man who is supposed to serve impartially all American citizens.
And he is, in fact, a political operative.
And the Department of Justice are political operatives.
They're going after Dinesh D'Souza because he made a documentary about Obama that was too big a hit.
So his life has got to be destroyed now.
And the census are political operatives now.
The census have transformed the way they collect information in order to obscure the reality of what has happened to the insurance industry under Obamacare.
81% of Americans believe the president lies to one degree or another.
If you're in the 19% who don't, by the way, give me a call.
I'd love to talk to you.
I'd love 1-800-282-2882.
And you know, this is the difference, by the way, between men of integrity, between the right honorable so-and-so and this administration, this corrupt government.
Because if you like big government and you argue for it honestly and openly, I've no problem with that.
I quite like that, but apart from the fact that she pretends to be Cherokee, Elizabeth Warren, as far as I can tell, is reasonably upfront about what she believes in.
I'd rather have, I know what she believes in, no idea about what Hillary happens to think on anything from as she sticks her finger in the wind out the State Department window.
I have no idea what she believes.
Elizabeth Warren is probably upfront.
She's basically a hardcore leftist and she wants to run as a hardcore leftist.
That's how they do it in most countries.
In Sweden, Sweden has big government, but it's honest big government.
Nobody's worried that the Swedish Prime Minister is lying to you, that the Swedish Revenue Agency is lying to you, the Swedish Department of Justice is lying to you, that the Swedish Census Bureau is lying to you.
It's big government upfront, wears it on its chest, out and proud.
This is an entirely different level.
Let's take it to foreign policy.
There's a piece in Forbes.
There's a piece in Forbes today by the great historian, distinguished historian Paul Johnson, an old colleague of mine.
And the headline is, is Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler?
In the sense that Putin wants to reconstitute all the Russian peoples, whether they're in the Ukraine, whether in Central Asia, whether they're in the Baltic states, under a new Russian empire, in the same way that German populations to the east of Germany, Hitler wanted to reincorporate into the Third Reich.
And obviously, if Putin is Hitler, then that makes our guys Neville Chamberlain.
And so Paul Johnson says, yeah, you know, our guys are total squishes.
Francois Hollande is another Chamberlain.
And David Cameron and Ankela Merkel are both useless.
They're chamberlains.
But Obama is beyond Chamberlain.
And look, Neville Chamberlain got it wrong, and that's all very well.
But Neville Chamberlain was an honorable man.
He was just an honorable man who happened to be wrong.
He wasn't a liar like Obama.
81% of people didn't think Neville Chamberlain was a liar.
When Churchill took over, he kept Chamberlain in the cabinet.
Chamberlain was sick with cancer and died, whatever it was, a year later, I think it was.
And Churchill wept on his funeral coffin at the death of an honorable man.
Obama, Obama is not even Neville Chamberlain.
81% of the American people think the President of the United States lies to them, lies to them.
And that's what's actually bad about this.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor thing.
And he hasn't apologized for that.
All he said, all he said so far is that, well, maybe we should have explained that if you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor unless we decide that it's in your interests for us to upgrade you to an even better doctor.
Because your last plan was one of those bad apple plans.
And so our experts have determined that you're actually going to be better off in this plan.
And maybe I should have said, instead of saying, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, I should have said, unless he's one of those lousy bad apple doctors, in which case we're going to find you a really great doctor.
Margaret Figueroa ran into Obamacare.
She has had four brain operations for a neurological disorder.
She enrolled in an approved health care program from Emblem Health under the Affordable Care Act.
And she received, as a bonus prize for enrolling, a temporary ID card.
When she went to the pharmacy, the temporary ID card turned out to be useless.
Her name wasn't in the system.
Then she found out that her doctors were not included in this new medical plan from Emblem Health Insurance.
The other doctors, two of them are full to capacity, and the others aren't even in my radius.
There are some who don't even speak English.
There are some who, there's nothing wrong with having a doctor who can't speak to you in your own language.
What are you being so picky for?
They've determined, the experts have determined that you had a bad apple, bad apple medical arrangements before, and now Obama has found you an improved one.
This is when the President of the United States lies serially, as he did about this, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor thing, and the media won't call him on it, and nobody will call him on it, he's getting you to collude in his lies.
That's how it works.
That's how it works in totalitarian societies.
Everyone pretends to accept the ruler's lies.
And you shouldn't do it here.
You shouldn't be made an accomplice in this kind of stuff.
Let's go to Mac in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Mac, you're first up on America's number one radio show today.
Thank you, Mark.
It's a privilege.
I've listened for years and it's a chance to call in.
Thank you for having me on.
I wonder how long the politically motivated media can keep the lid on the bottle.
You know, from the administration's policies to Obamacare, for the president to stand with a handful of people, cherry-pick people, that say how wonderful health care is and how wonderful Obamacare is, you could have a thousand times that number stand behind him and talk about how devastating Obamacare is for them and how they lost their doctors.
They don't have coverage.
The dire situation they are now in.
And even with the economy, they give out numbers, the media gives numbers, and then a few months later, they're revised, but they give a statement of anticipation of what they expect the economic numbers might be in a few months.
And I think that the reality of this administration's policies, as they affect people on a daily way in their lives, and they actually live them and experience them, it'll come to the point where you'll see the change on Election Day.
I just wonder how long they can actually keep the lid on the bottle.
And as far as in the elections, the biggest hampering to the Republican Party or any candidate of opposition to this administration, I'm not even going to define Democrat and Republican, any opposition to this administration becomes so diminished in the media and so attacked, the dollar amount you'd have to spend to campaign not just against your opponent, but against the disinformation from the media,
it's almost like the media should have to declare what their contribution is to a political, you know, to the Democrats or to Obama or any of the people that are under him or support him in any way, fashion.
Yeah, that's an absolute information blackout.
That's an interesting way of putting it, Mac.
And it's like there's an old show biz line.
You know, sometimes producers know that they've got a really bum show and they open it on Broadway and for some reason it gets terrific notices and they always it gets fabulous reviews and they say now if only we can figure out a way to hush up the word of mouth and that's really the problem that's really the essence of the situation that Obama's in.
He's got a fabulous supportive media and the only thing is how can he hush up the word of mouth?
And you say when, in other words, when will the word of mouth get out?
Now if you take the economy, one in six American men do not have work.
One in six American men do not have work.
That's an extraordinary statistic.
And yet it's been lost.
It's been lost in the fact that this is now, what are we heading into here?
The seventh in a row recovery summer or whatever it is that's supposedly out there?
The reality of the economy, he's trumped that.
He and his media, he and the court eunuchs of the American media have trumped that, have trumped that.
Now, can they do it on the Obamacare thing?
Well, so far, people have come along, like this woman with the brain surgery who can't find a doctor under the new Obamacare plan.
And they have these stories and people say, well, you know, yes, she claimed her cancer had metastasized all the time that she couldn't, because she lost her health coverage under Obama.
Her cancer hasn't metastasized.
She's just looking a bit skinnier than usual.
She's putting on a sweater that's two sizes too big.
These are all frauds paid for by the Koch brothers.
How many, how many of those stories can the media undermine?
How many of them do there have to be?
Hundreds, thousands, eventually over a million stories like that?
How many of them can they cover up?
Can they continue to hush up the word of mouth on the reality of Obamacare?
We'll talk about that and lots more when we return in just a moment.
Mark Stein, in for us on the EIB network.
Let's go to Donna in Manasquen, New Jersey.
Donna, great to have you with us on the show today.
Thank you, Mark, and it's an honor.
What I would like to add to the Obamacare catastrophe is the people that Obama says he's so concerned about are the ones being hurt the most.
In my family, my sister, a self-employed single mother of twins, lost her health coverage that she was thrilled with, New Jersey Blue Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield, thrilled with it.
It gave her an opportunity that if something horrible happened in her family's health, she could take care of the problem because the insurance policy was properly, like the marketplace properly dealt with it.
Now, she lost her insurance coverage.
Her son suddenly needed brain surgery.
He wasn't covered.
She's saddled with big bills.
And the only policy available for her is like a non-insurance policy.
$12,000 premium.
You're still responsible for the first $12,000 of all future health expenses.
And then after that, still another 50% of everything that accrues, you're still responsible for.
This will bankrupt her and every other family like it.
So the insurance industry has been destroyed.
Right.
That's not insurance.
$12,000 a year.
You know, in most, by the way, in most countries, you get private health insurance, so you don't have to pay $12,000 a year.
In this country now, health insurance, you have to pay $12,000 a year before you get a dime of coverage.
If you agree to a health insurance coverage where you have a $12,000 deductible, you're the one who needs brain surgery.
Again, it's this 50%, as you say, Donna, 50%, 50% costs of the, whatever you call it, the copay, the copay.
So again, you're only insuring half of your health care needs for that $12,000 deductible anyway.
And as you say, your sister was perfectly happy, perfectly happy with her health care system until the government took it away from her.
And they're now all trumpeting.
All the media, as part of the lies of Obamacare, are trumpeting it as a huge success because 7 million people, which is 2% of the population, 2% of the population, signed up by the end of March.
And in return, and they think that's great news.
When obviously, as somebody said this, somebody sent me a tweet or something about this.
It's like saying, if you send a gang in to smash all the windows in town and then hail it as a great success because people are calling up and buying, lots of people are buying new windows to be installed.
They smash these people's health care coverage.
The reality is that only 2.1% of Americans, uninsured Americans, have signed up for coverage under uninsured Americans have signed up for Obamacare coverage.
Obamacare was designed to correct the great moral blight of whatever it is, the 30, 40, nobody knows the right answer, 30, 40 million people, whatever it is, who don't have health insurance in this country.
They're not a fixed pool, by the way.
Some people have insurance one year, then don't have it the next and get it again.
But because of this poll, this moral blight, they said we've got to disrupt everybody's health insurance.
And at the end of it, at the end of it, the vast majority, something like 85% of the uninsured are still uninsured.
And all they've done is wreck the health care of Donna's sister and Donna's nephew, who now are stuck with huge bills for something that was perfectly fine.
They had a plan.
They liked it.
Now, again, this is the dishonesty.
How many people like Donna's nephew are out there who are being stuck with crippling bills?
Or like the lady in New York, Mrs. Figaro, who can't see a brain surgery doctor, can't get in to see one.
How many people are like that?
And how many of those stories are the media prepared to hush up?
And how many of them are they prepared to put down in service of the lies of Obamacare?
Mark Stein in Faroch, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in Faroch in Portland, Oregon, for the second time, they have flushed away millions of gallons of treated water because somebody was caught on video urinating into a city reservoir.
So they drained 38 million gallons of water they threw away because one man, one 19-year-old, was videotaped urinating into it.
I find this very interesting.
So I lived in London for a few years.
And in London, as I understand it, the entire municipal water system comes from recycled Welshman's urine.
And it's great, by the way.
It's the best water in the world.
If you've never had a shower in Welshman's urine, it's terrific.
It's got that real minty freshness as you're standing under it, under it every morning.
Fabulous.
You can't beat it.
Welshman's urine, I swear by it.
That's what keeps me fighting fit and so vigorous on the air.
But one man, one Oregonian, and I don't know whether there's something in the Oregonian urine that they don't have in the Welsh urine, he urinates into the reservoir and they flush away all 38 million gallons of water from the municipal waters.
By the way, this is at a time when parts of the southwest are parched.
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