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July 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program continue to dazzle virtually everybody listening.
The views expressed by the host of this program continue to irritate those who don't listen and who are fed false information about what is said on this program.
We delight in both circumstances.
No, live from Los Angeles, because of the holiday coming up.
It's a special edition of Open Line Friday on Thursday.
Meaning, ask me anything.
Make a comment about anything.
It doesn't matter whether I care about it or not is irrelevant.
You can have your big showbiz break by appearing on this program.
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Email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
So I checked the email during the break, and I knew this was going to happen.
Rush, what do you mean you're going to be able to answer the phone with your computer?
I will very happily explain this to you, but you have to have an iPhone and a Mac for this to work, which is the brilliance of it.
Apple is attempting to own the ecosystem here, and they're doing it with innovation and quality.
It's all going to be centered on your iPhone and iCloud, of course.
But the key to it is a new feature, let's call it, that they call continuity.
And continuity is comprised of three essential parts.
Now, the part about the phone is this.
Let's say you walk in after a hard day at work and you put your phone down on the sofa or somewhere in the kitchen and you happen to go sit down in front of your computer later and the phone rings.
You're at your computer, the phone rings.
On your computer, you'll get a little alert identifying the number that's calling and an opportunity to answer it or send them a message or ignore it.
Caller ID, it's right in the upper right-hand corner of your computer screen.
There's a microphone in your computer and there are speakers and your computer becomes a speakerphone.
You simply click on it.
You don't have to get up to answer the phone.
In other words, it'll do it on your computer.
And that's how you'll be able to send text messages.
You know, not iMessage or WhatsApp or iChat, but actual text message over cellular signals.
Same process.
If you get a text message while your phone's somewhere you're not, but you're at your computer, it will show up and you can respond to it.
And you can initiate phone calls too.
If you are, well, let's say you're surfing a website and there's a number, it's a retail website, you want to buy something or talk to customer service.
Click on the number on that website and your computer will dial the number.
Your phone's actually doing it, but the phone is linked to the computer.
It's going through the phone, but your computer is turned into a phone.
There's another aspect called handoff.
Let's say that you're sitting with an iPad or your iPhone and you're going someplace tomorrow that you don't really know how to get to.
So you've got the Maps app open and you're trying to learn the route and how long it's going to take.
And you decide, you know what?
I'd rather do this at the computer.
I have a little bit more real estate.
Easy.
You get up and you go to the computer.
And on the left side at the bottom of the screen, on the left side of a dock, you'll see a little icon that shows the maps app icon from your either iPhone or iPad, whichever one you're using.
You click on it, and what is on your iPad or iPhone pops up on your computer screen.
Whether you're doing an email, you start writing an email on your iPhone or iPad.
You know what?
I need to add some things to it that are on the computer.
Just go to the computer and finish it.
It'll show up exactly on your computer as it is on your phone.
It's just stunning.
Pictures, it's going to end up every picture you take or have is going to be on your computer, on your iPhone, on your iPad, no matter if you've got 16 gigabytes of storage or 64, 128, because it's not going to be on the computer.
It's going to be on iCloud.
You're going to have access to every picture on whatever device you have.
And if you make an edit or if you change one, if you add color, change the contrast, it changes it on all of them.
You're going to end up, if you want to have up to a terabyte of storage for your photos with iCloud, you're going to be able to do it.
And this is barely scratching the surface of what's coming with this.
Now, the photos ability on the Mac is not going to happen until next year.
They're rewriting a Photos app for it.
But it's some really stunning stuff that is coming.
And it's exciting because it just simplifies everything that you're doing.
It unifies everything.
So there's really no difference.
Wherever you are, you can get done whatever you need to do, no matter where you started, whatever you're doing.
And it's just that they've made some dramatic changes.
They're taking on Google now in their own way, and they've made some dramatic changes in the predictive nature of the phone, knowing where you're going and showing you a map and how long it's going to take you to get there and telling you all this four or five hours before you leave.
And the traffic info constantly updated, so the time to destination will change as the traffic changes.
The tech dazzles me, just blows me away.
You know what?
This stuff's the one thing that makes me wish I was 25 again.
It really is.
But for most people, the pictures that they take and that are on their computer, it's the most important thing that's on their computers or on their phones or whatever.
And now having every picture you take and any change you make to any picture changing elsewhere, everything being the same wherever you go, it's going to be huge.
And they've got just a number of other things planned.
That's just one of the features called continuity.
And it works.
The beta testers are out testing all this stuff, and some of it is even sophisticated enough now where it is working.
Now, other things, and you know what?
Dan Balls has a column today in the Washington Post that just steals the Limbaugh theorem.
I don't know that he knows he's stealing it because I doubt that Dan Balls listens to this program.
Dan Balls would be one of these Washington Post columnists, probably one of these reporters, one of these guys that finds out what happens here by reading media matters.
But he's got a column, Obama's annoyance with Congress boils over.
And the piece of the purpose of Dan Balls' B-A-L-Z, by the way, don't get any ideas.
The purpose of his piece is to explain to people How Obama is doing what he's doing.
And it takes him a whole column to get to it.
Here's what he says.
In the face of widespread disaffection toward Washington and with congressional approval ratings falling below 10%, the president wants to be seen as the one person trying to take action on behalf of people.
Whatever he can do to separate himself from other politicians in Washington, the better.
That's the Limbaugh theorem.
He's trying to make it look like he's got nothing to do with what's going on.
It's everybody else's fault.
He's got no accountability.
That's why every day there's a new Obama appearance with a complaint about something.
The latest one's the highway bill.
We're going to lose 700,000 jobs if the Congress doesn't fork over the money for the highway bill and renew it.
Well, you would never know that he's the president for six years.
You would never know that the state of the economy has anything to do with him because he remains an outsider just like everybody else.
And he's just mystified by what's going on in Washington.
And even after six years, he portrays himself as somebody trying to fix all of this, as though he's got nothing to do with current circumstances.
And Dan Balls has just figured it out.
Now, the difference in Balls and me is that Dan Balls is giving Obama all kinds of credit for brilliance and smarts here.
He's not trying to expose anything that Obama's doing.
He's praising him for this.
I, on the other hand, am trying to expose what Obama is doing to try to explain to people the mystifying truth that even after six years in the Oval Office, he seeks to avoid any responsibility or accountability.
But I think that's coming to an end as I point out these poll data numbers that show his administration bottoming out approval numbers.
Remember, the drive-bys are not hammering him.
The news every day is not filled with how badly Obama's doing, and yet the people in this country report that they think he's doing a horrible job.
It must be that they're actually living it, which means it's real.
It's not the result of buzz or PR.
Washington Times, following the recent Hobby Lobby ruling, a group of religious leaders wrote a letter to President Obama on Tuesday asking to be exempt from a pending executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in hiring practices.
This is in the Atlantic Monthly.
Religious groups have asked Obama for an exemption from his executive order mandating, well, doesn't mandate it prohibits federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people.
And these guys are asking for an exemption.
And they're saying, well, Hobby Lobby got one.
Hobby Lobby doesn't have to give out, they don't have to provide or pay for birth control pills that actually destroy human embryos.
So we want same consideration.
Now, some people with this think, see, Obama, he's opened a can of worms here.
This is going to come back.
This is going to be very bad news for Obama.
I don't know about that because there's no way he's going to respond.
He's not going to grant this.
He's going to take this letter and he's going to wave it around.
He says, see the kinds of discrimination that exists in this country?
You see the kind of bigotry?
You see the kind of prejudice?
Here I have people asking me to exempt them from discriminating against lesbians and gays.
And he'll hammer that for all it's worth for fundraising from donors, from those groups of people.
But still, these kinds of things are going to happen because of the Hobby Lobby ruling.
It's going to add further strain to the cohesive unit that is the American society.
As if we needed another reason to love chocolate, researchers who studied a whopping 20 patients who had something called peripheral artery disease found that dark chocolate can increase blood flow and thereby improve cardiovascular health.
Peripheral artery disease, otherwise known as PAD, affects 20% of adults 70 and older in the U.S.
And the researchers gave 10 patients one and a half ounces of dark chocolate with at least 85% cocoa, gave the other half one and a half ounces of milk chocolate with less than 30% cocoa.
And the objective here was to see if dark chocolate made it easier for patients to walk on a treadmill.
And after, it's a miracle.
After eating the dark chocolate, the seasoned citizen participants walked an average 11% farther after eating dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate improves cardiovascular health.
Who knew?
LeBron James, who, as we all recall, took his talents to South Beach, which he really didn't.
The Miami Heat plays in Miami, but they party in South Beach.
So he took his partying talents to South Beach, his basketball talents to Miami.
But now he's leaving the heat or might leave the heat.
He's a free agent.
So the Heritage Foundation's got some offers here, apparently, from teams, let's see, one, two, three, four, six teams.
So the Heritage Foundation wanted to find out what the tax hit would be without factoring deductions or any other thing.
Just calculate the tax rate for somebody in his income bracket.
Now, he's asking for more than $20 million a year from whatever team is willing to pay it.
And so they looked at teams like if he wants to join the Lakers, he will pay an additional $2.7 million a year in taxes over what he's paying now if he signs with the Lakers.
If he signs with the Phoenix Suns he'll pay an additional $939,000.
If he signs with the Cleveland Cavaliers, goes back home, he will pay an additional $1.1 million in taxes.
If he signs with the Chicago Bull, he would pay an additional $1,039,000.
If he stays with the Miami Heat, he pays no additional tax because they have no state income tax.
If he signs on with, say, Houston or Dallas in Texas, he would pay no additional tax.
Now, the story is he really wants to come to the Lakers if they won't give him the Clippers.
He really wants to come to the Lakers, but that would cost him an additional $2.7 million in taxes.
And so they say, will this matter in the decision that he makes?
It has mattered for certain professional athletes.
Antarctic sea ice.
Do you remember it was about probably a month ago now we had news of a terrible fracture that took place down there in Antarctica.
Some part of the Antarctic ice sheet broke off and started floating away out there like Goldwater wanted the East Coast to do back in 1964.
And I told you, I was reading my tech blogs and these poor little people on these, they were scared to death.
It was the most amazing.
They thought, oh, my God, global warming is happening faster than ever.
We're going to die.
Oh, Lord, Detroit, because they thought it meant that it was melting.
And it was getting so hot down there.
Oh, it was just only a matter of time before we're all cooked.
And they were, I'm telling you, I'm not exaggerating.
They were literally, you could read the fear in what they wrote.
And turns out it's bogus.
Antarctic sea ice has hit its second all-time record maximum just this week.
The new record is 2.112 million square kilometers above normal.
Until the weekend just passed, the previous record had been 1.84 million square kilometers above normal.
That mark was hit December 20th of 2007.
Mark Cerise, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, responded to email questions and spoke by telephone about the new record, indicating that somewhat counterintuitively, the sea ice growth was due to global warming.
Oh, yeah.
I got to go.
Salt Lake City, back to the phones we go.
This is Ed.
Greetings, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Well, thank you, sir.
It's amazing actually being with you.
This is really great.
I just have a quick observation on Hillary Clinton.
Yeah.
Now, how is it possible for the smartest woman in the world to be broke after leaving the White House, right?
These are the same people that for eight years told us how to fix America's economy.
So something is very wrong here.
So either they didn't pay attention to their own economic experts or they're very incompetent to manage their own money.
You know what?
This is a very, very shrewd question you are asking.
It's a very commonsensical question.
I've heard very few ask.
Let me restate this because there is an answer to this that people on the left would be able to snap off just like that.
Basically, old Ed here wants to know, wait a minute, how in the world could they come out of eight years in the White House broke when they single-handedly knew exactly what to do to grow the entire U.S. economy?
At least by reputation.
And Ed, the answer, get ready for it, is sacrifice.
The Clintons gave up eight of their most productive earning years to work for you.
The Clintons put themselves second, third, fourth, but the bottom of the list to help you and every other American get rich at their own personal expense.
They didn't earn a dime over what they were paid.
Hillary Zilch for First Lady, Bill, whatever the president gets.
It was sacrifice.
And that is the explanation and the answer to your question.
All right, just to reiterate, it was May 12th, 2014.
Reuters West Antarctic glaciers in irreversible thaw, raising sea levels.
Study vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming.
That was May 12th.
Today, the news is that there is a record amount of ice in Antarctica.
And they confronted the guy that runs the Sea Ice Institute or whatever the hell the phony baloney thing is.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's no doubt there's a record amount of ice, but it's because of global warming.
He honestly said it.
There's another answer, too, about how come to Hillary and Bill Clinton come out of the White House dead broke after eight years of enough expertise to revive the U.S. economy.
You could say that they're experts at managing other people's money, but not their own.
But the real answer is sacrifice.
Sacrifice.
They gave up everything for the American people and they left the White House paupers.
At least eight universities, including four public screws, have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for Hillary Clinton to speak on their campaign over the past year, sparking a backlash from some student groups and teachers at a time of austerity in higher education.
In a previously undisclosed transaction, University of Connecticut, which just raised tuition 6.5%, paid $251,000 from a donor fund for Hillary Clinton to speak on campus in April.
Other examples, $300,000 to Hillary to speak at UCLA.
In March, $225,000 for a speech scheduled for October at the University of Nevada.
This is a random act of journalism by the Washington Post.
I saw this story and I asked myself, $250,000, $300,000 for a speech.
What does she say?
Is any of it memorable?
Why is she being offered the money?
What is so attractive about Hillary Clinton?
And I got to thinking about, I got to be very, very careful here.
I got to thinking about her publisher who thought, oh, my God, we got Hillary.
$14 million advance.
And there was such pride that the publishers sent out letters announcing the deal, how excited they were that they got Hillary's memoirs.
What's the name of her book, Hard Choices, which, by the way, do you know what is plagiarism in a way?
The first Hard Choices was written by Cyrus Vance, who was the Secretary of State for Jimmy Carter.
Cyrus Vance resigned in advance of the failed effort to rescue the hostages in Iran when the helicopter crashed.
He thought it was a stupid move, had no chance.
He quit to be unassociated with it.
And his book was called Hard Choices.
What does this woman say?
I've never had anybody, when Steve Jobs did a commencement speech, it's all over YouTube.
People talk about it.
They react to it, moved by, I've never had one person who's heard Hillary speak tell me how wonderful it was.
It's just, you know, these, it's a network of people, and there's such PR and spin and buzz about the Clintons that all of these sops that are in this ruling class club think that she's such hot, you know, excrement.
And I just, I've never understood it on the substance level.
You know, one of the things we learned in the Ed Klein book, Blood Clot, is that her husband, Bill, wanted her to go get speech lessons from a speech coach so she could learn how not to sound like a shrill screamer when she got past it.
She didn't do it.
She's not even, I don't know.
I don't know quite how to express this.
It's just, it's somebody that is treated and paid and respected way above what seems legitimately warranted.
But yet, on the other side of it, you're worth what somebody will pay you.
And if you can convince somebody to give you 300 grand to give a speech, then the old saw is you're worth it.
But it's just, it's this kind of thinking that lets people like Obama get elected.
They get caught up in all the buzz and the PR and the spin and everything.
And the reality just escapes people.
Steve in Fort Huron, Michigan, Port Huron, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Mega Golf Dittos from Michigan, Rosh.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thanks for the call.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, I wanted to talk about or get your opinion on this war on women thing that they've got going on.
I think it's way more than that.
I really think if you tie in abortion on demand, the, you know, condoms and birth control medications, you tie that in with the healthcare, controlling healthcare, death panels, and you tie all this in with global warming in a poor economy.
I think it's more of a war on humanity than it is.
I think they see this world as the biggest problem in this world is people.
And if they can minimize the number of people on this planet or eliminate people on the planet eventually.
Now, let me caution those of you in the listening audience not to reject this out of hand.
This sounds like it could be a little kooky, but I can give you examples that I've collected over the course of this program, environmentalist wackos who have indeed made the claim right up front that the biggest threat the planet faces is human beings.
That somehow we are not part of nature.
Not like a rat is or a wildebeest or a flower or a bush or a garden snake.
Take your pick.
Those are all accredited, wonderful members of nature, but we do nothing but plunder it and destroy it.
And that is an attitude that is, it is the undergirding of the global warming movement, that we are destroying the planet.
And no way a polar bear could.
And there's no way a lion could, but we human beings, because we're selfish and greedy and we're destroyers and we're killers and mass murderers when it comes to plants and animals.
I just, in fact, I wasn't going to mention this.
I was going to save this for next week.
I was just checking one of my tech blogs during the break.
Get this.
There's actually, and they're dead, the story about how a plant can hear itself being eaten.
I'm not, I'm dead serious, folks.
Some wacko scientist claims that certain plants know and feel when a caterpillar is eating them.
And furthermore, you can see the defensive mechanism the plants use to ward off the attack.
I have no idea.
I didn't have time to read.
I mean, that's just the first paragraph.
And it was, in some of you, you will not believe recent research has shown that plants, it was, you know what the headline was, Snerdley?
Take this, vegans.
That would take this, vegans.
Your plants, your vegetables can hear and feel being eaten by you.
I am not.
Look, I'm embarrassed to even, I don't want to give you this source.
It's Gizmodo, if you want to go find it, just to prove that I'm not making this up.
And now an obscene profit timeout.
Do not go away.
Mr. Snerdley, the take this vegans source story is actually Time magazine.
Time magazine study plants can hear their attackers approach.
And it was an experiment conducted at no less than the University of Missouri, my home state.
And they claim.
No, they can't get out of the way.
They can't stop it.
They just, they hear and they feel being eaten.
So if a plant can hear its own destruction, that puts it one up on low-information voters who have no idea what's happening to them.
Well, it just, it's just, but they're serious about this, folks.
Time magazine, these tech blogs are picking it up.
And of course, it's gospel.
And you wait.
It's going to be long.
You're going to run into somebody who's going to say, can you believe?
Can you believe that broccoli can feel what we eat it?
Ooh, God, what is it?
Can you, can you?
I guarantee you, low-information crowd's going to eat it up.
Well, they're going to believe it.
Somewhere in Minnesota, Ruth, I've got about a minute and a half, Max.
I wanted to get to you.
Hi.
Hi.
Thank you very much.
You bet.
We have our president today demanding that we continue his policy of child trafficking across our southern border.
Yeah.
I believe it is time to arrest the Attorney General, the Vice President, the President, members of the cabinet, how many czars?
What kind of Homeland Security do we have?
I'm laughing.
I thought for a minute you were going to say you want them to do something about it.
Well, since people are not even allowed to talk to these children or see what's going on, this is just like any other child trafficking around the world, and it's against all of our laws.
Right.
When did that matter?
I'm serious.
You know, something, John Boehner, God bless him, had a great answer when he was asked by the drive-bys, very snarky question.
Why don't you do an immigration bill?
Why don't you do one?
Everybody went, because we have no faith that whatever we come up with, the president will obey.
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