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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, Mark Stein sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Rush is at an annual charity commitment today.
	He's immensely generous on that front.
	So that's what he's doing today.
	That's where he is.
	But he will return live on Monday.
	But, you know, it's Friday.
	It's Friday here at the Rushlinbosha.
	And I thought I'd like to, you know, keep things light, frothy, glib, jokey, shallow.
	You know, like the President of the United States announcing that a passenger jet's been shot out of the sky.
	Hey, everybody, great to be back in Delaware.
	Looks like we may have some kind of a tragedy going on right now.
	But on a lighter note, we got some members of Joe Biden's family here.
	Don't they look fabulous?
	Let's give them a big hand, folks.
	That kind of thing.
	So we want to keep it in a light, frothy vein today.
	The president got a do-over, a mulligan, at announcing what happened over Ukraine.
	And is he still speaking at this very moment?
	He's taking a couple of questions.
	He began speaking about 10 before the hour and put on his serious face to do his retake on the announcement of what happened over in Ukraine.
	Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, told Charlie Rose, that's how serious it is, told Charlie Rose at PBS that it is time for tough language on Ukraine.
	Not tough action.
	You know, that may come two, three, four, seven, twelve, nineteen years down the road.
	But it's time for tough language, tough language.
	This is no time for the Friars Club Roast stuff that Obama was pulling yesterday.
	This is time for tough, tough language, tough language.
	So she's sort of distancing herself from the president's jokey, laugh it up, shoot the breeze, trading quips, pointing out musing shout-outs to Bidens who are present in the room.
	She's saying, you know, this is serious.
	So you hold the Biden family member shout-outs until eight minutes into your speech.
	Don't do the jokes until maybe nine, twelve minutes into the speech, because the only language Vladimir Putin understands is tough language, tough language.
	So she subtly, she appeared to be subtly distancing herself from the president's whole Friars Club Roast approach to announcing global disasters.
	But the president in his do-over, so he's gone back 10 minutes ago, whatever it was, 10, 20 minutes ago.
	He returned to the subject and announced for the first time that we now know one American at least is dead on that plane.
	Lucas Schansman is his name, and he was aboard that Malaysian airlines flight from the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur.
	The majority, half the passengers on that plane, 154 I think it is, were Dutchmen, which makes it in relative terms, that's the equivalent of 9-11 in population terms.
	That's basically the equivalent of what it is to the Dutch.
	27 Australians on board.
	That's not insignificant out of whatever it is, 20 million Australians.
	That's pretty big.
	Nine from the United Kingdom, four from Germany, four from Belgium, one from Canada, and one from the United States we know so far.
	I think there's still three dozen or so that they haven't yet.
	They're not entirely clear the identity, the nationalities of.
	But that's basically, oh, 12 from Indonesia as well, shot out of the skies over Ukraine by a group.
	This was also significant, what the president said, by the Russian-backed separatists.
	And he came as close as he has done so far to actually putting Moscow's fingerprints on this thing.
	So that was a significant thing.
	But at the same time, at the same time, you know, he doesn't want to do anything about Ukraine.
	And in fairness to him, it's not just him.
	The Dutch don't particularly want to do anything about Ukraine.
	The Germans don't want to do anything about Ukraine.
	Large parts of Europe are dependent for their energy on Russia.
	So there's a limit to how seriously they want to fall out with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
	So it's not just Obama.
	And so their whole approach to Ukraine was basically, don't do anything to catch our eye.
	Don't do anything too obvious.
	And somehow, something obvious happened.
	I don't believe Vladimir Putin had any intention of getting one of his subsidiaries to blow an airliner full of Western passengers out of the sky.
	There's nothing for him in that.
	But the thing about it is it's a test now of Western resolve because when 300 people, 298 people, are blown out of the sky, a civilian airliner that's flying at 30,000 feet, and you blow it out of the sky and the wreckage is strewn over 10 miles an hour.
	That actually gets to the reality of the situation in this world today, the fragility of civilization.
	This isn't some third world air route.
	This is a route between one of the emerging powers in Asia and a long-established democratic society in Europe.
	The people on this plane are first world passengers.
	They're Dutch businessmen and tourists that go into what they regard as a major city for business and tourism.
	And they fly over Europe, the continent of Europe.
	And in Europe, in the year 2014, your passenger jet can be blown out of the sky.
	And your tourists, your businessmen, your vice president, your corporate vice president, your little kid going off on a school trip to Kuala Lumpur can be blown out over the sky over Europe in the year 2014.
	That's the fragility of civilization in the reset world of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
	And if we weren't talking about that, we'd be talking about the rest of the map.
	Tripoli Airport.
	I was at Tripoli Airport a few years ago.
	It's like a say what you like about Colonel Gaddafi, but he ran a pretty nice airport, actually, as these things go.
	And it's now closed.
	All the planes have been blown up.
	The rebels, I don't know which rebels they are.
	Are they the rebels we supported or the rebels we don't support?
	Because when you're leading from behind, it's kind of hard to tell which rebels are which.
	But the Libyan state, liberated from behind by Barack Obama, is imploding.
	All over the map, all over the map.
	The post-American world, the Obama world, the Obama-Hillary Clinton world is coming into shape.
	And what does he say about it?
	What does he say about it in this thing he was talking about just now?
	Because he didn't just announce the name of the American who died.
	The American who was blown out of the sky by Vladimir Putin's stooges.
	He said this was an Asian, this was very subtle the way he's done, the way he did it.
	Because these people, I just read you the manifest here.
	These are people from specific countries.
	They're people from the Netherlands.
	They're people from Australia.
	They're people from Belgium.
	They're people from Germany.
	They're people from Canada.
	These are real places.
	He said, this is the world's problem.
	He said, an Asian airliner was shot down on European soil.
	Now, Asia, there's no such thing as Asia or Europe in geopolitical terms.
	Asia and Europe.
	And the president knows this.
	This wasn't an accidental use of language here.
	This is how he's framing it.
	Asia and Europe have no meaning geopolitically.
	They're geographic terms.
	It's like saying an airliner was shot down over the Americas.
	It makes a difference.
	It makes a difference in real terms whether it's shot down over Colombia or it's shot down over Canada.
	The Americas is just a geographical term.
	So he says an Asian airliner was shot down on European soil.
	And that's his way of saying, and so he says we need a credible international investigation.
	Do you notice the passivity here?
	The passivity here.
	So somehow he's saying that somehow some global, you know, interpol, interpol in Geneva maybe should be looking into this.
	Or there's some UN agency.
	Maybe we can find someone and they can be put on trial at The Hague.
	It's the world's problem.
	It's like the same thing as Syria.
	He said, I didn't draw a red line.
	The world didn't.
	The world drew a red line.
	And the world said, what are you on about?
	You're the guy who drew the red line.
	The world, why look at us?
	We had nothing to do with it.
	It's your red line.
	And he's not going to make that mistake again.
	So he's now saying this is the world's problem.
	An Asian airliner was shot down on European soil.
	That's not what happened.
	A Malaysian airliner from the state of Malaysia, full of passengers from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was shot down over Ukrainian soil, including on board a U.S. citizen, a citizen of Canada, 27 citizens of Australia, nine citizens of the United Kingdom, Germans, Belgium.
	You notice, by the way, most of those people are NATO members.
	Most of those people are citizens of NATO states.
	So if you want to put it in transnational terms, Mr. President, instead of saying an Asian airliner was shot down on European soil, you could say hundreds of citizens of NATO were shot down by a subsidiary of Vladimir Putin on Russian soil.
	That's what's happened.
	But the President of the United States, even now, even when he's putting on his series, even when he's quit the kibbitzing, even when he's, hey, sad news, folks, but we may have a bit of a tragedy going on.
	But hey, it's great to be with you at Wilbington, Delaware.
	How about that burger?
	How about that burger?
	And he's not doing that.
	But he's not serious either.
	He's not even doing the tough language talk.
	If he heard what Hillary Clinton said about this is a time for tough language, he dialed back the language.
	It's passive language.
	It's the language of the post-American world.
	It's the language of fragile outposts of civilization where when you're flying between point A and point B, you've got to fly over big, murky, mass sea, and you can be blown out of the sky.
	That is the post-American order that is being ushered in.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, it's the end of the week, and you know what that means.
	Live from Ice Station EIB, it's Open Line Friday!
	Yes, yes.
	I don't even know whether it's Open Line Friday, because Rush did Open Line Friday on Thursday yesterday.
	It's becoming a thing of his now when he takes a day off.
	He's got these, he's got these, Johnny Donovan has done these little stings that now say it's Open Line Friday on Thursday.
	So it's become like an official thing.
	So I don't even know whether we should also be having something that's saying it's non-open line, it's non-open line Thursday on Friday.
	So I don't know how we're going to go with the Open Line Friday, the Open Line Thursday, non-openline Thursday thing.
	I can go either way on it.
	But 1-800-282-2882 is the number to call.
	And we will take your calls maybe in alternate segments on anything you want to talk about.
	In some segments, it may be stuff that just I want to talk about.
	We may do a semi-open line Friday or open semi-line semi-Friday.
	I don't know.
	But whatever it is you want to talk about, lots of stuff going on, including the evaporation of the southern border of the United States.
	We will get to all of it in the hours ahead on America's number one radio show, Mark Stein in Farush.
	Lots more still to come.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	One other aspect of that flight's manifest to bear in mind.
	There were over 100 AIDS researchers on that plane traveling to a conference on AIDS.
	So one should assume that's actually quite a lot of expertise in that particular field that's been lost.
	And, you know, this is that's like the left's big cause.
	It's actually American foreign policy's big cause, not just the left's.
	I mean, we all, we know the whole thing here that you've got to be on board with big gay or they'll cancel your home decor show or they'll or they won't try to get your duck hunting show banned or they'll bounce you as CEO of Mozilla.
	Vladimir Putin's stages, Stooges, have just blown over 100 AIDS researchers out of the sky.
	By the way, this is the guy who was, do you remember the big fuss about Putin?
	They don't care what countries he invades, but they made a big fuss because he was shutting down gay nightclubs ahead of the Olympics a couple of months back.
	So they were bothered about that.
	That's the thing.
	You know, if he'd gone into, if he were to bomb Kiev, they'd be relaxed about it.
	But if he sent the tanks into Kiev and closed down a gay nightclub, you'd never hear the end of it.
	That was the big issue.
	It's the big issue of John Kerry's State Department.
	John Kerry sent in when Mr. Museveni in Uganda passed his criminalized homosexuality with life in prison.
	John Kerry said he was going to send in a group of fully credentialed gay advisors from American, prestigious American universities to bring Mr. Museveni up to speed on gay science so that he wouldn't be putting all these gay people in jail.
	I don't know what's happened to them.
	They flew into Kampala, but nothing's ever been heard of them since.
	So he's been, John Kerry has been right on top of the whole gay angle in foreign policy for months.
	We've just had 100 AIDS researchers blown out of the sky.
	And so far, the gay left has fallen silent on this aspect of the case.
	These are people who are on their way to a big AIDS conference.
	But the President of the United States, the whole thing I thought was distinguished by the usual passivity.
	What does it take, by the way?
	Yesterday was embarrassing.
	Embarrassing.
	Like, there's stuff going on all over the planet.
	And you've got the President of the United States in a burger joint in Wilmington doing this fist bump thing as if he's just walked into a diner in Wilmington to order a burger and these are real Americans in there.
	You can't get into.
	I love, why does anybody, why did the press even go along with this?
	You have to have security clearance.
	If you're in a diner, if you're in a diner with the president, it's because you've undergone a background check.
	You've had to supply your social security number and all the rest of it.
	The ordinary citizen of the United States cannot get into the presence of King Barak without having to submit his government number and for them to look up the guy and see whether it's safe for him to be in a diner when the president walks in, strolls in, and pretends to be just bumping into regular Americans who are there having a cheeseburger.
	That whole thing is staged.
	I don't know how, I don't know how self-respecting journalists, there's some woman in London, who's the London correspondent for one of these phony baloney Russian networks, RT, who RT, who just resigned, just quit, because she couldn't stand the mumbo jumbo that RT was pumping out, saying it's the Ukrainians who are behind this, not the Russians.
	She couldn't live with the propaganda they were pumping out.
	When you're showing the president so-called walking into a diner and conversing with real people, and all the real people in the room have had to undergo a check and have had to have their social security number verified and all the rest of it, unless, of course, they're illegal aliens.
	Why do you pretend it's even real?
	But to do that on a day when there's real news going on, when there's real news breaking, what has to happen?
	What has to happen for the president to postpone the fundraiser?
	Not a big blood-drenched atrocity with Putin's fingerprints all over it, not an armed assault on an American diplomatic facility that leaves an ambassador and three other Americans dead.
	You know, in Vegas, by the way, on that night, the president managed to compare the four dead Americans murdered by jihadists to Obama campaign workers.
	That's what he said.
	He said, they both represent the best of America.
	So he was marginally less of a toned, deaf, tin-eared, hollow sack of nothing yesterday in that he skillfully managed to avoid comparing Dutch AIDS researchers being blown to pieces all over 10 miles of Ukrainian farmland to Wilmington residents having a hard time getting a ticket for an Obama fundraiser.
	So he was at least adroit enough to avoid that yesterday.
	But what does it take to cancel a fundraiser?
	You know, December 6th, 1944, a day that will live in infamy.
	But hey, enough with the bad news.
	It's great to be with you here in Atlantic City.
	That's the world.
	That's the world he's living in.
	Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers attended the first fundraiser right here at Gettysburg.
	Hey, it's great to see you folks.
	Do you remember the way they mocked Bush for being informed of 9-11 while reading my pet goat at a grade school?
	Obama would have been announcing 9-11 at a fundraiser.
	What does it take to get this guy to cancel one of his fundraisers?
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	Mark Stein, great to be with you.
	I said earlier that over 100 people on that flight may have been on their way to the AIDS conference in Melbourne.
	That's what President Obama said.
	He said nearly 100 of those killed may have been heading to that conference.
	In fact, it looks like it might be a bit lower than that, substantially lower than that.
	In fact, lower than 10.
	But they include a big shot representative of the World Health Organization, Glenn Thomas, who was on that way to the conference, and Lucy Van Menz, who was involved in HIV prevention work.
	So you've got all these AIDS and HIV specialists who were on that flight.
	But it's not 100, as the president said.
	It may, in fact, be closer to 10.
	Let us go to Ed in Norfolk, Virginia.
	Ed, you're first up on the Rush Limbaugh show today.
	Well, thank you very much, Mark, and it's a pleasure to speak to you.
	And I appreciate you letting me speak today.
	Yeah, it's great.
	Great to have you with us.
	Yeah, my thoughts are this about Vladimir Putin and the Russian separatists.
	To be perfectly honest with you, Vladimir Putin does not have clean hands in this matter.
	He's just as dirty as anyone else on this.
	In fact, I think he's more culpable about this airliner being shot down.
	The sophistication of the system had to be by Russian troops for them to operate this thing.
	It can't be the rebels.
	It just can't be somebody that walked off the street.
	So his hands are dirty on this matter.
	And as far as Barack Obama goes, our president is a total disgrace as he came out and he only made 38 seconds of the subject matter at all.
	And this morning, as I was watching Fox News, I saw Ronald Reagan speaking about 1983 when the Korean airliner was shot down.
	And I thought there's just no way nothing could ever bring anything like that out of Barack Obama.
	He's going to apologize for the Russians shooting that down.
	He's going to, he would rather go to a fundraiser than speak to the world and say, this is an atrocity.
	This is where America needs to stand up and stop this.
	This is what we are.
	We are the good and the force in the world.
	And we're not the police of the world, but we are known for this, but this president.
	But here's the thing, Ed.
	You're right.
	And it's difficult.
	Nobody wants to go to, you know, what are we going to do?
	Go to war with Russia over Ukraine?
	Nobody wants to do that.
	Nobody wants to do that.
	And that's not a joke.
	Any kind of action you take here has got to be carefully calibrated because you know you're up against this isn't like dealing with some rinky-dink rabble in Benghazi.
	There are serious consequences here.
	But by the way, the fact that we can't even deal with some rinky-dink rabble in Benghazi means that serious powers don't take us seriously.
	But what was interesting is that even when he put on his serious face today, there's no sense of any kind of genuine moral outrage or righteous indignation.
	You know, we're told this guy is the greatest speaker ever.
	That's what we were told.
	It's like it's six years ago that he was the greatest orator ever.
	Why can't he move anybody?
	Why does he sound so cold and bloodless when he's talking about 298 people being blown out of the sky?
	Now, Tony Abbott from Australia, Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott is not in a position to liberate Ukraine.
	He's not in a position to bomb the Kremlin and drag Vladimir Putin out and stick him in some Nuremberg tribunal.
	But Tony Abbott can at least stand up and express plausibly and genuinely and authentically a kind of moral outrage and righteous indignation that is a world away from the bloodless nothing of a statement that Obama made and is a world away.
	And incidentally, as you said, that Reagan thing, you understood that even if Reagan had not taken any action, which he did, he took action.
	But you could see he rightly called out the act for what it was, barbarousness.
	He's not there sort of shuffling paper, looking down, sloughing off words as if he's just killing time until he can get back to the golf course.
	So you're right.
	You're right.
	As I said, I think this is just embarrassing.
	The left went on about this all the time with Bush.
	They hated the whole Texan cowboy thing.
	They thought it was unbecoming.
	They wanted more of an NPR type to be their president.
	So you've got an NPR type.
	And he's like announcing this stuff at fundraisers.
	And he doesn't even know.
	He's not the most skilled orator of all time.
	Doesn't even have the skills to know when to hold off all the kibitzing and the schmoozing and all the shout outs to his buddies.
	He doesn't even, he's got no sense of tone.
	He's tone deaf.
	He's tin-eared.
	And the thing is, he was sold to us, as I said, as the smartest, greatest orator of all time.
	And by the way, that gets to the whole way of looking at things now, that he's bored.
	He doesn't want to have to deal with Ukraine.
	He doesn't want to have to deal with Libya.
	He doesn't want to have to deal with Iraq.
	There's things that are more, his fundamental transformation of the United States is more important to him.
	So he'd rather that Vladimir Putin got on with fundamentally transforming the Ukraine below the radar so it doesn't attract anybody's attention.
	He'd rather that what happened, the fundamental transformation of Libya and Iraq and everywhere else goes on below the radar so it doesn't attract his attention because what he's focused on is the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.
	Let's go to Anne Maria in Chappaqua, one of many real estate markets where poor penniless Hillary Clinton managed to find some rude and primitive shelter.
	Anne-Maria, great to have you with us on the show.
	Hey, how are you, Mark?
	I'm doing good.
	What's on your mind?
	Well, you know, as tragic, it is a very tragic story which is playing out over Russia with this airliner going down.
	And as you said, realistically, the President of the United States really cannot do anything at this point.
	He cannot do anything in Israel or the Gaza Strip.
	However, it has totally gotten the whole immigration disaster off the front page.
	And I think this is, in a weird way, working to his advantage.
	Yeah, what's happened, and I always feel slightly embarrassed.
	I'll talk about it at the top of the next hour, my personal take on this, Anne-Maria, because I always feel slightly embarrassed as an immigrant, legal immigrant, and boy, I wouldn't make that mistake again, having to talk about this.
	But basically, basically, the President of the United States dissolved the southern border.
	There is no southern border now.
	If you can get to the north shore of the Rio Grande, you can stay here.
	But, you know, when you say it works his advantage, all this stuff blowing the border crisis off the front page and everything, look at it this way, Anne-Maria.
	I mean, I think this is bedrock.
	This is bedrock what he's doing now.
	He's like the coyote-in-chief.
	President Obama is the coyote-in-chief.
	Normally, when you get to America, you then got to skulk around in the dark.
	These guys bring you in, you pay them loads of money, you've got to skulk through desert and shrub and brush and wilderness until you can get, you know, 20 miles into the country, and then they think it's safe for you to sort of emerge and blend into that thing.
	Now, the coyote-in-chief, President Obama, has ordered you to be flown from the border to Massachusetts or upstate New York in your own state.
	They're taking people basically now to within 20 minutes of the Canadian border.
	That's the north shore of the Rio Grande in Obama's America.
	The gap between the Canadian border and the southern border has shriveled to about 20 minutes.
	The coyote-in-chief is flying them in and providing them with free shelter, free medical care.
	They'll be in your school district.
	They'll be in your school system starting in September.
	And do you get any sense, Anne-Maria, that the American people are actually outraged at having had, in a sense, having the coyote-in-chief actually dissolve the southern border?
	Do you get any sense of outrage there, Anne-Maria?
	Not at all.
	Not at all.
	Well, what's it going to take then?
	Because if you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
	So if you're complaining, if two, three years down the line, your neighbors are complaining about their school district taxes because they're going to be having to pay more for English as a second language classes and all the rest of it, like they are in wherever it is, Lynn, Massachusetts.
	Lynn, Massachusetts isn't anywhere near El Paso, but they've got to put up the expense of all this stuff now.
	Whatever it is, what was the other place?
	Bristol, Massachusetts, or wherever it was.
	I mean, these are places a long way from the southern border, and taxpayers, there's nowhere to hide.
	Maybe if you're Nancy Pelosi and you say you want to adopt all these people, maybe Nancy Pelosi, if you live in that bigger mansion and it's that gated, your community, you can stand this thing up.
	But basically, basically, he's dissolved the southern border.
	And there's 9 billion people.
	There's going to be 7 billion people on the planet right now.
	They're going to be 9 billion by 2050.
	And Obama's basically saying to those 7 billion people, if you can make it to the north shore of the Rio Grande, you can stay here.
	You can stay here.
	And why aren't Americans upset about that?
	I mean, what's it going to take?
	What's it going to take?
	Actually, it's mostly us legal immigrants who were the chumps who bothered filling in the paperwork and paying all the fees.
	We're more annoyed about it than most of you native guys are.
	Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
	Lots more of your calls on Open Line Friday, straight ahead.
	Hey, Mark Stein, Inforush on America's number one radio show at the end of a busy news week.
	It's sort of semi-open line Friday, whatever you want to talk about.
	Lots of big things in the news, including the developments in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world, and right here at home with the extinguishing of the southern border.
	In a way, the distinction between domestic and foreign news doesn't really matter anymore if you don't have a border.
	And there are no foreigners because essentially anyone who gets here can stay here.
	So far this year, of the unaccompanied miners, which is in itself a euphemism, these would be child soldiers, by the way, if they win Afghanistan.
	If these guys were in Waziristan, these kids this age, 15, 16, 17-year-old boys, they'd have weapons and they'd be firing on American troops.
	They'd be what they call child soldiers in the Hindu Kush.
	But here they're just unaccompanied minors.
	So people, and Americans are very nice.
	So they're having all these fund drives to raise teddy bears for gangbangers.
	I mean, it's very touching because there's nothing that a 15-year-old drug gangbanger likes when he arrives in America than being presented with a nice Elmo stuffy to hide his drugs in.
	It's very touching.
	So far this year, 65% of the immigrant unaccompanied minors who've arrived in fiscal year 2014.
	I don't even know what that means, actually.
	I should imagine it bears no relation to the calendar year, but fiscal year 2014, 65% of the people who've arrived so far have already been granted asylum.
	That means they're never going.
	They're here.
	They're here.
	And you think that south of the border, they don't understand that.
	They don't grasp that.
	They don't know what that means.
	And there's no end to that.
	There's no end to that.
	Now, as I said, I might talk about this in the next hour.
	If you're a legal immigrant and you'd like to get in with me on a class action suit against the United States government for making us jump through hoops, take years and pay thousands of dollars in fees for this, that, and the other, not to mention having our eyeballs photographed every time we cross the border, every time I'm with U.S. immigration in Bermuda, years on end, they took photographs of my eyeballs.
	They've got more, if they wanted to do like Andy Warhol did with those portraits of Marilyn with portraits of Marilyn Monroe, they could do it with my eyeballs.
	The immigration, Department of Homeland Security, could have an exhibition of my eyeballs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
	That's how many pictures they've got.
	So we have to be treated because normally most people don't photograph your eyeballs unless you've been arrested in a liquor store holdup.
	So legal immigrants to this country have to be treated as if they're the kind of guys who are holding up liquor stores.
	Whereas the ones who actually do hold up liquor stores are given free food, free housing, free education, free health care.
	I have to sign a bit of paper saying, oh, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to be, none of my family are going to be a charge on the public pass.
	Everybody else.
	So I'm thinking of organizing a class action suit to get our money back with damages from the United States government because there's an equality before the law issue here.
	There's an equality before the law issue.
	And they treat us worse than they treat these guys who are basically not going to be, they've been fast-tracked.
	65% of those kids have now been given asylum, immediate asylum.
	By the way, that's what the Sarnaev family who blew up the Boston Marathon got.
	That's the express check-in.
	So you don't have to waste time being nice and going to the interviews and filling in all the paperwork and paying all the fees.
	You just have the express check-in.
	You've got the Sarnaev status conferred on you.
	What's the guy called?
	Tamilan Sanaev, the one the brother reversed over.
	You've got the Tamilan Sarnaev Memorial Asylum Permit that's just been granted.
	That's 65% of the unaccompanied.
	There's people who've been waiting.
	There's Americans who made the mistake of falling in love with a Fijian or a Belgian who've been waiting years to bring their spouses, like this poor guy over in Sudan whose wife was in death row.
	But 65% of the kids who've come through this year have already got their paperwork.
	It's disgraceful, it's disgusting, and Americans ought to be madder at the coyote in chief about it.
	Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
	So many crises, Obama can barely keep up with them.
	He apparently telephoned the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, today to express his, quote, deep concern.
	He's, quote, deeply concerned, unquote, over what's happening in Gaza.
	By the way, this is, I don't want people to start panicking.
	This is the stage that comes before he makes the call where he says he's gravely concerned.
	So he's only deeply concerned at the moment.
	He's not yet gravely concerned.
	He's basically, he told Netanyahu, Netanyahu, if I was Netanyahu, I'd have just thrown the phone through the window.
	He said, Obama said that while the U.S. supports Israel's right to defend itself, the United States is deeply concerned about the risks of further escalation.
	This is because people have been tunneling through Gaza and Netanyahu has determined to enforce Israel's borders.

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