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	Yes, America's anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Proud to and honored to be behind the golden EIB microphone.
	I'm a foreign exchange student with the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	It's a great program.
	Guys like me get to come and study here and in return 500 fellas from the greater Minneapolis area get to go to Syria and Iraq and chop the heads off schoolgirls.
	So it all works out for everyone.
	It's terrific.
	We were talking just before the end of the last hour about well we were talking for most of the hour about the big geopolitical picture, the transformational shifts that are going on around the world in the absence of American power and the emerging contours of the post-American world.
	And then I mentioned duck genitals and since then people have been bombarded by a bazillion messages from people who've got no interest in the collapse of the post-American world.
	But duck genitals is the subject.
	Duck genitals is the subject because the problem is that the male duck has a counterclockwise penis and the female duck has a clockwise vagina.
	And the United States government has spent a significant amount of money studying duck genitalia.
	And they've published this report called Conflict, Social Behavior and Evolution, which as I said would make a great study for the emerging post-American world.
	But instead they used up, they haven't got a strategy on that, but they've got a strategy on duck genitalia.
	And somebody said in response, talking about the duck, the counterclockwise, clockwise penis vagina thing, said, what about if you're a duck who goes both ways?
	I don't know how that works.
	I don't know.
	We need a study on that.
	We need a study on that.
	More studies.
	Could action-packed TV fare make you fat?
	That's the implication of a new study that found people snacked more watching fast-paced television than viewing a more leisurely-paced talk show.
	Cornell University researchers randomly assigned almost 100 undergraduates.
	By the way, one of the things that's wrong about studies, I would say, is that they tend to, the groups of people studied tend toward being undergraduates of American and other Western universities.
	And that's why that's so the sample pool is slightly unrepresented.
	But anyway, they asked 100 undergraduates to watch either The Island, a 2005 sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor, or the Charlie Rose show.
	And they found, and then they provided students with huge amounts of cookies, MM candies, carrots, and grapes.
	And they found, they found that during the island, students ate on average about seven ounces of various snack foods.
	That's about 354 calories, which was almost 140 calories more and nearly doubled the ounces they ate watching Charlie Rose.
	So, so the bottom line is, I can't even believe I'm reading this thing out.
	The bottom line is that in order to prevent mindless snacking, you should not watch Scarlett Johansson running around in skimpy clothing because you'll just eat more MMs, but you should watch the Charlie Rose show.
	I would be interested to know whether actually most of those students were asleep during the Charlie Rose show, and that's why their calorie intake was lower.
	But at any rate, It's highly irrelevant to what we're talking about with Mr. Snerdley when he flew out of West Palm Beach Airport, which is like the Mosul for the great recline wars of America, where people are tired of the seat recline going back and pressing in on your knees.
	So they've invented this knee defender device.
	Americans are getting bigger while plane seats are getting smaller.
	Everywhere else, you notice if you go to look at your lazy boy recliners and things now, they've got these extra wide chairs and all the rest of it.
	Chairs are getting wider.
	Movie theaters, seats are getting wider.
	If I went to the hospital and they've got these new supersized toilets there with this, like these like giant toilet seats, and if you're like some little pert buttocked thing, if you're like some skinny, emaciated little sheeshy French woman that John Kerry might date, or actually looking at John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, John Kerry's buttocks might find it difficult getting a grip on that wide, extra-wide toilet seat.
	But on the airplanes, everyone is being squeezed into small, as they're getting bigger, they're getting squeezed into smaller and smaller spaces.
	And so now we're having these recline wars.
	And it's always the small things.
	You know, you talk about ISIS, you talk about Putin, you talk about the Iranian nuclear bomb.
	It could well be that the reclining seat situation is what actually collapses America.
	The recline and fall of the American Empire.
	It could easily be, that could easily be something small like that that just causes the entire social fabric to disintegrate.
	Now, 1-800-282-2882, Joe Biden, in his Labor Day speech, said it's time for the middle class to take back America.
	Take back America.
	Normally, I love Joe Biden.
	I don't rule him out.
	He's like the brains of the Obama administration.
	It's incredible, but he is.
	Joe Biden, who may well be the next president of the United States, Joe Biden, Mr. Snerdley is laughing.
	It's because you laugh, Mr. Snerdley, that it's going to happen.
	If you had said to me in 2002, Joe Biden's going to be the next Vice President of the United States, I would have laughed.
	If you said to me, Chuck Hagel's going to be the next Secretary of Defense, I would have laughed.
	If you had said to me, John Kerry is going to be the next Secretary of State, I would have said this is one of those wacky alternative universe type stories that the Superman people do every once in a while, and nobody believes it.
	It's completely implausible, but somehow it happened.
	So, Mr. Snerdley, you can take it to the back.
	Mr. Snerdley, when I said Joe Biden, he could be the next president.
	Mr. Snerdley laughed.
	So go, I don't think you can bet on it here, but go up to Canada or go over to Britain and go into Ladbrooks, the bookies, and put 500 bucks down on Joe Biden to be the next president.
	You heard it here first.
	He's told, he said, take back America.
	Normally, normally, take back America is what the opposition party says in an election.
	You know, they say we need to take back our country.
	They had a big take back Vermont thing in 2000 when the Republicans were running against Howard Dean and they said it's time to take back Vermont.
	You're normally trying to take it back from the people who have been in power.
	Joe Biden has been in power for six years and he's saying it's time for the middle class to take back America.
	And that was his big Labor Day speech.
	The president's Labor Day speech, one of the a lot of it was incredibly boring.
	And actually, the whole idea of this president giving a Labor Day speech, labor, labor, the dignity of work, the self-worth that comes from doing an honest day's labor, is completely antithetical to this president.
	This is the one who has put 50 million people on food stamps.
	It's bigger than the population of the United States in Rutherford B. Hayes' day, the guy that Obama likes to mock.
	He's put 50 million people on food stamps.
	He's massively expanded food stamps.
	He's massively expanded Social Security disability.
	He's massively expanded part-time work, part-time work.
	So the idea of him giving any kind of speech on Labor Day, he's cemented one of the most destructive features of any society, which is multi-generational dependency.
	He's cemented it as a permanent feature of life.
	He's incentivizing his Department of Agriculture is doing ads to encourage Mexicans to sign up for food stamps.
	You know, maybe some of those poor Kurds and Yazidis over in Iraq, maybe they'd be a lot happier if they came over here and went on food stamps.
	Maybe Ukrainians who don't like the Russian army marching about over there, maybe they could go on food stamps too.
	Maybe once they finish swimming in the pool at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, some of these jihad guys out in Libya would like to come here and go on food stamps here.
	So something to do with labor.
	He's the dependency guy.
	He should be giving a Dependence Day speech, not a Labor Day speech.
	But the interesting thing about it was that he was also talking about something called, he did his usual thing.
	Hope is what gives young people the strength to march for women's rights and workers' rights and civil rights and voting rights and gay rights and immigration rights.
	And I would love to hear from any listeners, 1-800-282-2882, if you have a clue what immigration rights are.
	I mean, in the most basic sense, and I say this as an immigrant myself, well aware that I don't have any rights, that no immigrant has rights.
	Any sovereign state has the right to exclude anybody other than its own citizens within its borders if it wants to.
	That used to be the way we thought about it.
	Now, Obama says basically, if you're any one of the 7 billion people on this planet and you can make it to our evaporated southern border, you have the right to come and live here.
	So he's talking about immigration rights.
	And the fascinating thing about this is that by that, again, he's just interested in bringing in a greater population of dependents.
	The whole new social structure is that there should be a dependency class and there should be a class of bureaucrats that administers to the dependency class.
	You can see that Ferguson, Missouri, in that sense, is a microcosm of the America that will be.
	I mean, basically, if you're rioting until 3 in the morning, chances are you're not someone who has a job to get up and go to at 7 o'clock in the morning.
	You have to have a pretty light workload to be able to afford to be out all night rioting.
	And the only kind of work to do in Ferguson is these convenience stores that are all getting burned and trashed and looted and all the rest of it.
	And those guys, the guys running the convenience store, get no thanks from anyone.
	They provide the only kind of jobs there are in town, and they get no thanks either from the dependency class who come and trash the stores and loot the stores.
	And when they call 911 and ask that police department to come and stop the fellas from trashing in Lutonstall, they get no thanks from them either.
	And that's a microcosm of the world we're moving into, where there's the government class and there's the dependency class.
	So the idea of this guy giving a Labor Day speech when labor, labor, work, self-worth, the dignity, the dignity of providing for your family, of earning enough to build a home, all that is increasingly irrelevant to the world he's building.
	But he's now, he specifically talked about this immigration rights, by which he seems to mean, seems to mean that people have a right, people who are not Americans, have a right to enter the United States if they want to without undergoing anything from U.S. immigration about getting the proper visas, without getting the proper work permits.
	It's now apparently a civil right.
	There are immigration rights that are civil rights that foreigners, unspecified foreigners, presumably not all of them, I mean, I take it he wouldn't be happy if Putin were to sneak across the Rio Grande and run for election against him, sneering and mocking at him all the way.
	He'd probably want to keep Putin from getting across the Rio Grande.
	But other than that, he says now that there are immigration rights that foreigners have to the United States.
	I'd be interested to know whether it's just like he's just riffing off the prompter and that's why it makes no sense or whether there's actually something behind this.
	1-800-282-2882-Mark Stein Infra Rush.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Breaking news from the Associated Press.
	An internet video purports to show a second American journalist, Stephen Sotloff, being beheaded by ISIS, the Islamic State Group.
	The video has just been put up on the internet.
	It's entitled A Second Message to America.
	And Mr. Sotloff appears in the same kind of orange gitmo jumpsuit before he is beheaded by an Islamic state jihadist.
	This follows the beheading of James Foley by apparently by a British jihadist a week or so ago.
	James Foley, by the way, is from southern New Hampshire.
	And Stephen Sotloff actually graduated from Kimball Union Academy, which is a ways down the Connecticut River, almost due south of where I am right now.
	And in this video entitled A Second Message to America, Stephen Sotloff appears to have been beheaded by a jihadist of the Islamic State.
	And again, it comes back to one of those aspects of the Obama frenzy of 2008 that has just been exposed for nothing.
	Everyone gets excited about social media.
	Oh, politicians using social media, politicians using social media.
	Does anybody on the planet use social media as effective as these fellas do?
	They basically become now, not everybody, not everybody, not everybody, enough.
	Enough people want to go, want to leave their homes in Minneapolis, want to leave their homes in Toronto, want to leave their homes in Manchester, England, and go to ISIS and Syria and Iraq and chop their heads off people and put it up on the internet.
	They become like that, but not everybody does.
	But the people who follow them, these are like the coolest, the coolest sports team on the planet.
	And they're all over, all over the Western world.
	There are people going on to Twitter and going onto Facebook to see the latest beheading.
	Stephen Sotlov, the Daily Mail in London, is saying that it's actually supposed to be the same British executioner that has chopped off the head of this American journalist.
	He freelanced for Time magazine and foreign policy over there.
	And the Associated Press is now reporting that he has been beheaded as James Foley has.
	And this is the heart of the question.
	If you go back to that fellow I mentioned, Douglas MacArthur McCain from Minneapolis, who died fighting for ISIS in Syria.
	What we have here now is we've got Westerners, Westerners flocking in thousands, in their thousands, to serve with ISIS.
	ISIS are not like these fellas in Afghanistan or in the Horn of Africa or out in West Africa.
	They're actually quite good at taking territory, at holding territory.
	They're very good at getting money.
	They're very good at getting oil and selling it on the black market.
	And they're actually very good with weapons too.
	They know how to use this stuff.
	The weaponry that they're seizing, which is American-made, you paid for and you gave it to the Iraqi army under Malachi.
	And it's now in the hands of these fellas and they know how to use it.
	And at some point, all these thousands and thousands of people, people who are nominally U.S. citizens or British subjects or French citizens or whatever they are, they get tired of chopping heads off in Iraq and Syria and they're going to be coming back here.
	They're going to be coming back to Minneapolis.
	They're going to be going back to Toronto.
	They're going to be going back to Manchester.
	They're going to going back to Toulouse.
	They're going to be going back to Brussels.
	And they're going to be going stuff there.
	And we've now been told, we've now got a second message to America.
	An American getting his head chopped off in front of the world, in front of the world.
	At the same time, there's a video on YouTube of the guys who support these fellas and who believe in the same ideology frolicking in the pool of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
	At some point, the eunuch superpower is going to have to get a strategy.
	Again, I don't understand it.
	I don't understand how even liberals are not ashamed, are not ashamed at knowing that their president has been getting briefed on this thing for over a year.
	It's like getting briefed Pearl Harbor.
	The Japanese took out Pearl Harbor in December of 1941.
	And in February 1943, he's still trying to come up with a strategy.
	Yes, Rush is out for a few days.
	Eric Erickson comes in later in the week, and Rush will return next week.
	But don't forget, if you go to rushlimbo.com, it will be as if he's not gone away.
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	You are in the mood for him.
	We reported just before the break at the bottom of the hour that Stephen Sotlov, a second American journalist, has been beheaded in Syria by ISIS, the Islamic State guys, in a video entitled A Second Message to America.
	And it appears to show the same British jihadist Who killed James Foley, killing Stephen Sotloff, too, and threatening another hostage, David Haynes, who's British.
	And unfortunately, the way things are looking right now looks as if he is next in line.
	Let us go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
	John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	It's great to have you with us.
	You have a great sense of humor.
	You're Canadian.
	You have a future at Saturday Night Live since a lot of their stars are leaving the show.
	They can use you as a replacement.
	But getting serious, though, that second beheading.
	This stuff is really serious.
	You mentioned how efficient these guys are, how they're well financed.
	I think in one bank that they took over had, what, a half a billion dollars in it.
	Right.
	I understand they're getting a steady stream of money from the sale of oil to the tune of millions a day.
	These are not junior varsity.
	They're not JV.
	If anybody is JV, it's our chicken-in-chief who was lucky to play JV in his favorite sport when he was in high school.
	I read David Marinus' book.
	Obama sat on the bench, folks.
	He got in the state championship game, which Punahou High School won something like 60 to 30.
	They had double the score of the team that they beat, and he got in at the end of the game and he scored four points.
	Well, maybe you know, you know, John, maybe he's figuring that's what's going to happen this time because he's actually sitting on the bench here.
	When you send him out there, Putin, Putin and the Chinese Politburo and Ayatollah Khamenei and Al-Baghdadi in Mosul, these fellas think they all agree.
	They don't agree on a lot of things, the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians and ISIS, but they're pretty much all in agreement on who the JV player on the court is, and it's the president of the United States, John.
	Unfortunately, you know, this used to be a great country.
	I'm 74 years old.
	I was born in 1940.
	I lived in the New York area where we had air raids all the time.
	We had blackout shades on the windows in our tenement.
	My older brother and I used to hide under the kitchen table whenever there was an air raid.
	I guess we predated the atomic bomb exercise they had afterward, after the end of the Second World War.
	One other thing I wanted to say about Obama: he either doesn't know anything about American history or he refuses to accept the truth because he talks about success or victory.
	He doesn't like victory.
	He doesn't like the fact that America had unconditional surrenders from Germany and Japan in the Second World War.
	And he said it was terrible to make the emperor of Japan come down to the Missouri and sign the unconditional surrender with MacArthur.
	That never happened.
	No.
	Stayed home.
	No, I know, I know.
	But it's a funny thing.
	You know, he's the smartest guy ever to become president, according to presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
	And yet he stands up there and he opens his mouth and he says this stuff, like about Hirohito being forced to come down and sign the surrender with McArthur.
	And he's got no, he's got, he's got anybody else, if Bush were to go around saying things like that, he would be mocked about it ends as a sea.
	No, he doesn't actually have any interest in American history, John.
	And I would say the reason for that is, in essence, To be a leftist progressive, and I'm not talking about being a Scoop Jackson Democrat or even a Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton Democrat, but to be a leftist progressive, marinated in bill airs, marinated in left-wing orthodoxy your whole life, it is necessary to be ignorant.
	It's necessary not to apprise yourself of things, not to learn about things.
	All that's necessary is to have a few bromides and a few core principles that it doesn't matter what is happening out there on the planet as long as it's not in America's interest.
	So it doesn't matter which of these rinky-dink jihad groups is which, or which one of them takes over in Libya, or which one of them takes over in Syria, because the absence of American power by definition is good for the planet regardless of who takes over.
	And he doesn't need to know any more than that.
	He doesn't need to know any more than that.
	And he has the confidence of his ignorance.
	For Obama, ignorance is bliss.
	And Michael Beschloss, people should ask him about that.
	What is it Obama knows?
	You said he's the smart, the day after the election, you said he's the smartest guy ever to be elected president.
	What is it he knows compared to, I'm not talking about the Rushmore guys.
	What is it he knows compared to what Chester Arthur knows?
	What is it he knows?
	Where's the proof of this intelligence?
	Rush was talking about it the other day.
	The smart guys told us this guy was one of them.
	And look at what's happened, John.
	Lied to.
	Yeah.
	Can I answer Beschloss?
	Yep, okay.
	Go for it.
	Well, he was on with Don Imus, who admits that he took too many drugs and he lost some brain cells, so he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
	And he had Michael Beschloss on, and he was, you know, he's the presidential biographer.
	And so Beschloss was going on and on.
	This is the beginning of the Obama administration about how that Barack Obama is the smartest guy that ever occupied the Oval Office.
	He's got to be the smartest guy, the guy with the highest IQ that ever was president of the United States.
	So dummy Don Imus asked a valid question.
	He said, well, what is his IQ?
	He's got to be over the top.
	I'm not making this up.
	These are the words that he used.
	He's got to be over the top.
	He's got to have the highest.
	What is his IQ?
	Well, I don't know.
	Well, I thought you knew.
	See, a lot of people think the guy is smart, but you find his grades at Punahou, at Occidental, at Columbia, at Harvard.
	You're never going to find one grade that this guy ever got.
	So how do you know how smart he is?
	Oh, come on, John.
	They should just have a different unit of measurement for measuring Obama's intelligence.
	That's how out of this, out of these, he's way beyond Arling.
	The idea that you can measure him through IQ is preposterous.
	They need a whole new unit to measure Obama's intelligence, particularly after this last summer.
	But the other thing, John, which I think is also true, I mean, I would say the whole point about the non-judgmental aspect of the Western left, which is that nobody's better than us, okay?
	So it doesn't really matter whether you're talking about the United States Constitution or the Yemeni Constitution or the North Korean Constitution.
	Who are we to judge?
	Who are we to judge?
	It doesn't matter whether you're talking about English common law or Sharia.
	Who are we to judge?
	Who's to say which is better, which one is better than the other?
	And Obama, and Obama's, the great thing about that is if nothing is better than anything else, which is the core principle of multiculturalism and non-judgmental leftism, that nothing is better than anything else, then why know anything about anything?
	What's to know?
	I mean, if it makes no difference, if it makes no difference whether common law is a better legal system than Sharia, why bother learning up on it?
	Why bother learning up on either of them?
	And Obama is the fulfillment of that.
	And that's what's happened the last six years, is that someone, they finally got one of their own elected into office.
	And what's interesting about him compared to Bush, compared to Clinton, let's keep Bush out of it.
	You know, people still don't like Bush, but let's just take Democrats.
	Whatever you say about Clinton is you can't say he wasn't curious.
	You can't say he didn't want to, the whole point about Clinton was that he wanted to yak about the finer points of policy and about this and that until three in the morning and drove everybody nuts.
	And that's true even when not just in the White House when he's with the big shots, but if he's with some, if he runs into some schlub at a county fair while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary, he'd want to bend that guy's ear till three in the morning.
	Obama has no curiosity.
	He's the generation that came after.
	He's the generation that came after Clinton, where you're raised to think that nothing is better or worse than anything else.
	So why even bother knowing anything about it?
	Why know anything about ISIS?
	Who's to say ISIS can't run a state just as well as America can?
	Who's to say?
	It's too non-judgmental.
	To argue that is to be judgmental, and that's the worst sin of multiculturalism.
	Thanks for your call, John.
	We'll take more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
	As we mentioned just a few moments ago, there's a video that's been posted on the internet called A Second Message to America, in which Stephen Sotloff, a freelance reporter for Time magazine, is purportedly beheaded by the same guy who beheaded another U.S. citizen, James Foley, just a few days ago.
	There's been these stories, actually, I think it was broken by an old colleague of mine, Toby Harndon, from the Daily Telegraph in London.
	I think he's with the Sunday Times now.
	Toby got hold of some Pentagon official who told him that Obama had sat on giving the green light for the attempts to rescue Sotloff and James Foley when they were held in Syria.
	And by the time he actually got on with it and sent anyone in to do it, they'd been moved, as generally happens when people are taken hostage.
	It's fascinating, though.
	At the same time, he's sort of dawdling on all this.
	The effort he was going to to get Bo Bergdal out of the hands of the Taliban and their affiliates in Afghanistan.
	Fascinating difference in the approach to these things.
	Let's go to Ray in Livermore, California.
	Ray, you're live on the Rush Limbo Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hey, it's great to have you, Mark.
	You always do a great job when Rush is out.
	I wanted to comment on how in the first hour you were talking about the president has no plans for ISIS, how he's broadcasting it.
	I don't know if you knew this.
	He didn't actually know that until he read about it in the paper.
	So it was news to him that day.
	But I want to pull on a thread that I noticed is running through all of your stories today, whether it's the counterclockwise duck penis of Obama's foreign policy that operates in a clockwise world or the caloric intake of undergrads watching TV.
	On that one, I think you missed an important, there was one more group that actually had a negative caloric intake, and those were the undergrads who were watching Obama's speeches on TV and were vomiting and actually lost calories during the launching of the Obama speech.
	Yes, there's so much vomiting.
	It can bring on bulimia, in fact, if you watch any person of taste and discrimination watching an Obama speech.
	You know, your if we had a press worth talking about in this country, your idea of Obama as the duck with the counterclockwise penis trying to function in a world with a clockwise vagina, it's actually a brilliant image, a brilliant image.
	And that is basically the problem.
	You're trying to fit a counterclockwise vision into a clockwise world, Ray.
	It was your genius that pulled these three stories together, Mark, and I'm just glad that I noticed the single thread running through them.
	So good job today filling in for the big guy.
	Thanks a lot for your call, Ray.
	Well, you know, Ray has a point here, apparently, whenever we stop talking about duck genitalia, we lose 20 or 30 affiliates.
	So Ray is brilliant at just tying the duck genitalia back into the whole big geopolitical picture.
	And I'm grateful, Tim, for that.
	You know, it's not just a foreign policy thing, though.
	And people can tune out foreign policy because, as I was saying earlier, you wind up with a choice between moderate beheaders and extremist beheaders.
	And who cares?
	But the world is moving on in more sophisticated ways, too.
	Rush was talking about Burger King buying Tim Hortons up in Canada.
	Tim Hortons is like the biggest fast food chain in Canada.
	They make doughnuts and coffee and all the rest of it.
	And if chances are, if you've spent 24 hours in Canada and you've driven there, you've stopped somewhere on the road at Tim Hortons.
	And Burger King is doing what Pfizer is doing with a British company.
	Every American corporation is basically trying to find a foreign company not in ISIS, not in Libya, not in Chad, not in Rwanda, but in Canada or the United Kingdom or in Switzerland and buying that foreign company and then simply changing their letterhead.
	So if you're Pfizer, which has been headquartered for a zillion years on 42nd Street in New York, you scribble through 42nd Street and you write their address in wherever their subsidiary is in Surrey over in southern England that they're buying.
	And if you're Burger King, you scribble out on your letterhead your American address and you write in Tim Horton's Canadian corporate headquarters in Toronto or whatever it is.
	And where are, you know, the Democrats want to pass a law to make it impossible for companies to move with their feet.
	You know, we're not going to count.
	These are going to countries that Americans think of as socialist basket cases.
	And yet the socialist basket cases all have lower corporate tax rates than the United States.
	Scandinavia has lower corporate taxes than the United States.
	It has a better business environment.
	And so Congress wants to talk, and the Republicans are too scared about being demonized to actually stand up against what's happening here.
	What do you think the tax rates are going to be once they make it illegal for you to buy a foreign company and move to Toronto or to move to London?
	Where are the Republicans on this?
	You know, Burger King is not the bad guy here.
	The bad guy is the guy whose tax regime drives Burger King and Pfizer and all these other people to get out of the U.S. tax system.
	As I said, not in Chad, not in Rwanda, but in other advanced developed nations that most Americans think of as socialist weenie states.
	When Canada's got better, when there's better tax rates than you, you know, 40 minutes north of where I am right now, when there's better tax rates than you 40 minutes north, why should a corporation not take advantage of that?
	And Republicans need to speak up, need to speak up against instead of quietly going along while Democrats just trying to make this tax regime even worse and even less competitive with the world.
	Mark SteinFarsh, more to come.
	Mark Stein in Farush, I said all those nice things about Burger King moving to Canada, but they've got some horrifying story here about a CEO who had to resign after he was caught on the closed-circuit camera kicking a puppy in a Vancouver elevator.
	So that's what you're getting mixed up with, you American corporations.

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