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	Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Proud to and honored to be behind the golden EIB microphone.
	I'm a foreign exchange uh student uh with the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Uh it's uh it's a uh uh great program.
	Guys like me get to come and study here, and in return, uh five hundred fellows from the greater Minneapolis era area get to go to Syria and Iraq and chop the heads off school girls.
	So it all works out for everyone.
	It's uh it's terrific.
	We were talking just before uh the end of the last hour about well, we would we were talking for most of the hour about the big geopolitical picture, the the the uh 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 uh since then uh people uh been bombarded by a bazillion messages from from uh people who've got no interest in the collapse of the post-American world, but duck genitals is the subject.
	Duck genitals is the uh subject uh because the the uh the the problem is that the male duck has a counterclockwise penis and the female duck has a clockwise vagina, and uh um uh um the United States government has spent a significant amount of money studying duck genitalia uh and they've published uh this uh this uh uh report called uh 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 got a strategy on duck genitalia.
	And uh somebody uh said in response, talking about the uh talking about the duck uh the cot the counterclockwise, clockwise penis vagina thing, so 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.
	Uh could action-packed TV fair make you fat?
	Uh uh 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.
	Uh Cornell University researchers randomly assigned almost one hundred undergraduates.
	By the way, one of the things that's wrong about studies, I would say, is that they tend to the s the groups of people studied uh tend toward being undergraduates uh of American and other Western universities.
	And that's why that's the so the sample pool is slightly unrepresented.
	But anyway, they asked one hundred undergraduates to watch uh either The Island, a 2005 sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor, uh or the Charlie Rose show.
	And they found and then they provided students with huge amounts of cookies, MM uh candies, carrots and grapes.
	And they found they found that during the island, students ate on average about seven ounces of various snack foods.
	Uh oh that's about three hundred and fifty-four calories, which was almost a hundred and forty calories more, and nearly double the ounces they ate watching Charlie Rose.
	So the bottom the bottom line is uh I can't I can't even believe I I'm I'm reading this thing out.
	The bottom line is that uh in order to prevent mindless snacking, uh you should not watch Scarlett Johansson running around in skimpy clothing, uh, 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, that is that is the and 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, uh where people uh uh people are d t uh uh tired of uh the seat recline going back and pressing in on your knees, so they've invented this knee defender device.
	Uh Americans are getting bigger while plane seats are getting smaller.
	Everywhere else uh 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 get wider.
	Movie theaters, seats are getting wider.
	Uh If uh I went to the hospital, and they've got these new super sized toilets there with this like uh these like giant toilet seats.
	Uh and if you're like some little pert-buttocked thing, if you're like some skinny, emaciated little uh shishy French uh woman that John Kerry might date, or actually looking at John Kerry uh windsurfing off Nantucket, John Kerry's buttocks might find it difficult getting a grip on that uh wide, extra wide toilet seat.
	But on the airplanes, uh everyone is getting everyone is being squeezed in small as they're getting bigger, they're getting squeezed into smaller and smaller spaces, and so we're 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.
	Uh it could it could easily be it that could easily be something small like that that just causes the entire social fabric to disintegrate.
	Now, 1800-282-2882.
	Joe Biden, in his Labor Day speech, uh said it's time for the middle class to take back America.
	Take back America.
	Normally, I love Joe Biden.
	I don't uh rule him out, he's like the brains of the Obama administration.
	It's incredible, but he is.
	Uh Joe Biden, who may well be the next president of the United States.
	Uh Joe Biden, Joe Mr. Snardley is laughing.
	It's because you laugh, Mr. Snerdley, that it's gonna happen.
	I would have if if if if you had said to me in 2002, Joe Biden's gonna be the next vice president of the United States, I would have laughed.
	If you said to me Chuck Hagel's gonna 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 that the Superman people do every once in a while, and nobody believes it is completely implausible.
	But somehow it happened.
	So Mr. Snurley, you can take it to the bank.
	Mr. Snurley, when I said Joe Biden, he could be the next uh president, Mr. Snodley laughs.
	So uh go you can't I don't think you can bet on it here, but go up to Canada or go over to Britain, uh go into Loudbrook's the bookies and uh and put five hundred 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 uh take back America is what the opposition party says in an election.
	You know, they say uh uh we need to uh take back our country.
	Uh they had a big take back Vermont thing uh in 2000 when 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 say six years, and he's ta saying it's time for the middle class to take back America.
	Uh and uh that was his that was his big Labor Day speech.
	The President's Labor Day speech uh one of the uh a lot of it was uh uh incredibly boring.
	And actually the whole idea of this president giving a Labor Day speech, labor, labor, the dignity of work, um, the the self-worth that comes from doing an honest day's labor, is completely antithetical to this president.
	This is the one who uh uh uh uh has put fifty million people on food stamps.
	Uh it's bigger than the population uh of the United States in Rutherford uh B. Hayes' day, uh the the g the guy that Obama likes to mock.
	He's put fifty million people uh 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, uh he he's he's he's cemented uh one of the most destructive features of any society, which is multi-generational dependency.
	Uh he's cemented it as a permanent feature of life.
	Uh he's incentivizing the he his uh Department of Agriculture is doing ads to encourage Mexicans to sign up for food stamps.
	You know, maybe Some of those uh poor Kurds and Yazidis over in Iraq.
	Maybe they'd be a lot happier if they came over here and went on uh food stamps.
	Maybe Ukrainians who who don't like the Russian army marching about or over there, maybe they could go on food stamps too.
	Maybe once they finish swimming in the pool at the US 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 Labour.
	He's the dependence 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 he was also talking about something called he 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 uh any listeners.
	One 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, um, that uh no no immigrant has rights.
	A any sovereign state has the right to exclude anybody other than its own citizens from its from its uh within its borders if it wants to.
	That used to be the way uh we thought about it.
	Now Obama says basically, uh, if you're any one of the seven billion people on this planet and you can make it to our evaporated southern border, you have the right you have the right to come and live here.
	So he's talking about immigration uh immigration rights.
	Uh and the the the uh the fascinating the fascinating thing about this uh is is that by that he again he's just uh interested in bringing in a greater uh population of dependence.
	We're now th 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 the Ferguson, Missouri in that sense is a microcosm of the America that will be that will be.
	I mean, uh basically the if you're if you're uh rioting until three in the morning, chances are you're not someone who has a uh a job to get up and go to at seven o'clock in the morning.
	You you have to have a pretty light workload to be able to afford to be out all night rioting.
	Uh and uh and the only kind of work to do in uh Ferguson uh is these convenience stores that are all getting burned and trashed and looted and all the rest of it.
	Uh and and uh those guys, the guys running the convenience store, get no thanks from anyone.
	They get no thanks, they 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 they when they call 911 and ask that police department to come and stop the fellas from trashing and looting the store, 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 uh 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 uh 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, uh, without undergoing uh anything from uh US immigration, without getting the proper visas, without getting the proper work permits.
	There's now uh 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 I mean I take it he wouldn't be happy if Putin were to sneak across the Rio Grande and uh uh and run for election against him, uh sneering and mocking at him all the way.
	He'd probably want to keep Putin uh from getting across the Rio Grande.
	But other than that, he says now that there are immigration rights that foreigners have uh to the United States.
	And 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 Infrarush.
	Mark Stein Inforush, breaking breaking news uh from the Associated Press, an internet video purports to show a second American journalist, Stephen Sotlov, uh being beheaded uh by uh ISIS, the Islamic uh state group.
	The video uh has just been put up on the internet.
	It's entitled A Second Message to America, and Mr. Sotlov appears in the same kind of orange uh gitmo jumpsuit uh before he is beheaded by an Islamic state jihadist.
	This follows the uh beheading of uh James Foley by uh apparently by a British uh jihadist uh uh a week or so ago.
	Uh mist uh James Foley, by the way, is from Southern New Hampshire, uh and uh Stephen Sotloff uh actually graduated from uh Kimball Union Academy, which uh is uh a ways down the Connecticut River, more almost uh due south of uh where I am right now, uh and uh uh in this in this video entitled A Second Message to America.
	Uh Stephen Sotloff uh appears to have been beheaded uh by a jihadist of the Islamic State.
	And again, it comes back to one of the one of those aspects of the Obama frenzy of 2008 that has just been exposed for nothing.
	Uh 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?
	Uh they basically become now not everybody, not everybody, not everybody, enough.
	Enough people want to go, want to leave their homes in Minneapolis, uh, want to leave their homes in Toronto, uh, want to leave their homes in Manchester, England, uh, and go to uh uh and go to ISIS uh and Syria and Iraq and chop their heads off people and put it up on the and put it up on the internet.
	Uh they become like the but not everybody does.
	But the people who follow them, these are like the coolest, uh the coolest sports team on the planet.
	And they all over, all over the Western world are people going on to Twitter uh and going on to Facebook to see the latest beheading.
	Stephen Sotloff, the Daily Mail in London is saying that it's actually s uh supposed to be the same uh British executioner that has chopped off uh the head of this American journalist.
	He he freelanced for Time Magazine and Foreign Policy over there, and uh the uh and and the Associated Press is uh now reporting that he has been beheaded as James Foley has.
	And this is the this is the heart of the question.
	Uh if you if you go back to that fellow I mentioned, Douglas MacArthur McCain from Minneapolis, uh, who died fighting for ISIS in uh in uh Syria.
	Uh what what we have here now is we've got uh Westerners, Westerners flocking in thousands, in their thousands, uh to serve with ISIS.
	ISIS are not like these fellas in uh 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.
	Uh they know how to use this stuff.
	Uh the st the the w the weaponry that they're seizing, which is uh American made, you paid for and you gave it uh to the Ira Iraqi army under Maliki, 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 US 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 gonna be coming back here.
	They're gonna be coming back to Minneapolis.
	They're gonna be going back to Toronto, they're gonna 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 gonna be going stuff there.
	And we've now been told, we're now getting we're 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 uh uh of of of the the guys who support these fellas and who believe in the same ideology uh frolicking in the pool of the US embassy in Tripoli.
	Uh at some point, the eunuch superpower uh is going to have to get a strategy.
	Again, I don't get I don't understand it.
	I don't understand how even how even liberals like uh are are not ashamed and not ashamed uh and 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 uh in December of nineteen forty one.
	And in uh February nineteen forty three he's still trying to come up with a strategy.
	Yes, Rush is out for a few days.
	Uh Eric Erickson uh comes in later in the week and Rush will return next week.
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	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 Sotlov.
	Sotlov too and threatening another hostage uh David Haynes who's uh who's British and uh unfortunately uh uh the way things uh 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 Saturday Night Live since a lot of their uh stars are leaving the show and they can use you as a replacement but uh uh getting serious though that second be heading uh uh this stuff is uh really serious you mentioned how efficient these guys are uh 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 uh a s a steady stream of money from the sale of oil to the tune of uh millions a day uh these are not junior varsity they're not J V. 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 Mariness's book.
	Obama sat on the bench folks he got in the state championship game which Punah High School won something like sixty to thirty 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.
	So maybe well 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.
	He when you when you when you send him out there Putin Putin and the Chinese Politburo and Ayatollah Khameni and uh and Al Baghdadi in Mosul these fellas think uh 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 in all in agreement on who the J V 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 uh I'm seventy four years old I was born in nineteen forty I lived in the New York area where we had uh air raids all the time we had blackout shades on the on the windows in our tenement my older brother and I used to hide under the kitchen table whenever there was an air raid uh I guess we uh predated the uh atomic bomb uh uh exercise they had afterward uh after uh uh the end of uh the
	second world war uh one other thing I wanted to say about Obama he uh either doesn't know anything about American history or he's he refuses to accept the truth uh because he talks about uh success or victory he doesn't like victory He doesn't like the fact that America had unconditional surrenders from Germany and Japan uh in the Second World War,
	and he said it was terrible to make the Emperor of Japan come down to the Missouri and and sign the unconditional surrender with MacArthur.
	That never happened.
	No, I know, I know.
	But it's 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 uh about Hirohito coming uh being forced to come down and sign the surrender uh with Maca uh with McCarthy, and he's got no uh he's got he's got is 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, uh John.
	And and I would say the uh the reason for that is in essence to be a 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 but to be a leftist progressive marinated in Bill Airs, marinated in uh in in left wing orthodoxy your whole life, uh it is necessary to be to be ignorant.
	It's necessary not to apprise yourself of things, not to learn about things.
	All that's necessary is to to have a few bromides uh and a few core principles that uh 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.
	Uh and he doesn't need to know any more than that.
	He doesn't need to know any more than that, and he's in and he has the confidence of his ignorance.
	Ignorant for Obama, ignorance is bliss.
	Uh and and 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 you know, I'm not talking about the uh 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 uh was on with uh Don Imus, who uh admits that he took too many drugs and he lost some brain cells, so he's not the you know sharpest uh knife in the drawer.
	And he had uh Michael Beschloss on, and uh he was uh you know, he's the presidential biographer.
	And so uh Beshloss was going on and on, uh this is the beginning of his uh the Obama administration about how that uh Barack Obama is the smartest guy that ever occupied the oval office.
	He's gotta be the the smartest guy, the guy with the highest IQ that ever was president of the United States.
	So dummy uh Don Imus uh asks a valid question.
	He said, Well, what is what is his IQ?
	He's gotta be over the top.
	And I'm not making this up.
	These are the words that he used.
	He's gotta be over the top, he's gotta 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 Punehoo, at Occidental, at Columbia, at Harvard.
	You're never gonna 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 he's he's way beyond Arleag.
	The idea that you can measure him through IQ is preposterous.
	They need a whole new unit to measure Obama's intelligence, particularly after after this last uh after this last summer.
	But he but the uh the other thing the other thing, John, which I think is also true, I mean, I would say that the whole point about uh the 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 uh the United States Constitution or the Yemeni constitution, uh, or uh the uh North Korean constitution who are we to judge who are we to judge it doesn't matter whether you're talking about uh English common law or sharia who are we to judge who's to say which is better what which one is better than the other and uh and Obama uh and
	Obama's the 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 uh whether uh whether common law is a better legal system than Sharia, uh why bother learning up on it?
	Why bother learning up on either of them?
	And and Obama is the f is the fulfillment of that when you uh and that's that's uh what's happened the last six years is that someone uh they finally got one of their own elected into office and his 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 let's take Democrats.
	Whatever you say about Clinton is you can't what 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 the not just in the White House when he's with the big shots, but if he's with some uh 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 air till three in the morning.
	Uh Obama has no curiosity.
	He's the generation that came after he's the generation that came after Clinton uh where you're raised that 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 can't uh run a state just as well as America can?
	Who's to say?
	It's too nonjudgment to argue that is uh is is to be uh judgmental and that's the worst sin uh in uh uh uh of multiculturalism.
	Thanks for your call John we'll take more straight ahead Mark Stein in for Rush uh one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two uh as uh we mentioned just a few moments ago there's a a video that's been posted on the internet called a second message to America uh in which uh Stephen Sotloff uh a freelance reporter for Time magazine uh is uh purportedly beheaded by the same guy who beheaded uh uh another U.S. citizen James
	Foley just a few days ago.
	Uh there's been these stories uh actually uh uh I think it was uh broken by an old colleague of mine, Toby Harden uh from the Daily Telegraph in London.
	I think he's with the Sunday Times now Toby uh got hold of some Pentagon official who who had conf who who told him that Obama had sat on uh giving the green light for the attempts to rescue uh Sotlov and James Foley uh when they were held in Syria and by the time he got actually got on with it and send anyone in to do it they'd been moved as as generally happens when people are uh taken hostage.
	It's fascinating though uh uh at the same time he's sort of uh dawdling on all this the effort he was going to to get Bo Burgdall uh out of uh out of the hands uh 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 Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hey it's great to have you Mark you always do a great job when Russia's out um 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.
	But I don't know if he knew this he didn't actually know that until he read about it in the paper.
	So uh it was news to him that day.
	But I I I want to pull on a thread that I noticed is running through all of your stories today.
	Um 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 watching 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 speak.
	You know, you're you're you're if if we had a press worth talking about in this country, uh your idea of Obama as the uh as the duck with the counterclockwise penis uh trying to function in a uh a a world with a uh uh a uh clockwise vagina it's actually a brilliant image, a brilliant image.
	And uh and that is uh uh in in uh that is basically the problem.
	You're trying to fit 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 uh good job today filling in for the big guy.
	Thanks.
	Thanks a lot for your call, Ray.
	Uh well, you know, Ray has a point here that apparently whenever we stop talking about duck genitalia, we lose twenty or thirty affiliates.
	So uh so uh Ray is brilliant at just tying the duck genitalia back into the whole big uh geopolitical uh picture uh and I'm uh and I'm grateful to him for that.
	You know, it's not just a foreign policy thing, though, and people people uh can tune out foreign policy because uh as I was saying earlier, you wind up with a choice between moderate beheaders and extremist beheaders, and uh and who cares?
	But the world is moving on in more sophisticated ways too.
	Rush was talking about um Burger King buying Tim Hortons up in uh up in Canada.
	Tim Hortons is like the biggest fast food chain in Canada.
	They're they're uh make donuts and coffee and all the rest of it.
	And if chances are if you've ever if you've spent twenty-four hours in Canada uh and you've driven there, you've stopped somewhere on the road at a Tim Hortons, and Burger King is doing what Pfizer is doing with a British company.
	Uh every American corporation is basically trying to find a foreign company in a not in not in uh ISIS, not in Libya, uh not in Chad, not in Rwanda, but in Canada or the United Kingdom, uh or in Switzerland, uh and buying that foreign company and then simply changing their letterheads.
	So if you're Pfizer, which has been headquartered for a zillion years on uh 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 uh Tim Horton's uh Canadian corporate headquarters in Toronto or whatever it is.
	And where are you know, the the uh Democrats want to pass a law uh 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 the and so Congress wants to talk, and the Republicans are too scared about being demonized uh to actually to actually stand up against what's happening here.
	What do you think the tax rates are gonna 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 US tax system.
	As I said, not in Chad, not in Rwanda, but in other advanced developed nations, uh the most Americans think of as socialist weenie states.
	When Canada's got better when there's better tax rates than you, uh, 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 uh not take adva 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 Steinfarus, Mordecan.
	Mark Stein in Farush.
	I said all those nice things about Burger King moving to Canada, uh, but they 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 that's what you're getting mixed up with, you American corporations.

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