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	Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
	It's great to be here.
	Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies 800 282-2882 is the number if you want to be on the program.
	Look, I was joking about the jobs training centers.
	Everybody knows what goes on in it.
	Community organizing is taught in there.
	They're not job training centers, they're protest academies.
	They are they're nothing more than community outreach, community organizing, or what have that's why you never ever run into anybody who is successful at anything who has ever come out of a federal job training center.
	You never see it on the resume.
	They they teach community organizing in there.
	Now, I want to get straight here about what quick shop was looted and which one's been turned into the community organizing slate uh location in Ferguson.
	According to reports, if we go back in time, according to reports, the name of the place that the gentle giant robbed, and what did he rob in there?
	He stole some cigars.
	And I what what else?
	I forget what the other item was.
	Was that it?
	The swisher suites was it?
	He just walked in and he grabbed a pack of swisher sweets, and then he shoved the proprietor out of the way.
	And then walked.
	Okay, well, the name of that place was the Ferguson Liquor Market.
	But also, according to reports, some of the looters thought that the gentle giant had robbed a quick trip, which is why a quick trip was the first store to be looted.
	Because some of the rioters thought that that's where the gentle giant had first stolen.
	Now, why would you, if you're a protest, why would you go loot and destroy a quick trip simply because the gentle giant oh maybe that's why.
	Gentle giant stole some swisher sweets.
	This is why you need job training, I guess.
	Well, if see, this is a very good point.
	You need these job training centers in order to train future looters where to go.
	Because they wasted a bunch of time here.
	The name of the place that the gentle giant robbed was the Ferguson liquor market.
	But there were some erroneous reports that claimed that he had robbed a quick trip.
	And that's why a quick trip was the first door to be looted.
	The Ferguson liquor market was also looted.
	In fact, the Ferguson liquor market was looted twice in August and then again after the grand jury decision was announced in November.
	Now, the Ferguson liquor market started a fundraising site, and they raised almost $35,000, which has allowed them to reopen almost a thousand people have contributed.
	Now, the I knew that I knew the gentle giant had swiped some swisher sweets, and I thought there was something else there, but maybe not.
	He he wanted to use the swisher suites at Blunts.
	I mean, that's what that was.
	That's what was for.
	Very popular thing to do.
	Uh and now the guy who shot the two cops in Ferguson posted online about using swisher sweets.
	The 20-year-old who shot the two cops.
	And by the way, he says he's not a protester.
	He wasn't a protester.
	He was just there.
	And he wasn't aiming at the cops.
	Uh it uh it just happened.
	Uh now, protesters, in case you've forgotten, protesters spray painted the following on the wall of the quick trip.
	Snitches get stitches.
	Because you see what happened was the protesters originally thought that the gentle giant had ripped off a quick trip, and there was video of it.
	And the protesters did not like that.
	They thought that was the equivalent of the of the gentle giant being ratted out.
	So they went to the place they thought he had looted and they spray painted snitches get stitches.
	All of this, by the way, bought and paid for by George Soros.
	Thirty separate organizations funded by George Soros, no doubt, including these uh these these job training centers, which are really nothing more than uh community organizing establishments, instructional uh locations.
	Now, just uh there's a couple more sound bites here on the Clinton thing, and then we're gonna move on.
	And the uh what happened Friday night, uh Eric Bowling filled in for Ted Baxter on the O'Reilly factor, and he played a clip of me on this program talking about the media's recent treatment of Hillary Clinton.
	If Hillary's being treated like a Republican, it means she's being treated like Sarah Palin to an extent, which means the media is out to destroy her, which means it could.
	And it's not nearly as focused and targeted as the media is going after Republican, but it's different this time, and the Democrat Party powers that be are worried that Hillary doesn't have the ability to overcome this.
	Now, again, placing this in context.
	This was late last week, Friday night when that clip was aired, and actually said on Friday, maybe Thursday, but there was negative press for Mrs. Clinton about that that pressure that she did the U.N. that the Clintons don't get.
	Negative press, negative coverage, more akin to what Republicans get, and my theory was that this did not sit well with the Democrat Party at large, and this is one of the reasons why there was so much media fallout and so much panic.
	Now, one of the guests that Eric Bowling had on Fox Friday night was the Democrat strategist Rickard uh Richard Goodstein.
	And uh Eric Bowling said, Do you agree with Rush here that she's being treated a little bit more harsh than in the past, maybe even by other Democrats?
	Rush Limbaugh is never going to be in her corner.
	Here's why Democrats are not nervous, and why I think it's really way off to say the media's turned on her.
	When have they last had in an open seat situation, Obama's term is up, somebody who is way ahead of her competitors in the polls, and beating every single Republican the polls.
	Never.
	That's a gift.
	As far as returning to the 90s are concerned, which of these parts do people not want to go back to?
	The unprecedented economic growth or peace, in contrast to the two wars and economic collapse of the 2000s.
	I'm not quite sure what it is about that that the public is somehow not willing to embrace.
	I never said the public didn't want to go back, and I've never talked about the public at all.
	I talked about the Clintons being stuck in the 90s in terms of how to get out of jams, and that it's not working in 2015.
	And Mrs. Clinton's United Nations press conference is proof.
	Same she tried the same technique that she tried with Pretty and Pink, and it bombed.
	Pretty in Pink was an overwhelming resounding success back in 1994.
	The attempt to recreate that fell flat.
	It bombed out.
	It's the Democrat Party that doesn't want to go back.
	The Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party of the 90s.
	The Democrat Party of the 90s was trending in this direction.
	But we are now full-on radical leftist Democrat Party.
	There are no moderate Democrats left.
	There were some back in the 90s.
	I mean, you could put them in a thimble, but there were still some.
	It was trending this way.
	That's the whole point.
	It's been trending this way for 50 years.
	And in the 90s, we were laughing about it, making fun of it, nobody thinking that any of this radical stuff that was being said back then would ever really take hold because the American people wouldn't fall for it.
	Now here we are, 20 years later, and it appears that a bunch of Americans have fallen for it.
	We don't know how many, but but it's it's no longer theoretical.
	We don't anymore take a crazy extreme example of belief or theory or action and say to people, if we don't stop this in 20 years, this is gonna become mainstream.
	Now it is mainstream for the Democrat Party.
	It isn't theoretical anymore.
	We don't have to warn people about what's going to happen because it has happened.
	Now, Goodstein, the Democrat Party has this myth that the 90s, because of Clinton, were an economic paradise.
	And that uh who wouldn't want to go back to that compared to the Bush, you see, Bush 2000.
	You note he didn't even include Obama in this.
	Obama's supposed to have made things better, and here's Goodstein.
	He was part of this troop back in the 90s defending the Clintons left and right.
	And I'm telling you, they do.
	They they they want to Recreate that.
	That's that's I think one of their problems.
	They're stuck there.
	They haven't advanced.
	They haven't moved forward, and they haven't gotten with the times and understood change or the change that's taken place.
	There's a, I think what it is that many of them resent the change that's happening.
	You can do that all you want, but it isn't going to fix anything.
	People have been resenting change ever since there's change.
	Some people adapt to it and some people don't.
	I'm just saying the Clintons don't appear to want to adapt to it.
	Or in Hillary's case to be able to, quite frankly.
	But that would require us to accept a premise that Hillary was ever hip.
	And that's always been tough for me to swallow that Hillary was the definition of hip.
	But to some people she was.
	So we will just see where all this goes.
	But I'm telling you, do not doubt me on this.
	This idea that she is a slam dunk again for the nomination, and following that is a lock to win the presidency just isn't true.
	They told us the same thing in 2008, and it didn't take much for half the Democrat Party to abandon her.
	Over half, I should be correct.
	Over half the Democrat Party abandoned her in 2008.
	And she has not risen.
	She has not gained in stature.
	She has not, what would you say, prospered in the times since 2008?
	If anything, it's gotten worse, so many myths accompany the Clintons, and a lot of them are media myths, and they are designed to quell all opposition.
	Meanwhile, on the Republican side, have you seen what happened in New Hampshire over the weekend?
	There's this guy.
	He's the governor of Wisconsin.
	Scott Walker.
	He went into New Hampshire and basically owned it.
	I wonder why this is happening.
	Wherever this guy goes, Iowa, now New Hampshire, wherever he goes, he's drawing enthused, rabid, huge, large crowds, and he is giving those crowds what they want.
	I wonder why how this is happening.
	Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, he's the governor of Wisconsin.
	He was he was at the gridiron dinner the other night, and he was parrying back and forth the jaw.
	That stuff's all off the record at the gridiron club.
	But by the way, the gridiron club has nothing to do with football, for those of you that don't know.
	The gridiron is about one of the uh irons in a fireplace on which the logs sit, hand irons or whatever.
	It's not anything to do with football, just FYI.
	It's a white, it's a white tie version of the White House correspondence dinner, but it's really, really, really exclusive to the real, real elites.
	You have to be invited in by one of the elites.
	They do skits, they do musical parodies.
	It's a it's a it's a highfalutin fraternity without the uh without the kegger.
	Their stuff comes out of bottles.
	But regardless, he well, he is Scott Walker is the is the front runner.
	In all candor, in all seriousness, he went to New Hampshire and the crowds showed up and they were huge and they were enthusiastic, and he gave them what they wanted.
	He got them fired up.
	They expected to be fired up, and I'm telling you, I th I think this has the Republican establishment on its heels a little bit.
	At this time, it was supposed to be Jeb and Chris Christie, and uh well, there was a bunch in the field.
	But this was not supposed to be this, this wasn't in the cards.
	I mean, they thought Walker might go, but they didn't think anybody had ever heard of him, and they didn't think anybody would care.
	I mean, it's Wisconsin, it's the Midwest and so forth, and our big guns are here in the Northeast, Mitt and Christie and uh Jebnow, uh whoever else might get in.
	But it was it's wherever he goes.
	These crowds are enormous and enthusiastic.
	Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton is the exact opposite.
	She can't draw a crowd.
	She can't sell her book.
	I mean, the contrast is is uh deep and profound.
	Seattle, Washington.
	Why are so many restaurants closing lately?
	Last month and particularly this week, Seattle Foodies, it says here, restaurant lovers, were downcast as the blows kept coming.
	Queen Anne's Grub closed on February 15th.
	Pioneer Square's Little Uncle shut down on February 25th.
	Shannock's Miru Dalwalla announced it will close on March 21st.
	Renee Erickson's Boat Street Cafe will shut her on May 30th after 17 years with her at the helm.
	Furthermore, less than a week later uh after he was named a James Beard semifinalist, that's for best chef.
	For his work at the Northern Italian restaurant Spinace, Jason Stratton announced that he would be stepping down from that restaurant and his others.
	Artusi and Vespolina immediately to head to Spain.
	These are high-class white tablecloth in most cases, upscale restaurants, and they are closing in droves.
	And along with the normal reasons for closures, I mean, restaurant business is tough.
	Attrition is high in that business, but these are successful restaurants that have been open for years in many cases, and they are shuddering.
	They are closing.
	They are going out of business.
	They're not even going to try it anymore.
	A major factor affecting restaurant futures in Seattle is the impending minimum wage increase to $15 an hour.
	Starting on April 1st, all businesses must begin to phase in the minimum wage increase.
	Small employers have seven years to pay all employees at least $15 an hour.
	Large employers, 500 or more employees, have three years.
	Since the uh legislation was announced last summer, the Seattle Times and Eater, it's a magazine, have reported extensively on restaurant owners' many concerns about how to compensate for the extra funds that'll now be required for labor.
	They might have to raise menu prices, uh, they might have to use uh less expensive ingredients, might have to reduce operating hours, might have to reduce their labor force.
	And or more.
	The Washington Restaurant Association uh said it's not a political problem, it's a math problem.
	Oh, yes, it is a political problem.
	It's a math problem because of politics.
	Back with more after this.
	Don't go away.
	Hey, we made some inroads into the pop culture on Friday through the weekend at TMZ.
	I mean, going back and forth on whether to share with you the sound bites.
	This is about my comment on these uh uh lyrics.
	Well, the uh the song sung by the frat boys at OU.
	Uh that I said that uh you Kanye West sing those songs at the Grammys, and it'll get an award.
	And everybody'll love it.
	And uh they talked about that uh I've been amazed at the amount of press coverage on that that has not been snarky.
	And TMZ tackled it with respect.
	And we've got the sound bites, and I've been going back and forth on whether to play them, but uh I think I will before the program ends.
	In the meantime, back to the phones to Chicago.
	This is Marty.
	I'm glad you called, sir.
	Welcome to EIB Network.
	Hello.
	Well, Rush, it's quite an honor to speak to you.
	My life is complete.
	Um Hey, I just wanted to ask a question.
	You were talking earlier about the uh Hillary emails, how they were leaked by Valerie.
	Uh, and I just was wondering your thought on the idea that you know, uh Democrats, you know, Obama came out of nowhere and basically um came to the forefront.
	And we haven't really seen that now.
	I'm wondering if they're trying to sabotage her just like they did in 08 so that they can put some unknown back in there just like they did with Obama.
	Well, yeah, but there's more to it than that in this case.
	Now, according to Ed Klein, and again, a lot of people, Ed Klein uh they seldom refute per se what he says, but he still, I don't know, some people uh are not comfortable repeating everything Ed Klein reports.
	Let's just put it that way.
	I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just trying to be up front, because it's a bit of a qualifier.
	In this piece, Ed Klein, the New York Post piece in which he says Valerie Jarrett is behind the sabotage of Mrs. Clinton's whole email story.
	He claims that the reason they're trying to sabotage Mrs. Clinton is that Obama is very much concerned that she's not liberal enough.
	She's not a radical leftist.
	She's more of a moderate centrist Democrat who will probably try to unravel some of Obama's accomplishments.
	I just have to tell you, I don't believe that for a second.
	I mean, I I I mean I wouldn't be surprised if Obama's trying to sabotage her.
	But Hillary Clinton is every bit the Alinskyite that Obama is.
	I don't know that she has the same chip on her shoulder about the country Obama does, but it's close.
	But I think that's a little bit sophomoric.
	I think Obama's reasons for wanting to sabotage her, Valerie Jarrett's reasons for wanting to sabotage the Clintons would be a little deeper than just worrying about Mrs. Clinton unraveling.
	With a guy like Obama who's a narcissist and an ego freak, the differences or the reasons for something like this would tend to be more personal.
	Back in a sec.
	Ha.
	How are you?
	Hell Rushball, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	Okay, so what could be some of the personal reasons Obama would not want Hillary to be president?
	Look, I it it could be that he's worried that she will unravel.
	I I think that's a concern he would have about anybody, but mostly Republicans.
	And by the way, he's announced, or it was announced, or it was leaked that uh he and Moochell are now going to live in New York.
	And they're upset by this in Chicago.
	They actually thought he'd come home to Chicago, but he's not.
	He's going to go to New York.
	It's a happening place, they say.
	I mean, the Clintons think it's a happening place.
	I mean, the Obama's.
	But he's also going to have a place in Washington, and he's going to be there now and then, just to make sure that whoever the next president is doesn't unravel or doesn't try.
	The minute somebody does, he's going to call his buddies in the press.
	He's going to be all over the media trying to stop it.
	Now, it could well be that he's afraid Mrs. Clinton will go a different direction to differentiate herself from him.
	My my guess is, you know, with with narcissists are sometimes tough to read.
	It could be that, and who knows what dynamic exists here.
	If if if I were the Democrat Party, and I would have mixed emotions about the Clintons.
	Part of me, I will admit it, would be jealous of the press coverage they get.
	I'd be a little jealous, and I'd be a little angry at how they get away with everything.
	Part of me be happy and proud, it's my party.
	Part of me would admire it.
	But another part of me would maybe be a little resentful of it.
	Maybe Obama could have some of that.
	Maybe he can hope he's worried that Hillary do a better job than he's done and wouldn't want to have the next Democrat president end up looking better than he does.
	I think that's entirely possible.
	These are all wild guesses.
	And Ed Klein could be right.
	He could be worried that Hillary will unravel just to differentiate herself.
	But I think it's personal.
	I think there's a lot of dislike that's that that uh it's it's racist or racial, I should say, and it goes back to the 08 campaign.
	I think there is some bad blood between the Clinton and Obama families, and so uh any number of reasons here.
	Now, is there somebody in the wings?
	Yeah.
	Elizabeth Warren.
	There are a whole bunch of liberal Democrat media people who are salivating over Elizabeth Warren.
	They think she is the real deal, and Obama is not radical enough.
	If you can believe that.
	So yeah, they've got some people they would prefer to see there besides Hillary.
	I'll tell you another name it's surfacing all of a sudden.
	That's Al Gore.
	Al Gore as a potential Democrat presidential nominee in 2016, his name is bubbling up out there again.
	Not by him, but others who recognize that the designated nominee, Mrs. Clinton's in some trouble.
	And some are thinking that Al Gore would be ideal.
	Now there is in Austin, Texas this past weekend, the South by Southwest Festival.
	It may still be going on.
	It's uh it's a tech cultural and uh it's just a party with some business aspects uh thrown in.
	And Al Gore showed up at South by Southwest, and he uh made a speech, and he did in a personal appearance and so forth, and basically his message was that we need to punish climate change deniers.
	We need to put a price on carbon, i.e., we need to start taxing it.
	And that for the third time in the last few years, Gore spoke at the festival on Friday.
	He focused on the need to punish climate change deniers, saying politicians ought to pay a price for rejecting accepted science.
	And of course, there is no acceptance.
	Global warming is a hoax.
	Man-made global warming is a hoax.
	But Al Gore has become a multi, multi-millionaire perpetuating it.
	And so there's there's a the bottom line is that there is a there's some sentiment for Al Gore to once again seek the presidency because to a lot of Democrats he got the shaft.
	To a lot of Democrats, Al Gore actually won in 2000, but the Supreme Court shut down the recount.
	I mean, this is not true.
	It's absurd, but there are a lot of lame brains who actually believe Gore was on the way to being named president and the Supreme Court shut down the count in Florida, and that was that.
	And that is not, and I don't want to revisit that or relitigate that, but don't doubt me.
	That was never going to happen because of constitutional things.
	Once Florida's electoral votes had been certified and they were certified twice, that was it.
	The recount was a waste of time and energy.
	It was never going to matter.
	It was a pure political undertaking.
	Florida had certified their electoral votes twice, and that was that.
	The Republicans controlled the House where any tie or problem election would take place, president be chosen, that was that.
	But they still, because Gore won the popular vote by a slim margin of people that really think he got the shaft.
	So the bottom line is within the Democrat Party, there are a whole lot of choices besides Hillary.
	This is my point.
	She's not the slam dunk the Republicans think she is.
	She's not the fate accomplished Republicans think she is.
	And the only re there's the Republicans are still scared to death of Mrs. Clinton.
	And that's not productive.
	It's not good, and it's not helpful.
	Here's uh here's Nell and Matthews, North Carolina, as we head back to phones.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hello.
	Hey, Russ, thanks for taking my call.
	Um, you know, most political pundits don't put much stock in a vice presidential choice, but the Democrats are in this Hillary Clinton predicament today precisely because of Obama's vice presidential pick of Joe Biden.
	It's the exact same predicament that happened to the Republicans when Bush picked Cheney.
	After eight years of Bush, Republicans were left with a bottom of the barrel.
	Whose turn is it next candidate?
	So Obama's pick of vice presidents or pick of Biden has left the Democrats today, the same place where Republicans were with Cheney.
	There was they're left with the bottom of the barrel.
	Whose turn is it next candidate?
	And it's Hillary Clinton.
	So wait a second.
	I get part of what you're saying there, Neil, but I don't get the Cheney Biden comparison.
	Well, Bush picked Cheney, everybody knew Cheney was never going to run for president.
	He said he wasn't.
	But because no one wants to step on the on the on the toes of a sitting president, Bush goes eight years without anybody coming forward as a as a viable candidate.
	So when it was over they were just left with, you know, the uh the maverick, right?
	And so he gets trials.
	And now everybody knows Biden's not a viable candidate.
	So who who they who they left with.
	Well what but wait a minute I I I don't Biden see that's the thing.
	Cheney made it clear he didn't want to run so that was that Biden has not made it.
	Biden's out there I mean anybody at the 7 Eleven who listen to him, he's telling me he wants to run.
	I mean he's making noise about it.
	And that way he differs from from Cheney.
	Now to us and I I say this with with great care and caution to all of us Joe Biden is a raging idiot.
	To the Democrats, to many Democrats, but he's loyal and he's a champion of what the Democrats believe and he has done everything he can to build Obama up.
	And he's done everything the Democrats have asked him to do at every convention that they've had.
	There is no, I don't think with Biden there is, okay, we owe him.
	It's his turn.
	There's none of that.
	And there was with McCain.
	I will grant you that.
	that there was this okay it's the Mavericks turn uh Bush did him dirty in 2000 in South Carolina in the uh in the primaries and uh it really was unfortunate and the Maverick got screwed by the rumors of an illegitimate child so it's yeah it's the Maverick and and in fact the Maverick got the nomination in March I think I think with certain elements of the Democrat Party Biden has a lot of credibility.
	It's only to us where he's a universal joke to s no I don't think they're going to nominate him.
	I'm just telling you not everybody in the Democrat Party looks at Biden the way we do.
	Some of them look at him as a very loyal warrior that has that has uh uh done everything the president's asked him to do he's never once tried to undermine or sabotage he's not stepped on anybody's toes other than when he's done stupid stuff but that's what he does or when he says stupid stuff.
	I'm just telling you some people think that he wouldn't mind if he ran.
	I he's never gonna win the nomination don't misunderstand I'm not saying he's got a viable chance but he differs from Cheney in that Cheney took himself out and Biden hasn't uh I people talk about the Democrat bench being relatively empty I don't think that's true at all.
	I think that's a trap for the Republicans to fall into by thinking that the Democrats only have Hillary if they don't get Hillary they don't have anybody they got a bench you've got Martin O'Malley out there now who's doing his best Vladimir Putin impersonation have you seen it?
	Martin O'Malley running around there showing his abs and showing his biceps his triceps you're running out without a shirt the next thing you know he'll vanish for 11 days to get all kinds of curiosity about what's he doing where is he and he'll surface dramatically with his love child like Putin did who knows but Martin O'Malley's making a move right now very serious it's all because Mrs Clinton stumbled and I think he would have done it even before she's an Elizabeth Warren's out there.
	The best evidence you have somebody wants to run is somebody who says, no way, I'm not interested, I'm not doing it.
	That just sets you up for, please do it, come on, Elizabeth, please.
	That just, just to draft her in there, and she knows there are a lot of these leftist radical lunatics that want her, and she's denying them.
	And that's just going to make them want her more.
	So, I don't know how viable a Democrat bench is.
	Andrew Cuomo, are you serious?
	Well, okay, Andrew.
	Cuomo then you might as well throw Rama manuel in there too well I know he may not win his mayoral election but but if you're gonna start throwing people like Andrew Cuomo in there throw Rama manual but point is they've got people uh now there's a there's a story in the stack.
	Let me see how close I put this to the top.
	California story is great.
	This is it.
	Well, it's not great, it's kind of scary.
	It's it's um it's a it's a story about the SEIU, and they're falling out with elements of the Democrat Party in a particular candidate.
	And I think a lot of it's over health care.
	I can't find it off top of my uh list here, but I'll get it, I'll get it during the uh during the which I've got to take now.
	I just saw the clock.
	Hey, folks, the time is racing by here.
	Sit tight, because we got lots of stuff left to jam in here.
	Don't go away.
	Never mind the SEIU story of the union, it's about, and then they're abandoning uh Rom in his uh mayoral run in Chicago.
	Now it is interesting, but if they're not abandoning the Democrat, they're just going to his opponent who happens to be Hispanic, and they're abandoning uh Rom, and that's a big deal within that uh within that universe.
	The California news is this.
	California will run out of water in a year and should begin rationing its use immediately, says a NASA scientist.
	His name is J. Famiglietti.
	He is urging acceleration of programs to save water.
	The snowpacks in California Mountains are near record lows because of the drought.
	And he says the public have not been involved in discussions about about the problem.
	The public have not been involved.
	California has been told it's in a drought for the last 25 years.
	Public have not been involved.
	Anyway, it is a UK Daily Mail story.
	California will run out of water in 12 months.
	The state only has a one-year supply left in its reservoirs due to persistent drought, and is also running out of backup groundwater.
	The drought means total water storage in California, which has been in decline since 2002, has been sapped by the need to use the resource, i.e.
	water.
	Why can't they just why they're talking about water here?
	They have to be uh use it for farming.
	Reservoirs in California, such as Folsom Lake in the state's north, are now expected to run out of water in a year.
	Since 2011, the state's been losing 12 million acre feet of water every year, and the total amount of water in snow, rivers, groundwater, and reservoirs was 34 million acre feet below normal last year.
	Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency at the beginning of last year, though Californians only reduced their water usage by 9% instead of a hoped-for 20%.
	I have an idea.
	I have an idea.
	Alaska has a lot of water.
	Canada has a lot of water.
	What about a pipeline?
	California already steals a lot of water from Hoover Dam.
	They steal a lot of water from Colorado, Arizona.
	They steal a lot of water from Northern California.
	Hatch hatchy, and supply San Francisco.
	Why not a pipeline?
	That's my point.
	So what?
	If a pipeline leaked water, so what?
	The water could harm endangered species.
	This is my point.
	If we if somebody seriously proposed like a Keystone H2O pipeline instead of Keystone XL, what do you think the environmental smackes would do?
	They would oppose it.
	A simple pipeline from Canada or even Alaska that transported water.
	I mean, you talk about ice and snow cover and so forth.
	Look at Canada.
	They've got plenty.
	There's a companion story to this.
	And by the way, there's a little known fact here.
	Well, uh agriculture people know this.
	California grows the majority of fruits and vegetables.
	No snarky comments, Nerdly, on the fruits part.
	Don't even go there.
	Everybody knows.
	California grows the majority of many fruits and vegetables in the U.S. The produce, California produce makes up 69% of carrots.
	Do you, by the way, do you know that everybody who has eaten carrots has either died or will die.
	It's scary.
	You know how many people who have eaten carrots have been in an auto accident in the following five days.
	It's really frightening, folks.
	And people, you don't hear about it and you don't think about it much, but it's a problem.
	California produce 69% of carrots, 71% of spinach, 99% of artichokes.
	And if those go south, what happens to the mayonnaise business?
	And more than 90% of broccoli comes from California.
	The NASA scientist, Famiglietti, said that the public remains detached from discussions and decisions about conserving water and urged them to take ownership of the crisis.
	Meanwhile, in the UK.
	Oh yeah, I just sorry.
	Folks, I'm sorry I went way long here.
	Barely got this break in.
	We're gonna take another one here.
	Just I'm sorry.
	Be patient.

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