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March 27, 2015, Friday, Hour #3

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	And here we are back at it, Rushlin Boyd, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
	Doing what I was born to do.
	And so are you.
	I was born to host, and you were born to listen, and it's working.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
	And our final busy broadcast hour of the week.
	Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
	If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
	Okay, here we go from Newsbusters.
	Lo and behold, there are Latinos who support Senator Ted Cruz.
	Yes, there are.
	There are Latinos who support Cruz's candidacy for President of the United States.
	That was the discovery none other than Univision made.
	That's right.
	Univision made while covering the Texas Senators' presidential campaign announcement at Liberty University.
	Reporting for Noticiero Univision, correspondent Luaz Meluzza, not to be confused, Mr. Jumendes, noted that among others, Cruz aims to capture the support of evangelical voters, including among the young.
	Meluzza encountered two such prospective voters of Latino origin, both of whom were enthusiastic at the prospect of a cruise president.
	Do you realize what this is?
	Univision found two Latinos that support Ted Cruz, and they're worried about, they're so worried they found two Latinos that support Cruz.
	They think it's a news story.
	Now, what must be your starting point if you think two people supporting Cruz, two Latinos, supporting Ted Cruz is worthy of a stop the press's news story?
	Good grief.
	You must think that no Latino would ever support Cruz.
	And Univision found two.
	It's scary out there.
	Well, the New York Times has not yet identified.
	I don't know if the New York Times has heard about this yet.
	But I guarantee you, if the New York Times does track down or track down these two, yes, they will no doubt be characterized as white Hispanics.
	And they're probably, in a little research, you'll find out they're very sympathetic to George Zimmerman.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	As you know, I read the tech blogs.
	Apple has just applied for a patent.
	Believe it or not, they are seeking a patent application.
	They want the approval.
	They want a patent on a mechanism that will deny you the use of your phone unless you daily and routinely fill out information in the health app.
	Now, stop and think about that.
	Your phone will be useless unless you record the number of steps you've taken, how many calories you've burned, whatever your heart rate is, whatever the patent is asking here, until you properly fill out health data.
	This is Apple.
	In their application, they say this is part of their effort to improve overall health and prevent laziness by demanding that their users use and fill out data in the health app before they're able to unlock the phone and use it.
	You don't believe me.
	You're looking at me with a look of total incredulity on your face.
	The details are revealed in a newly published Apple patent application entitled Notifications with Input-Based Completion.
	The filing describes prompts on an iPhone that would actively block access to using the device until certain data is entered.
	The most prominent examples given by Apple in the filing are health-related data.
	For example, screenshots accompanying the patent application show the user being prompted to check their weight or blood pressure through the iOS Reminders app before they are able to unlock and use the phone.
	I can't believe that this is something you would get a patent on.
	But this just goes to show you how hell-bent they are in promoting the health apps.
	Everybody thinks this is about health.
	It's about promoting their health apps and so forth on the phones.
	Here's a story from Breitbart.com that is by way of the New York Times.
	Judith Schulwitz, writing in the New York Times, reports that infantilized college students are indulging their need for insulation by demanding safe spaces where any speech that could hurt their feelings would be forbidden.
	She lists examples of the demands of students that verge on the incredible.
	In one instance, when a student group at Brown University called the Sexual Assault Task Force discovered that a debate was to be held where one participant, a libertarian, would slam the term rape culture, this group of students protested to the administration.
	That prompted the president of Brown University, Christina Paxson, to schedule a talk concurrent with the debate that would provide research and facts about the role of culture in sexual assault.
	A safe space was created for students upset by the debate.
	The space included cookies, coloring books, bubbles, play-doh, calming music, pillows, blankets, and video supplies.
	Well, I'm telling you to the New York Brown University, anyone who needs it, they want a safe space.
	If they don't want to hear, like they schedule a debate on the campus, and one of the proponents is going to be talking about the rape culture, and the students don't want to hear that.
	There's an alternative place they can go.
	That's Breitbart.com.
	Infantilized college students need, I think they're joking about the play-doh and stuff being in the safe room, but the safe room is for real.
	You don't, you don't believe this is where this is trending?
	You don't think students have all that?
	Look at, let me, I've got to find this story.
	This is a natural component to this story.
	I've been promoting this thing all week.
	Yes, the story I have here about all these liberal college professors who are growing very tired of liberal PC students.
	And it's because the liberal PC students are now starting to turn in liberal college professors for violating PC.
	And the college professors are worried about this.
	This is not supposed to happen.
	You know, the conservative students, they're controllable.
	We can handle them.
	They chicken out.
	They back off.
	But the liberal PC students are not.
	And they're very, very worried about this.
	I kept this aside, and I may not have kept it aside.
	It may have ended up not surviving the cut yesterday.
	But it goes right in.
	And don't doubt me.
	It's a legitimate story about major universities and how the professors are very, they're getting ticked off.
	What's happened, it's a bit of a backlash.
	The professors, for all of these years, have been inculcating all of this dry rot called political correctness all over campus in the classrooms, and their young little skull full of mush students have bought it, hookline, and sinker, and it's gotten progressively worse year after year after year to the point now the students are more PC than their guiding instructors.
	And therefore, the students are demanding more PC standards than the professors ever intended to the point that professors are now seen as violating PC and they're being turned in.
	And the administration is on occasion castigating the professors.
	And the professors are mad about it because they look at it as a revolt.
	You know, students, to a professor, are the mind-numbed robots.
	They don't teach critical thinking at universities in most places these days.
	Students are not supposed to actually fight back and oppose.
	They're supposed to conform.
	They're supposed to be subservient.
	They're supposed to be obedient.
	But they've done so well in teaching, if you will, political correctness that it's gone to crazier lengths than even the professors have taken it to the point that professors now end up violating it and they're being turned in as offensive, as racist, as bigoted by their own liberal students.
	And one college professor was quoted as saying, I don't know what to do about this.
	The conservatives, we don't have a problem with.
	We tell them to shut up and they shut up.
	We tell them to go away, they go away.
	We can intimidate them.
	But these liberal students, they're not playing ball the right way.
	I'm not kidding you.
	And it dovetails very nicely with this.
	College students need safe spaces to avoid scary speech.
	From National Review, a lesbian columnist wrote a piece in The Guardian, UK Guardian, complaining that straight women who wear less than feminine clothing are appropriating lesbian culture, and they're making it too hard for lesbians to tell who the other lesbians are.
	You probably think this is an onion story, but it's not.
	This gives coming out of closet a whole new meaning.
	Apparently, you have to come out of the closet dress the right way now, and there can't be any confusion about it.
	The columnist is named Sophie Wilkinson.
	She describes the trend of what she calls unisex style as a new thing, and she's blaming the high street ubiquity of unisex outfitters like American Apparel and UNICO and the androgynous cuts of Scandinavian shops like CAS.
	And I'm just going to quote what she says here.
	Quote, what was once a queer-owned style has shifted to the mainstream, being appropriated by straight women to the point that it's now impossible to infer a sexual orientation from the way a woman dresses.
	This was written, those words, by Sophie Wilkinson in a piece called Butch Chic, how the gender-neutral trend has ruined my wardrobe.
	According to Sophie Wilkinson, examples of this butch chic style include printed t-shirts, skirts without lace, torn vests, riot girl boots, and in general, outfits where functionality takes precedence.
	So apparently what happened here on campus is that the lesbians had their own wardrobe per se.
	They had their own clothes culture.
	And here came a bunch of straight women along who apparently liked it and started dressing that way.
	And now the lesbians are offended because they can't identify each other, at least by the way they are dressed.
	So now lesbians have to identify each other using other means.
	But I thought, well, never mind what I thought.
	I didn't think any of this mattered.
	But there you have it.
	That was in National Review.
	We just keep going.
	Parents must sign permission slip before kids can eat Oreos.
	This is.
	We have here, I'm not, it's a screenshot of a permission slip that a housewife, a mainline housewife, has put on Twitter to show what she's up against.
	Let me read it to you.
	And I can't, I'm not sure this is, this appeared in Reason, the Libertarian magazine, and I didn't print enough of this.
	It's my bad.
	I can't tell where this is from.
	Let's see if I can.
	No, it doesn't say what part of the country this is from.
	But it's dated March 23rd, just four days ago.
	Dear Parent Guardians, in science class, the students have been learning about the movement of Earth's tectonic plates.
	In order to facilitate learning as often as possible, I try to incorporate hands-on activities.
	The students will model plate movement and observe Earth's features that occur as the plates move in this simulation lab.
	They'll be using a double stuff Oreo to simulate the three types of plate boundaries and the geographical features that are created at the boundary.
	The students may eat the Oreo after the investigation if this is okay with you.
	The students do not have to eat the Oreo if they do not wish to do so.
	Note, the ingredients of the Oreo are listed on the back of this sheet and on my e-board under the attachment labeled Continental Plates Permission Slip.
	Please complete this permission slip and send it back to Scroole by Wednesday, March 25th, because we're going to be doing the lab on March 27th, which is today.
	Sincerely, Mrs. Porter.
	And then underneath this is where a parent grants permission for her child to eat the Oreo after it's been used in geography class.
	Parents must sign permission slip before kids can eat, because Oreos, they're bad in so many ways.
	You know how bad an Oreo is.
	Oreo is back as a sugar in it.
	It's a bad health thing.
	And then the black and white and the contrast, it's a racial thing.
	There's all kinds of things wrong with Oreos.
	The teacher says it's the best thing I could use to illustrate the movement of tectonic plates.
	But I need your permission if your kid's going to eat the Oreo after the end of the lab.
	Now, this is true, too.
	You think it's odd that kids would now want safe rooms to avoid controversial speech, speech that could hurt people's feelings?
	And try this.
	No, don't try this.
	Try this.
	If I don't do this, I'm going to be way short on the next day.
	Okay, you remember the story that we let off with today?
	Jay Neudlinger at National Review Online went to a performance of the New York Philharmonic last night at Avery Fisher Hall.
	And the conductor mentioned my name as an example of the discrimination against women that happens in this country, much like it happens in Muslim countries.
	And he was appalled at the amount of and length of applause the insult got.
	And it was clearly defamatory.
	This guy, his name is John Adams, conductor and composer, New York Philharmonic.
	inspiring, telling people he was inspired to write the music when he discovered how appalling it was the way women are treated in Middle Eastern countries.
	And he said, you can find it here on Rush Limbaugh.
	And the place erupted in applause and he was sickened by it.
	And the reason he was sickened by it, because it was abject ignorance, just total ignorance on display by this New York audience.
	Well, try this story.
	From Lincoln, Nebraska, a black Nebraska state senator compared American police to Islamic terrorists and suggested that he would shoot a cop if only he had a weapon.
	This is state senator Ernie Chambers.
	And he said during a legislative hearing on gun bills recently that you don't have to go halfway around the world to find an ISIS mentality.
	It can be found right here in America because police terrorize blacks every day.
	Well, that's no different than what happened at Avery Fisher Hall last night.
	Some lib stands up and says he was appalled at how women are treated in the Middle East, but it happens here too on Rush Limbaugh.
	And now we have a black Nebraska state senator comparing the American police to ISIS.
	And I'll tell you exactly why.
	He probably believes, hands up, don't shoot, is exactly what happened in Ferguson.
	He probably believes every lie that the media told.
	He believes every lie that every civil rights activist went on TV and told.
	He probably to this day thinks that the gentle giant was in the act of surrendering and was murdered.
	He probably has no idea what the truth is.
	This is how this kind of crap happens.
	The black Nebraska state senator wasn't finished.
	He said, my ISIS is the police.
	He added that police can get away with shooting people if they think they're going to do something like pull a weapon.
	The police are licensed to kill us, children, old people.
	After his comments are reported by the Nebraska watchdog and picked up by national media outlets, several Nebraska officials called on him to apologize.
	And a senator said that lawmakers are considering censuring him.
	But don't worry, he's not going to apologize and he won't be censured.
	He is Nebraska's longest serving senator, Ernie Chambers.
	He represents North Omaha, which is a high crime area where racial tension simmers and sometimes erupts after encounters with the police.
	He wasn't through.
	He said, I wouldn't go to Syria.
	I wouldn't go to Iraq.
	I wouldn't go to Afghanistan.
	I wouldn't go to Yemen.
	I wouldn't go to Tunisia.
	I wouldn't go to Lebanon.
	I wouldn't go to Jordan.
	I wouldn't, I'd do it right here.
	Nobody from ISIS ever terrorized us as a people as the police do daily.
	That's as sickening as what anybody might have heard at Avery Fisher Hall last night.
	This is outright absurd.
	You ever stop to think how many just flat out lies and how many things factually wrong are gospel to the left and many of their civil rights organizations?
	All right, folks, get this.
	And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	On Wednesday, California Democrat Barbara Lee, she is a former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians.
	She is proud communist, I think.
	If not, she's just short of it.
	I mean, she's a genuine wacko.
	And she typifies what I think is the mainstream of the Democrat Party voting base.
	Now, really, she is an exemplary member of what I think is this lunatic, insane Democrat base.
	In fact, what I'm going to tell you, this is mainstream Democrat thought here.
	If a Republican said anything remotely equivalent to this, the party would disown the person out of embarrassment.
	On Wednesday, California Democrat Barbara Lee proposed a resolution in the House of Representatives that claims women will eventually be forced into prostitution in order to obtain food and water for their families because of climate change.
	She's from Oakland.
	Congresswoman Lee introduced House Concurrent Resolution 29, warning that women will be forced into transactional sex to get enough food and clean water, all because global warming will create conflict and instability in the world.
	Her resolution reads, quote, women will disproportionately face harmful impacts from climate change.
	Food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health.
	Her resolution goes on to urge Congress to agree on the disparate impacts of climate change on women, to demand that Congress use gender-sensitive frameworks in developing policies to address climate change.
	She charges that women who are often underrepresented in the development and formulation of policy regarding adaptation to climate change are doubtless in the best position to offer policy ideas.
	And she is 100% serious.
	The whole thing, as you well know, is a hoax, all based on fraudulent computer models.
	But now climate change will turn women into prostitutes.
	So which came first?
	Prostitution or climate change?
	Back to the phones we go.
	Craig in Fairfield, Iowa.
	It's great to have you on the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Well, thank you, Rush, for having me on your show.
	I've been listening to you from my days from the University of South Dakota back in the 90s.
	And you helped guide me through my college days and through my adult life.
	I'm glad that you hung in.
	I'm glad you're still there.
	I really am.
	Thank you.
	And second of all, I'd like to thank you for the books.
	We bought a set for my nephew.
	And what's really cool about it, that since we haven't got a set for my daughter yet, he and her set up times to FaceTime each other, and he'll read the books to her.
	And I can't wait to get her her own books here shortly.
	It's such a special moment to watch those two share.
	How old are you?
	How old are your kids?
	What's the age difference there?
	I have a four-year-old daughter, and my nephew is 10.
	Oh, so the four-year-old is really not proficient enough at reading yet.
	Yeah, but he'll sit down and FaceTime each other, and they'll read the books together.
	That is so cool.
	Your four-year-old knows how to FaceTime.
	Yep, she knows how to do more on the computer than I do.
	Isn't that cool?
	Isn't that cool?
	As I said, I can't wait to get her own set of books so she can read them when she gets a little bit older.
	I can read them to her as well.
	But getting back to what I really got past your man to get to talk to you is I think Ted Cruz should be applauded for picking up Obamacare.
	And his colleagues in Congress should give up their Cadillac health care plan and face what today's citizens face.
	Like my plan has increased so much that I have to drop my individual plan.
	But luckily, I just got a new full-time job where I can get health insurance for my daughter and myself.
	Wait, just a minute.
	Hold it just a second.
	Did you say you just got a full-time job?
	Yes.
	How many hours?
	It's going to be 36 hours.
	36 hours, Fulton.
	Where did you get this?
	Did you get this job where you live in Iowa?
	It's in Iowa, yes.
	I just finished, I had to, I got laid off from my paramedic job because the business was having financial hardship because of insurance.
	I went back to school, completed my RN degree, and got hired at a local hospital nearby.
	So you found a full-time gig as a nurse.
	You're an RN.
	I'm an RN now.
	Yep.
	And I finally can get full-time insurance through that company.
	So.
	Man, oh, man.
	So there's hope.
	Folks, this is a guy who actually found a full-time job.
	See, there is reason for hope, folks.
	There is reason to be optimistic.
	This is a guy who just did it.
	Just found a full-time job in the Obama economy.
	I know it's hard.
	Look what all you had to do to get it.
	And it's only 36 hours, but nevertheless, you did it.
	Yep.
	And that's why I haven't got my daughter the books yet because it's been financially strapping right now.
	But I'm glad she was able to FaceTime with my nephew so she can't be cute.
	I mean, your son faced it reading the books to your four-year-old.
	Yep, my nephew.
	Nephew.
	Nephew.
	Yep.
	Right.
	Oh, nephew versus daughter.
	Yep.
	Oh, I see.
	So a family member has the books, but you don't.
	No, I do not yet.
	Oh, I just got this job, and now I can get some money so I can go get the books.
	So they're, you know, it's working out.
	And, you know, part of it is just listening to you.
	But we can't have this.
	We can't.
	No, no, wait a minute.
	We cannot have this kind of intra-family rivalries.
	You hear this, what's going on here.
	The nephew has the.
	What, do you think this is a blatant appeal to Scorsum?
	Nerdly saying, he didn't say a thing about the books during the screening process.
	I don't doubt that.
	But here's what we're going to do.
	What I've detected is an intra-family rivalry here.
	I know how I felt when my cousin had more than I had growing up.
	Reverse, Misa.
	I know how they lauded it over us.
	So we're going to fix it.
	You just hang on out there, Craig, and we'll send your daughter some goodies in addition to the books.
	Snirdily bite the bullet in there.
	Don't worry.
	Yes, you have to be nice.
	If anybody's getting snookered here, it's me, and I don't care.
	I go into this eyes wide open.
	It's cool.
	Speaking of his point about healthcare, here's another thing I've got in stacks today.
	This is from Investors, the former Investors Business Daily.
	It's investors.com.
	Obamacare causes a descent into madness familiar to many.
	This is a piece written by a guy, and it's basically his experience losing Obamacare and his inability to get insurance.
	I'm not going to read the whole thing.
	It'll take a little longer than I have here.
	But here's how it starts: Franz Kafka lives.
	Except, even this spinner of tales of helpless victims of faceless bureaucracies might not have imagined a situation where a law-abiding citizen faces a fine for failing to take an action his government prohibits him from performing.
	This guy was unaware of the fine circumstance if he didn't have insurance.
	His problem is he can't get it no matter where he goes.
	Either the enrollment period has expired or he can't afford it, or companies will not cooperate.
	This guy, his whole piece, is about his quest since last December to get health insurance, and he can't get it.
	It's the law of the land.
	His government demands that he has it.
	He can't get it and now has to pay a fine.
	That's essentially what he's writing about here.
	Last September, my insurer notified me that the health plan I'd had since 2009 would not be available as of January 1.
	No problem.
	In December, I called the insurance company, who informed me that, in fact, I could keep my plan.
	Except late in the day on Christmas Eve, I got a letter from the insurer explaining that that was a mistake.
	And I did have to apply for a new plan before December 31st.
	Okay, no problem.
	On December 30th, I spoke to another advisor who emailed an application and said that if I faxed it back immediately, I would have my new coverage as of January 1st.
	Except Anthem never acknowledged receipt of the fax, even after I emailed the advisor and no money was debited from my account.
	No problem.
	I was certain I had coverage and that a simple telephone call would clear up a harmless oversight.
	Except that there are no simple calls to health insurers these days.
	Every exchange takes carving an hour or more out of a day to navigate endless phone trees and runarounds.
	So it was March before I finally found the time to call.
	After nearly three hours, a customer service rep informed me that Anthem had indeed received my application, but that the fax was illeligible.
	Couldn't read it.
	Rather than track down the advisor whose name was in huge dark letters on the first page and look me up in their records or make any other effort to contact me, Anthem had simply canceled my coverage.
	The horrified rep took my number and promised to call back with a resolution.
	No problem.
	I expected to hear back in a few hours, maybe max a couple days.
	Except I didn't.
	Nearly a week later, I tried again.
	After another two hours of phone pong, I was advised simply to call sales and request to resubmit my previous application.
	No problem.
	I called sales.
	Except when I did, I learned that under Obamacare rules with open enrollment over, Anthem could no longer sell me a plan.
	I'd have to go to the healthcare marketplace.
	They might put up a fuss about the need for a special exception, but ultimately I would be able to buy coverage.
	No problem.
	I called the marketplace, and I worked with a very pleasant person who appeared eager to help me.
	Except she asked if I needed an exception because I didn't know that February 15th, the requirement to have insurance or face a fine.
	I assured her that I had known.
	No problem.
	She put in my application with a request for an exception, except she came back in a few moments to tell me my request had been denied, so I should change my answer to the question about lack of knowledge of fines.
	I pointed out that during the application process, she had specifically warned against lying, giving untruthful information, and asked for a supervisor.
	So the bottom line is I had health insurance.
	I liked my health insurance.
	I wanted to keep my health insurance.
	I lost my health insurance, at least for now.
	I can't get health insurance.
	And the government could fine me for it.
	And this story is typical.
	There are many people that are in this whirlwind here of trying to follow the law and being told that they have broken it or dealing with reps that don't follow through.
	It's typical when you're shuffled from bureaucracy to bureaucracy, back and forth.
	Here is what happened to the guy on line three.
	Anyway, well, okay.
	Okay, Dave in West Point, Massachusetts.
	I got about a minute, but I wanted to get to you.
	Hello, sir.
	Hi, Rush.
	Holly.
	Glad to speak to you.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yeah, you bet.
	In response to an earlier caller who is being discriminated at work for listening to you, I want him to know, and I want others to know that I work in the automobile service industry, and every single car I work on, I leave it on conservative radio.
	That is such a, what a patriotic thing to do.
	And I have you to thank, Rush, because two, maybe three years ago, I heard a piece that you talked about.
	Liberals who were asked conservative questions but didn't know it would usually agree and be on the conservative side.
	And I thought, you know, if these people drive away and don't know what they're listening to, maybe it'll sink in and change.
	That is a brilliant, brilliant thing to do.
	Based on what you had learned, that is a brilliant thing to do.
	Something else for people in the office, try this.
	If they won't let you have the radio on, get the rushlimbaugh.com app and listen to the program with your earbuds via the app.
	That way it's not on speaker.
	Nobody can hear it if you do it that way.
	Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
	Another exciting edition of Open Line Friday now finished and in the can, but we've got a weekend to ponder our next program back here on Monday, revved and ready with whatever happens between now and then.

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