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June 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, direct from Ice Station E.I.B. in far northern New Hampshire.
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Um little known fact, uh Marco Rubio's wife uh double parked outside the studio here in 1987.
I read it on the front page of the New York Times.
Uh Rush is away this week.
I I don't know why.
Is he is he transitioning?
Um so at any rate, uh this is the week of the guest hosts.
Um and uh I d I'm transitioning wise.
I used to be an all-American red-blooded talk show host, uh, but then I transitioned into being a creepy foreign guest host with an annoying accent.
I'd love to change back, but it's uh irreversible, and Obamacare wouldn't cover it anyway.
Uh but don't worry, we will have some genuine red, white, and blue American as Apple Pie guest hosts uh here later in the week.
Uh Eric Erickson, uh Buck Sexton.
And uh did I hear that right, Mr. Snerdley, that uh Roger Hedgecock has returned to the team.
He's he'll be he's coming he's coming in on Friday, is he?
I think that's yeah, so I think that's uh Eric's here Wednesday, uh Buck Thursday, and the return of Roger Hedgecock.
Uh Kitty Corner to me.
Uh he's I'm in the far northeast and he's in the far southwest.
That's the that's the diversity we like to celebrate here on the Russian Embo Show.
But Roger Hedcock returns to the roster on Friday.
1-800-28282 is the number to call at the start of another busy busy newsweek.
We may get a decision from the Supreme Court uh in the next few days on both uh same-sex marriage, uh whether the uh founding fathers had canily provided for that in the uh constitution, uh and uh the Affordable Care Act,
whether the federal subsidies for about eight million Americans uh will be deemed to be constitutional, which will require even more contortions than these Supreme Court decisions usually involve.
Uh but uh Al Hunt uh he used to be on the Capitol gang, he was the Wall Street Journal guy, and he's now at Bloomberg.
Uh by the way, remind me to mention uh Bloomberg.
There's a movement to draft Bloomberg for the Democrat nomination uh as Hillary implodes.
Uh Bloomberg, uh it writing in Bloomberg, Al Hunt uh says that uh the uh Obamacare decision could boomerang on Republicans.
Because this is how it works.
Not a single Republican has had anything to do with Obamacare.
And no Republican wrote it, no Republican passed it, no Republican rewrote it, no Republican president stood up in the White House and let you know every morning, according to his regal uh will, which clauses were valid on any given day, which were going to be kicked down the road a year, which were gonna be suspended, amended, and all the rest of it.
No Republican anywhere had anything to do uh with this health care bill.
It's called Obamacare.
That's the first clue.
That's the first clue there.
It's not called Rubio Care, it's not called Trent Lotter care, it's not called Strom Thurmond care, it's Obamacare.
But apparently when the Supreme Court makes its decision, uh it will boomerang on Republicans 'cause it will be all repel Republicans' fault if eight million Americans are kicked off their federal subsidies.
So we'll keep an eye on that.
Um the G7 Summit has just wrapped up uh in uh some like delightfully scenic part of uh Germany.
It looked like the set for the sound of music, uh, where they're all standing there.
Um Obama, apart from anything else, managed to diss the Iraqi Prime Minister, who's this short little fellow.
He looks like kind of Yesemite Sam, he's short little guy stomping around.
Uh and he's trying to get Ob he's supposed to be having a one-on-one meeting with Obama, and they're all chit-chatting on this park bench, and he's sidling up to park uh the park bench, And Obama gives him the cold shoulder because he's putting the moves on uh Madam uh what's her name, Madame Lagarde, the uh IMF chick.
And uh uh the guy gets annoyed and stands up and goes huffin' and stomping his feet just like Yosemite Sabbath looking at his watch and uh and the aide throws up his hands in despair.
So I don't think Washington Baghdad relations uh have been improved by the G7 summit.
But the big thing, the big thing they talk about.
Their big thing uh is uh on the agenda is climate change.
Climate change.
That's what the G seven world leaders were talking about.
Um and presumably that's why the Iraqi Prime Minister was there, because uh rising sea levels have just uh uh washed into Ramadi and uh swept all the Iraqi army's new American Humvees over to the ISIS guy.
So climate change is a very serious uh business.
There's a lot of it uh uh uh about.
Um the uh Iranians are having terrible troubles with the dwindling polar bear population because they use polar bear pelts to enrich uranium.
So there's there's an awful lot of problems here.
The the rising temperatures uh have just erased the Russian Ukraine border, enabling uh all these hundreds of Russian troops to just get washed across the border into this neighboring country.
So they were quite right to prioritize uh climate change, and they have now announced w this is from National Journal, uh, which is some big thing in Washington, very respectable and they and some guy wrote this uh with a straight face.
World leaders at the G7 summit pledged on Monday to keep global warming below a rise in average global temperatures of two degrees Celsius, a benchmark that scientists say is critical to stave off the most devastating impacts of climate change.
World leaders pledge to keep global warming below a rise of two degrees.
Uh so these guys, these seven guys, uh the the President of the United States, President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Italy, these guys have apparently pledged to hold the planet's climate to below a two-degree change in temperature.
These are people, you know, if you say to somebody, well, why can't you enforce the southern border in the United States?
The federal government said, Oh, no, no, no, we can't do that.
We can't do that.
Uh that we can't do.
Uh if you were to uh say to them, well, could you uh create a health care system uh that would not involve millions of people being kicked off their health plans uh and then going on to some new plan only to have a court rule that that plan is unconstitutional and in any case all the premiums have gone up and the deductibles have gone up and that could so could you just organize a straightforward health care.
No, no, no, that would be way beyond the capabilities of the federal government.
But holding, holding the global climate, changing the very heavens to so that it doesn't so that just as the thermometer's creeping up an extra two degrees, Obama can pass a federal regulation, and uh President Hollande in Paris can pass a law, and the whoever the Japanese guy is this week can pass a law, and mysteriously then the heavens will agree to submit to these laws.
They won't be like fellows just coming across the Rio Grande in flat bottom skiffs and walking into America.
It'd be ridiculous to expect government to be able to prevent something like that.
But changing the very heavens, that is something big government can do.
So the world leaders at the G7 summit have announced that they're going to hold global temperature to below an increase of two degrees Celsius.
At the press conference, someone should ask whether Obama knows what two degrees Celsius is in Fahrenheit, because he'd give one of his I don't speak Austrian answers all over again.
Uh so we'll get it all the and the by the way, the best way to hold the increase in global temperatures down is to do what NOAA, uh the National Oceanic and uh what is it, National Oceanic and uh atmospheric administration?
Uh yeah, the uh the big federal agency that's in charge that will be in charge of implementing his plan to control the heavens, uh they've just done it the easy way.
They've re-jiggered all their figures uh so that the the lack of global warming these last twenty years has now amazingly turned into a spectacular rise in global warming.
So I'm sure whatever the planet does, whatever the planet does, um, you know, however m what was it uh ninety million years ago uh there were alligators and turtles splashing in the Arctic Circle.
You know, right on Canada's northern shore, they had alligators and turtles.
Uh so if the planet decides to go for that scenario again, I'm not confident that a G7 communique will be able to prevent it.
But if it does, if it does, NOAA will still massage the figures.
Um because they adjust their figures even more dramatically than Caitlin Jenner.
Uh and they will determine that in fact whatever has happened that Obama has succeeded and in in the year 2100.
In the year 2100, and he might well have left office by then, but it doesn't matter because we will still all be living with the benefits of his plan to hold global temperature increase down to uh less than uh less than uh a two degree increase.
That is the ultimate shovel ready project, the ultimate stimulus.
Uh the G seven leaders have pledged to hold the global temperature below two degrees.
It's not it's like neocolonialists.
Why should they determine what the the temperature is for Rwanda or Chad or Papua New Guinea?
But no, these these imperialist hegemons, uh Obama and Monsieur Hollande and David Cameron, they all get together and they decide that this is what the planet's global temperature is going to be, and the rest of you guys, you may be freezing your butt off in uh in Greenland and you might like it a bit warmer,
or or you might uh be broiling uh down by the equator uh in Niger and you might like it a bit cooler, but they don't uh you don't count because these seven neo imperialists are gonna set the global thermometer for the entire planet.
And that's what they were talking about.
And that's what they were talking about in the G7 communique.
And uh Obama Obama was serious when he addressed the US Coast Guard.
Uh this is America's big national security priority.
Don't pay any attention to people who say it's the Iranian the global warming is cause the big mushroom cloud that the Iranians just dropped on some guy.
Uh don't pay any attention to any of that kind of stuff.
Don't say it's uh that it's all the uh global warming is being caused by ISIS guys, uh sparks from them sharpening their scimitas to chop people's heads off all the time.
No, no, no.
Global warming, that climate change, that's what they were talking about.
And Obama will be flying back from another whatever it was, 72 hours profitably spent addressing the serious issues facing us today.
Mark Stein in for us 1800-282-2882 on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
You're listening to America's number one radio show, the Rush Limbaugh Show rushes away, and this is uh Mark Stein back behind the golden EIB microphone, honored to be here.
Uh G7 Summit has just wrapped up.
Obama on ISIS, quote, quote, quote, we don't yet have a complete strategy, unquote.
He doesn't yet.
For all the vast resources of the US government, maybe they're all just working on lowering this global thermometer.
Uh there all the for all the uh vast resources of the US government, and I know they're trying to deal with the climate change, but there must be a couple of people who could have uh given some attention to a quote complete strategy for ISIS.
Obama says we don't yet have a complete strategy.
Uh that's what he said today in uh in Germany at the G7 summit.
Uh if you look at the timeline of this now, this is getting we're just a few months shy of say Pearl Harbor, December 1941, June 1944, uh President Roosevelt standing up, well, not standing up, but uh sitting down and announcing uh we don't yet have a complete strategy uh on Japan, or we don't yet have a complete strategy on Germany.
How can it take you?
How can it take you uh getting on for the length of a medium length war before you've even got a strategy for fighting the war?
What is it?
Like an approvals probe process is like trying to get a zoning permit uh in some shishi neighborhood for changing the color of your window shutters?
Uh the the uh the permitting takes years before you can even get it and then start to do it.
We don't yet have a complete strategy on ISIS.
Uh but unfortunately ISIS has a complete strategy on you, and they're actually pretty good improvisers.
That's the s that's the spectacular thing about these guys.
You know, that we we mock them for being a bunch of seventh century bozos.
Uh but in fact uh them they're much better at social media than Obama is.
You know, Obama's supposedly the cool kid on social media.
These you these guys use Facebook and Twitter uh to post their snuff videos and their pictures of little boys holding up the head that uh that their dad has just decapitated, and they're getting thousands and thousands of recruits from all over the world.
Uh roughly about two and a half for everyone we kill.
It's like uh w we claim to have killed ten thousand of them, but in the time we took to do that, twenty-five thousand more have been recruited and joined.
So if that keeps happening, it's gonna be a long war.
But uh uh Obama said, no, it would be unreasonable.
It would be unreasonable two and a half years after a mere two and a half years after Pearl Harbor, uh for us to have a strategy uh to defeat Imperial Japan or the Third Reich.
Completely unreasonable uh in two in a mere two and a half years.
I know we're coming up to D-Day, but D-Day stands for don't yet have a complete strategy day.
That's what he said on ISIS at the G7 Summit.
The other big news out of the G7 summit, this was their other priority, apart from climate change, women's entrepreneurship.
This is from the communique, women's entrepreneurship is a key driver of innovation, growth and jobs.
However, across G7 countries and around the world, far fewer women than men run their own businesses.
This is what the G7 guys, the leaders of the Western powers sat around talking about.
Uh and because it's true, I mean, how many women get to operate their own clitoridectomy clinics in Sudan?
Um if you look at Iran, uh every uh company that has the contract for all the stonings of women for adultery uh in Iran, uh they're all guys.
No women gets to run one of the uh the the trucking firms that deliver all the stones for the big stoning of the adulteresses.
In Afghanistan.
I mean, this is these uh the G seven is dealing with the critical issues here.
In Afghanistan, they don't even have a take your child bride to work day.
That's how bad it is.
That's how bad it is.
So the G7 guys, uh they've been tackling climate change and women's entrepreneurship.
In Libya, which has imploded, Libya is a very good example of women's entrepreneurship, by the way, because we put Hillary Clinton in in charge of it.
Uh but even in Libya, uh that is now totally imploded, and they're climbing into little boats and fleeing uh across the Mediterranean Sea, uh, how many women run those shipping companies in Libya that are getting uh getting all those people out?
Uh this is the these are the kinds of critical issues that the world's leaders have been talking about.
And uh Barack Obama will be coming back from that and uh and will be uh and will be uh uh uh uh doing for domestic issues what he's just been doing for global issues uh over over in uh over in Germany.
Um and at a certain point uh at a certain point uh you you figure uh that uh uh y you might as well just like pack the pack this in uh because the danger of the coming election uh is that we are gonna actually extend what's been happening for the next eight years.
Uh there's a story today, I think it's in Politico, uh, that says uh scandal only makes uh the no point bringing up scandal, Scandal only makes the Clinton stronger.
In other words, Hillary is like Godzilla.
And you throw all this uh you you throw all this stuff at her and she just scars it down.
There's uh there's a story today uh that uh the Clinton Family Foundation, which is distinct from the Clinton Foundation, this is another one, the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
I'm sorry, the Clinton Family Foundation.
Uh they gave a hundred thousand dollars to the New York Times just after a New York Times uh to a New York Times charity uh just as the New York Times endorsed Hillary for president in 2008.
Nobody cares, nobody cares.
Uh, because this guy says Politigo says, Oh, you can go on about the scandal, but she's just like Godzilla.
Hillary Ziller just chows down the latest scandal and emerges even stronger.
I think they're bluffing on this.
I think they're bluffing on this uh and uh and we shouldn't let uh we shouldn't let them set the tone on that.
We'll talk about that in just a moment.
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I hope he's right about the American mail being the last bastion of American toughness.
Uh but you know, I'm I'm sometimes not that optimistic about these things.
Uh USA Today has a story that Spike TV, which is supposed to be some guy's channel, man's channel.
It's supposed to be bloke telly.
It's it's it's where you go to get away from all the chick flicks and all the rest.
Spike TV has decided to cut Clint Eastwood's uh Caitlin Jenner joke.
Clint Eastwood, who is also the last bastion of American toughness, uh And Clint's at the age where he doesn't care about anything anymore, and he's just he's just made the uh the most lucrative American film this this century, so he doesn't have to kiss up to any uh twelve year old vice president at a Hollywood studio.
Clint Eastwood was uh presenting an award and he introduced Dwayne the Rock Johnson at this pre-taped uh spike TV guy's choice awards.
Guys talk.
So this is supposed to be about the last bastion of American toughness.
This is supposed to be guys.
We're not supposed to have any of this view type stuff, uh all this uh chickafied stuff uh getting in there.
It's supposed to be guys, guys' choice awards.
What could be manlier than that?
And he says he's comparing Duane the Rock Johnson to s famous sports people who've become actors, like, quote, Jim Brown and Caitlin somebody.
That's all.
That's all Clint Eastwood said.
That's all Clint Eastwood said.
He said, Oh, here's uh here's Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
He's a lot like some of these other sports guys who now become actors like Chim Brown and Caitlin somebody.
And because of that, the joke had to be cut.
Even on bloke TV, even on guy TV, even on Spike TV, even on tough Bastion Manly TV, at something called the Guy's Choice Awards, you cannot disrespect, you cannot disrespect certain people.
So even just utterling some utter uttering something that might be interpreted if you were to analyze it for hours on end as potentially possibly insufficiently fawning and prostrating before Queen Caitlin, they said, no, no, no, we've got to cut that, we gotta go.
So I hope Rush is right.
But you can read Russia's thoughts on the American Mail, the last bastion of American toughness, uh, in this month's limball letter, if you go to uh if you go to Rushlimbaugh.com.
Now I mentioned Hillary earlier.
Uh one and I mentioned Libya earlier, too.
Um and uh there's actually a brilliant criticism of Hillary by uh Ralph Let Ralph Nader.
Do you remember Ralph Nader?
He's like uh he used he He's you well Ralph Ralph Nader used to run for president every four years, and he's not running uh this year, although I say go for it, Ralph, jump in because he's actually saying the sort of stuff that Bernie Sanders ought to be saying if if Bernie Sanders really wanted to make a splash in this race.
Uh he's he's accused uh Hillary of being a deep corporatist and a deep militarist who has made peace with the nation's power structure.
I think Hillary is not the Hillary of uh of what she was thirty years ago.
She made peace with the power structure and she is a deep corporatist and a deep militarist.
One can almost forgive the corporatism.
She moved to New York with Bill because that's where the power is and and Wall Street is.
But her militarism is absolutely shocking.
And he cited the war in L Libya, and he says this.
She almost single-handedly did the Libyan war.
The Defense Department was against it.
Uh Secretary Gates was against it, and she persuaded the White House.
Obama had no view on it.
I don't suppose he cared one way or another.
Uh, and she persuaded the White House that it was an easy topple, that it was an easy topple.
Uh and she's being accused of uh Benghazi.
The big thing he says is not Benghazi, but the huge amount of geography that has been destabilized because of the Libyan overthrow.
And she she makes uh he makes an absolutely terrific point here.
And if Bernie Sanders is the red-blooded socialist he claims to be, Bernie should be uttering this stuff instead of wandering around like a milk toast afraid to disrespect Hillary in case she clubs him to a pulp.
Uh if Bernie had any guts, he'd be saying this to her.
Libya is Hillary's war.
Those few emails that were kept and preserved and which uh the State Department has graciously uh released to you plebeian citizens, uh, make clear that uh Ralph Nader is actually right.
The issue is not Ben Ghazi.
I mean, the issue is Benghazi in that she behaved disgracefully and Obama behaved disgracefully uh and real people died that day.
But the issue for Hillary is the entire Libyan mission.
She went into it because uh she thought it would be easy.
You know, this isn't like uh Iraq and Afghanistan.
We can just go in, knock off this guy, uh Gaddafi, and we'll look like tough guys, and it'll be an easy thing.
And now that society is imploded.
Uh ISIS are beheading Christians on the uh beach.
Uh the black guys that uh Gaddafi like to keep around uh just as uh for workers and everything, all being chased out in town by uh hardcore uh Islamic racists.
The everybody else is trying to get on a boat and flee across the Mediterranean, uh to the point where thousands of them are drowning in the Mediterranean.
This is Hillary's war.
Uh and what those emails reveal is that she she just went into it without a thought.
There's no there's no she wasn't like uh Obama sitting there stroking his chin saying, Well, I don't yet have a complete strategy on ISIS, I'm gonna give it another three or four years, see if I can come up with one.
Uh she just said, Hey, this uh Gaddafi's been doing nothing to us, but let's just knock him off 'cause it'll be easy.
Do you remember uh when he he died, they uh the uh mob caught up with him and uh uh uh uh stuck in uh a metal pole up a part of him I shouldn't be mentioning on the air.
Yeah, they get it was actually worse than Mussolini.
Mussolini didn't mind it didn't wind up getting shafted uh literally the way that uh th that uh Gaddafi did.
Uh she went on TV, Hillary, and gave this smirk and said, This is the nearest thing.
This is the nearest thing to uh this may be why she doesn't do Betty interviews.
She just gave a smirk and said, We came, uh we saw he died.
It was all a joke to her.
The fact that the country's collapsed, um uh the the economies imploded, uh that people have been driven from their homes, that entire cities, those coastal ports are now in the hands of ISIS.
Oh no, it doesn't matter.
We came, we saw he died.
Boy, I wish I had Hillary's gag writer.
Uh and that's what ought to be hung around her neck.
She's wanting to be president of the United States.
Her war is Libya.
And those emails uh she show that she went in there without a thought, without a plan, over the heads of the Defense Department, over the heads of Bob Gates, uh and uh uh with an and pushed against an indifferent Obama, and Libya uh is the dead albatross that we need to hang around her neck.
Mark Stein in for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Hey, Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Let's go to Bob in uh Glenwood, Illinois.
Bob, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark.
I'll try and get to my point real quick.
I'd like to go back to uh climate change, is my name.
Um I'm just curious, you know uh I hear all these things and I see things and I read things and I look at Discovery Channel and other sources through science, discovery, history channel about changes in the earth, changes in planets around us.
I look at uh the fact of the little ice age, that they call it a little ice age, which I believe lasted three hundred years in Europe.
I don't know if it was from the twelfth to the fifteen hundreds or the thirteenth to the sixteen hundreds.
I apologize that I don't know those years that that occurred with no industrialization going on.
I see probes and rovers that are sent out through the universe and through scientific data.
They talk about the changes in these planets closest to us is Mars with canals of water and atmosphere, a very fertile place at one point in time, whether it was fertile like Earth or not.
I'm not sure if that's a fact or not, and how these changes occurred.
And I see all the scientific data that you can find in various publications, but yet I hear no one come out and talk about these things.
Now I know these can't be liberal progressives because they wouldn't be doing this research and publishing it if they were.
I don't understand why this is not brought to the forefront when mainstream media, who I know is on the side of the progressives and the liberals, to make us afraid of these kind of things.
Why there's no kickback to this?
I just don't understand it.
It's right there, but yet their voice is not being heard.
Are they being repressed?
Are they afraid to come out?
Well, I think I think they are afraid to come out uh to a certain extent, Bob.
But you're right.
Uh you did used to hear about it.
I learned about the little ice age.
Uh by the way, th you you were kind of in the ballpark century-wise.
Um but what you got wrong was when you said it was just in Europe.
It wasn't in Europe.
The the Little Ice Age, uh when they test for it in uh the uh in in Chile in South America and Indonesia, it was a global phenomenon.
And we used to be taught about it in schools.
I'm uh I when I when I was a kid, I was taught about in schools was something called the medieval warm period, uh when they uh were able to farm in Greenland, and that's how it got the name Greenland.
That's the first clue.
And then that was followed by the Little Ice Age when uh they used to hold ice fairs on the River Thames in London because the Thames froze.
The Thames uh used to freeze fairly regularly, and they would hold these giant ice fares on the River Thames in London.
As I said, uh, we know about it because uh Britain has a fairly long temperature record and all the rest of it.
But when they test these proxies thing, these ice cores and these corals and these sediments all around the world, they find the medieval warm period and the little ice age were uh were global phenomena.
But the genius uh and I should declare up front that the the uh the guy behind this is currently suing me.
Uh Michael Mann invented this thing.
He's some guy at Penn State.
He invented this thing called uh the hockey stick that the IPCC, uh the intergovernmental panel on climate change, put uh made a big deal of, and it went all over the world, and it was actually the main reason why most of the Western world except America signed up for Kyoto Bob.
I mean, they they basically saw this hockey stick and they and they which had the last thousand years completely flat, and then the giant blade, the twentieth century shooting up out the corner of the graph, in the top right hand corner, and up into the atmosphere like we're all gonna burn, we're all gonna broil.
And what that did was it eliminated what Bob was talking about.
Climate natural climate variability.
Uh the reason there are dinosaur bones in the middle of North America is because uh the oceans flooded uh at one point, and uh a great big bowl of water came into large parts of Canada and the United States and preserved all the dinosaur bones, absolutely beautifully.
So you can find dinosaur bones uh up in Alberta, and you can find dinosaur bones uh down uh south in the desert because it was once a lake, a giant lake.
And this idea uh that uh th th th that that stupid hockey stick peddled was that nothing happened.
This was a completely stable climate, and nothing happened until horrible Western man came along and climbed into his SUV and went along to the mall to live his hideous consumerist lifestyle, uh and that's when the temperature suddenly began to rise.
What Bob is talking about, and he makes a very good point here, what Bob is talking about is what real scientists call geologic time.
And that basically means that uh, you know, and I'm I'm here, this was uh one point where I am, which is Canada and the top tier of American states, was once all frozen solid under ice.
And whatever the G7 communique says, uh if if uh the earth or God or whoever's controlling the thermostat decides that Canada is gonna be covered in a sheet of ice from the Arctic Circle to the 49th parallel again, uh there's nothing you can do about it uh except uh sell your uh ski pad in British Columbia and hightail it out of there.
Uh because that's geologic time.
And no matter how many communiques, Barack Obama and President Hollande and Mr. Cameron and Frau Merkel and all these other clever guys issue, there's nothing they can do about that.
And all the rest is complete humbug.
We do not control the Earth's thermostat.
And as I said, when you look at the stuff that these guys can't do, uh the idea that we ever can control the thermostat is the most insane, mad, demented vanity.
And we should laugh at these guys when they issue a communique pledging to hold down the global thermostat.
Mark Stein for Rush, more in a moment.
This is how bad it is, uh, folks.
Uh New York Democrats, uh, that's her state nominally.
New York Democrats are uh worrying that Hillary is such A loser that they're pushing Michael Bloomberg uh to run for president uh on the Democrat on the Democrat ticket.
Uh this is great.
I mean it w it's it's he might not want to do it.
He spends every weekend in Bermuda, and uh so he's only gonna be able to campaign Monday to Thursday if he does decide to run for for president.
But actually, with Democrat candidates, the less they're able to campaign generally the better it is for their poll numbers.
But this is New York Democrats' great idea.
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