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June 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Well, that's a big argument.
The environmental movement has to be sustainable.
You know the answer.
Now I asked the staff a question right before I turned the microphone on, and I can't share it with you.
It'd be too distracting.
Anyway, great to have you back here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Let me give you another example before we move on to the other news of the day out there.
I put the other news of the day in a stack where I can find.
Yes.
Example about how the court is purely political.
And particularly from the four justices on the left.
And by the way, look, and I probably shouldn't say this, which is the recipe why I say it.
Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer.
These are the four justices.
The first two are political appointments.
I mean, they're there for their assured liberal vote.
There is, the left engages in litmus tests when they come up to nominating judges and they don't care about one thing.
Is this person a reliable vote on our politics?
That's it.
Now, they will mask that and disguise that during confirmation hearings and all that.
And they'll go through the motions and make it look like the jurist is eminently qualified, the perfect judicial temperament and all of the rot gut.
But the bottom line is you've got these four Breyer, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan, and they are rubber stamps of the Democrat Party agenda.
And Kennedy is thought can be made into one with a puff piece profile in either the New York Times or Washington Post a couple, three weeks prior to a decision.
That's what they think in the media.
I mean, I don't care if it's true or not.
That's what the media thinks, and therefore that's how they act.
Give you another example.
Perfect example of how political these judges on the Supreme Court are.
Remember the DOMA case, defense of marriage?
That was titled U.S. versus Windsor.
And it was just two years ago.
And I doubt that people remember this, which is why I, El Rushbo, am going to remind you.
The very same five justices, Kennedy, who again wrote the opinion, joined by Ruth Buzzy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sothomayor, and Elena Kagan, all the same people, the same group of five, wrote that, quote, regulation of domestic relations, including marriage,
is an area that has long been regarded as a virtually exclusive province of the states, close quote.
So, when the left's agenda is to invalidate a federal law protecting marriage, these five say you can't do that.
It's a state issue.
Remember, they ruled DOMA unconstitutional.
They struck it.
DOMA's the Defense of Marriage Act, and it was the way Supporters of traditional marriage, and I even, I resent that we have to put traditional in front of the word in order to have people know what we're talking about.
Marriage used to be marriage.
Just like water is water.
And just like paper is paper.
Marriage was what it is.
And now we have a traditional marriage, heterosexual marriage, gay marriage.
It needs all these qualifiers.
It's been obliterated.
Anyway, DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act, was a way that the forces for traditional marriage sought to defend it.
And so the feds came along and Democrats came along and they wanted to obliterate it.
They wanted to tear down the Defense of Marriage Act.
It's unconstitutional.
Obama hated it, by the way.
A bunch of leftists defended.
In fact, even before this happened, if you'll recall, Obama, with great fanfare, announced that his regime was going to stop defending it in court.
That the United States Department of Justice was no longer even going to defend DOMA cases.
So when the left wanted to get rid of, when they wanted to invalidate a federal law that protected marriage, these same five judges unified and said that the law was invalid because marriage has always been a virtually exclusive province of the states.
Now, when the left's agenda is to invalidate state laws protecting marriage, which two years ago they said are exclusively the province of the state, the same five say, you can't do that.
This is a federal issue.
And that, my friends, is not law.
The law answers that question one way or the other, but not both.
Only in politics can you take completely inconsistent positions if that's what it takes to promote your agenda.
So the route to gay marriage first required getting rid of the Defensive Marriage Act.
The same five judges came along and claimed that it was unconstitutional because marriage is exclusively the province of the states and there was never any legitimacy to the Defensive Marriage Act and they struck it down.
That was Act 1.
Here comes the gay marriage case and they strike down their own reasoning from two years ago.
Two years ago they say marriage, the states virtually control it.
Friday they said the states have nothing to do with it.
We do.
And we find that marriage can be any two people seeking happiness.
In fact, love.
Oh, yes.
Kennedy actually wrote that love's a right or something that's close to it.
Now that's politics is how that happens.
That's not the law.
I mean, if the states, if the Supreme Court, the final arbiter of law, says that the states are the exclusive province of marriage, and then two years come along and forget they said that and take over the whole concept of marriage for the purposes of redefining it.
That's not the law, folks.
And it's silly to analyze it as law.
That's another mistake some of our wizards of smart make.
We have a lot of smart people, and they really like being smart.
And they really like showing how smart they are.
And as such, they easily are taken off track because they don't like to intermingle the two law and politics.
They want to remain pure.
Doesn't matter.
The left already did that long ago.
And so the left is now claiming, essentially, with this decision, that their politics has become law.
And of course, with the same token, ours isn't law.
Ours is criminal.
The same bunch of people are trying to criminalize conservative policy and belief.
And that's been going on a while, too.
The law is supposed to be principled.
The law is supposed to be consistent.
But politics is not.
Politics is rough and ready, and it doesn't have to be principled at all.
We want it to be.
We wish that, but it doesn't have to be.
The law is an entirely different thing, and it's in the process like everything the left touches being totally corrupted.
Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday declined to say whether he thinks Hillary Clinton will win the White House.
Al Gore, who served alongside Clinton when she was first lady, was asked during an appearance in France who he believes will become the nation's next president.
He said, I wouldn't refuse to answer that question.
I would try to cleverly dodge that question.
And I would say it's actually too early.
He told Sir Martin Sorrell at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in Caen, France.
Sir Martin Sorrell is the WPP founder.
Sorell responded, I think Hillary will win.
And it would be great to have a female president of the most powerful nation on the planet.
Why?
See, here we go again.
It'd be great to have the first African-American.
Why?
It'd be great to have the first president, female.
Why?
Just because it's a thing that we haven't done before?
What if neither one of them have the slightest idea what they're doing?
Or what if one of them does know what they're doing and it's horrible?
Well, it doesn't matter.
We need the first female president.
These people, you know, they run around.
They try to act like they are the smartest people in the room and they are the most dangerously stupid and ignorant.
Anyway, speaking of Hillary, this is from the D.C. Examiner.
Hillary Clinton withheld Benghazi-related emails from the State Department that detailed her knowledge of the scramble for oil contracts in Libya and the shortcomings of the NATO-led military intervention for which she advocated.
Clinton removed specific portions of other emails that she sent to the State Department, suggesting the messages were screened closely enough to determine which paragraphs were unfit to be seen by the public.
For example, one email Clinton kept from the State Department indicates that Libyan leaders were well aware of which major oil companies and international banks supported them during the rebellion.
Information they would factor into decisions about who would be given access to the country's rich oil reserves.
The email, which Hillary subsequently scrubbed from her server, indicated that she was aware that involvement in this conflict could have a significant financial benefit to firms that were friendly to the Libyan rebels.
And she thanks Sidney Blumenthal for the tip, which she called useful.
Now, this sounds a little esoteric and out.
The bottom line is, Hillary Clinton, once again, has been shown to have lied to everybody about the emails and her server and what's on them and what she's turned over and what she did with them.
She said that she didn't redact anything that she sent to the State Department.
I can't wait for these emails to be read.
The whole thing has been a series of lies.
Now, there's also a component to this story that says, the White House is not happy, which I don't buy for a minute.
Yet Ron Fournier was on TV today saying, yeah, White House is not happy with Hillary.
They're very upset that she didn't send them everything and lied about it.
They're not upset.
If they were upset, they'd start an investigation of her.
That's all just fodder.
We're supposed to think that there's dissension in the ranks on the left and there isn't.
Carly Fiorina, who appears to be fearless out there, she went to Colorado, the first state to legitimize or legalize, I should say, marijuana, and she said legalization is a bad idea.
She said, while I do in general support states' rights, and the voters of Colorado have made a decision here, I would also very quickly add that I think the legalization of marijuana is a very bad idea.
I think it's misleading to young people in particular when we tell them that smoking pot is like drinking a beer.
It isn't.
Now, I think for young people, look, millennials, and a lot of people on the left, you know what I think politics is about to them?
I think it's, you can really boil it down to who they think is mean and who they think is nice.
And so if they think Obama's nice, whatever he wants to do is okay.
Because if he's nice, he's got good intentions.
And if somebody's mean, then they don't have good intentions.
And because they're mean, they don't need and deserve to be supported anyway, because we're not going to help mean people.
And I don't think it's any more complicated than that with certain young people.
And of course, the left media have played their role very well in this instance by defining conservatives and Republicans mean-spirited, extremist, homophobes, and racists and all that.
So the question is, are these people going to see Carly Fiorina as mean when she tells them she doesn't think marijuana is good for them?
Or are they going to see her as nice?
Because that's, in many cases, what it's going to come down.
Because folks, it's politically incorrect to say that marijuana might have health risks.
Because right now, the politically correct thing to say about marijuana is that it's a great boon for people who are sick.
Medical marijuana is absolutely wonderful, even though there's a recent study that says it makes no difference in anything.
But they think it is.
Marijuana is really cool and it's safer.
It's not heroin or cocaine.
And it's a crop.
It comes from the ground and it's cool.
And some of our favorite musicians did their best work while under its influence.
So it's cool stuff.
Here comes Carly Fiorina saying, no, no, it's not just like your beer.
It's worse.
She said, when I was battling cancer, my doctor asked me if I was interested in medical marijuana.
And I said I was not.
And he said, good, because we don't understand the marijuana of today, she said.
The marijuana of today is a chemically complex compound, and we don't understand how it interacts with other medicines.
We don't understand how it interacts with other things that you are doing in your life.
You know, I don't have any experience with this, so I'm unable to render an opinion.
Maybe I should go smoke some and find out what this is all about and be able to render.
Oh, yeah, eat a brownie.
That's what shake and wake me, or wake and bake means, right?
Yeah, there's an NFL player who had a Snapchat or Instagram post.
He woke up and he's all happy.
He said, time to wake and bake.
And somebody said, oh, that guy does the weed.
So that's what Wake and Bake me bake some cookies or brownies, I guess.
Have you had them?
What do they taste like?
I wonder what they taste like.
I hate to be ignorant on this, folks, but facts are facts.
Back to the phones we go.
And Shelly in Pittsburgh.
It's great to have you with us in the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Good, good, good.
Thank you for joining.
I just wanted to tell you, thank you so much for the Rush Revere books that you gave to all of us at the American Heritage Girls 20th Anniversary Convention in Indianapolis.
Oh, yeah, well, you're more than welcome.
I must tell you, Catherine did that.
Catherine was behind that.
My wife was donation to your group, that group.
And they're great.
It's an absolutely fabulous group.
Exactly the kind of thing in this country going on that we want to support.
I'm so thankful that you did that.
I took my three daughters to that convention.
We've been in AHG for about four years.
We absolutely love it.
I have a son in Trail Life USA.
Love that too.
Just got started in that.
And when we went into the auditorium and they were handing out the books, I said, oh my gosh, it looks like Rush Limbaugh on the cover.
And it was the book that we were going to buy anyway for our homeschool curriculum.
So my daughters, you know, they were so happy to go to the convention and to get the book.
And my youngest one read the book in 24 hours.
She loved it.
Oh, wow.
I have to tell you something, Shelly.
It's, I mean, I, even I, this is so important.
It's even more important than I knew when we decided to start writing this series of books.
Because, I mean, you look at what happened here in marriage.
You look at the all-out assault on the very founding of this country and the beliefs, the tenets, the morality, the philosophy.
It's all under assault and it isn't being taught.
And we are teaching now in college the next wave of teachers who are never going to learn the truth of the founding of this country.
They're going to learn the racist, sexist, bigotry, multicultural curricula version of the United States.
And that's why I'm certain Catherine decided to make this donation.
Why don't you tell people, I've got one minute, tell people what American Heritage Girls is.
American Heritage Girls is an alternative scouting group for girls.
It's more biblically based.
And so there's over 120 badges that girls can earn.
They also encourage service to the country, learning about the heritage of the country, volunteering and doing lots of service for other groups, doing spiritual development, so whatever religion you are, you earn your religious emblems in that religion and things like that.
We meet a couple times a month, and there's levels from kindergarten all the way through high school.
How many were at the meeting over the weekend in where, was it in Pittsburgh?
We're in Pittsburgh, but it's all over the country.
We have a troop in every state except Delaware, I believe.
Oh, okay.
Yep.
49 states so far.
Well, we're happy to be able to help because you're doing.
I think groups like yours, unsung heroes, deserve all the support and recognition they can get.
So we're happy to be part of it.
Thank you much for the call.
Thomas in Danbury, Connecticut.
You're next as we head back to the phones.
Hello, sir.
Hey there, Rush.
What a pleasure to speak with you.
Well, it's great to have you with us today.
Thomas, to what do we owe the pleasure?
Well, I've got a long history of major spine problems, operations and stuff.
And I've been taking narcotics for about 20 years for the pain and lyrica, which is devastating, for about 12 years now.
You can never think straight.
It's impossible to wake up in the mornings.
And I spoke with my pain physician, and we have medical marijuana here in Connecticut, and he suggested he thought that was a good idea to give it a try.
And what I've done is I'm taking almost no oxycodone anymore, and I've flashed my lyrica.
And what I find is I can think clearer, I can wake up in the morning, and the pain is dramatically reduced.
Never gone, but substantially reduced, even though I'm taking less of the other medications.
Now, is that I don't take this personally, but is that really true?
Because spine pain, look, I've had it.
I can't, I can't, you say that marijuana did better than the narcotics they had you on?
Well, what happened?
I've never heard anybody make that claim about pain relief or marijuana.
The oxycodone, almost completely.
But the big one is the lyrica is what really affected my life.
And I tell you.
Wait a minute.
What's lyrica?
It's I have nerve pain down my leg.
It feels like your leg's on fire.
It's similar to what I'm trying to think of how to describe it.
It's just I have shooting pain, burning, burning pain in my leg.
And the cannabis.
Does lyrica get it or not get it?
If I take enough lyrica to get it, then I'm non-functional.
If my wife doesn't wake me up on her way to work, I sleep till 3 in the afternoon, 4 in the afternoon.
And when I get up, I'd be groggy.
I couldn't see straight.
I wasn't safe to drive.
The medical marijuana, I take it before I go to sleep.
I sleep like a baby, and I wake up clear.
What do you take it?
How is it given to you?
There are a number of different forms, but I found the best relief for me has been to eat small quantities of the oil that they have.
It's very, very potent oil.
And if you eat it rather than smoke it, when it goes through your liver, it changes it from delta-8 THC to delta-9 THC, which is much more powerful and lasts six to eight hours.
That explains it.
Delta 18C to 9.
Okay, that explains it.
You're the first person that I have ever heard, and I haven't talked to a lot of people, so don't know.
Six to eight hours, and I wake up clear.
When her alarm goes off, I wake up.
There's no sleeping till three in the afternoon.
It's amazing.
It's given me my life back.
And like they say, my pain physician approved it first, and then I went off and tried it.
That's fine.
That's great.
You're the first guy I've spoken to who has described that much pain relief to marijuana.
It's been a godsend.
Part of it, though, is that I did a lot of studying and a lot of research, and I've tried a lot of experimentation to see what works for me.
And I hate to smoke, so I don't smoke anymore.
Virtually everything that I take is an edible of some sort.
You asked, how do the brownies taste?
They taste like regular brownies with just a tiny bit of a green taste.
Like you'd eat in a piece of grass.
That chlorophyll, that green taste, but it's very subtle.
It's not strong at all.
So have you baked marijuana brownies, or has your wife or somebody in your family done it?
I mean, do you know how much, like, how much marijuana do you put in a pan of baked brownies?
Yeah, we don't cook with it.
I use the oil in capsules, and then I eat the capsule, preferably with the meal, because it makes it not quite so powerful, and it makes it last longer.
No, I don't cook with it, but I do eat it.
But you can buy from them.
I've purchased from the outlet here, the pharmacy, I've purchased brownies and all kinds of candies and cookies.
You're kidding me.
With THC in them.
You're kidding.
The pharmacies sell marijuana brownies?
Well, it's not the regular pharmacy.
It's the can of, it's the cannabis pharmacy.
I got it.
It's the marijuana pharmacy.
Okay.
That's how out of it I am on this.
I mean, I know that there's medical marijuana, but I really didn't know how it was dispensed or prescribed.
I never dug into it.
Well, look, if it's working that well for you, that's great.
I'm not questioning anything.
I'm just marveling because I've never had anybody attest to the pain relief power of marijuana like you have.
But it's great if that's your experience.
I appreciate the call, Thomas.
We got to go, but we'll be back.
There's more, folks, on the other side.
Speaking of baking, and you hear what happened at Walmart.
Walmart band got rid of cakes that depicted the Confederate flag, but ended up baking an ISIS battle flag cake.
Walmart's now apologizing for a store in Slidell, Louisiana, refused to bake a cake.
Designed was the Confederate battle flag on there, but accepted a request to bake a cake.
It looked like the ISIS battle flag.
A guy named Chuck Netzhammer, a local resident, presented his story in a YouTube video on Friday saying, all right, Walmart, you got some explaining to do.
I went to go buy a cake from you all the other day with this image on it, and y'all wouldn't do it.
I went back yesterday and managed to get the ISIS battle flag cake instead.
And the guy shows the ISIS battle flag cake to the camera, as well as the rejection letter Walmart gave him for the Confederate flag cake request.
And he shows that the receipt that went along with the ISIS battle flag cake at Walmart agreed to bake.
Walmart, can you please explain why you're alienating Southern Americans with this trash that you allow to be sold at your store while at the same point, Confederate flag memorabilia is not allowed.
The daily caller was contacted by Randy Hargrove, a spokesman for Walmart, who said in an email, our local store made a mistake.
The cake in the video should not have been made, and we apologize.
Hargrove later explained that we made the decision to stop selling Confederate flag-related items, promoting a flag's image.
For that reason, we did not make the Confederate flag cake.
And then this guy, Netzhammer, brought in the other image of ISIS, and really what happened was our associate in the bakery didn't recognize what it was and what it meant.
And if we had known that was the ISIS battle flag, we wouldn't have made a cake out of it.
Maybe the bakers at Walmart thought it was Well, you know, there was a, it was at a gay pride parade, and somebody had a flag up there with dildos and plugs and so forth, and somebody thought that was the ISIS battle flag at first.
Why in the world somebody would think dildos are part of the ISIS battle flag, I don't know, but somebody did.
It's really strange out there these days, folks.
You've got to really keep a sharp eye.
I mean, you never know what you're going to run into out there and who's going to be behind it.
You just don't.
Dennis, Prairie Home Missouri, thank you for calling.
Sure, it's great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I just wanted to tell you, I was like you.
I was very ignorant on the medical marijuana, but I'm a power of attorney for a gentleman in Michigan that has a terminal case of rare Alzheimer's.
And his son wanted me to get him on this.
And I checked with the doctors, and this was a couple years ago.
They said, absolutely not.
But his general doctor got with me about six months ago, and he said, Dennis, I was wrong on this.
He said there is proof that medical marijuana can help in these cases, and my friend...
Wait, this is Alzheimer's?
Yes, it's a rare form of Alzheimer's.
It's cordal basal degeneration.
And marijuana helps with this?
Yes.
And let me tell you how.
It doesn't help the disease.
It helps the symptoms of the disease.
When you get this disease, as you know, with Alzheimer's, patients start to waste away.
They don't eat.
They lose their appetite.
And where I was totally wrong on this, it's not like they smoke a joint.
They take parts of the marijuana and parts of the marijuana, they mix in candy.
And I have nurses that do this.
They are the caregivers, and they actually mix this theirselves, and they're responsible for it.
And this is with the doctor's okay.
And what the marijuana does, there's a part of the marijuana plant, your caller before was pretty correct on things, that makes them have an appetite.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
That's marinol.
My mother had to take that.
It didn't work in her case, but it might have been too late for her.
I'm out of time here.
I really don't mean to be rude, Dennis, but I've got to go be right back after this.
Yeah, for the sun came up.
It's still up.
It's going to set, and it'll come up tomorrow.
And followed by us being here at the same time tomorrow.
So thanks for being with us today, as always, and back at it tomorrow.
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