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June 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now, you you realize about this attack in Turkey at the Ataturk Airport.
By the way, Ataturk is the guy Turkey was named after.
He was a big, big, powerful, mean dude.
Something like Frank Ataturk.
I don't know what his first name was, but anyway.
Do you know that the guy that runs Turkey now?
Recep Tayep Erdogan.
Although it's not pronounced that way.
I've I've I've only heard Erdogan pronounced correctly once, and I don't remember how.
The guy has practically implemented Sharia law throughout Turkey.
This is the point.
And if he hasn't completed it yet, that's the objective.
Turkey is going to become full-fledged Sharia, and yet ISIS still hit them.
Still hit them at the airport.
Greetings, my friends, and great to have you here.
R. Oh yeah, sorry, Ditto Cam's on, forgot to tell you.
Can't do it all here.
You know, it's up to me.
Why doesn't some of this stuff end up being automated in this era?
Anyhow, sorry, it's on now.
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So as I was saying, the death toll, now for what we're up to, I think almost 50 people dead, 239 people wounded at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, which is one of the major airports of the world.
Three terrorists broke through security with rifles and then set off bombs in their vests, killing at least 50.
The death toll keeps climbing.
And since it is awkward to try to blame guns for this attack, given that Turkey practically's banned its citizens from owning firearms.
So the drive-bys and the rest of the Obama administration are scrambling to come up with somebody to blame here.
And the media pretty much uh ignoring the attack altogether.
Uh just uh assuming that this is the is a is the new norm now.
But really, they can't go after guns here.
They can't go after guns.
This is uh one of the reasons why the drive-by's uh you you you m you might expect this to be wall-to-wall coverage.
It's a terror attack, and Trump has said some pretty powerful things about it.
You would think they'd be cut, but they're not.
Why are they not wall-to-wall with this?
Now, they might have been certain places last night, but you have to admit they didn't cover this like usual normal terror attacks, Scott Cut, and I'm telling you one of the reasons why.
You can be snarky all you want, you can be cynical all you want, is because there's no way to advance the gun control agenda here.
Even in Turkey, they're on the way to having Sharia law.
It's practically impossible for law-abiding people to get guns in Turkey anyway.
So this just kind of illustrates what'll happen if gun control, if they eliminate the second amendment here, it's not gonna stop acts of terror.
It's not gonna stop acts of crime.
It isn't going to stop anything like this.
And the Democrats and the media, they all know that, folks.
It's just misdirection.
They want guns out of everybody's hands for total reasons unrelated to what they claim to be interested in.
They want to save lives.
No, it's not about that.
They want to reduce crime.
No, it's not about that.
That's not why they want to get rid of the Second Amendment.
And that's not why they want you to have to give up your gun.
You notice they gun control efforts are always aimed at the law-abiding.
Has it ever struck you as strange gun control efforts aimed at the law-abiding?
And here in Turkey, since there's no way to advance the gun control agenda here in the U.S., it's sort of a whole hummer.
Oh well, you know, it's ISIS.
It's uh it's uh basically an Islamic country, so maybe there's things going on that we're not aware of.
Not quite a whole hummer, but still isn't a big deal.
Now, John Kerry, by the way, served in Vietnam, has come up with an explanation.
In fact, he's even leapt to conclusions and said that ISIS was behind the attack.
Now, Kerry calls them Dayish because he wants to seem smarter than everybody else.
You and I call it ISIS.
Obama calls it ISIL, and Kerry calls it Dayish, D-A-E-S-H, because that's the term the French like, and I'm not making that up.
Deish is the term that the French like, so that's what Kerry uses.
And because it's, in his mind, is a much more sophisticated to use the term deish, and it also conveys more respect for the group than to simply call them the derisional ISIS.
But the real kicker is that John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, said this latest attack is proof that ISIS is losing.
Well, because they're getting desperate.
They're getting desperate.
They had to attack a country they practically run anyway.
Shows how desperate they are.
Now the irony is that is exactly the kind of thing U.S. generals used to say during the Vietnam War.
In fact, the generals at the time said that the Tet Offensive was just a sign of how desperate the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were, and actually they were telling the truth, unlike Kerry.
But in reality, here, North Vietnamese only one because of defeatist like Carrie.
I don't want to get sidetracked with that.
But that was a that was a victory that was snatched from the jaws of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory by the likes of John Kerry who served.
Um in Vietnam.
Now, in terms of a proper response, I I I haven't heard much love and empathy from the Obama regime, even though Loretta Lynch said just a couple weeks ago that this is the only way to respond to terrorism.
Which is what?
Um, I don't know, ISIS apparently didn't get the message.
You know, ISIS, there was a memo went out, uh sort of like a rah-rah memo, the leaders of ISIS Al-Qaeda actually sent a memo out that from now on acts of terror, make sure you you uh you you you hit white people.
Do not attack people of color, do not attack minorities because in America, the media will blame the Tea Party for it, and you won't get credit.
No, no, no, folks, I'm not making this up.
Al Qaeda actually sent out an operational memo to its jihadist groups, urging them in further acts of terror, do not kill, do not hit minorities.
Because if you hit minorities, they're gonna blame conservatives, second amendment guns, and the terrorists won't get their due credit.
So from now on, acts of terror only hit white people.
Because hate crimes against them are permitted, and the media will play it up.
White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so long been the unfair, unjust, immoral majority throughout most of the nations that are imbued with Western civilization.
And if you think that's an exaggeration, it isn't.
That is exactly how the Democrat Party of today and the American left looks at things.
White Christians who founded America, they deserve all this grief because they caused so much for so many hundreds of years.
I'm not it's it's it's the only way that you can understand the true motivation, these people.
In other words, it's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes.
Because their only crimes are justified.
Their crimes are justifiable.
It's retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority, not just here, not just here.
UK, all throughout uh Western civilization.
That is the mode of thing.
Why do you think immigration is it?
Why do you think only certain kinds of people are allowed to illegally immigrate?
You'll notice that when it comes to immigration, we ride herd on legal immigration pretty damn hard.
And who is it that really is Subject to most of the limits there.
Have to say it's white immigrants.
But when it comes to illegal immigration and open borders, if you happen to be a minority or person of color or what come on in.
Come on in because it's time for you to get your payback now.
For all the ways you've been mistreated by the evil people that founded and ran the United States of America for so long.
It was Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, the founder and first president of Turkey.
I was wrong when I said it was Frank.
I mean, I knew it wasn't Frank.
Mustafa Kamal Ataturk.
And it let me tell you something.
The guy was a bad at me.
He was you didn't want to mess with him.
I mean, he's a serious, serious.
What did I do with that story?
Snerdley gave me a story today, and I put it, I put a head at the top of the stack, and then I moved it.
Ah, here it is.
You ladies and gentlemen, you may not remember this.
Well, you'll remember the thrust of this.
Not long ago, a a a gorilla made friends with a how old was the boy that fell in?
Ten.
Was oh, it's an infant.
That's right, two or three years.
A little boy with his mom at the Cincinnati Zoo fell into the uh gorilla enclosure.
And uh Harambe, the gorilla in residence, the head honcho for 17 years, made friends with the little boy, dragging him through the moat and basically protecting him.
This is the story we got from the crowd.
But a lot of people thought, you know what, we gonna have to do something here because this gorilla is going to hurt that little boy.
Maybe not even intending to, the strength difference is such.
He may not even intend to, but it just is likely that that boy's not gonna.
So they shot the gorilla.
And they didn't shoot the gorilla with tranquilizer, they shot the gorilla with weapons the left once banned.
In the United States, and the gorilla died.
And thus began vigils.
Candlelight ceremonies for the gorilla.
If you noticed in the aftermath of the terror attack at Ataturk Airport, you notice they don't do that?
There aren't any vigils.
There aren't any candlelight handle lit ceremonies.
There aren't any pictures of whatever running, they haven't stopped everything to have an ongoing memorial.
They just got back up and picked up the pieces and started operating the airport again, as though that was yesterday.
Which it was.
That even the drive-by's have uh noticed this.
In fact, grab audio soundbite number seven.
Don't worry, I know I've interrupted myself, but I have not lost my place.
Audio soundbite number seven CBS this morning.
Um this is Holly Williams reporting about the terror attack at the Ataturk airport in Istanbul.
If you look behind me, you can see what appears to be damage from one of the blasts.
But come over here and you can see that the airport is operational.
Less than 24 hours after this attack.
Uh, it's full of passengers.
This is one of the busiest airports in the world.
If you look over here, you can see that there is a lot of shattered glass in this area.
It's not clear uh whether this is uh from gunfire, whether that's a bullet that's done that, or shrapnel from one of the blasts.
Now, the Turkish Prime Minister Benali Yildaram says that there are indications that this was the work of ISIS.
But so far, there's been no claim of responsibility.
Now, folks, I'm telling you that's noteworthy here that these Muslim countries don't spend any time on vigils, lighting candles, singing songs, laying wreaths of flowers.
They don't spend days and days trying to figure out the motive.
They didn't convene any on-the-spot seminars saying why do they hate us?
Because they already know why this happened.
They already know who did it, they already know why, and everybody's up and back to their business here.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm just noting the difference.
Do not assume I'm criticizing it.
I'm just noting the difference.
If this happens at an American airport, you know full well there are candlelight vigils, There are uh wreaths of flowers, there are pictures, there's uh uh it'd be going on for weeks.
It's it's it's one of the ways we grieve.
They don't.
They just did you notice also in this report, Holly Williams in describing the damage from the bluff, wasn't sure if it was from a bullet or shrapnel from a bomb.
Oh, they're praying it was from a bullet, so they could focus on the guns, but everybody knows bomb control doesn't work.
You just how do you have bomb control?
Anyway, back to the gorilla.
Back to Harambe.
When I saw how people were reacting to this, and yes, I will admit, sometimes I engage in satire, mockery.
Sometimes I like to illustrate what I think is absurd behavior by being absurd, as you well know.
So I'm I'm watching people humanize this gorilla, and almost worry more about the fate of the gorilla than the potential fate of the child.
And so I'm watching, I'm I'm I'm seeing reports of what people's saying on Twitter.
So I decide to light a match and throw it in this fire, so to speak.
So I asked innocently on this program, could somebody explain to me why there are still apes.
Knowing full well what was going to happen, knowing full well that a bunch of leftist, arrogant snobs would take that comment and run with it and think that I was insulting them by proclaiming there is no such thing as evolution.
That's what they would assume I was saying.
And they did exactly what I thought.
They started massive Twitter feeds and Facebook posts about what an idiot I am and how silly I am to try to prove that there is no such thing as evolution by asking how come there are still apes?
And that's all I did.
I just innocently asked as an aside, can somebody tell me about it, well, why are there still apes?
I knew it would fire them up.
I knew it'd tick them off.
I knew they would start insulting me.
And they did.
Well, I have a story here in the Washington Post in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
I want to read to you the headline here.
Why aren't apes evolving into humans?
Right here it is, the very question I asked, attempting to stimulate a fire and cause chaos out there.
Now they're actually, I guarantee you this comes from this program.
I guarantee you.
What this is is a science column where they answer questions written in by readers.
The headline is actually, Dear Science, why aren't apes evolving into humans?
You know what the answer is, by the way, a quick answer.
Dear so-and-so, we are apes.
And that's what they say.
We are apes.
And there you have it.
Look, I don't want to mislead anybody.
Uh uh Ataterk is actually um it's a it's a name that denotes father of the Turks, and the name was granted to Gamal Ataturk in 1934 and forbidden to any other person by the Turkish Parliament.
Now, the reason Ataturk, Gamal Ataturk, was and is so highly reputed.
He was attempting to modernize.
That's not the right word.
He well, it is, for lack of a better way of saying it, he was he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern 20th century world.
Uh and there are a few such Islamic leaders who have attempted to do so, and they don't last long.
The terrorists get into gear, the militants like Al-Qaeda and ISIS target them.
But that's who he was.
Um, and I'm now reliably told that the correct pronunciation of the current president of Turkey's last name is Erdogan.
It's E R D-O-G-A-N.
Recep Tayyip Urdogan is what it looks like, but it's Urdwan.
And uh he is attempting to implement Sharia throughout the country.
It's what makes this attack interesting to me.
I mean, they think it was ISIS.
And ISIS attacks infidels and non-believers.
So there's some political problem that ISIS has with Turkey.
It could involve the Syria war and who's funding who, who's buying oil from who, and who isn't.
So this this may have ramifications simply beyond the tenets of Islam, not excluding aspects of Islam in the attack, but it may be a little bit more than that.
I guess we just rely on what Kerry said.
That it just it means they're losing that they did this, and that they're desperate is why they did this.
So we've had Trump react to it, and a lot of people reacting to the way Trump reacted to it.
We got polling data on the presidential race that's got everybody buffaloed here.
We'll make it all sense in a moment.
Now, one of the things I've found, folks, is that the left, you you they are you know, all the late-night comedians are leftists.
All the late night comedians are liberals, all the Hollywood actors, the comedians and the the funny people are leftists.
Yet you crack a joke about them, and it's not permissible.
They have the thinnest skins of anybody I have ever seen.
You cannot crack a joke about them.
I mean, this program, this program took off making fun of liberals.
It had never been done before.
Nobody had ever done it, and they have been in recoil ever since for 27 years.
When you poke fun at what they believe, and especially when you do it in a way that blows up what they believe, they react in an irrational way, and that's what I knew they were going to do when I simply lobbed that little question in there in the middle of the Harambe episode.
Hey, by the way, come and ask why are we still?
Why are there still apes?
That became the number one trending thing on Facebook, just to show you.
I think for a full day, that was in the top maybe it may have been the number one trending item in the Facebook feed.
Because the liberals were outraged.
They thought I was trying to illustrate that there's no such thing as evolution.
Of course, liberals and tech people all think evolution is incontrovertible.
And they think that cross-species evolution happens all the time.
And they believe in it, and they don't believe in creationism, and they think that people who do are small-minded twits, most likely religious, uh, which means they are very narrow-minded, closed-minded, and just dead set on not having a good time.
And so they are to be blown up and discredited.
So that's why I threw it out there.
I knew it would tweak them.
I knew it would upset them, and it did.
Now, and in doing it, I run the risk that they're going to launch all these broadsides at me as a stupid idiot, because they don't understand when you're mocking them.
They don't under well, they do sometimes, other times they don't.
And this is a case where they didn't, because most of them didn't hear it.
They just see it on the Facebook tweed feed and they and they reacted to it.
But here's the here's the bottom line.
I don't believe we're apes.
The Washington Post answer.
Dear science, why are there no uh why uh uh uh hominins left on Earth?
If evolution is ongoing and species are always changing and adapting, shouldn't we see new human-like species evolving from apes?
Why why why are there still apes?
Why aren't those apes evolving into humans?
It's a question is asked in the Washington Post, and the answer that the post reporter gave hate to be the ones to break it to you, but you are an ape.
We are all apes, says the Washington Post.
So were the Neanderthals and the Hobbits.
And while we're at it, so are orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, all of us evolved from a common ancestor that lived about 14 million years ago, and together we make up the taxonomic family homididae, also known as hominids, Also known as great apes.
So we're all apes.
Now, you read that, you think, well, okay, that explains everything.
We all have a common ancestor.
From 14 million years ago.
Really?
That ape-like ancestor has yet to be found.
Nobody knows who it is.
Nobody knows where it is.
Nobody knows where it was.
But they just stated we all came from a common creature 14 million years ago that has not been identified.
So how do they know?
Well, they use cross-species evolution and a number of other things to form their scientific conclusions.
But they can't prove it is the bottom line.
So that's what I was tweaking, that's all.
And they fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
And I just find it humorous that now, about a month later, the Washington Post has a giant headline, Dear Science, why aren't apes evolving into humans?
Something that I was laughed at, mocked, and made fun of is not taken deadly seriously.
On the front page, well, it's the front page of science section of the Washington Post.
In related news.
From Yahoo News.
Try this headline.
Survey finds excess health problems in lesbians, gays, and bisexuals.
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals reported more health problems than straight men and women in a large U.S. survey.
For the first time since its launch in 1957, the National Health Interview Survey in 2013 and 2014 included a question about sexual orientation.
With nearly 69,000, are you kidding me?
60.
I missed that when I originally read the story.
With nearly 69,000 participants, the survey revealed that lesbian gay and bisexual adults, quote, were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, potentially due to the stressors that they experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination.
Close quote.
That line appears June 28th in the journal, the American Medical Association's Internal Medicine.
Thank you.
Nearly 69,000 participants, the survey revealed that lesbian gay bisexual adults, quote, were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, adult beverages, and heavy cigarette use, possibly because of the major stress factors they experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination.
So discrimination, interpersonal and structural.
In other words, overall, blanket discrimination is causing gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to drink more, to smoke more, to be more stressed, to basically be thicker than the rest of the population.
And of course, that is going to be deemed to be unfair.
And this, of course, is going to require much more money to study, don't you see?
And then we will get into great examinations of just where this stress emanates.
If all of this stress resulting from interpersonal and structural discrimination is leading to an unfair share of alcoholism.
Thank you.
Heavy cigarette use, and generally impaired physical and mental health, don't you think that investigators will find ways to scientifically quote unquote blame all of this on the hate-filled racist, sexist, bigoted homophobic Republican party.
I can see it now.
may not happen next week.
It may not happen next month.
But one day you're gonna wake up and you're gonna hear a story claiming that white Christians and Republicans conservatives have led to greater health consequences and concerns for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals.
And you're gonna think, I heard that, I heard that there was Rush Lindball told us this was coming.
Keep a sharp eye.
Overall, 67,0150 survey respondents were heterosexual, 525 lesbians, 624 gay, and 515 bisexual.
Average age was 47.
Wait just a second here.
What is are you telling me 69,000 participants?
525 lesbians, 624 gay, 515 bisexuals, that's five to eleven seventeen hundred out of sixty-nine thousand were gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
I thought that's that's that's about two percent.
That that I thought they were the predominant group.
Anyway, that's all it took.
1700 gay lesbian bisexual people in a survey of 69,000 to produce these results.
In addition, gay lesbian bisexual people also more likely than heterosexuals to report heavy drinking and smoking, while gays and lesbians reported worse psychological stress than straight people, bisexual people suffered the most.
Now we gotta find out why.
We gotta find out who maybe they're being discriminated against twice.
Maybe the gays discriminate against them, maybe the straits discriminated, maybe they get double dose of discrimination since they're by.
Who knows?
One thing we do know, more federal money will be allocated.
We will get to the bottom of this.
We will find what the explanation for this all is.
And it will no doubt conclude that homophobia is rampant in this country, and it's causing serious, serious consequences, which will lead to suggestions and proposals for criminal punishment for those found guilty of homophobia and bigotry and hate and what have you.
Keep a sharp eye, folks.
Maybe this is not so far away.
President Obama is in Ottawa, Canada.
Do you know he called Turkish president Recep Tayyip Urduan?
He didn't call Rick Scott in Florida after Mateen blew up the gay bar in Orlando.
Took him a while, but he called Erdogan right off the bat.
Anyway, he's in Ottawa.
North American Leaders Summit.
And after a meeting with the Mexican president Enrique Peñanietto, President Obama spoke to the reporters about the terror attack in Istanbul.
And this.
No, he didn't blame it on a video.
Not this one.
I had a chance to speak to President Erdogan earlier today to discuss with him not only how heartbroken we have been by the images of the injured and those killed, but also to reaffirm our strong commitment to partner with Turkey, with NATO, with the broad-based alliance that we structured around the world to fight ISIL.
It's an indication of around unable to govern those areas that they've taken over.
That they're going to be defeated in Syria, they're going to be defeated in Iraq.
Well, it's the same thing I guess Kerry said it.
It all adds up to proof that they're losing.
You know, I when I hear this guy speak now, and I uh uh reaction to a terror attack.
I'm sorry because what happened yesterday, I can't get Benghazi out of my mind.
And there's something else I can't get out of my mind.
I can't, I really can't come to grips even now with the fact that this administration got away with so many abject lies.
The big one about a video being responsible for it.
And furthermore, that that some absolute clueless.
This guy Nakula Nakula, they found this guy somewhere out in California.
They put him in jail.
They put the producer of a video that nobody put him in jail.
They scared the daylights out of him.
He went along with it.
He was acquiescent as he could be.
This was it wasn't long ago.
Things like that just did not happen in this country.
And if were they to happen, somebody'd be impeached.
But to jail an innocent person on a false bogus charge to carry forth a lie.
That is designed to protect yourself as president and your campaign.
So now when I hear this guy speak about terrorism and the aftermath of attacks, I've got it, I just I'm I don't believe anything.
And I think we cringe, we cry, we s we join you in tears for the loss of life and so forth.
And it sounds like he's more upset about what happened in Turkey than he's upset at when these things happen in this country.
Sorry, it just comes across that way to me.
If I've had one person send it to me, I've had five people send me this idea that Nate Silver's out predicting that Trump doesn't have a chance to win the president.
Have you seen this, Snerdley?
Nate, Nate Yeah, well, I tell you, let me tell you, Nate Silver used to be a god, is the New York Times, and he's not a pollster.
He's a renowned pollster analyst.
Meaning he found algorithms and software programs and bots and all kinds of things to analyze all the data in all the polls.
And what he would do is issue percentage chances that various candidates had to win.
And he came to fame in 2012, assuring liberal Democrats all over the world, but particularly in this country, that Romney was going to lose.
Whenever there was polling data showing Romney pulling ahead, Nate Silver come out and say, no, it's not true, and literally there'd be a national sigh of relief.
But then Silver started blowing it.
He left the New York Times, went over to ESPN, his own 538 blog, and he's back now predicting Hillary Clinton has a 79% chance of winning the presidency compared to Trump's 20%.
Now Silver still has a lot of accolites out there.
He still has a lot of true believers, and they're applauding and they're partying and they're ecstatic, but they are forgetting something crucial.
Nate Silver has been wrong about Donald Trump predictions seven times since last July.
Number one, June 16th, 2015, why Donald Trump isn't a real candidate.
Silver's website said that Trump's not a real candidate because his high name recognition combined with a staggering minus 32 favorability made him the least liked presidential candidate of all time.
Which meant he had a better chance of camoing in another home alone movie with Macaulay Calkin or playing in the NBA finals than winning the Republican nomination.
Silver blew it.
Number two.
July 16, 2015.
Two good reasons not to take the Donald Trump surge seriously.
So Trump's taken off.
Nate Silver comes out with two reasons why everybody should not believe it, dead wrong again.
Example number three, July 20, 2015.
Donald Trump's the worst greatest troll.
Silver finally weighed in with the article where he described Trump as a troll candidate, thriving simply by virtue of the tremendous attention he could receive by insulting everybody, but he wasn't gonna go anywhere.
He had no chance to win the nomination.
Number four, August 6th, 2015.
Nate Silver and an article describing Trump's six stages of doom.
Obviously wrong.
At that article, August 6th last year, he pegged Trump's odds of winning a nomination at 2%.
August 11, 2015.
Trump is winning the polls, but losing the nomination.
He wrote, our emphatic prediction is simply that Trump will not win the nomination.
It's not even clear that he's trying to.
Example six, November 23rd, 2015.
Dear media, stop freaking out about Trump's polls.
They don't mean anything.
Trump has no chance.
Number seven, Donald Trump comes out of Iowa looking like Pat Buchanan.
Silver was quick to pounce after Trump finished second to Cruz in the Hawkeye Cockeye, saying this is as good as it gets.
He's been wrong seven times, predicting the fate and fortune of Donald Trump.
You know, if ISIS is losing, I would hate to see what happens when they're winning.
I'd hate to see what that looks like.
But Obama and Kerry say they're losing.
Okay, we're gonna dig deeper into all these things other than the ape evolutionist stuff.
We've been there, done that.
We'll continue when we get back.
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