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December 7, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3

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	Yes, Rush is away today, but he will return tomorrow for authentic full strength excellence in broadcasting.
	Meanwhile, this is your EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein.
	Honored to be here direct from Ice Station EIB's Bizarro Alternative Universe, a new facility we have in the north country of far northern New England.
	If you're a celebrity fleeing the country, if you're Lena Dunham, if you're Cher, we don't get a lot of celebrities in this part of the world.
	So if you're fleeing the country because of the Trump terror, do swing by and see us.
	You can't miss us.
	There's a big sign on the highway saying last rush guest host before the border.
	And I don't care who you are, Katie Perry, Amy Schumer, do drop in because we don't get a lot of real A-list types in this world.
	Except, yeah, I know I'm not, they're fleeing to the land of Boucher Noel, Mike.
	They want to go to Canada.
	They want to go to Canada where the pastry roams free, the patisserie roams free.
	They don't want to be living here groaning under the Trump terror.
	And we're delighted to see them.
	So Amy, Katie, Cher, Lena, do swing by.
	Not Madonna, not Madonna, please.
	Please, I don't yet.
	I know Madonna's very busy.
	There's all those voters in California she's got to take care of.
	I really don't want Madonna swinging by.
	Breaking news from something happening today, the House is set to vote on a bill that would allow the federal government to track the movements of people with Alzheimer's and people with autism.
	But I love the way this is put, but there are concerns of overreach.
	You think so?
	I don't know a single federal bureaucracy that doesn't overreach.
	I just mentioned last hour that Homeland Security, which was set up in the wake of 9-11, now chastises strip clubs in Boston for selling knockoff Red Sox merchandise, bans Bouche de Noel coming across the Canadian border where some giant pastry wall has been erected,
	some all-American concrete muffin wall has been spread out along the 49th parallel, so no Quebecois pastry can get through into the country.
	No danger of that or the no danger.
	That'll be reinforced long before they ever start working on the Mexican wall.
	And is keeping out Canadian flute players.
	And you really think that allowing the federal government to track people with Alzheimer's and people with autism, which are both very broad categories, you understand.
	You know the phrase they use with autism, spectrum?
	He's on the spectrum, right?
	The spectrum has no clearly defined beginning or end.
	And if they want to, they'll be able to put anyone they want on the spectrum.
	And that goes for Alzheimer's too, dementia.
	All kinds of people have little bits of harmless bits of dementia, bits of dementia that may be slow progressing, don't really affect anything.
	It might be just like me, where I think I said last hour that Trump was the first person since Washington to refuse his salary, and I forgot JFK and Herbert Hoover.
	And that might mean that I qualify to be on the spectrum for tracking.
	So my movements might have to be tracked.
	But you can bet your bottom dollar that whatever the intent of this new bureaucracy is, once you have people work in it, then it will be applied to all kinds of other things.
	For example, Homeland Security, if they're really serious about cranking down on knockoff Red Sox t-shirts being sold by Boston strippers, they might, you know, just randomly test a couple of Boston strippers and put them on the spectrum.
	And then they'll be able to see where they go to get their knockoff Red Sox merchandise.
	So this bill is being voted on by the House today, H.R. 4919.
	And I think it's very disturbing.
	We are talking about, we're talking about the ability to track people who are not criminals, who have broken no laws, who simply happen to have certain medical conditions.
	You know, for example, if it's a communicable disease, nobody suggests tracking people who have, say, full-blown AIDS, right?
	That's a very communicable disease.
	Nobody suggests, oh, we might need to track those people to see where they go.
	If you happen to have the Zika virus, if you happen to have Ebola, no one proposes federal government tagging under which you are supposed to be monitored every which way you go.
	But we are now entering the stage where we are proposing to create a federal bureaucracy that will allow people, that will allow the national government to track the movements of patients with Alzheimer's and with autism, both of which are extremely elastic terms.
	And that comes up in the House today.
	Also, by the way, when it comes to dementia, why don't we just track every single prominent Democrat?
	A California politician, Representative Zoe Lofgren, suggested today at a congressional forum that rational people are talking about their state seceding from the Union due to the Electoral College victory of President-elect Donald Trump.
	California is apparently thinking of seceding.
	California has declared itself a sanctuary state.
	It's not just going to be a sanctuary cities here and there, but the whole state is going to be a sanctuary.
	California, if it wants to secede, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	And then the Democrats can figure out how they're going to win an election ever again.
	Because there goes your big jackpot of Electoral College votes.
	California talking about seceding.
	Representative Zoe Lofgren saying that states are now talking about leaving the Union if they lose the Electoral College.
	Kathleen Parker.
	I like Kathleen Parker.
	She was very kind to me.
	In fact, she gave her copy of my book to President Bush.
	Kathleen Parker liked my book so much, she gave her copy to the president.
	For some reason, my publisher had neglected to send President Bush a copy.
	So I owe Kathleen Parker a debt of gratitude for that.
	She's writing in the Washington Post, and she's calling on faithless electors in the Electoral College to be unfaithful, because it would only take 37 of Trump's 306 electors to bring his number down to 269, in which case he would no longer be the president.
	We are moving into actually very dangerous territory here because you are basically telling people that there is nothing you can do peacefully to change the policy course of the United States.
	You are telling people that elections don't matter.
	We had elections in 2010 and it didn't matter because Obama found a 60th vote and hammered Obamacare down the throats of a nation that didn't want it.
	The 2014 midterms didn't matter.
	And now, 2016, the Republicans have finally found a guy who won the presidential election.
	And even Republican commentators like Kathleen Parker are saying, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is why the Electoral College was set up in order to deny the election of people like Donald Trump.
	You should think very carefully before telling the people that they cannot, by their votes and by the constitutional and electoral practice of their country, change the course of the government.
	The only reason Donald Trump became the nominee is because he picked up a couple of issues on which the base and the party elites were not in the same place.
	If Jeb Bush didn't want Donald Trump to be the nominee, Jeb Bush could have proposed serious, meaningful border enforcement and immigration control.
	So could John Kasich.
	But they didn't.
	So the base decided it wanted Donald Trump as his party's nominee.
	He became the nominee fair and square.
	You may not like it, but he saw off everybody else.
	He became the nominee.
	Then he won the election.
	And yes, he didn't win.
	As the Hill pointed out, Hillary fundraised more.
	She got more fundraising funds.
	And she had more super billionaire donors.
	And yes, she won the popular vote because it's not a popular vote.
	And if it was an election by a popular vote, there would be a whole different kind of electoral strategy.
	You'd never see anyone in New Hampshire or Iowa because there aren't any people there.
	And instead, people would be campaigning in California and New York and trying to maximize the turnout of minority Republicans in New York and in California.
	You'd have a completely different kind of election played by completely different kind of rules, but that's not the kind of system we have.
	And the system that we have had for 240 years, President Trump won.
	And it is very dangerous to teach people that your vote, your decision, is so bad that it must be subverted and the elites must find a way to retain control over representative government and the will of people voting according to the constitutional practice of the day.
	And don't underestimate them on this.
	Don't underestimate them on this.
	You see this with the Brexit vote in the UK, where basically the people declined to follow the instructions of their bettors and they said they wanted out of the European Union.
	And ever since then, the losing side has been using every means it has at its disposal, whether it's judicial means through the court, or it's through undermining the process via the bureaucracy, or it's through threatening pro-Brexit politicians from the European end via Brussels and European countries,
	or whether it's actually maneuvering people in politicians into positions of influence to subvert the process.
	And you see exactly the same thing here.
	Trump was elected on certain very core principles.
	The one I mentioned earlier.
	He was elected to stop people who want to kill Americans getting into the country.
	It doesn't matter whether they're Mexican rapists.
	It doesn't matter whether it's the evil bastard who killed Kate Steinley just at the time Donald Trump began his campaign.
	It doesn't matter whether it's lunatic Islamic nut jobs like the stabby stab guy at Ohio State University.
	Trump was elected on the basic proposition that it is not in the interests of free societies to pile up mountains of corpses on utopian delusions about diversity and tolerance.
	That's one of the most basic things.
	The most basic expression of that is that the southern border is going to be a genuine border.
	It's going to be as rigorous as the Vermont-Quebec border, where a Boucher Noel cannot penetrate the security cordon.
	And he is proposing to make the southern border as vigorous as the northern border.
	And already you see both within the Republican Party and in the broader movement, the donor class that basically wants cheap labor, all kinds of efforts to undermine core Trump principles.
	So he's got to get these things done.
	Get them done.
	Get them done in the first hundred days because otherwise the donor class will have seized control of the narrative and all the core positions will start to be undermined.
	And it is extremely dangerous if you tell people elections make no difference.
	In 2008, you lost the election, so you had Obamacare shoved down your throat, and you had gay marriage shoved down your throat, and you had transgender bathrooms shoved down your throat, and you had the war on terror reconfigured as workplace violence shoved down your throat because you lost, as Obama said.
	You lost, losers.
	Get used to it.
	You lost.
	You're a loser.
	You lost.
	Losers lose.
	You lost.
	Get the hell out of my way.
	That's what Obama said.
	This time round, the losers managed to win.
	And to tell them now, ah, but in this particular occasion, it doesn't count, is extremely dangerous and damaging.
	To tell free people there is no peaceful way they can change the direction of their country is deeply dangerous.
	Mark Stein for Rush will take your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, let's go to Henry in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
	Henry, you are live on America's number one radio show.
	Great to have you.
	Well, thank you, Mark.
	I wonder if you could explain sanctuary cities, where they came from, and what do they gain by being a sanctuary city?
	Well, they began about 30 years ago.
	Actually, I think a little earlier than that, because I think it was as a policy preference, it first started in the late 70s, as I believe, I think I'm right in saying, in Los Angeles, where the police were instructed not to ask the immigration status of people they stopped and arrested.
	And the idea being that if you were in the country illegally, they didn't want to know.
	In other words, they were not going to cooperate with U.S. immigration law.
	And that's fascinating to me.
	I mean, I mentioned that I've had my little difficulties in trying to bring a flautist into the country to play the flute for a couple of hours.
	We have cafeteria immigration law.
	You know, in other words, if some bureaucrat in Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City can decide, well, U.S. immigration law doesn't apply here, then why can't I say, well, U.S. immigration law doesn't apply to me.
	So screw you, and I'm bringing in my flautist.
	Once you have pick and choose laws, you are no longer a land of laws.
	You are a land of men.
	And that is why sanctuary cities are also at the other extreme, often the most lawless places in the land in order to, and I need look no further than Rah Emmanuel's sanctuary city of Chicago, where he says we want to maintain Chicago as a sanctuary.
	Yes, it's a sanctuary for illegal aliens and criminals and drug dealers and gang members, but it's not a sanctuary for law-abiding people who have to live there and get caught in the crossfire.
	And you mentioned, Henry, what do people get?
	What benefit do cities get by declaring themselves sanctuaries?
	Well, I mentioned California just now.
	California has a huge population, millions of people there, who are there illegally.
	And what people don't realize, for example, we've been talking a bit about the Electoral College today, but the Electoral College is not calculated on the basis of citizens.
	It is calculated on the basis of people, regardless of whether they're citizens, whether they're legal immigrants, or whether they're illegal immigrants.
	All that matters for the purposes of congressional apportionment is warm bodies.
	And it doesn't matter whether they've been here since they got off the Mayflower or they just came across the Rio Grande that morning.
	When the census counts them, that determines how many electoral college votes your state has.
	So California has 55 electoral college votes, in part because it has a lot of illegal immigrants.
	That's how they apportion the congressional districts.
	And in turn, that's how they determine the electoral college votes that each state has.
	So as a practical matter, if you have large numbers of illegal immigrants in your district, then your district gets smaller, and you can create an adjoining also Democrat district full of illegals.
	All you need to determine the biases of the electoral college is warm bodies.
	You don't need citizens.
	You don't need legal immigrants.
	Illegal immigrants can bulk up your electoral college votes.
	So there are real, as well as all the federal benefits you're entitled to.
	So there are real benefits to the whole sanctuary city field.
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	Today is Pearl Harbor Day, 75 years ago.
	And I mentioned at the top of the show those two privates who were the first guys to see on the very primitive radar system that prevailed back in those days the biggest spike they had ever seen on the oscilloscope as those German, as those Japanese planes headed towards them.
	Private George Elliott, Private Joe Lockard from Pennsylvania and from Illinois.
	If you want to know how the United States Navy has changed between Pearl Harbor and now, the U.S. Naval Academy is bringing in Google employees to provide transgender 101 training to midshipmen this week as part of an ongoing safe space training series.
	Do you get that?
	The U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Navy, they have safe spaces, just like the college campuses where all the snowflakes are doing transgender and colonialism studies.
	And you think, oh, well, that's just colleges.
	If you sign your kid up for the military, they don't learn about all the safe spaces and triggering and microaggressions.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	The U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. military in general are now as insane about the safe spaces and the triggering as any other campus in the United States.
	And so on the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Naval Academy is bringing in Google employees to provide transgender 101 training to midshipmen this week as part of an ongoing safe space training series.
	You know, Private George Elliott and Private Joe Locker, they were in a very unsafe space when they looked at that oscilloscope and saw what they calculated as over 50 Japanese planes heading straight at them.
	But they wouldn't even have seen that because as I said, it was pure chance that they happened to be looking at the oscilloscope after their shift had ended and they still had it switched on.
	And if they were doing it now, they wouldn't even be looking at the oscilloscope because they'd be off in the safe space training session learning which pronoun to address the lady who walks into the bathroom and happens to have a rather pronounced five o'clock shadow.
	That's the insanity.
	The biggest clown on this, and let's not forget him, General Casey, the chief of staff of the army, who after the Fort Hood massacre said quite specifically that, quote, as horrific as this tragedy was, I know this quote by heart because it's in my book, quote, as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity were to become a casualty, that would be even worse, unquote, said General Casey.
	No, it wouldn't.
	No, it wouldn't.
	Diversity is a morally neutral term.
	And you're a buffoon if you don't even know that.
	You could have a group of five nice Hillary-supporting NPR-listening liberal women all sitting around having chai lattes and saying, oh, wasn't Hillary's last speech absolutely brilliant.
	Five Hillary-supporting NPR-listening liberal women.
	Totally undiverse.
	They're all the same.
	So let's make it more diverse.
	And let's have four liberal, Hillary-supporting NPR listening women sitting alongside Sudan's leading clitoridectomy practitioner.
	Okay?
	It's fabulously diverse now, but it isn't the better for it.
	Diversity is a morally neutral term.
	And if, like this chump, General Casey, you don't realize that, you shouldn't be running, you shouldn't be running the United States Army.
	General Captain Hassan was the only mass murderer in history to give a PowerPoint presentation to the people he was planning to murder.
	And because they were all like General Casey, all of them were paralyzed in fear lest they be reported for not celebrating diversity.
	That is the journey we have come on across these 75 years.
	I'm not making any point about generals in general, just so we understand this.
	There's a big difference between this guy and General Mattis, for example, the new Secretary of Defense.
	There's an expression in the British Commonwealth that they have called parade generals, parade generals, and they're peacetime generals.
	And generally, the first thing that happens when you get into a war is that the parade generals screw up the first phase of the war and you have to replace the parade generals with real generals.
	General Casey is a classic parade general.
	He's got 13 corpses plus a dead unborn baby on his hands.
	And that's not bad enough for him.
	What would be really bad is if, quote, diversity, unquote, were to become a casualty.
	And so now on the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Naval Academy is teaching Transgender 101 to midshipmen as part of its safe space training series.
	The best thing you can understand about the world we live in is that it's not a safe space.
	And that is why countries need armies.
	Because for most of human history, the natural condition of this planet is that it is an unsafe space.
	And that unsafe space is called life.
	It's called the world.
	It's where the normal currents of human history course back and forth.
	And simply by proclaiming it a safe space, you do not make it so.
	That is as stupid as when you go to a sanctuary city or whatever and they declare it a nuclear-free zone.
	Yeah, yeah, make sure the Ayatollahs get that memo in Tehran before they let fly.
	The idea that the U.S. military is going along with this pathetic moral posturing is one of the most depressing things to consider on the journey that we have taken in the 75 years between December 7th, 1941 and December 7th, 2016.
	But the Naval Academy is marking the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor by teaching Transgender 101 to midshipmen.
	So they might not know anything about Pearl Harbor, but they'll know which pearls to wear when they want to use the ladies' bathroom.
	That is terrific.
	That's progress.
	That's 75 years of the modern world in a nutshell.
	Mark Stein for Rush.
	We'll take your calls in just a moment.
	Hey, Mark Stein in Farush.
	Let's go to Peter in New Orleans, Louisiana.
	Peter, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Mark, what is more dangerous, the Booge de Noel or the Kinder Egg?
	Because the Department of Homeland Security seems to be very, very proficient at confectionery confiscation.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	They're all licking their lips on the Canadian border post.
	They have no problems when it comes to the office Christmas party or in the case of Kindereggs, the Easter party.
	But if we just give every terrorist a kinder egg, there's no way they'll get into this country.
	No, no, no, that's true.
	You cannot get a kinder egg past Homeland Security.
	It's Bouch de Noel in the run-up to Christmas.
	It's Kindereggs in the run-up to Easter.
	Peter's alluding to a story I mentioned a couple of years ago on this show.
	I think I was here on the Monday after Easter, and I mentioned that my kids had come across the Canadian border and they'd bought a couple of kindereggs in Canada.
	And kinder eggs are legal in Canada, Germany, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, you name it.
	But they're banned in the United States because to use the official Homeland Security term, they include a non-nutritive embed.
	If you're wondering what a non-nutritive embed is, it's what other countries call a children's toy.
	And inside the chocolate egg, there's a toy, and the kid bites into the chocolate egg and then gets the toy out and plays with the toy.
	And the government of the United States bans the eggs on the grounds that you're kind of a non-nutritive embed inside chocolate.
	And so to protect my kid, my youngest child, they confiscated his kinder egg.
	And they were like 37 pages of paperwork and we could apply to get the egg returned to us.
	If we wanted to go to the Supreme Court, we could get the they all taken to a facility somewhere near Buffalo.
	And on Easter, all the entire Homeland Security Department goes to this big warehouse in Buffalo and they have the world's best Easter egg hunt because they've got a warehouse full of kinder eggs that they've confiscated from children attempting to enter the United States.
	And the purpose of it, if we are to regard the Department of Homeland Security as having any useful function, I suppose one might say that, you know, if it prevents one child choking on the non-nutritive embed, then yes, the vast bloated Homeland Security bureaucracy gorging itself on chocolate seized from the Moppets of America will have done its job.
	But in fact, if my kid is anything to go by, he's a couple of years older now, and he makes a point every time we're north of the border, he buys a ton of kinder eggs and he eats them 100 yards north of the United States border in full view of the border post.
	So all that customs and border protection agents has done, if he takes the position that kinder eggs truly are a danger to America's children, all he's done is actually endanger my kid's life.
	My kid attached no significance to kinder eggs until this incident.
	He liked them occasionally.
	A lot of times he wasn't in the mood for them, as and when, take it or leave it, didn't care one way or the other.
	Now he's now he's sick with it.
	He's sick.
	What heroin is to most of the people around here, kinder eggs are to my kid.
	He's just shoving them down his gullet non-stop, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security.
	Thank you for your call, Peter.
	I forgot to mention that.
	They basically got your holidays covered, folks.
	They seize Bush to Noel.
	Homeland Security sees Bush to Noel.
	And they ought to be confectionery.
	They ought to just build a giant egg-shaped facility for the Department of Homeland Security and cover it in confectioner's sugar.
	And then they would have the perfect symbolism of the Homeland Security bureaucracy.
	They get kinder eggs at Easter.
	They seize Bush to Noel at Christmas.
	I have no idea what they seize when it's Rosh Hashanah.
	What is that?
	Gefilterfish?
	I don't know.
	What is it?
	What do they get for Ramadan?
	Is there like baklava that they're piling up?
	What do they got going for them, these guys?
	Mark Stein, in for rush, having a great time.
	I don't want to let this story go, by the way, because it's about illegal immigrants using, quote, magic words to gain entry into the U.S. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times says that illegal immigrants have been coached to use so-called magic words when they're apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
	If you're wondering what the magic words are, well, obviously they're not Bush to Noel or Kindereggs.
	But if you say you have a credible fear of returning to your home country, you can gain entry while an asylum request is processed.
	So my flute player that I've been trying to bring into this country for two hours' work, he's got to play two numbers.
	And I'm spending a five-figure sum now to get him past Homeland Security.
	All he has to say is, oh, yes, I'm a flute player and the Taliban banned music in my country.
	And I'm terrified that they will smash my flute up and I won't be able to believe the flute anymore.
	And then they'll be able to come into the country, no problemo, under the genius priorities of U.S. Homeland Security.
	To come back to where we came in, Trump is a businessman.
	Being a businessman, you learn to prioritize.
	You can have a Homeland Security bureaucracy that criminalizes pastry and flute players, or you can have a Homeland Security bureaucracy that keeps the Boston Marathon guys and the San Bernardino fake marriage couple and the Ohio State University stabby-stabby stabber out of the country.
	Or you can carry on with the world's most expensive pastry guys.
	Your call, America.
	Mark Stein for Rush.
	We'll close it out in a moment.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Sophia Vergara from the TV show Modern Family is being sued by her own embryos.
	Apparently, the liberal position now is that an embryo is not a person, yet apparently has the legal standing of a plaintiff in court, because apparently these embryos, a trust fund by her ex-husband has been set up, and if the embryos are destroyed, the embryos can't access the trust fund.
	So in the liberal mindset, an embryo is not a fetus, is not a person, but a fetus can have a trust fund and sue to gain control of that trust fund.
	These are Sofia Vergara's fertilized eggs.
	So a fertilized egg has legal standing and can sue, but a kinder egg cannot sue.
	That is the United States.
	Rush returns tomorrow.

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