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January 5, 2009 |
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Story #1: Jimmy Carter's Habitat Homes Falling Down
RUSH: By the way, Jimmy Carter-built houses are crumbling and falling down in northern Florida. The project, of course, called Habitat for Humanity. They used a bunch of bad wood, they put these houses up so quickly that they're starting to crumble in areas of north Florida. Shoddy construction, they say.
 Story #2: NYT Warns of New Danger: Third-Hand Smoke
RUSH: The New York Times has warned us in a story two days ago about a new cigarette hazard, third-hand smoke. "Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a fan to clear the air for their children, but experts now have identified a related threat to children’s health that isn’t as easy to get rid of: third-hand smoke. That's the term being used to describe the invisible yet toxic brew of gases and particles clinging to smokers’ hair and clothing, not to mention cushions and carpeting, that lingers long after second-hand smoke has cleared from a room. The residue includes heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials that young children can get on their hands and ingest, especially if they’re crawling or playing on the floor." Third-hand smoke. "Doctors from MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston coined the term 'third-hand smoke' to describe these chemicals in a new study that focused on the risks they pose to infants and children."
Why not just ban these things? Why not just ban these? This is another thing that is patently ridiculous. This is insane, and yet there will be people left and right throughout this country who will buy this, who will eat it up, who will think that it's true, just as they thought that oat bran would give them 50 years of extra life, just as they thought that caffeine was going to kill them and give them heart attacks. They'll eat this up and they'll just ban the things. You see, all this is is another excuse to tax, to regulate behavior, to create divisions between people. But they're never going to be able to make the case in my house, because I have a ventilation system called thermal displacement. There are no toxins from the cigars I smoke in my house, or that anybody else smokes. You could come to my house and you could sniff the carpet. I don't have carpets. Rugs. You could sniff the fabric on the sofa. It would smell brand-new to you after ten years of cigar puffery because thermal displacement takes it out. But I didn't do it to eliminate third-hand smoke dangers to kids, 'cause there was no such reference. We are in an era where we are all children and cannot do for ourselves anything. We have to be babied and led along by our parents who are people in think tanks, hospitals, doctors, nurses, and elected officials in Washington.
Story #3: Global Warming? Arctic Ice as Plentiful as in 1979
RUSH: Again, an illustration of how ridiculous things are. The arctic ice is as plentiful as it was in 1979. End of the year, 2008, arctic ice as plentiful as it was in 1979, and 1979 happened to be the year that TIME and Newsweek magazines both did cover stories on the coming ice age.
Story #4: Illinois State Workers to Get Ethics Training
RUSH: Get this AP headline from yesterday: "Illinois State Workers to Get Ethics Training -- Illinois is set to hold ... an ethics course for state workers this Wednesday. More than 200 state employees are expected to take part in the ethics seminar at University of Illinois-Chicago." The course is structured around teaching people how to do what Blago did without getting caught! The Chicago way is to not get caught. This is an embarrassment to people in Chicago, and they're going to fix it.
Story #5: As Predicted: Bailout Proposed for Madoff Victims
RUSH: I predicted to you there would be bailout proposals for Bernie Madoff's ripped-off people. Oh, and by the way, I read somewhere a story about all of the great liberal Democrat charities that have gone bankrupt now because they invested in Madoff. I'll tell you, before this is all said and done, we will find the money to bail out some of these institutions that got shafted in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Story #6: So What? Leon Panetta Named to Head CIA
RUSH: Well, everybody is freaking out here around me over the fact that Obama has named Leon Panetta to head the CIA. So what? This is the Clinton administration version 2009, and Obama's chosen another one. Big deal. You know, I could do a Newt Gingrich on you, and I could say, "You know, I met Leon Panetta once, I met him out at the AT&T Pro-Am, he's very nice. I really like Leon Panetta. I think we can work with him." But I'm not Newt or the other Republicans.
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