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January 9, 2008 |
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Story #1: Everyone Needs a Rinnai Tankless Water Heater
RUSH: While I was in Missouri, I had to go and use the restroom. It took ten minutes to get some hot water where I had to use the restroom. I'm thinking, "This place needs a Rinnai water heater." We talk about these Rinnai water heaters. We have been for a long time. When you want hot water and you're in a hurry, and it's not there, and you gotta wait for it, doesn't come, sometimes happens in your home. It will never happen if you have a Rinnai tankless water heater. It guarantees an endless supply of hot water. They've got a website: www.ForeverHotWater.com The best thing about it is, you know, would you drive a model T? Because that's what these old-fashioned water heaters are, these tanks. They have not been improved in 80 years or so. There is something better out there. It's an up-front cost putting it in, but it's the money that you will save and the money that you will not waste on hot water going forward. If you're remodeling your house, something to think about. Rinnai tankless water heaters. I wish this place yesterday had one. Not going to name the place, don't want to embarrass it. ForeverHotWater.com.
Story #2: Left-Wing Kooks Think Hillary Stole Election
 RUSH: Now, this is funny. If you go to the Democrat Underground, one of these kook fringe wacko websites, they think there was fraud in New Hampshire yesterday on the Democrat side -- and at least they are being consistent! Remember after the 2004 election, the presidential race? This is so funny to remember this. All the exit polls had Kerry winning big time. Bob Shrum, his campaign manager walked in to Kerry at 5:30 in the afternoon and said, "May I be the first to call you 'Mr. President,'" and then, of course, all these states came in, Florida, Ohio, and Kerry lost. The Democrats said, "There's fraud here. Look at the exit polls! The exit polls had our guy winning." Everybody is saying: exit polls.
The real votes were counted. Those exit polls are not real votes. "Somebody tampered with it! Somebody tampered!" So, in order to be consistent, the Democrats would have to claim voter fraud now since the Democrat polling was so off. I mean, Obama was going to win by five to ten points, and Hillary wins by, what, two or three? But if the Democrats are going to be consistent, they need to look into voter fraud. In this case, they may be right, and I cannot emphasize enough: We laugh at and we make fun of these polling units here, and we've got 'em pegged. They do all this stuff to make news and to shape news, rather than to reflect it. But this is bad, because they were all wrong, and they were wrong huge -- and they have got to find out what happened. You know, credibility is everything to these people, and they had it right on the Republican side, and they had it so wrong on the Democrat side. There's got to be a reason. Now, whether they'll have the objectivity to go in and find the real reason and tell us, that's another matter. But they'll have to come up with something, and if it doesn't look good for them, whatever they come up with, will be shaped and formed into something else, that they think we will buy.
Story #3: California Wants to Control Your Thermostat
RUSH: I have had a story -- it has nothing to do with the election -- in my Stack of Stuff here for days, and, of course, all the news in the news stacks has sort of been shoved aside because of the intense focus of the presidential primaries. But there's something going on in California that you need to know about. California. The state government of California is making a play for their right, the state's right, to have remote control over the thermostat in your house -- based on energy consumption, carbon footprint, and global warming. This story has been in the LA Times. It has been in some of the San Francisco papers. I have it two or three times in the stack over here. "California utilities would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards." This is what will happen if global warming is declared by California to be "an emergency event." If they declare global warming in California to be an emergency event, that means they'll get control of your thermostat every day, because you don't have global warming alerts like you have smog alerts or other kind of inclement weather alerts.
Global warming, once it's declared to be an emergency, it's going to be for 30 years, 30 40-years, right, while we wait for this to play out. So in California they are making a play to have control over your thermostat from the utility company, meaning you will not be able to raise it or lower it to your preference. There will be governors or limits on your thermostat from the utility company, and it will be whatever the state mandates. This is not that far removed from any number of other things, like the lightbulb switch: the banning of the incandescent lightbulb by the year 2012; an absolute meaningless, worthless gesture that hardly anybody raised an eyebrow over, and yet it represents one of the most dramatic increases in government control over your freedom and your life that you can imagine -- and now they want, in California, control over your thermostat, in emergencies. What if they declare global warming an emergency? Who would stop them? Hell, half the state thinks it's happening, if not more. (Left Coast new castrati impression) "It is an emergency, Mr. Limbaugh! We don't have much time to save the planet and save ourselves." Get used to it, folks. If we're not careful, this is the kind of stuff we're going to elect people to start implementing all over the country.
Story #4: Obama Wins Nevada Culinary Union Endorsement
RUSH: This is one of the stories that was leaked, or at least it was reported yesterday prior to the results coming in: "Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of the Nevada chapter of the Service Employees International Union." This is the casinos, the kitchens, all that stuff out there in Las Vegas. The union claims to represent 17,500 health care and county workers in Nevada. Its executive board approved the decision in a conference call last night shortly after Obama came in second to Hillary in a New Hampshire primary. The president, Vicky Hedderman, said she believes that Obama is a candidate who would take the campaign all the way through November. The decision here is said to be a blow to the campaign of the Breck Girl.
The Breck Girl has the backing of the 600,000-member SEIU California state council. He had hoped to put that manpower to work in neighboring Nevada. Now, it's interesting, Hillary's campaign chairman in Nevada is Dingy Harry Reid's son. And of course this union endorsement is big, but I really don't know how much these union endorsements help. I don't know how many of these union people actually vote the way that their leadership tells them to or endorses. It's bigger in terms of money than it is -- well, its big effect is money and it could have an impact on votes, obviously, I just don't know in this day and age how large an effect.
Story #5: Strike Kills Golden Globe Political Pontification
RUSH: Have you seen how everybody is moaning and whining that the Golden Globes have been canceled? Oh, yeah, they're whining that there won't be a big awards show, that there won't be any big parties out there, limo drivers a thousand bucks a day, not getting any jobs, all the caterers, nothing going on, nothing to do, just horrible. There's a bonus here that nobody is thinking about, and that is no social preening on the part of the award winners as they go up to make their acceptance speeches. We're not going to have to listen to Golden Globe winners pontificate on politics, as they accept their awards. I think it's probably good news for the environment. These award shows have an incredible carbon footprint that probably is not offset. No limos driving around, caterers not having to fire up the kitchens, hotels with not full occupancy, it's a good thing for the environment, particularly out in California.
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