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January 23, 2008 |
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Story #1: Drive-Bys, Clintons Recycle Bush Lied Story
RUSH: I am stunned, ladies and gentlemen, that the Drive-Bys are reporting this. This is an election year, and it's an election year in which the Drive-Bys want Mrs. Clinton elected, so you've noticed that Iraq is off the front page. In fact, there are some people that want Iraq back on the front page. There's a story that came out -- I saw it last night -- two "independent" groups of journalists, or organizations, had examined the statements made by Bush and Rumsfeld leading up to the Iraq war, and they have found, what was the percentage, Snerdley? Seventy-five or 80% of them were lies or something. Now, the Iraq war is going fine. In fact, a story yesterday in the stack we didn't have a chance to get to about how they've now discovered that 90% of the insurgents were not even from Iraq. Now, we knew this long ago, but we told you this long ago. The Drive-Bys are just now getting around to it. Some civil war, huh? One of the many premises of the Democrat Party's opposition to the war, blown full hole. So now they come out with a thing last night that makes the news today, Bush lied. This was right out of Clinton, Inc. These are Clinton front groups doing this, disguised as independent advocacy groups or independent non-advocacy, whatever they are, nonprofits. But Bush lied. So they're doing what they always do, recycling things. These people want the Iraq war back on the front page because the news is good coming out of Iraq. But it's not going to be an issue other than, you know, did Bush lie about his vote and Mrs. Clinton.
 Story #2: Global Warming Makes Food Less Nutritious
RUSH: Try this headline: "Your baked potato may not be quite as nutritious by the end of the century, a new study suggests. As carbon dioxide levels continue to accumulate in the atmosphere due to the use of fossil fuels, the increase could cause a decrease in the nutritional value of many key food crops, says Max Taub of Southwestern University in Texas, who analyzed more than 200 experiments," "spearmints" for those of you in Rio Linda "conducted by other researchers. The experiments looked at the effects of higher levels of the greenhouse gas..." I may need some biological help here. Photosynthesis. Isn't what happens is, we exhale carbon dioxide, right? And then the plants and the trees and the grass using photosynthesis convert that back to oxygen. In other words, they feed off of what we exhale. We feed off of what they convert. So how can more carbon dioxide kill the plants and ruin their nutritional value of potatoes? It would be like saying too much oxygen could wipe us out.
Story #3: UN Allows 45,000 Deaths Per Month in Congo
RUSH: From the Associated Press: "Some 45,000 people die every month in Congo as the world's deadliest humanitarian crisis has failed to improve despite five years of relative peace. An estimated 5.4 million Congolese died between '98 and 2007 because of conflict, most from the rampant disease and food shortages stemming from fighting. The study found that life is still alarmingly precarious for Congolese despite the end of the war in 2002. When war ended in Congo, there was same level of dysfunction without the violence." Now, who's running the Congo? Who's there to make sure this doesn't happen? It's the United Nations, folks, in little blue hats, the peacekeepers and so forth. The UN! They're not doing their job. Maybe they are doing their job. Who knows what their intentions are? Well, the United Nations could be one of the most racist and anti-Semitic organizations on the planet as well. But whatever they're doing or not doing, it is taking years to get Congo in shape after the fighting stopped. Now, isn't it amazing you don't read about this stuff in Iraq -- and who's taking care of things in Iraq? It's the United States of America, particularly the United States military. Forty-five thousand people a month are dying in Congo, and the UN is there to ensure that it doesn't happen.
Story #4: Warm Oceans Will Lead to Fewer Hurricanes
RUSH: How many of you, going back to the summer of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, remember all the global warming stories the hoaxers were out pushing? "This is only a forerunner of what it's going to be! It's going to be so bad; it's going to be really worse. It's global warming, and global warming is causing increased sea surface temperatures, and the increased sea surface temperatures, why, they're providing all the fuel for these hurricanes, and it's going to be horrible!"
Well, from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel right down the road here in Ft. Lauderdale: "Following in the footsteps of an earlier study, government scientists [yesterday] said warmer oceans should translate to fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States. The reason: As sea surface temperatures warm globally, sustained vertical wind shear increases. Wind shear makes it difficult for storms to form and grow," because the shear just rips the tops off of them. "'Using data extending back to the middle 19th century, we found a gentle decrease in the trend of US landfalling hurricanes when the global ocean is warmed up,' Chunzai Wang, a physical oceanographer and climate scientist with NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, said."
Wow! It was supposed to be just the opposite. Now, what are the global warming hoaxers going to do with this? Because this is the ocean temperatures rising, and they say that's due to global warming, resulting in fewer hurricanes. By the way, who's right on this? Well, you have to take a guess. Who really knows? Take a wild guess, but last summer sea surface temperatures were scorching and all these hurricanes that formed out there didn't last, and it was the wind shear. They blame it on El Niño or La Niña, and what are those? Warming or cooling of the Pacific sea surface temperatures!
Story #5: Op-ed: High Taxes Lead to Higher Productivity
RUSH: We have an item in the Stack; this is from a New York Times op-ed contributor -- his name is Len Burman, B-u-r-m-a-n. I don't know who he is because I didn't print the second page of this. He's probably an economics expert. Anyway, here's the headline: "Make the Tax Cuts Work." And how do you make the tax cuts work? You get rid of them. You increase taxes. His theory is that the higher taxes are, the harder we will all work in order to stay even with our net income when we have the tax cuts. That's the fastest way to bring us out of this, quote, unquote, pseudo-recession. Hoo-kay.
Story #6: Hollywood Iraq Movies Snubbed by Oscars
RUSH: You saw the Academy Award nominations? Not one message film, not one Iraq film on the list. A lot of people have never seen half the movies on the list. They're really obscure, some of them.
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