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February 16, 2009 |
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Story #1: Hassan Chop! Muslim Beheads Wife in Buffalo
 RUSH: I saw this on Saturday, and I thought that it was a joke. It turned out it's not a joke, but I thought this was a joke. The headline, this is from the Daily Telegraph blog, which is why I thought it was a joke. The headline is: "Hassan Chop." And here's the open, the lede: "New York man Muzzammil Hassan founded pro-Islam station Bridges TV five years ago to combat the negative public image of Muslims. He is currently under arrest for beheading his wife." This is from Buffalo. Have you heard about this?
Okay, now, that's the lede, after the headline: "Hassan Chop." I'm saying, boy, you people in Buffalo, you're gonna create some problems here if you're making jokes like this. It's not a joke! Okay, "Hassan Chop," here's the lede. Wait 'til you hear the caption of the picture. "New York man Muzzammil Hassan founded pro-Islam station Bridges TV five years ago to combat the negative public image of Muslims. He is currently under arrest for beheading his wife."
They've got a picture of the lovely couple standing in the control room of the guy's TV network, and the caption of the picture, and I kid you not: "The couple in happier times, before Hassan removed his wife's head." Now, if you don't believe me, I'm going to show this on the Dittocam, I'm going to zoom in here. That's the happy couple. Now, you can't read the caption, at least on my monitor, I can't read it but you must understand, folks, I have a monitor here that does not show me anything at all what you see, but can you read the words on that? I can't. It's whited out, right? Well, you can see "Hassan Chop" there at the top. It's a shame you can't read the caption. But I'll send the link up to Koko at RushLimbaugh.com so he can post this. Come to find out on Sunday, it shows up on the Drudge Report with a different story in the Buffalo News. It's true. "Hassan Chop." Started a TV network five years ago to combat the negative public image of Muslims, currently under arrest for beheading his wife. And, by the way, after he did it, he went to the cops to tell 'em. He took them to the scene. It's SOP in that culture in certain parts of the world. "The couple in happier times before Hassan removed his wife's head."
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Story #2: Obama Removes Churchill Bust from Oval Office
RUSH: No, I don't think they even asked for it. They didn't even ask for it back. He just saw it sitting there in the Oval Office, said, "What the hell is this?"
 Somebody said, "Well, that's a bust of Winston Churchill."
"Churchill? Why is that here?"
"Well, the Brits gave it to George Bush after 9/11."
"Well, get it outta here."
"Do you want to put it someplace else in the White House?"
"No. Get it out of here!"
So Obama sent it back to the Brits and it's over there in the British embassy in Washington. I'm not kidding you. He walks in the Oval Office, he sees the Churchill statue. The British gave it to George W. Bush after 9/11. They didn't even ask for it back. He just decided he didn't want the bust of Churchill plaguing him as he saw it every day in the Oval Office.
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Story #3: Sex-Changed Wife Exercises Husband to Death
RUSH: How many times on this program, ladies and gentlemen, have I lectured accurately about exercise, as related to weight loss? And how many times have people argued with me? Not just my own staff, but several of you have sent me caustic e-mails, have called me on the EIB Network phone and discussed my stubbornness about this? Yet I keep producing data that indicates without exception, that exercise as a means of losing weight, is irrelevant. Now, a doctor said to me, "Rush, you're right about this. You're really right about it. However, if you start an exercise regimen and if you just do it every day -- for example, if you just force yourself to get on the treadmill. Start out 15 minutes a day, then move it up to 30. Once you do it, once you got a week with it under your belt you'll have such guilt over having that piece of pie you won't do it because it will make all the stuff on the treadmill worthless."
He said, "This is how exercise can help you eat less."
I said, "Doc, exercising increases my appetite. The first two or three days of strenuous exercise, it doesn't. After that the appetite becomes voracious, and it's a never-ending cycle."
I have spoken often of the pitfalls of exercise, based on the false premise. In light of that I'd like to add to my repertoire with this story from Chardon, Ohio: "A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water. Surveillance video showed Christine Newton-John, 41, pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs, said Middlefield Police Chief Joseph Stehlik. The chief said he counted 43 times in which [the 41-year-old wife] prevented her husband from leaving the water, and Mason rested his head on the side of the pool several times while gasping for breath." "'The video is bone-chilling. The whole case is very sinister,' said police chief Joseph Stehlik." Mason, the 73-year-old husband of the 41-year-old Newton-John "had a heart attack on June 2 after the extended swim session in Middlefield, Ohio. A police officer who had investigated previous complaints that Mr Mason was being abused pursued the case because he suspected there was more to the death," and there was. I'll give you the rest of it after the break. But don't talk to me about exercise, especially when women push it. Remember what Delilah did to Samson.
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 RUSH: Okay. When we last were together, ladies and gentlemen, three-and-a-half minutes ago, I was telling you about the story involving 41-year-old Christine Newton-John, who exercised her 73-year-old husband, James Mason, to death -- literal death -- in their swimming pool. She was dragging him around. There's a video of this. The cops have seen it. She was dragging him around there by his arms and legs, not letting him out of the pool until he assumed room temperature. Now, I know a lot of you are thinking, "Okay, what's the story? A 73-year-old guy, 41-year-old woman." Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
"The deceased," James Mason, 73, was "a longtime friend of his wife's family." James Mason knew his wife "as John Vallandingham before" John Vallandingham had a chopadickoffamy operation and became a woman. This happened in 1993, and John Vallandingham after the chopadickoffamy... This not an addadictomy; this is a chopadickoffamy. He (she)"changed her name in honour of Olivia Newton-John, the singer and star of the hit movie Grease. The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate." Did you know that about Kentucky, that you could change your gender on a birth certificate? I did not know that about Kentucky.
Story #4: Women Less Tolerant of Each Other Than Men Are
RUSH: What's this from? This is from the UK Telegraph. You know, journalism is so much better from the Brits these days. It just is. It not just these oddball, weirdo stories. The day-to-day coverage of things happen in this country, it's just so much better than the Drive-Bys here in the United States. Headline: "Women Less Tolerant of Each Other Than Men Are, Study Says -- Women are less tolerant of each other than men are, according to a new study which may explain why some women prefer to have a male boss." I've always known this. I have known this. I have. This has been a staple of my repertoire since the mid-eighties when I started doing talk radio. Men never notice this, but my illustration's always this. You have an attractive woman walking down the street as in Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman; and all the guy wants is, "Please look at me. Please notice me," is staring at her. He does not notice all the other women in the store, on the street, staring daggers at this woman. "How dare she wear that in public? Who does she think she is?" I've known this as an expert on these kinds of things for many, many moons.
"The research, published in the US journal Psychological Science, found that women formed a negative view of their peers much quicker than men did. The team from Emmanuel College in Boston asked male and female college students to rate their roommates under different scenarios. When asked to judge how they would rate their roommates if they carried out a single fictional act of negative behavior, after they had been otherwise completely trustworthy, women were far more likely to be critical of them. Men, on the other hand, were much more tolerant," and that's because the men want sex. We're talking college students here and men have learned to be tolerant, to put up with anything, to say anything. So, at any rate, some of the lighthearted fare before we now get into the dead-serious news stories having to do with the overall attack and assault on capitalism in the United States of America.
Story #5: El Rushbo Channel Surfs by "Nights in Rodanthe"
RUSH: Before we get back to things -- has anybody seen, you three people, Snerdley, Brian, and Dawn, have you seen the movie Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere and Diane Lane? Yesterday afternoon I was channel surfing around and I saw it at the point where they're in the inn there on the beach and she plays a record, an LP, an album, and I can't recognize songs I've never heard. All I could hear was the percussion and the beat. I said, "Wow, this sounds cool." What I thought it was, but it's not, was Tim McGraw, "I love it, I like it, I want some more of it." So I waited 'til the episode of the movie -- well, I didn't wait, I fast forwarded to the credit roll because they always list the songs.
And there was nothing in the list of songs that gave me any indication of what the song was, stuff by Count Basie, I know this wasn't Count Basie, this had to be a country tune, but there was no artist up there that looked like a country artist. So somebody said go out and buy the soundtrack. The soundtrack, what's that going to cost, twelve bucks? I'm not going to spend twelve bucks on a soundtrack I don't even know what the song is on it, especially in an economic crisis, twelve bucks and I'd have to listen to every song to figure out what it is. Do you know what the song was that I'm talking about? (interruption) Oh, don't give me that. The movie wasn't closed-captioned so I don't know that it was a great love story. Did the guy die?
Is that what happened when the mudslide happened with his...? I don't care. I couldn't figure it out, because I couldn't hear the dialogue. No, I was not watching love stories all weekend. I was channel surfing around and I happened to tune in as she puts the needle on the record there and I heard the tune, said, "Whoo, this is cool." I started even grooving to it myself. It was pay-per-view. I'm a DirecTV platinum member. I get it all. I don't have to order, it's just there. (interruption) I'm not embarrassed about anything. I was not watching love stories on television. What if I was? What if I was watching? By the way, it was Sunday, which is Valentine's Day plus one. Valentine's Day was Saturday. It's not why my eyes are itching. I haven't been watching too many love stories.
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Story #6: Drive-Bys Describe Chavez As Obama-like Figure
RUSH: Oh, did you hear about Hugo Chavez? Scary stuff. Hugo Chavez, ladies and gentlemen, won a referendum to eliminate term limits for himself. He was going to have to leave in 2012. Now he can stay forever. And the media covering it calls it a great shot in the arm for the socialist state of Venezuela. The story about this says that Chavez, policy-wise, is not that popular, but people have a great personal connection to him. They think he's bigger than life. They trust him to do the right thing. It sounds so familiar to the average Obama voter and supporter.
Story #7: California's Largest Cash Crop: Marijuana
RUSH: Do you know what the largest crop in California is? What is the largest crop in California? Brian? Marijuana is exactly right. No, and listen to the numbers. And I'll tell you why this is important, because the state of California has got this $42 billion budget deficit, and the assembly realizes they're getting no tax money for it. They're considering decriminalizing it for the purpose -- this is how it all happens. This is how you get rotten socialist economic policies, which lead to the cultural rot of a society. Marijuana is California's largest cash crop. It is valued at $14 billion annually. That's nearly twice the value of California's grape and vegetable crops combined! And these are government statistics. "A recent report pegged marijuana as two-thirds of the economy of Mendocino County, a ganja hotbed north of San Francisco. That's not surprising -- it costs $400 to grow a pound of pot that can sell for $6,000 on the street.
"But the state doesn't receive any revenue from its cash cow. Instead, it spends billions of dollars enforcing laws pegged at shutting down the industry and inhibiting marijuana's adherents. Of course, there's a reason for that. Marijuana's social costs may include addiction and rehabilitation treatment and lost productivity. Yet these are minute compared with the extensive social costs of alcohol or tobacco. Of course, just legalizing pot wouldn't automatically harvest revenues for the state. An organized system of regulating sales and collecting taxes would need implementing. And it's possible that general drug use could rise, though the debate that pot is a gateway drug to harder substances is inconclusive. ... Put it all together, and California could potentially wipe some $3 billion off its budget deficit by letting its people puff and pay," on the largest crop in the state of California. Whoa. As I say, this is how it happens. Economic disasters, bad economic decisions, lead to a cultural rot, as all of this devolves.
Story #8: Madison Legislates Against Car Door Carelessness
RUSH: "A proposed ordinance that would protect not only bikers, but also pedestrians and drivers, from carelessly opened car doors received an endorsement from the city's safety board Tuesday night. The Public Safety Review Board voted unanimously to recommend the ordinance for approval by the City Council. It will be taken up by one more committee -- the city's Pedestrian-Bicycle-Motor Vehicle Commission -- before it goes to the council for final approval." The Pedestrian-Bicycle-Motor Vehicle Commission in Madison, Wisconsin. "Ald. Robbie Webber, a sponsor of the ordinance, stressed that the ordinance protects any users of the road from being hit by a car door." No, it doesn't. "The ordinance calls for a $100 ticket for a motorist opening a vehicle's door unsafely or interfering with traffic and a $50 ticket for leaving a car door open longer than necessary. 'It's really just a question of common sense,' she said. 'People thought it was on the books already.'" This is not a matter of common sense. It has come to this. It is not a matter of common sense. It's the government taking over our lives so we don't need to have any common sense. Then you add a tax to pull in more money to the government coffers.
Now, I will admit, it happens to me three out of five days on the way home from work. I'll tell you it happens right across from the church there, right in front of the little grocery store and drugstore, and these aging drivers, you know, they try to parallel park going in nose first, the tail end of the car is hanging about two feet out in the street, and then grandpa or grandma opens the door without any regard for anybody coming, and it might take them 20 seconds to hoist themselves out of there. You get used to this. So you're prepared when you see some seasoned citizen parking in front of the drugstore, you realize they're not going to have any consideration if a car's coming, they're just going to open the door. So you wait. It's called defensive driving.
Now, I guarantee you if they had the police where I live have to monitor this -- (laughing) Frankly, if the door opens into a bicycle rider I won't care. I think they ought to be off the streets and on the sidewalk. Don't misunderstand here, you bike riders, do not misunderstand this, but I mean if you're going to get in the street, get over there, get over as far right in the lane as you can. You ought to see Saturday morning where I live. It looks like a swarm of mosquitoes. It causes you to take an alternate route. And so now poor bike riders, some old codger opens the car door, bam! The bike rider does a head flip over the door. I haven't seen that. Now they want to fine you for not only opening the door, you don't close it soon enough, you get a $50 fine in Madison, Wisconsin. (laughing)
Story #9: Porkulus Broke Seven Obama Campaign Promises
RUSH: How many promises did Obama break during the process of getting the stimulus bill passed in Congress? The number is seven. Here are the promises that were broken: "Make government open and transparent." "Make it 'impossible' for congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects." "Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public." Republicans were shut out. "No more secrecy," he said. Number five: "The public will have five days to look at the bill" on the website -- ha-ha -- this is day four. He's going to sign it tomorrow. You won't know what's in it. Nobody knows what's in it! Nobody knew what was in it when they voted for it. And seven: "We will put every pork barrel project online." Not one of Obama's promises were met in the entire process.
Story #10: Lead Regulations About to Ruin More Businesses
RUSH: I'll have more details on this tomorrow, but there's a new limit on lead in children's products. It means books are going to have to be burned and dirt bikes taken off showroom floors. A hundred million dollars in inventory is going to have to be taken out of stores. Government regulations are about to ruin yet another business.
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