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| February 25, 2008 |
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Story #1: Suicidal Pets on Antidepressants?
RUSH: Look at this. This is how this stuff creeps in: "'Suicidal Pets Get Antidepressants' -- Pets at risk of self-harm are increasingly being prescribed antidepressants because they cannot discuss problems in their lives with others, a leading veterinarian says." You know, I must admit I have been wondering about this. Punkin has been doing strange things lately. Punkin's been trying to poke her nose into closet doors that she never cared about before. Past five or six days she jumped up on my sink when I'm in the process of going through the normal hygiene routine in the morning. Today she woke me up for no reason whatsoever. Other times I'll walk upstairs and she's sitting in her hammock looking depressed and... wait a minute, and I say to myself, "Do you realize how silly you sound? You are an idiot. You're looking at an animal, and you're thinking the animal is depressed and sulking, because you are humanizing, you are projecting if you were laying in that hammock, you might be depressed." We don't know this stuff.
It's all based on birds plucking their feathers out. Parrots seem to be the most susceptible to depression, cockatiels here also. But tropical birds seem to have been most affected by depression. Antidepressants were only used in the most extreme cases here, according to the vet. "Firstly, we will change the environment of the animal and make sure it has more stimulation and toys. When we have ruled out underlying medical problems, we try to break the cycle by using Prozac… [which] is given to the parrots in liquid form. It doesn't cure all animals, but around two-thirds respond to the treatment. In a small number of cases things will go well until we wean them off Prozac and the problems return." We're talking little birds here. We're turning them into drug addicts. What? What's good to know, Snerdley? What are you talking about? Snerdley has birds. Are they depressed, or is it maybe the fact that they just don't like being confined in cages and in houses? They're animals! We're projecting.
I'll tell you where this is going to head. We're projecting our own psychoses and our own neuroses, which we have had to invent in our generation, onto our animals. It is the owners who are running around depressed with empty lives and, probably because the owners are depressed, the birds sense it and they get worried something is going to happen to them when the owner is acting like a maniac, and yet we run around and think something is wrong with the bird. Is there suicide in the animal kingdom? Other than illness, have they documented mental illness? I mean, an animal will get sick, and knows when to die, they just do. Dogs, pets, their time, they know it. But is there actual suicide out there? Lemmings. Lemmings. How could I forget, lemmings. Well, I'm not saying they don't get attached, but it's hard for an animal that has no concept of its own awareness, of its own existence, to commit suicide. They don't, folks, they don't. I love them, you know that, but they just don't.
 Story #2: McCain Has Big Trouble with FEC
RUSH: You know, I mentioned this on Friday, might have been Thursday. I think it probably went by most of you, despite my extraordinary communicative skills. But it's now all over the Drive-By Media. San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, any number of places, "McCain Dodges Bullet," New York Times story, "But Now Faces Fiscal Bombshell." This is about his desire to pull out of the public-funded portion of the campaign, after saying he wasn't going to do so. Howard Dean has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over this, but the problem is the Federal Election Commission's gone dormant because the Democrats are playing politics, and there's an opening, and they haven't filled it, and it means they can't come to a quorum at the FEC, so nobody's there to enforce any rules! They can enforce them after the fact once somebody gets appointed and so forth. But the warning is, and it's from the Republican chairman of the FEC, that "McCain may not be able to drop out of the presidential public financing system. If he can't, he could be outspent by the Democratic nominee by 10-to-1 -- or more -- before the GOP convention in September. Because of a dispute in the Senate over one of President Bush's nominees to the agency, the FEC lacks a quorum to hear McCain's case. 'It just puts McCain in a pickle,' said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. In the short term, McCain has turned the controversy over a story published in the New York Times to his advantage. But reverberations from the lobbyist story may dog him through the November election."
And again, by the way, the Chronicle story here refers to me decrying the Drive-By Media. So it has entered the vernacular now. "Political experts said the controversy leaves McCain with some vulnerabilities heading into the fall campaign." So what's interesting is his own campaign finance rules are proving to be a thorn in his side.
Story #3: NY Times on Conservatives and McCain
RUSH: The New York Times: "Distrust of McCain Lingers Over '05 Deal on Judges." You know, I really love you people at New York Times. We can always count on you people. You love writing stories telling us what makes us mad after you picked our candidate!
Story #4: Communism Survives in Castro Cuba
RUSH: From the Associated Press: "Cuba's Communist System Unshaken," as though this is a good thing. "Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but leaving the island's communist system unshaken." Thank you, AP, it's a good thing: Communism is still in full force in Cuba.
Story #5: Family Stabbing Over Hillary and Barack
RUSH: Boy, it's worse than I thought out there. Now there has been a stabbing involving two people arguing over Hillary and Barack. It is from Upper Providence, Pennsylvania. "The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office is investigating a politically motivated stabbing that left one in-law hospitalized and another in prison. Authorities said brothers-in-law Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds were involved in a verbal altercation [over] Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside their family home on Honey Locust Court in Upper Providence. Authorities said Ortiz, a registered Republican and Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed Shurelds, an Obama supporter, in the stomach. Shurelds was flown to an area hospital and was listed in critical condition. Ortiz was jailed on $20,000 bail. If convicted of a felony crime, he will not be able to vote in the upcoming election." Ha! That's the conclusion the Drive-Bys come to? The guy should have not done this; now he won't be able to vote. So one brother-in-law stabs another in a voting argument over Hillary and Barack. Wow! That is some unity.
By the way, speaking of Democrats and stabbing and fainting, if it's happening now in February, can you imagine what's going to be happening at the Democrat convention in Colorado in August? That's going to be something to look forward to!
Story #6: The Lowest-Rated Oscar Show Ever
RUSH: Yeah, I saw Michael Clayton. Oscar ratings are the lowest ever, 14% below the lowest ever. Dark, anti-American, depressing movies are not desired by people.
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