Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page

Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page

March 27, 2008

Story #1: Knut the Polar Bear Goes Insane from Celebrity

RUSH: Have you seen this story about Knut, the polar bear? You know, he's the little baby polar bear that the animal rights wackos wanted to kill rather than have it be raised by humans. This is in the UK Daily Mail: "Knut the polar bear has turned from a cuddly cub into a publicity-addicted psycho, one of his keepers has claimed. Markus Roebke said Berlin Zoo's celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience. 'Knut must go and the sooner the better,' he said, insisting that the bear should be sent to an animal park where he received less attention[.] 'He is addicted to the whole show, the human adulation. It is not healthy. 'He actually cries out or whimpers if he sees that there is not a spectator outside his enclosure ready to ooh and aah at him. 'When the zoo had to shut because of black ice everywhere he howled until staff members stood before him and calmed him down.'"

The keeper, here, Mr. Roebke, said, "The trouble is that he identifies himself as a human and not as a polar bear. And as long as he is with us he will always think of Thomas Doerflein, the keeper who brought him up when he was a baby, as his father. Knut needs publicity and that must change." We're not allowed to have...? Do you believe these nuts? We got a polar bear addicted to celebrity. The poor polar bear. "Mr. Roebke is not the only observer to question Knut's sanity," it says here. They think the polar bear is insane. They're blaming us. They're blaming humanity for it. "In January, a prominent animal conservationist branded him 'an animal psychopath'." You know, wait 'til this story hits the school kids. Wait 'til the kids who already think the polar bears are being wiped out because of the global warming hoax. Wait 'til they hear what evil humans have done to this poor bear.

Story #2: Ed Markey to Hold Hearings on Big Oil Gouging

RUSH: Get this, folks. "The Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming," this is Ed Markey's committee, "is going to hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 1st..." This has gotta be a hoax, but it looks official. "Tuesday, April 1st at 12PM in the Longworth House Office Building. It's entitled 'Drilling for Answers: Oil Company Profits, Runaway Prices, and Pursuit of Alternatives. Witnesses will be by invitation only." Now, normally, the Democrats want to impose higher prices on fuel, on energy, correct? And now they're going to have hearings when the prices have gone "too high." The purpose of Ed Markey's hearings, is to find out (again) if Big Oil is gouging people. They've wanted higher prices. They've begged for them! They think it's a great way to get conservation. How are we supposed to respond to the schizophrenic flip-flopping? It's like trying to argue with the insane. I think Markey ought to call as one of his witnesses, Knut the polar bear!

Story #3: NY Post on Spitzer: "And There He Ho's Again"

RUSH: The New York Post today got a great headline on Eliot Spitzer and "'There He Ho's Again' -- Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned. [He] regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution investigation," ladies and gentlemen.

Story #4: McDermott, Bonior Happy to Be Used by Saddam

RUSH: Folks, we're going to get to the Jim McDermott business and the guy in Michigan who was a double agent working for Saddam. The thing that you need to know, the Weekly Standard wrote a piece on this, is "Baghdad Jim" McDermott said he was happy to be used by Saddam. He was happy to be used. These guys accepted a trip to Iraq with their own set of inspectors before the war broke out, and it's just being assumed that, of course, they were unwittingly involved. They had no idea that Saddam was actually paying for their trip! Yeah. I'm not so sure I believe that, given these guys, Baghdad Jim and David Bonior -- who, by the way, was running the Edwards campaign.

Story #5: How the Rinnai Tankless Water Heater Works

RUSH: Every time I talk about the Rinnai Tankless Water Heater, people say, "I don't understand how it works. You say that it's there instantly, and it's always there, but it's only there when you want it. I don't know, Rush, how this happens if it's not storing hot water like a standard tank heater does." Ladies and gentlemen, I would love to tell you how this works, but the time constraints in a short little period like this prevent me from doing so, but there's a website that explains all this, and it's fascinating. The Rinnai Tankless Water Heater does what I say. You could have four showers going and a dishwasher and you're going to have all the hot water you need, and when you're finished you're not going to be wasting money spending money on storing more water to replace what you just used. Doesn't work that way. You can calculate how much money you're going to save. There's a website, ForeverHotWater.com. You can find out just how much money your specific home can save. The Rinnai Tankless Water Heater. It does work, it's almost miraculous. ForeverHotWater.com will answer your questions.

Story #6: Drive-Bys On Iraq: Less Violence, Less Coverage

RUSH: Associated Press: "Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared Monday that 'we are succeeding' and said he wouldn't change course -- even as the US death toll rose to 4,000 and the war entered its sixth year." The even-as clause is of course the reporter's opinion out there, not McCain's. The bottom line is -- and this is very interesting -- less violence in Iraq means less media coverage of what's going on in Iraq, does it not? Which, in turn, means less violence. Less coverage, less violence. Less violence, less coverage, less violence.

Story #7: Arnold Fires Brother-in-Law and Clint Eastwood

RUSH: Arnold Schwarzenegger has fired Clinton Eastwood. Now, this is hilarious. "After Clint Eastwood learned last week that his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer wanted him on the state parks commission, he spoke with Bobby Shriver, the governor's brother-in-law, who had also been dropped. Somewhat incredulous, they joked about it, each saying the other should be more offended. 'I talked to him the day we were not reappointed--'" this is about a toll road.

"The governor has said that he decided not to reappoint the men. ... He said their terms had expired and he wanted to give others a chance." Eastwood said, "I think it was just somebody got a bee under their bonnet at the right moment, so there we are. I guess he felt we were going to be guys who were going to be obstructionists for anything through state parks." Fire Eastwood and your brother-in-law just because they want a toll road to go through the state park or something.

Story #8: President Bush Addresses Taiwan "Mistake"

RUSH: Did you see the story: "President Bush, addressing an embarrassing flap that has strained US-China relations, told Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday that the shipment of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan was a mistake." Hell's bells, that's no mistake. The ChiComs are out there rattling sabers; they're firing missiles up; they're shooting things up out at space. This is a little message to Hu Jintao and the ChiComs. "Yeah, we can accidentally send some nuclear fuses to your pals right off your coast." I don't believe it was a mistake at all.

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