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May 19, 2009 |
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Story #1: Monkey Fossil Hailed as the Missing Link
 RUSH: Drudge had as a lead item up there this morning on his page a story from the UK, Sky News: "Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution." It's all about how Darwin would be thrilled to be alive today. "Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution." It's a one-foot, nine-inch-tall monkey, and it's a lemur monkey described as the eighth wonder of the world. "The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today --" So I guess this is settled science. We now officially came from a monkey, 47 million years ago. Well, that's how it's being presented here. It's settled science. You know, this is all BS, as far as I'm concerned. Cross species evolution, I don't think anybody's ever proven that. They're going out of their way now to establish evolution as a mechanism for creation, which, of course, you can't do, but I'm more interested in some other missing link. And that is the missing link between our failing economy and prosperity.
How many thousands or millions of years will it be before somebody makes the connection to our failing economy and prosperity, Barack Obama? If we're looking for missing links, let's look for him, because right now he's getting no blame, no coverage whatsoever, as being instrumental in the drop in American prosperity, as the decline in all elements of the American economy. It is his economy. Nobody wants to connect it to him yet. It's not just Obama. It's Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as well. It's one of these things; economy is going to go to hell in a handbasket further, and we wonder how long it will take for the missing link to that to be discovered outside of this program, the missing link there being Barack Obama.
Story #2: Liberals Value the Planet More Than Human Life
RUSH: Matt Spivey today writing at the AmericanThinker.com in a piece called "Obama at Notre Dame" has a great line in here. As Obama is still making his announcement with all of his acolytes standing behind him smiling and looking proud as they can be as they set about the destruction of the US economy as we have known it. "Only in a liberal's mind would saving the planet carry more value than saving a life." All of this is being done on the basis, under the auspices of, "We have to save the planet! We've gotta reduce our dependence on foreign oil," yada yada yada yada yada. So you've gotta save the planet; we gotta move fast. "Only in a liberal's [perverted] mind," I added the word perverted, "would saving the planet carry more value than saving a life."
Story #3: Democrats Refuse to Fund Gitmo Closing
RUSH: This is AP: "President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday. With debate looming on Obama's spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo's 241 detainees." Now, why would this be? Obama said he's going to close Club Gitmo in January 2010. Now, the Democrats say sorry, pal, we're not going to give you the money for that. Any guesses? Why would the Democrats turn on Obama on this? Why? They don't want to lose in 2010, and the polling data on closing Guantanamo must not be on the same page with Obama's desire to do so. What? That's right, Snerdley. Fear is the reason, because the word is out that if we close Gitmo that some of these clowns are going to be released in the United States, and people are not excited about that.
Story #4: Rasmussen: 42% Support "Free" Health Care for All
RUSH: This Rasmussen Reports: "Americans are evenly divided over the idea of making free health care available to every one in the country, but opposition grows dramatically when their own health insurance is involved. Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans say every one in the United States should have free health care. ... However, by a two-to-one margin (60% to 27%), Americans reject free health care for all if it means changing their own coverage and joining a program administered by the government." Ha, ha! Hell's bells, folks! Forty-two percent favor free health care for all Americans except if they've gotta change theirs? Then to hell with all Americans! Now, I love Rasmussen. Where does this question come from? Forty-two percent favor free health care for all. What's going to be free about it? There isn't going to be anything free. But more importantly, they reject the premise of health care for all if it means changing their own coverage and joining a program administered by the government. That's the real news in the poll.
Story #5: Blue Collar Males Hardest Hit by Unemployment
RUSH: Reuters is reporting today that blue collar US males are losing more ground in the employment area. "Rodney Ringler is an unemployed blue collar male without a college degree. He's hardly alone. Men like him have been the main victims of the current recession in the United States. 'I haven't worked since December of 2007, around the time this recession started,' Ringler, a 49-year-old computer technician, said as he walked his dog in a Dallas suburb. He sees little light at the end of the tunnel. 'I've been looking to get into law enforcement because it’s a growth area,' he said, but had no immediate prospects. One statistic that stands out in America's recession-stung economy is the unemployment rate for adult men: in April for the second month in a row it surged ahead of the national average to 9.4 percent versus 8.9 percent for all workers. The jobless rate for adult women was 7.1 percent," and the reasons, Reuters says, are clear.
"The reasons are clear: male-heavy sectors such as construction and manufacturing have been hard hit. But the implications may be dire for the broader economy and hamper the recovery as families that once had male breadwinners struggle." Hey how is that hope and change working out for you? All this was supposed to change, right? I mean, the little guy was supposed to be the beneficiary of all of this stimulus spending, right? The little guy, the blue-collar guy, leads the country in unemployment.
Story #6: Conflicting Stories on the Housing Market
RUSH: Conflicting stories on the housing market. Washington Post: "'Housing, Banking Sectors Lead Market Rally.' -- Stock markets shot up as much as 3 percent yesterday as investors shook off last week's malaise, cheered by encouraging reports in the housing sector. Home-improvement chain Lowe's announced better-than-expected earnings --" Well, now, that's not a mystery. Why did Lowe's announce better-than-expected earnings? 'Cause people are building gardens and planting their own seeds in the backyard. Hee, hee. Yeah, they're fixing up foreclosures, too, entrepreneurs are out fixing up foreclosures. Anyway, "-- and a home-builders group said confidence in the market for new homes has risen for the second straight month." However, if you go to the Associated Press, this doesn't make sense. The market gain yesterday attributed to the housing sector, and a home-builders group said confidence in the market for new homes has risen for the second straight month.
Then you go to AP: "Housing construction plunged to a record low in April as a steep drop in apartment building offset a rebound in single-family construction. Permits for new projects also hit a new low. The Commerce Department said today that construction of new homes and apartments fell 12.8% last month ... the lowest pace on records going back a half-century." And yet the housing market is given credit for the market rebound yesterday. "In a disappointing sign for the future, applications for new building permits dropped 3.3 percent to a new record low annual rate of 494,000." Yet the housing sector revived the market yesterday? How is that hope and change working out for you?
Story #7: Hope & Change: Recession Has Students Anxious
RUSH: Here is an AP story: "'Recession Causing High Anxiety for Students.' -- School's out, surf's up, summer beckons. Time for college students to see if they can stay afloat in the worst economy their generation has known. Young people are carrying a load heavier than they normally bear as they scatter from campuses, judging from an AP-mtvU poll that finds students anxious about their finances, job prospects after graduation and the pressures facing their folks back home. Josh Donahue, 23, an Oregon State University economics graduate, is living on food stamps. First in his family with a university degree, he stays with relatives and scrapes even for a menial job instead of the bank gig he'd dreamed about. 'A degree in economics,' he said, 'doesn't really prepare you to understand the economy very well.'
To be sure, tight budgets are a rite of passage at college. Ramen noodles build character. But in a nation that has lost more than 5.7 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007, parent and student alike are swept up in the tempest. In the poll of students, nearly one in five reported that at least one parent lost a job in the last year.
Parents usually worry about their kids' finances. Now the kids are worrying about their parents'," and that makes total sense because most of them are still being supported by their parents. That's why they're worried.
"At George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., systems engineering junior Adrian Solomon, 21, of Virginia Beach, Va., said his mother, who is single and raising his 16-year-old sister as well as a foster child, is 'trying to support me sometimes, when I need it.' At other times she's asked him for money. 'I would do what I can to help her out.' Jake Lear, 21, of Warrenton, Va., a digital arts major at George Mason, worked three jobs at a time through the semester and is doing one of them full-time this summer -- a resident adviser helping to look after freshmen in dorms -- because he gets free housing. His parents work for a federal contractor that shrank its work force and eliminated 401(k) matching contributions. The school is in suburban northern Virginia outside Washington. 'I'm pretty much independent as far as school goes,' Lear said. 'Where they would normally help me out with cash here and there they don't so much any more, just because money's so tight.'"
Well, I'll tell you, it's a tear-jerker of a story out there, it's a real tear-jerker. Hope and change isn't working out too well for the students. How is that hope and change working out for any of you? I can go on with this story. This story is full of tales of college kids who are experiencing indignity after indignity after indignity. They're having to work when they get out of school. Some of them are having to work to stay in school. Some of them have to hold down two and three jobs. What an indignity. This is not what these students had planned on. This is not what America promised them. This is what they've got. They wanted to be investment bankers until the government took over the banks. You know what I think? I think these kids doing two and three jobs is probably the best education they're getting. They're working and that's one of the best ways that they can advance themselves that there ever was.
Story #8: Gavin Newsom to Impose San Francisco Butt Tax
RUSH: "In what he casts as an attack on litterbugs and nicotine addiction alike, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to impose a fee on an age-old inhabitant of city streets: the cigarette butt. The proposal, to be introduced next month to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, would add 33 cents to the cost of a pack of cigarettes, to offset the estimated $10.7 million the city spends annually removing discarded butts from gutters, drainpipes and sidewalks." Did you know, Mr. Snerdley, that San Francisco has a special cigarette butt detail? That the sanitation people clean up everything but the cigarette butts? They somehow leave the cigarette butts there when the street sweepers do the gutters and so forth, and so what happens now, they need $10.7 million more to complete the sanitation job by getting the cigarette butts, and to fund it, 33 cents per pack new tax on cigarettes. I did not know there was a cigarette butt problem in San Francisco. Hm-hm. San Francisco butt tax. San Francisco butt tax. That's an appropriately named tax. If you just tell somebody that lands here from Mars, "Yeah, we've got a problem, there's butts all over the street in San Francisco, they're in the corners, they're in the drains, and somehow sanitation doesn't get 'em picked up, so we're going to have a butt tax in San Francisco." Heh, heh.
Story #9: Man calls 911 for 28-Year-Old Son's Messy Bedroom
RUSH: From Bedford, Ohio: "An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom says he overreacted when he called 911. Andrew Mizsak called authorities Thursday after his 28-year-old son," a school board member in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford, "threw a plate of food across the kitchen table and made a fist at him. His son, also named Andrew, lives with his parents and has a room in the basement. The father declined to press charges and told police he doesn't want to ruin his son's political career. The [son, who also] works as a political consultant [said] he's lucky to be living in the house rent free. He also promises to keep his room clean."
Now, can you see this? Will you please picture this? You have a 28-year-old son who's a member of the school board in Cleveland suburb. He's a politician. He's living at home. You have an argument with your 28-year-old son over the fact that his room is a mess! Your 28-year-old son throws a plate of food at you, thereby making the kitchen or dining room dirty in addition to the bedroom. So you -- just as they do in Port St. Lucie when they're out of Chicken McNuggets at McDonald's -- call 911.
You call 911 when your 28-year-old freeloader son still living at home throws a plate of food at you! Now, the issue here is not the 911 call. That's just the humor. Call 911 to discipline a 28-year-old son -- and then after all the hubbub you don't press charges because you don't want to ruin the spoilt little brat's political career. He's back living in the basement and all's hunky-dory and happy as it can be. The issue here is not the 911 call. The issue is a 28-year-old living at home! This 28-year-old they say he's on the school board. He's gotta be a community organizer. He's 28 years old still living at home, rent free. He's a guidance counselor or something, yeah.
By the way, Steve Gilbert at Sweetness-Light.com informs me that the 28-year-old freeloader in Bedford, Ohio, Cleveland suburb, on the school board there, is a Democrat. Not that we really had any doubts about it, but he is a Democrat.
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