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June 10, 2008 |
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Story #1: Solar Physicists Worried Over Dearth of Sunspots
RUSH: Solar physicists, ladies and gentlemen, are worried. Solar physicists are worried. For those of you in Rio Linda, this is scientists who study the sun. There has been a longer-than-average time with no sunspots on the sun. They're not worried yet, they say, they're not concerned yet. The last time the sun went without sunspots for 50 years led to the little ice age. Now it hasn't been near 50 years here, ladies and gentlemen, but there haven't been any sunspots and solar physicists cannot predict what happens on the sun, but they can observe it, and they have observed that it's a dull surface, no activity there. And the longer it goes on, the more concerned they're going to get.
 Story #2: Aspen Opens for Snow Skiing This Weekend
RUSH: Aspen will open snow skiing this weekend on Snow Mass. They had so much snow this past winter, it's still there. So if you want to go to Aspen and ski you'll be able to do it for three days this weekend.
Story #3: Correction: LI Banned Fireworks, Not Bonfires
RUSH: I have to correct something from yesterday. A very, very minor correction, but still I must correct. In discussing the whole bonfire situation in Seattle, I mentioned that Long Island had already gotten into the act here by banning bonfires during times of the year for the Piping Plover. I was wrong about it being bonfires. They banned Fourth of July fireworks out on Long Island. Now, this was some time ago, but the Piping Plover nesting nearby, it was determined we can't upset the Piping Plover. It's a bird, and so no Fourth of July fireworks because of the Piping Plover.
Story #4: Would Obama AG Prosecute Bush Officials?
RUSH: I have to get to this story before this program ends. I did not know about this until yesterday. I was made aware of this story by SweetnessandLight.com, the blog, and a guy from the Philadelphia Daily News on April 14th, after having a conversation with Obama, published a story. Here's the headline: "Obama AG To Review Potential Bush 'Crimes.'" April 14th, 2008, the author Will Bunch. "Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House. Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to 'immediately review the information that's already there' and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as 'a partisan witch hunt.' However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because 'nobody is above the law.'
"The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by the Associated Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and former Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques on terrorism suspects. I mentioned the report in my question, and said 'I know you've talked about reconciliation and moving on, but there's also the issue of justice, and a lot of people -- certainly around the world and certainly within this country -- feel that crimes were possibly committed' regarding torture, rendition, and illegal wiretapping. I wanted to know how whether his Justice Department 'would aggressively go after and investigate whether crimes have been committed.'" And Obama essentially said, "Yeah, I'm going to have my AG review it."
Now, you've heard the term peaceful transfer of power, one of the things that makes our country great. This is the kind of thing that used to happen, probably still does, with Vlad Putin and the gang, but this happened in the Soviet Union, this happened in totalitarian dictator -- you criminalize the policies of your political opponents. But this would be unprecedented. After the administration's left office, to pursue an investigation that might lead to criminal indictments for war crimes and other things. We used to do that to the Nazis. We did do that to the Nazis, the Nuremberg Trials and so forth. This is who today's modern liberals are. Now, Obama's got this wacko reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News who's obviously not a reporter. He is a leftist who happens to have secured a job in journalism, and he's got an agenda, and the agenda is right out of the cliched story line of the Drive-By Media, that we are a murderous, raping, torturing nation and that Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Powell have to pay. This is all about creating the notion in as many people's minds that our country is criminal, is in a constant state of decline, and we are not worth our reputation as the world's greatest superpower.
This is about leftists who despise this country or dislike it to one degree or another and want this country punished. They have a visceral, irrational hatred for Bush and his buddies in the administration. And for Obama -- I'm sure he's just flitting along here, he's worried about the Pennsylvania primaries, campaign, "Oh, yeah, I'll look into that. I've already got my attorney general --" Well, what attorney general, sir? This is who the modern leftists are, ladies and gentlemen, and they have taken over the Democrat Party. The purpose for doing something like this would not be just to embarrass and harm Bush. This would be a direct assault on the United States and its government. And you talk about we need to improve our reputation in the world. Look at how they would do it. By finding the US guilty at every opportunity of whatever baseless, phony charges that they would make. This is Stalinist. If you've ever wondered what the definition of is Stalinist, this would fit it.
Story #5: MSNBC on Eating Only What Grows Around You
RUSH: This is an MSNBC story, and it's by Allison Linn, called "Eating Only What Grows Around You -- Once the purview of foodies and hippies, 'locavorism'..." a new word, here, "'locovorism' is going mainstream." This is all about the new enlightened who think that you can "save the planet," and fuel expenses, by growing your own and eating what is local food-wise. This is just more craziness in the name of "the planet."
Folks, do you have any idea...? You New Agers, do you have any idea what it was like? Do you have any idea how fortunate you are? Go to the local farmers maker! Everybody's got a farmers market. Go there if you want something fresh. Go to the grocery store! Do you realize our ancestors -- even as far back as the founding, but even farther back than that. Do you know that most people's work, most people spent most of the day feeding themselves?
That's what they did. We have it so good. We have it so luxurious. Most people spent their whole day just feeding themselves and the family. That's how much work it took -- and you don't want to go back and live in those days because I'm telling you, it was dirty, it was smelly, it was filled with pollution. It was dirty. All this romantic notion! Why don't you just become one of these indigenous tribes, move somewhere to the jungles of Brazil where nobody's had contact with people, and live with them? Just go there and leave us alone! Grow your own! I am not going to start growing kumquats in my backyard. No! I'm going to continue to go to the grocery store. Well, I will send people to go to the grocery store. Let me tell you something. You know what? If there was a plant that glowed in the dark, I would plant it on the beach. Yes: I would become a glowing-light-plant-farmer on the beach. I'm just kidding.
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