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Story #1: US Gasoline Demand Hits 18-Month High
RUSH: From Bloomberg: "Motorists bought an average 9.695 million barrels of gasoline a day in the week ended June 26, MasterCard, the second-biggest credit-card company, said in its weekly SpendingPulse report. That’s 1.6 percent above a year earlier and the most since the week ended Dec. 21, 2007. The rise 'is pretty consistent with what’s been going on over the past two to three months,' said Michael McNamara, vice president at Mastercard Advisors, in a telephone interview. 'It’s pretty typical going into the July season.'" The point is, the summer driving season is not being curtailed in the midst of recession, two and a half million jobs -- do you realize all of the job gains the last nine years -- in other words, the job gains during the Bush administration have now been wiped out, they have been lost, when you dig deep into the unemployment numbers we had yesterday that led me to proclaim the United States now a banana republic, it's astounding. And yet Transformers 2, $400 million, gasoline peak driving season, people are not deterred.
As I read this story, I don't detest political bias or agenda here; this is just facts as the reporters at this website see 'em. But what this tells me is that it's time for Obama to get busy jacking up the price, because if people are willing to pay this price for gasoline in the middle of a recession, I guarantee you they're not going to buy the Obamamobile that he is going to demand everybody buy and that his auto companies make. So don't be surprised if the price of gasoline sees a spike up.
 Story #2: Saddam Admitted Lying About WMD to the World
RUSH: From the state-run Associated Press: "After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw 'the city was about to fall.' Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister. Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a US detention center offered new details Thursday about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run -- both before and after he was ousted. The documents also confirm previous reports that Saddam" lied about having weapons of mass destruction. The documents confirm that Saddam falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran. He was more afraid of Iran than he was us or anybody else. Remember, now, Saddam was captured on December 13th, 2003, eight months after his regime was toppled by our invasion. An Iraqi tribunal convicted him of crimes against humanity and he was hanged at the end of 2006.
You know, people try to write me and tell me when I misspeak and I'm grammatically incorrect and I'm going to get it here. "Rush, he was hung, not hanged." No, he was hung means something entirely different that's almost inappropriate for a family oriented radio show. The proper way to say this is Saddam was hanged. Now the point is he was lying about his weapons of mass destruction. Well, he allowed the world to believe it, falsified all those reports. Now, this is not going to satisfy anybody on the left because they're mean, their template is Bush lied, faulty intelligence, Bush knew and even if Saddam was lying, they said Bush knew that Saddam was lying. It's just everybody knows this.
Story #3: Heritage: Get Your Free Declaration, Constitution
RUSH: You know, what we're celebrating this weekend, independence, freedom, that's what people around the world like Cuba, North Korea, and Iran, they wish they had that in their lives. We're in the process of just almost freely giving it up while people crave it. We have celebrated and fought for our freedom for 233 years now. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, seven of the most famous words authored by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, a document that espouses the virtues gained by self-government, an organization dedicated to upholding these same principles as the Founding Fathers is the Heritage Foundation. That's why this week Heritage is giving away free copies of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. You can order one online at AskHeritage.org. Ask for it and they'll send you freebies of the Declaration and the Constitution. And better yet, use this week of celebrating our liberty and freedoms by becoming a member of the Heritage Foundation. They are the one organization standing up for the principles of our founding, 233 years ago this weekend. It all starts at AskHeritage.org. Once you go there you will not believe what you will find on that website. It's just valuable. It's incredible. All kinds of stuff on health care, on the Fourth of July. The left's assault on the Declaration of Independence is a piece today, and it's brilliant as well. AskHeritage.org.
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