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Story #1: Mommy Guilt Has Been Around Forever
RUSH: Now, look at this. Here we go. It's another one of these obligatory recycled Drive-By Media stories. "Mommy Guilt: A Fact of Life for Most with Kids -- Caring for a 5-month-old son and a nearly 4-year-old daughter seems like a full-time job for Amy Little, but the Dunwoody, Georgia, mother also works 40 hours a week in sales at AT&T. 'I feel burned out, doing too many things at once and get stressed,' she says. 'I think every mom feels guilty about something and I think working moms especially feel guilty.'" Oh, what is this setting up? Because I'm telling you people this is nothing new. Why is this story coming out now? This is such old news: women trying to have it all, and being guilty about everything. This is a derivative of our good friends the NAGs, the feminists. Try to have it all, and every woman's got "mommy guilt." Every woman has this. It's nothing new! It's been going on since birth was first recorded in human civilization.
 Story #2: Tomato Soup Boosts Fertility in Men
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, our show prep here knows now bounds. We will go and research anywhere to get the latest for you, including India. From TheTimesofIndia.com: "Craving for something sweet and sour at the same time? Don't think twice. Just have a bowl of spicy and creamy tomato soup to satisfy your desire. A bowl of hot tomato soup every day can boost fertility among men, according to scientists." Boy, am I glad I do not eat much of this stuff. "Researchers at the UK-based University of Portsmouth have discovered that Lycopene, which gives tomatoes their bright red color..." I thought it was chemical additives that Big Vegetable was doing that made tomatoes red! Okay, so it's Lycopene, "can turn sperm into super sperm, sources reported. The conclusion came after researchers studied the effects of Lycopene in the diet on a group of six healthy men all in their early forties." I'll tell you what, when I saw this. I gulped a couple, three times, and said, "Thank gosh I don't eat tomato." If you already have super sperm, I guess you get super-super sperm. This enhances it.
Story #3: Sick of Crime: 71% Support Spy Cams
RUSH: Have you seen this ABC News survey? The civil libertarians are outraged. "Seventy-one percent of the American people are okay with news cameras in public places to record their activities is a way of stopping crime." Civil libertarians are outraged! How can this be? The American people want their security. Very simple: they're sick and tired of crime, and they're sick and tired of terrorism. By the way, I think it's unmistakable that they have seen these cameras in Britain and London help track down these terrorists who are trying to blow up subways and nightclubs.
Story #4: School to Install Foot Baths for Muslims
RUSH: Try this headline from the Los Angeles Times: "School to Install Foot Baths for Muslims." The ACLU is fully behind the effort, as is Barry Lynn of the separation church and state crowd.
Story #5: Things Look Grim for Michael Vick
RUSH: Well, the situation is beginning to look a little more grim for Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. One of his two codefendants who pleaded not guilty last week has flipped and has told the court he will plead guilty. No doubt he's going to flip. People have been asking me, "Rush, where's Al Sharpton on this?" Come on, folks, Reverend Sharpton likes dogs, too. This is a no-win in this right now. However, "the NAA[L]CP has urged public restraint today in judging Vick before he has his day in court. R. L. White, the president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAA[L]CP, said that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback has been vilified by animal rights groups, talk radio, and the news media and prematurely published by his team and corporate sponsors. White said in a news conference, 'If Mr. Vick is guilty, he should pay for his crime, but to treat him as he is being treated now is also a crime. Be restrained in your premature judgment until the legal process is completed.' Vick has pleaded not guilty to charges of sponsoring a dogfighting operation. Tony Taylor, codefendant in the case, pleaded guilty in Virginia to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges in a plea agreement with prosecutors. Purnell Peace, of Virginia Beach, and Quanis Phillips, of Atlanta, Georgia, are scheduled to stand trial in November. They remain free without bond. R. L. White plans to contact Vick to see what assistance the Atlanta NAA[L]CP chapter can offer. He predicted public opinion may worsen in the wake of Taylor's pleading." Really? Duh. What would make him think that?
Story #6: Big Government Causes American Negativity
RUSH: A fascinating piece at the Bloomberg website, a column by Kevin Hassett from today: "We found out Friday that the U.S. economy grew 3.4 percent in the second quarter. For macroeconomists, the number is a familiar one. The average annual rate of real growth in the U.S. gross domestic product from 1948 to the present was about 3.4 percent. The U.S. is indisputably a great and thriving nation. The economy right now is about the same that it has always been, delivering growth and general well-being that is unrivaled in world history. And yet, judging by the mood of the country, Americans seem close to despair. Why? Some say the problem is that the benefits of growth go only to the rich, but this argument rests on spurious data.
"The best measure of the people's welfare, consumption, suggests the middle class is doing just fine economically. Iraq has certainly dimmed the country's mood, but one senses the feeling will remain negative long after the war is behind us. The best explanation for this disconnect is that our government is failing us. Year after year, no progress is made on the big problems facing the country. When you form an opinion about a country, you can't help but heavily weigh its leaders. Just as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sours us on Iran, our political parties sour us on America. Our country may be great, and our challenges may be as well, but our leaders are not." You know, I loved reading this today because I have long thought that the real root of this so-called malaise or depression is the Democrats and the Drive-By Media pummeling never-ending doom and gloom, crisis and chaos day in and day out because they want people in that mood because they think it will deliver "change" in the '08 presidential election. Everything in politics is about that, from the Drive-By side in the media and the Democrat Party side. If you want to understand what they're saying and doing, you gotta look at it through the only lens they're looking at, and that's the '08 presidential election. Now, Mr. Hassett says, "This is hardly new. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed a similar problem in America in 1831. In a passage called 'On Great and Small Parties,' he wrote, as if about today, that 'America has had great parties, but they exist no longer.'
"He continued: 'I cannot conceive a more wretched sight in the world than that presented by different coteries (they do not deserve the name of parties) which now divide the [United States].' It is, he said, 'a shame to see what coarse insults, what petty slanders and what impudent calumnies fill the papers that serve as their mouthpieces.' If you want a wretched sight, look at the political speech of the leading Democratic candidates. President George W. Bush has, to put it lightly, made numerous mistakes. But he isn't Satan. You would hardly know it if you listen to the Democrats. This is what Hillary Clinton had to say about Bush's performance: 'It is a stunning record of cronyism and corruption, incompetence and deception.' Referring to Bush's commutation of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's jail time, Barack Obama said: 'This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law.' Both candidates, it seems are accusing Bush of being a criminal." He isn't, but to if you listen to the Democrats he's not only a criminal, he's an evil criminal. He goes on to say, "Our politicians mischaracterize their opponents' motivations and focus on their personal failings, because they themselves have given up the quest for greatness. They have been honed into cynical creatures by the sharp blades of their own parties. Their failings reflect on us all, turning Americans into an unhappy bunch, even in the face of prosperity. ... Americans know in their hearts what they yearn for. At some point, some successful candidate will read Tocqueville, and offer it to them." You don't have to go that far back. Read Reagan. Basically what he's saying here is that what really makes us mad -- what we're upset about -- is our government and its arrogance, its unresponsiveness and its inability to get anything done.
Story #7: Great Editorial Cartoon on the Founding Fathers
RUSH: I have a great, great editorial cartoon here. I don't know who did this, but you've seen the painting of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia at Constitution Hall, drafting the Constitution, discussing it among themselves. Benjamin Franklin is in there, all these guys. "Gentlemen, I just came up with a brilliant conspiracy," says one of the founders to the group. "Why don't we split from the British crown, become founders of a nation that will cause all of the world's wars, crime, corruption, slavery, disease, torture, murder, assassinations, racism, sexism, violence, environmental destruction, cannibalism, and manmade hurricanes for all eternity? That's the kind of country we want."
Benjamin Franklin says, "Yeah, and then steal all their oil."
Another Founder says, "Sounds like a plan."
It's a great, great, great cartoon because this is how libs see America today. It's exactly how they see it.
Story #8: MPs Outlaw Satire in New Zealand
RUSH: Wait 'til the Democrats hear about this. "New Zealand's parliament has voted itself far reaching powers to control satire and to ridicule members of parliament, attracting a storm of media and academic criticism. The new standing orders voted in last month concern the use of images of parliamentary debates, and make it a contempt of parliament for broadcasters or anyone else to use footage of the chamber for satire, ridiculous, or denigration. The rules apply any broadcasts or rebroadcasts in any medium." You gotta be worried about this because our Supreme Court has said that they look to foreign law for guidance when they can't find what they want in our US Constitution. Can you imagine, though? This is a very extreme, exaggerated example of what McCain-Feingold was about, pure and simple.
Story #9: What Arnold Wants for His Birthday
RUSH: Well, Governor Schwarzenegger is over in his homeland. He's in Vienna, Austria, celebrating his 60th birthday. He says he has a simple wish that his United States, his adopted country, improve its reputation in the world -- and he wants world peace, and no hungry anywhere, blue skies and green lights every day, socialized medicine, cool temperatures, no hurricanes, and he wants everybody in the world to sing in perfect harmony, all for his 60th birthday.
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