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September 30, 2009 |
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Story #1: Reuters Tries to Spin More Terrible Economic News
RUSH: Check this out, this is Reuters and they're really trying so hard to put a happy spin on this economic mess. "The U.S. economy contracted in the second quarter at a slower pace than previously thought --" That's another way to say unexpected "-- in the second quarter, but a further decline in private payrolls in September was another indication that recovery from the recession would be patchy." There is no recovery from the recession! And that is by design.
"Gross domestic product, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, fell at a 0.7 percent annual rate instead of the 1.0 percent decline it reported last month, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. This was better than market expectations," but still, let me check Wall Street. It opened up today down 70. So there's a lot of unease. There's nothing coming back, folks. The economy is not rebounding.
 Story #2: Porkulus: Clinton Library/Massage Parlor Gets $2.5B
RUSH: We learned today that two-and-a-half billion dollars of stimulus money is going to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor for renovations. We're sending more money to the National Science Foundation, stimulus money, that was designed to put people back to work, and now the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor got who-knows-how-many of billions of dollars in donations as well.
Story #3: Plan to Repeal Taxes in California Will Never Fly
RUSH: Look at this story. This is from the Associated Press about California. Somebody has actually offered a plan in California to help the economy, but it will never fly. Let me share with you the details. This is unbelievable. "A state commission is expected to submit a report Tuesday to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers that recommends bold changes to California's tax system. But it's being met by political skepticism before the ink dries. The Commission on the 21st Century Economy is expected to recommend repealing the sales and corporate taxes --"
Do you hear this? Repeal sales and corporate taxes, "-- flattening the income tax rate," meaning make it a little easier on the rich, "and taxing businesses in a way that has never been tried on a wide scale in the United States. A draft copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press showed the commission will recommend that the cash-strapped state change its personal income tax structure to reduce the burden on the wealthy. "Critics argue that the plan has not been well studied." BS! It has been studied. It works every time it's tried. So here we have California in the tank like water circling in a drain. Part of the reason is because it's driven away many of the achievers and many of the entrepreneurs with high taxes. Same thing in New York things have now gotten so desperate.
So someone in California's actually had a good idea. When things reach their lowest, what do they always turn to: basic conservative economic theory. And it's called bold changes to California's tax system. So when a state wants to get back on its feet, what do they recommend out of utter desperation? Tax cuts. Repeal the sales and corporate taxes, replace them with a new business levy that taxes net receipts, not gross, flatten the income tax rate to reduce the burden on the wealthy. They must be listening to this program. This is what we have been suggesting that happen all across the country, state after state, and in Washington. The fact is this thing doesn't have a chance in California with the structure of the California legislature, the assembly and the Senate.
Story #4: State of Michigan to Mom: Stop Babysitting or Else
RUSH: We're all going to become slaves to the government in every aspect of our lives, and I want to give you an example. Irving Township, Michigan. The state of Michigan has told a Michigan mother that she's running illegal day care by watching her neighbor's kids before school. "Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
"'I was freaked out. I was blown away,' she said. 'I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls' -- that is, the mothers whose kids she watches -- 'every one of them.'" What do you bet this woman voted for Obama? Wild guess here. What do you bet she voted for Obama? "Snyder's predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family." How do these people in Michigan think this thing ever got done in the first place? I don't know about you growing up, but my mom and dad would park me at the friend's house for sometimes a day and a half while they had to go do something. And vice-versa. And there was no thought anywhere that somebody was violating the stupid law about day care centers. What, Snerdley? How about the person that snitched? Exactly right. This is like people going through grocery stores snitching on people who are carrying their kid the wrong way in a knapsack or what have you.
Story #5: Roman Polanski and Depressed Liberal Women
RUSH: You know, I'm beginning to think, folks, that I am the only radio host in the country that doesn't care about this Roman Polanski story, but some things about it now are starting to get fascinating. If you look at who's signing petitions to come out and free the guy... Woody Allen and some other pervert have signed on. Here's the thing. You know, we've been covering something. In the past week, we got a couple stories about the unhappiness of women, the unhappiness of women in this country. The Huffing and Puffington Post has now got a new columnist exploring the phenomena of the unhappy woman. And why is this?
Well, let me ask you this: If you are a liberal woman, and you look at this Polanski story, what in the world do you see? You see a liberal guy who drugs and rapes a 13-year-old. Then you see liberal men allowed and encouraged by other liberal men and women to hate women enough to rape and brutalize and objectify them, regardless of their age and station in life -- and then when they're held accountable by the law, these same liberal men and women that you've always idolized come out and defend the rapist! No wonder women are sad, unhappy, and depressed and can't figure this out. This is sick stuff. I mean, Roman Polanski, I couldn't care less about. But things of that nature has amazing cultural teaching moments in it which is why I mentioned it.
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Story #6: Hollywood Perverts Sign Letter Supporting Polanski
RUSH: Let's see. I got these Roman Polanski stories. "Release Polanski, Demands Petition by Film Industry Luminaries." This is from The Guardian in the UK. "Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese today added their names to a petition demanding the immediate release of Roman Polanski from detention in Zurich." Woody Allen, who at one time was a poster boy for Democrat  social policy. But there's another name added to this. In addition to Scorsese and Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, some of the biggest names in Hollywood are backing Roman Polanski. Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, and John Landis are among those who have signed a petition objecting to the fugitive filmmaker's arrest. Well, let's see, we know about Woody Allen, his credentials regarding this kind of thing are pretty well known. Pedro Almodovar, breakthrough movie, 1984, What Have I Done to Deserve This? was a comedy in which a mother sells her 12-year-old son to a homosexual dentist as a sex slave. This is a guy who has signed on to free Roman Polanski. He's openly gay. Mr. Almodovar's first film in 1978 entitled -- well, I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's the F-bomb.
So here you have two moral paragons, Woody Allen and Pedro Almodovar. Maybe they could get on Polanski's jury if he is going to get a jury of his peers. Is it any wonder that liberal women are miserable? They think all their liberal guys are like Alan Alda and instead they're out there drugging and raping 13-year-old girls and then other liberal men come to their rescue, come to their defense. Don't forget it is us on the right, the evil vast right-wing conspiracy, we're the sexists, we are the racists and bigots, they say. The American people are noticing. The American people are noticing the perversion, the hypocrisy, the untruths, the lies, the misrepresentation. This is not the culture the American people thought they were voting for way back when.
Story #7: Porn Surfing Rampant at Nation Science Foundation
RUSH: Our last call was about stimulus money and the National Institute of Health. You remember when Obama announced all of these ridiculous money savings ideas for government, printing on both sides of the paper, saving paper clips, or whatever. Well, maybe he might want to update that and block all the pornography on taxpayer-paid-for computers operated by taxpayer-paid employees. This is an exclusive in the Washington Times: "Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times. The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars,"
Employees at the National Science Foundation are surfing the Internet for pornography, and it is rampant. "To manage this dramatic increase without an increase in staff required us to significantly reduce our efforts to investigate grant fraud." So rather than investigate fraud in the grants, they're investigating all the employees who are using government computers to surf the net for porn. "We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years as a direct result," of having to investigate the porn. So they have to beg the government to get money to investigate the government. The story has more details but there's something even more fascinating about it. A companion story, this from KOTV in Oklahoma. "A professor at Oklahoma State University received $1.1 million in stimulus to study Alaskan grandparents." Associate Professor Tammy Henderson, PhD., will use $1.1 million in stimulus money for her research project on Alaskan grandparents.
"The National Science Foundation made the grant possible through their pot of stimulus money. But some Oklahomans say this is just one more example of stimulus waste. For more than ten years Oklahoma State University professor Tammy Henderson has been researching grandparents. She studies their relationships and responsibilities within their families," $1.15 million of stimulus money. Shovel-ready jobs, anybody remember this, infrastructure repair, anybody remember all the jobs, and now the perverts at the National Science Foundation are doling out millions of dollars to a professor to study Alaskan grandparents. I wonder if she's studying whether or not there's incest, given all the pornography that's being looked at and studied at the National Science Foundation. This is the same tawdry bunch of elitists who were telling you they know how to save money in health care, improve your coverage, and all that, yada yada yada.
Now, the National Science Foundation -- this is an interesting point that you must know -- National Science Foundation was about to be investigated for all kinds of dubious grants that they've awarded over the years, and mysteriously, the discovery of all the porn surfing, and now the investigation of all the porn surfing has temporarily halted the investigation of the dubious grants at the National Science Foundation. The inspector general got caught up checking into the way National Science Foundation employees watched pornography and chat on telephone sex lines all day. He's never able to get around to checking out their grant records. So the fraudulent grants from the National Science Foundation will continue. They're not being investigated because there's a mysterious level of porn and phone sex calls being made from the National Science Foundation. After all, folks, I mean, this is stimulus money.
Story #8: Obama Safe School Czar Ignored Statutory Rape
RUSH: And along the same lines, the story we had yesterday about Obama's safe school czar, this is the guy who promoted a 15-year-old boy having a relationship, homosexual relationship, with an older man outside the school, advised him on how to do it, use a condom, here's how to smile. You know, all the exploitation of children going on all over the country, indoctrination, the Polanski story, the safe school czar, I mean I think this guy would be taking center stage right now trying to clean it all up, right? If there was ever an excuse for a safe school czar, this is it.
Washington Times: "When Republican Rep. Mark Foley was caught chasing congressional pages, he got exactly what was coming to him. In a blizzard of coverage (1,400 stories, according to Google news), Mr. Foley's creepy behavior was examined from every possible angle. Nobody wanted to hear that the congressman's stupid and objectionable behavior was confined to e-mails and text messages. His immediate resignation didn't quiet the furor. When two years of investigations found no crime, the results got barely a peep. Whether the press feeding frenzy around Mr. Foley's disgrace was justified or not, the explosion of coverage was certainly understandable, even predictable.
"That reality is what makes coverage of Kevin Jennings, President Obama's 'safe school czar' something of a mystery. Mr. Jennings brings all the sleaze of Mr. Foley. Sex and the underaged? Check. An older man? Check. Potential misbehavior by a government official? Check. And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A 'safe schools czar"' who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime?" And now we got pornography going on in the National Science Foundation, dubious grants being made, the Roman Polanski story. And Sarah Palin remains public enemy number one to the Drive-By Media.
Story #9: Garrison Keillor: No Health Care for Republicans
RUSH: Garrison Keillor today, in the Chicago Tribune, with a column. And it dovetails precisely with what I said in the first hour, after discussing this scheme to get health care passed. You're going to have to go to bureaucrats to have your kids treated, yourself treated -- and what judgment, what criteria is going to be used, when all the bureaucracy is liberal Democrats? Garrison Keillor actually wrote these words today in the Chicago Tribune: "Tim Pawlenty attacks the president for giving a speech telling schoolchildren to work hard in school and get good grades, one starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer.
"Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the Republicans, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order. It's time to dump the dead-end issues that have wasted too much time already. Old men shouldn't be allowed to doze off at the switch and muck up the works for the young who will have to repair the damage. Get over yourselves. Your replacements have arrived, and you should think about them now and then. Enough with the shrieking. Pass health-care reform." Yeah, Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor, who is an old man now. He recently had a stroke. He was saved by good health care, but it's not made him nice nor has it made him smart. "Thirty-two percent of the pop..." Remember, now, these are the people who are preaching to us about "civility." These are the people preaching to us about "compassion." Here's Garrison Keillor who basically says: "Look, 32% of the country is Republican. Deny 'em health care! Give 'em aspirin and hand sanitizer. Let 'em die. We'll save lots of money," and the Chicago Tribune published it.
Story #10: Alan Greenspan Sees Economy Slowing in 2010
RUSH: Now, this is unbelievable. This headline just came out from Bloomberg: "Alan Greenspan Says He Sees the US Economy Slowing Next Year as the Surge in Stocks Comes to an End." He sees the economy slowing? It's barely crawling as it is! "Greenspan Sees Growth Slowing as Stocks Flatten." Unbelievable.
Story #11: Wilson Was Right: Dems Vote Down ID Requirement
RUSH: Joe Wilson was right. The Democrats just now have just voted down a photo ID requirement for immigrant health care, just like they vote down a photo ID to vote. Joe Wilson was right.
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