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October 1, 2009 |
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Story #1: Unreal! Jobless Claims Rise "Unexpectedly" (Again)
RUSH: Unbelievable, again: "First-time claims for jobless benefits increased more than expected last week. This is a sign," according to the Associated Press, "that employers are reluctant to hire and the job market remains weak. And even though consumer spending jumped by the most in nearly eight years in August, due partly to the government's Cash for Clunkers program, economists question whether the improvement can be sustained. They note that households face rising unemployment, tight credit conditions and other obstacles. The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose to a seasonally adjusted 551,000 from 534,000." This is an incredible thing. The fact that they think that it's unexpected is just folly.
You know, we did a Google search. We Google searched the phrase "new jobless claims rise more than expected." You know how many returns we got? Two million one-hundred fifty hits on the phrase "new jobless claims rise more than expected." By the way, that's an unexpected rise from 900,000 hits when we last checked July 30th of 2009. So how's that hope and change working for you?
Story #2: Texas Ladies Fuming Over Smoking Neighbor
RUSH: Right now I'm amidst billowing clouds of fragment aromatic first- and secondhand cigar smoke and loving every moment of it, and I hope there are a couple of women in Dallas who can smell it. Did you hear about this? Two women in Dallas... I don't even want to get into it now, but two women in Dallas live in a townhouse. There's a two foot concrete firewall between the townhouses, and they have sued a neighbor because they smoke, claiming that their smoke has gotten into their townhouse and polluted their clothes and furniture. There's pictures of them going in there to move their stuff, and they're wearing gas masks. Geez.
Story #3: Media Flock to Cover Sullenberger's First Flight
 RUSH: Well, now, this is just sort of like the first day of hurricane season with the media. Today, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is back in a cockpit: US Airways, LaGuardia to Charlotte. It's his first slight since he successfully ditched in the Hudson River, right? So the Drive-Bys are following Sully Sullenberger as he taxis the aircraft out for takeoff. Are they going to have helicopters follow the thing to see if birds hit it again? Again, it reminds me of how on June 1st the Drive-Bys always go to every stretch of beach they can find looking for the next Katrina out there, as it's the first official day of hurricane season.
Oh, now he just took off! They do have a camera somewhere. So far no birds have interacted with the engines of Sully Sullenberger's jet. Looks like a smooth departure route coming out of LaGuardia. I kid you not, they have a telescopic lens on a camera following the flight. Nothing against Sully Sullenberger, don't misunderstand. I'm simply commenting on media obsessions. They're tracking his flight on flight tracker -- the long range lens of the camera can no longer capture the plane in flight, I guess, but so far no reports of birds being sucked into Sully Sullenberger's engines on the US Airways flight. So there you have it.
Story #4: Bill Clinton's Bimbo Eruption Chief Pleads Not Guilty
RUSH: Hey, folks, I got more evidence here of the success and the long reach of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Does the name Betsey Wright wring a bell to anybody? Betsey Wright, Clinton administration, early on during the campaign of 1992 she was in charge of the bimbo eruptions. Whenever any of Clinton's former concubines were going to pop up and level any kind of accusation, it was Betsey Wright who kept the file on them and threatened them with destruction and embarrassment. She was in charge of bimbo eruptions. "Okay, Rush, so what do you mean by the long reach of the vast right-wing conspiracy?"
Well, just posted from State-Controlled Associated Press an hour ago: "A former top aide to Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to charges of smuggling contraband into a prison. Betsey Wright is accused of trying to smuggle tattoo needles, a box cutter, a knife and tweezers into the Varner Supermax Unit while visiting a death-row inmate in May. The 66-year-old Wright," in charge of bimbo eruptions, "entered the plea in a court filing in Lincoln County Circuit Court. The filing by defense attorney Jeff Rosenzweig also waives next week's scheduled arraignment for Wright and asks for a jury trial. … Wright was Clinton's chief of staff for seven years and worked on many of his campaigns."
See it's the vast right-wing conspiracy here, folks, the vast right-wing conspiracy that put the tattoo needles, the box cutter, the knife, and the tweezers into Betsey Wright's pockets. And it was the vast right-wing conspiracy who then drove her to the Varner Supermax Unit to visit a death row inmate that an evil vast right-wing conspiracy judge had also convicted and sentenced. You see how successful we are? We're taking these Clinton people one by one, the vast right-wing conspiracy. And Clintons knows it because he keeps talking about it. I personally had a hand in this. I picked up the tattoo needles.
Story #5: Tokyo Gov: Warming Could Make '16 Last Olympics
RUSH: One more thing on the Olympics before we get back to the phones, and this, again, is an illustration of the sheer panic people are in. "Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind." This is a Reuters story, and it's from Copenhagen. This is part of his pitch! Bring it to Tokyo because after this we may not have to do any Olympics anymore, too much global warming! Also, Copenhagen is where the next big worldwide global warming Climate Change Summit is, so the Japanese guy thinks he's got an in here by saying, "Hey, there won't be any Olympics after 2016 because of global warming."
Now, look, I realize there are those of you in this audience, you really do pride yourself on caring about the environment and you're wondering, "Is there really something to this, are there things that we can do to limit whatever damage we're doing?" What do you think when you hear something like this? Does it not just destroy your whole investment in the cause? A governor of Tokyo warned Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Olympics, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind? He said, "It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind. Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long. Scientists have said we have passed the point of no return." Well, if we passed the point of no return, then what the hell?
"Tokyo has put considerable emphasis on staging a green Games with the planned Olympic stadium the first to be fully powered by renewable energy." Ha! That means they won't have any. Ha! I hope Tokyo gets it. There's no way Tokyo will, but I wish Tokyo would get it -- everything funded by renewable energy and solar? Nothing will work!
Story #6: Iranians Brag About How They're Duping the West
RUSH: From the UK Telegraph. This is back in May of 2006. "How We Duped the West," by Iran's nuclear negotiator. "The man who for two years led Iran's nuclear negotiations has laid out in unprecedented detail how the regime took advantage of talks with Britain, France and Germany to forge ahead with its secret atomic program. In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan Rowhani, who headed talks with the so-called EU3 ... revealed how Tehran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear program was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002." This is so apropos today's headlines about Iran and the US concluding their first day of negotiations. And here's the headline: "Iran, World Powers Finish First Session of Talks." So three years ago Iran's negotiator bragged about how he duped the West, and I'm sure they're going to brag today about how they duped the West today.
Story #7: Biden To Flood Victims: We'll Be There Next Week
RUSH: American Samoa has been devastated by what? Either the earthquake or the tsunami or something, and there's some people dead, and lots of devastation. But our president hasn't said a word about it, hasn't flown over it, hasn't gone over there -- we have no mention of it. But you don't even have to go to American Samoa. They had horrible floods throughout Georgia and you know what Joe Biden said? They sent Biden down there to comfort the flood victims, he said, (paraphrasing) "We're going to be working on this. Now, we're not going to get down here this week, we may not get down here next week, but we're going to get down here. Be patient, we're coming." Look, all of this is a perfect illustration of just what we face in the country. Obama can do no wrong, folks. You're going to have come to grips with it and you're going to be forever disappointed if you're waiting for State-Controlled Mainstream Media to hold him accountable to anything. They're just going to further his efforts at lying.
Story #8: Malkin on Obama's Pals Who'll Profit from Olympics
RUSH: By the way, we had call a minute ago from a woman who said that she'd seen on the Internet a piece that explained who in Chicago (part of the Daley machine in the Obama administration) would make out financially if the Olympics are awarded to Chicago. Michelle Malkin wrote that piece. Michelle Malkin researched that piece and wrote it, and it's the definitive piece. Valerie Jarrett is just one example of a possibility. Some of these people own slums. They're slumlords, and they are waiting around for the property to be purchased at a tremendous profit and be converted into Olympic village stuff or venue items for the Olympics. But Michelle Malkin wrote that piece, and it's the definitive piece on who-all is going to make out big time financially in Chicago if the Olympics are awarded there, if you want to check it out.
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