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Story #1: EU: Climate Talks Failure Would Embarrass Obama
RUSH: Get this. As you know, there's a big climate change hubbub going on in Copenhagen in December, and the EU president over there is really dumping on Obama. He in effect said, "If he thinks he was embarrassed over this Olympic vote, wait 'til he finds out what happens to him if he can't bring the United States into this agreement. It's going to be the most embarrassing thing of his presidency bar none." So they're already threatening little Obama from across the pond here on this climate thing.
But they're already have a climate meeting in Bangkok, which is in Thailand, which also is known for the most number of prostitutes per capita of any city in the world. So it's appropriately named Bangkok. "There are plenty of needy countries at the UN climate talks in Bangkok that make the case they need financial assistance to adapt to the impacts of global warming." Ha! Everybody's in need of assistance, everybody around the world. The world, the world has turned into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina!
Story #2: Saudis Ask for Aid If World Cuts Dependence on Oil
RUSH: The Saudi oil finance minister guy is over in Bangkok at this climate meeting. The Saudis are leading a behind-the-scenes campaign during these talks. They plan to be at Copenhagen. They are demanding, behind closed doors, "that oil producing nations like them get special financial assistance if a new climate agreement calls for substantial reductions in the use of oil."
Now, the Saudis "would lose $19 billion a year starting in 2012 under a new climate agreement. The region would lose much more but Saudi Arabia would lose $19 billion" and they want that made up. I don't know what leverage they're going to use. But the oil that they're pumping now -- and don't forget, Al-Qaeda was spawned there. Seventeen of the 19 hijackers were from there. You know, folks, this is like George Soros asking for aid and assistance if one of his currency scams doesn't work. So it is literally insane everywhere you look. It is just difficult to maintain any sanity about anything going on.
Story #3: Taipei to Pay Citizens for Every Kilo of Dog Poo
RUSH: We are a program of great compassion and love and we want the best for every American, including those in Detroit who are about to be sadly shocked to realize Obama does not have enough money to give them all that they want. My idea comes from Taipei, which for those of you in Rio Linda, is in Taiwan. Well, telling them that might not help. Taiwan is basically a little island off the coast of China that the ChiComs will someday invade. Just kidding.
Anyway, "A city in central Taiwan is offering shopping vouchers to volunteer dog waste collectors in a bid to clean up a perennial problem caused by the large number of stray animals island-wide. City officials in Taichung, which has a population of one million, said on Wednesday the environmental protection bureau would give vouchers worth 100 Taiwan dollars ($3) for every kilo of dog poo collected. In areas of the city especially affected, the reward will be for every half-kilo." Now, there are dogs everywhere, including in Detroit, and the Obama "stash" is not going to be enough to cover all 65,000 people who showed up for money. So Dave Bing, the mayor, this is a golden opportunity here for you -- except, no, Detroit doesn't have any money, either. So nevermind.
Story #4: A Number Two on Air Force One? White House Denies
 RUSH: Guess what? We have now learned from NBC that the presidential dog Bo dropped a load on Air Force One, speaking of dog poop. The White House is denying it. "Rumor has it that a certain Portuguese water dog made a stealthy deposit on Air Force One, and a flight attendent [sic] nearly stepped in it. Two contacts in the 89th Airlift Wing -- which includes Air Force One -- separately confirmed the dirty drop, but wouldn't go on the record, reports Washington Wire of the Wall Street Journal. And in the meantime, the White House is" dying it. Why deny it? What, Snerdley? Well, no, they didn't get the weight here.
But, look, I have a dog, I have an airplane. My dog doesn't poop on it. The dog poops before it gets on the airplane to reduce the carbon footprint of the plane so we reduce the weight of the airplane. We are environmentally conscious with our dog, but Obama doesn't even care about it! He puts a dog on there without letting the dog eliminate, added weight, more carbon footprint, more fuel wasted. The guy never does what he says.
Story #5: New Zealand Athlete Funds Olympic Bid with Brothel
RUSH: New Zealand. You know, I've been toying with the idea of moving there. "The New Zealand Olympic Committee has threatened to sue a local taekwondo athlete who plans to finance his 2012 London Games bid with the proceeds from a brothel." Now, for those of you in Rio Linda: Whorehouse. "Logan Campbell, whose participation in the Beijing Olympics last year cost him NZ$150,000 ($110,600) -- most of which came from his parents -- opened a brothel with a friend in Auckland earlier this year. Campbell went public with the scheme in July and the 23-year-old said he hoped to raise NZ$300,000 to alleviate any financial burden on his parents and to have more time to concentrate on training." To hell with going to the Olympics! ACORN needs to hire this guy to run their Maryland office (since they lost a couple of employees there)!
Story #6: US Bonds Turn Negative After 30-Year Bond Auction
RUSH: Reuters has just released a story and this is a classic illustration of what I was talking about with the media underselling or trying to put the best spin positive on really bad, dangerous news. They held another auction today for 30-year Treasury bonds. This is how we finance Obama debt and they didn't go well. The headline: "30-Year Auction Disappoints, Sapping Gains in Treasurys.' -- Wall Street broke a nice winning streak with bond auctions as a sale Thursday of 30-year debt fell flat. The auction of $12 billion in 30-year bonds fetched a high yield of 4.009 percent, higher than would have been expected and indicative of weaker demand." See, they don't put weaker demand first. It's higher than expected, when that's not even good news, either.
"The bid-to-cover ratio came in at 2.71, which reflects $2.71 bid for every $1 auctioned. Prices of Treasurys fell after the auction." Now, the news here is that the ChiComs are clearly sending us a message. The dollar is plunging and nobody in this administration is doing one thing about it. You take the dollar out of the reserve currency around the world for oil sales and so forth, maybe the euro. Every institution and tradition that has defined this country's greatness for goodness as a superpower is being dismantled right before our very eyes.
The ChiComs own the debt. They own a large percentage of our debt, and they say, "We're not buying any more." They're sending a message: "You gotta get your spending under control." Obama has no interest in doing that. Who's gonna buy the debt? I don't know who's going to buy the debt. I'll try to put this in terms of an average household. Let's say that you need to borrow some money to go buy a car and nobody will give you the money to buy a car. So you go out and steal one. That's in effect what we're doing here. Or, worse than that, you go into the savings account that you have for your kid and you take all of that out and buy a car. That's really a better analogy of what's happening here. And then maybe if you've even got a trust set up or a savings account for a grandkid. When nobody's going to buy the debt -- they'll actually buy the debt at a price that makes us even worse off. It's just unbelievable to watch all of this happening right before our eyes, with no way legislatively to stop it.
Story #7: Monte Kuligowski Analyzes Obama Approval Ratings
RUSH: That's just an example. Now, from the AmericanThinker.com, Monte Kuligowski... What are you laughing at? Oh, you're laughing at the last name. You're not supposed to laugh at people's names, Snerdley. I wondered what I said that was so funny on the air. I realize I make people laugh even when I don't intend to but all I did say was "Monte Kuligowski," and Monte Kuligowski says:
"How About Those Obama Approval Ratings?" Here's a quote from this piece at AmericanThinker.com by Monte Kuligowski: "[H]ow on earth is Obama's approval rating rising? He only got 53 percent of the vote and has further divided, not united the country." ""Just five day prior, the same day Obama was rejected in Copenhagen, it was announced that the unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent. I found the 56 percent number not credible." Again, these are the words of Monte Kuligowski at the AmericanThinker.com. This is an AP-GfK poll. By the way, I did not know who these GfK people were. You know, we have AP-Ipsos. We have ITT-IBD. We've got all these people. I never heard the GfK gang. So I looked 'em up.
They're in Germany or -- not Norway because Oprah ate Norway. They're in Germany somewhere. They're a research firm. That's who AP partners with here. "New AP-GfK poll results were released Tue., Oct. 6 revealing that Barack Obama's approval rating is up 6 points from last month to 56 percent. It's the first his ratings have gone up since taking office. Just five day prior, the same day Obama was rejected in Copenhagen, it was announced that the unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent. I found the 56 percent number not credible. So I went to the AP-GfK webpage," writes Monte Kuligowski. "I wanted to know how the question was framed and to whom it was presented. The question seems fair enough: 'Overall, please tell me whether you approve, disapprove, or neither approve nor disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president.'
"Some questions of clarification are then asked, e.g., 'Is that strongly approve or somewhat approve?' The responses are broken up into six categories: Strongly approve; somewhat approve; lean toward approve; lean toward disapprove; somewhat disapprove; strongly disapprove. Who knows whether there is any effect to stating 'approve' before 'disapprove' when asking the question. In both basic categories, 27 percent 'strongly' approve and 27 percent 'strongly' disapprove of Obama. Maybe they should just keep the poll simple: Approve or Disapprove." One thing that Monte Kuligowski at the AmericanThinker.com found "interesting is the polling question directly preceding Obama's approval rating question.
The prior question is: 'When you think about how things are going in your life in general, would you say you are very happy, somewhat happy, neither happy nor unhappy, somewhat unhappy or very unhappy,'" and if you're unhappy is it because you're on the pill? Nah, I just through that in there. That story is coming up. "Since most people want to admit to being 'happy,' the order of the questions is somewhat suspect to me. After a person answers, 'happy,' which 78 percent did, the very next question turns to approval or disapproval of Obama. And Lord knows our generation believes that the President is responsible for providing jobs, making people happy, etc." There are all kinds of reasons to be happy! "I wanted to know whether the same formula was put forth when polling about George Bush. Unfortunately, the website archives don't go back that far.
"Also, it's interesting that the poll methodology is not listed for this particular poll. We only know that 1,003 adults were surveyed; there is a 3.1 Margin or error; and the results supposedly carry a 95% confidence level. Data on the website from a past poll indicates that, 'The survey sample included the contiguous 48 states, Alaska and Hawaii.'… So, how on earth is Obama's approval rating rising? He only got 53 percent of the vote and has further divided, not united the country." Monte Kuligowski concludes: "I think the poll result is 'fishy.'"
Story #8: Hawaii to Raise Unemployment Compensation Tax
RUSH: By the way, for those of you in Hawaii, I have bad news. They are going to raise the unemployment compensation tax on employers to pay for unemployment benefits and extensions. That's a little side note for those of you out there in the South Pacific.
Story #9: CNN: Take This Jobless Recovery and Shove It
RUSH: Here is a story on the CNNmoney.com website that I do not believe passed their editors. The headline: "Take This Jobless Recovery and Shove It -- Economists argue that job growth always lags following a recession. But this time may be different. It's hard to have a recovery with unemployment near 10%." Listen to this. It's by Paul R. La Monica. "Australia's raising interest rates! The global recession is over! The only question now is how strong and fast the economic rebound will be. Hip hip hooray! Not so fast. I hate to ruin the celebration. But before you throw another shrimp on the barbie, consider this. All the talk about whether or not the economy is currently in the midst of a U-shaped, V-shaped, W-shaped, L-shaped or J-shaped recovery misses the point.
"Sure, the recession may technically be over and stocks are rallying once more on hopes that the economy may finally be growing again. But as long as people continue to worry about their jobs -- and with good reason -- it's unlikely that any rebound will feel like a recovery to the people that matter most: consumers. The National Retail Federation announced Tuesday that it expects sales during the holiday shopping season to be down 1% from last year." Ha, ha! That's optimistic. "In its forecast, the NRF cited concerns about job losses and anemic wage growth as primary reasons why consumers are likely to spend less. Simply put, the notion that unemployment can be dismissed as a lagging indicator and that the economy can enjoy healthy growth in a so-called jobless recovery may be a myth."
May be a myth? It is a myth! You talk about drinking the Kool-Aid and this is exactly the media... This guy is obviously an op-ed guy that they are putting on this website for balance, because I guaran-damn-tee you nobody at CNN thinks or feels this way because they're all in the tank reporting, "Yeah, it's going to be a great recovery! The economy is already roaring back out there. It really is. Sure, it's a jobless recovery. Unemployment is always lagging indicator," and anybody with a brain knows: How can you have a recovery with no jobs being created? How the hell does that happen? Does it mean that all this new money is going into Wall Street? Why is money going into Wall Street?
Because the real economy is a disaster and getting worse! There's no place in the real economy to put money. So stocks and municipal bonds are it for liquidity right now. This is basically why there's activity in the stock market. I mean, take a look at gold price, if you want to really know what's going on and what people think the future holds, particularly for inflation. If that's kicks in -- as it almost has to with this debt and this printing of money. You throw that in the mix, with no jobs, and more jobs being lost, and Obama will not be able to print enough money to keep people eating. These are dark days for our nation.
Story #10: TIME: The White House Takes on the Press
RUSH: Try this headline. This is from TIME Magazine: "Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press." The White House thinks the press is giving it the shaft. That's funny.
Story #11: Dem Speechwriter on Massachusetts Health Care
RUSH: I got a story here, it's a very long story. I hate long stories cause it's tough to synthesize, but a former speechwriter, Wendy Button, speechwriter for John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Obama, and Mayor Tom Menino of Boston has moved to Massachusetts from Washington, and she's lost her health care. Now, she moved to a place that has universal health care and she can't get it. And she writes a piece here, (paraphrasing) "My gosh, if you people in Washington want to find out what you're about to do, come look at the mess in Massachusetts." A speechwriter for these Democrats, folks.
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Story #12: Kennedy Claimed He Slept With Over 1,000 Women
RUSH: From the Cleveland Leader website, sit tight. Are you ready? Wait for it. "In a chapter of his autobiography, the late Senator Ted Kennedy confessed to having slept with over 1,000 women and spending more than $10 million in hush money to keep his womanizing ways a secret. If you crack open the book, however, you won't find a mention of this in there anywhere. That is because horrified family members and advisers cut it out before the book was published. A close source also revealed to the National Enquirer --" you know, it's sad to say, the Inquirer is the only place to get real investigative journalism anymore. I mean, they had the John Edwards story. "A close source also revealed to the National Enquirer that before he died of brain cancer at age 77 on August 25, Kennedy also revealed that he had planned to seduce Mary Jo Kopechne on the night she drowned.
 "The source said: 'While dictating his memoirs into a tape recorder, Ted decided to tell the whole truth about his life - including his love life. He said that his first lover was an Irish nanny. She was about 19, and Ted was only 13. When his mother found out, she sent the nanny back to Ireland. Rose made Ted pray on his knees for hours to ask forgiveness. But Ted recalled that even his sore knees couldn't wipe the smile off his face. From that day on, he says he seduced as many women as he could, from maids and cooks at the family's Hyannis Port compound to college friends that his sisters brought home.'"
Now, I know many of you might think, "Rush, Rush, why are you doing this?" It's the Cleveland Leader. I am not reading the National Enquirer. But the National Enquirer, they do investigative stuff, and, by the way, we do know of the Kennedy-Dodd waitress sandwich routine at La Brasserie in Washington, and the women have written about it. "The source added that Kennedy even admitted to having planned to seduce Kopechne the night his car plunged off the road in Chappaquiddick. 'But his lawyers and friends begged him not to open that door. They said that even after his death, it would hurt his legacy and haunt the family. He relented about Mary Jo, but went on to admit that he'd seduced the wives of some of his closest friends and even his brothers' girlfriends.' Ted had hoped his book would tell the truth about his life, but family members decided to hold off on including certain parts of the book out of respect to the family's reputation." Reputation? Ha, h! Sorry. "Even though it was removed from the book, it seems the revelations leaked out regardless
Okay, Cleveland Leader: Ted Kennedy claimed to have slept with over 1,000 women. Does that beat Wilt Chamberlain? Wilt Chamberlain, 20,000 women? Oh, so Kennedy's a piker! Oh, well, well, I thought the record was in danger here! All right, I feel better about everything now.
Story #13: Teacher Gets Probation for Spiking Student's Soda
RUSH: By the way: "Miami Lakes school teacher has gotten two years probation for spiking an autistic student's soda with hot sauce." What's happening to our schools? At least I guess that's better than seducing the kid.
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