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October 10, 2007 |
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Story #1: Hillary Is Not Pulling Out... of Michigan
RUSH: Did you see the story? Five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary. Well, I don't care that five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary. What's funny to me is that -- and it's such a delight to be able to say this -- Hillary is not pulling out of Michigan. Okay, there, I did it.
 Story #2: Pelosi Sick of the Kooks in Her Garden
RUSH: A couple of things I want to get to before we get to an analysis of the Republican debate last night. We have some truly hilarious news about Nancy Pelosi today. Do you realize that she's been Cindy Sheehaned for the last five minutes? The kooks, her fringe base, have been camping out in her yard, in her garden, and she's fit to be tied about it. She can't get rid of them because the T-shirts they're wearing say "Impeach Bush," which is a free speech issue. They're out there politically protesting. When Cindy Sheehan's across the street from Bush's house down in Texas, well, that's worthy of celebration, well, that's just cool, we need to support her. Now that Pelosi's being bugged by her own kooks and irritating her neighbors, ah, she whines, and moans, and complains about it.
Here's what she said. She launched into a surprisingly personal description of the protesters camped outside her house. "I've had four or five months of people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco and angering my neighbors, hanging their clothes from the trees, building all kinds of things. You can just imagine my neighbors' reaction to all this. If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering. But because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment. … So I'm well aware of the unhappiness of the base."
Nobody knew this until she told us. This is not leaked out beyond San Francisco. Obviously people in San Francisco have known it, but nobody knew this, but now notice how she doesn't like it and the neighbors don't like it. It was fine and dandy when Cindy Sheehan was down in Crawford and causing all sorts of hassles for people down there. But, if they were homeless, if they were just poor, we could just sweep 'em away like General Dinkins did for the Democrat convention in 1992. You sweep 'em down to lower Manhattan, sweep 'em over to Tiburon or something. Put 'em on a boat and take 'em out to Alcatraz if they were poor. Just treat 'em like dirt, if they were poor. But, no, they got "Impeach Bush" shirts on, so I can't do anything about it. This is your speaker of the House, ten months of the most nothing, ineffective leadership, and coupled with Dingy Harry, he's had a bad ten months, too, over in the Senate. What they're both known for is collecting the lowest approval ratings of Congress in my lifetime.
Story #3: Egghead Chemist Wins Nobel Prize for Ozone
RUSH: A Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry has just been awarded to some egghead who did a lot of work understanding the thinning ozone layer. So it appears that this year's committee is focused on radical environmentalism as being equal to the peace movement. Now, who has received this peace prize? Mother Teresa has received the peace prize, and others who genuinely worked for people. They may be dubious awards themselves, but they were focused on people. Gore is about to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for making a movie about himself! It's now got at least 11 documented lies and falsehoods in it, according to a British court, ladies and gentlemen. I haven't seen the details of this chemist's work on the thinning ozone later, but I can bet -- I shouldn't speculate. I'll just remind you. It was only last week that we had news, maybe two weeks ago, that discovered that the chemical reaction they thought was causing the depletion of the ozone now cannot explain it. It's not the cause in 70% of the ozone depletion, plus the hole keeps filling in. So we're back to square one. We don't know diddly-squat, and so the Nobel chemistry prize has gone to some chemist who's helping us understand the thinning ozone layer. I'll print the story out here in a moment, get the details and find out what his theory is and see if he's this new guy.
Story #4: Condor Impersonator Treated with Vodka Drip
RUSH: This is one of the oddest stories: "Australian doctors used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep an Italian tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance." This guy was doing his impersonation of a condor. You know, the California condor that was in danger? The thing would eat antifreeze. It looked good to them on the street when it dripped from people's cars, and it contains a poison: ethylene glycol. "Doctors speculate that this 24-year-old man was trying to hurt himself, maybe commit suicide by drinking some ethylene glycol. So they administered pure alcohol, which is the conventional antidote to this, but they exhausted the hospital's supply. Desperate to continue the treatment, the doctors at Mackay Base Hospital in Queensland hooked up an IV feed of vodka." Now, let me get this straight. The hospital has plenty of vodka, but it runs out of pure alcohol, and they're not going to run out of vodka. "'The patient was drip fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit. Fortunately for him, he was in a medically induced coma for a good portion of that. By the time he woke up, I think his hangover would have well and truly gone. The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka,'" because they ran out of pure alcohol.
Story #5: Great Liberal Quote on San Francisco Homeless
RUSH: You know, there's a big, big, big homeless controversy brewing in San Francisco. C.W. Nevius is writing about it in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. "'Enough is Enough,' S.F. Says of Homeless -- Residents of a famously liberal city appear to be changing views. The liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to [make fun of] could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people. Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq, indications are that residents have had it with aggressive panhandlers, street squatters and drug users. 'Maybe there has been an epiphany,' says David Latterman, president of Fall Line Analytics, a local market research firm. 'People have realized they can hate George Bush, but still not want people crapping in their doorway.'" Would somebody explain that to me? This is pure liberal-speak. This is one of the greatest examples of liberal-speak and liberal thought that I have ever encountered. "People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway."
This from a market research firm! I guess their tolerance for homelessness up 'til now has been based on the fact that they had to tolerate the homelessness if they were going to hate Bush, to show how good people they are? Anyway, I say falling apart, the support for the homeless. They've had it out there. And this is a great illustration of how liberalism doesn't work. They've been dealing with the homeless by encouraging homeless people, by encouraging the behavior, by not controlling them, by letting them harass merchants, and stores, and restaurants and so forth, then giving them an official place to stay right across from city hall, thinking, "If we're just kind to these people, they'll understand our kindness." No, it just encourages more and more of the same kind of behavior. Now they finally have their fill of it. But they're conflicted because they hate Bush, and their hatred of Bush made 'em a little bit reluctant to deal with the homeless problem, for whatever asinine, stupid reason. But now they finally realize that they can still hate Bush and they get mad at the homeless as well.
Story #6: Union Strikes Ain't What They Used to Be
RUSH: Thompson was talking about how robust the economy was, and he was saying throughout our history, even in good economic times, you're going to have pockets of places in the country that are not doing well, and he cited Michigan because the debate was in Dearborn. Well, Michigan isn't doing well, and it isn't doing well for specific reasons that have nothing to do with the US economy! It has to do with the local economy, tax increases, overspending by the governor there, and the legislature. It's textbook. You know, Michigan is a great example of what the whole country will be if liberals get unfettered, unchecked access to all aspects of government. By the way, Chrysler workers went out on strike today. I saw a picture of this on television at the top of the hour. I counted ten people on the picket line from an overhead camera, maybe on a helicopter or some such thing. It's just not the good old days when the unions went on strike. Last time the autoworkers went on strike at General Motors, it lasted two days.
Story #7: Popularity of Personal Chefs Rises (Thanks, Rush)
RUSH: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, I have pioneered a service. In the process of pioneering this service, I have brought the cost of the service down for all. The headline here in this AP story says it all: "'Popularity of Personal Chefs Rises.' As lives get increasingly busier with careers, kids, commutes, and other chaos..." of course, my life has none of that kind of chaos. Well, career; kids and commutes no. "... a growing number of people are turning to personal chefs to make sure that there's a hot meal on the table at the end of a long day. Hiring a professional to cook for you isn't a whole lot different that hiring someone to clean your house or walk the dog, and it's not just for the wealthy, said John Moore, executive director of the United States Personal Chef Association." Ha! They actually have a group! 'It's not "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,"' Moore said. 'People don't have personal chefs because they have tons of money, they have them because it solves a problem. It puts dinner on the table.'" How many people have personal chefs, but are not buying their own health insurance? It's a legitimate question. How many are paying for a personal chef but not buying health insurance?
If this keeps up, it's not going to be fair, folks, that a lot of people have personal chefs, but other people don't. So the Democrats will propose a program called S-CHEF, which will put a personal chef in every person's house, and they will do this because it's not fair that there are people who do not have chefs. What? Well, that's right, Snerdley. See, it's a great idea, too, because the S-CHEF program that the Democrats will now come up with as a government-mandated program, the S-CHEF chefs will have to be under federal guidelines as to what they can prepare and what they can't prepare, and so the government could solve its panic and fear over our nation's obesity problem by making sure the S-CHEF only can fix certain so-called healthy meals. Thanks and, once again, I pioneered the personal chef a long time ago. It's sort of like buying the first big screen TV. I paid the full boat price when they came out, allows the production to continue, and the prices fall so they become affordable for more and more people. Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what's the question?
Mr. Snerdley's idea is, this could solve the whole school lunch program, the whole hunger program, just get a chef in every house, the S-CHEF program, and the S-CHEF fix meals, day-long, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, so that the schools don't have worry about it. That will never happen. Government is not going to take away the power it has to attract people to those indoctrination centers called schools, and the power that attracts them is food. You don't think those kids are going to class, do you? They're going for the food. Breakfast in the morning, whether you can afford it or not? Hell, that started back when I was in junior high. I knew it was all over then. We didn't have a prayer then.
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 Story #8: Texas Tech Bans Sale of Vick 'Em T-Shirts
RUSH: This is funny. This is from Lubbock, Texas. "Texas Tech has banned the sale of a T-shirt bearing the likeness of Michael Vick hanging the dog mascot of rival Texas A&M. The red-and-black shirts, with text that says 'VICK 'EM'," and on the back it's got a likeness of Vick and his football uniform, big No. 7 on the jersey, holding his helmet in his left hand and a dog hanging... this is pretty entrepreneurial. Vick 'em. "The red-and-black shirts, with text that says 'VICK 'EM' on the front in an apparent reference to the Aggies' slogan 'Gig 'em,' was created by a Tech student who was trying to sell them before Saturday's game in Lubbock. The back of the shirt shows a football player wearing the No. 7 Vick jersey holding a rope with an image of the mascot Reveille at the end of a noose. Tech officials late Tuesday announced the fraternity that sold the shirts was suspended temporarily and will face judicial review for allegedly violating the solicitation section of the students' code of conduct. The school said it wouldn't allow the sale on campus of items that are 'derogatory, inflammatory, insensitive, or in such bad taste.' No more shirts are being produced, the school said in a release. A&M officials, in a statement, thanked Tech administrators for 'their response and action regarding this matter.'" Now, the creator of the shirt, Geoffrey Candia, declined to comment in an e-mail to the AP on Tuesday and said he may make a statement after meeting with the dean of students. Boy, if there are any of these shirts out there, do you realize what they are worth? Vick 'em.
Story #9: Interesting: J.R. Dunn on The Problems of Victory
RUSH: I've been meaning to get to this, "The Problems of Victory" piece, how we're on the verge of victory in Iraq. Let me just give you a heads on this. This is by J. R. Dunn in the American Thinker today. He said, "We're closing in on victory in Iraq. ... The Jihadis are nearing collapse across the country. With the exception of a few Ba'athist holdouts, the Sunni population is coming over in ever-greater numbers. Scarcely a day goes by without another Al-Queda [sic] kingpin being bagged by the Coalition. ... The Jihadis have shown no ability to put together any kind of workable counterstrategy. According to Iraq the Model, the Jihadis have begun targeting remote villages (as predicted here last month), a practice that can only increase their isolation and accelerate their death spiral. Even Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's version of the rebel without a cause, appears to have smelled the coffee. This past weekend he at last shook hands with his mortal enemy, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the largest Shi'ite political party. This ends both [Mookie's] boycott of the government and the gunfights between the SIIC and [Mookie's] Mahdi Army.
"With the Shi'ites pacified and Al-Queda [sic] on the run, all that remains are the freelancers and bandits. Victory holds its own set of challenges. We often think of military victory as something that unfolds of itself, a series of events on the order of a natural phenomenon. But victory in war is as much a product of human reason and passion as it is of luck and circumstance. Victory requires management, the same as any other aspect of war," then draws analogies. We've gotta be on the lookout, even more so after victory, in other parts of the world and not get lazy. "One of the most common methods of fumbling a victory is to allow the enemy one last great blow before the end. This is what occurred in the Ardennes in the last months of WWII. The Allied advance slowed to a halt for the winter of 1944, the troops taking up bivouacs in central Belgium. The commanders, above all Omar Bradley, were not at all worried. The Germans were whipped. They had left their equipment and tens of thousands of their best troops behind in France. Besides, the Ardennes Forest was far too dense to allow an army to maneuver through it.
"Only George Patton, far to the south facing the Palatinate, recalled that the Ardennes was the exact route taken by Guderian's tanks during the 1940 conquest of France. Inspecting a map of the area, Patton mused, 'Brad could get in trouble up there in short order,'" and he did. "Scarcely had the words left his lips than German armored forces, spearheaded by SS units, broke through Allied lines. The American units facing them had been at the front only a few days. They collapsed and ran for it. Many GIs froze in the woods. Large numbers were taken prisoner. Some were gunned down by the SS after being captured. Only ferocious resistance by a few veteran units - above all the 101st Airborne in the town of Bastogne - allowed the Allies to hold on long enough for Patton to dash north and cut off the advancing German columns. It required a month of fighting to restore the lines, at the cost of over 60,000 casualties." Now, the point of this analogy is to suggest that, at that point, we thought we had the war won and the Germans were whipped and they mounted one last charge which led to the Battle of the Bulge -- and he goes to say here, Mr. Dunn does, that the jihadists cannot allow for the world to see their loss in Iraq as a loss. They're going to have to do something somewhere, major and big, to show that they're still viable, still capable of conducting terrorist operations.
And he says that the United States -- and obviously they'll pick a soft spot -- and he says of all the countries in the world right now, the US might be one of the biggest soft spots, given our open borders, given the fact that so many likely cells of jihadists are already in the country. So it's just a call for vigilance. But what I found interesting about it was the assumption here that victory is just a matter of moments away here, that you don't hear any of this in the Drive-By Media. We are not seeing the burning cars and the smoldering embers every night on the news, and there's two reasons for that. A, it's not happening, but, B, the Democrats have decided to drop Iraq as an issue -- and, dutifully following behind, the Drive-By Media has gotten off of Iraq, too. You will notice that whatever is a front-burner issue for the Democrats is what the Drive-By Media focuses on every day in the news. It happens to be S-CHIP right now. It happens to be FISA. They've dropped Iraq, because the Democrats have dropped it. So if you want to know what the Democrats' agenda is and what the latest smear they're trying to run is, the latest scam they're trying to perpetrate, watch the Drive-By Media every day; read the Drive-By Media; look at their two or three lead stories, and you'll find out what the Democrats are doing.
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