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Story #1: Global Warming? Denver Braces for Blizzard
RUSH: Eighteen inches of snow in Denver today and tomorrow. Eighteen inches of snow! This is not all that unusual, by the way, for Denver. I went to Sacramento 1984 to start the trek that has led to all of this, and when I got out there, one of the first nights I was there I was taken out to dinner downtown where Monday Night Football was on, and it was snowing in Denver. A blizzard. I think it was the Packers and the Denver Broncos and that was October 15th or 14th, in 1984, so it's not unusual. This is the whole point. Ten to 18 inches it may be.
Story #2: Two Stories: New Home Sales Rise; Tumble
 RUSH: I have two news stories, ladies and gentlemen, both from State-Controlled Associated Press, a before story and an after story. Here's the before story. "Sales of new homes are expected to post their sixth consecutive monthly gain as builders reap the benefits of a tax credit for first-time owners that expires at the end of next month. A Commerce Department report on September's new home sales, to be released Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT, is forecast to show a 2.6 percent increase to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 440,000, from 429,000 in August, according to economists polled by Thomson Reuters. If the report hits that number, it would be the best month for new home sales in more than a year."
That's the before. Here's reality. First story cleared at 12:38 this morning. They posted it on the wire at 12:38 this morning. That's 20 minutes to one, for those of you in Rio Linda. At 10:03 this morning, same State-Controlled AP: "Sales of new homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a soon-to-expire tax credit for first-time owners started to wane." Oh, it was going to be the saving grace, but now, it's just started to wane. "The Commerce Department said Wednesday that sales fell 3.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000 from a downwardly revised 417,000 in August." So they're all huffing and puffing, they're waiting for all the great news, the economy is coming back, foreclosures at an all-time high. How is that hope and change working out for you?
Story #3: Arlen Specter in Deep Trouble in Pennsylvania
RUSH: Here's another Republican-in-name-only in deep trouble. Those of you inside-the-Beltway Republicans, this is what happens when you turn your back on conservatism. "It has not been a good year for Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), whose numbers take a real hit in the latest Franklin & Marshall College poll," margin of error here plus or minus 4.3%. "His favorable rating is just 28 percent, down from 48 percent in March, while his unfavorable rating is now up to 46 percent, nearly double the March rating. Only 23 percent say he should be re-elected, while 66 percent say it's time for a change." Remember, he left the Republican Party for one reason, to go to the Democrat Party to get reelected. He was down in the polls in a primary battle on the Republican side in Pennsylvania. President Obama's job approval in this poll, by the way, has also slipped from 47% in August to 40% now. Fifty-nine percent disapprove. And again, this is the Franklin & Marshall College poll. So a lesson for inside Beltway Republicans who abandon conservatism.
Story #4: Newt, Howard Dean Do Traveling Road Show
RUSH: I got a note today from my brother David, a lawyer and columnist. He lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He said a friend of ours, lieutenant governor of Missouri, Peter Kinder, one of our childhood friends growing up, invited him to a meeting this afternoon at 3:30 in Cape Girardeau. Are you ready for it? Wait for it... A traveling road show on health care with Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich. They're doing the road show thing tonight at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. I didn't know that Newt was doing a traveling road show with Howard Dean on health care. I mean, it's a debate -- the traveling road show is how I characterize it.
Story #5: Can Being Laid Off Really Make You Better Off?
RUSH: "'Can Being Laid Off Really Make You Better Off?' -- As the Great Recession continues to devour jobs at an alarming rate --" wait a minute. I thought jobs were coming back here. "As the Great Recession continues to devour jobs at an alarming rate, tales are legion about the millions of unemployed struggling to right their lives and recover their self-esteem. But what happens to those left behind? Would it surprise you to learn that survivors can suffer just as much, if not more, than colleagues who get laid off? It certainly surprised a team of academic researchers who embedded themselves at Boeing from 1996 to 2006, a tumultuous decade during which the company laid off tens of thousands. The results of the study will appear next year in a Yale University Press book called 'Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers.' Sarah Moore, a University of Puget Sound industrial psychology professor who is one of the book's four authors, 'How much better off the laid-off were was stunning and shocking to us.' ... In the greatest surprise of all, the researchers discovered that the people who had been laid off often were happier than those left behind. Many had new jobs, even if they didn't always pay as well."
Now, this book's not coming out 'til next year. Isn't the timing of this little release on it fascinating? As unemployment continues to skyrocket and approval numbers for Obama continue to plunge and a deeper suspicion of President Obama continues to surface, State-Controlled Media gets in gear and says, "Hey, Obama is so smart, Obama is so wonderful, Obama is so good that you may be better off if you lose a job when Obama is president. It may actually be better off for you."
From Friday, July 17th, 2009, a similar story from the Washington Post: "'Recession Lesson: Share and Swap Replaces Grab and Buy.' -- The recession is reminding Americans of a lesson they first learned in childhood: Share and share alike. They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and talent." It's a wonderful thing. Look at what being laid off is helping you to become, a better person, having no job, being laid off is teaching you how to be a better person. Isn't Obama wonderful? That's the subtext of all of this. I guarantee you that if we faced 10% unemployment under George W. Bush there wouldn't be one story on the happiness of the laid-off. It would be headlines and in-depth stories daily about the misery of living in Bush's America.
Story #6: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Obama is Dismantling America
RUSH: People ask me all the time, "Rush, you'll tell us when it's time to panic, right?" I say, "Yeah, and it's not time to panic." But I have just finished a column by Thomas Sowell that strikes me as somewhat remarkable. There should not be any doubt with Americans interested in the truth about who Barack Obama is and what he represents, it's become clear, surreal clear. Dr. Thomas Sowell, a brilliant, accomplished man, a distinguished gentleman. When distinguished gentlemen, distinguished Americans such as Thomas Sowell think and write as he has in his latest column, it's time to stop gathering evidence about Obama's character and do anything within the boundaries of the law to stop his agenda.
"Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many 'czars' appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent? Did you think that another 'czar' would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers -- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish? Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called 'experts' deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
"Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones? Does any of this sound like America? How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough. How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
"We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American. How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country. Jeremiah Wright said it with words: 'God damn America!' Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
"Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children. Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House? Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government -- people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world.
"Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list. Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year -- each bill more than a thousand pages long -- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question -- and the biggest question for this generation."
That is Dr. Thomas Sowell. If you don't know, Dr. Sowell is African-American. He is at the Hoover Institution on the campus at Stanford University. "Dismantling American." When he starts writing things it's time to stop gathering evidence, folks. The evidence is clear. It's now time to have the courage to believe the evidence and to take action, which, by the way, has been happening and will continue to happen. Conservatism is on the ascendancy.
Story #7: Michael Gerson: The Recession's Hidden Virtues
RUSH: You know, all these stories about how wonderful it is to be laid off during the Obama presidency… Well, here's a list of recent Washington Post headlines along the same lines, Michael Gerson: "Recession's Hidden Virtues." Everyone knows a bad economy leads to bad behavior, everyone might be wrong. Recession leads to more people buying seeds trying to grow their own food. Recession takes a bite out of snacking, everybody getting healthier. Because of the recession, many private colleges admitting more students than usual this year. Well, hell's bells! Maybe what we need is perpetual recession that can go on for years and years and year so that we can become an even better country. Look at all the wonderful things that happen during an Obama recession.
Story #8: Grayson Should've Said "Ho" Instead of "Whore"
RUSH: This Alan Grayson guy, I think he is a legitimate ADD, attention deficit disorder, and I mean it literally. This guy craves attention. He can't get enough of it. He called this advisor to the Federal Reserve, Linda Robertson, a "K Street whore". We had the audio yesterday -- I just didn't get to it -- during an interview last month on a syndicated radio program. A "K Street whore". Mr. Grayson, you're a Democrat, I'd think you would be more up to speed on pop culture. The correct and more widely used term is "ho." If you would have said "K Street ho", the National Football League might have asked you to become an owner of one of their teams. But you went out there and used the word "whore", and we just can't have that. Next time you're going to do this, Alan, you go out there and say "K Street ho". And instead of everybody being shocked they'll laugh at you and think you're a pop culture icon.
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Story #9: Female Ex-Letterman Writer Calls Workplace "Hostile"
RUSH: And we're back, and there is this story in the New York Times, it's all over the press, "Ex-Letterman Writer Claims Hostile Environment -- A former writer for David Letterman said she quit his NBC talk show in part because of alleged sexual favoritism and a hostile work environment. Nell  Scovell, writing for Vanity Fair online" today -- actually, yesterday -- "said she had no intention of filing a lawsuit and wasn't seeking revenge. 'I want to shine a light on the gender inequality in that particular workplace,'" she said. "In the Vanity Fair article, Scovell said that Letterman 'didn't hit on her' during her five-month stint with NBC's 'Late Night with David Letterman' in 1990. 'Did he pay me enough extra attention that it was noted by another writer? Yes. Was I aware of rumors that Dave was having [sex] with female staffers? Yes'… Other high-level male employees were having sexual relationships with female staffers as well, she alleges, and the women gained professional benefits from those relationships. 'Did that make me feel demeaned? Completely. Did I say anything at the time? Sadly, no.'" She wrote that she "doesn't intend to seek legal action. Instead, she said, she wants to call attention to the complete lack of women writers on all talk shows, whether hosted by Letterman or NBC's Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien."
In this Vanity Fair piece, listen to this, she has this one passage, she thinks the guys, the male writers, just don't want women around because they are afraid the women will change them. They want to be able to sit in there and eat bags of potato chips and burp and expel gas and do all that and make fart jokes without the women giving them a bunch of garbage. And she writes, "[W]e’re your co-workers, not your wives. Crack a decent fart joke and, as professionals, we will laugh."
So what do you have here? When you break it all down, you've got a bunch of liberal men who are sexually abusing, or they are -- got a casting couch or whatever -- or they are denying opportunities. These are the liberal women who want to work in a liberal male atmosphere, and when you boil it all down, liberal women are unhappy because liberal men treat 'em like dirt. If you read this whole Vanity Fair piece, this woman is basically hurt that she cannot get a writing gig. And that she knows that Letterman was out screwing whoever would screw him, and they were getting benefits, even back at the NBC job. We all know Letterman is a full-fledged card-carrying liberal.
Now, I've always thought that liberal men have it all, why, "You want an abortion? Here, go get two! You want to lead me around on a leash? Here it is! Put it on my neck, whatever." Women this, women that, equal rights, equal opportunity, Equal Rights Amendment, all this… Put 'em in a liberal man's workplace, and they are treated like dirt. Hell, they can't even get jobs in these places very much, and when they do, then they get all upset. What? Hm-hm. No, no. Snerdley said, "Wouldn't those women go in there and try to change the guys?" That's not the point. The point is she thinks the guys will react that way. She thinks that the guys are afraid that the women writers in the room, when they're cranking out this stuff, are going to be, "You can't say that! You shouldn't do that!" And it's very interesting that she said (paraphrase), "We're not your wives, we are your collaborators." Now, that, to me, here is a woman saying, "No, we're not going to treat you as though you were our husbands!" Ha, ha! Whoa!
But point is, it's an entire liberal atmosphere, liberal men treating liberal women like dirt, making liberal women unhappy. And so much so the Huffington Post has this whole section now on why women are not happy, and it's only liberal women that are unhappy. They're running around -- they're miserable. Well, that's the dirty little secret: When have liberal women been happy? Liberal women -- liberals, period, by definition can't be happy. It's part of the ideology.
Story #10: What Obama and Gates Hid Inside Defense Budget
RUSH: By the way, Obama had this big signing ceremony now for the defense bill, the 2010 defense authorization bill. And do you know what is in this bill? A number of provisions defining hate crimes and punishments for them -- in the defense spending bill. This is how the statists work.
Story #11: Smart Meter to Decide When to Run Your Dishwasher
RUSH: Obama was somewhere here in Florida yesterday, Miami, I think, talking about this new electrical grid that he's going to have out there and they're going to put smart meters, thermostats, in our houses so that the government can turn off our power at peak times and make us run our dishwashers when they think best. Really, they said they're going to make the dishwashers run at like three o'clock in the morning when there's less peak. And of course the family cat or dog is going to go bonkers when that happens, start barking around, not expecting to hear that sound. Most people want to get the dishes done and put away before they go to the bed, they don't want to face emptying the dishwasher -- those who don't have staff -- don't want to worry about emptying the dishwasher in the morning, they got too many other things to do, but despite that, smart meters and they're going to tell you when you can and can't use your dishwasher! But if electricity is so scarce, why is the government funding electric cars? Somebody explain this to me.
Story #12: Offended New York Times Writer Wants an Apology
RUSH: You remember last week I had a little fun with this New York Times guy, Revkin, who seriously considered the carbon-limiting implications of limiting childbirths to one per family. And I said, "Just show us some leadership on this. I mean, you're always telling everybody else, go ahead and show us how it works. Die, and save the planet." And he was profoundly offended by this and I'm told wants an apology now.
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