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Story #1: Drive-Bys Love Tropical Storm Noel
RUSH: Oh, man, you just know how much the Drive-Bys love this headline: "Caribbean Storm Kills 20 People." Finally we've got death; we've got devastation, and we've got pestilence. We've got a tropical storm out there, folks. Yes!
It really is funny. It really is laughable. I got up today, I got in here and started doing diligent show prep work, and I, of course, checked out the tropical storm Noel. Yeah. They're forecasting 12-foot waves for us on the beach tomorrow, they say, and maybe 40-mile-an-hour wind, gusts and so forth. Then it all turned further to the east. I remember the first year I was down there, 1997, in October. We had five days of sustained 60-mile-an-hour winds on the beach. You had to wear goggles if you went out there. Clear as a bell. These seas were not 12-feet. It's a shame it isn't going to hit us because we could all use the rain here. But nothing's working out for the Drive-Bys on this hurricane disaster front, nor for the hurricane people.
By the way, I got a quick note from our official climatologist today, Roy Spencer, about the lack of hurricanes. He said, "The lack of hurricanes, Rush, is not good. One of the great things about hurricanes is they are nature's way of getting rid of excess heat. Without enough hurricanes, the world's oceans will heat up even more, and that will cause super 'canes down the road." So these two years, when we've bought a little goodwill with no big hurricanes anywhere near the United States -- well, the way it happens is, these things are powerful storms, and it's called the churn. They churn the deeper water, which is cooler and bring that to the surface, and that dissipates the heat that is on the surface, the sea surface temperatures of the water, and so it's nature's way of getting rid of excess heat. We haven't done that, and so it could lead to super hurricanes on down the road.
Story #2: Slutty Halloween Costumes All the Rage
RUSH: Halloween is coming. Dawn, your kids go out trick-or-treating? I'm fortunate, I don't answer the door. Nobody can get to my door on Halloween. But there's a fascinating story here in the Washington Post. By the way, do you know what the ugliest Halloween costume voted on by the American people is this year, including Democrats? Hillary Clinton. You didn't see that? The ugliest Halloween costume would be Hillary Clinton.
Washington Post, "Preteens Trading Fairy Wands for Fishnets -- Halloween Trend Toward Racy Get-Ups Vexes Parents." This is a Washington Post story, and it's all about the way little girls, preteenaged girls, are dressing up to go out trick-or-treating, and let me share with you this line: "Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it." In the Washington Post. We're talking about preteenage girls. "'No one does scary costumes anymore,' Megan said. Blame that on the teen movie 'Mean Girls,' she said, quoting a line verbatim: 'Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.'" Ha! And they worry about standards declining in the pop culture.
 Story #3: David Brooks on the "Happiness Gap"
RUSH: David Brooks has a column today, and I actually like seeing it because I talked about it yesterday. We talk about it a lot on this program. He's talking about the happiness gap. The happiness gap is the gap between the people that are happy and are not happy. He points out that most people, 82% of the people in the country are very satisfied with their lives, and they're very satisfied with their future. But, they think everybody else is going to go to hell in a handbasket pretty soon, so they're not happy. They temper their own happiness with it and so forth. This is, of course, a theme and a phenomena that I, as your host, have pointed out for almost two decades on this program. I first noticed it in actual polling data back in 1992. During the presidential campaign, Clinton and Gore, Carville running around, "It's the economy, stupid," they were claiming the worst economy in the last 50 years. Little itty-bitty little recession, and it wasn't the worst economy in the last 50 years, it wasn't a bad economy at all. They went out and talked to people about it. "Well, I'm doing pretty well, but the news is the economy's in bad shape, I'm worried about my neighbors," that's where this all started. So the happiness gap is something David Brooks explored.
Story #4: FedEx Expects Record Holiday Season
RUSH: This is from the Memphis Biz Journal: "FedEx Expects Record Holiday Volume." Now, how many times already, starting back in September, did we see the obligatory Drive-By Media stories about how retailers were very, very concerned about the upcoming holidays? Every year we get these stories, retailers, where they make the vast majority of their yearly income are worried about the economy and its effect on the Christmas season, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, every year we get the obligatory story. "FedEx Corp.'s busiest day this year is expected to be Dec. 17, when the package shipper expects to break its all-time volume record. About 11.3 million packages are expected to move through the FedEx Express and FedEx Ground global networks on Dec. 17, compared to 7 million packages on an average day. Frederick W. Smith, chairman, president and CEO of FedEx, said in a statement that, while overall economic growth has slowed, there are 'several indicators for a healthy holiday season.'" Now, this is not the Drive-By Media, this is the Memphis Biz Journal, which, of course, is where FedEx is headquartered.
Story #5: Scientists Find Oldest Living Clam, Then Kill It
RUSH: FoxNews.com: "British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal," and then they killed it! "The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of routine research when the unfortunate specimen, belonging to the clam species Arctica islandica, commonly known as the ocean quahog, was hauled up from waters 250 feet deep. Only after researchers cut through its shell, which made it more of an ex-clam, and counted its growth rings did they realize how old it had been -- between 405 and 410 years old." The ocean quahog. "Another clam of the same species had been verified at 220 years old, and a third may have lived 374 years. But this most recent clam was the oldest yet. 'Its death is an unfortunate aspect of this work, but we hope to derive lots of information from it,' postdoctoral scientist Al Wanamaker told London's Guardian newspaper. 'For our work, it's a bonus, but it wasn't good for this particular animal.'" No kidding. Ha, ha!
Story #6: Amazing Rasmussen Story on Wet DREAM Act
RUSH: An amazing, amazing story here. This from Scott Rasmussen and Rasmussen Reports: "'Senate Heeded Public Opinion By Rejecting Dream Act' -- Having been burned once, the Senators were much quicker to capitulate when the Dream Act, a more limited immigration proposal, was brought up for a vote last Wednesday. The measure failed to generate enough support to even begin a formal debate. That's fine with most voters. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that only 22% of voters support the proposal introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). ... Fifty-nine percent of all voters oppose the Dream Act concept. Republicans oppose it by a 5-to-1 margin and unaffiliateds are opposed by a 3-to-1 margin." That would be the famous independents, the moderates. "Democrats are a bit more evenly divided -- 49% opposed and 31% in favor -- but Nancy Pelosi's party certainly doesn't provide a base of support for the Dream Act. ... The Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey also found that just 16% of voters believe that the children of illegal immigrants should qualify for in-state tuition rates at colleges and universities. Seventy-one percent disagree."
Now, the headline, "Senate Heeded Public Opinion By Rejecting Dream Act," the question you can ask here, "Do they really get it now?" Ladies and gentlemen, after the boondoggle that was amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, after the people in Washington saw what happened, they still went out and tried to get the DREAM Act. It's not a matter of whether they get what we want or not. It's a matter of what they think they can get away with. The Democrats need those illegal immigrants as voters. They need the children of illegal immigrants granted citizenship so they can vote in a couple years. They need 'em in universities and high schools and so forth so they can start propagandizing them. I'm not joking about this. That's why they tried it. They have to get these votes. It doesn't matter whether they get it.
What they're now plotting, is how can they do it again and somehow get it past everybody because there's no way they couldn't have gotten it the first time around. After the massive, massive rejection of the amnesty bill, to come back three months later with a much smaller approach called the Dream Act? Uh, they're not listening to what we say in terms of being guided by what to do. They know full well that the nation -- look at these numbers -- opposes this three times now. For the Democrats, it's simply a matter of how can they maneuver this, and to get this into law without anybody knowing about it, because they need these votes. They need this new bunch of victims. They need this new influx of people to become future Democrat voters.
Story #7: Disgraced Nobel Scientist Donated to Democrats; Received Earmark from Mrs. Clinton in Return
RUSH: You know the Nobel Prize winning scientist, James Watson, who went out there and said that Africans are dumber than people elsewhere and so forth? He's quit now, he's resigned whatever he was doing. Lawmakers, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, have taken thousands of dollars in campaign money from him. "Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer, also a New York Democrat, requested a $900,000 earmark in June for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where James Watson served as chancellor before resigning last week after apologizing for comments that suggested people descending from Africa aren't as intelligent as those from Europe. Federal campaign filings show that Watson has donated more than $70,000 to candidates and their political causes, including $3,000 to Clinton's presidential campaign on May 17 and June 25. Two days later, a Senate committee report showed that Clinton and Schumer earmarked $900,000 for the lab." Earmarked! AMT! You want to pay for the AMT, get rid of some of the earmarks. Nine hundred grand to this guy's lab, and the guy had to quit the lab because of what he said, and two days after she got a $3,000 presidential campaign donation, that earmarked happened.
"The majority of Mr. Watson's donations over the years have gone to Senator Tom Harkin, of Iowa." By the way, Senator Harkin, I don't know about the intelligence of Africans, but whatever it is, yours doesn't match 'em. Harkin has received more than $30,000 from James Watson, the disgraced Nobel winner. "Mr. Harkin is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services and Education. ... A spokeswoman for Mr. Harkin yesterday said the earmark is not likely to move ahead, partly because of the furor over Mr. Watson. 'There will be an overall reduction in earmarks from the Senate bill as we go to conference, and it was jointly decided by senators that, in view of recent news, this project should not be included,' said Harkin spokeswoman Jennifer Mullin." So Mrs. Clinton and Chuck Schumer with an earmark for this clown after taking campaign donations.
Story #8: Schumer, Hillary Silent on New Spitzer Plan
RUSH: Now, I'm sure you're all familiar with the controversy in New York State over driver's licenses for illegals that the governor there, Eliot Spitzer, just wanted to ram down everybody's throats. And of course some people said, "We're not going to do this." I don't care where you go in this country, illegal immigrants getting away with breaking the law, when the state is going to storm your house and take your baby that's five weeks old and take it away for six days to give it some blood tests and yet let illegals walk scot-free, give them driver's licenses, and let 'em into college, the American people are not going to put up with this. If federal or state authorities have the energy and the impetus and the time to go into people's houses and take their five-week-old babies from them for six days to get a test, they can certainly do what they can do to enforce the law on illegal immigration. Spitzer proposes this driver's license thing for the illegals and all hell broke loose. So he's come up with an alternative plan.
"New York's plan to create three types of driver's licenses, including one for illegal immigrants, has everyone talking -- everyone except the state's Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a fellow Democrat, announced over the weekend that he had struck a deal with federal homeland security officials to create a three-tiered state system of licenses. In doing so, New York agreed to adopt Bush administration goals on tighter identification security, but Spitzer stuck to his much-criticized plan to allow illegal immigrants to get licenses. The license debate, hard-wired to issues like immigration, terrorism, and civil liberties, may simply be too radioactive for either a presidential candidate like Clinton or a powerful senator like Schumer. For years, Clinton and Schumer seemingly couldn't stop talking about the government's looming border ID rules. Now it's different."
This story, the reason I'm sharing it with you, is not really about New York driver's licenses. What is amazing to me about this is how Mrs. Clinton gets to be quiet when she wants to be quiet. This is her state. The fact that she's a presidential candidate only adds to the fact she should be asked about this. The fact that she's a senator from the state of New York and is not being peppered by the press, "What do you think of the governor's plans here for illegal immigrants getting driver's licenses?" It's amazing how she's able to skate. This is an Associated Press story, Devlin Barrett, "may simply be too radioactive for either a..." well, go ask her. What do you mean, may be too radioactive? You expect her to come out and make a statement on it? Go ask her. I'll bet she'll say it's a state issue, but she's a senator and illegal immigration is a national issue, and she's running for president. She doesn't have an out here.
The point is, she's given a pass. It's too radioactive for her, writes the AP. Man, oh, man, oh, man would I have loved over several occasions the last 18 years for you dummkopfs in the media to think certain issues were too radioactive for me to talk about. Good grief.
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