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November 10, 2009 |
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Story #1: Maoist Anita Dunn Out, Husband In at White House
RUSH: You can stop sending me e-mails that Anita Hun, folks! (Ahem!) Anita Dunn is leaving the Obama administration. We reported that last week on this program and we also reported that her husband is joining the administration. He's a lawyer in some capacity. I'm expecting Obama will drop off Anita Dunn somewhere in Asia on his next trip there so that she can fully immerse herself in her Maoism.
Story #2: DC Sniper (Muslim Terrorist) to Be Executed Tonight
 RUSH: Tonight, by the way, at nine o'clock, the DC sniper (another terrorist), John Allen Muhammad, will be executed. Now, any time there's an execution in Texas, which is a deeply conservative Republican state, the Drive-Bys are down there with vigils and all of the anti-death penalty people show up, and it's just horrible and they put pressure on the governor (and the Supreme Court): "How can this government kill people? This is unreal!" (Never mentioning abortion, of course, or the upcoming health care bill.) But now John Allen Muhammad is going to be plopped off in Virginia and not a word. Not a word. No Drive-Bys are in Virginia decrying the death penalty. No anti-death penalty advocates are being shown on television. Maybe they'll might make a show of it later tonight when they need ratings at nighttime, if they can squeeze it in with all of the video from Obama at Fort Hood today.
Story #3: Militant Environmentalist Wackos Target Golf Balls
RUSH: London, England -- Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally." (laughing) You know, I'm a capitalist. Now, they say this is a problem: Golf balls take a hundred to a thousand years to decompose naturally. Why don't we build houses that way? That's what a capitalist would say: Oh, how are they building golf balls? How are they managing that? Let's build houses that way! "A startling fact," they say, "when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem. The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch.
"It is thought tourists and locals have used the loch as an alternative driving range for many years. The footage shot by underwater robotics team SeaTrepid, can be seen below" in a link they have in the story. "With an increasing number of golf balls discarded each year, the Danish Golf Association devised a number of tests to determine the environmental impact of golf balls on their surroundings. It was found that during decomposition, the golf balls dissolved to release a high quantity of heavy metals. Dangerous levels of zinc were found in the synthetic rubber filling used in solid core golf balls. When submerged in water, the zinc attached itself to the ground sediment and poisoned the surrounding flora and fauna." Right. Which is why golf courses across the world are dying and brown and so forth, because golf balls are killing grass!
"Course manager for the Danish Golf Union, Torben Kastrup Petersen, said the scale of the problem is unknown: 'There has been very little research on the environmental impact of golf balls, but it's safe to say the indicators are not good. We are planning to collaborate with environmentalists in America..." Oh! (laughing) You see where this is headed! Hugo Chavez just took over all the golf courses in Venezuela and shut 'em down because it's a game for the elite. It's exclusionary. So now the golf ball is a major pollutant creating major environmental damage in the world -- led, of course, by the United States. "Local government ministers in Scotland have also complained about the level of golf ball littering. UK lawmaker Patrick Harvie told CNN: 'From the moon to the bottom of Loch Ness, golf balls are humanity's signature litter in the most inaccessible locations.'"
From the moon to the bottom of Loch Ness. They're inaccessible? The fact is they're not inaccessible. You wouldn't believe the number of people who make money diving into lakes in golf courses, getting the golf balls out of there and reselling them. They get recycled. But this is absurd! We've been playing golf for how many years, Scotland invented this game in the 1800s or 1700s and it's still there. And parts of Scotland are green: The golf courses! Except in certain parts of the year where there's no rain, and they get a little brown but that's part of the charm of them. (interruption) Well, that's true, nobody has seen the Loch Ness Monster. Maybe the reason there is no Loch Ness monster is because the Loch Ness monster is eating all the golf balls and dying from all the zinc, or has died. That's an excellent thought. I hadn't considered that.
Story #4: Democrat Calls for Investigation of Catholic Church
RUSH: "Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat dismayed by the House vote over the weekend to prohibit taxpayer subsidies for insurance policies that cover abortion in the healthcare overhaul, is saying maybe the IRS should investigate the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church following its lobbying effort for the restriction. 'I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill,' Woolsey writes in Politico. 'I just didn't expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops … Who elected them to Congress?'" So a Democrat, on the day that Obama's going to be down there trying to tell everybody, "Don't rush to judgment here on what happened down here at Fort Hood! We can't jump to any conclusions. No, we gotta understand that Islam is a religion of peace. Can't go anywhere near it," a Democrat has called for investigation of the Catholic church over the abortion amendment, which is coming out of it! It's not even going to stay in there.
Story #5: Arthur Caplan Rips Obama Swine Flu Response
RUSH: Hey, I thought we had a national emergency out there, H1N1. Whatever happened to that? I mean, that just dropped off the radar out there. H1N1 was a national emergency. I have an interesting piece here, commentary by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., out of all places, MSNBC.com. Opinion: "Swine Flu Response Dismal at Best." I'm going to read parts of this to you. Anybody who believes the government should control health care should read this story. We'll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. This guy Caplan is all pro-government, he's pro-vaccine. But he's making a larger point here that more and more people do not trust the government, and they have proven they can't respond to this, proving their ineptness. Listen to this.
"Few seem to want to say so, but this nation has mounted a dismal response to the swine flu epidemic. By dismal I mean this: There's not nearly enough swine vaccine to go around, there are conflicted messages about when the doses and antiviral supplies will arrive and half of all Americans are reporting they are too afraid to get the vaccine even if they are able to find it. Health care workers are throwing fits when directed to take the vaccine, even if they work around high-risk patients, and there's a breakdown of a strict distribution system to make sure the vaccine we do have is used to protect and save the most lives.
"We have had the better part of a year to get ready for swine flu. And yet, the response to the pandemic H1N1 outbreak has been lousy. What would happen if a hostile power launched a large-scale bioterrorism attack against us with no warning? The Obama administration bears much of the blame for the fear the public and health care workers have of the swine flu vaccine. The facts do not square with the fear. Numbers of sick and dead are mounting. ... Yet, somehow the administration, public health officials and organized medicine and nursing have lost the battle to overcome fear, ignorance and just plain kookiness when it comes to the importance of vaccination for those at greatest risk. Worse, efforts to tell health care workers -- health care workers! -- that they must get vaccinated if there is vaccine to give them have faltered. ...
"Few leaders in medicine or public health -- much less the White House -- have spoken up and said that if you are a health care worker, your ethical promise to put the health and safety of your patients first means you have an absolute duty to get vaccinated ... One very clear lesson from the current swine flu epidemic is that our safety and security demand much more in terms of effective public education and communication then we have seen to date. ... [S]ome swine flu vaccine, according to recent press accounts, has been released to more than a dozen companies including Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.
"Some professional sports teams have gotten vaccine and vaccinated their players and coaches. ... Prisons are prime breeding grounds for disease, including swine flu. The prisoners infect the guards who bring the virus home to their pregnant wives and kids. From there, it moves out into the neighborhood, the school, the airport and beyond. ... We are not doing a good job with swine flu. We need a national commission to review what has gone wrong with the response to the pandemic." Ha! No, we don't. We do not need a national commission. All we need to know is it's government behind it! They don't do anything effectively efficiently or correct, and yet we're going to turn all of health care over to them.
Story #6: Select Comfort Bed Alert: We're Still Looking for Herb
RUSH: Snerdley, did we ever hear back from Herb, the truck driver who called? Sigh… I have been fretting over this. We need to start a policy of getting people's phone numbers to be able to call back because this poor guy called yesterday, and he was just... He tugged at everybody's heartstrings, talking about financial circumstances he's in now for a number of reasons, including the recession. He said he lost his wife to breast cancer, got married five years later but did not have the money to get a different house or even a different bed.
And it was very strange for his new wife to sleep in the same bed. So he was saving up money, he saved up and saved up to go out and buy a Select Comfort bed, and during the conversation, I thought that he said he had bought the bed, and then everything fell apart. And I misunderstood him, but I didn't think I misunderstood him so I didn't read the steno up there about what he had said. So it turns out he had saved up the money and then emergencies hit, he needed the money and couldn't get the bed. And had I heard that of course I would have taken care of it but we didn't know how to get hold of him and I put out a call yesterday for Herb to call back and we haven't heard anything. He might be trying. It's just very, very, very tough to get into this program. People have been trying for 21 years. Snerdley, have you not even had a call from somebody purporting to be Herb? That is amazing!
That is a testament to the quality and character of members of this audience, that not one person called. Well, not one person's gotten through, anyway, attempting to persuade Snerdley, convince Snerdley that he is Herb. But we have voiceprint of Herb. We know what Herb sounds like, we remember him very well. I feel terrible about this. I mean, here's this guy. He's been listening forever, he loves the country, all he wanted was a Select Comfort bed for himself and his new wife. Sigh… And he wants a Select Comfort bed because he's heard me tout the thing, and he believes what I say about it 'cause it's true. Sleep number, set your side of the bed, your partner's side of the bed, whatever firmness or softness that you want. You wake up refreshed like you ever have. You'll sleep better than you ever have. There's a bunch of stores around the country, 400 of them. Call 1-800-GETABED and find out which one's year you. 1-800-GETABED. And maybe what you call 'em ask if they've heard from Herb.
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