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Story #1: Putin Wants to Hang Georgian Leader by Testicles
RUSH: Putin says he wants to hang this Saakashvili guy, the Georgian, by the testicles. "The French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur reported last month that Putin told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he would hang Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili by the testicles." The remark came following a conversation with Jesse Jackson, who wanted to do the same thing to Barack Obama.
Story #2: Would-Be-Bride Swept to Sea During Proposal
RUSH: From Neskowin, Oregon: "A romantic marriage proposal on the Oregon coast turned deadly for the bride-to-be when a wave swept her out to sea." Now, picture this. See, they're laughing in there. It's a horrible story. It's tragic, and everybody's laughing. This is a sitcom today. "Scott Napper had taken 22-year-old Leafil Alforque to Proposal Rock near Neskowin Beach to pop the question at a place that got its name from couples ready to marry." So this Leafil Alforque and Scott Napper "had been dating since they met on the Internet in 2005. But Alforque had arrived in Oregon on a visa from the Philippines just three days before the fateful trip to the coast. Napper said the tide had receded around Proposal Rock on Saturday when the couple began to walk to it." The tide began to recede? Okay.
"He planned to propose and give her the ring he carried in his pocket. About 10 feet from the rock, a wave about 3 feet high suddenly came toward them. 'I turned into it to keep from getting pulled under it,' Napper said." How does a three-foot wave drag you under? "'I turned into it to keep from getting pulled under it.' By the time he turned to find Alforque, only 4-foot-11 and 93 pounds, she had been caught by the receding waters. 'She was about 30 feet away, getting swept away,' Napper said. The 45-year-old Silverton man tore off his jacket to get rid of any extra weight, and when he looked up again she was gone. 'That's the last I saw of her.'" This is a tragic story, but I'm trying to picture this. I live on a beach. I see waves like this all the time that do not drag people. Well, I'm sure she couldn't swim, obviously she couldn't swim. I do not know. I cannot envision how you're on the shore and a three-foot wave comes up, bam, and takes you if you can see it coming.
Story #3: Gulf Oil CEO Says Gas Could Hit One Dollar
RUSH: The president of Gulf Oil came out yesterday and said he sees a possibility in 2009 of gasoline being one-dollar-a-gallon. And so, what is happening on Capitol Hill? Our brilliant Central Planners who are now taking over the auto industry are conditioning the bailout bridge loan or what have you, on how many electric cars these people are going to build while we're looking at one-dollar-a-gallon gasoline. Central Planning is dictating these little three car makers, what they can sell. The markets are telling them something completely different, but because the car makers are broke, they go along with the plan even though they all know this is a sure loser.
Story #4: Down South: America's "Other" Auto Industry
RUSH: I have a great story that just cleared the printer: "America's 'Other' Auto Industry." It's a story from the Christian Science Monitor.
"The US auto industry is throwing bolts, but here in Georgia's Chattahoochee Valley a South Korean car company is building a massive new manufacturing plant along the new Kia Parkway, replacing abandoned textile mills. The recently opened Korean BBQ House now vies for customers with Roger's Pit-Cooked Bar-B-Que. And in an indication of just how welcome Kia's nonunion jobs are, some 43,000 people applied for 2,600 positions -- with starting wages of $17 an hour -- as the plant gears up to turn out its first model next November. The expansion of this 'other' auto industry -- one that's foreign-owned, nonunion, and based largely in the South -- stands in stark contrast to this week's dire reports from America's own Big Three, whose CEOs laid out plans for a dramatic downsizing before traveling to Washington to plead for $34 billion... Two-thirds of 'foreign imports' are, in fact, built in the United States in nonunion shops, where it costs at least $2,000 less in labor to build each vehicle."
The point of the story is there is a thriving automobile industry in this country right now, and it's taking place in the South. It's happening in Georgia, it's happening in Alabama, Mississippi, and all of these companies are owned by foreigners, but they employ Americans. I mean two-thirds of the foreign imports are built in the United States, and one of the big secrets is right out in the open, and the Drive-Bys are now writing about it: unions! Here's the deal. Seventeen dollars an hour is what these people are going to work for at the Kia factory here in Chattahoochee Valley, and $28 bucks is what your average UAW worker makes. You get $28 bucks-an-hour for the average UAW worker for the Big Three or the big two-and-a-half, and 17 to 18 bucks-an-hour for the non-union people.
Now, as Charles Krauthammer pointed out yesterday, what's happening here, because I don't care what you've heard from what's this guy's name, Wettelfinger, Gettelfinger, the UAW guy, he's up there with the Big Three. Whatever you've heard about concessions, there aren't any. Oh, and the big question was asked this morning by some lib, a member of Congress, she asked the Big Three, "Hey, wouldn't it really help you all if the government took over your legacy health care costs?" Okay, there it is, folks. Finally it was right out in the open out there where we all know this is headed anyway. Krauthammer pointed out, look, the people in this country who are making 17, 18 bucks an hour, on average, are being asked to bail out the people making $28 bucks an hour, the union people that work for the United Auto Workers. It's all about being able to competitively stay in the business, and Chris Dodd, I mean, you have to give him credit, give credit where credit is due, he asked a smart question yesterday. He said, "Regardless what we do here, everything hinges on getting people into dealerships and buying your product, right?" It does. No matter what these clowns do up there.
 Story #5: The Levin Brothers Get Ride to Hearing in GM Volt
RUSH: I went up to Washington last night to do a speech for the Hillsdale College people. I was flying up there, and I did not know this 'til I read about it today. I saw Carl Levin and Sander Levin, they are Michigan senator and congressman respectively, riding in the back seat of a Chevrolet Volt.
Now, what happened, Rick Wagoner, who is the CEO of General Motors, drove there in a Malibu rather than fly on the corporate jet. Now, while people weren't looking, he had a Volt shipped in, because the Volt is not ready yet. A Volt could not make the trip. They haven't got a battery big enough yet, I don't think. It's not due 'til 2010, the Volt is not. It's a plug-in electric car. So he had it shipped in because he wanted to arrive at the hearing in the Volt because that's a PR show, PR play. And I saw these two, the congressman and the senator, in the back seat, and it just made me laugh. Everything is a sitcom. Here these two old buffoons, socialist libs in the back seat of a Chevrolet Volt, driving about ten feet, and they're smiling like little kids at the Dodge car display at the county fair. And I was like, "What have we come to here?" Everything's PR, everything is image. These guys show up, drive ten feet in the back seat of the Volt. By the way, I wish General Motors all the luck in the world with the Volt, don't misunderstand, everything is just amusing me here.
Story #6: Obama Elected: Power No Longer Corrupts
RUSH: Folks, do you remember back in the mid-nineties we had a newspaper story from the Associated Press which said that lying was actually quite healthy for us? Lying spared people's feelings being hurt; lying kept our social fabric intact because telling the truth too often to too many people would just cause civil unrest, and we couldn't have that in the midst of perhaps the most dishonest president we've ever had, Bill Clinton. Well, Live Science: "Our research suggests that people may not need to worry too much about power corrupting Obama. His newfound power might enable the change he desires rather than that power changing him instead." So in 1995, lying was healthy. In 2008, all of a sudden, power does not corrupt.
Story #7: Exotic Birds Fall Prey to Foreclosure Crisis
RUSH: Reuters story from Seattle: "Real estate agent Jeffrey Dolfinger was making a routine occupancy check on a foreclosed home near Poughkeepsie, New York--" Why is this datelined Seattle? Ah, hell, who cares. This guy was checking on a home, a foreclosed home in Poughkeepsie. I challenge you Obama voters to spell "Poughkeepsie." At any rate, he made a heart-wrenching discovery while checking on his foreclosed home. "Two bedraggled cockatiels nearly starved to death." Exotic birds are falling prey to the foreclosure crisis as well. "It's a little-known side of the foreclosure crisis: exotic birds abandoned or dropped at shelters because their owners cannot move into an apartment or a relative's home with the sometimes noisy creatures." You just hate it when this stuff happens.
Story #8: Pray for Rain During The Messiah's Inauguration
RUSH: Get this: "Cameras and cell phones, yes. Backpack, no. If you're planning on going to the inaugural ceremony of The Messiah, be forewarned, you cannot take a backpack, you cannot carry a sign. Umbrellas, strollers, and thermoses are forbidden." I will be praying for rain that day, since umbrellas have been banned.
Story #9: O.J. Simpson Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
RUSH: O.J. Simpson, 15 years in jail. There. I've said it and covered the story.
Story #10: Expert Blames American Values for Health Care Crisis
RUSH: A press release from UCLA: "'UCLA Expert Blames American Values for Health Care Crisis' -- To heal our ailing health care system, we need to stop thinking like Americans. That's the message of two articles by UCLA's Dr. Marc Nuwer, a leading expert on national health care reform, published this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. 'Americans prize individual choice and resist limiting care,' says Nuwer, a professor of clinical neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. 'We believe that if doctors can treat very ill patients aggressively and keep every moment of people in the last stages of life under medical care, then they should. We choose to hold these values. Consequently, we choose to have a more expensive system than Europe or Canada.'
"Consider these statistics. The United States boasts the world's most expensive health care system, yet one-sixth of Americans are uninsured. Medical expenditures exceed $2 trillion annually, making health care the economy's largest sector, four times bigger than national defense." Let's look at why this is. We might find that part of the reason is the government meddling in this business. We might also find the introduction of trial lawyers into this business might be contributing to all of this money being spent. Another statistic. "By 2015, the US government is projected to spend $4 trillion on health care, or 20 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. An aging population will boost spending. Half of Medicare costs support very sick people in their last stages of life, and experts estimate that Medicare funds will be exhausted by 2018. Thirty-one percent of US health care funds go toward administration. 'We push a lot of paper,' Nuwer says. 'We spend twice as much as Canada, which has a more streamlined health care system that demands doctors complete less paperwork.'"
Yeah, more people die up there. More people leave their system to come down here. Anyway, "10 percent of US expenses are spent on 'defensive medicine' -- pricey tests ordered by doctors afraid of missing anything, however unlikely. 'Doctors don't want to be accused in court of a delayed diagnosis, so they bend over backwards to find something -- even if it's a rare possibility -- in order to cover themselves,' Nuwer says. Reforming the US health care system with the goal of providing universal, affordable, high-quality care will require rethinking our overall values and paying greater attention to care-related expenditures, according to Nuwer."
Snerdley, why are you so shocked? Why? No, this guy is doing us a favor! This guy is more right than he knows. In order to get national health care, we do have to stop thinking like Americans. Real Americans wouldn't put up with it. We need to start thinking like socialists, that's the only way it's going to happen. This guy, I know it offends you, because he's advocating it. He's advocating that we change the way our values are structured so as to get national health care. This is exactly what people need to be told. This is un-American to do it the way it's being proposed -- universal national health care.
Story #11: Norm Coleman Still Leads Parasite After the Recount
RUSH: All right, in Minnesota, 100% of all the recount votes are counted, 100% of all the recount votes are counted and Coleman leads now by 238 votes after the recount. Somebody needs to tell the parasite, Al Franken, to quit, to concede. There's no point in stealing it 'cause you still can't get to 60. The only way that the Democrats and Harry Reid would engage in activity to steal it, is if it got them to 60, but Saxby Chambliss screwed that all up, so it's time for Franken to quit. The reason he won't quit is he doesn't know how to get a real job. He cannot make any money unless he uses somebody else's name to do it, a pathetic figure. You people in Minnesota, I am stunned that it even got this close. The idea that this country is now a sitcom is exemplified by how close that stupid election was in the first place.
Story #12: Hillary Clinton Syndrome Hits Kansas City Politics
RUSH: And now, ladies and gentlemen, the Hillary syndrome has hit Kansas City. "The people of Kansas City thought they were getting a straight shooter with financial smarts --" You know, every story today, this UCLA story, "Look, we're going to have to give up our American values in order to get health care." Every story is from ScrappleFace or The Onion. You'd think every story is a snow job. This one reads like a parody. "The people of Kansas City thought they were getting a straight-shooter with financial smarts as their new mayor. What they got, critics say, is a henpecked husband," who only does one thing behind his wife's back, and that's zip her up. He needs his wife to tell him what to do. Dawn's looking at me with real anger in her face. I'm not making this up. This is an AP story. I don't know if it's a male or a female because the name is Andale Gross, A-n-d-a-l-e. It might have been a person who's done a sex change 'cause you've got Ann in there and you've got Dale, could go either way. Whoever this is is writing about a henpecked mayor.
"In an era when politicians get in trouble for infidelity, Mayor Mark Funkhouser finds himself under fire for his devotion to his wife, a sharp-elbowed New Yorker whose role as his closest adviser has locals wondering who's really running this city of 450,000." This is why I call this Hillary Clinton syndrome. "'I knew Mark for almost 18 years as auditor and didn't even know he was married. It's not like he needed his wife when he was auditor,' said City Councilman Ed Ford, a leading critic of Funkhouser and his wife, Gloria Squitiro. 'I think we were all surprised that he felt she was so indispensable once he became mayor.'" Remember, now, this story is running nationwide on the AP-Obama wire. This is not a local story in the Kansas City Scar. This is running all over the country.
"Squitiro ran her husband's campaign for mayor, and after he got elected last year, she took a desk near his office in City Hall." So what? It happened in Washington, we've had a redefinition of roles, and so buy one get one free, whatever. "That arrangement came to end soon after a former mayoral aide filed a lawsuit last summer in which she accused Squitiro of making lewd comments around the office and calling the aide, a black woman, 'Mammy.'" Ooh, ouch. That would make a difference. "The council responded with an anti-nepotism ordinance that bars Squitiro from volunteering in the mayor's office. Funkhouser vetoed it, and the council overrode the veto. Funkhouser shot back by suing the city, saying the ordinance infringed on his authority." We're not even halfway through this story, folks. You want to keep going on this? "On Thursday, the council rejected Funkhouser's request to settle the lawsuit with the former employee after he declined to drop his suit against the city. After the city council passed the ordinance, Funkhouser began conducting a large share of city business from his house, stunning members of the council," 'cause the counsel cannot make him kick his wife out of the house.
And now they're trying to figure out, okay, who came up with this plan to run the city out of his house? And everybody is pointing fingers at Squitiro. "'I think government business should be done at City Hall and not out of the mayor's home,' Ford said. 'Part of it's transparency. Part of it is "Why is the mayor working out of his home?" It's obviously so Gloria can be by his side.' The Kansas City Star, which backed his candidacy, retracted its endorsement last month." Big whoop. You know, the Kansas City Scar is just another propaganda outlet. So the Kansas City Scar, which is impotent and has nothing to do with anything anymore, renounces its endorsement, or takes it back, big whoop. "Funkhouser has also become a routine target of the paper's editorial cartoons --" So am I and it hasn't hurt me a bit. "-- including one this week that lampooned the power couple as 'Nitro' and 'Glycerin.'" Well, hardy-har-har. That's a really funny editorial cartoon, Funkhouser and Squitiro as nitro and glycerin. If they keep working on it Comedy Central might hire 'em when they get laid off at the cartoon department over at the Kansas City Scar.
"In a letter to the editor this week, one reader said: 'I didn't see her name on the ballot. I don't recall a two-for-one deal.' Another wrote recently: 'He should be removed from office immediately so he can spend all of his time with his wife without his job getting in the way. Separation anxiety problem solved.'" So this guy, they're portraying him: He's a bed-wetter; he is henpecked; he can't do anything without his wife around because his wife is making him keep her around. Bring back the old days. You know, when I lived there they had a mayor named Charles Wheeler and he never even knew what day it was. He went on the radio every morning, he had his own little five-minute radio show, but everybody loved him. Charles ran around town, he was always at the St. Patrick's Day parade. No town business got done, but the snow was always removed and so forth. It was a fun place to live, except if you didn't have any money, and what is a fun place to live if you don't have any money?
But actually, I left something out of this Kansas City mayor story. I left out the best part of this. Squitiro, this is the Hillary wife, the Nurse Ratched. "But Squitiro quickly gained a reputation as a controlling influence on the mayor and a divisive and meddlesome figure at City Hall. Funkhouser's chief of staff, Ed Wolf, resigned earlier this fall, complaining, 'It was kind of like having your mother-in-law go along on your honeymoon.' As for the allegations in the lawsuit, the couple's lawyers said that Squitiro routinely gave affectionate nicknames to staffers and that the word 'Mammy' came from Squitiro's adding an 'e' sound to the word 'Ma'am.'" She didn't mean mammy as in Gone With the Wind mammy, just ma'am-ie, like an I-E, like Rushie, mammy. "In a sworn statement, Squitiro acknowledged making sexual references but insisted they were jokes. The episodes have been part of a bumpy 18 months for Funkhouser. He was criticized for accepting free use of a hybrid car from a local Honda dealership." Man. It's bad enough to be henpecked by your wife, but to be bribed by a hybrid? Where has our self-respect gone? Bribed by a hybrid?
Story #13: More Obama Staff Layoffs: Rocky Mountain News
RUSH: Did you see where Scripps Howard may have to close down the Rocky Mountain News? Propaganda organs are just falling by the wayside. The Obama campaign staff is being pared with these layoffs. I mean, how many of them are media?
Story #14: Obesity Pays: Dog Frozen to Sidewalk Saved by Fat
RUSH: When we get back on Monday I'll tell you the story of the dog that got frozen to the sidewalk but didn't die because it was saved by the amount of fat that it had. So here's to obesity as we head into the weekend.
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