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RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you this. I\u2019ve been biting the bullet on this since 1999 or 2000. Where I live, we have a town council that is just totally absorbed with its own power. Where I live, there happens to be a beach on the Atlantic Ocean; and on this beach, starting every May, giant sea turtles return to lay their eggs. The lore is that sea turtles return to the beach they were born, females, to lay their eggs. I guess this has been proven by people who have devoted their lives to studying and following sea turtles around. So the turtles, they show up — and I\u2019ve seen this happen a couple times. It\u2019s really an amazing thing to see. <\/p>\n

These big, huge sea turtles struggle to come out of the water, and it\u2019s tough for them to move, and they\u2019ve supposedly been swimming all the way from Spain. (That\u2019s the legend.) They\u2019ve been swimming from Spain or wherever they were but they know when it\u2019s time to come home to lay the eggs. And I\u2019ve seen them. They\u2019ve come ashore and they dig the nests out there, and then they lay the eggs, and they trundle back to the ocean. You just can\u2019t help feeling sorry for them; it looks like they just have no energy whatsoever. And then some few weeks later, the eggs hatch and the baby sea turtles emerge from beneath the sand and (according to nature) are supposed to then head to the ocean, where most of them get eaten by other oceangoing creatures. <\/p>\n

But some of them survive and become big sea turtles themselves, all to repeat the process. Yip yip yip yip yahoo, right? Well, it seems a problem — a potential problem — has arisen where I live. That is that when these hatchlings climb up out of the sand, sometimes these little idiots don\u2019t go to the ocean. If there are lights, they will go to the lights. This, of course, is not where they\u2019re supposed to go. They\u2019re supposed to go to the water, but if there are lights, say somewhere ashore, the little turtle babies start heading for the lights. It could be any light. It could be the moon, could be the lights of West Palm Beach reflecting off an overcast sky. <\/p>\n

As a result of this, the town elders have sent out a public threat (uh, ‘notice\u2019) to all of the residents on the beach, on the ocean here, that says that starting today all of our outside and inside lights that can be seen from the beach must be dark. Even lights inside the house must be turned off, and if you\u2019re not going to turn \u2019em off, you must have blackout shades. Now, this is all well and good. I mean, I don\u2019t want these little sea turtles to die. The problem is they don\u2019t get here till May! It\u2019s March! From March 1st to October 31st, we have to live like cavemen if we live on the beach. No lights that can be seen.<\/p>\n

Now, when I was building my house on the beach, and when it was a construction project and when there were no lights whatsoever — nobody wastes money lighting a construction project at night — one morning the contractor arrived to find some dead baby sea turtles among the construction project. I was told about this, and I said, ‘Well, what are we going to do here? I mean, do we report the deaths? Do we get the coroner out here? What do we do? Do we go beg for mercy?\u2019 I said, ‘Did you have any lights on last night?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No. There were no lights.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to figure it out. ‘What in the world happened? These turtles are supposed to go to the water. There was no water in our construction project. What were they doing?\u2019<\/p>\n

So I, thinking fast, went to my astronomical charts, and you know what? There was a huge, almost-full moon that night, and it was apparently not out over the ocean at the time the baby turtles came out of the sand, out of their nests there. Then we noticed the next night what else could have possibly done it: The lights of the town of West Palm Beach reflecting off of the clouds and so forth. They were also pretty bright, and there were no lights at our project. So apparently it can be any kind of light, not just the light from someone\u2019s home where they\u2019re reading or what have you, or you have lights on for security purposes. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s an extremely frustrating thing here because there are a lot of landscaping lights out there, security lights. They all have to go dark from what? From November 1st, basically. What\u2019s that, six months? The turtles get here in May. The babies hatch around July and they\u2019re gone! There are no turtles that are going to show up here this month! If a turtle shows up here this month, it has a problem. But it just isn\u2019t going to happen. I\u2019ll tell you what did happen, though. Two years ago, I\u2019m minding my own business. It\u2019s a rainy night and I\u2019m minding my own business. There\u2019s a buzz at the front gate. <\/p>\n

‘Yes, who is it?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘It\u2019s a police officer.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘What is it, sir?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Your turtle lights are in violation of town code.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘What? My turtle lights are off. I don\u2019t have turtle lights!\u2019 <\/p>\n

An environmentalist wacko had been patrolling the beach. These environmentalists go out there and they plant stakes every time a turtle comes ashore and lays a nest so that people avoid the area so these little babies can gestate in their eggs and do whatever they do — which is fine. Don\u2019t misunderstand here. I\u2019m fine with turning out the lights from like May to August or whatever, but from March to October? <\/p>\n

Well, anyway, I had to go out there, and I told the cop, ‘We had the town come out and look at it, sir, and we\u2019re in compliance.\u2019<\/p>\n

The little environmentalist wacko says (snidely), ‘I love your show, Mr. Limbaugh, I really do, but you\u2019re not in compliance.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So we get written up, were found to be in compliance and so forth. But still it\u2019s a hassle out there. I just had to share this with you. Don\u2019t misunderstand: It\u2019s March 1st here and these turtles aren\u2019t due for two months, but bam! All the lights have to go out. It\u2019s not so much the outside lights (I can deal with that) but the inside lights on the second floor have to go dark. Or the shades have to come down. One of the two, and it just infuriates me here the way these environmentalist wackos are invading personal property rights and all these other things during periods of time where it is unnecessary. <\/p>\n

Of course, I wasn\u2019t even aware when these hearings were taking place so that you could go argue it, but my guess is that nobody that lives on the beach wanted to go argue with a bunch of environmentalist wackos at a town council meeting anyway. So it probably just happened without a whole lot of opposition. The reason? I got the threat (the warning, the notice, whatever it is) today reminding me of all this. You know, here we\u2019re liberating people around the world, and I get this notice about my lights and turtles and so forth. It seems like an incredible contradiction out there, and I just wanted to pass it on. Basically what I\u2019m doing is venting. I\u2019m sharing my rage and anger. (interruption) You have a question, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Oh, yeah. Taxes must be paid on time or the house goes on the auction block. Oh, yeah. Taxes have to be paid on time. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

The thing is, the turtles can be attracted to the moon. How do we put the moon out? I mean, if the moon can attract these things and they go the wrong direction, what the hell am I getting blamed for because of lights inside my house? I have to turn those off. Why don\u2019t we just take West Palm Beach and make it go dark so it doesn\u2019t reflect off the clouds? The next thing that\u2019s going to happen is, the town\u2019s going to charge us a tax increase to have a string of barges out there on the ocean with a million candlelight golden arches to attract the turtles. We\u2019ll have to pay a tax increase for that, and of course we\u2019re still not going to be able to look at it because we have to have our lights off and our shades drawn — as though we\u2019d to want look at a whole string of barges out there with million candlelight arches or whatever to attract these baby turtles.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t understand, folks. I\u2019ve got nothing against baby turtles being born and surviving. But it\u2019s just a bunch of little… (sigh) (interruption) Oh, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s statewide or not. I don\u2019t know. I just know that… (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know, because I don\u2019t know. From what I understand, these turtles come here. I don\u2019t think they go to Miami. The club scene is too attractive for them or too active. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know if it works in Jacksonville or up in Daytona. I have no clue. They probably only come here. I don\u2019t know where they go. I\u2019ve never looked into it. I better stop because I\u2019m going to get a citation here. The town will issue me a fine for talking about this in public outside of the home. There\u2019s probably some regulation barring us from even complaining about this, once the vote has been taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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