{"id":23960,"date":"2006-12-13T06:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T11:15:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:38:04","slug":"executed_man_takes_27_years_to_die_genius_dolphins_saved_by_big_arm_freak_outrage_over_illegal_immigration_identity_theft_raid_on_virgin_of_guadalupe_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/12\/13\/executed_man_takes_27_years_to_die_genius_dolphins_saved_by_big_arm_freak_outrage_over_illegal_immigration_identity_theft_raid_on_virgin_of_guadalupe_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Executed Man Takes 27 Years to Die; Genius Dolphins Saved by Big Arm Freak; Outrage over Illegal Immigration Identity Theft Raid on Virgin of Guadalupe Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>RUSH:&nbsp;&#8220;Angel Nieves Diaz, who was convicted of murdering a Miami topless bar manager twenty-seven years ago, was executed by lethal injection tonight. He appeared to grimace before dying thirty-four minutes after receiving the first dose of chemicals. The manner of his death will likely rekindle the argument that Florida\u2019s method of execution constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.&#8221; Yeah, Old Sparky didn\u2019t work. The electric chair. So they went to the lethal injection. That doesn\u2019t seem to work. What are we talking about here? It didn\u2019t take this man thirty-four minutes to die. It took him twenty-seven years! It was pretty humane if you ask me. He got free room and board, and he was still sucking in air twenty-seven years after the man he murdered [Joseph Nagy] stopped breathing. It took him twenty-seven years to die, not thirty-four minutes.<br \/>\nA story out of Beijing: &#8220;The long arms of the world\u2019s tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs. The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium. Attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because the dolphins\u2019 stomachs contracted in response to the instruments. Veterinarians then decided to ask for the help of Bao Xishun, a 7\u20199&#8221; herdsman from inner Mongolia with 41.7-inch-long arms. He\u2019s 54 and is confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world\u2019s tallest living man. Photographs showed the jaws of one of the dolphins being held back by towels so that this guy could reach inside the animal without being bitten. Some very small plastic pieces are still left in the dolphin\u2019s stomachs, said the local vet. However, the dolphins will be able to digest those and are expected to recover soon.&#8221;So despite their great intellect, ladies and gentlemen, dolphins &#8212; smarter than we are &#8212; are still, for some reason nibbling on plastic. It has to be due to global warming &#8212; and even at that, they needed the assistance of some human freak in order to be able to have their lives saved.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m going through the show prep today, getting ready for the program, and you would not believe the number of stories out there on the minimum wage &#8212; and you would not believe the number of stories out there on immigration. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s going on here. The Democrats are out there saying, &#8220;We\u2019re not going to touch this immigration. We\u2019re not going to get anywhere near it, it\u2019s a powder keg, it\u2019s hot potatoes,&#8221; and the media is not going to let \u2019em off. The media is going to try to drive this issue down everybody\u2019s throats, and the minimum wage is the same thing. I don\u2019t know, must be four or five different minimum wage stories today from the wire services, and that is something that sort of mystifies me because that is going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody\u2019s caved on the minimum wage. This is just an incredible story. I laughed myself silly.&nbsp;&#8220;Eyewitnesses told of anguish as police swooped on several meatpacking plants in the US, largest immigration raid on Tuesday, the day Mexicans honor their beloved national icon, the Virgin of Guadalupe. The swoop by more than 1,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on Swift &amp;amp; Company meatpacking plants in six states of Utah to Texas netted nearly 1300 people, most of them undocumented immigrants from Mexico. As news of the raid spread among the congregation of people attending a mass in Greeley, Colorado, honoring the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe\u2019s legendary appearance to an Indian peasant nearly 500 years ago, people trickled out of the service into the streets where ice and snow still lay in patches from snowfalls a few days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a tremendous sorrow, horror, uncertainty. A lot of people just left the mass, went up to the plant. The ICE agents walked in the plant, hard hats provided by the company, we got phone calls, &#8216;How dare they conduct this raid on the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe?'&#8221; This story is a Reuters story, the Reuters story is very sympathetic to the illegal immigrants who got iced in the raid. They\u2019ll be back on the job soon. This is one of these, I think, a display here to try to quell some of the national anger over illegal immigration. People say, &#8220;You\u2019re not doing anything about it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, yeah? Watch this raid! We\u2019ll do it on the day of Guadalupe, and that will really make \u2019em mad and you\u2019ll see how tough we are on these people,&#8221; but beyond that, not much will happen. They said it was identity theft. Federal officials said the raids on these plants in six states uncovered a disturbing front in the battle against illegal immigration, identity theft as a tool to obtain employment. Really? Well, how shattering, shocking news is that? The whole thing is about identity theft. How else are you going to get a Social Security card or any other form of identification if you\u2019re illegal if you don\u2019t steal it from somebody or make it up?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:&nbsp;&#8220;Angel Nieves Diaz, who was convicted of murdering a Miami topless bar manager twenty-seven years ago, was executed by lethal injection tonight. 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