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<\/a> RUSH: We have a pretty wide and varied general news stack that\u2019s going to provide a lot of entertainment. For example, have you seen the cover of the New York Post<\/a> today? Let me read it to you. “Washington to New York: Terror? What Terror? Feds Slash Our Funds to Boost Hicks in Sticks.” (Laughing) Oh, Chuck Schumer, the New Yorkers are all upset because places like Kentucky and Wyoming are getting a lot of money to fight terrorism from Homeland Security, and there\u2019s a 40% cut in how much New York is getting. Folks, it\u2019s an election year, and Mrs. Clinton is up and these things are a factor. Still, I love these tabloid headlines. “Feds Slash Our Funds to Boost Hicks in Sticks.” (Laughing.) I love it. <\/line>All right, let\u2019s talk about Haditha and this story — and folks, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s happened yet, but there\u2019s going to be a hurricane or few of them this year. This is the first day of hurricane season. It is absurd the way this is being covered. There has not been a hurricane sighting yet, but if you turn on any of the cable news networks they\u2019re going 24\/7 with hurricane prep, hurricane this, hurricane that. They\u2019re already scanning the Atlantic Ocean via satellite photos. It\u2019s just amazing. I had dinner with some people last night, had some people over to the house for dinner, and one of the young ladies started talking about bird flu, and it just sort of set me off. I said, ?You\u2019re worried about bird flu?? <\/line>?Yeah, I have a six-year-old son. Aren\u2019t you worried?? <\/line>I said no. I refuse to participate in this crisis after crisis after crisis news cycle. Everything is a crisis anymore. We\u2019re not allowed to have a normal, every day life. I said, “Do you realize how much better life in this country gets every day?” Look at the life expectancy. Look at our quality of life. Look at our standard of living. You want to see real abject poverty, and you want to get depressed, go where I\u2019ve been<\/a>, go to Afghanistan and look at how people — and they don\u2019t complain about it. Their lives there are what they are. They\u2019re normal. People going up and down a hill 3,000 feet every day just to get fresh water because there aren\u2019t any pipes and there is no plumbing. And yet if it\u2019s not bird flu, if it\u2019s not global warming, now it\u2019s hurricanes or it\u2019s the war in Iraq or it\u2019s domestic spying or its something. <\/emphasize>Every day is a crisis! To me, it\u2019s just amazing to watch its impact. This woman last night had a genuine fear of bird flu. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, it happens, yeah, pandemic. We don\u2019t know, but the evidence so far is that all of these — look at AIDS. Twenty years ago, AIDS was supposed to have infected all of us. It was going to wipe us out. It was going to spread to the heterosexual population. It hasn\u2019t. What about Africa? Well, different situation. It hasn\u2019t happened here. We had the Population Bomb<\/a> with this guy Ehrlich back in the seventies, “We only have 20 years left! Why, we have too many people on the planet, running out of resources,” blah, blah, blah. The guy couldn\u2019t have been more wrong.<\/emphasize> We\u2019ve got Al Gore, “Ten years and the planet is history!” We\u2019ve had Ted Danson. I can think of countless examples of this and it\u2019s just amazing to watch how people are impacted by it. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve always said, “Okay, if you want to have a recession, go ahead. I\u2019m not participating.”<\/line>“Well, easy for you to say.” <\/line>Well, anybody <\/emphasize>can say it. All of these conventional wisdom attitudes that are created because Drive-By Media needs crisis, particularly when their enemies are in power and are leading the things that happen. They\u2019ve gotta always have some crisis and try to blame it on the people who are the enemies of the Drive-By Media, the liberals and so forth. <\/line>So it\u2019s just amazing to watch this hurricane coverage today as though there\u2019s one out there and it\u2019s about to strike, and nobody\u2019s prepared. Oh, my gosh. In Florida you can read newspapers all up and down the south Florida coast. Nobody\u2019s prepared. Yesterday — this is the smartest thing governments have ever done. Yesterday they said, “By the way, hurricane season starts tomorrow, and you are on your own. We can\u2019t do it.” Amen! New Orleans was a classic example of a whole population who had been born and bred and raised on entitlement thinking and thinking their government was going to help them; the government was going to take care of it, and New Orleans is saying, “Hey, you are on your own. There is no shelter of last resort. We\u2019re not opening any domes. You\u2019ve got to get out, and it\u2019s going to be mandatory at category two,” and a lot of south Florida governments are saying the same thing. <\/line>Now, there\u2019s a lesson there, folks, because if they\u2019re telling you that they can\u2019t do it, that you\u2019re on your own when it comes to a disaster like a hurricane, then what they\u2019re also telling you is you\u2019re on your own in most other aspects of life, too, “and if you\u2019re going to spend your time depending on us or waiting on us, you\u2019re going to be sadly disappointed,” which is one of the basic tenets of conservatism that we have been attempting to instruct and inculcate into skulls full of mush for almost 18 years. <\/line><\/p>\n

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