Largest earthquake in 40 years.
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Gato_Solo
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Looks like Chirac is at it again...I suppose letting people die is better than help right away. 
unclehobart
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Is this like tom 'Hot Shot's Part Deux' body-count reference? Kind of morbid, unc, to post this...
unclehobart
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Its a refinement of the original story morbid though it may be. 
Its not everyday that you turn on the news only to hear Condi, Condi, Condi ... oh... and by the way ... 50,000 more people went poof.
Its not everyday that you turn on the news only to hear Condi, Condi, Condi ... oh... and by the way ... 50,000 more people went poof.
Winky
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RUSH: I want to share with you some of the pieces of a Victor Davis Hanson piece today entitled "Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites," and it has to do with all this talk about how the US is not doing enough in relation to our image, and we're not doing enough to help the rest of the world -- which is one of the most bogus accusations that I have heard. Our image around the world is just fine, and I'll tell you this: The people with whom we have a rotten image? I'm even proud of that. They ought to hate us because they hate us anyway. There's nothing we could do to make them like us, and to set out on a policy to make people who don't like us like us is a losing proposition for the country in the first place.
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RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online today, "Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites -- Not long ago Pepsi Cola’s chief operating officer, Indra Nooyi, gave an address to the graduating class at Columbia Business School. In it, she metaphorically likened America to the middle finger on the global hand. Denunciations and anger arose from her use of the silly metaphor... Then came her employer’s obligatory explication that she really did not mean what she said. And soon her defenders claimed hypersensitive Americans could not take well-meaning admonishment. Pepsi is a $27 billion company. Those who run it, like Nooyi, make big money from its global sales and take-no-prisoners marketing approach. Pepsi is not known for worrying too much about putting indigenous soft-drink makers out of business. Here at home it does not often allow small businesses to offer both Coke and Pepsi in a spirit of consumer convenience and choice. Roughshod, no-holds-barred business gets such a company to the top — and allows multimillion-dollar salaries for its grandee hardball officers." And, of course, this is a perfect description of Indra Nooyi. He goes on to ask the question, what is it? "But note the anti-American two-step. Immediately after her silly remarks, the corporate mogul Nooyi provided a recant... The anti-Americanism that we frequently see and hear, then, is often a plaything of the international elite — a corporate grandee, a leisured athlete, or a refined novelist who flies in and out of the West, counts on its globalizing appendages for wealth, and then mocks those who make it all possible — but never to the point that their own actions would logically follow their rhetoric and thus cost them so dearly." The other two people mentioned in this story is some guy named Khan and Arundhati Roy, the Booker-prize-winning novelist. All these people who have gotten wealthy off of and in this country are the same people out there ripping it to shreds for not treating the poor right, or for not the giving enough money to the rest of the world. They never talk about how much they're giving. All they do is complain and moan and whine about the US -- a country that made them wealthy, a country that made them rich beyond their wildest dreams. In the case of Nooyi, she runs a company that is cut-throat because it's a cut-throat business.
Victor Davis Hanson's right. You ought to see how the fight goes for supermarket shelf space. Look at the deals they make there. Go into a nearby tavern or cafe. How many times you want a Coke or Pepsi and you only have a choice of one because the stores are told you got to carry us or you get none at all, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yet they say the US is unfair and hard-boiled? They're just a bunch of hypocrites -- and they're all getting rich. They're all getting wealthy because of this country, because of the freedom. It's exactly what I've said. You know, you can give all the money in the world you want to despot leaders around the world in hopes and dreams that they give it to their starving masses, but let's get real. It ends up in their back pockets or the back pockets of their friends and then we get complained at that we're not giving enough. Then five or six years later, here we come, we have to give more because the money never got there. The UN's pulling this stunt now. The UN is pulling a stunt now. There's some big conference going on, and they say the United States pledged all of this relief effort years and years and years and years ago and it never got there. Well, we gave it. It never got there because we gave it to the thugs and the despots because we want the compassion for giving, but nobody's interested in the results. All anybody looks at is the intentions -- and if somebody's intentions are good, you never criticize the result, like our own welfare state, an abysmal failure, the great society, an abysmal failure. Affirmative action, all these things to lift up the poor, the downtrodden in this country: abysmal failures until we had welfare reform, but we're not allowed to criticize those efforts because they are offered and built and constructed with the greatest of intentions. So as Victor Davis Hanson said:
"In other words, Khan, Roy, and Nooyi are, by their own volition, knee-deep in the supposed greed of the West in a way that most ordinary Americans surely are not." The person that runs Pepsi has far more money than the average American and who does she criticize, the average American for not having enough compassion, the average American for not caring enough. We hear all this bogus BS about the per capita donations do not equal countries like, what, Denmark, Nova Scotia, outer Mongolia, whatever. Totally irrelevant and shift the argument. "Maligned Americans on the tractor in Kansas or walking the beat in the Bronx have not a clue about the privileges that a Roy or Nooyi enjoy — and they are not whining, complaining, or biting the hand that feeds them far less well. No, these ungracious operators all seem to gravitate to, profit from, and then spite the paradigm that created rich global business, media, publishing, and entertainment conglomerates — and themselves. A second constant is illustrated by director von Traer’s remark: 'America fills about 60 percent of my brain.' There is a sort of schizophrenia also common among the 'other' who bumps up against the U.S. The extreme example of this syndrome can be seen in bin Laden and Mohammed Atta, who seemed mesmerized and yet repelled by their own thralldom to things Western. In the case of von Trier, does he ever ask why the U.S. is so obtrusive in his gray matter, and why, for instance, Scandinavia is not — or for that matter a larger France or an even larger Russia? Instead in his movies and outbursts he retreats into the usual racist or exploitative mantra that serves a psychological need of reconciling what you want and enjoy and won’t give up with a feeling of unease and guilt about your own expanding appetite — or exploding brain."
This von Trier complains that 60 percent of what's in his brain is America. We're so dominant around the world, but yet he can't come here and vote, so what he does is make movies about how he hates America and that's how he answers. We're too big, we just ought to get out of the way, but we're not too big to give everything away that these people think we should give away. So Victor Davis Hanson says: "A final suggestion for these unhappy and privileged few: To end your obsessions with the pathologies of America and the West, find a way to create your own alternative sports, literature, corporations, soft drinks, and filmmaking in the non-West." Do it in your own countries. Go out and use freedom wherever you can to build up your own empires. "It is not that we Americans are mad at what you say. It is just that you have all become so hypocritical, then predictable, and now boring — you are all so boring." And not only is it predictable and boring, it grates. America doesn't give enough. America doesn't care enough. The problems of the world are America's. We worry about our image in the world. Then we got a US senator who ends up crying on the floor of the Senate worrying about our image in the world about a UN ambassador named John Bolton and we don't know if he's ever cried over the loss of life of American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan or if he cried after 9/11 or if he cried about some of the beheadings that took place. We don't know what makes him cry except he cries when he thinks about what the world will think of us if John Bolton goes to the UN. That's why this baseball coach that dropped trow down in Coral Gables, Florida recently needs to be in the US Senate.
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RUSH: Folks, I think there is a delicious irony, favorite word of journalists by the way that forms the foundation of many stories. I think there's a delicious irony in all of these elites bitching and whining and moaning that the US doesn't do enough, and how that affects our image. It creates a bad image around the world for America. People around the world hate America, which I think is bogus anyway. I don't think it's true. But nevertheless, do we actually have an alleged image problem because we do too little? Or do we have an alleged image problem because we do too much? Tell me, don't we have an image problem because we exist? On the one hand, we go to Iraq and Afghanistan. We free the people there. We're hated for it. On the other hand, we give $15 billion to Africa for A.I.D.S. We don't give enough. Is it because we're doing too much or we're not doing anything? Or are we doing too little? In fact, you can't make the case that we're doing too little. Now, people come out and say, "You're responsible for global warming and you're responsible--" and all that's bogus science. We clean up the world. We clean up our own messes better than anybody else in the world. Hanson's right. It is just utterly boring and the people that make these arguments are just intellectually brain-dead. They're not even thinking. They're just repeating a mantra that they hear, that they think makes, and is popular or what have you.
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RUSH: I want to share with you some of the pieces of a Victor Davis Hanson piece today entitled "Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites," and it has to do with all this talk about how the US is not doing enough in relation to our image, and we're not doing enough to help the rest of the world -- which is one of the most bogus accusations that I have heard. Our image around the world is just fine, and I'll tell you this: The people with whom we have a rotten image? I'm even proud of that. They ought to hate us because they hate us anyway. There's nothing we could do to make them like us, and to set out on a policy to make people who don't like us like us is a losing proposition for the country in the first place.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online today, "Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites -- Not long ago Pepsi Cola’s chief operating officer, Indra Nooyi, gave an address to the graduating class at Columbia Business School. In it, she metaphorically likened America to the middle finger on the global hand. Denunciations and anger arose from her use of the silly metaphor... Then came her employer’s obligatory explication that she really did not mean what she said. And soon her defenders claimed hypersensitive Americans could not take well-meaning admonishment. Pepsi is a $27 billion company. Those who run it, like Nooyi, make big money from its global sales and take-no-prisoners marketing approach. Pepsi is not known for worrying too much about putting indigenous soft-drink makers out of business. Here at home it does not often allow small businesses to offer both Coke and Pepsi in a spirit of consumer convenience and choice. Roughshod, no-holds-barred business gets such a company to the top — and allows multimillion-dollar salaries for its grandee hardball officers." And, of course, this is a perfect description of Indra Nooyi. He goes on to ask the question, what is it? "But note the anti-American two-step. Immediately after her silly remarks, the corporate mogul Nooyi provided a recant... The anti-Americanism that we frequently see and hear, then, is often a plaything of the international elite — a corporate grandee, a leisured athlete, or a refined novelist who flies in and out of the West, counts on its globalizing appendages for wealth, and then mocks those who make it all possible — but never to the point that their own actions would logically follow their rhetoric and thus cost them so dearly." The other two people mentioned in this story is some guy named Khan and Arundhati Roy, the Booker-prize-winning novelist. All these people who have gotten wealthy off of and in this country are the same people out there ripping it to shreds for not treating the poor right, or for not the giving enough money to the rest of the world. They never talk about how much they're giving. All they do is complain and moan and whine about the US -- a country that made them wealthy, a country that made them rich beyond their wildest dreams. In the case of Nooyi, she runs a company that is cut-throat because it's a cut-throat business.
Victor Davis Hanson's right. You ought to see how the fight goes for supermarket shelf space. Look at the deals they make there. Go into a nearby tavern or cafe. How many times you want a Coke or Pepsi and you only have a choice of one because the stores are told you got to carry us or you get none at all, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yet they say the US is unfair and hard-boiled? They're just a bunch of hypocrites -- and they're all getting rich. They're all getting wealthy because of this country, because of the freedom. It's exactly what I've said. You know, you can give all the money in the world you want to despot leaders around the world in hopes and dreams that they give it to their starving masses, but let's get real. It ends up in their back pockets or the back pockets of their friends and then we get complained at that we're not giving enough. Then five or six years later, here we come, we have to give more because the money never got there. The UN's pulling this stunt now. The UN is pulling a stunt now. There's some big conference going on, and they say the United States pledged all of this relief effort years and years and years and years ago and it never got there. Well, we gave it. It never got there because we gave it to the thugs and the despots because we want the compassion for giving, but nobody's interested in the results. All anybody looks at is the intentions -- and if somebody's intentions are good, you never criticize the result, like our own welfare state, an abysmal failure, the great society, an abysmal failure. Affirmative action, all these things to lift up the poor, the downtrodden in this country: abysmal failures until we had welfare reform, but we're not allowed to criticize those efforts because they are offered and built and constructed with the greatest of intentions. So as Victor Davis Hanson said:
"In other words, Khan, Roy, and Nooyi are, by their own volition, knee-deep in the supposed greed of the West in a way that most ordinary Americans surely are not." The person that runs Pepsi has far more money than the average American and who does she criticize, the average American for not having enough compassion, the average American for not caring enough. We hear all this bogus BS about the per capita donations do not equal countries like, what, Denmark, Nova Scotia, outer Mongolia, whatever. Totally irrelevant and shift the argument. "Maligned Americans on the tractor in Kansas or walking the beat in the Bronx have not a clue about the privileges that a Roy or Nooyi enjoy — and they are not whining, complaining, or biting the hand that feeds them far less well. No, these ungracious operators all seem to gravitate to, profit from, and then spite the paradigm that created rich global business, media, publishing, and entertainment conglomerates — and themselves. A second constant is illustrated by director von Traer’s remark: 'America fills about 60 percent of my brain.' There is a sort of schizophrenia also common among the 'other' who bumps up against the U.S. The extreme example of this syndrome can be seen in bin Laden and Mohammed Atta, who seemed mesmerized and yet repelled by their own thralldom to things Western. In the case of von Trier, does he ever ask why the U.S. is so obtrusive in his gray matter, and why, for instance, Scandinavia is not — or for that matter a larger France or an even larger Russia? Instead in his movies and outbursts he retreats into the usual racist or exploitative mantra that serves a psychological need of reconciling what you want and enjoy and won’t give up with a feeling of unease and guilt about your own expanding appetite — or exploding brain."
This von Trier complains that 60 percent of what's in his brain is America. We're so dominant around the world, but yet he can't come here and vote, so what he does is make movies about how he hates America and that's how he answers. We're too big, we just ought to get out of the way, but we're not too big to give everything away that these people think we should give away. So Victor Davis Hanson says: "A final suggestion for these unhappy and privileged few: To end your obsessions with the pathologies of America and the West, find a way to create your own alternative sports, literature, corporations, soft drinks, and filmmaking in the non-West." Do it in your own countries. Go out and use freedom wherever you can to build up your own empires. "It is not that we Americans are mad at what you say. It is just that you have all become so hypocritical, then predictable, and now boring — you are all so boring." And not only is it predictable and boring, it grates. America doesn't give enough. America doesn't care enough. The problems of the world are America's. We worry about our image in the world. Then we got a US senator who ends up crying on the floor of the Senate worrying about our image in the world about a UN ambassador named John Bolton and we don't know if he's ever cried over the loss of life of American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan or if he cried after 9/11 or if he cried about some of the beheadings that took place. We don't know what makes him cry except he cries when he thinks about what the world will think of us if John Bolton goes to the UN. That's why this baseball coach that dropped trow down in Coral Gables, Florida recently needs to be in the US Senate.
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RUSH: Folks, I think there is a delicious irony, favorite word of journalists by the way that forms the foundation of many stories. I think there's a delicious irony in all of these elites bitching and whining and moaning that the US doesn't do enough, and how that affects our image. It creates a bad image around the world for America. People around the world hate America, which I think is bogus anyway. I don't think it's true. But nevertheless, do we actually have an alleged image problem because we do too little? Or do we have an alleged image problem because we do too much? Tell me, don't we have an image problem because we exist? On the one hand, we go to Iraq and Afghanistan. We free the people there. We're hated for it. On the other hand, we give $15 billion to Africa for A.I.D.S. We don't give enough. Is it because we're doing too much or we're not doing anything? Or are we doing too little? In fact, you can't make the case that we're doing too little. Now, people come out and say, "You're responsible for global warming and you're responsible--" and all that's bogus science. We clean up the world. We clean up our own messes better than anybody else in the world. Hanson's right. It is just utterly boring and the people that make these arguments are just intellectually brain-dead. They're not even thinking. They're just repeating a mantra that they hear, that they think makes, and is popular or what have you.
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