Rush Limbaugh is still running his mouth not knowing what he's talking about, but he is scaling back his comments.

All times are CENTRAL

Date time not certain - Error, historical accuracy resulting in hypocrisy, R.L.'s incredulity when the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43) was supposedly asked to leave office early.
My response: When the great Reagan crushed Jimmy Carter in 1980, there were rumors about Carter being asked to leave early, and I remember applauding such. I would also applaud the What, Me Worry? Kid leaving office early.
Jan. 07th, 11:35 a.m.  rant about oil prices and vehicles being purchased. S.U.V.'s are back, consumers want big vehicles and 11:36 plummeting oil prices.
My response: ISSUES, patriotism, perception, and time-delayed news. Why is the phenomena of Americans putting personal gratification ahead of what's good for the country something to rejoice over? Is R.L. also part of the "Me First" Generation? Did he not, just before Thanksgiving (I believe the Wednesday before) sing the praises of the woman who bought a Cadillac Escalade instead of a fuel-efficient car? Does not R.L. remember the criticism by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that the goal of most Americans was nothing more than to be able to drive big cars down the highway?
ERROR, time delayed news about a volatile item. That same morning gas prices had jumped another 10¢ a gallon to $1.52 here in Prairie Purgatory continuing their rebound from the $1.20/gallon range. ANY news about gasoline prices can quickly become outdated by something going on in the world.
January 08th ERROR, FACTUAL 11:22 a.m. governments can't prevent recessions or depressions
My response: Except Josef Stalin's Soviet Union which failed to participate in the world-wide Great Depression. Remember, we had people moving FROM here to go over THERE to find work in what they thought was a happier world.

Error, analytical, 11:29 a.m. average life of a recession.
My response: R.L. failed to mention that in past recessions we did not have the major exportation of American jobs, which I posit will worsen the current recession.

ERROR, FACTUAL 1:25 p.m. - sub-prime loans gave us the housing bubble.
Oh really? The housing bubble has been going on for decades, since the late 1980's in my tracking. Sub-prime worsened the situation, yes, but did not create it. And by the way, I posit that institutions encouraged sub-primes to inflate their financial reports rather than admit that the days of rapid growth and great returns were over. Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Office Depot, and McDonald's all tried their own lil' games as well to mask this obvious fact.

Error, analytical and omission, 1:28 p.m., caller asked why the zoo was kept open while libraries and fire stations were closed.
My response: When I was growing up, the Philadelphia Zoo used to have its own weekly radio program, meaning that it must have been a money maker. They could sell advertising time as well as promote themselves and hey, we got free tickets from them once a year for being listeners. So the city may see the Zoo as a money maker
Jan. 09th, 12:40 p.m., ERROR, FACTUAL OMISSION - R.L. identified the government as being the cause of pain and expense with the conversion to digital TV.
What R.L. did NOT say is that the federal government got involved after various businesses involved repeatedly showed that they couldn't come up with a unified scheme for converting to digital on their own. Shoot! Even I was saying someone needed to step in and smash some heads together to get some cooperation and progress.
    Nor did R.L. say that this was being talked about in the 1980's - I surely do remember discussing this with TV technicians in that decade and as a concept it was ready to go before 1992. Had R.L.'s buddies in business been able to place nice with one another we could have had it earlier - and without federal intervention.
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Feb. 05th, 1:53 p.m. ERROR, FACTUAL Mark Belling - in regards to the conversion to digital T.V., "The only thing that the federal government did was set the date" in the process of defending his position that the move to digital TV was consumer driven.
My response: WRONG! The federal government got involved 1) by refereeing which digital scheme would be used seeing that rival businesses couldn't place nice with each other and 2) making the analog TV bands available for emergency response communications. This is substantially more than just setting the conversion date.
    Also, if this was "consumer driven," why do I have press stories about digital TV producing yawns and not bucks? Why are there reports that most consumers who bought digital TV have them set to the minimal setting and not getting the full value of their purchase? That's because the conversion is broadcaster, manufacturer and retailer driven but not customer driven.
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Feb. 23rd, 2:11 p.m. EASTERN TIME, Weak illustration of "pay as you go", R.L. said fast food but then backed off when he learned that McDonald's now takes credit cards.
My response: the fast food analogy would have worked if the Horn and Hardart "Automat" was invoked where you would have to pay for each item as you moved down a line, a true "pay as you go" situation. True, that being before the time of most of us but the memory of such is kept alive by Jackie Gleason reruns.
    Another example would be the Connecticut Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, some expressways around Orlando, and parts of the Florida Turnpike (n. of Orlando and s. of Golden Glades) where you have to stop and pay every so often before continuing onwards.

Also on Feb. 23rd, R.L. read from some coach's book about not wanting any players who are not totally sold out to the team making the team their highest priority.
My response: This is dangerous to do in today's workplace environment where the disposable employee is being replaced by the abuse-able as well as disposable employee. I work for a company that already thinks that because they pay you for a 40 hour work week, they're entitled to require you to work extra hours whenever they feel like it, for whatever reason they please, and without compensation. After all, you're paid as salaried personnel. To which I say (excitedly and enthusiastically), "THAT explains the bonuses that I keep getting!"
    IF I was paid to work only on Sundays for only the (roughly) 4th quarter of a year, I would be agreeable to what that coach wrote. Football players are not paid for what they do at practice, they're paid for how well they perform on Sunday.
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ERROR FACTUAL and OMISSION, March 05th, 11:30 a.m., discussing gifts from Obama to the new British P.M..
My response: Failed to mention European TV's use different format that ours, those DVD's may not be playable over there unless Obama took that in to consideration. Nor could a Brit necessarily find a European format on Amazon, Borders, etc. I've looked and they're few and far between.
    March 06th, 1:27 p.m., R.L. FINALLY mentioned the need for the DVD's to be Region 2.
I'm ASTONISHED to hear R.L. talking about the anguishes of a non-existent RECESSION, the one whose existence he denied all through last year, in particular on Jan. 18th, 2008.
March 19th, 1:27 p.m., ANALYSIS ERROR, Model T to S.U.V.
My response: While gleefully ridiculing Barack Hussein Obama for not knowing the difference between a Model T and a truck, R.L. failed to grasp that for many years the Model T was the vehicle of choice, the best selling car in the country even as, regretfully, the S.U.V., an off-road vehicle designed for wilderness transport, was the vehicle of choice of daily commutation and errand running in civilized areas of the country.
    Nor did Rush grasp that there was a truck version of the Model T, therefore a Model T to truck comparison is quite valid.
    Once again, R.L. has an abysmally weak understanding of the topic and is dependent on his buddies in business to feed him with information.
    I'm going to give that one to Barack Hussein Obama. His point would have been better made if he had said that the American automobile industry matured in an era of cheap and plentiful petroleum so that fuel economy was not a consideration, the same way that the lumber and fur industries presumed that their core source materials would be available forever.
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March 24th, 11:11 a.m., Misspoke. Referred to those getting a 90% "tax break" on bonuses, meant to say "tax rate."
March 25th, between 11 a.m. and 11:15, issue, some distraught A.I.G. wife called about her husband "a good and loyal employee of A.I.G."
What I did NOT hear from R.L., and I was pulled away at 11:15 without resuming hearing `til after 1:30 p.m., was the question how one can be "a good and loyal employee of A.I.G." and STILL be on the A.I.G. payroll?. The best and most loyal employees pointed out the danger that A.I.G. was heading for and paid for it with by losing their jobs! So what sort of "mouse"/"suck up" was her husband?
March 31st 11:08 a.m., opening monolog - best selling vehicle in Iraq is the Hummer
Error, analytical, WHO CARES what they're driving in Iraq? Are their transplanted brethren driving the same vehicles around Dearborn? Are all vehicle buyers living in a war zone? If we had unlimited oil, wouldn't we be as frivolous?
    Counter question, how does our consumption of water compare to their consumption?

    11:10 - Ford offering to make payments for car buyers but doesn't have any money to make good on this offer.
Error, analytical, possibly factual.
My response: Speaking as one who has worked in both Ford's and Dan Quayle Motors' ("Chrysler's") warranty departments, the fundamental groundwork question is "What is the purpose of offering a warranty?"
    Answer, to sell vehicles. It is a confidence game - to build your confidence in their product so that you will buy it. The secondary answer is "to make money cheaply."
    Related questions, "Have you EVER tried to get an American car company to honor a warranty?" and "Will a company offer a warranty knowing that they'll have to shell out the bucks to support it?", to be held for later discussion.

    What Ford is trying to do is build confidence, confidence that you won't have to worry about missing a payment, that you won't have to worry, they'll always be there.
    Now then, do they INTEND to make good on this offer? OF COURSE NOT! That would cost them money!
    Related topic, this may be a manifestation of the ingrown "Detroiter" mentality in car sales of "make money today, let tomorrow worry about tomorrow."

Error, analytical, 11:24 - check the Pruis sales.
My response: Right, and check turkey prices in the supermarket just after Thanksgiving. Sales go up and down for various reasons. I bought my hybrid when sales were slow due to falling gasoline prices in the knowledge that such a condition would not last forever, that gas prices would rise again, and that once prices rose I would lose my best bargaining position.

Error, analytical. 11:27 - Majority of G.M.'s board to resign
My response: GOOD!, most of the board are former, has-been C.E.O.'s that NEED to get out of the way. Read Call Me Roger for more background info.

Error, factual, analytical, error in message communicated, 11:29 a.m. - concerns that if G.M. went bankrupt, who would service the car.
My response:
1.    Anyone who knows what they're doing and has the right overpriced equipment can successfully service any car.
2.    Does R.L. have ANY idea how much dealer service departments charge? They're a bunch of pirates. You can easily get a better price elsewhere.
3.    Many repair shops are certified by the manufacturer for repairing their vehicles.
4.    the CORRECTLY PHRASED QUESTION would be "fear that no one will perform warranty repair work, or if it is performed that they will not be reimbursed for it."
My response to the correctly worded question.
1.    Unless federal law has changed, if any American auto company stopped producing cars today, they would still have to make parts for the next seven (7) years. So don't dillydally on getting something fixed. And note, bankruptcy courts can be a loose cannon.
2.    Seeing that you don't take the vehicle to the factory for a warranty repair, the consumer's biggest concern ought to be, if they utilize a dealership, "Will the dealership go out of business before my car is repaired?"
3.    Based on my experience at Ford's Sales and Marketing Division, I know that any thing that can be billed at "warranty repair rate" is a GOD-SEND to dealerships, at the time I was there the warranty rate was usually double the rate that they gouged the average customer for. Obviously, this is because only the most experienced, most senior technicians are allowed to do warranty work, and R.L. will no doubt loudly affirm such.
4.    Many repair shop chains such as Meinke and Midas clearly point out that they are authorized to do warranty repairs, and I would be stunned if the Pep Boys did not do warranty work as they are the closest thing to a dealership in abilities that I have encountered, in fact many of their employees are former dealership employees.

Error, factual, Noon - why the S.U.V. was invented, to dodge C.A.F.E. standards.
My response: C.A.F.E. standards were enacted in 1975, the Bronco was launched in 1966, no doubt because our American automobile companies are such far-sighted visionaries that they could see this coming. NOT! American automobile companies have no concept of "tomorrow."
    I just happened to be at Ford's Sales and Marketing when S.U.V. sales started to take off. I got an earful from someone, "What's wrong with these people? Don't they know that the Bronco is not designed to be a commutation vehicle?"
    This was followed by a lecture on the history of the Bronco and the Bronco II, to wit, that the Bronco was designed for those who live out in the rural, rugged nothingness without paved roads.
    The Bronco II was a later development for the man who wanted a weekend get-away to the wilderness for fishing or hunting.
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ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical April 01st, opening monolog, R.L. did not understand what Obama was talking about when he referred to us looking inward to solve economic problems.
My response: when I heard the quote, I immediately thought of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that jacked up tariffs in attempt to shore up U.S. business. It resulted in cutting off our imports, retaliatory tariffs against our exports, and many say exported the Depression.
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error analytical April 02nd, of R.L. ridiculing Obama's gift to Queen Elizabeth II, belatedly revealed by a British correspondent on "The O'Reilly Factor" who said that the Queen had sent word through back channels that she wanted in Ipod of her trip to the U.S. The White House went beyond her request giving her material from an earlier visit and other entertainment items. The correspondent mentioned Buckingham Palace trying to update the image of the Queen.
ERROR, FACTUAL April 03rd, 12:11 p.m., R.L. suggested that someone unhappy with their job, quit and go on unemployment.
My response: usually quitting a job disqualifies you for unemployment, even if New York allows you to do such other states do not.

ERROR, FACTUAL, R.L. failed to correct caller, 1:25 p.m. Caller referred to Daniel Hannan as the only American angry at what's going on.
My response: perhaps an American in the future but presently this guy is a BRIT. See "The O'Reilly Factor," which has had him on a few times.

ERROR, FACTUAL, 1:44 p.m., what party governed Michigan for the last twenty, thirty years?
My response: mostly Republicans as far as the governors go, 32 years vs. 14 years for the D's. Blanchard the Unitarian Boy Governor lost control of the legislature to the R's after some tax increases. Engler-klaus-the-Year-`Round-Gift-Giver enjoyed a Republican-controlled legislature.
George W. Romney    Jan. 01, 1963    Jan. 22, 1969    Republican    06 years
William Milliken    Jan. 22, 1969    Jan. 01, 1983    Republican    14 years
James Blanchard theUnitarian Boy-Governor    Jan. 01, 1983    Jan. 01, 1991    Democratic    08 years
John Engler-klaus theYear `Round Gift-Giver    Jan. 01, 1991    Jan. 01, 2003    Republican    12 years
Jennifer Granholm    Jan. 01, 2003    Incumbent    Democratic    06+ years
Hey, wasn't governor #43 the Senior Mormon, the father of R.L.'s idol? But neither he nor Milliken were outstanding examples of being a Republican.
ERROR, FACTUAL April 03rd, 12:18 p.m. - illegal immigrants to provide union members.
My response: At some point in the future, perhaps, but for now the purpose of illegal immigration is to provide cheap labor and undercut American employees - including the unionized ones.

Error, analytical - April 03rd, 12:28 p.m., reference to the 28 year old man who almost committed suicide when his assembly line job was lost, went into some babble about Americans not realizing their own potential.
My response: This was Sonny-Boy Forbes' favorite line ad naseum and he, like R.L., presume that the ultimate goal of Americans was to be self-employed. That works if you inherit a publishing empire or make yourself into a media star, which most of us won't be doing. Unless we all become street-corner venders or start farming the land behind our houses, most of us won't be self-employed/own our own businesses; so most of us will be dependent on someone else for employment.
    The young man's despair makes sense - the realization that he might not find another employer interested in his physical abilities, since he's assembly line he probably doesn't have much in cranial abilities, and he probably realizes that even if he's lucky enough to find another employer, his income level will probably be drastically lowered.

Error, analytical - April 03rd, 12:36 p.m. - doesn't ask how much he'll be making when he isn't working, not thinking about retirement.
My response: Neither would I if I were a multi-millionaire. For those who live hand to mouth this is a critical concern. More evidence of R.L. being out of touch with working people.
ERROR, FACTUAL April 29th, 11:17 a.m. 100 days not enough time to criticize Obama's policies.
My response: 100 days has been some sort of standard measure ever since the Lesser Roosevelt rammed through a bunch of things in the 1930's, but it's not necessarily an adequate amount of time. I remember defending the great Reagan's policies as needing more time and I was right.

ERROR, FACTUAL April 29th, 11:19 a.m. government programs that work, repeated at 11:36 a.m. as any government program at any size has worked.
My response: Yeah, that idea proposed by the Socialist Upton Sinclair was a miserable failure (F.D.R. called it "Social Security") as did putting the federal government in charge of communications (originally called the "post office"), having the state governments paying out unemployment with perhaps the fed's reimbursing them, the highway building going back to the Cumberland Road, canal building, the Alaska Railroad, Eisenhower's interstate highway network, that silly idea of building a bridge to link Lower Michigan to Upper Michigan, the conversion of a railroad to a highway between Florida City and Key West, putting communications satellites up in space, that silly idea to put human beings on the moon followed by that orbiting space station, "Head Start", L.B.J.'s community colleges of the 1960's, immunization initiatives, yep, every one of them a failed government program.

Error, analytical - April 29th, 11:22 a.m. - myth that we need Arlen Specter.
My response: I won't miss "Benedict Arlen" except that the peoples' ability to filibuster may be frustrated by a solid Senate. Theoretically, Benedict Arlen would not vote to end any such filibusters called for by the people.
ERROR, FACTUAL April 30th, 11:29 a.m. R.L. said that we Americans are an entrepreneurial people.
My response: Huh? That was true when most of us worked our own farms, but since industrialization and the growth of the super-cities, most of us are laborers employed by someone else to one extent or another.
    If you want an example of an entrepreneurial people, look to the Mexicans or other countries where most of the population has their own stall in the marketplace or along the side of the road.

ERROR, FACTUAL April 30th, 11:38 a.m. GROSS ERROR. R.L. said that the British used torture during WW2 to by threatening to hang captured German spies.
My response: Huh? Huh? D'what? RUSH LIMBAUGH FAILS TO GRASP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RULES OF WAR AND ESPIONAGE. Mind boggling.
    If R.L. was correct, than we tortured six (6) captured German spies with electricity after their conviction by a court martial, and we used the threat of torture to extract information from one or two of the others.
    If R.L. is correct, we also tortured British major Andre to death for the botched conspiracy to seize the great General Washington and capture West Point.
    If R.L. is correct, future president Andrew Jackson tortured two British agents to death in what was Spanish Florida for agitating the Indians during our War of 1812.
    And we used torture in vengeance against those who conspired to murder Lincoln and his cabinet at the close of the Civil War.
    For the record, enemy combatants captured not wearing uniforms are eligible for the death penalty.

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ERROR, FACTUAL May 01st, 1:49. R.L. said he didn't know how may car designers the U.A.W. had.
My response: The U.A.W. has "organized" several "white collar" type jobs such as engineers, programmers, and DESIGNERS, particularly at Dan Quayle Motors ("Chrysler").
Error, analytical, week of May 11th  R.L. tried to make an issue out of Cessna cutting jobs because the wealthy have cut back their jet buying.
My response: If that were true, would it not be the right thing for the wealthy then to donate to the relief of those who had lost their jobs? Should not R.L. have taken the initiative and organized a relief fund for these private jet workers that he professes such sorrow for?
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ERROR, FACTUAL MISSTATEMENT, May 14th, 11:29 a.m. After quoting David Obey as saying that as he gave Nixon a year to resolve L.B.J.'s war, he would give Obama a year to resolve Idiot Jr.'s war. R.L. then summarized by saying that David Obey gave L.B.J. a year.
    This was followed by a return from commercial break at 11:34 a.m. "For those who listen closely, no errors..."
My response: Uh, yeah, right, no errors, lots of people confuse L.B.J. with R.N.

ERROR, INTERPRETATION, May 14th 12:39 to 12:47 p.m. R.L. responding to The Messiah's remarks at a graduation, to wit that the old ways of greed must go away, and his urging the graduates to work for the good of others.
    12:40 p.m. R.L. said that this infuriated him
    12:44 p.m. R.L. ridiculed the idea of living for the needs of others.
12:46 p.m. R.L. referred to ALL non-profits, having escalated from particular non-profits, as "begging for money."
12:47 p.m. R.L. referred to ALL non-profits as "BLOODSUCKERS."
At some point R.L. tossed in that non-profits do not do anything productive.

My response: R.L. responded that this was an attack on what made America great. Perhaps in R.L.'s mind, but what I heard was Obama referring to the greed and resulting collapses that bubbled to the surface during the Senior Idiot's presidency, continued under President Clinton and her co-president husband, and really manifested itself under the What, Me Worry? Kid, which was a GROSS aberration of what made America great.
    For the record, what made America great was having a work and business ethic based on the BIBLE as interpreted from Calvin or Wesley, and to a lesser extent as interpreted by Luther. Note that all of these men would teach honesty, hard work, diligence, accountability, and responsibility to others.
    Going around doing good and helping others is imitating the life of Jesus, Who also said that at the last judgment the Righteous will be praised and granted a reward for doing so. "As ye have done unto the least of these My brethren ye have done unto Me," you know.
    I have worked for an interdenominational non-profit and a denominational non-profit and my mother has been a fund raiser for both interdenominational and secular non-profits. I could not see the organizations that we've been involved in would "beg" or be "bloodsuckers." Only those who phone you and won't let you go `til you contribute would I describe as "bloodsuckers," and those who practice such usually have black marks by their name as to charities to give to.
    The interdenominational non-profit that I worked for provided disaster relief. The denominational non-profit that I worked for did things like print hymnals, Christian education material, worship material, helpful guides for churches, Christian material in foreign languages, what else? Denominational magazines.
    The secular non-profit that my mother worked for wasted their time on helping the blind and the crippled, especially getting them to be able to live independently and be productive people.
    I am truly grief stricken, none of this was productive to society! Why, instead of doing this and putting up with hard work at low pay - a trademark of non-profits is their ability to squeeze as much work as possible out of you while paying as little as possible - we could have been doing something productive like manufacturing a product from a petroleum-based material while making more money, and hopefully contributing some form of pollution in the process. Oh, alack and alas! My wasted youth!
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ERROR, FACTUAL MISSTATEMENT, May 15th, 01:15 p.m. R.L. said that according to Gallup, 51% are now pro-choice.
My response: This struck me as odd in that "pro-choice" has always been somewhat of a majority position, and R.L. was crowing about what a victory this was. As it turned out, R.L. SHOULD have said that 51% of those surveyed are now PRO-LIFE.
Error, analytical, May 19th, 11:12 p.m. possibly May 18th at the same time period. Remark about street lights being on all the time.
My response: energy-wise this is wasteful, but it may not cost the city any more $. The mayor of a small city in one state where I lived told me that the city was charged the same whether or not a street light was on or off.
    Some years later, a spokesman for the city of Miami responded to complaints about street lights being on during the day by saying that doing so was not costing the city any more $ because they were charged the same whether or not the street lights were on.
    Two cities in two different states, different utilities, same concept. If L.A. or whatever the city involved had the same pricing arrangement this might not cost the taxpayers any more money, however taxpayers may get pissed off if this unnecessary demand results in "brownouts" or black outs.
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Error, analytical, May 20th, R.L. read a letter from Dan Quayle Motors dealer George Joseph in Melbourne, FL, bewailing how he's being put out of business.
My response:
1.    R.L. read the dealership as "Sunshine Dodge/Isuzu." The official Dan Quayle Motors Hit List says "Sunshine Dodge." How may Dan Quayle Motors tell an Isuzu dealer to close down? Ford might be able tell a Mazda dealer to shut down, assuming that Ford still has control of Mazda. Not being aware of a similar arrangement between the Dan Quayle Motors and Isuzu, Mr. Joseph should be able to carry on his Isuzu business unless something's happened on the Isuzu side.
    A Prairie Purgatory dealer lost both his Olds and his Dan Quayle Motors dealership, but I don't see him closing down his Isuzu, Suburu, or Kia dealerships - and he may have others.

2.    Speaking as someone who used to work in Ford's dealership termination area, oh, don't I WISH that I still did!, Mr. Joseph didn't say anything about the power that the pirates, -er, dealerships, have over the auto companies thanks to protections that they've finagled from various states. Note how much $$ the dealers extorted from Oldsmobile when G.M. had the audacity to close down that division.

3.    Mr. Joseph bewailed his investment in parts. Cars will still need parts, especially Dan Quayle Motors products whose parts have an abnormally short service life. Question is, will customers pay the extortionate prices that he wants to charge for factory parts or buy something cheaper somewhere else? I remember how much money I saved once Fram came out with an oil filter for my Colt. The pirate that I usually bought from probably cried himself to sleep over his lost profits.

4.    Does Mr. Joseph not have a repair shop? If he does, Mr. Joseph should still be able to service cars, granted he may not have his repairs certified and accepted by the Dan Quayle Motors. Jack Miller continues to repair Dan Quayle Motors products.

5.    Mr. Joseph did not mention his body shop. Does he not have one? If not that would be an excellent Ripley's Believe It or Not entry. When have body shop's not made money?

6.    Mr. Joseph should be able to continue in the used car market, someone in Prairie Purgatory did.

7.    Finance. Does the Dan Quayle Motors have the ability to terminate Mr. Joseph's arrangements for financing beyond chopping him off from Cerberus/Dan Quayle Motors Financial (which is going out of business anyway)?

8.    For those like R.L. who aren't savvy in this topic, I have just gone through the five (5) categories that Ford uses for QCP ratings of their pirates. While this is supposed to show how well the pirate is doing, it also identifies the major profit centers for a pirate.

9.    Mr. Joseph should have realized somewhere in the 1980's that Dan Quayle Motors was a loser company and jumped ship for something else. Now it's probably too late, unless he can suck up to Mitsubishi or whoever buys Saturn or some cheapie piece of junk from China. One former Quayle Motors dealership in Prairie Purgatory snapped up a Nissan franchise.

10.    Mr. Joseph should have been aware from first hand experience of what the authors of Going for Broke, the Chrysler Story wrote, to wit, back when Chrysler was Chrysler and built quality vehicles, when De Soto was discontinued former De Soto dealers were just turned into Dodge or Chrysler-Plymouth dealers without regards to any other pre-existing dealerships nearby. This may explain what I call "The Black Horse Pike Phenomena" - up until recent times almost every community that you passed through had a vendor of Chrysler products and usually a tiny one. The book came out in 1981, I started taking a personal interest in the auto industry starting in 1985 and am not cognizant of any attempt to thin out competing dealerships unless this happened between the authors' research and 1985.
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News item that R.L. didn't have time to mention: Toyota to produce more of those hybrids that people just won't buy...."Toyota revving Prius production to meet demand," AP story.
Error, historical and analytical, May 28th, R.L. referred to "the people who started G.M.""got their wealth.
My response: G.M., and Dan Quayle Motors, are the result of uniting already existent automobile companies under one banner, nobody started them. Wealth was acquired before the umbrella organization was created, the founders increased their wealth when they were bought by G.M., and wealth was presumably lost during two misrules of Billy Crapo Durant when G.M. went bankrupt. The wealth acquired by Henry Leland and Ransom Olds allowed them to part company with Durant and start Lincoln and REO while Buick gave up on automobiles.
Error, factual, May 29h, 11:48, R.L. referred to a joke that Trent Lott made at Strom Thurmond's birthday party.
My response: Joke? I thought he was quite serious when he referred to the Dixie-crat rebellion in the 1948 presidential election. And here's something no one else has said. Strom Thurmond was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to run against the Idiot from Independence.
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ERROR, FACTUAL June 03rd, ca. 11:20 a.m., R.L. read a news item involving Krystal's, a chain that he was not familiar with.
My response: I saw these all over the place in Jacksonville when I was there in February, and they have a concentration in Metropolitan Mickey Mouse Land ("Orlando") as well.
    In fairness, the closest Krystal's to Palm Beach is the one and only one location in Ft. Lauderdale, but someone who professes himself to be a resident of Florida should be conversant with the chain.
Errors, analytical  June 12th.
    11:52 a.m. - quoting a piece by Safeway chief about their self-insured policy being based on automobile insurance,

My response: R.L. did not catch that the Safeway plan is based on automotive insurance "theory," not automobile insurance practice. The D's always feel sorry for "the poor" (translated as "those who slavishly pull the lever for us regardless what we do"), and subsidize their insurance rates at the expense of others. Michigan's No-Fault, for many years the model for the rest of the country, has been ruined in recent years by D's feeling sorry for their voters n Detroit.

    12:09 p.m. - reading a letter from a doctor in Texas who wailed that "reasonable, customary, and usual" fees disappeared "long ago."

My response: Don't tell Blue Cross (Blue Shield) this! They were still using such a scheme in the 1990's when I had to endure them.
    What R.L. did NOT say is that "reasonable and customary" was done on some geographic entity where whoever is doing the procedure the cheapest is presumed to be charging the correct fee. This was illustrated by B.C.B.S. of N.J. slashing ⅓ of their doctors and hospitals ca. 1995 while retaining persons with last names that suggested a point of origin east of Istanbul and west of Hawaii. "Reasonable and customary" on a nation-wide basis means that doctors in Boston or N.Y.C. are expected to accept what doctors in West Virginia or Mississippi accept.
    Nor did R.L. berate doctors who pad their fees in anticipation of receiving less or "anticipated losses." This is illustrated by what happened to me when I was between insurance coverages. I paid out of pocket for something and had ⅓ knocked off the price. I thought my doctor was a sweet guy trying to be nice to me, but as I learned more I think that there was more involved going on behind the scenes.

    This ties back to the Safeway story on automobile insurance. When I paid out of pocket for the repair of a windshield chip, I paid substantially less than what they would charge the insurance company. In fact I was asked repeatedly if I wouldn't rather go through them, so claim padding occurs in that area of insurance as well.
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Errors, analytical June 17, failed to ascertain and provide full details of a situation before attacking the Anointed One. Someone from lower Ontario called about a sob story in the Windsor Star about a cancer patient being approved for treatment in Buffalo and not in near-by Michigan. R.L. immediately went into a rant on how we can expect treatment like this should we get socialized medicine.
My response: the caller did not volunteer, nor did R.L. bring up, but I correctly deduced, that this had to do with costs. Buffalo was substantially cheaper than the two locations cited in s.e. Michigan, dollar amounts quoted in the Star are presumed to be $ CDN.
    R.L. did not point out this is already going on with our own health care, and some insurers are insisting that surgeries be performed in low-cost areas like India or the Philippines. Oh great, just wait'll patients die or come home with weird infections after simple surgeries.
    In reading the article, it does appear that O.H.I.P. would only deal with the Buffalo institution, so my idea of them paying Buffalo rates to a Michigan facility with the patient picking up the difference may not be do-able. But  they do review who they do business with on a regular basis.
    An editorial in the Windsor Star on June 24th took this further by suggested that Buffalo may have been selected because of its close proximity to the metropolitan Toronto area, where a bulk of the province's population is located.
    Factually quite true, and I could add that Toronto is also the provincial capital where the bureaucrats would be based, and Buffalo would be convenient for them to scoot over to from time to time as needed.
ERROR, FACTUAL. Some time just before I went on vacation, presumably the last full week of June (June 22nd - 26th), there was excited chatter about a proposal to demolish good sized chunk of Flint (Mich.) as it was not inhabited any more. R.L. went into an ecstatic fit over this.

My response: when is old news headline-grabbing news?
1.    I noticed such already being practiced in Flint during a 2004 return visit to the area,
2.    Demolition of vacant buildings and contraction of the city limits was proposed for Detroit in the 1990's, following the disclosure made in Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit (late 1980's) that parts of Detroit could be classified as "rural" because of the distance between inhabited buildings.
3.    Demolition of vacated blocks of buildings was already practiced in Gloucester City (N.J.) by the late 1970's, evidenced by block after block of overgrown property that had been built on in the past. Solitary single family residences here and there from what used to be row houses bore witness to past population.
4.    In the mid-1990's, a coworker who was also a conservative leader in the R. party in s.e. Michigan proposed planting crops in the vacant lots of Detroit with the understanding that the acreage could be increased as other vacant buildings came down.
5.    What he proposed was a reheating of my "Cornfields in Camden" (N.J.) idea of the mid-1970's.
6.    In one of his albums, and I have several of them, Bill Cosby made the crack about urban renewal knocking down houses and leaving the basements for us to play in.

    So the idea's been around for a few decades now.

ERROR, FACTUAL Wednesday, July 01, 11:43 a.m. R.L. tried to attribute a quote about benevolent government to a founding father, turned out to be attributable to C.S. Lewis.
My response: I don't fault anyone for slipping up on a quote per se; however "benevolent government" was an unknown entity ca. 1775. R.L. should have grasped that this came from a point later  in time.
ERROR, FACTUAL Thursday, July 02, 11:24 a.m. R.L. said that the press was trying to pin the recession on the What, Me Worry? Kid by dating it to December, 2007.
My response: Rush Limbaugh was busy denying that we were in a recession as long as the What, Me Worry? Kid was in the Oval Office. My notes show R.L. saying on Jan. 18th of 2008 at 1:46 p.m. that "the numbers don't show that we're in a recession." However, a recession was confirmed on Dec. 01, 2008 as continuing since DECEMBER, 2007. Note that this was after the Anointed One destroyed Senator McKeating-5.
ERRORS, FACTUAL and operational July 02 lunch time - Did not know that Port St. Lucie was in St. Lucie County, initially put it in Martin County (the county that borders Palm Beach County to the north). Hey, both are named for the St. Lucie River, which anyone who is from that area or knows Florida history would know.
    This led in to R.L. making a fake call to some government agency about food distribution for the poor/hungry.
    R.L. did not know about 311. We even have that here in Prairie Purgatory, it's part of a broader scheme for specialty 3 digit phone numbers that end in "11" such as 411, 611, and 911.
    During the call R.L. did not realize that he was getting a FAX two tone when he was too slow to respond to the options presented. While I hate this set up, it is, regretfully, common in the business world such as when cheapskates use one phone line for both voice and FAX communications.
July 14, news item that R.L. didn't have time to cover, about gasoline price gougers being caught. "Fuel supplier agrees to $2.3 million settlement in price-gouging case," Sun-Sentience, July 14th.
ERROR, FACTUAL Monday, July 20, 01:23 p.m. R.L. in phone conversation with an intensive care physician named Richard. After Ricard says that patients always get the services that they want, R.L. added that there weren't any U.S. horror stories.
My response: I did not hear where Richard was calling from but I suspect a well-to-do hospital in a metropolitan area. (July 22nd R.L. regurgitated this call and said that it was a certain Philadelphia hospital where friends of mine worked. Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs is a BIG center for medicine with many hospitals, some of which have done quite well for themselves.)
    When an uncle of mine who was poor, effectively self-employed (pastor of small independent rural church), and did not have health insurance, he had to wait several years for critically-needed heart surgery `cause the local hospital limited the number of charity cases they'd do per year, this being in a poor area, so we already do have horror stories and rationing for the poor.
    Other horror stories come out of a certain hospital in Ft. Lauderdale which used to have an embarrassingly high mortality rate on simple surgeries.
ERROR, FACTUAL Tuesday, July 21, 11:51 a.m. R.L. saying that we aren't going overseas for medical treatment.
My response; except, like I said before, those cases where the insurance company "suggests" that your surgery be done in a low-labor cost country. This, of course, will never become mandatory. Yeah, right.
Error, analytical 12:51 to 12:53 a.m., phone call from Woodstock (?) Ga. "just outside Atlanta," mother with special needs child whose husband had just lost his job.
    R.L. suggested that the husband find another job, perhaps going in business for himself (R.L.'s standard answer which he may have picked up from Sonny-Boy Forbes).
    R.L. said it infuriated him to see what was going on in this country (in regards to job loss).
My responses:
1.    Makes him mad? Job loss due to the Anointed One haven't started yet. Where was his anger when "What, me worry?" George the What, Me Worry? Kid allowed technical jobs to flee overseas, jeopardizing our technical future so that cheapskate "suits" and C.P.A.'s could save bucks today? Oh, I forgot, friends of El Rushbo NEVER do anything wrong, and all businessmen everywhere are unappreciated saints and angels. Yeah, right.
    Actually, the outsourcing of our future may be blamed on the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs who rammed N.A.F.T.A. through, and perhaps even earlier `cause the first time I heard of overseas technical outsourcing was in early 1992 during the misrule of Ol' Bold n' Decisive (Bush 41).
2.    Husband was a "computer forensic" expert (he autopsies dead computers??). If he should go into business for himself, a) he would need a customer base - which is probably already spoken for and b) he would still has to compete with cheaper labor from India and elsewhere. For the time being, being in physical contact with the client and speaking the same language as the client would be in his favor.
3.    Get another job? Yeah, the night shifts at convenience stores have a turnover rate, particularly if the store has a high incidence of robberies.
4.    How can Americanos find good-paying jobs that can't be shipped overseas or a low skills jobs that can't be done by illegal aliens? Anyway you turn; we're screwed, thanks to George the What, Me Worry? Kid and his Free-Trade/Libertarian theorists.
ERROR, FACTUAL July 23 - R.L. said that doctors don't do unnecessary surgery.
My response: R.L., please get in touch IMMEDIATELY with the human resources department of Computer Science Corporation (CSC). They must have a hyperactive imagination `cause in Sept., 1988, they announced a review before surgery policy, which, in response to my direct query, was to stop the exploitation of employees by unnecessary surgeries concocted by doctors.
ERROR, FACTUAL July 24 - R.L. has said several times that they aren't any, what?, flaming?, moderates.
My response: Please read the book William G. Milliken, Michigan's Passionate Moderate by Dave Dempsey (U. of M. Press).
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July 27, news item R.L. didn't have time to cover. R.L. sang the praises of travel by private plane earlier this summer and tried to make an issue out of manufacturers of such being put out of business. "Florida legislators taking private planes cost taxpayers $37,000", St. Petersburg Times, June 27th.
Comment July 29th - R.L. read news item about N.Y.C. exported their homeless on one-way tickets to other areas of the country where relatives would take them in. Puerto Rico was the most popular destination followed by Ga. and S.C.
My response: Florida has had a policy of making their problems someone else's problems for decades. They got a lot of flack for flying A.I.D.S. victims to California, which presumable would be a one-way trip. They also circulated information on what other states offered to those on the welfare rolls, the idea being that if you'd move to a more compassionate state you'd get more $$$. So, again, this is nothing new.
ERROR, FACTUAL. Some point in July when some in Congress tried to pass "Save the Pirates" legislation to keep the G.M. and Dan Quayle Motors dealerships open that were marked for closing. R.L. said that the dealerships were "small businesses."
My response: only if the dealerships have 100 employees or less could they be called "small businesses," accordingly I would expect them to be classified as "medium businesses" instead. Most small businesses that I deal with, true small businesses, do not own their own property, are in buildings obviously older than car dealerships, do not have the dollar amount of inventory that a car dealership does, nor do they charge as much per hour as a car dealership does, and most of them do business HONESTLY with their customers - substantial differences from car dealerships.
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ERROR, FACTUAL Monday, Aug. 03rd, 11:51 a.m. R.L. commenting on woman who sued college after graduating `cause she can't find a job in I.T.
My response; can't sue the government, but what about ex-presidents? I'd sue the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs for ramming through N.A.F.T.A. (just a day or so before Mexico had a major economic meltdown) and the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43) for expanding the concept, allowing our technical jobs including I.T. to be exported. Note this letter a friend of mine wrote to his senators and representative just a few days before this story broke:

    "Yesterday, I received my issue of Computerworld, a trade publication for members of the information technology industry and workforce.  I am a programmer with more than thirty years of experience and have been reading this periodical for many, many years.
    "There were a couple interesting statistics in this most recent issue.  First, the information technology sector, in the first quarter of 2009, experienced 84,214 job losses.  I was one being laid off in February.  This was on top of 66,312 job losses in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 27%.
    "The second interesting statistic is that there have been, thus far, about 65,000 H1-B visa applications for the fiscal year 2010 which begins October 1, 2009.  There are 85,000 H1-B visa openings in the coming fiscal year plus an unknown number of other visa types which are used, interchangeably, with the H1-B to accomplish the same result: the importation of additional labor into an already highly depressed labor market.
    "How many American citizens, like myself, in our own country are going to be rendered unemployed before the door to this toxic program is finally shut, permanently?..."

    There you have more detail on the woman's situation. American companies are dropping Americans and bringing cheaper labor to replace them. But the important thing is that their profits and hence their stock prices stay high.
    Thank YOU, What, Me Worry? Kid! You allowed the doors to be thrown wide open to allow the cheapskate "suits" and C.P.A.'s to save money, and in the process betrayed our country's technological future!
Errors, analytical, Tuesday, Aug. 04th, 11:10 a.m. R.L. read a French news item about off-shored American jobs which has doubled in the past three years, 53% of American companies considering off-shoring, of those off-shoring 60% expect to increase the amount of work off-shored...R.L. attempted to blame the Anointed One for this and for those jobs not coming back.
My response: Do the math. Go back three years from August, 2009 and it's August, 2006. The D's haven't retaken Congress yet, it's an R show under the misrule of the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43). What, Me Worry? Kid expanded the international policies started by the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs that resulted in the exodus of jobs.

11:14 a.m. - R.L. said again, having said this several times in my hearing in the past, that Americans like the insurance that they have.
My response: limit that "survey" to those stuck with the "Blues" and see what sort of response you get, particularly if they've experienced something else in the past and are now stuck with the "Blues."

12:58 p.m., R.L. railed against Durban's comments on insurance, saying that they weren't making money by ripping people off.
My response: I'll let those who have filed claims after an accident comment on whether they were ripped off or not.

1:30 p.m. - R.L. said about the recession,"...now we're in one, they've given us one..."
My response: Right, Rush. We didn't enter a recession `til the very day that the What, Me Worry? Kid left office.
HYPOCRISY, August 05th, 1:35 p.m., R.L. accused the Anointed One and his friends of preserving the status quo.
My response: preserving the status quo? Run the (audio) tapes when someone calls in suggesting that we change the way that we vote. R.L. habitually defends the status quo at all cost against all comers, voting technique being a particularly good example of such.
HYPOCRISY, August 06th, 12:25 p.m., R.L. accused Nancy Pelosi and others of wasting money on the purchase of 3 additional "G5-50" Gulfstream jets.
My response: in the past, R.L. has justified his personal jet travel vs. commercial flights and during the week of May 11th of this year tried to make sob-story out of Cessna cutting jobs because the wealthy were cutting back their jet purchases. Why isn't R.L. leaping to his feet and vigorously applauding Nancy Pelosi for thinking like he does? Why is he not enthusiastically applauding this as keeping the private jet industry in business?
BLATANT LIE, Aug. 07th, 11:20 a.m. R.L. said that "ever since you came into office" the economy has been a mess....
My response: yeah, housing and the stock market collapsed on the very day that the Anointed One took office. R.L. has been saying this for weeks now and I used to think it was due to his protecting his pal the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43)/his way of looking at things, but this is an outright lie. We can find enough to go after the Anointed One for without being dishonest.
Error, analytical, Aug. 10th 11:50 a.m. and 12:07 p.m., R.L. wanted to know by what authority a pay czar could review the salaries of the top 25 earners at 7 companies that took T.A.R.P. money.
My response: The answer to your question is in the details - they took taxpayer money. They expected to continue playing the game as usual but didn't grasp that there were strings attached, and rightly so. Actually, they're getting off easy compared to those who wanted to behead `em for the mess that they created.

ERROR, FACTUAL , Aug. 10th, 12:08 p.m. - term Nazi and Adolf Hitler
My response: R.L. did not articulate that the term "National Socialist" and the shortened form of "Nazi" predated the arrival of Adolf Hitler. They were going strong when a former corporal was dispatched to keep an eye on them.
Misstatement, Aug. 11th, 1:14 p.m. - R.L. asked if was supposed to "forget everything I heard 2008, 2003?"
ERROR, FACTUAL , Aug. 20th, 11:09 a.m. - R.L. said that after summer "...seasonal jobs will end, unemployment will go up.."
My response: Before I left the state in 1985, N.J. realized that seasonal workers going on unemployment for the rest of the year was an annual scam and blocked them from being eligible. Hopefully, other states have done the same.
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ERROR, FACTUAL, Sept. 03, 01:37 p.m. - We are not interested in correcting Mark Steyn because he's never claimed omniscience for himself and he's a likeable guy, however he said something that's wrong, to wit, that up to a certain point American presidents understood that it was just two terms.
My response: Mark probably isn't that well versed in American history, but Teddy Roosevelt ran in 1916 and would have run in 1920 had not God called him home (translation for non-Christians - he died). Teddy had run in 1912 against his successor, Taft, having already completed one full term and one partial term as president.
    "Washington wouldn't, Grant couldn't, and Roosevelt shouldn't" - Democrats for Wilkie slogan in 1940. After completing two terms, Grant wanted to run in 1880 but didn't get too far.
    Other ex-presidents did pop up in elections from time to time on obscure parties but I believe that these were all one-term-and-out-the-door presidents.
    I would point out that the same year that Teddy passed, another Roosevelt suddenly appeared as a "D" vice presidential candidate on the 1920 ballot, someone whose previous experience was Under Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration. That would sound to me like "You wanna vote for a Roosevelt? You can vote for me `cause I'm one, too."
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Sept. 22nd, news item that R.L. didn't have time to report: G.M. ramping up to meet increased demand for their products. Funny, I thought R.L. predicted that their sales would lag because the public would reject government-owned automobile companies.
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ERROR, FACTUAL, Sept. 22nd, 12:40 p.m. - R.L. referred to "Walter Klondike" causing us to lose the Vietnam War.
My response: Was he being "cute" or just losing it? What would you do for a Cronkite Bar?
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Error, slip of the tongue, Sept. 28th, opening monolog, R.L. referred to the Anointed One as voting "president."
My response: normal slips of the tongue happen to all of us mere mortals, but we don't proclaim infallibility for ourselves, so we shall cite this.
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Error, analytical, Sept. 29th at 12:09 p.m., R.L. lashed out at a "Hahvard" professor who bewailed the affect of the Recession on those making less than $138,000 and didn't have the Golden Parachutes and other options that the wealthy do. R.L. called him an idiot and railed against government regulations that were preventing investment.
My response: Yes, just the other night at the gym I heard fellow members grousing about how federal regulations kept them from hiring more staff and prevented customers from spending more money. Translation: I agree with the "idiot." Jobs that would normally pull us out of a recession were sent overseas thanks to the misrule of the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush #43) who followed, and expanded, the misguided policies of the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs. People are scared and rightly so, and the downward spiral will continue until they see signs that jobs are available.
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ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, Oct. 07th, 11:18 a.m. - R.L. compared Michael Jordan's smoking a cigar on a golf course to the amount of smoke that comes up from grills at stadiums.
My response: When "drinking" is referred to as an offense, most adults grasp that there is an implied understanding that the beverage being consumed is alcoholic. In this case, there is an understanding that the ban is against TOBACCO smoke, not against any type of smoke, and not even against greasy smoke which probably splatters nasty stuff all over the place. Now if R.L. prove that the stadium was frying tobacco leaves he would have a point.
    There are bans against other types of smoke such as felonious leaf burning in backyards. Why there must be SOMEONE SOMEWHERE in your community with respiratory problems. How could there not be? If you can't find any, you haven't looked hard enough. (Temporary bans on fires because of wind and/or dry conditions are only common sense precautions which I have no problem with.)
    Also note that grills at stadiums are probably $-makers for governments so they would automatically be exempt from any "health" concerns. After all, financial "health" comes before voters' physical health.
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Error, analytical, Oct. 20th, 11:10 a.m. R.L. during sign-on going on about higher unemployment rates, talked about how job loss in the last year and half erased previous job gains and that we would have to get used to higher unemployment rates.
No doubts, here, but after saying that the Anointed One had been in office for 9 months, R.L., again, tried to pin all the job losses on him. Sorry, business is not that prescient, they could not have known that the Anointed One would be elevated to power and accordingly cut jobs in anticipation of this Blessed Event. The jobs lost referred to started under the watch of the What, Me Worry? Presidency of the Junior Idiot.
    The reason why this recession is harder and going to last longer than previous ones is that the jobs that would be hiring people have been sent overseas, and this is because the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) continued the trade policies of the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs. (Yes, he was born in Hope but his family moved to the resort/party town of Hot Springs at a very early age, per Michael Moore's short-lived TV show. I may still have that episode on video tape somewhere. I did save it for several years.)
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Article R.L. may not have time to bring up. Wednesday, Oct. 21st, "The auto bailout: How we did it" appeared on Forbes.com and was regurgitated on the Detroit News. I was absent during most of the broadcast. R.L.'s past policy has been to ignore anything that would glaring contradict him. However, I would LOVE to hear R.L.'s indignant response to the attacks on HIS friends,