Limbaugh Rushed To Honolulu Hospital That Gave Rise To ‘Birther’ Conspiracy

Conservative radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital yesterday with chest pains. After paramedics arrived and treated him at the Kahala Hotel and Resort, Limbaugh was transferred to Queen’s Medical Center where he reportedly arrived in “serious condition.” KHON2 reports:

Sources say the 58 year old [Limbaugh] was suffering chest pains before an ambulance arrived at the hotel.

Honolulu’s Emergency Services Department confirmed a male fitting Limbaugh’s description was taken from the hotel in serious condition.

As an avid golfer Limbaugh travels to Hawaii just about every year and earlier this week was seen in Kona on the Big Island and at the Waialae Country Club on Oahu.

While unfortunate, Limbaugh’s hospital visit is rife with irony. The ailing radio show host was sent to the same medical center that a United Press International reporter misidentified in an article published in 2008 as the facility in which President Obama was born. Though the error was corrected to accurately indicate that Obama was born in the Kapi’olani Medical Center, the mistake fueled “birther” conspiracy theories that Limbaugh then dedicated significant airtime to promoting. Since then, Limbaugh has gone as far to state that Hawaii “morphed into Kenya one day in 1961 [the year Obama was born] and reverted back to Hawaii the next day.”

Meanwhile, some of Limbaugh’s right-wing colleagues have spent the past week slamming Obama for vacationing in Hawaii over the holidays, which “to many Americans seems like a foreign place.” Last month, Limbaugh was voted the nation’s “most influential conservative voice.”

By Andrea Nill

U.S. air security system failed, top official says ‘System did not work’ to catch suspected would-be bomber, Napolitano says

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watch list with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

The Obama administration has ordered investigations into the two areas of aviation security — how travelers are placed on watch lists and how passengers are screened — as critics questioned how the 23-year-old Nigerian man charged in the airliner attack was allowed to board the Dec. 25 flight.

A day after saying the system worked, Napolitano backtracked, saying her words had been taken out of context.

Clown alert: Janet Napolitano says the “system worked”

It has been, in the words of Queen Elizabeth II, an “annus horribilis” for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Beginning with her embrace of the impotent euphemism “man-caused disasters” to the hit job on conservatives and veterans that she was forced to apologize for, to her assertion that crossing the border illegally “isn’t a crime per se”, to her boneheaded claim that 9/11 terrorists came in through the Canadian border, Ja-No has confirmed time and again that she’s not ready for prime time.

Today, she caps off her horrible year by playing Big Pollyanna in the wake of the Flight 254. The botched bombing — foiled by a faulty detonator and brave passengers, not by homeland security bureaucrats or any preemptive measures by intel officials — shows that the in Ja-No’s fantasy world.

Transcript of Napolitano’s interview on CNN via CQPolitics:

CROWLEY: Secretary Napolitano, thank you so much for joining us. If I am about to get on a plane today in the U.S. or headed toward the U.S., I think my big question is, is this part of a larger plot, or do you think this is a lone wolf?

NAPOLITANO: Well, right now, we have no indication that it’s part of anything larger, but obviously the investigation continues. And we have instituted more screening and what we call mitigation measures at airports. So I would advise you during this heavy holiday season just to arrive a bit early, and to know that we are going to be doing different things at different airports. So don’t expect to do the same thing at one airport when you transfer through to another airport.

But the traveling public — this is my message for you, Candy. The traveling public is very, very safe in this air environment. And while we continue to investigate the source of this incident, I think the traveling public should be confident in what we are doing now.

CROWLEY: So, just to finish up on the question– I do want to talk to you about security measures — but do you think — has there been any evidence of the Al Qaida ties that this suspect has been claiming?

NAPOLITANO: Right now, that is part of the criminal justice investigation that is ongoing, and I think it would be inappropriate to speculate as to whether or not he has such ties.

What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. Within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred on the Northwest Airlines flight. We instituted new measures on the ground and at screening areas, both here in the United States and in Europe, where this flight originated.

So the whole process of making sure that we respond properly, correctly and effectively went very smoothly.

If the “system” had “worked,” the U.S. consular officials who granted Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab a short-term visa last June would have revoked it immediately upon being informed by his father that he was a Muslim radical with al Qaeda ties.

If the “system” had “worked,” U.S. consular officials would have never granted Abdulmutallab — a rootless, young, single male — a visa in the first place in compliance with State Department visa regulation 214(b):

That law requires an applicant to show strong roots in his home country — such as a house, a spouse, and/or employment — in order to prove that he would be likely to return home when his visa expired.

Young, single, unemployed men are the people most often refused visas under 214(b) (when it is actually enforced) for the very reasons that al Qaeda recruits them so heavily: They are shiftless and have very little to stop them from packing up and moving to a new country. There’s also, sadly, very little to prevent them from committing terrorist attacks.

If the “system” had “worked,” Abdulmutallab would have been barred from the U.S. like he had been barred from Britain.

The “system,” like Napolitano, was an epic fail.

And as predicted, Napolitano also played the “lone nut” card — dismissing the Christmas Day jihadist as a single operator not part of “anything larger” despite his own testimony to the contrary.

She’s Obama’s biggest joker. And there’s no Blame-Bush loophole
to weasel through anymore.

***

Nothing to see here, move along:

An Al-Qaida operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said “we are carrying a bomb” in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight.

The video does not contain any clear evidence that the speaker was anticipating Friday’s attempt, but it has attracted scrutiny because of reports that the bombing plot may have originated in Yemen.

The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the attack claimed he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives there, U.S. law enforcement officials said, and a key American lawmaker has said there are “strong suggestions” of a Yemen connection.

In a Dec. 21 video, the al-Qaida operative delivered a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni airstrike on a militant training camp four days earlier. The speaker said he had no agenda against Yemeni soldiers, but warned them against cooperating with Americans.

“We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God,” the speaker says.

“O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America,” he says. “You should not defend these regimes. The soldiers and even Obama cannot put out the light of Islam.”

***
Related from Andy McCarthy:

It sounds trite but it’s worth repeating: The object of terrorism is to terrorize, and obviously the mission has been accomplished even if the plane was not brought down.

In Willful Blindness, I recount the debacle of repeated entries into the United States by, among others, the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman) and al Qaeda operative Ali Mohammed — the former permitted free entrance, egress and, finally, a green card (as a special religious worker) even though he was one of the world’s most famous jihadists and was on the terror watch lists for having authorized the murder of Anwar Sadat; the latter permitted to immigrate from Egypt and join the U.S. army despite having been caught trying to infiltrate the CIA. Now, nearly 20 years later — after 9/11, the 9/11 Commission, etc. — we have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: He was in the terrorist “database” because we were warned by his own influential father of his radical ties and proclivities, and he was evidently notorious among associates in Africa and Europe for his jihadist leanings; yet, he was issued a multiple-entry visa. And he claims to have been trained in Yemen — the al Qaeda hub to which the administration has just sent a half-dozen trained jihadists previously detained in Gitmo, and where it hopes to send many more.

I wonder what the media would be saying if George Bush were still president.

Jonah Goldberg says, “Fire Napolitano.”

But her hapless first-responder mentality is simply a reflection of the man who hired her.

By Michelle Malkin

WE WILL BE TAKING TIME OFF FOR CHRISTMAS TO ENJOY IT WITH OUR FAMILY. HOPE YOU CAN DO THE SAME.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MERCURYBLUES78′S BLOG.

WILL RETURN DECEMBER 28, 2009

Every day Barack Hussein Obama occupies the White House, America is in grave danger.

In an outrageous example of the abuse of near dictatorial power, the leader of the United States Senate, Harry Reid, forced a vote on nationalized health care. With total disregard for the will of the people and turning a blind eye to the United States Constitution, Reid sought passage for this bill by corrupting the legislative system.

“This process is not legislation. This process is corruption,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., referring to the last-minute blitz of dirty deal making that enabled Obama to lock in the 60 votes needed to pass the bill.

The final hold out was Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson. But he hit the jackpot when they bought his yes vote, scoring $45 million to completely cover Nebraska’s Medicaid bill every year into the indefinite future.

Clearly this deal violates Article 1 Section 9 part 6 of the Constitution which says: “No preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one state over another…” and Article 4 Section 2 which says: “The Citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the Privileges and Immunities of the Citizens in the several states.”

Citizens of Nebraska will now have state medical bills, other states must pay, funded courtesy of the United States government (meaning you and me.) Nebraskans are clearly receiving a special privilege. According to this monstrosity, they are more equal than other Americans.

Sitting on high, the President encouraged this corrupt, ugly spectacle. Not only that, he broke the vow he took to uphold the US Constitution as he raised his hand and recited his oath of office.

While we all sleep, the U.S. Senate is stripping us of our freedom. Clearly the time for impeachment is at hand. Reid and Pelosi deserve to be removed right along with Obama.

All these outrages only fuel our efforts. The citizenry is in full revolt.

I am proud that our campaign for impeachment is growing stronger by the hour. We have surpassed 100,000 signatures and are fast approaching 125,000 signatures. This movement cannot be stopped by the corrupt deals in Washington. We will succeed, and the socialist dreams of our president will end on the ash heap of history.

Thank you for continuing to post the links to the impeachment petition. Remember, most people will not sign until they have seen the link ten times or more, so we need to continue pushing. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/ygz4wfe

We have also posted a special page which will provide the HTML code for banner ads. If you have a blog or website, please consider posting these ads. They have been very successful recruiting new people to our cause. Here is the special page:

http://www.c4strategies.com/ImpeachObama/affiliates.html

With gratitude in our hearts from our unprecedented success, we approach the celebration of our Saviors’ birth on Christmas day. The New Year brings us to the next mile-stone of this campaign. If we are to succeed, the 2010 elections must bring to office a pro-impeachment majority.

Every day Barack Hussein Obama occupies the White House, America is in grave danger.

Warm regards,
Floyd Brown

Citigroup gains huge tax break in deal with IRS

By Binyamin Appelbaum

U.S. gives up billions in revenue to secure repayment of bailout funds
The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.

The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued an exception to long-standing tax rules for the benefit of Citigroup and a few other companies partially owned by the government. As a result, Citigroup will be allowed to retain billions of dollars worth of tax breaks that otherwise would decline in value when the government sells its stake to private investors.

While the Obama administration has said taxpayers are likely to profit from the sale of the Citigroup shares, accounting experts said the lost tax revenue could easily outstrip those profits.

The IRS, an arm of the Treasury Department, has changed a number of rules during the financial crisis to reduce the tax burden on financial firms. The rule changed Friday also was altered last fall by the Bush administration to encourage mergers, letting Wells Fargo cut billions of dollars from its tax bill by buying the ailing Wachovia.

“The government is consciously forfeiting future tax revenues. It’s another form of assistance, maybe not as obvious as direct assistance but certainly another form,” said Robert Willens, an expert on tax accounting who runs a firm of the same name. “I’ve been doing taxes for almost 40 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this, where the IRS and Treasury acted unilaterally on so many fronts.”

Read More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34442183/ns/business-washington_post

National Day of Prayer for the Nation Tuesday, Dec 15th

National Day of Prayer for the Nation Tuesday, Dec 15th

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by David-Crockett

Many will join the activities and protest in DC tomorrow, however, many will not be able to join them. In honor of the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and the ratification of our Bill Of Rights 1791 we have decided for a call of prayer and/or a moment of silence across the nation on Tuesday, December 15th.

Americans united in one mind and purpose…asking the creator to bless our nation, to heal our country, to bring us guidance and direction as we head into 2010.

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will
heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14

Please join us in this National Day or Prayer or Moment of Silence:

Thank you and God Bless You and Yours!

Darla Dawald, National Director

White House to Harry Reid: Cut deal with Joe Lieberman

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN

The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), which would mean eliminating the proposed Medicare expansion in the health reform bill, according to an official close to the negotiations.

But Reid is described as so frustrated with Lieberman that he is not ready to sacrifice a key element of the health care bill, and first wants to see the Congressional Budget Office cost analysis of the Medicare buy-in. The analysis is expected early this week.

“There is a weariness and a lot of frustration that one person is holding up the will of 59 others,” the official said. “There is still too much anger and confusion at one particular senator’s reversal.”

The White House disputed this account, saying any notion that officials there are trying to push Reid into cutting a deal with Lieberman is inaccurate. White House officials say they are on the same page with Reid, working with him to find the best way to move forward with reform – not pushing him to do something he doesn’t want to do.

“The report is inaccurate,” said Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director. “The White House is not pushing Senator Reid in any direction. We are working hand-in-hand with the Senate leadership to work through the various issues and pass health reform as soon as possible.”

But the source reaffirmed the account, saying that the White House recommended that Reid cut a deal with Lieberman that would allow the health reform bill to pass by Christmas, and that Reid wanted more time before making a final decision.

Also, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin told POLITICO, “The White House is encouraging us to find 60 votes and to preserve some of the most important parts of the bill.”

He added: “I don’t want to go into the specifics – we want Sen. Lieberman’s support.”

Lieberman threw health care reform into doubt Sunday when he told Reid that he would filibuster the bill if it allowed Americans ages 55 to 64 to purchase coverage in Medicare. His comments on CBS’s “Face the Nation” set off a series of private meetings Sunday between the Senate leadership and top White House aides, including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who encouraged Reid to cut the deal with Lieberman, the official said. The White House declined to comment.

Reid has called a special Democratic caucus meeting for 5:30 p.m. Monday.

Read More: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30572.html

$446B spending bill clears Congress

By DAVID ROGERS

A $446.8 billion omnibus spending bill, covering the heart of the domestic budget, cleared Congress Sunday, capping a year that has seen double-digit growth for many agencies on top of the giant economic recovery package approved just 10 months ago.

The 57-35 Senate roll call came as negotiators neared agreement on a $626 billion defense bill, the final piece of the 2010 budget and a powerful locomotive to pull a pre-Christmas legislative train of year-end items.

Chief among these could be a much-needed adjustment to the Treasury’s borrowing authority to manage the growing national debt which will soon top $12.1 trillion.

Democrats project that $1.8 trillion in new authority will be needed to carry the government through the coming year and past the 2010 elections. No more than half of this increase can be directly attributed to President Barack Obama’s spending appetites, but it’s his burden to carry now and a major challenge in leading his party.

Absent some agreement, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told POLITICO he is open to a short-term interim adjustment giving the Treasury whatever authority it needs to keep managing assets into February, for example. “It’s been done before to just do it by a date,” Conrad said. “30 days, 45 days.”

For Obama, the timing of the fight now could not be worse for the president who is already struggling to hold Senate Democrats together on health care reform. Second, the economy itself is in transition, with the White House predicting job growth in the spring even as it tries to blunt demands to do more to address unemployment.

Appearing on the Sunday talk shows, Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, walked a narrow line, stressing that the president was willing to work with all sides but most wanted the debt and deficit problem addressed.

“People need to understand that we need to do both and focus both on jobs in the short run… and on the deficit situation for the medium run, because, if we don’t have confidence that comes from sustainable deficits, it’s going to be very hard to grow jobs,” Summers said on CNN. “What’s fundamentally important is that we find a solution that works. And the president will be open — is open to any approach that offers the prospect of controlling the budget deficit.”

Against this background, moderates are demanding a greater commitment to deficit reduction, either in the form of statutory “pay-go” requirements or the creation of an independent commission able to address such difficult issues as long-term savings from Social Security.

Conrad has championed such an 18-member task force, and the idea has already drawn support from 31 senators, including 12 Democrats altogether. Liberals are frustrated by the compromises Obama’s already made on health care — to especially Conrad. And the president’s big-thinker image hurts him here, since he’s prone to skip over details after famously promising to go through the budget line by line to find more savings.

Within the Cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, backed by veto threats, has had a major impact in the Pentagon budget debate as seen in the final appropriations bill now. But Democrats ran roughshod over Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s requests earlier this fall, cutting funds to pay for water projects and in the process decimating some of the Nobel laureate’s prized initiatives.

A much ballyhooed $5 billion infrastructure bank in the transportation budget is a shadow of itself in the omnibus bill. At the same time, Southwest and California lawmakers salvaged $330 million in Justice Department funds for an immigrant-related prison program — which Obama had targeted for elimination.

Where domestic savings have been achieved, such as ending the Coast Guard’s outdated Loran navigation system, the victory has seemed driven less by the White House than the internal dynamics of the Appropriations Committees. And without penalty, Democrats have felt free to reshuffle funds, like squirrels stowing away nuts in anticipation of leaner budgets ahead.

Within the omnibus now, for example, $5.1 billion is provided to help low-income families pay their energy bills this winter — $1.9 billion more than Obama sought. Title I funding for public school districts would be $1.5 billion over his request and $2.5 billion is banked away for future high-speed rail investments — more than twice the president’s request.

To be sure, there’s a shared commitment to major investments in such areas as science, education, clean water and veterans care. Veterans Health Administration funding will be 22 percent, or $8.1 billion, above the last full fiscal year under the Bush administration. The National Institutes of Health 2010 budget is up $1.6 billion since 2008; the National Science Foundation has grown 13 percent to $6.9 billion in the same period.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30540.html

Petitions Only Go So Far – We Need To Go Farther

Mike Church Show Transcript

I’m painting the scenario here for you. They have taken over the universities. They took those over long ago. Now they have finished. The final nail in the coffin of the university system has been driven. It’s over. If you send your kid, you send your child to a four-year university to study anything other than medicine or a direct science, you are sending them to the Leviathan indoctrination camp. The Obama administration has succeeded in putting out of business anyone that loaned any money for any student that wanted to go to a university. They have taken it over. And in doing so, since they control the money supply going to the universities, now the takeover is complete. In other words, they own the higher education. And they will teach your kid, they will teach your little skull full of mush what it is that they need to teach them and they want to teach them.

So what’s left? What’s left? Well, we still have truck drivers. We still have farmers. “And we still have ranchers; don’t we, Mike?” Yeah, we do. Oh, but wait. They’re coming for you. What do you think this carbon tax, what do you think this global warming scam is all about? You truckers out there, you make CO2, baby. Not only do you make CO2, you transport stuff that is created by the production of CO2. There will be massive new taxes placed on fuels. There will be massive new regulations placed on how you get fuel, how you use fuel, where you can get fuel, what kind of fuel you can get, how much you’re allowed to consume, because we must not allow carbon dioxide to get into the atmosphere beyond any certain point. What about you ranchers? Oh, wait, wait, wait. Cows eat grass, and then they fart. Methane. Carbon dioxide. What is that? No, don’t tell me, I’ve heard this somewhere before. Hold on. That’s right. Carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gases. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And has Congress moved to regulate the greenhouse gases? No. They told the EPA that they could do it. So the delivery of food, the delivery of food, the production of food, they have the pieces in place to take that over.

What about the rest of the private economy, folks? What about the rest of it? Well, unemployment is going up. The means of production have been killed. Jobs and our manufacturing capability have been shipped overseas. The production of energy has been ended. There is no new energy being produced other than useless, worthless solar and wind, which cannot meet the demand, will not meet the demand, and they know it. So what’s left? There isn’t an awful lot left. All that is needed now is a crisis. All that is needed now is a crisis.

You know because you’ve listened to this show that there are bills that have been proposed that give the President the authority to stop the most powerful weapon we have against them. What is that? Communication. It’s called the Internet. You know, because I’ve read the story to you, that that dimwit Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins, in collusion with the George Soros-looking goon, Jay Rockefeller, have conspired to get a bill through the Congress to the President’s desk to give him authority to declare an Internet emergency and to shut down the networks. Why, we can’t have Chinese hackers getting into Ma and Pa Kettle’s computer at home, now, can we. This is for your own good, they’re telling us. Everything is falling into place, is it not?

Now, some people are going to dismiss this, and I’m fully aware of that, as the ramblings of a madman. Many other people are going to say there’s an awful lot of merit in what Mr. Church just said. There’s an awful lot of what I just said that is not just being talked about, it’s not happening in the seamy underbellies of cigar smoke-filled rooms, it’s happening in broad daylight. You read about it in the newspaper every day. Too many of your neighbors go, oh, they would never – it doesn’t matter. This is the only way to explain this. How else can you explain? This is electoral suicide, voting for this catastrophe that is opposed now by 55 percent. 55 percent of respondents told Fox News/Opinion Dynamics that they would rather Congress just go home, leave healthcare alone. We don’t want you to do anything. So if they do something, then they’re in clear contravention of the wishes of their constituents.

What else could possibly explain this? I’ve given you three alternatives. Three. I choose number three, ladies and gentlemen. First alternative, let’s review. The first possible motivation, we must seek motivation to understand what they’re trying to do to us. The first motivation is they want to become famous. They want to go down in history as having passed universal healthcare for all Americans, the final key, the final key piece of legislation into making the United States into one big giant voting democracy, one big giant universally cared for, hegemonic, oh, I don’t know, empire. Whatever you want to call it. Second possibility, the second motivation is that they actually believe that this will work. They have no evidence that it will, but they believe that it’ll work. They’re naïve and fools. Now, I don’t know which is more dangerous.

The third possibility is they see this as an end game. And as I have just laid out for you in some detail here, they see this as an end game, and it’s an end game that they have desired, that they have coveted, that they have pushed for, and that many of them spent their entire lives trying to achieve. Which is they run a national democracy. Electoral college, we have Obama on the record, kill it, get rid of it. Representative republics, or guaranteeing to each state a republican form of government, forget it. They violated all the other parts of the Constitution. What do they need that one for? This is a push to make a permanent majority, 50 votes, 50 percent of the votes, plus one. And the other 49.9 percent will live forevermore under the tyranny of those that have designs to take things away from you.

Now, there is a way to stop this. The way to stop this is to stop talking about it as if Congress can be the solution, as if reforming that corrupt body can possibly have any effect on this other than delaying the inevitable. So then what is the solution? We know what the solution is. Nullification. We know what the solution is. Statements of secession. Even if you have no intention of following through, asserting the sovereign right to secede is, in my judgment, a morally responsible thing to do at this juncture of the game. Doesn’t mean you actually have to do it. Doesn’t mean that anyone has to pick up arms. Simply means that we’re telling you, we’re serving you notice, don’t do this. Do not do this to us. If you do, we will break away from you.

But stop with this nuttiness of thinking that the body that is poised to do this to you and apparently has no withdraw or no aversions to it, that they’re going to listen to a petition. Are you crazy? I mean, that’s just nuts, is what these people are trying to accomplish here. I mean, that’s just foolishness. Not to say that you’re not well intentioned. Don’t get me wrong. “Mike, Mike, you’re calling us fools.” I’m not calling you fools. I am encouraging you to direct your energies elsewhere.