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November 19, 2002 RUSH: America's Truth Detector is not one to get excited about environmental disasters, real or imagined. When environmentalists predictably sounded dire warnings following the sinking 130 miles off the Spanish coast of a Bahamian-flagged oil tanker with most of its 70,000 tons of fuel oil still on board, Rush had a profound, yet deceivingly simple question for these hand wringers. "Listen to this, I�m just reading this story here about this oil tanker that�s doomed�split in half�and sunk off the coast of Spain. Listen�listen to this: (reads from a news account) �An environmentalist warned that the wreckage would be like a time bomb on the ocean floor, some 11,800 feet down.� See, some of the oil tanks in this tanker are intact, not all of the oil has spilled. But it might! Oh, it might! We�re all going to die! Baah hah hah! I mean, this is what they�re trying to ferment on everybody. So, ok: what became of the oil in the Titanic? What became of th�I mean, that was down 12,000 uh, 14,000 feet. Who died from the oil in the Titanic? It wasn�t in port�I mean, there�s still a lot of fuel oil on board. You know wha�wha�I would guarantee you that if those oil tanks leak open or whatever, the�the�the ocean 12,000 feet deep�s gonna eat that oil so fast it�ll never reach the surface, and if it does it�ll reach the surface in drops! Ahhh, it gets tiresome, you know, I�I know the nature of the program is cyclical, but this is how the liberals do it�they just keep pounding us, they just keep coming back with this stuff more and more and they wear people out." [Listen to Rush / Documents / Nov 19 Titanic Oil Spill] REALITY: Rush was absolutely correct when he said that no one died because oil leaked from the Titanic�s fuel tanks. One possible explanation might be that the Titanic was not fueled by oil. As anyone who saw the blockbuster movie will recall, dozens of stokers worked around the clock shoveling coal in the Titanic�s massive boiler room. For those who didn�t see the movie, a Canadian government (Nova Scotia) website provides a Fact Sheet on the Titanic�s specifications: Engines: 2 reciproctating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct - acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm Propellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet ; Left/Right wings: 23 feet 6 inches Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers) Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet Fuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day http://www.cbv.ns.ca/sstudies/Titanic/FACTS8.htm A British website dedicated to the history of the Titanic confirms that the ship was coal driven: But due to a disruptive coal strike that had spread throughout the United Kingdom, many ships were laid up due to the lack of fuel, and consequently, over 17,000 men were left without work in Southampton alone. Even Titanic was indirectly affected by the strike: she had to top-up her own coal bunkers with coal acquired from other IMM vessels laid-up in Southampton�. http://www.rmstitanic.co.uk/ titanic_titanic_-_southampton.shtml Rush Limbaugh: oil wet. November 14, 2002 RUSH: Rumors of a Bush Administration plan to out-source several hundred thousand federal jobs to bid by private contractors reminded Rush of just how deceptive a previous administration had been when it claimed to have reduced the size of the government payroll. "Another way to look at this, ladies and gentlemen, just contrast this to Al Gore�s �Reinventing Government.� You know, Al Gore has this big deal about reinvent�you know what they did to reinvent government under Clinton-Gore? They said they cut a bunch of federal jobs�(Rush does Clinton impersonation): �You go back�I tell you what�you look at the federal employee roll�payroll�the number of people working for the federal government now versus when there was�John F. Kennedy�we got 200,000 federal fewer (sic) workers now than when Kennedy was president�I mean, we are making huge strides�� (Rush ends impersonation) Yeah, they all were military jobs, folks. The Clinton Administration cut the military and they called it �Reinventing Government.� That�s in essence what they did. They didn�t reinvent anything, and they didn�t downsize anything except the Defense Department, pure and simple." [Listen to Rush / Documents / Nov 14 Federal Job Cuts] REALITY: The United States Government Office of Personnel Management (OPM) reaches a somewhat different conclusion. Of course, the OPM has the advantage of using actual data when it compared the size and shape of the federal workforce between the time the Clinton Administration came into office (January 1993) and the end of its two terms (December 2000). http:// www.opm.gov/feddata/html/dec00fac.asp OPM�s statistics refute Rush�s claim that Clinton "�didn�t downsize anything except the Defense Department." The OPM numbers show that from January 1993 through December 2000, downsized federal agencies lost a net total of 460,653 jobs. While the majority of those jobs were indeed defense jobs�the so-called "peace dividend" following the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War�non-defense employment was cut significantly as well. More than twenty-five non-defense federal agencies were downsized during that period. They lost a net total of 168,179 jobs�more than a third of all jobs lost. During that period, cuts in defense jobs totaled 292,474. Therefore, non-defense agencies accounted for 36.5% (168,179) of the total downsizing, while defense job losses accounted for 63.5% (292,474). Rush Limbaugh: reinventing history. November 4, 2002 RUSH: Upset that a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling preserved the right of voters who cast absentee ballots for the late Senator Paul Wellstone to cast new absentee ballots in the election, Rush saw a logistical nightmare. "The Minnesota Supreme Court violated the law anyway�they shouldn't have counted at all in the first place! This is a way to get them to count. And by the way, here's another thing: how do we know that the people who got absentee ballots the first time are getting them again? How do we know they're not flooding the State with absentee ballots, that are gonna come in late, 'cause they can't be delivered in time? I mean, they print these things last Thursday, and mail 'em on Friday, Post Office doesn't deliver mail on Saturday or Sunday. They're not going to get their ballots till today! Then turn around and vote�can't FedEx them�you've got to mail 'em back in�some people might make the mistake of FedExing�you don't have to do that, folks, up there in Minnesota. Send 'em regular mail�send 'em in Fourth Class�as long as they show up by December the Democrats will find a way to count them!" [Listen to Rush / Documents / Nov 4 Saturday Mail] REALITY: Whether or not it is proper or legal to disenfranchise Minnesota voters who cast absentee ballots for a candidate who died before the election does not alter the fact that Rush was incorrect in claiming that new absentee ballots could not be delivered by the Post Office on a Saturday. As most American adults know, the US Postal Service delivers mail on Saturdays. And when attempts are made to curtail Saturday delivery, they are invariably rejected. >From the Washington Post: Wednesday, July 11, 2001- The U.S. Postal Service announced yesterday that it will not end Saturday mail delivery, quashing an idea that drew swift and bitter opposition from members of Congress, bulk mailers and the public. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42081-2001Jul10? Rush Limbaugh: junk male. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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