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Good Morning/Afternoon, each week, on Mondays, I would put together a Mega Dittos message. Today, I wabt to remember you, Rush, and thank-you for presenting excellent and true voice of both the voicefreedom and truth. The best memories I have are the word terms such as MEGADITTOS. I will miss you and will keep your words of wisdom in my heart. MEGAHeavenlyDITTOS!!!!

Pumpkin spice cereals, pumpkin spice ice cream, pumpkin spice coffee, pumpkin spice creamer, pumpkin spice yogurt. There is seemingly no end to the pumpkin spice food onslaught this time of year. Some foods, fortunately, have remained untouched. Like pizza. Oh no, they didn't. New Jersey-based Villa Italian Kitchen is debuting its Pumpkin Spice Pizza Friday, Sept. 22, the first day of fall. The chain is calling it "the first ever pumpkin spice pizza.'' Let me be the first to say it: Forget all those hurricanes and earthquakes bedeviling the globe; this is a sure sign of the apocalypse. It's bad...

RUSH: We got a new kitten. We waited an appropriate amount of time. We went out and got a new kitten, a new Abyssinian, a tawny. And this little cat -- I'm going to have to send some pictures up to Koko over the weekend. This little cat -- Punkin was an adult cat as a kitten. It was the most amazing thing. This little kitten is a kid.

RUSH: I've got people e-mailing me about Punkin, my cat, and I would not have been able to describe this or tell you about this any earlier than today literally without losing it, but we had to put Punkin to sleep a week ago.  She was 16 years old, and the first cat that I'd ever had, and ended up being the best pet that I've ever had.  I'd always thought that cats were these aloof creatures that couldn't care less if you were around or not.  And to strangers and so forth, they might be.  But when a cat...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, I got so scared yesterday. You know, my little cat, Punkin, is 16 years old. I got Punkin in 1997. She's Abyssinian and, for most of Punkin's life, I think the breeder that we got Punkin from bred the cats for potential show, and there might have been some inbreeding for purity's sake. I've done a lot of reading about Abyssinians. Punkin's always had urinary tract problems, kidney infections. Her kidneys produce -- as it's been explained to me -- crystals that clog up her urinary tract and make her think she's gotta go to the...

UNITED NATIONS -- Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken's "Colonel Sanders" gain access to restricted areas. The guard escorted the white-suited intruder past security barriers, where he got a handshake from the UN General Assembly president, Dr. Ali A. Treki of Libya. The faux fast food chain founder also posed for a picture beneath the assembly's giant UN logo, which overlooks the spot where world leaders address their international counterparts. "It should not have happened -- that I will stress, and very strongly," said Michele Montas,...

Just when the not really bipartisan world of Washington and beyond was getting all comfortable hating the new leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, word leaks out that the planet's most successful and quite possibly most reviled radio talk-show broadcaster -- oh, look, he's a conservative! -- loves animals... But it turns out, lovable Rush is a big animal-rights guy. He's got a much-adored cat named Punkin (see photo ). No, really...

As I was so rudely banned from the last post I made, let me respond here. I am not a troll, I am a conservative who has not posted on this site for a while for a reason. The conservative movement has lost its way... So here's the deal, and YOU ALL KNOW THAT RUSH HAS MADE AN IDIOT OF HIMSElF... do you guys honestly think there is one single American who has seen this episode between Limbaugh and Steele, and thought "I should vote Republican/I should be a conservative/I should oppose Obama's socialism"??? Absolutely not. Obama is a talented...

Ping to the faithful. Happy New Year to all. Have not heard from CC27, so pinging the list. Hope all is well in all your corners of the world.

RUSH: The Feds have arrested a would-be terrorist allegedly planning to attack a Chicago area mall during the Christmas rush. It will be interesting to see how they got this guy. Wonder if they used wiretaps to get this guy. He had planned some kind of attack in Rockford, Illinois. He was acting on his own. He had no connection to any cell. He planned to set explosive devices off in garbage cans in a shopping center during the busy holiday shopping season. He's 22 years old, he lives in Chicago. Well, obviously, folks, this is happening because of our...

Yesterday I dropped my two cats off at the vet so they could have their teeth cleaned this morning. A couple of hours ago the vet called me. He said my cat Punkin had serious problems while under the anesthesia. He said his lungs had collapsed. They had him tubed and were breathing for him but said if they pulled the tube he would die. I rushed over there to say my good-bye's. Surprisingly, by the time I got there he was doing some of the breathing on his own and the vet gave him a 20% chance. A little...

It's that time of year! One more day!