I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up If I Tried

During recent broadcasts of "The Rush Limbaugh Show", Limbaugh has obviously been discussing the economic stimulus bill. However, aside from his general aversion to the stimulus package, he shockingly had this to say about the legislation as well: "[The Democrats] have reformatted the bill. They've made it a PDF file when they posted it. Now, for those of you that don't use computers, basically what that means is that it cannot be keyword searched. A PDF file is essentially a picture of a page and so you can read every page but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is, as posted on these public web sites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this. They want it happening as fast as possible so nobody can know what's in it."

Apparently his delusions of grandeur are slowly eating his brain. Or maybe he just forgot that the air of secrecy left with the previous administration. The fact he doesn't know (but more than likely he does) that you can simply use Ctrl + F to search for a keyword in a PDF file, including the economic stimulus bill (http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Recovery_Bill_Div_A.pdf). But, Rush, don't take my word for it. Here is what the Adobe Help Resource Center has to say about the search function: "You can run a simple search, looking for a search term within a single file, or you can run a more complex search, looking for various kinds of data in one or more PDFs. You can run a search using either the Search window or the Find toolbar. In either case, Acrobat searches the PDF body text, layers, form fields and digital signatures. You can also include bookmarks and comments in the search." Hopefully that clears things up for Limbaugh and the other two members of the U.S. population with electricity who are baffled by basic computer technology. Rush, let me know if you need help sending an e-mail.