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There is no

worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely

because you think it would be good for him.   -- Robert Heinlein

BROADCASTING TODAY FROM WALT DISNEY WORLD

The Neal

Boortz show comes to you today from Epcot at Walt Disney World. 

Our broadcast location will be in the Futureworld section of Epcot, near

the Test Track and Disney's new Mission Space attraction. 

If you just happen to be on vacation here we invite you to come on by to

meet the sweet Belinda, myself and the staff of our Orlando affiliate 580 WDBO.

HIS FATHER WAS A NAZI, YOU KNOW

Yeah, that's right. 

Arnold Schwartzenegger's father was a Hitler storm trooper and a Nazi. 

That was his father, not Arnold.  My

father was a Democrat.  We all have

our crosses to bear.  I am bringing

this up, though, because I want you to watch the left play around with this

little factoid over the next 60 days.  

The man Democrats once touted as a good future presidential prospect is

now facing a recall election in California where his popularity ranks somewhere

below that of canker sores.  With

Arnold in the race the Democrats fear a Republican takeover. 

They will react, and they will react viciously. 

Remember, this is the same political party that paid for advertisements

telling black folks that if they voted for Republicans their churches would be

burned.  No campaign rhetoric is too

vile for Democrats ...

so look for big play on the political background of

Arnold's father.

BY THE WAY, YOU DO KNOW THAT GRAY DAVIS SERVED IN VIETNAM, DON'T YOU?

Yup, just like John Kerry. 

Gray Davis was up there in front of the microphones yesterday reminding

the people of California that he had served "as an Army Captain in Vietnam." 

While service in our Armed Forces is certainly honorable, and service in

Vietnam as well, there wasn't to my knowledge anything in the water over there

that made ordinary people more qualified to serve in political office. 

Let's see if Davis makes this a regular part of his campaign stump

speech, as Kerry has done.

AND YOU THINK THINGS ARE DIFFERENT ANYWHERE ELSE?

Under the "No Child Left Behind Act" each state is supposed to prepare a list of

"failed" schools.  Parents are allowed to use these "failed" ratings to get their children out of the failed schools and into a government school where they may have a snowball's chance in hell of actually learning something a developing a job skill or two.

In Georgia the government school folks couldn't come up with a list from the last school year until this school had already started in some jurisdictions and was, as they say, fixin' to start in most others.  Now the Imperial Federal Government has informed Georgia that they left 270 failed schools off the list, and they must be added.

Is anyone surprised here?  Come on folks!  How long are you going to sit around aiting for government to do something with its schools that it doesn't or can't do in virtually any other endeavor?  Government doesn't do anything very well, including following its own rules and regulations, and you sit there expecting year after year that things are somehow going to be different with the schools.

In Georgia there are about 550 failed schools.  Can you believe that?  Of course you can.  They're government schools .. government schools run by government employees and operated by government union workers.  Over one-half of those schools are in the Atlanta area.  Atlanta spends over $10,000 a year per student and delivers one of the worst products in the nation.

So, tell me.  Do you really think things are different where you live?  Do really think that you live in a place where the local government education establishment is eager to highlight their failures?  Yeah ...

sure you do.

MEANWHILE, AT THE AFL-CIO CONVENTION ...

One Democratic candidate, Joseph Lieberman, suggested to the union members in that audience that we ought to at least allow the District of Columbia to give the voucher system that the parents clearly want a try.  That suggestion was met by boos from the union members.  Boos.  Union members, many of which we can assume have children, booing the idea of school choice; booing the idea that a parent ought to be able to recover the tax money that is being used to send their child to a failed school, and use that tax money send their child to a school that might actually get a little teaching done.  Why were these union members booing Lieberman and the voucher idea?  Easy ...

because the schools that these children would be taken from are staffed by union members, and the schools that the children might be transferred to would most likely be staffed by non-union teachers.  To the AFL-CIO members it's all about unions, not education.  If these AFL-CIO goonion members are given a choice between (1) improving the educational opportunities for America's children, and (2) preserving the jobs of the nation's most powerful union, the National Education Association, they invariably choice No. 2.  Union jobs are more important than well-educated children.

You know, now that I think about it, I guess I can see why the unions get so antsy at the prospect of improved education for our children.  After all, the better educated you are the less likely it is that you're going to be a union member when you grow up and make your way into the workforce.

A RIGHT DECISION

Driving from the Orlando airport to Walt Disney World yesterday afternoon was an experience.  I have never seen the skies blacker in the middle of the afternoon.  The thunderstorms were immense, the raindrops the size of quarters.  No place for a 3300 pound airplane.  Sometimes you gotta know when to keep them tucked away into the hangar and let the heavy equipment operators do it for you.

CHANGES ON THE WAY

Since day one Boortz.com and Nealz Nuze has been a one-man operation ...

me. I was the only one with the password needed to open up the Front Page software and make changes to the pages.  It has now reached the point where it is a bona fide mess.  Though the links aren't apparent, if you understand my amateurish method of URL coding you can find program notes going back four years.

Well, things are about to change.  Help has been called and it's on the way.  Changes are being made now and before you know it a new Boortz.com will be before you. The linkage will be easier, and many of the tasks that I have had to address in the past will be automated.  I will still prepare the program notes and the reading assignments, but will leave it to others to proof read and load into the system.  This will be good news for most, and bad news for those of you out there who have never had any comment about anything I've written in my notes unless it had something to do with a typo or grammatical error.  Much fun for small minds.

There will be video, audio, better links, more frequent updates during the show, search functions to find those stories you missed --- and an opportunity for you to advertise!  Remember, Boortz.com is in the top five worldwide of Internet sites for talk radio programs, and it's number two for internet sites for programs centering on news, issues and politics.  We can flat sell stuff for you.

And

what will I do with MY extra time?  Use it to make the show better, that's what.