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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Monday, July 21, 2003
Today's Nuze: Today's Nuze: July 21, 2003
By Neal Boortz
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THE BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG STORY Saddam Hussein still hasn't been found, U.S. Troops continue to die in Iraqi Islamic ambushes. Democrats are working hard to bring socialism to America, but the big story for the past three days ... and most probably the next three days ... is Kobe Bryant. I'm going on the record right now as saying that I believe Kobe Bryant is innocent of sexual assault. I base this on my understanding of his character and the nature of women who stalk athletes. One side will tell us that most rapes are never reported. This may well be true, especially when there was some sort of a relationship before the rape occurred. Recent studies have shown that as much as 50% of rape charges on college campuses are later to be admitted as being false by the accuser. An anthropologist at Purdue University conducted a study of rape allegations in a small metropolitan area. Eagle County, Colorado is a small metropolitan area. In the area studied there were 109 forcible rape cases reported during a nine-year period. Forty-one percent of those cases were shown to be false accusations. So, you want a larger metro area? How about Manhattan? Linda Fairstein directs the prosecution of sexual assault cases in New York City. She says that there are about 4,000 reports of rape every year in Manhattan. Fairstein says that of these 4,000 reports, about one-half of them simply didn't happen. New Zealand ... 64% of rape reports are false. FBI ... in 1990 there were 8,500 false reports of rape. Here's an idea. You know I'm for a "loser pays" system for civil lawsuits. You file a lawsuit, you lose, you pay the other side's legal expenses. We need something like this for false rape allegations. If you bring a charge of rape against someone, and that accusation is later proven to be false and to have been brought to salvage a reputation, salve remorse, or to punish an errant lover, then the person bringing the false allegation serves the same amount of time in jail that the accused would have spent, if convicted. Just tune in --- this should be a good conversation. THE 16-WORD SCANDAL CONTINUES The dumbest move last week was Bush spokesman saying that the words shouldn't have been in the speech. The sentence was true. It was factual. It belonged in the speech. Bush should have just said that he stands by the statement and move on. The bottom line here is that Democrats and the anti-Bush crowd are jeopardizing everything that the U.S. has accomplished in the Middle East with this purely partisan attack on Bush. NOW HERE'S WHAT BUSH SHOULD BE TAKING THE HEAT FOR There is, though, much to criticize Bush for. Spending, for instance. Here are some figures from John Fund's column in today's Wall Street Journal. Fund reports that in thre first two Bush budget years federal spending has increased by an inflation-adjusted 5.3% per year. How does that compare with other administrations?
Now HERE is a good reason to be showing discontent with the Bush Administration. WHERE IS THE DEFICIT COMING FROM? This is a cut-and-paste from an article I read over the weekend. Sorry, I can't attribute to the article because I have no idea where I found it! "According to the Office of Management and Budget, lower revenues due to economic conditions are responsible for 53 percent of the turnaround from projected surpluses to projected deficits. Increased spending is responsible for another 24 percent. The tax cuts only account, even in a static analysis, for 23 percent of the turnaround. In other words, if the tax cuts hadn't been adopted, the federal government would still be facing a budget deficit of at least $278 billion, or $437 billion excluding the Social Security surplus. And that assumes utterly no stimulative effect from the tax cuts, including the 2001 rebate originated by the Democrats." JERRY SPRINGER IN THE SENATE Why are so many people getting upset with the prospect of Jerry Springer in the U.S. Senate? Has he killed anyone? Remember ... Ted Kennedy is a Senate icon, and last week was the anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. I WATCHED PARTS OF THE BRITISH OPEN Is it just me, or are those golf courses over there just ugly as hell? I think most American municipal courses look better. WE'LL HELP YOU PACK CNN article over the weekend (link below) about Americans who are planning to move to Canada; not because they like cooler weather, but because they just think that Canada would be a better place to live than America. I've included a link to the article in today's reading assignments. Read the article and you will see that many of these people aren't exactly what you would call driven to achieve. One of them is a puppeteer, for goodness sake. She is probably looking to Canada as a place where the government will more willingly support her chosen profession. This article is evidence that freedom isn't for wimps. There will always be people who want to be taken care of. TAXPAYER ABUSE Grady Hospital is Atlanta's charity hospital. A charity hospital built with imported Italian marble. Grady is almost bankrupt, yet the retired Grady CEO will have a lifetime pension of $117,900 a year. Wow! He must have worked at Grady for decades to get a retirement like that, right? Yeah ... about nine years. Nine years and you retire at almost $10,000 a month. Only in government. Only where the taxpayers can be ripped off to cover the tab. SOME INTEMPERATE THOUGHTS FOR A MONDAY
READING ASSIGNMENTS This is the article I want you to read above all others today. This Democratic campaign assault on George Bush is going to erase all the good that has been done in the Middle East. The Democrats? They certainly don't care. But do you? http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110003776 There is other news in Iraq .. news other than stories of violence against American troops. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20030721.shtml Do you folks realize how dangerous the situation with North Korea really is? There are really only two options. Attack or negotiate. Negotiating means sending huge dollars to North Korea. http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030719-101319-6749r.htm The big scandal over Bush's 16 words? It's a phony scandal, folks. As phony as Hitlary's smile. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/906dhrpb.asp Why did those Democratic candidates initially snub the NAACP last week? Because they realize that this organization is becoming irrelevant. While the NAACP promotes the "racism" boogey man, the real danger to black America comes from single black households headed by a woman. http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030718-082635-7590r.htm Here's last Friday's Best of the Web column by James Taranto http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003768 Friday's Latin translation: Itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini." For all of you drug fans out there .. you know, the ones who take such delight in drugging your children with Ritalin every day ... here's a bit about the newest health fraud: Adult ADD! http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/18/adult.add/index.html Wow! There is nothing that upsets Democrats quite so much as an attempt to allow a private individual to take the money that they earned and put it toward their own retirement. This time the police had to be called! Blame it on the Republicans. They made the horrible mistake of not realizing that we are all supposed to depend on government in our retirement, not ourselves. http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=34234 France. What a country. Now they've banned the use of the word "e-mail." Not French enough. In France they will, by law, have to use the word "courriel." Just how much more pathetic could the French be? http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20030718/ap_on_re_eu/france_out_with__e_mail__3&printer=1 The Save Saddam Society is back at work again. Someone needs to ask them if they would like for Bush to just pull out the troops right now and tell Saddam "Sorry, old pal. We thought you had those nasty weapons. We can't find them, so we're going to let you have your country back again. Our bad." Here are some details on how those now-infamous 16 words came to be in Bush's speech. http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030719-101313-8923r.htm Air-brushing J-Lo's buns. Now there's a job to which we can all aspire. http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=75132520&p=75y33zz6 It seems we have some Americans who think that Canada would be a better place to live. A puppeteer, for instance. Fine! Let them move! It would raise the level of intelligence and of ambition for both countries. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/07/19/considering.canada.ap/index.html Democrats, firmly in the grip of teacher's unions, are blocking school choice in the nation's capital. It doesn't matter what the parents of these children want. When the unions speak it's screw-the-parents time. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8550-2003Jul17.html?nav=hptop_tb Before the fighting started in Iraq the likes of Charles Rangel and John Conyers sought to play the race card. They said that there would be a disproportionate number of black casualties. This has never been the case in the past, and it wasn't the case this time. Don't expect any mea culpas from these two race warlords however. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/7/15/161239.shtml |
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