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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Monday, July 28, 2003
Today's Nuze: Today's Nuze: July 28, 2003
By Neal Boortz
| Today's Nuze: July 28, 2003 | ||
THANKS, RUSH This Friday, August 1, Rush Limbaugh celebrates 15 years in syndication. This is a black-letter day on the calendar of every bedwetting left-wing socialist, liberal and Democrat in the country. When Rush started there were probably les than 325 AM radio stations in the nation doing news-talk. Today there are about 1,224. Credit here goes to Rush. If Limbaugh hadn't made talk radio the powerhouse that it is today I would have left radio to concentrate on the practice of law a decade ago. If you happen to see him, tell him I said "thanks." AND, AS LONG AS WE'RE THANKING PEOPLE ... ... I want to put in a huge thanks to the people of the Metro Atlanta area for once again making The Neal Boortz Show and our flagship station 750-WSB number one ... again, and this time the numbers are higher than ever. We can only wonder what those numbers would be if it weren't for all of those people who wrote to tell me that "I'm never going to listen to you again" because I don't share their hatred of homosexuals. The Boortz Show has been syndicated from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida for quite a few years now ... but we still take a great deal of pride in our incredible performance at our home base. I know I confound, confuse and enrage you on a regular basis .. but you still listen. So ... thanks! A special thanks also to Belinda, Royal, Ken and our intern Carrie for their support. If not for then you folks would get four hours a day of mipping and mupping ... and we wouldn't be celebrating another fantastic ratings book. THE MOVE Someone once said that two moves equals one house fire. They were wrong. One move can easily equal a house fire. I actually found myself fantasizing about a house fire Thursday night ... a nice conflagration to keep me from having to go do the clean-up on Friday. All's well. I now live amid a pile of boxes with bubble wrap carpeting just two miles from the Boortz studios .. not 20. A three minute commute, not 45. So, as my wife says, "We're city mice now." We've moved into the Buckhead area of Atlanta from the burbs. As soon as I get my computers hooked up we'll get back to speed with Nealz Nuze. Speaking of "as soon as I get my computers hooked up," --- by that I mean as soon as I get my DSL service in. And this brings us to the subject of customer service. What in the hell has happened to customer service out there? Here's a few examples: The phone company did a good job of getting my new lines installed to the condo. They didn't however, bother to label them in the building's phone room. So when my phone installation folks showed up there was no way to tell which numbers were mine. When I called the telephone company I spent 45 minutes on hold and about 4 minutes listening to a succession of people telling me what they couldn't do. Finally in complete exasperation I said "You keep telling me what you can't do. Could you please connect me with someone who can tell me what they can do?" The phone company also did a good job of getting the aforementioned DSL service installed. Trouble is, I didn't tell my Internet Service Provider that I was moving. I called them yesterday and told them the new phone number. Evidently the ISP computers match your phone number to the user name and password. I was told it could take up to three weeks for them to change my account to reflect the new DSL phone number. Three weeks. Three weeks for what I strongly suspect is a simple keyboard entry. Clark Howard calls it "customer no-service." I heard someone else refer to it as "customer I can't give you any service." Now ... having said all of this, I will say that I would rather deal with a phone company, a cable company, the satellite people or the ISP than to have to deal with a government office. There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat. THAT'S IT ... ... there is no real meat to Nealz Nuze today. Maybe by this evening I'll have some computing power behind me again. If not ... hey, it's only a three minute drive, so I'll just come to the studios tonight to get some work done. But, in the meantime ... I do have some... ... . READING ASSIGNMENTS Is America going to cut and run in Iraq? That's what Iraqis fear most, and the left wants. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003805 Now, thanks to Berkeley, we know what conservatives are made of. We're all just a bunch of Hitlers. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml John Leo has a few examples for us about how the media mangles quotations ... and you think this is done innocently? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20030727.shtml From Newsweek ... a bit of an insight into the last days of the spawn of Saddam. http://www.msnbc.com/news/944711.asp?0cv=KA01 What in the world is the appeal of Michael Moore? It certainly can't be his honesty, for he has none. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003807 What's this? A Jesse Jackson shakedown? Oh come on now. This can't be true, can it? http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive200307NAT20030728c.html As news of Uday and Qusay Hussein's most welcome demise was breaking across the globe, Iraqis lit the skies with celebratory fire, financial markets surged, oil prices dipped, and men and women of goodwill exulted ... and Democrats went into a depression. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/dw20030728.shtml The U.S. drops some hints that it could use a little help from France in Iraq. France sends back the message that it won't do a damned thing in Iraq until the United Nations is in charge. We include this just in case you might have decided to start liking the French again. http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030728-122353-4255r.htm And here's a eulogy for the spawn of Saddam. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20030728.shtml Florida is going to restore voting privileges to about 30,000 convicted felons. The Democrats think this is going to help them in Florida in 2004. Isn't it pathetic when you pin your election hopes on the votes of the nation's criminal class? http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=Politicsarchive200307POL20030728a.html Prison populations are up. Crime is down. Conservatives can see a correlation between these two facts. Liberals cannot. One of the greatest government spending programs you can imagine is money spent to build more prisons. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030728-122350-2539r.htm |
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