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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Thursday, June 19, 2003

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SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT ME!

Various radio and television websites have been quite full lately of stories about how our good friend Bill O'Reilly has his thong in a wad over Internet "blogs." Let's see now ... O'Reilly can call me a "vicious son of a bitch" on national television and I smile. Some Internet blogger says something negative about His Highness and he starts spinning around on his eyebrows. He's even complaining because there are no "restraints" on what people can put on their websites. He thinks this is dangerous.

Well ... I have been noticing over the past years that there are quite a few ugly things being said about me on the Internet. So --- here's a warning.

Make sure you spell my name right. It's Neal, not Neil, and the letter "o" appears twice in my last name. Oh .. and I would appreciate it if you would tell people where they can go and listen to me. That's it. That's all I ask. Now get out there and knock yourselves out. I'm fair game, and I can take it. I'll leave the whining to O'Reilly.

NOW IT'S AL GORE COMING OUT WITH A LIBERAL TALK RADIO NETWORK

Isn't this getting just a bit tiring? First we had those leftist millionaires who donated $10 million to the cause of starting a liberal talk radio network. Now we have rumors that Al Gore might be pursuing a similar venture.

OK ... enough talk. Let's see some action here. Let's see you trot out your leftist talk radio hero to save the day for socialism and the Democratic Party. Bring us your big-government, big-spender to tell us how wonderful it is to show compassion with someone else's money.

Tell me where I can tune in to hear this wonderful liberal talk show host tell us that income is "distributed," not earned. Then we'll all sit around a listen with rapt attention as this liberal savior defends the position that it is perfectly appropriate for some people to use the government as an instrument of plunder; taking money from those who have it in order to give it to those who don't.

For the second hour his topic can cover the leftist war on individuality. He can explain why Teddy Kennedy acknowledged that we are currently at war with the concept of individuality. He can explain why Hillary Clinton said that "we need to stop worrying about the rights of individuals.

During hour three your left-wing raconteur can explain Bill Clinton's oft-stated assertion that our rights aregivenus by government. Many of us, you see, thought that we enjoyed our rights to life, liberty and property simply by virtue of our existence, and that we formed governments to protect those rights, not to give them to us. That third hour should be a hum-dinger.

Oh yeah ... this is sure to be a ratings success.

THE BENTON HARBOR RIOTS

OK .. so some young thug runs from the police on a motorcycle. He crashes. He dies. And it's the fault of the police? All this kid had to do was STOP! He knew it, and he chose to run. He is not a victim of the police. He is a victim of his own decision making.

As for those riots? Most of the people looting and burning were not adults. They were kids. They weren't rioting for any grand cause. They were rioting because they thought it was FUN. Rioting is, for some, just part of the lore of their urban culture. You've heard the old joke that women need a reason to have sex, but men just need a place? Well, there was no reason for a riot in Benton Harbor. All these kids needed was an excuse, a place.

Let's stop attributing noble thoughts to these thugs and gangsters.

WHY SO MANY OF THE THE POOR REMAIN POOR

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a featured called the "Vent." People call a message system and leave a short, terse message. A selection are then chosen for publication. The following "vent" appeared this morning;

"If you think the rich got that way because of hard work, then I guess you've never heard of trust funds, the good-ole boy network and old-fashioned corrupt business practices."

There are no guarantees, of course, but my guess is that the person who phoned in this particular "vent" would be considered by most to be a complete loser. Add the word "pathetic."

There is a strong psychological need for some people to denigrate those whom they consider to be rich. These people cannot admit to themselves that the rich actually got that way through hard work.

Maybe the best way to put this point across is to go behind the whines; to craw into the darker corners of the mind of the person who wrote that vent:

"I'm getting so tire of hearing these rich people complain about their taxes, and I'm really getting fed up with all of their complaining about how hard they worked to get their money. I work hard. I work just as hard as those rich bastards, and I'm not rich. They didn't work for that money, they inherited it. They're just lucky because they had rich parents., My parents were poor. They didn't leave me with a big fat trust account so I could buy fancy cars and lay around all day and complain about taxes.

"Oh, I know that all of these rich people don't have big fat trust accounts. Some of them just knew the right people. They were just in the right place at the right time. If I had known those people I would be rich too.

"And they're crooks too. If you got rich with hard work I would be rich. I work hard. They're just crooks. If they were honest they wouldn't have all that money. Then they complain when they have to pay taxes. They didn't complain when they were stealing that money. They're just pigs, and they deserve to lose everything they have."

It's all a form of psychological self-preservation. These people cannot accept the fact that hard work and good decision-making and some risk-taking could lead to the accumulation of wealth. If they believed that they would have to explain to themselves just how it is that they have reached this stage of life without getting rich themselves! Could it be they aren't rich because they have made some bad decisions, refused to take risks, or just haven't been working as hard as they would have you believe? No! That just can't be! "I'm a good person! I'm a noble human being! I work hard! My problem is that I'm too honest. I won't cheat and steal like those rich people will. That's why I'm not rich. But at least I work!"

The psychology of failure reject the reality that the fault lies with you, not with those who have realized their dreams.

Oh, by the way. For that person who wrote that vent ... you can give up on this "trust fund" nonsense. Less than 1.5% of millionaires in this country inherited their wealth. The rest WORKED for it.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's Wednesday's Best of the Web.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003643

You don't believe that we did the right thing in Iraq? Read this. If you can read this and still say that Saddam Hussein should have been left in power you are, simply stated, a pitiful excuse for a human being.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-717360,00.html

The Hildabeast is most definitely running for president in 2008. What does this mean for the Democratic Party? Disaster, I hope.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003646

Miguel Estrada is a Honduran immigrant. He's an honors graduate from the Harvard Law School. He clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. He served the Clinton Administration as an Assistant Attorney General. He argued many cases before the Supreme Court ... and won them. Is this a record of accomplishment that should be rewarded? DemocRAT presidential candidate John Edwards doesn't think so. He says that Estrada was nominated to an appeals court bench because he has the right last name.
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/8/051481-7098-021.html

Here's a good rational look at what's going on in Iraq right now .. and the things that Bush is not doing that need to be done.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/opinion/18FRIE.html

Here is a dynamite review of Hitlary's book. Go ahead and spend the money on her book if you wish ... but don't do it without reading this review.
http://www.patriotist.com/marr.htm

The House has voted for a permanent repeal of the estate tax. Now it goes to the Senate. There are quite a few Senators who like the idea of a death tax. Why should someone be allowed to take all of the wealth they have worked for throughout their lives and give it to their heirs ... especially when there are politicians who could use that money to buy votes! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=2&u=/ap/estate_tax

A neighbor (probably a Democrat) complains, and Naples (Fla.) shut down a lemonade stand.
http://www.nbc-2.com/News/stories/061803-lemonade_stand.shtml
 
 

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