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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Thursday, June 26, 2003

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SORRY 'BOUT THAT

No, I'm not dead, and I didn't suddenly decide to retire. I just took four days off, that's all. I do apologize for not putting something here in Nealz Nuze to explain my absence. Since I'm the only homo sapien who can access this website there was no way to let you know I was just on vacation. But ... here we are, back at it again.



I've been hiding out at the Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona for the past five days. During that time you have been reading about the "Aspen Fire" in the mountains above Tucson. Here's a picture of that fire I took from the Ranch.

IT'S UNDER THE ROSE BUSH, MR. BLIX.

So now we have some Iraqi scientist who digs up some parts for a centrifuge from under a rose bush in his back yard. Centrifuge? Yeah ... those things you use to make fuel for a nuclear weapon. It seems Saddam's son ordered the scientist to bury the parts many years ago. Now we're waiting for Hans Blix to explain why he didn't go digging in this man's backyard when he had his wonderful team of U.N. inspectors in Iraq.

Seriously ... this shows why the inspections were virtually useless. It also illustrates why U.S. forces haven't turned up Saddam's nasty weapons yet. We've all heard of the thousands of gallons of this and that Saddam had. You won't read this in the New York Times, but the totality of all of the chemical and biological weapons material Saddam admitted to having would fit into one good-sized hotel swimming pool. Now ... go out there and find THAT in a country the size of California.

We probably won't find out what happened to these weapons until the people with direct knowledge of those weapons come forward. As long as Saddam is out there, or as long as they think he may be preparing for his comeback tour, most of these people are going to keep their lips zipped.

GEPHARDT DOES IT AGAIN

This has to be the absolute outrage of the week. It came from the very same Democrat who tells us that Americans who work hard and experience success in their lives actually did nothing more than "win life's lottery." Yes, our friend Dick Gephardt.

Dick Gephardt evidently believes that it is the job of the President to issue all final rulings on matters pertaining to the constitutionality of laws passed by the congress or on the interpretation of our Constitution. Gephardt and other Democrat presidential candidates were appearing at a weekend campaign event. The subject of the not-yet-issued Supreme Court ruling on the University of Michigan affirmative action case came up. Some of these Democrats were obviously worried that the Supremes would not uphold this constitutionality of this program of systematic racial discrimination. Gephardt told the audience: "When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day."

"Wrong thing?" Just what would constitute a "wrong thing" in the eyes of "President Gephardt?" That one's easy. A "wrong thing" would be any Supreme Court ruling that would go against Gephardt's leftist policies; and Gephardt is now saying that he would simply issue an Executive Order to negate the Court's ruling!.

We are a government of laws, not of men. The Constitution is supposed to be the supreme law of the land, and that Constitution clearly gives to the Supreme Court, not to the Executive Department, the authority to make the final judgments on that law. Now we have a Presidential candidate who has completely rejected our Constitution and who has declared that, if he becomes President, he, not the Supreme Court, will be the final arbiter on constitutionality.

Actually, we shouldn't be surprised. Democrats have been ignoring our Constitution for decades. Democrats are making it more than abundantly clear that they will fight any nomination to the Supreme Court who believes in a strict construction of our Constitution. Gephardt just happens to be more candid than the rest. He said that he would do what every Democrat candidate would like to do. Democrats, you see, believe in the dangerous concept of majority rule. If the majority of people want them to take a certain action, they don't want any pesky two hundred year-old document to get in their way. At least Richard Gephardt is honest enough to put it on the table.

HEY - WE KNOW WHO OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE.

Alabama, like many other states, has a bit of a budget problem. The governor of Alabama wants a tax increase. Well, hell ... that's sure a lot easier than actually cutting government spending, isn't it? It seems, though, that the governor has run into a bit of a problem. The governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed convicted felons to vote in Alabama. Black lawmakers, who seem to take a particular interest in the votes of convicted felons, are mightily POed. Now they say their aren't going to support the tax increase, even though it would benefit low income blacks in Alabama by removing them from the tax rolls. What does this mean? This means that black legislators in Alabama are more interested in representing the interests of convicted felons than they are in representing their law-abiding constituents.

BUT ... WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BLAME HUMANS?

The June issue of Scientific American tells us that new data from a cluster of six sun-gazing satellites shows that our planet is being soaked with a bath of solar radiation that has been increasing over the past 24 years. This accounts for the climatic warm-up that so many environmentalists and anti-capitalists have been attributing to human action.

Expect this information to be ignored by most leftist politicians. There's a problem here. It's tough to gain any political advantage or to work your socialist agenda by blaming the sun for global warming.

CIRCLING TO LAND

Flying back from Arizona yesterday ... I watched in amazement as a huge woman waddled up the aisle to the lavatory at the front of the airplane. She wedged herself in and closed the door. A sense of anticipation was building in the first class cabin. Would she be able to get out? Well, she made it. She had to turn sideways and wiggle to get out of the can ... But finally she popped free. Now .. don't give me that nonsense about genes and heredity. I saw this same behemoth sitting in a restaurant before boarding the flight ... sitting there in front of a huge plate of nachos, French fries and a burger.

NO THANKS. FIND ME ANOTHER DOCTOR

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a story today about the epidemic of heart disease in black men. The article contains a rather amazing quote from Dr. Hilton Hudson, the chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Reid Hospital in Richmond, Indiana. Here's the quote:

"If people want to walk but can't because there are no sidewalks in their neighborhood, that's not their fault. If they want to take their high-blood-pressure medicine but can't because they have no health insurance, that's not their fault."

Amazing. Just how did we all manage to walk before we had sidewalks?

First of all ... you can not find one American who has been denied blood pressure medicine because they either didn't have health insurance or they couldn't afford it. There are more than enough programs to make sure these medications get to the people who need them. The infuriating thing here is that we have a doctor who gives people an absolute pass on the issue of personal responsibility. The vast majority of uninsured people in this country have no health insurance because they have made a conscious decision not to purchase it. They have decided to spend that money on car payments, vacations, entertainment, clothes, stereos, jewelry or other trivialities rather than taking steps to provide for health insurance. It's all about responsible decision-making. You would think that someone who been educated to the point of being a heart surgeon would understand that.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Picking up with Wednesday's Best of the Web.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003671

Congress - with the eager help of President Bush and the Republicans - is about to enact a huge new entitlement program. Wrinkled citizens are going to get a drug benefit they don't really need. The original price tag? About $40 billion a year. The problem is that these entitlements have a history of cost overruns.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030625-115757-6676r.htm

Do you think Jennifer Lopez has a nice caboose? Well, evidently you aren't as impressed by her buns as she is.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/6/25/131819

Oh, the benefits of working for the TSA! Now you may get to use your x-ray vision to check out the flat-bellies! You can call in someone else to check out the fleshy fliers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32754-2003Jun25.html

We already know that Clinton blew several chances to remove Osama Bin Laden as a threat to American security. Well, it would seem that George Bush passed up an opportunity or two also.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90318,00.html

A charitable trust takes back a $100,000 grant to the Boy Scouts. Why? Because the Boy Scouts don't think it would be all that great an idea to send homosexuals to chaperone and lead young boys on camping trips. Hey, they're both private organizations ... they are free to do as they please.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/1966454

Evidently that idea of privatizing Social Security accounts isn't quite dead yet. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has given it a thumbs up.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030625-085918-7967r.htm
 
 

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