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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Friday, June 27, 2003
Today's Nuze: Today's Nuze: June 27, 2003
By Neal Boortz
| Today's Nuze: June 27, 2003 | ||
BOORTZ MOVES UP TO NUMBER FIVE Every year Lycos, the largest global Internet network, review Internet statistics to determine who the most popular radio talk show hosts are on the Internet. This year's stats were released yesterday, and we've moved up? Two years ago we were number 14. Last year we were number 9. This year we've moved up to number 5! Lycos issued a press release yesterday which included this bit about us! A second star this year is Neal Boortz, the nationally syndicated Libertarian host who also writes a popular blog on his show's website. In two years Boortz has gone from #14 to #9 and now #5. Here's your list. You can view the entire story at http://50.lycos.com 1)Howard Stern(1) 2)Tom Joyner(5) 3)Rush Limbaugh(4) 4)Coast To Coast AMwith George Noory (-) 5)Neal Boortz(9) 6)Bill O'Reilly(12) 7)Clark Howard(13) 8)Art Bell(3) 9)Opie and Anthony(2) 10)Dr. Laura(7) 11)Paul Harvey(8) 12)Mancow(11) 13)Sean Hannity(-) 14)Larry King(15) 15) NPR'sCar Talkwith Click and Clack (20) 16)Don Imus(14) 17)Laura Ingraham(19) 18)Don And Mike(10) 19)Jim Rome(6) 20)Lovelinewith Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla BUT HERE BOORTZ IS IN THE MINORITY I get the rather strong impression that I'm in a minority here. I agree with the Supreme Court decision yesterday regarding the sodomy law in Texas. All I heard yesterday was people gnashing their teeth over the "gay agenda." Just what is this gay agenda? Are people concerned that homosexuals might want you to accept their "lifestyle" as normal? Well, guess what? It IS normal ... for homosexuals! If I were to eat squid my friends would consider that to be abnormal behavior. They know I don't eat squid, no matter what fancy Italian name you may give it. You may lover calamari. If that's the case, eating squid would be a perfectly normal act for you. Go for it. I just don't want to watch. My view on this Supreme Court decision is strictly libertarian. No action taken by a human being should be considered a crime by the state unless that action deprives another human being of their life, liberty or property through either force or fraud. Two consenting adults participating in the sexual act of their choice in a private setting deprives no other person of their right to life, liberty or property. Nobody is harmed, nobody is defrauded. I do not want the government in my bedroom. If I don't want the government in my bedroom then what is the justification for asking the government to go regulate someone else's sexual conduct? BUT ... SAME SEX MARRIAGE? No way. The sanctioning of same-sex marriage is part of what is called the "homosexual agenda" and it's a part I don't agree with. Why do states sanction marriages? Hint: It's not so that states can grant some official legal status to a man and a woman so that they can have sex. That legal status is granted to the union between a man and a woman in the expectation that they will produce children. The state recognizes certain rights and responsibilities that both the father and the mother will have in and toward that child, thus the official state recognition of their marriage. Now I know that we have seen some rather remarkable advances in science, but I don't think we have come to the point that one homosexual partner can impregnate the other. Until we reach that point there is no need to recognize their partnership as a "marriage." IDIOTIC - STUPID - PATHETIC - AND THESE PEOPLE TEACH YOUR CHILDREN. OK ... I spend most of my time in Atlanta. Been here for 35 years. It only took me about 35 minutes when I arrived here in 1967 to discover that the government schools operated by the City of Atlanta are little more than training programs for future government clerical employees. Georgia has some of the worst government schools in the nation, (we're No. 49!) and Atlanta has the most inept and lowest performing government schools in Georgia. I read a column yesterday morning written by the S. Richard Gard, Jr., the editor and publisher of our local legal newspaper (The Fulton County Daily Report). Gard recently found himself sitting on a school panel interviewing candidates for the principal's job at one of Atlanta's lowest-ranked government elementary schools. You just won't believe some of the limitations that this panel faced while interviewing these candidates:
These are the people who are educating your children. Is it any wonder that Atlanta's government schools are among the worst of the worst? Just how long are Americans going to put up with the these disasters that are our government schools? $400 BILLION? YEAH, RIGHT. AND I'M A MERMAID The temper tantrum being thrown by obscenely self-centered senior citizens is working. We are about to get a huge new spending bill that will provide prescription drug coverage to wizened citizens. They don't need it, but they vote in huge and well-organized numbers... so they're going to get what they've been whining for. We've argued the need for this prescription drug coverage on the show many times. Right now I just want to cover the cost. The media is parroting the legislative line that this huge new spending program is only going to cost $400 billion over the next ten years, averaging out to $40 billion per year. You're not buying that, are you? Let's take a look at some previous spending predictions and see just how good our legislators are at figuring out the cost of their entitlement vote-buying programs. These figures come from a column by Stephen Dinan in yesterday's Washington Times:
In other words ... don't believe anything these congressmen and Senators tell you about the eventual cost of their vote-buying prescription drugs program. They're lying, the media is helping them to lie, and your children are going to have one huge bill to pay. With every single congressional or presidential campaign to come for the next 40 years Republicans and Democrats alike will campaign on a promise to expand the prescription program. Some experts say that in short order this unnecessary legislation will cost the average American family $3,000 a year in taxes. It's all about votes ... buying votes ... and guess who gets to pay for them? THE NEXT HUGE HEALTH CARE FRAUD Lilly Pharmaceuticals is running an ad on television that portends the next great health care fraud. These advertisements encourage adult Americans to consult their doctors to see if they just might be suffering from ADD. And just why would Lilly be running these advertisements? Could it possibly be because they would like adults to run to their doctors for a nice prescription of some ADD drug? Many of these psychotropic drugs, Ritalin, for instance, are chemically similar to cocaine. Every day many thousands of American parents gleefully give to their precious children ---- for a disease that doesn't exist. It would seem that Lilly is concerned that they've about tapped-out the market for drugging school children. If they're going to push that Ritalin profit line they're going to have to work on a new demographic target. Adults. Well, you know how people just love to believe that they have the latest and greatest disease. Trust me, this is going to be a big deal. If you've seen the television ads you will know that adult who has failed at work or in their social relationships can now stand up and proudly state "Hey, it was all because I was ADD!" They'll go running off to their doctors, the very same doctors who have already prescribed Ritalin for their children. Those doctors will eagerly write the new 'scripts and off these adults will go to their local pharmacy to get their very own bottle of mind-altering drugs! Wow, is this a great country, or what? And what's next? Just wait until the first lawsuits are filed. Not suits against Lilly. I'm talking about adults suing employers under the Americans with Disabilities Act. They didn't get that promotion? They got fired? Hey, it wasn't their fault! They're disabled! How about a settlement? TEXAS A&M HAS SOME VERY SMART LANDSCAPERS This e-mail arrived yesterday: Neal- On a recent program, you discussed the Commencement Address that was never given at TAMU. I found it particularly amusing because I am a doctoral student at TAMU. I am in the last week of the first summer session and walking to class recently, I passed the gardeners working on the area close to the Blocher parking garage. They had the door of the truck open and the Neal Boortz show was blaring across the campus. So, I guess you could see why people would think that you had delivered the Commencement Address when even the gardeners listen to your program here. -- Mary I responded to Mary and told her that I certainly didn't make much of an impression on Texas A&M when I was a student there from 1963-1967. It's nice to know that someone there is finally listening to me! My thanks to Ben Downs and the crew at WTAW (where I was a country DJ while in college) for carrying the show! READING ASSIGNMENTS I was wondering when George Will was going to address this pressing problem. No more lap dances at Los Angeles strip clubs. Isn't it nice to know that LA politicians are addressing that menace? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20030626.shtml Thursday's Best of the Web. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003675 How do you like the idea of the health insurance industry having full and complete access to income figures for every wrinkled citizen in the U.S.? Hey ... as government involvement in your health care continues to escalate, this is only hint of what is to come. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030626.shtml Because of my respect for this author I'll post this one without even reading it. Charles Krauthammer address the Supreme Court and its "morally confused" decision on affirmative action. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20030627.shtml From the Weekly Standard ... The War Against Bush. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/831zisax.asp Thomas Sowell has something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision approving systematic racial discrimination in colleges and university admissions. Good read. Don't pass this one up. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20030626.shtml Some Democrats, completely desperate for an issue they can use against Bush, are suggesting - rather strongly - that Bush made up this whole thing about WMDs in Iraq. These Democrats have to ignore a mighty big pile of facts to spout that line. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20030627.shtml Ann Coulter's new book "Treason" is clobbering Hitlary's ghost-written "Living History." Coulter says the myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Here's a taste: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20030626.shtml So .. MTV gathers together a few dozen viewers from the hip-hop crowd. They're bussed to a beach house in Southhampton. You must know what happens then. Violence? You bet! We are talking "hip-hop" here. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/95694p-86711c.html Wait a minute! I thought that Microsoft had a virtual monopoly on computer operating systems with its Windows software! Isn't that what Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said? If that's the case then how in the world did the city of Munich, Germany replace Microsoft Windows with a Linux operating system on 14,000 of its computers? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20030627.shtml We actually have a Democratic candidate for the New York State Senate who entered a "pretty penis contest" several years ago. Well ... he WAS a candidate until word of the contest came out. Speaking just for me, I don't think having a pretty penis should disqualify anyone from running for office. http://www.njherald.com/news/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1056633598,74386 So, movies can't influence our behavior? Then why are all these kids flushing their pet fish down toilets? http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-nemo26jun26.story |
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