FRIDAY 9/26/03

GET OUT THERE AND SPREAD THE WORD IN SOUTH FLORIDA!

This past Monday The Neal Boortz Show came to the Naples, Ft. Myers area of Southwest Florida via two fine stations, WINK-WNOG.  On this coming Monday The Neal Boortz Show begins on Ft. Lauderdale's WFTL.   Eventually, after a short testing phase, you'll be able to listen to me on this blowtorch from Palm Beach to well south of Miami.  Now .... get out there and spread the word!

BUY SOME SOLDIER A TICKET!

We heard this morning that some soldiers in Iraq are getting a 15 day R&R trip to their homes!  Only soldiers on a one year tour of duty are eligible for the trip, and travel time to and from their homes doesn't count in the 15 days.  So far, so good.  But .. we also learn that the airfare for the final leg of their trip home is not being paid by the Defense Department.  For some of our troops this could be $1000 or more.

Now I have no idea how to implement this on any grand scale ... but let's pick up the airfare for some of these men and women.  I've already asked Belinda to find some local soldiers who had to pay for their own airfare.  I'll pick up the tab for one of them, and try to find some folks who will step in for some others.  Perhaps some listeners in some other parts of the country can do likewise.

FREE SPEECH VIOLATIONS?

Can you believe it?  Another federal judge has stepped in to try to kill the national do not call list for telephone solicitors.  He says that the list is a violation of our free speech rights.  So .. now free speech means that you have the right to call anyone you want and harass them at their home at a time of your choosing? 

If a do not call list is a violation of this cherished right, then what about unlisted phone numbers?  Hey, I want to call Barbra Streisand and tell her what I think of her mindless politics .. but her number is unlisted.  Those unlisted phone numbers are a violation of my free speech rights ... and I want them outlawed!  And what about those phones that reject calls from people who have their phone number blocked to people with caller ID?  Are you telling me that I have to identify myself in order to have my free speech rights?  Just where is THAT set forth in our Constitution?

We are truly losing it.

GROWING CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION

Let's get one thing out of the way right here at the beginning.  I know that there are a lot of you out there who think that I engage in a bit of "Christian bashing" on the air.  Well, you're free to harbor whatever irrational beliefs you please, but the fair listener will recognize that my difficulties with Christians, or any other religion for that matter, arise only when an attempt is made to use the police power of the state to force a religious view or practice on society.

Now .. having said that, David Limbaugh has a book out there right now that you need to read.  It's called "Persecution:  How Liberals are Waging War Against Christianity."  David hasn't sent me my personally autographed copy of this book yet, so thus far I've had to rely on excerpts and book reviews to get a taste of his book.  And then there's Ann Coulter's latest column.  Ann says that reading Limbaugh's book will "make you cry for your country."

Here's one excerpt from Coulter's column.  Read this and then rejoice in our government schools ... not!

"Thanks to the vigilance of an alert teacher at Lynn Lucas Middle School outside of Houston, two sisters carrying Bibles were prevented from bringing their vile material into a classroom. The teacher stopped the students at the classroom door and marched them to the principal's office. (Maybe it was just the sight of public school students carrying a book of any kind that set off alarm bells.) The sisters' mother was called and warned that the school intended to report her to Child Protective Services. When the mother arrived, the teacher threw the Bibles in the wastebasket, shouting, 'This is garbage!'" more on this

Unless you're expecting David Limbaugh to send you your own personally autographed copy of his book, maybe you ought to just go out and buy one.  That's probably not such a bad suggestion for me either.

ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER

This e-mail from a Nuze reader out there somewhere:

Congratulations you glib speaking sob.  Thanks to you  I now have no voting friends.  Way  to go  I keep sending them your link and  my God you think your e-mail is hateful,  you should see mine.   Keep it up. 

Neal Boortz ... always aiming to please. 

ALABASTER?

Is it possible that a national television news-magazine is snooping around the Alabaster, Alabama story?  Face it .. the story of some middle and lower income homeowners having their homes seized by government so some fabulously rich developer can build a Wal-Mart shopping center would make for some compelling prime time television.  This could be rumor, but someone out there really ought to do a feature on eminent domain abuse, and make Alabaster, Alabama a big part of the story.  This is an issue that Americans need to get worked up about!  Just in case you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, click here!  Also, if you are already worked up about the growing trend of government seizures of private property for private use, there are two Internet sites out there that can provide you with information and resources.  The Institute for Justice, and Castle Coalition.  Don't go to sleep on this one.  You never know when that letter will arrive telling you that your home is going to be seized because some developer has convinced a local city council or county commission that he can generate a lot more tax dollars from that plot of ground than you can.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

What a great column today from Rich Lowery.  He has compiled a list of What Democrats Believe.

There is no freedom without economic freedom.  So ... do you think our economic freedom is eroding?  Are we as free in our economic lives as we were just 20 years ago?

Charles Krauthammer:  "The Democrats have long been unhinged by this president. They could bear his (Florida-induced) illegitimacy as long as he was weak and seemingly transitional. But when post-9/11 he became a consequential president -- reinventing American foreign policy and dominating the political scene -- they lost it."

OK .. who made this statement in a speech?  "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice ... people I know very well ... our president George W. Bush.  We need them there."  Matt Drudge knows who made this statement. 

OK ... another "who said this" test for you.  Here's your quote:  "The intelligence from Bush 1 to Clinton to Bush 2 was consistent in concluding Saddam had chemical and biological weapons and was trying to develop a nuclear capability."  Hint; it wasn't a Republican.

A Florida congressman says that we need a complete overhaul of the airport security screening process.  He's right, but he doesn't know just how to accomplish the task.  What we need is to do what Israel does.  We look for weapons.  In Israel they look for terrorists.  Ahhhh ... but that might look like (gasp!) profiling!

Do you want to read something really pathetic?  Read this article detailing Tony Randall's fantasies about his own funeral.  Another Hollywood weirdo heard from.

So, you think judges don't matter?  The Nevada legislature just couldn't bring itself to raise taxes on Nevada citizens earlier this year.  So ... the Nevada Supreme Court just did it for them.  George Will gives you the details.

That Wesley Clark ... he's hot, right!  Well, not so hot to retired Army General H. Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  In fact, General Shelton was chairman on September 11, 2001.  You do remember that date, don't you? Would you like to know what General Shelton thinks of Wesley Clark?

If you've been listening for a while you know that I am no particular fan of democracy.  I'm in good company there.  People like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton weren't too fond of democracy either.  Jonah Goldberg says the California recall election shows that too much democracy can be dangerous.

Thomas Sowell is writing about our wonderful government schools again.  I just love it when he does that.

NEALZ LINKS FOR NUZE

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
World Net Daily
NewsMax
Wall Street Journal opinions
Washington Times
Washington Post
Real Clear Politics
Media Research Center
The Drudge Report
The Associated Press
SF Gate