Tuesday, December 14, 2004
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insensitivity training from the Church of The Painful Truth! THANK
YOU BILL CLINTON Remember Mark and Denise Rich? Denise was a close pal of Bill
Clinton. Mark was her crooked husband. Somehow Denise managed to
snuggle up to Clinton and get a pardon for her husband during Clinton's final
days in office. Now we're finding out that almost as soon as Bill Clinton
pardoned Mark Rich he was off to the Middle East to become one of Saddam's
partners in defrauding the American people and starving his own people. Do
you think that Clinton will ever be brought to task for this particular
pardon? Are you kidding? GOOD....NOW
GO AWAY
 I
heard Carol Costello on CNN this morning asking why this nation was so riveted
by the Scott Peterson trial over the past few months. Why? I'll tell
you why! The American public was riveted by this trial because the media
immediately became obsessed with Scott Peterson and all things Scott
Peterson. Here was a good looking young guy and a missing pregnant wife
... and a slow news period. So ... I ask the media, why were you so
determined to fill the airwaves and the newspapers with Scott Peterson 24/7. Anyway, for now it's over. But will the media frenzy end?
Hardly. Now the media will be watching Mark Garragos to see just how soon
Scott fires him and moves on to another legal team for the appeals
process. The next few weeks will be filled with Monday morning
quarterbacking of the defense strategy. Since I'm a lawyer, I'll chime in
for a bit. I don't think I would tell a jury during opening arguments that
that I was absolutely, positively going to prove to them that, as certain as
gravity, Scott Peterson was innocent ... and then try to convince the jury that
some homeless man kidnapped Laci, murdered her and then transported her body 90
miles to the San Francisco Bay. In what? A shopping cart? Ironically, it's unlikely that Scott Peterson will ever get his much-deserved
eternal celestial dirt nap. Provided that the judge actually sentences him
to death on February 25th, he will join the other 650 men on California's death
row. Since that state reinstated the death penalty in 1978, only 10 people
have actually been put to death. The last one was in 2002, for a murder
that happened in 1980. Scott Peterson will not be executed. He won't
live that long. The best thing about the death penalty is that Peterson
will be on death row. That's also the worst thing ... because those
inmates in the general prison population would love to get their hands on that
little cutie pie. They don't like people who kill their babies.
Some of the jury members said Peterson's lack of remorse was what did him
in. This is telling. Had he cried in court, or shown more emotion,
would the jury have unanimously voted for the death penalty? Probably not,
which tells a lot about how appearances easily manipulate juries. Laci
Peterson and her unborn son are just as dead no matter how sorry Scott is.
At any rate, now the media can move on to something else. We hope.
DEMOCRATIC
PAYBACK TIME
Democratic Senators Byron Dorgan and Minority Leader Harry Reid announced
yesterday that they are going to hold oversight hearings over the Bush
administration. So what is this all about? Revenge, that's what.
Revenge and payback ... mixed in with a nice bunch of sour grapes.
Other than revenge and payback, these hearings will serve no official
purpose. It's just Democrats getting together to bitch, whine and moan ..
and to try to create negative news for the Bush Administration. They don't
have subpoena power, so they're just dog and pony shows designed to get media
attention. The announced list of topics for the hearings tell the tale:
contracts in Iraq, prewar intelligence, cost estimates for the Medicare
prescription drug benefit, the administration's plan for private Social Security
accounts and global warming, to name a few.
If this is how the Democrats in the Senate intend to conduct themselves the next
four years, their stay in the political wilderness could be extended by quite
some time. But take heart, Democrats! The media is going to be your
willing and eager partner in this. The New York Times will be breathlessly
watching every hearing looking for some obscure point to turn into a huge
blockbuster.
George Bush was re-elected, and the left isn't happy about it. Get ready
for four years of payback.
MAKING
OVER THE HILDABEAST
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has two elections coming up that she wants to
win. She's up for re-election to her Senate seat in 2006, and of course,
her ultimate goal, winning the presidency in 2008. Both contests present a
bit of a challenge for The Hildabeast: she's going to have to change her stripes
in order to win.
With the political landscape changing since 9/11, Hillary is going to want to
pretend to be a moderate on many issues and downright conservative on just a few
... like the war in Iraq, for instance. Her goal is to fool conservative
voters into forgetting that she is basically a leftist anti-capitalist. So
how does this fundamentally dishonest politician pull it off? Will she
support lower taxes? Hardly. When she moves into the White House she
wants that money to be there for her to spend to reshape American society in a
way more to her liking. It would seem that Shrillary has picked illegal
immigration to create a new Hillary identity. She sees this issue as one
that the Bush administration has done little about.
It's an interesting strategy. It won't help her with the Hispanic vote, of
course, but it could give her the votes she needs from middle America.
Anyway, get ready for her many attempts in the coming years to pretend to be
somebody she isn't, all in an effort to deceive the public and get them to vote
for her. My read? The American public ... especially the women ... are
ready to buy the deception.
Just as it was in her husband's administration, her policy will be to do
whatever it takes to win. This is a woman who holds the American public in
disdain, even while trying to win them to her side.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
The pictures are in from the inaugural Boortz Power Lunch Friday, December 10th.
A very early 2008 poll shows that a
generic Republican candidate beats The Hildabeast by 46% to 39%. She
has a slight lead among women, and trails 17 points among men. She's still
going to run though. It's all part of The Plan.
Outgoing Democratic Senator Fritz
Hollings admits Democrats had a sweetheart deal in the 60's in South
Carolina to keep blacks in bad housing and inferior schools. Doesn't sound
like much has changed since then.
Instead of trying to figure out what the best way is to reform Social Security, why
not implement the plan of a country that has been successfully doing it for
years: Chile.
The situation in Afghanistan continues to improve by the day, despite the
media's ignoring of it.
James S. Robbins says the inauguration of Hamid Karzai was a milestone.
It's the one year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture, and the media is
fretting about his lack of legal counsel. Perhaps the Bush administration
is supposed to hire a dream team for the Butcher of Baghdad. The
Media Research Center reports.
Instead of trying to fix the broken system of Social Security, Star
Parker has an Earth-shattering idea. How about just honoring our
commitment to current beneficiaries, and just ending the program.
Today in the world of Mike Adams,
the professor writes a letter to the board of trustees at UNC-Wonderland and
takes issue with their choice of reading material at a recent graduation.
So just what is in that National Intelligence Reform Act? Diana
West takes a look at the many pages of legislation that Congress probably
didn't read before it passed it.
Columnist Paul Greenberg recently took on Congressman Ernest Istook over his
role in the passage of the Omnibus spending bill, and the Congressman took issue
and called Greenberg. This
is the follow up column.
This Bernard Kerik business has brought the Nanny Problem back to the forefront
from the 90's. Rich
Lowry explains that he's not the only one with that problem, and it exposes
the lax immigration in this country. Here's a site with pictures
from the Body Farm. Neal wants to take a field trip there. He also brought
up the book Stiff
during this gruesome segment of the show. Woman has 66 pound tumor removed. With
picture! Not the largest by far though. About a year ago a woman had a
176 pound tumor removed. And, this woman had a 17.6
pound tumor on her neck. Don't click on the first or last link if you don't
want to see pictures of these things... | 
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