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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Monday, Aug. 29, 2005
By Neal Boortz
| Today's Nuze: August 29, 2005 | ||
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| Monday -- August 29, 2005
Well, I must say that the crunch portion of The FairTax Book tour ended with somewhat of a bang. I thought it would be a good idea to bring Royal, Belinda and Ken down to New Orleans for a little partying over the weekend to coincide with my signing at the Borders in Metairie and my Saturday morning brunch with some 690 WTIX contest winners. We were all originally going to leave on Sunday afternoon .. but plans are always subject to change. Virtually as soon as we got to New Orleans on Friday we started making arrangements to get out on Saturday, as soon as the WTIX Brunch with Boortz at the Ritz was over. Belinda and Royal did just fine. They had reservations at 2:45. The bride and I had AirTran reservations at 7:45 Saturday evening. The evacuation of New Orleans started at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon ... so we decided to plan for some crushing traffic and left for the airport at 2:00. What is normally a 20 minute trip turned into 90 ... and we felt lucky with that time! We can't say enough good things about Dan Fraiser and Rob Hunter from WTIX. With that hurricane bearing down on them they sure had better things to do than shuffle us around ... but they made sure we were taken care of before anything else. I also want to thank the people of the greater New Orleans area. The signing on Friday night was sensational. They estimate we signed about 600+ books with a crowd that approached nearly 1000. By the time the signing was over Belinda was weighted down with about 45 pounds of beads. I hope there are pictures somewhere. [there are!] We also had a good group for our Saturday morning brunch. I spent about 40 minutes answering questions .... all about the FairTax. These folks were well informed. Now we in the Boortz crew are hoping and praying that the people we met are all safe. Amazingly enough, it wasn't until Friday night that we encountered our first real jerk of the tour. Some character walked up to the table and started tossing around those "where will you spend eternity" tracts. I told him to go away and he started screaming "You need Jesus" as he left. "Yeah," I muttered to myself; "and you need class."
I caught this on Face the Nation yesterday morning. [transcript found here] Some reporterette from Baghdad was pontificating on the status of our troops in Iraq. This statement caught my attention: "Everyone agrees, the sight of American troops on the Iraqi streets makes everybody mad." That, my friends, is pure bullsqueeze. I've talked to far too many American servicemen in the past few weeks at airports across our country. The common theme in those discussions is that the media isn't giving the true picture to the people of this country, and that American troops are generally loved and admired by Iraqis. "Everyone agrees" ...... Yeah, right.
Are your children into this Hip Hop crap? Well ... just know that your kids are fawning over a culture of anger, resentment, predatory sex, disrespect for women and general violence. But, then, you don't have any control over your kids anyway, do you? Maybe all you can do is hope for the best.
Now just how hard is it for a newspaper to print the correct New York Times Bestseller's list? It really shouldn't be that much of a challenge, but yesterday's Sunday edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution printed a NYT list from three weeks ago. If you just happened to pay $5 for a New York Times yesterday instead of $2 for the AJC you will have seen that The FairTax Book is, for the second week in a row, Number 1! Now ... will the Atlanta Journal-Constitution print the corrected list? You go ahead and hold your breath. I'm enjoying life right now.
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Heck, even a redneck might need a computin' device that
speaks his language. More in the
Redneck Scrap Book. Representative Katherine Harris of Florida spotted with The FairTax Book. F**cking sign stolen by British tourists. Repeatedly. | ||
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