Today's Nuze: January 24, 2005

By Neal Boortz

Monday -- January 24, 2005

I JUST CAN'T LET THIS GO

Why is George Bush having to spend so much time defending a speech promoting freedom? It's amazing. Freedom is so unpopular around the world that you can't even stand up and deliver a speech extolling it's values and virtues without taking criticism from all corners. Such is the popularity of government- provided security. I ranted enough about this last Friday ... you can go to the archives for more. But, as I said, I just can't let it go. I grew up being told and actually believing that people love freedom. The biggest disappointment of my adult life may be the realization that this whole "love of freedom" thing is a complete lie. For the most part people seem to love freedom right up until that point where the old responsibility thing kicks in.

As for George Bush, during his speech he said that "It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world." Well, may I be so bold as to offer a suggestion on how to do that? Start building a new international coalition of nations to eventually replace the United Nations. Call it the "Freedom Alliance" or something like that. Membership will be open to any nation who's leaders are chosen in free and open elections, and with a government structure that guarantees a rule of law and economic liberty for its citizens. Let the United Nations be the gathering place of petty tyrants. We need something better. Now's as good a time to start as any.

ONE POSSIBLE WAY TO TRIM THE VOTER ROLLS

As you know, I feel strongly that our current voting laws simply permit too many people to vote. There are too many people casting ballots who don't have a clue. I would venture to say that more than 50% of people who cast a vote in the 2004 election couldn't name their two U.S. Senators or more than one of their state's Congressmen. When this subject comes up on the air we inevitably try to figure out sets of criteria that could be used to trim the voter rolls. A good start would be to eliminate all welfare recipients. If you aren't sharp enough to provide for yourself in this country, then you certainly aren't sharp enough to cast an intelligent vote.

OK .. here's a new idea. Just for discussion's sake. How about banning all smokers from the polls? Smokers are surely one of the most easily identifiable groups of idiots in our culture, and why would we allow people bent on self- destruction to weigh in on issues of national survival?

Just a thought.

GLOBAL WARMING JIHAD CONTINUES

Even though much of the country is buried in snow with record-breaking cold, the global warming Nazis are still out in full force. I'm sure the folks up in Boston could use a little global warming right about now.

The problem, of course, with the anti-capitalist climate change jihadists is that they lack any real scientific proof for their views. They certainly don't let that stop them. It matters not that the environmental extremism justifies the left's political agenda. And so the "climate change" (which some of us used to call winter) is now going to be hijacked and used as proof that a global warming catastrophe is just around the corner. Winter is caused by global warming. And when it gets warmer this coming summer that will be blamed on global warming also.

A report coming out from the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Centre for American Progress in the United States and the Australia Institute is going to push as much doom and gloom as possible. It was no doubt timed to be released just before the disastrous Kyoto treaty (which thankfully, the United States did not sign) goes into effect next month.

Once the Johnny Carson tributes subside, get ready for full-scale media indoctrination about the dangers of global warming ... and remember the true goal here, to damage or cripple the United States economically.

ISLAMIC TERRORIST SHOWS TRUE COLORS

The Iraqi elections are scheduled for this coming Sunday, and Al-Qaeda honcho and avowed Islamic terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi doesn't like all of this democracy talk coming out of Washington lately. Apparently he stopped cutting off people's heads with goat knives long enough to say a few words to the media. But in doing so he finally admitted why he is in Iraq killing Americans.

"We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology," said the hate-monger. That's right....democracy is the wrong ideology. So what
is the right ideology? The Islamic terrorists hate the United States and hate freedom because the only form of government that is acceptable to them is a Taliban-style Islamic theocracy, where Islam is the state religion, women are oppressed and beaten, showers are forbidden and nobody is allowed to vote.

That's why these terrorists hate America and call us 'The Great Satan.' It has nothing to do with foreign policy and everything to do with our freedom and our liberty, which they can't stand.

MORE IDIOCY FROM THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Now some brilliant politician in Georgia has come up with the idea of forcing employers to pay their employees to volunteer at their child's government school. OK, so it's only 8 hours a year .. but it's still a grotesque grab for power by government. The basic idea is that employers pay employees to work ... for the employer. We already accept the idea that employers should pay employees for time spent on jury duty ... next it will be volunteer work at schools. What's next? Highway cleanup? Think how powerful politicians could become if they could direct the work efforts of huge numbers of private citizens while having private employers cover the costs?

Now ... let's get on with some eminent domain reform to protect private property rights and guaranteeing 16-year-old drivers their day in an adult court.

HILLARY'S DEFINITION OF GREATNESS

The Hildabeast is back in the news again. Speaking yesterday at a gathering of Brandeis University alumni in West Palm Beach, Florida, Hillary Clinton lamented that today's presidential leadership was lacking. Said Saint Hillary: "President Dwight D. Eisenhower left a legacy of highways, John F. Kennedy the excitement over space exploration, and Lyndon B. Johnson created the legal framework for civil rights.
What are we investing in today?"

The message: leadership and greatness are defined by how much money is confiscated from the productive members of society and spent by the Imperial Federal Government. She went astonishingly further in her remarks: "I believe that on both political and substantive grounds, my husband did it just right.
The deficit reduction act didn't get one single Republican vote. He took on the gun lobby with the Brady Bill. He took on health care. He took on hard issues that we pay a president for. Frankly, it is not that hard cutting people's taxes." Notice that she didn't mention the poor Clinton record on terrorism, for which 3,000 people paid their lives.

Never forget that the left judges its success or failure by how much of our money they spend. The good news is that if she keeps talking like that, the 2008 presidential nomination might be up for grabs.

By the way, Shrillary ... what are we investing in today? We're investing in destroying the irreconcilable wing of Islam, the Islamic terrorists who have pledged to kill as many Americans as they can, up to 10 million. That's an investment that your womanizing husband didn't have the gonads to make, Ms. Hillary.

NEAL'S FIRST RULE OF MARITAL BLISS

Sometimes your wife will tell you to do something. Sometimes she will merely ask you to do something. The language will always be the same. It is up to you to learn to figure out which is which.

IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH

President Bush is pledging another $3 billion of American taxpayer money to fight AIDS worldwide. That's quite a chunk of money for the American people to pay to treat people who are suffering from largely preventable diseases. Aids " activists" aren't happy though. They want more. Big surprise. They always want more. No matter how much the American people give voluntarily, or are forced to give, it is never enough. " Activists" want the sum doubled .. and if it is, they'll still be clamoring for more.

I've often said that there is absolutely no limit whatsoever to the Imperial Federal Government's desire for the money and property of American citizens. The same holds true for the international community of "activists." They will never be satisfied with the amount of money they are able to extract from American taxpayers.

THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN IN GEORGIA'S COBB COUNTY

It looks like Georgia's Cobb County school officials have come up with another sticker to put into science textbooks. Someone posted their new textbook sticker on fark.com

Tom Glavine's Spring Training 2005

For the 13th year, Tom Glavine is partnering with the Georgia Transplant Foundation (GTF) to host Atlanta's most prestigious gathering of celebrity athletes raising money for Georgia residents impacted by the need for an organ transplant, Tom Glavine's Spring Training 2005.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

There's an online petition to stop Ashlee Simpson from performing. I can't count the number of anti-Boortz petitions there have been out there. Don't feel pregnant, Ashlee .. unless, of course, you are!

Iran is warning the United States to not even think about striking their nuclear reactors. Sounds like an engraved invitation to do just that.

Another U.N. official is being linked to Saddam Hussein's Oil-For-Food scam. Are we going to wait for everybody to be guilty before we do something? It's beginning to sound like almost the entire Security Council had their hands in the pot.

The City of San Francisco is considering taxing shoppers 17 cents for every grocery bag that they use. You know the environmentalists won't stop there....the true goal for most so-called "environmentalists" is the destruction of capitalism. Today, grocery bags. Tomorrow?

So just who is blocking the full Senate vote on Condoleezza Rice's secretary of state nomination? Why none other than the Grand Wizard of the KKK himself, Robert Byrd. Can you imagine if a white Republican who had been a former Klansman was blocking the nomination of a black liberal Democrat to be secretary of state? We would never hear the end of it....but the left-leaning media ignores this almost entirely.

Just in case you're a religious person and need some tips on how to converse with an atheist, Professor Mike Adams offers up today's column with some tips.

George W. Bush's second inauguration speech shows that he is a revolutionary president, says Michael Barone, who reminds us of some things you might have missed.

Is President Bush moving away from the right in his second term? Robert Novak looks at the signs that Bush may indeed be moving to the middle.

A reader writes to Diana West and asks whether or not she wants a war against Islam. Today's column should provide an answer, along with an update on things in Iraq.

It's been over a week since Larry Summers said there might be a genetic difference between men and women when it came to performance in certain subjects. He's still apologizing, and Amity Shlaes has some reasons why.

Should tax payers pay for prisoner's sex change operations? A prisoner serving 123 years for multiple armed robberies and stabbing another inmate is suing the state of Wisconsin for not providing (he...she...it? whatever) with a sex change operation. Perhaps the cheaper method would just be to call up Lorena Bobbitt.

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