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By Neal Boortz

Thursday -- October 6, 2005

FLORIDA FLORIDA FLORIDA

For some reason my Neal Boortz Show program notes concentrate on Florida today. First we have Senator Bill Nelson demonstrating his complete lack of knowledge of the FairTax Bill; then we have the anti-gun loons from the Brady Bunch portraying Floridians as a bunch of trigger-happy killers, and then we have Florida Governor Jeb Bush actually dropping a hint that Florida might actually want to be a part of the solution to our energy problems, instead of part of the problem. So .... here we go.

SENATOR NELSON .. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, JUST SAY SO!

Congressman John Linder and I wrote The FairTax Book so that there would be a resource that people could go to in order to get the straight scoop on the FairTax and how it would work in our economy and society. We also wrote the book so that voters and constituents would know when their elected officials are feeding them a line of BS about why they oppose this amazing tax reform idea. The book is also a good way to figure out which politicians know what they're talking about, and which don't.

It looks like Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson falls into the "doesn't know what he's talking about" category. Here is an excerpt from a letter that Nelson's office is sending to constituents who write asking for his support of the FairTax:

Thank you for contacting me regarding abolishing the Federal income tax and replacing it with a national sales tax.

I understand your concerns about our nation's tax code, and I appreciate your suggestions for simplifying our tax system. While adopting a flat tax rate would simplify tax compliance for many taxpayers, the transitional costs and distributional consequences could have a severe impact on our economy. In addition, a consumption-based flat rate like a national sales tax could disproportionately affect working families that need to consume more and, subsequently, save less.

So .. now you know that Senator Bill Nelson doesn't understand the FairTax bill. He's throwing a line of incorrect BS to constituents who write asking for his support. Nelson is apparently unaware that the president's tax reform commission has noted that the FairTax is the only tax reform proposal out there that completely lifts the federal tax burden from the nation's poor. How, then, could the FairTax possibly disproportionately affect working families? They get a huge break out of the law. After all, they're completely protected from having to pay the consumption tax on the basic necessities of life!

Wouldn't it be nice if our elected officials in Washington would actually learn something about a piece of legislation before they start commenting on it?

IS FLORIDA ABOUT TO BECOME A PART OF THE REST OF THE COUNTRY?

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It's rather amazing, isn't it? Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed well over 100 oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, and there hasn't been one leak that caused any gunk to wash up on any shoreline anywhere. What shoreline contamination there was came from facilities located on the mainland.

Well ... I guess Florida Governor Jeb Bush has taken notice. The jig is up. No longer can Florida claim the danger of damage to Florida beaches as a reason to oppose offshore drilling for gas and oil. That excuse just doesn't wash anymore. So, Bush has now announced his support for federal legislation that would allow drilling and exploration for gas and oil off Florida's Gulf coast. Sure ... he still wants to keep the drilling many many miles offshore .. but we can work on that. Just over the horizon would be fine for now.

Nice, isn't it. It looks like Florida may be preparing to become a part of the solution to our energy difficulties, instead of being a part of the problem.

THE BRADY ANTI-GUN NUTS' FLORIDA CAMPAIGN

I've talked to you before about the efforts of the Brady anti-gun loons to frighten tourists who might be visiting Florida. Florida has a new law that allows people to use deadly force against someone who has broken into their home, and against someone whom they think might present a danger of physical harm or death on the streets. The anti-gun crowd, of course, wants to make people believe that gun-toting zealots will be roaming the streets just looking for someone to shoot, so they're putting up billboards and distributing brochures that warn tourists not to argue unnecessarily with the locals.

Our old friend and former CNN correspondent Don Farmer currently writes a column for the Naples Daily News. In his most recent column he suggests a leaflet that might be handed to people visiting The Sunshine State. it would read something like this:

Welcome to our relatively safe state.
Enjoy our beaches and bars, our retailers and restaurants.
Get some sun, have some fun and spend a ton.
We're peaceful folks and intend to make sure you are too.
We love our kids and our seniors. Don't mess with them.
Or anybody else for that matter.
Beware muggers and molesters, rapists, robbers and road ragers, baby snatchers and carjackers --- take your black hearts elsewhere.
We're not all armed in Florida but some of us are and you don't want to find out the hard way.

I like it. Let's crank up the presses.

DELAYTEST ON DELAY

You've heard this one, haven't you? Well, maybe not. I'm not sure --- just guessing --- but this won't make it to the Washington Post or the New York Times, unless you find it buried in the lower inside corner of page 25. It's about the foreman of the Texas grand jury that returned that first indictment on Tom Delay. The foreman's name is William Gibson. He is in his mid-70s. Yesterday morning he told our Austin affiliate KLBJ that he had made up his mind to indict Tom Delay long before he heard one piece of evidence presented by prosecutor Ronnie Earle. And why was he determined to indict Tom Delay? Because, it seems, he didn't like some campaign advertisements that Delay ran in the newspapers during his last reelection campaign. Here's what Gibson told
KLBJ:

All this came out way before I was on the grand jury, these (ads)
were in your paper, in Austin paper, everyone else's paper, they was
flooding the market around here. But those were way before i ever
went on the grand jury and my decision was based upon those, not
what might have happened in the grand jury room.

So .. here you have the foreman of the first grand jury to indict Delay making a rather astonishing admission that his decision was made on the bases of campaign ads he just didn't like.

Wait! There's more!

We learned yesterday that last Friday Ronnie Earle made what some people call a frantic attempt to get yet another grand jury to indict Delay on new charges; this after he learned that his first indictment was fatally flawed. The second grand jury returned what is called a "no-bill." That is, they refused to return an indictment. The procedure is for a no-bill to be made public the day it is returned. This didn't happen. It was returned last Friday, and only made public on Wednesday of this week. Some excuse is being floated about not finding a judge to sign it. So ... while this no-bill was sitting around waiting for a judge's signature, Earle rushes to yet another grand jury on Monday ,,, a brand-spanking new grand jury. He presents the same evidence to this grand jury that he gave to the grand jury on Friday. The new grand jury didn't know, however, that the Friday grand jury had refused to return an indictment. The no-bill, which should have been public by then, was mysteriously sitting around waiting for someone to find a judge with a pen. The new grand jury then returns an indictment for money laundering.

Draw your own conclusions.

HANNITY'S PRIVATE JET

Sorry, I was wrong. I'm always ready to admit it. I said on the air that Hannity had a new Gulfstream 200. I only saw it in the dark last Friday night, so I didn't realize my error until I received this publicity photo of Hannity's new ride from ABC Radio. Turns out it's a Gulfstream V. Here's your picture.

NO CIA BLAME GAME

When George Bush nominated Porter Goss to head the CIA, the mission was simple: clean up the mess. After the disaster of 9/11 and the failed Iraqi WMD intelligence, Clinton appointee George Tenet got the boot. Goss took over, cleaned house and things have apparently gone fine since.

Then yesterday Goss announced that there would be no disciplinary reviews over 9/11. His reason: no one person or any group of people could have prevented 9/11. In other words, it's time to move on. As expected, the media is reporting this as if Goss has lost his mind. But unlike those on the left who seek someone to blame (for example, George Bush) there isn't much point in rehashing 9/11, and who should've done what.

Contrast Goss' response to that of the whole 9/11 Commission nonsense. Other than holding a pity party and making a lot of news, what really did that "investigation" yield? Not much. And there was nothing done before, during or since that panel held its hearings to prevent 9/11 from happening again.

Investigating 9/11 over and over again is not going to bring a single person back from the dead. All we can do is work to prevent more from dying.

Let's start with some good intense profiling.

LEAD FOOT SANDY PANTS

Our old pal and former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is back in the news today. If you remember, Sandy was the person who pulled the little five-finger discount routine at the National Archives last year. He lifted some very top secret documents. To avoid detection, he stuffed them in his pants, his jacket and his socks (and probably other places we'd rather not know about.) It didn't work...some employees noticed them missing. Why did he do this? Undoubtedly the purpose was to hide some rather incriminating evidence about security efforts during the wonderful Clinton years. Some of the information Berger took will never be replaced.

At any rate, Sandy Pants cut a deal with prosecutors...and in exchange for a guilty plea, he got off with two years of probation, a $50,000 fine and 100 hours of community service. Just two days after he cut that deal, Sandy was in a hurry and got busted going 88 miles an hour where the speed limit was 55. That's 33 over the limit. Not good when you're on probation.

Back in front of the same judge Sandy went, charged with reckless driving. Judge Deborah Robinson says she's going to decide in the future how to punish the former Clinton administration official.

What's next? Maybe they'll take away his library card.

OH YEAH, HILLARY. GREAT IDEA THERE.

Hillary Clinton wants to make sure that criminals get their full federal benefits if they were in any way inconvenienced by Hurricane Katrina or Rita. She wants the government to make sure that all illegal aliens can feel safe in stepping forward to get their hurricane relief checks without fear of being deported. Sweet deal, isn't it. You enter this country illegally. You stay here illegally. You work her illegally -- taking a job from some legal resident. Then you step up to tell the government that you were victimized by Hurricane Katrina ... and you want the very same American taxpayers who's laws you have violated to hand you some money, and ten leave you alone.

Amazing.

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READING ASSIGNMENTS

Ann Coulter says that not only is Harriet Miers not qualified to be a justice on the United States Supreme Court, she isn't qualified to play one on TV. Ann even complains about where she went to school.

Eminent domain abuse continues...this time in our nation's capitol. After unsuccessfully negotiating with half the landowners at the future site of the Washington Nationals' new baseball park, the city has decided to just take the land. In any other circumstance, that would be known as "stealing."

To indict or not to indict...that is the question. Media reports say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will decide whether or not to bring indictments in the Plamegate case soon. If he does, get ready for blame Bush crowd to go into overdrive.

Margaret Carlson is upset that Harriet Miers could give the right their fifth anti-abortion vote on the Supreme Court. Of course, people should realize that even if Roe v. Wade were overturned, all 50 states would immediately pass laws allowing abortion.

The revolt against Judith Miller's little prison-sitting fiasco continues....and Steve Clemons says we've all been duped. He calls her book deal "public swindle."

The problem with helping people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is not that government didn't do enough, it's that it got in the way. John Stossel says a new proposal could change that a bit.

The media is really stretching on this one....now they've got their panties in a knot because when Harriet Miers was George W. Bush's secretary, she was the one that handed him the memo in 2001 warning him about Osama Bin Laden. The Media Research Center reports.

Bill Bennett gets some support from Larry Elder...who reminds that Bennett isn't the only person to put race on the table when talking about crime. He runs down a laundry list of liberals that have done the same.

President Bush's conservative base has looked the other way on his spending sprees and his expansion of government. But as Robert Novak explains, they haven't been able to look the other way on the Harriet Miers nomination.

Should people be concerned about Harriet Miers' lack of experience? Ross Mackenzie has a few facts, including this one: of the 54 justices confirmed since 1900, she would be the 24th without any prior experience on the bench.

Morning Sickness: Police called to break up fight between two 6-year-old boys fighting over a pacifier.

Morning Sickness 2: 13' python tries to eat a 6' alligator. The snake exploded after trying to swallow the alligator whole.

Today Neal was discussing junk faxes and how annoying it is when the fax machine goes off at 3am. There's a company that will go after junk faxers and collect fines from them. He's going to try Fax Recovery Systems and see if they reduce or stop his junk faxes and put a little bit of cash in his pocket as well.

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