YEAH .. BUT ALL THEY EVER DO IS WAVE SIGNS AND CHANT.   RIGHT?

It's probably not on your radar screen today, but some group called the Islamic Thinkers Societyheld a little rally outside the Israeli consulate in New York City on Friday.  They were carrying signs saying "Islam will dominate" and a picture of the Islamic flag flying over the White House.  They were also yelling chants in Arabic like "The mushroom cloud is on its way!  The real holocaust is on its way!" 

But .. these people are no threat, right?  They're just another group of peaceful Muslims who are just upset because of the war in Iraq, right?  Pay them no attention.  They're just kidding.  Really.  Only a very few Muslims feel this way.  In fact ... there are rallies and marches by Muslims every day calling for an end to Islamic terrorism and a peaceful, cooperative coexistence with all of the other religions of the world.  Actually, we don't need to be spending all of this money on defense.  We don't need to be working so hard to establish a beachhead of freedom and economic liberty in the Middle East, right?  Let's just spend all of that money at home on people who ignored their educational opportunities and who eschew jobs that "just aren't me." 

Muslims may be working on a nuclear bomb in Iran, and they may be responsible for most of the shooting conflicts around the world, but they're all talk .... aren't they?  

In the meantime, Osama bin Laden has another audio tape out there.  Now he's blaming the citizens of America for the war in Iraq.  In fact, he's blaming the citizens of America for our country's opposition to the Islamic jihad.  What does this mean?  The unspoken threat here is that American citizens will suffer for the actions of their government.  The subtle message to Muslims here is to get busy murdering and terrorizing American citizens. 

By the way ... when do they chose the American Idol winner?

SALE OF ATLANTA BRAVES CLOSE -- AND IT'S ALL JUST A TAX TRANSACTION

There's news this morning that Time Warner may be on the verge of selling the Atlanta Braves to Liberty Media Corporation of Denver, Colorado. Does Liberty Media really want to own a baseball team?  Have they been looking for a baseball team to add to their portfolio for years?  Well ... actually, no.  For Liberty Media this is not about owning a baseball team, it's about legally avoiding taxes.

Liberty, you see, owns about $3 billion worth of stock in Time Warner. They want to get rid of that stock, but they want to do it without tax consequences.  So -- if they redeem the stock with Time Warner in exchange for other Time Warner assets, there would be a huge savings on taxes.  Well, the Atlanta Braves are a Time Warner asset --- so there you go!  We may have a situation where "America's Team" might own the Braves simply because of tax considerations.  Now is that what you would call a dedicated owner? 

Is there a way around this?  You bet.  It's called the FairTax.  If we were to end personal and business income taxes, as we would under the FairTax, then John Malone, the Chairman of Liberty Media, would not have to worry so much about the tax consequences of every business move he makes.

So, there you go.  A company could end up owning the Atlanta Braves because of our tax system. Is that any way to run the country?

THE FAIRTAX BOOK -- SOFT COVER EDITION -- ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW!

And speaking of The FairTax Book.  As you know, 'cause I've been yakking about it incessantly, the soft cover edition of The FairTax Book complete with some expansions and clarifications and a 5000 word "afterword," is going on sale on May 2nd, one week from tomorrow.  This can be done, folks.  It's no pipe-dream.  Across the country editorialists and columnists are writing about the FairTax.  During the current congressional recess Congressmen are being constantly asked in town hall meetings about the FairTax.  Additional sponsors are coming on board.  There is momentum.  Slow, but there's momentum.  How can you help push things along?  By purchasing a few copies of the soft cover edition of The FairTax Book from Amazon.com now; if, that is, you haven't already done so.  Order this week and you'll receive your books early next week.  If this edition debuts on the New York Times list of paperback best sellers it will be yet another message to the political class that this tax reform plan is still out there, and still popular.  The FairTax Book is currently No. 94 on Amazon.com.  If we can move it into the Top-10, and keep it there this week, we're going to be in great shape for the debut on May 2nd.  The price is only $8.97.  Cheap.  Here's the link for you to order.

WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE VOTERS OF NEW ORLEANS?

Can you believe that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin topped the vote-getters in last week's mayoral election?  What is the matter with these people?  Can anyone out there possibly make the argument that Ray Nagin demonstrated anything by incompetence before and after Katrina?  Here is a man who had a killer storm descending on his city, and wouldn't even order an evacuation until the last possible moment because he didn't want to make the restaurant and bar owners mad.  Here is a man who allowed hundreds of school buses to become covered with flood waters instead of using them to take people to safety.  Here is Mr. "Chocolate City," race-baiting after Katrina.  And now a plurality of New Orleans voters want to keep him on board?  Can anyone make sense out of this?

By the way, you do know that many of the people who traveled to New Orleans to vote in this election do not live there now and have no intention of living there at any time in the future, don't you? 

MORE TAXES, CHEAPER GAS...NOT

Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, really just a Democrat with an R next to his name, has proposed a way to "get even" with the oil companies.  You see, since they're earning so much money with the price of oil the way it is, he wants to institute a windfall profits tax.  Given the overall state of economic ignorance in this country (thanks to government schools) he just might get it through.  But it is a terrible idea.  Let's count the ways why.

First of all, memorize the following sentence and commit it to memory for as long as you live: corporations do not pay taxes.  The shareholders and customers of corporations pay those taxes.  So guess what that means?  If Senator Specter gets his way, the oil companies will simply just raise prices to cover their loss to the government.  So by "punishing" ExxonMobil for being successful, Specter is really punishing the public.  Nice going. 

Specter is trying to score cheap political points by validating public ignorance about high gasoline prices.  He's pretending to buy into the school that gas prices are high because the oil companies are inflating the prices to increase their profits.  It's a conspiracy!  Well, if that's the case, then it must be a conspiracy that stretches all the way around the globe.  Because right now oil is at $75 a barrel everywhere.  That's the single biggest factor in the price of gasoline right there.  Do the oil companies control the price of a barrel of oil?  Nope.

And besides...don't we want American oil companies to make huge profits?  Isn't that the idea...to bring that money home?  I guess in Arlen Specter's world, facts and common sense don't rate very high.  Just another day in the life of a Washington politician.  Oh, and check this quote from Carl Levin, Senate Democrat, about the windfall profits tax:  "If the president would call the oil companies into the Oval Office and tell them he's going to support a windfall profits tax ... I'll bet that the price of gasoline would come down within a matter of days."

Oh really?  Since high oil prices are a big reason George W. Bush's popularity is in the tank, don't you think that if he had control over the price of gasoline that he would do something about it?

Bottom line:  Politicians like Specter and Levin can demagogue this issue for political gain because of the ignorance of the American people on issues such as profits vs. profit margins, an ignorance born and nurtured in our hideous system of state-controlled education.

CIA SNITCH BUSTED

Remember when somebody leaked the existence of secret terrorist prisons in Europe to the Washington Post?  She was discovered last week...and her name is Mary McCarthy.  This "reporter" leaked information that compromised several operations around the world.  Countries who were helping us in the war on terror had their cover blown.  Consequently, the prisons where we had terrorists being handled were probably shut down.

Of course, to the mainstream media and the Democrats, Mary McCarthy is a hero.  They see the non-leak of Valerie Plame's non-secret identity to the press as the same thing.  Wrong.  Those prisons in Eastern Europe were a top secret national security operation.  It doesn't even come close to being the same thing.  But the terrorist appeasers on the left see those prisons as wrong.  Somebody might be tortured, after all.  We can't have that!  So they think her leak was a good leak.

The Poodle weighed in yesterday on 'This Week' with George Stephanopoulos: "Here's my fundamental view of this, that you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the White House for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores what's really wrong in Washington, DC here."  Uh-huh...keep telling yourself that, John.  It is true what they say, isn't it?  If you just repeat something over and over again, people will start to believe it.  It worked for O.J.

Mary McCarthy is no hero.  She jeopardized our efforts to save American lives through the war on terror.   If charged and convicted of the crime for which she was fired, she should spend the rest of her life in prison.    By the way, she was a Kerry supporter and...get this...was appointed by none other than Sandy "Pants" Berger, best known for his five-finger discount of classified documents at the national archives.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

How would you like to be behind this guy on the freeway? No? I didn't think so. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

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