IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT DUE

According to leaks, the report will say we should pull the troops out by early 2008.  Once again, Christmas comes early for the insurgency in Iraq.  So what else will this report have to offer?  Here are some of its contents, if media reports are to be believed:

• Supposedly there is no timetable required.  "The primary mission of U.S. forces in Iraq should evolve into one of supporting the Iraqi Army," according to the report.  Old news there...that's been the official administration line for how many years?  Yawn.
  
  
• The report calls for direct talks with Iran and Syria, since they're causing so much trouble in Iraq.  And what exactly should we say to these Islamic terrorist-supporting nations?  Wait.  Maybe the more important question is what we should give to these countries to get them to stop supporting the insurgency in Iraq.

Here's a guess.  What if we go to Iran and say that we'll essentially turn our backs on Iran's nuclear ambitions if they'll just play nice with us insofar as the Iraqi insurgency is concerned.  We'll extract some sort of an empty promise that Iran's nuclear programs will only be for peaceful purposes ... a promise that we'll realize is hollow in the years to come.

At any rate, judging from the cable news programs this morning there is no other story today; not even, God forbid, any mention of some of our successes in Iraq.  That wouldn't fit the template, you know.

CHEROKEE COUNTY

You gotta like the Cherokee County Commission in Georgia.  At least they understand that there's an invasion going on; the Mexican Invasion.  Last night the commission approved tough new sanctions against any landlords who rent apartments or homes to illegal aliens.  This has been tried in other jurisdictions around the country; and, as you would suspect, judges have stepped forward to delay or prevent enforcement.  But at least the Cherokee County Commission is doing more than our federal government has done.

As you would suspect, the ACLU has piped up [bugmenot] about the ordinance.  One ACLU spokesman says that the new law appeals to a mean streak?  A what?  There's something mean about telling landlords not to harbor criminals by renting apartments and homes to people who are in this country illegally?  Another idiot stepped forward to say that this was racial profiling.  Please tell me how in the hell it is racial profiling when a landlord has to verify the legal status of every tenant they rent to, white, black or brown!

And excuse the hell outta me, but when you are being invaded by Mexicans, how can it be a bad thing to look among Mexicans to find members of the invasion force?  The "no racial profiling" idiots would have you checking blue-eyed blonds with Scandinavian accents carrying suitcases full of ku-ku clocks to see if they illegally crossed the border with Mexico.

I'm not sure that Cherokee County is ever going to get the opportunity to enforce their ordinance, but at least they're trying.  That's more than we can say for our "representatives" in Washington.  

WHERE MEXICANS WORK

Reuters is reporting this morning that 1 in 7 Mexican workers have left their country, entered the United States (most illegally) and are working here.  What we have here is a situation where the United States is operating a giant jobs program for the government of Mexico.  But here is another statistic:  almost 10% of the entire Mexican population lives in the United States.  Ten percent!  Every Mexican working in the United States is a Mexican who is not in Mexico agitating for more economic liberty and less government corruption.  

This is only going to get worse.  With a Democratic Congress ready to rubber stamp George Bush's plan for full amnesty, illegal aliens are poised to invade with a new wave.  And why wouldn't they?  Never forget that Mexico is a third world country...one with limited opportunity.  An illegal immigrant in the United States can no doubt make more in a month than he could in a year in Mexico.

I'm guessing that within two years we'll have about 20% of the Mexican workforce holding jobs in America.  The difference will be that they will be legal .... Democrats will see to it, with no small amount of help from the Republicans.

UH OH ... HERE COMES A GOOD DOSE OF WEALTH ENVY

The Financial Times has published a story about who holds what portion of the world's assets.  From this report we learn that the richest 2% hold one-half of the world's assets.  

First of all, this number is flawed because the researchers have failed to include governments as asset-holders.  In the United States, for instance, the federal government is the largest landowner ... by a huge margin.  Factor in government and you'll find that the world's richest 2% hold far less than one-half of the world's assets.

But let's deal with the Financial Times story, and how it was written.  Look at the first sentence:

"Personal wealth is distributed so unevenly across the world that the richest two per cent of adults own more than 50 per cent of the worlds assets while the poorest half hold 1 per cent of wealth."

What's wrong with that sentence?  Come on, read it again and tell me what's wrong.  Of course government holdings were left out of the equation .. but what else?  Look at the first four words.  There .. you got it.  Personal wealth is not "distributed."  It is earned.  Not once in the entire Financial Times story will you see the word "earned."  People trade portions of their lives, as in hours worked, and their skills and intelligence for wealth.  Those who combine a better work ethic with better skills will manage to acquire more wealth.  Those with little to trade will acquire little.

Chris Giles, the Financial Times economics editor in London says that "if all of the world's wealth was distributed evenly, each person would have $20,500 of assets to use."  What Chris Giles doesn't tell you is that if this redistribution of wealth was accomplished, those who have little now will take their $20,500 and squander it on booze, cigarettes, gambling and other trivial pursuits, while those who now hold most of the wealth would use their $20,500 stake to invest and rebuild their wealth.  Give it a couple of years, and without government interference in the free market most of the wealth would be right back in the hands who hold it now.

Take a look at that $20,500 figure again.  Sooner or later it will dawn on you that if we move to redistribute the wealth we will accomplish nothing but making everyone poor.

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Rednecks can enjoy intellectual pursuits too! More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

If you're a regular listener, you know Neal hates the John Lennon song "Imagine." So we asked our Boortz Blast subscribers (don't get it? sign up here!) to salvage the tune and send us better lyrics. See what you think.

So what will we call The Hildabeast if she is elected president in 2008?  Dick Morris says you can forget about another President Clinton....Hillary will require people to address her as "President Rodham."  Yes, your majesty.  Anything you say.

The incoming president of the House Intelligence Committee...the guy who got the gig after Alcee Hastings was shown the door...actually wants more troops in Iraq, not less.  He may have just talked himself out of the job. 

Air airplane was forced to land after passengers smelled burning matches.  It turns out nothing was on fire....a woman was lighting matches to try and conceal her flatulence.  The woman was not arrested, but has been banned from American Airlines. 

This isn't very politically correct.  Cherokee County, Georgia has decided to pass an ordinance declaring English the official county language.  They're also going to go after landlords that rent to illegal aliens.  The Hispandering race pimps are already on the case.

Ben Shapiro asks a good question:  will we ever win another war?  He points out that the last major war in which we were victorious was World War II.  We came up short in Korea, Vietnam..and even the first Gulf War.  Interesting analysis.

In his column today, Walter E. Williams notes the passing of the great Milton Friedman...a giant in his field.  Williams takes a look back at Friedman's life and recounts some events that people may have forgotten.

Three investigations have found that the six Imams removed from a flight in Minneapolis were not targets of racism.  In fact, investigators found that the airline acted properly and had cause to be suspicious and remove the men.  CAIR will not be pleased.

More on the six Imams...the first rule of Flight Club....

Ralph Peters takes on this notion that Jim Baker and the rest of the Iraq Study Group are foreign policy realists.  He points out that it is exactly this line of thinking that produced the regime in Iraq, 9/11 and Al-Qaeda.

So Republicans were thrown out of office because of Iraq and the American people's desire for a change of direction there.  Former New York Mayor Ed Koch says Iraq is not going to go away and people need to think about what sort of change they really want.

So who gives more to charity, liberals or conservatives?  To find out, John Stossel set up Salvation Army buckets in San Francisco..the liberal stronghold...and Sioux Falls, South Dakota...rural and conservative.  So who gave more?  You're going to be surprised.

If you eat beans and fly, the terrorists have won.

These kids know Santa is really Satan. Either that or it's been a while since he's washed that suit.

Teen asks to have his 22-year sentence reduced for beating a homeless man to death because prison is too hard. Hey, being beat to death isn't a walk in the park. DENIED!

An Atlanta tourist on the beaches of Naples, Florida catches Neal Boortz during a moment of relaxation.

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