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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30, 2006
By Neal Boortz
| Today's Nuze: January 30, 2006 | ||
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| Monday -- January 30, 2006 I just heard a Larry King promo touting tonight's show. "Outrageous and controversial talk show hosts, tonight on Larry King live." Hold on a minute? Outrageous and controversial? Dennis Prager? Me? That's right, I'm one of the hosts scheduled to appear. Nice promo, Larry. It's good to see you're approaching the show with this attitude. "Hey, look at me! I have to deal with a bunch of outrageous and controversial talk show hosts tonight!" You would never hear a promo for "outrageous and controversial" columnists or politicians.
I saw something yesterday I just couldn't explain. It was yesterday afternoon and I was about three-quarters of the way through a five-mile walk. I was passing in front of the ESPN Zone in Atlanta's Buckhead entertainment district when I heard screaming and car horns. The problem was immediately obvious. At the exit from the restaurant .. a single-lane exit with walls on either side .. a car was stopped blocking the sidewalk and its nose into Peachtree Rd. The car was going nowhere. The two young women in the car were, I guess you would say, dancing in the front seat. They were just having a big ole time bobbing back and forth to their hip hop "music." Behind them were about four cars waiting to get out of the parking lot. They were beeping their horns, but none of the drivers of those cars were out of their cars yelling or even had their windows down. As I neared the driveway the two girls got out of their car and started dancing outside. They then started yelling at the cars that were waiting: Let's just say that the two women weren't being what you would call "racially sensitive." As I walked by I looked one of them in the eye with a less-than-pleasant expression. "What you lookin' at whitey?" I just turned and kept walking. For the rest of the walk I just wondered how these two women could possibly be such jerks. This isn't isolated though. Any walk up and down Peachtree Rd. in Atlanta will reveal other examples of this type of behavior, self-indulgent behavior that the person know is irritating other people, but they just don't care. You have the drivers of cars with impossibly loud sound systems, the thump - thump - thump of their bass speakers reverberating more than a block off Peachtree, penetrating the walls of every home as they drive by. (Hey, maybe St. Louis has the right idea.) Then you have the Harley riders with their loud pipes twisting that throttle as they sit at the traffic lights. (And don't give me that "loud pipes saves lives crap. It's BS, and you know it's BS.) Step into a restaurant and you have parents wish screaming, misbehaved kids. These people know full well that their actions are irritating to other people, but they don't care. They just flat-out don't care. It's all about them. We live in an era where people intentionally take action designed to do nothing but irritate other people, like the two fat gals at the ESPN Zone, or who don't care that they are irritating everyone around them. You just wish there were cops around to write tickets for creating a disturbance and violating the noise ordinance, or a restaurant manager who would tell parents who don't see the need to control their children to find another place to eat. You keep hoping .... and that's about all you can do.
Tomorrow night George Bush will deliver yet another State of the Union Speech. I'm not particularly excited about what he's going to be saying. For starters ... here is what President Bush will not say .... though he should:
Nope .. that most certainly will not be Bush's opening tomorrow night. Instead, he'll be promoting government as the cure to all that ails us. I understand the president is going to be talking about health care. What do you think the chances are that Bush will include this line?
You're right. No chance at all. Tomorrow night George Bush will lay more of the foundation for a chaotic system of socialized medicine in America. Oh, to be sure, we won't call it socialized medicine. We'll come up with some fancy name to hide the socialist reality, but socialized medicine it will be, and Americans will join their Canadian neighbors waiting months for a simple arthroscopic knee surgery. Word has also leaked out about whether President Bush will address high gas
prices, which is a pressing issue right now in polls. Will he call for more
domestic oil drilling and the construction of more oil refineries?
Evidently not. Pessimistic? You bet. There is nothing "small government" about George Bush. He gets it right on the issue of tax cuts and defending our nation. Beyond that ....... don't expect much. The big disappointment, of course, will be that there will be no call for fundamental tax reform. American manufacturing jobs are disappearing. Warren Buffet recently said that our trade deficit was the biggest economic problem facing our nation. Both of these issues would be successfully addressed by the FairTax ... but I sincerely doubt that those words will be heard tomorrow night. It's certainly not time to give up ... but we can sure pause a while to be disappointed.
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Today, let's take a little break from pictures and enjoy some Redneck Haiku. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.
Some of you think that I'm going overboard when I say that the principal problem with government schools today is teacher's unions. Well here's a story about how teacher's unions are killing educational opportunities in Florida and Wisconsin. This is just scratching the surface. | ||
WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE POINTY HAND THINGS? These are links to each individual story on the Nuze, p-links for the geeks out there. Plus, they work today and they'll work tomorrow. Now you can easily discuss/debate/rip apart the Nuze without worrying about the links going bad. Enjoy! BOORTZ BLAST NEWSLETTER
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