Today's Nuze: June 27, 2006

Tuesday , June 27, 2006

TITILLATING TIDBITS

The values of shares in Sirius satellite radio have gone down almost 40% since Howard Stern took up residency there. How much did he get again? $191 million in Sirius stock? Wow .. now that was some deal for Sirius, wasn't it?

On this global warming thing: Why is it that those who are more often associated with animosity toward capitalism and free enterprise are so adamant about man being the cause of global warming, while those more often associated with an appreciation of capitalism and free enterprise are not so sure?

Did I say last week that sooner or later Cynthia McKinney would show her ass again? Well, now we learn that she apparently has no real problem with supporters posting racial slurs on her campaign website. Never fear, folks. Cynthia will continue being Cynthia.

They had some bad flooding in Washington over the past few days. Does this mean we can take bureaucrats and politicians and spread them across the country in cheap hotel rooms for four months? Please?

Good news today for Joe Lieberman. He's fighting to retain his Senate seat in Connecticut. He has some strong primary opposition because he supported Bush's efforts against Islamic Jihadists. Now we learn that Barbra Streisand is supporting his opponent. That should send some of the more sane and rational voters into Lieberman's camp.

GLOBAL WARMING

Global warming is heating up for the big guys. The Supreme Court of the United States decided to hear a case which could be one of the most important environmental decisions to surface in recent years; should the Bush administration be forced to regulate carbon dioxide in efforts to curb global warming?

My skepticism remains high, and it turns out that this whole "global warming" issue is more complicated than simply a hurricane frenzy and homeless polar bears. So let's start small. The current issue is this: should the Environmental Protection Agency be mandated to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act?

Ready for a quick science lesson? The Bush Administration and John Felmy, chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute argue that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, causing a "greenhouse effect" acting as a blanket--trapping heat, warming the earth and recycling "polluted" air. It wasn't all that many years ago when scientists were warning us that this so-called blanked of carbon dioxide would actually reflect the sun's energy back into space and cause global cooling? Which is it? What story do we believe?

It is difficult to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants because they are naturally occurring (and important) in our environment. The link between greenhouse gases and global warming is speculative, but by ruling in favor of regulation the Supreme Court would be basically solidifying the claims that carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases cause global warming.

Ready for the government rant session? Do we need clean air? Of course! But as with so many other laws, the Clean Air Act has been so over-interpreted and over-enforced that it looks more line a weapon against free enterprise than it does an effort for cleaner air. How bad could it get? I'll let you know when the "aftermath" of my next Mexican meal becomes an issue with the EPA. Also, please consider --- one of the largest greenhouse gases is water vapor. Let's try regulating that one Mother Nature!

It turns out that the EPA had the power to regulate carbon dioxide during the Clinton administration, but chose not to exercise that right. Wow, I guess global warming must be the Bush Administration's fault then! Because since 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant, and therefore could not be regulated under the Clean Air Act. It seems as though no one knows exactly what causes this "global warming." We do have a hotter sun, you know.

If scientists can't agree, how are judges supposed to know? They aren't the scientists. But it doesn't matter. Let's regulate, regulate, regulate so we can bring down big business and hop on the environmental brigade that leads straight to cesspool of liberal thought.

DOES IT LOOK LIKE SOMEONE IS GUNNING FOR SOMEONE HERE?

This morning we get the word that when Rush Limbaugh landed at Palm Beach International Airport in his private plane yesterday the customs folks decided to go through every bag on the aircraft. Alas .. they found a bottle of Viagra that didn't have his name on it. Now this is a big news story, and officials are saying that Limbaugh could be charged with a misdemeanor.

OK .. this is a non-narcotic drug. Limbaugh's attorney explains that the bottle carried the doctor's name for privacy reasons. Since authorities in Palm Beach County are so interested in Limbaugh's medications, that's easy to understand.

What isn't easy to understand is why the customs folks decided to target Limbaugh's plane? What's not easy to understand is why they decided to make such a big deal out of a bottle of Viagra. After watching the debacle over Limbaugh's pain-killer addiction, I'm convinced that there are some officials in heavily-Democratic Palm Beach County who have taken it upon themselves to bring Limbaugh down. This incident makes you wonder just how far their reach really is.

WARD CHURCHILL TO BE FIRED

Remember this guy? Ward Churchill is a professor at the University of Colorado. Some time back, he wrote a paper that basically said the victims of 9/11 deserved what they got. He called them "Little Eichmanns," comparing them to the architect of the Nazi Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann. As you may recall, this didn't go over too well.

Much upheaval has followed at the University of Colorado....but their investigation is finally done. The chancellor of the university says Churchill should be fired. Churchill has 10 days to plead his case, then he'll be canned. The charges against him include "serious, repeated, and deliberate research misconduct," whatever that means. Evidently the good professor is known for borrowing other people's work and making it his own.

I say keep him on! Don't fire him for what he said about the 3,000 people who died on 9/11. He should be left right where he is, dispensing his leftist hatred on a daily basis. Why, you ask? Because we need guys like Ward Churchill to remind us all just what these leftist college faculties are like. In fact, he shouldn't be fired...he should be promoted. Give him an even larger forum for his insane rantings. Let more people hear what he has to say.

You can bet Churchill will sue on the grounds of freedom of speech protections. Why spend the money fighting the lawsuit? Just keep him right where he is. Besides ... if they fire him, he'll just end up at Yale or Harvard.

$2 BILLION DOWN THE FEMA RAT HOLE

Once the summer is out, it will have been a year since Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf and decimated New Orleans and surrounding areas. Since that time, billions of taxpayer dollars...our hard-earned money...have gone to bail out the hurricane refugees/evacuees/victims. At the time, FEMA was criticized for not doing enough. So, they overcompensated...and now a press report is out that shows us just how rampant the waste and fraud is in the relief effort. Again, this is government money we're talking about.

Among the waste:

Right now, as you're sitting in front of your computer reading this, there are 10,000 perfectly good empty mobile home trailers parked at an airfield in Hope, Arkansas. The cost: $250,000 a month. A quarter of a million dollars down the tubes....per month.
1,100 prison inmates across the Gulf collected more than $10 million in disaster assistance. That's right...prison inmates. Guess you gotta do something while you're in jail!
Renovations were done at an Alabama Army base for a evacuees shelter. The cost: $416,000 per victim. At that price, you could've bought them all houses. And when the shelter opened, only 10 people showed up each night. So FEMA shut it down. Your tax dollars at work.

And the list goes on and on. Think the government didn't do enough after Hurricane Katrina? Think again, because more and more...it looks like they did way too much.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

If you follow your horoscope, or even if you don't, you might want to check your southern sign. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Dick Morris says Joe Lieberman is going to lose the Democratic primary in Connecticut, denying him the right to run for re-election as a Democrat. Morris also says Lieberman has no chance of winning as an independent, either...unless he drops out of the primary now.

What is the GOP's best hope to ensure victory this fall? Ryan Sager says they need to go after the 'Wal-Mart voter.' That is, the big-government, socially conservative women who shop at Wal-Mart. Interesting column.

With all of the focus on Iraq, Pat Buchanan says people are forgetting about Afghanistan. And according to his latest column, things aren't going so well there. He also wonders if defeat in Iraq is now an option.

Why do people from all races and religions seem to get along just fine in America, yet in places like the Middle East or the Balkans, they kill each other? Victor Davis Hanson reflects on a recent trip where he did a little people watching.

The Bush Administration has come out swinging hard against the New York Times over their report about bank surveillance. Treasury Secretary John Snow wrote a letter to the editor calling their reporting irresponsible and harmful.

Katie Couric is currently on a "listening tour" to find out what people want to watch on the CBS Evening News when she debuts this fall. Cal Thomas takes a look at the process of getting an audience with the perky one, and discovers it's quite difficult.

Tony Blair and others are calling for the doubling of foreign aid to Africa by 2010. But Dr. Walter E. Williams says that's a recipe for disaster...and even goes so far as to call it a hoax.

David Limbaugh goes over the New York Times' reasoning for publishing the information that it did about the terrorist financial tracking program. He wonders if the Times would publish our nuclear launch codes if it got a hold of them.

With tensions ratcheting up with Iran, the conventional wisdom is that the price of a barrel of oil could go through the roof at any moment. But Larry Kudlow sees things differently...and says there's more evidence to support the contrary...that oil prices are headed downward.

The Department of Homeland Security's hotline to the nation's 50 governors had to put their own telephone number on the Do Not Call list because they were being inundated with telemarketing calls. Apparently nobody escapes these irritating phone calls.

Former Attorney General Ed Meese has gone a step further with this New York Times business.....going so far as to accuse the newspaper of treason. He says they're giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

You know things are sad in society when we are in the middle of a global war on terror and whether or not some fictional characters from a book get killed off is a top story. J.K. Rowling doesn't directly say whether or not Harry Potter dies in the last book, in case you were wondering.

A new Washington Post poll says Americans are divided on a potential deadline for a withdrawal in Iraq. How many people really even know what's going on there well enough to be able to even have an opinion? Probably not many, thanks to the mainstream media. a

As if New Orleans didn't have enough problems with rising murder rates and all ... now there a marauding band of transvestites on the loose.

Worm has a message for gardener. Such a nice worm.

The FairTax makes it in a Fark headline: Flooding shuts down several D.C. buildings, including the IRS, proving once and for all that God supports the "fair tax"

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