SPARSE NOTES TODAY

No show prep from The Talkmaster this morning! Got in too late ... and heading out again this afternoon. So my wonderful but sometimes demented staff has put together some talking points and reading assignments ... I'll look at them later to see if they're saying anything I wouldn't say. But hell ... I'd say about anything.

IRAQ AND VIETNAM COMPARISONS BACK

With George W. Bush visiting Vietnam, the media is loving comparing the war in Iraq to the Vietnam War.  But the mainstream media seems to have left their history books at home...because once again, the Vietnam War has nothing in common with the war in Iraq.  Let's break down their reasoning.

The Vietnam War lasted for decades...with its beginnings going all the way back to the 1940's and the 1950's.  We've been in Iraq just under 4 years.  The enemy in Vietnam was being supplied by a superpower...the Soviet Union.  The enemy in Iraq is being supplied by Iran and Syria and assorted Islamic thugs from various terrorist organizations.

It's just not the same.  Comparing Iraq to Vietnam would be like comparing World War II to the invasion of Panama.  There is no comparison.  But don't tell that to the media and the Democrats.  They know Vietnam is considered our greatest military failure of the 20th century.  And just like with the Vietnam War, Democrats want to cut off the funding for Iraq too.

Oh..and it goes without saying:  we lost the Vietnam War, but we won in Iraq.  The only problem in Iraq right now is getting things to the point where they are stable enough that we can leave.  However, such is the mainstream media's hatred of George Bush and the United States Military...they can't help but live out their Vietnam fantasy as much as possible.  The fact that Bush is in Vietnam itself this week only serves to feed the flames.

THE CHURCH OF GLOBAL WARMING

The church of global warming is back in session, with Kofi Annan presiding over the day's sermon.  The outgoing U.N. Secretary-General is comparing the coming doom of climate change as serious as the spread of weapons of mass destruction.  Just why do those who peddle their global warming theories believe in them so much?  Because it serves their anti-capitalist political philosophy, that's why.

That's because the global warming movement has nothing to do with science and nothing to do with wanting cleaner air, something everybody should want.  The push for new legislation crippling industry serves the political agenda of the Leftist.  They can hide beneath the single issue of global warming, yet still push their radical agenda.  Never mind the fact that no industrialized nation can possibly meet the pollution controls of the Kyoto agreement.

If you want to enrage a global warming worshiper, all you have to do is raise the possibility that the Earth is warming naturally.  All you have to do also is ask them how far back temperature records go.  Then, for the clincher, just ask them how much the overall global temperature has gone up in the last 100 years.  But they won't want to hear that...because it doesn't serve their political agenda.  Which is what global warming is all about...politics.

JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT IN A LIE

This is rich.  Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (who?  Oh yeah..him,) the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee who ran with The Poodle two years ago, has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.  Believe it or not, it all revolves around Wal-Mart...and a game console.

You see....Edwards is always bashing Wal-Mart.  Not because of their promotion of eminent domain abuse, but because of their policy of promoting low prices and non-union labor.  Edwards just isn't going to ever shop there.  Or his he?  It turns out the answer to that question is...it depends.

Eager to have one of the new Playstation 3 game consoles, Edwards sent one of his underlings to Wal-Mart to get one.  Only this time, Wal-Mart caught him.  In a publicly released statement, the retailing giant said "While the rest of America's working families are waiting patiently in line, Sen. Edwards wants to cut to the front."  Priceless.

Now Edwards is backpedaling as fast as he can...selling the staffer up the river and saying he had nothing to do with the idea of buying it at Wal-Mart...but the damage is done.  Once again the hypocrisy of the Left exposes itself:  do as I say, not as I do.

Sent in by Connie McKenzie and apparently captured at 115th and Allisonville Road in Fishers (Indianapolis). So glad to see Lorena Bobbitt has moved on and is apparently gainfully employed.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Looks like they have rednecks in Italy too. Who knew? More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

Remember when we asked you to help Patty Lewis send 1,100 Marines Christmas stockings? Well, it was a huge success! See what your donation did for the marines.

If you love animals, you might be interested in The Bobby Cox "Paws beCause" Annual Concert at Barnsley Gardens Resort, GA Saturday, November 18th. Neal talked about this on the air today.

Last Day on the Job...

Milton Friedman, the most influential economist of the modern era and one of the founding fathers of the Reagan revolution, has passed away at the age of 94.  His writings should be required reading in every high school in the country.  People all over the world are praising the man, including former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

What will be one of the first orders of business for the new session of Congress?  Naturally, it will be raising the minimum wage.  Ted Kennedy says the push will be on early next year to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour.  Why not $10?  How about $20?  Who can really live on $7.25 an hour?  How are you supposed to raise a family of 4 on that?  Come on, Democrats!

It turns out John Murtha didn't have the votes to become the new House Majority Leader...in fact, it wasn't even close.  It was a total blow-out, with Steny Hoyer beating Mr. Cut and Run handily, 149-86.  Yet those same 149 people voted to elect Nancy Pelosi speaker.  Interesting.

John McCain seems to have gotten the message from the Republican blowout at the polls last week.  He says members of Congress lost their way, rejecting the ideals of limited government in favor of enriching themselves.  At least somebody gets it.

Charles Krauthammer is beginning to be a bit less optimistic over the situation in Iraq.  He's not so sure that the Iraqis can keep their own country from imploding anymore.  He says mistakes were made following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but the real problem lies with the Iraqis.

The shooting down of John Bolton's re-nomination shows that things are going to be business-as-usual for the Democrats in Washington.  So says Oliver North, who also says all the talk about bipartisanship and working with the administration was just that....talk.

Ed Feulner writes in his column today that the era of buying voters with government pork is over.  Feulner points to the fact that Republicans had become masters of pork barrel spending, but it did them no good in the general election.

Just who is most excited about the outcome of the November 7th  mid-term elections?  It's not Democrats.   On the other hand, it's our enemies...the Islamic terrorists we're fighting in the War On Terror.  Amir Taheri has more.

Trent Lott's elevation to the #2 position in the Senate leadership isn't exactly impressing Jonah Goldberg, who wonders if the GOP really knows what it's doing.  He doesn't think Lott is the right man for the job, to say the least.

The media has been leading us to believe that the generals running the show in Iraq secretly wanted more troops but didn't ask for fear of crossing Donald Rumsfeld.  David Limbaugh points out that Rumsfeld is soon to be gone...and the generals are still saying the same thing.

You've heard Herman Cain fill in for Neal Boortz. Read his latest online column. Your chance to see Herman speak at a live event in Atlanta 11/16.

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