Today's Nuze: April 04, 2007 

THANKS FAYETTEVILLE!

Royal and I are back at the hotel resting up after our signing at the Books-A-Million in Fayetteville, NC.  Another great crowd, and we want once again to tell you how honored we are that you came buy to see us.  We were amazed and the number of people who drove in from Charlotte, Raleigh and Wilmington.  Y'all should have carpooled.  You could have saved some big bucks.

We do Thursday's show from the studios of 640 WFNC and then it's off to the Ft. Bragg PX for our final schedule "Somebody's Gotta Say It" book signing.

OK ... you folks go get some sleep.

WHAT A COMPLETE, ABSOLUTE, TOTAL UNADULTERATED DITZ!

By now you know that there was a shooting at the CNN Center in Atlanta yesterday afternoon. It was a domestic dispute ... one of those "If I can't have here nobody can have her" jerks shot and killed a 22-year-old woman near the Omni Hotel inside CNN Center. Congratulations to Turner security officer Odell Adams who immediately arrived on the scene and put a bullet in the SOB who had shot the woman. Unfortunately the shooter is, so far as I know, still alive this morning.

When the gunshots were heard people, naturally, headed for the exits. That's where some of the local news cameras caught up with them. One otherwise normal looking woman told a reporter "It was like 9-1-1 all over again!"

Say what? You have a domestic dispute in a public place, two people get shot, and this hysterical fool says it was like 9-1-1 all over again? She compares a domestic shooting the flying two commercial airliners into buildings in New York, one into the Pentagon and another crashing into a field in Pennsylvania? Does this woman have any real control over her emotions?

Question --- perhaps one of the more insensitive questions I've ever asked on the air -- how long do you think those TV reporters would have had to search to find a grown man who would say "It was like 9-1-1 all over again?"

Oh ... and those poor, poor, pitiful, weak CNN employees. Only a very few of the CNN employees in the building (if any) saw what happened. But the CNN management, perhaps recognizing the frail mental state of their employees, will be bringing in --- yup, you guessed it --- counselors today for the CNN staff. Poor babies. Not strong enough to cope?

Many many years ago we had a similar situation at WRNG, Ring Radio -- my first talk station. It would have been around 1971 or 1972, I think. Another one of those "If I can't have her nobody can have her" jerks came to our station and stabbed his estranged wife to death. No counselors. We mourned our loss, prayed for the death of the bastard who killed our coworker, and got on with it. In fact, I got my first job in talk radio because Ring's morning talk show host committed suicide. Again ... no counselors. They just hired me and it was on with the show, though with a different name.

We are now being taught, beginning in our insipid government schools, that we are not as strong as we think we are. We're told that whenever something happens that might be a little bit out of the ordinary and stressful at our schools, our workplace ... anywhere in our personal environment ... someone needs to bring in psychological counselors to assist us and to help us become fully functioning human beings again. We're weak. We just can't handle it. We run around screaming "It's 9-1-1- all over again!" I'll bet that woman ran off yelling "where's my counselor! I need a counselor!"

How in the ever-loving hell can the people of this country deal with the threat of Islamic terrorism -- though most no longer think its a threat -- if we can't deal with an act of domestic violence without throwing ourselves on a couch to sob and shake uncontrollably while some counselor gives us a few choruses of "there there, it's going to be all right."

The wussification of America marches on.

By way the way ... how about someone at the hospital pulling the circuit breaker on that jerk's life support?

GUESS WHAT? NO MORE WAR ON TERROR! WHAT HAPPENED? DID WE WIN?

Well, here comes Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Skelton had a staffer draw up a little memo instructing staffers and members that the references to the war on terror should be eliminated from the 2008 defense budget. it seems that the Democratic house leadership doesn't like the phrase.

The rub here seems to be that the phrase "Global war on terror" was first used by none other than the hated and reviled (by Democrats) George Bush shortly after 9/11. The intent is to leave the word "terror" out of the lexicon of the Armed Services Committee. Who knows, perhaps if they stop using the "T" word so much, people will forget the threat we face and Democrats will have all that much more money to spend on vote buying, killing the rich and appeasing Moveon.org.

You listeners will note that I, too, have a problem with the "war on terror" phrase. Terror is a tactic. You don't declare war on a tactic. You declare war on the people who threaten you. That would be Muslim radicals. The proper phrase should be the "War on Islamic Fascism," but you just know that no good peace-at-any-price Democrat would ever go along with that. Besides, it's offensive to Muslim terrorists.

WAR FUNDING SHOWDOWN BEGINS

Finally, the Bush Administration is getting something right in its dealings with the Democrat-controlled Congress. The president is threatening to veto any military spending bill that includes a timetable for withdrawal and the services have been told to tighten their belts...funding may be a bit late. It's about time somebody stood their ground on something. The president is not known for his vetoes...but we finally could have ourselves a little confrontation.

In one corner, you have the Democrats...who have tied a surrender timeline to a funding bill for the War On Terror. As you've already read, they don't even want to acknowledge that there IS a war on terror! The president says will not sign such a bill, so it will be vetoed. Plus, we have the added fact that the bill is loaded with pork. We shouldn't be bailing out the spinach industry at the same time we're trying to decide how much to spend on our fighting men and women in the field. This, though, is the way Democrats buy votes. With spinach. Anyway, this all begs the question....who is going to blink first?

The Army estimates that the money will run out in June...so there's time for a debate. President Bush will veto the bill...the House and Senate won't be able to override it...and then we're back to square one. At this point, the Democrats have two choices. They can admit defeat and send a clean bill to the White House to pay for the war. Or, as Karl Rove is hoping, the Democrats will then move to cut off funding for the war entirely. Harry Reid has signaled this is what he is going to do.

Will most Democrats follow his long walk off the short pier? Probably not, but we'll see. Also, watch The Hildabeast on this one.

CAMP LEJEUNE MEMORIAL Here's a picture of the memorial that Boortz show listeners helped pay for. It was installed this past weekend during a memorial service at Camp Lejeune for those killed during the deployment. Below is a part of the email that Patty Lewis sent out to all the parent's network: "After the Memorial Service family and friends gathered around the newly built memorial in their honor. Lt Col Desgrosseilliers dedicated the sculpture and spoke regarding how there has never been anything at the 3/2 command post to honor our fallen. He also read a letter sent from Colonel Lawrence Nicholson, Commanding Officer of Regimental Combat Team 5, which was the regiment that the battalion served under in Iraq. The 3/2 Memorial Sculpture was represented as being donated by the 32 Parents' Network. The Command has made sure that anyone going into the 3/2 command post will walk by this monument. OUR MARINES WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN! Lt Col D also spoke of the dedication of the Parents' Network and of the impact our group has had on everyone this deployment. A reception followed for family and friends on the 3/2 grounds. Having each other present, families found a strong bond with other families. Meeting for the first time was of course very emotional, at the same time very comforting for them." Complete Story

BRITAIN CONTINUES TO CAVE

The appeasement of Iran has now been taken to another level over these 15 kidnapped hostages. Just what has Great Britain now done in response? Reward Iran with direct negotiations and now there's word of a prisoner swap. Why not just cut them a check while you're at it? At this point, the only thing missing is a visit to Tehran by Tony Blair and a proclamation upon his return that there will be peace in our time.

If British tabloids are to be believed, the Iranians took the British sailors hostage because they were upset that some Iranian officials were arrested by the Iraqi military. Uh-huh...right...try again. Iran took the British soldiers hostage because they knew the UK and the United States -- and of course the United Nations -- would be weak and wouldn't do anything. They knew they could parade those soldiers on Al-Jazeera...make themselves look big and bad in the Arab world and embolden the insurgency. And it worked.

Britain's response has been incredibly weak. The biggest consequence to Iran has been a public scolding. Now England has opened up direct diplomatic talks with Iran over the issue. There's also been a prisoner swap...that captured Iranian official that was in Iraq? He's been sent home. And what have the Brits gotten in return? Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada.

So what you're witnessing is appeasement in action. The British government is cowering in fear as the Islamofascists in Tehran push them around, making a mockery of their military might...or lack thereof. This is something you'd expect out of the French...not the British.

The proper response would be to start dropping bombs until the soldiers were returned. You know...like Margaret Thatcher...or Winston Churchill would do.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

You have to admire this person's positive thinking, but wishing doesn't always make it so. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

The House Armed Services Committee is banning the use of the phrase "Global War On Terror"

So what does Hillary Clinton think of Harry Reid's threat to cut off funding for the war in Iraq?

The US Navy is stepping things up in the Persian Gulf to ensure

John Stossel continues to explore what he calls the media's fear industrial complex.

Ralph Peters can't help but notice how Iran is walking all over Great Britain

Michelle Malkin chronicles how government schools are performing their terrorism drills.

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