AFTERTHOUGHT!

NATIONAL REVIEW GETS IT WRONG

National Review has come out with an editorial opposed to the FairTax.  Here's an excerpt:

'There is widespread confusion about what the Fair Tax would entail. If you bought $100 of clothing and paid a $30 tax on it, you would probably think you had paid a 30 percent tax. The Fair Taxers say that you paid a 23 percent tax: $30 is 23 percent of the $130 you paid in total. When they say they want a 23 percent tax, that's what they mean.'

OK ... let's work on the assumption that these editors are actually intelligent.  You don't get to be an editor at NRO by filling out an end panel on a box of Grape Nuts.  So ... if these guys have any brains at all, how can they so badly misrepresent the FairTax?  There are crane operators out there who know that if you buy $100 worth of clothes the 23% FairTax comes out of the $100.  Nothing is added to the price.  The clothes don't cost you $130 in total ... they cost you $100.  The 23% FairTax merely replaces the imbedded tax that would be there if you bought those clothes today!

Look ... if you're going to criticize the FairTax, can you at least read the book before you make fools out of yourselves? 

MORE FAIRTAX IN THE NEWS

And the FairTax continues to make news.  There's also a column on the Internet today saying that support for the FairTax could hurt Republican hopefuls.  Why?  Well, as Nathan Burchliel says, "Generally speaking, Republicans who support the FairTax, it might help during the primary but it's very vulnerable to demagoguery in the general elections.  Every time the [FairTax] has been a big issue, the other side has been able to demagogue by saying 'So-and-so wants a 30% tax on everything we buy.'"

I guess that's why we're writing the new book!

HEY, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

I'm not getting good advice.  On Monday I'm going to be a guest on an ESPN panel discussion about Michael Vick.  It will be televised right before the Monday night pre-season game featuring the Atlanta Falcons. 

What could go wrong?  A white talk show host discussing a black NFL quarterback on ESPN!  Hellooooooo!  Rush Limbaugh!  

Belinda talked me into this.  So ... thanks a pant load, Belinda.  Let's see how that works out for me.

LET'S ALL REFER TO GOD AS ALLAH

I know this is going to be hard for you to believe; but then again, maybe not. After all, we're installing foot baths at airports for Muslim cab drivers and in some Eurabian schools they won't even teach precious little Euroweenies about the Holocaust because they're afraid that some peace-loving Muslims might get their precious little feelings hurt.

Enter, stage left, A Dutch Catholic Bishop by the name of Martinus Muskens. He thinks he has the perfect solution to calming the troubled waters between Muslims and Christians. It's all very simple, really. Christians should just start referring to God as Allah!

Durn! Why didn't we think of that? Yup .. that pretty much ought to do it all right. If we would just walk around referring to God as Allah, why then I'm sure everything would be all hunky dory within just a few weeks!

But while we're busy changing the names of our churches to the So and So Church of Allah, maybe there's a few things that our lovely peace-loving Muslims could do to meet us halfway.

Here are a few suggestions. Perhaps you could toss them around the next time y'all gather at the Mosque.

• Present a clear and uncompromising rejection of that section of your Qaran which tells Muslims that when they encounter a Christian they must either kill him, enslave him or convert him. Some Christians are having trouble with this Islamic mandate. Having to chose between death, enslavement or conversion can really bring a Christian down.
   
• Stop shooting school children in the back. When your Muslim buddies killed 186 school children in Beslan back in 2004 it somehow angered a lot of Christians. Perhaps you should try not to do that again. I mean, come on! Some of these children were shot in the back, for Allah's sake, when they tried to run from those peace-loving Muslims! If you really want to practice your shoot-them-in-the-back skills, how about working on yourselves.
   
• If one of your Muslim girl's schools catches on fire, do you think you could find it in your hearts to let the girls escape, even if they don't have time to put on head covering as they run from the flames? A lot of Christians read about that fire at the 31st Girls Middle School in Mecca in March of 2002. They read that the Saudi religious police, the Muttawa, actually prevented fire fighters and rescue personnel from entering the school because there were girls inside ... girls dying inside. Then, when some of the girls tried to escape without head coverings, the Muslim Muttawa actually pushed them back into the burning building. Fourteen girls died that day. None needed to. Christians found this to be just a wee bit offensive. These girls died because of the intolerance of the peaceful religion of Islam. So .. do you think that you could lighten up a bit when the next school catches on fire?
   
• About those honor killings. You may not understand this, but Christians do not believe that God ... excuse me, I mean Allah ... wants them to kill their daughters if they are raped. Christians have this odd tendency to actually comfort their daughters and to try to help the recover, emotionally and physically, from the attacks, and then finish things by trying to kill whoever raped their daughter, as Allah intended. Now if we're going to refer to God as Allah, maybe you could stop killing your daughters. It's just a suggestion. Killing daughters really does have a tendency to cut back on Muslim population growth, so it's for your own good.
   
• While we're at it .. and I hope you don't mind a few more suggestions .. could you please not refer to Jews as apes and pigs any more? It really makes them upset when a bunch of camel jockeys refer to them as apes and pigs.
   
• If you get the sudden urge to fly any more airplanes into buildings in our country, try this: (A) select a building scheduled to be demolished. Las Vegas usually has an old casino or two they want to tear down. (B) Go out to the deserts of Arizona and find an old commercial airliner in mothballs. Use some of your oil money to buy it, and then you can paint all sort of Islamic slogans on the airplane ... things like "Mohammed is my co-pilot." (C) Fill the airplane with martyrs. You damned sure won't be able to find any virgins in Vegas. (D) Make sure the building is empty. (E) Knock yourselves out.
   
• And what about those suicide bombers! From coffee shops in Tel Aviv to flower shops in Baghdad to nightclubs in Bali. If you want to see the bodies of your sons and daughters scattered all over the landscape and plastered all over the walls, tell them to attack some American servicemen. Our men and women will fight back. In other words ... come on out and fight like a man ... not like some cowardly night crawler. Muhammed (or Mohammed or however you spell it) would be so embarrassed.
   
• And while we're talking about prophets, Jesus doesn't seem to get torqued when Christians draw pictures of him ... even when they make him look like Jeffrey Hunter. Could you calm down a bit when people draw a picture of what's-his-name? It's not like you're being made to hang the picture in your house. Look ...we even have little plastic Jesus thingies on the dashboards of some of our cars. Have you even given any thought to how much you could make with little plastic Mohammeds for those taxi drivers in Minneapolis? You know ... the ones who don't want to carry people with those little bottles of rum they're bringing back from the Bahamas?
   
• How about Darfur! Knock off the genocide stuff, how about it? You would be screaming bloody murder if someone tried to practice genocide against Muslims, wouldn't you? In fact, hasn't the United States stepped in and prevented just such a situation in the past? Some thanks we get.

Now I can think of a lot more ... but this would be a start, wouldn't it? We start calling God Allah, and you folks try to become just a little more warm and fuzzy. Come to think of it, you have the fuzzy thing covered. Work on warm.

How about it?

KYOTO PROTOCOL DESTROYED THE OZONE

We now learn that the biggest emissions-cutting projects instituted under the Kyoto Protocol have contributed greatly to destroying our ozone layer. Oh great ... here we go with that ozone layer stuff again. This report, by the way, from the U.N.

The emissions projects directly increased production of gases, which destroy the ozone layer. The report also says that with these projects developing countries deliberately raised their emissions of greenhouse gases just to give them some greenhouse gasses to destroy. Why? So they could claim more carbon offset credits, and get paid big bucks from rich nations.

The plan, under Kyoto, is called the Clean Development Mechanism. Basically what happens is that rich countries pay poor countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions on their behalf. This little scheme is worth over $5 billion a year.

The most popular Clean Development project is to destroy a potent greenhouse gas called HFC 23 ... a hydrofluotocarbon. This HFC 23 is a waste product of the manufacturing of refrigerant gas (HCFC 22), which damages the ozone as well. In India and China, chemical plants have used to money they get from offsetting the HFC 23 to ramp up production, therefore increasing the level of HCFC 22 produced.

These projects to destroy HFC 23 bring in the big bucks because it is 12,000 times more potent than CO2.

Even worse, the chemical plants in China have deliberately set their factories to produce more "waste" (HFC 23) in order to make more money from rich nations.

Those participating in the Clean Development Mechanism produce twice as much HFC 23 then the actual end product - the refrigerant fluid, which also destroys the ozone. Countries not participating in the project produce an equal proportion of waste to fluid.

We're being scammed ... in the name of global warming.

We deserve it for signing on to that absurd cultist mania.

HUGO FOREVER

On Tuesday night Hugo Chavez decided to announce that he is reforming the Venezuelan Constitution. Not only that, but the new constitution will allow him to be re-elected indefinitely.

He unveiled this project in front of supporters at the National Assembly. Now that he has a nationalized telecommunications company ... he also sent users a text message, inviting them to the event!

Sean Penn and Cindy Sheehan's hero says that these proposals do not pose any threat to democracy, and he thinks that most people will support his constitutional reform.

"I have faith that we are going to convince the immense majority of Venezuelans of the necessity and the immediate benefits that this is going to bring the country," says Chavez.

Of course, he hasn't really told the people what the reforms will actually be, but merely stressed the fact that he will do away with term limits. Otherwise, his presidency would end in 2012, according to the current constitution.

The "reforms" should be completed within two months and a final draft must be approved by voters via referendum.

However, a recent poll shows that Chavez does not have the support that our media makes him out to have. You see, the Venezuelan Embassy spends millions of dollars per year pumping anti-US, pro-Chavez propaganda into our country, and many of our media outlets seem to buy in. What a surprise.

The poll was conducted by Hinterlaces, the most professional and respected polling company in Venezuela. Here are some of the results:

• Hugo Chavez is rejected by 43% of those polled and approved of by 39%;
  
  
• Attacks against the U.S. by Chavez are rejected by 75% of participants and approved of by 14%;
  
  
• To give money away to other countries, as Chavez is doing from the Venezuelan oil largess, received the support of only 9% of those polled, while 87% rejected it;
  
  
• The pretense of Chavez to re-elect himself indefinitely by modifying the existing constitution is rejected by 63% of those asked and approved of by 19%.
  
  
• 81% of Venezuelans would generally like to see new political leadership in the country.

PETRAEUS REPORTS

General Petraeus has issued a statement on his intentions in Iraq to a small group of reporters. He is preparing for his official report in Washington next month. He said that he was preparing recommendations to cut the number of troops and says the U.S. presence will be "a good bit smaller" by next summer.

Petraeus also says that a quick withdrawal, or a withdrawal of too many troops would be bad.

Is this going to be enough to cause the Democrats to fall back? Doubtful. In some dark room at Democrat Party headquarters there's probably a meeting going on right now .. a meeting discussing ways to discredit Petraeus before he has a chance to make any headway with the American people with his report on progress in Iraq ... due out now in less than four weeks.

Remember ... good news in Iraq is bad news for Democrats.

GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE ... OUR FUTURE

But let's stick to healthcare.

Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that the main problem exists in elderly care facilities, which are seriously understaffed. Between 20 and 50 percent of patients claim undernourishment.

The problem is so serious that the government minister of health and social care had to promise an "investigation" into state-run homes.

Norway's liberals have been the champion of social welfare. But the people are finally sick of the deficiencies and empty promises of their government run healthcare system. The Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg promised 12,000 new nursing home beds by 2015 and more reliable home care for those who don't use nursing homes. However, these huge promises all depend on ... state funding.

And where will he get the "funding"? More taxes!

Privatization? Sorry, won't work. Private healthcare wouldn't be the answer because Norwegians have become so reliant on the government.

"Even if more private alternatives were available, most Norwegians have paid high taxes all their lives and come to expect that they'll be cared for in their twilight years. Under traditional terms, those entering state nursing homes pay a high percentage of their total income to the state for their care, but retain their personal assets."

That's our future, my friends. Prepare for it. Dependence on government .. cradle to grave; womb to tomb. You'll hate it, politicians will love it.

IRAN'S TERRORISTS

Yesterday the U.S. decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a "specially designated global terrorist."

The Revolutionary Guard Crops is Iran's elite military branch. This is the first national military branch included on the list. It's unusual because up until now terrorist groups on the list have been non-state organizations.

The administration made the decision because of the Guard's growing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and for supporting extremists in the Middle East.

Of course, Bush did not make this decision on his own (for all of you who want to blame the President ... or Republicans). Congress has been pressuring the administration to toughen its stance against Iran, considering the failure of the U.N. to do anything about Iran's nuclear program. (Wow, there's a shocker.)

The designation is Executive Order 13224 and will have a financial affect on the Guard. Once their assets are identified they can be seized. The Order also allows the U.S. to identify individuals, businesses, charities and extremist groups engaged in terrorist activities.

Can you imagine John Kerry or OwlGore being this serious about fighting Islamic extremism?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

How would you like to be behind this guy on a mountain road? Yikes! More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

As you know, I like to yank the Media Myrmidon's chain. Rattle their cage just a little bit and the myrmidons come out to post their completely predictable comments. "Boortz is a racist," "Boortz is a chickenhawk," "Boortz is a Nazi," ... etc. For those of you who have been missing out on the fun, here is a link to Media Myrmidon references to my show dating all the way back to July of 2004!

Fred Thompson says that the next president should adopt the idea of fundamental tax reform .. and the FairTax is a good place to start..

Tony Blankley wants the public to remember the Democratic hypocrisy we are currently experiencing in regards to the Iraq war, come election time in 2008. Fat chance.

Here are many instances of how American critics of Islam are being denied freedom of speech in the name of political correctness.

Michelle Malkin takes a look at illegal immigration and the 2008 presidential candidates. She wants to know why we are going to wait until an election to enforce the borders.

Airports will soon have Behavior Detection Officers - trained security personnel who watch body language and facial cues of passengers, looking for "bad intentions." I'm wondering if we can't figure out a way to train dogs to sniff out terrorists ... Muslims with bad attitudes.

Yesterday, Serbia accused the US of wanting to create a "satellite state" out of the breakaway province of Kosovo. Yawn.

In India, Muslims are adopting fake identities in order to blend into Hindu culture. I guess they're learning from us. Here we have Muslims adopting fake Hispanic identities. Another reason to shut the border.

A City Council member in Queens, NY wants to prohibit people from smoking in cars carrying minors. I like it. I think that smoking in a car containing a child is an assault.

The attack on bottled water continues! You do know, don't you, that only rich people drink bottled water.

An amazing 94% of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives. And people in the North East apparently need to learn a thing or two from Southerners and Westerners.

Experts say that over-praising your little angel teaches them the wrong lessons. It gives them a sense of entitlement. Beellllliiiinnnnnddddaaaaaa!

A report shows that minorities are more worried than whites about U.S. house prices ... and minorities are three times more likely to feel it is getting tougher to get a home loan. Racial profiling ... clearly. It could not possibly have anything to do with credit scores or time on the job.

The FDA thinks that parents are too stupid to decide whether or not to feed their kids cough syrup ... so the government is going to regulate.

Taser International in Scottsdale is marketing tasers for women ... of course they offer one in metallic pink.

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