JUST TO TWEAK THE GLOBAL WARMING CULTISTS A BIT

Every day starts off a little bit better when we can find something to put in the Nuze that will yank the chains of the man-made global warming crowd. Today ... let's just share a quote from Michael Crichton.

"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."

OK ... I feel much better now and am ready to take on the day! (Apologies to Cruella.)

THINKING ABOUT THE TB GUY

Now ... let's address all of this hysteria over the TB Guy. It turns out that he's an attorney. A personal injury attorney, no less. His name is Andrew Speaker.

Everyone seems to be in a lather over the idea that he endangered an entire plane load of people by coming back to the United States on a Czech airliner.

Methinks we're approaching the point of hysteria here.

According to Speaker, all the time he has been diagnosed with TB he has been interacting with his family, his daughter and his finance, now wife. He had been told repeatedly that he did not present a threat to others. Did they tell him not to travel to Europe? Yes, they did. But Speaker has a tape of these people telling him not to travel to Europe not because he was a threat to others, but because they felt they had to warn him not to travel to cover their own rear ends.

I believe that the bottom line here is that this man felt that his best chance of recovery was to get to that TB hospital in Denver. He also believed that he did not present a contagious threat to others. Doctors had repeatedly told him that he was not contagious and not a treat. Then they tell him that he can't come back home.

Put me in his place... same circumstances ... same promises that he wasn't a threat .. and I'm going to do everything I can to get around the government bureaucracy and get to Denver. The American government would just not be worthy of my trust in this situation. The CDC says now that they were working hard to get him home. Somehow I'm having a hard time believing that.

We need to stop hammering this guy and try to figure out why our great Homeland Security system couldn't keep him out of this country. He was on a no-fly list. His name was on a computer at every border crossing. Yet he got through. Let's study that situation, and leave this guy alone to try to recover from his disease.

Oh ... and before we move on, we need to say this. Andy Speaker is a personal injury lawyer. Turn the situation around just a bit. Let someone who was on that airplane contact him for representation. How long before we would see the lawsuits fly!

Bottom line. The guy has a life-threatening disease. He wanted to get home. He was told that he wasn't a threat to other people. He saw the impossible American government bureaucracy getting in his way. He did what he had to do to protect himself. You would do the same.

DON'T RAISE YOUR HAND...NOT IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL!

Parents of government-educated school children...listen up! You already have heard many of the horror stories coming out of our government indoctrination centers. For instance, when little Cranston goes back to school in August he will have to turn in his crayon boxes and precious supplies for the good of the class. They aren't his supplies anymore, they are now government property. This first lesson in the power of government is being learned in more and more government schools every year.

Now we have something else your child needs to know on that first day ... please sit down. I don't want you to hurt yourself when you start gasping for air and fall to the floor.

Before the next school year begins --- and this only really applies to those of you who abuse your children by sending them to the government to be educated .. you might want to tell Johnny or DeShawn that they should not raise their hand in class when they know the answer to a teacher's question. They shouldn't even think about it. Well ... OK. They can think about it, but they shouldn't do it. Why? Because other kids might feel stupid. They might feel "invisible" if they, themselves, don't know the answer and can't raise their hands too. We need to be fair to all the "invisible" children-the children that are too scared or too lazy or too incompetent to participate.

No .... I'm not kidding here. OK ... this "don't raise your hands" bit is actually starting in England. But you just know some American "educators" are going to think that it's such a wonderful idea it needs to be implemented over here ASAP. Remember, no idea is too outrageous when it comes to our own hideous government schools.

The advice from the British Department of Education basically states that teachers shouldn't ask students to raise their hands to answer questions in class. The Education Secretary said, "We need to make sure that no-one is left behind at any point - from the most gifted and talented children at the top of the class, to the quiet child who is well-practiced at hiding from the teacher's gaze at the back of the class." So ... to flush out these "invisible" students the teacher should not ask kids to raise their hands, but instead should just chose a student to answer a question.

Here are the recommendations:

• Teachers should pick and choose which child to call on. This way they can evenly distribute the fairness of speaking time in the classroom. Remember ... "fairness" is everything!
   
• Children can discuss the answers in pairs (this way the government school teachers have less responsibility to actually answer the questions...which they probably don't know the answers to anyway because they, too, were educated in government schools.)
   
• Teachers can allow for "thinking time" (this extra 30 seconds after every question allows the teachers time to contemplate their union status and decide which lucky child they are going to recommend be put on Ritalin today.)

I wonder if they have the same situation in Great Britain that they have in the teacher's schools in the U.S. I wonder if British teachers are, by and large, the dregs from the bottom of the educational pot.

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I ONLY EAT VEGGIES...GIVE ME TAX BREAKS!

PETA has devised an ingenious way to fight "climate change." All you have to do is become a vegetarian. No more meat. Not only are us meat-eaters heathens, but we are also conspirators in the great plot to melt the planet.

A UN study claims that raising animals for food creates more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere than every mode of transportation in the world. That's right-let's blame the cows, and those who consume them.

A letter sent to Nancy Pelosi yesterday said, "[V]egetarians are responsible for far fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and other kinds of environmental degradation than meat-eaters." And now vegetarians want tax breaks. They want to be rewarded for being good little helper in the protest against global warming. I would love to see the IRS enforce this one!

But ... when you think about it ... we reward laziness and irresponsible procreation with the phony earned income tax credit ... so why not?

ILLEGAL ALIENS IN YOUR BACKYARD

Capitol Hill is gun-ho for this immigration bill, granting amnesty to millions of illegal criminals. But the people who live in Washington are fed up with illegal aliens. The soldiers of the Mexican invasion have turned DC neighborhoods into a garbage pit. It doesn't matter who is living in these areas surrounding Washington - Democrat, Republican, black, white, rich or homeless - everyone is fed up with overcrowded houses, noise, loitering, public urination...and the list goes on and on. Residents put the blame entirely on Illegal aliens.

Wealthy neighborhoods (most of which are Democrats, I might add) are fed up with large houses being used to house dozens of illegal families. Just cram 'em in there. If ya don't want to wait in line for the bathroom .. just go on the lawn! And throw your trash out there while you're at it!

People are starting to squirm. Politicians preach amnesty until the effects of illegal immigration parks right on their lawn and pees on their mailbox. The White House is pretty large. I'm sure that Bush would be so compassionate as to house some illegal aliens. Maybe then he'll begin to see what the rest of America-and in this case, Washington-is seeing.

AHHH ... THEY'RE STILL BUYING MY BOOK. THAT'S A GOOD THING.

Just a few emails from some recent purchasers of "Somebody's Gotta Say It!" Clearly these people are enjoying the book ... and you know what? Your father would enjoy the book as well! If you click here you can order an autographed copy of "Somebody's Gotta Say It" for your Dad! Come on .. it's the least you could do!

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Thomas Sowell on current gas prices. He says that demagoguery will be facts any time.

Peggy Noonan says that George Bush has "torn the conservative coalition asunder." Perhaps so, but he certainly had all the help he could use from a spendthrift, big-government Republican congress.

Now John Edwards wants a probe of gas prices. How many times has the federal government looked into gas prices? Four? Five? And not once have they found any evidence of price manipulation. But what the hell ... it's an election season ... and there are millions of ignorant, government-educated fools out there to be pandered to.

Alabama apologized for its role in slavery. Waste of time. At least now they can move on to more important legislation. Now at least there will be racial harmony in Alabama for the rest of all time.

Several al-Qaeda operatives point to the same man, who was tapped by bin Laden to detonate nuclear devices around the country. FBI says he is likely already operating in the U.S.But first things first ...we have to figure out how the TB guy got in.

Hillary's "on your own" society even turns it back on some of Bill Clinton's strategies during the 1990s, this excellent column from Rich Lowry.

In London, academics say that government school teachers hould no longer be able to promote marriage during sex education lectures. Now homosexuality must be granted equal status.

Immigration is a global problem. But in the U.S. it is simple to solve: seal the borders.

Now not only is this man with TB a personal injury lawyer, but his faither-in-law works in the C.D.C.'s division of tuberculosis elimination!

For all you flat-bellied, fake-tanners out there...apparently you are more concerned about ugly wrinkles than skin cancer.

A man was fired from his job after announcing his plans to become a woman. That sucks for him...her...him...her.

Most residents in hurricane states say they aren't prepared for the season. Here's an idea: go out and buy the supplies you need and don't expect the government to hand it to you with a pretty little bow on top.

Here's a sketch of that Harry Potter theme park I was talking about on-air yesterday.

Holy Smokes. Talk about BIG BROTHER watching. Can you fathom this? Put in your cell number and see how quickly you can be located.

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