Today's Nuze: June 20, 2007

Wednesday - June 20, 2007

TALK RADIO ... IN THE CROSSHAIRS

You're going to be hearing about a new study that's due to come out later this week. The study is from some liberal think tank called the Center for American Progress. The report is going to cite a "massive imbalance" between conservative and "progressive" (that would be liberal) talk radio. As you might have guessed, this report will contain some proposals for solutions ... and I'm guessing we're in for another push for the resurrection of the idiotically-named "Fairness Doctrine."

It will come as no surprise whatsoever that this leftist report will make some reference to the absurd concept of "public ownership of the airwaves." This "public ownership" nonsense is nothing more than a canard created by the political class to excuse government control of a major means for the dissemination of information -- a concept essential to despots.

I'm busy putting together a little mini-essay on this "public ownership of the airwaves" nonsense. Look for around the time the left unleashes their attack on talk radio.

You know ---- there is no law against people listening to left-wing talk show hosts. I guess the sad truth is that they just didn't have anything to say that people really wanted to hear. Sad, isn't it?

KENNEDY + BUSH = BEST FRIENDS

Politicians are known to be hypocrites, but this one is a beauty. Ted Kennedy said to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, "I'm going to be working together with my new best friend." Who could that be? His Mexican bus-boy? Cindy Sheehan? No, no, no. I know ... George Bush!

That's right. Now that Teddy wants to make friends with the Mexicans, he has decided that George W. Bush will be his new wing-man. You know - two guys walk into a bar, think they're hot stuff, and then work as a team to woo the ladies. Usually there is an uglier one that has a great personality, but isn't so good looking. (He never ends up with the girl.) But anyway ... that is what these jokesters look like. And these "new best friends" have assembled for one reason and one reason only (well, besides the chicks): amnesty. To make criminals legal citizens. Why? Votes. Politics. Money. Legacy. And where are you in this equation? Nowhere. They don't care about you, the constituents, when it comes to this amnesty bill. They should! But they don't have to. That's how far our government has gotten out of our hands. That is how much control we have lost.

And why does Teddy want to legalize these criminals? Because you can't just kick out 12.5 million people who are "working hard at jobs." Wrong. First of all, not all 12.5 million of those criminals are working jobs. They are here because their familias are here. They are here because their cousin's sister's boyfriend's aunt has a stepson in this country, and now they can sit around and collect food stamps. Oh and forget about paying taxes. Some might be "working hard," but how much taxes are they paying? How can they pay taxes without a Social Security number. They can't. So there you go.

I guess Iraq is really going to test their friendship! Or maybe they've agreed not to talk about the issue. Must be nice. We'll see how long that lasts.

DO ANY POLITICIANS HAVE ANY GOOD IDEAS OUT THERE?

Well, as a matter of fact, there is at least one political type who seems to have some unique and workable ideas. That would be Newt Gingrich. Here is something I gleaned from an email newsletter I received from Newt yesterday. Careful, this makes perfect sense. Perfect sense has been known to make government-educated minds explode.

Ten Simple, Direct Steps to a Legal American Immigration System

Keep the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli commitment and control the border. In The Reagan Diaries (HarperCollins, May 22, 2007), President Ronald Reagan wrote that he was going to sign the Simpson-Mazzoli bill because "it's high time we regained control of our borders and [this] bill will do this." For national security reasons, it is vital we regain control of our border. Congress should pass a narrowly written emergency border bill to finish the necessary fence in less than a year and to have complete border control within two years.
Announce an immediate shift of Internal Revenue Service resources to audit companies that are deliberately hiring people illegally. We do not have to focus on deporting those who want to work. We need to focus on the Americans who are getting richer by deliberately breaking our laws, hiring people illegally and failing to pay taxes. These people are cheating their own country. We should focus on fining and making it economically impractical for Americans to deliberately encourage law breaking. Economic penalties for knowingly hiring someone who is illegal should rise dramatically with each employer (including subcontractors) conviction, making it simply too expensive to cheat. This will eliminate the magnet of illegal jobs, will begin to diminish the flow of new illegal workers and will lead some illegal workers to return home voluntarily.
Outsource to American Express, Visa or MasterCard the job of building a real-time verification system so that honest companies can confirm the legal status of all workers and identify people with forged papers before they hire them as fast as your automatic teller machine identifies you and gives you money in a matter of seconds. We must distinguish between companies that deliberately hire illegal workers and companies that hire people who they believe are legal. It is the government's duty to help this second group of companies by providing a real-time verification system for identifying the legal status of all workers so that it is possible to screen out those with illegal documents. The government should outsource the creation of this system so that it is easy, fast and accurate.
Focus deportation efforts on criminals. Those who claim that opponents of the Bush-Kennedy-McCain bill support mass deportations are simply wrong. We want a system in which honest work is available for law-abiding workers and in which the natural attrition of declining job availability will reduce illegal behavior. However, there is one group that should be deported immediately, and the law should be modified to make it easy to do so. Criminals have no future in America. In every major city and increasingly in small cities and even small towns, gangs have become a problem and people feel a rising sense of insecurity. There are at least 30,000 illegal gang members now in the United States. The system should focus on deporting criminals so that people who are here illegally understand that breaking the law will get them deported immediately.
Cut off all federal aid to any city, county or state that refuses to investigate if a criminal is here illegally. These so-called "sanctuary cities" are in effect abetting the violation of American law and increasing the risk to honest, law-abiding Americans. They should be cut off from all federal aid if they refuse to help enforce federal law.
Offer intensive education in English to anyone who wants to learn English, and make English the official language of government. This will begin to reassert the commitment to assimilation and Americanization that has historically been part of legal immigration to America.
Ensure that becoming an American citizen requires passing a test on American history in English and giving up the right to vote in any other country.
Within the context of these proven changes, establish an economically driven temporary worker program like the Krieble Foundation proposals. Any temporary worker would have to pass a background check to ensure they are not a criminal, would have to give biometric information (retinal scan and thumbprint) for a special card that would be outsourced to American Express, MasterCard or Visa so it would be harder to defraud and counterfeit, and would have to sign a contract committing them to pay taxes and obey the law or be removed from the United States within two weeks without recourse to long court processes.
Create a special open-ended worker visa for high value workers who bring specialized education, entrepreneurial talent or capital that will grow the American economy and make America a more prosperous country.
Workers who came here illegally but have a good work relationship and community ties (including family), should have first opportunity to get the new temporary worker visas, but instead of paying penalties, they should be required to go home and get the visa at home. This way they are beginning their new career in America by obeying the law. It is amazing that those who advocate a large fine and the new Z visa, which would be administered in a hopelessly expedited manner, suggest that going home to get a new legal admission to the U.S. is somehow too complicated. If people can break the law by entering the county illegally, they should be able to obey the law and enter America legally.

These 10 steps would lead to a controlled border, a profound revitalization of the core values of American civilization, a renewed respect for the law and an economically driven system of legal temporary workers in an orderly and controllable manner.

This program would work vastly better than the dishonest and hopelessly complex Bush-Kennedy-McCain proposal now being pushed so hard by the establishment against the wishes of most Americans.

Newt Gingrich, June 18, 2007
(c) 2997 Eagle Publishing Company

NOW .. BEFORE WE LEAVE THE IMMIGRATION CRISIS BEHIND ...

There's some outfit out there called the "Center for New Community." They call themselves faith-based (read religious left organization) organization that tracks anti-immigration statements. Note, please, that this leftist organization doesn't differentiate between those who appose all immigration and those who only oppose the illegal kind.

The Center for New Community has now published their list of "Indecent Proposals: Top 10 Most Offensive Quotes" from "anti-immigrant" groups. Now if you will click on the link and read the quotes I'm sure you'll agree that some of them are pretty vile, while others make perfect sense. As a matter of fact, I come in at number four!!

4.)"I don't care if Mexicans pile up against that fence ... just run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line..." Neal Boortz, anti-immigrant talk radio host on WSB-AM in Atlanta on June 18, 2007.

Question: What the hell is the purpose of a fence? To keep people (animals ... whatever) from crossing a certain line? Why would we even consider building a fence along the U.S. - Mexican border if not to keep out Mexicans who want to break our laws by entering our country illegally? If they keep coming, and end up crowed up along the fence looking for a way through, is not the fence doing just what we designed and built it to do? And as for the taco trucks? Well, the Mexican restaurant owners in Tucson are trying to outlaw Tucson's taco trucks. Too much competition I guess. So, if we build the fence would that not be a perfect place for these truck owners to pick up a few extra pesos?

Note, please, that the Center for New Community calls me an "anti-immigrant talk radio host." Not so. I'm an anti-illegalalien talk radio host. That's a differentiation that is probably lost on the mental midgets out there making excuses for these criminals.

'YOU'RE FIRED' FOR NOT BEING A WUSS:

Do you remember the ridiculous story we were talking about yesterday, about the apartment employee in Jacksonville? Well here is the link to the news article. Colin Bruley worked for an apartment complex in Jacksonville, FL. He also happened to live in the complex. At 2AM, he heard a woman scream. He grabbed his shotgun and went outside to help the woman. Not knowing where the shooter was ... whether the shooter might come out of an apartment door at any time with his gun .. Bruley and some other residents took care of the screaming woman they found covered in blood. Bruley hands the shot-gun to another neighbor who came, and proceeds to put a tourniquet on the woman's leg, perhaps preventing her from bleeding to death.

The next morning, the Oaks at Mill Creek apartment complex calls him in to find out what happened. A few hours later, they call him back in. Thank you? No. You are a brave man? No. "You're fired." According to the owner of the apartments, the Village Green Companies, he violated the rules in the employee handbook. Do you hear that? The handbook. "You saved a life? You put yourself in jeopardy to help another person? Are you sure that's covered in our employee handbook?" Well I never knew they made a handbook for these kinds of situations. And they fired the guy. He should have been given a medal, and instead he is given the boot.

Yet another example of the wussification of America. We tell people that we value wussification over bravery, appeasement over protection. Just ridiculous, folks. I'd rather my neighbor have a shot-gun any day of the week. Who gives a damn if he works for the apartments or not. Protection is protection.

Some would suggest that when an innocent person is being attacked by someone with a gun, you should try to mind your own business and not do anything. Colin Bruley thought differently. Colin, you did well my friend.

WHEN ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO LEARN?

It has happened again. Some unarmed fool acted in self defense when confronted by someone with a gun. This one happened in Metairie, Louisiana. You drive through Metairie on the way from the airport to the French Quarter. A woman was at the Arby's drive-thru with her 17-year-old son in the car. Suddenly a man walked up to the car. He had a gun. He pointed the gun at the woman and demanded her money and the car. He reached inside and tried to grab the woman out of the car. At this point the 17-year-old grabbed the gun and started wrestling with the perp. The gun went off. Nobody hit. The kid then got the gun and immediately squeezed off a few shots into the man who had attacked his mother. The perp is now in the hospital. Gunshot wounds in the head and torso.

What was this 17-year-old thinking? He's just a kid! He's not trained to handle someone with a gun! Doesn't he know that he was supposed to just sit there and watch his mother get shot? Come on, folks! You are not supposed to defend yourself! I mean, even the mere suggestion that you should try to defend yourself is enough to get your butt in a crack!

The local sheriff got it right. He said that it's always safer to cooperate. Just give them the money and the keys. It doesn't matter if the man was in the process of assaulting your mother. She should have given him the money and keys in the first place. She deserved to be roughed up a bit!

Get with the program folks! Self-defense is a selfish act of individualism. Surrender. Comply. Be a good Ameican. Baaaaa, baaaaaa.

GOP LOSES, POOR PEOPLE GET A RAISE!

Well kids, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to leave the Republican party. Yep. He is officially an independent. Ah, the smell of independence ... Actually, I have a bit of sympathy for his position. I consider myself to be an independent right now as well. I certainly can't support the socialist, anti-individual positions of the Democrat Party, the Libertarian Party is much too weak on defending America against Islamic terrorism, and the Republicans so squandered their chance to lead over the last 12 years that they're unworthy of support on most fronts.

These Republicans spending like Mexicans at a taco truck (OMG ... I just can't leave that alone, can I?) and now Ted Kennedy and George George W. Bush are BAMs (best amigos forever) As Bloomberg exits (stage left?0 he notes that the "country is in trouble." Well thanks for the update Mr. Bloomberg. Now, let's take a gander at his plan to make this country (or at least NYC) a better place ...

Bloomberg has unveiled his great plan to fight poverty. The solution is money. Give poor people money for doing things they should be doing. You graduated from high school? Great, $400! You all went to the doctor? Good for you, collect $200! It's like a mini-game of Monopoly; free money for simply going around the board. Maybe Hizzoner will paint a huge "GO" at some NYC intersection with kiosks paying $200 bucks to everyone who pushes a shopping cart full of their life's possessions by. Oh ... and they've had a "Get Out of Jail Free" card in New York for some time now.

But then again, Bloomberg has raised enough money to pay for it himself. Whew. No tax dollars. But in the end, poverty is still a mental disease. It's a behavioral disorder. The only person who can bring someone out of poverty is the person who is poor. No matter how much money, or potty candy, you give someone, they will never do anything more with their life if they don't want to.

You know what Bloomberg should offer with the money? A class on common sense. Do these poor people know how to manage that money? Will they be taught how to invest it? How to make the most of what they are "earning" from being (sniff, sniff) poor? No. They have a poverty mindset. That money will just be used for drugs or cigarettes. Sure, there will be exceptions ... some might actually say "here's a chance" and made something of it. But in the end you are rewarding behavior here you do not want. You are rewarding actions and decisions that lead to poverty. What are you going to get? More of what you reward, that's what.

OPERATION "FISCAL LOVE"

The Honduran government sure wants its tax money. But then again, what government doesn't? (For those of you educated in government schools, Honduras is a country in Central America.) Government officials believe that "love hotels" are evading close to $40,000 in taxes per month. I trust I don't have to explain "love motels" to the government educated. Apparently the suspicion is that these no-tell motels are taking in a lot of cash and turning their rooms over several times a day. (Ugh ... do they change the linens?).

The government's plan? Count the cars in the parking lots! Hang out in the lobby (yeah, that must be a rough job). Keep tabs on how many "customers" are coming in and out of the motels. Wouldn't that just scare away customers ... having tax agents hanging around every corner. Or maybe this is just a way to make their visits, while still on the clock. Who knows?

Apparently this will prove that the motels are actually making more business than they are reporting and will be forced to pay up.

I could be wrong (who am I kidding!) but there could be more efficient ways to enforce tax policy. But then again, who am I to say anything about taxes!

JIMMY CARTER AND THE POOR TERRORISTS

Every time he opens his mouth, he undermines America. Why Jimmy? Have you had any testing done lately? Are all of your neurotransmitters firing properly? Any brain plaque buildup?

This time, Carter is hyperventilating over Hamas. Carter says that it is "criminal" that America did not accept the Hamas victory in 2006. Criminal? That means a crime has been committed and someone should be charged, tried and jailed! Why? Because the U.S. considers Hamas, the suicide bombing specialists, to be a terrorist organization. I can think of a lot of other things that are criminal in this world ... like illegal immigrants or funding Islamic jihadists. Criminal? Apparently he has lost all concept of what that word means. The criminal in this situation is Hamas, but Jimmy is too high up on his liberal high-horse to see that. America is not the sponsor of innocent civilian attacks in the name of Allah. America does not deny civil liberties to its citizens or torture its enemies (or citizens).

Jimmy, get over it. Take your peace prize, build a nice little display case for it, and just sit and study it for a while. While you're at it think what it means for a so-called "man of peace" to support a terrorist, suicide-bombing, beheading bunch of Islamic thugs like Hamas. America suffers in its war against Islamic extremists because of weak, appeasing, whining voices like Jimmy Carter. Imagine where our country would be if he was president on September 11^th. Unimaginable.

Oh ... and Israel? Well, they've apparently had their fill of Jimmy the Appeaser. Israeli newspapers are now calling the man who never met a dictator he didn't love the "Father of the Iranian Revolution."

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

China is now the world's biggest polluter. Well, at least when it comes to CO2. Interesting, isn't it, that China is exempted from the liberal's favorite pact, the Kyoto Accords?

The Washington Times is reporting that Georgia's two U.S. Senators are at the center of the amnesty bill fight in Washington.

Remember Senator Jeff Sessions' excellent report of loopholes in the amnesty bill? Now he says the federal government is encouraging illegal immigration ... of course, followed by an excellent list of suggestions on how to end it.

Hamas says that Christians can still live in Gaza ... so long as they accept Islamic law. Aww isn't that nice of them? Head coverings, no alcohol, nothing. Sounds like a peaceful (militant) religion if I've ever heard of one.

(This one is for Belinda) Guess what ... some people actually like high gas prices! Why? Because it is the market's way of telling people to shape up. Read that again: natural market forces. All this anti-price gouging bullshit is just a way to control something that is natural. People and markets will adjust. They always do.

The Mexican army seems to have a little problem. Most of the drug-cartel hit men seem to be deserters of the Mexican army. So military-trained killers are now working for drug lords ... sounds like a mess, if you ask me. But I'm sure they are making a heck of a lot more money.

Darn. Looks like Hugo Chavez is having some trouble instituting his "21^st century socialism." Why? Money, money and more money. Evil, isn't it?

Oh no! How will we survive with our Godless dollars? Looks like the U.S. Mint has some explaining to do ...

The National Guard conducted a little strip search on soldiers, checking for gang tattoos. Some of them got upset. Why? Racism!

Sadly, there is no news yet in the case of the guy in the hospital who un-plugged his neighbor's life-support because it was "too noisy." I wonder how noisy it will be in prison!

In case you missed it, the Ten Commandments for drivers, straight from the Vatican! Who knew the Pope had so much to say about bad drivers. Thou shall not giveth the finger.

Now isn't this just typical. Remember Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech? The U.S. State Department tried to prevent Reagan from using those words.

Book Signing For West Coast Folks!

Meet Neal Boortz at a rare West Coast appearance! Neal will be signing books Monday, June 25th at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925 - 1pm

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