OBAMARANTS

OK ... so this is rambling ... but someone needs to really start calling this Obama character, and his fawning followers, out.

I just love hearing The Messiah slamming McCain for "flip-flopping" on the issue of offshore drilling. I seem to remember that a few months ago Barack Obama was talking about almost doubling the capital gains tax. He wanted to take it up to 28%. Suddenly that changed. Apparently some advisors who are smarter than him had a little sit-down, and the idea went away. Flip-flopping?

The people of this country, even people who call themselves liberal, want us to start recovering our own reserves of oil, including oil located offshore. Obama says that this is McCain pandering to oil companies. Pandering to oil companies? Obama's ploy here is to play to the ignorance and wealth envy of the American people by slamming oil companies hour after hour, day after day.

The American people want to drill and drill now. Even when you poll liberals you find that a majority of them support drilling for new oil. There are 95 billion barrels of oil in our offshore waters. What in the hell are we doing funding our countries enemies buy purchasing their crude when we could be spending that money here at home increasing our own capacity? Well, in an Obamanation I guess you fund your enemies every time you fill your tank rather than pander to those damned oil companies. Yeah ... makes sense to me.

Obama wants you to believe that the American oil companies are manipulating the price of oil. Yeah, sure they are. The five major American oil companies control about five percent of the world's oil. Tell me how in the wide wide world of politics can these five companies who control five percent of the world's oil manipulate oil prices like this? Obama knows this - but he also knows that you don't know. Wake up. He's playing on your ignorance. He wants to spend $150 billion of YOUR dollars screwing around with wind power, solar power and other green dreams. Oh yeah ... let's put the federal government, the same outfit that gave us Medicare and Social Security, take charge or our search for alternative fuels. Let me know how that works out for you.

Barack Obama knows that the voters more likely to support him don't know squat about oil economics. He can sit there without a shred of proof blaming the oil companies for the high gas prices .. and he can get away with it because he knows his supporters aren't intellectually curious enough to demand an explanation.

Obama says that drilling now would have no appreciable impact on gas prices. Sorry, he's wrong. Not that you're surprised by that. I've been sitting here listening to expert after expert talk about an almost immediate affect on oil prices if the U.S. would announce a full-bore exploration and recovery program - then Obama says it ain't so. Oh yeah ... I'm going to take his word on this. After all, he is The Messiah.

Day after day the Obama ocean grows shallower and shallower. The man simply cannot deal with the issues ... certainly not in a meaningful way. Slogans and pabulum .. the Obama diet.

The biggest issue facing our country? Terrorism. OK, so you're asleep on this one; you whistling past the graveyard. Those Islamic radicals are out there, and they have every intent on killing as many of us as they can. To Obama .. terrorism is now a law enforcement problem. Now sit down. I don't want you to fall and break anything when you hear this. Obama actually said yesterday that if we were to capture Osama bin Laden he should be entitled to an attorney and his day in the U.S. Courts. This even though he is not a citizen, is not in this country, and is in no way entitled to these protections.

Do you have any idea what happens when someone like bin Laden, or any terrorist for that matter, gets access to the American courts? We are at war! These people are enemy combatants! You don't put them into our court system. You don't let Ramsey Clark represent them in your local criminal court. You don't give them access to the discovery privileges that are afforded other criminal defendants.

Here's an example. When one Islamic goon was managed to get access to the U.S. courts his attorney filed some discovery motions that forced our government to turn over intelligence gathering information. Contained in that information was the fact that we had been monitoring bin Laden's cell phone. Guess what happened within days? You got it. Osama's cell phone went dead. We haven't picked up on his new one yet. Good work.

John Kerry ... pimping for Obama ... says that Bush has been a complete failure on terror. Oh yeah, that's right. That's why our country has been suffering from so many Islamic terror attacks since 9/11. The Poodle is old news.

How do you like being so blatantly manipulated? Do you like this smooth talker taking advantage of your ignorance like this?

GOVERNOR CHRIST FINALLY GETS IT

The Neal Boortz Show owns Florida ... and it didn't take but 3 minutes after this news broke for my great listeners in Florida to send me the emails. Well it looks like Florida Governor Charlie Christ has finally seen the light. He has dropped his long-standing support for a federal ban on offshore drilling. This is great news. Now you guys have to work on Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson. But it's a start.

Governor Christ has endorsed John McCain's proposal to let each state decide whether or not to drill off its own shores. Now there's a concept ... state's rights!

Now something else that a lot of astute listeners pointed out is that Governor Christ is also a possible running make for John McCain. Could this be a sign that he is seriously being considered for the ticket? Either way, the news shows that Florida is finally willing to become a solution to the problem.

FOREIGN POLICY ACCORDING TO ... WINNIE THE POOH?

An aide to Barack Obama is convinced that we can learn something about terrorism and national security from Winnie the Pooh. In fact, not only is this just an aide, but this is Richard Danzig who has been tapped to become Obama's National Security Adviser. He also served as Navy Secretary under Bill Clinton.

At a major foreign policy conference in Washington, Danzig said that the future of America's strategy in the war on terror could follow a lesson from Winnie the Pooh: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

The military leaders of China, Russia and the world of Islamic radicalism must be out of breath with laughter at this point.

No folks, seriously. If things get too hard for America, we should simply give up and try something else. The man is actually using a children's book to strategize against something a serious and complex as Islamofascism.

Wait until some Obamabot discovers "The Rainbow Fish." Then we'll hear some suggestion about a redistribution of bling.

You want more? Here's another paragraph that he read to the Center for New American Security: "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it."

Danzig says that the West can defeat individual terrorist groups and plots, but it will never be able to entirely remove the threat posed by nuclear proliferation or the prospect of bioterrorism.

Isn't that comforting? And this will be the guy whispering in Obama's ear about matters of national security.

THE FIGHT TO SAVE NUDE BEACHES

You can't see this beach from the highway. And the state of Vermont does not have any law banning public nudity. There are even signs on the trail leading to the beach that warn people they might encounter naked people.

This doesn't seem to matter to some residents of Westmore who want to be able to bring their children to beach without having to worry that they will run into a naked person. So they are pushing for the town to pass an anti-nudity ordinance.

Nobody is forcing these people to go to the beach. Here's an option: go somewhere else. If you have your thong in a wad about your little snowflake seeing a naked person, you're probably dumb enough to send them to a government school.

Look .. you've seen two, you've seen them all. Also; I wonder if these same parents get upset with local movie theatres showing films depicting murder and violence. Go figure.

ANOTHER CONDO ASSOCIATION

John Madden is a resident of Margate condominiums in South Florida. He's a retired Boston police officer who enjoys playing with his 22-inch remote-controlled motorboat in the lake behind his condominium complex.

Great. The old man has a hobby. So here comes the condo association. By playing with his boat in the lake he may be violating condominium documents that say "no one may put a chair on the grass next to the lake or put a motorboat in the water." So not only could he get fined by the condo association, but some believe he has violated city code's for noise violations, which means fines up to $250 a day.

So a city code compliance officer came out and attempted to take a decibel reading of the boat to see if it violated city code ... but the boat conked out before the officer could get an accurate reading.

Doreen Zappala, a former condo board president says, "He can do it in his bathtub all day long but when he does it on common property he's offending the 467 other people who are obeying the rules." She also says that Madden "might fall and injure himself, making all the owners liable for damages if he or his family sues."

Give me a break. As I've said many times before .. Condo and Homeowner's associations are the scourge of our land. You will usually find two types of people serving on these boards: (1) People who wielded power during their work years, and miss it; or, (2) People who have never had power before in their lives and get absolutely drunk on it. Oh ... I know there are exceptions. I'm very lucky to experience a really good condo association at my Florida home. In spite of that ... I think that we need to get their attention, and one way to do this would be to select one association at random every year or so, and --- on pay-per-view TV --- execute them.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

You won't want to miss this series of videos, Green Porno, where Isabella Rossellini talks to you frankly about sex. Okay, so it's bug sex, but she somehow makes it kind of hot. And occasionally gross. Oh yeah, probably not safe for work.

The Democrat Party is filing a lawsuit to investigate whether John McCain violated election laws by withdrawing from public financing.

Obama has picked former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle to serve as chief of staff to the future vice presidential running mate ... sending a clear message to Hillary that she will not be the VP.

We are currently meeting with Chinese economics officials in hopes of "finding ways to avoid supply disruptions."

Great Britain is releasing Osama bin Laden's "right hand man in Europe" ... but they have banned him from communicating with bin Laden. Oh, I feel much better now.

This from the New York Times on why high gas prices are good for global warmers: "Americans' response to rising gasoline prices makes an excellent case for a gas tax. It proves that drivers will change their behavior in response to high fuel prices."

You thought Bush had low approval ratings ... it turns out that most world leaders are in the same boat.

The Erie County Social Services department was indicted for stealing $330,000 in bus passes that were supposed to be for the "poor." So county officials installed new safeguards to ensure it wouldn't happen again ... but this is government so I guess we shouldn't expect too much.

A government school teacher is on paid leave while being investigated for spanking her third grade students with a flyswatter on their birthdays. What's the matter with a hickory switch?

How much did the taxpayers of Portland, Oregon pay to have "free" city-wide WiFi? Try $267,000.

An employer in California didn't want to hire smokers. Great. But he also didn't want to hire people with spouses that smoked, and he monitored them through mandatory random blood testing.

There is so much wrong with this story that I don't even know where to begin ... let's

just say it involves a government school, a psychic, and the expectation that government should solve your problems.

Central Floridians facing foreclosure have turned to someone else besides the government to solve their foreclosure problems: Shaquille O'Neal.

I tip my hat to David Kahl of Snellville, Ga who is leaving his job to homeschool his daughter.

First it was a bra, now Victoria Secret is being sued for a defective thong after a decorative metallic piece flew off the thong and struck the woman in the eye. Well, I guess it could have struck her boyfriend in the eye. Be careful guys.

After abolishing its 239-year-old monarchy, Nepal's next greatest concern is what to do with the cows of the royal palace.

An official with a New Jersey power company went to his local council meeting to try and explain why the power keeps going off ... you know what happens next.

How much of a low-life do you have to be to rob a lemonade stand?

As the moon rises tonight, be sure to check it out. It's supposed to look usually large ... and here's why.

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