Today's Nuze: March 14, 2008

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By Neal Boortz

Friday, March 14, 2008

OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM

So ... some of you are a bit upset because I don't like our National Anthem, right? Oh yeah! Here come those childish "I'm never going to listen to you again" emails. Gawd .. could you folks just please try to grow up once in a while? Anyway .. If I'm going to have to hear that song time after time after time after time every time two men pick up a ball or some sticks and decide to have a contest .. then I want the Cactus Cuties to sing it. These gals are fantastic!

By the way .. this thing wasn't our National Anthem until 1931. What's the big deal ? It sucks. Let's go with "God Bless America." At least we can sing that one.

DURN ... RUNNING OUT OF TIME

There are other goodies I wanted to include in the notes today ... but time ran out. At the top of the list is the problem that Obama has with some of his buddies. If you're known by the company you keep, Obama isn't the type of guy you really want to know. We'll cover this on the air. What, after all, would happen to a Republican candidate who's beloved pastor told the congregation not to sing "God Bless America," but to sing "God Damn America" instead. Really, see the video for yourself!

Just tune in ... I'll do everything I can to piss you off at some point during the day.

NEAL ON TV TONIGHT

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LIFE UNDER HILLARY OR OBAMA

As you know, both Hillary and Obama have proposals out there that would eliminate union elections in the workplace. These proposals would institutionalize union intimidation and coercion in efforts to unionize workplaces. Now .. why do I have a problem with unions? Just read this email:

Message:
Boortz, I witnessed this event at my place of employment and was astonished at what happened. This is what Hillary and her gang want to do to us. I work in a large corporation that has both Union and non union employees. One of my coworkers was moving their desk, to one desk over (in a cubicle land). They were instructed to call facilities (which is Unionized). He thought, forget about it, it will take them a week to move me, I'll just move myself. So he completed the task at hand, was able to complete it in 1 hour. Well, some of the union employees found out and complained. The union filed a grievance against him and he has now lost his job. This was all done because he was taking a job away from a Union worker by moving his equipment and personal desk items himself. We were then told as a department that if we needed to move, even 1 desk over we're to box up all of our stuff and submitt a ticket to facilities to have them move us. I wouldn't have believed this would've happened except that I saw it myself. Yeah America, vote for Hillary and see what you get...

OBAMA IS UPSET WITH MCCAIN

Barack Obama is upset with John McCain over taxes. Obama says that McCain reversed his position on the Bush tax cuts simply to win the Republican nomination. He says that McCain was "right then, and he's wrong now."

McCain says that he supports an extension of the Bush tax cuts because the economy is struggling, and he recognizes that tax reductions offer an economy stimulus. Meanwhile, Obama is proposing subsidies for higher education, health care and other costs that are affecting the poor middle class. These subsidies must be part of this "change we can believe in." His plan on how he actually wants to implement these subsidies? Taxes. Close tax loopholes, new tax on carbon emissions, ending the war in Iraq and ending the Bush tax cuts for America's evil "highest earners." These Obama tax increases would amount to hundreds of billions of dollars.

Even if McCain did "flip flop" on the Bush tax cuts, I would much rather have someone that understands the reasoning behind the benefits of tax cuts ... rather than a tax-and-spender who wants to redistribute the wealth from the high income earners and those evil rich that create more carbon emissions, to those that are "less fortunate."

Meanwhile, Barack Obama suddenly decided to release all of his earmark requests ... and he is challenging Hillary to do the same. This change in rhetoric wouldn't be because he wants votes, would it? Yeah .. it's OK for Obama to do the flip-glop dance, but not McCain.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

The lamestream media can't label Eliot Spitzer a Democrat to save their lives ... but they sure as hell can find the "R" on the keyboard. Actual headline: "Eliot Spitzer (R) holds a news conference in New York City with his wife Silda by his side."

MOCKING OBAMA

Yesterday in the Senate, an amendment was proposed by Republican Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado that was meant to mock Barack Obama's proposals for his "change we can believe in" campaign. Allard's amendment was a whopping $1.4 trillion, in order to encompass all of Obama's promises. Those proposals included $65 billion a year for universal healthcare, $6.6 billion a year to expand the Army, and $10 billion a year to eliminate income taxes on lower income seniors. Allard has nothing to lose by proposing the ridiculous amendment ... he is retiring.

FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION

We've been getting a lot of outrageous stories lately that seem to have one common theme: the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Here's another example. Two local fishermen have to pay $16,000 in penalties for violation of federal rules on red snapper. Back in January, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission boarded Rudolph Dendekker and Herbert Regan Jr.'s boat. On the boat they found a whopping 35 whole snappers and 128 fillets. They were confiscated. These conservation commission officers then called a special agent with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in order to prosecute the men with fishing violations. After DNA tests, the NOAA determined that at least 25 of the fish were red snappers. The government limit on red snapper is two per person and the fish must be at least 20 inches long.

Now the men have to go to court or pay the $16,000 fine for having 21 more red snappers in the boat than the government allows. The men are also being penalized with making false statements and interfering with, obstructing or delaying an investigation or search.

MUSLIM OUTRAGE: HAM SANDWICHES

Muslim inmates at a prison in Great Britain were offended when shown a menu of the food they would receive during the holiest month of Ramadan. They were shocked to see that the "halal" menu included ham sandwiches. Some Muslims are threatening civil action claiming that they were victims of racial harassment and mistreatment. They claim that this was clear evidence to "underlying insensitivity" of the Prison Service.

The mayor of the town has issued an apology. The Justice Secretary has ordered that prison bosses be more diligent in catering to Muslim's needs. He also promised that the prison staff would be re-trained on prisoners' cultural and religious needs. Even more absurd, additional local management checks and staff training will be introduced to the prison before Ramadan begins.

The Prison Service already offers 11 different religious and cultural diets to meet prisoner demands. National Muslim leaders and organizations such as the Halal Food Authority are already consulted when putting together menus. Imams are also invited to make sure that food preparation and storage facilities comply with Islamic religious code.

FREELOADING MOOCHERS IN RIOT MODE

When you go to buy a home or to rent an apartment ... ask if there is any Section 8 housing in the neighborhood. Section 8 is welfare housing. This is where the government seizes your money and gives it to some other person - usually an overweight single mother with a cell phone and no idea who her babydaddy is - to subsidize the home right next to you. Trust me .. you don't want to be living near most of these people.

When I first starting practicing law my office was on the same floor of a building in Atlanta that housed the local housing authority. Several times a year they would hand out applications for welfare housing vouchers. On those mornings I would literally have to wade through urine and Lord knows what to get to my office. Why? Because the hallway would be full of women with their fatherless babies squatting all over the place waiting for their government handout. Used diapers - urine - baby food - garbage - Honey Bun wrappers - you name it, there it was scattered around the hallway.

They were handing out welfare housing vouchers in Palm Beach earlier this week. Take a look at this story from the Palm Beach Post .. and be sure to click on the link for the "special video report". Watch the video. Look for a woman of normal weight. Look for a father. Have fun.

BERKELEY MOONBATS

I'm posting this commentary as yet another example of these anti-military moonbats out in Berkeley, California. This one comes from Kenneth Thiesen. I do this so that you can take a trip into the dark mind of a peace-at-any-price liberal.

Why I Don't Support the Troops

In the recent political battle around the Marine recruiting station in Berkeley there has been much confusion around the concept or slogan of "supporting the troops," but opposing the unjust wars of the Bush regime. Many who oppose the Bush regime wars also say they "support the troops." Let me say it straight out-I do not support the troops and neither should you. It is objectively impossible to support the troops of the imperialist military forces of the U.S. and at the same time oppose the wars in which they fight.

The United States has over 700 military bases or sites located in over 130 foreign countries. The hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in these countries are not there to preserve or foster freedom and democracy as the Bush regime would like to claim, but to maintain U.S. imperialist domination of the world. The United States now spends more on its military than all the other nations of the world combined.

If you "support the troops" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other more than 100 countries in which they are located, you also objectively support U.S. hegemony in the world. I believe that the vast majority of people who say they support the troops do not wish to support U.S. imperialism, but that is what they are really doing by putting forth the slogan of "support the troops."

We need to oppose the recruitment of men and women into the military. We need to support resisters within the military who have realized what they are doing and now choose to resist the role of the U.S. military. This includes people such as Lt. Ehren Watada who refused to deploy to Iraq. Watada stated, "Never did I imagine my president would lie to go to war, condone torture, spy on Americans..." He was the first officer to refuse to go to Iraq and he was court-martialed. Another resister is Camilo Mejia. In 2004 Sergeant Mejia was sentenced to one year in prison when he was court-martialed for refusing to assist the military in Iraq. Mejia said, "I am only a regular person that got tired of being afraid to follow his own conscience. For far too long I allowed others to direct my actions even when I knew that they were wrong...."

We need to expose that those in the U.S. military are trained to be part of a "killing machine." While not every member of the military is an individual murderer, they are all part of a system that commits war crimes, including aggressive wars, massacres, rape, and other crimes against humanity, all in the service of U.S. imperialism. The bottom line is that even if these people are relatives or friends, you can not support the troops without also supporting the objective role that these troops play in the imperialist system.

United States troops are acting as destructive and murderous forces of invasion and occupation. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan see this on a daily basis. Hundreds of thousands have died as a direct result of the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Millions are either internal or external refugees. Tens of thousands have been detained in prisons, with thousands of these tortured and scores murdered. Haditha, Iraq where 24 Iraqis were massacred is just the best known of the massacres. Women and children are routinely described as "collateral damage" by military spokespersons when they are murdered in military operations.

"Support for the troops" has become political cover to support the wars. In Congress, many of those who claim they oppose the wars, use "support of the troops" to vote for hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the wars. These politicians are political opportunists, but there are also people who genuinely oppose the war, but who also say "I support the troops."

But to decide whether U.S. troops deserve support you must analyze what they actually do in countries occupied by the U.S. The wars these troops are engaged in have the goal of maintaining and extending U.S. hegemony throughout the world. They are unjust, illegal, and immoral wars. Can you support the troops in these wars? Why is this any different from a German in World War II saying, "I oppose the wars launched by Hitler, but I support the troops of the German army which are making these wars possible." When the Marines in Haditha massacred Iraqis, including women and children, would it have been correct to say I supported the Marines who killed those people, but not the massacre? This would be ridiculous, but no more so than supporting the troops engaged in the war that made the Haditha massacre possible in the first place.

In 1933 Marine Major General Smedley Butler clarified the role of the U.S. military. He stated, "War is just a racket...It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses...I spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps...In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism..."

Like Butler, Watada, and Mejia, those in the military today must take responsibility for what the military does. Just like the German soldiers of World War 2 could not hide behind the "I was just following orders" excuse, military personnel today also can not hide behind it. Those of us who oppose the unjust wars of the Bush regime must struggle with those in the military and those that support them to expose what role the troops objectively play. Supporting the troops engaged in making war against other nations and people on behalf of U.S. imperialism is not acceptable.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

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As of right now, the plans for a Michigan re-do seem to be unlikely.

Yesterday on the Boortz Show we brought you the story of the woman on who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years ... the Sheriff is now recommending that charges be filed against the boyfriend for mistreatment of a dependent adult.

Here's an example of Two Americas that I can believe in ... one that wishes to protect us from Islamic radicals and one that wishes to appease them.

This is a great little re-cap on what has happen in the US since the Democrats took over in the Congress ... and a peak at some of their earmark spending.

I'm very happy for the people of Colorado who are choosing to arm and protect themselves.

In Germany it is a crime to call yourself a Doctor if you didn't get your PhD in Germany.

The Democrat mayor of Detroit has been in some hot water too. But now he is turning it into a race issue.

Apparently getting elected to Congress has become a get rich quick scheme. The median net worth of senators is now $1.7 million.

Here are some interesting tidbits that might get feminists' thongs in a bunch. It turns out that there really are differences between male and female brains.

Since it has been a week of Catholic insensitivity ... here's a senior Catholic bishop in Scotland that has jumped onto this "gay conspiracy" nonsense.

A 10-year-old government school student in Oregon was arrested for calling 911 to report a school shooting that turned out to be false.

A church in Ohio is offering a 25 cent discount on gas if people come to church services.

Singer Harry Connick Jr. was forced to change his performance in China at the last minute because someone submitted an old song list to the Chinese government, which has to screen all foreign performers.

Video of the Day: from Japan....how obedient is your dog? How about your chimp? The Japanese make a game show out of it.

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Newt Gingrich had a chat with Neal on the show today. He has a new DVD out called Rediscovering God in America.

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