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READING ASSIGNMENTS

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Neal Boortz
@ May 1, 2009 8:02 AM Permalink | Comments (32) | TrackBacks (0)

We are going to have Atlanta attorney Andrew Speaker on the show today. Here's the latest on his lawsuit against the CDC.

The World Health Organization says that "all of humanity is under threat" from this swine flu fajita flu.

Fox won the ratings war by scoring more viewers than other networks that ran Barack Obama's press conference the other night.

This Wall Street Journal column says that the real culture war in America is over the concept of capitalism and essentially freedom.

Experts are warning that the Internet is running of space.

It looks like the Obama administration isn't going to be able to release all of the detainees from Gitmo like liberal bed-wetters had hoped.

Yet another Democrat admits that Obama's plan to institute a cap-and-trade policy is going to increase energy prices for Americans.

Good news .. the Senate defeated the "cramdown" bill yesterday.

When Obama has to fill an open seat in the FCC, who better to appoint than the oldest daughter of South Carolina race-pimp Senator James Clyburn.

Tax cheat Timothy Geithner says that the government is not going to need any more bailout money ... anytime "soon."

Now you will learn how $100 million is large when $8 billion is small, in the world according to Barack Obama.

Get a load of this .. Israeli passengers have complained to a British airline that Israel was nowhere to be found on their inflight maps, which showed flights bound for Israel were instead heading to Mecca.

A hospital in Nashville has agreed to pay a former employee $70,000 in damages for denying him time off so that he could make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Connecticut has now made it illegal to transfer machine guns to children . Aren't you glad your lawmakers are making great use of your tax dollars?

Now a man from Montana will explain to you why he does not want to serve on a jury.

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  • Swine Flu
    We should rename it the Obama Flu, dangerous but overhyped.
    By Adam @ 05/03/09 03:01:02 PMreport abuse
  • IPv6 should not be forced by govt.
    Josh Y - sorry if there was even a HINT of having government force this on people or companies. The government clearly needs to migrate its own extensive networks (and soon), but the private sector ALSO needs to migrate, and not because govt. tells them to. Private companies should migrate because the IETF, ARIN, RIPE and other groups have done the research (all open and available to all) and determined that there is no other option, and the addresses really are running out. If the migration is not done soon, there will be serious problems with the continued growth of the Internet. Already innovation is being held way back, and there are unneccesary problems and costs associated with trying to stick with IPv4 any longer. For example, to get even two "real" IPv4 addresses (necessary for many things, like tunneling IPv6, doing P2P right, VoIP without NAT traversal, etc), I now have to pay $162 per address per year for them. These are just NUMBERS. But they are getting so scarce they now have value, which I have to pay. The IPv4 Internet is badly broken today, and migration to IPv6 will solve most of the problems. Think what it will be like if after 2010 the world wide Internet starts breaking down or fragmenting. We are REALLY dependent on it today, and are becomming more and more so. I find it amazing how backwards and resistant most Americans (including the government) are to this necessary change. This is an example of the wider malaise now becoming rampant in the U.S.

    No, I DO NOT advocate the government pushing this down people's throats. They should be doing for their own self interest.
    By Lawrence @ 05/01/09 10:54:07 PMreport abuse
  • Mecca Lawsuit
    Bottom line....don't hire Muslims. Hopefully this hospital has rewritten vacation policy guidelines. If the hospital is smart, there will be a set maximum vacation days taken at any one time and all vacation used up (or lost) prior to the end of the year. Other employees will suffer of course. The cost of the lawsuit will simply drift down to patients i.e. (paying) customers.
    By NCchik @ 05/01/09 05:59:46 PMreport abuse
  • Jim Clyburn
    Correction, folks: Jim Clyburn is a Congressman, not a Senator. SC's senators are Lindsay Graham (*ack!) and Jim Demint.
    By Brent @ 05/01/09 05:53:24 PMreport abuse
  • Senator???????? Clyburn. No.
    Neal, unless my beloved S. Carolina has three senators (Jim DeMint, Lindsay Grahm-nesty) provided for in the constitution, I believe Clyburn is a mere Congressman race pimp.

    But PrezBo demonstrates again and again that this so-called "change" of his is nothing more but old-school, dirty dimocrat politics as usual. Clyburn's daughter on the FCC? What a joke---she has no qualifications whatsoever--we may as well put "Crony" beneath her name on the FCC website.
    By $mooth Operator @ 05/01/09 04:08:04 PMreport abuse
  • New Name for Swine Flu
    I would like to put before the media a new name for the Swine Flu. I would like to have it called the Dirty Sanchez Flu. That is all.
    By Brian from Acworth @ 05/01/09 03:39:52 PMreport abuse
  • Jury Duty
    Thanks Neal!! Absolutely hilarious I have sat on Jury Duty thinking the same kind of thing. Be hard to do it again without laughing out loud!!
    By Paul @ 05/01/09 01:23:50 PMreport abuse
  • Internet and Obama math
    Internet running out of space.... reminds me of Y2K

    Obama Math.... Clinton's "depends on what "is" is.
    Relativism is great for those looking to trick people. Example: There have been countless naked women that have used the bed I will lay down on today....
    it's a TANNING bed. A million here, a billion there, a trillion over there. It's all fun when it's other people's money.

    Oops, I'm a doubter.... Remember, no questioning government. We must let them think for us. Ignore history, it's different this time. When you think about the money being spent, ignore history. Like a battered/abused spouse staying with an abuser, ignore history.
    By Ken in Oregon @ 05/01/09 01:23:39 PMreport abuse
  • Children with machine guns
    Yes, they were definately threatened by this video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irykjLjuKo8
    By Bill Gamelson @ 05/01/09 12:53:05 PMreport abuse
  • Jury Duty
    While I might not have put it in such colorful terms (then again, maybe I would have), everything this guy had to say sounds right on to me. Jury duty is a complete waste of time.
    By jworley @ 05/01/09 12:37:47 PMreport abuse
  • Mecca lawsuit
    "What's the point of having vacation time and not being allowed to use it?"

    Even if you have accumulated vacation time, you can't just take off any time you want; you still need the permission of your employer. The guy didn't just ask for time off; he asked for *20 days* off. If you take a few days or a week off, your employer shifts people around or your co-workers have to pick up some of the slack. If you take four weeks (20 working days) off, though, there's a problem.

    Maybe there were some comments made that we're not privy to (and neither side can disclose thanks to the agreement), but "he had the vacation days accumulated" doesn't end the argument. I suspect any employee who asked for 4 weeks off would be laughed at. I don't think it speaks well of the employer that they couldn't make an accommodation for a well-known religious practice, but it's not obvious discrimination, either.
    By Stephen @ 05/01/09 12:24:51 PMreport abuse
  • Boortz Detroit bashing
    Screw you Boortz on your Detroit bashing. Its not like Stafford is going to live in the city. The Metro Detroit area is great, even if the city is a dump. Anyway, screw you.
    By Jerk Store @ 05/01/09 11:43:16 AMreport abuse
  • Mecca Lawsuit
    The guy has a case. According to the article, he had accumulated vacation time so why wasn't he allowed to use it? What's the point of having vacation time and not being allowed to use it? The hospital was out of line here and are lucky it only cost them $70K.
    By Rockhound @ 05/01/09 11:13:54 AMreport abuse
  • Jury Duty
    I think your company has to not fire you for going to jury duty, but that would be easy enough to just say they fired you for some other reason.

    An easy way to get out is during the interview process say "I can tell if a guy is guilty just by looking at him."
    By Judy @ 05/01/09 11:02:44 AMreport abuse
  • Internet
    Thanks for the additional info, Josh L!
    The minute I read the original article I knew it was just a mask for net neutering, er, neutrality. The internet is the bane of every politician who wants to retain their power (Dem or Rep).

    Lawrence, you raised some good point about IPv6. I need to look up more information on it, but I agree that current IPs won't last much longer.
    I just hope you aren't advocating that the government should step in a force server companies to switch. I think the free market is quite capable of knocking them over the head and saying "You need to do this if you want to stay in business".
    By Josh Y @ 05/01/09 10:46:59 AMreport abuse
  • Jury Duty
    I can understand the man's position with hourly jobs, if you don't work, you don't get paid and might get fired too. With salaried corporate jobs if you can't make it to work, you get fired. Companies don't care if it was jury duty or not, you still put your job in jeopardy.
    By Capt. Jack @ 05/01/09 10:36:44 AMreport abuse
  • Jury duty
    I'd rather do what the Affiant stated pertaining to his dog than watch or listen to anything Pelosi or the rest of the braindead democraps have to say.
    By chris pedersen @ 05/01/09 10:26:23 AMreport abuse
  • Jury duty
    On the issue of jury duty, can't we all relate to what that guy said in his affidavit?
    By EdMcGon @ 05/01/09 10:16:39 AMreport abuse
  • If my late father were still alive ...
    he'd volunteer for jury duty. He was retired, had nothing better to do, the court'd pay him lunch money, and he thought testimony was entertaining.

    A juror that wants to be there ... scary thought.
    By Jubilation T Cornpone @ 05/01/09 10:10:18 AMreport abuse
  • Connecticut legislators passed a law
    making it illegal for those under 16 to possess a machine gun.

    They had to do SOMETHING ... they can't figure out how to balance a budget - especially if it involves reducing expenses.
    By Jubilation T Cornpone @ 05/01/09 10:06:44 AMreport abuse
  • Chrysler
    Looks like the union and the TARP recipients are going to make out like bandits in this 'bankruptcy'. The ones that's going to get screwed? Yes, the lenders that didn't receive the the welfare check!

    http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/chrysler-lenders-fault-government-as-bankruptcy-looms/?ref=business
    By Michael @ 05/01/09 09:51:31 AMreport abuse
  • Roundup of topics
    Fox Channel - kudos for pre-empting PBO for regular programming!
    Culture War - God help us if the entitlement class defeats the capitalist class.
    Internet Bandwidth: they could just delete YouTube. But that would be very unpopluar!!!
    By O'Dissious @ 05/01/09 09:30:04 AMreport abuse
  • Yay
    Cap and Trade = taxes

    no to cramdown

    YES, someone out there has a set.
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 05/01/09 09:18:05 AMreport abuse
  • Connections
    NWO, King of Jordan visiting here last week, Rex84.

    Have fun.
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 05/01/09 09:13:35 AMreport abuse
  • Andrew Speaker
    If a person, knowingly infected with Aids is intimate with another person, they can be prosecuted for attempted murder. It seems only reasonable then that a man diagnosed with TB, traveling in the confined space of a plane, also exposes unsuspecting people to his own fate. How dare he sue the CDC....
    By Peg @ 05/01/09 09:05:50 AMreport abuse
  • The bottom line
    Fox Network made a business decision and paid off both in the ratings, and in free publicity.

    It also shows that not everyone is, or will be, followers to the current administration's hype.

    But it most certainly did show the adolescent behavior of Obama by deliberately dis'n the Fox reporter.

    I tip my hat to Fox, you earned it.
    By John Wayne @ 05/01/09 09:00:54 AMreport abuse
  • Internet running out of space...
    The bandwidth issue is only one aspect of the Internet running out of resources. The more important and imminent one is that it is running out of IP addresses (i.e. those 32 bit numbers often written like '123.45.67.89'). By mid 2010 the IANA will be out of numbers, and before the end of 2010, there won't be any left. The answer is IPv6. Much of the world is already moving to it (Asia first, EU second). The U.S. is right up there with Africa and Latin America with essentially NO migration or funding for it. We've known this was coming since 1995, and the new Internet Protocol (IPv6) has been under development since then, and is now mature and ready to deploy. The U.S. appears to be regarding this as similar to the Metric System, which all countries in the world have long since adopted, except for the U.S. and one backward SE Asian country (Myanmar?). Long before we run out of bandwidth, the U.S. will have NO addresses for new nodes or networks. IPv6 also solves much of the bandwidth issue due to good support for multicast, which would reduce needs for bandwidth hogs like YouTube by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude.

    Good job, U.S. - you're falling into last place in the last remaining area you excelled in (the Internet).
    By Lawrence @ 05/01/09 08:57:52 AMreport abuse
  • swine flu
    our news organizations have took a break from getting you scared of north korean missiles. not they got you scared of the swine flu.

    sorta like the bird flu a few years ago. i'm scared to go out of my house from the bird flu, i don't know what to do from the swine flu.
    By tshirt-doctor.com @ 05/01/09 08:32:39 AMreport abuse
  • Jury Duty
    ...and there's my heartfelt laughter for the day! :D
    By Jennifer @ 05/01/09 08:23:45 AMreport abuse
  • Andrew Speaker
    I cannot understand why you would give him any air time. I thought that the Neal Boortz show didn't have on-air guests - unless they had something noteworthy to talk about or say! Come on Neal, you don't need to give this guy any free publicity!
    By John W @ 05/01/09 08:17:05 AMreport abuse
  • WSJ article.
    Well stated! Hopefully things will turn around, but I don't see it anytime soon. I think we'll see more Wall Street welfare queens, irresponsible homeowners and bankers being bailed out.
    By Michael @ 05/01/09 08:15:37 AMreport abuse
  • Internet is running out of space.....
    It's total BS! Check this link out and it will explain how this came to be from 'expert opinion'.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/suckered-by-astroturf_b_73483.html
    By Josh L @ 05/01/09 08:13:42 AMreport abuse
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