Friday, June 11, 2004

WE HAVE A FEW THINGS WORKING AGAINST US TODAY

First ... Almost my entire family is in town and we went out to dinner last night ... until about three hours past my bedtime.  Family is more important than program notes.  Second; when I got up (finally) this morning I couldn't get on the Internet at home.  So ... I had to wait until I got to the studios to play with these notes.  Result?  Meager notes.  I guess you'll just have to listen to see what I have on my mind today.

PUTIN CALLS OUT THE DEMOCRATS

Nothing like putting the liberals in their place...and this time it comes courtesy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Speaking during a joint press conference yesterday at the G8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia, Putin was asked about news articles questioning Russia's place at the G8.

He replied that such articles were part of an internal U.S. political debate.  Then, he followed up with this little gem: "I am deeply convinced that President Bush's political adversaries have no moral right to attack him over Iraq because they did exactly the same.  It suffices to recall Yugoslavia.  Now look at them.  They don't like what President Bush is doing in Iraq."

This is almost too good to be true, but Putin is 100% right.  Liberals like to bash President Bush for allegedly "going it alone" in Iraq (even thought there were other countries involved, and the U.N. did have resolutions on the books threatening Iraq with the use of force.)  They love to talk about Bush's unprecedented, unilateral action, but at the same time, Democrats and their buddies in the media conveniently forget about President Clinton bombing the Serbs 5 years ago.  There was no U.N. approval there at all, but as usual, Clinton gets a pass.

Russia was opposed to American military action in both Yugoslavia and Iraq.  But now, Putin is the one calling out the left for playing both sides of the fence.

Priceless.

Funch Bunch June 9, 2004 at the Capital Grille View pictures

FREE SPEECH?

In considering the situation in France, you should know that there are not many countries out there where freedom of speech is guaranteed.  Canada, for instance, has no guaranteed freedom of speech in its constitution. It can be said that free speech is pretty much unique to Great Britain and the United States.  Make no mistake .. there are people in this country, both on the left and on the right, who want us to join Canada in this regard.

A PRIVILEGE?

In Georgia, as in many other states, you pay a tax to the state when you sell real property.  In Georgia it's called the Real Estate Transfer Tax.  A listener noticed an interesting bit on the Georgia Department of Revenue website.  There we are told that the real estate transfer tax is not really a property tax.  So, what is it?  Well, it is a "tax on the privilege of selling property."

Selling property is a privilege?  A privilege granted by who?  By the government, that's who!  Golly, here all this time I thought that a basic part of property rights was the right to dispose of that property as we see fit!  After all, you don't really own property if you aren't allowed to dispose of it.  Is that the way things are in Georgia? Nooooo!  In Georgia selling your property is a privilege!  A privilege granted to you by government!  And since the privilege is granted by government, it can be taken away by government! 

I wonder how many other rights we take for granted are actually nothing more than privileges granted by government.

A FITTING REAGAN TRIBUTE

Ronald Reagan's favorite patriotic song was "God Bless America."  A fitting tribute to Ronald Reagan would be to get rid of that hideous takeoff on an old English drinking song we now use as a national anthem, and replace it with "God Bless America."  As for those who would object to the word "God" in that song.  Two words.  Screw them.

INTERNATIONAL "ANTI-POVERTY TAX?"

I haven't been able to find much on this yet, but evidently French Grande Fromage Jacques Chirac has proposed some sort of an international anti-poverty tax.  What this really means is that Chirac wants those people with the highest standards of living (that would be Americans) to fork over some of their hard-earned cash to lift the standard of living for the world's poor.

Know what?  I've just about had the poor up to here.  There are many reasons for poverty, but for the most part poverty can be described as either a behavioral disorder or a mental disease.

So .. if we're going to be saddled with some sort of tax -- collected and administered by the United Nations no doubt -- to take care of the world's great unwashed, we ought to get some power for our bucks.  More specifically:

• The power to remove dictators and despots who take actions which deny their people property rights and economic liberty.
• The power to impose capitalistic economies throughout the world.  There is no better anti-poverty program than capitalism.
• The power to require participation in educational and jobs training programs for all people claiming assistance.
• The power to force people to move from where there are no jobs to locales where jobs can be found. 
• The power to compel the use of birth control in populations where people breed like hamsters with no ability to care for the children they produce.

And I'm just getting started here.  More to come.

MEDIA REJOICES AS POLL SHOWS BUSH BEHIND

You really do have to wonder about the media sometimes.  It must be awfully difficult to sit there and constantly dream up new ways to bash the President.  Somehow, they always seem to get it done.  Their latest obsession is a single poll in a single newspaper that shows The Poodle ahead of President Bush by six or seven points.  BFD.  But judging by their reporting, you would think the election was five minutes away instead of over five months.

"Kerry surges ahead of Bush" scream the headlines...but you have to ask yourself...what if the situation were reversed?  Would they report that "Bush surges ahead of Kerry?"  Of course not...if Bush led Kerry by six or seven points, it would be reported as a "thin margin," and the president would be "barely leading" in the polls. They would tell us that it was within the margin of error, and it was inconclusive.

Let's try to keep this in perspective, Bush's father was 17 points behind Michael Dukakis in the summer of 1988, and he was elected with relative ease.  Who they polled...what questions were asked...how many were polled...these all figure into the polling result.

Enough with the polls. nobody cares.  Why, after all, do newspapers take polls? To create news and to give them something to cover, that's why.  Isn't there something just a little bit curious about newspapers going out there to create news to cover?

THIS LISTENER HAD IT RIGHT NO TWO COUNTS.

This from yesterday's email:

"The greatest president of the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan. The CLASS of The Neal Boortz Show, Belinda.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Earlier this week liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy was crediting the Solidarity movement with the defeat of communism.  Well, here's Lech Walesa handing that credit to Ronald Reagan.

Reagan started a war that is still being waged today ... the war against liberalism

Well isn't this just nice.  The federal government is spending $13 million on a program to fly illegal aliens back home. Why not just escort them to the border?

You know all these liberals and Democrats that are saying nice things about Ronald Reagan?  Seems like they were singing a different tune just a few years ago, writes Max Boot.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton hardly have much in common politically, but Dick Morris says Clinton was Reagan's ratifier...in other words, he stole his ideas.

How does the media cover the death of a man they hated for eight years, but the American public loved?  They go on and on about his optimism...but as Charles Krauthammer says, there was more to Reagan than that.

It's important to remember that things weren't always easy for President Ronald Reagan, but President Bush should take note.  More from Michael Barone.

Person after person has been writing about their encounters and experiences with President Reagan...here are some from Herbert London.

Even though the Euro-Weenies reject the comparison, the war on terrorism does echo World War II, says Clifford D. May.

Tired of the steady drumbeat of bad news from Iraq?  Chuck Colson has some good news that you're unlikely to hear anywhere else.

Ronald Reagan was a great inspiration, and a great friend. Thoughts from Senator Connie Mack.

Terrorists need to be treated differently....White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales explains why.

Man lies dead in apartment for 20 years.

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