Monday, August 2, 2004
 ONE
KICK-ASS NEALZ NUZE
Do they give Pulitzers for websites? This edition
of Nealz Nuze is so awesome that I actually hesitate to post it for fear that
you will expect the same tomorrow ... or the next day. Actually ...
I pulled some items from this Nuze and set them aside for later.
Believe me, I paid a domestic price for spending this
much time at the 'puter over the weekend. Don't get your hopes up.
NOW
--- A THIRD REASON TO SUPPORT GEORGE BUSH
This news came across a bit late this morning for me to make any extensive
notes, but it certainly will be a topic of conversation on the Boortz show
today. Drudge is reporting that a domestic centerpiece of the Bush/GOP
agenda for the second Bush term will be tax reform. Not a half-assed
attempt at tax reform mirroring past efforts, but a true top-to-bottom change in
the way the federal government finances its operations. Drudge is
reporting that Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert will be pushing for
replacing the federal income tax with a national retail sales tax or a value
added tax.
Tune in the show today for more details.
NEW
YORK IN THE CROSSHAIRS
 The
Department of Homeland Security says Al-Qaeda terrorists are threatening to blow
up the financial districts in three major cities. Security at financial
sites in New York City, Washington D.C. and northern New Jersey has been
increased because the federal government has raised the terror threat level to
orange. Commercial traffic was stopped through New York's Holland Tunnel
last night. The targets in question are the IMF, the World Bank,
Prudential Plaza, the Citigroup building, and the New York Stock Exchange.
All symbols of American capitalism, all hated by the Islamic thugs that want to
blow them up.
Tom Ridge says the intelligence suggests car and truck bombs were planned for
those targets. Al Qaeda has reportedly been monitoring the flow of
pedestrians in and out of these buildings, all to see just how many civilians
they might be able to kill with one well-parked bomb. Where did the
information come from? The New York Times says it was a captured Al Qaeda
figure in Pakistan that turned out to be a computer engineer in charge of
transmitting coded messages to other Al Qaeda members.
The Islamic jihadists are waiting to kill more Americans. Who do you want
running the show? The fighter or the appeaser? Maybe John Kerry is
the answer. In threatening times like these Kerry would be hard at work
trying to get people to like us. That way, if the Islamic terrorists do
happen to kill another 3,000 Americans -- or more -- at least we'll be able to
get some sympathy from all of those nations out there who respect us.
By the way ... whatever we do in response to this latest terrorist threat ...
let's make sure we don't profile. The protection of the principals of
political correctness trumps the safety of our people.
FOOTNOTE
When Americans feel a heightened threat from Islamic terrorism they tend to
gravitate toward the candidate they think will protect them. Clearly,
that's Bush. So .. before the day is out expect some Democrat to suggest that
this whole terror alert scenario is false; just an attempt to scare people at
the very time Kerry should be enjoying his convention bounce. Just watch.
UPDATE!
Well .. that didn't take long. The culprit was none other than Howard
Dean. There he was on CNN this morning suggesting that this was just an
attempt by the Bush Administration to rally Americans to his side. Of
course if there was an attack without a warning Howard Dean would be out there
yelling "What did the president know about this attack? When did he
know it? Why didn't he warn us? Bottom line ... Bush can't win with
these jerks.
I'M
GOING TO CATCH HELL FOR THIS ONE .... BUT I'M RIGHT
Just a small wager: I'll collect from you on this on the morning of
November 3rd. I'm betting that an impartial observer of the November 2nd
election will be able to tell you who won our presidential election merely by
watching the video -- no audio -- only the video of any of several Arabic
television stations or news channels. Just watch the people in the streets
of Tehran, Cairo or Damascus. If they're shouting, celebrating and
shooting their AK-47s into the air, you'll know that Kerry won. If there
are long faces in the capitols of the sponsors of terrorism, you can get ready
for another four years of George W. Bush.
I'LL
CATCH HELL FOR THIS ONE ALSO
By now we all have heard the wonderful, heart-warming story of Licorice The
Hamster. It was Vanessa Kerry's hamster. Or maybe it was Alexandra's
hamster. Who really cares. The point is, Licorice got knocked into
the water -- while in his cage, no less -- during a Kerry family outing some
years ago. The brave John Kerry fished Licorice from the briny deep and
revived Licorice with some hamster CPR. Nice. I had hamsters when I
was a kid, so I appreciate John Kerry's efforts.
Now ... for the insensitive part. Isn't it nice that Massachusetts has
at least one U.S. Senator who isn't afraid to make a water rescue? What
does it say about the Senior Senator from Massachusetts that while his junior
colleague would risk life and limb for a 1 ounce rodent, Ted Kennedy wouldn't
lift a finger to rescue a young lady from a car he had just driven into the
water!
Can we surmise that if it had been John Kerry instead of Ted Kennedy driving
Mary Jo home that night 35 years ago she might be alive today? Probably
so.
CONVENTION
A BUST FOR THE POODLE
You had to know something was fishy when Friday and Saturday came and went and
there were no breathless reports of the latest polls. Come on! Where
are they! Where are all the polls showing Kerry's huge bounce out of the
convention? Where was the front-page story showing his new momentum?
Well .. over the weekend, at least ... there weren't any.
Maybe we need to go back to the media template here. You remember, don't
you? If the news would hurt Bush, hammer it. If the news would help
Bush, bury it. Well, the news about polls looks bad for Kerry, good for
Bush. Maybe that's why you haven't been reading about them. The
polls, you see, show that Kerry got no bounce in the polls, and one poll
even showed him sliding against President Bush.
This is huge - the Kerry/Edwards campaign has to be on suicide watch right
about now. They put their best foot forward last week, they ran their 'A'
game in prime time, and they came up completely empty. They got nothing
out of it at all.
The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows Bush leading The Soufflé, 50% to 46%
among likely voters. More importantly, Bush is also leading in the
electoral college. As Al Gore found out, when it comes down to it, the
magic number in November is not any percentage of the vote, it's 270.
Maybe people watching were either already in the Kerry column, maybe they
weren't swayed, or maybe hardly anybody cared. It could just come down to
the fact that voters saw right through the Democrats pretending to be
Republicans on national security and the standard liberal issues.
Or, it just comes down to two undeniable facts going into the election:
Americans trust Bush on national security, and the economy is rebounding thanks
to the Bush tax cuts. What else can The Poodle offer? More
spending? Raise taxes? They've got nothing.
They went to Boston, put on a show, and it didn't stick. How embarrassing.
THIS
YOU MUST REMEMBER ABOUT JOHN KERRY'S TAX PLANS
John Kerry is announcing, rather proudly in fact, that he intends to raise taxes
... but only on those people in this country who are making more than $200,000 a
year. This idea is quite popular with an alarmingly large number of
(stupid/envious) Americans.
I'm going to explain why this is a bad idea. To most of my listeners I
offer this apology for the slow, plodding way I am going to go about this.
The problem is that most of the people who realize that Kerry's tax increases
are dangerous already understand what I'm going to tell you. Those who
think it's a great idea were probably educated in government schools.
That's why I have to take this slow. These folks aren't the easiest people
to educate.
OK ... first of all, on the campaign trail Kerry will usually chose his words
carefully. He will say that he wants to raise taxes only on "people
earning more than $200,000 a year." He intends for you to believe
that he's talking about individuals here; individuals earning more than two
hundred grand a year. But Kerry didn't say "individuals."
He'll say "people" or "Americans." The secret here is
that married couples fit under the definition of "people" and
"Americans." Kerry's tax-increase plans include any couple
reporting more than $200,000 in income on a joint tax return. So, you may
be making $85,000 a year, and your wife or husband may be making $120,000 a
year, and you think you've escaped Kerry's tax increase. Sorry! File
that joint return and join the club!
Now ... just who are these people earning more than $200,000 a year?
Sure, some of them are salaried individuals or commissioned sales weasels ...
but a lot of them are small business owners. In fact, a huge percentage of
them are small business owners. To be more specific ... a huge percentage
of these people are the very small business owners our economy depends on for
well over 75% of all jobs.
These small business owners are operating their businesses under such legal
structures as a Subchapter-S Corporation or an LLC, a Limited Liability
Corporation. These legal structures allow these individuals to operate
their businesses with most of the legal protections afforded regular
corporations, but without some of the more onerous accounting and financial
requirements. These Sub-S and LLC business owners do not file corporate
tax returns. All of their business earnings are reported on their personal
tax returns as personal income. So, if you're running a dry
cleaner, a restaurant or manufacturing company; if you're a doctor, lawyer or
dentist; if you own a construction company or any other small business as
a Sub-S or LLC you will report the earnings from that company on your personal
tax return. You can see that it won't take much at all for your income to
exceed the magic Kerry-targeted $200,000.
Now just what happens when you raise the income taxes on these $200,000 +
income earners? Come on now. I know you went to government schools
... but you can see the effect here, can't you? You're not really raising
an individual's taxes, you're raising taxes on a business. These small
business owners turn over to the government in taxes the money they could be
using to expand! Why do they want to expand their businesses?
Because the more business they do, the more money they make! To do more
business they may need more employees! But if the government is taking
more of their earnings, then there is less money available to hire new employees
or purchase equipment that is needed for business expansion!
This is why you see economic growth following tax cuts. Sure, the extra
money in the pockets of individual taxpayers doesn't hurt ... but the real
growth comes from small business owners using their tax savings to expand their
businesses by purchasing new equipment and hiring new people!
Does Kerry understand all this? Two weeks ago I would have told you
that he understands it all-too-well. Today, I'm not so sure. After
all, just last week I interviewed a congressman from Detroit, John Conyers, who
didn't even know that American corporations have to pay federal income taxes to
our federal government for earnings realized solely from overseas
operations. So, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Kerry might
be as dumb as most other Americans on this issue.
I'm going to make the assumption, though, that The Poodle knows who these
people are he wants to hit with a tax increase, and he knows what the effect
will be. He knows, but he doesn't give a damn. For Kerry, it's all
about power. He knows that the vast majority of Americans couldn't write a
coherent sentence about the tax treatment of Sub-S and LLC small
businesses. He knows that when he talks up a tax increase on
"Americans making more than $200,000 a year" that most people create a
mental image of some high-roller somewhere simply getting a $10,000 paycheck
every two weeks. The voters Kerry is after know that they'll never see a
paycheck like that, and by God they want to punish those evil people who
do. After all, they're only making that kind of money because they've
cheated someone else or because they have crooked lawyers. They're not
really working people like us, are they? They just sit around all day
polishing their Benz and sipping Chardonnay. Those $200,000 a year types
were just lucky. After all, didn't Richard Gephardt say that they were the
ones who "won life's lottery?" And don't they call us the
"less fortunate?"
So, if you happen to be on the fence in this election, here's your
question. Do you want these small business owners to keep that money and
spend it on business expansion, or do you want the government to take it and
spend it on who-knows-what in some congressman's district to help him buy some
votes?
If there was any decent economic education in our pitiful government schools
we wouldn't be discussing this right now.
THE
POODLE WANTS AN AMERICA THAT'S "FAIR"
Uh oh. Here we go with another campaign theme for the Democrats.
The Soufflé wants America to be "fair" again.
"Fair." Now there's a nice little word that resonates well
with pretty much everyone! Everyone just loves fairness, don't they?
Everyone wants to be fair, and everyone wants to vote for a candidate that's
fair.
Just what does Kerry mean by "fair" though? That's something
we're really going to have to explore more in the next nine weeks. Here's
an example of how Democrats might define "fairness."
- Not Fair: Allowing someone to keep the money that they earn.
- Fair: Taking money away from people who are earned a lot just
because they're lucky and giving that money to people who, doggone it, just
aren't that lucky.
- Not Fair: Allowing someone to take the money that they worked
for and earned and to make their own decisions on how to invest that money
for retirement.
- Fair: Taking 14% of every person's paycheck and then telling
them that they may get that money back with about a 1% return when they
retire, if, that is, they live long enough to retire.
- Not Fair: Allowing you to have that money back so that you
can make up your own mind on where your child will go to school.
- Fair: Seizing sizeable portions of your income to fund
hideously bad government schools.
Any suggestions from you folks?
BUSH
LIED? NOPE
One of the centerpieces of the Democratic stump speech these days has been that
'Bush lied.' The loony left likes to say that Bush 'misled the
country.' I've been trying for months now to get just one caller to
tell my vast (but not vast enough) audience just what lie Bush told us. So
far, no luck. It's a lot easier to run around saying that Bush lied than
it is to actually come up with an example*.
Still, even thought mountains of evidence, along with two reports by the
British and United States governments, exonerate the president, it's still a
rallying cry for the left. In case you come across one of these weirdoes,
let's examine the evidence.
David Kay, the leader of the Iraq Survey Group, speaking about the intelligence
said there was "no sign that the administration pressured
analysts." Then there was the bipartisan Senate Intelligence
Committee which completely absolved the administration of any lying. Over
in Great Britain, something called The Butler Report found no evidence that
Prime Minister Tony Blair misled anyone. Then, there's the 9/11
Commission, which found that the administration was misled by a flawed
intelligence network. And finally, even Hans Blix himself said who said
"I don't think they acted in bad faith."
So why do people keep repeating the fantasy that "Bush lied?"
Because their hatred of George W. Bush is so deep, they fail to see the facts
(something liberals don't like anyway.)
Next time somebody tells you Bush lied, ask them to prove it. They won't
be able to.
*Remember, a statement can only be a lie if you knew that statement to be
untrue at the time you made it. If I tell you that I'm going to take
Paul's phone call right after the break, and Paul hangs up during the break, I
can't be tagged with a lie.
SEX
TOYS BANNED IN ALABAMA
The Alabama state legislature has once again voted to outlaw the sale of
devises used for sexual stimulation or gratification. And you wonder why
Alabamastan is the butt of so many jokes? Think this one
through: Government has a monopoly on the use of force. Only
government can use force to pursue its goals. Now the State of Alabama can
use it's police power; i.e., use a GUN to prevent someone from selling or
purchasing an item that can be used to sexually stimulate one's self.
Nobody's rights are being violated by such a sale or purchase. Nobody is
being denied their right to life, liberty or property through either force or
fraud through the sale of a vibrator or other similar device. Nobody has
to even know that one of these dangerous instrumentalities is in the
neighborhood! Yet and still, the State of Alabama can use force, deadly if need
be, to prevent the sale or purchase of such an item, and can actually deprive a
person of their liberty or property (jail time or a fine) if they sell or
purchase one of these tools of Satan.
Free country, right? Tell that to Alabama.
Meanwhile ... we have to wonder what the problem is with the men of
Alabama. Most of the Alabama legislature is made up of men. Just who
are they protecting here? It's a pretty sad state of affairs when the men folk
have to get together and pass laws to keep their women from utilizing
alternative methods for sexual gratification. What do you Alabama studs
need? Lessons?
HOW
VERY PROUD THEY MUST BE
 We're
getting close to the start of the Olympics in Athens. Almost $1.5 billion
(that's with a "B") has been spent just on security for these
Olympics. That's more than ten times what was spent on security in Atlanta
eight years ago. There's one primary reason for these concerns over
security and this spending. One reason, one word. Muslims. The
great and wonderful peaceful religion of Islam has spawned a violent arm that
wants nothing more than to kill anything not Muslim. How proud Muslims
must be. By the way, does anyone remember reading, seeing or hearing a
statement from a Muslim group calling for fellow Muslims to leave the Olympics
alone? I went to the website for the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR) this morning to look for just such a statement. So ... what did I
find?
1. We had a story from Florida about a meeting between CAIR and Florida
law enforcement officials. The subject of sensitivity training for law
enforcement came up.
2. California Muslims are a bit upset with what they call
"pressure tactics" used on a detainee during an investigation of a
Muslim charity. Muslim charities in America seem to be involved in quite a
bit of funding activities for terrorists.
3. There's an older story there about Muslims and Arabs trying to get a
voice at the Democratic Party convention.
4. And then there's the "Hate Hurts America Campaign."
The CAIR website says "This campaign is based on the premise that the
increasing attacks on Islam by conservative talk show hosts nationwide is not
only offensive to Muslims and other people of conscience, but also harms the
United States by creating a downward spiral of interfaith mistrust and
hostility." The Hate Hurts America Campaign is presently
targeting Jewish comedian Jackie Mason. Imagine my surprise. If you go to
the campaign website they'll provide you with a handy little "Hate
Watch" link to report your very own hate filled talk show host to CAIR.
Let's see how fast this Nuze item gets me an honorable mention.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
How about a bit of good news. The Supreme Court in Michigan says that
the government can't seize property from one private individual to give to
another private individual. A
victory for private property rights!
I didn't see Zell Miller at the Democratic National Convention. Zell
explains why.
These
Marines weren't exactly thrilled to be a part of The Poodle's campaign stop.
Our friends the al Qaeda are reported
to be plotting another attack on the financial district of New York City.
Now this is how to be a Republican. You
turn off the pork spigot. Band uniforms are not an emergency.
What about John Kerry's missing years? We know all about Vietnam, and
we know what John Kerry is going to do when he becomes president. Thomas
Sowell wants to know about all those years in between.
Here's
a little fact-checking on Bush's 16 words about Iraq seeking uranium in
Africa in his 2003 State of the Union address.
A newspaper is claiming that Michael
Moore altered their headline used in his movie. Michael
Moore...a liar? You don't say!
The Democratic mayor of St. Paul has endorsed George W. Bush for
re-election. Of course, different points of view are not allowed in the
Democratic party, so they say he is doing voters a "disservice."
The
latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll finds that not only did The Poodle get no
bounce from the convention, but he's now trailing Bush.
The
Poodle embarrassed himself in a Wendy's over the weekend....he approached
four U.S. Marines, who happened to be big supporters of the war in Iraq.
Oops.
sKerry claims to have a
special way of using private negotiations to persuade other heads of state
to assist in reconstructing Iraq. Yeah right...like they're going to
change their mind just because we elected a Poodle.
This could be huge....the
speaker of the House of Representatives plans to eliminate the IRS and
replace it with a national sales tax. Sounds like the Fair
Tax proposal, and it's a good one. What will the Democrats say?
No? I doubt it.
The White House is none too pleased with the upcoming movie 'Team
America.' Check
out the trailer here. It actually looks pretty good, and it apparently
makes fun of both sides. (Quicktime
required.)
As the polls are now bearing out, people weren't too excited by The Poodle's
presentation at the convention....but
the Democrats in attendance loved it, as Mark Steyn writes.
The convention was a demonstration of values that the Democratic party neither
holds nor wants to be made public.
John Leo says the problem wasn't in your set.
Don't believe for a minute that things aren't going well in Iraq....the Iraqi
people are taking back their country at a rate faster that the United States
projected. Evan
Osnos reports.
Delegates at the Democratic National Convention were bonded not by their
appreciation of John Kerry, but rather by their hatred of George W. Bush. Michael
Barone has more.
By stressing his service in Vietnam, The Poodle has now opened the door to
criticism of that record, says
Robert Novak.
Is Kerry running for president, or an Oscar? Diana
West has more.
The two Johns say they won't take America to war unless they have to, not
because they want to. But
as Debra Saunders points out, both of them voted in favor of the war in
Iraq.
Professor
Mike Adams talks about what it's like to turn 40.
Michael Moore and Bill Maher beg
Ralph Nader to drop out of the race.
A naked man allegedly dancing
around with a woman's bra and panties on his head on the shoulder of I-95
has been arrested.
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