Wednesday -- April 6, 2005
 EXCLUDING JIMMY
 Did President Bush intentionally
snub Jimmy Carter by leaving him off the delegation to the Pope's funeral? That seems to be the line that the
Carter folks are pushing. Administration spokesmen, on the other hand, are saying specifically that Jimmy Carter was invited.
OK ... so what's going on here? Carter has been a constant critic of Bush. He has as much as said that Bush's 2000 election was illegitimate
because of the famous hanging chad State of Florida. Prior to the 2004 election Carter was suggesting that a fair election in the United States
was all but impossible because of voting irregularities. This is the same Carter who went on to call Hugo Chavez's victory in a Venezuelan
recall election legitimate, when it was clear to every homeless man or women on the streets of Chicago that it was a sham and a fraud. So ... why
would Bush want to honor Carter by making him a part of the U.S. delegation to the Pope's funeral?
But ... who do we believe here? The Carter Center issues a statement saying: "After issuing a public statement of condolences last week,
President Carter expressed to the White House a desire to attend the pope's funeral." The statement then adds that the Carter was ".. quite
willing to withdraw his request when he was subsequently informed that the official delegation would be limited to just five people and there
were also others who were eager to attend."
Sounds like they are claiming a snub to me.
But then Bush spokesmen say that they did specifically invite Carter and that they would have been more than happy to have him. The decision,
says the White House, was Carter's to make.
My guess? Carter is a backbiter. He has been trying to sabotage Bush since the moment he was sworn in. I'm going with the Bush Administration
on this one. Carter is playing his usual games.
PETER JENNINGSI've been privileged to spend some private time with Peter Jennings, and I find him an engaging and interesting man. His announcement yesterday
that he was
suffering from lung cancer saddened me. I pray he gets through his treatment successfully and has a full recovery.
Now .. having said that, it needs to be said that Peter Jennings was a smoker -- a heavy smoker. There's a lesson to be learned here for you
other smokers out there. Will this be the revelation that gives you the courage to quit?
OK ... SO THE WEB WENCH SPILLED THE BEANS
 Yesterday our winsome Web Wench put a little note on the Nuze informing Nuze readers that today is my birthday. Well, I gotta tell ya ... I was
overwhelmed by the incredible response. Literally thousands of emails. Some were nice! All of them are being put into
a binder to save. You don't turn 60 every day. OK ... something about turning 60. I thought this would bother me. It doesn't. The only birthday that really bothered me was my
30th. Would I go back there today? Would I accept a deal to turn the clock back 30 years to 1975? Not a chance. And for those of you
in your 30s and 40s who think that 60 is old. Have heart. As long as you try to maintain your health ... exercise regularly and don't become a
complete lard ass .. this is nothing. You don't believe that now ... but hopefully you'll find out. I know the competition across town likes to make a big deal about "That old guy, Neal Boortz." They
should be so lucky.
ERIC RUDOLPH GOES
ON TRIAL TODAY
Just a question ... now that that slug Randall Terry is through exploiting Bob
and Mary Schindler, how long will it take him to head to Birmingham, Alabama to
stand up for this anti-abortion killer?
BUSH FINALLY SAYS IT
 President Bush, on tour promoting his seemingly doomed plan for Social Security
reform in West Virginia yesterday, finally came right out and said what most
politicians won't:
there is no Social Security trust fund. The plan is
broke, the fund is empty.
To illustrate this, he looked inside the filing cabinet that contains the Social
Security "trust fund." Do you know what is in there? Is it
piles of cash, enough to sustain benefits for decades, as the AARP and Democrats
would have you believe? Nope....what's there is $1.7 Trillion in
IOU's....treasury bonds indicating that the money has been raided and spent by
politicians.
To repeat the facts here: there is no trust fund, there is no promise to pay
benefits by the government...the lockbox is empty. You would think that
people would be jumping up and down demanding private Social Security accounts,
because those accounts would not be managed by the government and could never be
taken away.
Would you depend on an incompetent and fiscally unsound government to put food
on your table at retirement? Apparently most people do.
TIGHTENING THE BORDER
This is a complete joke. In order to somehow combat terrorism, rules
are being revised and now passports are going to be required to re-enter the
United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008. Right now,
rules require only that a government-issued photo ID (like a driver's license)
be required to come back from those countries. So what difference is this
going to make?
Absolutely none. Other than being a huge boon to companies that take
passport pictures and creating long lines at the post office, this won't stop
terrorism. Why? Well, for instance...remember all of the 9/11
hijackers? They had passports. Fat lot of good that did, huh?
And what difference will requiring a passport to come back into the U.S. from
Mexico matter when illegal aliens can walk right across the border by the
hundreds of thousands every year? Unless and until we really tighten the
border and start rounding up illegals and sending them back, border security
will be a joke.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Jane Fonda is in the news
again...this time promoting her book. Michelle Malkin says she has contracted an acute case of Aging Celebrity Hippie Syndrome, and says Hanoi Jane hasn't changed a bit..
The
Iraqi parliament has picked an interim president....and
he's a Kurd. So much for all of this Shiite vs. Sunni business we've been
hearing about for a good two years.
The head of the IRS says charities
are a hotbed of fraud, and are used by people to avoid paying taxes.
Of course, under the
Fair Tax plan, nobody
avoids paying taxes.
The political finger-pointing continues over the memo
of supposed talking points that was circulated among Republicans at the height
of the Terri Schiavo debate. Where did it come from? All 55
Republican Senators say not them.
The mainstream media is
reporting with the glee that the next Pope certainly won't be an American.
After all, we Americans are evil people that could never hold such an office,
right?
Tom DeLay's boob is in the
wringer again....this
time it looks like he accepted a trip to Russia that was paid for by someone
else. Of course,
if all politicians were kicked out of office for doing this, the United States
Capitol building would be empty. Come to think of it, that wouldn't be
such a bad thing, would it?
William F. Buckley writes his farewell to Pope John Paul II,
noting that he could command an audience of millions at the drop of a
hat....anytime, anywhere.
Kofi Annan defiantly stood
up in the face of scandal of the UN and declared that "hell no" he
won't resign. Claudia
Rosett says Kofi wasn't exonerated...not by a long shot.
Whenever somebody has an
idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally
expect the government to step in and screw it up. John
Stossel takes a look at once such case.
Jonah
Goldberg writes of his admiration for Pope John Paul II,
and he's not even Catholic. He talks about the Bishop from Poland's effect
on the media and communism.
Nothing like suspending yourself from hooks from the ceiling like a side of
beef as a way to relax. Yes, that means hang your body weight from big metal
hooks piercing your skin.
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