Friday -- April 29, 2005
 FRIDAY INTEMPERATE THOUGHTS
 OK, so Tom Cruise has a new girlfriend. BFD.
The very fact that this is such a huge news item is a symbol of the pathetic
celebrity culture that infects our nation. By the end of the weekend
more people will be able to tell you the name of Cruise's new girlfriend
(Katie something-or-other) than the name of both of their U.S.
Senators. Politicians love this stuff.- In his press conference last night President Bush said
that Social Security benefits should grow faster for lower income
Americans. This reinforces the fact that Social Security is nothing
more than a glorified income redistribution plan. Does the phrase
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their
needs" ring a bill?
- A little game for you to play the next time you're
standing in the checkout lane at Publix. See if you can find a woman's
magazine without the word "sex" or "sexy" on the
cover. Without any research at all I would bet that there has not been
one Cosmo cover without the "sex" word on the cover in the last 12
issues.
- A softball coach gets fired because his team wins. OK,
so it was 55-0. Excellence punished again!
- We'll have a story today where a store employee shoots
a robber. I just love stories like that. Another one where a
rape victim takes the rapist's gun and shoots him. Go girl!
- I have a lot more ... but there's a radio show to do.
LAST NIGHT'S PRESS CONFERENCE
 President Bush spoke to the nation last night for an hour, his first such press conference in over a year. He reportedly hates such affairs, but with his poll numbers in the toilet, and the Congressional mid-term elections coming up next year, it was time to hear from the head of state.
So what did he say?
Well, for the most part, the speech covered 3 topics: gas prices, Social Security and North Korea. His speech was then followed by what seemed like an endless parade of questions from the Bush-hating liberals in the press gallery. Some things never change.
First, gas prices. He talked about the same things...getting countries to boost oil output, conservation and
perforating ANWR. Curiously, he did not mention his proposal to build refineries at ex-military
bases. He must sense opposition there from some key politicos. He also didn't address the cumbersome web of environmental regulations that call for some 55 different blends of gasoline that tie up refinery capacity in the summer. At any rate, nothing new in that part of the speech.
Then there was Social Security. For the most part, nothing has changed. He explained the system, what the problem is and his desire to fix it. However, there were a few tweaks. The president finally explained that the private accounts would be voluntary, saying that younger workers could opt in or out of the current system. He seems to have made some headway on the issue. A Fox News poll shows that 64 percent of people under the age of 55 are in favor of personal accounts.
Voluntary private accounts are a good idea. An employer, for instance,
could ask a potential employee whether he had a private Social Security account,
of if he had stayed in the government system. Me? If the choice was
there, I wouldn't hire any younger person who didn't opt for the private
account. Who needs idiots working for them?
But Democrats and the AARP hate private accounts. They hate the concept of the individual controlling their destiny and not the government. They know that if that money is put into a private account and invested in the stock market that they won't be able to spend it. That's the real source of the opposition on private accounts.
Then there was the big proposal last night to make Social Security more solvent by trimming future benefit increases for the rich, while at the same time boosting the raises for lower-income retirees. This is good old-fashioned class
warfare and once and for all cements the notion that Social Security is nothing more than an
income redistribution program.
Why should those who are the most successful and have thrown the most down the Social Security
rat hole be the ones to lose the most money? The answer is because it is politically popular. It feels so good to screw the rich, doesn't it?
Stop and ask yourself...have you ever gotten hired by a poor person?
NORTH KOREA COULD HIT U.S.
President Bush also talked about North Korea last night, touching on the multi-party talks to try and get The Gargoyle to give up his nuclear weapons ambitions. The president also correctly pointed out something the media likes to conveniently ignore: North Korea starves its people and maintains concentration camps. You did know that, didn't you?
But a report the president didn't talk about is making big news today. The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency testified yesterday in front of Congress that Kim Jong-Il possesses the capability to arm a missile with a nuclear device. Okay, we sorta knew that. But what he said next should give pause to anyone thinking that North Korea isn't part of the axis of evil.
Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby said U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea has developed intercontinental missiles capable of hitting the United States, in particular the western states like Alaska, Hawaii and the Northwest. He says it's theoretically possible that North Korea could produce a weapon to reach all of the United States. How long are we going to dance with this terrorist? Will the United States allow a terrorist thug like Kim Jong-Il possess a nuclear weapon that could be used to attack America?
Remember, though ... if we listen to the Democrats and the peace-at-any-price
crowd, we're not allowed to strike Kim Jong-Il until the missiles are actually
in the air. The left believes that the US is honor bound to accept the
first strike. To do anything else would be to act (gasp!) preemptively.
DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO OBSTRUCT
United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist tried to cut a deal with the Democrats on the filibuster issue yesterday, but as usual, they weren't interested. The Democratic obstruction continues. Like most issues, liberals aren't interested in solving the problem, only whining about it.
Frist put the following on the table: he offered the Democrats 100 hours of debate on each judicial nominee, along with a guarantee of an up-or-down vote on federal appellate court judges and Supreme Court justices without a filibuster.
Frist also offered a deal that would include each and every judicial nominee
getting a full hearing and a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In exchange, the Republicans would not change the rules totally eliminating the filibuster and the Democrats would agree not to use it. Harry Reid immediately took to the floor and called it a big, wet kiss for the right. Remember, there's no such thing as a radical, left-wing. Only a right one.
It's time for Republicans to change the rules and eliminate the 60-vote threshold for cutting off debate. Democrats would do the same thing....so why not? The left is never going to be reasonable on the issue. so let's enact the will of the people and start voting on some judges.
This needs to be taken care of before Bush starts nominating Supreme Court justices.
GET WELL ZELL
Last night, while giving a speech in Gainesville, Georgia, Zell Miller was taken to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. He was in stable condition last night, and according to his wife Shirley: "He has had flu-like symptoms for a couple of days, and he would not stay in bed. He feels like going home. He's just waiting for the doctor's approval." Sounds like Senator Miller is going to be just fine.
Here's to best wishes and a speedy recovery for Zell.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Here is the full transcript of President Bush's press conference last night. For those of you with high-speed Internet, you can watch the entire thing there also.
Goodbye Hasan
Akbar.....the Muslim killer that attacked his fellow soldiers in the opening days of the Iraq invasion has been sentenced to death by a military court. The only downside? He'll be taking his dirt nap via lethal injection.
Media Bias Alert: the media is reporting today that Congress has passed a budget cutting Medicaid benefits for the poor. Wrong!
The bill cuts only the growth of
Medicaid, not the amount of money being spent. Forget bias...this one is an outright lie.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself an immigrant, is speaking out in
support of The Minutemen
Project. He says it's a shame private citizens have to go in there and secure our borders. He's right....it is. The Governator was on
TV with the Baby Jesus the other night....here's a transcript.
Believe it or not, there are conservatives that are fighting to take back the environmental movement from the
enviro-wackos. Jonah Goldberg has one such example.
This whole business about the filibuster is about more than judges. Larry Kudlow says it comes back to the fact that liberals don't want to admit that George Bush was re-elected and that Republicans control both houses of Congress.
Should John Bolton be disqualified from serving at the United Nations just because he's yelled at people?
Clifford May says Teddy Kennedy once yelled at
him...perhaps we should kick him out of the Senate? Actually, that's a good idea.
Here's some hypocrisy for you..the AARP, the Gimme Generation's lobbying group whose motto is "Screw The Younger Generation,"
actually has some of those private accounts they seem to be so opposed to.
The Senate Minority Leader has a bit of a problem. It seems that when he was in the House,
Harry
Reid sponsored a bill allowing Members of Congress to opt out of Social Security. Once again, what's good for the goose is not good for the gander.
Former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume is in the
soup....he's running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. It seems when he was running the NAACP, he promoted women that put out...to him. Things aren't looking too good for Kweisi's political career.
Conservatives are winning. So says Daniel
Henniger. Here's his review of a book called "Southpark
Conservatives." It's on my nightstand right now. Sitting
there next to my bottle of Absolut Mandarin Orange.
Morning Sickness: 4,000 endangered frogs used in aphrodisiac cocktails
rescued from the blender.
Looks like it's time to break
bugmenot.com again. Use it to get around giving up your personal information
when registering for newspaper websites.
Leave it to the Italians to
use sex
to sell coffins. Yes, this is a pin-up calendar...girls & pine boxes. There
are no naked bits here, but might not be safe for work.
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