Monday -- August 29, 2005
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 NEW ORLEANS
Well, I must say that the crunch portion of The FairTax Book tour ended with somewhat of a bang. I thought it would be a good idea to bring Royal, Belinda and Ken down to New Orleans for a little partying over the weekend to coincide with my signing at the Borders in Metairie and my Saturday morning brunch with some 690 WTIX contest winners. We were all originally going to leave on Sunday afternoon .. but plans are always subject to change. Virtually as soon as we got to New Orleans on Friday we started making arrangements to get out on Saturday, as soon as the WTIX Brunch with Boortz at the Ritz was over. Belinda and Royal did just fine. They had reservations at 2:45. The bride and I had AirTran reservations at 7:45 Saturday evening. The evacuation of New Orleans started at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon ... so we decided to plan for some crushing traffic and left for the airport at 2:00. What is normally a 20 minute trip turned into 90 ... and we felt lucky with that time! We can't say enough good things about Dan Fraiser and Rob Hunter from WTIX. With that hurricane bearing down on them they sure had better things to do than shuffle us around ... but they made sure we were taken care of before anything else. I also want to thank the people of the greater New Orleans area. The signing on Friday night was sensational. They estimate we signed about 600+ books with a crowd that approached nearly 1000. By the time the signing was over Belinda was weighted down with about 45 pounds of beads. I hope there are pictures somewhere. [there are!] We also had a good group for our Saturday morning brunch. I spent about 40 minutes answering questions .... all about the FairTax. These folks were well informed. Now we in the Boortz crew are hoping and praying that the people we met are all safe. Amazingly enough, it wasn't until Friday night that we encountered our first real jerk of the tour. Some character walked up to the table and started tossing around those "where will you spend eternity" tracts. I told him to go away and he started screaming "You need Jesus" as he left. "Yeah," I muttered to myself; "and you need class." 
EVERYONE AGREES? I caught this on Face the Nation yesterday morning. [transcript found here] Some reporterette from Baghdad was pontificating on the status of our troops in Iraq. This statement caught my attention: "Everyone agrees, the sight of American troops on the Iraqi streets makes everybody mad." That, my friends, is pure bullsqueeze. I've talked to far too many American servicemen in the past few weeks at airports across our country. The common theme in those discussions is that the media isn't giving the true picture to the people of this country, and that American troops are generally loved and admired by Iraqis. "Everyone agrees" ...... Yeah, right. THE AMAZING AND FABULOUS HIP HOP CULTURE  Well .. it happened again. More gunshots at some Hip Hop party .. this one in Miami. Hip Hot Big Shot Suge Knight was shot in the leg and is to undergo surgery today. Feeling sorry for Suge? Well, not exactly. It's not like he's lived some sort of a squeaky clean life up to now. Let's see ... there was the 1992 conviction for assault and weapons violation. Then he was jailed in 1996 for violating probation after a video camera caught him and some Hip Hop pals beating the crap out of a gang rival. Some have even suggested that Suge Knight was involved in the killing of Notorious B.I.G, although he's never been named as a suspect.
Are your children into this Hip Hop crap? Well ... just know that your kids are fawning over a culture of anger, resentment, predatory sex, disrespect for women and general violence. But, then, you don't have any control over your kids anyway, do you? Maybe all you can do is hope for the best. THANKS, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Now just how hard is it for a newspaper to print the correct New York Times Bestseller's list? It really shouldn't be that much of a challenge, but yesterday's Sunday edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution printed a NYT list from three weeks ago. If you just happened to pay $5 for a New York Times yesterday instead of $2 for the AJC you will have seen that The FairTax Book is, for the second week in a row, Number 1! Now ... will the Atlanta Journal-Constitution print the corrected list? You go ahead and hold your breath. I'm enjoying life right now. JESSE STICKS UP FOR TYRANT
 The Sloganmaster has weighed in on Pat Robertson's call to assassinate Venezuelan President and communist dictator Hugo Chavez. Jesse Jackson called Robertson's statements criminal and said that the US government should take action. Oh really?
This points out the hypocrisy of the Democratic left in this country. First of all, they're all for freedom of speech...until you say something they don't agree with. Then it should be banned. Second, it's no surprise that Jesse is right there taking up for a corrupt tinhorn dictator who, despite what Jimmy Carter says, was not fairly elected in Venezuela. In addition, the preeminent race warlord said that the Federal Censorship Commission should take action against Pat Robertson. By the way, Jesse made these comments while he was actually in Venezuela, addressing the National Assembly down there. Americans criticizing the United States when they are on foreign soil is a specialty of the Democratic party, you know.
More of that free speech, huh Jesse? We'll have to keep that in mind the next time one of the wackos in your party calls for the assassination of George Bush again.
CINDY SHEEHAN CORNER
Another day, another heaping cup of stupidity from the Peace House in Crawford, Texas, courtesy of that loon Cindy Sheehan. But this time she has help, courtesy of Mr. Tawana Brawley himself, Al Sharpton. What does Al want in all this?
Aside from bringing along his rent-a-mob of fellow race hustlers, Sharpton probably was just looking for somewhere to sell some cheap Rolexes. However, no need to make you wait anymore...here are the latest daily statements of nonsense from Crawford:
On the subject of other moms who have lost their sons, but still support George Bush and the war, Cindy Sheehan had this to say: "How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed? I don't understand it."
Well Mrs. (at least until the divorce is final,) Sheehan, perhaps it is the fact that unlike you, they don't believe their sons and daughters died for nothing.
Oh well...it doesn't matter that the vast majority of those who lost family members in the Iraq war support the president. The media will always cover the ones that don't. More liberal media bias at work.
WMD FOUND IN IRAQ
The media is fond of reminding us that no Weapons of Mass Destruction were ever found in Iraq. This has been the clarion call of the Democrats for a couple of years now. However, did you know that WMD were found in Iraq? Not just a couple...but lots of them. A mother who lost her son in Iraq was interviewed on Fox News had this to say: "I have seen photos of entire fighter jets buried in the sand. I have seen pictures of entire caches of weapons that just my son's unit would uncover." I wonder why we never hear much about that one? Here's also a nice little list of what was found:
-500 tons...that's right...TONS...make that 1million pounds of yellow cake uranium. It was found at Saddam's nuclear weapons facility (yup...he had one of those too.)
-1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium found at the same place. You know, the stuff you need to make nukes.
-Hidden centrifuge parts and blueprints.
-Two dozen artillery shells loaded with Sarin and mustard gas.
Sounds like WMD to me! You may want to print this off and impress your friends with your knowledge. REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Heck, even a redneck might need a computin' device that speaks his language. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
The missing Able Danger chart has been found...sort of. A video of a presentation 3 years ago at the Heritage Foundation shows it in action. Congressman Curt Weldon says the entire 9/11 Commission will be discredited.
People are starting to realize that while not all Muslims are terrorists...it sure seems like all terrorists are Muslims. Today's realization comes from a politician in Norway.
Tony Blair is cracking down on Muslim extremists in Britain...and right here in his own words, he explains why.
John McCain has corrected Chuck Hagel....Iraq is nothing like Vietnam. Of course, Bush-hating leftists like Chuck Hagel still want America to fail in Iraq.
New York Congressman and renowned race pimp Charlie Rangel has suggested that Dick Cheney is not healthy enough to continue in the office of the Vice Presidency. A low blow but you have to consider the source.
This one should get people going....T.R. Fahrenbach says that when a soldier dies in battle, there is no tragedy. Keep this one away from your liberal friends.
The GOP isn't doing very well in recruiting candidates to try and pry Democrats from office in the Senate. Robert Novak reports on the failed effort.
Are you a closet conservative? If so, Professor Mike Adams would like to remind you that September 21st is National Conservative Coming Out Day.
There's a small, little-known situation going on with the TSA that could unionize some airport screeners and hamper the effort to privatize the agency. Joel Mowbray investigates.
For the past decade, politics in the United States has been divided equally between Democrats and Republicans. Michael Barone points out that in 2008, the candidates being mentioned for both parties' nomination could put an end to that. Representative Katherine Harris of Florida spotted with The FairTax Book. F**cking sign stolen by British tourists. Repeatedly. | 
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