Wednesday -- August 31, 2005
FIRST FOR TODAY .. .HOW YOU CAN HELP
I know that many of you around the country -- perhaps
around the world -- are looking for a way to help the victims of Hurricane
Katrina. Some of you will want to volunteer, others will be willing to
make a cash contribution to ease the suffering and speed recovery. My wife
is a Red Cross volunteer. She went to work yesterday with the
Metropolitan
Atlanta Chapter of the American Red Cross to do whatever she can.
There will be hundreds of thousands of people without clothing, food and
medicine. This is the time to show what it means to be an American. If you
would like to make a contribution to the disaster relief fund you can do so
through this organization.
Just click on the link and you're there!
Now I know that some of you are going to challenge me as
to what I've done. I've already been to that link, and I made the maximum
donation. I'll do more. What will you do?
Now .. there will be many charities
stepping forth to solicit your donations. Many of these charities are
great .. some not.
Here's a link that you can use to find out how these
various charities perform. Here you will
learn what percentage of a charity's income actually goes to helping people, and
what portion goes to administration. Become informed before you give.
Also, Travelers Aid can help settle people while they
are forced out of their homes. To make a donation, call (404) 245-1986 or (404)
918-4909 or visit
their website.
 DOES MARTIAL LAW MEAN YOU CAN SHOOT LOOTERS?
Is there any form of life lower than someone who would try
to take advantage of those already reeling from the Katrina disaster in New
Orleans? Downtown New Orleans has taken on the appearance of a war zone.
While so many people in New Orleans are working so hard in rescue operations,
trying to help their neighbors, it seems that just as many have decided that
it's time to let their baser instincts take over ... time to loot. Time to
loot not only grocery stores ... but jewelry stores, appliance stores, clothing
stores, and their neighbors homes.
Yesterday many newspapers carried
a quote from some fool
named Mike Franklin. As this Franklin character stood on the trolley
tracks in downtown New Orleans watching the looting he told a reporter:
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an
opportunity to get back at society,"
Isn't is always so? People become lawless and start
preying on their fellow man, and someone comes along and excuses their behavior
because they've been "oppressed."
Rant alert.
These people haven't been oppressed by society.
If anything has oppressed these criminals it is their own culture; a culture
that eschews education and hard work, and a culture that tolerates, if not
encourages, predatory violence. These people actually don't see anything
wrong with what they are doing. They believe themselves to be entitled.
Now I'm serious here .. not just saying this for effect.
Shoot to kill. People have been victimized enough by this terrible
disaster. Their grief does not have to be amplified by the actions of
their lawless neighbors. If the police tolerate the looting, it is a
signal to the predators that their lawlessness will be tolerated .. .and it will
expand. One person told CNN "If it was wrong the police would be out there
stopping it." Amazing, isn't it. This dreadlocked goon seems to
believe that any behavior the police don't immediately halt is somehow OK!
We should have learned this lesson in Baghdad. Immediately after Saddam
was toppled the looting began. The coalition forces did little, and the
violence continued to this day. Many think that if the liberating forces
had taken out a few looting teams the history of the last few years might have
been quite a bit different.
KATRINA OUR TSUNAMI?
The mayor of Biloxi,
Mississippi was widely quoted these past few days as
calling Hurricane Katrina
"our tsunami." That was just his way of explaining how widespread the
devastation was, particularly in his area. But it's an interesting
parallel....will the world reaction be the same?
With the tsunami, the
United States dispatched billions of dollars in equipment and aid to the
affected areas, yet we were criticized for not doing enough. I bet if you take
a look at the hard numbers now, the United States of America probably was easily
the #1 contributor to tsunami relief, particularly when you combine the private
donations.
At any rate, I haven't
seen a single report anywhere in the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina that
says anything about the French sending help to the Gulf Coast. Surely they
could spare some helicopters and some troops to help in the effort. How about
Spain? Italy? Germany? We can probably handle it ourselves, but the point is
assistance from those countries will probably never happen, for a few reasons.
For one, a lot of the
U.S. Military is in Iraq. The Euro-weenies largely oppose that war. If we have
a shortage of troops because of it, well...they will say that it just our
own damn fault. Too bad. Shouldn't have gone to war in Iraq...and that's just
too bad for the people in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Second, most of the
rest of the world will think that Hurricane Katrina is our fault. It will be our
fault because it will be the creation of global warming. German newspapers are
reporting just that. It matters not that there's is no proof of any global
warming caused by the actions of man. The game is to blame America.
The game borne of jealousy.
AND
THE BLAME AMERICA CROWD AT HOME
 With dead bodies being
pushed out of the way as rescuers make their way to save families, liberals are
starting to weigh in on the situation with Hurricane Katrina. What is their
response? To set aside politics, so that lives can be saved and homes rebuilt?
Of course not. They have to do what they always do: blame America first.
Our first stop in the
Blame America First Hurricane tour is the offices of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
According to Bobby Jr., Katrina is the
fault of Mississippi Governor Haley
Barbour. How could this be? RFK wrote a column in which he said Barbour is
reaping what he has sown. In other words, Mississippi deserves the devastation
wrought by the hurricane because of the actions of its governor. How could one
man be responsible for so much destruction? Read on.
In the warped mind of
leftists like Kennedy, hurricanes are the result of global warming. Apparently
when Haley Barbour was the chairman of the Republican National Committee, he
opposed the Kyoto protocol (as did anyone with a brain.) He also says that
perhaps the hurricane hit Mississippi the hardest at the last minute because
Barbour was the governor. Gotta love the left in this country.
Then we hear from the
media in Europe. The verdict? In Germany, papers are reporting that Katrina
should be a lesson to the United States about global warming. Even though
global warming doesn't cause hurricanes, it's still our fault. We deserved it.
It sure must make the terrorist-appeasing, America-bashing, Euro-trash feel good
to sit there and think that.
Typical...I suppose we
shouldn't expect anything less.
"AND NOW SHE HAS NOTHING ...."
Yes .. the situation on the Gulf coast is terrible.
It is beyond imagination for most of us. But let's not forget where we
live; let's not forget what America is all about. We're not all looters.
This morning I heard a TV anchor discussing the plight of
some young woman named Natalie Brown. The anchor said that she fled the
hurricane and left her house and her job, and now she has nothing.
Nothing?
First .. the obvious. She still has her health, her
friends, her family, her education, her ambition, her car and her boyfriend.
In fact, she's staying with her parents! Her bank accounts are still safe.
The money is still there.
This means she "has nothing?"
Natalie Brown lives in America. She has now made the
decision to relocate away from New Orleans. That she can do with relative
ease. She lives in a country with a vibrant and growing economy; a country
where hard work and good decision making will be rewarded. She gets to
relocate and seek another job in a country that has embraced the one economic
system that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system
in the history of civilization. She left a home she rented behind in New
Orleans ... and is going to plant roots elsewhere in the greatest country in the
world.
And she "has nothing?"
Tens of millions of people around the world would trade
places with Natalie Brown right now. Today. Hurricane and all.
Tell them that she has nothing.
FLOATING CASINOS?
The story of Hurricane Katrina is one of lost life,
destroyed property and economic devastation. That economic devastation
part brings us to Mississippi and their strange little rule regarding casinos.
Mississippi receives huge amounts of tax revenue from those casinos that once
lined the shoreline in Biloxi. For the time being those revenues are gone.
Most of the casinos are destroyed. Why?
Because for some reason that
defies any rational explanation Mississippi had a requirement that those casinos
float. That's right ... float. Now only government could come up
with an absurd idea like this. When you build a casino in Biloxi the
parking structures are on land. The actual hotel, any restaurants, gift shops
and all convention facilities are on land. But the actual gambling casino?
Well, the casino has to float. It has to be on some sort of a barge.
Now I've been to the Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi. It is, or was, a beautiful
facility. When you walked from the hotel portion to the casino portion
there was no way in the world you could be able to tell that you were suddenly
on a barge.
The net result of this, of course, is that casinos are
forced to build out over the water ... and that's not exactly a good place to be
when the hurricanes come ashore. If Mississippi depends to such an extent
on casino revenues, then maybe part of the cleanup from Katrina could be a
change in the law that would allow the Biloxi casinos to do exactly what the
Indian casinos can do .... build on dry land.
Only government can come up with absurd ideas like this.
PROTEST THE BLUE ANGELS? CINDY WILL BE A NO-SHOW.
 There are so many people out there trying to do so much
good right now ... it pains me to do this, but I have to bring up that loon,
Cindy Sheehan, the Mayor of Camp Crazy in Crawford, Texas. I told you
yesterday that this woman who calls Islamic terrorists "freedom fighters" is
heading to the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Main next week to
protest a
performance by the Blue Angels.
Now .. the more logical and knowing among you will realize
that Cindy Sheehan is now under the complete control of the radical left.
Her every action is being directed. This is the fate of people of limited mental
capacity.
A prediction, if you will.
Right now the U.S. Navy is mobilizing in Norfolk, Virginia
and in other areas to send help to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. By the
end of next week we will have seen images of the tremendous assistance being
given the victims of Katrina by our armed forces. This is the same U.S.
Navy that showed up off the coastlines of the Indian Ocean during the tsunami
disaster.
So .. will Cindy's handlers allow her to travel to Maine
next week to protest one of the most enduring symbols of the U.S. Navy and Naval
aviation? I think not. Cindy is now a public relations tool being
manipulated by the left. Those with far more intelligence that she will
intervene.
Cindy will be a no-show.
And ... speaking of Cindy Sheehan ...
HERE'S TODAY'S CAMP CRAZY REPORT
Hard times have
officially befallen the Crawford Crackpot Cindy Sheehan and her goings-on down
at Camp Crazy on George Bush's doorstep in Texas. With Hurricane Katrina
dominating the airwaves, that doesn't leave any coverage for Cindy Sheehan and
her band of leftist media whores. Who will cover the staged media events?
Then there is the fact
that President Bush has gone back to D.C. to manage the hurricane relief
effort. Now he's not in Crawford anymore. That would seemingly put a dent in
Cindy Sheehan's protest and take a little wind out of her sails. After all, she
had previously said she would follow Bush wherever he went. But, things have
changed.
Wacko Cindy's latest
proclamation is that she is
happy she never got the chance to meet the president
a second time, as she had been demanding for weeks. This is just spin...she
realizes it's never going to happen and she's being ignored, so she's just
trying to save face. She does point out that by Bush ignoring her, the media
gave her all the attention she wanted:
"I look back on it, and I
am very, very, very grateful he did not meet with me, because we have sparked
and galvanized the peace movement. If he'd met with me, then I would have gone
home, and it would have ended there."
Just think, Mrs.
Sheehan....you might not have got to meet Joan Baez, Martin Sheen and Al
Sharpton!
SOME
FAIRTAX NEWS
We had a book signing
last night in Dunwoody, Georgia, an Atlanta Suburb. [pictures] Congressman Linder and
I signed about 400 or more books. Regan Books is preparing for the 7th
printing of The FairTax Book. That's not bad, considering the fact that
the book was launched just four weeks ago yesterday. It's interesting to note
that with two consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List
none of the broadcast news networks have shown any interest in The FairTax Book
or the plan itself. I guess that's to be expected.
Again, let me say that
this FairTax plan goes nowhere from here ... nowhere, unless you
remain
proactive. Passage of the FairTax would constitute the greatest
transfer of power from government to the people since the Revolutionary War.
Transitions of this magnitude doesn't happen without intense and unrelenting
citizen involvement. Usually it takes the imminent approach of civil
unrest to effect this type of change, so you can see what we're up against here.
Go to the link above. Become a FairTax
volunteer. Buy another copy of the book and send it to a friend or opinion
maker. Without you, the idea dies.
A brief note on
last night's signing. One woman, a pharmaceutical salesman, bought about
40 copies of The FairTax Book. She will be leaving them with doctors as
she makes her sales calls. This is the type of effort and dedication it
will take.
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
Newspapers in Germany are as much as
blaming the United States for the Katrina disaster. They're saying
that this devastation should be a lesson to the US for our complicity in Global
Warming.
Here's a nifty little story from the "Arab News"
This newspaper bills itself as "The Middle East's Leading English Language
Daily." Here's the first paragraph: "It is time to put an end to the
"Cindy Sheehan debacle" in Crawford, Texas. Since I am not one to sugarcoat a
subject I will start by simply saying: Ms. Sheehan is a liberal nut case who
needs to be put in her place." Now ...
here's your link.
Is it just me, or does
the mayor of New Orleans
seem just a bit ungrateful when he publicly complains about the Army Corps of
Engineers not closing
the hole in the levee fast enough? Not sure that will motivate them very much.
Some are actually defending the looting going on in New Orleans.
They say it's an opportunity for the oppressed to get back at society. It
wouldn't take much to stop the looting right away.
Democratic leftist reporter Eleanor Clift is in hot water
for calling America's armed forces a mercenary Army. Liberals hate the
military...so what's new? We shouldn't be surprised.
Despite the non-stop
coverage by the mainstream media,
Cindy Sheehan's protest appears to have backfired.
a new ABC/Washington Post says 79% say the Sheehan protest has had no effect on
how the view the war.
Are gas prices too high?
Walter E. Williams says it depends....high
relative to what? Once again, we discover prices really aren't that high,
despite what the media would have you believe.
Michelle Malkin complains about the illegal aliens
invading her
neighborhood. Not only are they entering the country illegally, but they're
forming gangs. And the government isn't doing much about it.
Welcome to the theater of
the absurd, staring Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen and Al Sharpton.
Kathleen Parker weighs in on the activities down at Camp Crazy.
There is an ever-present
threat of Islamic terrorists getting a nuclear bomb and setting it off in the
United States, and
Jonah Goldberg correctly points out
that everybody has their head in the sand.
Junk science is not only
a cause of unnecessary hysteria,
but as John Stossel points out,
it can have all sorts of other consequences as well.
The United States is a
nation of warning labels....and
Debra Saunders says it's really bad in California.
Voters approved a proposition requiring warnings on just about everything.
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