Monday -- February 13, 2006
 NO EXCUSES. NONE
 There's no doubt the anti-gun nuts are going to have a field day with this one. It seems that our vice president shot someone over the weekend. Who the hell does he think he is? Mitch Rapp? Dick Cheney shot a 78 year-old lawyer in the face and chest with birdshot. How did it happen? Harry Whittington left the hunting party for some reason. Perhaps the call of nature, who knows? Anyway, when he came back to the group he failed to announce his return. Evidently that's proper hunting protocol. "Hey guys, I'm back. Don't shoot me." So .. when some quail took flight Cheney raised his shotgun and turned to the right following the birds. That's where Harry was standing. He took some 28-gauge pellets in the face and chest. Whittington is now in stable condition in a hospital in Corpus Christi.
Sorry ... I don't care whether or not Harry Whittington announced his return to the party or not. I'm not a hunter, but I see no excuse at all for this. You don't pull the trigger until you know damned well what or who is in your line if fire. Cheney screwed up. Whittington may have erred in not announcing his presence, but Cheney pulled the trigger. Now we just sit back and wait for the comics and the left to take their shots. Some of those shots will be funny as hell. Those will be the ones from the comics. The cheap ones will come from the left.By the way .. this is not the first time a vice president has shot someone. On July 11, 1804 vice-president Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton died the next day. Burr was indicted for murder, but never prosecuted. About hunting ..... those of you who have listened to me for even a little while know that I just don't "get" the hunting mentality. If you're hungry, that's one thing. But unless you need to hunt for your very survival, why would anyone get such huge charge out of heading out into the countryside to kill things? IT'S NOT THE CARTOONS! CAN'T WE GET THAT THROUGH OUR HEADS? We just went through another weekend of the media telling us that all of these Muslim riots and demonstrations around the world were due to the "outrage" over those cartoons of Mohammed in those Danish and German newspapers. Nonsense. Once again, these Muslims are rioting because their Imams are telling them to riot. Most of them have never seen those cartoons and didn't know they even existed until their Imams told them to go out there and protest. It's a manufactured uprising ... and the media needs to stop with this "outrage" line. It just ain't so. 
THOSE POOR, POOR EASTERN AIRLINES PILOTS Last week we were discussing the possibility of a strike by Delta Airlines pilots. Their puffed-up union spokesmen are making bold statements about the certainty of a strike if Delta throws out its contract with the union. Frankly, I don't really think that the Delta pilots are quite that stupid. They must have learned something from Eastern pilots. So ... when I made these comments last week, and included them in the news, the emails began arriving. Perhaps a dozen former Eastern Airlines pilots called to tell me that it wasn't the pilots that struck against Eastern, it was the machinists union. That's a difference without a distinction. They're right, the mechanics went out on strike. Eastern could have survived that strike. It was the decision by the pilots to not cross the mechanics picket line that sealed the deal. The excuse-makers can call it what they want .. but however you cut it, the pilots didn't show up for work. Eastern died. We no longer hear the whine of an Eastern jet overhead .. but the whine from the pilots continues unabated. AL GORE NEVER LETS UP
 Former Vice President Al Gore was in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to make a speech. While he was there, you would have thought he might have done something useful. Perhaps he could have gone out on a limb and condemned Saudi financial support for terrorism. Maybe he could have spoken out for women's rights in Arab countries. Well .. he did nothing of the sort.
You see, Al Gore is a Democrat. And the Democratic specialty when traveling abroad is to criticize the United States of America. And boy did Al lay it on thick. He accused the U.S. government of "terrible abuses" against Arabs after 9/11. He complained that they had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and kept in "unforgivable" conditions. Really. I'm not making this up. Al Gore goes to what some believe to be home base for anti-Western Muslim culture and gives them aid and comfort by slamming his own country! Just amazing.
To Democrats like Al Gore, 9/11 never happened. There is no terrorist threat. Had Al Gore won the 2000 election (Thank you, God) not only would we have had 9/11, but probably more terrorist attacks. The left doesn't take it seriously. They're more worried about offending Muslims than they are preventing Islamic terrorists from killing more Americans. It's just fine for Al Gore to go to Saudi Arabia, the home of the virulently anti-American and hyper-violent Wahabbi Islamic sect, and slam his own country. But, whatever he does, don't say anything that could offend a Muslim~
There's not a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans on most things these days, but the irresponsible comments of Al Gore over the weekend in Saudi Arabia illustrate one thing. Gore, and leftists like him .. including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton ... must never be trusted with the reins of power in the Oval Office again. This country needs defending. They simply won't do it.
PICTURES WITH ABRAMOFF
The media got its smoking gun over the weekend. Time magazine got their hands on a picture of Jack Abramoff with George Bush. So what what do we see in the picture? Was it a picture of George Bush and Jack Abramoff meeting in the Oval Office? Were they shaking hands and smiling into the camera? Nope. Not even close.
No...this smoking gun shows George Bush at the beginning of a receiving line shaking hands back in 2001almost 5 years ago. Abramoff is shown at the end of the line ... his face is barely legible. In other words, this is a routine picture of a routine grip-and-grin greeting line. No big deal.
As the press tries its best to tie George Bush to Jack Abramoff, it will be interesting to see if they do the same thing with Democrats. Will photos of Jack Abramoff and Harry Reid be dredged up? Surely since Reid took money from Abramoff's clients, there are photos. But, since Bush is a Republican, those are the only pictures we should care about.
By the way, Abramoff says he has pictures of himself with the president, but has no intention of releasing them. Let the bidding begin...surely a little cash from the elite media will change his mind. THE NEW "JURY DUTY" SCAM A Nuze reader wrote about an interesting new scam out there ... a scam designed to get you to tell someone your Social Security number and other private info. Here's how it works. You get a phone call form someone identifying themselves as clerk of the local county court, or some similar position. You are told that a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you failed to show up for jury duty. You, of course, respond that you didn't know that you have been called for jury duty, and that there must be some mistake. The scammer then agrees that there might have been a mistake, and tells you that they can straighten things out if you will just give them the correct spelling of your name and your Social Security number. Sometimes they may ask for a credit card number just to verify your identification. Believe it or not, there is no shortage of Americans who will fall for this and hand over any information the phony clerk of the court asks for. After all, there's a warrant out for your arrest! STOP THE EVICTIONS!  Across the country we are getting ready to see the eviction of Katrina parasites who are refusing to leave their taxpayer-funded hotel rooms. OK --- so I called them parasites. A few months ago they were evacuees. No more. Now they've adopted the very same lifestyle they were living in New Orleans ... one of dependency and plunder. They see these hotel rooms as a right, not as a temporary act of charity. Those evacuees with a sense of personal responsibility and self-sufficiency left their free hotel rooms long ago. What we have left, by and large, are those who have no desire or intent to work their own way out of this situation. Expect howls of anguish and outrage from various liberal groups as these ticks are plucked over the next few weeks.
Oh .. and for the folks at that M _ _ _ _ M _ _ _ _ _ _ website ... how ya durn? Sorry, just didn't want to give you any extra web hits today. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF ANTI-ACHIEVEMENT ATTITUDES The Neal Boortz show moves to WGUF-FM 98.9 in Naples, Florida (my second home) today. We'll be live from 9:00 to noon! To get a bit of the pulse of what was happening in Naples I went online yesterday to read the Naples Daily News. I particularly like their letters to the editor feature. There are some good letter writers in Naples, and the newspaper gives them a great showcase. This brings us to wealth-envy and anti-airport "activists." I've been telling you for quite some time that you will often find wealth-envy as the impetus behind many of those opposed to general aviation airports. That is certainly the case in the neighborhoods surrounding my home base (PDK) in Atlanta. In yesterday's Naples Daily News we were treated to a letter from one Walter Lewis. He seems to think that the Naples airport would make a nifty site for some affordable housing. In his letter he discounts "the inconvenience that a few wealthy commuters might suffer ..." Well, there you go. Walter Lewis slipped up and exposed himself. He just couldn't write his letter without getting that little dig in on those "wealthy commuters." Listen to these people long enough and sooner or later their wealth envy will surface. I'll make this point again, not that anyone is paying attention. Your average privately owned piston general aviation airplane is worth no more than your average new bass rig. When do we start hammering those rich fishermen? SOME HATE MAIL It's been a while since I shared some good hate emails with you. So, over the weekend I asked Web Guy to go through the emails and pick out some good particularly hateful ones. Well, I must be doing something really wrong here. Unfortunately he could only come up with one. So ... here it is! Subject: Public School System
Name: Leonard Santini
Email: leonardo3251@yahoo.com
Message:
Every now and then while driving, I tune to one of the three stooges ( Limbaugh, You and Hannity) to be entertained. Let me congratulate you that your stupidity is always the winner. Limbaugh is full of hot air and trying to sell Oxycontin to anyone who would listen. Hannity is full of himself, huffing and puffing in the corner of Religious Right and you are shamelessly announcing your arrogance.
You seem to hate the Public School System yet thousands upon thousands of Asians are using the same school system for educating their children successfully. School Systems have flaws as anything but smart parents utilize the system extremely well. Why don't you admit you and the rest of Conservative Idiots want the school system to be the baby sitter for your uncared, unloved, ignored brats. I have raised two kids in the school systems of Florida and Texas and both of them are National Academic Scholarship winners and both finished colleges with full scholarships.
Leo
Now what we have here of course is someone who is upset with my comments about government schools. Once you get through the "three stooges" line you know what's coming. Here's a liberal who realizes that government education is one of the keys to the continued indoctrination of our young people. After all, a private educator might actually teach about such evils as rule-of-law vs. democracy (mob rule). OK, Leo. Keep the fan mail coming! REDNECK SCRAP BOOK What does a redneck get his woman for Valentine's Day...roses, of course. More in the Redneck Scrap Book. READING ASSIGNMENTS
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Bad news for Jimmy Carter. You know how he's been running around criticizing the Bush administration over the warrantless wiretaps? It would appear his administration did the same thing. Looks like Jimmy just got caught with his hand him the cookie jar. Oops!
A story in a British newspaper says the Pentagon is drawing up plans to take out Iran's nuclear sites. Somebody's going to have to do it, so it may as well be us. The rest of the civilized world seems content to let the mad Mullahs and their Islamic terrorist buddies have all the nukes they want.
Saddam Hussein was back in court this morning....practicing his anti-war talking points faxed to him by the left in this country. "Down with Bush," shouted the Butcher of Baghdad. What a joke.
A video of British soldiers beating up some Iraqis is making the rounds, and of course there's already plenty of manufactured media "outrage." Perhaps there will be riots...but only if somebody makes a cartoon of it.
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots a hunting partner who apparently got in the way. Accidents happen. But check out this bizarre statement from James and Sarah Brady...the former being the Reagan press secretary and the latter the gun control activist.
Many in the Republican party have already started jumping off the U.S.S. George W. Bush. Robert Novak says Bill Frist is the latest to have jumped ship.
In what could possibly be the worst investment of tax dollars ever, it's been revealed that Mexico has received $376 million from the United States to stop alien and drug smugglers.
Just how did Islam get hijacked by violent fanatics? It wasn't always this way, reports Amir Taheri. He says it comes from radical Muslims using religion to push their political agenda.
Unlike their Danish counterparts, the American mainstream media won't publish the Mohammed cartoons. Jack Kelly points out how odd that is, because they seem to have no problem publishing cartoons critical of Christianity.
Star Parker says the way the funeral of Coretta Scott King was turned into a political soapbox shows why the black community has the troubles that it does. Read on for the full explanation.A boy in Illinois is charged with a felony for bringing powdered sugar to school. | 
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