Thursday -- May 18, 2006
DAYTON ARENA TONIGHT! Sean Hannity, Clark Howard, Jamie Dupree (plus Belinda!) and a cast of malcontents and misfits will be at the University of Dayton Arena tonight at 6:00 for the News-Talk 1290 WHIO Meeting of the Mouths! If you haven't been to one of these free-for-alls you've been missing some good times. Tickets are still available! We'll see you in Dayton tonight! AND IT'S NORFOLK FOR THE MORNING! When we're through in Dayton we'll hop in the little bitty airplane and head for Norfolk, Virginia! Tomorrow is Talkfest 2006 at the Ted Constant Convocation Center! We'll be doing our broadcast live there in the morning for the WNIS Newsradio Talkfest 2006! Tony Macrini and the WNIS morning news team will start things off ... then in addition to watching me do my dog and pony act you'll see Herman Cain, Ken Hamblin and our favorite, Pasquale Giovani! So ... if you can't make it to Dayton tonight, how about Norfolk in the morning! More upcoming appearances. |
 WHY HASN'T BUSH RESPONDED?
I'm just remembering that Mexican government official who told a radio interviewer that the Mexican government was going to file lawsuits against the United States if our National Guard detains any Mexicans trying to sneak into our country. Amazing, isn't it? It's like a burglary gang announcing to a neighborhood that if anyone tries to stop any gang burglars from entering their homes will face lawsuits. A statement this absurd and outrageous deserved some response. Did you hear one? I didn't. How many poll points could Bush gain if he would simply say "Hey, Vicente, mi amigo! We have borders. One side of that border is our country. The other side is yours. We don't tell you how to control your side. You don't tell us how to control ours. You are sending millions of your citizens across that border in an attempt to relieve the pressure on you to address the corruption in your own government and the failings of your economic policies. One more peep out of you and we're going to lock down the $20 billion your invasion force is sending back every year." I don't think they make presidents like that anymore. By the way ... is there any truths to the rumor that the ACLU is ready to help Mexico with those lawsuits? 
NOW WE GET A BORDER FENCE
 The border with Mexico stretches some 2,000 miles....actually 1,951 miles, to be exact. The border spans Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and parts of Delaware. With an estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the United States, it has been suggested that perhaps it might be a good idea to build a better border fence. You think so? How about that...what a great idea!
But just what kind of border fence? There's already one there...but it isn't much of one, considering how people jump right over it. So yesterday the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill to build a new border wall...this one 370 miles in length. That would seem to be 1,581 miles too short, but hey...beggars can't be choosers, right?
The fence would be built in the areas most used by smugglers and illegal aliens. The cost: $3.2 million per mile. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, a supporter of the legislation said that the new fence would send "a signal that open-border days are over. Good fences make good neighbors, fences don't make bad neighbors." He's got that right.
But the government is forgetting one thing. If they actually wanted to build a fence to seal the border...all the way from the Gulf to the Pacific...there would be no shortage of people willing to pitch in and work for free. Because at this rate, building a new fence only partially covering the border would be a waste of time. Illegal aliens will simply just switch to the areas where there's no new fence.
We're not building a fence .. we're building a funnel!
MURTHA ACCUSES THE MARINES
Pennsylvania Democrat John 'cut and run' Murtha, the Congressman from Al-Qaeda, has once again opened his mouth and stirred a little controversy. He is accusing the United States Marines of killing Iraqi civilians...on purpose, in cold blood.
This time he is referring to a March incident that was reported in Time magazine and one that the military is investigating. The story goes that 15 Marines walked right into a civilian house throwing grenades and shooting...killing 15 Iraqis, including women and children. That's right...the U.S. Marines go around killing innocent people for no reason. That must be some military we have!
According to Murtha: "Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha knows this, of course, because he was there. Except he wasn't. Perhaps he should keep his mouth shut until the investigation concludes.
Just whose side is he on, anyway? It doesn't appear to be ours. He's sure lovin' the controversy though. Hey, I wasn't a Marine, but I grew up in the Marine Corps. I can tell you that no Marine worth his salt is ever going to accuse another Marine of murdering someone in cold blood unless he has the incontrovertible evidence to prove the charge. So ... Murtha the Mouth ... let's see it! | When you are interested in something you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed, you accept only results, not excuses. Ken Blanchard. |
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK I kind of doubt postal regulations allow for this sort of thing. More in the Redneck Scrap Book. READING ASSIGNMENTS
The Power of Make-up
Cynthia McKinney has decided that she likes police after all. She has signed a bill praising the Capitol Hill police. Perhaps she's trying to get on their good side before she's indicted for hitting a cop.
Congressman John Conyers, who previously had called for George Bush's impeachment, has decided that he would not immediately start impeachment proceedings if the Democrats win the House this fall. Yeah right.
So what is the problem at the CIA? Columnist Victor Davis Hanson calls it the 'culture of arrogance.' This is what the nomination of Michael Hayden to run the show there is supposed to fix.
The mood on Capitol Hill among House Republicans is sour, and everybody blames George W. Bush for the possibility that they may fall out of power this fall. Robert Novak says things are getting nasty.
George Will implodes the myth of the 'values voter,' saying that all voters have values. He says the media continues to push the idea that some voters are morally better than others. Interesting as always.
Here's something you haven't heard much of. Max Boot says that when it comes to NSA surveillance on the American people, forget privacy...we need to spy more. I suppose somebody had to say it.
Karl Rove says the source of George W. Bush's low poll numbers is Iraq. Larry Elder disagrees...and says it isn't even Iraq, or Katrina or illegal immigration. It's the president's principles.
It's Thursday.....which means it's time for a new Ann Coulter column. Coulter says that should the Republicans lose control of the House this fall, the Democrats would impeach George W. Bush. She says then maybe we wouldn't have to constantly hear about how we're 'a nation of immigrants' and other such obvious phrases.
Cal Thomas weighed in late yesterday on the president's immigration address Monday night and says the speech would have been more convincing if he weren't pressured into make it by his political base.
Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner is complaining that the White House abandoned his border security bill. They helped him draft the legislation, then left him at the altar. Not exactly the way to win friends and influence others.Congrats to Atlanta's city council for making national news. What for? For voting to relax their ethics standards so they can accept meals and tickets to local events from people wanting to do business with the city. | 
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