TYPICAL TEASIP PROFESSOR

A little tale to tell you here about a professor at The University of Texas (TU) in Austin. Typical, typical, typical.

Ok ... If you were listening to the Boortz Show yesterday we had a call from good ole Eddie. Now Eddie is black, and Eddie goes through life with a huge racial chip on his shoulder. With Eddie, everything is about race. No matter what subject we're talking about on the air ... it's all about race. Michael Vick ... all about race. The war in Iraq ... all about race. Skim vs. half & half ... about race. Every negative occurrence in Eddie's life has been due to one reason ... his race. To be blunt, it sucks to be Eddie.

Now during yesterday's phone call Eddie made two rather amazing statements.

1. "Every time I see an old white man I wonder how many black people he's killed."
2. "Every time I seen an old German I wonder how many Jews he has killed."

So ... After Eddie shares those incredible gems of intellectual discourse with us, I had a question:

"Eddie, how would you feel if I told you that every time I saw a young black man I wondered how many women he's raped and how much drugs he has sold."

Even .. .and I say this advisedly ... even if you went to a government school you would be able to discern just exactly why I asked Eddie that question. As the Godfather likes to say .... "I was illustrating absurdity by being absurd."

Well ... as you might expect ... a few hours after I left the studio my syndication representative gets a rather angry phone call from a University of Texas professor who had heard my comments on KLBJ-AM in Austin. This professor proceeds to tell my syndication rep that he heard me say that every time I see a young black man I wonder how many women he has raped and how much drugs he has sold. He went on to explain that Don Imus was fired for saying much less. This professor was demanding either an explanation or some action.

Now this is something you may expect from someone like Eddie; but from a university professor?

Par for the course, I guess. Let's just hope he listens to his students better than he listens to the radio.

PITY THE FOOL

The fool I'm referring to here is the poor sap from New York who caught that Barry Bonds home run ball in San Francisco earlier this week. The ball is reputed to be worth in the neighborhood of a half-million dollars.

Here's the rub. Accountants certainly aren't in agreement on this, but some are saying that this character owes the IRS about $200,000.

Think about it. If someone gives you a car worth $500,000, you must include that car as income on your tax return. The extra income shoves you into a higher bracket, and you're going to fork over at least $200,000. Well, what's the big difference between someone giving you a half-million dollar car and a half-million dollar baseball?

New York tax lawyer John Barrie says: "It's an expensive catch. Once he took possession of the ball and it was his ball, it was income to him based on its value as of yesterday."

Some tax experts say that no, you don't have to pay the tax until you actually sell the ball. Sell, that's not the way it would work for the car, so why would the government treat that ball any differently?

Isn't this just grand? Our wonderful tax system at work. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how we might change things?

GEORGIA'S SEX OFFENDERS

Larry W. Moore Jr. was convicted of a felony in North Carolina in the early 1990s. In 2005 he violated Georgia's sex offender registry policy. Not good.

Now Moore is facing life in prison for not properly registering an address with Georgia's sex offender registry.

According to Georgia law he violated a provision that requires sex offenders to register a permanent address. Well, the problem was that Moore didn't have one. He was homeless. Lawmakers say that proper registry means telling police where you live and under the law, "homeless does not constitute and address." So, it's off to jail for the rest of his life for Larry Moore ... at taxpayer's expense, of course.

Make sense to you?

TAXES CHANGE BEHAVIOR

The head of the Ford Motor Company says that the U.S. government should consider a European-style gasoline tax. Why? Because this will help combat global warming.

He wants gas prices in the U.S. to soar to seven or eight dollars per gallon in order to dramatically change people's behavior.

So ... here we have this character suggesting that the government use taxes to change people's behavior. Isn't that exactly what Mike Huckabee said at the Republican debate on Sunday while explaining why we need the FairTax?

His name? It's Alan Mulally, Ford's chief executive officer. He says "I think it's so important we all join in this debate and we really decide what we want to do about energy security and global warming. A piece of that could be a tax."

By the way ... what global warming? This is getting a bit out of hand, don't you think? Now we have this phony global warming crisis being used as an excuse to raise taxes.

IMMIGRATION HOTLINE

In Orange County, California the illegal immigrants are saying that they are being "terrorized" by federal officials. Awwww. Now that's really a shame, isn't it. Criminals are being terrorized by government officials trying to enforce the law. That's pretty much like a drunk driver saying he's being terrorized by DUI checkpoints.

So now we have the Orange County Alliance for Immigrants Rights and the Front Against the Raids are creating a hotline. It will notify illegal immigrants when and where there are going to be immigration raids.

Similar programs in Los Angeles County will not only track immigration raids but will direct people to legal assistance and give them instructions on what to do in case of a raid.

"Activists" in the area are being urged to call the hotline and report raids or any "abusive power" exercised by federal or local law enforcement. Apparently enforcing our immigration laws is an "abuse" of power.

Here's an idea ... obey the law. Get outta here.

HATE CRIMES RULING

A New York judge ruled that in order for someone to be convicted of a "hate crime" you don't have to have any evidence of "hatred." None. In this case, the judge ruled that because the victim was a homosexual the three men arrested are not only murderers but committed "hate crimes," not because of any dislike or hatred they might have felt toward the victim, but solely because they chose the victim because of his sexual orientation.

Judge Jill Konviser of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn ruled in the case. She said that prosecutors only need to show that the man was picked because of his sexual orientation. That makes it a hate crime.

Here's where we stand. Chose a straight man to murder, your penalty is less than if you chose a gay man.

While this still may be New York state law, it is this type of legislation being proposed at the federal level. Penalties are dramatically higher for "hate crimes" then they would be for the same exact crime, only if the victim had been a straight man.

SANTERIA IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS?

A New York City government school principal is actually fired? What on earth did she have to do in order to get fired from a government school system ... where labor unions would rather teachers sit in rubber rooms and be paid to do nothing than be fired.

The principal of the Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Maritza Tamayo, has been fired for sprinkling chicken blood on the high school. Yup .... Chicken blood. Apparently Tamayo practices Santeria, a Caribbean slave religion, and used the chicken blood to cleanse the school of its negative energy.

Tamayo paid Gilda Fonte (hopefully not out of taxpayer money) to lead Santeria rituals during the 2006 winter break.

Besides spreading chicken blood, teachers saw the women wearing white dresses and performing rituals while balancing silver trays with 40 lit candles on their heads.

Tamayo forced staff members of the school to participate in the rituals and help pay for the ceremonies.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Yesterday we were talking about hundreds of NYC teachers sitting in "rubber rooms" getting paid to do nothing while their teaching privileges are suspended for various reasons. Someone is making a documentary about it.

Newt Gingrich says he's candidate material! He certainly beats the hell out of some of the others out there.

The state of Wisconsin wants universal healthcare for all its residents. This article says to let them do it. And fail. And serve as a lesson for the other 49 states.

Here's an article from the Heritage Foundation, saying that it is one thing to be "anti-war" but another to pull the plug on necessary legislation for our soldiers.

Boeing, major airlines and several airport operators have sued the FBI and CIA, trying to question current and former agency employees connected with negligence litigation over 9/11.

Democrats are calling for the resignation of Minnesota's transportation commissioner in light of the bridge collapse.

Farmers are really starting to stir the puddin' over the feds crackdown on hiring criminal aliens. Question ... are you ready to pay a bit more for your food as a cost of enforcing our immigration laws?

Are we going to end up using taxpayer's money --- our money --- to bail out mortgage lenders who made bad loans, and homeowners who bit off more than they could chew? Edwards and Obama weigh in. Pay attention, folks. This is going to become a big story.

And Hillary Clinton's solution to U.S. infrastructure woes ... spend more money. And lots of it. But where is she going to get it from?

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will appeal a federal judge's ruling that banning the sale of violent video games to children is unconstitutional.

Just a little information here for all of you government school supporters. Homeschooled children have scored higher on college entrance exams every year for the past decade.

Ok one more. Newt Gingrich shines the light on the harsh realities of the Detroit public school system ... and the bureaucracies that control them.

British Airways lost an 83-year-old passenger in Heathrow airport.

Ridiculous global warming news. Scientists in Britain say to expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis.

Go figure. Nancy Pelosi is very proud of Barry Bonds' non-success. She says he has a "rightful place among sports immortals."

A teenager in France has been arrested for translating the last Harry Potter book into French. The French language version won't be released until October 26th.

A Priest is being charged for jogging nude around the high school track before dawn. He thought that no one would see him.

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