WHAT HAVE I BEEN SAYING ABOUT LIBERALS FOR YEARS?

Well, many things, now that you mention it. Let's see ... I've said that liberals are generally incapable of logical thought; they are engaged in a war against individualism; and that truth is a grave enemy of the liberal agenda.

One more thing ... I've said time and time again that liberals believe that America is great because of government, not because of the dynamic of a free people working and living together under the rule of law.

Let's pay a visit to one Robyn Blumner. She's a columnist for the St. Petersburg Times down yonder in Florida. Robin is a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. She's not happy that the government isn't rushing forward to bail out all of these homeowners who borrowed more money than they thought they would ever be able to pay back to buy homes they knew they couldn't afford. Here is a very telling line from her column:

"The [free] market is not the best part of America. Not even close. Our government is the best part – or at least is used to be before the current gang took over."

OK ... time for another Neal Boortz "I told you so." The problem now is, as we saw yesterday, Republicans are just as fond of big government as the Democrats are.

Libertarian Party anyone?

Who is this? Tom Cruise, Obviously Some Hollywood actor posing beside a fake jet Why .. I'll be damned! It's our own Neal Boortz! Clearly the picture is a few years old.

MORE DIVERSITY HORSESQUEEZE

The New York Times has had its share of liberal moonbats on its op/ed pages, but this piece comes from the editorial observer. In other words, it expresses the opinion of the New York Times. The moral of the story ... the United States is not focused enough on the "public investment in social welfare" because of our racial and ethnic diversity. America's ethnic mix is the main reason for entrenched opposition to "public spending on the public good." In other words, government will not spend your tax dollars to help others who did not earn those tax dollars ... and we don't do this because we are afraid that those tax dollars will be spent on people of a different race.

The United States spends 19% of total output on government programs; at least we did back in 2003. This ranks the US near the bottom compared to other industrial countries. But what some fail to realize is that Americans still give huge amounts on their own to charity. Americans have demonstrated that they don't need the government to take their money and make charitable contributions for them. When you include the amount of private charity donations in America, we arguably spend more for "social purposes" than most European countries. The Times, though, isn't happy with private charity .. and here's why: "But philanthropy allows them to target spending on those they personally believe are deserving, instead of allowing the government to choose." Oh my God! Isn't that terrible? Philanthropists get to chose whom they are going to give money to! Don't they know that this is the government's job? And just why would it be the government's job? Because when a private individual gives money away to some charity there is no politician in the mix to claim credit. People – individuals – give away money because they feel charitable, they want to help someone, and they feel good about giving. Politicians give money away to buy votes. Leave it to The New York Times to say that the political class has it right and the people have it wrong.

HILLARY DEMONIZING HER OWN STAFF

Hillary Clinton has a new campaign manager, Maggie Williams, as of February of this year. There seems to be a bit of a problem with Maggie though. The problem centers around the mortgage meltdown. Hillary wants to destroy the subprime mortgage industry. But wait! That's the very industry where Hillary's campaign manager worked! Yup .. she earned about $200,000 serving on the board of a Long Island subprime mortgage lender --- a lender that (gasp!) charged prepayment penalties. (By the way, I see nothing wrong with prepayment penalties. If you care to, call me on the air and challenge me on that issue.)

Since April of 2000, Williams served as the director on the board of Delta Financial Corp. until it went bankrupt. She was supposed to create a new code of "best practices." She was also supposed to improve crisis management operation in the wake of state and federal predatory lending probes, which resulted in a $12 million payout to borrowers. Her hiring happened to coincide with efforts to reach out to minority communities, which is where Delta made many of its loans. As a Delta employee, Williams was excited to provide equity loans to working families who were trying to move into the middle class. She says, "There are people who miss payments and have bad credit for all kinds of reasons ... It is a very middle-American kind of problem, although I believe it does affect poor people disproportionately."

So, there you go. It seems that Hillary's campaign manager was directly involved in creating the very problem that Hillary is trying to solve ... solve with more government, of course.

BOORTZ SUSPENDED!

Yesterday I told you of my surprise when I returned from my vacation trip to Puerto Rico only to discover that I wasn't actually on vacation ... I had been suspended! Well, at least that is what you would have believed if you went to one of more loony of the leftist blogs out there. Someone posted a blog saying that I had been suspended for my remarks on Lil' Buford on the air. This person also said that I talked about Lil' Buford every single day for one solid week. Well, neither was true. Lil' Buford was our topic for one portion of one show only ... and the true name of this individual was never mentioned. But .. these bedwetters want to believe that I was suspended ... let them have their fun. Here are just some of the comments that were posted on loonyleft.com.

• I hope the demented prick gets fired. Permanently. Boortz is a sick, sick bastard.
• I am thrilled to read of his suspension but am sorry his evil, horrible soul wasn't fired
• Neal is an insensitive idiot and a blowhard - a blow hard with free speech and someone willing to pay him to transmit it over the airwaves.
• Still, he needs to be sodomized with a rusty chainsaw. This cannot be said often enough.
• May they all go down in flames... I'd personally like to see Hannity go next.
• There's a difference between free speech and hateful, slanderous lies and smears that the right specialize in. Hate radio needs to be taken off the air.
• Boortz is just a Neo-nazi repug. This S.O.B was in the picture at the White House with the other Neo-nazi repugs. This guy seems to me to be un-American as you can get.
• From time-to-time friends offer up a comment or disparaging remark from Boortz. When I ask them why in hell they listen to the SOB, their response is generally, 'well I don't really agree with him, I just think its funny to hear the outrageous things he says'. At that point I usually shake my head and tell them I'm not interested in hearing about the prick'. Unless, of course, I'm looking for a fight.
• Boortz will be getting a great laugh out of this...

You got THAT right!

Then ... along comes the person who started this whole suspension thing and posts the following comment:

Doh! It looks like I jumped to a conclusion about Boortz being suspended. He's still in some deep doo-doo, but apparently, he was on vacation last week. WSB 750AM's traffic reporter, Herb Emory, apparently likes to quip about Boortz being suspended as a little inside joke.
(Wipes egg off face.)
My apologies to Boortz, WSB, and to any at [loonyleft.com] whom I treated unfairly.
I was wrong, wrong, wrong about the suspension.

Takes a gentleman to apologize like that. Apology accepted. But ... let's do it again sometime, that was fun!

SAME TIRED OLD CLICHÉ

Well .. they had some more Midwest tornadoes. No big news there. It was also not surprising to learn that in the minds of some news reporters that "Some lost everything they had." This from Shepherd Smith on Fox News.

Let's see ... they lost everything they had, huh? Well that would mean that they lost:

• Their friends

• Their educations

• Whatever balances they had in their checking and savings accounts

• Their health

• Their relatives and loved ones

• Their jobs

• Their futures.

What did they really loose? Stuff, that's what .. and if these people had an ounce of responsibility whatever losses they did incur were insured. Come on journalists! Isn't this "lost everything they had" a cliché we can put away for a while?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

This has got to be the fastest way to the deer stand. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

We're going to lead the reading assignments today with this rather long column by one Mir Adnan Aziz. The title is "The Malicious Indictment of Islam." Aziz is upset because of what he terms to be the "malicious indictment of Islam" after 911. I'm proud that he includes me in his screed. Note, please, that the only reference he makes to Islamic violence is this sentence: "On September 11, it took just nineteen young men; secure in the belief that their religion and people had been wronged to change the course of our lives and history." No mention of suicide bombers. No mention of beheadings. No mention of Muslim inspired violence around the world. Just a passing reference in the very last paragraph about some "young men" who knew that their religion "had been wronged." Oh these poor, poor Muslims. They're so picked on.

Black author Alice Walker highlights the racial issues in this campaign by saying that "Obama is our Mandela." Did she do Obama any favors here?

Hillary's campaign bills continue to pile up. Now it turns out that her campaign has failed to pay health insurance bills for campaign workers... maybe she is just waiting until the government provides your health insurance, and then all will be forgiven.

This little clip of Barack Obama asking the crowd to give Dan Rather a round of applause has been circulating around the Internet.

A Gitmo detainee who helped plan the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania has been charged with war crimes and could face the death penalty.

Google is joining up with environmental activists to help flood the congressional switchboard with one million phone calls on Earth Day in order to promote eco-friendly legislation.

Meanwhile, it looks like that little Earth Hour this past weekend was far from successful. There was no significant fall in power usage.

OwlGore has found his new (expensive) pet project ... a $300 million public advocacy campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

What could turn humans into an endangered species ... and I'm not talking about global warming. That would be Islamofascism. But OwlGore is too busy worrying about polar bears.

Even the New York Times will print false statements such as this: Democracies don't always elect the man who has done the most for his country ... I hate to break it to them, but we are not a democracy. And that is a good thing.

Ensuring that all government employees are treated the same, Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services removed all games from employee computers after some employees were upset that their new computers (funded by your tax dollars) didn't have them.

CAIR fails to see the difference between a war against Islamofascism and a war against Islam.

These moonbats out in Berkeley are racking up quite a bill for all of their protests ... which are paid for by the taxpayers.

My question is ... if you can afford a car and want to drive it into New York City, what could possibly qualify you as a low-income driver?

Just remember, it is always the government's job to make sure that you have access to TV, even after the switch to digital ... and this will disenfranchise seniors and low-income individuals.

When you are sick of being overtaxed, you try and recall the politicians who implemented those taxes ... until those politicians decide to use unionized state workers to stop the recall effort. Oh wait, we must be talking about Michigan.

Government school students in Germany have the right to pray to Allah on school property, and schools must provide Muslim students with a prayer room.

OK golfers. You have to know the proper way to throw your golf club when you really get ticked off.

Newly minted Libertarian Bob Barr opines about the Federal Reserve Bank.

You cannot  top this cubical prank. Don't even try.

Aren't you glad you aren't this guy's roommate?

Wow, the featured videos on YouTube today are amazing! Check 'em out!

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