Wednesday, May 7, 2008
 SOME WORKING NOTES
I'm spending a bit more time on therapy and exercises right now than creating
program notes ... so we're just going to go with some random intemperate thoughts
this morning and then crank up the mic.
YESTERDAY'S PRIMARIES
Obama a clear winner. He nails Hillary in North Carolina and she manages to
pull out a three percent win in Indiana. Time for her to pull out. What's she
waiting for? The vice-presidential spot from Barack? What kind of a fool would
he be to put Hillary in the White House as No. 2? Hillary as the
vice-presidential candidate is really all she has now.
"WORKING CLASS" VOTERS?
I'm just a bit weary of hearing about these "working class" voters. Who are
they? I heard them described on Fox News as workers who make less than $50,000
a year. OK ... I guess I get it. If you make more than $50,000 a year you're not
actually working. Nice little class warfare phrase there.
OBAMA'S BUDDY
We're talking Bill Ayers here. In Obama's words, "just a guy who lives in my
neighborhood." Right. A guy who lives in his neighborhood and who likes to
stomp on the American flag. There's a picture going around the Internet
showing
Ayers standing on an American flag. This was at the same time Ayers and Obama
were serving together on some foundation board, and while Ayers was helping
Obama with his state senate campaign. Help like that I wouldn't need.
NANNY STATE
 Still thinking about Senator Rockefeller's plan to recreate the home heating
assistance program with a mirror program to
buy gasoline for poor folks. Let's
make a short list of the things that Americans now feel the federal government
should help them do:
- Pay for their medical care.
- Pay to heat their homes.
- Pay their children's day care
- Educate their children
- Buy them gasoline every month
- Find then a job
- Guard their mental health with government counselors
THE NEAL BOORTZ COMMENCEMENT SPEECH
Plans are almost complete to record my commencement speech before an audience
sometime later this month. It will then be available on Comcast On Demand.
After that, who knows? Some people aren't really looking forward to this ... get
a look at his email I got from character:
Subject: Your So-called Commencement Speech
Name: BOB MARSH
Email: profess01@XXXXX.com
Message:
What in the world could be a more deadly intellectual combination than
being both an Aggie and a lawyer? The only thing I could add to it
would be if you were a talk show host, which you are.
I am so damn amused by what my "conservative", mad-dog friends think
they know about academe. You might be interesting to talk to but thank
God I wouldn't have to listen to you spouting your knowledge of what
people in academics think.
SEND YOUR KIDS TO TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL.
B. Marsh |
Do you get the idea from his email address that he might be a college
professor?
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Get the
live primary results here as the final numbers trickle in.
Nancy Pelosi wants another stimulus package. She says that Bush is "in
denial" about the state of the economy.
Hillary says that she wants to go after OPEC with anti-trust laws because
"they can no longer be a cartel." Oh yeah? And why is that, Hillary?
We had Newt Gingrich on the program yesterday.
He is warning the GOP that it could be in for a real disaster this November.
Here we have another fatal car accident
at the hand of an illegal immigrant. How many people do they kill every day on our
roads?
What do you get when you combine teachers unions, government school district
officials, and the loss of a $13 million tax payer grant ...
government education.
A Florida government school district has charged a substitute teacher with
the blasphemous act of
performing wizardry in the classroom. Seriously, folks. This is government
education. Sounds like a turbo at work somewhere.
The North Lauderdale City Commission in Florida is pushing a resolution
to split Florida into two separate states, because South Florida is paying
more in taxes than it receives.
In Duval County, Florida
54% of government educated 10th graders fail the reading part of the FCAT.
One grandmother wants "someone to be held accountable for what they have done to
this child." How about you, lady, for putting the child in a government school.
A man in California who promised to take his wife's last name sued the state
because it would cost him more money to take his wife's name, than for her to
take his.
Here's a government outrage: A farmer in Pennsylvania has been slapped with
a $4,000 for distributing raw milk to friends and neighbors, which is in
violation of state laws that demand a permit in order to sell natural products.
There must not be enough to do in Illinois, because one Congressman is
concerned about the sexual exploitation of children
in the virtual world Second Life.
The former judge who lost the $54 million law suit against a dry cleaner
is now suing to get his job back and to collect $1 million in "damages."
In a Pakistani province, it is now forbidden
for women to use cell phones.
Four out of five children in Great Britain are not allowed to ride their
bicycles to school because parents are afraid they might be hit by a car ...
even though there were ten times more accidents last year involving cars than
there were bicycles.
A dad in Great Britain decided to throw his daughter a pirate-themed birthday
party, which included flying a Skull and Crossbones flag on the front of the
house.
Now the local city commission is upset with the flag and threatening
prosecution against the father.
Can you imagine coming home to find
a
voicemail of your son in a firefight in Afghanistan? Yikes!
If you thought those embarrassing photos from the distant past were long
lost, you might just find them
popping up on flickr. Remember, if you don't want to see it again shred
and/or burn them. A warning for the squeamish - it's not as bad as
Neal's knee,
but it's still a little gross.
Blast from the past: pamphlet from the 50's "Protection
from the ATOMIC BOMB." | 
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