Thursday, July 3, 2008
 CONSEQUENCES
 An odd change has come over me since my knee replacement surgery nine weeks ago. Coffee. I was a constant coffee drinker – decaf – up until that surgery. I would stop every morning at Starbucks and get a ridiculously expensive latte. When I would do an appearance or a book signing the organizers were instructed to have my custom made latte ready. The day after the surgery I tried a cup of coffee ... couldn't stand the taste ... and that was it. Haven't had a cup since. And now what we find in the news? Starbucks is closing 600 stores. And you think I don't have an effect out there. Ha!
OBAMA TEMPLATE Watch Mr. Eloquence as he makes his various statements to the media. Whenever he talks about McCain you'll see him trying to blend in one of his favorite focus group statements; to wit: "blah blah blah will continue Bush's failed blah blah policies blah blah blah." Yeah .. the focus groups participants really liked that "Bush's failed blah blah policies" line ... but what would you expect of those who have glommed on to The Messiah and his American Idol campaign. THE IRAQI ECONOMY Did you know that just a few months ago the government of Iraq signed a $5 billon dollar contract with Boeing for commercial airliners? Probably not. After all, this is a war for oil, right? Not a war for commercial airliners. Golly! Could it possibly have been a war to liberate a country and to create a beacon of freedom and entrepreneurship in the otherwise rancid Middle East? THE DEMOCRATS HAVE STAKES IN WHAT? One of the favorite games the Democrats in Washington like to play is when they call all the oil executives to Capitol Hill and berate them for making "excessive" profits. Well as you might expect ... more than a dozen of these Democrats in Congress that are critical of the oil industry actually have their own personal investments in the same oil companies they are lambasting. At least 14 House Democrats and one senator (John Kerry) have holdings in companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron or Schlumberger and Hornbeck Offshore Services. And not only do they have holdings, but they have a lot of 'em ... ranging from several thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. We'll get into this more on the program today, but here are some more of the details on exactly which Democrats are invested in the same oil companies they are criticizing. Gotta love'em. OBAMA'S CALL TO SERVICE Under a Barack Obama presidency, your government will expect you to "serve" your country. Yep. Yesterday Obama promised to create new opportunities for national service so that you can do your part to fight poverty, climate change and poor government education. Aren't you excited? Which cause do you want to choose?OK ... let's go through that brief list. I fight poverty by not being poor. I don't believe man has a role in climate change, so there's not a helluvalot I can do there; and those of you who listen to me know that I'm fighting poor government education by telling you the truth about government schools and ranting for school choice. All of this I have been doing without Obama's exhortations. For you government educated students out there, you won't have a choice whether or not you want to "serve" your country. High school students will be required to serve 50 hours a year of government service and college students will have to serve 100 hours a year. (I wonder if that applies to those who attend private schools.) Obama said, "Loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July," which is something that I can agree with. But then he says, "Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it. If you do, your life will be richer, and our country will be stronger." Here we go with this "change" nonsense again. My question is, "Ok Barack, so you want to change this country ... from what to what?" It's that simple. From a capitalist system to one of government control, regulation and redistribution of wealth? Barack Obama is easy to figure out. He, like so many other Democrats, believe that America is great because of government. Question: Tell me one time in one campaign appearance or in one policy statement where Barack Obama has ever proposed a purely private sector solution to any problem. Now I know I'm preaching to the choir here .. but just remember that thought and use it on some of your ObamaManiac friends. Something like: "OK, you're so impressed with Obama. Can you tell me one time ..... etc etc." Now clearly, I do not have an issue with people who choose to serve their country. Those who choose to serve in our military are absolutely to be praised and thanked. The same goes for those small business owners who create the vast majority of jobs in this country ... they, too, are serving their country by powering our economy. My point is that it shouldn't take the hand of government to make you serve your country. If you want to serve your country, that's great. But you should serve because you want to not because the government tells you to. But this is what you will be taught in your government schools ... you will be taught how to "serve" your country, be a good government subject, pay your taxes, and that's about it. If you become successful along the way ... just bend over, grab your ankles, and wait for your friendly government representative to come along and administer the appropriate punishment. GOVERNMENT WANTS A HAND IN YOUR DIVORCE  One Republican politician in Texas thinks that he knows what is best for your marriage ... and he wants to use the force of government to make sure you really think long and hard before getting a divorce. Texas State Representative Warren Chisum is a Republican. He is pushing a bill that would require Texans to wait two years to get a divorce. If you don't want to wait the two years, you must take a class ... paid for by the taxpayers! ... to "save" your marriage.
This representative wants to use the government to try and crack down on no-fault divorces. His proposal calls for couples to jointly participate in 10 hours of marriage counseling within a 48 hour period. Opponents of the bill are clearly concerned about the government's role in trying to save your marriage. Not to mention the fact that taxpayers are shelling out $8 million a year in federal dollars from the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families program to pay for marriage classes. OK .. his heart might be in the right place, but this is not the government's role. Relationships between adults should not be a subject for government control. My God, where does freedom enter the picture around here? AIDS IN THE NUZE Yesterday President Bush called on Congress to approve more funds to fight AIDS in Africa. Not only does he want more funds ... he wants $50 billion over the next five years. That's $50 billion of your tax dollars to fight something which is often diagnosed on the bases of whether you have the sniffles or a tummy ache. Yeah .. that's right. The diagnosis of HIV in Africa is quite a bit different from any diagnosis made here. Faced with the insurmountable obstacles of trying to test so many Africans, often in remote areas, for HIV, health organizations simply draw up a list of symptoms .. things like a persistent cough or lack of energy. When a patient shows up with a combination of these symptoms they are simply determined to be suffering from HIV.There's a group of doctors who have formed an organization called "Rethinking AIDS" Eight years ago, in July of 2000, they released a report showing that most Africans who have been "diagnosed" as having AIDS will actually come up negative on an HIV test. Here are some numbers from some medical journals: - 227 patients with AIDS: 59% test HIV-negative. Lancet
- 122 patients with AIDS: 69% test HIV-negative, American Rev. Resp. Diseases.
- 913 patients with Aids: 71% test HIV-negative. Journal of AIDS
What is going on here? I think the evidence is in that the AIDS numbers in Africa are being wildly exaggerated. All the while American taxpayers are coughing up billions of dollars to treat ... what? Coughs? Exhaustion? Then on the same day, we get a story like this ... "South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high, the provincial health department said Wednesday ... The life prolonging drug Stocrin, one of the antiretroviral drugs used to fight AIDS, is reportedly crushed and mixed with marijuana and sold in the townships around the coastal city ... The health department has warned that the trend could spark shortages in the city's hospitals and health centers."
Your tax dollars hard at work ladies and gentlemen. LIBERALS AND YOUR AIR CONDITIONING Time Magazine ran a piece called "Kill Your Air Conditioning" in order to denigrate you evil people who have the "luxury" of keeping your air conditioning on in the summertime. The writer Joe Klein says that the "unnecessary refrigeration of America has become a chronic disease." Hmmm sounds a bit similar to Barack Obama calling for all of us to change our thermostats based on what other countries think is OK ... But moving on ... Klein says, "Air-conditioning is bad for the planet, and for national security, and for our balance-of-payments deficit." Even though air conditioning equates to about 4% of our energy usage. But his argument gets even better. Take a gander at this one: "Actually, George W. Bush's failure to call for sacrifice — and fuel conservation would have been a great one — after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been one of the great failures of his presidency. The next President will not have the luxury of that sort of indolence, and, happily, both Barack Obama and John McCain have been talking about conservation as a means to get our energy situation under control. So why not start now? I'd like to see both candidates call for an immediate 5deg.F thermostat adjustment, just to get the conservation ball rolling — and because it would be a 'personal virtue' for each candidate to ask it of us." Screw them. I live in the South. FRIEND NEAL ON FACEBOOK! Yes, the Talkmaster is now on Facebook. There goes the neighborhood! Follow this link to friend him. Don't accept imitators! This link will give you the real live Neal Boortz. READING ASSIGNMENTS | BOORTZ BLAST LINE PASS Did you know that we now give Boortz Blast email newsletter subscribers the chance to cut in line in front of all y'all (as we say here in the South) to talk to the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth himself? Subscribe here so you don't miss out on special opportunities like this in the future. For a limited time only, we'll open up the line pass to Nuze readers. Here's how it works, and remember, this is in every Boortz Blast email newsletter. |
Track the Liberty Belle's flight to England and back. And see pictures! Here's what Dick Morris has to say about Barack Obama and his latest patriotism tour. The good news: there has not been a terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. The bad news: a new CNN poll found that Americans are not very concerned about terrorism. Duhhhhh ... You think? This global warming charade is such a hoax. Just a few weeks ago NASA's James Hansen appeared in Congress and said that CEOs of energy companies should be tried for high crimes against humanity. Here's some more on that nonsense. Guess what promise politicians have already backed away from: earmark spending. The number and dollar amount of pork-barrel projects has already increased so far this year. These antiwar protesters in Minnesota had nothing better to do than to block traffic outside of a bullet making facility in efforts to "disable local branches of the war industry." Harris County, Texas has done a fine job of making sure that you can legally get your fireworks but the City of Houston has made sure you'll have a hard time legally transporting them. Some residents of Houston are upset after finding Korans on the doorsteps of hundreds of homes as part of a campaign to educate people about Islam. Well, better that than bombs. What do you get when you combine immigration and gay marriage? Try deportation. A state trooper in Brooklyn wrote phony traffic tickets for a man as payback after they got into an argument over a parking spot. A teenager in Central Florida broke into somebody's home just so he could order more than $100 worth of porn on the family's TV. An airline refused a dying man's request to fly home to Florida to go Tango Uniform because "if the plane crashed, nobody would be able to help him." A firefighter in Florida was single-handedly able to lift up a Chevy Blazer in order to save a woman whose arm was pinned underneath. Dennis Haybert who played President Palmer on "24" says that his portrayal of the first black US president helped paved the way for Barack Obama. I'd rather have Haybert than Obama. A British man is begging the taxpayers to help him stay a man ... Are you suffering from hidden talents? Maybe this company should rethink their gummi lighthouses. | 
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