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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C Kahn who wrote (13122)	7/10/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

Excerpts from NEALZ NUZE By Neal Boortz July 9, 1999 DAMNED IF YOU DO --- DAMNED IF YOU DON'T Yesterday I told you that Dubya was catching flack because his visit to San Francisco didn't include a little schmoozing with a group of black journalists meeting in that city. So, what does Dubya do? Well, he drops in on the black journalists' meeting. And just what happens? Why, now he's being accused of using the black journalists as a vote-getting exercise. Not only was this a meeting of black journalists, it was a meeting of black liberal journalists. They are firmly in the pocket of the Democratic Party. They aren't worth Dubya's time. THIS MAN WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT? Bill Bradley has weighed in on gun control (no, wait...gun safety!) with a column in the Washington Post. His plans: 1. Ban the distribution, sale, and manufacture of all "Saturday Night Special" handguns. 2. Require registration for all handguns. 3. Require licensing and safety training of everyone who owns a handgun. 4. Prohibit gun dealers from selling guns in residential neighborhoods. 5. Insist on mandatory trigger locks for guns. One of the first things you have to consider is just what constitutes a "Saturday Night Special?" You watch, the definition will include virtually any handgun.you can hide in your pants. Anyone with an ounce of logice – and who takes the time to check the facts – will know that this Bradley nonsense will only hinder the ability of law-abiding Americans to obtain and keep their most effective method of self-defense It's totally illogical. It's also completely typical of the leftist mentality. Take away a little more freedom in the name of safety and security. ATLANTA'S NEW "FACE 5" PROGRAM...WHAT YOU WON'T HEAR Yesterday, Atlanta officials announced their cooperation with federal officials to make the punishment harsher for criminals who use guns. The program, called FACE 5, is patterned after a similar program, called Project Exile, that has been so successful in Virginia. What you haven't heard in the media is that the success in Virginia is partly due to funding and support from the National Rifle Association. That's right. All the credit is going to the government. Whatever happens, the NRA can't get one little bit of recognition for it's contribution. TODAY'S BILL CAMPBELL MOMENT What did Bill Campbell, the illustrious mayor of Atlanta, have to contribute to this announcement of the Face 5 program? Well, Campbell stepped up to the mike and said "We simply can no longer tolerate guns killing and maiming people in our society." Yeah, leave it to Campbell to blame it all on the guns. The last thing he wants to do is hold his constituents up to blame. This is the same guy, though, who thinks "affirmative action" means affirmatively steering lucrative city contracts to campaign contributors and rich friends. WAS THE INCOME-TAX AMENDMENT EVER RATIFIED? This idea has been run by me hundreds of time by listeners over the years. I never thought amounted to much. Now, William J. Benson, a special agent with the Illinois Department of Revenue for 10 years, has done some research into the history of the 16th amendment to the Constitution and collected over 17,000 notarized documents from the year 1913, when this amendment was ratified. What he claims to have found is that only 27 of the 48 states properly ratified the amendment. That's way less than the required 36 states needed to make an amendment part of the Constitution. What's more, Benson says he's been persecuted by the federal government over his findings. A senatorial aide tried to bribe him. The aide said that, in exchange for suppressing all copies of his research, "you will live in comfort for the rest of your life." Benson said no. He got thrown into prison on income-tax charges, where authorities took away his encephalitis medication. A judge saw what the feds were doing to him, and Benson was released after nearly 16 months in jail. Benson is preparing to sue the dog squeeze out of the people who put him in prison. If this is true--and, on the surface, it certainly looks like it could be--then the 16th Amendment has to be the worst scam ever pulled off by the United States government against its own people. Is it any wonder that the feds would want to keep this under wraps? Once word of this leaked to the press (yeah--like that's going to happen anytime soon), they'd have a full-scale revolt that would make King George think he got off easy. That said, is it any wonder why the government wants us disarmed and uninformed? This is just starting to unfold, so stay tuned. Think about it --- it could be the push we need to move to a national retail sales tax. Here's a link so you can follow the story yourself. worldnetdaily.com. COPYCAT! COPYCAT! Okay, so we know from reading the news that George W. has a spotty service record. Yesterday we learned he's a racist for not visiting a bunch of minority journalists in Seattle. (Actually, he caved and made a brief appearance for about half an hour.) Today we've learned that Dubya is nothing but a big fat copycat. Bill Clinton took time out from his Love the Poor tour to give an interview for the Los Angeles Times yesterday. He wants to claim fatherhood over the idea of "compassionate conservatism." Clinton said "The rhetoric of compassionate conservatism--half those speeches sound like I gave then in '92." Now aides for Clinton and Bush are duking it out, with each side arguing that their man was compassionate and conservative first. HILLARY LISTENS...RUDY DOES While Queen Hillary continued her phony "listening tour" of upstate New York --- and proving her humanity by actually using public restrooms – New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was making sure New York City was a safe place during Wednesday's blackouts. The man who will probably be Hillary Rodham's Republican opponent for the Senate is winning praise for his crisis-management skills during the blackout that left more than 200,000 without electricity. In the hardest-hit area of Washington Heights, there were only a few arrests and minimal looting. Giuliani ordered additional police and city workers to hit the streets and came out smelling like a rose. New Yorkers, if you're reading this...do you want a senator who listens, or one who can do? boortz.com

To: C Kahn who wrote (13122)	7/10/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Lisa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

C Kahn You have the key in your hand. If all Americans who are now sitting in judgement of every politician compliments of the Media, could pick a foreign country and take a tour of that country (many foreign governments will accept guests) it would change their life forever. Europeans are astonished at our behavior. Middle Easterners are either unaware of what is now happening here or think we are crazy people. Africans are just coming out of bondage and are working on their own economy. We certainly are looked upon with questions and rightfully so, I cannot speak for the Orient but my Son travels there and he tells me that they are too busy working to care. We have very few credible politicians left due to our "loud mouth" rambling, often "without benefit of brain" certainly without compassion. Do you think the framers of the constitution had to tolerate this "ranting" or the writers of the Declaration of Independence? Do you believe they ever though any politician would? They saw a "big picture" Americans are stuck in in rut' They cannot "See the forest for the trees" Since I elected to join this Coffee Shop' I have found a group who are starved for truth but when most found it, they could not recognize it. As I have said before I have been on this planet a lot of years I have spent most of my life in and out of D.C. I have seen much but I do not profess to know it all, however it has given me a front row seat to a lot of American History. I chose to be Educated in Politics. My late husband was for most of his life an FBI Agent. My first Employer was J.Edgar Hoover. who met and spoke to all new employees. This gave me a total new perspective on our nation. In 1960 the mood of this Country changed (See my first comments) The youth of this nation were given the opportunity to get a college education. "Free Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll" became the battle cry of the youth. The opportunists are always lurking about. If you look at American History from that day forward, you can see where we are heading. The Indian culture was destroyed because the young braves would not listen to their elders. Are we any different today? How far are we behind the Indians. I recently visited my grandson, who has a friend who just came from China. I spoke to this youth and learned that he speaks four dialects of Mandarin Chinese, and in the past two years he has learned to speak English. How many languages do American children speak? How many American children could go to China and learn the language? We are a Nation of Immigrants. That is the only reason we have prospered. Every race, creed and color has made a wonderful contribution. I have great faith in our national heritage, I believe that we are moving forward at breakneck speed toward a brave, wonderful new world. All of the anger, hatred and violence will fade away and we will move on. We tend to get caught up in issues that we know little about and can do nothing about. I call it "Raldoing" It seems that Heraldo is the ongoing "mouthpiece" for dissention and he has many followers. All things are relative. For every negative there is a positive. Greed, Hate and Anger will be our destruction if we allow it to be. I do not give the Voices who preach these negative values any space in my life. I have no TV and listen to music on the Radio. I get the headlines on CNN. I live in the midst of it . I have a job to do and I do it well. My Mother who is 102 watches in astonishment the way we live is very intriguing to her. She has taught me so much about our past as did my Immigrant In-laws. We need to close our mouths and learn from those who have lived before us. Our Elders are now living in Nursing Homes due to our common greed. I visit foreign countries and there their elders are held in high regard. How long will it be before we are the elders? Will we take our place in the same nursing home that our parents now occupy. Will the many deadly drugs that our parents are prescribed be injected into our bodies? Everyone gets to be young but not everyone lives to be old, It is wonderful to have lived long enough to know that I was much smarter at 16 than I am today. It is tragic to see the amount of money spent on trying to hold back the years. Alternative Medecine as the Europeans have proved is the only way to slow it down. They are much healthier than we are, lead a much slower pace of life. Will we ever learn?? I wonder. Lisa