THE NEAL BOORTZ SHOW
America's Rude Awakening
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Wednesday -- July 11, 2001
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ENUMERATED POWERS
There’s a bill circulating around congress called The Enumerated Powers Act. This bill, if it became law, would require bill sponsors to cite the section of our Constitution which authorizes or legitimizes their legislation. The Constitution does, after all, specifically set the powers of the federal government, reserving all other power and authority to the people and the States.
Now – there’s an appropriations bill out there which includes a half-million dollar allocation for federal research into how to remove the stink from pig poop. Wouldn’t you love to see the Congressman who put that appropriations request in the hopper cite the section of our Constitution that sets forth removing the stench from pig crap as a legitimate function of the federal government?
While we’re at it, can someone please do something about the stench emanating from Jim Jefford’s office?
CENSORSHIP?
University Cablevision provides cable television service to about 4000 dorm residents at the University of Georgia as well as some hotel rooms, classrooms, laboratories and offices. University Cablevision has 50 channels, including five news channels.
Here are just some of the channels offered on University Cablevision:
CNN
CNN Headline News
CNBC
SCOLA (Foreign language news)
ESPN
ESPN 2
VH1 – MTV – MTV2
Cartoon Network
There is also the normal collection of broadcast TV channels, the major networks, Discovery, Learning Channel, etc.
The story here is what you can’t see on University Cablevision. That would be Fox News Channel. Even though Fox News beats CNN in the ratings, and even though many students have requested Fox News, the UGA administrators who decide which channels get carried and which don’t have decided that Fox News will have no place on the UGA campus.
Some students, including a Republican student group, think that there’s some liberal bias at work here. Aw, come on! Liberal bias on a university campus? What do they think this is? Georgia State?
The administration, of course, says that there is “absolutely no validity” to the liberal bias charge.
My bet is with the college Republicans.
Here’s a link to the University Cablevision lineup.
isd.uga.edu
And here’s a story from the UGA student newspaper.
redandblack.com
CRIME WAVE IN CINCY
I'll bet you haven't heard about this until now. Well, that’s why you listen to The Neal Boortz Show.
April's race riots in Cincinnati did more than bring out the thugs and troublemakers. Black-on-black shootings in the city skyrocketed after April 7, the date of the riot. In the 10 weeks after the riots, predominantly black neighborhoods played host to 41 shootings where 59 victims were killed or injured. All but one of those 59 shooting victims were black. The 22 known and arrested suspects were all black.
These are the same neighborhoods that saw just 10 shootings in the same 10 weeks in the spring of 2000. That’s quite an increase, isn’t it?
City-wide, there have been 21 homicides this year, compared with 29 for all of 2000. Bank robberies are on a pace to double last year's numbers.
This is what a successful anti-law-enforcement riot achieves. It emboldens predators. The predators know that after having shot an unarmed black man (who just happened to have more than a dozen warrants out for his arrest), the police are going to think twice about going into predominantly black neighborhoods, much less pulling a gun on a black suspect. These police officers have careers to protect, as well as the public. Well – why not protect your own career by focusing your law enforcement activities in neighborhoods where you are actually welcomed?
The leftist national news media have already spiked this story. It's not news. To the media, the April riots were merely "uprisings" that were a justifiable release of centuries of pent-up rage in Cincinnati's black community. The riots were righteous.
The ONLY possible explanation for the increased violent crime in these black communities is that the police, not the criminals, have been routed. The predators see a clear playing field.
enquirer.com
frontpagemag.com
ANOTHER PREDATOR BITES THE DUST!
Sixty-four year-old Bruce Longley retired from the New York City corrections department 22 years ago. Lately, he's been working as a gas station attendant on Long Island. While at work, he carries a licensed .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol in his waistband, in the small of his back. It's a good thing he does.
Monday afternoon, a man walked into the convenience store area of the gas station where Longley was working. He was armed with what appeared to be a gun. He demanded money from Longley.
Longley pulled out his pistol, racked the slide to load it, and fired three shots into the robber's chest. The predator is now taking the eternal celestial dirt nap.
Bruce Longley feared for his life. That's enough of a justification for the Nassau County police. It won't satisfy the gun grabbers who think Longley should have been unarmed and complied with all of the robber's demands. The anti-gunners probably think Longley shouldn't have been carrying that gun in the first place. He should have left that dangerous gun at home, locked away, with a trigger lock on it and the ammunition stored separately.
If they were to become law, those measures wouldn't have stopped the robber from walking into that convenience store with a gun. And they certainly wouldn't have saved Longley's life.
Bruce Longley is alive and unharmed today because he had fast and immediate
access to his gun.
newsday.com
SELF-PROTECTION = RACISM?
Forty-three year-old Yves Andre had been a Boston cab driver for 17 years. Last Tuesday night, one of his passengers shot him, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Now his colleagues are vowing to avoid high-crime neighborhoods late at night...and they're catching hell from the usual folks.
City Council President Charles Yancey and neighborhood leaders say it's racial profiling. Yancey told the Boston Globe, "It's very dangerous, quite frankly, for anyone to assume that the only individuals who may commit this kind of crime would be young, black males." Yancy is calling for legal action against cab drivers who avoid high-crime neighborhoods.
So, which is it? Is Yancey really that dim? Or is Yancy another politician exploiting race to maintain political power?
Nobody is assuming, as Yancy says, that “…the only individuals who may commit this kind of crime would be young, black males." Where does this “only” nonsense come from? The assumption -- and it’s not an assumption, really. It’s more of a realization – is that a young, black urban male is more likely to commit a violent crime a white male. Black men comprise less than 7 percent of our population but account for more than 40 percent of our violent crime. Sorry --- scream “racial profiling” and racism all you want. Facts is facts. Statistics is statistics --- and they speak clearly on this issue.
Boston's cab drivers are worried about becoming victims of crime. They would like to avoid being a victim, if possible. To do this they should have the right to make simple, logical choices in where they conduct their business. The simple, logical choice would be to avoid the high-crime areas.
Maybe if Charles Yancey and his "neighborhood leaders" bothered to work towards actual solutions -- like countering the culture of violence, predatory sex and anti-achievement in young black men -- they might see the cabbies come back someday. It’s not racist to want to return safe and sound to your family at the end of your workday.
boston.com
FANTASTIC HATE MAIL TODAY!
I received this one from a listener in Florida .... enjoy!
Dear Mr. Boortz,
I recently moved to Jacksonville, FL where I was able to listen to your show for the first time. I have lived in Chicago, Miami, Hattiesburg, MS and Birmingham, AL and never knew you existed. In the short time I have been listening I have made the following observations:
1). Your show is for entertainment purposes only. There is no meaningful nformation to be obtained from any of your broadcasts. Unlike Mr. Limbaugh, who saturates the taxpayer airwaves with his arrogant and pompous
conservative points of view, you saturate, from what I can tell, a predominately Southeastern market with whimsical satire and crude remarks just for the sake of offending some part of your audience.
2). You do not allow talk of a woman's right to choose (the "a-word" for laymen) on your show because then you would be forced to reveal your true political affiliation which would put you in the same category as the
aforementioned and, therefore, cause your listeners to stereotype you as a "wannabe".
3). You only claim to be a Libertarian for the sole reason of making that distinction between you and Mr. Limbaugh. The Libertarian Party's website lists several of the party's virtues most of which you violate in one show. You claim the poor people of this country could all go away and die and this country would be a better place. The Libertarian Party's website lists one virtue as being "Tolerant - The Libertarian Party is for all who don't want to push other people around and don't want to be pushed around themselves. Live and let live is the Libertarian way." This appears to be a dramatic conflict with your statements about the poor. I find it difficult to believe that the Libertarian Party would allow you to represent their cause by making the statements you make.
You are a pseudo-intellectual which, as you said about the poor people, would not be missed and very easily replaced if a tornado was to hit your rich community.
P. Bryant Jacksonville, FL
HOW FAR WILL GOVERNMENTS GO TO GET YOUR MONEY?
There is absolutely no end to the hunger that government has for your money. Money means power. The more money politicians have to spend, the more powerful they are.
Now – you aren’t going to believe this one. So, sit down.
Hughes Electronics is located in El Segundo, California. Hughes owns satellites – at least eight of them. These satellites are all sitting in a geo-stationary orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth’s equator. None of these satellites are floating in space above California. They were all launched either from Cape Canaveral in Florida or from French Guyana. Each satellite is worth about $100 million dollars.
So – why is all this important? Well, because the Los Angeles County tax assessor has decided that Hughes needs to pay LA County property taxes on these satellites. The taxes, according to the tax assessor, are payable because Hughes is located in Los Angeles County and this property is “movable.”
I don’t think I have to say any more here. Just stew on this one for a while.
latimes.com
SO — WHAT DID THIS COST THE TAXPAYERS?
Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell’s kid recently made a flight to Pittsburgh on Delta. Now – bear this in mind. When a Congressman or Senator makes a flight from Hartsfield to, say, Washington D.C. they go through the terminal and the security just like everyone else. Is that the way it works for Campbell’s kid? Hardly. He gets a police escort --- an escort consisting of three Atlanta police cars – right out onto the tarmac and directly onto the plane. Any security screening he goes through is private. No mingling with the great unwashed like our mere elected officials do. Nope, not for Billy Campbell!
Does anyone care what this kind of service costs the taxpayers? And while we’re at it, what about that Atlanta police officer who is permanently assigned to Coretta Scott King?
SO MUCH FOR ETHICS AND JUST COMMON DECENCY
Julia Emmons wears many hats. She is a member of the Atlanta City Council. She is a possible candidate for President of the City Council. Oh .. and she also runs the nation’s largest 10K road race – the Independence Day Peachtree Road Race.
Well, it seems the Peachtree Road Race has a bit of a problem with cheaters. These are people with high race numbers (indicating that they’re not very competitive) who don’t begin at the starting line. They position themselves a mile or so down the race course and just sort of jump on in when the leaders pass by. Then they collect their t-shirt at the finish line as if they had run the entire 10K course.
Is this wrong? Of course it is! Is it cheating? No doubt! So, how does Julia Emmons, potential City Council President, feel? Well, here’s her quote: “The charm of the race is lining up with 55,000 people and going down together. If people wish for their own personal reasons to thwart it slightly, I’m not going to question your ethics.”
Just dandy. Another politician who doesn’t like questioning the “ethics” of cheaters.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
You’ve heard me sing the praises of a French economist named Frederic Bastiat. He’s my favorite frog. If Bastiat were alive he would have been 200 years old on June 30th. Walter Williams calls Bastiat one of the top 10 advocates of liberty. If you don’t ready any other reading assignment today … read this one. That’s why I put it first.
townhall.com
Now … here’s today’s Best of the Web from The Wall Street Journal.
opinionjournal.com
A Lew Rockwell column on “newspeak.” This is the language that flacks in the media can use to ‘lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
lewrockwell.com
I have said that we will see an end of talk radio as we know it if the Democrats ever get firm control of the House, Senate and White House. Well, here’s someone who agrees with me.
belogical.com
A Lew Rockwell column on “newspeak.” This is the language that flacks in the media can use to ‘lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
belogical.com
Linda Chavez weighs in on the Chandra Levy episode … asking why her family members did nothing to stop it! Good question.
townhall.com
Do you notice how “profit” is becoming a dirty word? Let some vital business enterprise experience an increase in profits and you would think that they had committed mass murder.
townhall.com
Uh oh. This could get ugly. Don Feder weighs in on Hanoi Jane. He doesn’t seem particularly pleased that American Heritage magazine characterized Jane Fonda as “America.”
townhall.com
Al Gore’s daughter just wrote an article about how to avoid being “Bush Whacked.” Kristin Anderson writes that she would much rather be bush whacked than Gored.
townhall.com
A Harvard professor has exposed the existence of grade inflation in the hallowed halls of this Boston institution. This hasn’t exactly made him popular with the rest of the faculty.
townhall.com
Black voter turnout in Florida elections was grossly overstated.
washtimes.com
USA Today doing its part to help Hitlary.
usatoday.com
The Kyoto treaty is dead. Australia joined the boycott.
news.independent.co.uk
Federal government to regulate certain fertilization procedures.
washingtonpost.com
Libertarians win ballot access in Oregon.
worldnetdaily.com
Jim Jeffords rewarded for his defection with a chairmanship.
washtimes.com
Wisconsin court tells deadbeat dad to stop having kids.
jsonline.com
Princeton's new president laments the lack of freakish students.
globe.com
Seattle police exchange gunfire--with each other.
seattletimes.nwsource.com
Arkansas "boys on the tracks" case libel judgment reversed on appeal.
worldnetdaily.com
Study says drinking coffee can help slow the signs of aging.
stuff.co.nz
Internet user stops suicide 6,000 miles away.
guardian.co.uk
Dog walks 16 miles to church every Sunday.
dailynews.yahoo.com
Dave Kopel: "The Prohibitionist's Burden"
Congress has repealed the Fourth Amendment for everyone on a ship.
nationalreview.com
Deroy Murdock: "No-Show Lott"
The Senate's minority leader gets a failing grade.
nationalreview.com
Walter Williams: :"Liberty's greatest advocate"
June 30 was the 200th anniversary of Frederic Bastiat's birth.
jewishworldreview.com
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