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*********************************** Uh-Oh, Here We Go Again "If I had to listen to her, I probably would have developed a little bit of a segregationist feeling. But I think everybody can look at my life and what I've done and say that's not true. ... I mean, she was such a bitch." - Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-NC) referring to Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Charlotte Observer, 12/20/02 *********************************** Strength in Numbers If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. And if you want to help us continue offering News & Views to the widest audience possible for FREE, please consider making a "voluntary contribution" (just like the liberals do over at PBS) by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/voluntarysubscription.htm. *********************************** The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back "What may have been the final straw...was Mr. Lott's appearance on Black Entertainment Television on Monday, when he endorsed affirmative action 'across the board' and criticized his own vote against a federal Martin Luther King holiday. Those positions outraged conservative supporters of his, who said Mr. Lott could no longer lead if he was going to abandon conservative principles in order to try to save himself." - Washington Times, 12/21/02 *********************************** Pot Calling Kettle Black "Bill Clinton calling someone a hypocrite is like Sean Penn, who has a long history of Hollywood fistfights, going to Baghdad and crusading for peace." - Rich Galen, "Mullings," 12/20/02 *********************************** Senator Praises "Good Neighbor" Osama "People who live in Third World countries might have a better view of the United States if Americans followed Osama bin Laden's example of being 'a good neighbor so people there have a different vision of us,' said U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat...during a visit Wednesday to a high school in Vancouver, Washington... ".Mrs. Murray's comments drew fire from state Republicans, who called on the senator to retract and apologize for her comments. 'It is absolutely outrageous and despicable to imply that the American government should learn a lesson from the madman who murdered thousands of American citizens,' said Chris Vance, chairman of the Washington state Republican Party." - Washington Times, 12/21/02 *********************************** What a Guy "We've got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world? Why are people so supportive of him in many countries that are riddled with poverty? He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. "We haven't done that. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan? . . . Your generation ought to be thinking about whether we should be better neighbors out in other countries so that they have a different vision of us." - Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), The Columbian *********************************** Worthless Gun Ban "Now that a federal judge has dismissed Washington, D.C.'s lawsuit against the firearms industry, the Second Amendment Foundation is urging the city to do away with its ban on handguns. "...Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, suggested that if the nation's capital really wants to reduce its crime problem, it 'needs to allow its law-abiding residents the means with which to defend themselves. That can only happen if the ban on handguns, which has proven to be worthless as a crime-fighting measure is scrapped,' he said." - CNSNews.com, 12/19/02 *********************************** Yur Puklik Skools at Werk "The college seniors of today have no better grasp of general knowledge than the high school graduates of almost half a century ago, according to the results of a new study. The average of correct responses for modern college seniors on a series of questions assessing 'general cultural knowledge' was 53.5 percent compared with 54.5 percent of high school graduates in 1955, according to a survey by Zogby International." - CNSNews.com, 12/19/02 *********************************** Death Penalty Observations "This week the Justice Department released 'Capital Punishment 2001,' its latest annual survey of death penalty statistics.. . . It is striking that a controversy so large revolves around numbers so small.The death penalty is available in 38 states and the federal system, yet only 66 convicted killers were executed in the United States last year.That was fewer than the 85 executed in 2000, which in turn was fewer than the 98 executed in 1999. "...But whatever else might be said about these numbers, they are eclipsed by a far larger and more heartbreaking number, one not mentioned in the Justice Department's report: the number of murder victims.In 2001, *15,980* Americans lost their lives to murder -- a death toll hundreds of times greater than the small body count of executed murderers. "Year after year, the number of inmates put to death by the state -- usually painlessly and after years of due process -- adds up to a minuscule fraction of the number of Americans purposely shot, beaten, strangled, knifed, poisoned, burned, drowned, hanged, and tortured to death by murderers." - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby *********************************** Suing Over Suicide "Marissa Imrie, 14, of Santa Rosa, Calif., hired a cab for a $150 ride to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. She had the cabbie let her off at the south end of the bridge, a popular tourist spot at the end of a sidewalk where people can stroll across the span. The last time the cabbie saw Imrie, she was heading up the sidewalk. The Coast Guard pulled her body from the water later the same day. "Imrie's mother, Renee Milligan, has sued the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District and its board of directors, saying the bridge authority should have built an 'effective' suicide barrier on the bridge, the world's most popular suicide spot. She bases her claim on California's wrongful death statutes, and says the bridge creates a 'dangerous condition on public property'. "The suit claims the lack of a suicide barrier is a violation the dead girl's constitutional right not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and Milligan's 'constitutional right of familial association'." - Randy Cassingham, "Stella Awards," 12/18/02 [ Um, under which amendment does that right of familial association appear? I can't seem to find it in my copy of the Constitution. ] *********************************** Chutzpah Kings Talk about cojones as big as all outdoors. The trial lawyers really take the cake. If you were to cyber-surf your way over to www.lawsuitabuse.com, you'd naturally expect information on the explosion of frivolous, class-action lawsuits and what can be done to rein them in. Uh-uh. Believe it or not, that web site is set BY slip-'n-spill ambulance chasers to troll for new victims for all their class action lawsuits - which they conveniently list on the web site along with a sign-up page. Now THAT'S chutzpah. ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance! 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