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****************************************** You Got Questions, We Got Answers If you have any questions regarding the new "Do Not Call" national registry, go to: http://www.donotcall.gov/FAQ/FAQConsumers.aspx#Exceptions **************************************** NEW Bumper Snicker! Get the HOTTEST bumper sticker in the country today: "Conservatives Are >From Mars, Liberals Are From Uranus!" $2.95 each. Buy 3...Get 1 FREE. No charge for shipping. Limited supply. Go to: http://chuckmuth.com/merchandise.htm ***************************************** Depends on Your Definition of "Service" At one time in my life, I thought I understood the meaning of the word "service." The act of doing things for other people. Then I heard the terms: Internal Revenue Service Postal Service Civil Service Service Stations Customer Service City/County Public Service And I became confused about the word "service." This is not what I thought "service" meant. Then one day, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them mentioned that he was having a bull service a few of his cows. WHAM!! It all came into perspective! Now I understand what all those "service" agencies are doing to us. - Author unknown. Forwarded by a News & Views reader ******************************************** Knucklehead Heirs "The response (by Democrats) that 'Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11,' though possibly accurate, is beside the point--the equivalent of arguing in 1942 that Germany had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. FDR and Truman knew who America's enemies were, but many of their heirs seem not to." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 7/10/03 ***************************************** Had the Goldmine, Getting the Shaft "The leader of the Christian Coalition, the Rev. Pat Robertson, has another beef with President Bush. Mr. Robertson is a big supporter of Liberian President Charles Taylor, whom Mr. Robertson considers a Christian figure in mortal combat with Africa's Muslims. Never mind Mr. Taylor's thuggishness, dictatorial methods, links with international terrorism and original coup d'etat. He may be a thug, but he's a Baptist thug! "...Mr. Robertson denies that his own financial investments in Liberia have anything to do with his position. According to The Washington Post, 'In an interview yesterday, he said he has 'written off in my own mind' an $8 million investment in a gold mining venture that he made four years ago under an agreement with Taylor's government.'" - Andrew Sullivan, "The Weekly Dish," 7/11/03 ***************************************** Leave it to the French...NOT! "Old Europe, which has set itself up as the moral arbiter of international institutions, surely has the military might to handle peacekeeping in war-ravaged Liberia. What it lacks is not just the will but the credibility. . . . When the chips are down will French or Dutch peacekeepers risk their lives to defend African refugees from brutal slaughter? The world has learned not to count on it." - Columnist Maggie Gallagher ***************************************** Oh, No...Not Again Conjuring up the old saying that Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity, the guy who got his clock cleaned by California Gov. Gray Davis in last year's gubernatorial election says he's ready to throw his hat back into the ring if a recall attempt presently underway successfully makes it to the ballot. Bill Simon - who many observers say ran the WORST campaign the world has ever seen against Gov. "Gray Out" last year - told the Sacramento Bee this week that he is "open to running again." As one wag noted, this means "Bill Simon could go down as the only individual in history to be responsible for TWO Democrats getting elected as Governor of California." Thanks anyway, Bill. Don't call us; we'll call you. ************************************ 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views e-newsletter. Just go to: <http://www.GOPLongDistance.com> today. ***************************************** The Battle of Left vs. Right on the Right "The editors of National Review think that 'this is not a bad time for conservatives to declare their independence from the GOP establishment.' One way to do that, they said, is to support conservative Rep. Patrick J. Toomey in his primary challenge to liberal Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican." - Greg Pierce, "Inside Politics," 7/11/03 ***************************************** Your TSA In Action The Transportation Security Administration said on Thursday that it would not *require* all passengers to remove their shoes before subjecting themselves to the ol' once-over at airport security checkpoints; however, TSA chief Jim Loy warned air passengers that those who did not take off their shoes were more likely to be pulled out of line for "a more thorough secondary screening." Hey, isn't that profiling? **************************************** Yer Gummint Skools In Axion "The District (of Columbia's) schoolchildren are the worst writers in the country, a national report says a month after the same students were ranked the nation's worst readers." - Washington Times, 7/11/03 ***************************************** How Do You Say "Suck Up" in Spanish "Congressional Democrats yesterday...pledged to raise the minimum wage, extend full government health programs to new citizens, and create a way for illegal immigrants who have worked in the United States and been upstanding citizens to earn legal status." - Washington Times, 7/11/03 ***************************************** The Lawyer Penalty "Chuck: Drugs are probably cheaper in other countries because they are not under the heel of trial lawyers. Drugs here could be cheaper if we reworked our laws to include personal responsibility and buzz-sawed the FDA. "My grandmother was orphaned in 1919 at the age of twelve as the Spanish Influenza killed about a million Americans. Today the same disease would kill less than one hundred - and the cost of those hundred dying would probably be in the billions once the attorneys finished blaming and billing everyone. I guess that is what you call progress on two fronts." - News & Views reader Scott Ellis ***************************************** Free Drugs for the Needy "Chuck: If you will go to Phrma.com, the pharmaceutical research and manufacturers association website, the first statement you will read is 'Phrma supplied free drugs to 5.5 million patients last year.' We live in America. No one is denied items that are needed, if the need is known; whether food, drugs, housing, etc." - News & Views reader Gene Goldsmith, former Washington state representative ***************************************** Where the Health Care Problem Started "I am not affiliated with any pharmaceutical company. I am a senior citizen and a retired registered nurse. I say this to let you know I am not a millionaire or a Kennedy-type person who never worked for a living. I have researched what it costs to have a drug supplied for the market. I am a firm believer in drug research. We never would have deleted or held in abeyance many diseases without new drugs. "As for this senior citizen, I will forego many personal items such as a movie, a salon shampoo, a vacation, a new car etc, etc, if I need to have medications. It is my responsibility to take care of myself. Government exists to provide essential services as enumerated in the Constitution. It is not to provide services for my individual, personal needs. To ask government for drug prescription coverage is enabling true socialism and disabling what little of our republic remains. Our entire health service problem began in this country when Medicare and Medicaid was established." - News & Views reader Agnes Tillerson of St. Marys, Ga. ***************************************** Supreme Injustice On Thursday, the Nevada Supreme Court ordered state legislators there to impose the largest tax increase in the state's history on its citizens. Because of a constitutionally mandated requirement that any tax hikes be approved by a two-thirds majority in both legislative houses, a small but feisty band of Republicans in the state Assembly have been able to mount an Alamo-like defense against the proposed $863 million dollar tax hike. Unable to dislodge the Republicans from their firm position against the size of the tax increase, the state's governor sued the Legislature in an attempt to force them to dip into the citizens' pockets rather than re-open the budget and cut some Grade A government fat. Unconscionably, the Supremes did just that, telling the elected representatives of the co-equal branch of government that the two-thirds requirement would just have to be sh*t-canned - despite the requirement's passage TWICE in the mid-nineties by an overwhelming vote of the people both times. Voters schmoters, said the Supremes. Let them eat cake. And tax the starch out of it while you're at it! "Today, the Nevada Supreme Court willfully ignored the wishes of more than 70 percent of Nevadans who twice voted in favor of requiring a two-thirds majority to pass a tax increase," said Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.), author of the initiative petition that put the two-thirds requirement for tax increases in the state constitution. "The court failed to protect the will of the people of Nevada and has denigrated our state's constitution and political process." Or, as the Las Vegas Review Journal editorialized in much more colorful language: "On Thursday, six justices of the Nevada Supreme Court...drooled all over the state Constitution, wadded it up and tossed it in the trash." The BIG problem here, though, is that the Nevada Supreme Court has set a HUGE precedent for the rest of the nation. I believe there are over 20 states with 2/3 majority requirements for tax hikes which are now in jeopardy. Indeed, the San Mateo County Times is reporting that Gov. Gray Davis in California is now eying the Nevada decision as a way to force a tax hike on residents there. For a state court to step on another branch of government's toes, put a gun to their heads and demand that they raise taxes under the penalty of fine and/or imprisonment is just the sort of thing that inspired that little Tea Party in Boston a little over 225 years ago. Break out the Lipton Nevadans! ****************************************** Affordable Campaign Websites! 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