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_______________________________ Wacko Central The wingnuts over at the Democratic Underground had a cow over the launch of our new Citizen Outreach website (www.citizenoutreach.com). Check out their rantings by going to: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=39059&mesg_id=39059&page Gotta love all the Kucinich pix on the posts. Gives you an idea of the Einsteins we're dealing with here. But my favorite post - at least of those that are reprintable here - comes from "5thGenDemocrat". "I'm not going to lose much sleep over someone who'd wear a tie like that. The guy makes too much money to be shopping in the men's department of Value Village. He may be Chuck Muth, but that tie's Chuck Biscuits." Hey. My wife bought me that tie! _______________________________ Tonight on "Always Right" With an annual budget of $46 BILLION of YOUR tax money, Dr. Wade Horn runs the human services side of the Department of Health and Human Services. A more likeable, knowledgeable and conservative guy in government you're not likely to meet. He'll be our guest on this Tuesday's "Always Right" show. We'll be discussing welfare reform, the president's marriage initiative, adoption & foster care, child protective services, Head Start, the faith-based initiative, day care, and much, much more. Tune in Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. EST (or catch the re-run at 11:00 p.m. EST) for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." The link to listen in is... http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/srv1.asx You can catch previous interviews on "Always Right" by visiting our archives at www.CitizenOutreach.com _______________________________ Ooops! A Newsweek article in the latest international edition reports on a German linguist's view of the Koran that has some Muslims going cuckoo for coco-puffs. The linguist maintains that there's been a mistranslation of the passage that leads suicide bombers to believe they're going to get an eternal orgy with 72 virgins in the afterlife. Seems what they really might be getting is 72 white raisins. That's some mistranslation! _______________________________ Go Figure A headline in Monday's Washington Times reads: "U.S. prisoners increase, crime drops." Who'd a thunk it? By actually putting and keeping criminals in jail, fewer crimes are committed. Why didn't we think of this sooner? _______________________________ Pushing the Envelope "Do you suppose that, when Lance Armstrong gets done playing around on his bicycle, he could be put to work carrying mail? It'd speed things up... Besides, then we might actually get something for our $40 million the USPS spent on him." - News & Views reader Moses Lambert _______________________________ NEW! Citizen Outreach Online Store Get your official Citizen Outreach apparel and merchandise today: http://www.cafeshops.com/citizenoutreach _______________________________ French Still Sticking It to Uncle Sam "Risking another showdown with the United States, France is standing firm on its insistence that the United Nations take control in Iraq before it will consider sending troops to help embattled American soldiers. France remains adamant that the international body must have absolute and complete control over Iraq's political, economic and civilian reconstruction." - Washington Times, 7/28/03 _______________________________ More American Than Many Democrats "There is a myth that though we love freedom, others don't; that our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture; that freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law are American values or Western values; that Afghan women were content under the lash of the Taliban; that Saddam was somehow beloved by his people; that Milosevic was Serbia's savior. Anywhere, any time ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police." - British Prime Minister Tony Blair in an address to Congress last week _______________________________ The Real American Hero "As she watched Pfc. Jessica Lynch's emotional homecoming on television last week, Arlene Walters struggled to suppress her growing anger. For millions of Americans, Pfc. Lynch's first faltering steps in her hometown of Palestine, W.Va., were a moment of high emotion, a happy ending to one of the darkest incidents of the Iraq war. "For Mrs. Walters, however, the standing ovation and praise lavished on the young woman soldier, who was captured by Iraqi forces and later freed in a dramatic American raid, served only to highlight the contrasting treatment of her dead son, who fought in the same unit. "It was, fellow soldiers have told her, Sgt. Donald Walters who performed many of the heroics attributed to Pfc. Lynch by early news reports, and Sgt. Walters who was killed after mounting a lone stand against the Iraqis who ambushed their convoy of maintenance vehicles near Nasiriyah. Yet few, if any, of the Americans watching Pfc. Lynch's homecoming last week have even heard her son's name. ".'The fighter that they thought was Jessica Lynch was Donald. When he was found he had two stab wounds in the abdomen, and he'd been shot once in the right leg and twice in the back. And he'd emptied his rounds of ammunition. Just like they said Jessica had done at first.'" - London Sunday Telegraph, 7/27/03 ______________________________ Affordable Campaign Websites! Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. That's right...just ten smackeroos a month. Here's what's included in this fantastic new program from Campaign Secrets, Inc. (available ONLY to Republican candidates): * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing * Unlimited Edits * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer Campaign Site Builder can be used for political organizations and non-profits, as well. For more information, just go to: http://www.campaignsecrets.com/websites.asp _______________________________ Keeping Things In Perspective "About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail (Arizona) have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. "On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. 'It feels like you are in a furnace,' said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. 'It's inhumane.' "Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told the inmates: 'It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths.' " - Associated Press, 7/28/03 _______________________________ Deranged Moderate "Florida senator Bob Graham seems to be carving out a new niche for himself: that of the deranged moderate. . . . In his latest eruption, he suggested that Bush's alleged deceptions in the run-up to the Iraq war warrant impeachment. (Graham, of course, voted against impeaching Clinton for breaking laws.) Graham's strategy does not appear to be working: The fire-breathers have settled on Howard Dean." - National Review editorial _______________________________ D�tente With the Terrorists "Today, we really are supporting any friend and opposing almost any foe in order to spread liberty around the globe, while the Democrats sound like they want d�tente with the terrorists and their supporters." - Columnist Jonah Goldberg ______________________________ Exceptionally Concerned "According to the polls, the American people are not buying the lying scenario, seeing it as a weak excuse to demonize Mr. Bush. The folks are, however, exceptionally concerned about a body-a-day coming back from Iraq." - Columnist Bill O'Reilly ________________________________ Stupid Is As Stupid Does "Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) called for a $60 billion effort to provide universal preschool and proposed paying for the plan with a 15 percent cut in Pentagon spending." - Associated Press, 7/28/03 ________________________________ Some Drug Issue Perspective "Reasonable people might be moved to pass a bill granting special drug benefits to the elderly poor or to those experiencing particularly crushing medical expenses. But that's not the way the politicians like to do things. Instead, all seniors - rich and poor - will be eligible for this subsidy. . . . Why not target assistance only to those who need it? "...People gripe about the cost of drugs, but the medical costs they save are hardly taken into account. A family member had a stomach ulcer a number of years ago. Before the drug Prilosec was available, people lost countless days of work, had costly and painful surgeries, and even died from stomach ulcers. Now, they take a pill for a few weeks, and that's it. Cured. That's one example among millions." - Columnist Mona Charen _______________________________ Survey Says! If you haven't weighed in yet on this week's online poll, don't forget to visit our "Survey Says" page at www.citizenoutreach.com. This week's question asks what you think is the biggest threat to the American family: gay marriage, divorce or unwed motherhood. Interesting results, so far. _______________________________ The People's House vs. The White House "Last Wednesday afternoon, the House passed an appropriations bill overruling Federal Communications Commission decisions to ease anti-monopoly restrictions on acquisition of television stations. Although the president had signaled he would veto such a provision, only 21 votes were cast against the bill (while 400 members, including all Republican leaders, voted for it). "At 2:51 a.m. Friday morning, the House risked another veto by voting for re-importation of drugs from Canada. Right up to the roll call, White House operatives (and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists) predicted a very close vote. It wasn't. The bill passed 243 to 186, with 87 Republicans splitting from their leadership to support the bill. "Why did Bush's usually dependable allies in the House desert him on these two issues? The threats from a president who has yet to veto any bill were not taken seriously. If Bush found no difficulty deviating from the conservative line on education, campaign finance reform and expanding Medicare subsidies, Republican House members had no trouble deserting the president on two issues with substantial support from their core constituents and opposition from television and pharmaceutical interests." - Columnist Robert Novak _______________________________ Another Opportunity to Blow an Opportunity "California Rep. Darrell Issa remains the only Republican candidate officially in the race, but he is expected to soon be joined by state Sen. Tom McClintock and former gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, both of who all but declared their candidacies during a Sacramento rally Saturday. . . . Democrats act giddy at the thought of the Republicans defeating the recall themselves, by demonizing each other and making the potential Davis replacements even more unpopular than the embattled governor." - Washington Times, 7/28/03 _______________________________ Taking the Gloves Off at the RNC "The new Republican National Committee chairman has a warning for Democrats: Attack President Bush, and Ed Gillespie's going to hit you - hard. . . . For example: What does he think about the Democratic assault on Mr. Bush's handling of postwar Iraq? "Anyone else would dodge that question, fearing that it would sound like the party's point man was impugning the patriotism of Mr. Bush's enemies and potential opponents in the election. But not Mr. Gillespie: 'I would not go so far as to say they are wishing for defeat, but I think they are taking some satisfaction in the misfortunes of others,' he says. "...Mr. Gillespie calls Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, a hypocrite and an opportunist for his criticism of Mr. Bush's policies on Iraq and the war on terrorism. He accuses the Democrats of 'playing naked politics' with Iraq to pander to its large anti-war base. 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