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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS March 26, 2004 To view the HTML version of today�s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ To reach our 7-day News & Views archive, go to www.citizenoutreach.com _____________________________________ NOT NUTS FOR NOSTALGIA �I never did understand the nostalgia craze, which is a relatively recent blight on cultural life in the United States. . . . (W)ith the introduction of cable TV, it�s all nostalgia all the time, cluttering the minds of kids by presenting dumb misrepresentations of recent history. If I walk past my older son�s room one more time and hear Devo�s �Whip It,� it�s just possible I�ll flip out, dude, and become a Yankees or John Kerry fan. That�s how dangerous this garbage is.� - Columnist Russ Smith PERV-ALERT FOR DC PARENTS �Pop star Michael Jackson plans to visit Washington next week to share his views on world affairs with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. . . . Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., whom (Roll Call) identifies as �a proponent of the visit,� says the members of the CBC should welcome Jackson. �It is good we show our support to Michael Jackson,� Clay said. �He gives so much of himself monetarily and through his talent.� � - UPI, 3/25/04 ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD So Michael �Wacko Jacko� Jackson is coming to DC next week to cast out some pearls of international wisdom for the Congressional Black Caucus. I don�t know which is the more absurd proposition: That Jackson could actually have something to say about world affairs that anyone would take seriously...or that the CBC thinks Jackson could actually have something to say about world affairs that anyone would take seriously. This is just too �twilight zone� for me, folks. What do you think? Put your two cents in on our Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ OLDIE BUT A GOODIE �When I take action I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.� - Attributed to President Bush just after the 9/11 attacks ISRAEL�S DECISIVE ACTION �The United States, rightly unsparing in its efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, whose al Qaeda operatives killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, is in no position to criticize Israel for assassinating Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas. . . . It's no exaggeration to say that Yassin had become a bin Laden for the Israelis. That's why the reactions from the State Department, which described itself as �deeply troubled� by the killing of Yassin, and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who calls the Israeli action �illegal,� are fatuous and morally empty.� - Washington Times editorial, 3/25/04 DEAD MEN DON�T CHEER �One year after the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq, many citizens there applaud while others jeer. But thousands more are as quiet as ever. Those who populate Iraq's mass graves silently testify to what their country has escaped. . . . . Those who still believe America and its allies should have left Iraq untouched cannot avoid this conclusion: Had their arguments prevailed, Saddam Hussein's mass graves would be in business today, constantly brimming with Baathism's voiceless victims.� - Columnist Deroy Murdock YET ANOTHER BENEFIT TO OUSTING SADDAM �Hamas and virtually all other Palestinian radical groups have been experiencing growing difficulties in attracting new recruits, especially for suicide operations. Hamas is also facing financial difficulties. The fall of Saddam Hussein closed what had become the single biggest source of funds for Hamas in the past five years. Several other Arab countries have been forced to close channels through which funds were collected for and directed to Hamas.� - Iranian commentator Amir Taheri in the New York Post, 3/25/04 THE APOLOGY CLARKE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN �The proceedings of the committee to elect John Kerry President continued yesterday, this time with walking contradiction Richard Clarke testifying. . . . Surprisingly, this egomaniac's head actually fit through the door of the hearing room. Clarke kicked off his testimony with an apology to �the loved ones of the victims of 9/11....your government failed you.� Those entrusted with protecting you failed you and I failed you.� �His statement should have more truthfully been �to the loved ones of the victims of 9/11...the Clinton administration failed you.� Prior to the slaughter of your loved ones on 9/11 by Islamic terrorists, Bill Clinton turned down the direct handover of Osama Bin Laden on numerous occasions.� The Clinton administration refused to allow the CIA to kill Bin Laden, with only capture as the stated policy.� Those entrusted with protecting you, including myself,�were abject failures who viewed terrorism as a law enforcement problem. And don't forget to buy my book.� " - Talk-show host Neal Boortz DISSING THE BLACK CHICK �(Former anti-terrorism staffer Richard) Clarke claims...that in early 2001, when he told President Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her �facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the term before.� . . . By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida. It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For Pete's sake, even The New York Times knew about al-Qaida. �...Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! . . . If a Republican ever claimed the �facial expression� on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to confusion or befuddlement -- left the �impression� that she didn't understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate crime.� - Columnist Ann Coulter GRANNY GROPERS COULD GET THE HEAVE-HO �Major airports, including the ones in the Washington area, are considering replacing their federal passenger screeners with private companies, which monitored passengers and baggage before the September 11 terrorist attacks. The legislation that created the federalized screeners gives airports the option of using private companies beginning Nov. 19 if they can demonstrate security would not diminish. Airport managers have been expressing frustration over growing lines at security checkpoints monitored by federal security screeners.� - Washington Times, 3/25/04 THE LIFE OF A PEACENIK �Being divorced from reality is what being an anti-war protester is all about. For a few hours each year, you get to run around disrupting other people�s lives, pretending you�re doing something socially relevant and saying things like: �War doesn't solve anything.� � - National Review Online columnist Andrew Cline SICK AND TIRED �Frankly, I've had it up to here with the politicians who claim to represent my party but really represent nothing but special interest groups and their own partisan agendas. I remember when most Democrats were in favor of projecting America's power abroad, because we believed that America was a great force for good over evil. . . . These days, it seems like some people in my party are motivated more by partisan politics than by national interest.� - Sen. Zell Miller, Georgia Democrat, kicking off a national �Democrats for Bush� campaign, 3/24/04 AUTOPSY OF HOWARD�S END For an in-depth insider�s sob-and-weep account of how the wheel�s came off the Howard Dean presidential apple cart, surf over to Atlantic Monthly at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/05/maslin.htm AMNESTY PLAN GOING NOWHERE FAST �House Republicans and Democrats gave a generally chilly reception yesterday to President Bush's proposal to grant temporary visas to an unlimited number of foreign workers. . . . The president's plan has stalled on Capitol Hill after a single hearing on the Senate side. A Senate Republican leadership aide said yesterday that no major immigration bill is likely to pass this year.� - Cox News Service, 3/25/04 TWO-CARD MONTI�S WEIRD LOGIC �Check this out: Yesterday Europe's antitrust czar, Mario Monti, ordered Microsoft to offer a version of its Windows operating system without the currently included Windows Media Player... The weird part is, Microsoft can also continue to sell the �full� (i.e., current) version of Windows, with Media Player, and do so without changing the price. . . . In other words, 90 days from now, computer makers and consumers will have a choice: Buy a version of Windows that does everything it currently does; or, for the same price, buy a version that does less. Why would anyone buy the crippled version?� - �Review & Outlook,� Wall Street Journal, 3/25/04 WHEW...SURE GLAD THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT ISN�T ABOUT HATE �Matthew Shepard (was killed) here in Wyoming, it was good riddance. We should do what the Arabs/Muslims followers of the Koran do to faggots, execute them all, my son included. 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