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____________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... Just 48 hours until gay marriages are scheduled to be performed in Massachusetts. Get an update on the issue and the federal marriage amendment in today’s News & Views EXTRA at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD SLUTS “Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown to lawmakers in a top-secret Capitol conference room yesterday. ‘She was having sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual,’ said a lawmaker who saw the photos. “And, videos showed the disgraced soldier - made notorious in a photo showing her holding a leash looped around an Iraqi prisoner's neck - engaged in graphic sex acts with other soldiers in front of Iraqi prisoners, Pentagon officials told NBC Nightly News. . . . Before the pictures of England's sex romps were shown to Congress, the 21-year-old reservist from West Virginia tried to portray herself as a reluctant participant who was just following orders.” - New York Post, 5/13/04 IS CONSISTENCY TOO MUCH TO ASK? “It's time to put up or shut up. If the media wants to advance the Abu Ghraib story rather than wallow in it, its course is clear. It can help Americans ‘appreciate’ the Nick Berg beheading by showing it over and over. I don't know if that would be a good idea, but at least the press would be consistent.” - Columnist Jonah Goldberg CBS LENDS AID & COMFORT “As I write on Wednesday afternoon, the CBS News web site continues to offer a complete ‘photo essay’ of naked Iraqi men being humiliated by Americans in a variety of poses. But the video of (Nick) Berg's beheading, CBS says, ‘is too gruesome to show.’ . . . What exactly is the governing rule here? That incendiary images sure to enrage our enemies and get more Americans killed should be published, while images that show the world just how evil those enemies really are should be suppressed? Offensive and shocking pictures that undermine the war effort should be played up, but offensive and shocking pictures that remind us why we're at war in the first place shouldn't get played at all?” - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby OXYMORONS RUN RAMPANT “Last week, John S. Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times, delivered a lecture during ‘Ethics Week’ of the Society of Professional Journalists. The speaker has not yet been announced for ‘Abstinence Week’ of the Society of Professional Whores.” - Columnist Ann Coulter THE RUMSFELD WAY “Don Rumsfeld's surprise trip to Baghdad can be explained in a sentence: ‘I'm still effective.’ That was the standard he set for whether he ought to resign, and rather than issuing press releases, he showed with his trip into the war zone that he could still communicate with the troops, and be accepted by them. Now if only George Bush's campaign advisers were not leaking hysteria, frustration and learned helplessness to the press and could show the president being effective too.” - Holman Jenkins, Political Diary, 5/14/04 FROM KENNEDY’S LIPS TO ENEMY’S EARS “Let me remind you of Vietnam. We are an Iraqi people that has faith in God, and his prophet and his family. The means of victory that are available to us are much more than what the Vietnamese had. And, God willing, we shall be victorious.” - Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr (D-Fallujah), Associated Press, 5/13/04 TODAY ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD “What do you think of the situation in Iraq?” http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ THE REAL AMERICA “Saddam had their hands cut off. America gave them new ones.” The story which tells of the true nature of the United States. Catch it here: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110005081 DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF “REFORM” “The Postal Service could be restructured for the first time in more than 30 years, under legislation approved Wednesday by the House Government Reform Committee,” reports Zach Patton Thursday on GovExec.com. Sounds good...on the surface. USPS is in big trouble and needs serious reform. But here’s a unmistakable warning shot conservatives better sit up and take notice of: “Labor groups Wednesday praised the House bill…” Uh-oh. Stay tuned. And limber up the ol’ dialing finger. In the meantime, PLEASE take a second to respond to the current “Survey Says!” online poll if you haven’t done so already. We’re gonna need some ammunition for our fight in Congress on this one… SURVEY SAYS! Should the Senate block the confirmation of Dawn Tisdale, a former postal union official from a spot on the board which regulates the postal service? * Yes * No * I’m a Kerry Democrat...Yes AND No Cast your vote by clicking the “Survey Says!” tab at www.citizenoutreach.com SENATE FINDS FISCAL RELIGION “The United States Senate got upset yesterday about President Bush's request for more money to fight the war on terrorism. . . . (W)hy is it that Congress always balks at additional expenditures for defense, but gleefully spends infinitely more money on the failed welfare state? . . . Which would you rather pay for: guns, bullets, tanks, humvees and body armor for the troops fighting the war on terror, or more get-out-of-work-free coupons for able-bodied, lazy wastes of oxygen? Think about it.” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/14/04 THE HUNT FOR KERRY’S #2 “Speculation over who John Kerry will select as his vice presidential running mate continues to build. The smart money is that the race has boiled down to Senator John Edwards and Rep. Dick Gephardt, with Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack as dark horses. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is said to have been scratched off the list for indiscretions involving women.” - John Fund, Political Diary, 5/14/04 (Hmmm…does this mean if Bill Richardson’s indiscretions had involved MEN he’d still be in the running?) FROM ONE EXTREME TO THE OTHER “Back in 1996, we covered the Reform Party convention in California for The Wall Street Journal. . . . What struck us most about the party was the utter absence of any political philosophy. . . . (In 2000) the Reform Party nominated Pat Buchanan, candidate of the nativist-protectionist-isolationist right. . . . The Reform Party still exists, albeit barely, and yesterday, the Associated Press reports, it announced its endorsement for 2004: Ralph Nader. That's right, the party without ideology went from far right to far left in the space of four years.” - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 5/13/04 KERRY AWOL FOR UNEMPLOYED “Yesterday the U.S. Senate considered a measure that would extend federal unemployment benefits for 13 weeks. Twelve Republicans joined 46 Democrats and independent Jim Jeffords in supporting it--but it failed on a 59-40 vote in favor. Sixty votes were required ‘to overcome objections that extending the benefits violated last year's budget agreement,’ as the Associated Press explains. The one senator not voting: John Kerry, who was campaigning in Kentucky. Kerry apparently supported the measure…(but) he couldn't be troubled to cast a vote on their behalf.” - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 5/12/04 PETA EYES FAT GUYS “As if the manufactured controversy with Disney weren't enough to have to endure, now Michael Moore has PETA on his behind. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has selected Moore as one of the ‘Flab Five,’ a quintet of celebs that the group will award with a ‘Veg Eye for the Fat Guy’ makeover. According to PETA, ‘the ‘Downsize This' author has been doing too much supersizing.’ It recommends that ‘before he gets too big for his britches, Moore should cut out the stupid white meat and embrace tofu.’ " - Left Coast Report, 5/11/04 SUPER-SIZED HYPOCRITE “Limbaugh-sized idiot that he is, (Michael) Moore is raising a big free speech hoo-ha because ‘Fahrenheit's’ original bankroller, Disney, has blocked the release of the film. Come on Mike, for someone so critical of big business, why must you continue to seek funding ($6 million!) from it?” - Kyle Smith, The Daily Northwestern, 5/13/04 DURBIN’S BLACKMAIL “Democratic Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois has relished his role as a chief critic of President Bush's judicial nominees. At last count, some 29 appointees were being blocked on the Senate floor by filibuster threats. Now Senator Durbin is indicating there will be no more votes on judicial confirmations this year. That means all nominations will die and the President will be forced to start again in the next Congress. Even liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter calls the Democratic tactics ‘blackmail.’ “ - John Fund, Political Diary, 5/13/04 ARTSY-FARTSY “Conduct a quick search on the Internet and you will find dozens of articles arguing against continued funding of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). Some offer appeasement solutions by playing the middle ground. Others call for slowly cutting the budgets until it becomes privatized. Still others call for deep, dramatic, and immediate cuts; the kind that raise the ire of leftist ‘arts leaders’ like Alec Baldwin. They somehow argue that our friends Franklin, Madison, and Washington intended that in the year 2004 we would enjoy a constitutional right to federally-funded pictures of the Virgin Mary covered with elephant feces. Talk about artsy-fartsy.” - Jason Wright of Frontiers of Freedom ONLINE TRUTH-SQUAD WATCHDOGS Our friend Rob Booth down in Houston, Texas, has joined an effort led by a local radio talk-show host to counter the left-wing bias of the Houston Chronicle. A team of “bloggers,” including Rob, will regularly scour the paper’s daily fare and expose, on a website, examples of liberal and/or biased reporting. Sounds like a project which just might be up the alley of a number of conservatives in cities and towns around the country. Take a look at Chronically Biased at: http://chronicallybiased.com/ SEND IN THE CLOWNS Las Vegas piano player Bruce Westcott - who last embarrassed himself with a comical run for Nevada governor back in 1998 - is back and making an ass of himself with an announcement sure to leave George Bush and John Kerry quaking in their boots: He’s running as an independent for president. He says his campaign “has been diligently studied and prepared for a very long period of time.” Apparently not long enough...despite his contention that he is “capable of leading our country on the right path, frankly, to salvation.” Hallelujah! Welcome to the race, Bruce. A circus wouldn’t be complete without its clowns. While (almost) everyone in this country has the right to run for office, that right doesn’t include the right to be taken seriously. 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