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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS May 1, 2004 To view the HTML version of today�s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ TURN THE LEATHERNECKS LOOSE ��(T)he military experience of the current generation of politicians was largely limited to listening to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Marine commanders know how to clean out Fallujah. If the president wants to see his poll numbers soar, he should turn the leathernecks loose. This would scuttle the Saddamite insurrection, save American and Iraqi lives, assure his re-election and ruin a lot of serious Manhattan dinner parties." - Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 4/30/04 THIS IDIOT BETTER STAY OUT OF DARK ALLEYS �You know (Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former football player and Army Ranger who was recently killed in Afghanistan) was a real Rambo, who wanted to be in the 'real' thick of things. . . . However, in my neighborhood in Puerto Rico, Tillman would have been called...an idiot. Tillman, in the absurd belief that he was defending or serving his all-powerful country...decided to give up a comfortable life to place himself in a combat situation that cost him his life. This was a 'G.I. Joe' guy who got what was coming to him. That was not heroism, it was prophetic idiocy." - University of Massachusetts graduate student Rene Gonzalez in the campus newspaper The Daily Collegian NEW TWIST TO GORELI-SCAM ��(9/11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick) is the Clinton official who wrote that memo that pretty much eliminated any possibility that the CIA and the FBI would cooperate and share intelligence on terrorism.� But...do you know why Gorelick wrote this memo?� Simple.� To protect Clinton from an investigation into Chinese involvement in his campaign finance scandal.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 4/30/04 PASS THE DOOBIE, DUDE �Many conservatives, myself included, are fairly outraged that President Bush is spending taxpayer dollars like a pothead teenager with a stolen credit card. Most of us, however, believe that Bush is still vastly preferable to the alternative, John Kerry, for a host of reasons.� - Columnist Jonah Goldberg KERRY IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN �Democrats' hatred of the president is so strong they might be willing to return to the days of the smoke-filled room and stage a coup in order to run a stronger candidate in November. . . . The only possible candidate who could replace Kerry � should delegates pledged to him abandon his sinking ship � is (drum roll and ruffles and flourishes, please) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. �...The Democratic Party would swoon if she stepped in and replaced Mr. Kerry. Bill would campaign with her, further energizing Democrats. The media would go into orbit, treating her as a presumptive queen, who deserves the nomination and the presidency because of all Bill put her through. It would be one of the few media stories that could knock Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant from the headlines.� - Columnist Cal Thomas PIGS OF A FEATHER, SLOP TOGETHER �(Al) Sharpton's appearance at the Democratic convention will give us an opportunity to highlight the moral decadence of the Democratic party.� Sharpton is a lying pig, though they embrace him.� Never has the saying �you're known by the company you keep� been more true.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz on John Kerry offering Sharpton a speaking role at this summer�s Democrat convention, 4/30/04 OVERTIME FACT AND FICTION The Bush administration has adopted new rules governing overtime...updating rules which haven�t been touched in 50 years. Naturally, the unions...led by socialist John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO...are wailing like a baby who just dropped his lollipop. And they�re doing what they do best: Foaming at the mouth using false and misleading information to foment unrest and insecurity amongst American workers over the new rules. But if you�d rather get the truth, the Department of Labor has set up a website where you can separate the fact from fiction. Just go to: www.dol.gov/fairplay. SMILE, YOU�RE ON BIG BROTHER CAMERA �Spy cameras to catch car thieves and burglars are being installed along the sleepy streets of a wealthy Florida village to photograph the license plates and faces of every driver motoring through town,� reports the Washington Times. �Civil libertarians say such use of hidden cameras in the community of Manalapan...is a gross invasion of privacy that likely will spread elsewhere.� But Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker says, �We see it as a crime fighting tool. We believe it is pretty harmless.� Not so says former Rep. Bob Barr, Georgia Republican. �How any public official in the United States of America can say this and still consider themselves citizens of a free country is ridiculous.� Indeed. CASH COW CAMERAS �(Washington, DC) has collected more than $47 million in fines since implementing its photo-radar program in 2001,� reported the Washington Times on Friday. But city officials say �safety, not revenue, is the driving force behind the automated traffic enforcement program.� Yeah, right. If you believe that one, I�ve still got ocean-front property in Las Vegas for you. MAKE EVERYBODY A CRIMINAL �There�s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren�t enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What�s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.� - Government functionary Dr. Floyd Ferris in Ayn Rand�s �Atlas Shrugged� DE-THRONING THE AMNESTY KING �Just three months ago, Utah Republican Chris Cannon was looking forward to a cakewalk in his bid for a fifth term in Congress. Aside from a couple of under-funded challengers with name recognition in the single digits, he faced no competition from other Republicans, and, as a four-term incumbent in what is called the most Republican district of the most Republican state in the country, the pros considered Cannon one of the safest members of Congress. �Today, however, it's a radically different situation. With a crucial state convention just over a week away, the once cocksure Cannon camp is showing all the signs of political collapse. . . . The buzz saw Cannon has run into is a furious electorate just now learning that their Congressman is a primary force pushing amnesties for illegal aliens and cheap foreign labor for corporations.� - Project USA, 4/29/04 PASSING OF A FRIEND Actually, man�s best friend. Many of you know or have read about our floppy-eared 100-lbs. black Labrador who was affectionately named after our 40th president. You may recall how we lost �Reagan� near I-95 during the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia (only to find him a day later) and how he road �shot-gun� with me for 2,500 miles in that old oil-spilling pick-up truck of ours during that whatever-can-go-wrong-will-go-wrong move from Las Vegas to Baltimore. Well, �Reagan� picked up some kind of virus, has a lot of fluid in the lungs, isn�t likely to recover and, in the meantime, is in a lot of pain. So we�re gonna have to put him down this morning. Anyone who�s ever had to make that decision knows just how tough it is...especially when he�s been part of your family for nine years. Plus, we�re gonna have to explain it to our 4-year-old who�s been praying for �Reagan� at every meal and at bedtime all week. So if I�m a little crankier than usual over the next couple of days (as if that�s even possible)...at least you�ll know why. Anyway, good-bye, old friend. We had some great times together. I�m gonna miss the heck out you. See ya on the other side. HOT OFF THE PRESS! 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