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SURVEY SAYS! Do you think President Bush will get more than 10 percent of the black vote this November? * Yes * No Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com THIS JUST IN� �The (New York City) police and firefighter unions threaten to picket parties for delegates during the Republican National Convention next month,� according to wire service reports. In unrelated news, dogs have threatened to chase cats, pigs have threatened to roll around in the mud and birds have threatened to eat worms. Film at 11. GEE, THANKS SANDY �President Clinton�s national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, rejected four plans to kill or capture Osama bin Laden�� - Washington Times, 7/24/04 ANOTHER CLINTON CRIME FAMILY MEMBER PINCHED �Fisk University�s new president, Clinton administration Energy Secretary Hazel O�Leary, was escorted off a flight and questioned by the FBI after she became abusive and tried to get into the cockpit while the plane was delayed on the tarmac, authorities said. �Mrs. O�Leary said she simply wanted to get off the plane. The United Airlines crew told police that Mrs. O�Leary was getting �loud and abusive� after the flight was diverted to Richmond because of storms Thursday night, police said. A flight attendant restrained Mrs. O�Leary when she tried to get into the cockpit�� - �Around the Nation,� Washington Times, 7/24/04 THE FLIP-FLOPPER�S WIFE �Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic nominee John Kerry, told a reporter to 'shove it' on Sunday evening -- immediately after giving a speech calling for a more civil tone in politics. . . . Speaking to the Pennsylvanian delegation at the statehouse in Boston, Heinz Kerry delivered an impassioned plea against hate politics... �According to multiple sources who attended the event, Heinz Kerry upon finishing the speech pushed her way through the Secret Service to get to Pittsburgh Tribune Review reporter, Colin McNickle. Upon getting to McNickle, Heinz Kerry asks, 'Are you from the Tribune Review' McNickle says, 'Yes, I am.' At this point and in an irritated fashion Heinz Kerry says, 'Of course, understandable. You said something I didn�t say. Now Shove it!' �...A witness of the incident said reporters were �stunned� by Heinz Kerry's outburst, especially in light of the speech she had just given.� - The Drudge Report, 7/25/04 (NOTE: The written reports on this incident don�t convey the heat of the exchange as well as the video...which you can access by going to: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3576476/detail.html . Click on �Watch Scott Baker�s Report.�) HILLARY�S REVENGE The Democrat convention opens today. And what better way to start the festivities than having Hillary Clinton stick a knife in John Kerry�s back? In an editorial appearing in this morning�s Wall Street Journal, the junior senator from New York says the fear drummed up over �outsourcing� by �Benedict Arnold CEOs� isn�t really such a big deal after all. According to Madame Hillary, the cost of performing jobs overseas is actually much higher than the Kerryites would have you believe, �When you tabulate all the costs.� �Add up all the costs and suddenly a call-center worker with a raw wage of $5 an hour offshore has a true cost of $17,� the woman-who-won�t-be-speaking-on-her-own-but-introducing-her-husband-at-the-convention writes. Of course, she then goes on a typical liberal rant about everything government needs to do to help American workers be even more competitive. But what she really did with this timely column was help make John Kerry LESS competitive this fall. Boy, the Clintons sure know how to royally screw their �friends,� don�t they? A MAN OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, EH? �Sen. John Kerry spoke about the plight of the American worker when he traveled to Detroit earlier this week, a safe message for the blue-collar workers who build cars there. So it was a little strange that the campaign picked as its press-pass logo for its Motor City tour the gleaming showcase car of a foreign auto company � Rolls-Royce � that makes cars priced far outside the financial reach of any middle-class voter. " �That's an insult to the auto worker, it's an insult to the American worker, it's an insult to mainstream America,� said Sam Burwell from Corunna, Mich., a third-generation auto worker for General Motors. �It also shows who he's really in touch with: his European, elitist French friends and not Americans like me. A Rolls-Royce, for cryin' out loud.� " - Washington Times, 7/24/04 THE OVER-VALUED DUMB-DECIDEDS �So, let me ask you a few questions: Are you an independent? Do you reject �partisan labels�? Do you like to weigh each candidate on the merits rather than simply vote the party line? Do you wait until the last weeks of the presidential election before you make up your mind on whom to vote for, so you can study the issues as much as possible? Do you watch the presidential debates and feel disappointed that you didn't get enough �substance� on �the issues.� �Well, bully for you. You might deserve a lollypop, but you don't deserve to run the country. Unfortunately, you (and people like you) do. . . . But as a matter of gross generalization, no segment of voters is less deserving of the high esteem they get from the media and politicians than independents, centrists, moderates, swing voters, undecideds, and others we generally call middle-of-the-roaders. �...If you wait until the last minute to figure out whom to vote for; if you can't tell the differences between the parties and their candidates (and you're not politically exotic � i.e., an anarchist or a libertarian); if you think voting is like a Chinese menu where you can pick a little from here and a little from there; then the odds are you don't know very much about the political system. You may be a brilliant neurosurgeon, but I know interns who are sharper than you about politics.� - Columnist Jonah Goldberg PHYSICIANS, HEAL THYSELVES �Neither the cultural problem (of gay marriage) nor its solution can be found in Washington. . . . Sufficiently large numbers of Americans either do not believe, or do not practice, what the Scriptures teach and cannot be made to do so through a constitutional amendment or any other law. Neither side will persuade the other of the correctness of its position, so it becomes a political power game. �Perhaps if those pushing for a constitutional amendment better modeled what they preach for others, they might find more favor among secular powers. According to a survey by the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life: * �The divorce ratio among members of evangelical churches is virtually the same as among non-church members.� * "In the United States, 1 million children [have seen] their parents divorce.� * "The majority of children in America have less than 10 minutes of significant and meaningful conversation with their parents each week. If you remove the mother, you can measure this statistic in seconds." �Conservative Christians could use an "extreme makeover" to repair their own homes before they demand that others conform to a standard they themselves have trouble meeting.� - Columnist Cal Thomas CLARIFICATION In the Jon Stewart segment on the federal marriage amendment on last week�s �The Daily Show,� Stewart made mention of a quote by Sen. John Cornyn regarding marriage and �box turtles.� For the record, Sen. Cornyn never actually said this. It was part of a written draft for remarks to be delivered in a speech at the Heritage Foundation. However, Sen. Cornyn objected to the reference when he read the speech prepared by a staffer and deleted it from his actual remarks. Kudos to Sen. Cornyn. But we also hope he took the idiot staffer who wrote the speech and who thought the box turtle analogy was not only appropriate for a United States senator, but funny as well, to the woodshed. TODAY ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD �Fundamental rights should not be subject to geographical boundaries or the passions of ever-changing political majorities," Peter Roff of UPI reports the Anti-Defamation League said in calling on the U.S. Senate to reject the House�s �court-stripping� legislation dealing with the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). That�s a legitimate point. People don�t lose their right to free speech just because they cross from Texas into Oklahoma. But then the question comes down to this: Is marriage a �fundamental right�? What do you think? Weigh in on our Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ GREAT MOMENTS IN POSTAL HISTORY... �The Postal Service can fire an employee who forged his supervisor's signature on medical forms, despite the employee's nine-year clean disciplinary record, the Merit Systems Protection Board found recently. After an extended argument with his supervisors over whether he had a disability severe enough to limit him from completing all his job responsibilities, Kevin Adam, a PS-3 level custodian for the Postal Service, resorted to forging a signature on a medical documentation processing request form. But he spelled her name wrong." - GovExec.com, 7/23/04 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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