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From: newsandviews_list@chuckmuth.com
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 7:15 AM
To: News & Views
Subject: Chuck Muth's News & Views - January 1, 2004
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year to each and every one of you crazy, right-wing extremists!
Chuck
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Meet and Greet
The next Conservative Townhall MeetUp is January 6th at 7pm. To date over 15,000
readers across the country have signed up. During the past two weeks readers
have been voting on where to meet. That decision has been made and now it's time
to RSVP. The Townhall MeetUp is already the biggest conservative MeetUp and it's
quickly climbing the ranks of all the MeetUp topics. Thousands of conservatives
will be meeting in over 200 cities. All you have to do is RSVP and show up.
To RSVP or sign up quickly go to: http://townhall.meetup.com
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Run Hillary, Run!
Conservatives for Clinton? Count me in. Yes, I've officially thrown my support
behind the "Draft Hillary" movement. Think I've lost my marbles? Check out our
new website at www.runhillaryrun.com.
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NEW! Survey Says!
With the official start of balloting for the Democrat nomination for
presidential sacrificial lamb just days away, it seems wholly appropriate to
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The Way We Were
I'm not sure who the original author of the following was, however, as we
approach the New Year it seems appropriate to remember what life in these United
States was once like in "the old days."
"According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in
the '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s probably shouldn't have survived. Our mothers put
us in cribs covered with bright-colored lead-based paint.
"There were no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when
we rode our bicycles into traffic (bike paths were unheard of), we had no
helmets. If we didn't feel like pumping a bike up the hills, we could always
hitch a ride with strangers. There were no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the
back of a pickup truck on a warm day was particularly special.
"We drank water from an old garden hose, not from a bottle. One bottle of
bellywash could be shared with up to four friends, drinking from the bottle, and
no one died.
"We gorged on cakes, pies, candy, bread and butter, and anything we could find
with lots of sugar in and on it, and we were never overweight because we were
always running through the 'hood.
"We never heard of 'play dates,' and left home in the morning and played all
day, and the only rule was to get home before the streetlights flickered on. No
one could reach us because nobody had a cell phone.
"We spent hours building go-carts from lumber and nails scrounged from
neighbors' garages and raced them down the hill to discover only at the bottom
of the intersection that we forgot the brakes. Running into the bushes was good
enough.
"We fell out of trees, played with BB guns until we got a .22 rifle on our 12th
birthday, fought "war" with dirt clods, broke bones, lost teeth, stepped on
nails and caught fishhooks in noses. Nobody's daddy had a lawyer.
"We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and most eyes
survived intact (the worms didn't).
"We walked into our friends' houses whenever we felt like it. We chose up sides
for ballgames, and if somebody didn't make the team, he learned to deal with it.
There was nobody to counsel the losers (who would have felt insulted if there
had been).
"The generations that suffered these deprivations made the best of it, producing
the explosion of innovation and ideas that transformed the world.
"Kind of makes you want to run through the house with a pair of scissors,
doesn't it?"
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