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CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS
March 1, 2004
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UP ON THE HILL
On Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. (EST), I'm scheduled to give testimony before the
Constitution sub-committee (Feingold, Kennedy, Schumer, Durbin, et. al.) of the
Senate Judiciary Committee against the Federal Marriage Amendment. Not sure if
it will be covered by C-SPAN or not. Will keep you posted.
GOP SURVIVOR SERIES
Early voting for the SUPER-TUESDAY ELIMINATION ROUND of the 2008 GOP
Presidential Survivor series is under way. The top two finishers for Round
Three were Alan Keyes and Sen. Rick Santorum. They join Round One finalists
Rudy Giuliani and Bill Owens, along with Round Two finalists Ron Paul and Condi
Rice for this final elimination round. The Top Two finishers of this Super
Tuesday round will square off in a one-on-one face off later this week. The
ultimate winner will receive a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax (just kidding). So
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MAIL SCAM
"Although the Postal Service takes in more than $100 million a year to insure
mail, it pays out claims at a rate so low it is almost laughable - around 16
percent of revenues. Of the $130 million the USPS received in insurance revenues
in 2002 (the most recent figures available), only $20.6 million made its way
back to customers whose goods were lost or damaged. If the Postal Service were
a private organization - as opposed to a government agency - such a low payout
ratio would be scandalous."
- Sam Ryan of the Lexington Institute
GIVE UP ALL HOPE
"We can cut the deficit in half if Congress 'is willing to make tough choices,'
says President Bush.
"America is doomed."
- Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute
CHA-CHING!
"President Bush's budget would produce deficits totaling $2.75 trillion over the
next decade, the Congressional Budget Office projected yesterday in the first
authoritative look at the plan's longer-range implications."
- Associated Press, 2/28/04
URINE TESTS, COMPLIMENTS OF BIG BROTHER
"President Bush, preparing to unveil an anti-drug strategy, yesterday championed
his budget proposals to increase drug testing in schools. Those proposals
include increasing funding to $23 million from the current $2 million for
schools that want to use drug testing to expand early intervention programs.
The drug-testing plan has drawn sharp criticism from some parents, school
administrators and civil liberties activists."
- Associated Press, 2/29/04
DRUG TESTING FOR KIDS?
President Bush proposes to spend $23 million for drug testing in schools. Why
is the federal government spending millions of dollars to drug test public
school kids? Isn't this an invasion of privacy to start with? What about
parents who object to the tests? Shouldn't parents be the ones to decide
whether or not they want their kids drug tested? And if so, why not give the
PARENTS, not the schools, the money for the tests? Or should the federal
government just completely get out of the Drug War quagmire once and for all?
Weigh in on our Discussion Board:
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HOW DUMB ARE WE?
"(I)t is difficult to understand how the White House, after presiding over a 30
percent increase in federal spending during President Bush's first term, pushing
President Clinton's final $1.86 trillion budget to a proposed $2.4 trillion in
fiscal 2005, can claim it now has fiscal religion. Worse, after signing an $820
billion 'omnibus' spending bill just weeks ago that finances an estimated 8,000
pork-barrel projects, the White House now wants to put the squeeze on virtually
everything not related to national defense and homeland security, while at the
same time proposing a manned mission to Mars that aerospace executives say could
cost $150 billion or more over the next 10 years. Do they really think we're
this dumb?"
- Columnist Herb Berkowitz
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TODAY'S HISTORY LESSON
"Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, held the heavyweight title
for seven years before losing it (to) Jess Willard in Cuba in 1915. Johnson had
a profound effect on race relations. His flamboyant personality and his
incessant appetite for confrontation and white women ultimately led to his
demise. Johnson married three white women and had numerous affairs with others.
. . . Because of Johnson's arrogance and love for white women, many whites
considered him a serious threat to racial order. After Johnson married Lucille
Cameron (a white woman), two ministers in the South recommended lynching him.
"In a reaction to the Johnson-Cameron marriage, in 1911 Rep. Seaborn Roddenberry
of Georgia introduced a constitutional amendment to ban interracial marriages.
In his appeal to congress, Roddenberry stated that: 'Intermarriage between
whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American
spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant. It is subversive to social peace. It is
destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery to black beasts will
bring this nation to a fatal conflict.' "
- R. Reese, Cal Poly Pomona, Journal of African American Men (http://www.csupomona.edu/~rrreese/INTEGRATION.HTML)
IT'S DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN
"I am an old coot, but when I was young, GAY meant happy, joy, etc. not queer.
Queer was the term we used for sexual deviates, because that's what they are,
queer, not gay. They are mental degenerates."
- News & Views reader Vernon Kuellmer
FINALLY...A RATIONAL ARGUMENT
"Well, ya know sumpin', Chuck, I DO want to stick it to homos. I'm completely
sick of in-your-face queerdom. If they'd used the condoms they threw around St.
Pat's more of 'em wouldn't be headed down the death road. If you wanna throw in
with Rosie O'Donnell go right ahead. As far as I'm concerned she's a carpet-muncher
because no man or dog would jump her if she held out her bankbook or you hung a
steak around her neck. . . . You don't seem to get it, Chuck."
- News & Views reader J. David Krauser of Flushing, NY
FMA IS DOA IN US SENATE
"(I)t takes just 34 votes in the US Senate to kill the proposed amendment to ban
gay marriage endorsed by President Bush. It now appears that there are well more
than 34 Senators on record as saying they will not support a constitutional
amendment. Many are opponents of same-sex marriage, but they either oppose the
concept of placing an issue like this in the US Constitution or maintain an
amendment isn't currently needed. Don't believe us? You can look their names up
in online searches of news stories. Here are the names of the 48 announced
amendment opponents (or those saying that leaning strongly against the
amendment):
"Lamar Alexander (R-TN), George Allen (R-VA), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Joe Biden
(D-DE), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), John Breaux (D-LA), Robert
Byrd (D-WV), Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Tom Carper
(D-DE), Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Susan Collins (R-ME),
Kent Conrad (D-ND), Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Tom Daschle (D-SD), Mark Dayton (D-MN),
Chris Dodd (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Edwards (D-NC), Russ Feingold
(D-WI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Bob Graham (D-FL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Tom
Harkin (D-IA), Jim Jeffords (I-VT), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), John
Kerry (D-MA), Herb Kohl (D-WI), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Joe
Lieberman (D-CT), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Dick Lugar (R-IN), John McCain (R-AZ),
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Patty Murray (D-WA), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor
(D-AR), Harry Reid (D-NV), Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Olympia
Snowe (R-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), John Warner (R-VA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR)."
- Ron Gunzburger, Politics1, 2/29/04
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