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******************************* Sign Up a Friend for the "Muth's Troops" Newsletter If you know someone who might like to join 24,000+ conservatives and libertarians who receive our FREE GOP News & Views briefings, just go to http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ for quick, easy subscription processing. ****************************** Up Against the Wall and Spread 'Em! There just ain't enough time in the day. And recently, there seems to be even less than usual. Launching my new e-newsletter on Nevada politics, traveling coast-to-coast as a volunteer campaign instructor for the Leadership Institute, heading up the Republican Liberty Caucus, plus consulting on the campaigns of a half dozen state assembly candidates in the Las Vegas area who are preparing to file for their races next week, pretty much fills up my day. Oh, yeah. And two young daughters. Oy vey. All of which is simply to explain why GOP News & Views has been MIA and/or intermittent the past couple weeks. I'll get back on our regular schedule as soon as things settle down a bit and I come off the road from this week's trip to DC. Which brings me to today's "rant". I am now 100 percent against the new "enhanced" airport security procedures which have been put in place following Sept. 11. They're a crock and have accomplished nothing other than making air travel about as pleasant as a root canal. I was willing to bear with the inconvenience under the assumption that all of us in line were under immediate and imminent threat to life and limb and the extra precautions were warranted under the circumstances. Then they federalized the security screeners. This has assured only that security checks are now conducted with the efficiency of the DMV and the warm, fuzzy customer service of the IRS. By now, many of you have probably guessed that I was singled out for special attention at the airport Friday morning on my flight to the Washington, D.C. area. I wish. Instead, they pulled my TWO-YEAR-OLD daughter Kristen out of line for a full body scan, including extra-special attention to her teeny-tiny, little size-5 tennis shoes. Of course, the only thing dangerous she was packing was hidden in her diaper . . . but as unpleasant as that stuff is (and you know what I'm talking about), I doubt she could have used it to bring down a 747. Only government could come up with something this stupid and then try to defend it. Since this was a "random" search and not because my little angel looked like some kind of terrorist, what this really means is that the surly-looking, 24-year-old fellow named Muhammed behind us with the one-way ticket to our nation's Capitol which he paid for with cash just that morning would be ushered right through simply because the luck of the draw resulted in Kristen being singled out for "scannering" instead of common sense and . . . God forbid! . . . a little profiling. I'm just thankful security didn't find that picture I keep in my wallet of Kristen brandishing a squirt gun in our back yard. I'm pretty sure they'd have hauled her little behind off in handcuffs and leg irons. Can't be too careful these days now, can we? Good grief. Since the "enhanced" security procedures that have been put in place post-9/11 aren't enhancing anything other than passengers' agita, it's time for them to go. The longer we allow airport security to be run by government bureaucrats, functionaries and politicians, the worse it will get. I'd be open to enhanced security measures if they actually enhanced our security. But what Congress has come up with since Sept. 11 decidedly doesn't do that. Time to go back to the drawing board. And we should start by arming our pilots, dammit. Do it. Do it now. ****************************** Founding Wisdom "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Right-wing extremist Benjamin Franklin ****************************** WHAT! Those of you who don't follow WWF professional wrestling probably won't even know who the Texas Rattlesnake, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is. But for those of you who do, you'll appreciate the suggestion by one particularly enlightened Capitol Hill staffer who suggests that Republicans follow Stone Cold's lead and yell "What!" every time Rep. Dick Gephardt makes a speech from the well of the House. "My fellow colleagues (What!), I stand here today (What!) for bigger government (What!), higher taxes (What!), universal health care (What!), outlawing cars (What!), taking away everybody's guns (What!) . . . shut up all you losers! (What!)" At that point Rep. Jim Traficant would come tearing down the aisle amid fireworks and strobe lights, hop up on the podium, slap a sleeper hold on Dick until he's down for the count and then begin catching flying cans of Budweiser from House Republicans in mid-air, ripping the tabs off and guzzling most of the suds before pouring the rest over an unconscious Gephardt's head. Ridiculous? Sure. But it sure beats C-SPAN. What! ****************************** Speaking of Ridiculous, We Now Take You to the Left Coast "California could become the first state to banish Native-American mascots and team names from its public schools, under a proposal steadily moving through the state legislature. Aimed at ending ethnic stereotypes in public schools and colleges, Assembly Bill 2115 would forbid public schools from purchasing athletic uniforms and equipment, logos, or stationary that use Indian mascots, beginning in January. Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg (D-Los Angeles), who introduced the controversial ban, said it is not always an honor to use Indian mascots. She said such symbols often perpetuate harmful racial stereotypes." - CNSNews.com, 5/2/02 ******************************* Fighting Whities Jerseys Almost Gone We are now officially sold out of Large and X-Large "Fighting Whities" sports jerseys. Only about a dozen Mediums and XX-Large are left. When they're gone, they're gone. Don't miss the boat. Irritate the heck out of those politically-correct numbskulls trying to rename the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. Have your Visa or MasterCard ready and go to: http://chuckmuth.com/merchandise.htm ********************************** Nevada e-Newsletter Now Available Want the poop, the whole poop and nothing but the poop on Nevada's political scene? Then sign up for our new, FREE "Nevada Insider" e-newsletter. 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For more information, go to: http://www.alec.org/ * 17th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. September 27,28 and 29, 2002 at the. Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Foundation. Registration is free. You can register by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by phone at 425.454.4911. For more information go to: http://www.saf.org/ * 30th Annual CPAC conference at the Gateway Marriot in Arlington, VA from January 30 - February 1, 2003. Details to follow. **************************** GOP News & Views is made possible by the generous contributions from readers like you. 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