From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

WWGPD

Columnist Diana West wonders what Gen. George Patton would do if during World War II one of his soldiers had been caught using a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” for target practice. Certainly not what Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond did in Iraq last week under similar circumstances. Read all about it HERE

DISSING CONSERVATIVES

“Republican leaders have treated conservatives with utter disrespect and, in turn, conservatives have lost all respect for Republican leaders. Millions of grassroots conservative activists and donors have left the Republican Party and taken with them their volunteer time, their checkbooks, and their votes. . . . Today, the Libertarian Party has a historic opportunity to provide leadership for America.”

- Conservative icon Richard Viguerie in his keynote address at the Libertarian Party convention in Denver Friday night

GROVER TOUTS LA GUV FOR #2

“Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist believes Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal would be the strongest running mate for John McCain this fall. ‘[Jindal] is the best choice,’ Norquist wrote in an e-mail from Baton Rouge.

“A Bayou source told Politico that the Americans for Tax Reform president was in the Louisiana capitol talking up Jindal yesterday. The 36-year-old governor is a true movement conservative and McCain needs him on the ticket, Norquist told one official in the House chamber.”

- Blogger Jonathan Martin of Politico.com

NO LOVE FOR HILLARY

“Let’s not mistake racial fear of Obama for personal popularity for Hillary. Most of the blue-collar working class whites who backed Hillary Clinton, particularly the men, can’t stand her.”

- Columnist Dick Morris

WRIGHT ASSUMPTION WRONG

“As Barack Obama makes his slow but steady way toward the Democratic nomination, the assumption in the admiring precincts of the press corps is that voters have dismissed as irrelevant his longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that may prove as mistaken as the assumption, back in 1988, that voters would not be impressed by Michael Dukakis’s 11-year support of a law granting weekend furloughs to convicts sentenced to life without parole, an issue brought up in the primaries by Al Gore but largely ignored in press coverage at the time.”

- Columnist Michael Barone

CHILD ABDUCTORS LOSE BIG IN TEXAS

“I’m not sure that I have ever been so relieved to see a headline. ‘Court Rules Removal of Children From FLDS Compound was Illegal.’ Halleluiah. A court finally got one right. The mass abduction of hundreds of children who lived at the ‘Yearning for Zion’ ranch in Eldorado, Texas was just the beginning of predictably disgraceful behavior by the state’s Child Protective Services agency. CPS is an agency that frequently runs amok in many states, an out-of-control organization that regularly tramples on the rights of adults accused of abusing children. The horror stories of parents humiliated by the storm trooper tactics of this bunch of state bureaucrats are lengthy.”

- Columnist Mike Gallagher

SUBWAY SUCKS EGGS

SUBWAY sandwich company is running a creative writing contest for kids called the “Every Sandwich Tells a Story Contest.” Children in grades PreK-6 are asked to “write a story that has a beginning, middle and end using one of the provided story starters.” They are encouraged to “Be creative! Let your imagination cook up a story that is as delicious to read as a SUBWAY sandwich is to eat.”

Children may choose from any of four “story starters”...

1.) “The Mysterious Meatball: When the invitation to the Meatball came in the mail.”

2.) “Turkey Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: There was a loud knock on the door, but when Salami Sam opened it.”

3.) “The Race to Red Onion Ranch: Everyone gathered in the center or town for the start of the race except.”

4.) “Nothing Better: The smell of fresh bake bread coming from the store was so good that.”

Indeed, my second and third grade home-schoolers are given a writing assignment similar to these every single day. So the contest not only sounded like fun, but was right up our alley. Then I read the fine print.

“Contest is open to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.”

WHAT??? Children whose parents care enough about their children’s education that they choose to do it themselves aren’t eligible to participate in a creative writing contest? What in the world is SUBWAY afraid of? That homeschool kids might submit entries with all the words spelled correctly, along with the proper use of capitalization and punctuation?

Turns out, that would be a legitimate concern. One home-schooled mom wrote yesterday that “there’s a good reason why they don’t want homeschooled kids” to participate in their contest. Seems the sandwich giant misspelled a pair of words – “bastket” and “Untied States” – on the contest website. Although the contest has been running since last January, the mistakes weren’t noticed until home-schoolers noticed. Go figure.

This is simply outrageous. Now, I know this probably isn’t important to those of you who aren’t able to homeschool your own kids…or if you don’t have any school-aged kids. But for the rest of you, HERE is where you can tell SUBWAY exactly how you feel about them barring homeschool children from participating in their creative writing contest. Be creative! Here’s the note I sent.

Dear SUBWAY Executives,

How’s this for a creative writing story starter?

“The Sandwich Shop Sucks: When I found out that SUBWAY’s creative writing contest specifically barred my home-schooled children from participating, I.”

Now here’s how I creatively finished the story:

“...immediately wrote about this outrage and sent it out to some 25,000 of my friends nationwide who subscribe to my daily current events newsletter (www.muthstruths.com) asking them to boycott SUBWAY and spend their money where the corporate ogres don’t discriminate against the children of parents who care so much about the education of their children that they make the sacrifice to do it themselves rather than outsource the responsibility to the government. The End.”

OK, it’s not very long. But I think Jared will get the idea. Helloooooo, Quiznos!

THE UNION LABEL

We’ve mentioned the new financial disclosure requirements that the U.S. Department of Labor is implementing and now we’d like to pass on to one and all a new information website that just debuted to help explain and track the progress of the new requirements. It’s called Union Financial Disclosure and can be reached HERE