| The weeks most interesting George Bush and John Kerry cross paths in Iowa. This is the link to the story most people have heard. But we have a source that has a different take on what happened exclusively here at SoundCheck. Make sure to check the real story below in our Did You Know section! Minimum wage is an immortal myth : Raising the minimum wage actually reduces employment opportunity for our kids.. Would you be upset if the IRS was eliminated? Do you think it will ever happen in our lifetime? At least someone important is talking about it besides Steve Forbes... Check out this Blog. It is the left's definition of conservative values. Post your comment after you read it. I couldn't help myself... 
Original music scene & not so original... 
Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith is cutting his first solo record away from the band. Bad news is Joe Perry is peeved. Good news is he is looking for songs to record. I think "Ugly" of the latest CD from The Rich Hand Band would work! Your thoughts.... 
Bruce Springsteen talks to Ted Koppel on Nightline about the upcoming concert series designed to unseat President Bush. Will this concert work or will the musicians participating find their careers and record sales rapidly decline? You will decide... 
The Pig Faire Collection Heidi McClure and her band Ceol Ceili, have released a new CD titled, "The Pig Faire Collection". Band members include: Heidi McClure, Ron Sommers, Kari Walker, and Steve Hart. We listened to the 16 song effort and must say it is an excellent piece of musical work. We are not experts on traditional Celtic music here, but we do know when music is done well. If you are a Celtic music fan you will love this CD. If you're not, you should get this CD as your introduction into this genre. Heidi's hammer dulcimer work is fabulous.
Common sense? Steve and Kari have a vocal connection that seems effortless and at times mystical. Ron's fiddle work really draws you in to the story being told. This is a keeper. The production work was done by Paul Schwotzer at SpeakOut! Productions. Visit their web site to find out how you can purchase "The Pig Faire Collection" ( I love that title). They are available for weddings, wakes, and other undertakings... www.CeolCeili.com. Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny mindsThere she was in a public swimming pool, in broad daylight, with no top. Despite the pleadings of security guards, the young lady continued frolicking half-naked in the cool water at Wayne County's Chandler Park Family Aquatic Park. Police were called. An officer took a look, and told the park manager that Suhayla Smith had done nothing wrong. She was, after all, just 3 years old. Her mother said later she regretted forgetting Suhayla's bikini top, but thought it was silly that the guards demanded the little girl leave the pool. Officials said they were just enforcing the rules.
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SoundCheck Exclusive! The Real Story... On his campaign swing through Iowa, presidential candidate John Kerry was embarrassed when he mistakenly "Chucked" the corn out of the window of his campaign bus. Fortunately President Bush was campaigning close by and caught the corn Kerry "Chucked" and proceeded to "shuck" the corn and went on to eat the corn to his supporters delight. When the President finished the corn he asked his supporters where he should "put it". Teresa Hines Kerry was heard shouting from the bus, " Stuff it". Kerry was later quoted as saying, " I thought the crowd was chanting "Chuck it". A spokesman for the President said the crowd was actually yelling "Schmuck". Another witnesses was quoted as saying " they were actually saying "shuck it" . When Dick Cheney was asked about the conflicting reports he was heard whispering, " f ... it". Teresa Hines Kerry answered directly when confronted by reporters, " I was yelling at the President to stuff it". The First Lady was unavailable for comment. Political analysts are now predicting polls will show a slight edge for the President since he actually knows that corn is meant to be eaten on the cob. The only thing missing was his flight suit. Both campaigns have committed to staying far away from each other on the campaign trail for fear they are confusing the voters with all of "it". Fact, fiction, or funny God.comFrom an article in The Boston Globe on the recent slew of web sites that claim to put computer users directly in touch with God: "Newprayer.com makes a bold claim--that it can send prayers via a radio transmitter to God's last known location, a star cluster called M13, believed to be one of the oldest in the universe.... `Simply click on the "pray" button and transmit your prayer to God,' says the site." Now this a Sheriff! Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the tent city jail has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies. He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the Weather channel. When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's going to be while they are working on my chain gangs. He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the Inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back." He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place. More on the Arizona Sheriff: With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests E-Mail Subscription Manager manage your eNewsletter subscriptions The "SoundCheck" newsletter may contain links to sites on the Internet, which are owned and operated by third parties. The "SoundCheck" is not responsible for the content of any such third-party site. The "SoundCheck" copyright 2004. All rights reserved. | 
