Time: Sat Apr 05 09:34:51 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26456; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 07:47:30 -0700 (MST) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA29186; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 07:47:25 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 09:34:26 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: L&J: Spring has Sprung! (fun fun fun) <snip> > New York Times > April 5, 1997 > > > LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD > > Spring Sprang Sprung > > WASHINGTON -- It's hard to keep you mind on chicanery > in the spring. > > Our spring, after all, is almost as luminous as spring > in Paris. (What April in Paris has over April in > Washington is Paris.) Robert Byrd of West Virginia > once recited a verse on the Senate floor featuring > larks on wing, snails on thorn and dew-pearled > hillsides. And there was this effort by a Washington > Post Style writer: > > Spring is here. > The sap is ris. > I wonder how the panda is? > > Sure, we have the stranger-than-fiction story of a > businesswoman raising money for the Democrats > putting the touch on a Cuban drug smuggler at the > Copacabana in Havana. It's a wacky cross between > "Guys and Dolls" and "Godfather II." Were they > sipping Cuba libres in Cuba not-so-libre and doing > the D.N.C. mambo? > > But at the National Zoo, we have baby Cuban > crocodiles having spring flings. > > Sure, we have the First Lady once more trying to > wipe her fingerprints off another scandal. > > But in the Rose Garden, we have a blaze of Nancy > Reagan red, Betty Ford yellow and Rosalynn Carter > peach. > > Sure, we have Joe Lockhart, a spokesman for Al > Gore, claiming that when the Vice President went to > that Buddhist temple, he did not know it was a > fund-raiser, but simply thought it was "a > finance-related event." > > But we also have the cherry blossom festival or, as it > is known in the Clinton era, a flora-related event. > > Sure, we have the President scampering around > trying to explain why Webb Hubbell, the man who > knows all, got hush-related money. > > But we also have squirrels scampering around the > White House veranda. > > Anyhow, I started out doing a serious analysis of > how Mr. Hubbell, a witness in several investigations > that were threatening the President and First Lady, > got his own $400,000-plus financial aid package > with the help of senior Clinton aides and the now > famous capo di tutti capi nod from Mrs. Clinton. > > The President says they helped Mr. Hubbell out of > "human compassion." Suddenly, the White House is > a Center for Effective Compassion. Trouble is, this > center isn't so effective, since everybody knows that > the misfortune of friends does not exactly break the > Clintons' hearts. There has to be another reason to > help out. Throwing money Webb's way might shut > him up. And what a good deed, too! > > But it's too nice outside to belabor the obvious. My > computer is drenched with sunshine and longing for > lollipops. Oh, no!!! It's the Larry King virus again!!! > > Questions, questions: Are there still any wackos left > who believe Vince Foster was murdered? . . . You > can't find better musical theater than "Chicago." . . . > I'm a sucker for stuffed animals. > > . . . Wasn't Ronald Reagan an underrated actor? . . . > Do people want Ellen to come out? Or do they want > her to shut up? . . . Can't someone get Jenny > McCarthy off that toilet? . . . Duchess Fergie will > write a column for The New York Times Syndicate > "from the perspective of her life unfolding on a > global stage." Makes me want to Di!! . . . Can you > believe that Dick Morris made $1.5 million on > Clinton's TV ads? Those poor Buddhist monks, > they're eating even less. > > . . . Let me get this straight, folks: Harold Ickes gets > no severance package from the White House and > suddenly his papers turn up in the hands of Dan > Burton? Hmmmmm. Such are life's little stories. > > Hodgepodge: I'll give "Shine" Best Picture next year > if they promise not to bring David Helfgott back. > > . . . Doesn't Dick Gephardt make Al Gore look like > Cuba Gooding Jr.? . . . ABC is producing a movie > on the Heaven's Gate cult. That should improve their > Nielsen ratings at the Level Above Human. > > . . . Alan Greenspan's getting married this Sunday. > Watch that prime rate this Monday!!! > > My 2 cents: Best bet for summer beach reading: a > memoir by Harriet Wasserman, the literary agent > Saul Bellow dumped, recounting her adventures > watching Bellow "stand on his head, hop on one > booted foot up a mountain road, play the violin, iron > his pants after being caught in a downpour, and > accept the Nobel prize." I'm speechless. > > . . . The mother of Ennis Cosby's murderer wants a > book contract? Paging Harry Evans. > > . . . So much stuff, so little space. > > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with >"unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject) >Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com> > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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