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Friday, November 30, 2001

Quote of The Day

Two Prominent Men Who Seem To Be Losing Their Minds:

``I got 32,000 bison, I'm trying to move some meat.''

--Ted Turner on why he's opening a chain of restaurants.

``We have started a family restaurant in Tennessee and we are running it ourselves. It is a low-cost restaurant. I am also a visiting professor or VP for short.''

--Former Vice President Al Gore

It's not heavy, it's just my stuff

Money Makes The War Go Round: This Washington Post report from a high-ranking Talaban defector claims billionaire Osama was a regular Mr. Scatter Cash as he built up his fighting team - if one can call a group of guys in pajamas and flip-flops who run into, not away from enemy bullets such a thing.

Please, Waiter, A New Translator: Seems Al Gore gave a speech in Nigerian (anyone smell desperation booking here?) in which he said he has and works in a family a restaurant in Tennessee. No one in his office seems to know anything about this and suggested something was lost in the translation. In Nigerian there are four primary languages Fulani, Igbo/Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba so all this is understandable, we think. For the moment we will just assume that that the did say restaurant and that he either has the Clinton disease or he's barking mad.

Bye George, Bye Youth: The passing of Beatle George Hamilton during the night is so profoundly sad, so irretrievably aging that we will just mention it out of gratitude and respect and move on. [Well said, dammit. OG]

Oops, She's Done It Again: Georgia Democrat Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, yes, the one who made an ankle snapping grab for the money Rudy Giuliani tossed back at that Saudi sheik, has stepped in another big pile and called Congress "Jewish occupied territory." Someone loan that woman a burque. The one with the head piece that's really tight around the mouth.

Ho Ho Ho And A Touch of Payback: Seems Sunday is the day to visit the town of Kensington (People's Republic of Maryland) as hordes of renegade Santas are planning to bring a bit of Jiggle Hell to the place for trying to ban 'Ol St. Nick. We hope they are wearing fur, fully armed and blowing side stream smoke but not at the kiddies. Never at the kiddies. If there are any left there. Who would want to raise children in such a place?

LDotter Note: We want to thank all of you for your supportive mail re yesterday's Short Cuts in which we dared to use words like "slut" "deaf" and "dwarf." Clearly just reading those words gave many of you a measure of guilty pleasure. Trying not to over stimulate you, we will work on this slowly. Okay, today's word is "niggardly." Don't write it down or say it out loud. Just whisper it to yourself and like minded non-PCers. This is going to be a long process.

Your Patient LComStaff

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Answers

"The passing of Beatle George Hamilton..."

Is Lucianne having a senior moment, too?

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Apologies to Lucianne. Seems OG isn't getting enough sleep...

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Many comments on this Lucianne piece:

(1) OK, I give up on Cynthia McKinney. The woman has gone "barking mad."

(2) I just moved from Kensington, Maryland. I know nothing about banning Santa. Judging from my friends and neighbors there, I'm amazed that this was done - the town is not a hotbed of stupidity.

(3) There was a big flap about the word "niggardly" in the DC Government. As I recall, it was two or three years ago. Some poor soul of a white supervisor used the word, a couple of blacks thought they were being insulted and wanted his head on a pike, so to speak. The case got national attention, reinforcing the notion that the DC Government does not consist of the best and brightest.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Hey, Lucianne: If it wasn't Cynthia McKinney who made the remark, but one of her aides, and if the aide has since been let go, then you have just screwed up big-time.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Let me elaborate on what I just said.

If it was an aide, one could conclude that he was reflecting her viewpoint and wrote the letter with her approval. I don't think so.

It may be that he was reflecting her viewpoint. All that means is that she's full of shit. Many members of Congress are full of shit.

But as far as having her approval to go public, that's where I think an aide's independent crazy behavior was involved. Politically, that's just suicidal, especially within her own party in the House.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Ahem, I happen to know someone at Lucianne (sniff!) and she was saying that both she and Lucianne were so upset about George Harrison, they blew it and didn't even see they had Hamilton in there until they had a bunch of e-mail. I missed it too, being a bit foggy-eyed.

Maybe the same phenom was at work re the Cynthia McKinney aide story. Or maybe the first news was that McKinney had said it. Lucianne is usually extremely accurate so I'm betting it was the Harrison news that threw them off. But All Things Must Pass and this will too.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

I see, so Lucianne was ok about making you look bad by changing their copy after-the-fact? ;^)

I'd miss Hamilton too, but not in the same way.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Yup. Snort!

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001