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12.1.03 @ 12:01AM

BOOK HIM
Re: Jerry Carter's Clinton By the Book:

As someone who has read the book, the comments on Thomas a Kempis's The Imitation of Christ were right on. However, depending on what one means by "read," Mr. Clinton may have actually opened the book. He surely read the part where Thomas a Kempis states that "once a man is out of sight, he is out of mind." I'm willing to bet that Bill Clinton missed the admonition to "avoid the company of women." Keep up the good work.
-- Tim Rasmussen

Right, Lyin' Bill couldn't have controlled his pornographic mind long enough to read any book of substance beyond the table of contents. Maybe Pervo Pants selected his favorite books by title only? In the case of Imitation of Christ, Satan's Best Boy must have been thinking in terms of a "how-to" manual on fooling the people. (Remember all the pictures of His Fraudulence coming out of church services, and carrying what appeared to be a bible, and all the preaching from the pulpit?)

Bill Clinton: All pathology. All the time.

The whole article was accurate, hilarious, and sickening (by way of the subject matter). Let's have some more writing, Jerry Carter!
-- Carl Gordon Pyper
Monett, Missouri

HEADED FOR TROUBLE
Re: David Hogberg's Supply-Spend Economics:

David Hogberg does a good job describing the problems with the Republican platform but then refuses to answer his own question: "So what's a supply-sider to do?" The answer which he probably knows in his heart but from which he and so many other "Conservatives" recoil is: "Fight!" It's been true for some time now: "Friends don't let Friends vote Republican." Only if the Republican Party faces certain defeat will it, as a last resort, refuse to raise spending and add entitlements. David's response might have been tenable a decade or two ago, but the time is long past when hope could overcome experience.
-- Mike Rizzo

Did Hogberg or Wlady write the following header: "Bush Republicans have traded in their Reaganite soul for power"?

The article contains no mention of soul trading. If you insist on being libertarians, please don't foam at the mouth. If not for the alternate headline about demand economics on the banner, I would have skipped reading this thoughtful article, from fear of exposure to fanaticism.

Control yourselves.
-- Douglas Hill
Austin, Texas

HERITAGE HERRING
Re: Lawrence Henry's Heritage Day:

What's the world coming to in Mass.? First ya'll say buggerers can be betrothed, and now pickled herring is getting the bum's rush. What gives? True, I get funny looks and questions from checkout girls when they scan my large bottle of Vita goodness (in wine sauce, please), but I live in South Georgia, for goodness sake, so I get the same reaction when my cart is overflowing with pierogies and lox. I just try and spread the word; please hold the culinary line up North.
-- Alex Markowich
Waycross, Georgia

I haven't a drop of Norwegian blood in me, but my husband is as Norske as they get. So, a few suggestions from his family:

(1) Dress Bud as a Viking.

(2) Have him recite this part of a Norwegian poem: "A thousand Swedes / Running through the weeds / Chased by one Norwegian." Apparently a reference to Norwegian fighting skills (as compared to Swedish running skills). If you care to modernize it, you could probably change "Swedes" in the first line to "French," but then it wouldn't rhyme ...

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