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Hillary Out of Grapeshot

5.9.08 @ 12:01AM

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Invade other countries and sieze their oil when we have plenty of it here in our own country? Our own ignorants in Congress will not allow us to go after our own and you want to go to war? Either you are on serious medications or off them, I do not know which.

You want to go to war? Well, then start it with the members of our Congress, all five hundred and thirty-five who have the collective IQ of my two indoor house plants.

Send a military unit to the Capitol, put the fools under arrest, tar and feather a few if needed and keep them there until they cry "drill."

Much more cost effective.
-- Jim Woodward
Midvale, Utah

I'VE GOT IT BAD
Re: Philip Klein's Game Over, Hillary:

Of course, it's not like we're going to miss her, Mr. Klein, but this isn't what we expected. The last hurrah of the Queen of '60s radical chic is up in bong smoke, and after the invitations to the Coronation Ball had already been sent out? This is no way to treat a Wellesley girl, who paid her dues, worked hard, and played by the rules, OK, at least she worked hard, alright already, but she certainly paid her dues, right, I mean that marriage thing, that's paying your dues, isn't it? And, what better qualifications for POTUS are there, Watergate step-and-fetch it, real estate investor, futures market maven, partner with a malodorous law firm that by any other name would smell as sweet, White House resident for eight years, U.S. Senate Woodstock curator, and destroyer of everything in her path with that peculiar inverse Midas touch of hers. Check your listings, Divorce Court may be up for an Emmy next year.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

GOOD GREEN WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's It's Either Too Hot or Too Cold:

We read how Al Gore's mansion in Tennessee consumes annually over 220,000 Kw-hours of electricity, about 20 times more than an average American family house. Gore's excuse is that he buys "carbon offsets" and so his "carbon footprint" is effectively zero. How does he do it, exactly?

Well, he invests money in Generation Investment Management LLC, a company that places investors' money in "socially and environmentally responsible" companies. GMI is classified as a U.S. 501(c)3 company, i.e it is tax-free, where the contributions to it are also tax-free. And who is its founder and Chairman of the Board? Why, it is the same Al Gore! Its President is his former Chief of Staff and the Clinton campaign manager in 1996.

So -- Al Gore is offsetting his "carbon footprint" by investing his tax-free money in his own tax-free company. It looks to me as a veritable old-time scam, and it should be investigated as such by our federal authorities.
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada

Might science borrow Fabrizio as a reference standard? Her last article suggests an intercranial temperature in such perfect equilibrium with the environment as to put paid to the need for costly and hazardous satellite radiometer launches.
-- Russell Seitz
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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