No blog yesterday and a short one today.
I was really tired at work yesterday, so I took off early, ran some errands, and came home and took a nap. My friend Cindy came over and picked some tomatoes, cucumbers, and black eyed peas from my garden. We went out to a Mexican restaurant, she went home, I did some finances, watched Monk, and went to bed. So, no time to blog last night.
Today, I slept late and ran some more errands. I went to the store and now I'm home and it is already late afternoon. Cindy and her husband are having me over for dinner tonight, featuring stuff from my garden. All I have to do is a little computer work (Will program for food.). The nice thing about going to their house is that Michael, her husband is the wine buyer for Greens package store in Atlanta. We always have good wine, usually three bottles. If you are in Atlanta, and want some good wine advice, go to the Greens on Buford Highway and ask for Michael Bishop. Tell him the cripple sent ya'. He'll take good care of you.
So, not much time left to do much writing. But, I did find this little tidbit in the first section of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
Former President Clinton and his wife have asked a court to have taxpayers reimburse them for legal costs related to the Whitewater investigation, their lawyer said in a statement late Friday.
Now let me get this straight. They and the McDougals looted Madison Guarantee Trust, Hillary made this incredible profit in cattle futures (Why didn't we just give Hillary $1 billion every quarter and watch her turn it into $100 billion and in no time flat we would have eliminated the national debt?), Bill used the Arkansas State Troopers as a procurement squad, he had shady dealings with Don Lassiter, they illegally obtained 1000 FBI files (Oops we goofed! Just a bureaucratic snafu), they trashed the Constitution, they rented out the White House, they sold secrets to the Chinese for campaign contributions, and they politicized the IRS and FBI. I could go on and on but I do have to be somewhere tonight. They ran up huge legal bills by stonewalling every investigation and now they have the unmitigated gall to ask me to pay their goddam legal bills?
The Clintons raked in millions of dollars last year after leaving the White House. The former president earned $9.2 million on the lecture circuit, and Hillary Clinton --- now New York's junior senator --- received an $2.85 million advance on her memoirs.
And they want me to pay their goddam legal bills?
But they still have legal bills totaling between $1.75 million and $6.5 million, according to the financial disclosure form Mrs. Clinton was require to file as a member of the Senate. The Clintons paid $1.3 million in legal bills last year, according to the Senate filing.
Aw, you're breaking my heart here. They've also stiffed some of their lawyers. Listen up. We're gonna give these two assholes generous pensions for the rest of their lives. God knows how much money they've socked away from all the money they got from selling pardons. Let their Hollywood friends pay their goddam legal bills. Leave us poor hard working Americans out of it. I mean, they want to take money from working familiesTM to provide legal relief for the rich. What does Little Dickie Gephardt and Little Tommie Daschle have to say about this? Legal relief for the rich? This sure doesn't sound like something Democrats would be for. As an aside, Nixon paid all his legal bills. He didn't even have a legal defense fund like the Clintons did. The only bill I'll pay is the plane fare to get these bozos out of the country. They could go on the same plane as Alec, Barbra, Martina, Robert (Altman) and Tom (Cruise). To Bozo the clown, may you rest in peace, I'm sorry I sullied your memory by calling these two crooks bozos.
And now for our daily dose of comedy we amble on over to democrats.com, the web site of the Vast Left Ring Conspiracy, or maybe it's just the Democrats' version of the Onion. On their home page they have a quotomatic function that puts up a different quote of the day every time you hit reload. I got a big kick out of this one.
"Under Clinton, spending on counterterrorism more than doubled; the 1993 World Trade Center bombers were caught; and the largest counterterrorism operation in U.S. history thwarted the planned millenium attacks.
What millenium attacks? What about the embassy bombings and the USS Cole? And the largest counterterrorism operation was aimed at right wing religious groups, for example, Waco and Ruby Ridge.
After the 1998 attack on our embassies in Africa, President Clinton authorized Tomahawk missle (sic) strikes against Bin Laden.
And hit an aspirin factor in the Sudan and wiped out some tents and goats in Afganistan
It is also worth noting reports that the current Bush Administration backed away from some of the more aggressive measures for dealing with Al Qaeda which Clinton had passed on."
-- Danvers is a former special adviser to President Clinton on national
security, quoted in The New Yorker, p. 6
William Danvers, 13-May-02
What aggressive measures is he talking about? The only aggressive measures Clinton used involved his teeth aggressively biting his lip. And it is also worth noting that the Clinton Administration was offered bin Laden on a silver platter and turned down the offer. What a bunch of crap this is.
That's all I got to say for today. More to come on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
Posted by denny at July 27, 2002 03:35 PM