Grant's Eye on the World
Hillary Seeks Audience With President; Associated Press; Aug 8, 2002Looking at the headline, you can already see the paint being used. This W guy is more like royalty than an elected official.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton trolled for an invitation Thursday to hot, dusty Crawford, Texas, to spend some time with the Republican who replaced her husband in the White House.Remember when the Clinton trailer park family were in the White House, they polled where they should vacation and what they should do. Then when they were on vacation, ol' Witch Hillary threw an ashtray at Billie-bob as the Monica story started breaking. Note that Witch Hillary doesn't want to vacation with Billie-bob. You have to wonder why, but that is not a point alluded to by the liberal media Clinton apologizers.
If I get invited, I'll be there," Clinton told reporters Thursday. "I feel so strongly about this that I would be more than willing to travel to Crawford, Texas to make my case to the President in person."She wants to lobby the President for more money to NYC for the WTC attack.
Referring to Bush's propensity for using time in Texas to clear brush on his 1,600 acres, the former first lady volunteered to "put on a pair of work gloves."Yeah right, as if she would get out in the sun and dirt and dust of the Texas desert in August. Think she can find designer gloves for this work?
The president has 24 more days to decide whether to grant an emergency designation to spend $5 billion on homeland security, among other things. He already signed a $28.9 billion supplemental spending bill last month. The Republican administration has made clear it wants to keep a lid on spending. White House officials have also complained that the $5 billion "emergency" bill allows no flexibility, forcing the president to spend all the money or none at all.The thing that's happening here is pure politics. Of course the ol' broad has no intention of working, she's after an issue. See the spot she hopes to push W into? She hopes to trap him into overspending his budget so she can point out how he can't be trusted to keep his word. If W doesn't go for additional spending, she will claim he doesn't care about the people of NY, and then she will want to point out how inflexible those mean Republicans are.
They had a plan; Time Magazine; Aug 4, 2002; Reported by Massimo Calabresi et.al.Stick around awhile. The putrid tenure of the Clinton decisions still have not at all taken full affect, neither have they all reared their ugly heads. The reasons the slime will not go away is because he will be covering for all the mistakes he made over his 8 pathetic years as the CEO of America. This is going to take awhile.
Sometimes history is made by the force of arms on battlefields, sometimes by the fall of an exhausted empire. But often when historians set about figuring why a nation took one course rather than another, they are most interested in who said what to whom at a meeting far from the public eye whose true significance may have been missed even by those who took part in it.The stage is set. This is a play on the old Nixon cry of "What did he know and when did he know it?" Let's see the battle cry.
One such meeting took place in the White House situation room during the first week of January 2001. The session was part of a program designed by Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, who wanted the transition between the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to run as smoothly as possible. With some bitterness, Berger remembered how little he and his colleagues had been helped by the first Bush Administration in 1992-93. Eager to avoid a repeat of that experience, he had set up a series of 10 briefings by his team for his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley.Hmmm, let's look at the dates here, they're very important. First week of January 2001. The election was held on November 7th, and it wasn't until December 13th that Gore conceded the election. Was W supposed to have had his transition team assembled and in working order on the 14th? That would be 10 days before Christmas so I guess the team would have to be assembled and up and running before the Christmas break. Then everything would have had to be presented shortly after the New Year Holiday. See any problem here? I do. It would have been impossible if you look at the times scale but then again, they couldn't possibly do any work anyway? Why? Because the vacating tenants took all the W keys from all the computer keyboards and trashed the offices.
With less than a month left in office, they did not think it appropriate to launch a major initiative against Osama bin Laden. "We would be handing [the Bush Administration] a war when they took office on Jan. 20," says a former senior Clinton aide. "That wasn't going to happen." Now it was up to Rice's team to consider what Clarke had put together.With less than a month in office, no one knew who would be in office. Then we are asked to further believe the story that trashBin Laden was the proposed recipient of this plan. Billie-bob turned down accepting trashBin Laden as a prisoner 3 times. Now he further states he didn't want to saddle the new administration, which wasn't official until mid December, with a war. He bombed aspirin factories to cover up his sex scandals, he's now worried about chasing a terrorist he had named on the 10 most wanted list 2 years earlier.
Other senior officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda. In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back."The plan - Slide 14. Great plan! Makes you wonder if this were so important what was on Slide 1 -- how to steal the election for Algore?
Man Puts Curse on Sewer System; A.P./abcnewscom; Aug 7, 2002You have to wonder what would possess a man to call down a curse on the city sewage system. I mean, isn't sewage already cursed?
A man who put a curse on the city's sewer system said he will remove it if the city apologizes.You have to wonder if maybe he isn't a victim of one of those NY alligators who were flushed down the toilets in the 70s.
Adam Fortunate Eagle Nordwall, formerly of Hayward, claims to have put a curse on the city back in the early 1970s, after he said officials mistreated a totem pole he gave Livermore as a gift.Ok, now it makes sense.
The 20-foot totem pole depicts Robert Livermore, the town's founder, sitting under an eagle, which is supposed to protect the city. When officials went to install the pole, they cut several feet off the bottom and set it in concrete. Nordwall said the act desecrated his work of art, and demanded it be restored. When city officials refused, Nordwall said he put a curse on the sewer system. A week later, sewers in the city backed up.One heap big powerful curse there. Or, maybe he's had too many frijoles.