The Bootblack Stand
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the...
...Plunkitt: If I am raised to the Supreme Court can I possibly avoid sitting next to Justice Douglas without hurting his feelings...
...Powell: It is most unlikely that you will hurt Justice Douglas' feelings, for he is going to be in the hospital much of this winter...
...Of course more brain damage is not a terribly serious debility for a man like Justice Douglas, but Liberal critics of the court feel Ms commentaries will lose some of their old zing if he does not undergo surgery by February...
...Of course, I do not intend that the people of this world revert to worshiping the god, Moloch...
...The Phoenicians and later: their descendants, the Carthaginians, found that these ceremonies, and the necessary sacrifices involved, brought their people together and heightened their religious and civic sensibilities...
...The A l t e r n a t i v e J a n u a r y , 1972 21 The Bootblack Stand Dr...
...For several years now the principle Democratic slogan has been that it is time to reorder our priorities...
...The repeal will mean an average rebate of $200 for each person who has purchased an automobile since the freeze" began on 15 August...
...If two thirds of these have been bought by married adults, there are five million voters who stand to lose $2110 if the excise tax is not repealed...
...Then he could end his five minute speech by announcing that he is calling the Congress back into emergency session and that he hoped the Democratic-controlled Congress would have the decency to act with dispatch to redecorate the Christmas tree, up to but not including Pastore's star on top...
...Thus he will be under treatment at the Arlington Veterinary Clinic this winter where he will undergo a brain transplant replacing his own damaged instrument with that of a four-year-old Guernsey cow...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Since atheism, the creed of the socialists and communists, is becoming so popular in our universities, the liberal clergy is anxious to free us from the reslraints and shackles of traditional dogma, and our Supreme Court has declared that official encouragement of Christianity is unconstitutional, perhaps we need a new religion, a religion without God, yet dedicated to social welfare...
...And given the current consumer boom, the politicians in the Administration and the economists at Treasury (the two categories are t~ot exclusive) would like to put that $200 into the hands of consumers anxious to put it right back into the economy...
...lTteve are morne,ts, and this is one Of them, when I almost-but only almost -- wish the President was armed with an item veto...
...What can I do...
...More than 40 percent of American wives work...
...Perhaps our little human sacrifices could be made to the United Nations, that organization dedicated to the solution of world tensions and problems, not the least of which is the population explosion...
...So a lot of voters are already counting this chicken and they will be peeved if it does not hatch...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...A few of us may have read in the Bible that such pagan worship was considered by some of the prophets as an abomination...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...And they would like to have that $200 in time for the Christmas shopping...
...Plunkitt: I'm the only Senator who hasn't been considered by a national magazine as a front runner for the Democratic nomination...
...Dear Mr...
...This would seem to be the trend of our times...
...It is titled Escape: A New Demand Respo~se System...
...But today there seem to be a number of secular institutions widely acclaimed by the organized religious to which various sacrifices are deemed proper and are encouraged...
...Sugar plums, of course, are supposed to serve as insurance against a veto...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
...The Christian religion, among others, would likely take a dim view of this proposal were we to worship any other than our present deities...
...He could express his anxiety about the good things in the vetoed tax bill...
...This column is to assist statesmen, and I doubt that you actually are a U.S...
...The tax bill does three things which a substantial number of Americans would not iike to see undone by a Presidential veto...
...First, it raises the individual exemption from $650 1o $750 or .$800...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401...
...Senator since no one has ever mentioned you as a Presidential candidate...
...Sincerely, Lewis F. Powell, Jr...
...Second, the bill contains the repeal of the excise tax on automobiles...
...Cordially, Lawton Chiles, U.S.S, Dear Mr...
...PROPOSAL continued from page 11) condoned by our modern liberal society...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...A direct $100 or $150 bonus is a rarity: it is a noticeable, tangible benefit from the Government...
...I have heard that he never wears any clothing under his judicial robes and that he talks in his sleep...
...In fact, he could veto it and put the monkey on the back of the Democrats if he were to go on television and explain that the Democrats were raiding the Treasury and that he would not stand for it...
...The promise of that rebate, plus the price freeze on 1972 models, plus the general wave of optimism about the economy caused an enormous spurt of automobile sales...
...Ttw above is the seCot~i satire on abortion which has appeared in The Alternative under the pen name "-dohnathan Quick," who is in fact Dr...
...The problem is that, artistically speaking, the Democrats did a very stylish job of attaching the Pastore amendment to the tax bill...
...Still, the President might veto the tax bill and a,,t aw . . . . . . : " it...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...You see this summer the Justice suffered severe brain damage while sitting under a women's hair dryer at a sit-in at the Luscious Skull Beauty Salon in Arlington, Virginia...
...More than three million ears have been sold during the freeze...
...It ranks higher than national defense, increased aid to education, or more spending for the environment -it ranks at the very top of their list...
...George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election...
...The rich, impressive, ceremony attendant to these infant sacrifices would lend color to our drab existences and would rekindle the flames of patriotic fervor which are so lacking today...
...The Alternative Educational News Service is o bi.weekly publication which offers feoture stories, book reviews, research and background materiol for student publicotions~ For a flee subscription send the name and address of your campus ptlMication to: The Alternative Educational News Service, R.R...
...t is worth more, politically, than a slew of trips to Peking...
...The real moral of this story is that, given enough rhetorical rope, the Democrats have hung themselves...
...Before moving the amendment, they helped load the bill with sugar plums...
...In ramming through the Pastore amendment, the Democrats clearly stated that subsidizing the Democratic Party is their first priority...
...George B. MarMe, a Carlsbad, New Mexico medical doctor...
...Chiles: I am returning your letter unanswered...
...Dear Mr...
...There would be a salutary by-product of this practical sociologic innovation...
...Third, the bill contains a provision whereby working mothers in families with a gross income of $18,000 or less deduct up to $400 a month for child care...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of troubles...
...GWP dent's veto power...
Vol. 5 • January 1972 • No. 4
