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Scrapbook Senator Boxer Clarifies Her Priorities In October 1999, during floor debate concerning a bill to ban partial-birth abortions, senator Barbara Boxer of California, responding to questions...
...Its like a brotherhood...
...Here we can see some of the magnificent caribou up in Alaska...
...Moreover, counties with punch-card systems tend to have higher incomes, higher tax revenues, and larger populations than do counties with modern voting equipment...
...This is Mojave National Preserve Joshua trees...
...You had the same conversation with a colleague of mine, and I never saw such a twisting of his remarks...
...Let us show the beautiful habitat of Alaska...
...Two researchers, Stephen Knack of the University of Maryland and Martha Kropf of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, have just completed a systematic, nationwide analysis and cross-tabulation of county-level data on demographics and voting equipment...
...Do you agree with that...
...Recall only how routinely it was bandied about by the Gore campaign, how universally it was accepted by the news media, and howfess up, now even you believed it was true...
...We have to think about their whole habitat if we are going to protect them and not have this narrow view that Ms...
...Jesse Jackson likes to chill out in a bathhouse, the Division Street Bathhouse...
...So down in the super-heated subcellars all these Slavonic cavemen and wood demons with hanging laps of fat and legs of stone and lichen boil themselves and splash ice water on their heads by the bucket...
...BOXER: We are talking about Gods creations that we have a responsibility to protect...
...SANTORUM: Obviously, you dont mean they have to take the baby out of the hospital for it to be protected by the Constitution...
...Lest it be inferred from the above that Barbara Boxer has a heart of stone where defenseless life is concerned, comes now the senator, during a January 30 floor debate over the confirmation of interior secretary Gale Norton, to set you straight...
...But for reasons that remained cloudyand over the vehement objections of North Carolina senator Jesse Helmsthe Reagan administration decided that the poor man should be returned to his ship...
...He now ministers to a small parish in the Ukraine...
...They are unheeded...
...Who knew that Jesse hung out in a schvitz, or that this venerable Division Street establishment was still in business...
...Things are very elementary here...
...You put on a sheet or a robe But why rely on this anonymous description...
...Mickey who keeps the food concession fries slabs of meat and potato pancakes, and, with enormous knives, he hacks up cabbages for coleslaw and he quarters grapefruits (to be eaten by hand...
...Until last Tuesday, when Medvid, now a Catholic priest, paid a grateful visit to Helmss office...
...Nope...
...They have swelling buttocks and fatty breasts as yellow as buttermilk...
...Rich and poor come here from every ethnic background...
...We have to move to protect them...
...Upstairs, on the television screen in the locker room, little dudes and grinning broads make smart talk or leap up and down...
...There may be no village in the carpathians where such practices still prevail...
...Once Knack and Kropfs impressively detailed study ( Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology...
...Released shortly before the fall of communism, Medvid entered the seminary...
...Never mind, for the moment, what implications for law and justice this fact might have...
...Disproportionate numbers of African Americans live in such counties, of course...
...Someday soon, The Scrapbook hopes, Sen...
...Scrapbook Senator Boxer Clarifies Her Priorities In October 1999, during floor debate concerning a bill to ban partial-birth abortions, senator Barbara Boxer of California, responding to questions from senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, briefly let slip the startling notion that babies should not begin to enjoy constitutional and other legal protections in the United Statesagainst murder , for exampleuntil after they arrive home with their mothers from the hospital...
...You feel that these people are almost conscious of obsolescence, of a line of evolution abandoned by nature and culture...
...They stand on thick pillar legs affected with a sort of creeping verdigris or blue-cheese mottling of the ankles...
...BOXER: I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born . . . the baby belongs to your family and has rights...
...Nobel laureate Saul Bellow immortalized the place a quarter of a century ago in Humboldt's G^ft These Division Street steam-bathers dont look like the trim proud people downtown...
...Whereupon, so far as anyone in the West was able to determine, Miroslav Medvid simply disappeared...
...Who knew...
...Gale Norton probably thinks the caribou have to get home from the hospital before we need concern ourselves with their safety...
...You agree, once the child is born, separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed...
...After steaming, these old fellows eat enormous snacks of bread and salt herring or large ovals of salami and dripping skirt-steak and they drink schnapps...
...In most states, it is whites, the non-poor, and Republican voters who are more likely to reside in punch-card counties rather than African Americans, the poor, and Democratic voters...
...Upon his return to his native Ukraine, Medvids fears were realized: He was adjudged criminally insane, incarcerated in a mental hospital, subjected to electric- shock treatment, and prescribed psychoactive medication...
...Norton has articulated...
...Another Recount Myth Exploded Remember how, during the Bush-Gore controversy in Florida, it became clear that the largest, poorest, and most urban counties in the country tend to use antiquated punch- card balloting machines, rather than the improved and expensive electronic voting systems developed only in recent years...
...Heres the relevant passage from the Congressional I^^cor^d: SANTORUM: I would like to ask you this question...
...You close the door and leave the world behind...
...The stout old men mounting in their bedsheets from the blasting heat have a strong appetite...
...Helms will receive a similar visit from Elin Gonzlez...
...BOXER: I don t want to engage in this...
...They could knock down walls with their hard stout old-fashioned bellies...
...becomes more widely known, The Scrapbook predicts that Democratic party support for a national solution to the punch-card problem will shrink to nothing . Saul Bellow on Jesse Jackson's Bathhouse There has been some excellent reportage on Jesse Jacksons love child scandal, but this weeks scoop belongs to Michael Sneed of Jacksons hometown paper, the Chicago Sun-Times: The Rev...
...Their surprising conclusion: We find little support for the view that resource constraints cause poorer counties with large minority populations to retain antiquated or inferior voting equipment...
...Back on board the freighter, Medvid explained to Helms, he twice tried to kill himself knowing what was in store for him back home...
...And so it is their votes, more than anyone elses, that are most likely to be overlooked through technological error on election night...
...This place is like a sanctuary, a bathhouse source told Sneed...
...Jesse Helms, Vindicated On October 24, 1985, 24-year-old seaman Miroslav Medvid leapt from the deck of a Soviet freighter into the Mississippi River near New Orleans...
...Medvid told Border Patrol agents who took him into custody that he opposed his countrys Communist government and wished to defect...
...But Barbara Boxer, by gum, has a very different view of Gods creations...
...Well...
...Once the baby is separated from the mother, you would agree completely separated from the moth-eryou would agree that baby is entitled to constitutional protection...
...Let us show some other habitat...
Vol. 6 • February 2001 • No. 21
