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Scrapbook Yes, Another Reason to Hate Israel Irving Kristol famously remarked that a neoconservative was a liberal who had been "mugged by reality." He later added that a neoliberal is a liberal...
...Plus which, it's a really nifty fashion statement that lets you advertise your scorn for the nation's drug laws every time you write a check...
...I mean, you know, it's no fun to get robbed, but it's also no fun to, you know, have machine guns on your side...
...DAVID: So I went in, and it was absolutely deserted...
...On the— on the other hand, you know, if they hadn't come around, you don't know, you could have been like, you know, have your head—your head—your head kicked in, something like that...
...NYAD: Oh, no...
...NYAD: Mm...
...The exchange was going hot and heavy at that point and she was asking about the affidavit and she was asking about lawyers, and then, did you have a relationship...
...We imagine there are some pro-pot activists somewhere having a snickering fit over this, in between attacks of the munchies...
...And I think the 'no' came out, and the 'no' may not have applied to what it looks like it applied to...
...DAVID: I decided to enter through Damascus Gate which is the entrance to the Arab quarter...
...The one on the right, available for $9.95, is a Kente Cloth cover that "coordinates with the African-American Heritage checks...
...They [Lockheed Martin] were writing checks left and right,' said a U.S...
...So The Scrapbook is wondering, What do you call someone who, when mugged by Palestinians, blames the Israelis...
...The August 25 edition of "Savvy Traveler," a Minnesota Public Radio show distributed by Public Radio International, featured a piquant call by "David from Minneapolis" to host Diana Nyad, who was doing a segment on travelers' experiences with crime...
...DAVID: There's probably about eight of them, and they all have huge machine guns and huge flashlights...
...Unfortunately, we missed a story in the South China Morning Post that suggests the effective amount paid may have been larger...
...NYAD: Yeah, and such an instant volatility...
...DAVID: Yeah...
...Hemp Fans at Justice The brochure shown below was given to The Scrapbook by a friend and former government employee who banks at the Justice Federal Credit Union...
...That's a line to remember, though we can't recommend that untrained professionals try it at home...
...Why, Chung asked, "would you want her to say that she didn't have a relationship with you...
...Tom Wolfe's fictional bond trader Sherman McCoy further elaborated in The Bonfire of the Vanities that a liberal is "a conservative who's been arrested...
...DAVID: And, of course, I knew contemporary politics, but it just made it really—made it really real for me, the street level of it...
...He later added that a neoliberal is a liberal who, having been mugged by reality, refused to press charges...
...No doubt some soon-to-be-former federal contractor...
...But it's the one on the left that really caught our eye...
...Nyad: Mm-hmm...
...Great Moments in Washington Lawyering Those of you who saw Connie Chung's interview of Gary Condit will remember his denial of a relationship with flight attendant Anne Marie Smith...
...Pay Up, They Explained A couple of weeks ago, we dilated on the subject of U.S...
...And somehow I got out, and I just ran screaming...
...Well, David, I'm just glad you're all right...
...government payments to China for "services" rendered in the spy-plane incident...
...It depicts custom covers that members of the credit union can buy for their checkbooks...
...Replied Condit: "Because she didn't...
...A substantial but unspecified amount was paid to the Chinese Government, the Lingshui airfield and state and PLA-owned contractors for items and services provided to the Lockheed Martin crew...
...NYAD: I mean, if you as a tourist in the middle of the night just yelled out a couple of times and within, sounded like you're saying 10, 15 seconds, they swarmed around . . . DAVID: Mm...
...DAVID: It—it was just a really interesting thing because I know a lot about biblical history, and that's kind of the Israel that I was looking for...
...Our contempt doesn't apply to whom it looks like it applies to...
...Lowell should know that he has our highest admiration...
...NYAD: I mean, they—they are ready...
...And after like 30 seconds, all these guys with machine guns come down, all—it's the Israeli guard...
...And we won't even ask what marketing genius had the creative idea of yoking hemp to African-American heritage...
...Smith has claimed that Condit had an affidavit prepared for her, in which she was supposed to deny a yearlong affair with him...
...NYAD: I can understand that...
...Its cultivation (though not its use in products like the checkbook) happens to be illegal in the United States, and so the promotion of hemp has become a pet project over the last decade for marijuana-legalization activists...
...DAVID: Mm-hmm...
...Fixit, aka Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell, who went on Larry King Live the following night to issue this retraction...
...This turns out to have been a lie...
...It looked like we were being semi-tough in paying Beijing $34,576 instead of the million dollars the Chinese government had demanded for taking such good care of its American hostages...
...They were ready to go...
...I felt really, really—I felt more wrong having that happen than being robbed, I think...
...And so I walked down the street and a couple of people started to walk beside me...
...NYAD: Yeah...
...Hemp, for the uninitiated, is another name for the plant that produces marijuana...
...David" told of returning late to his Jerusalem hotel...
...DAVID: Well, it's hard to say...
...But Condit has retained a high-powered Mr...
...Marshals Service...
...Forgive us, but what we're wondering now is what to call someone who wants to see David mugged again...
...In June," the paper reports, "the Defense Department awarded a $5.8 million contract to Lockheed Martin . . . to dismantle the spy plane and transport it...
...government official...
...Especially since the law banning hemp is enforced by any number of members of the Justice Federal Credit Union, which serves (among others) employees of the Department of Justice and its bureaus, such as the FBI, the DEA, and the U.S...
...It makes you feel really ambivalent about why you're there and, you know, who deserves to be there...
...NYAD: Oh...
...I felt more—it felt terrible being on the side of people with machine guns...
...Look," Lowell expostulated...
...Or at least, if you or I had said it, without benefit of counsel, it would be deemed a lie...
...And they—you know, they were really, really anxious to find a bunch of Palestinians that they could, you know, harass or arrest or beat up or something...
...Yes, you read it correctly, it's the "Natural Hemp" checkbook cover, which complements "Liberty Recycled checks...
...DAVID: Yeah...
...And one of them started to talk to me and—and after just a minute or two, I ended up being shoved up against the wall by about five or six of them...
...NYAD: So who was the bad guy in the end...
...DAVID: They started, sort of rifling through my stuff, and they had me just shoved up against the wall...
...Try "a public radio listener...
...Yeah, they were definitely ready...
Vol. 6 • September 2001 • No. 48
