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Scrapbook The Jurisprudence of Elvis Poor Dick Gephardt. Summoned to Chicago to appear, along with all the other dwarfs, at a bow-and-scrape "forum" of Democratic presidential hopefuls sponsored...
...Joseph Lieberman disclosed what he would do in response to a Supreme Court ruling invalidating Bakke: "As president of the United States, I would do everything I could in my power to introduce and pass legislation that would make it legal and constitutional once again for America's colleges and universities to have affirmative action programs...
...Did he indeed have a meeting arranged by Fawaz Zureikat, as the memo says...
...If the Supreme Court overturns Bakke, Sharpton offered, "I would by executive order use as much of my presidential power to try to enact programs, and I would welcome someone to then bring me to court so we could reargue this case, and if we had to argue it over and over again, we'd argue the case, because if we had given up with Presley v. Ferguson, we'd have never got to Brown v. Board of Education...
...boy wins fruitless lawsuit later brought by sobered-up girl and her horrified family back home...
...Galloway has said little else about the matter, however, and the Telegraph would like some specifics: "First, he could address the question of where and with whom he was on Boxing Day, 1999," Charles Moore points out...
...For instance: Asked what his White House would do were the Supreme Court to rule affirmative action unconstitutional, Gephardt said this: "When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing that the Supreme Court does, tomorrow or any other day...
...But it appears he was not...
...Who knew...
...And cynicism is plenty bad, and worthy of criticism, don't get us wrong...
...KFC has already agreed to install cameras in its slaughterhouses...
...Good questions...
...The Weekly Standard, regrettably, made past reference to the documents in question—in an article by Stephen F. Hayes describing the Iraqi regime's long practice of bribing journalists and politicians...
...Needless to say, these videos have proved an astonishing commercial success...
...Did he meet another man who may (possibly without his knowledge) have been an Iraqi agent...
...Here in Washington, this is being treated as a gaffe of the revealed-igno-rance variety: Doesn't Gephardt know that presidents are legally powerless to countermand Supreme Court decisions about the meaning of the Constitution...
...The animal-liberation group PETA had threatened protests after it was announced that Alexander would begin appearing in a Broadway show...
...And just last week, the credibility of those documents was further confirmed—by Galloway himself, when he was finally forced to admit that they correctly place him in Baghdad in late December 1999...
...The first abattoir reality show...
...Galloway-gate (cont...
...Yes, "I was in Iraq on Boxing Day, 1999," Galloway told the BBC...
...KFC has also agreed, for those death-row chickens still awaiting the guillotine, to provide enlarged holding sheds offering "simple mental and physical stimulation...
...He always seemed more the Perry Como type...
...But why pick on Gephardt, we wonder...
...All installments of which feature the same basic plot: boy meets dangerously intoxicated girl...
...Specifically, Gephardt, a well-informed and reasonably intelligent person, made a series of whatever-you-want-I'll-give-it-to-you-twice pronouncements that no well-informed and reasonably intelligent person could possibly believe...
...We're pretty sure, in other words, that his remark reflected cynicism, not stupidity...
...Moments after Sharpton's howler, Sen...
...Reporter David Blair "found our documents himself in a box file labeled 'Britain' in the foreign ministry in Baghdad a few days after the fall of Saddam...
...Funny thing, too: We wouldn't have figured the senator for a Presley man...
...That oughtta be plenty stimulating, even if it does involve white-meat breast parts exclusively...
...In leftish peace-movement circles, the Monitor's new report is being celebrated as proof that Galloway was framed...
...Dogg has decided, is just plain wrong—at least insofar as the videos fail to provide their audience with what the Supreme Court might call the educational benefits of fully diverse student bodies...
...In that case, President Lieberman could propose legislation providing federal agencies with separate bathrooms for black people...
...Rep...
...He Said It, Not Us "I don't need Bush's tax cut...
...Summoned to Chicago to appear, along with all the other dwarfs, at a bow-and-scrape "forum" of Democratic presidential hopefuls sponsored by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition on June 22, Gephardt merely did what he was supposed to do...
...Ho Diversity Civil rights activist/gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg has struck a blow for...
...Those reports were based on documents from Baghdad which, the Monitor has now concluded, are "almost certainly forgeries...
...It's a matter of principle, dammit: The "Gone Wild" project's exploitation of women, Mr...
...Item the first: The Rev...
...ho-kind," we guess you'd call it, ending his association with the "Girls Gone Wild" video series...
...I have never worked a f—ing day in my life...
...If you notice," observes Dogg, "there hasn't been no girls of [ethnicity] at all on one of these tapes...
...Our documents are not forged," Telegraph editor Charles Moore says...
...Al Sharpton, who unleashed the following gem at a Children's Defense Fund conclave on April 9, according to a transcript on their website...
...Also, without Presley, there could never have been the Beatles...
...How's about showing the chickens "Girls Gone Wild on Campus 2," in which viewers are invited to "see what these girls do when they're not studying for finals...
...And that ain't no [stuff].In other crisis-of-conscience news, actor Jason Alexander, who parlayed his amusing TV turn as Jerry Seinfeld's annoying friend into an annoying TV turn as KFC's unamusing chicken pitchman, has been dismissed from that latter job...
...He scraped...
...It's the "American way" for presidents to send Congress legislation enacting programs that the Supreme Court has determined violate the 14th Amendment...
...Just within the past two months, at least two other Democratic presidential wannabes have said something remarkably similar, and neither of them, in the process, appeared any less cynical—or smarter—than Gephardt...
...Actually, yes, we're pretty sure Gephardt does know that...
...The Scrapbook has no idea what that means, but we do have a suggestion...
...Whereupon Alexander made a startling, life-and-morality altering discovery: Turns out that KFC chickens, before they become Honey BBQ whatnots, are first killed, dismembered, breaded, and plunged into boiling oil...
...No black girls, no Spanish girls—all white girls, and that [stuff] ain't cool, because white girls ain't the only ho's that get wild...
...A second set of documents implicating Galloway in Iraqi bribery, first reported by London's Daily Telegraph (and also referred to in the same Weekly Standard article), has been judged authentic by the same expert who conducted studies on the Monitor documents...
...So why is the host of "Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style" walking away from the franchise...
...Patrick Kennedy, June 25, 2003...
...boy persuades intoxicated girl to let him film her while she performs an act of indecent exposure...
...He bowed...
...Msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls reports that KFC took exception to Alexander's recent emergence as a poultry rights activist...
...On June 20, 2003, the Christian Science Monitor published a lengthy reconsideration of its previous reports indicating that antiwar British Labour Mp George Galloway had accepted an undisclosed $10 million payment from Saddam Hussein—and had lobbied Hussein for even more...
...PETA—now with Alexander's support, apparently—will continue pressuring KFC to gas its chickens instead of beheading them...
...That's the American way...
...Meantime, the group is concentrating on incremental reform of the chicken-genocide industry...
Vol. 8 • July 2003 • No. 42
