Hi, Jim!! Sorry I wasn't around for any late night political discussions. I was watching the skating exhibitions at the Olympics. Twice blessed!!! Phillipe Candeloro danced a reprisal of his Three Musketeers number, with the thigh-high black boots and the very tight pants. What a charmer!!
It was also really beautiful to see Lu Chen dancing to a Mariah Carey song about butterflies, in a gauzy lavender dress looking like a butterfly, because the Chinese ordered her back to China last year and pretty much managed to take away her freedom and ruin her skating career. The butterfly was a metaphor for freedom, obviously, and it was a stunning performance. Little Tara Lupinsky skated nicely but really has no mature feelings to put into her program, which makes it pretty boring for me.
During the four-man bobsled races I peeked in on that John Walsh Fox network program, America's Most Wanted or whatever, and it was a whole bunch of experts talking about the JonBenet Ramsey case. They concluded the ransom note was definitely phony, because if a person outside the family had sneaked in, murdered the little girl in the basement, and then sneaked upstairs, put gloves on and written a multi-page ransom note--which has been determined to have been written left handed by a right handed person--they would have had to be psychotic, knowing the little girl was dead in the house, and what psychotic would have had the time or patience to write such a long note? Like it doesn't make any sense or something!!! They also concluded from the phraseology in the note that it was written by a college grad, and the phrase "and hence" in the note was also found in the Ramsey family Christmas card. Very interesting, and these experts predicted the case will be wound up this year--the police just want to make absolutely sure the perpetrator is convicted.
Um, let's see, Iraq. I watched Face the Nation this morning, and a poll showed that only 19% of Americans supported bombing Iraq, but interestingly enough, 54% of us support assassinating Saddam. Here is a column from our Sunday paper here, which I thought was fairly interesting. Hundreds of people in San Francisco have been willing to march in protest rallies, even in horrendous rain and flooding going sideways. Billy is supposed to be here this Wednesday for a fund raiser, and I will be there if I can.
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Could you explain, Jim, why a democratic uprising would spread in the region and cause major havoc in Saudi Arabia? This is something I need to know more about. I do remember vaguely that George Bush encouraged the Kurds, but then abandoned them to be slaughtered by Saddam in the end. What actually happened?
I am not sure what will happen with Starr's investigation. Former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who followed Clinton as governor and who was just convicted in the Whitewater case, has just agreed to cooperate with Starr, and the prosecutor's office put out a statement that they thought he would be very helpful. My own guess is that Starr has substantial evidence of the Clintons' banking felonies in Arkansas, and that will be more important, ultimately, than anything to do with Monica Lewinsky. On the Lewinsky front, however, I heard on the ABC news last night that Vernon Jordan had told a colleague (law partner?) that after several substantial conversations he and Clinton had about Lewinsky, Clinton didn't tell him that she had been subpoeanaed in the Paula Jones case while he was asking Jordan to help find her a job. I don't know very much about this, except that the news report suggested that relations between Clinton and Jordan may have chilled as the result. It also seems like a pretty deliberate leak from Jordan, since I doubt his law partner would have gone around him. To me, IF it is true, it sounds like a familiar pattern the Clintons have of using their friends when it is expedient, and getting them in legal hot water. Vernon Jordan is a very tough guy, and I doubt that he would fall on his sword for Bill Clinton.
Well, it is time for the luge, I think, and some obligatory laundry folding. I think your life of exotic Saturday night parties with scientists and stuff is more interesting than mine is at the moment, Jim!!! |
