Posted on 09/21/2004 12:32:48 PM PDT by Merciful_Friend
Daily Ramblings:
The Circus Is In Town ... 09/21/2004
No choice but to reprise this for Dan Rather. Sing it loud and try not to choke up:
This whole story and its ever-increasing list of names is beginning to resemble a surrealistic Dylan story song. We've got Bill Burkett, Lucy Ramirez, George Conn (con?! - and he is said to be the innocent party!), Ben Barnes, Joe Lockhart, Max Cleland ... we've got Texas, we've got surreptitious meetings at livestock shows, we've got:
In the parking lot outside, he said, he burned the ones he had been given and the envelope they were in.
Then,
... he drove to a location he would not specify, about 100 miles from his ranch, to put them "in cold storage."
The correct temperature for photocopies of forgeries?
He passes the documents to Mapes and Smith at "a drive-in restaurant near Baird."
I'm alternately hearing Brownsville Girl, Hurricane, and Tweeter & The Monkey Man. You'll have to listen for the echoes yourself - I have to earn some bread and butter today. However, the final word comes from a place we all know only too well.
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