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...contract has expired. Babbitt ventured up to Capitol Hill to tell Senator Pete Domenici his decision was final, only to watch Representative Joseph Skeen slip through an amendment in an appropriations bill, depriving the park service of the money to tear down the structure. Conservationists call such meddling "park barrel," alluding to the politicians' talent for stuffing budgets with pork for voters back home...
...gesture: "A five-day waiting period to get a handgun -- you have to get on a longer waiting list than that to buy Aladdin at Blockbuster." And his jeremiads are filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally bad and the progeny-slash- progenitor dynamic should be the landfill for all our personal shortcomings...
Bogota .38 cal. special with a 4-in. barrel, either Smith...
...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "I'm the senior advance man for the potential candidates. I go up and look around and report back to everybody who has an interest, and that takes a long time...
...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "The folks there say I talk a little funny, but we think a lot alike...