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            SandBagger Mag-e-zine - Volume 4 - Issue 9 - September 18, 2004
 

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In this Issue:
  • The President's New Energy Advisors.
  • You Might Be A SandBagger . . .
  • Bagger Fitness
  • World News at a glance

Bush's Secret Energy Advisors
By Horace J. Digby -- Editor-in-Chief -- SandBagger News  
    The Sierra Club and Judicial Watch, have filed a lawsuit challenging the Whitehouse's policy of keeping secret the identities of members of the President's energy advisory committee  Before you get all excited, this is not one of those lawsuits about how hot the coffee was or how the president's sex life is going.  There won't even be a run-away jury, so you probably won't hear about it in other media.  
    No, this lawsuit is to force the Whitehouse to reveal the names of its "secret energy advisors."  The Sierra Club and Judicial Watch say the public has a right to know who is really making national energy policy decisions for the Whitehouse.  But the Whitehouse won't tell.  
    Federal law requires presidential energy advisory committees to disclose their membership.  But the Republicans are trying to get around this law by having energy advisors who are so rich, due mostly to their ownership of vast energy conglomerates, that they don't need to be paid for their services on the committee.  According to the Whitehouse, this loophole allows the President to keep his advisors' names secret.  
    Confused?  That's O.K., because there's more.  A spokesperson for the Whitehouse says the identities aren't really secret.  "Anybody who plays golf with anybody from the Whitehouse already knows the advisors' identities," an unidentified Whitehouse source said.  
    The case has gone to the United States Supreme Court, where Justice Antonin Scalia has refused to remove himself from the hearings, even though he had recently gone duck hunting with Vice President Cheney and members of the President's Secret Committee for the Protection of Water Fowl. 
    This lawsuit clearly lacks the sex appeal of those Republican suits against the Clinton Whitehouse.  It lacks the je n'se quois (Literally, "Help they stole my watch,") of a suits to determine whether the President and First Lady violated laws when they lost money investing in the Whitewater land deal.  And it certainly won't get the television ratings that Republicans suit aimed at prooving the President had a better sex life than . . . well . . . everybody.  We also are not likely to hear anyone define "sex," although it looks like the energy advisors may be getting ready to screw the whole country. 
    No, this suit, over secret members of the presidents energy committee
The President's New Energy Advisors
 is just too much like something we act-ually have a right to know.  So of course  the net-works will have nothing to do with it.  
    Plaintiffs will need real help if they want this case to get media attention it dis-serves.  It simply lacks the pizzazz of those good old fashioned, $40,000,000.00 frivolous suits to prove that the former president was a hound dog.  Perhaps if they claimed that the Secret Committee was spending the night at Michael Jackson house . . . 

By Dwain Buck -- SandBagger News 
        Dwain Buck flankd by research assistantsInspired by that rural mantra Jeff Foxworthy made famous, Dwain Buck of the SandBaggers Institute for Advanced Human Research and Bowling Team has announced the SandBagger's very own diagnostic aid to assist loyal readers in determining if they might be SandBaggers (or at least a closet SandBaggers). 
    Have you been wondering?  You won't have to wonder anymore.  Just take this simple test in the privacy of your own home. 
    If you need help taking or scoring your test, Dwain Buck and his tem of operators will be standing by.  
   --  Horace J. Digby
 
You might be a SandBagger . . . (The Test):
You might be a Sandbagger ifyour only umbrella has red and white stripes that match your only sport coat;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou go Christmas shopping at Can-Openers Are Us each year;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou think there are really words to the Whalers hit  song Louie Louie;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou have fake ID that says your name is "Vinnie Beetabataboom;"
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou own United Airline stock, purchased with money raised for charity;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou have ever listened to Kenny Plampin tell his parrot joke but still don't know how it ends;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyour waitress ever Friday at noon is named Sara;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou can't even buy respect from the go fourth committee with $1,500.00 cash;
You might be a Sandbagger ifyour friends bring rain gear when you invite them to lunch; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifYOUR WIFE warns YOUR BUDDIES that they shouldn't be spending so much time WITH YOU; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou think the two most important historic sites in Longview, are a tiny bridge and a large wooden rodent; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou actually write checks for $25 each year to Skip Piper, even though you have no idea why, and he won't ever tell you what he actually does with the money; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou have seriously considered letting Roland Richards take over Skip Piper's job as treasurer; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou calendar club election meetings two years in advance so you won't ever miss oneagain; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou really can't understand why The Daily News fails to mention your club's service projects; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou have ever considered whether or not you need to arrange bail before going on a club outing to Can-Openers Are Us; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou have had your appendix rupture while shopping at Can-Openers Are Us; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou are still picking rice out of your hair after going to a baseball game; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou know a ticket scalper named Wiley; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou think of guys like Bill Putaansuu, Chuck Korten, Tosh Mayeda, Jerry Kivella, Hal Boyd, and Amos Peters on a regular basis and miss them; 
You might be a Sandbagger ifyou never really thought the stuff that Bill Putaansuu did was all that weird. 
    Are you a SandBagger? (Scoring your test):
    If any of the above items mention your name or have any meaning to you what-so-ever, you are a SandBaggeror at least you should be. 

By  Stephen Blair -- SandBagger News.
    Tired of seeking fame and fortune the old fashioned way, Sand-Baggers get their fortune each Friday, from the cookies at Yan's Chinese Restaurant.   
    Last week Dwain Buck's fortune read, "It's not the plan that is important, it's 
the planning." 
    Adam Daggy got a fortune that said, "You are heading in the right direction."  
    Prophetically lawyer Tim South's fortune was, "Your
Herb Hadley models new fall wardrobe - photo by Jim Gray.
strength will grow stronger by being tried."  
    Jim Gray's cookie revealed, "Your fortune is as sweet
as you."  
    Gray also got, "Tyrants have not yet discovered
any chains that can fetter the mind."   
    And Herb Hadley was warned that, "Isolating yourself from others will not prevent you from being hurt . . ." (at least not if he's going to keep dressing the way he did that week). 
    While Roland Richards was admonished, "Never find your delight in another's misfortune."
 
 
[Editor's Note: It was a slow news month.]
By Lola Lane -- Button Man's Former Girlfriend -- SandBagger News  
    In an ever present effort to keep our readers abreast of recent world develops, we suggest that they read the Columbia River Reader http://www.crreader.com, News Week, Time, The Daily News, or even used soup can labels, because with the scrooge-like expense accounts we get around here, we can't even afford to think about world events.  

 
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