When I read what Rush Limbaugh said about Hillary Clinton's plans do do Kerry like she did her lesbian lover Vinnie Foster, I was initially almost as skeptical as was Glenn Reynolds.
FORMER US first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left Jamaica yesterday after a one-week vacation at the exclusive Tryall Club in Hanover, highly placed sources confirmed.
Hotel officials declined to confirm or deny Rodham Clinton's stay at the property, but one knowledgeable source told the Observer: "She had a quiet, delightful and restful holiday. That was the way she wanted it."
Consider the proximity of Hillary's Jamaica visit to April 21:
Haile Selassie visited Jamaica on April 21, 1966, while the country was amid an ongoing national social crisis in which Rastas were perceived by the majority as a revolutionary threat that had to be defused. During this first and final trip to Jamaica, Selassie met with several Rastafarian leaders. The visit resulted in two profound developments within the Rastafarian movement. First, Selassie convinced the Rastafarian brothers that they "should not seek to immigrate to Ethiopia until they had liberated the people of Jamaica." Second, from that day forth, April 21st has been celebrated as a special holy day among Rastafarians, "Grounation Day."
What?
You don't think this has any bearing on Vincent Foster? But there's more:
The circumstances of his death were mysterious but many believe he was murdered by his captors. In 1992 after the Marxist government was overthrown, the remains of Emperor Haile Selassie were found buried under a toilet in the Imperial Palace. The body was exhumed and moved to a mausoleum in Addis Ababa.
Many Rastafarians believed that his death was staged by the media in an attempt to bring their faith down, while others claimed that Haile Selassie I had trodded on to the perfect flesh, and sits on the highest point of Mount Zion where He and Empress Menen await the Time of Judgement. There are others, however, who were quite logical in their approach to the theological problem surrounding the Emperor's death. They saw the death of Selassie as changing nothing, except that their God was no longer physically present. Such Rastafarians claimed that He is omnipresent in spirit and visited the clouds with the hosts of heaven.
PLEASE NOTE: Lest I be accused of Fostering conspiracy theories myself, I was very careful not to mention Vincent Foster's harddrive or his gun. (Whatever gun it was.) I will say this, though: slipshod investigations of important cases breed disrespect, and generate endless paranoid conspiracy theories. Eventually, these things are rendered incapable of rational discussion. Mere mention of them is enough to get you labeled as a nut. Some people think the best defense is a good offense, of course.....
Wow, what fun! Brings back memories of when I used to hunt down these theories. But...well, witness testimony is often, nearly always contradictory, so the whole gun thing, I'd be inclined to throw out. Especiaslly considering few, very few of the witnesses were firearms afficianados (I'd bet) and couldn't tell a revolver from a 9mm at a brief glance -
It seems a whole lotta nothin' trying to be something, to me.
However, I could be wrong. That's why this stuff is so much fun!
Wow, what fun! Brings back memories of when I used to hunt down these theories. But...well, witness testimony is often, nearly always contradictory, so the whole gun thing, I'd be inclined to throw out. Especiaslly considering few, very few of the witnesses were firearms afficianados (I'd bet) and couldn't tell a revolver from a 9mm at a brief glance -
It seems a whole lotta nothin' trying to be something, to me.
However, I could be wrong. That's why this stuff is so much fun!