Welcome, to the Hotel California
Monday, August 14, 2000
- TITLE: "Welcome, to the Hotel California" One of the lines from the famous hit of the rock group, The Eagles Hotel California.
- The highlighted words are all lines from the song. Complete lyrics are below.
- "Al and Joe" The manner in which Hillary spoke of them, it was like they were two earnest, yet slightly slow, students in a fourth grade class.
- "Not so fast, Beta-boy." Yet another reference to Al Gore's continuing problem as defined by campaign consultant Naomi Wolf that Gore, under Clinton, was seen as a Beta Male. She tried to transform him into an Alfa Male, but it hasn't worked. Hillary's distain for "Al and Joe" was yet another setback in that process.
- "I'm living over the store" A reference which is, maybe, 80 years old. Back in the day, many shopkeepers had their business on the street level and their apartment for the family upstairs. Hence, "I'm living over the store."
Hotel California
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here
Since nineteen sixty nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
but you can never leave!
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Texas under Governor Bush:
- 1st in student improvement on test scores, especially for
African-American and Hispanic students.
- 1st in reducing the amount of releases and disposal of toxics -
more than all 49 other states combined.
- 1st in the nation to allow a patient to appeal an HMO's
decision to deny care.
- 1st to create a prison ministry to help offenders reintegrate
into society.
- 1 of only 3 states to require reductions of harmful pollution
from older, unpermitted utility plants.
- 1 of only 10 "highly successful" states in reducing welfare
rolls between 1995 and 1998.
- 4th in growth in total personal income.
- 9th in teacher pay, when adjusted for cost of living and teacher experience.
- $1.8 billion investment in healthcare initiatives.
- 1.2 million jobs created, representing more than 10 percent of
new jobs created nationwide and 48,000 new businesses.
- Lowest unemployment rate in twenty years -- 4.7 percent.
- Doubled the number of adoptions of abused and neglected children in Texas.
America under Clinton-Gore:
- The number of uninsured Americans increased by more than 8
million.
- Almost 70 percent of fourth graders in the highest poverty
schools cannot read at basic level.
- Teachers were victims of 1.8 million crimes at school,
including 657,000 violent crimes.
- Illegal drug use among high school seniors increased 78
percent.
- Federal prosecutions of gun-related offenses decreased by 46
percent.
- More than 12,000 U.S. soldiers are on food stamps.
- Enacted a $115 billion tax increase on Social Security enefits.
- Federal government is the nation's largest polluter, costing
taxpayers nearly $400 billion for cleanups.
- 45 convictions, 72 indictments/misdemeanor charges, and 8
imprisonments related to the 1996 campaign finance scandal, improper conduct by Clinton-Gore cabinet officials, and Whitewater.
What did Arkansas look like when Al Gore joined Bill Clinton in 1992?
- 50th in environmental policy initiatives.
- 47th in per capita state spending for education.
- 43rd in per capita spending for higher education.
- 41st in citizens living in poverty.
- 45th in children living in poverty.
- 47th in children without health insurance.
- 45th in children living in hunger.
- 43rd in infants born with low birth weight.
- 47th in personal income.
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