Mayor Guiliani is making headlines in other cities now for being so
unreasonable about ferrets, and is being made to look very foolish as a
result.  The following article about "wild weasels" and Guiliani's messy
divorce was in the Boston Globe on Thursday May 17:
 
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/137/nation/
In_New_York_talk_of_ferrets_and_divorce+.shtml
 
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The Globe may not allow you to view this article by the time you receive
this issue of the FML, so here's a little quote (less than 1/4 of the
article, hopefully it's ok BIG):
 
"Giuliani's battles, over the course of his tenure, have gradually taken
ever-more-curious turns.  First, he waged war on squeegee men, panhandlers,
and graffitti artists - all fairly popular measures.  Then he went after
hotdog vendors, taxi drivers, and jaywalkers - which were less so.
 
And now ferrets - which simply baffles many.  The ferret lovers won the
vote, 26-13, with seven abstentions, but they fell eight votes short of
the margin they'll need to override an expected veto....
 
''I'm an admirer of his accomplishments and of his ability to mobilize the
sclerotic bureaucracy,'' attorney Richard Emery said Monday.  ''But for him
to get into the muck and mire of so much silliness - it's sad.  He's become
a tragic, silly figure in an operetta.'' "
 
I don't know if this can help-- he sounds like the kind of person who will
get more bullheaded as a result of this kind of thing-- but at least the
next mayor could, say, legalize ferrets to help establish himself as a
paragon of sanity... The article by the way did not talk to any ferret
owners, but took the tone that legalizing ferrets is an eminently
reasonable thing to do, so that was good PR.
 
Regina
 
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           the tears are welling in my eyes again
         I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
          and twenty pretty girls to carry them down
            and twenty deep holes to bury them in
[Posted in FML issue 3422]