The Guild 11-30-2003 The Dems' Changing Tune on Iraq; Past Quotes Reveal Hypocrisy

ChronWatch ^ | 11-30-2003 | Jean Shaw

[Iowa Granny]

You will survive with Dial up for a week or two.

Chicken Pox in adults is nothing to shake a stick at. Serious stuff.

Kudos to you, for heading out to do the chores. Dial liquid hand soap helps to take the manure smell off if you use it to shower with.

The guest Deer Hunters have arrived here. 2 have pulled their motor home into our machine shed. Others,, not sure how many are settling into a motel 20 miles away.

The snow is coming down hard. Traffic is moving slowly on the highway in front of our house. Travel will probably be limited overnight and into morning.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning. Traffic is moving, but not at the normal pace. Snow plows were out clearing the intersection when I got up at 5:00.

[Carolina]

Mornin', IG. I have a 12-year-old here who is green with jealousy. He loves snow and we get it here maybe twice a year. Skiing for him is the Holy Grail.

Take care!

[BigWaveBetty]

So sorry to hear about your dad's accident. Praying he'll be ok.

[BigWaveBetty]

Good job standing up for our president against the poo-poo heads. Thanks!

[mountaineer]

My pleasure. One funny thing about the protest: my brother is a TV news photog in Pgh., but he wasn't assigned to cover the Bush visit. So he told his fellow cameraman to look for his sister (I assume he described me to the fellow). When the photographer returned to the TV station, he said I must not have been there, because all the pro-Bush folks were "young." LOL

[mountaineer]

We're expecting 2-6 inches by tomorrow; I'll be happy to wrap it all up and send it to your son!

[Carolina]

When the photographer returned to the TV station, he said I must not have been there, because all the pro-Bush folks were "young." LOL

Well, there you go. FReeping keeps you young.

[Carolina]

What would The Guild be without some pearls. Here's Salvador Assael's collection designed by Prince Dmitri of Yugoslavia.

[Carolina]

We're expecting 2-6 inches by tomorrow; I'll be happy to wrap it all up and send it to your son!

We're headed your way in January for a little skiing. We love Snowshoe.

[Iowa Granny]

Lovely collection of pearls.

Not much skiing here... a little cross country stuff, but it's too flat for anything else.

[BigWaveBetty]

From the WashPost:

The administration is trying to undo regulations that had been in the works to force power plants to sharply reduce mercury emissions within three years by installing expensive, state-of-the-art equipment.

Regulations that had been in the works?! Oh, by that the WashPost means that clinton did nothing for eight years then set this bomb to go off for President Bush.

By reclassifying its category, mercury emissions would be subject to a mandatory "cap and trade" program, similar to the successful program to combat acid rain that was begun in 1990. It would allow utilities to buy emission "credits" from cleaner-operating plants to meet an overall industry target.

Critics charge that the net effect of the move would be to require smaller reductions in mercury emissions that otherwise could be achieved and add nearly a decade to the time it would take the industry to implement mercury reduction technology.

"This allows industry to pollute more and longer," said Frank O'Donnell of the Clean Air Trust. "It takes the Clear Skies plan and puts a big Christmas bow around it for industry polluters."

Sorry wack-o enviromentalists but you just exposed yourselves again! The Kyoto Treaty works on the same "credit" principal. But that you want us to sign. Pitiful hypocrites.

[BigWaveBetty]

I want them all.

[mountaineer]

Dems getting on the media's bad side?

THE Democrats brought 500 journalists into Boston to check out the media facilities for the party's July presidential convention - but there weren't any. There's barely room in the Fleet Center for the delegates. [And it's in such a lovely neighborhood, too!]

Dem honchos said the press might have to use a parking lot, giant tents, office buildings or a mix of them all. No one is sure which yet because money is a problem, as the visiting journos learned from a front-page story in yesterday's Boston Herald. (The situation is the opposite in New York, which is doing just fine raising the bucks to host the Republicans next summer.) What's more, insiders say Boston is short of hotel rooms.

Instead of showing the nonexistent facilities, the Dems yesterday served up Bush-bashing speeches, endured in stony silence by the press. Boston convention CEO Rod O'Connor even took a swipe at New York, saying: "All indications are that the Republicans have gone to New York to exploit a terrible moment in our history." Of course the Dems also contemplated coming here - and probably should have. (PageSix)

[Carolina]

Hey, how 'bout this for your New Year's Eve tiara?

[mountaineer]

What a joke. Hillary, in receiving her "oceans" award the other night, claimed, "Just today the administration decided they would ease up on rules governing mercury emissions." What it all means is where the Clinton administration dithered on certain issues, the Bush administration has acted decisively.

Case in the point, the steel tariffs. Clinton promised the steelworkers in Weirton, W.Va., 1992 he'd do something for them. He never did. Completely ignored their crying about illegal foreign steel dumping. Bush was elected, met with steel industry reps (something Clinton never did) and imposed a few select tariffs to help get them on their feet. Now that he's lifted those tariffs, the steelworkers are crying that he's betrayed them, not kept his promise, something they'll remember in Nov. 2004 - like the good Dems who handed Hillary her environmental award, they forget that it was her husband and his party who never did anything for them, but sure made a good show of claiming credit for having solved the problem.

[Iowa Granny]

I would like to read the personality analysis of the person who wears that tiara.

[BigWaveBetty]

December 5, 2003 -- DID Gwyneth Paltrow secretly get married to lover Chris Martin? The pregnant star was sporting an engagement and a wedding ring during Monday night's Music Has Power Award ceremonies at Lincoln Center. "The engagement ring was turned around so that the diamond was facing the inside of her hand and there was a platinum wedding band underneath," says our spy. A Hollywood insider said, "Gwyneth is not the kind of person to get pregnant out of wedlock." [But anything else goes] A rep for the secretive Paltrow didn't return calls or emails, but spies say there is a wedding reception for "an Oscar-winning actress" Sunday at 60 Thompson Hotel. PageSix

[BigWaveBetty]

So what is the thinking in WV about lifting the tariffs? Do they remember how clinton was a big help?

[BigWaveBetty]

Ha-ha!

December 5, 2003 -- BARBRA Streisand has lost big in her $10 million suit against environmentalist Kenneth Adelman, who took aerial photos of her Malibu beach house as part of a project on coastal erosion. Streisand claimed her privacy had been invaded, but the judge threw her case out and indicated he might make her pay Adelman's legal costs. [LOL!!!] In a Web site message, Adelman said the ruling sends a message to "a celebrity who believes her personal interests are more important [than] the public's constitutional right to free speech." (PageSix)