Posted on 05/05/2004 3:47:37 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:22:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Thanks for the good report - now, go take a nap so your clock can synch back up, or down.
I ASKED Sen. John McCain for additional insight into America's latest misery. He said:
"This Abu Ghraib prison torture at the hands of our military follows the route of classic scandal. A little horror comes out and the public is sickened. A little more horror leaks out and we're sickened further. I've argued we first must allow everything . . . everything . . . to come out before we make moves. We have to let it play out to the fullest before we take any action. It's premature to just argue louder for Rumsfeld's head. He enjoys the president's confidence."
Then: "But I agree this is one of the toughest times I've ever been through."
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Anyone else find that a rather strange conclusion?
Three months ago, Columbia Journalism School grad Alexandra Polier was the target of Internet rumors and media speculation about a supposed extramarital affair (denied by all concerned) with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Back then, the 27-year-old Polier's photograph was published in papers from New York to London, and she pleaded publicly "that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone."
But now she's had enough of privacy. Word from Nairobi, Kenya - where Polier has been living with the family of her Israeli fiancé, Yaron Schwartzman - is that she's toiling on an epic essay about her experiences at the center of a political firestorm.
According to an informed source, the former Associated Press intern is writing her account - for which New York magazine is paying $10,000 - of how it felt to be on the wrong side of the reporter-subject equation.
Polier was hounded by media lowlifes and guttersnipe gossip columnists (me, perhaps?) who published provocative details of a Friendster.com profile in which she - or someone claiming to be her - was described as "just another hot piece of a-- with a philosophy degree."
My informant tells me: "She is also going to detail her work for Kerry and, possibly, her relationship with one of his staffers, not the candidate."
After cybergossip Matt Drudge energetically stoked the rumors into a full-fledged nonscandal, Polier issued a statement that said, in part: "Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems that efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them. I have never had a relationship with Sen. Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false."
Kerry also dismissed the stories, telling reporters: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue."
Yesterday, the Kerry campaign declined to weigh in on Polier's article-in-progress, and New York mag spokeswoman Serena Torrey told me: "We don't comment on any stories that may or may not be in the works."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/193289p-166968c.html
One of my professors is the world authority on circadian clocks in the body - did you know that every one of your cells has its own clock? Good luck coordinating them all! She just discovered the "timeless" gene - it's a fascinating realm of study, but to you, right now, I suppose you just care about getting all those thousands of clocks set back to eastern standard time. Welcome home.
John McCain wants to be effin's SecDef. Effin's said as much. McCain's pandered as much. Kristol wants Bush to fire Rumsfeld and replace him with McCain. Me, I want McCain to shut up and go away. I've had it with him.
Last Friday I didn't get to see the Senate and House hearings with Rumsfeld live so I stayed up and watched them into the wee hours of the morning Saturday. I concluded the following: the Senate is what we used to refer to in pathology lab as "one giant space-occupying lesion." Quite frankly, if they all took a wrong turn and fell into the Potomac this evening, I don't think the country would miss a single one of them.
I was totally impressed with the House members who questioned Rumsfeld - even most (but not all) of the dems. They were not into grandstanding, they were into asking logical questions. It was quite refreshing to watch.
Oh, and Rumsfeld made me very proud to be an American and very proud to have him as SecDef. He's a wonderful guy and we're lucky to have him.
Many argue that we can only rectify the wrongs done in the Iraqi prisons if Donald Rumsfeld resigns. I disagree. Unless there is clear evidence connecting him to the wrongdoing, it is neither sensible nor fair to force the resignation of the secretary of defense, who clearly retains the confidence of the commander in chief, in the midst of a war. I have yet to see such evidence. Secretary Rumsfeld's removal would delight foreign and domestic opponents of America's presence in Iraq.
But, as we are showing in our response to Abu Ghraib, we are a nation of laws, and therefore must punish only those who are proven guilty. The Iraqi prison scandal has been a nightmare at an already difficult moment in the war in Iraq. But our cause remains as critical as ever to our security and our values. We must therefore persist in it. With determination and confidence, we should recall President Lincoln's words at another difficult moment in American history in pursuit of another just cause: "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us do our duty as we understand it." complete article
London's Daily Telegraph reports that Spanish soldiers aren't happy about being called home from Iraq as part of the new Socialist government's policy of appeasing terrorists:
Cpl José Francisco García Casteñeda, who previously completed three tours in Bosnia, said: "We left our coalition colleagues behind and abandoned the local people, who are living in wretched conditions."
Sitting at the same cafe table, Sgt Manuel García, 31, went further in his criticism of the withdrawal. "We felt used and let down by the politicians. Zapatero made the move purely for his own popularity," he said.
Garcia also complains about Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's visit to a military base: "It was just a photocall. He did not address us and the king did not come. No thanks were given. There was no encouragement for the job we did. It was a celebration for Mr Zapatero." link.
McCain is becoming the crazy aunt in the attic, in my opinion.
Several sales employees haven't been paid in two weeks. And, according to the Chicago Tribune, the network deducted health care charges from employees' paychecks. (What?! Liberals making their employees pay for their own healthcare?!!!). But it's worse...the company didn't pay the insurance company so the employees werent even covered!
LOL!
What a perfect depiction of liberal hypocracy.
Now that I think about it, I guess they think the REST OF US should pay for their employees' health insurance!
Yeah, Dems think the Founders meant to say "enrolled by their Creator".
"Senator McCain would not have to leave his party," Mr. Kerrey said. "He could remain a Republican, would be given some authority over selection of cabinet people. The only thing he would have to do is say, `I'm not going to appoint any judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade,' " the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, which Mr. McCain has said he opposes. ...
But the official said the plan was unrealistic, because Mr. McCain "won't do it." In an interview on Friday, Mr. McCain said, "I have totally ruled it out." ....
This kind of open speculation suggests that Democrats are so eager to regain the White House in November that they are willing to overlook members of their own party, and to accept a candidate who disagrees with one of the core tenets of their platform, the right to an abortion.
McCain has a supersized ego, but I just can't see him abandoning his abortion stance this time. It's interesting how the fact that McCain's said a dozen times that there's no way he would be Kerry's VP is being completely ignored by simpletons like Kerrey. It's like there saying, "I know the sky is blue, but I want it to be red and yellow polka dot, and so that's what I'm going to believe it is," evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. In other words, the usual Dem reluctance to accept reality.
McCain is an egomaniac. I can easily see him taking the VP role. He's enjoying all the speculation and playig it to the hilt in the press. I think the only thing that will keep him from this is his personal health - which I don't think is that good. That's just a gut feeling. McCain has had every opportunity to denounce Kerry's Vietnam rhetoric and hasn't. It speaks volumes about McCain that he hasn't. He continues to keep Kerry alive by his own comments, not to mention that these same comments keep speculation about his joining Kerry on the ticket, alive.
McCain would get further with me if he'd show loyalty, instead of grandstanding. It isn't in his nature to do so, though.
He's a snake. Period.
He really doesn't look well, and running for VP while his wife recovers from a serious medical problem is not the most sympathetic thing he could do.
re:wife and her illness - the guy was doing tv a few days after his wife had the stroke. So much for sticking by her side - he had to sell books, dontcha know. He is more like Kerry than anyone would like to think.
Neither guy looks all that swell, healthwise.
Laundry-day cheers.
These are from Saddam's reign. Awful
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