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]
Former Vice President Al Gore plans to launch a cable news network for young adults that he says will be "irreverent and bold" but not liberal.
Gore said Tuesday that the as-yet-unnamed network will be "an independent voice in this industry" for people ages 18-34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own."
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The awful thing, to me, is that Saddam was our creation and learned many of his skills at the School of the Americas.
Yep they both married money. Can't you see Teresa and Cindy on the campaign trail talking about how much of their inheritances their boys have spent, lol.
I think McCain would jump at the chance to be SecyDef but he would be very foolish to run for Veep, but he is just mean enough to do it to spite W. Wonder if Cristol would support a Kerry-McCain ticket?
New York Post | 13 May 2004 | LAURA ITALIANO
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20789.htm
MAN JAILED FOR BEHEADING WIFE
By LAURA ITALIANO
May 13, 2004 --
Oscar Pilamunga was 15 and Beatrice Yually was 13 when they married nine years ago in their native Ecuador.
Yesterday, Pilamunga, now 24, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for brutally decapitating his childhood sweetheart in a jealous rage inside their Corona, Queens apartment.
The horrific slaying caused a sensation a year ago, when the wife's headless body turned up stuffed in a suitcase, sitting on a Harlem street.
"I lost my head," Pilamunga later explained to cops.
His wording was awkward, to say the least. It is the wife's head Pilamunga lost - it has never been recovered.
Pilamunga was a kitchen worker. His wife sold ice cream on the streets of Brooklyn. The story of their young love's tragic unraveling was recounted by the murderer himself, in his graphic confession.
"She had her bags ready, and I asked her where she was going," Pilamunga explained when he was caught last summer.
"She told me that she did not have any feelings for me, and that she wanted to leave. But I closed the door, and she told me she felt more love for Bolivar."
Bolivar apparently was Yually's lover. His identity was not fully disclosed in Pilamunga's police statement.
"At that moment, I lost my head and I punched her in the head," Pilamunga said. "She was sitting in the bed when I hit her. She got up and grabbed me by my shirt. I then grabbed her by the neck with both of my hands, and I squeezed her," he said.
"We were already on the floor. She stopped breathing and moving. At that moment, I saw that she had no life."
After an hour went by, Pilamunga said, he "took the handsaw and cut her head off."
Then he took a nap. He stuffed the head in a Dumpster on 35th Avenue in Corona.
Pilamunga kept the headless body in a black bag behind his refrigerator overnight before stuffing it into a suitcase and taking it - by taxi - to a Harlem street corner.
Pilamunga was caught easily. Although he had apparently tried to hide the identity of the body - by removing the head - he made the mistake of leaving an incriminating phone number in the corpse's clothing.
He pleaded guilty to the depraved killing last month.
Did Kerry dump a first wife to grab the $$$?
His first wife had tons of money, too.
AAAAck.
Dammit all.
Cheers, K.
Kerry's first wife had lots of moola (I've heard $200 million), but he dumped her when she had problems with depression. McLame dumped his first wife, who had suffered a near-fatal and crippling auto accident while he was in the Hanoi Hilton, for the beer heiress Cindy. Two stand up guys.
So if Kerry and McCain run and win and they both pass on to their reward we would then have PRESIDENT HASTERT...hee hee...
U.S. film maker Alexandra Kerry (L) and her brother Andre (R), children of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (news - web sites), pose on the red carpet for the screening of 'Shrek 2' at the 57th Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), May 15, 2004. Alexandra Kerry is in Cannes to present her short film 'The Last Full Measure' about the aftermath of the Vietnam war. REUTERS/John Schults
These two are Chelsea redux - the underachieving children of the nouveaux riche, skit-skatting and hobnobbing with celebrities and the rest of the "15 minutes of fame" crowd, swigging overpriced champagne and trying like mad to be important.
With all that wealth at her disposal, you'd think the poor girl would get a boob lift.
I had to take some time off from the news IG, couldn't watch it anymore! I'd try watching for 10 minutes and I'd catch myself making horrible wrinkle inducing faces and my heart wouldn't stop pounding until I turned it off.
And since the weather has been great but yard work didn't sound appealing, so I went shopping! I highly recommend it. :-)
Cranky old Seymour M. Hersh is back again this weekend doling out his gloriously momentous series (certainly worthy of a Pulitzer, NOT), as if last week wasn't enough. It wasn't the "proper" time to release what Hersh and his minions think will bring down GWB and Rumsfeld, especially Rumsfeld. Link to the Hersh tripe.
Here, the response from the DOD:
No. 458-04
IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2004
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Statement from DoD Spokesperson Mr. Lawrence Di Rita "Assertions apparently being made in the latest New Yorker article on Abu Ghraib and the abuse of Iraqi detainees are outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture.
"The abuse evidenced in the videos and photos, and any similar abuse that may come to light in any of the ongoing half dozen investigations into this matter, has no basis in any sanctioned program, training manual, instruction, or order in the Department of Defense.
"No responsible official of the Department of Defense approved any program that could conceivably have been intended to result in such abuses as witnessed in the recent photos and videos.
"To correct one of the many errors in fact, Undersecretary Cambone has no responsibility, nor has he had any responsibility in the past, for detainee or interrogation programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else in the world.
"This story seems to reflect the fevered insights of those with little, if any, connection to the activities in the Department of Defense." (LOL! That's our Seymour.)Link
Seymour just isn't going to quit until he exhaustively embarrasses himself, and every one of his relatives living or dead.
Glad you and Mr. M are back safe and sound mountaineer, sounded like a wonderful trip.
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L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator of Iraq (news - web sites), second from right, poses with the new jersey of Iraq's soccer team at al-Sha'ab stadium in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday May 15, 2004. Iraq's soccer team scored a surprise win over Saudi Arabia to seal a place for themselves in the forthcoming Athens Olympics. On the right is Faleh Francis, third from right in the front row, Basim Abbas, fourth from right in the front row, Saleh Sadeer and on extreme left, Haider Abdul Razzaq. The others could not be identified. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Workers from all over France have assembled here to support the showbiz folk who are battling cuts to unemployment benefits. One protester told Variety the various groups were still in huddles about an overall game plan, but many of the demonstrators promised the rallies won't stop until there is a resolution.
The Carlton-ites are demanding higher wages, better benefits and more hires; they also are asking for the ouster of hotel director Didier Boidin.
Making good on their promise to get attention without disrupting the fest, more than 100 workers waited until after the start of opening-night film "Bad Education" before they began chanting demands for education, health [here comes the good part..] and culture. link
Gosh, who would of thunk it, we can demand culture. It's so simple! How does that work exactly though, do you have to seek out like, a musician and then demand that he play a song for you? Or in this case the employer must provide the culture? And what kind of culture must he provide, whew - that opens up a whole nuther can o' worms.
I just wuv doze widdle frenchie frenchies!
And who's the biggest fattest worm at the protests/Cannes fest?
Mikey missed lunch, he's trying to eat that microphone.
I can't explain it, but Moore is prettier than Mrs. Moore.
The fresh new film maker Alex Kerry...
And I see when in France,,,, undergarments are optional, gosh I hope Teresa isn't there. However Alex's trendy top, although indiscreet (especially for a daughter of a presumptive almost nominee for president, who btw served in Vietnam), is better than Mrs. Moore's lime green peek-a-boo shawl, with the fringe.
Good Morning. I generally have FNC on all day. I'm not necessarily sitting in front of it, but listen as I go about my day. Recently, I've been switching the TV to HGTV.
Nothing on HGTV gets me that upset. Except I'm beginning to think I live in a SLUM! Given the news of the world and the goofy opinions on why these things are happening, living in a slum isn't so bad.
I wonder how I could get those people at HGTV to take my home on as a 'project'. I have 5 major projects which clearly need to be done. Alas, there's no time to do it, so I will just live with it the way it is. Unless, of course, the HGTV gang arrives on my door step to do it for me.
Fiesty, beautiful redheads obviously do it for Tim Robbins. And there he was engaged in what one could only assume was an erudite political conversation with one last Thursday. But it was 2 a.m. and her name definitely wasn't Susan Sarandon.
After the 46-year-old actor showed up at Bungalow 8 in the wee hours with his much shorter pal Sean Penn, the two occupied a corner table where they were immediately surrounded by enthusiastic clubgoers. The model-tall, flame-haired woman quickly engrossed Robbins in a gabfest. And the oh-so serious twosome were at it into the wee hours. After an hour standing with their heads together by one of the potted palm trees that decorate the club, the two took a seat at a secluded table. They didn't even come up for air when Penn finally took his leave at 2:30 a.m., glad-handing fans on his way out the door. Back at the table, Robbins moved in a little closer. Dead man walking? NY Post
The reservation for "Klaus" for the upstairs private dining room at Eli's the Place for Steak didn't set off any alarms, so Eli's staffers were somewhat surprised when former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her beau, Ian Klaus, arrived ready to party Friday night. Chicago Sun-Times, 5/11/04.
Meanwhile, her putative father's alleged ties to autoparts heiress Belinda Stronach continue to titillate:
You would think former premier Ernie Eves would be aware of the "don't go there" rule of political speeches — the subjects that are strictly taboo. Alas, no.
Among his acerbic barbs at the biggest Tory annual fundraising dinner last week, he noted failed federal leadership candidate Belinda Stronach was there with neither her father, auto-parts magnate Frank Stronach, nor the man supermarket tabloids link her with romantically.
"Belinda Stronach is actually here without her dad this evening, and without Bill Clinton," Eves said. Audience squirming ensued. Toronto Star, 4/26/04.
A little good news for a change:
U.S. touch is unmistakable in weary Iraq
My friend Larry Ronan just got back from Iraq. He is not a soldier. He is a doctor who works at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And he is one of more than 20 American physicians who went to that ruptured nation recently to meet with Iraqi doctors. Ronan and the others flew to Baghdad on a big C-130, and the landing made all aboard feel as if they were being pushed off a cliff because the plane twists straight down to avoid being hit by shoulder-fired missiles that are more available than penicillin.
According to all reports, the war in Iraq is a mess with too many Americans being killed and too many in Washington running from their responsibility in sending soldiers to die for reasons that were either wrong or untrue. But there is no doubt among all who see our armed forces perform that Iraq could well be the American military's finest hour.
"They are awesome people," Ronan said. "The other doctors and I worked out of the Green Zone right in Baghdad, and we were surrounded by all these 18 and 19-year-old kids. "They were competent and kind with everyone. Their leadership was tremendous. We ate with them and we lived with them.
"They were culturally sensitive. And it's a shame that the prison stuff is causing so many Americans here to forget what they are over there trying to do for the people of Iraq."
Full story by Mike Barnicle: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/193979p-167421c.html
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