Posted on 09/04/2004 4:32:14 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
The 2004 Republican Convention is over but it was a good one. The GOP Convention will be the most historic political convention in our time. "A well oiled machine," is the phrase most heard the day after as delegates made their way home. Even the balloon drop went off without a hitch or foul words.
The speakers gave remarkably meaningful, important speeches to pump up our party and reminding the American public that pretending terrorism isn't a big deal doesn't make it go away. If you want a better, safer world for your children and grandchildren to grow up in, vote for our president,
Oh, and don't vote for that sitzpinkler John Kerry.
Hopefully we can coax Iowa Granny and Hillary's Lovely Legs into telling us all about their convention adventures.
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There's only one small problem with your report, now I have a craving for fruit and pound cake.
The Lemon Yogurt Pound Cake was absolutely incredible. Fortunately, I don't have the recipe. If I did, I'd make one every day,, and eat the whole thing. It was the best thing I've ever eaten.
I hope she wears those big pop beads!
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From the "can dish it out but can't take it" department:
It's Willie Horton - the sequel. A new conservative group is getting ready to air a pair of blistering attack ads against Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, including one that revives the infamous figure of Horton and blasts Kerry for helping free a "would-be cop killer" from prison.
Another slams him for ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton.
"This is Willie Horton all over again," Sharpton said after being told about the upcoming ad campaign by MoveOnForAmerica.org.
In the Sharpton ad, Kerry is seen shaking hands and embracing the black leader and a narrator asks grimly what role he might have in a Kerry administration. But it is the other ad that's likely to generate the greatest controversy. Apparently set to air in Washington on Tuesday, it invokes the name of Willie Horton, the African-American inmate who raped and tortured a suburban couple while on furlough from a Massachusetts prison. The commercial, perhaps the most notorious attack ad ever, helped trounce Democrat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election and was widely criticized as racist and misleading. In the new ad, a narrator says that in 1982, Kerry, as a private attorney, "successfully overturned the conviction of his client George Reissfelder," who had escaped in '74 while on furlough - "just like Willie Horton." full story
It's official. John McCain is nuts:
John McCain got a little off-message at his late-night party at Cipriani this week. Just before joining Rudy Giuliani on stage for a rendition of "New York, New York," he told me John Kerry would make a great President.
But he still wants you to vote for President Bush, kinda. I had asked the Arizona Republican senator what kind of reception he had received in this overwhelmingly Democratic city.
"Some of my best friends are Democrats," he told me. Like who? "Like John Kerry." Do you think he'd make a good Commander in Chief?
"I think John Kerry would make a fine President."
Huh? Aren't you supposed to be supporting the other guy?
Seeing my confusion, he added "But George Bush would make a better President!" Phew, that was close. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/228989p-196646c.html
1. Da Govenator got me a-chucklin'.
2. Guiliani's was great, though I got a bit bored on occasion and switched to the Open Tennis. (I have a short attention span.)
3. Zell Miller's speech RIVETED me. No one has commented on one thing, which astounded me. Miller DIDN'T wait even ONE second for the applause or hooyahs of the Republicans. He just forged ahead and said what he had to say. I thought he stole the show.
By the way, his segregation past WASN'T MENTIONED 12 years ago when he was the keynote speaker in 1992 at the Democrat national convention. Apparently, it was an ok thing. But now....different story.
4. Cheney's speech was, as always, outstanding. His opening comment was the best: "I'm glad Zell Miller is on OUR side."
I missed Thursday night because I had class, but I read the text of the speech. "W" did himself, his family/friends, running mate, the GOP and America good. He isn't a slick talker but he IS a straight shooter (Zell Miller's comment on "W").
Giulian and Rice
vs
Hillary and subservient male
But that's changing now, with so many papers on line. It's a good thing.
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Amen.
Reader, and viewership, of the mainstream news is plummeting like an anvil as folks try to discern the truth.
Whew!
I'm tired just reading this part of your adventure - and you didn't even pull any all-nighters, yet.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
A blessed Sunday to one and all finding their way here.
Please stop with the pound cake - I'm getting hungry.
A recipe from
The Whalewalk Inn
Eastham, Massachusetts
Lemon Yogurt Pound Cake
1 cup margarine
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1 tsp vanilla
1 8-oz. container lemon yogurt
Cream together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Then add flour and yogurt alternately to creamed mixture. Stir in rind and vanilla. Pour into greased and floured Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
Add poppy seeds to batter if desired.
P.S. I think butter is far more appropriate than margarine.
Yes, I found that recipe from the Whale Inn in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep.
Friends, I am a fairly jaded and cynical woman. But the stories of those little children being shot in the back as they tried to flee from the terrorists has me really riled up.
Every time I shut my eyes last night, I saw my own grandchildren running from a gunman and being shot.
But the stories of those little children being shot in the back as they tried to flee from the terrorists has me really riled up.
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This morning a friend was telling about his brother, a senior airline pilot, who was just refused by fedgov the "legal" ability to carry a weapon on his flights...this man served as an Air Force officer and pilot where he flew our nation's most deadly war planes (with a pistol) but magically, now, he's not trustworthy enough to have the right to protect his craft and all his passengers, should any terriers attack.
What is wrong with those nitwits in the District of Cockroaches? Does everyone get an immediate injection of the dumb-ass virus upon arrival there?
All muslims may not be terriers, but as far as I know, all terriers are muslims. Why are we wasting a gajillion dollars harassing blondes from Iowa when they try to move about this country? Where is the logic? What is the point or purpose?
Stoppit.
;-)
Thanks for the receipe, btw.
Some entrepreneurial type should open a chain of schools with the promise that every teacher will be armed at all times. He/She could charge outrageous tuition and make a fortune.
That would surely stop the Breslan's and the Columbine's and any other mayhem in schools. On the other hand, if we would "allow" God to come back into our country, and our homes, and our lives; that would help deter a lot of the evil that we're seeing these days.
Right as former President Bill Clinton readied for heart bypass surgery last week, we got word he's fulfilling a dream: opening a restaurant that will serve all his fatty favorites, like fried chicken, meatloaf--even tollhouse cookies from Hillary's recipe file. Now when he visits Cafe 42, attached to his Little Rock library and museum opening in November, he'll have to stick to salads. In fact, changes are being made to include a very large salad, olive, and cheese bar for Bubba to belly up to.
Friends describe the new eatery as a "hip" place that will serve entrees on dishes signed by Clinton. Aides say the world-famous eater wants his restaurant overlooking the Arkansas River to be a "destination," and to help it grow he won't charge a museum fee just to get a table; it will have a separate entrance.
About the name: Clinton picked it himself. Seems he likes how former President George H. W. Bush and President Bush refer to each other by the presidential numbers, 41 and 43, and wants people to remember he was 42.
Cafe 42 as a destination?
LMAO
Maybe when he dies and they bury him in the parking lot.
They obviously know I am dangerous to society.
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