Posted on 09/22/2004 3:06:18 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Cybill Shepard arrived to tape a British chat show -- as I gather they are called, thanks to my extensive reading of Brit Lit -- looking like she was auditioning for the role of Red Riding Hood in a Christmas pantomime. If Red Riding Hood were, say, extremely weather-beaten from her trip to Grandmother's house. Regardez:
When questioned, Ms. Shepherd, who, according to this account had already been in London for two entire days, claimed she had "jet lag hair," and took off her hood.
To reveal -- cover the eyes of any minors in the room, please!
Apparently she rode over on the wing of the plane.
This is a shocker! I mean, who would expect unethical behavior of a Democrat activist friend of Hillary?
He's the reverend on the run. Retired pastor Charles Betts - a Democratic activist who once hosted Hillary Clinton at his church [and calls her "Sister Hillary"] - is being sought for embezzling more than $494,000 from Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Queens, authorities said yesterday. Betts, 68, is accused of working with a former aide and her husband to steal the money from the Jamaica church. Prosecutors say they spent it on fancy cars, a vacation in Hawaii and other items. full story
It was the middle of the night. I was exhausted. I didn't know what I was saying. I'm an old man. I'm allergic to peanuts. I ate a Philly cheese steak and I'm turning orange. There must be some excuse! (I love it when even the liberal NY press finally gets it):
MIAMI - Like a good straight man, John Kerry gave Team Bush another opening yesterday when he tried to explain his now-infamous line that he voted for a military spending bill after he voted against it. "I had one of those inarticulate moments, late in the evening when I was dead-tired in the primaries, and I didn't say something very clearly," Kerry said on ABC's "Good Morning America." By the time the next commercial came up, Bush campaign aides determined the comment was made at a noontime rally in West Virginia and were preparing their latest zinger. "Perhaps his watch was on Paris time," the Republican National Committee mocked. rest of story
G'morning Sweetie. Lots of people are going to be effected by the Vioxx recall.
I simply cannot imagine how I would cope if my pain meds were recalled. It's such a hassle and so time consuming to go thru the experimental process of finding an Rx that suits your system and your needs.
My sympathys go out to those who are going to have to face that challenge.
" ..... can a rain-drenched New Yorker get a Kerry glow in time for the debate?
" To find out, I tried the friendly folks at Hollywood Tans on 25th Street and Sixth Avenue. "I want to look like John Kerry," I announced. The staff at the front desk laughed. "I saw that photo," said staffer Iris Elton. She said she wasn't sure they could pull off a pumpkin-orange glow - "but we can make you look really dark," she said.
"How long do you think that would take?" Elton thought it over. "Six seconds," she said. "That's for the full-body Instant Tan, which will last about four days." Sold.
I paid $30 for the three-step tan job (plus 46 cents for an optional pair of paper booties). First, you get sprayed with dihydroxyacetone (DHB), which is FDA-approved and not as evil as it sounds. Basically, it dyes the top layer of skin. I was told to get in the shower, where your whole body gets sprayed. "So," I awkwardly asked Iris, "what do you wear, you know, in that area?" Luckily, a male staffer intervened. "You could go in the buff," he said. "A lot of guys do that." I took a pass on the underspray. "Or we could give you another bootie," he said.
Funny. I opted to wear my boxers. Then I put on a bathing cap, stepped into a round shower stall and hit the button marked "Start." I took a deep breath and shut my eyes. Ten seconds later, the blast begins. It's like a sticky-sweet steam room. The staffers told me to do a little side-step routine to expose hard-to-reach spots like the underarms. But as I was getting misted, I felt like a human M&M getting sugar-coated in some twisted Willy Wonka nightmare. Six seconds later, it was over - but my tan was just beginning.
It was time for Stage 2 - the rub-in. The staff told me to rub the self-tanner around as it was drying. You have to do it within a minute - otherwise you'll get streaking. The word "streaking" made me think about my boxer shorts. I looked down at them. They were sprayed bronze. My underwear had a tan! Not very presidential.
Phase 3 was nothing more than this: Don't take a shower. Not for at least 12 hours. I got tan, very tan - but not quite Kerry tan. And there's no debating that.
Welcome Dolly! You're now on our ping list and we're happy you've joined us. Please feel free to post about things that are important to you, a rant, a catty comment (we love those) or pictures. The Guild for me is about lots of very nice people who make me laugh and teach me all kinds of things.
A good example: I taught BWB how to castrate pigs. ;>)
Thank you for welcome & for the ping last night Iowa. (and my confusion on posts Cybil vs girlie men.
I know there are lots of good places at FR & I basically don't like the ones of heaving fighting (or spirited discussion - depending on your take). Like the facts & various peoples takes on issues, but some folks just beat an issue to death ..
Ride from our "discussion" the other day, I think we might both like it here.. (maybe you have already visited)
Betty - are you a surfer (in water) ?
BWB: Check out these photos of W today in Fla...Picture #1, the lady is clearly distraught...Picture #2, she is much better after W has hugged her and kept her by his side for a few minutes. Shudder to think if Reno had beaten Jeb and how she would have reacted to all the hurricanes!!She would have fled the state and blamed Bush...
In Iowa, even the pigs fail when they try to shove their nose up somebody's butt.
I'm outta here until evening. Play nicely in my absence. BBL
Unfortunately I did catch the Oprah show yesterday, it was like a train wreck, I couldn't look away.
The show's theme was 'Get Out The Vote' with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz (isn't she the one who doesn't bathe?) and of course, everyone's favorite, P. Diddy. I've never witnessed so much stupidity in one place,,, ever.
The tension was thick, Drew and gang along with Oprah wanted to say, 'vote for Kerry' in the worst way but since these organizations are "nonpartisan" they kept telling the audience "that our lives depend on voting" and other such nonsense. Here, a quote from Oprah:
"If every woman with children voted, then candidates could no longer just pay lip service to the education of your children in this country, "Oprah says. "If every woman who has a child really cares about the welfare of her children, the health care for her children, and the education of her children, which is freedom in my mind, then [things] would all change." [And Oprah backs the candidate who would outlaw school vouchers if he could, but then she doesn't have children...]
Cameron Diaz had a emotional moment during her visit with Oprah:
During the show taping, Cameron is overwhelmed by emotion.
Oprah: Cameron is having a moment. What is this about?
Cameron: Well, I'm so proud of my friend [Drew Barrymore]. She took a whole year out of her busy schedule. She's a producer, she's an actor…she did this to take the time to educate people about it. And then I started listening to people saying, 'Oh, I don't vote because it just doesn't affect me. And I just got overwhelmed, because I think this is the best country in the world. And it just scares me that we're just going to squander it all away. That we're going to lay down and let people take it away from us.
The theme of the day seemed to be that if you don't vote somehow, someway, somebody will take away your civil rights, control over your body and start lynching black people.
Cameron at one point tells us that voting is important because womens rights to our bodies will be taken away. It appeared to me that once that left her mouth she became aware that it sounded too much like she was promoting abortion rights so she came up with possibly the wackiest statement in history. She said in mostly incoherent sentence structure that rape could become legal. And Oprah, with a straight face (although her eyes were saying, OMG, OMG, OMG!), agreed.
Watching Oprah's acting ability while she interviewed these nuts makes it hard to understand why 'Beloved' bombed.
And the neighborhood pigs now fear me. :-)
See you this evening, I'll start a new thread before the debate. I'm trying to get my hair colored today, that mop on my head was looking terrible and of course I blame the hurricanes.
Funny how these days we have to specify. Yes, before I found politics it was my favorite extra curricular activity.
I'm a bit bummed out (a little surfer lingo there for ya) that I haven't been able to go surfing at all because of the hurricanes. Back in the good old days, when hurricanes would usually just float by and make big waves for us on the East Coast, we (Mr. B surfs too) could have some fun but unfortunately these days they're are getting up close and personal. Surfing is much more fun than getting ready for and then cleaning up after hurricanes. But our family has been extremely lucky that we've not had any serious damage to our home, unlike many folks. I'm grateful I have the luxury of being a "bit bummed" over such frivolousness instead of wondering where we're going to live.
Just so I can remember what surfing looks like. :-)
Of course, these Hollywood dimwits mean "vote for Kerry," but somehow, someway, none of those horrible eventualities ever has happened during President Bush's first 3-1/2 years in office, nor did it happen from 1981-1993, the other most recent Republican administrations. Isn't it amazing.
ROME (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to ask parliament to ratify the Kyoto Protocol should belatedly allow the anti-global-warming treaty to come into force -- but it's far from saving the climate. While Putin, who once joked that the chilly regions of Russia could benefit from global warming, basks in the praise of environmentalists, climate experts say that even with the treaty in place the world has barely started to tackle climate change.
Scientists say a reduction of at least 70 percent of greenhouse emissions over this century is necessary to curb the worst effects of climate change, which could include rising sea levels, flooding and more frequent chaotic weather events such as hurricanes and droughts. ... rest of story
She [Reno]would have fled the state and blamed Bush...
Nah, Reno's tough, she would have arrested, then prosecuted those hurricanes! Hey who knows, she might have even tried pointing machine guns at them or taken off after them with a tank or two. All the while blaming GWB of course.
Just want to remind everyone that Jeb won this state by a 13 point margin over McBride in 2002 and clinton's boy Janet, well she didn't even beat McBride (an awful candidate btw) in the primaries. A little happy news reminder for any fretting over who will win FL.
One local radio guy says that GWB is definitely getting a bump in approval for the handling of the aftermath of the hurricanes. Looking at those pictures explains why.
my, you are a lady of many talents.. now at this point in my life that is one thing I will skip. Hope Betty has been putting this vital skill to good use.
:)
I'm sure none of that money ended up in hillary's campaign coffers.
I wonder if Kerry's glad or unhappy that bill's recovery will keep him off the campaign trail? And where's hillary? I know she creeping around out there somewhere but not much coverage on it. And look at this, bill will recover just in time to speak in Arkansas:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former President Clinton (news - web sites) has confirmed his first public appearance since his heart surgery three weeks ago — a speech at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., on Nov. 9. Whole boring story
(I love it when even the liberal NY press finally gets it)
Seeing all their sad little faces (Now that they realize they picked a freakish dork and dubious war hero for a candidate. Don't these oh so smart people ever read anything besides Tina Brown?) really makes my day. :-)
The John Kerry Monument on Easter Island
Dolly is one of the OH and WV ladies (oops, and gents, we also invite them) who have gotten together on a few occasions.
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