Posted on 11/28/2004 7:25:47 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Celebrate the holidays with HGTV's 12 Days of Christmas Specials, featuring all things festive, from decorating on a budget to finding the perfect gift. On HGTV.com, expanded coverage of each special includes videos, slideshows, step-by-steps and more to guide you through this busy season.
Hey Remember! Christmas
Premiere: 11/28 at 8 pm/7c
See how home products have been marketed to American consumers over the past 50 years. More...
Outer Spaces for the Holidays
Premiere: 11/29 at 8 pm/7c
Watch as the exteriors of two homes are transformed into imaginative winter wonderlands. More...
Year 'Round Christmas
Premiere: 11/30 at 8 pm/7c
Meet people around the country who make their yuletide celebrations last all year long. More...
Christmas Room by Room Style
Premiere: 12/1 at 8 pm/7c
Matt and Shari explore unique inspirational ideas for this year's decor. HGTV.com offers instructions for these projects. More...
Divine Design Christmas
Premiere: 12/2 at 8 pm/7c
Candice Olson takes the ultimate holiday challenge as the festive season quickly approaches. More...
Home to Go Holiday Special
Premiere: 12/3 at 8 pm/7c
Explore a whole new way of dressing up your home and table for holiday entertaining. More...
Holiday Design on a Dime
Premiere: 12/4 at 8 pm/7c
Each design team transforms a room with distinctive holiday cheer. Get in-depth instructions, video clips and 10 additional holiday decorating ideas on HGTV.com. More...
A Very Merry Curb Appeal
Premiere: 12/5 at 8 pm/7c
These festive facelifts are filled with tons of ideas to improve the look of any home year-round. More...
Holiday Windows 2004
Premieres: 12/6 at 8 pm/7c
Go behind the scenes as the world's best department store Christmas windows are sketched, built, installed and revealed. More...
White House Christmas 2004
Premiere: 12/7 at 8 pm/7c
HGTV goes inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a look at how the First Family decorates for the holidays. After the special, visit HGTV.com for a closer look at this year's decorations. More...
I found a mascot for the democrat party....
I see dead people...
Velvet Revolver lead singer Scott Weiland performs 'Fall to Pieces' at a taping of VH1 Big in '04 Wednesday night, December 1, 2004 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The show will broadcast on VH1 Sunday, December 5. REUTERS/Jim Ruymen
Which one was higher while picking a dress for the VH1 awards?
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Back in the day, I've been to clubs where strippers did this routine to he first song.
Truly amazing, SL.
I'm guessing Paris Hilton received the award for "Miss Skankalicious 2004".
Busy day today, W also helped lite the National Christmas Tree and he called it the Christmas tree, not the Holiday Tree as some are calling it...
That's a joke right? About BS doing another tour. Yikes, her fan base must be dying off right and left and she herself is no spring chicken.
This is the report from Cindy Adams:
YOU won't believe this. I don't believe this. None of God's chillun will believe this. Hard to believe this. But, believe this.
Barbra Streisand is contemplating another tour. Another comeback tour. Another final this-is-for-sure-the-last-shot-and-after-this-you-won't-have-Yentl-to-kick-around-again-I'm-off-into-the-sunset farewell tour.
Go back a few years. Remember her heralded farewell schlep around the country where in New York she worked the Garden and pocketed millions and guaranteed mankind this was It and she was finished . . . over . . . done . . . history? Then remember a few minutes later, yet another positively, absolutely, definitely her final-and-forever-and-ever-and-ever-bye bye-ta ta-so long-adieu-auf weidersehn swan song?
Well, she's itching and twitching again. The woman's been resurrected more often than the man from Galilee.
Those who earn a living from her will deny this. When I first announced that first tour years back, they called me stupid. Also dumb. Probably they will now repeat that I am stupid. Also dumb.
Right now this tour is only in the talking stage. Planning. Plotting. Doesn't mean it won't fall apart. Many egos are involved because, fearful she maybe can't cut it all by herself, she's figuring to go as a duo with Neil Diamond. They've worked together before, fund-raising for John Kerry.
So why's this a possibility? Same reason she's in that "Meet the Fockers" thing. She misses the action. She's had fat injections in the face, she's had the face done. Now she's had enough with just mulching rosebushes, watching her husband, doing Donna Karan's ashram and getting manicures. She wants back in the spotlight.
Timing for this tour for the gray-haired set, the most expensive ever, is summer '05.
I'm guessing Paris Hilton received the award for "Miss Skankalicious 2004".
A reasonable assumption. However, Paris (and isn't it delicious that such a skank is named Paris?) won for, Big Catch Phrase of '04 for 'That's Hot.'
Donald Trump's toupee must be spinning, he probably thinks he should have won it for, "You're fired."
That's really funny! Where did you find it?
Did anyone see Brian Williams' debut? I had told my sister this morning that the smartest thing he could do would be to relentlessly go after the U.N. scandals. Announce major investigations, put the pressure on and leave the other networks in the dust.
I tuned in late, but when I did Lisa Meyers was reporting an outrageous U.N. story about the Rwanda genocide. Apparently a Mr. Mbarushimana was a U.N. employee in Rwanda and he's been identified by many witnesses as having killed over 30 people...INCLUDING OTHER U.N. EMPLOYEES! He issued the orders for many mass killings. The int'l criminal court wanted to bring charges, but prosecutors decided only to go after the big fish...considered him a middle man.
So what did the U.N. do? Gave him 13 months back pay plus bonuses to make up for his "persecution" by the court.
The other networks should be mortified at the light touch they've used on Kofi's behalf. If Williams keeps up this kind of reporting, they may have to turn out the lights on ole Dan long before March.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6637384/
BTW. Forgot to mention the guy is living as "a refugee" in Paris...and complaining about it!
Satan is having a ball with what's going on in this world.
Who is Willie? White House Christmas Decor Evinces Musical Favorites
In keeping with the musical theme, the traditional gingerbread White House replica in the State Dining Room features chocolate Marine Band members prowling the roof and First Pets Barney and Willie romping through miniature illustrations of songs such as "Frosty the Snowman," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Toyland."
I saw some of that story about the Rwandan fellow being paid by the U.N. to fight genocide - while he was busily engaging in it himself. A "refugee" in Paris, as he sat at an outdoor cafe sipping coffee - where can I sign up?
Cindy Adams reports (from the "when pigs fly" department, and not necessarily referring to PIAPS):
THERE exists a rumor — unsubstantiated, unconfirmed, unwidened, unanything but very interesting — that Bush will ship Clinton to Israel to broker some sort of peace pact. GOP operatives pooh-pooh it. They say Bush wouldn't give Hillary & Co. such an opening for her future White House plans. Dems say it's a logical move. One Bill can handle.
She must be the camera-shy member of the family.
Other than this photo, I can never recall having seen her.
Thanks...Willie is a beautiful cat. The other family cat, Ernie, is still alive and living in California. The Bushes shipped him off in 2000 because he was such a rascal and also still had his claws. The friend who is caring for him remarked that UNFORTUNATELY, he is still alive...wonder if he will be reunited with the family in 4 years?
I'd forgotten about Ernie!
What an incredible day this is shaping up to be.
Ukraine Supreme Court just threw out the election results and announced there will be a new vote in a couple of weeks.
Jubilant crowds are beginning to gather at the now-familiar Kiev square!
Gov. Arnold, bless his heart, threw out political correctness and lighted the capitol CHRISTMAS tree. Grayout Davis had dubbed it the Holiday tree, of course.
Aussies in Sydney are in an uproar at their Lord Mayor's decision not to do public decorations for Christmas. Callers are burning up the talk radio lines.
Denver's mayor was forced to back down on his intent to replace the Merry Christmas sign with one saying Happy Holidays.
Elections matter!
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