The Guild 8-29-2003 Say Goodbye to Summer

[lodwick]

My kinda guy - If a little's good, then a LOT'S better...boom!

Quotes & Toasts of the Day -

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -- Henny Youngman

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. -- Michelle Mastrolacasa

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. -- Tom Waits

[lodwick]

[BigWaveBetty]

Howard Finneman writes about Clark and doesn't see fit to include Clark's whoopers.

Clark would get attention, and perhaps more. “There’s an opening,” says Jennifer Donahue of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. “People here are still looking for a knight in shining armor.” In fact, what many Democrats are looking for is a credible alternative to Dr. Howard Dean, whose nomination they think would lead to a disaster akin to George McGovern’s humiliation at the hands of Richard Nixon in 1972. “The campaign is turning into Dean versus a player to be named later,” Complete story

Ouch, that The campaign is turning into Dean versus a player to be named later,” comment is going to leave a nasty mark on Kerry!

Watch Kerry the next time he speaks, he has a nasty habit of sticking his tongue out while speaking. He is Lurch the Lizard Man.

[BigWaveBetty]

LOL!!! That is so cute!!!

[mountaineer]

Clark may not need his shining armor to defeat Dean. The newly-dubbed "Mrs. Dean" (see post 67, above) may accomplish that, all by her lovely self.

[MaeWest]

A scientific study involving healthy, young adults, sage oil capsules and a word recall test has backed up centuries-old theories about sage's ability to improve memory.

I just knew there was valid reason to consume copious quantities of sage rich turkey dressing. Thanks for the link.

[Iowa Granny]

Mrs. Dean,,,,,, Bless Her Heart.

[MaeWest]

I think you can truly say that Iowans(sic) are real swines ;-)

Those of us who pine to be honorary Iowans and who can think of few things as gratifying as a goblet of crisp white wine served with a perfectly grilled pork chop prefer to be referred to as "swinos" : )

[lodwick]

I finally located a vendor in the UK and ordered some sage caps...we'll see how it goes.

Cheers.

[BigWaveBetty]

I'm curious to see if "Mrs. Dean" will have a make-over soon.

I just watched a Dean interview. Get this, Judy Woodruff asks him (paraphrasing), "You say you're glad Saddam is gone but disagree with how President Bush did it, how would you have removed Saddam?"

Dean: "With UN troops...."

Bwahahahaha! I didn't know the UN had an amry!

[daisyscarlett]

Mrs. Dean reminds me of Andrea Yates....(I think that's her name-the mama from Texas who did her kids in)...

[daisyscarlett]

I can't find any photos of the Stella McCartney wedding. Guess they sold the rights to a tab....

I did find some disgusting photos of Michael Jackson who celebrated his 45th birthday last week with a big party in L.A.

Pop entertainer Michael Jackson (news) points to fellow entertainers performing during a celebration of his 45th birthday at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles August 30, 2003. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

[daisyscarlett]

Laura Bush will be a tough act for any of the candidates wives to emulate...Here from TIME:

The first lady hits the campaign trail with a string of media interviews to burnish her husband's reelection effort

Hillary Clinton may have hogged the spotlight this summer with her hot-selling memoir, but this fall her low-key successor, Laura Bush, will be taking her own modest turn in the public eye.

Normally publicity shy, the First Lady is raising her profile over the coming weeks, appearing in Ladies' Home Journal, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and on the Lifetime channel.

The former librarian will emphasize her signature issues — reading and teaching — and spend some time raising awareness about a topic that's new to her agenda: heart disease.

Why the burst of activity? "She is one of the President's best political assets," says a top Bush campaign adviser. Republican voters admire her traditional approach to a position they believe that Hillary Clinton ransacked during her tenure, and they delight in soft-focus stories on the Bushes' home life.

In Ladies' Home Journal, Laura Bush chats about the President's penchant for leaving his towels lying around. "Things that might have irritated me — like not hanging up his towels," she says, "I don't have to worry about anymore. Someone in the White House hangs up the towels."

The First Lady will maintain a regular campaign fund-raising schedule this fall, crossing the country for her husband's re-election. At the end of the month, she will travel overseas alone for only the second time.

After a stop in Paris marking the U.S.'s re-entry into UNESCO, she will head to Moscow for a book festival that Russian First Lady Lyudmila Putin is host to — a celebration modeled on the one Laura Bush started in America.

[lodwick]

I CANNOT believe that we've rejoined that ungodly unesco outfit - but, then again, maybe I can...

Just dammit.

[BigWaveBetty]

Too bad about the Stella wedding pics, they'll prolly show up sooner or later on the internet.

The two front runners, John Kerry and Dean will have a hard sell as far as their other half is concerned.

Mrs. Dean's looks as though she has the personality of a rock. Mrs. Heinz Kerry is extremely smug.

[Timeout]

On the Fox News Hour they just showed Kerry talking to two little African-American girls, small enough to still be in pigtails.

He enthused: "I want you to stay involved in politics, now. Because we've got to change our culture. Change it for the better!".

They looked at him like he'd just said something stupid....wonder why?!

[mountaineer]

Good heavens, what has happened to Michael Jackson's hand? It's all purple! Yikes.

lod, if you need sage, just stop by. I'm constantly cutting back my plants (there's just not enough turkey in the world to accommodate them).

[Iowa Granny]

lod, if you need sage, just stop by.

I, too, was thinking "Grow Your Own".

[Iowa Granny]

How did I miss this???

While passing thru the check out at Wally World this afternoon I noticed the front cover of one of the popular ladies mags,, can't remember which. Photo of Joan Lunden with twin babies, one dressed in pink the other dressed in blue.

The story line flagged on the cover was something along the lines of "Lunden at 52, younger man & twins". (This isn't exactly what it said, but somewhere in the script each of these three things were noted: Her age, younger man & twins.

Has Joan Lunden given birth to twins sired by a younger man and we failed to discuss it? Was the discussion held while I was off on a trip. Tell me we are not slipping so much that we have somehow overlooked this lucious tidbit.

[Iowa Granny]

I just have to add: Giving birth to anything, but good retirement ideas, at the age of 52 would have qualified me for extended care at the insane assylum.