The Guild 4-3-2004 Things Bob Actually Does Know About Women #27

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[Iowa Granny]

The NEA types are vicious!

Good for you for taking on the task of collecting signatures.

Spring is in Iowa. I gardened all afternoon. 7 hours! I got 4 big (!!) flower beds cleared off and hubby helped me load the gunk up and haul it away. My hands are a mess and very sore. Tomorrow I will spend the day picking splinters out of my hands.

[daisyscarlett]

Kerry almost poked his eyes out at Services today...

[Timeout]

These are worth passing along (via Instapundit).
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Christopher Hitchens' "7 Questions for war opponents":

I debate with the opponents of the Iraq intervention almost every day. I always have the same questions for them, which never seem to get answered.

1. Do you believe that a confrontation with Saddam Hussein’s regime was inevitable or not?

2. Do you believe that a confrontation with an Uday/Qusay regime would have been better?

3. Do you know that Saddam’s envoys were trying to buy a weapons production line off the shelf from North Korea (vide the Kay report) as late as last March?

4. Why do you think Saddam offered "succor" (Mr. Clarke’s word) to the man most wanted in the 1993 bombings in New York?

5. Would you have been in favor of lifting the "no fly zones" over northern and southern Iraq; a 10-year prolongation of the original "Gulf War"?

6. Were you content to have Kurdish and Shiite resistance fighters do all the fighting for us?

7. Do you think that the timing of a confrontation should have been left, as it was in the past, for Baghdad to choose?
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Hitchens has a knack for getting to the nub of a matter.

[lodwick]

An old man and a young boy were traveling through their village with their
donkey. The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked.

As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame
the old man was walking and the boy was riding.

The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed
positions.

Later, they passed some people that remarked, "What a shame, he makes
that little boy walk."

They then decided they both would walk!

Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk
when they had a decent donkey to ride.

So they both decided to ride the donkey.

Now they passed some people that shamed them by saying "How awful to
put such a big load on a poor donkey".

The boy and man said they were probably right, so they decided to carry
the donkey. As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the animal
and he fell into the river and drowned.

The moral of the story?

If you try to please everyone, you might as well kiss your ass
good-bye.

[Iowa Granny]

Copied and sent forward.

Good Morning. Seeding in in full swing. Temps projected to be in the 70's today.

[BigWaveBetty]

Thanks for the new thread, those of you still braving the dating world are courageous! But you have to date a few frogs and all that, the hard part, to get to the good part.

[lodwick]

Don't over-do it today - you had a heck of a day, yesterday.

[BigWaveBetty]

Florida: Home of the headless drivers

LOL, ain't that the truth!

[BigWaveBetty]

#25 is very funny but it won't let me save it. HLL, can you help?

This comparison is dead on:

# 80 is pretty funny too.

[BigWaveBetty]

The NEA types are vicious!

It was so nice to hear Secretary Rod Paige call them what they are, terrorists, certainly it wasn't in good taste for a cabinet member to say out loud but inside I yelled a secret YES!

Spring sprang here a month ago, everything is a beautiful spring green but I'm looking forward to a good hard rain to wash away all the pollen. Ah-chooo!

[lodwick]

A good rain-storm would be most welcomed here, also. The oak trees are doing their spring thing and everything's got a yellow/green cast.

[BigWaveBetty]

Kerry almost poked his eyes out at Services today...

Usually gay people are a little more graceful.

How come we haven't heard form any of Kerry's old school chums? What a great guy he was at boarding school and what not? Couldn't be because he was Dorkiest Gay Boy O' the Year every year could it?

[BigWaveBetty]

And how about those fuzzies?! Ick! What a mess.

It is difficult to complain too hard, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous.

[BigWaveBetty]

Christopher Hitchens' "7 Questions for war opponents":

Liberals are the same everywhere because similar questions I have when debating one get the "never seem to get answered" treatment. My standard question is, how long were we supposed to wait? (The answer every time): I don't know. The next question, one more month, 3 months, 6 months? Which goes to your conclusion that we would be unable to keep the troops ready indefinitely and the only reason that Saddam pretended to cooperate was because of the threat.

The answer is always, they don't know BUT we should have let the inspections go longer.

12 years of Saddam jerking us around just wasn't enough apparently. What a waste of space this bunch is.

They know they're wrong but like small children just can't admit it and resort to stomping their feet and pointing at someone else as the guilty party. If they admit that we were right to take out Saddam and his thugs then questions might arise as to why clinton allowed it to fester and spent time, energy and money on that pressing problem of Kosovo.

[lodwick]

I'm losing the battle of the squigglies.

But you're correct: the weather is heavenly.

Thank you, Lord, for every good thing that we enjoy.

[Timeout]

Continuing that theme, Slate has a right-on article about former-Senator Max Cleland and his revered "victim status" in the Democratic Party:

He brings no particular talent to Kerry's campaign. Apart from his status as a brave war veteran, he sends no positive message to the public. As a Vietnam vet who tried and failed to fend off attacks on his national security credentials, he undermines the claim that Kerry's own war record insulates him from similar attacks. What Cleland brings to Kerry's campaign is the emotional power of victimization—a throwback to the worst of old-time Democratic Party politics, to its emphasis on victimhood over ability and virtue. But whereas in the past it was specific interest groups—minorities, women, gays—who were the noble victims, today it is the Democratic Party itself. Cleland is a reminder to fellow Democrats that they have spend the past three years being persecuted and that it's time to start avenging their humiliations.

As they say, read the whole thing. It actually admits the Republicans NEVER QUESTIONED CLELAND'S PATRIOTISM!

[BigWaveBetty]

I've got to go run some errands and will read it when I get back. Happy someone is finally pointing out Cleland's real roll in Kerry's campaign and from Slate no less.

After noticing that Cleland was everywhere with Kerry it made me wonder if Kerry would be frantic enough to tap him for VP. He's got to do something to deflect the ugly post Vietnam record.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I have added those photos to our Shutterfly.

[BigWaveBetty]

Before I forget, this from the NYTimes, I guess it's supposed to scare the women folk with many references to GWB and his towel snapping (figuratively?) of women...

The Women Behind Bush: They Promote and Defend, Nudge, Revere and Defer

"This is a White House that puts women front and center when it is politically useful, as they are now in gearing up for the 2004 campaign, when women's votes will be central," said Ann Lewis said that Ms. Hughes and Ms. Matalin, who both left the White House to spend more time with their families and advise from afar, have been brought back to be the "face and voice" of the campaign.

And Teddy Kennedy is bloviating on c-span this morning regaling us with the old favorite, "This administration says one thing and does another."

Well at least they DO something Teddy boy!

[BigWaveBetty]

Thank you ma'am!