The Guild 4-11-2004 Happy Easter

[BigWaveBetty]

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What a cutie pie! How old...4? Does she live nearby so you can see her often?

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You get the greatest pictures! How do you do that? Are they studio shots?

Now I know where you disappear to for long stretches!

[lodwick]

No, my disappearences are now due to going up to north Texas to check on my dad in a nursing home...the very cool pics of our great nephew, Carson, are courtesy of freeper grannie9, who has several wonderful photo-enhancing proggies...don't even ask me how she does it. I'm glad that you enjoy the wee one, from time to time.

Cheers, Jim

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

From Little Green Footballs:

In another interview the previous day, a wounded fighter told United Press International about the role of the foreigners: He was wounded helping them and had to be evacuated to a friend’s house in Baghdad.

Calling himself “Abu Freedom” or “Father of Freedom” — a wry joke pointed at the Americans — the 20-year old fighter was hit while trying to save two Syrians that had been fighting with his men, also in the Army of Mohammed. ...

When asked why he fought, Abu Freedom is clear.

“Because I hate the Americans and hate the invaders,” he says. “I don’t want to see Americans in charge of my country.”

In the other house on Monday, Ahmed is more eloquent on how the fighting can end and peace can come to Iraq.

“God willing Bush will fall down by the hands of Fallujah,” he says, combining military and political rhetoric. “If John Kerry wins the election and withdraws the Americans troops from Iraq, and maybe just leaves a few in bases, then we will not fight. But Bush we will always fight.”

[BigWaveBetty]

Did you not explain these things to your daughter?

LOL I can sum it up in three words: Strong Willed Child *sigh* Or, it could be that she really, really, really likes bunnies. :-)

I keep thinking about that Visa Checkcard commercial where the dad is trying to buy a bunny for his daughter and the authorization is taking forever and .... every where, bunnies!

[BigWaveBetty]

The pictures were taken with a digital that my daughter tells me is acting up so she took the pictures of finery with a regular camera, I'll get those soon.

T - Laney's 5 and lives in Louisiana, not close at all. :-( But soon she'll be coming for summers I hope!

[BigWaveBetty]

“God willing Bush will fall down by the hands of Fallujah,” he says, combining military and political rhetoric. “If John Kerry wins the election and withdraws the Americans troops from Iraq, and maybe just leaves a few in bases, then we will not fight. But Bush we will always fight.”

[pubmom]

I'm weary of reading bad, broken english tonight. Check out this thread:

Fear for 2 More as Daughter Dies in Iraq

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The daughters joined the National Guard - in 2000, 2001 and 2002 - each for their own reasons. Future financial aid for education was a big one, as was a search for direction, their parents believe. ...

"I had no idea," Lori said, though she believes her daughters always knew active duty was a possibility. "It seemed like a great thing. We were at peace."

I get it. It was great as long as the benefits came with no sacrifice.

I'm sick of this. The media (and too many Americans) want a WAR on terror without any BATTLES.

[mountaineer]

It was great as long as the benefits came with no sacrifice.

That's exactly what Mr. M and I were saying as we read the story in this morning's paper about the family with three girls serving in Iraq, and one recently killed. Our fathers went off to WWII and were gone for years at a time with no phone cards, no email. Casualties were in the thousands, week in and week out. My grandfather went off to fight in WWI, where we lost some 50,000 men in a single four-week period in the summer of 1918.

This is - and always has been - the price of freedom, and the soldiers know it. Perhaps, in our modern volunteer military, they join up for job training and education benefits, but the bottom line always has been that a soldier may have to fight and die. We've become spoiled and soft, and all too willing for someone else to make the sacrifices. Another WWII memory of my mother's - ration stamps, no gasoline, no butter. Would we put up with that today? I wish I could say with confidence that the American people would be willing to make whatever sacrifice were necessary for the cause of freedom and justice, especially after the attacks of Sept 11, but it isn't likely.

[mountaineer]

“Because I hate the Americans and hate the invaders,” he says. “I don’t want to see Americans in charge of my country.”

I guess he can't wait till June 30.

[mountaineer]

Liz Smith reports:

DENNIS HOPPER is the "Easy Rider" star-director who grew up surrounded by Democrats. In the '60 he marched with Martin Luther King and protested the Vietnam War.

But did you know that he is now a political conservative and has been since Ronald Reagan? He says, "I liked [Bill] Clinton, but I voted for Bush Sr. And I'm definitely voting for [George W.] Bush again."

Mr. Hopper's wife Victoria is a passionate Democrat who has raised money for John Edwards and John Kerry. Of her Democratic passions, Hopper says to the London Times: "I support Bush and I support my wife and what my wife's involved in. That's all. We don't talk politics. I respect her things, and you know, whether she respects mine doesn't really matter to me."

[mountaineer]

From MerdeInFrance:

Appearing on 'Tout le Monde en Parle' (taxpayer financed prime time French State TV - the State Party Line©®™) this past Saturday evening, Albert Dupontel, French actor in independant films (which is to say films that earn no money), called George Bush a 'm*****f*****'.

Dupontel was his usual self. He ranted with all the psychotic calm and serenity of a Palestinian father who explains that he can't wait for his two surviving sons to become martyrs. As for Ardisson, his show is becoming ever more anti-American and more pro-Islamist with each passing week. One recent guest was Isabelle Coutant-Peyre the wife and attorney of Carlos the Jackal who described her husband's joy on 9-11 along with the usual rubbish about Israel being behind the attacks.

All this at taxpayers' expense. Americans, you are hated here.

http://merdeinfrance.blogspot.com/

[lodwick]

Putting women into combat units was a horrificly bad idea - even the Israeli's have seen the stupidity of this move and have removed all females from their combat units.

If women must fight, let it be after every man has been killed and the enemy is at their front door: then they can blast away.

[mountaineer]

I agree with that.

[mountaineer]

Larry Miller writes:

Message to the administration: No one in Europe or on the left is ever, ever, ever going to like you from seeing a photograph of a marine handing a bag of groceries to a woman in a burkha. Jacques Chirac is never going to say, "Well, they have built a lot of community centers. Maybe Bush was right."

Win. Stopping building schools. Win. There's plenty of time and need for hospitals, but first . . . Win. Yes, yes, Iraqi girls can be very empowered by seeing a female colonel running an outreach program, and we can all chip in for the posters that say "Take Your Daughters To Mosque Day," but in the meantime, would you please win.

link to commentary

[lodwick]

Time for me to shut it down and get myself northward.

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Shandi Finnessey, newly crowned Miss USA, plans to use her new position to defend U.S. involvement in Iraq. ("A Republican, she told Reuters she would use her position to help explain America's involvement in Iraq. 'What needed to be done had to be done,' she said.")

This could get good: The anti-American crowd protesting Miss USA!

However, the Associated Press chose not to report Shandi's plans with her position and nearly every other media outlet is ignoring it.

[daisyscarlett]

Well this photo-op could break a few cameras, lol..

LINK

When "Sen. John Kerry makes a campaign swing into New York tomorrow, he'll have Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) at his side - her first campaign appearance with the presidential candidate."

"You will hear a very enthusiastic Sen. Clinton explain why she believes John Kerry should be the next President of the United States," said Joe Householder, director of communications for Hillary Clinton.

[BigWaveBetty]

(PAGESIX) April 13, 2004 THE rich get richer. Denise Rich's house was the most expensive one for rent in Southampton this year, $475,000 from Memorial Day to Labor Day - but she's getting $530,000 for it, iHamptons.com reports. Rich already had a full-ask bid of $475,000 when a wealthy Russian came along and wanted so badly to live on her estate that he upped the ante to $530,000 and "gazumpt" the lower bidder, as it's known in the real estate business. The Russian will get two houses: a main house with seven bedrooms, a guest house with four bedrooms, swimming pool and tennis courts - plus bragging rights for spending the summer in the bed of Denise Rich.

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Wasn't Marc the x-hubby snuggly with the Russian mafia?

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he'll [Kerry] have Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) at his side -

Those will be interesting pictures if anyone can get their camera to work.