The Guild 4-19-2004 Spirit of America

Spirit of America ^

[BigWaveBetty]

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Read the story that inspired Spirit of America.

With bats, balls and gloves donated by their families and friends in the United States, American troops brought baseball to the children of Orgun-e, Afghanistan. Nazim, one of the local players, said, “I like to be a player, not a fighter.” Seeing the difference this made for the local kids Sergeant Jay Smith said, “It’s made me feel the best I ever felt in my life.” Smith also says that baseball and his unit’s other humanitarian activities “literally saved lives.”
Read why.

U.S. Marines Seek to Help Iraqi Children

The 1st Marine Division seeks school supplies, frisbees and soccer balls for Iraqi Kids.

The Marines want to help children like these and improve relations with Iraqis in the 'Sunni Triangle.'
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$325 provides a supply kit for a classroom and its students.
$100 buys 110 flying discs ("Frisbees").

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[Endeavor]

Rumor has it that the Chrysler Kerry claims great pride in driving as "an American-made car" is actually made in CANADA.

Not to mention that Chrysler is now owned by a German company (Diamler-Benz).

[Endeavor]

make that "Daimler-Benz."

[mountaineer]

I mentioned on another thread that Teresa, Effin' and kin probably have quite a few Daimler Benzes, but they've registered them "creatively" so it doesn't look like they actually own them - just those good ol' American/Canadian Chryslers.

[mountaineer]

PageSix reports, you decide (excerpted):

NOT everyone who works for the "Today" show is a fan of Katie Couric. A loose-lipped staffer called us to claim that Couric demanded a helicopter to fly her to a Greenwich, Conn., memorial for NBC News correspondent David Bloom on Wednesday evening, after she heard that the network was flying Tom Brokaw out on a chopper right after the "NBC Nightly News."

"She's pulling a diva act with the helicopter just because Tom is getting one," sniped our source. "She is just out of control."

But while it's true that NBC flew Brokaw to Bloom's memorial - which was held at the home of Steve Cohen, chairman of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors - "Today" executive producer Tom Touchet told PAGE SIX that choppering Couric out was entirely his idea, and that, anyway, she ended up taking a Metro-North train because it was actually quicker.

"I asked for a helicopter," Touchet said. "It came back that it took longer to take the helicopter, to drive to the helipad and back. Katie didn't even know about it. She wanted to take the faster way. In no way is she upset. In no way is this an issue."

[mountaineer]

Big surprise (not) regarding Chelsea's bud, Kevin:

Kevin Spacey is still living down his 4:30 a.m. encounter with a young man in a London park, this week. Spacey, you remember, first told police he was mugged while walking his dog, then changed his story, insisting he'd tripped over his pooch while chasing a con artist who'd made off with his cell phone.

A delighted British press has reported that the park is known for gay cruising (known there as "cottaging"). One postman observed, "I'd have to wake my dog up at that time, so God knows what he was doing." full story

[Timeout]

Ewwwwww!

"Cottaging"...such a quaint word spoiled.

[pubmom]

Love it!

For some reason, my mind began to wander at work today concerning the various activities our President has been photographed engaging in.

Can any of you imagine John Kerry wielding a hammer for a habitat house?
Does he even know what end of the hammer is used to drive a nail?
How about Kerry with a chainsaw?
Clearing brush?

Call me shallow, but I like manly men who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. I can't see John "Oh Lovey, I have a Hangnail" Kerry doing any of those things.

Can I come right out and call him a wimp? :)

[daisyscarlett]

In addition to all those things you mentioned, W does many more events than Kerry does in a day. Just yesterday he went to Maine to do an Earth Day thingie, then a fundraiser, then back to D.C. for ceremonies at the WH. Kerry can barely get in an appearance and a fund raiser. His energy level is not even close to W's. And Teresa is no Laura either. She recently said that she likes to "sleep in". These two are caricatures of the spoiled, lazy rich whose energy only shows up when they are "playing".

[mountaineer]

the spoiled, lazy rich whose energy only shows up when they are "playing".

Exactly. We're supposed to be impressed with Kerry's Kennedyesque virility because he straps on a snowboard and dons a $500 ski jacket to go play in the snow. I really have to wonder, when has that man ever done something of substance for anyone (let alone risked a blister doing yard work)? Can you even imagine Effin' and Teresa working at a soup kitchen? Her scarf would keep falling into the gravy pot, and he'd be afraid of chipping a nail.

[Timeout]

Bush/Cheney campaign spokesman, Steve Schmidt, today:

"Only John Kerry could take both sides on whether or not he owns an SUV".

:)

[Iowa Granny]

"Only John Kerry could take both sides on whether or not he owns an SUV".

LOL

[Timeout]

I'd like your opinion on something.

I've been thinking about how Kerry is so quickly becoming an object of derision. Our side RULES when it comes to humor: Free Republic, Rush, Fox, Best of the Web, NRO...even that Brain Terminal guy who goes and interviews lefties at their protests. They're all funny, not to even mention the brilliantly funny side of the Bush campaign.

What does the left have to counter this? Nothing. Air America...don't make me laugh (literally!). And the "best" liberal writers work at The New Republic, which requires a paid subscription. They have an article over there right now that I'd like to read: "John Kerry's Daring Spring Strategy: Don't punch back!". But there's no way I'd PAY to read it. No wonder they can't get their message out.

At least Slate is still free, but even their humor has been more aimed AT Kerry. There's just no reliably funny left-leaning site to compare to the ones I listed above. Unless you know of any? Interesting that the loony lefties seem to have never cultivated a sense of humor. And the dour "extreme right" is knee-slapping funny. Yes, interesting.

[BigWaveBetty]

Pat Tillman was a shining example of the people protecting our country, God bless him and all the brave and their families.

If losing all those brave men and women weren't enough we have to read crap like this:

Kerry Has Shrapnel in Thigh From Vietnam

Kerry got his first Purple Heart after he got shrapnel in his left arm above his elbow. Doyle said if the shrapnel had hit Kerry in the eye, it could have blinded him.

I will reserve further comment out of respect for our fallen troops.

[BigWaveBetty]

Hillary on Larry King Live:

"The consensus was the same, from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration," she said. "It was the same intelligence belief that our allies and friends around the world shared.

"But I think that in the case of the [Bush] administration, they really believed it. They really thought they were right, but they didn't let enough sunlight into their thinking process to really have the kind of debate that needs to take place when a serious decision occurs like that." link

Who's desperate to CYA on Iraq??? Hillary hasn't been listening to the peeps, as usual. Howard Fineman even had to admit what's been apparent to us for weeks now:

The media loved the 9/11 commission hearings. By instinct, we thrilled to watch a prosecutor such as B-V [Ben-Veniste ]on the hunt, creeping in on a witness like a big cat. [ick, gag me] But the commission, which served as a platform for the theatrical Richard Clarke and the cross-examinations of Democratic members, eventually came off as too political and partisan to damage the president. Just the opposite, I think. Too many of the commissioners ended up looking like they were pressing to prove that Bush could have and should have prevented the 9/11 catastrophe—a theory the public doesn’t buy. In fact, most Americans tend to blame the rise of terrorism here on the eight-year Clinton administration. More

[Timeout]

Well, well, well....Thurston & Lovey aren't going to like this.

I had no idea when I wrote #152 that John Harris would have a front page article in the WashPost this morning outlining how conservatives are USING HUMOR against Kerry!

Meanwhile, a variety of surrogates and outside groups are amplifying and broadening this attack by using humor, insult and innuendo to portray the Kerrys as exotic figures whose rich lifestyle and cosmopolitan values leave them unable to understand ordinary Americans.

In the couple of months since Kerry effectively locked up the Democratic nomination, Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans asserted that Bush's opponent "looks French." [It was at least 6 months ago, Mr. Harris]. The conservative group Citizens United ran a television commercial last month highlighting his $75 haircuts and "four lavish mansions and beachfront estate." When Kerry this month unveiled his "misery index" to highlight what he calls Bush's economic failures, the Republican National Committee gleefully countered with its own mocking "Index de le Miserables." Conservative commentators chortled at news that Teresa Kerry had helped design an official scarf for her husband's campaign.

AND THE DEM RESPONSE?...

Mandy Grunwald...the wisecracks are an effort to say 'George Bush is a real guy and John Kerry isn't. John Kerry is a fop.' "

LOL! Who but the effete use a word like "fop" anymore?! You have to read the whole thing!

Link to Article

(Did you know Kerry's yacht is named the "Scaramouche"?!)

[Timeout]

Then check this one out. Colbert King, WashPost columnist, accuses the Kerry campaign of being "white as the driven snow". He outlines the contortions the campaign will go thru to portray themselves as inclusive.

How delicious if the donkeys are hoisted on their own pittard of "diversity".

Is Kerry's Campaign Colorblind?

[Iowa Granny]

Great Stuff! Thanks for dragging it in here.

[Timeout]

I suspect Karl Rove deserves a lot of the credit for picking up on humor as a lethal campaign weapon.

As I reported a few days ago, Bob Woodward described a session with Rove where Karl pulled out his campaign strategy book on Kerry. On the cover, it was labeled: "Bring It On".

[mountaineer]

The left just can't be funny, they're too full of hate. When folks like us use humor against Kerry, et al., it strikes me as good-natured. The left can't say anything without spitting and snarling, a la Janeane Garofalo and Michael Moore. I think you have to enjoy life to have a real sense of humor, and the lefties just don't.

Sometimes their humor is unintentional, though:

COURTNEY Love knows whom to blame for her troubles. The rocker - who has gone broke, been arrested for drugs, and is fighting for custody of her daughter, Frances Bean - somehow blames President Bush. "The last thing I want to say is that I'm a victim, but I am," Love told Rolling Stone. "I believe it's a trickle down from Bush," she said, particularly of her financial situation. "I should have done an audit. But did I bring it on myself? I don't think so." (PageSix)

[Timeout]

Have you seen the new Bush internet ad? It hit the website within 2 hours of Kerry's address to the newspaper editors' convention yesterday!

Kerry said--on camera: "I never ran a one negative advertisement against my opponents in the primaries....(almost inaudibly) and I haven't run negative ads yet."

The Bushies show this clip, freezing it at the end where Kerry has a "did I really say that?!" look on his face.
Then they show a montage of Kerry's negative ads, each building on the other until it's a cacophony of negative sound bites.

The killer is at the end. "Kerry's negative ads have run more than 28,285 times. 28,285 times. Tell the truth."

Precision humor. Somebody was instantly ready with the exact # of times Kerry's ads had run. These guys are GOOD!
http://www.georgewbush.com/Default.aspx