The Guild 5-5-2004 The Bold and The Irreverent

USA Today ^ | 5-5-2004 | Peter Johnson

[BigWaveBetty]

Former Vice President Al Gore plans to launch a cable news network for young adults that he says will be "irreverent and bold" but not liberal.

Gore said Tuesday that the as-yet-unnamed network will be "an independent voice in this industry" for people ages 18-34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own."

[lodwick]

Poor algore - when you can't even carry your homestate, things must really suck.

I hate to hear, and find it tough to believe, that he bought News World International.

[MaeWest]

Did you say "Margarita"?
Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone.

[lodwick]

Cheers, Mae.

[lodwick]

I don't know how many more days of algore I can stand each time I post to the thread...goodness, what a wuss.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

In a moment largely unnoticed by the throngs of people in Lebanon waiting for autographs from the president of the United States, George W. Bush stopped to hold a teenager's head close to his heart.

Lynn Faulkner, his daughter, Ashley, and their neighbor, Linda Prince, eagerly waited to shake the president's hand Tuesday at the Golden Lamb Inn. He worked the line at a steady campaign pace, smiling, nodding and signing autographs until Prince spoke:

"This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11."

Bush stopped and turned back.

"He changed from being the leader of the free world to being a father, a husband and a man," Faulkner said. "He looked right at her and said, 'How are you doing?' He reached out with his hand and pulled her into his chest."

Faulkner snapped one frame with his camera.

"I could hear her say, 'I'm OK,' " he said. "That's more emotion than she has shown in 21/2 years. Then he said, 'I can see you have a father who loves you very much.' "

"And I said, 'I do, Mr. President, but I miss her mother every day.' It was a special moment."

Special for Lynn Faulkner because the Golden Lamb was the place he and his wife, Wendy Faulkner, celebrated their anniversary every year until she died in the south tower of the World Trade Center, where she had traveled for business.

The day was also special for Ashley, a 15-year-old Mason High School student, because the visit was reminiscent of a trip she took four years ago with her mother and Prince. They spent all afternoon in the rain waiting to see Bush on the campaign trail. Ashley remembers holding her mother's hand, eating Triscuits she packed and bringing along a book in case she got bored.

But this time was different. She understood what the president was saying, and she got close enough to see him face to face.

"The way he was holding me, with my head against his chest, it felt like he was trying to protect me," Ashley said. "I thought, 'Here is the most powerful guy in the world, and he wants to make sure I'm safe.' I definitely had a couple of tears in my eyes, which is pretty unusual for me."

The photo has been circulating across the country, Faulkner said. Relatives have passed it on to friends, bosses and acquaintances. As they tell the story, they also share in Wendy Faulkner's legacy, which her family continues through the Wendy Faulkner Memorial Children's Foundation.

"I'm a pretty cynical and jaded guy at this point in my life," Faulkner said of the moment with the president. "But this was the real deal. I was really impressed. It was genuine and from the heart."

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[lodwick]

Quotes & Toasts 0f The Day -

"Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty."

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us"

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."-- Edward Langley

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[lodwick]

Ya gotta love StrangeCosmosDudes...too funny. ;-)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle.
We lost the war at home and at home John Kerry was the field general"
- Bob Elder, Swift Boat Veteran For Truth

"I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces,"
said retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, chairman of the organization.
"This is not a political issue. It is a matter of honesty."

Hanoi Kerry at his "moment of glory."
What a piece of ******
The media WILL NOT mention this book.
I will!
The cover is a insult to Iwo Jima vets,
then it gets worse towards Viet Nam vets.
I was there the same time Hanoi Kerry was.
I served on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817 which supplied Swift Boats (PBR's)
and gave gunfire support in North AND South Viet Nam.
My ship may have even supplied Hanoi Kerry's boat.
I VOW I will do everything I LEGALLY can
to keep this traitor from being elected.
I owe it to those who gave their all.

[NYpeanut]

Amazing. I just read this and got tears in my eyes. We have an awesome man as our president.

When I think of the trash that preceded him I could choke.

[Timeout]

Well-deserved e-mail of the day on The Daily Dish:

"I'm all for the ongoing insistence on showing those prison images as long as the media begins showing the World Trade Centers being immolated again. When was the last time we saw those? Think we'll see them again, even once, on the mainstream media before November? No, that kind of visceral shock wouldn't serve the left's agenda."

We also need to see the full scope of the murder of Daniel Pearl, the corpses outside Fallujah, and the severed hands and bodies of those murdered by suicide bombers. Those victims deserve no more privacy than the victims of abuse at Abu Ghraib. And they can no longer be humiliated, because they're dead.

Here, here.

[They'reGone2000]

Mama Teresa alert: 20/20 with BabaWawa tonight.

[Timeout]

You're good at this Photoshop stuff. I still look at a couple of those prisoner abuse photos and they don't look real to me. I won't post them here out of good taste.

But please look at this one
Photo 1 : See that shadow outline all around her figure? Has that been explained?

Photo 2 Same here. Black outline around her pants, but mostly--look at the shadow under her left arm. It doesn't seem to "fall" on anything like a shadow should. And, maybe it's just my computer, but she seems to be an entirely different color than the other people.

I haven't visited threads discussing these photos. Have these anomolies been investigated?

[Iowa Granny]

I have seen one other person question those photos. But I can't remember WHO it was.

[lodwick]

We are all concerned. at least...the hearings are very troubling to all of us.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

How was your day with Bush? I looked for you in the Greeting Committee as he was getting off of AF1.

I don't know if you were there or not, but I did look for you :)

[Iowa Granny]

I wasn't on the greeting committee. I was inside, just behind him and to the left (out of camera range), front row.

He got a great reception. There were quite a few protesters. I had to weave my way thru the protesters to get into the facility.

[daisyscarlett]

Did Bush say in his speech yesterday that he has the energy for the campaign? He said that in Michigan and I just know he was referring to his opponents obvious lack of energy. Just look at this photo...Kerry after campaigning for five days...he is not well and has "no energy"...