Posted on 07/11/2004 6:34:52 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Not sure if HLL and I will be able to see each other (it's killing me, she's only an hour and a half away), we might get to together at the airport before she leaves for a quick dinner. We talked last night and she said she had an good flight, found her dad with no problem and had a lovely dinner with her dad and some of his friends. I'm expecting a call from her later today when she will undoubtedly complain about how freaking hot it is. ;-) She did get to the Mother of All Shoe Sales right before she left and picked up some fab shoes that I must remember to ask her about.
...Teresa with a water bottle on her head is newsworthy.
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that Teresa was making a Baptism joke?
You're right again. And I was thinking the same thing yesterday as the groaning continued, then the "sure... I knew she would" smile emerged on my face when the news of her introducing blubby was released.
I read that story on the flight of terror yesterday and had mixed feelings. Seemed like they had things under control but then to be reminded of our stupid PC policies made me want to throw up my hands. Not much a marshal can do if the plot is to blow up the plane during flight.
Personally I don't believe that frisking each and every Arab would even do the trick, I see a El Al type of screening in our future.
I have a quandary; do I send an email to Chris Matthews asking for his apology for beating up the president with Ambassador Joe Wilson's "suffering" or continue my boycott?
TG2000, I saved that Kerry pic in post 25 to the I Hate John Kerry photo album. A real keeper, thanks!
"Hey Joe Wilson, frog march this!"
Why didn't Victoria's Secret offer to help Alexandra?
US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) speaks to supporters at a front porch event in Lansdowne,Pennsylvania,July 15, 2004.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites), D-N.C., center, talks with New Orleans residents Bill Scallan, left, Jeanne McGlory, second left, and Donald and Charmine Carrere during a 'front porch' meeting in New Orleans, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Edwards met with neighbors on the front porch of the Carrere's residence. (Photo/Bill Haber)
Please let Corrine Brown get voted out of her seat in congress this year!
WASHINGTON - Think the passions from the 2000 presidential election have cooled? Certainly not in the House, which voted Thursday to strike a Florida representative's words from the record after she said Republicans "stole" that closely fought contest.
The verbal battle broke out after Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., proposed a measure barring any federal official from requesting that the United Nations (news - web sites) formally observe the U.S. elections on Nov. 2. His proposal was approved 243-161 as an amendment to a $19.4 billion foreign aid bill, with 33 Democrats joining all 210 voting Republicans in voting "yes."
Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., and several other House Democrats have made that suggestion. They argue that some black voters were disenfranchised in 2000 and problems could occur again this fall.
"We welcome America to observe the integrity of our electoral process and we do not ask, though, for the United Nations to come as monitors at our polling stations," Buyer said.
"I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d'etat. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again," Brown said. "Over and over again after the election when you stole the election, you came back here and said, 'Get over it.' No, we're not going to get over it. And we want verification from the world."
At that point, Buyer demanded that Brown's words be "taken down," or removed the debate's permanent record.
The House's presiding officer, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, ruled that Brown's words violated a House rule.
"Members should not accuse other members of committing a crime such as, quote, stealing, end quote, an election," Thornberry said.
When Brown objected to his ruling, the Republican-run House voted 219-187 along party lines to strike her words. Link
Don't bother. Matthews has completely ignored Wilson's collapse. Last night Andrea Mitchell was hosting and did a segment on it. Her wrap up at the end was that the Senate committee report "added confusion to Wilson's role". What confusion?! He lied.
(Lyin' Joe hasn't been seen on TV since July 2nd. Some blogger said he must be reduced to holding up a hand mirror in order to get his daily fix of gazing at his own image. LOL!)
One person's speculation of the Algore 2004 election dropout mystery:
In 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded shortly after takeoff over the ocean. While the Clinton team called it a terror attack in the confines of their ''war room,'' publicly the media was pushed towards reporting that the explosion was caused by a mechanical failure. That was the word that came down from the Clinton/Gore White House and the investigating personnel was told to work on that premise. The following is from a transcript of Congressional hearings on the matter of TWA Flight 800 with the head of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Congressman Traficant: ''To this point, has any physical evidence, conclusive forensic evidence, [been found] to prove it was a mechanical failure that caused the explosion of the center fuel tank? Yes or no?''
NTSB Chairman Jim Hall: ''We’re looking into that.''
Traficant: ''I want a one [word] answer. I know it is tough at this point.''
Hall: ''No.''
After $40 million dollars and months of investigations, the NTSB still could not prove that a mechanical failure of any kind caused that plane to explode. To this day, the NTSB has been unable to prove that a mechanical failure killed the 230 people on that doomed flight. One thing that was concluded very quickly--perhaps a little too quickly--by the administration was that it was NOT a terrorist attack.
In 1997, the final report of the Gore Commission on Aviation Safety was published. Just prior the release of the findings, the DNC received at least $498,000 from the airline industry. This assured that nothing would be enacted that would hinder the airline industry’s profit margin. The Boston Globe, a liberal newspaper, was outraged at the obvious sellout of the safety of the flying public for a campaign contribution and said Gore, ''failed conspicuously to address airline safety.'' The paper went on to accuse Gore of selling out. Members on that committee stated after the attack on 9/11, that had it been enacted the way they wanted it to be, 9/11 may not have happened.
What do these two events have to do with Gore’s sudden and unexpected withdrawal from the presidential race? Both could have a lot to do with Gore’s dropping out so quickly that he didn’t even inform his shocked campaign staff.
Twice, John Kerry referred to the downing of TWA Flight 800 as a terrorist attack. Once after 9/11, he mentioned the doomed plane in with other known terrorist attacks such as the U.S.S. Cole and the embassy bombings. This makes one wonder: What does John Kerry know that the rest of us do not know? After all, as a senator throughout the 1990’s, Kerry would be in a good position to know the facts about both incidents. Was the mention of TWA 800 a warning shot across Gore’s bow that Kerry knew all about both? Does John Kerry know where all Al Gore’s bodies are buried? complete story
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And I thought the reason had to be that horrifying display on SNL in the hot tub. :-)
Crossing my fingers that algore will implode during prime time at the convention just so I can ask dems I know, "You voted for that? For PRESIDENT?!"
Getting down with my own bad self, I daresay!
Assistance requested!!
I typically use my PC here at home. I have a laptop, which is set up for a privately owned network which I use for work.
I recently had my personal ISP data installed on the laptop. None of this is going to do me any good in NYC at the Convention.
Can someone please advise me as to Who/What/Where I need to have installed on temporarily install on this laptop in order to be able to access the net while I'm at the Convention in NYC?
I'm going to need to communicate with HLL & You while I am there.
Perhaps I should mention: My laptop has a wireless card.
I don't know if I've provided all the information you need to advise me or not.
I've heard horrible things about access problems with AOL.
Please give me your thoughts.
Just what we need this summer from dems, more hot air...
WHEN SEN. JOHN Edwards addressed The Chronicle editorial board in February before the Democratic primaries, I asked him if he would ask the Senate to ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty. "Yes," the presidential candidate answered. Then, he added, he believed Sen. John Kerry shared his position. Wrong.
The next day, when presidential candidate Kerry talked to The Chronicle editorial board, he said that he would not ask the Senate to ratify Kyoto.
Now the Democratic Party has dropped support for Kyoto (a plank in the 2000 party platform) from the initial draft of the national platform for 2004. John Kerry, you see, is no Al Gore, who negotiated the treaty for Bill Clinton in 1997.
Still, it's easy to understand how Edwards, now Kerry's running mate for the White House, was confused.
Teresa Heinz Kerry demonstrates her husband's green credentials by boasting that he has attended more Kyoto conferences than any other major politician in America.
Many news stories in 1997 referred to Kerry's support of Kyoto, undeterred by the Massachusetts senator's vote with 94 other senators for a resolution that directed President Clinton to not agree to a global warming pact that exempted developing nations. (Veep Al Gore ignored the Senate and agreed to a pact that exempts China, India and other developing nations from any pollution caps, while requiring the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.)
At the February ed board meeting, Kerry said, "I believe there is a formula to bring the less-developed countries into this solution. And that's what you have to do. You can't have the United States of America and the developed world reducing emissions, while China and Mexico, South Korea and other countries, India just going crazy spewing about."
Kerry pledged to "immediately go back to the table, and immediately indicate America's willingness to be responsible to engage in a legitimate dialogue about how we're going to do this."
While Europeans generally see President Clinton as supporting Kyoto -- after all, his administration signed the pact -- Clinton never sent the treaty to the Senate for ratification, hence it was never official U.S. policy.
More important, when Clinton left office in 2001, emissions were 14 percent higher than 1990 levels. Clearly Clinton was never serious about meeting the Kyoto goals. Clinton, no fool, knew how compliance with Kyoto would damage the U.S. economy.
Emissions have fallen during the Bush years to 11.5 percent higher than 1990 levels. Still, some environmentalists privately agree that it is not practical to expect the United States to meet the Kyoto goals -- although they believe Washington could do more to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
Kerry has been highly critical of Dubya's unapologetic rejection of Kyoto, which so incensed Our Betters in Europe.
In retrospect, I have to agree. President Bush could have just given the pact lip service -- as Clinton did -- and Europe would have been mollified. Or Bush could have sent the pact to the Senate, and watched both Democrats and Republicans reject it and take the heat of the (all-bow) international community. By being blunt, Bush unnecessarily alienated allies.
That said, it would be interesting to see how Europe would react if a President Kerry rejected Kyoto. Kerry says that, unlike Bush, he would rush to the bargaining table to work out a new treaty. But after years of demanding compliance with Kyoto itself, would that be enough to appease France, Germany and the United Kingdom?
Maybe it would.
Maybe it is because Kyoto is more about hot air -- bashing America's big cars and affluence -- than it is about greenhouse gases. Maybe, if a top U.S. pol says nice things about Kyoto, that's enough. So if Kerry could fool John Edwards about his support for Kyoto, maybe he can fool the rarified minds of Europe, too.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/15/EDGT07LEVS1.DTL
Ahhhh,,, some good news....
Extra! Extra! The big news of the past decade in America has been largely overlooked, and you'll find it shocking. Young people have become aggressively normal.
Violence, drug use and teen sex have declined. Kids are becoming more conservative politically and socially. They want to get married and have large families. And, get this, they adore their parents.
The Mood of American Youth Survey found that more than 80 percent of teenagers report no family problems -- up from about 40 percent a quarter-century ago. In another poll, two-thirds of daughters said they would "give Mom an 'A.'
"In the history of polling, we've never seen tweens and teens get along with their parents this well," says William Strauss, referring to kids born since 1982. Strauss is author, with Neil Howe, of "Millenials Rising: The Next Great Generation."
In an article in the latest issue of City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, Kay S. Hymowitz writes:
"Wave away the smoke of the Jackson family circus, Paris Hilton and the antics of San Francisco, and you can see how Americans have been self-correcting from a decades-long experiment with 'alternative values.' Slowly, almost imperceptibly during the 1990s, the culture began a lumbering, Titanic turn away from the iceberg."
Adults are changing, but kids seem to have changed most -- and they may comprise the new "greatest generation," as Tom Brokaw called the World War II cohort. "What is emerging," writes Hymowitz, "is a vital, optimistic, family-centered, entrepreneurial, and, yes, morally thoughtful, citizenry."
That's trouble, I believe, for the Democratic party, at least in its current anchored-to-the-'60s version. It's possible that John Kerry will win in November because of the war in Iraq (though the smart money is on George Bush), but the long-term trend is clear. College freshmen who call themselves liberals outnumbered conservatives by about three to one in 1971; now the figures are roughly even. "Young voters are also more supportive of President Bush than the public at large," writes Hymowitz.
The changes in politics are rooted in changes in values. Last year, the rate of teen pregnancy dropped to a record low. Better birth control is not the sole explanation; the proportion of teens who had intercourse fell from 56 percent in 1991 to 46 percent in 2001.
Kids don't want casual sex; they want families. Harris Interactive reports that 91 percent plan to marry and, on average, they'd like three children.
Already, Generation X (born between 1965 and 1979) is more traditional than its parents. "The number of married-couple families, after declining in the '70s and '80s," writes Hymowitz, "rose 5.7 percent in the '90s." More brides are taking their husbands' names, and in 2000, the number of women in the workforce with infants dropped for the first time in decades. A study by Yankelovich found that 89 percent of Gen Xers think modern parents let kids get away with too much.
Twice as many Gen-X mothers as Baby Boomer mothers (born 1946-1964) spent more than 12 hours a day "attending to child-rearing and household responsibilities," according to a new survey by Reach Advisors, and roughly half of Gen-X fathers spent three to six hours daily on such tasks, another big increase.
Meanwhile, student marijuana use, which rose sharply in the 1990s, is on the decline, as is binge drinking. The juvenile murder rate fell 70 percent between 1993 and 2001; burglary is down 66 percent. Schools are safer, too.
What's going on here?
Hymowitz offers four explanations: 1) a "rewrite of the boomer years," with young people reacting critically to the world of sexual experimentation and family breakup and "earnestly knitting up their unraveled culture," 2) the trauma of 9/11, which has made kids more patriotic and turned them inward toward the comfort of family, 3) the information economy, which has given young people greater faith in their own chances to succeed, especially through self-reliance and entrepreneurship, and 4) immigration, which has produced what she calls a "fervent work ethic, which can raise the bar for slacker American kids, as any higher schooler with more than three Asian students in his algebra class can attest."
Whatever the reasons, the change in young people and their parents is very, very good news -- which is precisely why so much of the media is ignoring it.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/071604E.html
Check with your ISP to see if they have toll-free national access numbers for when you're on the road - most do.
I'm no help with the wireless card feature...
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Thanks for the good information.
She and Dad are campaigning together again today for the third time this week...They definitely look like they "like" each other.
HLL;are bell bottoms coming back or are those Texas boot britches?
Geez JL, the Geeks couldn't fix the 'puter, we had to wipe it clean and re-install. The Geek said it was some weird virus that they couldn't 'get to', that it hides somewhere in Windows and the only way to get rid of it is to wipe the hard drive clean.
Since Mr. B rarely uses the internet he never took viruses seriously until it started messing up his WordPerfect and other stuff, but now we have the anti-virus thingy.
Now if I could just get my NEW car out of the repair shop!!!! Yes, that's right, my 2 month old car had a problem that we discovered about a MONTH ago and then Audi discovered there wasn't that particular part on the planet so.... they were going to have to make one!! Then they decided to replace the whole right side of the engine (or something close to that) because the part they needed came in that area. The worst part is they gave us an Oldsmobile! to drive until Mr. B fussed so much they finally found an Audi loaner. But it too is a floater (A-6) and not much better than the Olds. They claim they'll pay my car payment for one month, they'd better or else!
Sorry for the rant, I'm just so steamed, it's no wonder I'm thirsting for good news.
Good morning...Ken is starting to annoy me a wee bit. First he made a crack to Alex that "for the first time, he is starting to like the Bush tax cut" and then on another show he said he is going to donate some of his winnings to PBS!!!Could Ken from Utah be one of the few Dems in that state?
What is Martha moaning about, viciousness and gore? A small personal matter blown out of proportion? It's all Bush's fault no doubt.
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