You're correct, Hilly is everywhere. Do they still make Valium? I'm going to need a barrel full for the next four years.
Posted on 03/01/2005 4:31:23 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
This is awesome! Takes about 5 minutes. Turn on the sound.
http://siteeric1705.free.fr/video/sandAnimation.wmv
You're correct, Hilly is everywhere. Do they still make Valium? I'm going to need a barrel full for the next four years.
"The foundation," says spokeswoman Debra DeShong, "is getting the truth out."
Uh, the truth is getting out dearie, that's why your "foundation" has to beat back the "wave," mercy, what a bunch of knuckleheads.
And it's doing that on the critics' turf: Internet blogs. "This is the newest and most influential media, and the right wing really does it well," she says.
Well, not to take any kudos away from the right wing but those lefties really make it easy. *snicker*
"It's like beating back a wave with a hammer."
And it's not like you all use a regular right wing hammer, y'all are beating back the wave of truth with that tried and true tool of the left... The whiffle hammer! aaahahahaha!
There is so much material in that piece I could go on and on but I'll sum it up with this:
"We have to develop a discipline for this party, so the people of this country know more clearly what it is to be a Democrat," she said.
I can clearly describe what it is to be a democrat in three little words.
Abortion, abortion, abortion.
A courageous democrat (sounds like a job for SHRUM!) should sit TH(K) down and explain to her that they did get their message out, hence the big loss. Certainly TH(K) will argue the point, especially since she thinks it was the actions of others that ruined Effin's reputation. LOL! So Shrum will have to spell it out for her, s-l-o-w-l-y. Bob could say something like, the American voter sent us (the dems) a message TH(K). What other reason could there be for Hillary sprinting to the right side of the fence these days?
And if Bob is as smart as he'd like everyone to think,,, he'd better have a glass of vodka with raisins soaking in it handy.
Oh no! I was asleep, too!
Will they sue me next?!
That Austrian and German plaintiffs are suing a French hotel chain in this whole mess is amusing, in a way. Maybe the families of soldiers killed in Iraq should sue the German and French governments for doing nothing to help - emotional distress, and all that.
Speaking of the tsunami, the body of the boyfriend of model Petra whatshername has been found, story here.
Why am I rambling aimlessly at 5:30 a.m.? Mr. M's bad cold woke me up at around 3:45 a.m. It will be a long day - I'll be heading to Pgh this afternoon to stay at my mother's tonight in order to take her to the hospital at 6 a.m. Wed. for a heart catheterization.
"This is not from a fancy store," she revealed yesterday. "It's from Alderson."
Stewart's garment was made by a fellow inmate she didn't name. The yarn, she said, came from the prison commissary.
"She crochets 12 hours a day," Stewart said of her jailhouse buddy. "It's her thing. The night before I left, she handed it to me and said, 'Wear it in good health.' I hope she is reading the news and watching TV because I'm so proud of her. This is a beautiful thing."
The poncho made headlines after its debut early Friday. And fashion experts are predicting copies will soon become a hot seller in stores. Mr. Blackwell, famed for his annual worst-dressed celebrity lists, said, "I don't think Martha intended this to be a fashion statement, but shawls and ponchos will now become very popular. It was warm and kind of her to wear that, and it showed an appreciation of friendship."
Have you left yet? If not, are you watching the scenes from Beirut on Fox? Looks like the people have turned out despite Hezbolah's plans to march today.
Q:
Who are these thousands of people who march every day? (God bless 'em).
Is Lebanon still on general strike?
Alas, I don't get Fox News, but that sounds like more good news from Lebanon.
I hope Robert Fisk choked on his porridge when he saw that headline.
How much Mr Bush is responsible for these development is debatable. The peaceful uprising in Lebanon was provoked by outrage at the assassination of the former prime minister Rafik Hariri, in which a Syrian hand is suspected, although not proven. Then the man who insisted on elections in Iraq when the US wanted to postpone or dilute them [really??] was Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, leader of Iraq's majority Shia community. And the death from old age of Yasser Arafat, not machinations in Washington, led to the election that might break the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock.
Indubitably, however, even his most grudging domestic opponents and his harshest critics in the region admit that Mr Bush is also in part responsible. The 2003 invasion of Iraq may have been justified by a giant fraud, but that, and above all the January election to which it led, transfixing the Arab world, has proved a catalyst. (from the Independent)
Bush's critics are turning themselves into pretzels trying to portray him as having stumbled into this wave of freedom.
It's as if they were discussing a young woman who gets great grades, volunteers for good causes, and never causes her parents any problems. These shortsighted cynics would explain her success as due to her studying hard, choosing healthy friendships, and having access to good schools.
That would totally miss the point that she likely has good parents who nudged and fostered those successful habits in her. Like Bush, parents don't take credit for their children's success...but without their encouragement, sacrifices and prodding it probably wouldn't have happened.
Just over the Associated Press wire:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian protesters waved flags and chanted anti-American slogans in a central Beirut square Tuesday, answering a nationwide call by the militant Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group for a demonstration to counter weeks of massive rallies demanding Syrian forces leave Lebanon.
Organizers handed out Lebanese flags and directed the men and women to separate sections of the square. Loudspeakers blared militant songs urging resistance to foreign interference. Demonstrators held up pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and signs saying, "Syria & Lebanon brothers forever."
Other placards read: "America is the source of terrorism"; "All our disasters are from America"; "No to American-Zionist intervention; Yes to Lebanese-Syrian brotherhood."
Black-clad Hezbollah guards handled security, lining the perimeter of the square and taking position on rooftops. Trained dogs sniffed for bombs. Large cranes hoisted two giant red-and-white flags bearing Lebanonás cedar tree. On one, the words, "Thank you Syria," were written in English; on the other, "No to foreign interference."
The demonstration was in front of U.N. offices. Hezbollah opposes the U.N. resolution drafted by the United States and France last year calling for Syria to withdraw its 14,000 troops from Lebanon. The United States also has demanded that Syria pull out its intelligence agents, and a Syrian official in Damascus said on condition of anonymity Tuesday that the agents would be pulled back along with the regular army.
The square was just a few blocks from another downtown square where opposition protesters have been rallying for days, demanding that Syria withdraw its troops.
Tuesday's rally was far bigger than the more than 70,000 anti-Syrian protesters who filled the nearby Martyrs' Square on Monday. That was the biggest rally yet of anti-Syrian furor, as demonstrators waved Lebanonás cedar-tree flag and thundered, "Syria out!"
At least one opposition leader said the pro-Syrian government pressured people to turn out Tuesday and some reports said Syria bused in people from across the border.
A day after the Syrian and Lebanese leaders announced that Syrian forces would redeploy to eastern Lebanon before the nations discuss a full withdrawal, most of the troops were still in position, with Associated Press reporters in the mountains overlooking Beirut seeing only scattered movement of military trucks heading toward the Bekaa Valley.
A truck carrying 11 soldiers and supplies headed east at midmorning but most of the military traffic was moving in the other direction - empty trucks and buses traveling west apparently to collect soldiers and equipment.
Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group, has been mobilizing its followers from across the country for the protest, also meant to denounce the U.N. resolution that also called for dismantling militias - a point Hezbollah sees as aimed at its well-armed military wing.
Hezbollah is widely admired both within Lebanon and across the Arab world for driving Israeli forces out of the countryás south. It also has the organizational capability and party discipline to mobilize massive street protests, drawing its strength from the Shiite Muslim community, Lebanon's largest religious sect with 1.2 million people.
In the outlying heavily Shiite regions of the Bekaa and the south, loudspeakers had urged followers to travel to Beirut for the protest.
Opposition leaders, who have been courting Hezbollah's support to oust Syrian troops, accused Lebanese intelligence agents of exercising pressure on municipalities, public schools and institutions to drive up the number of demonstrators.
Hezbollah officials denied the charges, saying it is part of a campaign to make the demonstration seem "imposed and involuntary."
Hezbollah, founded by Iran and backed in part by Syria, has emerged as a key player in the latest political instability, capable of tilting the balance either in favor of the government or the opposition.
Cabinet Minister Talal Erslan drew cheers Tuesday when he said the crowd came from all over Lebanon "to affirm our gratitude to Syrian president Bashar Assad."
"We have come here to affirm Lebanon's independence, sovereignty and unity ... and say no to the flagrant foreign interference in our affairs," he said.
Participants stressed that the foreign influence they referred to was from the United States, France and other countries, not Syria, which they welcomed.
"Syria should not leave. We are one hand and one people," said 16-year-old Esraa Awarki, who traveled by bus from Sharkiya in southern Lebanon. "Why do they want us to split now?"
At one point, the crowd observed a moment of silence for former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination in a Feb. 14 bombing triggered the weeks of anti-Syrian demonstrations. Many Lebanese accuse Syria and Lebanon's government of responsibility for Hariri's death; both deny any involvement.
Faced with incessant international pressure and raging Lebanese opposition, Assad on Saturday announced his troops would withdraw after nearly three decades in Lebanon. On Monday, he met with President Emile Lahoud in Damascus and jointly announced a plan.
But the plan set no deadline for the complete withdrawal of Syrian troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon, and Washington rejected the pullback as insufficient. The plan also was unlikely to satisfy the Lebanese
opposition and the rest of the international community.
Washington wants a full withdrawal of Syrian soldiers and intelligence agents before Lebanese parliamentary elections expected in April and May. The White House called the Lebanese-Syrian plan a "half measure."
Syria has had troops here since 1976, when they were sent as peacekeepers during Lebanonás 1975-90 civil war. When the war ended, the troops remained and Syria has dominated Lebanon's politics ever since.
Under the plan announced Monday, all Syrian troops in Lebanon would fall back to eastern regions near Syria by March 31. Military officers will decide by April 30 the duration and size of Syrian forces to remain in that region. After that period, the two governments would decide on a date for pullout.
International Women's Day at the State Department Tuesday,....
Prayers for your mom.
Here's a real poser - my mother's stress test seemed to indicate one artery wasn't getting any blood to her heart, thus the cardiac cath and the doctor's concern. Lo and behold, and thanks be to God, everything is fine! That's what I call a false reading.
Whew. After a little catching up at FR and a few other sites, I'm going to bed!
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