Posted on 04/14/2005 2:39:29 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
All it takes is $1,500.00 and some community service credits...
In that case, don't be surprised to see me on the Walk of Fame someday (although I was thinking of holding out for a spot in front of Graumann's Chinese Theatre).
That woman desperately needs a donut.
Perfect.
JibJab has a new hiphop homage to Matzah. Another good one.
LOL!
Whew, great picture of three great men...
I like Gen. Myers but I like Gen. Pete Pace more for some reason. He's just so cute.
Every gal in Hollywood should beat a path to Phyllis Diller's plastic surgeon, she looks fabulous.
But she had a fall on Monday. Hope she's doing well.
Good grief:
Heinz squeezes blame from pope
By Eric Heyl
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, April 22, 2005
Were it not for the man now known as Pope Benedict XVI, Teresa Heinz might already have installed new drapes and carpeting in the White House.
Or so she seems to believe.
Based on remarks Heinz made recently at a Seattle money-raiser, the Pittsburgh ketchup heiress -- a practicing Catholic -- appears to have little fondness for the new pontiff.
You can almost understand why. He did, if you buy her argument, indirectly help keep her husband, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., from becoming president last year.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported last month that Heinz blamed Kerry's inability to unseat President Bush on anything and everything but Kerry himself.
She implied votes might have been improperly tabulated because most optical scanning devices used to count votes in many parts of the country are owned by two "hard-right" Republicans.
She also suggested the Kerry campaign was brought down in part by Catholic bishops who assailed the candidate's pro-choice view on abortion.
"You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before or the Sunday before the election, as they did in Catholic churches -- saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry," she said. "The church has a right and obligation to teach values. They don't have a right to restrict freedom of expression, which they did."
I assume the Post-Intelligencer's Joel Connelly did his best to accurately quote her. No reporter wants to have to ask Heinz to clarify her remarks immediately after she finishes speaking.
We've heard it can be dangerous.
Last summer, American bishops received a letter from the Vatican advising that Catholics who condone abortion are committing "a grave sin."
Kerry wasn't named, but the communique stated that communion -- the body of Christ, Catholics believe -- should be denied "in the case of a Catholic politician consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion laws."
The letter was written by the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. At the time, that was a fellow named Ratzinger -- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, named Tuesday by the College of Cardinals to succeed the late Pope John Paul II.
Whatever your opinion on abortion, whatever the intent of the letter, the implication that the Vatican helped sway the presidential race is ludicrous.
The presidential race wasn't lost in Rome. It was lost in Boston, Fox Chapel and along the campaign trail.
I recall a far less conspiratorial campaign than does Heinz.
I recall a senator ineptly unable to defeat a president who plunged the nation back into debt and into a war based on assumptions that -- at best -- were completely and utterly erroneous.
Heinz recalls an election that might have been fixed, an election unduly influenced by a Catholic Church she apparently believes betrayed Kerry.
Such thinking is misguided and unfortunate.
The new pontiff is Pope Benedict. It's a pity Heinz considers him to be Pope Benedict Arnold.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_326763.html
She must really be in agony. This is the first photo I've ever seen of the two of them, where he's attempting to be 'tender' with her and she isn't pushing him away.
I suspect for Mamma T, the porch light's on, but nobody's home.
She's living in la-la land.
She looks like a drama queen - eyes closed, vague expression of anguish and pain, as she gingerly rests her head on her beloved's manly chest. It must be a wild and wacky ride to live in the same house (or in one of the same houses) as Teresa.
JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL
A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president — suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival...... Kerry, who will visit Minnesota on May 3, has left little doubt that he yearns to run for president again in 2008, but trails Clinton in every poll of Democratic preference by margins approaching 2-1.
Kerry’s tale of woe illustrates disconnect of some Democrats
To hear John Kerry tell the tale, he lost the 2004 election as a result of Republican dirty tricks. Or at least that’s the line creeping out in his speeches. Speaking to the Massachusetts League of Women Voters, Kerry claimed that many people were duped into not voting. “Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans on Tuesday,” he claimed. “People are told in telephone calls that if you’ve ever had a parking ticket, you’re not allowed to vote.” Did an armada of black helicopters also intimidate voters?
Is he admitting that Dem voters really are this gullible and stupid? I guess so - after all, they've been voting for people like him.
Ted's second marriage, to Victoria Reggie, a DC area lawyer, in 1992 seemed to settle him down. He lost a bit of weight, seemed to cut back on his boozing, and in general seemed a bit more respectable. But the female curse that hangs over his head seems to have been deferred, not denied.
This time it wasn't exactly a woman that is getting him in trouble, but said woman's brother. Ray Reggie, 43, was a political operative in New Orleans who got himself in a bit of trouble a few years ago. He got caught not only ripping off three banks for the sum of 3.5 million dollars, he also pulled over teenage girls with a blue light on his car in the hopes of winning their favors.
But the FBI didn't toss him away immediately. They came to an agreement with Reggie that kept him out of jail for a bit while he continued his political work -- but now wearing a wire.
Reggie continued his political shenanigans over the last three years, but now the FBI has it all on tape. They have him meeting with both Bill and Hillary Clinton, for example, and several high-ranking members of her staff. In fact, one of her top fund raisers, David Rosen, is going on trial in Los Angeles next month for violating election laws at a 2000 fund-raiser for Hillary's Senate campaign, and evidence from Reggie is expected to play a key role.
Now that the story is finally breaking (Reggie's trial started in 2001, was pleaded out 2002, but the details were only made public recently), the speculation is flying fast and furious. Did Ray Reggie set up his brother-in-law? Did Ted know just how much trouble Ray was in, and did he "freeze him out" of anything sensitive? Did he aim Ray at the Clintons, hoping to save his wife's brother's hide (along with his own) at the expense of the family that has largely supplanted the Kennedys in Democratic power circles?
Great story, isn't it?
Is she wearing a slipcover?
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