Posted on 04/27/2005 4:58:06 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Don't know if you read the Powerline blog, but they've caught the Minneapolis Star Tribune in a very funny contradiction!
It would be an understatement to say there is a long running feud between them...the Star Trib has made no secret of their contempt for blogs.
In this case, the Star Trib ran a Sunday editorial praising the filibuster and minority rights and denouncing the proposed "nuclear option". Powerline posted two editorials, from 1993 and 94, in which the very same editorial board denounced Republicans for using the filibuster and standing in the way of Clinton's agenda. The 1994 editorial specifically supported a proposal to get rid of the filibuster. The deputy editorial writer sent several emails to Powerline saying the paper had not flipped because "they had never supported a move to eliminate the filibuster" when Dems were in control.
Oops. The editor finally had to write back and admit they had flipped. Now he says the paper owes its readers an explanation for the contrary positions, depending on who's in the majority. Should be interesting to read if they ever publish it.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010296.php
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010274.php
THIS, however, struck me as the oddest defense I've read in a long time:
In 1999, staff lawyers conducted an inquiry after two women got into a loud verbal altercation, allegedly over his attentions.
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Mfume acknowledged yesterday that he dated one of the women in that altercation...for "three months" and later adopted her 4-year-old son. The boy is now 15, he said. The woman now works for the Maryland Department of Transportation.
Hadn't Kwazy already fathered several children out of wedlock, or am I thinking of another prominent black politician?
As for Lyon, if we do go to France again, I'm hoping to explore the south, Provence, etc. Dinner in Lyon could be one of those once-in-a-lifetime big splurge events!
This may be a form of poetic justice:
TYCO is auctioning off a fortune in antiques belonging to the company's disgraced CEO Dennis Kozlowski, but it turns out the costly clutter is only worth a fraction of what he paid. Several items formerly scattered about Kozlowski's $16.8 million Fifth Avenue apartment are included in Sotheby's French & Continental Furniture sale tonight at the auction house's York Avenue galleries, insiders say.
We're told Kozlowski purchased over $1 million worth of antiques at L'Antiquaire & the Connoisseur, Helen Fioratti's East 73rd Street gallery. But Kozlowski or rather Tyco wildly overpaid for what he apparently believed were incredibly rare items. Sotheby's experts have appraised the treasures at far below what Kozlowski paid.
"I'm very surprised to hear that," Kozlowski told The Post's Laura Italiano during a break in his retrial on fraud charges yesterday. "I just had a turnkey operation."
He was referring to his defense counsel's contention that Kozlowski was not directly responsible for buying any of the furnishings, but rather gave his decorators a budget and trusted them to look after things. ...(Page Six)
It is Kweisi Mfume ( pronounced Kweisi Mfume ) who has a boatload of illegitimate kiddies around the country.
I think his real name is Fizzle my Schnizzle or something like that.
We've already determined that our next trip will be Provence/Tuscany. Lyon could easily be tacked onto that itinerary!
Although....if we were all in Provence...would we really want to leave and head for Lyon?! I imagine we could find a few gastronomic delights right there in Provence.
Fo shizzle.
Hey! I have the same sunglasses as Katie Holmes ( who is a fetus, by the way)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) greets tourists after a press conference at the Jefferson Memorial on April 28, 2005.
Good grief! It looks like Ellie Mae Clampett meets Ole' Crusty!
Meanwhile, Laura is looking super, visiting inner city schools in California...
In the news today:
DISGRACED former White House reporter/male escort Jeff Gannon can't believe no one has invited him to tomorrow's White House Correspondents Dinner. "It seems to me to be odd to exclude the one person who has brought more attention to the White House press corps than anyone else in years," Gannon tells PAGE SIX's Jared Paul Stern. "Probably many who would want to extend such an invitation already assume I will be in attendance." Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, quit his job with the conservative Talon News earlier this year after his fake name, lack of journalistic qualifications and male escort connections came to light. The dinner usually features several stars and sensational guests such as Paula Jones to liven things up. The sub-par star lineup this year includes Robert Duvall, Burt Reynolds, Randy Quaid, Ron Silver, Patricia Heaton and Anne Hathaway. (Page Six)
This from Cindy Adams:
Les Moonves says CBS' post-Rather news that he absolutely guarantees will be "very different and innovative," will be in place "late this summer"
"Different and innovative"? Does that mean truthful? What a novel concept.
And then what? Does the child live with him or mom? WaPo doesn't say.
Our suspicions have been confirmed, Chrissy Matthews is a coward. Zell Miller has a new book out and Chrissy went to all the trouble to run the video of he and Zell's dust up at the Republican Convention but didn't book Zell for the show. Zell's publicist wrote Matthews a letter.
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