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The GUILD 11-11-2002 Curious George and the High Tension Power Line
Posted on 11/11/2002 7:33:52 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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To: BigWaveBetty
dems just don't bother to come back out in numbers to vote again like the first time around. Maybe it's because they already got their "bonus" from the party for voting, and there may not be any more where that came from. When we were in Richmond last weekend, my mother's friend (who also had attended high school with my late father in a little WV town) told about the 1960 election, where Joe Kennedy had his people go to the part of Charleston, WV, where people would hang out on Saturday nights. They passed out $50 bills to the folks and told them to vote for JFK. Sure enough, he won WV. Nothing new, except now the Dems can buy votes with packs of cigarettes.
To: mountaineer
[Gee, you wouldn't be parroting what your butt buddy Clinton told you while you two were visiting England recently, would ya, Kev?] LOL! Kevvie probrably took notes.
Finally saw Clinton, clip of him on a golf course somewhere. What did the reporter ask him about? The election?! No. What did he think about the Iraqi parliaments decision. snnnnnnnore.
Clintoon's stunningly stoopid answer, "I thought Saddam was homicidal not suicidal. He has no clue that Saddam instructs the parliaments to vote no on the resolution, then will come out and "accept" the resolution in the name of world peace. And then try his games with us again. barf.
Ventura near MSNBC talk deal LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Jesse Ventura is close to finalizing a seven-figure, multiyear deal with MSNBC to host a primetime talk show for the struggling all-news cable channel.
Ventura, the pro wrestler-turned-political maverick who is in his waning weeks as governor of Minnesota, is expected to front a news-oriented discussion program. Details about the format were sketchy, but sources said the idea was to allow Ventura and a handful of guests to dissect the day's headlines and generally comment on current events and social trends.
The show will air as a primetime strip, but it's unclear whether it will be a half-hour or hourlong format. It's understood that MSNBC is hoping to launch the show in the spring. There's also a chance that Ventura would make appearances on other NBC News programs. Ventura had a short-stint on the NBC payroll last year, when he provided color commentary for XFL (news - web sites) game telecasts that NBC carried as part of its ill-fated effort to launch a football league in partnership with World Wrestling Entertainment.
MSNBC spokeswoman Cheryl Daly said late Tuesday that the channel is always pursuing a range of new programming ideas, "but we don't comment on any of them until they're ready to be announced."
Ventura has been a media darling since he gained national attention upon winning his quixotic bid for Minnesota's highest office on the Reform Party ticket (he has since disavowed the party and branded himself an independent). Before that, Ventura was known as "The Body" on the wrestling circuit.
Ventura's reps at WMA declined comment, as did his attorneys at Manatt Phelps Phillips.
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LOL! Can MSNBC say desperation? Shhure! I knew they could!
To: BigWaveBetty
Well, Phil Donahue has been such a ratings boon for them (not). Here's an amusing little piece on Nancy Pelosi. San Franciscans just can't understand the characterization of the cosmetic surgery queen as a socialist!
As House Democrats prepare to make eight-term Rep. Nancy Pelosi their leader, a good portion of the ruling pundocracy seem to be having a grand time questioning -- if not outright ridiculing -- the party's judgment for turning to a San Franciscan. ...
"Latte liberal," screams the conservative National Review. "About as San Francisco as you can get without digging up Jerry Garcia," says the Australian Financial Review to its readers halfway across the globe. full article
To: BigWaveBetty
Gennifer Flowers speaks to reporters in New York, in this Jan. 27, 1992 file photo.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002, that it plans to reinstate Flowers' defamation and conspiracy suit against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former presidential aides George Stephanopoulos and James Carville. The court said Flowers should have her day in court to try to prove the aides fouled her reputation when they publicly accused her of doctoring audio tapes between Flowers and Bill Clinton. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Go get 'em Jen!
To: BigWaveBetty
Complete bovine excrement alert:
W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 13 — The high school textbooks say the president of the United States runs the executive branch of government and rides herd on a vast bureaucracy assigned to carry out his directives.
Well, that's not quite the way it works, say Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, who describe the travails of President Clinton in trying, often unsuccessfully, to get the Pentagon and the FBI to pursue Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.
The two authors, both Clinton-era National Security Council experts on terrorism, share their thoughts in a new book, "The Age of Sacred Terror." They say Clinton wanted to do something about al-Qaida operations in Afghanistan late in his second term, his cruise missile attacks on the group's facilities in August 1998 having achieved little.
He approached Gen. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and said, according to the book, "It would scare the (expletive) out of al-Qaida if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters in to the middle of their camp. It would get us an enormous deterrence and show those guys we're not afraid."
full story, ABC News. Oh please! Hey, Bill, why didn't you contact your Hollywood friends and see if Jackie Chan was available? I bet he could have scared the $#*! out of Osama. What a load of tripe!
To: lodwick
I meant to ask you... do you think that this could be frozen and reheated okay? I wasn't quite sure since it had all the eggs in it. We are trying to make things for her that she can put in the freezer and take out when she needs a quick meal.
To: mountaineer
It would get us an enormous deterrence and show those guys we're not afraid."~~clintoon
That statement proves that the toon knew bin Laden thought we were cowards after the Black Hawk incident.
The Pentagon feared a debacle similar to April 1980 when President Carter dispatched helicopters to Iran in hopes of rescuing 52 American hostages. The result was the incineration of two helicopters and the deaths of eight servicemen.
Uh yeah, they feared an ingorant boob giving orders to the military.
The authors suspect that Pentagon reservations about the Clinton plan ran deeper. The Pentagon, they point out, had an uneasy relationship with Clinton virtually from Day 1, when the White House began pushing to end discrimination against homosexuals by the military.
Not buying that, more likey they knew he was a worthless CIC.
They quoted a senior political appointee at the Pentagon as saying that Defense was "particularly unwilling to go out on a limb for Clinton."
And why should they, when they asked for help in Mogadishu, they got sqaut.
Also, the authors say, Thomas Pickering, No. 3 at the State Department under Clinton, worried that someone at Defense would put out the story that the Clinton plan would "hazard the lives of young Americans in a wild goose chase. The Pentagon has a great capacity to let things leak to keep from doing them."
Clinton's "black ninja" plan never got off the ground.
And thank God! It probably saved countless military lives.
Lee Edwards, who follows presidential politics at the Heritage Foundation, says all presidents have had difficulty with balky bureaucracies.
He recalled that President Truman, shortly before Dwight D. Eisenhower's succession in 1953, said, "Poor Ike. He's going to come in, give an order and think it's going to be carried out."
Interesting how GWB doesn't seem to have these problems.
We survived that toon by the skin of our teeth!
To: BigWaveBetty
Hi, Bill Clinton sent me. Could you tell me where I might find a Mr. Bin Laden or one of his associates?
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) poses with Lauren Manning for photographers as they arrive at the Glamour magazine Women of the Year awards in New York City, October 28, 2002. Manning was given one of the awards after she survived the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen
More on Lauren Manning:
After breakfast on September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning, a senior vice president and partner at Cantor-Fitzgerald, a large New York bond-trading firm, headed for One World Trade Center, as she did every morning. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second her life was changed forever...
Until that moment, Lauren had been, in her husband's words, "vibrant, athletic, beautiful, decisive and demanding." Now burns covered more than 80 percent of her body; her odds of surviving were said to be less than 15 percent; and she was lying in an ICU, in a drug-induced coma, hovering between life and death. It would be two months before she awoke fully enough to find out that her office building was gone, and with it, hundreds of colleagues and friends.
On September 19, Lauren's husband Greg began writing a daily journal. In the form of e-mails sent to family, friends, and colleagues, he recorded her harrowing struggle - and his own tormented efforts to make sense of an act that defies all understanding. This book contains those letters - detailed, intimate, inspiring messages that end, always, with "Love, Greg & Lauren."
It was, first and foremost, Greg's belief that Lauren would win her brave fight for life that kept him writing. Through his eyes we see what she could not - her ten-month-old son's first steps, and the video of his first birthday party. And we are there as Lauren gradually emerges into awareness, signaling first with her eyes, and then with smiles, her understanding of the words Greg speaks to her, and the songs he plays. Most miraculously, we are there when Lauren walks out of the Burn Center.
The world knows all too well by now both the nightmare and the heroism associated with "9/11." But no account quite matches this one for its heartfelt spontaneity. It is a story that invites us to share, e-mail after e-mail, the perilous course of a mortally wounded woman who, because she is determined to live for her husband and her son, emerges from near death by sheer willpower and courage. And it is equally the story of a man who, as he stays by her side, discovers anew the depth of his love. Link
Quite a contrast between these two women, Lauren a brave soul with so much love in her heart for her son and husband stuggled heroically to become the wife and mom she once was.
And the skank who cares only about herself and her political career. Glamour had to invite hillary as the anti-glamour balance for the evening.
To: mountaineer
Then after we kick clintoon's butt... er, what? Were going after bin Laden?! Screw that!
Off to our lair for Pizza!
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss, right, jestures to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D, left, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002, as they leave after having a breakfast meeting with President Bush (news - web sites) at the White House. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Little Tommy looks dishearten. AAhahahaha! Which I could have be a muffin on the table listening to GWB's repute of little tommy's leadership!
Officials: 'It is his voice' U.S. government and coalition officials believe a new audiotaped message contains the voice of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "Yes, it is his voice," a senior State Department official said. The tape threatens retaliation against the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition: "Just like you kill us, we will kill you." FULL STORY
To: Aggie Mama
I really don't know about freezing the sausage/egg casserole - ours never last that long.
Someone here will be able to tell you though. ;-)
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11/13/2002 7:34:34 AM PST
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lodwick
To: BigWaveBetty; mountaineer
Please keep rolling - I need it after the last three days. Thanks. ;-)
Hard to believe that the PIAPS bothered to break out fifteen cents worth of Prell for this event - or did Glamour have folks on hand to give complimentary do's?
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posted on
11/13/2002 7:40:04 AM PST
by
lodwick
To: BigWaveBetty
Lott may be saying to little Tommy, "Aw, c'mon, Tommy. The president doesn't mind that you spilled your milk at breakfast. These things happen. Now stop that sniffling and be a big boy. Er, well, act like a big boy, anyway."
To: lodwick
I'm fading fast... not much sleep last night, but just for you...
Send 'em Gary Hart - with cooler hair
Could the once progressive Democrat be the cure for what ails his party? He’s extremely smart, he’s good looking, he has new ideas and he knows how to express them.
And any infidelities he may have committed have been overshadowed by certain finger-wagging, lip-biting presidents.
That has to put him at the head of the class. Al Gore in 2004? Wake me up when it’s over. If you called central casting and asked for a presidential candidate, they’d send you Gary Hart with cooler hair.
Jim Gibson, president of the Colorado Democratic Leadership Council, isn’t sure yet whether Hart is a viable contender.First, he says, the party must agree on what caused last Tuesday’s losses before it can debate what the response ought to be.
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Good Grief! Are the dems raiding nursing homes now for candidates?! How about some new ideas guys?
We pubbies sure have these empty booble-heads on the scramble! LOL
To: lodwick
Man Wedged in Chimney Blames Mary Poppins
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - It may work for Santa Claus and the singing chimney sweep in "Mary Poppins," but one Texas man found out that going down the chimney was no way to enter a home after he became wedged in the smoke stack.
Mark Vaughn was trying to help his family get back into their home in Fort Worth after they locked themselves out.
When his mother-in-law told him to get a locksmith, Vaughn said he got the idea of going down the chimney. His inspiration was the character of the chimney sweep played by actor Dick Van Dyke in the movie "Mary Poppins," which he had recently seen.
"What prompted me? I was watching the Dick Van Dyke movie a few weeks ago, you know the chimney sweeper movie," Vaughn told reporters Tuesday.
Vaughn said he thought he was going to make it all the way down the chimney, but he got stuck near the bottom. After about 30 minutes in the chimney, Vaughn realized he could go no further and yelled out for help.
His family called for the fire department, and as he waited in the shaft, Vaughn said his arms and legs went numb.
Rescue workers carefully dismantled the chimney brick by brick and after about an hour, they opened a hole large enough to free Vaughn.
"In trying to get the person out, you have to do a lot of manipulation of the brick and mortar, which can transmit a lot of injury to the person inside," said James Johns, a fire battalion chief.
A grateful Vaughn, his face black with soot, shook hands with the firefighters who rescued him and said the episode left him shaken. Link
Let's take a poll: Was dad a dim or a republican?
To: mountaineer
Breaking News!Surprize, surprize! Unconfirmed report: Iraq has accepte the UN resolution, unconditionly. (yeah right)
To: BigWaveBetty
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