The GUILD 3-31-2003 The Lastest Fashion Fad in Japan

[lodwick]

Didn't you have a memorable smorking incident back in the day?

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Sports Illustrated


Posted on 03/21/2003 3:20 PM CST by ruppertdog


I just received my March Madness SI in the mail. In the back is a book excerpt about presidents and golf. The chapter features Bill Clinton. I apologize for there being no link to the excerpt, I couldn't find it on the web.

It is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life, and a nice turn from a magazine that routinely publishes left leaning policy articles that I am used to seeing in National Geographic. (Uninformed negative positions on oil drilling in Alaska and a sewer plant near a giant cave in Tennessee are recent examples that come to mind)

The article reinforces the "Clintoon" character that is our ex-president. He has created his own set of rules that turn golf into a shell game. The story talks about 50-foot gimme puts and the 3-4 "Billigans" Clinton hits after EVERY shot. He then mixes his first official ball up with one of the "Billigans" to improve his game. Clinton usually shoots in the low eighties on these outings, but in tournaments where he can't cheat he is lucky to break 95. The author shaves 15 strokes off of his round playing Clinton golf.

Clinton tells the other golfers that he considered playing and practicing to scratch and joining the Senior PGA, but he is too busy with public policy to do this. Sure, he could be a pro golfer! The most ridiculous part of the article is Clinton talking about his high school church basketball team. He claims to lead the team off of the bench to victory one time, scoring 16 points punctuated with a slam dunk. What a character! Our Senior PGA, Slam dunking ex- president.

Anyway, I highly recommend reading the article. It is very entertaining and I really laughed pretty hard at parts of it. How the hell this guy ever got to be President for eight years is beyond me!

[mountaineer]

Twelve years ago, when Peter Arnett was holed up in Baghdad for the first war on Iraq, Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) was widely condemned for calling Arnett an Iraqi "sympathizer" whose brother-in-law had been "active in the Viet Cong."

After Arnett's son wrote in the New York Times about the pain Simpson's "smear" had caused the Arnett family, Simpson apologized to the New Zealand-born journalist, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam. "I greatly regret the hurt, pain and anguish I have caused," Simpson wrote to the Times.

But yesterday the 72-year-old retired senator was in no mood to apologize.

Rest of story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63007-2003Mar31.html

[BigWaveBetty]

Those are all good ideas, thanks. The troops could probably use lots and lots of baby wipes too. Ugh, not being able to shower after many days in the desert must be awful.

Kerry's been passing notes in the senate.

Presidential candidate John Kerry has been passing notes on the Senate floor, assuring his southern Democratic colleagues that he plans to compete in their home states.

Kerry slipped the note, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, to a few colleagues Wednesday while the Senate deliberated the budget. He was prompted by a story Monday in The State newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina, titled, "Kerry might have written off the South," that referred to his speech.

"Al Gore proved that you can get elected president of the United States without winning one Southern state -- if he had simply won New Hampshire or West Virginia or Ohio or Colorado or a number of other states," Kerry said at the fund-raiser. "We are the leaders. Democrats have to stop looking at the small solution that the country is compartmentalized in that way."

The note was marked "Personal, From John Kerrry, To Senator," and contained only the 21-line quote. His name was misspelled with an extra letter "R." Full story

[BigWaveBetty]

Didn't you have a memorable smorking incident back in the day?

No sir, I have never smorked in bed! And I never will! ;-)

[Carolina]

Hijacked plane headed for Florida from Cuba!

[mountaineer]

Yes, baby wipes are on the list, as are Clorox wipes and liquid hand sanitizer.

[BigWaveBetty]

That's a switch. Cubans must be tired of the 90 mile float to Florida. I don't blame them one bit.

[BigWaveBetty]

I'm surprized Sen. Simpson was so mild in his assessment of Peteah.

I'd like to give Peteah some advise:

Let it shine!

C'mon Peteah! Let that silly little piece of hair go. Let your bald head shine!

From your link:

Meanwhile, intimates of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Moynihan's Senate successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), are denying a U.S. News & World Report item that the Moynihans are upset with Clinton for announcing his death on the Senate floor last Wednesday "without the family's OK," while friends were still being notified privately. The magazine quotes "a family representative" as saying: "It wasn't hers to announce. It was classless." Yesterday, after Moynihan was interred at Arlington National Cemetery, Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines told us his boss "delivered her tribute to Senator Moynihan after she and her colleagues had already been told in a caucus meeting, and has received only positive feedback from his friends and family." Family friend Lawrence O'Donnell said it was Clinton's proper role to give the leadoff tribute in the Senate: Widow "Liz Moynihan doesn't have a problem with how all this unfolded, and was very appreciative of Senator Clinton's role—which was very appropriate."

Are we to believe that the widow Moynihan has any idea what hillary did? Please.

[lodwick]

My bad...who the heck was it whose negligee smorked up in flames on their honeymoon then?

[lodwick]

The saddam statement "live" thread has already begun. fyi

Too funny. It's scheduled for 6pm tonight.

[Carolina]

Saddamn's still dead. LMAO!!!!!

[lodwick]

As many hits as that palace has taken, and continues to take up to this minute, I must agree with you. That and the fact that he's not really been seen since our first target of opportunity strike.

Cheers.

[mountaineer]

Saddamn's still dead.

I think I saw him in Franco's tomb. He's still dead, too.

[BigWaveBetty]

My bad...who the heck was it whose negligee smorked up in flames on their honeymoon then?

WHAT?!?!?! LOL! Can't wait to read that nugget. :-)

[BigWaveBetty]

Although these Palm Beach dems preface electing GWB in 2004 with "if things work out with the war", this is an interesting read.

Mr. Schniper and seven of his Democratic friends, all veterans and all proponents of the president's resolve in Iraq, defy the national partisan political divide on the war. They voted for Al Gore in 2000 and Bill Clinton before that, but what they do next year could affect the presidential election in this key state.

The 10 veterans, including two Republicans, gathered in a condominium to discuss the war, dispute the validity of the United Nations and support an assault on Iraq that would emphasize destroying the enemy rather than protecting civilians.

They are disgusted by war protesters and the blistering criticism of the president by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat. [I just sent Sen. Bill Nelson a letter this morning regarding his (nelson) recent criticism of our pres. Maybe I should just keep quiet and let the dims shoot themselves in the foot?]

"I am now talking to Democrats who ask me, 'Why ... didn't Clinton do this?' " the 68-year-old Korean War veteran said. "They know this is not about oil; it's about 9/11."Full story

Algore honors April Fools Day with this wisdom.

According to the Tennessean, Gore used recent attacks on the Dixie Chicks that followed anti-war comments by Natalie Maines as an example. Gore told the audience, "They were made to feel un-American and risked economic retaliation because of what was said. Our democracy has taken a hit," Gore said. "Our best protection is free and open debate." Link

Fat and stupid is no way to go through life Al.

[mountaineer]

"They were made to feel un-American and risked economic retaliation because of what was said. Our democracy has taken a hit," Gore said.

Good old Al, once again demonstrating an utter lack of comprehension of the First Amendment. But then, he did flunk out of law school.

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[mountaineer]

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