Posted on 04/12/2003 4:04:21 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Am I the only one who thinks it is slightly more than coincidence that Iran and Korea are anxious to improve their relations with the USA?
Ya know, when I came across those two stories I posted (42 and 43) I wondered how much coverage they would get. Now granted yesterday was all about the POWs. And rightly so but do you think that sort of information will get out to the masses?
Somehow I don't see the perky Katie Couric asking Maddie Albright, "Do you think the reason NK has backed down from insisting on unilateral talks with the US is our decisive power over Iraq?"
Thank you God for giving us in President Bush and the people he has picked to help him, wisdom, strength and a moral foundation. We have been truly blessed.
Oh don't worry pubmom, you too will get to experience to fun of discovering goodies months after they're purchased... in, oh I predict about 15 years from now. It starts even before grandchildren. :-)
I could never hide Easter or Christmas treats anyplace that Mr. B could find them or I'd be out buying more. The man is worse than the kids!
Try to enjoy the weather as much as you can. Can't wait to read the toe sucker... you know he steams both clintons with every column. :-)
Espionage: Sex, Spies and the ‘Parlor Maid’
SET UP SIX YEARS ago in part to investigate an alleged Chinese plot to influence U.S. lawmakers, the task force has since disbanded: it was never able to prove the Chinese government was behind millions of dollars in suspect campaign contributions to former president Bill Clinton and members of Congress during the 1990s. But last week’s arrest of Los Angeles businesswoman Katrina Leung—an accused spy whose code name was Parlor Maid—has prompted an intense FBI review to determine if she compromised highly sensitive counterintelligence investigations, including the campaign-finance probe. Thread
Well Walter Cronkite and Ted Turner will take care of that! Prepare for gloom and doom! Get ready for:
The concept of Armageddon comes from Revelation, and this revelation is intoned by Walter Cronkite, perfectly cast in the role of anguished patriarch. "Anybody, anyplace could become a victim," he warns.
This production, the initial effort of Ted Turner Documentaries, clearly was assembled with care and a noble sense of purpose. With the subtlety and grace of your garden-variety infomercial, it lays out its litany of insurmountable problems. But unlike the problems in infomercials, these do not have ready solutions. Keeping the world safe from armed zealots is more vexing than developing six-pack abs.
Thus these nightly editions create an almost unbearable tension that may send many viewers fleeing from their televisions in anxiety. (Each program is to end with a related panel discussion led by Frank Sesno, the veteran broadcast reporter now a professor; these segments were not provided for review.)
Tonight's installment is about chemical and biological weapons, which have been part of the world's arsenal since the early 1900's. "Ethical considerations were not a factor," Mr. Cronkite says. The report includes horrifying details of Japan's germ warfare against the Chinese in the 1930's and 40's and Iraq's against the Iranians in the 80's. Graphic pictures of the dying and dead are included.
Recalling the Postal Service's anthrax episode from 2001, the program interviews one postal worker who contracted the disease. "I was so sick," he recalls, "that if the doctors told me that they had to cut off my left arm in order for me to breathe, I would've said yes."
Tomorrow night's focus is nuclear weapons, like the ones sitting in neglected storage in the former Soviet Union. Terrorists could steal some of those, or buy some from North Korea. Graham Allison, a Harvard professor, calls that country the world's most "promiscuous proliferator" (alliteration again), saying it "could become the nuclear Weapons `R' Us." Complete review
If you want to read the article but don't want to sign up for the NYTimes freepmail me and I'll send it to you.
The debut May issue of Maer Roshan's much buzzed-about title opens with a cover story on celebrity "Monsters" - boldface types who have "distinguished themselves in the areas of physical and verbal abuse, overweening arrogance, and by the imposition of a particularly nasty influence over the culture at large."
* No hate list would be complete without pompous filmmaker Michael Moore, who acts out the shtick of a blue-collar everyman from the luxury of his $1.27 million Upper West Side apartment and sends his daughter to private school. He also "fabricated a scene in 'Bowling for Columbine' " and "unsuccessfully pressured the writing staff of his 'TV Nation' not to join the Writer's Guild."
Former President Bill Clinton speaks on war, North Korea while in Twin Cities
For anyone who cares.
I posted this because I saw the Dennis Miller special last night. He was really good and the one thing he said that made me shout, THANK YOU!!, was that he wished the clinton duo, "would just SHUT THE #^%$ UP!!!!!"
The next showing on HBO is Thursday, April 17th @ 10:00pm. The shock value of Dennis turning almost full fledged conservative is worth tuning in the program.
Welcome home Dennis. :-)
The subject was just used as a red herring while trying to take care of business in Iraq. Just a little something for the whiners to nosh on.
NK latest statements prove President Bush is right and once again clintoon and assorted cronies are wrong.
The actor John Malkovich provides a bit of a counterbalance:
John Malkovich knows the French better than most Americans, having lived in Aix-en-Provence for years with his wife, Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children. But as much as he loves his adopted land, he thinks the French have forfeited their right to suggest what the new Iraq should look like. "Why should America listen to what France now has to say?" Malkovich asked when we spoke to him the other day.
The actor is the first to admit that President Bush could have handled the diplomatic end better. At the same time, he believes President Jacques Chirac's opposition to the U.S.-led coalition is "highly cynical and arrogant."
"The French say that everybody else has a self-interest [in Iraq]," Malkovich said. "But none is more obvious than theirs. And they're absolutely blind to it."
"Sometimes ignoring other countries is the right response," said Malkovich. "I don't really care what Arab countries think. I don't trust them.
"I don't really care what a lot of European countries say. I've lived in Europe for years. I have a lot of dear friends there. But if you talk about politics, I want to say, if they're so smart, why Franco? Why totalitarianism? Why fascism? Where is your humility? I just think they should be curious about their own regimes."
The 6-foot-2 actor told us, "My father was a soldier. My uncle was a soldier. And the reason - and one can't say this enough - that our parents fought and died for things is so that people can get up and shoot off their mouths about things they don't know f---all about. About things they don't know the end result about, where they're just guessing." NY Daily News.
I, Ignorance is Blix, have been banned at Sheryl Crow's Fan Forum and my lovely thread nuked. *sniff*
Apparently the mod didn't take kindly to my assertion that Sheryl being the classy lady she is, would surely want to apologize to those 100 children that were freed from Saddam's prison, since she didn't think war was the right thing to do.
Spike Lee isn’t letting the backlash against anti-Bush celebs keep him quiet. Earlier this year, the outspoken director called the attack on Iraq a “war for oil,” Now, Lee is stepping up his critique of the Bush administration. “Bush and his cronies stole the election, and everything since has gone to hell,” Lee recently told the London Guardian. [Speak for yourself, Spikey]
Lee, whose film “25th Hour” deals with the fallout of 9/11, also has harsh words for the pro-business climate in America under Bush. [Heaven help the American economy if the govt. is pro-business! We might actually reduce unemployment or something] “Yeah, I’m still angry about those crooks,” Lee says of the Enron execs who looted the company. “Good people worked themselves to death to save for their retirement and then they had their money stolen. That simple. And nobody’s gone to jail — not one of these bastards. And now the same people are going to get rich off war.” [Where does he get this stuff?]
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