Posted on 04/30/2003 4:44:01 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
U.S. Army Ranger Sgt. Abe Martens carries an U.S. flag down the steps from a chartered commercial airplane Monday, April 28, 2003, at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. after returning home from fighting in Iraq (news - web sites). Among other missions, members of 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment participated in the rescue operation of Pfc. Jessica Lynch. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier pulls into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Saturday, April 26, 2003, after a deployment of nearly 10 months. The Lincoln has a crew of approximately 5,500. It is en route to its home port at Everett, Wash., by way of San Diego. (AP Photo/Carol Cunningham)
A sailor smells a rose as the USS Paul Hamilton pulls into its home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Saturday, April 26, 2003, after a deployment of nearly 10 months. The destroyer has a crew of approximately 350 and is part of the seven-ship battle group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln. (AP Photo/Carol Cunningham)
Navy Chaplain Lt. Charles Crane meets his new daughter, Hannah, after the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier pulled into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Saturday, April 26, 2003. At left is Crane's other daughter, Sharon, 10. His wife, Mary Crane, is at right. The Lincoln is en route to its home port at Everett, Wash., by way of San Diego. (AP Photo/Carol Cunningham)
Capt. Will Weinig, 26, hugs his girlfriend, Mary Katherine Jones, 22, far right, as two other couples hug during a small welcome home ceremony for the 3rd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment Friday, April 25, 2003, at a hangar at Lawson Airfield located on Fort Benning, Ga. About 100 Army Rangers returned from duty in Iraq (news - web sites) and were welcomed by family, friends and loved ones. (AP Photo/Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, G. Marc Benavidez)
Petty Officer Michael Durel of the San Diego-based guided missile cruisers USS Mobile Bay hugs his 4-year-old daughter Lucy and sister Leigh Anne as his wife Patty (L) is overcome with emotion upon his arrival in San Diego April 25, 2003 after a 9 month deployment. The Ticonderoga-class cruiser deployed with the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and participated most recently in Operation Iraqi Freedom, having been one of the first ships to fire cruise missiles against Iraq (news - web sites) in the opening stages of the war. REUTERS/Mike Blake
EM2 Kirkland Everett of San Diego-based guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay hugs his wife Nicole after docking in San Diego April 25, 2003 after a 9 month deployment. The Ticonderoga-class cruiser deployed with the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and participated most recently in Operation Iraqi Freedom. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Lt. Ryan Leary from the San Diego-based guided missile cruisers USS Mobile Bay embraces his wife Sarah and 6-month old son Silas upon his return to San Diego, April 25, 2003 after a 9 month deployment. The Ticonderoga-class cruiser deployed with the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and participated most recently in Operation Iraqi Freedom, being one of the first ships to fire cruise missiles at Iraq (news - web sites). Leary met his son for the first time today. REUTERS/Mike Blake
President George W Bush leaves Easter Sunday service at the 4th Infantry Division Memorial Chapel with wife Laura and rescued Iraq (news - web sites) POWs Ronald Young (L) and David Williams at Fort Hood in Texas April 20, 2003. Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters
Page Six reports:
May 3, 2003 -- BILL Clinton wants to remind people how much he achieved in office. This week, the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation mailed out a neatly printed booklet containing a "record of accomplishment" for his administration, "summarizing work on the economy, foreign policy, the environment and other issues." Clinton rep Jim Kennedy says it isn't a prelude to a plea for cash. "We get many requests for information about the work of the administration, and the booklet provides a useful summary of facts and figures that we can send in response," he tells us. "Once the [Clinton] library is open next year, much more background on the record of the administration will be available." [Okay, not exactly the true record of the administration, he admitted, "But some kind of record. We're busy writing it now. Stephen King and Danielle Steel are our ghostwriters."]
LOL. Good one!
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced legislation to fund special education programs across the country. Clinton (D-Chappaqua) is an original co-sponsor of the measure called the "IDEA Full Funding Act of 2003." According to a news release from Clinton, New York would receive $1.2 billion over the next ten years. Albany County would receive more than $7.6 million in the 2003-2004 fiscal year if the bill becomes law. source
Meanwhile, look at the "intellectuals" (will someone please define that?) who are supporting the murderous Castro:
HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 160 foreign artists and intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have come out in defense of Cuba even as many of their peers condemn recent repression on the Communist-run island, one of the campaigners said on Thursday.
Latin American Nobel laureates Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and South African writer Nadine Gordimer, also a Nobel prize winner, have signed a declaration of support, Mexican sociologist Pablo Gonzalez said. U.S. singer Harry Belafonte and U.S. actor Danny Glover are also among the personalities who have signed the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World" so far, Gonzalez announced to a May Day rally in Havana.
"A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of understanding, debate and mediation among countries," the declaration says, referring to the United States and the war in Iraq. At this very moment, a strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for an invasion," it continues.
.... At the Thursday rally Castro told critics, particularly on the left, that their words could be used to justify a U.S. invasion. full story
What qualifies Glover and Belafonte as intellectuals, other than their hatred for President Bush and anti-war protesting?
The wheels are coming off the world folks.
Apparently a stone cold murder.
Not as long as our God reigns, JL.
Speaking of education (sort of), I just came across this story:
Former President Clinton and the University of Arkansas are considering the creation of a new "Clinton School of Public Service." Already being called "UACS," it would provide an undergrad degree to students who attend the classes at Clinton's new library and museum facility in Little Rock. Friend Bruce Lindsey says Clinton is high on the idea and is mulling a weekend retreat where friends, advisers, and educators would develop a curriculum.
More Blubba news:
Add former Clinton deputy Harold Ickes to the crowd of Bushies who thought Bubba's White House was too informal. Like how few staffers stood up when President Clinton entered a room.
"It bothered me," says Ickes in the new book Air Force One. He singled out Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, who now hosts ABC's This Week. "That used to [tick] me off," says Ickes, "seeing George sitting there with his . . . feet on the table, and [he] would sit that way when Bill Clinton would come in."
Finally, this vignette, from the same source:
Kenneth T. Walsh, reveals in Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes that it's often a different story inside the airborne White House. Consider President Bush's additions: satellite TV and a treadmill for sweaty workouts.
Or former President Clinton, who strutted around in jeans and T-shirt while his staffers turned the 747 into a frat house.
"Some of the staff people," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta, "would treat it as just another plane." He made it sound like a rock band's jet: too much booze, loud music, and garbage in the cabin.
Even former President Bush had a weird story for the new book. During Clinton's trip to Israel for the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Bush went into a staff cabin and stretched out on the floor to sleep. When he woke up, Jimmy Carter was right next to him, nose to nose. "Scary?" asked Bush. "No, but different."
BOB Dole has just discovered the Osbournes - and he hates them. PAGE SIX has learned that the curmudgeonly also-ran will blast Ozzy and his spawn on Sunday's "60 Minutes."
In his ongoing series of point-counterpoints with Bill Clinton, Dole asks, "Does Hollywood still think Ozzy Osbourne is funny now that he's shipped his underage son [Jack] off to drug rehab? America is awash in reality TV. And the reality is it's debasing and degrading." The ex-senator then blasts Clinton directly, saying, "Mr. President, don't your showbiz pals realize the consequences? They package dysfunctional people like the Osbournes. Giggle at the coarseness and the crimes. And sink lower for higher ratings. For eight years, you treated Hollywood like your own piggy bank. Now how about joining me in demanding a little responsibility?"
In his reply, Bubba singles out Fox for its racy programming - where Monica Lewinsky recently launched the reality series "Mr. Personality." Page Six
x42 singles out Fox? He must not know that the entertainment side of the network is unrelated to those nasty "biased" people at Fox News.
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