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
Tinfoil alert:
CELEBS wouldn't be celebs without their own personal paranoia. Elle Macpherson's big fear is radiation in the skies. That's why the supermodel had a special lead-lined cot made for her 12-week-old son, Aurelius, to protect him from supposedly deadly rays while flying on planes. Macpherson's better half, banker Arpad Busson, hefted the weighty contraption aboard a recent British Airways flight from the Bahamas to Heathrow recently, while Macpherson and her older son Flynn wrapped themselves in special foil blankets for the journey. (Page Six)
Psycho alert:
-- SEN. John Kerry might want to tell his wife to clean up her language now that he's running for president. When Teresa Heinz, the widow of Republican Sen. John Heinz III, married Kerry in 1995, she said, "Someone my age who has a professional life doesn't change her name." But now she's conforming to Middle American taste and letting herself be called Teresa Heinz Kerry. "They'll call me Mrs. Kerry, because that's what's natural to them. And I don't tell them to shut up . . . Now, politically, it's going to be Teresa Heinz Kerry, but I don't give a [bleep], you know?" she chuckles. "There are other things to worry about." (Page Six)
The late Roone Arledge on the prima donnas of ABC News (his employees, but they didn't want to act like it):
In "Roone," which comes out May 13 from Harper Collins, he wrote that "There were days when I hated the effing business, hated dealing with the effing prima donnas of both sexes!"
When Arledge, who died in December at the age of 71, created "Prime Time Live" for ABC News in 1989, he said, "More than anything, I wanted my hands around [Sam] Donaldson's neck."
The problem? Arledge was stealing Sawyer from CBS' "Sixty Minutes" and wanted to pair her with Donaldson. Both were getting nearly the same money. But Sawyer would get to say "Hello" as the show opened. "I should say 'Hello,'" Arledge quoted Donaldson as saying. If the former White House pit bull couldn't couldn't open the show, "it would be a dealbreaker," Arledge wrote. "What rational adult - even Sam - would walk away from such an opportunity over a 'hello'?"
Sawyer's arrival also didn't sit well with Peter Jennings, who was only appeased when he learned she wouldn't share his anchor desk, Arledge wrote. NY Daily News
While I was flipping through the channels last night, I saw the little item about the lead-lined cot and laughed myself silly! When you posted the story, it was even funnier!
RE: Teresa Heinzketchupladydoodlebrain does not have the class to be a first lady, just witness her potty mouth and arrogant attitude. She and Lurch just need to continue their own quiet life together and windsurf off into the sunset.
Speaking of that goofy Kerry windsurfing photo, could someone post it next to W's triumphant pilot's photo from yesterday in comparison?
It would be good for a laugh.
Have ya heard the sound bites of Hillary giving some kind of speach. Good Lord, if that's what she sounds like on the campaign trail, I say let her run. My ears! my poor ears!
The guy mentioned in the article was a nice kid, he graduated with my husband.
CORNER POST ABOUT NOTHING [John Derbyshire]
Nothing consequential, anyway, Kathryn--just to chime in with approval of the President's style, guts, and leadership, and to note that with every stirring patriotic speech, every gesture of courage and commitment, every ballsy decision and action, it becomes ever more clear what a directionless shambles the Clinton presidency was. Does the man make the hour, or the hour the man? I don't know, and in the case of GWB we shall never know. 9/11 happened, and this man has risen to it magnificently.
This could easily be the Understatement of the New Century.
Good Morning, Early Birds.
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