The Guild 9-3-2003 Chilly Hilly

SeattlePI ^ | 9-3-2003 | Cecelia Goodnow

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Insiders say a certain social hypothermia has developed between supermodel Christie Brinkley and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. (They deny it and proclaim deep mutual affection.) The scoop is that a year ago, Clinton agreed to speak at a benefit for Brinkley's charity, the Star

Foundation, with the understanding a Hillary fund-raiser would precede the event -- but no fund-raiser took place. Although Clinton came, Brinkley reportedly felt she left too early. Now Brinkley and her husband, Peter Cook, have declined an invitation to join the board of an unrelated Clinton fund-raiser -- an act seen as a slap in the face. "They'll never be asked again," one insider fumed.

Hilly is chilly because she was stiffed out of campaign cash? Nahhhhhh, couldn't be!

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What's up with the canker sore on the PIAPS palm?

Take the occasional bath, shrill - please.

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Mark you calendars:

Sunday 9/7, 8PM EST, "DC~9/11: Time of Crisis" on Showtime

"Timothy Bottoms portrays George W. Bush and John Henly, right, is a New York City fireman in this scene from the Showtime film, 'DC 9/11: Time of Crisis.' The movie, written and produced by Lionel Chetwynd, focuses on the days immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Showtime, Ken Woroner)

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Maybe it's a blister from grabbing and uprooting all those Rick Lazio signs.

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Thanks for the heads up Timeout!

HLL, aren't you glad you got Showtime, just in time too.

Keep a look out for Bat Thumb!

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Thanks, BWB.

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Bill Clinton's indifference
By Richard Miniter

Part two of an exclusive four-part series of excerpts.

CIA Director James Woolsey was fighting other bureaucratic battles — instead of [Osama] bin Laden. The CIA was critically short of translators who spoke or read Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and the other languages of the great "terrorist belt." That belt begins on the dirty beaches of Somalia, arcs up the river valleys of Sudan and Egypt, across the desert flats of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, over the dry plateaus of Syria and Iraq, past the wastes of Iran, through the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and ends in the cold steppes of Central Asia. In the world's most terror-prone region, the CIA was essentially blind, deaf, and dumb.

Partly as a result, the intelligence community was able to decipher and translate less than ten percent of the volume of telephone and other intercepts gained from its extensive networks of spy satellites and listening stations. Indeed, throughout the Islamic world, even many radio and television news reports went untranslated. While state-run broadcasts from the Communist bloc were a prime source of intelligence during the Cold War, in the Clinton years the CIA did not have the same capability against militant Islamists. And that deficiency was largely Clinton's fault. Complete excerpt

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Tony Blankley thinks Kerry's S. Carolina stratgey is nuts.

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Checking in. Quite a bit of hub bub around here. I'm on the road tomorrow, meeting back here tomorrow night, so it will be a bit hectic.

I'm off to check my pings. I'll stop back as time allows.

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Did anyone just see O'Reilly's interview with Gerald Posner - my gosh, he's just written a book on Saudi ties to Al Qaeda tying Prince Bandar and two other Saudi princes to them - directly! And guess what, all three of those Saudi princes died within a day of each other after we obtained the information.

Plus, Posner absolutely raked Clinton over the coals, even after saying he'd voted for him twice, he said he'd never make that mistake again. That Clinton was absolutely responsible for NEVER doing one thing to get Bin Laden. I gotta get this book.

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Heheh - good point there.

Night all.

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Yep, there's a story posted on the last thread, interesting stuff, no doubt.

Ha! I've been to DU and it's official, dims do not want the economy to rebound. Look at this lament!

Why is the market going up SO DAMN MUCH???!

Ok, maybe I'm just p!ssed because I pulled 95% of my cash out of the market 6 months ago..I just have absolutely NO CONFIDENCE in this administration to manage the economy...In retrospect however, I see how I probably made the biggest mistake of my life. All of my co-workers 401k accounts are up dramatically, wiping out pretty much all of the losses of the past two years, and I sit here in a crappy money market earning less than 1% during the same time period. The DOW and S&P are up 30% and the tech stocks are up 50% over the past 6 months. So what do I do? With 6% unemployment, how the **** can stocks be up??? This proves beyond a doubt to me that big business is NOT on our side. These corporations are able to inflate their stock prices endlessly by firing workers...wall street thrives on this. The reason I posted this is because I'm trying to get some perspective, and I'm worried that if this continues, our hopes of winning next year go out the window. Big business is obviously doing whatever they need to do to prop up their stock prices in time for dubya's re-selection campaign next year, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it? Should I buy now and put my money to work for dubya?? HELL NO!!! Besides, I can't bring myself to buy the same mutual funds I sold at such a higher price.. responses aren't much better...

Hint for the morons, the president doesn't control the stock market. What a bunch of maroons.

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To the DUmmy: They're called "lagging indicators", dearie.
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Endeavor: The Posner book is excerpted in Time this week.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030908-480226,00.html

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Cool - thanks.

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Have you guys ever noticed how liberals seem to specialize in conspiracy theories? The DU'er you quote thinks the business community is wiring things for Bush.

When I was out in LA and Santa Barbara last week, everyone I met with was a flaming liberal and almost every one felt there was a grand conservative conspiracy whether it was rigging the California recall or accusing the Bush admin of all kinds of evil little secretive plans. As this was business, I just had to sit there and look semi-interested in their idiotic wacko conspiracies.

And they say we have loonies on the Right! (And these were all extremely successful people who should have a clue rather than their very own tailored tin foil hats.)

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Santa Barbara! My old hometown. Where was your meeting?

Did you get any insights on the recall election? I think maybe Arnold is playing Dubya's "low expectations" game until after this first debate...let his opponents spend all their ammunition, then come out swinging. I just can't help but think that the sterling campaign team he's put together hasn't been squirreling away position papers to be released in a flurry around mid month.

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Yes, I've noticed. Perhaps it's too difficult to admit that conservative ideas work, too difficult to admit they voted and hold in esteem a reprobate. Conspiracy theories are apparently easier to look to than taking a good hard look at the facts. Plus they don't really have to do any work researching facts, just remember some silly story that's passed around.

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voted for

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Anything worth worrying about in this secret document leaked to the Washington Times?

Doesn't seem like it's much more than we already know.

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Well, considering everyone was a lib, it looks like Cruz is cruising. I think he's going to win. The dims are not going to lose CA.

One meeting was in a restaurant and one was up in the hills overlooking the ocean at a woman's home - it was beautiful.

We even had an earthquake - we'd just pulled up to my co-worker's daughter's home in Brentwood, gone inside and the 11 pm news was on and they were beside themselves talking about an earthquake that had just happened - this was local news and was being broadcast right around the corner in Hollyweird and they were running tape of their newsdesks shaking and the coffee in their cups sloshing and we were laughing because we didn't feel a darned thing. It was only a 3 point something tumbler - we couldn't believe how hysterical they all were. We literally felt nothing a mere 5 miles away from the tv station. The epicenter was up in the Northridge area - I guess those folks just can't get a break. If I owned property in Northridge, I'd sell it pretty quickly, while it is still on the map.

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I don't know, it sounds like a lot of rear end covering to me.

I find it pretty hard to believe that Bush and Blair would make WMD's an important spoke in the wheel and then not have a military plan well thought out on how to find them.

I can believe that State was (and is) doing all it could to contain Defense. The State Department must be on the UN payroll.