Posted on 06/16/2004 7:20:18 AM PDT by Timeout
68% of Iraqis have confidence in their new government
73 percent approved of Allawi to lead the new government, 84 percent approved of President Ghazi Yawar and almost two-thirds backed the new Cabinet
More than 70 percent of Iraqis polled have heard or read a significant amount about the new leaders, who were named about three weeks ago
In a sign that Iraqis are more optimistic generally about their future after the occupation ends, two-thirds of Iraqis believed the first democratic elections for a new national assembly -- tentatively set for December or January -- will be free and fair
Seventy percent of Iraqis polled supported the new army, and 82 percent supported the police.
Snicker!
Oh my, that Chicken/broccoli casserole is delicious, I'm making one for us tomorrow!
Stephen Hayes from today. Golly gosh, clinton was right, except now he won't admit it! Justice is truly suh-weeet!
On Dennis Miller's celebrity panel tonight sits Robert Riech. He's sitting so close to the republican babe he might as well be in her lap. Creepy little dude.
I've been wondering today if there'll be any celebrations in Iraq on turn over day. Pictures of happy Iraqis welcoming their new government isn't going to be very helpful to Effin's campaign. heh heh heh!
I'm glad you liked the casseroles. It's thundering and lightning like crazy again, so I'll sign off for the night and unplug everything.
HLL:
I still haven't forgotten your friends email from Iraq telling you to "watch for BIG news this summer". Pins...needles.
Hello.
All this food talk makes me hungry.
Here's a fun story. Conservatives hold a film fest to counter Moore's doc-u-lie. Go Larry Elders!
My twelve-year-old daughter is questioning Mr.Kerry's sobriety in those photos.:)
It is so interesting that you would mention my friend in Iraq. ( Actually he is in the Sudan with an antiterrorism task force).
Tuesday I had a dream about him, and Wednesday my women's republican group decided that I should marry him.
I will send him an email and see what the big news is for this summer. We just got another care package together for his troops. It still cracks me up that he specifically wants 3 packs of Aquafresh.
Actress Nancy Mckeon, an absolutely wonderful, great person who was best known > for playing tough-talking, street-smart tomboy "Jo Polniaczek" on the > long-running NBC sitcom 'The Facts of Life' from 1980 to 1988, and had been > playing tough, alcoholic, promiscuous, and troubled "Inspector Jinny Exstead" > on the Lifetime cable TV channel's female cop series 'The Division' since > January 2001, was just tragically killed in a car crash in the L.A. area. She > was 38 years old, married since June of last year (2003), and had given birth > to her first child, a baby girl named Aurora, in March of this year. She will > be missed very much.
Just awful.
Have you heard about the alibi and excuse club? Members link up with strangers through cell phone text messaging or an internet chat room to fabricate a lie to "skip work, get out of dates or give a loved one the slip."
They give the example of a man who wanted to skip out on his girlfriend to spend a weekend with another woman in another town. He contacted the network and another member took him up on it. The stranger called their house, where the boyfriend makes sure the girl answers the phone. The stranger pretends he's calling regarding work and leaves a message that the man is needed in the other town.
Another angle is the new availability of fake "background noise" for your cell phone. Traffic, airport, dentist...just choose which alibi (lie) you want to use.
I'm thinking I should join the alibi network and a find a sucker who'll use me as his excuse. When he gives me the wife's/girlfriend's number I'll call her and tell her the truth. At the same time, change my log in name...and on to the next sucker. Sounds like a good mission for The Guild.
BWB, I saw Reichhhhh on the Dennis Miller show last night and told Mr. M I just couldn't stand to listen anymore, because everything the little gnome was saying was utterly irrational and hateful. Then I happened to open Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay," and of course, up popped Reich as a Yale Law School classmate of the Toons, one of the coterie of socialists with whom they associated.
I'm off to Rochester, MN in a few hours to accompany my mother to the Mayo Clinic, and so will be absent for a few days. Hasta luego!
.... It was not long ago that the print and electronic media began registering the existence of so-called lipstick lesbians, and a phrase like "lesbian fashion" stopped being an outright oxymoron. When the Showtime series "The L Word" began in January, it showed that — far from being frumps doomed to Manolo Blahnik deficiency — lesbians are a powerful presence in fashion, in both predictable and unexpected ways.
The old stereotypes have not faded. But they have slipped into something decidedly cool. "I have this theory that lesbians start certain fashion things," said Stephanie Perdomo, the creator of a new collection of action figures called Dykedolls, which will be sold on the Internet starting in July. "I used to go around Williamsburg and see guys wearing wifebeaters, wallet chains, gas station shirts and trucker hats, and I would think, `We used to do that five years ago,' " Ms. Perdomo said. ...
It is the subtle incorporation of butch and femme dualities — the traditional poles of lesbian sartorial identity — into mainstream fashion that most clearly signals the influence of gay women in the garment industry, a group that few outside the business are aware of. "There are a lot of gay women working in fashion, obviously, and they approach it as gay women, and that fashion is then consumed by a much larger culture," Ms. Chaiken said.
"What makes their work lesbian fashion?" Ms. Chaiken said. "It's probably that they are celebrating that play with gender, that provocative style that pulls from rock 'n' roll, boy icons of the past, the street and the high-end couture type glamour, but that starts with a lesbian sensibility." Entire silly article
The news about Nancy McKeon might not be true. I can't find anything on the news and the thread from last night is gone.
I hope it's not true, she just got married and had a baby.
I hope all goes well with your mother at the clinic. This is the year of miracles. My mother had her lung surgery on June 11, and a week later she was home and walking the dog. Last week she got the news that she is cancer-free. And of course I had my eyesight restored, which is nice. I don't have to go back to my doctor for my eyes until September. That's a lot better than seeing him 2-3 times a week.
Today I am riding in the Downriver Cruise for my campaign. I think I am to sit in the back of a classic car and wave at people. Break out the sunscreen!
Robert Reichhhhhh, do you suppose he comes from the same gene pool as Paul Krugman? That would be the short, bug-eyed, weaselly socialist gene pool.
We will miss you... have a safe trip.
Billy Crystal to Kerry: If you're having a good time, tell your face.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/9016364.htm
Cindy Adams reports, A DC insider on why Colin Powell hasn't ankled this job he apparently doesn't love doing: Because no black man before has ever rose to his high post and he is cognizant of the role he plays in the history of his race. Link
Colin Powell covers up his dislike very well, I suggest he look into acting after GWB's second term.
Thanks for the bon mots. Mother was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at Mayo several years ago, and just wanted to go back for a complete checkup even though she's under a doctor's care locally. Mr. M and I didn't want her, at 79, to travel alone, especially connecting at O'Hare. So I'm all packed and ready to go. See yunz later. Good luck with the campaigning, C.
New thread on the way...
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