Posted on 07/16/2006 4:32:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and George Allen, R-Va.; Philippe Cousteau, president of Earth Echo International.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; columnist Robert Novak.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rice; Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rice; Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Kerri Strug, Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House counselor Dan Bartlett; Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres; Imad Moustapha, Syrian ambassador to the U.S.; Sens. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Mouwafak al-Rubaie, Iraqi national security adviser; Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri; space shuttle astronauts.
I'll send you some recipes from my new cook book, rodguy. It's entitled "White Trash Cooking" and if you NEVER use the recipes, it's hilarious to read....the laughter alone is good for you. I'm having a laugh fest just reading it. (Example title: Tutti's Fruited Pork Chops)
You have seen this post, I'm sure:
Russian Tanks were technologically superior to their German equivalents in 1941 to 1943. Aircraft and Arty equivalent. The German army of WW2 had a shallow armored technical edge backed up by a large, relatively primitive bulk army. The Russian and German armys, technologically speaking, were roughly equivalent technologically. The fact of the matter is the Russians beat the Germans eating American food, brought to them on American trucks from American supplied rail lines pulled by American made locomotives using American logistical supplies to repair their weapons and vehicles while marching to Berlin on American made boots. In 1945 the Russians, like the French, promptly forgot all the sacrifices everyone else made out desire to forget their humiliations.
That is clearly what I have been reminded of throughout the last few years. Did you ever read the two completed volumes of William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion? He only completed two of the three volumes, but the second one, titled Alone 1932 - 1940, covers this period in his life. Absolutely spectacular.
The same period was covered well in the 1981 BBC mini-series Winston Churchill: the Wilderness Years and the 2002 HBO movie, The Gathering Storm (though I think Albert Finney's portrayal of Churchill's relationship with his wife, played by Vanessa Redgrave, reduced the effectiveness of that film).
It is perhaps the greatest story of individual heroism off the field of battle of the 20th Century. He stood against a government and all the intellectuals of the age in the face of ridicule and official obstructionism. And it wasn't just Brits who spoke of Winston with disdain. All of the power players of the day treated him that way. Much the way George Bush is treated now by the same types of people.
Newt may have the intellect of Churchill, but George W. Bush has the clarity of purpose.
Exactly!
One of the most interesting things I learned this week is the Government of Lebanon recognizes HellBULLa as a legitimate political group NOT as a terrorist organization.
Seems to me the Bush Doctrine applies. "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists".
Let what is happening in Lebanon serve as a clear example to all rouge nations. There is no more fence sitting. You pick a side or we will pick for you.
Gosh, I recall that being discussed here on FR as long as several months ago that he signed on as an advisor to Hillary. It's not new news, but I don't have a thread, though I have searched both FR and Google for a joint reference.
I don't know how many of you are watching Fox today...but, I have noticed and LAUGHED as at least 4 TIMES...the different Fox hosts have had on Mike Norman, one of the guys that is on the Saturday business shows...
And every single one of them has gone on and on about how this fighting in Lebanon is going to make things SO much worse for the Stock Market...AND, most of all, is going to FORCE our gas prices to go up to 5.00 a gallon.
Then they go on a "woe is me" jag about gas prices...
Norman just shakes his head every time..and said that we are NOT in at supply/demand situation...that we are getting all of the gas we need...AND that we are using it..that people aren't letting the gas prices affect them..
and, he said that no one wants to hear this, but that "considering the cost of living...we are paying LESS for our gas now, than years ago"...
He said that the oil/per barrel price is going up because of SPECULATORS...and that they have made it worse..and that if you have any friends that speculate on the oil futures...to blame THEM..and tell them to stop it.
LOL...I have to laugh...it is so funny.
President Bush is operating in the real world. Newt is operating in his own construct of reality. Quite a difference, IMO
And ignoring the missile fired by NK across Japan and into the sea during X42 regime.
I have read a few of his works and intend to pursue more. This is definitely one I will search out. He is, in my mind, the most important single "good guy" in the first half of the 20th Century.
Mangetout in the States is known as Snow Peas
http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/mangetout
http://www.fothergills.co.uk/en/mangetout-pea-reuzenzuiker-1864.aspx
http://www.arcadian-archives.com/mangetout.htm
Is this the reporter in Gaza? If so he almost got himself shot Friday or yesterday -- he was the only one on an otherwise deserted street so of course he was the target.
Maybe he thought the shooter didn't like the cans.
Chris Matthews stated with absolute certainty that the only reason this is happening in the middle east is because we are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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