The Guild 12-13-2003 12 Days

[BigWaveBetty]

How can people not love our president, he's so much fun!

Have you seen the skit that David Gregory did for a correspondent dinner imitating Tom Brokaw? OMG, that was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, Gregory does a dead on Brokaw. President Bush should make Gregory do it for the WH party.

[mountaineer]

Sen. Clinton called for a new international authority to be created to help ease the transition of power to Iraqis.

The "international authority," i.e., the United Nations, never did squat for the people of Iraq. In fact, the UN sat idly by while Saddam tortured and executed hundreds of thousands. The UN sat idly by while Saddam created and used chemical and biological weapons on his own people. The UN sat idly by while France sold nuclear technology to Saddam. For that matter, the UN hasn't done anything but oppress the Serbian people of Kosovo. If that sort of incompetence is what constitutes "authority" in Hillary's view, I'd say she just doesn't have a freakin' clue.

[Endeavor]

Lieberman is an opportunist. I have no respect for him. He'll slam anyone (read, the president) to get the nomination. He lost his credibility with me back during the impeachment trial.

Conscience of the Senate my $ss.

[Endeavor]

but you knew that (that Hillary doesn't have a freakin' clue).

[mountaineer]

Lieberman lost his "Conscience of the Senate" title when he refused to impeach Clinton. Sean Hannity mentioned the anti-Dean "Meet the Press" quote today, and I was tempted to try to call and ask Sean to ask Lieberman - when he appears on H&C tonight - what he would have done to rid the world of Saddam (let alone, deal with terrorism) had he and Big Gay Al been elected in 2000.

[daisyscarlett]

And Kofi of the UN came out today and said the UN does not want the death penalty for Saddam...one more reason to let the Iraqi people deal with him...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[Aggie Mama]

Are your signs still up?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Two of the houses took my Saddam signs off of their NO WAR signs, and one house took their sign off of their lawn competely.

[Timeout]

From an article in today's NY Times regarding pro-Saddam rallies yesterday in Iraq...

In Tikrit, about 700 people rallied in the center of town Monday chanting ``Saddam is in our hearts, Saddam is in our blood.''

U.S. soldiers and Iraqi policemen yelled back: ``Saddam is in our jail.''

I see happy!

[mountaineer]

PageSix reports:

WE HEAR . . . that Madonna is giving a concert in her home in L.A. as a fund-raiser for Gen. Wesley Clark [Is Weasley wearing one of those Kaballah bracelets yet?] . . . THAT all the top local Dems - Hillary Clinton, Charlie Rangel, Eliot Spitzer, Gifford Miller, William Thompson, Victor Gotbaum, etc. - celebrated Columbia University's David N. Dinkins Professorship of Urban and Public Affairs at the Park Avenue apartment of Barbarlee Diamonstein and Amb. Carl Spielvogel with Howard Rubenstein, Jack Rudin, Len Reggio and Dennis Rivera [Did Hitlery refrain from calling any of these compadres "f-ing Jew bastards," I wonder?]

IF MARIO Cuomo ruled the world, even Saddam Hussein would be spared the death penalty. He told WVOX radio's William O'Shaughnessy yesterday: "Either you believe in taking the life of someone who is a killer and who by every human instinct and propensity deserves to lose his life because he took so many lives . . . either you share that instinct or you don't. I don't believe in that." The ex-Gov went on, "There would be no exception to the rule whether the person was a Saddam Hussein or an Adolf Hitler."

[mountaineer]

December 16, 2003 -- YOU won't be seeing any video of Howard Dean's x-rated, epithet-ridden New York fund-raiser because Team Dean made sure to bar the TV cameras. Which suggests they expected trouble.

Maybe it was the same foresight that inspired Dean to seal his records as Vermont governor for 10 years because of worries, as he put it in a moment of candor to Vermont public radio, about "future political considerations. We didn't want anything embarrassing appearing in the papers at a critical time in any future endeavor."

So there were no TV cameras last Monday night when pro-Dean comics took the stage on West 18th St. in Chelsea at a $250-a-head Dean fund-raiser (reduced from $500) and competed to see how often they could use the F-word in the same sentence.

Comic Judy Gold dissed President Bush as "this piece of living, breathing s---" and Janeane Garofalo ridiculed the Medicare prescription-drug bill that Bush had just signed as the "you can go f--- yourself, Grandma" bill. ...

(Condoleezza) Rice seems to drive liberal woman comics especially nuts. Sandra Bernhard insulted her in racial terms with a "Yes Massa" accent at another Dean fundraiser the same night. Perhaps the pro-Dean comics find it unbearable that the most powerful black woman in U.S. history, close friend to the president and his wife - and a brilliant classical pianist to boot - dares to be a Republican. Complete article

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I find it interesting that Dean had so many lesbian "comics" (Gold, Kate Clinton, Bernhard - or is she bi?) at his fundraisers. I had the misfortune to catch a couple minutes of Judy Gold on Comedy Central last night. Bleah. Unfunny jokes about how she and her "significant other" are raising two children, and how her poor children have two Jewish mothers. What a waste of oxygen.

[Timeout]

Don't miss this one, first reported on Drudge several hours ago.

Move On.org has been soliciting (illegal) INTERNATIONAL donations...which are then used to support the Dems left-wing extremist agenda. (I guess the ChiComs just weren't enough). Nothing would satisfy me more than to see John Ashcroft go after Move on.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1041340/posts

[daisyscarlett]

Great that one of your houses removed their signs completely...

R.I.P. Jeanne Crain

[mountaineer]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican official said Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein and criticized the U.S. military for showing video footage of him being treated "like a cow." Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican's Justice and Peace department and a former papal envoy to the United Nations, told a news conference it would be "illusory" to think the arrest of the former Iraqi president would heal all the damage caused by a war which the Holy See opposed.

"I felt pity to see this man destroyed, (the military) looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. [Wait till I yell at my dentist for treating me like a bovine! How dare he!] They could have spared us these pictures," he said. "Seeing him like this, a man in his tragedy, despite all the heavy blame he bears, I had a sense of compassion for him," he said in answer to questions about Saddam's arrest. full story

[mountaineer]

WASHINGTON - Drawing on his experience in combat [I didn't know that!!] and foreign policy, Sen. John Kerry says America needs a president who will not "walk away from a dangerous world" and who will not "walk alone." [Just keep on walkin', John] He pledged to be such a leader if elected president.

In a speech Tuesday at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Kerry planned to criticize President Bush for leading U.S. troops into war in Iraq without support from major European allies, such as Germany and France. ...

"On one side is President Bush, who has taken America off onto the road of unilateralism," Kerry says in excerpts of his prepared remarks. ... full story

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So the Dem dwarves are all harping on our "unilateralism," despite the existence of a 60-nation coalition. The other 59 or so countries are just chopped liver (or pate de fois gras) to the French-looking Kerry and others, because they're not the big three, France, Germany and Russia. If any of these Dems were to be elected president, I wonder how friendly those 59 or so nations would be toward them for this major show of disrespect and lack of appreciation for their efforts in Iraq (and their casualties, in many cases).

[mountaineer]

Hillary! speaks out on the important issues of the day!!

Joni or Janis? Which seminal musician from Hillary's era does the Wellesley graduate favor, Mitchell or Joplin?

''I really like them both, and that's not a cop-out,'' Clinton sad. ``I liked Joni Mitchell because I thought she was a tremendously talented composer and performer. Her song Chelsea Morning served as the basis for my husband and I naming our daughter . . . But I also really admired the grit and the energy and the vulnerability that Janis Joplin displayed in her too short life. It would be great to know what she would be thinking and singing and how rebellious she would be today. It was a shame we lost her so soon.''
( The rest of the article is a sycophantic barffest about "Living History").

[daisyscarlett]

Hillary got her award last night and she did not get gussied up...wore the same outfit all day and night...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., arrives to the 2003 New York Magazine Awards, Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, in New York. Clinton was presented with the 'Government' award. Each year, New York magazine hosts its annual awards gala, honoring inspiring New Yorkers for their outstanding work and contributions to New York City. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

[mountaineer]

Ol' Crusty must be threadbare by now. Day in, day out, never a moment's rest. Pink blouse, blue blouse, ol' crusty labors on, trying desperately to show how slimming black can be (but no one really believes it anymore). Poor ol' crusty. Have a merry Christmas, you polyester blend of fortitude and amplitude!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

An update on my ongoing crappy vision problems, and why I don't post as much as usual.

Yesterday I was fed up with the fact that I can't see out of my right eye and went to a new eye doctor.

To preface this, after all the CAT scans and Cameras stuck up my nose, my Ear Nose and Throat specialists all told me to be patient and my vision would return.

So I was patient. 6 months worth of patient.

Anyway, yesterday was my breaking point. I can barely read, rarely drive, and seeing the television is a joke. Don't ever ask me what time it is, I can't see clocks or watches.

So I go to an opthamologist seeking a stronger eyeglass and contact prescription, even if it's just temporary.

What I found out threw me for a loop.

My right eye is trash. My cornea is clouded and the top of my eye is rippled like a Ruffles potato chip. I have some fluid or lining detachment at the back of my eye.

The doctor asked me why I wasn't screaming in pain, and I told him because the eye felt dead and numb.

Great, now I fried the nerves in the eye as well.

He told me he had never seen an eye as bad as mine and doesn't know if he can bring my vision back. Then he got angry, I mean hostile angry. He wanted to know why I didn't come in sooner. I explained that I went to a hospital in June with this vision problem, and they thought it was a brain tumor and kept sending me to specialists all over town.

It isn't a brain tumor, it's not sinus polyps, it's the top of my eye. The very first doctor I saw in June should have seen that and fixed it. Because of the length of time of waiting around and being patient, I may never see again out of my right eye.

Needless to say, I am one angry one eyed gal.

I am being treated with a lot of medication, drops, steroids, you name it. I am hoping that we can stabilize the eye so I can get surgery. At this point surgery is useless. As the doctor said, my eye is basically taking up space in my head.

But on the funny side, it certainly make reading posts interesting. I just read your post about Dean's fundraiser, and I thought that you were calling Hillary Clinton a lesbian comedian.

And please forgive my spelling, I am lucky if I can get any words typed correctly.