The Guild 12-06-2003 Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[Aggie Mama]

What the heck is the speaker thing next to my name when I open up FR?

[lodwick]

Thanks a bunch, and if you figger out the speaker thingie, please let me know...

Cheers, and Gig'em.

[Carolina]

The speaker thingie is the pager feature. If you have Java enabled on your browser, a little window pops up telling you you've got new comments. It's been around for a while but just now made available to everyone.

P.S. It won't work if you've got a pop-up zapper.

[lodwick]

Thank you.

On another thread, I learned that even with my zapper enabled, I can mash CTRL, and the speaker thing will then work.

Hump evening cheers.

[daisyscarlett]

Finally the mainstream press tells us what you told us a couple of days ago, Scoop. Gwyneth is indeed married and will not become an unwed mother, lol...

Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, seen in these Nov. 6, 2003 file photos are married, according to the Santa Barbara County clerk-recorder's office. Last week, Paltrow announced she was expecting their first child next summer. County officials confirmed that the couple applied for a license last Friday, and that appears to be the date they tied the knot, in a short, secret ceremony. (AP Photo/Kim Myung Jung, pa, File)

[daisyscarlett]

I am posting this photo of Laura et al because it shows how lovely the Yellow Room is decorated...

U.S. first lady Laura Bush meets with a group of teachers from Afghanistan in the Yellow Oval Room at the White House in Washington, December 10, 2003. The teachers are in the United States on an educational exchange sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Afghan Women's Council. REUTERS/Susan Sterner/White House photo/Handout FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

[lodwick]

Cripes - those guys look like people I saw panhandling on a street corner today!

Down on my luck.

Need help for food, not drugs.

God Bless!

[Timeout]

So this morning I'm cruising thru the NY Post and I come across this throw-away line in an article about Dean:

He gaffed by vowing to court Confederate flag fans, and pro-Dean comics used the n-word for blacks at a fund-raiser in New York.

An embarrassed Dean said the jokes were "wrong," but the incident could well come back to haunt him.

They used the N-word? I'd read about the f-word profanity at that event two nights ago, but this is the first I've heard of their using the N-word.

[Carolina]

...the f-word profanity...

LOLOLOL! JFKerry, Hildebeaste, now Nikita Dean...well, the Dems are just a party of profanities.

[Timeout]

Actually, it really is funny....and significant.

Conservative humor has become "hip" with players like Rush, Jonah Goldberg, and Dennis Miller...even "South Park". Dems have resorted to the coarse "rapper" culture to try to appear cool. Al Sharpton is their biggest laugh-getter.

An amazing development. Consider: It was only 5 years ago, during Monicagate, that conservatives were stereotyped as puritanical, starch-collared, browbeaters.

[BigWaveBetty]

Good Morning!

Yup, it's us republicans that are mean and nasty...

December 9, 2003 -- Antiwar comedians raising campaign cash for Democrat Howard Dean last night blasted President Bush as a "piece of living, breathing s - - -"at an angry X-rated fund-raiser in New York.
"We have to get this piece of living, breathing s - - - out of the office," said comedian Judy Gold whose performance - like those of Janeane Garofalo and David Cross - was liberally larded with the F-word.

Aides said that Dean didn't authorize the X-rated attacks and that the Democratic front-runner found them so "offensive," he almost refused to come out and speak at the fund-raiser, one of eight New York events that raised close to $2 million yesterday.

The X-rated fund-raiser came just days after Democratic rival John Kerry used the F-word to attack Bush in Rolling Stone magazine.

Garofalo last night described the Medicare prescription-drug bill that Bush signed yesterday as the " 'you can go-f- - - yourself, Grandma' bill."

Gold ridiculed Democrat Joseph Lieberman for being unable to campaign on Jewish holidays.

Comedian Kate Lloyd pointed to Michael Jackson, now facing new child sex charges, and said, "Frankly, I'm far more frightened of Condoleezza Rice" - Bush's national security adviser - and referred to Cheney's wife, Lynne, as "Lon Chaney," a star of horror flicks.



When Dean came out after the comics, he made a vague reference to "some language that was used - I think it's wrong."


http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/12972.htm

Now if a republican 'comic' had used this sort of vernacular, let alone the n-word would it be all over every news report or am I being cynical?

[Carolina]

Dems have resorted to the coarse "rapper" culture to try to appear cool.

ROTFL! I wonder if Registered could create an image of rapper Dems.

[Carolina]

Now if a republican 'comic' had used this sort of vernacular, let alone the n-word would it be all over every news report or am I being cynical?

No, you are correct. There would be a public lynching, that's for sure. Did they censure Byrd? Did they censure Kennedy? Did they censure the Beaste?

[Carolina]

Sheeeee's running!!

Hillary Aides in Dean-bashing Blitz

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to pressure fellow Democrats not to support presidential front-runner Howard Dean – a move some say raises new questions about her own intentions in 2004.

Aides to Sen. Clinton have begun contacting party movers and shakers in a bid to discredit Dean and dispel the notion that the Vermont Democrat has the nomination sewn up.

"Hillary Clinton's people – and I know, I get these calls all the time – call and bash on Dean," Democratic strategist Bob Beckel told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" late Wednesday. Beckel managed Walter Mondale's unsuccessful 1984 presidential bid.

Nasty Bob. He seems to be right in there with the politics of personal destruction.

[BigWaveBetty]

Betcha it was Beckel who whispered in algore's ear... Quick, come out and endorse Dean... make sure you don't let Lieberman know it's coming... hurry!

I still think she's too chicken to run against GWB but... Bring 'er on!! :-)

[BigWaveBetty]

Nominee for understatement title of the year:

Dems Criticize Bush, Omit Facts Sometimes

So much more needs to be reported especially in this country but it's a start.

[Carolina]

Here's a Dean quip worthy of re-quoting:

From Jay Nordlinger's column

Interviewed by Judy Woodruff on CNN, he talked religion, and his departure from an Episcopal church over a dispute concerning a bike path: "You know what it really says? [The "it" refers to public curiosity over this bike-path affair.] It says the Republicans are talking like they're out of the Pharisees. Because if you're a Christian, you're a Christian. I don't believe it ought to matter what kind of a denomination you are. As a matter of fact, if you're a religious person, you're a religious person. I don't think it ought to matter what religion you are."

I will keep quoting: Woodruff: "Was it just over a bike path that you left the Episcopal Church?" (Even Judy Woodruff seems incredulous, doesn't she?) Dean: "Yes, as a matter of fact it was. I was fighting to have public access to the waterfront, and we were fighting very hard in the citizens group to allow the public to use it. [Notice how these people are always "fighting"?] And this particular diocese decided to join a property-rights suit [please gasp here] to close it down. I didn't think that was very public-spirited. One thing I feel about religion, you have to be very careful not to be a hypocrite if you're a religious person. It is really tough to preach one thing and do something else. And I don't think you can do that."

His English is incoherent, his reasoning shallow, his understanding weak. The amazing thing is that Democrats, and probably not a few others, consider this guy the mental superior of George W. Bush. Dean doesn't reach to Bush's knees.

ROTFLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

[lodwick]

Tiefed from grannie9

[Carolina]

Thanks, loddy! That's beautiful. It's taking me forever this year to "throw up" my Christmas trees. The kids keep playing the Dr. Demento Christmas CD. We keep running out of eggnog.

Hope you're doing well.

[pubmom]

Why does Howard Dean converse like a young child? Good heavens, LOL!