The Guild 3-8-2004 Kerry 1997:The administration-don't believe that they need the U.N.

[MaeWest]

He started seeing things more clearly.

Good work on fixing the eye doc's vision!
Hey, wouldn't that make you an ophthamalogist of the intellect?

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Suggestions?

How does one say "Rat" in French?

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Well done!

Looks like we lost Spain today. I imagine the new Spanish gov't will "uncover" some scandalous find about "Bush's war" just in time to help their rat friends in our election.

[mountaineer]

The weatherman may have made my decision re: freeping Kerry on Tuesday for me - snow, snow, snow.

I was going to say that "rat" in French was "Chirac," but my dictionary says the word is .... "rat." Quelle surprise!

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning!!

6 inches of snow predicted for Central Iowa today. The Boys State Basketball Tournaments begin today,,, the tournaments always seem to bring snow.

I'm back on the road this morning. Home on Thursday nite.

[mountaineer]

WHICH morning anchorwoman has a penchant for Botox? The aging beauty is still a treat to the eyes, but ethical questions were raised after she did a segment with a renowned dermatologist and had him back to her office afterwards for a quick Botox fix. (PageSix)

Gotta run, see yins later.

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Much speculation among the pundits this morning as to whether Spain's capitulation increases the likelihood of a terror attack here just before our elections. It's hard to say how the evil ones would ponder: Would it hurt Bush or help him?

But here's a horrifying thought---another way they could "cheaply" achieve their goals, given the media's desire to cripple the president. Suppose in late Oct a "sleeper" tried, but failed, to assasinate Kerry on live TV. Suppose he was never intended to succeed, but was meant to fail, be caught and arrested. Through his lawyer he would issue pre-prepared statements that the terrorists feared Kerry and how easy it was for him to sidestep the administration's anti-terror efforts.

Just imagine the glorious, sympathetic press Kerry would get. And GWB would be put on the defensive to explain how the guy got into the U.S., or how he had lived here for X years and not been detected...etc.

It should go without saying, I AM NOT ADVOCATING THREATENING KERRY, merely trying to think like the evildoers. There are more ways than one to influence an election, especially if one has a compliant media.

[daisyscarlett]

Nothing will surprise me between now and November. The media is so ga-ga over Kerry over Bush that I saw an article yesterday proclaiming that Teresa is glamorous ala Jackie Kennedy!!!It was an article comparing Laura and Teresa and did not once mention Laura's beauty but called Teresa a natural beauty in one paragraph and in the next paragraph praised her for using Botox...

Hillary is hoping to be on the ticket; she used the occasion of this "great honor" to bash Bush yesterday. (Wonder why Caroline did not give her this award?)

U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) (D-NY) looks at her John F. Kennedy Library Distinguished American Award, a bust of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, as it is presented to her by Kennedy Library Foundation CEO John Shattuck in Boston, March 14, 2004. Senator Clinton used the occasion to criticize the Bush administration. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

[mountaineer]

What a flattering ensemble, bless her heart.

[mountaineer]

Sadly, in these bizarre times, nothing is beyond the realm of possibility. We really have to work our tails off to get the president reelected, or this country's in serious trouble.

[daisyscarlett]

I thought you had left us for the day...Maxine has taken matters into her own hands and even as I type, she has retrieved Aristede and taken him out of Africa heading to Jamaica...

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., left, speaks before departing Miami with a delegation of American and Jamaican officials Saturday, March 13, 2004 to bring ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his exile in Africa to be reunited with his family in Jamaica. Second from left, Randall Robinson, ex-president of TransAfrica, Sharon Hay-Webster, a representative of the Caribbean Community and Waters husband former U.S. Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahammas, Sidney Williams. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

[mountaineer]

I was visiting my dentist, but my pearly whites and I are back for a couple of minutes!

BARF ALERT:

What's the skinny on Bill Clinton? When he was President, back in the last century, Clinton was notorious for his gigantic appetites - whether for chocolate-chip cookies or other ill-advised indulgences - and he tended toward the chunky.

But these days - as with his recent appearance at a program for youth in the Bronx - Clinton looks as sleek and sporty as a Porsche convertible. "I've been working out four times a week with a German," [Claudia Schiffer? Heidi Klum?] the former chief executive revealed recently to a gaggle of reporters, including the Daily News' very fit Derek Rose, during a chat at his Harlem office.

"I haven't been this weight since I was the governor of Arkansas," Clinton added, crediting the South Beach Diet. "What you do is you basically start off hard-core - high protein, no carbohydrates - then you go back to carbohydrates. I like it. It's the best thing ever."

Better than the Atkins diet, Clinton said. "I went on it, I lost 15 pounds, and I gained the weight back."

Clinton is 57, the perfect age for a midlife crisis. "You're in your 50s and what's ahead of you is growing older and dying," said male aging expert Terrence Real, author of "How Can I Get Through to You: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women."

The 53-year-old Real continued: "Guys hit a certain age and they developmentally get into a place where the bulk of their achievement is behind them and they are facing something different, and it freaks them out! And so a lot of men will react by doing things to help themselves feel vital and not over the hill. You can do it in a destructive way - you can get a red two-seater sports car and a mistress. Or you can go to the gym and take off some weight and get healthy. I can say this about President Clinton: It's nice that he's a good role model." [Besides, the mistress thing was so 'been there, done that']

Clinton's spokesman, Jim Kennedy, told Lowdown: "As President, he reduced the size of government. Now he's reduced the size of himself." NY Daily News

[mountaineer]

You hate when that happens:

Many brides have trouble getting used to their beau's former girlfriends. Star Jones may have an even trickier dilemma: Dealing with those who say they're her fiancé's old boyfriends. Ever since Wall Street banker Al Reynolds proposed to "The View" host on Feb. 15 during the NBA All-Star Game, there have been whispers that her betrothed used to play on the other team. At least part of the time .... rest of story

[mountaineer]

Yikes.

Nipplegate hasn't chastened Janet Jackson a bit. On her upcoming album, "Damita Jo," Jackson sings about female ecstasy in the song "Moist." She explains: "I'm equating the lyrical grace of gentle water with the phenomenal sensation of physical release," Jackson says in the April Upscale magazine. "I want to praise that sensation, celebrate the feeling, and recreate the ecstasy that comes with a total mind-blowing, body-shaking orgasm." Oh.

source.

[Endeavor]

travel safely gran.

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...We really have to work our tails off to get the president reelected

I've actually been mulling a short-term move to Floriduh in November. Pensacola is less than an hour away from here. I may move over there, register, vote and then...voila!...become disenchanted and move back! (I'm not kidding...)

[Endeavor]

Somebody tell "Dear Leader" that the lace around the collar look went out in the 80's. Who dresses this woman?

[Endeavor]

"I'm not kidding

nor should you be. Need company?

[Endeavor]

re:Janet Jackson and orgasm

This falls into the same group as those hideous erection ads. I mean, really. Do we have to continuously be subjected to male erectile dysfunction issues multiple times during a sporting event? I tune in for the game and get all kinds of info I don't need and don't want about penile disabilities. I don't care if the NASCAR guy gets off on the drug or if Mike Ditka is happy or if Bob Dole finds Britney stimulating. Ya know what I mean? Can't we just stick with the conflict over Tampax vs Kotex? Must we widen the scope of genital choice during a college bball game? And don't you want to know how someone who takes Cialis can have an erection for up to 4 days but if it lasts longer than 4 hours, you're in trouble? What does it take to suddenly "dial in" after day two? I know, shut up. But doesn't it make you wonder?

[mountaineer]

I quite agree. From the looks of the TV ads, we're in the midst of a major erectile dysfunction epidemic. Thank goodness there's nothing really important going on in the world to distract us from this major issue of the day.