The Guild 4-30-2003 Welcome home!

[mountaineer]

Good morning to all. Happy planting!

Page Six reports:

May 3, 2003 -- BILL Clinton wants to remind people how much he achieved in office. This week, the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation mailed out a neatly printed booklet containing a "record of accomplishment" for his administration, "summarizing work on the economy, foreign policy, the environment and other issues." Clinton rep Jim Kennedy says it isn't a prelude to a plea for cash. "We get many requests for information about the work of the administration, and the booklet provides a useful summary of facts and figures that we can send in response," he tells us. "Once the [Clinton] library is open next year, much more background on the record of the administration will be available." [Okay, not exactly the true record of the administration, he admitted, "But some kind of record. We're busy writing it now. Stephen King and Danielle Steel are our ghostwriters."]

[Iowa Granny]

Stephen King and Danielle Steel are our ghostwriters

LOL. Good one!

[mountaineer]

Hillary continues to attempt to buy her way to the White House (with our money):

U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced legislation to fund special education programs across the country. Clinton (D-Chappaqua) is an original co-sponsor of the measure called the "IDEA Full Funding Act of 2003." According to a news release from Clinton, New York would receive $1.2 billion over the next ten years. Albany County would receive more than $7.6 million in the 2003-2004 fiscal year if the bill becomes law. source

Meanwhile, look at the "intellectuals" (will someone please define that?) who are supporting the murderous Castro:

HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 160 foreign artists and intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have come out in defense of Cuba even as many of their peers condemn recent repression on the Communist-run island, one of the campaigners said on Thursday.

Latin American Nobel laureates Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and South African writer Nadine Gordimer, also a Nobel prize winner, have signed a declaration of support, Mexican sociologist Pablo Gonzalez said. U.S. singer Harry Belafonte and U.S. actor Danny Glover are also among the personalities who have signed the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World" so far, Gonzalez announced to a May Day rally in Havana.

"A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of understanding, debate and mediation among countries," the declaration says, referring to the United States and the war in Iraq. At this very moment, a strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for an invasion," it continues.

.... At the Thursday rally Castro told critics, particularly on the left, that their words could be used to justify a U.S. invasion. full story

What qualifies Glover and Belafonte as intellectuals, other than their hatred for President Bush and anti-war protesting?

[mountaineer]

Hope everyone has a great day!

[lodwick]

What Dick and Jane Can't Read

[lodwick]

Kentucky Derby analysis

[lodwick]

A team of U.S. and French biologists has stunned the scientific world by creating a mouse egg from a mouse embryo cell, and then going on to create a mouse embryo from the egg, bypassing normal fertilization. The result has far-reaching implications for the current debate over stem cells and cloning.

The rest of the story

[Iowa Granny]

Thank you for those links. I am insensed about this reading thing.

By the way: I saw a complete set of Dick and Jane books for sale last fall. I wish I had purchased them. I may have to go shopping next week.

[mountaineer]

That sounds like a fascinating and disturbing book, loddy, thanks for the link. I'm so glad my nieces are homeschooled!

[lodwick]

Yep - it's high time for concerned parents and grandparents to visit their used book stores, ebay and garage sales so their kids don't get completely dumbed down.

Back to the gardening...sigh.

[lodwick]

Shooting May be Tied to Church Arsenic Poisonings

The wheels are coming off the world folks.

[lodwick]

British cameraman killed by IDF

Apparently a stone cold murder.

[mountaineer]

The wheels are coming off the world folks.

Not as long as our God reigns, JL.

[lodwick]

It's the fullfillment of what was prophesied, imo.

[mountaineer]

When I was a youngster, I enjoyed reading some old McGuffey Readers that probably predated even my mother's school days. Of course, they all offered useful life lessons, a traditional Judeo-Christian moral to every story, etc. - just the type of thing one wouldn't see in today's politically correct, diversity-above-all school texts.

Speaking of education (sort of), I just came across this story:

Former President Clinton and the University of Arkansas are considering the creation of a new "Clinton School of Public Service." Already being called "UACS," it would provide an undergrad degree to students who attend the classes at Clinton's new library and museum facility in Little Rock. Friend Bruce Lindsey says Clinton is high on the idea and is mulling a weekend retreat where friends, advisers, and educators would develop a curriculum.

More Blubba news:

Add former Clinton deputy Harold Ickes to the crowd of Bushies who thought Bubba's White House was too informal. Like how few staffers stood up when President Clinton entered a room.

"It bothered me," says Ickes in the new book Air Force One. He singled out Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, who now hosts ABC's This Week. "That used to [tick] me off," says Ickes, "seeing George sitting there with his . . . feet on the table, and [he] would sit that way when Bill Clinton would come in."

Finally, this vignette, from the same source:

Kenneth T. Walsh, reveals in Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes that it's often a different story inside the airborne White House. Consider President Bush's additions: satellite TV and a treadmill for sweaty workouts.

Or former President Clinton, who strutted around in jeans and T-shirt while his staffers turned the 747 into a frat house.

"Some of the staff people," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta, "would treat it as just another plane." He made it sound like a rock band's jet: too much booze, loud music, and garbage in the cabin.

Even former President Bush had a weird story for the new book. During Clinton's trip to Israel for the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Bush went into a staff cabin and stretched out on the floor to sleep. When he woke up, Jimmy Carter was right next to him, nose to nose. "Scary?" asked Bush. "No, but different."

[Iowa Granny]

My Mother learned to read from McGuffy. She may have taught from them in Country School, too. The Dick and Jane books I saw were Reprints,, there may have been McGuffy's available, too, I can't recall.

Deeply strange stuff you're reporting about the Air Force One book. Waking up nose to nose with Jimmy Carter. Bless my Soul. I just know I would loose it and shout fowl things at him if this had happened to me.

WJC wants students to study at his Presidential Library? Naw,,,, he wants some 'Easy Prey' available. That's what he really wants. What parent in their right ;~) mind would allow their daughter to participate in such a charade (sp?)? I would hope that even parents in their 'left' mind would have serious doubts,,, but then,, I'm an old fuddy duddy.

[Endeavor]

Hey Gran,

Thought of you whilst flying over Iowa yesterday. It is always good to get home, isn't it!

I was coming from Phoenix, which was downright hot. Was in Santa Fe earlier in the week - snow still on the mountains. Almost every car had a "No War" sign. No wonder it's a haven for Hollyweird.

Cool weather here today - had to turn the heat on as the house stays so cool in the evenings. Glad you're finally done. Enjoy the gardening - E.

[Iowa Granny]

I haven't gotten to do much gardening. I had grand plans to garden this afternoon,,,, instead I took a nice long nap. I decided it was critical to rest up before embarking on a marathon gardening adventure.

I had an old high school classmate tell me about the Lib trend in Santa Fe. Your post verifies what he told me.

It wasn't all that warm here today, either. I heard the furnace kick in a little while ago. It didn't run long, but I can tell the difference.

Odd occurance here today: 2 (!!) TV's went the trip on the same day. The local hardware store owner/repairman had bypass surgery a week ago, and even getting a new one delivered will be out of the question for a few weeks. He has no male helpers. 3 farmwomen work parttime as clerks. The gals took turns opening up the store and running it while he was hospitalized,,, but none of them can deliver and hook up a TV. I may be out of touch for awhile.

[mountaineer]

I've never seen Dole and x42 on 60 Minutes, and probably won't tonight, either:

BOB Dole has just discovered the Osbournes - and he hates them. PAGE SIX has learned that the curmudgeonly also-ran will blast Ozzy and his spawn on Sunday's "60 Minutes."

In his ongoing series of point-counterpoints with Bill Clinton, Dole asks, "Does Hollywood still think Ozzy Osbourne is funny now that he's shipped his underage son [Jack] off to drug rehab? America is awash in reality TV. And the reality is it's debasing and degrading." The ex-senator then blasts Clinton directly, saying, "Mr. President, don't your showbiz pals realize the consequences? They package dysfunctional people like the Osbournes. Giggle at the coarseness and the crimes. And sink lower for higher ratings. For eight years, you treated Hollywood like your own piggy bank. Now how about joining me in demanding a little responsibility?"

In his reply, Bubba singles out Fox for its racy programming - where Monica Lewinsky recently launched the reality series "Mr. Personality." Page Six

x42 singles out Fox? He must not know that the entertainment side of the network is unrelated to those nasty "biased" people at Fox News.

[Timeout]

How did we get stuck with Dole? (Are there Dems who say the same of Bubba?)

Gads, Dole could scare away all the young people the pubbies have won over since GWB took the helm! Who the heck cares what Bob Dole thinks of reality TV? He's served the country well, but it's time to hang up the spurs. Bless 'is heart.