The GUILD 9-29-2003 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

1. They were never looking for trouble.

2. But when trouble came, they faced it with courage.

3. They were always on the side of right.

4. They defended good people against bad people.

5. They had high morals.

6. They had good manners.

7. They were honest.

8. They spoke their minds and they spoke the truth, regardless of what people thought or "political correctness," which no one had ever heard of back then.

9. They were a beacon of integrity in the wild, wild West.

10. They were respected. When they walked into a saloon (where they usually drank only sarsaparilla), the place became quiet, and the bad guys kept their distance.

11. If in a gunfight, they could outdraw anyone. If in a fist fight, they could beat up anyone.

12. They always won. They always got their man. In victory, they rode off into the sunset.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning. 34 degrees here this morning. Tomorrow is supposed to be even worse. The OG weighed some 63 bu. per A. beans yesterday. Sadly, they weren't our own.

[lodwick]

Wow.

Nor ours, either.

Oh well, the price is shooting up, so we'll be holding for a while.

A happy hump day to one, and all, finding their way here.

[mountaineer]

Clark’s presidential campaign reveals new links to Clintons

Gen. Wesley Clark’s late-starting presidential campaign shifted into second gear last week with a stop at the Citadel, where he questioned the Bush administration’s Iraq policy and laid claim to being the Democrats’ peace candidate.

But the retired NATO supreme commander did little to dispel suspicion that his run for the White House is being stage-managed by former President Bill Clinton for the benefit of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), both of whom deny it.

“Force is best used as a last resort,” Clark told an audience of some 250 cadets at the South Carolina military college, “and never because it just feels right.”

As it turns out, Clark was not asked to speak by Citadel officials, who charged his campaign $650 for the use of a parade field. [I was wondering about that!] The invitation came from Philip Lader, a visiting professor of government, who served as Clinton’s envoy to Great Britain. Lader, who founded Renaissance Weekends, the high-level self-awareness getaways where he met the Clintons, was once dubbed “ambassador touchy feely.”

Clark’s new spokeswoman, Mary Jacoby, former Washington correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times, also has close ties to the Clintons. Her father, Jon Jacoby, is executive vice president of Stephens Inc., the Clinton-connected Little Rock investment bank where Clark was employed after leaving the military. Jacoby has never worked on a political campaign before, but she once had a job as a file clerk at the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton was a partner. [At least she's well qualified, at least by Clinton standards] The Hill

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Another tidbit from The Hill (from the "With friends like these ..." file):

Javier Betancourt, onetime deputy press secretary for Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) embarrassed the Democratic presidential candidate several weeks ago by writing in a mass e-mail that Graham not only “lacked the charisma” to be chief executive, he doesn’t even want the job. “I know in my heart that Graham is really aiming for the VP slot (or rather, his wife is), so all he needs is an invitation,” wrote Betancourt, who suggested that Graham and ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) would make the perfect “Bush-beating machine.”

[lodwick]

...Graham and ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) would make the perfect “Bush-beating machine.”

Exceptionally delusional author here.

That pair would be challenged to beat eggs.

Thanks for the tidbits from the hill, M.

[lodwick]

Thread killer...

[daisyscarlett]

Who wants an "anti-war general" as president. How ridiculous..I read somewhere that the Clintons may have made a big booboo with Clark because he is such an egomaniac that when it comes time for him to step aside to become Hil's veep, he will refuse and want to be on top of the ticket...hee hee...Course if that happens he may turn up in that park (Ft. Marcy) in D.C. where they found Vince Foster. Surely he is smart enough to know that..

Lovely Laura is in Moscow today.LINK 1 LINK 2

I like her suit much better than Mrs. KGBs..

First ladies of Russia Lyudmila Putin (L) and the U.S. Laura Bush (C) speak to pupils at a festival of school libraries in Moscow, October 1, 2003. A former school librarian, Bush told children at a Moscow book fair 'this festival is ... a celebration of freedom -- the freedom to write what we want to write and read the books that we want to read.' (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

[mountaineer]

Clark reminds me a little of McCain, with the hint that he's just this close to a meltdown. I certainly hope so!

Clark has joined the other dwarves in hitting up Hollywood for contributions, thread here.

[mountaineer]

Oh my, I didn't notice Mrs. Putin's ensemble. Looks like a fast food restaurant uniform!

[daisyscarlett]

The madness continues here in California...

Arianna has dropped out and will devote the rest of the week to bash Arnold and suggest a No vote on recall...Clinton is coming back this weekend to campaign with Davis.

Most of the folks I have talked to or eaves-dropped on have already voted by absentee ballot for Arnold...Even my neighbor friend (who happens to be black or African American or whatever is p.c. today) is voting for Arnold. She says because "he cannot be bought". Don't have to worry about Clinton swaying her either cause she has hated Clinton since Lewinsky.

Maria does not look at all healthy or pretty in this photo, IMO.

[Iowa Granny]

Let me add: A Fast Food emporium's uniform from the 60's

I read elsewhere here at FR that Laura had purchased some new duds for this trip. In the kindest, gentlest way, I have to say I like her old stuff better. The blue duster over grey pants and sweater from yesterday just didn't 'look like her'. If the jkt had been shortened to hip length, I'd have liked it alot better.

I'll need to see a few more shots of this asymetrical number before I pass judgement on it.

[MaeWest]

I can assure you that that retired American ambassador to Africa, as Nick Kristof calls him in his article, is also pissed off and has every intention of assuring that this story has legs. And I think it does have legs. It may not have legs over the next two or three months, but when you see American casualties moving from one to five or to 10 per day and you see Tony Blair's government fall, because in the UK it is a big story, there will be some ramifications I think here in the United States. So I hope that you will do everything you can to keep the pressure on because it is absolutely bogus for us to have gone to war the way we did.

Good grief. And it appears all the more bizarre when you realize the "retired Ambassador to Africa" he refers to is himself (Wilson).

[lodwick]

Goodness - Maria looks as though she's had a stroke or something not good.

Thanks for the update - it will be over, one way or other, soon enough.

[mountaineer]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think maybe women in their late 40s should rethink wearing that hair style? I have a feeling she hasn't changed it much since college.

[lodwick]

Bustmante: "If every person in the immigrant communities went out and voted, I could succeed..." Sac Bee






California Insider A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub



September 30, 2003 "They are against food"

Cruz has played the race card -- in an interview in Spanish on the Univision Television Network. The network has translated the interview and sent a transcript to reporters covering the campaign:


"No one is asking me how much money I get from the Latino community, or from African-Americans, or from people in the Jewish community, or any other group," said Bustamante. "No one else, just the indigenous tribal governments. Why is that?" When asked if he saw this as racial discrimination, Bustamante responded: "Well, that's how it is, I think, sometimes. And I believe we need leaders who can unite, not divide, people."


The lieutenant governor had strong words for his Republican opponents in the recall race. "People who are on the ballot - people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock - want Proposition 187 once again. They don't want driver's licenses for immigrants. They are against food. They are against access to colleges and access to schools. They are against the opportunity to organize labor unions. They are against so many of the values we have in our community. I think it's important to see who the enemy is... It's the Republican legislators, candidates, and officials who say that they don't want to solve our community's problems. That they don't want children to go to school. That they don't want driver's licenses. All of those are Republicans, they're not Democrats."


The gubernatorial candidate spoke out repeatedly on his support for immigrants, and expressed his hope that they would support him in the upcoming elections: "If every person in the immigrant communities went out and voted, I could succeed just with their votes."

[pubmom]

Busta needs a: "I'm an idiot", t-shirt.

I'm starting a new organization, "Republicans against Food." Who else wants to join?

[mountaineer]

I'm too busy opposing access to schools, sorry.

[lodwick]

Hilarious - thanks for a good laugh.

Conservatives opposed to clean air.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Oh this outfit on Laura is just awful. Laura is a busty gal, she needs a more open neck. When she is all bound up in a jacket it makes her look big and uncomfortable.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I am against food for democrats.

Everyone else... eat up!

[Iowa Granny]

Pig Farmer opposed to clean air, here