This image made available by NASA shows plumes of smoke drifting westward from the Santa Clarita, Calif. and Castaic Lake area on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007 at 2:50 p.m. Wildfires fanned by fierce desert winds consumed huge swaths of bone-dry Southern California on Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, burning buildings and forcing evacuations from Malibu to San Diego. San Clemente Island is seen at bottom right with Santa Catalina Island above and San Nicolas Island at center right. (AP Photo/NASA)
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, tours the burned site of Malibu Presbyterian Church in Malibu, Claif., Monday, Oct. 22, 2007. He is joined by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, left, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, right. Wildfires are blazing across much of Southern California, prompting hundreds of thousands of evacuations. (AP Photo/Annie Wells, Pool)
Hillary and Hollywood, while California burns
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y Soren Dayton Posted
Governor Schwarzenegger has announced a state of emergency. Thousands of Americans are losing their homes. They are certainly in my thoughts and prayers.
What about Hillary? Hollywood is throwing her a birthday party, just miles away:
Rob Reiner sang a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday, Mrs. President" in honor of Senator Hillary Clinton at his Brentwood, California, home on Sunday evening.
Celebrities came to see to see Clinton, D-N.Y., and to celebrate in advance of the former first lady's 60th birthday. Although they didn't bring gifts, celebrities from Jamie Lee Curtis, Magic Johnson, Ted Danson, Bridget Moynihan and Chelsea Handler raised a half a million dollars for the Clinton campaign and enjoyed cocktails and hors deouvres in return.
Despite the massive fires miles away in Malibu, guests were greeted by men dressed in head to toe white, with lavender bow ties saying with "Welcome to the Reiner's," as they shuffled up and down the street parking Bentleys, Porsches, and BMWs.
I hope that the wind was blowing the right direction. I bet it's hard to get the ash and soot (of people's homes and dreams) off those "head to toe white" suits "with lavender bow ties."
Next time she's says she's fighting for Americans, remember that this is what she means.