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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - At O'Donnell's, a watering hole a few blocks from the fort where General "Mad Anthony" Wayne marshaled his men for war with the Indians in the 1790s, patrons were weighing in yesterday on today's battle between the Democratic presidential candidates. Only a few had heard of the old adage that people vote for whomever they'd rather have a beer with - the test that George W. Bush supposedly passed with flying colors - but some were willing to offer their preferences. "I think Hillary," said Kevin Mashaus, 43, a wine-and-spirits representative from Fort Wayne. "I think...

Jane Fonda, King Arthur Battle in Sweden With Sweden's general election too close to call, some of the smaller parties - from the serious to the absurd - grabbed some limelight on Friday. American actress Jane Fonda visited Stockholm to drum up support for the Feminist Initiative, a fledgling party with slim chances of winning enough votes for a seat in parliament. Speaking to some 300 supporters in a sun-filled central Stockholm square, Fonda, 68, called on Swedes to show there are "brave people in this country to support the feminist party." With opinion polls showing a real chance that...

HOLLYWOOD - Movie star and activist Jane Fonda has blasted President George W. Bush on national TV because his international politics make her worry for the safety of her grandchildren. Speaking on advertising mogul Donnie Deutsch's nightly chat show on Thursday, the actress got angry when she was asked to explain her feelings for Bush. She fumed, "I am so frightened for this country and if we don't see change in the mid-term elections... I have grandchildren and I have never in my 68 years been so frightened for what's happening to our country. "We're turning the world against us....

Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and Rosie O'Donnell are backing a new leftwing radio network that plans to appeal to women listeners and counter what the dominance of conservative talk radio that their network says is "dominated by a male point of view." The new talk radio network is called GreenStone and will be officially launched on September 12, 2006. Its Web site describes it as "a clear alternative to the polarizing, highly political talk commonly heard on AM radio." Unstated but clear is that GreenStone is at war with Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and dozens of other hosts...

I WAS standing just down from the radio station 3RRR at ... in Melbourne when my phone rang.... I flipped open the batphone ... and found out that Steve Irwin was dead. I swore loudly as the moment fused, possibly forever, into memory. Something similar happened millions of times over in this country alone. Perhaps hundreds of millions of times across the world. You almost certainly remember exactly what you were doing when you heard. ... Not everyone is mourning, however. ... ... Germaine Greer pulled on her redundant fright mask and charged into print to bitchslap and rake at...

THIS is the muzzle The Daily Telegraph has sent to batty loudmouth Germaine Greer on behalf of all Australians furious over her comments about Steve Irwin. Today The Daily Telegraph calls on all Crocodile Hunter fans to tell the controversial academic exactly how they feel - and ... this afternoon we can also publish a new address to contact her. Greer raised the ire of a nation this week when she made the bizarre claims that the animal world had taken "revenge" on Steve Irwin when he died tragically from a sting ray attack in northern Queensland. A furious Queensland...

Germaine Greer, a dingo and a few jackasses said Steve Irwin was a publicity hog, but he was a huge star and a happy Australian. Professional harpy Germaine Greer was one of the first to publicly cackle over the death of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin. "The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin," the feminista gloated in an article published in Left-wing newspapers such as The Age and The Guardian. And if she meant by "animal world" the slavering pack that has paraded its resentment of Irwin since he was killed she'd be right. On Jon Faine's ABC...

Hillary’s Sex Appeal Seriously… By Louis Wittig New York, NY — There was a sharp, mischievous article in this. It just wasn’t materializing. Everything started out great. I arrived early for the press conference at the Museum of Sex where sculptor Daniel Edwards was unveiling his latest piece, The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton. I talked to Bob Kunst, founder of HillaryNow.com, a grassroots pro-Hillary website / organization, who was standing outside the museum entrance holding up a hand drawn “Hillary in ‘08” sign for a dozen reporters and cameramen. I had quotes before I even went inside. And...

July 17, 2006 The Honorable Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State of the United States of America U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Madam: We, the undersigned, are the citizens of Vietnam who, on April 8, 2006, have proclaimed the Manifesto 2006 which calls for democracy and freedom in Vietnam. We call ourselves Group 8406. According to the information that we received from Vietnam’s Ministry of External Affairs and the U.S. Department of States, we understand that you’ll be visiting Vietnam by the end of this month. We will be happy to welcome you here...

FMA Posted by ro @ 8:59 pm in Uncategorized I am sure the troops in Iraq, the forgotten victims of Katrina, the people being gauged at the gas pumps are grateful that President Bush is focusing on the central issue facing our nation: how to bar gay Americans from someday maybe getting the right to obtain a civil marriage license. Bush first announced Federal Marriage Amendment in feb 2004 – since that day 1,943 American soldiers were killed in Iraq. Total dead - 2476 Total wounded - 15,271 Fool me once… ------------------- fonda Posted by ro @ 11:57 pm in...

One of the most recognizable women of our time, Jane Fonda—actress, activist, feminist, workout guru, entrepreneur, and philanthropist—examines her “life so far”. As Fonda relates her story, what emerges is a full portrait that transcends the many labels that have been used to define her as well as a cultural history of our nation’s last forty years as her life has woven through our times. “Coming to see my various individual struggles within a broader societal context enabled me to understand that much of my journey was a universal one for women. …. I’m proof that you teach what you...

The sponsor of an effort to honor Jane Fonda in the Georgia state Senate withdrew her resolution Thursday, after a rocky reception from some colleagues and a phone call from the actress' office. Sen. Steen Miles, D-Decatur, said a representative for Fonda, who is out of the country, asked that she avoid the controversy the effort had stirred. "This, ladies and gentlemen, should not be occupying our time," said Miles. The resolution cites the Atlanta resident's work as founder of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, donations to Atlanta-area universities and charities and role as goodwill ambassador with the...

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED - COULD THIS BE TRUE? This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." BY BARBRA WALTERS Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Jane Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. The first part of this is from...

She really was a traitor A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century" BY BARBRA WALTERS Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. The first...

GLOBAL JIHAD 1 dead, 5 hurt in Seattle terror Muslim angry 'about Israel,' shoots up Jewish Federation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 28, 2006 10:57 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A 30-year-old Pakistani man, announcing he was a Muslim and angry about Israel, pulled out a gun in the Seattle Jewish Federation today and shot six people, one dead. Navid Hag in 1994 The gunman, identified by law enforcement sources as Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, reportedly lives in Pasco, Washington and has a charge of lewd conduct pending against him in Benton County, Washington. He reportedly is a U.S. citizen. According to...

Flipping between Fox and SciFi I caught a glimpse of someone who looked like an aging Jane Fonda. It was. NECN was airing its nicey-nicey interview done recently when Fonda hit Boston to plug her new book, "My Treason Until Now." There was Jim Braudy, NECN's Marxist intellectual puppet, interviewing her. I did watch several minutes, fascinated in the way a bloody car accident draws your attention even while you know you should be looking away. In those few minutes Fonda revalidated every tired Marxist cliche and every anti-military statement she has ever uttered. John Kerry is a "hero" because...

Sir! No Sir! Just saying no Release Date: 2006 Ebert Rating: *** BY ROGER EBERT / Jun 9, 2006 Quick question: When Jane Fonda was on her "FTA" concert tour during the Vietnam era, who was in her audience? The quick answer from most people would probably be, "anti-war hippies, left-wingers and draft-dodgers." The correct answer would be: American troops on active duty, many of them in uniform. "Sir! No Sir!" is a documentary that about an almost-forgotten fact of the Vietnam era: Anti-war sentiment among U.S. troops grew into a problem for the Pentagon. The film claims bombing was...

Jane Fonda has said that she will be leaving the protests against the U.S. presence in Iraq to Cindy Sheehan. However, the DUmmies are definitely looking to their heroine, Hanoi Jane, for advice as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD titled, "Jane Fonda's message to DU about how to stop the war." Perhaps the DUmmies would like to pose on camera next to an IED just like Jane Fonda did by gleefully sitting at an anti-aircraft battery in Hanoi and playfully pretending to shoot down American aircraft. (Note: I searched the Web but was unable to find the...

Yes kids!For only $12,500 you too can have Helen Thomas give a lecture at your event.I'm sure it's a rousing good time!

2006 Celebrity Roast Information Jane. Well Done. A Celebrity Roast of Jane Fonda to benefit G-CAPP Thursday, June 1, 2006 7:00 pm Georgia Aquarium Atlanta, GA Confirmed Roasters Include: Eve Ensler, Carrie Fisher, Rosie O'Donnell Debbie Reynolds, Wanda Sykes, Ted Turner MC: Larry King

Jane Fonda's 1972 trip to North Vietnam is haunting her again. The Georgia Senate on Thursday nearly unanimously defeated a resolution that would have honored the actress' charity work in the state. The Democratic sponsor had tried to withdraw the resolution after a rocky reception from colleagues and a phone call from Fonda's office, but a Republican leader forced a vote, saying members of his caucus wanted to go on record against it. Fonda, who is out of the country, had asked for the resolution to be withdrawn to avoid the controversy, said the sponsor, Sen. Steen Miles of suburban...

An intimate film preview and fundraiser for the award-winning documentary Sir! No Sir! Hosted by Jane Fonda and filmmaker David Zeiger, featuring special guest Maria Muldaur Wednesday, February 22 6:30pm Reception 7:30pm Program $100 Guest $250 Sponsor (includes 2 tickets) Co-Hosts Janice Anderson-Gram and Carole Simon Mills invite you to join Jane Fonda and filmmaker David Zeiger at an intimate fundraiser for the award-winning documentary Sir! No Sir!, a film about the thousands of GIs whose courageous rebellion helped end the war in Vietnam. "Anyone waging war with American troops might want to listen carefully to the largely untold story...

BUSH SNUBS HELEN THOMAS [AGAIN] Thu Jan 26 2006 15:42:32 2006 President Bush today again avoided taking a question from White House doyenne Helen Thomas during his 45-minute press conference, even though he took questions from every reporter around her front-row, center seat. "He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on." Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question,...

Did any one else her Leftist Senator Feinstein on Fox Sunday? She was just full of nonsense. For example she said something about its not the Mainstream Conservative that bother me is the Activist Conservatives. So I gather its OK to be a Conservative as long as you do not try to push your views (like the left does) on the Government or its policies. HYPOCRITE. She then went on about how important it is to keep Roe vs. Wade, and that it is the only test a Supreme Justice should have to pass. She then when on the litany...

Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines' "Hanoi Jane" Fonda is claiming that ever since Vietnam, U.S. troops have been trained to commit atrocities against innocent civilians as a matter of military policy. "Starting with the Vietnam War we began training soldiers differently," the anti-American actress says in an email to the Washington Post. Fonda claims she learned of the policy switch in "secret meetings" she had with military psychologists "who were really worried about what was happening to our combat personnel." One doctor, she insists, told her U.S. troops had been deliberately trained to be "killing machines." "This began,"...

To FR, from summer -- I was quite surprised to see this new photo for Maureen Dowd in today's online NYT:

MADONNA has urged US citizens to turn against President GEORGE W BUSH over his failure to provide adequate aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in August (05). The HUNG UP singer was "devastated" when MICHAEL MOORE's documentary FAHRENHEIT 9/11 didn't stop Bush winning the 2004 election and insists America must now realise his incompetence. She says, "I was just frigging devastated, It was a real sad day. I don't get how people can have all these facts and still turn away from them. "9/11 was too ambiguous. You couldn't prove how the government was somehow in on the deal....

Fresno -- The mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson is back in the spotlight after a DNA test showed that her first child was not fathered by the man who has been paying child support. Fresno hairstylist Anthony Flores, 29, has been paying Frey $175 a month for nearly four years, his attorney, Glenn Wilson, said Wednesday. The father of the 4-year-old girl is actually Fresno restaurant owner Christopher Funch, Wilson said. No one answered the telephone at Porky's Rib House on Wednesday, and Funch did not have a listed home number. "You'd think that Amber Frey's notoriety would have...

Hell hath no fury like a female author scorned. And a good thing, too. Kitty Kelley, the controversial celebrity biographer, is getting even with her critics in the just-issued paperback of her scandalous but well-researched examination of the president's spoiled, dysfunctional life: "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." Before the hardcover book was published, the contents were surrounded in secrecy; no advance copies, no leaks. Yet without having read a line, Republican sycophants trashed it relentlessly with extremist language like "garbage" and "fiction." Kelley has been through this brutal artillery before. Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy...

Alanis Morissette Becomes U.S. Citizen LOS ANGELES - Canadian Alanis Morissette is now an American citizen. The 30-year-old singer was among some 4,500 people who took the citizenship oath during a ceremony last week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Morissette isn't turning her back on Canada — she's maintaining dual citizenship. "I will never renounce my Canadian citizenship," Morissette said in a statement Wednesday. "I consider myself a Canadian-American. "There was a turning point during the ceremony where I felt connected to this country in a way that I didn't quite expect," she said. "America has been really great...

President Owes Nation Explanation In case there was any doubt, it is now official: Saddam Hussein did not possess an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Because President George W. Bush used Iraq's presumed possession of such weapons to justify the U.S. invasion and occupation, he owes the nation an apology and a full explanation. He also should make a second-term course correction in his foreign policy goals. The American people are not likely to buy another Bush White House argument for preemptive war. The Iraq Survey Group, tasked by Bush to uncover hidden weapons caches, finished its work shortly...

November 14, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Slapping the Other Cheek By MAUREEN DOWD You'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like "love thy neighbor," "turn the other cheek," "good will toward men," "blessed be the peacemakers" and "judge not lest you be judged." Yet somehow I'm not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to have put their prodigal son back in office. I'm getting more the feel of a vengeful mob - revved up by rectitude -...

Her appointment at the Civil Right's Commision expires next month There's something about Mary ...

America's morning TV sweetheart, Katie Couric, wasted no time on Wednesday trying to turn the beheading of Americans in Iraq into political ammunition - asking the brother of executed hostage Jack Hensley if he still supported the war.

<p>From the HSLDA E-lert Service...</p> <p>A bill that would force New Jersey homeschool children to submit to the same statewide assessment tests required of public school students, and force their parents to give the local school board proof the student had received an annual medical examination, is set to be introduced in the New Jersey legislature this Thursday.</p>

WASHINGTON I wasn't sure how to ask John Kerry, so I just blurted it out: "Is there anything we need to know about your relationship with your father?"I didn't think the country could take another vertiginous ride on the Oedipal tilt-a-whirl. It's hard not to see the Bush unilateral foreign policy — blowing off allies and the U.N. to rewrite the ending of a gulf war his father felt had ended appropriately — as the ultimate act of adolescent rebellion."I know what you're saying," Mr. Kerry murmured.The globe got whipsawed by a father-son relationship so twisty and rife with undercurrents...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that America would be safer if the Bush administration followed the path of previous administrations and relied on international cooperation to fight terrorism, which, she insisted, had foiled attacks on U.S. targets during the 1990s. "Abandonment of alliances can harm our security. And I think we're beginning to understand that," she told the Brookings Institution on Wednesday. The top Democrat said that America's "detachment" from the world, caused by President Bush's go-it-alone strategy, had undermined the war on terrorism. "We need all kinds of collaboration. And, unfortunately, our current policy does not...

WASHINGTON First came the pre-emptive military policy. Now comes the pre-emptive campaign strategy. Before the president even knows his opponent, his first political ad is blanketing Iowa today. "It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known," Mr. Bush says, in a State of the Union clip. Well, that's a comforting message from our commander in chief. Do we really need his cold, clammy hand on our spine at a time when we're already rattled by fresh terror threats at home and abroad? When...

<p>New York's junior senator delighted and captivated congregants during Saturday services at The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton. Clinton, whose step-grandfather was Jewish, addressed a number of topics, including terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p> <p>"The Senate has come through with a significant commitment of funds for the Israeli Defense Fund," she said to applause. "We will, I'm sure, be approving that in the coming weeks."</p>

Is there any doubt?

Mrs. Clinton Is Forgiven, but for a PriceBy JOYCE PURNICK URING her big book party at the Four Seasons on Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked if she found it painful to relive her rough marital days. "It was difficult," she said. "It, you know, they were very difficult times; they should have remained personal and private matters. But they were pulled into the public so I felt I had to, you know, write about what was part of the public history." She got that right. She did have to. Those are the rules, unwritten but unyielding. New York's junior...

MIDI - Gilligan's Island Sit back, my friends, and I'll tell a tale A tale of Hollywood About Susan and her Timmy Boy...both up to no good Attacking Bush, who's our president, while our troops are at war Out in the street they prove every day...they're real leftist whores...they're real leftist whores Assaulting all of our values...they said things that were not nice As if we merely would take it and they wouldn't pay a price...they wouldn't pay a price We hit them right in their pocketbook...that's our form of free speech But Susan cried and Timmy screamed, "McCarthy's...

A third of New York Democrats are urging her to run. Polls suggest that she is the only candidate capable of defeating President George W. Bush at the ballot box. Among a growing number of her supporters, only one question matters: can Hillary Clinton be persuaded to rescue her party in the 2004 presidential race?   Mrs Clinton has insisted that she intends to see out her term as New York senator, which ends in 2006, before possibly running for the presidency in 2008. But following Al Gore's announcement last week that he will not run for the presidency a...

Hil puts heat on Bush Flanked by fire trucks, Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday urged President Bush to free up $1.5 billion in federal funds earmarked to help local police and fire departments battle terrorism and enhance community policing programs. "We have appropriated hundreds of billions of dollars to make sure they [the military] have the pay, the training, the equipment that they need. When are we going to do the same thing for our homeland defenders?" said Clinton (D-N.Y.) in a press conference at a Manhattan firehouse. Clinton was joined by several police and fire union officials at the...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled that President Bush's nominee to a disputed seat on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is the legitimate holder of that seat. At issue is whether Victoria Wilson, who was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton to complete the term of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham on Jan. 13, 2000, or Peter Kirsanow, who was appointed by President Bush to a new six-year term, was the legitimate holder of the position. As CNSNews.com previously reported, a Justice Department attorney told the three-judge panel that Congress did not intend to eliminate staggered terms...