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July 29 Spiritual Bouquet: Every branch that bears fruit My Father will cleanse, that it may bear more fruit. St. John 15:2 SAINT MARTHAVirgin (†84) Saint John tells us that Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus (John 11:5), but only a few glimpses are vouchsafed us of them in the Gospels. First, the sisters are set before us: Martha received Jesus into her house, and was busy in outward, loving, lavish service, while Mary sat in silence at the feet she had bathed with her tears. Then we learn that their brother is ill when they send word to...

Now Barack Obama and his family plan to spend some time next month on the glamorous island. Just off Cape Cod in New England, the island is where America's Democratic elite comes to let its hair down each summer, enjoying "clambakes" on the beach, garden parties, sailing and golf. It has long been a favourite haunt of Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, who is now the US secretary of state.

LEHIGHTON, Pa. (AP) -- Martha Stewart's puppy has died in a propane explosion at a northeastern Pennsylvania kennel. Stewart says on her blog she's ''deeply saddened'' by the death of her chow, Ghengis Khan, in Friday's blast at Pazzazz Pet Boarding kennel in the Pocono Mountains.

Martha Stewart refused entry to the UK By Christopher Hope Home Affairs Editor and Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 2:16AM BST 20/06/2008 Martha Stewart has been refused a visa to Britain because of her criminal convictions for obstructing justice, the Daily Telegraph has learned. Martha Stewart leaves the Federl court during her trial in 2004 The lifestyle guru, convicted four years ago in the US for obstructing justice, was planning to speak at the Royal Academy and to hold meetings with several figures in the fashion and leisure industry, including Jasper Conran, and was due to travel within the...

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2005 – A South Carolina woman who has been sending cookies to servicemembers overseas since 1990 said she's been flooded with e-mails from people wanting to help since she appeared recently on "Martha," the TV show hosted by Martha Stewart. Jeanette Cram, affectionately dubbed "the Cookie Lady," said this surge in support proves that she was successful in giving the message to the American public that the troops need support. She appeared on Stewart's show Dec. 16, lending a helping hand in the kitchen and talking about her campaign to support the troops. She also got a...

Before he was appointed special counsel in the Leakgate case, Patrick Fitzgerald defended the prosecution of Martha Stewart against criticism that the Justice Department indicted her only after it couldn't prove the underlying crime she was accused of - insider trading. The Stewart prosecution was run by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, the same person who tapped Fitzgerald to run the Leakgate probe in Dec. 2003. A June 2003 "Today Show" transcript unearthed on Monday by ABC Radio host Sean Hannity shows Fitzgerald defending Comey for throwing the book at the domestic diva. NBC's Anne Thompson introduced Fitzgerald as...

Albany [Delmar], New York - Group organizes effort to draft Martha Stewart for NY Senate in 2006 at www.marthaforsenate.com. An excerpt from the site read "New York Politics may be mean and ugly. But Martha is the Queen of clean and who better to tidy up Washington than her? " Unlike Hillary Clinton who spent little time in New York prior to becoming Senator, Martha Stewart received a degree from Barnard and owns several properties in the State. Also, unlike Hillary, Martha is a self-made business woman. Questions about her eligibility due to the ImClone scandal pale in comparison to...

LOS ANGELES -- Martha Stewart said home confinement was tougher than doing time in federal prison. She told Time magazine it was "extremely difficult," especially for "a busy person watching the clock, and knowing other people are watching the clock." Stewart was only allowed out of her house for a limited period. The domestic diva served five months behind bars for lying to authorities about a stock deal and nearly six more months in home confinement. She's been free of her electronic ankle bracelet monitor since Sept. 1

June 3, 2005 Arthur Andersen and the Innocent Criminals The importance of a guilty mind Jacob Sullum If Arthur Andersen were a man on death row, he could be released after his conviction was overturned. But the accounting firm, which was ruined by a 2002 witness tampering indictment that scared away its clients, is beyond saving. As a law professor told The New York Times, "The government gave the corporation a death sentence, and the corporation died." Andersen, which once had 28,000 employees in the United States, has been reduced to a skeleton crew of 200. The U.S. Supreme...

If there was any doubt that my fellow Democrats with white skin, the notorious white liberal, is the most intolerant creature on the planet, all you have to do is check one of their most popular daily blogs, the Daily Kos, to see how they operate. After I posted the column below, Daily Kos ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN the site and banned me from posting there. Keep in mind, I didn't use profanity. All I did was disagree with their opinion on Air America Radio. Also keep in mind that Daily Kos himself called for a boycott of Time Magazine after...

KATONAH, N.Y. (AP) -- Her middle name is Helen. She likes to spend a lot of time with eggs. And she has no use at all for that clunky black gizmo on her ankle. In the month since Martha Stewart was released from prison, after serving five months for her role in a stock-sale scandal, she has not been shy about sharing. Though she turned down an interview request with The Associated Press, the freed tastemaker has been talking about everything from kielbasa ("Yum," she proclaims) to Tasmania in forums ranging from court papers to Internet chat rooms to her...

Freed from prison two weeks ago, Martha Stewart is planning multiple TV projects to continue repairing her battered image. But she might not like what CBS — her onetime broadcast partner — is cooking up. Stewart, who's planning to star in a new version of NBC's "The Apprentice" and host a syndicated lifestyle show next season, will be the subject of a two-hour unauthorized TV movie that CBS is rushing into production in Toronto later this month, possibly for telecast during the May ratings "sweep," which helps set the rates that local stations charge advertisers. Sources said CBS and its...

I finally broke down today and wrote Fox a nasty email. I can not take another heart sobbing story about a convicted excon and a child molesting pervert. Has Fox turned into the National Enquirer of cable? How many ways can you tell a story and how many times does their loyal listeners have to put up with worthless entertainment news? For the first time in months I found myself having to switch channels so as not to start sobbing all over again about poor Martha and Michael. The world is going to hell in a hand basket and our...

After five months in prison, Martha's primed and ready for her next act: two TV shows and a marketing blitz stage-managed by a new A-list team. Inside the Martha Makeover Machine. Stewart: What a difference a prison stay makes NewsweekMarch 7 issue - Just after 5 on a recent frigid winter morning, Debbie Gettings lined up outside a Detroit TV studio for a chance to work for her idol: Martha Stewart. The 34-year-old suburban homemaker was not deterred by the fact that Stewart, at that moment, was sleeping in a prison cell in West Virginia. To the contrary, Gettings is...

The Supreme Court tossed out federal sentencing guidelines yesterday, giving hundreds of inmates - including Martha Stewart - a shot at new sentences. The stunning ruling is expected to unleash a flood of requests by defendants around the nation to be resentenced. Lawyers for Stewart said yesterday they were examining the ruling with her. "We're having discussions with our client about the implications of the decision," said David Chesnoff, one of Stewart's attorneys. Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months' home confinement. She has about two months left at the minimum security prison camp in...

Martha Stewart, in a Christmas message posted on her Web site, called Wednesday for sentencing reform and took a swipe at the "bad food" in prison. Stewart, who is roughly halfway through a five-month sentence for lying about a stock sale, urged fans to think about the women she has met in prison who are "devoid of care, devoid of love, devoid of family." She suggested Americans should push for reforms in federal sentencing guidelines for nonviolent first-time offenders and particularly for drug offenders, who she said would be better served by rehabilitation than prison. Stewart, who built a billion-dollar...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.'s former chief executive, Sharon Patrick, has left the New York media and merchandising company's board, the company said late Friday in a regulatory filing. Patrick, who stepped down as president and CEO about three weeks ago in a surprise shake-up, resigned from the board on Thursday, "in connection with her previously announced retirement," the filing said. A spokeswoman for Martha Stewart Living wasn't immediately available to comment further.

NEW YORK (Oct. 23) - Martha Stewart has been exercising, reading and making friends in prison, but the food at the minimum-security prison camp in West Virginia is "terrible," the domestic diva's daughter said Friday. "I'm sure she could give them quite a few pointers, but I think that the budget is so limited that ... I'm not sure how much change they'd be willing to make," Alexis Stewart said on CNN's Larry King Live. "I think airplane (meals) would be better. It's just -- it's terrible," the daughter added. "It's not going to affect her that badly because she's...

Bob Dole Slams Kerry By Andrew L. Jaffee, August 23, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Nothing has really changed for Democratic hopeful John Kerry, except that real war veterans, like Bob Dole, are questioning the “superficial wounds” and resulting “medals” he received during four (4) months service in Vietnam. Kerry is still flailing, trying to cover up a career punctuated by extreme left-wing politics and flip-flopping by talking to voters about his military service. He squandered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention by trying to convince Americans that his tour of duty in Vietnam will make him a great commander...

THE FARMER IN THE DELL I stuffed 'em down my pants...I stuffed 'em down my pants Hi-ho the derry-o, I stuffed 'em down my pants They marked the documents...they marked the documents Hi-ho the derry-o, they marked the documents The *itch set me up...the *itch set me up Hi-ho the derry-o, the *itch set me up I might go to jail...I might go to jail Hi-ho the derry-o, I might go to jail Like Martha, I'm screwed...like Martha, I'm screwed Hi-ho the derry-o, like Martha, I'm screwed Did Hillary leak...did Hillary leak Hi-ho the derry-o, did Hillary leak The...

The result is that people act as if they can ignore the history and origins of a great American corporation, like Microsoft or Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and treat it as if it just bloomed into existence as a fluke. And thus, the effort and virtue needed to create such a business seems, to them, just as vague and substanceless as the claims that insider trading is a terrible crime. The two ideas are equally devoid of substance and thus hold equal weight in people's minds.

So it appears Martha Stewart will, one of these years, go to prison for five months. I’m starting to wish there were a way to send her up the river for life. Not that her crimes warrant such a sentence. I used to be ambivalent about her case, wondering if what she did justified such tough, resolute prosecution. She was sentenced for lying about a stock sale. I can understand her astonishment at being nailed for that. Not many years ago, we had a president who was giving Burger King stiff competition for turning out the most whoppers. Lying under...

Justice Is Done A worthy end to the Martha Stewart Case. Martha Stewart engaged in financial shenanigans that were arguably criminal and incontestably sleazy. She then lied to federal agents about them and obstructed justice. Today, Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum in Manhattan imposed on Stewart the minimum sentence permissible under the federal guidelines. Justice was done. Much noise has been generated by fans and detractors of this case, most of it beside the point. Rabid supporters urged that the government was star searching and groused, in the now-tired refrain, that "there's no there there" — that Stewart's stock dumping may...

ALBERT WANG PRESENTS proudly offers up the best and worst in Summertime Reality TV! It's like The Appentice. It's like American Idol. It's Like Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire. It's Really, Really Bad. It Is "Who Wants To Be Martha Stewart's Cell Mate?" Martha will start with 15 or 20 likely fellow felons, and each week, through a varity of lame tests, the field is narrowed to 2, then all of America gets to vote on who will share Martha's life for the next 5 months. The contestants who are eliminated each week will be given a shiv, hand...

NEW YORK (AP) - First, Martha Stewart declared she is used to hard work and is not afraid of prison. Later, in an interview with ABC News, the homemaking expert repeated that she would be able to handle it and compared her plight to that of anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. ``I could do it,'' she said, according to excerpts released by ABC late Friday. ``I'm a really good camper. I can sleep on the ground. There are many, many good people who have gone to prison. Look at Nelson Mandela.''

(excerpt from mid-article - click link for full article) Stewart said she hadn't given much thought to what her life behind bars would be like when asked how she would handle prison food, fellow inmates and strip searches. "I could do it," she said. "I'm a really good camper. I can sleep on the ground. … There are many, many good people who have gone to prison … look at Nelson Mandela."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Domestic icon Martha Stewart was handed a prison term of just five months Friday for lying about a stock sale. After asking the judge for leniency, she emerged defiant from the courthouse to say she was being persecuted and declared, "I'll be back." "I'm not afraid. Not afraid whatsoever. I'm very sorry it had to come to this," she told a crowd of media and supporters afterward, speaking in a strong voice on the courthouse steps. Stewart, who was also ordered to serve five months of home confinement and fined $30,000, did win a key victory...

One-time Clinton White House legal adviser Walter Dellinger will take on the appeal for Martha Stewart after her sentencing Friday morning, and ABC News has learned the details of Dellinger's argument for a stay in her sentence pending appeal. The appellate expert and former solicitor general, who argued nine cases before the Supreme Court, will steer legal efforts on her behalf from the time of her sentencing on — taking over for Bob Morvillo, who leads the defense team to that stage. Dellinger has been working side by side with the defense team for several months to prepare appeal arguments,...

FoxNews Alert: No new trial for Martha Stewart.

Ken Lay of Enron Indicted and Arrested By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 8, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Enron’s ex-Chairman of the Board has been indicted and arrested on charges connected with his former company’s implosion in 2001. Corporate executives at Enron engaged in all sorts of financial manipulations to pump up the company’s stock price. They created complex “partnerships” to hide company debt from shareholders. In 1998, Enron’s share price was at about $20. By 2000, it hit $90. By 2001, the company’s stock was worthless. Enron’s collapse wiped out billions in shareholder value and employee pensions. Democratic Presidential hopeful John...

NEW YORK (May 31) - Martha Stewart will seek to lighten her jail term by spending up to 20 hours a week teaching poor women how to start their own businesses, according to Newsweek magazine. Stewart has offered to work up to 1,000 hours for Women's Venture Fund, a nonprofit organization based in New York, WVF president Maria Otero told the magazine for its June 7 edition. After meeting privately with Stewart, Otero wrote a three-page letter to U.S. Judge Miriam Cedarbaum about how the domestic doyenne's know-how could benefit underprivileged women, Newsweek said. ''Can you imagine if we had...

NEW YORK (May 18) - Martha Stewart's home decorating and cooking show will be suspended as of the 2004-2005 season as Stewart contends with a criminal conviction, her company said Tuesday. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said its founder and namesake's Emmy-award winning show Martha Stewart Living Television would be placed on hiatus after it wraps up its 11th season by September 2004. The show was distributed by King World Productions to 52 percent of local U.S. television markets. ''I am deeply sorry that it has become necessary for the show to go on hiatus until my personal legal situation is...

NEW YORK - Martha Stewart (news - web sites)'s lawyers asked on Wednesday for a new trial, claiming that one of the jurors who convicted her lied about his criminal record during jury selection. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, defense attorney Robert Morvillo accused juror Chappell Hartridge of violating his oath, lying to serve on the jury and depriving Stewart her right to a fair trial. Stewart was convicted March 5 along with her broker, Peter Bacanovic, of obstructing justice and lying to the government about her sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems stock on...

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Martha Stewart, to be sentenced June17 for obstructing a federal investigation, has asked friends ina letter to vouch for ``my character, my work ethic, myintegrity, and my probity'' with the judge in charge of her case,a person familiar with the matter said. Stewart asked friends in a March 12 form letter to write toU.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, who presided overStewart's trial in Manhattan and will sentence her. ``Many people have inquired as to whether they can help bywriting to Judge Cedarbaum about my sentence,'' Stewart wrote inthe one-page letter. ``I am advised by my...

<p>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Martha Stewart has resigned from the board of the home decor company she founded, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said Monday.</p> <p>In a statement, the company said Stewart has given up positions as director and chief creative officer, but will retain a role as "founding editorial director."</p>

<p>Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and other Democratic leaders are cruising toward November by exploiting public antipathy toward so-called corporate miscreants, such as the guys at Enron, WorldCom and now home-decorating diva Martha Stewart.</p> <p>I'm no defender of corporate wrongdoing, although I still can't quite figure out what Stewart did that warrants time in jail. Lying to investigators about a non-crime apparently is all it takes to get one locked up these days. Investigators frequently lie to those they are interrogating, and they are not punished for that.</p>

WHO'S HOT.... 1. JOHN KERRY HEINZ He's a Euro-loving defeatist who never met a U.N. resolution he didn't like. He's a two-face Viet Nam veteran who never stops talking about his surprisingly brief, four-month tour of duty in Viet Nam with his 'band of brothers," all the while doing everything he can to weaken the military and intelligence capability of his homeland (not to mention his shameful betrayal of American GIs and prisoners-of-war when he rushed home from Viet Nam -- thanks to his privileged connections -- to join the anti-war movement and libel America's beleaguered fighting men as killers,...

<p>NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton (search) doesn't want money from a convicted felon but a lot of other Democrats are keeping the dough Martha Stewart (search) gave them.</p> <p>Not only is the convicted domestic diva facing prison time for trying to lie about a suspicious stock sale but she's also a big Democratic donor.</p>

<p>March 9 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., has decided to give a $1,000 campaign contribution from Martha Stewart to charity, the New York Post reported Tuesday.</p> <p>Until Stewart's conviction on lying and obstruction of justice charges, Clinton vowed she would give her friend and supporter "the benefit of the doubt" and hold on to the money.</p>

RE: BUTTERFLY BROKEN ON A WHEEL [John Derbyshire] VERY interesting e-mailbag on my Martha Stewart postings. They are running about 2-1 in support of my pro-Martha position -- somewhat to my surprise, as I thought I was being dramatically contrarian here. Interestingly, e-mails from professionals in the securities business are pretty solidly with me -- I have appended a good example down below. Points often made: ---It is not against the law to be a rich, obnoxious, not-very-honest woman, not even if your politics are Clintonian-Democrat. ---Not only was Martha not charged with "insider trading" (whatever THAT is supposed to...

Homemaking and publishing icon Martha Stewart, convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about a suspicious stock sale, will likely serve time in federal prison. (The charges carry up to 20 years in prison, but Stewart will most certainly get much less than that under federal sentencing guidelines.) But the question on everyone's lips is: How will Stewart survive in prison? One woman who knows only too well about life behind bars is Susan McDougal, who told all in her recently published book, "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk.” She tells The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen, given the...

The Martha Stewart verdict signals a stunning fall from grace for one of the most successful women in American business. Not only was she the founder of a New York Stock Exchange company, she was its public face and chief spokeswoman, with a celebrity burnished on magazine covers, in books and on television shows, all labeled with the Martha Stewart name. Her fortune once was valued at more than $1 billion and remains in the $335 million range--at least for the moment. Stewart, the domestic diva and founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (nyse: MSO - news - people ),...

RE: BUTTERFLY BROKEN ON WHEEL [John Derbyshire] Readers are chiding me for my support of Martha: "Rich rhymes-with-rich... arrogant... female Kerry, DYKWIA?.... little people need protection in the market... integrity of the market... yada yada." Well, fiddlesticks. I'm a conservative, and my first presumption is that my main enemy is State Power. This was an exercise in State Power, DYKWIA writ much larger than any individual in this country can write it. Stewart's offenses were trivial, not worth prosecuting. Investor confidence? Insider trading? (Which she was not even charged with!) Gimme a break. The markets are a lottery, and the...

Martha, Clinton and the media’s perception of rule of law With Martha Stewart found guilty of obstructing justice and lying to government, are there many that have returned to former President Clinton’s legacy, asking how our nation, as well as his political party may have been different today, if consequences had followed his perjury, if media had reported facts rather than opinion? Stewart found guilty on all counts, with a verdict that may send her to prison and destroy her business empire, leads the “little people” to wonder how so many pundits and law authority spokespersons were so wrong in...

Courtroom Tales of Martha's Lies . . . Published: March 6, 2004 Martha Stewart, the woman who capitalized on her sense of decorum and good taste to build a business empire, is likely to go to jail for lying. Despite some significant overreaching in framing the original charges against her, the trial vindicated the government's decision to prosecute her and her broker. A Manhattan jury convicted Ms. Stewart yesterday of lying to federal prosecutors and of conspiring with her broker, Peter Bacanovic, to obstruct inquiries into why she sold her nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems on Dec. 27, 2001....

NEW YORK - Martha Stewart (news - web sites) predicted she would be "completely exonerated" on appeal after a jury delivered a devastating verdict that could take her from the top of a homemaking empire once worth $1 billion to the inside of a prison cell. Only a slight grimace at the sound of the word "guilty" broke the stoic face that Stewart had maintained throughout the six-week trial. "I will appeal the verdict and continue to fight to clear my name," she said in a statement issued just minutes later. "I believe in the fairness of the judicial system...

The U.S. Attorney who went after Martha Stewart in what looks to many like a prosecutorial jihad hasn't always been so tough on powerful women. In fact, just two years before his team nailed Stewart for lying to investigators about insider trading, U.S. Attorney James Comey let Hillary Clinton slide on charges she traded presidential clemency for votes in the village of New Square, New York. By the time Stewart was convicted on Friday, Comey was long gone from the offices of the U.S. Southern District, having moved up the Justice Department food chain to assume the position of deputy...

NEW YORK (AP) - Rosie O'Donnell showed up to support Martha Stewart at her criminal trial Monday and coyly offered a prosecutor a bag of peanut M&Ms as a bribe to drop the case. "The rest of your life, you're going to be known as the guy who tried to take down Martha Stewart," O'Donnell said she told prosecutor Michael Schachter after jurors were excused for the day. "You should have passed on this gig." Schachter grinned and politely declined the candy. "Thanks for coming," he said. O'Donnell sat in the front row of a Manhattan courtroom to watch the...