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Some of the "Fighting Tigers" are fighting mad at Governor Blanco. As noted in the press, there are unofficial reports that LSU Tigers are going to the Rose bowl. After this was announced, Governor Blanco began making phone calls that haven't exactly impressed LSU fans. Several fans have approached THE DEAD PELICAN expressing a mixture of outrage and ridicule, claiming that Blanco is trying to take credit for something that isn't her doing. Other LSU fans haven't forgotten about Blanco's tail gate party for ULL, at the same time that university was playing the LSU tigers. According to a statement...

Pelosi Statement on Karl Rove and White House CIA Leak 7/13/2005 2:36:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Web: http://democraticleader.house.gov WASHINGTON, July 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to media inquiries about White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's involvement in leaking the identity of CIA official Valerie Plame: "The American people deserve the truth about who in the White House recklessly disclosed the identity of a CIA clandestine service officer, endangering our national...

Jane Fonda claims she only agreed to star in her latest movie because she was desperate for cash.The Oscar winning actress, who took a 15 year break from acting, says the money drew her to the role with Jennifer Lopez in 'Monster in Law.' She said: 'Lets put the cards on table. I needed money. I do some charity work in Georgia where i live. I'm 67 and I'm not going to be around much longer.''I wanted to be sure the work I do is endowed. So half of my salary went to endow the work I do with the...

Jane Fonda talks about how she is 'riveted' by faith and why feminism is what Jesus taughtFrom her longtime political activism to her Oscar-winning acting, Jane Fonda has never done anything halfheartedly, and she brings this characteristic intensity to her faith. When she talks about "feeling the presence of the Almighty," her view of Jesus, and the way she prays, her voice wells from deep within her chest. You may know this voice from her films (among dozens of others: Barbarella, Klute, On Golden Pond, and currently in theaters, Monster-in-Law), or from her aerobics videos ("feel the burn!"), or from...

To Spit or Not to Spit, on Jane Fonda - That is the Question by Sharon Hughes The Vietnam Vet who spit on Jane Fonda as she was signing her new book was the topic of debate in the news this week - should he have done it? Everyone said no, and I agree. However, I understand the anger behind it. Many of our troops experienced the same thing when they came home from the war. Just last year my husband, Duane, who is a decorated Vietnam Vet, was speaking to a group about the war in Iraq as compared...

It’s no coincidence that Jane Fonda’s new book, My Life So Far, precedes the release of her new movie Monster-in-Law. That’s just good old-fashioned Hollywood promotion; however, something went wrong on the way to Larry King’s forum – she did not apologize for her activities in Vietnam. Yes, her publicity blitz expresses regrets, but there is no heartfelt apology. When the avuncular interviewer actually asked a challenging question about her nefarious goings on it was clear Jane hadn’t rehearsed her lines – here’s her sincere response: “I’m sorry I was photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft gun.” Wow, her arrogance and...

There's a right way and a wrong way to protest Jane Fonda for her anti-Amer ican behavior of the past. Unfortunately, Vietnam vet Michael Smith picked the wrong way this week. Fonda has much for which to answer. While her famously infamous behavior in North Vietnam may not have reached the legal threshold for treason, surely she was there in spirit.

We've just completed a weeklong remembrance of Pope John Paul II, a man who once visited the cell of his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, to bestow Christian forgiveness. During the same week, who should re-emerge on the American scene but Jane Fonda, Hanoi Jane to so many, who, in a series of print and broadcast interviews, has attempted once again to explain why she gave aid and comfort to America's North Vietnamese adversaries in 1972. To explain, but not to apologize. One of the Baby Boomers' favorite novels was Love Story, which counseled that "love means never having to...

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I am away on business and the hotel room does not get Fox or even MSNBC, so I am forced to watch CNN. And there was his fat puss on the screen.He was quiet, and his rhetoric was delivered in measured tones. He must have said ten times how Brown knew him well; he tried to present himself as just a regular American kinda guy who was merely exercising his right to dissent.Brown did press him a bit: (Paraphrase)"But Michael, was this really the right time and place?" No backtracking by fat boy; he held his position, but his tone...