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Hey, What's That Sound? (Dowd)
NY Times ^ | 8/20/05 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 08/20/2005 3:11:55 PM PDT by Crackingham

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To: raybbr
Wow! That's a CZJ photo I haven't seen before.

It's not that she has a Sophia Loren body or anything, it's just that somehow, she's able to put that extra zip into the camera. Quite the sexy beast.

Plus, like another favorite of mine, Diane Lane, she seems to get better looking as she matures.

41 posted on 08/20/2005 6:12:38 PM PDT by benjaminjjones
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To: Crackingham
From Oxblog:
IMMUTABLE LAWS OF DOWD

1. Ashcroft never deserves credit.

2. Offering constructive solutions to problems, instead of whining endlessly about them, is a sign of weakness.

3. The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved ("Dubya" is stupid; "Poppy" is an aristocrat; Cheney is macho-man; etc.). Any reference to the common good or even to old-fashioned politicking is, like, so passe.

4. It is much better to be cute than coherent.

5. Maureen knows best. Her long years as a columnist (doing basically what your great-aunt Tillie does in the nursing home bull sessions, but getting paid for it) have given her deep insight into foreign relations, politics, welfare, the Constitution, and all other topics. To disagree with Maureen in any way is not only a sign of being wrong, it's a hallmark of pure evil...or at least membership in the NRA, which is pretty much the same thing.

6. It is usually possible and always desirable to name-drop and name-call in the same sentence.

7. The particulars of my consumer-driven, shamefully self-involved life reveal universal truths.


Explanation of the Dowd/Douglas connection: by Miss Marple- 2/11/03

Ms. Dowd was escorted around New York and DC for many months by one Michael Douglas of Hollywood fame and fortune. She got to go to all the best parties, was photographed for the tabloids, and was picking out a gown to wear at the Oscars. Of course, Michael had become interested in her during Clinton's impeachment, when she had written some very anti-Clinton columns. After a few weeks of the Michael treatment, she began to write anti-Starr, anti-Newt columns, ignoring Clinton.

Then Clinton was acquitted by the Senate. In an amazing coincidence, Michael Douglas dropped Ms. Dowd like a hot potato, and instead picked up a hot tomato, Catherine Zeta-Jones, who subsequently bore him a son and they were married.

Ms. Dowd cannot get over her tragic loss. Her columns are increasingly anti-Bush, in the hope of impressing her lost love, Michael.

In addition, we think she has a secret crush on the President and is trying to get him to pay attention to her. Ha!

42 posted on 08/20/2005 6:13:03 PM PDT by ShorelineMike (Praesto, ergo sum.)
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To: perfect stranger
Ah, well, not to be rude but the correct quote is " The Bourbons forgot nothing and learned nothing"

This upon the restoration of Louis XVIII

43 posted on 08/20/2005 6:16:24 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Petronski

That happens when one turns into a bitter old crone.


44 posted on 08/20/2005 6:31:27 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
I see the point of difference.

Learning and remembering are two quite different tasks.

45 posted on 08/20/2005 6:45:49 PM PDT by perfect stranger ("Hell Bent for Election" by Warburg)
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To: ladyinred
No QB business at all. IMHO it is very obvious the reason why we had to go back is because we did not finish the job in the first place. I think we have paid 10 fold due to the decision. We obviously were more afraid of what would take his place.

I do not think GWB is staying to long. I think we will be there a long time to come.

46 posted on 08/20/2005 7:03:22 PM PDT by Jalapeno
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To: DefiantZERO
Amazingly devious! Rove's best work yet!

They'll never see it coming, until it is too late. Brilliant.

47 posted on 08/20/2005 8:10:41 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Crackingham

My bet is when we do leave Iraq the left will not be happy


48 posted on 08/20/2005 8:13:33 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
So, in her warped mind, Michael dumping her was for the best after all?

To me, the best indication of her minimal mental ability is that she went for that midget Michael Douglas at all.

49 posted on 08/20/2005 8:21:46 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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