…when Jane FONDA gets cut off by an interviewer for…{drumroll}…talking nicely about President Bush.
Liz: Yes, publicans and sinners. Or was that Republicans and sinners?
Jane: (Laughter) I was at the White House correspondents’ dinner the other night, and Laura Bush was really funny. Her approval rating is way up, as it should be.
Liz: Did you see the president’s press conference before that; I thought he was floundering.
Jane: No, I thought he was very impressive. I don’t know him, but I have always thought if I were alone in a room with him, I would really like him.
Liz: Well, many people do like him, and he has an informal appealing quality, they say*. Jane, let’s get back on you. What do you think of today’s theory that the Vietnam war turned today’s Vietnam into a flourishing Asian market economy Western style…
Poor old Liz is workin’ it and workin’ it, and Jane won’t bite. How blatant an attempt to be incendiary and how dee-lish-us a result. (And in typical narcissistic MSM fashion, not at all adverse to printing the evidence. I’m sure there’ll be howls of outrage should a bigger blog point it out. *All emphasis on the obvious mine.)
Instapunk nails him perfectly.
Warning: Do not look at that link with food or beverage in your mouth.
Thanks to the Blogfaddah for the heads up.
*Update: VodkaPundit grills his Nazi Apologist Ass too (his “NAA”).
Nothing like a good, old fashioned, MOtivational video!!
That was a movie. THIS is a milagro!
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I had the distinct pleasure last night of getting to meet Nightfly and some friends of his at a local watering hole, where they had kindly invited me to meet them after their bible study group had finished. A sweeter, more open group of folks one would be very hard pressed to find. Fellowship, my friends, is really the key to living as good a life as we can, for without fellowship to walk the path with us we delude ourselves about any virtues we may have. By ourselves we are nothing.
Even with creme puffs.
Damn, they were good.
Hmmmmm. What to do, what to do…
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and interview video on MSNBC.com. The ‘Phoenix’ they call it.
That’s how it should look.
…is appreciated.
April budget surplus swells to $57.71 bln
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States posted a greater-than-expected $57.71 billion budget surplus in April, the largest monthly surplus in three years, as tax receipts swelled, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
The April reading surpassed Wall Street expectations for a $55 billion budget surplus and raised the possibility of a much lower fiscal 2005 fiscal deficit* than first forecast.
*emphasis mine
Not bad work for a chimp, eh what?
…needs to die.
ZION, Ill. – The father of an 8-year-old girl who was slain along with her best friend admitted to authorities that he was the killer, saying he was angry at the girl for breaking curfew, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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According to my just arrived Free the Grapes newsletter, Texass has become the 27th state to support limited, regulated direct to consumer wine shipments.
Authored by State Senator Frank Madla (D-San Antonio), and signed into law May 9 by Governor Perry, the bill declared the entire state “wet” for wine shipments. On June 26, 2003, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that Texas’ ban on interstate direct wine shipments was unconstitutional. Later that year, the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission declared that the state was “open” for direct shipments but ruled that all wineries must comply with existing wet and dry rules. This requirement limited direct shipments because the definitions of wet and dry areas were not defined by zip codes. Senator Madla’s bill resolved this issue by making the entire state wet and gained the support of the Texas ABC and local wineries. The bill also requires licensed wineries to pay excise and sales taxes, creating a new source of revenue for the state.
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Amazing. A judge has allowed United Airlines to shift its pension fund obligation to the government. For those of you playing at home, this means you and I will pick up the $3.2 billion tab. That various administrations have been allowing companies to underfund and abandon their pension obligations for years is a complete disgrace. Whatever your thoughts on private pensions, the fact remains that they are legally binding contractual obligations that companies should be required to keep. Now that judges continually let these companies off of the hook you can expect more and more to go hat in hand to Congress and be let off of the hook.
And we get to pay for it. Great.
…will shortly be smokin’.
FrontYard Picture UPDATE:
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Spokane mayor takes leave
amid sex probe
Report: West offered jobs to men met in chat
rooms; computers seized
Upside? At least they’re all U.S. citizens.
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…saves your mind. Research that I can completely live agree with, so swill away.
Now, what do we see when we look at all those moderate drinkers? For one thing, they are more highly educated. According to one study, the percentage of college graduates who drank in the month previous to a survey was nearly 70%, while the same survey showed the rate of drinkers among those with less than a high school education to be under 40%. Those moderate drinkers also earn more; in one study, even when controlling for education, age, occupation, region, and health, abstainers had incomes on average 10% less than drinkers.
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…is a pretentious, pompous, pompadored palamino’s patootie.
So imagine how astounded I was to find myself agreeing with him.
“The design for the Freedom Tower is an egghead design… which has no practical application and which, frankly, didn’t look very good.”
Yup.
UPDATE: Oh, man, is this getting ugly…
Fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, sarcastically rebuked the property magnate. “I’m sure Mr. Silverstein would love to have somebody else pick up some of his tab,” Bloomberg snapped.
Even as Silverstein eyes City Hall and Albany for funds, NY1-TV reported that “government officials are aggressively studying whether they can kick the leaseholder out, but take the $4.5 billion of insurance cash he now controls.” Silverstein pays the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey $10 million monthly to lease annihilated buildings. Now, atop some $460 million in accumulated rent payments, authorities may use eminent domain to de-privatize his lease and snatch the insurance payout he won through two hard-fought lawsuits against his insurers. How Third World.
Ah, the Japanese.
TOKYO – A stepped-up campaign by Tokyo train operators to protect women from gropers by increasing the number of women-only carriages is angering some male commuters.
Several of the Japanese capital’s railway companies introduced the single-sex carriages on Monday as part of a city effort to tackle the problem of men who take advantage of overcrowding to grope female passengers.
In a Tokyo survey last year, almost two thirds of women aged between 20 and 40 said they had been groped on a train.
…someone’s watching out for us. As proof I offer this little gem from the AP, coyly hidden among the War, Hillary, Bolton, apes in Kansas and fries in Detroit stories that dominate our headlines. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I know this guy…
The skunk ape, alias swamp ape, apparently smells like bad eggs and goat dung, an odor attributed to its poor bathing habits and penchant for sulfurous alligator caves.
In honor of Mother’s Day, I figured it was time to share with my fellow fellows the secret of the caipirinha. Friends, there is no finer drink on God’s Green Earth, and no surer way of rendering your beloved most amiable. In fact, caipirinha means “dang, you look fine! Yes! Yes!” in Portuguese. Really. Trust me on this.
Anyhow, let’s begin:
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To my adorable NJSue, darling Mrs. Crusader, Mrs. Mountain Man, Grandma Karen, Grandma Fazekas, Kathy, Mrs. Summers, along with any and all of our blogging buds who are Mommas, we loves ya!
Big hugs, kisses, raise yourself a glass and have a wunderbar day.
May I present this informative site on how a Light Saber works. Not only does it provide a schematic for do-it-your-selfers who want to construct one, but it also has some helpful suggestions for ways to use your Light Saber around the house:
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Very yum. Has a full, velvety feel, loaded with fruit and cassis. The 20% petite sirah adds some nice tannins to this very potent beauty: we’re talking 15.9% alcohol! It will be very nice with the filets that daughter has requested.
…with those sizzling lambs last night. Makes the guilt easier to bear.
of U.N. University, where our students learn to make a difference in their bank accounts. Special Work/Study program available in Darfur and Oil-for-Food!
UN University: “Money For Nuthin’, And Your Chicks For Free!”
He also seemed to relish stepping on toes. Sometimes, admirals and generals got hurt. But that never stopped Hackworth from telling leaders what he really thought about their operation.
General Eisenhower learned that first hand when he was traveling across Italy to check up on the U.S. troops. While chatting with the grunts, Hack decided to speak up.
“The chow stinks!”
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