For Regis

[Annoyedlistner]

www.drudgereport.com

I just thought i would make it a little easier for you to go Drudge's page.

maybe if we have a sticky here...you wont feel the need to repost everything on his website.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Hahah!

Funny how he doesn't post "reports" such as these:

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish

NBC’s Russert Rebuts Libby Testimony

Who Watches The Watchers In Surveillance Society?

Too critical of the Bush administration and/or conservatives, perhaps?

[Regis Philbin]

If you people would read the Drudge report you may learn something and forsake your liberal ways...

[LesterX]

You're so right, Regis. Let's see...I just learned that there's little glamour here in LA LA land, the gang capital of America. I was going to go out to dinner (at an admittedly unglamorous deli), but now I think I'll stay behind locked doors and troll the Internet for weapons to defend myself. Oh wait...I already knew about the gang situation, from my work and from the MSM. Yes, the Los Angeles Times told me all about LA's new war on gangs, sans the Drudge headline of course.

I also learned that the new Miss America is pulling for Obama. That's big news. I don't even know who the new Miss America is, but I'm sure if I click on that fascinating headline I will learn.

Oh, and let's not forget this important piece of news: Donatella thinks Hillary should ditch the trousers. Thank God for Matt Drudge or I'd be clueless about the fashion advice being offered to Hillary.

I feel sooo informed now. Thank you.

[Annoyedlistner]

If you people would read the Drudge report you may learn something and forsake your liberal ways...


i read it everyday....and laugh at the crazy stories on there.

if you really think its a creditable news source...then you need to lay off of the crack your smoking.

[Richard Tafoya]

If you people would read the Drudge report you may learn something and forsake your liberal ways...
Well, on any given week we can learn plenty about Drudge's lying ways. He's just a political Perez Hilton.

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/20/D8NDHGF01.html

Court: Detainees Can't Challenge Cases

Feb 20 10:47 AM US/Eastern


By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision of a law at the center of President Bush's anti- terrorism plan.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding foreigners.

Barring detainees from the U.S. court system was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a system to prosecute terrorism suspects.

The ruling is all but certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, which last year struck down the Bush administration's original plan for trying detainees before military commissions.

The Military Commissions Act was crafted in response to that decision and the president hailed it as a necessary tool for bringing terror suspects to justice.

[Regis Philbin]

First the anti-Catholic bloggers, now Edwards lets his anti-Semitism shine through.

I'll be so glad when this Forrest Gump sound-alike has to leave the campaign and go back to the Other America...

http://hillaryspot.nationalreview.com/

Edwards: "Perhaps the Greatest Short-Term Threat to World Peace Is the Possibility That Israel Would Bomb Iran's Nuclear Facilities"

Hillary Spot reader Michael points out this little gem in Peter Bart's column on John Edwards' comments in Hollywood:

There are other emerging fissures, as well. The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the "I" word — Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close.

Really? Israel is the biggest threat? Not Ahmedinijad? Not al-Qaeda? Not a coup attempt in Pakistan? Not a complete breakdown in Iraq drawing in the Saudis, Turks, and Iranians?

Or, you know, perhaps not.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I have this feeling the Supreme Court may see things differently. Time (and 9 Justices) will tell.

[LesterX]

First the anti-Catholic bloggers, now Edwards lets his anti-Semitism shine through.

Funny, I read the article and didn't see anything anti-Semitic in there. (Not to mention that John Edwards has denied making the statement referenced in the article.) Not agreeing with every move Israel makes does not make one anti-Semitic. Let's see what else this horrible anti-Semite has had to say about Israel:


I’ve had some personal experiences in my interaction with Israel. I think that they’re in a very difficult place, and they are subject to an awful lot of attacks, and there are countries around them that would like to see them destroyed. So, I think they live in a dangerous environment, I think that actually the 2002 road map was a pretty good road map, and the substantive elements of it were essentially correct...And I think that it is very important for America to be engaged in this peace process. Because at the end of the day, what we should have is very difficult to achieve, I understand that -- it’s certainly hard to achieve when Hamas is running the Palestinian Authority -- but there’s so many things we could be doing, like humanitarian help, more serious humanitarian help for the Palestinian people that would help strengthen the capacity of a more moderate element within Palestine. So, what we want is two countries living side by side, two states living side by side, with security and in peace.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19423

I'll be so glad when this Forrest Gump sound-alike has to leave the campaign and go back to the Other America...
Forrest Gump sound-alike? So who are you making fun of with that comment -- Southerners, the mentally disabled, or both?

[pinky]

I seriously hope he isn't making fun of people who like chocolate.

I'd have to take that VERY personally! :wink:

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Or shrimp moguls, 'cause I like shrimp. Boiled shrimp, fried shrimp, shrimp cocktail, shrimp scampi, cold shrimp, popcorn shrimp, shrimp pasta, shrimp kabobs....

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1171894569275&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Mar. 4, 2007 18:40 | Updated Mar. 4, 2007 19:39

New Iranian banknote boasts nukes

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Iran will begin distributing a new banknote featuring the atomic symbol as a method of responding to international criticism towards the country's nuclear activities, Iranian news agencies reported on Sunday.

The bill, worth 50,000 rial (approximately $5.40), will be put to public use next Monday.

The atomic symbol can be seen resting against the map of Iran on one side of the bill. The other side will feature a portrait of the leader of the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who appears on all the country's banknotes.

A Central Bank official told an Iranian newspaper that the picture was chosen by Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Ja'fari from nearly 60 different designs.

Iran says that it has the right to develop a peaceful uranium enrichment program to produce nuclear power.

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.ifilm.com/profile/breitbart/video/2829104

Can you imagine if a Republican did this???

How about Mormon Mitt Romney? He'd be crucified in the media.

[Regis Philbin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_re_as/china_politics_2


China to increase military spending

By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer
Sun Mar 4, 10:09 AM ET

BEIJING - China will boost military spending by 17.8 percent this year, a spokesman for the national legislature said Sunday, continuing more than a decade of double-digit annual increases that have raised concerns among the United States and China's neighbors.

John Negroponte, the U.S. deputy secretary of state, urged China to be more open about its military buildup.

"We think it's important in our dialogue that we understand what China's plans and intentions are," said Negroponte, who was visiting Beijing on Sunday.

Underscoring the concerns about China's military, the legislature's spokesman, Jiang Enzhu, also accused the president of Taiwan of manipulating political divisions there to steer it toward formal independence. China's military spending is largely oriented toward possible conflicts over Taiwan, which split with the mainland in 1949 and has refused Beijing's offers for peaceful reunification.

Jiang said Taiwanese voters would abandon President Chen Shui-bian, whose pro-independence stance has drawn criticism from China.

"His manipulation of political issues, his attempt to exaggerate or exacerbate tensions among different communities on the island and his selfish agenda ... have been condemned by various political groups and parties as well as the general public in Taiwan," Jiang said at a news conference at the Great Hall of the People, where the legislature, formally known as the National People's Congress, will begin its 12-day session on Monday.

However, Jiang said the $44.94 billion military budget would mainly be spent on boosting wages and living allowances for members of the armed forces and on upgrading armaments "to enhance the military's ability to conduct defensive operations."

"China is committed to taking the path of peaceful development and it pursues a defensive military posture," Jiang said. "China has neither the wherewithal or the intention to enter into an arms race with any country and China does not and will not pose a threat to any country."

[db44]

What's so phony? I've heard her use it before, and she did live a good chunk of time in Arkansas.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

The US should be worrying more about the rise in coal plant operations and fossil fuel consumption in China. The country has about 1 Billion more people than the US, and they are growing cities like weeds.

We also should be taking a cue from their educational system. Not only do they have a lot of people, the kids they're raising excel in school. Last I remembered, China has a 95% literacy rate, and science and math are two subjects at which Chinese studies do better than pretty much any other students in the world. Education is compulsary and free through the university level. According to wikipedia, in 2001, nearly 16% of the budget went to education.

And let's not forget what fluctuations in the Chinese markets did to our own stock market just last week. The country will continue to have more and more impact on the global ecomony. China is now the second-largest economy in the world after the US. According to the CIA world factbook, in 2006, China had the largest budget surplus - nearly $180 billion - in the world.

We better learn how to play nicely with China.

[BrokenHalo]

Yep. Even though I no longer live in Texas and most of the time I do not have the "accent" from when I live there...I do at times slip into it when talking with someone else who has it. Can't watch the flick at this time so can't say whether I think it's fake or not, but considering her time lived in Arkansas I would be inclined to attribute it to that...

[SparkleHugs]

I am also pretty sure that most of us libs wouldnt care or pay attention if a republican used a southern drawl if they had spent any time of their life living in the south. Hell, I have never lived anywhere else in my life, and when i visit the south i tend to have a drawl and go where the hell did this come from? its just the nature of the southern accent i think.

[LesterX]

http://www.ifilm.com/profile/breitbart/video/2829104

Can you imagine if a Republican did this???

How about Mormon Mitt Romney? He'd be crucified in the media.

Who gives a s&^t? Seriously.

The only person I've encountered who is obsessed with Mitt Romney's religion is you. I don't care if the man is a Mormon, an atheist or a Zoroastrian. I won't be voting for him because I don't agree with him politically. I'm sure you would find it annoying if others claimed that every negative story about Hillary Clinton is because she's a woman, or that anything negative written about Barack Obama is done so because he's African American. Of course, you would never make those claims because you only give a damn about perceived bigotry toward "your" people.

[db44]

Ahh, here it is... So my post:

Funny thing about accents. I grew up a good chunk of my life in speech therapy as I was born with a minor motor coordination problem (oddly, that had no play on my decision to go into broadcasting). I was taught to speak without a traditional NY accent.

The funny part though is people sometimes say I do have an accent and others say I don't. Also funny is that I still sometimes slip into it, or at times into a Boston accent (spent six years up there).

Apparently my V&A teacher in college didn't think I had an accent. When it came to working on dialects, she let me try NY instead of Boston. She picked up in the first class or two that I had had a problem... And I had fun with that too: Working on our Ws, I couldn't understand why she had trouble with me practicing on the Fuddian word "wabbit."

Enough of a tangent? ;)

[LesterX]

^ My dad was born in the Soviet Union so his first language was Russian. Then he was in Belgium, so the second language was Flemish. I can't recall whether English or German came next. And yet, on more than one occasion he was asked if his accent was ...Irish. Go figure.

[db44]

Well in Belgium, even though the north speaks Flemish (a dialect of Dutch, which itself is similar to German), a majority of people speak French, as well I think in the Flemish areas. Did he have to learn French as well?

That's one thing I've always loved about the Dutch: Even by high school chances are they have learned at least four languages: Dutch, German, English, French.

[Richard Tafoya]

That's kinda funny. (Re: Iranian currency with a nuclear symbol on it)

[pinky]

I lived for about two years in Pittsburgh, 30 years ago. Whenever I visit my brother who lives there, I unconsciously slip into the Pittsburgh accent about 2/3 of the way across Pennsylvania.

My sister once accused me of mispronouncing her married surname, because I said it with that accent, even though I had only lived there a short time.

Accents are very easy to reacquire when surrounded by those who speak that way.

Either that, or Hillary's a pandering bitch. Take your pick. :p

[Richard Tafoya]

http://www.ifilm.com/profile/breitbart/video/2829104

Can you imagine if a Republican did this???

How about Mormon Mitt Romney? He'd be crucified in the media.
Why? We put up with it in Connecticut-born GW all the time. Fake ranch, fake accent, fake presidency.

[Richard Tafoya]

I do tend to slip into an Irish accent when I'm drinking with Irish folk, and have been known to grow a twang when drinking with southerners.

[tiger_rascal]

Hmmm, it sounds to me like she is mocking someone, rather than truly speaking with a southern accent.

VOTE Hillary!!!

[LesterX]

Well in Belgium, even though the north speaks Flemish (a dialect of Dutch, which itself is similar to German), a majority of people speak French, as well I think in the Flemish areas. Did he have to learn French as well?

Nope, no French. He was very young, and in a boarding school where Flemish was spoken. (Long story about not being able to emigrate to the US until my grandmother became a citizen, at which point she could bring her children into the country. My poor dad was in boarding school starting at age 2 and when he was reunited with his mother, they no longer had a language in common as he'd lost his Russian and she didn't speak Flemish.)

[Regis Philbin]

WARNING: DRUDGE REPORT

Apparently, Al has forgotten that all that cattle flatulence going into the air is worse than all Republican-driven SUVs---all cars and trucks, actually---COMBINED.

He can always just buy some more "carbon credits" from himself though...

http://drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

PETA TO AL GORE: YOU CAN’T BE A MEAT-EATING ENVIRONMENTALIST

Tue Mar 06 2007 17:08:05 ET

The Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’: According to U.N., Animals Raised for Food Generate More Greenhouse Gases Than All Cars and Trucks Combined

Norfolk, Va. — This morning, PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian and offering to cook him faux “fried chicken” as an introduction to meat-free meals. In its letter, PETA points out that Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth—which starkly outlines the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming and just won the Academy Award for “Best Documentary”—has failed to address the fact that the meat industry is the largest contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions.

In the letter, PETA points out the following:

· The effect that our meat addiction is having on the climate is truly staggering. In fact, in its recent report “Livestock’s Long Shadow—Environmental Issues and Options,” the United Nations determined that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.

· Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius.

PETA also reminds Gore that his critics love to question whether he practices what he preaches and suggests that by going vegetarian, he could cut down on his contribution to global warming and silence his critics at the same time.

“The single best thing that any of us can do to for our health, for animals, and for the environment is to go vegetarian,” says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “The best and easiest way for Mr. Gore to show his critics that he’s truly committed to fighting global warming is to kick his meat habit immediately.”

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d81c6fbf-8575-45c0-9274-c24f8f536910&k=27670

Love-making gets green light from adult stores

Misty Harris, CanWest News Service

Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2007


* * * * Pleasure the planet ... but please don't smoke after

or

Planet-friendly love-making will make others green with envy

or

- - -

You've heard of green cars, green tourism and green weddings. Now Canadians should ready themselves for green sex.

For those who like to make love to the soundtrack of the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Greenpeace has released a list of strategies for "getting it on for the good of the planet," suggesting "you can be a bomb in bed without nuking the planet." TreeHugger, an online magazine edited by Ontario's Michael Graham Richard, has just published a guide on "how to green your sex life." The famed adult store Good Vibrations announced last week they would no longer sell sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to be hazardous to humans and the environment alike.

And throughout Canada and the U.S., people who want to pleasure the planet can now buy everything from bamboo bed sheets to organic lubricant and "eco-undies."

"Green living is getting sexy," says Jacob Gordon, author of TreeHugger.com's recent green guide for the bedroom.

"Even a year ago, people wouldn't have been nearly as receptive to this kind of thing. ... But, as the importance of living green gains traction in our culture, people are willing to take things like that a lot more seriously."

Most environmentalists will agree the mainstream success of the Al Gore vehicle An Inconvenient Truth has helped give climate change the pop-culture sheen it's currently enjoying. Indeed, global warming is a cause to which everyone from Diesel apparel to Vanity Fair magazine and Starbucks are pinning their marketing efforts.

And if shopping to save the planet is trendy, having sex to clear your conscience is at the cutting edge.

[Regis Philbin]

WARNING: DRUDGE REPORT

http://drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

OBAMA $$ HIT SET FOR NYT

Tue Mar 2007 06 21:52:30 ET

Less than two months after ascending to the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors, the NYT will splash on Wednesday Page Ones.

The paper claims, according to newsroom sources: One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.

The paper's Mike McIntire and Chris Drew get front placement [side by side with Libby Coverage] for details of Obama's most recent financial disclosure:

It shows that he bought more than $50,000 in stock in a satellite communications business whose principal backers include four friends and donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees.

A spokesman for Mr. Obama, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, said yesterday that the senator did not know that he had invested in either company until fall 2005, when he learned of it and decided to sell the stocks. He sold them at a net loss of $13,000.

The spokesman, Bill Burton, said Mr. Obama’s broker bought the stocks without consulting the senator, under the terms of a blind trust that was being set up for the senator at that time but was not finalized until several months after the investments were made.

“He went about this process to avoid an actual or apparent conflict of interest, and he had no knowledge of the stocks he owned,” Mr. Burton said. “And when he realized that he didn’t have the level of blindness that he expected, he moved to terminate the trust.”

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/03/06/070306201334.qse2sfab.html

Dead Russian reporter was investigating arms sales to Iran, Syria

Mar 06 3:13 PM US/Eastern

A Russian reporter who died after falling out of a window was investigating sales of weapons by Russia to Syria and Iran, his newspaper Kommersant said Tuesday.

Ivan Safronov had told his newspaper that he had "received information" about the sale of Sukhoi-34 fighter jets to Syria and S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran via Belarus.

The business daily said the arms were being sold "via Belarus to avoid the west accusing Russia of arming rogue states". Safronov, a former colonel, specialised in writing about the army and space.

Russian prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into the "incitement to suicide" of Safronov.

But his newspaper has dismissed claims that he committed suicide, while Russian journalists union the SJR said Tuesday it might conduct its own inquiry.

"From what we know already it is clear it was not suicide," the union's Secretary General Igor Yakovenko told Moscow Echo radio.

"The chances that it was a murder linked to the exercise of his profession are very high," he added.

[Regis Philbin]

WARNING: DRUDGE REPORT

http://drudgereport.com/flash2.htm


FARRAKHAN ON 'NIGHTLINE': Clinton 'did less for black people than other presidents'

Thu Mar 08 2007 17:40:20 ET

Tonight on ABC News “Nightline,” Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan sits down with Martin Bashir to discuss his health, ’08 presidential politics, Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s views on Israel, and why he says he is not the same man he used to be.

FARRAKHAN ON BARACK OBAMA:

Bashir: Some people have said that he’s deliberately avoiding controversial black figures like yourself, Mr. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, for fear of alienating white voters.

Farrakhan: First of all, he…

Bashir: Do you think that’s true?

Farrakhan: I would give him credit. If my, if avoiding me would help him to become president, I’d be glad to stay in the background, because of the taint that’s on the minister. Reverend Al Sharpton is different. Reverend Al gave a very impressive speech at the last Democratic Convention. He’s broad, but he comes from the black experience. He’s always there fighting for justice. It’s the same with Reverend Jackson. Well, Barack Obama is fighting for justice too, but not from a position where they can say he’s a radical. But he still feels the pain. But he rises above it and reaches.

Bashir: But do you think he’s deliberately avoiding people…

Farrakhan: I can’t say that.

Bashir: …like yourself to avoid alienating potential white voters?

Farrakhan: I can’t say that, because I haven’t made myself available to him…
I always thought Bubba was the first black president... :scratch:


FARRAKHAN ON HILLARY CLINTON AND RUDY GIULIANI:

Bashir: What about Mrs. Clinton?

Farrakhan: Not the young people. Mrs. Clinton is formidable, but Barack is even more.

Bashir: Hillary Clinton was, her husband, Bill Clinton, was described as a black president. What does that make her?

Farrakhan: Really, not much. Although black people looked at Bill Clinton as a black president, he did less for black people than other presidents. We lost the safety net, under his administration, for welfare mothers. We lost a lot. But his charisma, no one can take that away from Mr. Clinton. His ability to use language in many ways has attracted the hearts of black people. And the more the establishment beat up on him with his inappropriate behavior, the more black people understood his weakness, and forgave him, and came around him. I loved Hillary, excuse me for saying Hillary, loved Mrs. Clinton, for her standing by her man, even though she was hurt, and maybe even slightly embittered. She showed the strength of a woman who could forgive her husband and keep going to present to America a family image: a mother, a father, and a daughter.

Bashir: What about Mayor Rudy Giuliani?

Farrakhan: No, uh.

Bashir: Mr. Giuliani, of course, in New York, had some pretty severe conflicts with the black community when he was mayor. Do you think he stands much of a chance of winning the black vote?

Farrakhan: No. Not at all. He could parade every black person that he knows in front of black people, he’ll have a difficult time.

[Regis Philbin]

I bet that if Barry...err...Barrak weren't running for President he never would have paid up... :]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0842516420070308

Obama pays 17-year-old parking tickets

Thu Mar 8, 2007 2:21PM EST

BOSTON (Reuters) - As he prepared to announce his campaign for the White House, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama took care of some unfinished business at Harvard University -- paying about $400 in parking fines dating back to his days as a law student.

Two weeks before the Illinois senator officially entered the presidential race on February 10, he paid parking fines he received while attending Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Cambridge city official said on Thursday.

"I think it's great, we always like to collect," said Susan Clippinger, director of Cambridge's Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department.

Obama paid Cambridge $375 on January 26 for 17 parking tickets received between 1988 and 1990, she said. He paid neighboring Somerville another $45 for late fees on two parking tickets from the early 1990s, a Somerville official added.

Obama also paid a $73 auto excise tax he owed Somerville, said city spokesman Tom Champion.

The Boston Globe reported in January that he owed Somerville the money.

A spokesman for Obama was not immediately available to comment but the Globe quoted Jen Psaki of the Obama campaign as saying the senator had paid for the tickets out of a personal account.

[Regis Philbin]

Ann Coulter probably thinks so... LOL :laugh:


http://www.nysun.com/article/50057

Could Edwards Become First Woman President?

By JOSH GERSTEIN
March 8, 2007

BERKELEY, Calif. — Toni Morrison famously dubbed President Clinton America's "first black president." With that barrier broken, the comments of a prominent feminist are provoking debate about who may lay a similar claim to the title of America's first woman president.

The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Senator Clinton, but one of her former colleagues, John Edwards. At a rally near the University of California, Berkeley campus this week, a veteran of the abortion-rights movement, Kate Michelman, asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the male former senator from North Carolina.

"Why John Edwards, given the historic nature of our extraordinary campaign for the presidency this year with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and all the others?" Ms. Michelman asked as she warmed up the crowd for Mr. Edwards. "I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years that I've been an advocate for women's rights. I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality of women's lives."

Compared to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Edwards is short an ‘X' chromosome, but listening to Ms. Michelman, that is easy to forget. "As a lawyer, as a senator, as a husband, as a father of two daughters, he understands the reality of women's lives. He understands the centrality of women's lives and experience to the health and well-being of society as a whole. … He understands that on an extremely personal level," she said.

Her comments drew some quizzical looks, though if she had extended her argument to suggest that Mr. Edwards understood the plight of African Americans as well or better than Mr. Obama, some audible dissension would surely have arisen.

After the rally, another journalist and I sought out Ms. Michelman, who spent 20 years at the helm of one of the nation's leading abortion-rights groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America, before stepping down in 2004. Asked how Mr. Edwards could have a better understanding of women's concerns than Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Michelman denied trying to convey such a message. "I didn't say ‘better,'" she said. However, she did acknowledge recently to an online magazine, Salon.com, that touting Mr. Edwards "necessarily" meant criticizing his opponents.

Pressed about how Mr. Edwards could have a feel for women's problems that is even comparable to that of someone like Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Michelman said her concerns goes beyond identifying the issues. "He doesn't just understand. You have to begin with understanding. It's an understanding but it is a commitment…He understands in a way that is tied to all of his beliefs about lifting everyone up."

[SparkleHugs]

wow. such a dirty scoundral shouldnt be allowed to be a citizen! much less run for president!! :rolleyes:

[Venisenvy]

dude if i got any tickets from UConn I would never pay them so its all good.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I bet that if Barry...err...Barrak weren't running for President he never would have paid up... :]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0842516420070308

Who's Barry?

And it's Barack.

[pinky]

The future Dictator-in-Chief.


:rolleyes:

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Oh lordy. Well, I suppose we'll just have to endure eight years of Regis's stupid names for our next president, then, whomever it may be.

[SparkleHugs]

Hopefully he will be so pissed off by the outcome of the election that he will move to a different country.

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=9579

The Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’:

According to U.N., Animals Raised for Food Generate More Greenhouse Gases Than All Cars and Trucks Combined

For Immediate Release:
March 7, 2007

Norfolk, Va. — This morning, PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian and offering to cook him faux "fried chicken" as an introduction to meat-free meals. In its letter, PETA points out that Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth—which starkly outlines the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming and just won the Academy Award for "Best Documentary"—has failed to address the fact that the meat industry is the largest contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions.


In the letter, PETA points out the following:


· The effect that our meat addiction is having on the climate is truly staggering. In fact, in its recent report "Livestock’s Long Shadow—Environmental Issues and Options," the United Nations determined that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.

· Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius.


PETA also reminds Gore that his critics love to question whether he practices what he preaches and suggests that by going vegetarian, he could cut down on his contribution to global warming and silence his critics at the same time.


"The single best thing that any of us can do to for our health, for animals, and for the environment is to go vegetarian," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "The best and easiest way for Mr. Gore to show his critics that he’s truly committed to fighting global warming is to kick his meat habit immediately."


PETA’s letter to Al Gore is available upon request. For more information, please visit PETA’s Web site GoVeg.com.

[Richard Tafoya]

And now he's re-posting Drudge items. Do you even realize you posted this three weeks ago, Regis?

Have a look: http://talk.livedaily.com/showpost.php?p=10773840&postcount=30

[Regis Philbin]

Who's Barry?

And it's Barack.

http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/Barry_Obama_lg.jpg

Photo credit: http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/Barry_Obama_lg.jpg

[DoubleEdgeSword]

What is your point?

His birth name is Barack. That is what he goes by. People called me by a nickname until I was in my 20s.

[LesterX]

There is no point. Rush calls him Barry, so Regis mindlessly parrots. Different day, same old s&^t.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

You're right, Leslie. I forgot for a moment that Regis never has a point.

[pinky]

Does Rush also call Nancy Pelosi a dictator? :funny:

[Regis Philbin]

Does Rush also call Nancy Pelosi a dictator? :funny:

No....

I'm no longer posting articles on here because Richard Chavez changes them, just like his hero in Venezuela.

You guys been following the election in France? :]

[pinky]

Wrong, Regis. Richard doesn't change the article. He only changes misleading thread titles.

And, on occasion, your name. :roll:

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I'm no longer posting articles on here...

Then, whatever will you have to say?

[LesterX]

No....

I'm no longer posting articles on here because Richard Chavez changes them, just like his hero in Venezuela.


Try taking a piece of your own advice:

Lighten Up!!! Life is too short to live is a perpetual state of rage.


Or better yet, stop changing headlines around to be purposely misleading. What a novel concept.

[Regis Philbin]

I guess to Communist Moore, anybody to the right of Castro is a "Sell Out"...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0607/Michael_Moore_hits_Clinton_in_Sicko.html

Michael Moore hits Clinton in 'Sicko'

One of the differences between Michael Moore's forthcoming "SiCKO" and his previous films, he writes in the publicity materials, is that "there's not one character or company to hate in SiCKO," which I caught at a screening yesterday. And indeed, most of the politicians appear as anonymous figures in suits, with price tags indicating their contributions from the drug industry. Billy Tauzin, predictably, takes a bit of a beating.

And so, less predictably, does Hillary Clinton.

Moore's brief political history of American health care policy at first seems to lavish praise on Clinton, if with a satirical, and gendered, edge. (She's introduced as "Sassy...smart...sexy.")

But his conclusion is that she sold out. After her defeat in the first Clinton term, he says, she fell silent on the issue. And "for her silence, Hillary was rewarded. And she has been the second-largest recipient in the Senate of healthcare industry contributions."

The movie, which like most of his movies, is powerfully made, will probably drive some debate on the issue when it's released at the end of this month. It's basically a commercial for Western Europe, with an over-the-top ode to Cuba tacked onto the end. And Moore isn't personally in sympathy with any of the Democrats.

"They don't seem to want to grapple with the real issue. It's very sad," he says of the presidential candidates in the publicity package distributed at the screening. "Even the well-intentioned people like John Edwards -- his plan seems to be to take our tax dollars and put them into the pockets of the private insurance industry."

Moore, needless to say, is for single-payer.

[Regis Philbin]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070607/D8PK8FMO1.html

Edwards Assails Clinton's Terror Remarks

Jun 7, 6:32 PM (ET)

By BETH FOUHY

NEW YORK (AP) - Presidential contender John Edwards on Thursday disputed Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim that the U.S. is safer since Sept. 11 and contended GOP candidate Rudy Giuliani will never win if he embraces President Bush's policies.

Speaking on the New Yorkers' home turf - and not far from Ground Zero - Edwards dismissed Clinton's comments in Sunday's debate in which she said the nation is safer now that it was before the terrorist attacks. Clinton's other top rival, Sen. Barack Obama, also has challenged her claim.

"Today, as a result of what George Bush has done, we have more terrorists and fewer allies," Edwards said at a news conference. "There was no group called al-Qaida in Iraq before this president's war in Iraq."

He never mentioned Clinton by name but the subject was obvious.

Clinton advisers said she had been referring to improvements in domestic and airline security in the wake of the attacks.

Like Clinton, Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, voted to authorize military action against Iraq in 2002 and supported the concept of a global war on terror throughout his 2004 presidential bid. He was quoted during that campaign as saying he believed the country was safer than it had been before Sept. 11.

[Regis Philbin]

The old Soviet Block countries tend to be very good allies of the USA because they know what it's like to live under Communism and they don't take freedom for granted.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070611/D8PMDOQO0.html

Bush Receives Hero's Welcome in Albania

Jun 11, 1:22 AM (ET)

By JENNIFER LOVEN

TIRANA, Albania (AP) - President Bush, enthusiastically welcomed as the first U.S. president in this former communist nation, served notice Sunday he is running out of patience with Russia's objections to independence for neighboring Kosovo.

"Sooner rather than later you've got to say 'Enough's enough - Kosovo is independent,'" Bush said, telling Albanians what they wanted to hear. He said independence was a certainty.

Nearing the end of an eight-day trip, Bush got a hero's reception in this desperately poor country, still struggling to recover from being cut off from the rest of the world for four decades under the harsh rule of dictator Enver Hoxha. Hoxha died in 1985, and Albania emerged from isolation in 1990 but still is one of Europe's most impoverished lands.

Cannons boomed salutes from mountains overlooking the capital. Huge banners proclaimed "Proud to be Partners," and billboards read "President Bush in Albania Making History."

At home, Bush's job approval rating stands at its all-time low. But here, Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Bush was Albania's "greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times."

Throngs of people grasped Bush's hands, arms and fingers on the streets of Fushe Kruje, a small town near the airport where he stopped to chat in a cafe with business owners. Unused to such adoring crowds in America, Bush reveled in the attention. He kissed women on the cheek, posed for pictures and signed autographs. Someone reached out and rubbed his gray hair.

"Bushie, Bushie," people shouted. Some of the business people have received small loans under U.S. government programs.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Now, there's a legacy for ya': "President Bush, loved in Albania."

Somehow I don't think that's going to even make it into the footnotes of history.

[pinky]

The old Soviet Block countries tend to be very good allies of the USA because they know what it's like to live under Communism and they don't take freedom for granted.
Therefore, Putin = Bush ally.

Regis, do you EVER think before you post something?

[pinky]

Now, there's a legacy for ya': "President Bush, loved in Albania."

Somehow I don't think that's going to even make it into the footnotes of history.
But his face is on three of their postage stamps, DES! Doesn't that count for something? :D

[DoubleEdgeSword]

About 0.02 lek? (1 lek = about 98 cents USD) :D