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Lucianne's quote du jour (she kids you NOT!):
"The fact is, President Clinton approved every snatch that he was ever asked to review."
--Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke
(Page 145)


The ULTIMATE March Madness: Boss e-mailed the final scores of everyone who participated in the March Madness pool. Out of a total of 58 who participated, here are the final standings in our little group:

#11 Kitty, who knows NOTHING about sports!
#14 Boss, who knows sports & watches.
#44 Slappy, who studied the sport & hid his answers!
#52 Nurse G, who, like yours truly, knows nada about basketball.

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In the list at the right is "Healing Iraq." Check it out for up-to-date news on the war in Iraq from someone who knows because he's there.

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JOHN FAÇADE KERRY & CO.

Why am I not surprised: The following is a newsletter from NewsMax.com. It is also an ad selling a book, but nonetheless, it is a topic many of us have questioned.

Burkett: Navy Commanders to Cast Doubt on Kerry's War Record
Several Navy officers who supervised Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry when he commanded a swift boat in Vietnam are preparing to publicly question his war record - including the circumstances under which he was awarded three Purple Hearts - a noted Vietnam War historian revealed this past weekend.

Burkett, whose book, "Stolen Valor," is considered to be the definitive history of of falsified Vietnam War claims, told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg that Kerry's former commanders would allege that the top Democrat's Purple Hearts were awarded for "self-reported injuries that were virtually nonexistent."

Burkett's book was among the first to expose many of the phony claims made by John Kerry about U.S. war atrocities. In "Stolen Valor" Burkett also revealed that Kerry did not discard his war medals, as he claimed in the 1970s.

"He never got a day of treatment, he never spent a day in a medical facility," Burkett said, commenting on Kerry's "wounds."

"These were all self-reported wounds, which you're going to hear from some swift boat guys in the future as to the nature of those wounds."

Burkett said he had personally spoken to the Navy commanders who were preparing to go public about Kerry's decorations.

"You're going to get quite a showing [of those speaking out]," Burkett told Malzberg. "I don't know [the number] yet. They're trying to get it to be unanimous of every swift boat guy who ever served."
As to the timetable for the upcoming revelations, Burkett said that Kerry's superior officers "were still discussing that."

"You've got some major rallys being planned against John Kerry by Vietnam veterans on the mall, at the convention - this type of thing," he said. "And we're going to make America aware of John Kerry's military record."

To get "Stolen Valor" FREE, Link Here.


Leftovers: The Façade’s plan to reduce our dependency on foreign oil smacks of Jimmah Carter. Been there, tried that, HATED IT! If the Façade gets his way, you can kiss good-bye everything larger than a Yugo, including your SUV’s and your pick-ups. What is it with these Liberals? They don’t want us drilling for oil in our country, and they don’t want us to depend on foreign oil, either.

Dipsomaniacal: Thanks to conservative radio host, Monica Crowley, ‘Don’t be surprised to see T-shirts soon blaring, "Free Teresa!"’ Does the name Martha Mitchell ring any bells? :) HA HA HA !!!

Check this out: The Façade’s Iraqi policy.

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PSYCHIC?

No, Steve Emerson dug deep and then connected the dots. ‘Steve Emerson is to the media what Richard Clarke was to the government. A former CNN correspondent and senior editor at U.S. News & World Report, he became fanatically concerned about terrorist infiltration after stumbling into a 1992 convention of radical Muslim jihadists in Oklahoma City, of all places. …

‘SO SOME PEOPLE DID SEE September 11 coming. They were generally regarded as nuts and fanatics -- and sometimes remain so today. (Alexander Cockburn recently referred to Emerson as a "terror slut.")’

The article does not imply that Bush is at fault, or anybody for that matter. In fact it explains why terrorists attacking the US seemed such a remote idea: ‘Face it, we hadn't been attacked on our own soil since the War of 1812. There are 5,000 miles of ocean between America and the nearest hostile power. Terrorists were people who set off bombs in cafes in Tel Aviv or poorly guarded embassies in Nairobi. Even the most prescient imaginings only had terrorists hijacking airplanes in Europe and loading them with explosives to head for America or holding passengers hostage to free political prisoners. We got blindsided. As even Richard Clarke is willing to admit, nobody could have seen it coming.’

To "see it coming" and then to pinpoint the specifics -- date and place at least -- are worlds apart.

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LIVING HER-STORY

‘Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't appreciate the generous tax cut provided to her and former President Bill Clinton by the "compassionate" President Bush, which isn't to say she's returning the money.
"I know what my compassionate mother thinks about a budget that gives her daughter and son-in-law tax cuts while kicking 300,000 poor kids out of after-school programs," Mrs. Clinton writes in the new afterword of the paperback version of her recent best seller, "Living History."’

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“PASSION” UPDATE

‘Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" crossed the $100 million milestone outside North America Tuesday after Icon reported its offshore total through last weekend at $99.3 million.
Icon revised its international cume from the $80.3 million it reported Monday with more up-to-date numbers from various territories. The worldwide total is $431 million.
The biblical epic has been released in 43 markets. Latin America has generated $36.2 million, Australasia has contributed $10.8 million and Poland has clocked $9.4 million.
Western Europe (including last weekend's bows in France, Spain, Holland and Scandinavia as well as holdovers in the U.K. and Germany) has chipped in with $21.8 million.
The religious drama opens today in Italy and on the weekend in India and several small Eastern Euro markets.
It's tracking to do around $200 million abroad, depending partly on how it's received in Japan, where it debuts next month,’

Has anyone else here seen the movie? I’ve had one reader who has and recommended it to others. REMEMBER: You can comment anonymously!

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PRICELESS!

Her Royal C's memoirs are coming out in paperback, and she's written a new blurb for it:

'Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says that she's still not quite sure why her memoirs, "Living History," sold so well. ... She accuses the Bush administration of hostility to the middle class, and says that efforts to get along with her opponents, "including a few who led the charge for my husband's impeachment," have often been defeated by "ideology and partisanship." '

Boy, I certainly hope some of you have some comments. So puhleeeeeze, let'r rip!

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OUR MILITARY IS THE BEST!

Good news today about the military. The first one was on morning TV: Katie Couric interviewed the father of a young Marine who was recently killed in action in Iraq. The second one was a piece written by a soldier in Baghdad.

BARBRA STREISAND IS BS

And then there's BS from Hollywood:

The Left Coast Report
By James Hirsen
Barbra Streisand's Call to Inaction
After a post on her Web site urged folks not to accept the "myth that 9/11 turned President Bush into a 'hero,'" die-hard Democrat Barbra Streisand pleaded with fans to change the attitudes of Americans.
Babs is in a diva-sized dither because people aren't buying Dick Clarke's bizarre statements. She blogged, "Can you believe that some polls now show that more people believe Bush/Rice/Cheney's take on their handling of intelligence pre- and post-9/11 than the many people inside the administration who have come out to tell us the facts about what really went on..."
She then issued a call. "Ask anyone and everyone you know who still trusts Bush why they have such faith in him. Get to understand their psyches ... let them know the truth ... do whatever you can! There is so much at stake," she implored.
The Left Coast Report suspects that when you ask people "why they have such faith" in President Bush, their answer might go something like this: He's a man who is willing to take resolute action to protect our country and our people, despite the loudmouths on the left, the partisans in the media and the power-grubbers in Congress.


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Check out this site; it's fascinating as well as revealing.


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A friend sent me pictures of John Facade Kerry's homes along with their locations and assessed values. I can't post them here, but I can e-mail them to you. I've composed them into a one-page text document, and I can e-mail it to you as an attachment. I've scanned it (with Norton) and it's virus-free. So, if you'd like to see his homes, just e-mail me at Myerskatt@aol.com.

 
PRICELESS

Word count: 45,000.
Number of times Osama bin Laden mentioned by name: 4.
Number of times al Qaeda mentioned: 0.

That’s the tally from Clinton’s final report.
‘The Clinton document, titled "A National Security Strategy for a Global Age," is dated December 2000 and is the final official assessment of national security policy and strategy by the Clinton team.

‘The scarce references to bin Laden and his terror network undercut claims by former White House terrorism analyst Richard A. Clarke that the Clinton administration considered al Qaeda an "urgent" threat, while President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, "ignored" it.’

Read the report here.

What happened to Clarke’s “evidence”? :)

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HALF-VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY

Cindy Adams, of the NY Post, may be “just a gossip columnist,” but people talk to her … a lot! She hears things, secrets, plans, conspiracies in the making. And she’s almost always right. A little birdie told her:

‘THE prevailing opinion is Bush gets re- elected. People don't change leaders mid-war. Thus, certain Dem brains are plotting a crafty assault on the GOP. Having worked out what they consider is a creative attack based on the soaring petrol prices, they'll lay its blame on this administration.
The scenario is to wait for Cheney to be officially locked in as VP. Feeling he's the most vulnerable in this area because of Halliburton, because our military didn't sufficiently protect Iraqui oil fields, etc., they do not want him blitzed uselessly. After the convention, when for sure he's on the ticket, is when they'll unleash this artillery.
Sitting in their own little neat safe offices, the way they've strategized it, they anticipate getting not only the doves but also the hawks.’

They say Halliburton like it was a bad thing. Personally, I think this is another bone-headed idea. I mean, suggesting that our military didn’t do a good enough job? Remember the fiasco of those reports about the military supposedly looting the museums? How they didn’t sufficiently protect them? It was eventually proven one massive lie. Something tells me that this hatching strategy is not news to Team Bush.

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NOT EVEN CLOSE

Dick Morris writes an update on the Façade’s slide. ‘THE latest daily tracking polls by Scott Rasmussen show that President Bush has moved up six points in the past week to take a three-point lead over Sen. John Kerry. … The conventional wisdom has been that the contest between Bush and Kerry will be very close. But the evidence is mounting that it may not be.’

A Litter reader named erp (see yesterday’s comment section) thinks Kerry won’t be the nominee. 'Kerry should watch his back. He'll be more than rankled when this is over. Hillary will be in charge at the convention and Kerry won't be the nominee. By convention time, he'll have been derailed, figuratively or literally.'
What do the rest of you think: Who will be the nominee?; who will be the running mate?

A note on commenting: IT’S EASY! Just click on the word “comments” and type away in the comment section. You don’t have to leave your name or e-mail or anything else.

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PRIDE & PREJUDICE

John Façade Kerry is an old money Boston Brahmin, an exclusive position of privilege. He comes from wealth and married even greater wealth, which is fortunate because he’s very accustomed to all the accouterments which wealth provides: his own private jets; his many multi-million dollar homes; the power to have fire hydrants moved from in front of his Boston home. Yet, he’s a mere political apparition, with all the campaigning finesse of Inspector Clouseau. The Façade excites no one in his party or his base. In fact, his nomination will be won by default.

Bill Clinton, on the other hand, is a god in his party. (Why, I don’t know, but he is.) Clinton comes from nothing, a veritable Horatio Alger of Hot Springs. In fact his origins are so humble that one of his childhood homes, recently listed on eBay, could not generate a single bid, most likely due to its terminal shabbiness. And still, Clinton has risen to become the power of the Democratic Party. He and his shrew of a wife, Her Royal C, control the power and the money of the party which means, in essence, they control Kerry as well.

‘Ex-president plays big role in Kerry's race against Bush. If there is a shadow behind the "shadow campaign" of independent Democratic groups opposing the re-election of President Bush this fall, it is former President Bill Clinton. Add Clinton's prodigious fund-raising talents to the mix, his keen strategic insights and his ability to inspire large segments of the Democratic faithful, and it becomes clear that the former president is going to be Kerry's not-so-silent partner, whether Kerry wants him or not.’

How the Façade must secretly detest the Clintons. How he must chafe at their tawdry tales and cringe at their common touch. Deep down John Façade Kerry, feeling entitled to be president, must be embittered by the Clintons’ success. The fact that he needs the Clintons must rankle him; the fact that this is public knowledge must be humiliating. This is not a partnership made in heaven.

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NewsMax.com Newsletter:

Vietnam War historian Gerald Nicosia said Friday that burglars who broke into his house a week ago Thursday and removed thousands of documents from Sen. John Kerry's FBI files were most likely Republican operatives.

"I would say that the Republicans had the largest motivation because there definitely is... a heck of a lot of explosive stuff about Kerry in there," Nicosia told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country."

The author, who has unabashedly proclaimed his support for Kerry's presidential bid, obtained the FBI files while working on his 1999 book "Home to War," filing a Freedom of Information Act request that took eleven years to yield results.

Nicosia said he didn't think the top Democrat or his staff were worried about the 20,000 page stash of surveillance material he had on him.

"The Kerry camp had no reason to believe I would not cooperate with them," Nicosia insisted, explaining that he shared portions of the files with Kerry operatives a few days before their theft.

Still, after Nicosia used the files two weeks ago to disprove Kerry's denials that he attended a 1971 meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War where a plot to assassinate pro-war politicians was discussed - some see the motivations of the file thieves differently.

"This almost sounds like a West Coast version of Watergate 2004," host Joe Scarborough told Nicosia and fellow guest Pat Buchanan. "Maybe it was an inside job by somebody in the Kerry campaign."

Indeed, if the Kerry camp was involved in the FBI file break-in, it wouldn't be the first time it had engaged in Watergate-style political sabotage.

As the New York Post reported just last month, during Kerry's 1972 bid for Congress, his younger brother, Cameron Kerry, was arrested for "breaking into... the headquarters of a Kerry opponent" in Lowell, Mass.

Kerry's brother and another campaign worker pleaded not guilty to charges of "breaking and entering with the intent to commit grand larceny."

After the arrests, candidate Kerry told the New York Times that the break-in was a preemptive strike in response to threats that phone lines to his campaign headquarters were about to be sabotaged.

Cameron Kerry is now a partner in a Boston-based law firm and has been a key financial backer of all of his brother's campaigns.


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SUMPIN’ GOOD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

That little sweetie, Nurse G, arranged a get-together last night at Applebee’s to celebrate my recent birthday. Boss & Slappy brought birthday cards crammed full of scratch-off lottery tickets. Nurse G brought the entertainment in the form of Little H, who periodically took off and did laps around the restaurant. DogMan, of course, was there. Even Zappa showed up! Unfortunately, C.O. had to work :( otherwise our soiree would have been complete. We had a great time. Y’know guys, we really should do this more often. And THANKS, I loved it!

DID JESUS EAT BROWNIES?

I doubt it, but Little H and I shared one last night at Applebee’s, along with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Just in time to put a crimp in your Easter baskets next week, a new diet book comes along called “The Maker’s Diet.” Man, is nothing sacred anymore?

‘THE latest indication that religion is on the upswing is "The Maker's Diet." The brainchild of Dr. Jordan Rubin, it is "the original diet intended by our Creator," says Rubin, 28, a survivor of Crohn's disease who supposedly cured himself with dietary supplements he now markets as Garden of Life products. Rubin, who has 100 employees, eliminates "overprocessed, bioengineered 'convenience' foods and fad diets." Just in time to hitch a ride on "The Passion of the Christ" bandwagon, Rubin's book has already hit No. 1 in presales.’


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FADE TO BLACK

Uh-oh. Air America Radio is off to a baaaaaaaaad start. They bumped NY City’s black talk radio station off the dial, forcing its regularly scheduled programs (for 22 years!) into the dead zone of midnight to 5 a.m. This is how you treat your targeted audience?

The Black Community is not taking this lightly. After all, Air America Radio is all white, which I call really bad planning. Do they think America looks like Al Franken? So …

‘On Thursday evening, the basement of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church rang with passionate denunciations of institutional racism. Community leaders called for a boycott, spoke of arrogance toward blacks, and threatened a class-action lawsuit. Their unlikely targets? Institutions that the causal observer might think would be bedfellows of the black community: The Democratic Party and Air America, the country's first full-scale attempt at a commercially viable liberal talk-radio network. … "The Democrats have greatly offended us with their insensitivity," he said. "We should use our vote like a weapon." If they choose to pick up that weapon when it's offered them in November, they may accidentally shoot themselves in the head.’


Let’s consider this for a moment: Air America Radio is heard on a handful of stations … I heard the number was 5 … and they p-off the Black Community on day one! Yee-gads, they can’t get run a radio station backed by billion$, and this is the same group that wants to run the country? I like to think of it as the O’Frankenstein Factor.

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WHO’S ON FIRST?

A great little piece about the two totally different campaign styles of Team Bush and the Façade Follies. ‘For Bush, a Harvard MBA holder, there's no confusion about the chain of command. There also is no confusion about the handful of key issues that his campaign believes it must highlight in order to win in November.”

Kerry’s style, on the other hand, reminds me of an Abbott and Costello routine. ‘In comparison, the Kerry campaign has more overlap at the top. At times, his Boston advisers have had disagreements with the D.C. advisers, and there's more confusion about who's calling the shots in mid-level management.’

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SPORTS CORNER …

First I clean up my potty mouth and now a SPORTS CORNER! Yee gads, what’s next? Somebody check my temperature. Is there a doctor in the house?

BASEBALL STUFF: This one’s for you, Shortstop:) JETER IS #1 WITH GALS! Like this is news to anyone? I mean, I am NOT sports, unless you count treadmills, but even I knew this one. Like, duh! ‘By a 3-2 margin, women picked the Yankees' soft-eyed shortstop over third baseman Alex Rodriguez as the Bronx Bomber they would most like to have blast a home run over their fence, according to a new survey by a national dating service.’

FOOTBALL STUFF: Hmmmm, seems like Rush Limbaugh got into a whole lotta trouble for saying a whole lotta less. ‘When college football has-been Paul Hornung told a Detroit radio station Tuesday that the sagging Fighting Irish should lower their academic admissions standards to attract "the black athlete," the implications were clear: African-Americans can't get it done in the classroom. And whites can't get it done on the gridiron.’

TRUE MARCH MADNESS: The last standings I received from Boss state that I am #2 (strictly in the literal sense only:) in the March Madness pool/contest/whatever. I just wanted to put that in writing before my standing drops outta sight (I picked Gonzaga to go all the way).


NOW FOR THE REAL NEWS …

THIS LITTLE PIGGIE ATE WHAT?: Billy Bob Thornton once rescued his pet pig, Albert, from choking to death by performing the Heimlich maneuver. The digestive drama unfolded a few years ago after Thornton fed the oinker a big piece of chicken marsala. "He didn't even pretend to chew it," Thornton tells Stuff magazine. "The whole thing went down, and the next thing you know, he's choking . . . I got him underneath his stomach - just like you see on television - and I kind of picked him up. I just kept squeezing and pumping him until it came out . . . The funny thing about it was, as soon as I pumped it out of him, he tried to get it again. It was like, 'Come on, man.' "

THE CURSE OF WINNING: He can’t win for losing … hee hee hee! ‘After waiting almost a year to claim his prize, the winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in Canadian history might have to share his huge windfall. He may also need to shell out for some legal advice.’

DUBYA STRIKES AGAIN?: A headline in the Washington Post on Thursday: "Kerry Criticizes President, Then Undergoes Surgery."


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Straight from Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy headquarters: a witty, all-in-one handbook of conservative responses to liberal lunacy!
THE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY, by Mark Smith

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QUOTE ...

"Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoirs has come out . So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern." - Craig Kilborn

"In the book she says when Bill told her he was having an affair, she said 'I could hardly breathe, I was gulping for air.' No, I'm sorry, that's what Monica said." - David Letterman

"In Hillary Clinton's new book 'Living History,' Hillary details what it was like meeting Bill Clinton, falling in love with him, getting married, and living a passionate, wonderful life as husband and wife. Then on page two, the trouble starts." - Jay Leno

"Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family." - David Letterman

"Last night, Senator Hillary Clinton hosted her first party in her new home in Washington. People said it was a lot like the parties she used to host at the White House. In fact, even the furniture was the same." - Jay Leno

"Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch." - Late, Late Show host Craig Kilborn

"CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it." - Jay Leno

"Hillary Clinton is the junior senator from the great state of New York. When they swore her in, she used the Clinton family Bible. You know, the one with only seven commandments." - David Letterman

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HAPPY 9th ANNIVERSARY DRUDGE REPORT!

'It's hard to think of a time without the Internet at the ready. Hard to recall an age when information was not flowing free; borderless and without edit.'

-- Matt Drudge April 2, 2004
Miami Beach, FL, USA
Ninth Anniversay of the DRUDGE REPORT

Nice hat, Matt!

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YOUR HUMBLED POTTY MOUTH HERE

Having your posts deleted on Lucianne is not quite the same as getting your face on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Yet, in a strictly Clintonian tortured reasoning, I was deleted because of the Rolling Stone. Well, kinda.

To recap: Yesterday I discovered that my two posts on Luciannce had been deleted. I reviewed the rules of posting and determined that I had not done anything wrong. So I contacted both the webmaster and Lucianne herself. When the webmaster told me that my posts were deleted due to language … specifically, my reference to John F***ing Kerry and my reference to Her Royal C … I wasn’t angry, I was utterly humiliated. To make matters worse, I had read the rules and had not even recognized my own mistakes!

So how does this involve the Rolling Stone? I began referring to Kerry that way after he had used the “F” word in describing Bush’s Iraq policy in an interview he had done in the Rolling Stone. Plus, Kerry had begun referring to himself as John F. Kerry, “the other JFK.” Kerry, whose middle name is Forbes, was trying to capitalize on the Kennedy association. At first, John You-know-what Kerry was funny, a way of needling him for his spurious, haughty nature. But even I have to admit that it was wearing on me. So, I have decided to refer to that person as John Façade Kerry. It means false and it sounds so very French.

HOWEVER, I will continue to refer to HER as Her Royal C. “C” refers to Clintoness, but I got tired of typing out that long word, so I shortened it to its initial. I won’t be coy; I realize some of you may infer something else. So, if you prefer to read it as Her Royal Cutie, I can’t stop you.


JOHN FAÇADE KERRY

GIT down!: Who would ever want to replicate Clinton, right? Like, duh! But apparently the Façade thinks that that’s the winning formula. If Bubba did MTV, then naturally the Façade will, too. He did a sit-down with MTV’s Gideon Yago and, from the sounds of it, made a façade of himself in the process.
‘Kerry confided to Yago that he was "never into heavy metal" but was "fascinated" by the "poetry," "anger," and "social energy" of rap and hip hop. As with everything else, Kerry then took the other side of the issue, leaving people with the impression that you should and should not listen to violent gangster rap. "I think when you start talking about killing cops or something like that, it bothers me," Kerry said. "But understand, I'm still listening, because I know it's a reflection of the street and it's a reflection of life."’

Standing firm: On abortion, that is. Yes, just like Clinton, the Façade believes that “fertilized eggs” can be killed. ‘Kerry would rather protect abortion than prosecute criminals. Unborn children in his view don't even deserve the rights of criminals. Where criminals possess some rights, in his view, unborn children possess none at all.’


WHERE D’YA WANT IT?

War, that is. An excellent article by Arnold Ahlert: ‘WHAT could have been worse than 9/11? How about follow-up attacks in Chicago and Los Angeles only weeks later? That was the plan, according to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, alleged al Qaeda operations chief now in custody.’

APOCALYPSE NOW

Christopher Hitchens points to the recent blood-thirst in Fallujah and reminds us that that still could be a possibility for us right here on our doorstep. ‘Fallujah is a reminder, not just of what Saddamism looks like, or of what the future might look like if we fail, but of what the future held before the Coalition took a hand.’


ON A LIGHTER NOTE

RESIDENTS BEEF OVER RATS: ‘MOLLY Shannon, designer Carlos Miele, Us editor-in-chief Janice Min and other residents of an exclusive new Meatpacking District loft building are freaking out over rat infestation. And they're furious at developer Jeffrey M. Brown and architect Gregg Pasquerelli of ShoP. "Rats are coming out of people's Viking ranges, sitting on sofas and falling on people's heads," says one irate resident of the Porterhouse. "Someone's dog even died because of the building's sloppy placement of rat poison." To make matters worse, occupants paid dearly for their rodent-filled retreats. Prices in the building range from $735,000 for one-bedroom apartments to $4.15 million for the penthouse. A typical two-bedroom loft costs $1.3 million. Pasquerelli also lives there, but our source said he spends his time avoiding other residents and no longer returns their calls. Until the rat problem is solved, we're told, "Some people have checked into hotels and many of us are considering lawsuits." Pasquerelli didn't return calls.’

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WHERE'S THE LIFEBUOY SOAP?

I noticed that my two posts were deleted ... DELETED!!!! ... on Lucianne.com. So, I e-mailed the webmaster and asked why. I wasn't angry, I was devastated! I didn't want anyone to think I had done something wrong.

I waited and waited and waited some more. No response from webmaster. After waiting a total of TWO WHOLE MINUTES, maybe longer, I e-mailed Lucianne personally, and she replied:
'I think you may have gotten caught in the unfortunate name calling KStan thread business. Everyone involved was blown away this morning. Let things calm down and I will check with the webmaster and see what I can do.'

I didn't know what she meant by "name calling KStan," but I felt better knowing that I wasn't involved. It must have been a mistake; I must have been deleted by mistake.

Boy is MY face red! Webmaster said my posts were deleted because I had used symbols for dirty words, specifically John "F***ing" Kerry and Her Royal "C." So I quickly replied that I was terribly sorry and that it wouldn't happen again. Just to make certain I realized my error, webmaster quickly replied with the exact L.com rule which covers such infractions:

No if's and's or *$()#@()#!!!'s:
We remind you that using symbols to get around the 'dirty-word-filter' is not acceptable. We see a growing number of these being used and we will be revoking the posting privileges of those who continue to 'swear by them'.
Updated 02 MAY 03 - ed.

LDotter Reminder: Again, we have to jump on posters about language. There are a lot of stories in the news about things we used to not talk about in public. We can't help that but this site was not built to add to the coarseness of the times. Sexual, scatological posts, posts that advocate death and dismemberment and posts that use offensive language will be deleted.

So wadda y'think? Should I refrain from using the "symbols" here or not?
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IT'S A JOKE

A teacher in a small Rhode Island town asks her class how many of them are John Kerry fans. Not really knowing what a John Kerry fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands except one boy.

The teacher asks Johnny why he has decided to be different.

Johnny says, "I'm not a John Kerry fan."

The teacher says, "Why aren't you a John Kerry fan?"

Johnny says, "I'm a George Bush fan."

The teacher asks why he's a George Bush fan.

The boy says, "Well, my mom's a George Bush fan and my dad's a George Bush fan, so I'm a George Bush fan!"

The teacher is kind of angry, because this is Rhode Island, so she asks, "What if your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?"

Johnny says, "THAT would make me a John Kerry fan."


Apparently a certain “John Kerry fan” in Houston took offense to that joke and sent an e-mail to someone who, in turn, forwarded the fan’s comments to about 50 more people. It eventually worked its way into my e-mail box. I decided NOT to list his e-mail address or name, although I had considered it. Think of all the truly tasteless jokes the Left tell about President Bush. Like the joke Kerry made about the Secret Service having orders to shoot Dan Quayle if Bush 41 died, which I referenced on March 27th (the link is no longer working). And this thing about Bush's pronunciation of the word "nuclear." Does anyone else recall Kennedy saying "Cuber" instead of Cuba? We’ve all heard the jokes about Bush; this Kerry joke is a nothing by comparison. But, that’s the Left for you. And these people have driver’s licenses and they vote. Here's the Kerry fan's response to that joke:

Subject: Re: Are you a John Kerry fan???
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:20:49 -0600


No morons or idiots in my family. And while I think George Dubya may be a nice enough ol' guy to sit and have some beer and barbecue with here in Texas, he's squandered a couple of opportunities, and I think he's toast.

I understand and really don't care what happened with Bush's military records. Kerry went overseas. And I wouldn't mind if I found out that all he did there was to become a rock 'n' roll deejay and scream, "Good Mornin' Vietnam!!" Nearly every one of us men my age were scared in the late 60's and early 70's about going to fight in that "crazy Asian war" (as Kenny Rogers would sing it). So go ahead and poke all the fun you want and alter all those photos you have of John Kerry. You have damn-short memories.

Let's hear Kerry in just one debate with Number 43. Can't wait to hear Mr. President pronounce "nuclear". Or discuss the job market. And I have no problem with anybody changing his/her mind if a policy has proven to be a mistake. Has that ever happened in your own life? You may be a hypocrite and not even know it.

This angry, rarified Democrat -- who even supported the war in Iraq, who doesn't give a damn anymore about weapons of mass destruction, who realizes that the whole mess is a done-deal anyway, who is troubled by constant campaign film clips of the collapsing World Trade Center buildings, who suffered through unemployment for almost six months, who sees reports of layoffs every day in the newspaper, and who is from purported Bush Country -- will vote "my pocketbook" like millions of others in November. The late-great Soul/R & B singer Sam Cooke put it best: "A change gonna come ...."

Take your jokes and smoke 'em. Get respectable and get a life.

To answer your question -- YES .... I am a John Kerry Fan.

XXX XXX
Houston, TX


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FOOLS, APRIL & OTHERWISE

For you history buffs (Boss:), April Fool’s Day apparently has “serious origins” dating back to 1582, when Pope Gregory XII fiddled with the calendar.

And for the more frolicsome of you Litterers (Slappy:), the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time, beginning with “The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest,” in 1957.

That April Fool 365 days a year, Al Franken, debuted his talk radio show called the O’Franken Factor (he and B O’R have a feud) yesterday, and NewsMax.com (I think Limbacher) was listening. ‘In Rush Limbaugh's liberal radio network parody "The Tom Daschle Show," the Senate minority leader-turned-temporary radio host is frustrated when his only caller turns out to be none other than former Vice President Al Gore.’

That f***ing Francais fool, Kerry, has apparently reminded Hugh Hewitt, in The Weekly Standard, of Frank Burns of M*A*S*H. I am very flattered as I pointed out that very resemblence back on February 26th:
‘Which got me to thinking that John Kerry is so Frank Burns from M*A*S*H. At least twice Burns applied for the Purple Heart for such combat heroics as being struck in the eye by a “shell fragment” (which turned out to be an eggshell from breakfast) and throwing out his back. Like Kerry, foppish Frank was haughty and hollow and lampooned by his peers. Both men married women who controlled the purse strings. Kerry’s continued harping on his he-man heroics could be his undoing. “Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes …”’
It also appeared in the letters section of The American Spectator on February 27th. Y’don’t suppose that gave Hewitt the idea, do you? Naah!

I wouldn’t call the Clintons fools, more like leftovers. Remember their ’92 slogan of “two for the price of one”? Well, it seems that Bubba is suggesting something similar. "The former president has made it clear he will do anything to help the Democrats retake the White House and get America back on course," says a former Clinton White House staffer. "That said, this is probably the former President's attempt to get Kerry to focus on Hillary as the vice presidential nominee. By stoking the P.R. machine he's saying, 'You get her on the ticket, then you have me.'"

A fool and his $$ are soon parted if they buy that fool Clarke’s book. Richard Miniter has written a great piece in the Opinion Journal today called Against Selected Enemies. Better you should read Miniter’s book: “LOSING BIN LADEN: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror” instead.
‘Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton’s presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the archterrorist’s attacks would escalate killing hundreds and wounding thousands—while Clinton did his best to stymie the FBI and CIA and refused to wage a real war on terror. … If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001 might never have happened.’

We’re not all fools. This full court press the Left and their sycophant media have been waging in tandem against Dubya has not succeeded as they had hoped. ‘Majority of Americans Continue to Believe Iraq "Worth It" Bush job approval on handling Iraq now at 51%’


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