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I like the move to Nevada to INC. along with the same TA. How mant certs did you want with them fries.
Why does that not surprise me!
I never have understood the flower thing.
Thank you! ;)
My significant other is thin and likes flowers. I usually pay double because of it. But she is worth it!
TPS, I'm outta here.
You need to consider becoming a paying customer here! Think of it as a refuge from Smurf & Co.
Subtle ain't he Susie.
I meant tu!
Do we have a new squeeze? TIA
And this woman has seen 8 Presidents!
Doubting Thomas offers her press veteran’s take on state of presidency
As veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas signed my program Thursday evening at the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual awards banquet, I said, “First time I ever asked a reporter for an autograph.”
“Thank you, dear,” she said, patting my arm. “Don’t lose heart.”
Those are words that should be engraved at the bottom of every journalism degree. That’s because I’m not sure that any business can cause a heart to be lost or broken faster than this. And Thomas probably knows this better than anyone because she began reporting in 1943.
Thomas, in case you’ve never seen a presidential news conference, is the woman who has haunted every U.S. president since JFK.
I can’t, in fact, recall a news conference where she wasn’t standing hawk-like, grilling men who clearly didn’t want to be grilled by anyone, especially a woman.
Thomas, by the way, is the woman who said, “Thank you, Mr. President,” at the end of her very first press conference in 1961.
That, I think, is a wonderful tradition that continues to this very day. It shows a little respect to make up for the kind of lack of respect we used to hear from shouters such as Sam Donaldson, the man Ronald Reagan could never quite hear.
I attended this Biltmore Hotel banquet for two reasons — Thomas and Jean Adelsman. Jean is the retired managing editor of the Breeze and the recipient Thursday evening of a Journalist of the Year award, along with Judy Muller of ABC News, Kitty Felde of KPCC’s “Talk of the City,” Sue Manning of The Associated Press and USC law professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
Odd how the world breathlessly awaits the Golden Globes while honors presented the people who watch the politicians or work for a cancer cure are as obscure as lice. In fact, there’s a joke about the Golden Globes and the foreign press that presents them. It’s said that on ceremony night you can’t find a waiter anywhere in town. Take this from someone who once sat at another banquet with the foreign press — a group composed of a dry cleaner from Pacoima, a large Eastern European woman in a turban and an Egyptian shoe salesman who spent the evening trying to cadge free drinks. Now that I think of it, they aren’t much different from domestic journalists.
Except when it comes to Thomas, who — to the 100 or so people in that room — is the very essence of celebrity, a woman who dedicated 60 years at United Press International and Hearst to afflicting the elected.
Keep in mind that Thomas came up in the bad old days. Unlike Thursday night, when four of five honorees were women, she spent decades proving herself to the male hierarchy.
As late as 1972 she was the only woman on the Nixon China trip. Still, she survives in a Washington press corps that she says has gone soft, accepting presidential spin without question.
There was a lot of that in her speech, this talk of devaluation in the character of leadership. Not surprisingly for an admitted liberal, she held her greatest praise for John Kennedy, the only president in her estimation who made Americans look to their higher angels.
Then came Johnson’s Great Society and Vietnam. Nixon, she said, was a man who would — when presented two roads — “always choose the wrong one.” He was followed by “healing” Ford, well-meaning Carter, Reagan’s revolution, Bush Sr.’s self-destruction and Clinton’s damaging of the presidential myth.
She seemed to have sympathy and affection for everyone but George W. Bush, a man who she said is rising on a wave of 9-11 fear — fear of looking unpatriotic, fear of asking questions, just fear. “We have,” she said, “lost our way.”
Thomas believes we have chosen to promote democracy with bombs instead of largess while Congress “defaults,” Democrats cower and a president controls all three branches of government in the name of corporations and the religious right.
As she signed my program, I joked, “You sound worried.”
“This is the worst president ever,” she said. “He is the worst president in all of American history.”
The woman who has known eight of them wasn’t joking.
Do you always eat at the same restaurant when you go out?
How dare you take the lord's name in vain. That could get you another 100 years tacked on to your jinx.
I am now calling George Steinbrenner! 1-212-666-EVIL. He is going to sell Theo's soul to the devil in a trade with the Marlins for I.Rod.
Dear Soxfan, I am talking about you.
Sincerely,
BNB
Which explains T's R/S.
I have my cross to bear. I just don't follow him down dark alleys.
Which explains why his wife is running around. She wants it.
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I hear you! I must call my NY connections!
And apparently he doesn't get it.
God you're slow!
Go check on your wife.
Thanks. IHub needs grammer check.
No, but we may be bumping heads. And if that isn't a double entendre.
These grub rules are like hockey. Shifts on the fly! Or does that word really need an F.
Perhaps if he both blow together. Which ear do you want?
Blow in her ear and she'll follow you anywhere!
Haven't you ever heard of Express mail? I will contact my sources and get back to you this weekend.
So then why the personal attack to begin with?
I'm just a pathetic illiterate loser sucking of the welfare system! HARR!!!!
Its a month away. I will give it food for thought and post here. If I don't eat it first.
Here's a shot of her legs, ala Marilyn.
Could Tobacco be making a comeback!
GW's first secty of the Treasury was CEO of an industry that had its heyday 50 years ago - aluminum.
The new secty designate represents an industry, railroads, that was booming 100 years ago.
So continuing the trend and going back 150 years, it may just be possible that the third Secty of Treasury will represent tobacco, with the CEO coming from RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Susie, Take it from the source. You'll always be Susie the Sweet to me. BTW I found a picture of you before the rinse job. You look sweet to me!
I think he means volcano!
luau pit is almost done
No I did not say that the writer did.
And I believe it's spelled biased. But then again you might be as biassed as me. I'll have to look that up later.
The KSA is infamous for harboring terrorists. I refer you to the 9/11 list. 15 came from there.
Huck, only if they rename it the Monkey Show, featuring see no, tell no, and hear not.
Do you think she is being sweet on purpose?
Susie, Don't take advantage of him like that! He is easily lead.
Soxfan, If Georgie keeps rattling the sabres, even the conservatives will be getting called up; on margin calls from their brokers. LOL.
I hope he had his sell orders in early.
Viv, we're still searching for that!
libs presume to know what's in the President's mind...