Another Austrian shoe queen, that legendary fashionista Bruno, does funkyzeit LA
seeking new style for new year.
** SADDAM’S DEATH. A very good end for a very bad guy. Yet it seems curiously anti-climactic, certainly compared to his capture. And it’s nowhere near the event that a similar end for Osama bin Laden would be.
I haven’t found full video of the event yet, though admittedly I haven’t put much effort into it. Is this a major event? Or a passing spike in the pre-New Year’s news flow?
** JOHN EDWARDS NEVADA REPORT. NWN Forum blogger Barbara checks in with this report from the Democratic presidential candidate’s town hall last night in Reno, Nevada:
“The John Edwards Town Hall just ended about 20 minutes ago. He spoke for about 20 minutes and then spent well over an hour taking questions from a crowd (per a reporter) of well over a thousand people. I was so fortunate because I was able to sit on bleachers 3 feet to his left behind the chain separating him from the audience. As we waited for him to come out I chatted with everyone around and also while I waited in the line to get in to the hall. Unlike me, most people that I talked came from a union phone call. Also unlike me they had heard him speak a lot in the last two years.
“Many of those attending appeared at least to me to not be coming out to support or hear a Dem but to hear John Edwards. He covered many subjects from campaign finance reform (of great interest to this audience), CIRA, universal healthcare, education, poverty…Iraq…China Africa..Israel all places he has visited and studied up on the last couple of years. He showed enormous depth and wonderful people skills. There is so much to say but he kept telling us this is our campaign not just his that we have as individuals to help in our own way to make this country whole. I was able to shake his hand at the end and thank him for advocating for the poor. He took my hand into both of his, looked me straight into my eyes and said: “As long as I am alive.” I believe him. He reminds me of the documentaries I have seen on Bobby Kennedy. I urge everyone to go to his website and learn more about him. I hope the mainstream press does justice to what I heard and saw this evening. This is a remarkable man by any measure.”
** SUPERHERO QUIZ. Click here and answer a short psychographic questionaire to find out which superhero you are most like. (Passed along by TechCrunch.) The Terminator is not one of the options. I took the quiz and found out that I’m, ah, Supergirl. Maybe I should have gone with a very hard no on the cape question.
** Track global and national energy prices via Bloomberg. Crude oil prices rose some in late trading yesterday, to $61 per barrel in some cases, on speculation that the execution of Saddam Hussein could lead to some disruption in Iraq oil supply.
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It’s ridiculous to have all this video sloshing around that doesn’t actually show anything. And to have folks acting like it does.
why would they officially film and photograph it then embargo it? they know it’s the only way people will really believe it happened…makes no sense to me and I’m not that gullible
Who knows?
The Iraq operation has been an exercise in stupidity for a long time.
It’s an exercise in lying.
Taking quality video of the hanging is so simple a caveman could do it. Just wait for the conspiracy nuts to say he escaped.
I for one do not want to hear that he escaped
That would be kinda bad.
Seriously, I do think he’s dead. However, it is quite weird how these videos fail at the moment of truth.
they need to release the “official” video and photographs…he has to be dead…
I just looked at pictures from when he gassed his own people…I’d forgotten how awful they were…
Bill,
Hate to disagree, but the man isn’t dead. Neither is Gerald Ford or James Brown. It’s all a plot so they can begin the process of creating world peace. Yes, it’s true. All three will soon be meeting somewhere near Reno. Perhaps you can get in touch with Barbara and she can provide us with coverage. Perhaps.
He was a horrible man. But not alone in that.
Cool, Solon. We need the Godfather of Soul to create the beat for the meet, to recognize that what we advertise must be realized.
gawd SS what a laugh I just had and I needed one….Bill amen to your thought too…sign me up I want to go:)
It must be done…James has got the lead and the others must heed the Godfather of Soul’s words for what the world needs. Peace can only be had if we drop to our knees and recognize the need to hug one another, love one anohter and continue consuming red wine in large quanities. Follow the words of the Godfather and he will set you free!
amen SS:) but can I drink my pinot instead? hugs work very well
Jillian,
It’s that time of year where drinking anything made from grapes works quite well.
Actually used some red this evening to bake Bosh pears. Then reduced the sauce and dribbled it over a pear and some vanilla ice cream. It was quite a moving experience. I’m sure the Godfather of Soul would have approved!
I think JB was into a different buzz.
sounds yummy SS and yes I agree about drinking anything from grapes:)… but Bill is correct about the different buzz for JB…I almost said Bill was right but thought better of it:)
Bill,
He was a man who understood pleasure. While he might have been into something the resembles Pillsbury, he would have approved of the wine. If for no other reason than it had reached its time!
Right.
Not right. Or left. Or exactly down the middle, either.
Thanks for pointing out the heretofore undiscovered linkage between James Brown and Orson Welles.
Mr. B,
Thought you might enjoy the linkage. Both man were larger than life and brought much pleasure to many folks. There was never a wrong time for either!
Let’s not get too misty eyed here. I mean, I have the 5-hour JB boxed set and all and it’s pretty cool. BUT. James Brown had some real whack episodes.
Good night, Bill
Misty…great song from the 50′s sung by the great Johnny Mathis. That’s 1950′s!
Well, let’s not forget him beating up his wife, and waving the shotgun at the noisy neighbors, and the big hour-long car chase that ended when the cops shot out his tires.
You know, a few minor things like that.
BTW, that buffoon Matt Drudge has a link he labels “WARNING: GRAPHIC” to Saddam death video footage which ONCE AGAIN oddly cuts away at the moment of truth.
Another waste of a few minutes of my life looking at this crap.
JB was a talented and handsome black man. To see him perform you could only stare in awe and wonder did he really do that? as they say “music is the language of the soul”. of all the high profile deaths this week; The JB legacy leaves us with a smile of fun-filled, happy moments.positive vibrations.
yes,JB was out of control in his personal life is an understatment.Abuse not acceptable.
his use of drugs help to finance the CIA covert and war activities that is the sad part, as is well known the CIA is the major trafficker of drugs.