http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/07/19/nets-plug-kennedys-dramatic-emotional-pitch-health-care-reform  Newsweek engaged itself deeper in the battle for nationalized health care by turning over its cover story -- “We're Almost There” -- to Senator Ted Kennedy for his lengthy personal recitation of “the cause of my life.” ABC and NBC on Sunday night dutifully championed his cause as World News anchor Dan Harris highlighted how “Kennedy is using his own battle against brain cancer to make an emotional pitch for health care reform” and NBC reporter Mike Viqueira touted:
Today, another dramatic push, this time from an ailing Ted Kennedy, absent from Washington but appearing on the cover of Newsweek and writing: “This is the cause of my life. We will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege.”
This wasn't the first time NBC has enlisted Kennedy to trumpet Obama's quest. Back in early March when the White House held a summit on health care, reporter Chuck Todd appropriated the coach who inspired “win one for the Gipper” by touting on NBC Nightly News how “the President's drive to pass health care got a Knute Rockne-like boost with a surprise appearance” by Kennedy.
The short item from Harris on Sunday's World News:
Senator Ted Kennedy is using his own battle against brain cancer to make an emotional pitch for health care reform. Writing in Newsweek, Kennedy called it “the cause of my life.” He said “every American should be able to get the same treatment that U.S. Senators are entitled to.”
The July 19 NBC Nightly News showcased Kennedy in a larger story from Viqueira on the challenges ahead for Obama on health care. Picking up mid-way:
It's clear the votes aren't yet there for the President, so over the last week he's used his bully pulpit day after day to tell his plan, waging an all-out campaign to gain support, huddling with Democratic leaders and undecided Senators. And, after vulnerable Democrats raised red flags over the new tax and its impact on small business, warning it could “kill the goose that will lay the golden eggs of our recovery,” the very next day found them all marching into the West Wing – invited to come vent their concerns to top staff.
And today, another dramatic push, this time from an ailing Ted Kennedy, absent from Washington but appearing on the cover of Newsweek and writing: “This is the cause of my life. We will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege.” And, [anchor] Carl [Quintanilla] , in another indication of the high stakes here, the President plans to have a formal prime time news conference in the White House's East Room on Wednesday evening. | |
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/07/19/whoops-lesbian-person-year-gay-press-goes-straight-baby  In December 2005, Kerry Pacer, then 17, was featured on the cover of the national gay news magazine The Advocate as its "Person of the Year" — making her the youngest gay person to achieve that honor – for fighting for a "gay-straight alliance" at White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia. But there’s apparently no embarrassment for the gay press....when she takes on a boyfriend and they have a baby. In The Washington Blade, Dyana Bagby reported:
But today she lives with her boyfriend, a construction worker, and their baby daughter, Marley, who turns 1 year old on Saturday.
"Well, she’s the most beautiful blue-eyed girl in the world and everybody tells me that so I’m not just being biased, I swear," Pacer said with a laugh.
"I love every minute of motherhood. It’s been a very big challenge, however I love it. I’ve just been trying to work and go to school and take care of my family," she said.
Pacer, who first came out as gay at age 12, is studying nursing at Gainesville State College and hopes becoming a registered nurse will give her a career that will support her family.
"It’s me and the baby and Shannon [Phagan], who is my boyfriend. We’re still together right now," she said. "And he’s doing really good; he’s helping out a lot and he’s really good with the baby." Pacer and Phagan were friends in high school and hung out with the same people.
"Yeah, well, we got together in high school. We started liking each other and started building a relationship. It was just fate we got together," she said. "You can’t help who you fall in love with. No matter what, you have to be happy and follow your dreams and be who you are."
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The gay left would usually endorse the phrase "you can’t help who you fall in love with," but maybe not so much in this slightly embarrassing case. Apparently, those people who insist homosexuality isn’t a choice or something you can change think Pacer’s choices are fine, as long as her politics remain aligned with the gay left:
Pacer stressed that while she is now in love with a man, she is the same person she was when she was battling school administrators to do something about incessant bullying taking place in the halls of White County High School. She and her friends were often called "dykes" and "faggots."
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Pacer’s fight for a "gay-straight alliance" led to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. Three years ago, U.S. District Judge William O’Kelley issued a permanent injunction against White County schools, requiring that the GSA and other school clubs be allowed to meet.
The terms of the settlement agreement included policies for 9th through 12th grades that make it clear that harassment against "LGBT" students is not permitted on campus. The school also agreed to provide their faculty with annual "training sessions on how to deal with and prevent anti-gay harassment." | |
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/07/19/palins-hairdresser-claims-nyt-lied-about-govs-hair-thinning  On July 12, the New York Times claimed Sarah Palin's hair was thinning, and used it as evidence that the Alaska governor was not handling the stress of office well:
Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.
Now, Steele is striking back via Twitter: "I have never spoken 2 Inside Edition or told any reporter at the NYTs that Sarah Palin's hair was thinning to the point of emergency! Liars!" As Tim Lindell reported Sunday, Steele is quite angered by this misrepresentation by the Gray Lady (h/t NBer Stacy): Jessica Steele, proprietor of The Beehive and the Palin friend and hairdresser quoted by the NYT, is outraged at the claim and making it known through a forum immediately available - her Twitter feed: I am Sarah Palin's hairdresser in Alaska! The media is saying Sarah's hair is thinning this is a lie!!! I never said this and it's not true!
about 12 hours ago from Tweetie
@aktiff08 yes, this is what they are saying!!! They say it was an exclusive from her hairdresser! Makes me sick!
about 12 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to aktiff08
Inside Edition contacted me about an interview,I said no because the whole "story" was a lie! Sarah Palin's hair is not thinning!
about 9 hours ago from Tweetie
I have never spoken 2 Inside Edition or told any reporter at the NYTs that Sarah Palin's hair was thinning to the point of emergency! Liars!
about 9 hours ago from Tweetie
I will continue 2 tell people: I never said Sarah Palin's hair is thinning! The Left is desperate to attack Sarah Palin with stupid lies!!!
about 9 hours ago from Tweetie
Media is so desperate to attack Sarah Palin they are saying lies about her hair! I am her HAIRDRESSER!! U will not use me in a LIE media!!!!
about 8 hours ago from Tweetie
@Adrienne2012 it's so werid to hear & read about things that I "said" that are not true! Never said her hair needed emergency attention!
about 8 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to Adrienne2012
@aktiff08 at this point I am realizing that the truth doesn't matter, only the perception of the truth is real any more it's makes me so mad
about 8 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to aktiff08
I've got to say Sarah Palin is very strong! I'm pissed off about these stupid lies about her hair, can't image dealing wth this stuff daily!
about 8 hours ago from Tweetie
If u think about it saying Sarah's Palins hair is thinning is the dumbest lie the New York Times and inside Edition can come up with yet!
about 8 hours ago from Tweetie
Reminds one of that old Clairol commercial -- only her hairdresser knows for sure! | |
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Tonights plans changed a little.. Dad wasn't feeling well so instead of going out for supper we stayed in and cooked at home. Kate did 90% of the work but we had chicken and potatoes and some dessert thing that she wanted to make which really turned out nice. Mom seemed happy with it all and it was a really nice time.
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 Spending the day on the set of her new movie, Kristen Stewart was spotted plugging away on the set of "The Runaways" in Los Angeles on Sunday (July 19). Joined by co-star Dakota Fanning and fellow band characters Alia Shawkat, Scout Taylor-Compton and Stella Maeve, all of the members had shirts on showing their names as they strolled about the set. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the rocker chick flick is described as "a coming-of-age biopic about '70s teenage band The Runaways." Making sure everything goes according to plan, singer Joan Jett was also on-hand for the day's filming - as she's been a mainstay on the set throughout production. ( More ~exciting~ pictures here! )SourceThis post is brought to you by the New Moon poster.  | |
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 Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of woe about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer at age 78. McCourt had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. He died at a Manhattan hospice, his brother Malachy McCourt said. Until his mid-60s, Frank McCourt was known primarily around New York as a creative writing teacher and as a local character — the kind who might turn up in a New York novel — singing songs and telling stories with younger brother Malachy and otherwise joining the crowds at the White Horse Tavern and other literary hangouts. But there was always a book or two being formed in his mind and the world would learn his name, and story, in 1996, after a friend helped him get an agent and his then-unfinished manuscript was quickly signed by Scribner. With a first printing of just 25,000, "Angela's Ashes" was an instant favorite with critics and readers and perhaps the ultimate case of the non-celebrity memoir, the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. "F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. I think I've proven him wrong," McCourt later explained. "And all because I refused to settle for a one-act existence, the 30 years I taught English in various New York City high schools." A native of New York, McCourt was good company in the classroom and at the bar, but few had such a burden to unload. His parents were so poor that they returned to their native Ireland when he was little and settled in the slums of Limerick. Simply surviving his childhood was a tale; McCourt's father was an alcoholic who drank up the little money his family had. Three of McCourt's seven siblings died, and he nearly perished from typhoid fever."Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood," was McCourt's unforgettable opening. "People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty, the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters; the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years."The book was a long Irish wake, "an epic of woe," McCourt called it, finding laughter and lyricism in life's very worst. Although some in Ireland complained that McCourt had revealed too much (and revealed a little too well), "Angela's Ashes" became a million seller, won the Pulitzer and was made into a movie of the same name, starring Emily Watson as the title character, McCourt's mother. McCourt's other books include "'Tis" and "Teacher Man." yahoo | |
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 (btw, I can't stand her, but this shit is tragic.) Chima told her fellow Big Brother 11 houseguests that she had to have two facial surgeries because the attack had been so brutal. "February of 1999, 22-year-old Chima Benson sleeps soundly in her sorority house when she wakes up to a masked man in her bedroom. The man brutally beats and rapes Chima, before fleeing into the night. At the hospital semen is collected. The sample is compared to the DNA from the 1996 murders at the Peartree apartment complex, and confirmed to be a match." source: Associated Contentsource: COLD CASE FILES: Episode 90( full articles under cut ) | |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/instapundit/main/~3/iRpqhGXCYzU/ http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/82123/ HMM: 2010: A new space odyssey beckons: The world is on the verge of new manned exploration of the solar system – and, this time, environmentalists are backing it.
James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory, said: “I strongly support space travel. The whole notion of Gaia came out of space travel. It seems to me any environmentalist who opposes space travel has no imagination whatever. That gorgeous, inspirational image of the globe that we are now so familiar with came out of space travel. That image has perhaps been of the greatest value to the environmental movement. It gave me a great impetus.
“There are the unmanned spacecraft, which are relatively inexpensive, that I certainly think should continue. The more we know about Mars, for example, the better we can understand our own planet. The second sort, the more personally adventurous sort of travel, offers great inspiration to humans. And, were it not for space travel we’d have no mobile phones, no internet, no weather forecasts of the sort we have now and so on. There’s a lot of puritanical silliness about it.”
Less puritanical silliness, please.
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 BILLIONAIRE Pete Peterson is said to be "mortified" over the sneering performance of his grandson PC (above) on Bravo's "NYC Prep." "Pete is really upset," a friend said. PC -- whose official bio says, "Money, women and life's spoils are all he's ever known" -- is seen bragging and picking on younger kids. The insider added, "He was kicked out of several schools and the family cut him off at one point. He's doing this show to get an acting career." Good Luck! Last week, PC was spotted getting "super touchy-feely" with Barron Hilton at the Gramercy Park Hotel. A Bravo rep had no comment. sourceObligatory: You threw a motherfucking water bottle at me! | |
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- Music:Tamyra Gray - Powerless
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For some strange reason, I'm watching Obama's (half-hour late) presser. Here's the translation:
"Everybody wants health care reform! We've managed to squeeze lots of money out of the pharm companies and hospitals. I mean, everyone knows that they don't need to make a profit. Also, nurses and doctors associations want reform! Woohoo! We all agree that health is good and paperwork is bad. If my wondrous plan passes, your life will be better.
"Oh, but we sort of have to pay for it, right? I mean I already have created such a huge debt, I guess it would be a bad idea to add even more to it. Congress is working really really hard to figure this out, so you can just stop thinking about it.
"By the way, under this plan, the government is going to decide what the "best" care is. We're going to put together a board of "medical experts" who will decide if what your doctor wants to do to cure you is "wasteful" or not.
"[Stupid race-running analogy.]
"If we don't do this, our children are going to be in-- um, even MORE in debt! We can't control government spending anyway! If we don't do this, no one will have insurance they can afford! And if you are against my plan YOU KICK PUPPIES AND STEAL FROM CHILDREN!
"I'm going to work my staff to the bone until they figure this mother out.
No questions." - Mood:nauseated
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Lil' Kim & Cyndi Lauper Perform live at nelson mandela's birthday bash mashing up two of their hit songs Time after time & lighters up. and others ( Read more... ) | |
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 Acording to the source, Nikki Reed and Paris Latsis (Paris Hilton's ex) are dating. Here's the translation: "His last relationship is the most serious he ever had. The young American actress has completely stolen his heart and they have been together for 6 months now. He claims to be madly in love with her, and has introduced her to his parents and will adapt his schedule according to the actresses schedule. In August she filming for her new movie so they will stay in Greece until the end of July and will return together in LA. Paris wants to stay with her and encourage her and because he can't stay away from her."( pic behing the cut ) | |
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Newlyweds Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan leave the Paramount movie studios on Sunday (July 19) in Sydney, Australia.
The happy couple, who tied the knot last weekend in Malibu, joined other castmates of his new movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, for a special screening of their new movie. This included actor Marlon Wayans, who was one of Chan’s groomsmen at his wedding.
The Aussie premiere of G.I. Joe will take place tomorrow (July 20).
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You know what would great, if someone would make Channing gifs from She's The Man
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