Newsletter 6/24/05: Yep, he is back indeed!

[Patsy Stone]

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Tonight on Countdown
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A White House official said Friday the administration finds it ``somewhat puzzling'' that Democrats are demanding presidential adviser Karl Rove's apology or resignation for implying that liberals are soft on terrorism. ``I think Karl was very specific, very accurate, in who he was pointing out,'' communications director Dan Bartlett said. ``It's touched a chord with these Democrats. I'm not sure why.'' http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5095929,00.html

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President Bush assured Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Friday "there are not going to be any timetables" for withdrawal of American forces and vowed victory over insurgents attempting to prevent establishment of a democratic government. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8343006/

A suicide car bomber slammed into a 7-ton U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah, killing five Marines and a Navy sailor, Marine Corps sources told NBC News, adding that at least three of the dead were female Marines and that 13 others were wounded. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8202434/

Defending the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Vice President Dick Cheney said they are well treated, well fed and "living in the tropics." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344715/

Tom Cruise was all smiles talking about his movie and his fiancee on NBC's "Today" show, but the smile disappeared when Matt Lauer mentioned Cruise's earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants. Cruise got very serious and kept saying "Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt" every time Lauer said he knew people who were helped by anti-depressants. He also told Lauer, "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/

As the Rev. Billy Graham opens his final American crusade Friday in New York City, the man with the best seat will be his son and successor, Franklin Graham. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8232360/

'Blessing of the bikes' brings bikers together. http://leaderadvertiser.com/articles/2005/06/22/news/news03.txt

Keith's Favorite Five.

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
A Quincy woman who apparently stuffed $46,950 in cash in her bra before trying to board a plane to Texas for plastic surgery has sued a federal agency, demanding the return of her money. She told authorities she was heading to Texas for plastic surgery on her buttocks and breasts. She says a male Drug Enforcement Administration agent told her she had a nice body and didn't need surgery - and then seized the cash, claiming it was drug money. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STUFFED_BRA?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME

Have a great weekend.

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

More:
Aruban police arrested the father of a young Dutch teen already in custody in connection with the disappearance of a young Alabama woman, and said Thursday that he was considered a suspect in the 3-week-old case. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8290302/

Iranians packed polling stations Friday in a tight presidential race between a well-known moderate cleric, who became the default choice for reformists, and a hard-liner seeking to reclaim the values of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8338115/

The Iranian government has tightened its control over the Internet, increasingly blocking content in its national language of Farsi and restricting what citizens can publish through Web journals, Western researchers say. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8322452/

Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 536 people across China in the past two weeks, with more heavy rain forecast in the southern province whose factories are the heart of the country's booming export industries, the government said Friday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8317973/

Sales of new homes in May climbed to the second highest level in history, but the median sales price fell sharply, the government reported Friday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344723/

Now that the FDA has for the first time approved a drug specifically for blacks (heart medication), medical experts are sure to debate the implications, with some questioning the validity of medical research that focuses on race. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8342631/

The mother of a 12-year-old boy fatally mauled by the family's pit bulls was charged Thursday with child endangerment. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8342851/

'Land of the Dead' should please purists. George A. Romero makes zombies rise once again. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8319466/

Witchy Woman. 'Bewitched' fails to live up to its buzz-it's actually not a disaster. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8271975/site/newsweek/

[NYCGirl]

1. And it's a good thing, too. A peek at TVNewser shows that the ratings

were way down the past couple of days.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/wednesday_ratings_greta_1_in_cable_news_cnbc_beats_msnbc_in_prime_22904.asp#more

[Patsy Stone]

2. Why do more people watch nasty Nancy Nostrils?

It doesn't make sense.

[NYCGirl]

3. Viewers like trashy TV. And she provides it?

(I've actually never seen her show, so I don't personally know what she does.)

[Clark2008]

4. Excuse me, but Dan Bartlett doesn't understand

what KKKarl said that touched a chord with the Democrats?

What a fucking maroon!!

BTW, hold down the fort for me tonight. My guy is taking me to a fancy-schmancy restaurant (check out this menu! http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1504413) and I won't be around for the 8 p.m. showing.

I do have to pick up my son at 11 p.m., so we may watch the midnight showing (HA!).

:hi: to you all and :loveya: to Keith!

[gkhouston]

5. woo hoo, you go girl!

Sounds like some nice chow... have a great time!

[Berry Cool]

6. Lucky Clark! That boyfriend thing is workin' out...

...and she's workin' it!

Congrats! Hope you get to see the re-air at least!!

[SharonRB]

8. Sounds yummy, Clark

Have a great time. So, which guy did you wind up with? :) Things have certainly turned in your favor lately! I'm happy for you.

[Clark2008]

14. The 32-year-old

He's the one who was born in South Africa was raised in Brooklyn and Boston and moved down here when he was a teenager. Then he was in the Army as a Russian translator (my toes curl when he speaks Russian to me - :loveya:)
We had a great time at dinner: I had the lamb and he had the pan-seared duck. We had duck potstickers and crab dip with pita bread for appetizers and blackened pudding with cinnamon ice cream for dessert. Oh, and he brought me flowers! :loveya:

Today, he's taking my son and me to Chuckie Cheese for a late lunch/early dinner (and before it gets TOO overrun with tons of kids).

He's just dreamy, btw.

[gkhouston]

15. I'm so happy for you, Clark

you went through such a lousy patch there that it's really nice to hear things are so much better now. This guy sounds like a keeper. Anyone who's willing to endure Chuckie Cheese is a brave soul indeed. :-)

[Clark2008]

16. LOL!

I told him the same thing. We went during the day, so it wasn't too bad. We ended up going earlier than expected because he got done helping his Mom mulch earlier. We had lunch there and it wasn't packed with little rug rats. :)

Then, after playing games for an hour or two, we stopped by the grocery store, picked up some steaks and corn and grilled out for dinner. I made breakfast for the whole gang this morning (and, not to worry. I have a den with a futon. He slept in there so Ramzey wouldn't "think" anything. But, since we were drinking, there was no way I was going to make him drive home.)

He didn't go to his house all weekend and told me he had to go home to make sure his roommate hadn't destroyed the whole place. LOL! They rent a nice little house on the other side of town.

[gkhouston]

17. where he sleeps is your business (and Ramzey's, to a lesser

extent). I hope his house was intact when he got home.

[Clark2008]

18. Yeah - but I meant it more to the effect that I didn't

want Ramzey wandering in... you know.

[gkhouston]

19. :-) I know. Only too well. n/t

[RevCheesehead]

12. Be sure to watch, Clark - it's a good one! n/t

[Sydnie]

7. "living in the tropics."

That phrase reminds me of one of the stupidest things I ever heard my sister say. Let me explain (or vent). LOL

When my brother was in Vietnam, my father was a DJ on a local radio station. He was well known. This rival station had a thing where they played three hours worth of music dedicated to a single soldier, made a tape of the music and all the call ins by family and friends sending good thoughts and well wishes for him in combat, then they would send the tape to the soldier. As a "stick it to my father" thing, they chose my brother for one of those broadcasts. Not only would they get my father and our family to listen, they would get his fans to listen and call in for my brother.

Anyway, when my sister called in, (she always was a bit of a snob, even for our family) she had the nerve to tell my brother that if he could "think of his time in Vietnam as being abroad rather than over seas, he might fair better mentally". I remember even then thinking, she has got to get better tethered to reality really soon.

That comment reminds of that same snobbish mind fuck kind of comment and it makes me throw up in my mouth, just a bit.

Kiss my ass Dick ... in the tropics indeed!

</end rant thanks for listening>

[Patsy Stone]

10. As one who lives in the tropics

I'm here to say it ain't that great even when you're not in prison with no idea when you'll have a hearing. :)

Hey, syd! That was quite a story. :crazy:

[Berry Cool]

13. Great story, Syd!

and I personally would NOT want to live "in the tropics"...especially detained in a prison that I might have been thrown into for no reason at all!

Or because I was fighting in a war started for dubious reasons either!

Sheesh!

[Catchawave]

9. I'm going to try and make the meeting tonight.....

...bought me a carpet steam cleaner, nothing like it to prove what a filthy pig I am, pouring mud out of the recovery tank...OY.

C'ya's later, I hope :)

[bunny planet]

11. Is this the official thread?

:hi: