Friday, January 18, 2008
New... we NOW apologize for 'saying the truth'?
Chris Matthews Backs Off 'Nasty' Remark on Clinton
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 18, 2008; C01
Under pressure from feminist groups and his own bosses at MSNBC, Chris Matthews apologized yesterday for remarks about Hillary Clinton that he now admits sounded "nasty."
For 10 days, the "Hardball" host had doggedly insisted he was just reciting a bit of history when he said on the air that "the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around."
But protests against those and other remarks by Matthews reached a peak yesterday when the presidents of such groups as the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority and National Women's Political Caucus sent a joint letter of complaint to NBC News President Steve Capus.
On last night's program, Matthews defended the substance of his remarks that Clinton's political career in New York was launched because of public sympathy stemming from her husband's much-investigated affair with Monica Lewinsky. But, he said, "was it fair to imply that Hillary's whole career depended on being a victim of an unfaithful husband? No. And that's what it sounded like I was saying."
Noting that it would be just as unfair to attribute John McCain's political success to having been shot down in the Vietnam War, Matthews said: "Saying Senator Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now, came across just as nasty -- worse yet, just as dismissive." He said he would be "clearer," "smarter" and more respectful in discussing women.
Kim Gandy, NOW's president, said last night that "Chris Matthews is a repeat offender when it comes to sexist attitudes toward women politicians. . . . I wasn't really looking for an apology. I was looking for a behavior change, and for him to treat female politicians the same way as male politicians."
In the joint letter, also signed by author Gloria Steinem, the women cited other examples in which Matthews referred to Clinton as a "stripteaser" and called her "witchy." When Nancy Pelosi was in line to become House speaker, the letter noted, Matthews asked a guest if Pelosi was "going to castrate Steny Hoyer" if the Maryland congressman was elected majority leader.
About 30 people affiliated with the National Women's Political Caucus picketed NBC's Nebraska Avenue NW bureau yesterday afternoon as a protest against Matthews's remarks.
"This is a victory for all women. We are pleased that Chris Matthews has shown remorse," the caucus said in a statement last night.
Earlier this month, when Matthews attended a Clinton campaign event in New Hampshire and repeatedly tried to press her on the Iraq war, she smiled and said: "You know, I don't know what to do with men who are obsessed with me. Honestly, I've never understood it."
When the former first lady approached him afterward, Matthews pinched her cheek, and she gave him a brief hug.
As criticism from liberal bloggers and others mounted over the past week, top MSNBC officials urged Matthews to apologize, according to network officials who would not be identified discussing internal deliberations. But Matthews dug in his heels, deciding to deliver the mea culpa only after he had returned from a Democratic presidential debate sponsored by the network in Las Vegas.
In an interview last week, Matthews, a onetime Democratic operative, insisted at length that he was right in describing how Clinton was launched on a path that would carry her to the Senate and a presidential campaign. "I thought what I said was unexceptional about what happened back in '98," he said. "She was facing a trial by fire, and the fire was her husband. I knew I was speaking bluntly, but does anyone disagree?"
Only toward the end of the interview did he acknowledge: "It came over as dismissive, and that's my fault. Maybe I should have said it was an irony."
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Can you feel it?
YES........
that is me you hear... the front of my right hand felt like the fingers were burning before I realized it.. sigh .... ouh..... ouh...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Heathers funny of the day.... fishing....
I got up early, put on my long johns, dressed quietly, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, slipped quietly into the garage to hook the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential down pour.
There was snow mixed with the rain, and the wind was blowing 50 mph. I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered the weather would be bad all day.
I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. There I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible."
My loving wife of 20 years replied, "Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?"
I still don't know if she was joking.
21 questions still unanswered....
1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $ 2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE
2. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My sentiments exactly)
3. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea...does that mean that one enjoys it?
4. There are three religious truths:
A. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
B. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
C. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
5. If people from Poland are called Poles, then why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
6. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
7. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
8. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale Bread to begin with?
9. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a racecar is not called a racist?
10. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety-one?
11. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
12. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
13. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
14. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
15. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me...they're cramming for their final exam.
16. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use. Toothpicks?
17. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
18. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
19. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
20. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
21. If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
2. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My sentiments exactly)
3. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea...does that mean that one enjoys it?
4. There are three religious truths:
A. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
B. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
C. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
5. If people from Poland are called Poles, then why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
6. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
7. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
8. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale Bread to begin with?
9. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a racecar is not called a racist?
10. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety-one?
11. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
12. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
13. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
14. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
15. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me...they're cramming for their final exam.
16. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use. Toothpicks?
17. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
18. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
19. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
20. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
21. If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Sad news tonight....
Great Grandmother Moffat called me tonight to tell me that my Cousin's Daughter's husband died yesterday in Tulsa. Deanna Boyd's Husband Richard died after noon yesterday. They have one son and Deanna if I remember correctly had just bought her own business, or started one. Her Mom and Dad live in Norman, Clinton and Joanna Wilson, my Uncle John's oldest daughter and husband.
Salt of the earth... great family, and it does in fact rain on the just and unjust!!
Our prayers are with them in their time of loss...
I am speechless... my heart breaks for them.... all.
Salt of the earth... great family, and it does in fact rain on the just and unjust!!
Our prayers are with them in their time of loss...
I am speechless... my heart breaks for them.... all.
Disabled vets chapter needing to raise money to replace transport van totaled in Jan. 4 accident
Disabled vets chapter needing to raise money to replace transport van totaled in Jan. 4 accident
by Cass Rains
Staff Writer
Enid’s Disabled American Veterans chapter will have to foot the bill to replace its van used to transport veterans to Oklahoma City for medical treatment after it was totaled in an accident Jan. 4.
The accident has put the group into a fundraising bind, needing to raise $13,500 by the end of April.“We need some help,” said Mike McCauley, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 66 treasurer. “The only way to replace the vehicle is to buy a new one.”
The early morning accident sent five people to area hospitals, including the group’s hospital transportation coordinator Gary Frank.Since June, Frank said, the van had traveled more than 39,000 miles to take 1,276 veterans to the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Oklahoma City.
DAV officials received the van in June after Enid and area residents and organizations donated money to replace the group’s previous van, which was several years old and had more than 150,000 miles on it.
Major donations came from Northwest Oklahoma Osteopathic Foundation, which gave $3,000, and a woman who wished to remain anonymous who donated $5,000.
Frank said the cost of an average trip to Oklahoma City from the group’s coverage area, which stretches from Okarche to the Kansas state line and from Interstate 35 to Guymon, is about $35.
“It’s a pretty good savings for the veterans,” he said.He said the group transports any veteran who needs medical care. The service is critical for veterans who are on fixed incomes or unable to drive themselves, he said.“There’s a lot of people who wouldn’t get any medical care if we couldn’t help them,” he said.
Veterans Affairs paid for fuel costs and maintenance for the 2007 Ford E 350 van. McCauley said insurance would not cover the cost to replace the van. Chapter 66 has about 400 total members, 200 of whom are considered active.
Frank said the earliest the chapter could purchase and receive another van through Veterans Affairs is June. He said the group was fortunate to have received support from the community in the past.“We put the van they bought us to good use,” he said. “It was just an unfortunate accident.”
According to an Enid Police Department report, Paul Rice, 75, was driving the van south on South 10th about 5:24 a.m. Jan. 4 when he got too close to the shoulder on the west side of the road, hit two bridge barriers and rolled the van onto the driver’s side.
Four of the five passengers in the wreck were treated and released at area hospitals. Bessie Bamburg, 59, remains in intensive care at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center, Frank said.
McCauley and Frank said the group will meet to discuss fundraising options.
Anyone who wishes to donate or help with the purchase of a new van can contact DAV Chapter 66 at 580-242-3808.
The address is
DAV Chapter, 66601 N. 26th Street, Enid, OK 73701
They will appreciate all the donations they receive.
The money is to help replace the van used to take disabled veterans to the VA hospital in OKC.
Jake's new office....
NO NO NO.. the fire .. smoke that I took photos of is not a fire that Jake started.... NO NO NO>>>> hehe...
Anyway.. as I went to walk this am.. there was no breeze... etc.. and as I was coming back to our home.. I saw the smoke on the horizon... and believe it or not, we have had 30 mile an hour gusts this am.. and the wind is steadly increasing... but good news.. I walked to the front yard to finish up and there was almost no smoke left.. in the 30 mins it burned, whatever it was... as with most fires.. they look closer than they are. I bet this was about two miles northeast of our home or more.. but when I first saw it, the smoke was a diesel black, to burnt charcoal gray!! and it looked very close...
Guess our days are getting longer, but we also have ole man winter coming again... i think.. sigh.. but you know, we will only be a month into winter in a week... and the coldest yuckest weather is about 6 weeks in .... sigh.. sigh...
anyway.. have a great day!
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