Judge Napolitano, I just had a "quad" espresso and some imported cheese for breakfast ... + (Come On A My House -Lyrics)

Brian and the Judge

Rosemay Clooney


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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 05:43:40 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Judge Napolitano, I just had a "quad" espresso and some imported cheese for breakfast ... + (Come On A My House -Lyrics)
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(Judge Napolitano, I just had a "quad" espresso and some imported cheese for breakfast +++ I been listening to this tune almost everyday = I think you may know & like it)...

Artist: Rosemary Clooney

Come on-a my house my house, I'm gonna give you candy Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give a you Apple a plum and apricot-a too eh Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house I'm gonna give a you Figs and dates and grapes and cakes eh Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you candy Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you everything Come on-a my house my house, I'm gonna give you Christmas tree Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you Marriage ring and a pomegranate too ah Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house I'm gonna give a you Peach and pear and I love your hair ah Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you Easta-egg Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you Everything - everything - everything

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May 9, 2008 Friday Nite's Red Eye Taping (Aired Early Early Saturday Morn at 3AM) = Shows the Show's Solid Consistency = A+++ +++(+)

Greg "the gargantious gut" Gutfeld

(PHOTO: VIA TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP)

Andy "the underpaid ombudsman" Levy

Bill "the smelly but pretty underpaid side-kick" Schulz

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Red Eye Guest: Remi Spencer for May 9, 2008 Friday Nite's Taping (Aired Early Early Saturday Morn at 3AM)

Remi Spencer (directly in the middle in red)

Other Red Eye Guests for May 9, 2008 Friday Nite's Taping (Aired Early Early Saturday Morn at 3AM) included: American Comedian Doug Benson and Jonathan Hoenig (usually seen on Fox News Channel's Cashin' In, Your World with Neil Cavuto, ... Jonathan Hoenig is adapting to Red Eye’s fast witty pace and out of the box beyond the surface story telling/news coverage w/ plenty of compelling banter).

Of course, Mrs. Jackie Gufeld, Senior NEWS Correspondent (and Greg's mom), made her ever so anticipated regular appearnace - (she's pretty HOT too, actually) ---

The topics, stories and banter were stimulating, stunning and stellar = and shows the show's solid everyday consistency = A+++ +++(+)

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Berlusconi's babes ruffle a few feathers

Berlusconi's back on top

SILVIO Berlusconi has taken the reins of power in Italy for the third time at a swearing-in ceremony before President Giorgio Napolitano in Quirinal Palace.
Reuters "The most beautiful minister in the world" is how German daily Bild described Mara Carfagna, Italy's new Equal Opportunities Minister

Berlusconi's babes ruffle a few feathers
Despite the newly acquired statesman's scowl, Italy's colourful president just can't resist a spot of mischief
By Peter PophamSunday, 11 May 2008


Italy's latest Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is putting on a grim new face as he gets to grips with the country's economic woes. But last week he showed that he still has a keen idea of what the Italian in the saloon bar has on his mind, when he named Mara Carfagna as his minister for equal opportunities.
Ms Carfagna, 32, a second-term Forza Italia MP, hit the headlines last year when the media billionaire told her, close to a live microphone, that he would "marry her like a shot" if he didn't happen to be already married. Veronica Lario, the former actress and second Mrs Berlusconi, wrote to a newspaper that Berlusconi despises, ordering him to apologise – he did.
That did not stop him putting Ms Carfagna in his cabinet. "The most beautiful minister in the world" is how German daily Bild described her. There won't be much competition, at least not from Westminster.
However, supporters of Carfagna point out that, aside from appearing topless in calendars and voluptuously underdressed as the eye-candy on one of Berlusconi's TV channels, the young woman from Salerno has a law degree and is an accomplished swimmer, dancer and pianist.
Although Berlusconi is trying on a new statesman-like scowl, he had appeared to find something intrinsically risible about forming a government. He appointed the controversial Northern League former dentist, Roberto Calderoli, to a newly thought-up post as minister for simplification. Perhaps every country could do with one, but is Calderoli the right man? It was he who drafted Italy's present election law, later calling it a porcata (a load of rubbish).
Yet it does seem to tickle Berlusconi's funny bone to have beautiful babes in the equality ministry: the last incumbent was a striking Sicilian blonde called Stefania Prestigiacomo, who this time round has defied those who wrote her off as just a pretty face and climbed to the post of environment minister. Some girls are more equal than others in Berlusconi's eyes. They are the ones who get the call.
What exactly is the relationship between Berlusconi and his new pet? Ms Carfagna is known to have a steady boyfriend. And the first time she was invited to Berlusconi's flat in Rome's Palazzo Grazioli, it is said that she was chaperoned by her father, a diehard Berlusconi supporter, and that she entertained the company with a movement from Beethoven's "Pathetique" sonata.
But the old rogue cannot resist implying that there is more to it than that: clearly he gets a kick out of seeing his new minister blush. "Dear Mara," he said to her publicly on one occasion, "I am obliged to point out to you the rule that applies inside Forza Italia, the rule of ius primae noctis", which the medieval right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of one of his subjects on the first night of her marriage. "You know I like women of easy morals ..."


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LABOR LOVELY: THE PRE-DELIVERY PRIMP A NEW MUST

LABOR OF LOVELY
THE PRE-DELIVERY PRIMP A NEW MUST
By DANA SCHUSTER

A pregnant woman


"I think it is really important that women feel great the day of their delivery," says Murkoff. "It's a moment that you're going to catch forever. You're being photographed and videotaped and having tons of visitors, so you might as well look good."
On the practical side, this could be a mom's last chance to pamper themselves before Pampering their newborn.
"You're clearly going to want to get your hair blown out and get a manicure and pedicure before going into labor, because you are going to run out of time afterwards," says Lisa Fishman, a Manhattan doctor who practices internal medicine and women's health.
She would know. Fishman was unable to squeeze in a pedicure until four months after her daughter was born this past year.
"I used to go to this woman's house. She was bedridden with twins, and I would do her hair in case she ever went into labor because she wanted to look good in the pictures," says Karmela Lozina, a senior stylist at the John Sahag Workshop.
"This is Manhattan. It's called eccentric."
That's why Lozina barely batted an eye when her colleague Lindita Mehmedovic, a receptionist at the salon, had her hair done and also got a mani/pedi the morning of delivery - despite the fact that she was already having contractions.
"I wanted to look perfect when I had my baby," says Mehmedovic. "My husband thought it was funny. My hair held up pretty well."
Meanwhile, new mother Cannone admits her hair was the last thing on her mind once she actually went into labor. "But at least when I look back at the pictures of me holding my baby, I can say - other than how beautiful my son is - 'Oh, what a damn good manicure that is!'"
Pregnant pampering 101
Everyone knows you didn't practice safe sex, but if you're looking to primp before D-Day, be sure to practice safe spa. Medical experts agree that it's important for pregnant women to take precautions when engaging in any type of beauty procedure. According to J. Sisters' Jonice Padilha, skin can be extra sensitive during pregnancy, and even something as simple as a pedicure could be painful since women's feet will often swell during the nine-month period. You should always tell your beauty practitioner ahead of time that you are pregnant, and always do a patch test.
"Your hair, your skin, all behave differently and unpredictably when you are pregnant because of all the pregnancy hormones," says "What To Expect When You're Expecting" author Heidi Murkoff.

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White Sox and Sex Dolls

White Sox make amends with pink beards

Bobby Jenks and three other White Sox players dyed their facial hair pink, in honor of the upcoming Mother's Day, and in support of breast cancer awareness. (AP photo/M. Spencer Green)

After enduring heavy criticism in the sports media for having inflatable sex-toy dolls in their clubhouse, the Chicago White Sox did something politically correct last night.

USA Today's Mike Dodd was at Chicago's game, and files this followup on the Windy City controversy that has been swirling around Sox manager Ozzie Guillen:
Guillen had barely settled into his customary spot on the dugout bench for his pre-game session with reporters when the first question came without a warm-up: "Did you do anything inappropriate today?"
The manager laughed at the good-natured prod. No, he behaved himself Wednesday, after the weekend's expletive-filled tirade about Chicago fans and sports media, and the controversy over the blowup dolls.
But he didn't back down from his no-apology stance.
Asked if he had any second thoughts about anything he said the last few days, Guillen quickly dismissed the notion. "The one thing I regret in my life, one thing, is when I called A-Rod (a hypocrite) to the paper and made that kid suffer," Guillen said.
He was referring to the 2006 Sports Illustrated article in which he criticized Alex Rodriguez for wavering on whether to play for the Dominican Republic or U.S. in the World Baseball Classic.
"I don't have the right to put Alex Rodriguez in that spot the first day of spring training. That was (BS) by me. That's no class," Guillen said.
And recently? "I don't feel guilty about the last couple of days," Guillen said, adding he didn't commit any crime or "do anything bad."
Meantime, MLB said the doll issue is a team matter, and it won't get involved.

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A Woman Dedicated to The NEWS and Her Son, Greg (Host of FNC's Hit & Hip Late Nite Show = Red Eye)...

(Friday night during the taping of Red Eye which viewed early early Saturday morning at 3:00 a.m., when reporting on the day's events Mrs. Gutfeld told her son, Greg, and his side-kicks, guests and the world how she wishes she could have been in Berkley to witness the unsual events unfolding...)

The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "witches, crones and sirens" day, the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.

"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com

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Oliver Stone movie on Bush set for October release

By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Oliver Stone has landed a distribution deal with independent studio Lionsgate to get an upcoming film about President George W. Bush into U.S. theaters in October, shortly before the presidential election.
The film will open on October 17 in North America, said Lionsgate, which also will distribute the movie in Britain, Australia and New Zealand

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American Comedian Uses Documentary Film "Super Size Me" as Inspiration for New Innovative Documentary Film Called "Super High Me" = Science Meets Pop

Doug Benson is an American comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever, and most recently as a contestant on Last Comic Standing.

"You know that movie Super Size Me, where that guy Morgan Spurlock ate McDonald’s every meal for 30 days? People actually paid money to see that. Well, if that’s a movie, I’ve got a movie! I’m going to smoke pot every day for 30 days, and it’s going to be called Super High Me, or Business As Usual… I haven’t decided on a title yet. But guess what? McDonald’s is going to be in my movie too!"
– Joke from Doug Benson’s stand up act, 2006

Super High Me features comedian Doug Benson and explores the current situation with medical marijuana in California and the United States, specifically focusing on the conflict between federal and state law and the explosive growth in medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles over the past two years.
As part of his journey, Doug smokes, eats and vaporizes medical marijuana for thirty consecutive days in order to get “Super High.” But there is a catch–first Doug must go thirty days without any marijuana and undertakes a number of tests, completing the same tests while medicated and while sober, in an effort to find out what marijuana does and how it really affects people. Along the way, we follow Doug as he goes out on the road to stand up gigs across the country and hangs out with fellow comedians Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt.

Alex Campbell put together a committee of scientists, academics, doctors, debunkers, psychologists, lawyers, professional comedians, dispensary operators and medical marijuana patients who designed, implemented, and interpret the results of the rigorous examinations that Doug goes through in the course of the movie. Along the way, it was always stressed that this was an experiment with a little “e”. Alex also asked the Governator, the Attorney General, the DEA, the ONDCP, the FDA and the LAPD and the OPD to be part of the experiment but they all said no. All of the results of the tests that Doug took were compiled and a report was published and a meeting was had to discuss the findings. At the Oversight Committee meeting, it was revealed to us that Craig X had done a similar experiment with LSD.

Everything Doug Benson did in Super High Me is legal in California. Benson claims that he tells kids “you should not smoke pot until you become a professional comedian”.

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Diana Falzone = A+++(+)

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Diana Falzone = A+++(+) is so smoking hot she's forever banned from ice hockey games.

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Janine Turner - Northern Exposure = OMFG, You all Are GODS of TV = I love You = A+++(+)

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How cool that you have Janine Turner on Fox & Friends Weekend ---

Northern Exposure = OMFG ...

Northern Exposure was the best TV show = ever............

You all Are GODS of modern day TV = I love You = A+++(+)

Grazie...Grazie....Thank you for this great TV moment.

Washington Post Best Seller List!!

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Something I've Never Seen Before

...so, around 7:15 a.m. Parker Bean and I were "walkie to Milwaukee" cruising down Beaver street in Edgeworth - parallel to Oliver street - and I saw something I've never seen before ...

 

I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree. A squirrel fell out of a tree and landed in a soft bed of leaves left over from fall and winter.

 

The squirrel was kinda young. It wasn't hurt. It got back up and scurried-up a tree and then positioned itself to stare and Parker Bean and me.

 

Right before this happened about 5 feet ahead of me some bird shit hit the ground and as it was during my morning prayers and meditations on gratefulness and thankfulness for everyday and everything in my everyday - I was thinking of a story about how even bird shit is of organic significance. If you're in the world of the synthetic and material and have a plastic exterior than that bird shit may not seem like anything but bird shit that is insignificant and just messes-up the plastic, synthetic exterior. Yet, in the organic realm bird shit is part of the cycle of life - It decomposes and is broken down into the soil as rich nutrients and maybe even food for some insects.

 

The story I was thinking of would be about someone who came to the style of thinking and conclusions just written about above --- And my main character I was thinking-up was a man who fell out of an airplane and survived - only cracking open his head a bit - but he miraculously survived as he landed on a pillow that was in the middle of a field and a giant feather pillow at that as it being the biggest pillow in the world and going for the records in the Guinness Book.

 

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Courtney Friel Is Such a Radiant Ray of Sunshine...

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Courtney Friel is such a radiant ray of sunshine...

Courtney exudes beauty and yet seems to possess this innocent naivety about how pretty, beautiful & hot she actually really really is which makes her even more accessibly appealing and likable.

Moreover, I have definitely noticed she's obtained more confidence, poise and professionalism in her delivery and onscreen presence in general === which is becoming more naturally organic each and everyday she's on air.

I am a huge Courtney Friel fan because she actually moves me when I see her in a way where I see the light and feel good about myself and want to do better as a man and human be-ing so she'll think I'm pretty groovy.

Courtney has the potential to be an E.D. Hill as she matures on the serious side = And a Jules Asner with her entertainment interests, accessibility and down to earth attitude and approach which is refreshingly congenial toward organic rockers and actors = And she even has potential for cross-over where she could do some acting herself like an Ellen or Rosie.

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If You Missed This One You Missed One of the 100 All Time Best Movies on Allot of Respectable Lists

Léolo - ALL-TIME 100 movies - TIME

At some time in our youth, many of us have soberly concluded that these large people in our house cannot be our parents. They are clumsy or brutal, lacking the divine spark we surely possess; and rather than being stolen by gypsies, we were left on their doorstep by some superior beings as a test of our ability to absorb pain and indignity. Léo (Maxime Collin), 12, is nourished by this conviction as he watches his deranged Québecois brood mismanage their lives. He renames himself Léolo after determining that his mother had actually been impregnated by a Sicilian tomato. This is the first of Lauzon's extravagant fantasies and, like other, odder ones, it is cogently grounded in the solitude that can smother any child—anybody. Lurching from the everyday obscenities of Léo's home life to his rapturous dream life and back again, Léolo takes the elixir of Latin America’s magical realism and spikes it with the tartest French-Canadian satire. Our young hero does survive a (hilarious) suicide attempt, but Lauzon, alas, did not live to make another film. He died in a plane crash at 43.—R.C. From the TIME Archive: "For a movie that worms inside a child's hopes and fears, that understands how kids can be both shaped by their family and in righteous rebellion against it, you should see—immediately—Leolom"—TIME Magazine, Apr. 5, 1993 >>

"Leolo" centers on the adventures of the title character (played by Maxime Collin) around age 12, when he is a tortured and introverted boy in a family filled with insanity. The 1992 film by Jean-Claude Lauzon is comic yet darkly angry.

Leolo (1993)
BY ROGER EBERT / July 31, 2005

I came in after a midnight screening this year at Cannes, and found Richard Corliss leaning over a yellow legal pad in the dining room of the Hotel Splendid. He was, he said, working on the list of the 100 greatest films of all time, which he and Richard Schickel would soon publish in Time magazine. "Which one are you writing about now?" I asked. " 'Leolo,' " he said. Yes. "Leolo." A film that stirs in the shadows of memory for everyone who has ever seen it, a film that cannot be classified and can hardly be explained, a film left orphaned by the early death of its director, Jean-Claude Lauzon, who died with his girlfriend while piloting his Cessna in northern Canada in 1997.
He made only two features, "Night Zoo" (1987) and "Leolo" (1992). He could have made more, but spent his time shooting commercials, or fishing. He was believed to be the most gifted young filmmaker in Canada, but when the elder statesman Norman Jewison offered him a job directing Gene Hackman in a thriller, he turned it down, rudely. Ken Turan of the Los Angeles Times believes "Leolo" might have won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1992 if Lauzon hadn't made an obscene suggestion to Jamie Lee Curtis, one of the jurors. Turan tells me he heard the story from Lauzon himself: "He found himself next to Jamie Lee at the buffet at the Hotel du Cap. He introduced himself and said, as I remember it, 'What the boy in the film does to the piece of liver, I want to do to you.' " The only caveat raised by this story is that Jamie Lee Curtis is not a shrinking violet and might as plausibly laughed as taken offense.
I met Lauzon once, at lunch after "Night Zoo" premiered at Cannes. He was long-haired, outspoken, a little wild, ready to offend or take offense. His movie was about an ex-con whose father is dying; the old man's deathbed wish is to shoot an elephant, and so they break into the Montreal Zoo with his dad in a wheelchair. You get the feeling, after seeing that film and "Leolo," that they are not a million miles removed from reality. There was mental illness all through his family, his childhood was not easy and his hero Leolo says, "They say I am French Canadian, but because I dream, I am not. They say he is my father, but I know I am not his son because he is crazy. Because I dream, I know I am not."
Because he dreams, he thinks he is Italian, and the man posing as his father is not his real father. The boy in the movie is born Leo Lauzon, but renames himself Leo Lozone. In his dreams, his real father is a Sicilian who masturbates on a box full of tomatoes destined for Quebec. His mother falls on the tomatoes in a Montreal street market, squishing them, and nine months later Leolo is born. He spends the entire movie trying to get his family to stop calling him Leo.

The boy at this age discovers masturbation, and becomes fixated by the comely neighbor Bianca (Giuditta Del Vecchio). She is a few years too old for Leolo and many years too young for Grandfather, who nevertheless pays her to bathe and comfort him. Leolo spies on them through a window in the ceiling, and later uses this vantage point in his plan to use an elaborate system of levers and pulleys to murder the old man. Well, Grandfather has it coming; he once tried to drown Leolo in a plastic wading pool, although for Leolo the experience was not without benefits because he experienced wondrous visions.
If the movie sounds depraved and depressing to you, it is because I have failed to convey the deep amusement and even love that Lauzon conveys in his material. Leolo reminded me of the sex-crazed adolescents in Fellini's "Amarcord," with the difference that Fellini's memories were nostalgic and his hero's family was eccentric in a lovable way. Leolo uses dreams to deny the reality of his family, and sees himself in a struggle to survive its demented grip. There seems to be no escape. His brother Fernand (Yves Montmarquette) is humiliated by a bully, spends months turning himself into a muscle-bound bodybuilder, and then is humiliated again. "That day," says the film's narrator, speaking for Leolo, "I understood that fear lived in our deepest being."
What small portion of hope Leolo finds in his childhood comes from one book, the only book his family possesses. It comes into his life one day when an old man (Pierre Bourgault) visits their home and uses the book to prop up one leg of an off-balance kitchen table. Leolo reads it at night by the light from the refrigerator, wearing gloves and a muffler. The man, called the Word Tamer in the narration, lives in a room jammed with books and maps, and rummages in garbage cans for treasure. That is how he finds and reads Leolo's journal, which is written a page at a time and then thrown away. It is a good question whether he, Leolo or the journal is speaking in the narration: All three, I think.
The technical brilliance of the film is astonishing. Lauzon was filled with quirks and impulses, sudden inspirations and wild inventions. Some directors with such hyperactive imagination create movies that are elaborate and yet empty; Lauzon is so motivated by his resentments and desires that everything he creates is pressed into the cause and filled with passion. There are scenes that cannot possibly exist, and yet they do. Set decoration that is a fantasy and yet insists on being a reality. A soundtrack that incorporates opera, Tom Waits, the Rolling Stones and what sounds like Gregorian chant. Music that evokes the presence of evil so clearly that it could be a theme from "The Exorcist." Yet everyday Montreal street life bursting with life and joy.
Reading Neil Lee's online memoir of Lauzon, I was reminded of the childhood of Francois Truffaut. Lee writes: "Lauzon's childhood was a rowboat awash in a sea of madness, driven by winds of psychosis ... nearly all of his family -- with exception of his mother -- were institutionalized at one point or another. Lauzon himself escaped a life of petty street crime only through the intervention of Andre Petrowski, then the head of the NFB's French film distribution. It is to him that 'Leolo' is dedicated, and rightly so, for Petrowski was the man responsible for guiding Lauzon out of the gutter of his youth and into filmmaking."
Petrowski of the National Film Board is paralleled in Truffaut's life by Andre Bazin, the film critic who guided Truffaut out of juvenile delinquency and into film. Lauzon was "a flirt, a troublemaker," Cameron Bailey remembers in a memoir. "He made demands on producers and festival directors. He didn't behave." It is perhaps not tragic that he made only two features, but remarkable that he made any at all.
When a great movie exists all by itself, it is in danger of being misplaced. We tend to want it to belong to the lifework of a director, or in the mainstream of a genre. Yet some films are singular: Laughton's "Night of the Hunter" or Jodorowsky's "El Topo." Either you find it or you never do. You have to approach it directly, not through other films. The experience of seeing "Leolo" is, for me, like watching a high-wire act. How can Lauzon keep his balance when he careens so wildly to one extreme and then another? How can he create these characters, so grotesque, and make them human, and have sympathy for them? How can Leolo be so weird and inward, so angry and subversive, and yet somehow so noble? How can this story hurtle itself in every direction, and yet find a destination? I don't know if Jean-Claude Lauzon finished "Leolo" and decided he had nothing else he needed to say. But if he did, I can understand that.
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Hitting Both Sides of The Isle = "Ethical Realism: A 21st Century Foreign Policy" Yesterday's World Affairs Luncheon Discussion @ the Duquesne Club w/ Dr. John Hulsman

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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Hitting Both Sides of The Isle = "Ethical Realism: A 21st Century Foreign Policy" Yesterday's World Affairs Luncheon Discussion @ Duquesne Club Dr. John Hulsman
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Hi Megyn (I will be blogging this tomorrow but wanted to give the hottest woman of the new everyday media a sneak peak --- Yeah, well, beside Hemmer, I thought you may like

to view this):

As I mentioned yesterday I headed to the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh's Luncheon Discussion Group (LDG) @ the Duquesne Club w/ special guest, Dr. John Hulsman, co-author — with Anatol Lieven — of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World.

It was great. And something I really enjoyed which was even better than my golf drive later yesterday was Dr. Hulsman driving it down the middle by hitting both sides of the isle ---

1). Dr. Hulsman asked us to imagine a president of a country being told that he and his country would only be talked with, listened to, dealt with if they no longer believed in everything they believed in, stood down, rolled over, forgot their culture, principles and ways – and willingness and plans for implementing adapting to our U.S. ways as an only option to bring about any chance of mutual discussion ---- He further exclaimed if that was asked of one of our presidents and they obeyed those kind of demands that they would be "toast" and our president no more and no longer electable for anything!

Just because we disagree w/ people or see them as a threat doesn't mean we should isolate them and not have any diplomatic discourse w/ them --- We need to engage everyone we can in diplomatic discourse especially our threats or perceived threats. Dr. Hulsman proclaimed that this type of attitude and behavior is unethical and immoral.

2). Dr. Hulsman declared that our "potential" presidential candidates need to be honest w/ its party and stand-up and educate and curtail moveon.org and all its money, momentum and propaganda that will only lead to let downs and disappointments --- To get to the point, there is no way a Democratic President could bring the troops home immediately! It's just not feasible. It's a lie for votes.

Dr. Hulsman debriefs and interviews officers who come home from Iraq and Afghanistan and these officers are all saying that there is no way that we can totally be out of those regions any time soon = that best case scenario it will take one month per brigade to pull out and come home = Thus, we're looking at like four years!

We need to be honest here = The "potential" democratic presidential candidates need to be honest w/ its people or there is gonna be a major let down and then what? What's to be said then? Where will the trust be? Quit the lies and tell the truth! Again, Dr. Hulsman proclaimed that this type of attitude and behavior is unethical and immoral.

Special Luncheon: Ethical Realism: A 21st Century Foreign Policy

May 6, 2008

In Cooperation with the American Council on Germany Pittsburgh Eric M. Warburg Chapter

Sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch Institute

America faces a world more complicated than ever before. Our foreign policy should reflect the times, recognizing our real strengths and weaknesses and the changing dynamics around us. As we move forward into the 21st century and into a new presidency, what might this foreign policy strategy look like? What values would it reflect? What is the way forward?

Dr. John Hulsman is co-author — with Anatol Lieven — of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World. Previously Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, he was appointed in 2006 as the first Alfred von Oppenheim Scholar in the newly founded Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He is contributing editor to National Interest and a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media. He holds an M.A. in Modern History and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews.

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A Young Studly Greg Gutfeld:

"Brian, these muscles may be covered-up by the results of too many pork scratchings

but I can still fill-out that tee-shirt and you should see me in a shorty robe --- Email me and let me know which one you want me to be wearing while I'm waiting for you after work at the Chambers Hotel on the Upper East Side to give you your birthday present."

Greg Kelly: "Happy Birthday, Old Sport!"

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Molly Henneberg: "Hey, Brian, the NY Giants may have won in 2008 but 2009 is for the Washington Redskins, bud! ...

Happy birthday!"

Megyn Kelly: "So, I'm the hottest woman of the new everyday media and you're the hottest guy of the new everyday media?! I guess, we're okay w/ each other then, Kilmeade ---

But John French never sent you a dozen white roses!!!...

so who's really hotter?!

= I think = It's ME!!! Ha!"

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Caroline Shively: "Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! You smell like a monkey and live in a zoo!"

"...and look like one too!"

...

"Happy Birthday, Dear Brian!!! ...from your foxxy friends!!!"

Gretchen Carlson: "Ewh-la-la... You're okay w/ me, Brian

= Happy Birthday!!!"


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