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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Whining Hubby: Clinton had hots for Demi
Clinton had eyes for Demi, says Kutcher
Former US president Bill Clinton tried to 'hit on' actress Demi Moore, her husband Ashton Kutcher has said. Kutcher, the star of the hit MTV show Punk'd, told chat host Jay Leno that Clinton made eyes at his superstar wife during a recent function.

Kutcher said although the three were all sat at a table next to each other he felt like "the invisible man". Kutcher says Clinton didn't say one word to him the whole evening as he was so engrossed with Ghost actress Moore. "I met Bill Clinton once but he didn't really talk — he was hitting on my wife," Kutcher told Leno.

The 28-year-old Butterfly Effect actor — who celebrated his first wedding anniversary with Moore, 43, on Sunday — said Clinton completely ignored him as he chatted to Demi. "I don't think he looked at me the whole time," Kutcher said. "I was like the guy that wasn't there."
I don't doubt Clinton got wood while drooling over Demi, but this is just the petulant whine of a child feeling neglected, lol.
Posted by: .com || 10/03/2006 05:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't doubt Clinton got wood while drooling over Demi, but this is just the petulant whine of a child feeling neglected, lol.

Can't fault Clinton here. If Demi was around, I would neglect him, too!
Posted by: gorb || 10/03/2006 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  "I met Bill Clinton once but he didn't really talk — he was hitting on my wife," Kutcher told Leno.

Kutcher really doesn't care WHO he sits down at the table with now does he?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2006 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Notice Clinton didn't try this crap when Demi was married to Bruce Willis.
Posted by: ed || 10/03/2006 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Well Ashton, looks like you've been Punk'd
Posted by: Fluse Chomoque1078 || 10/03/2006 10:30 Comments || Top||

#5  This really isn't news.

Clinton has the hots for anything with tits.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/03/2006 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Duh.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Clinton has the hots for anything with tits.

Damn, I really have to shed some weight, just to be on the safe side.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/03/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Hubba, hubba anon! What are you doing later, you cutie?
Posted by: William Clinton || 10/03/2006 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Well isn't Bill's favorite fishing spot a trailer court trolling $50 bills
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 10/03/2006 13:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Drink alert, anon5089!!!
Posted by: lotp || 10/03/2006 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  LOL Anon!

If that doesn't inspire me to keep to this diet and exercise nothing will!

In other words, if Ashton would gain a few pounds Clinton might pay him a little more attention.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2006 14:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Drink alert, anon5089!!!

Valid basic safety concern while dealing with former US presidents... or barely repressed sexual fantasy? You decide.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/03/2006 14:52 Comments || Top||

#13  She wouldn't have to be Demi Moore for Bill to pay attention to her. Two legs, two arms and two breasts is perfectly acceptable.

When I worked at the Little Rock Convention Bureau/Excelsior Hotel back in the 80's, Bill would sometimes show up with women who were, shall we say, unattractive skanks. (And I ain't talkin' bout Hillary)
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/03/2006 15:11 Comments || Top||

#14  #13 mcg: "Two legs, two arms and two breasts is perfectly acceptable."

ummm, don't mean to be crude, but ol' bill is only interested in the part of a woman's anatomy that comes in one.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/03/2006 15:33 Comments || Top||

#15  unfortunate phrasing, Barbara. I'll pass on my usual sophomoric snark - softball to left field bleachers batting practice
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2006 15:38 Comments || Top||

#16  ;-p, #15 frank.

would wax more eloquent, but hard to type 1-handed.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/03/2006 16:04 Comments || Top||

#17  lol
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2006 16:32 Comments || Top||

#18  Barbara, Bill's interested in a couple of parts of a woman's anatomy that come in one.

Actually, when I saw the headline on the front page, I wondered, “Which Clinton?”
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 10/03/2006 18:17 Comments || Top||

#19  #18: "Bill's interested in a couple of parts of a woman's anatomy that come in one."

A-yup.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/03/2006 18:47 Comments || Top||

#20  Punked!!! Bwaaa!!! That was good.

My mother always told me "run with dogs and you will get bit!" He sat his wife next to a sexual preditor and is upset with the outcome? He's dumber than the characters he plays on TV.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/03/2006 20:29 Comments || Top||


Britain
British Isles to disappear from the school map
The British Isles will soon be erased from geography text books in Ireland. Folens, a publisher in the republic, has announced it will remove any reference to the term "British Isles" in the next edition of its world atlas for schools. The decision follows a complaint from a teacher.

Used for centuries as an all-encompassing description of all the islands to the north-west of the European continental shelf, the British Isles has been dismissed as a hangover from the empire. A spokesman for Folens described it as a "potential problem" that would be rectified.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, no, the British Isles are still there, down by al-Andalus.
Posted by: exJAG || 10/03/2006 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Greater Chechnya, New Turkey - lol. Nice map, exJAG! I kinda wish it extended more to the east to show the Kurdish port on the Med and what's left of Old Turkey... :-)
Posted by: .com || 10/03/2006 2:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey!

If I did a map showing New New Mexico as the entire U.S. you guys might be offended.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 10/03/2006 6:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Lol - you mean before the deportations begin...

Immigration is on the radar screen, now, and the politicians realize the public won't let them pander and sweep it under the carpet anymore. As proof, I offer the fact that the Senate voted 81-19 yesterday for building 700 miles of fence, already passed by the House. They get it, finally.

There won't be a New New Mexico - and we'll be draining some of the swamps that are here now - even Houston, a self-declared "sanctuary city" has reversed its policy and will now actively cooperate with the Feds to remove illegals. The mayor and police chief figured it out, too.

The worm has turned on immigration - here, anyway.

But I get your point... I hope the UK will come around, too. :-)
Posted by: .com || 10/03/2006 6:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Here you go: New EU Map

Feel better now?
Posted by: ed || 10/03/2006 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, BP -- you'll notice it says Europe 2015. You still have nine years!

Here's a projected map of Aztlan, circa 2080. Look on the bright side, .com -- at least ours don't think it's a signal to kill every gringo in sight when they find the Virgin Mary in a tortilla.
Posted by: exJAG || 10/03/2006 8:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Any way we can entice the Aztlantians to take Louisiana right now? Is was once under Spanish rule.
Posted by: ed || 10/03/2006 8:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Please repatriate all New Orleans residents first please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2006 9:01 Comments || Top||

#9  "Please repatriate all New Orleans residents first please."

Yes, please do. San Antonio could use a break in the crime rate.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/03/2006 9:20 Comments || Top||

#10  So could "da ATL", mcsegeek. And, THAT's sayin' a LOT, lol!
Posted by: BA || 10/03/2006 10:26 Comments || Top||

#11  This story reminds me of the Arabs trying to have the Persian gulf renamed. Sometimes you just gotta let the old names lie it makes you look small and petty.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/03/2006 11:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Gee, I wish I knew y'all felt this way before our state guard got sent off to get blown up by IED's in Iraq.

Posted by: Phil || 10/03/2006 12:22 Comments || Top||

#13  Besides, between Texas and Louisiana... the only two states where the residents don't go into seizures over offshore oil drilling... are you sure you want to get rid of that?
Posted by: Phil || 10/03/2006 12:24 Comments || Top||

#14  ...reminds me of the Arabs trying to have the Persian gulf renamed.

Are you referring to the Gulf of Rumsfeld?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2006 13:10 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Pending musical on North Korea
Most unknown playwrights have difficulty raising money to put on a show. But most don’t go so far as putting up their own kidney for collateral on a loan. But a man named Jung Sung-San—a defector from North Korea—did just that.

The musical he created—the “Yoduk Story”—portrays the real-life suffering of 200,000 North Koreans languishing in prison camps. It’s a mixture of music and misery, torture and truth—and it’s an example of how to drop an artistic nuclear bomb on an evil regime.

Tragically, Jung did not have to research the subject matter: He himself endured life in a North Korean gulag. His crime? Listening to a South Korean radio broadcast. Guards beat him unconscious and pushed bamboo sticks under his fingernails. Jung escaped into China and made his way to South Korea, where he studied film and theater. It was there he learned his father had been murdered—a brutal payback for Jung’s own escape. In response, Jung began writing his musical.
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Posted by: Korora || 10/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am not a big fan of politicized 'art', but in this case I applaud Jung's achievement. Let's hope it tours the world.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/03/2006 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Artsy Fartsy bullshit isn't going to topple any brutal regimes, but it sounds like an interesting play.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 10/03/2006 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  If it gets the South Koreans to start questioning their co-dependent relationship with Kimmie, it'll have done its part.
Posted by: Mike || 10/03/2006 9:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
First fall TV ad for Kean displays Torricelli image
NEWARK, N.J. - In his first television ad of the fall campaign, U.S. Senate candidate Tom Kean Jr. confronts viewers with an image of Robert Torricelli, the Democratic senator who scrapped his 2002 re-election effort amid ethics problems. The picture of Torricelli appears next to a picture of Kean's opponent, Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. After the announcer recounts criticism of Menendez renting a building to a nonprofit group for which he obtained federal funds, she says: "The Star-Ledger says Menendez, 'is just one scandal away from becoming the next Bob Torricelli.'"

Federal agents have reportedly subpoenaed records from the nonprofit agency. Menendez has denied he is under investigation. Ethics have taken center stage in the campaign, with allegations of impropriety flying from both sides. The ad, which the Kean campaign said is to begin airing Tuesday, comes five weeks before the Nov. 7 election in a race considered about even by independent polls. Allegations regarding the rental property emerged in August and the Kean ad may reinforce those stories, said Rider University political analyst David Rebovich. "This seems to be an attempt to do that and keep the issue alive, to sustain the issue in the minds of New Jersey voters," Rebovich said Monday.

"A lot of imagery and a potent message are packed into this short ad," he said. Besides Torricelli, the ad features a female announcer, Rebovich noted, adding that she may be employed in an effort to reduce the traditional advantage that Democratic candidates in New Jersey enjoy among women.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2006 20:09 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Florida Democrats' chances are fading, poll finds
With Jim Davis trailing by 21 points in the governor's race, pollster John Zogby says the Democrats have no one on the top of the ticket to deliver party-wide victory. With five weeks left before the general election, only one Democrat on the statewide ballot -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson -- is leading his challenger, while Republicans hold double-digit leads from the governor's race to all but one of the Cabinet races, a new Miami Herald poll shows.

The conclusions of the survey by Zogby International spell trouble for the Democratic Party. With two open Cabinet seats and a popular Republican governor leaving office, Democrats had hoped to seize the advantage this pivotal election year by snatching at least one Cabinet seat from Republicans and regaining control of the governor's office. But the poll shows that prospect may be fading: Democrat Adelaide ''Alex'' Sink trails Republican Tom Lee by 13 percentage points for the Cabinet post of chief financial officer, while Democrat Eric Copeland trails incumbent Republican Charles Bronson by 12 points for agriculture commissioner.

“With Democrat Jim Davis behind Republican Charlie Crist by 21 points in the governor's race, Davis provides no coattails on which the rest of his party's ticket can ride...”
The closest contest appears to be the attorney general's race, between Democratic state Sen. Walter ''Skip'' Campbell of Fort Lauderdale and Republican Bill McCollum, the former congressman. McCollum, who has run statewide twice before, leads Campbell 42 to 38 percent.

In each of the Cabinet races, however, between 20 percent to 25 percent of the voters still haven't made up their minds. That indecision means the Cabinet races could become more competitive, pollster John Zogby said. But for that to happen, Democrats Sink, Campbell and Copeland can't rely on the top of the ticket to get out the Democratic base, ''they've got to run their own campaign,'' Zogby said.

With Democrat Jim Davis behind Republican Charlie Crist by 21 points in the governor's race, Davis provides no coattails on which the rest of his party's ticket can ride, he said. ''Democrats appear to be rudderless,'' Zogby said. ``Aside from [Nelson] who's already a household word, it's important for there to be a strong candidate at the top of the ticket to energize voters and get voters out.''
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Florida Democrats' chances delusions are fading, poll finds

There I fixed the title :)
Posted by: Speck Phomomble3299 || 10/03/2006 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Zogby noticed this? Things must be really bad for the Democratic candidates if Mr. Zogby can't figure out how to phrase the questions and manipulate the results to get the answers he prefers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2006 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Too bad this is just true for Florida. The way the GOP is mishandling the Foley thing they can still lose both houses.
Posted by: Jonathan || 10/03/2006 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think they will get much milage out of the Foley fiasco because both sides find it equally appalling. They have already tried to float the idea that Frist was aware and did nothing, but that didn't fly.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 10/03/2006 11:27 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Red alert (!!!) as climate change takes its toll on Scotland
Posted by: .com || 10/03/2006 05:57 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rising levels of winter rain

I'm surprised anyone noticed.

Since 1862, the sea off Aberdeen has risen by an average of 0.66mm a year.

And the reason is the land (around Aberdeen) is sinking as a result of isostatic readjustment. Were the sealevel truly rising, it would rise everywhere.

Yet more systematic deception, peddling alarmist claptrap to the ignorant.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/03/2006 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The comments section after this article is almost as informative as the article itself. Apparently, Scotland has just as large a "blame oil capitalists for having an agenda but ignore the economic incentive for scientists studying GW to keep their public sector grants rolling in by fiddling with the science" component to its populace as the U.S. does.
Posted by: no mo uro || 10/03/2006 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  phil_b,

I hope you left some correcting comments there. Not that it will help those true beleivers of the greenmelon faith.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 10/03/2006 6:27 Comments || Top||

#4  It doesn't matter BP. The wheels are about to fall off the whole global warming bandwaggon as the southern oceans are abruptly cooling. No one really understands why, but we are already experiencing record cold here in Oz.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/03/2006 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Vapors decending from high flying Qauntis Airliners? Too much left over sticky date pudding in the frig?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2006 8:22 Comments || Top||

#6  "The wheels are about to fall off the whole global warming bandwaggon as the southern oceans are abruptly cooling. No one really understands why Bush has been implicated, but and we are already experiencing record cold here in Oz."

Fixed it.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/03/2006 8:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Storms and drier soils can be expected to increase landslides

So how do the soils get drier, what with the increasing rainfall levels?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2006 9:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Scotland gets it’s own parliament and you don’t expect a serious increase in hot air?
Posted by: Speck Phomomble3299 || 10/03/2006 10:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Besoeker: Vapors decending from high flying Qauntis Airliners? Too much left over sticky date pudding in the frig?

~~~

Vapors are decending from high flying Qauntis Airliners!! Too much left over stickying to the international date line and cooling off the pudding in the frig!!
Posted by: RD || 10/03/2006 14:06 Comments || Top||



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