Jenny from the Blog

What Ron Reagan Jr. said in the next month's Esquire magazine!!

-"George W. Bush and his administration have taken normal mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience"...""They traffic in big lies."

-"My father, acting roles excepted, never pretended to be anyone but himself,"... "His Republican Party, furthermore, seems a far cry from the current model, with its cringing obeisance to the religious right."

-"Bush is ineloquent not because he cannot speak but because he doesn't bother to think." (No, because he doesn't have even a tiny brain)

-"The Bush administration has lied about why they invaded Iraq and Dick Cheney clings to his mad assertion that Saddam [Hussein] was somehow at the nexus of a worldwide terror network."

-The Bushies are in bed with "Fortune 500 fat cats," "rascal evangelists," "homophobic bigots," and "assorted purveyors of junk science." (God, even us liberal can't say like this!!)

-"We can choose, as a bumper sticker I spotted in Seattle put it, Someone Else for President."

-Bush remains a formidable opponent because he has a solid right-wing base that views his critics as "agents of Satan." (Yeah, I am agent of Satan)

-"Bush could show up on a video canoodling with Paris Hilton and still bank on their vote." (Why did he use Paris here?? Poor Paris...)

I wish he had said this in his speech;)

"Politicians think all they need to do is learn Spanish to get the Hispanic vote," Rev. Al Sharpton told the Hispanic caucus in Boston on Monday. Sharpton then told the delegates he picked up a bit of Spanish himself, according to the Houston Chronicle. In a call-and-response about the issues the group can achieve, Sharpton repeatedly called out: "Sí, se puerta. Yes, we can." The good reverend apparently missed a Spanish class or two, because "puerta" means "door." What he should have said was "Sí, se puede" ...

Hmmm, Benessa again! So, Ben for Gov in Mass??

Affleck needs anew running mate
Daily News

Ben Affleck...has been stumping for Sen. John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention.

The activist actor had guests at GQ editor Jim Nelson's party Tuesday night at Boston's ultra-chic Federalist restaurant wondering whether that someone was Vanessa Kerry. As John Cusack, Anderson Cooper, Gifford Miller, Alan Cumming and Janeane Garofalo looked on, Affleck and Sen. Kerry's blond daughter whispered, giggled and touched each other affectionately.

Affleck recently called the 27-year-old "absurdly beautiful" and compared her to a "Nordic milkman's daughter, with her flaxen hair," in Harper's Bazaar. Vanessa kissed the actor twice in a box at the convention Monday night and "he didn't resist," a witness tells us.

Oh, I missed it!!

Film maker Michael Moore (L) reaches to shake hand with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News before an interview in Boston, July 27, 2004.

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Movie Review 27
Bourne Supremacy (Rating: 4)

This is much better than the 1st one (Bourne Identity), about which I remember only car chase. This one has also car chase from the beginning to ending, but less than 1st. I should count when I get DVD.

Bourne (Matt Damon) and  Marie (the girl Bourne forced drive in the 1st one)  are staying in India. One day a Russian guy (played by Eomer of Rohan in LOTR, who is Kiwi guy FYI) car-chased them and Marie died. Yeah, Marie is supposed to be a heroin, but she is gone anyway. He still doesn't remember what he did as CIA spy before losing memory, so he tried to find out why they are trying to kill him. It could have been love story, where he is determined to revenge this Russian guy. But spy is not so romantic. Then more and more car chases going;)

Having said only about car chase, I still think this is good and entertaining spy movie. Music is thrilling. German and Russian scenes are fun to see, like Japan in Lost in Translation(?)  Sometimes, visual is shaky when action happens, but I guess it's on purpose, I do not know. 

So, Matt is doing way better than Ben. Ben should stick to something like Sum of All Fears. No Gigli or Daredevil.

Pants on Fire!!! OK, I am now determined I will always buy Ben & Jerry. Vote for B&J.

SPOKANE, Wash. - Call it the burning Bush. The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is on the road, towing a 12-foot-tall effigy of President Bush with fake flames shooting out of the pants. 

Ben Cohen says it's an acceptable way to point out what he calls the president's lies.
"In a polite society, you don't go up to a person and look at them in the face and say, 'You're a liar,'" Cohen said in a telephone interview before arriving in Spokane, the next stop on the Pants on Fire Tour.

"We think it's a lot more dignified and there's a lot more decorum to say, 'Excuse me sir, your pants are getting a little warm, don't you think?'" Cohen said.

Here it is

Ladies of the campaign trail 
DAILY NEWS

Laura Bush: You can hear the, "Oh, George" in her voice every time she speaks. But unlike the early days, when it seemed that her chief role was to tame the cowboy in W., the former librarian has grown into a powerhouse talker and fund-raiser on her own. And thanks to a personal trainer (check the waist-nipping jackets) and friendships with designers like Oscar de la Renta (no more purple plaid suits), the 57-year-old First Lady also looks younger and buffer than she did four years ago.

Jenna Bush: She was as big a party animal as daddy was at her age. But fresh out of the University of Texas, the blonder, bubblier of the Bush twins has headed into the campaign with a less-brassy look (her clothes are real, not revealing) and serious aspirations (she's weighing a job at a Harlem charter school or one outside the city). But the 22-year-old's real mission will be to make Dad more appealing to a generation that barely remembers when Gampy was in the White House.

Barbara Bush: She's the twin with the long brown hair and the hippie-chick style. But she can kiss the glitz — an internship at Lela Rose, front-row seats at Zac Posen, a couture-and-carats spread in this month's Vogue — goodbye. A graduate of Yale (like her father and grandfather), she's traded floor-scraping jeans for casual chic and her hard-drinking, hard-dancing ways for serious talk about working with pediatric AIDS patients in Africa and Eastern Europe.

Lynne Cheney: She's probably the most enigmatic woman in D.C.: A senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a one-time panelist on "Crossfire" who may be even more staunchly conservative than her husband — the vice president. But Cheney, 63, also has two daughters, one of whom is lesbian and the author of "Sisters," a 1981 novel with lesbian themes that she battled, successfully, to keep from being reissued this year. Want consistency? Check out the helmet hair, the stern suits and the flag pins, which haven't changed in decades.

Alexandra Kerry: The 6-foot clone of her father already has had the harshest lesson in how tough the national spotlight can be. At the Cannes Film Festival this spring, Kerry, 30, showed up in a gown so sheer it looked like she'd borrowed J.Lo's breast-baring Chanel from last year's Oscars. Oops! But the Brown grad, an aspiring actress and filmmaker, learned fast. As she told USA Today: "It was a beautiful dress that didn't withstand 3,500 flashbulbs. But 24 hours later, you just have to say it was a moment, time passes and you hope you didn't embarrass your father."

Ivanessa Kerry: The 27-year-old is the yang to her sister's yin. It's not just that she's the blond and the third-year Harvard medical student. She's also the daughter most-likely-to-get-with-Dad's-platform and to appear in a campaign ad (if only fleetingly). Still, like the Bushies, the Kerry girls' job is to court the youth vote, and, as Vanessa says, to provide "company and laughter."

Cate Edwards: The newly minted Princeton grad was scheduled for a summer of celebrity watching — an internship at the Democrat-friendly Vanity Fair. Instead, she's become a celebrity herself. She showed up at the Kerry-Edwards family meet-and-greet in black pants and casual white shirt, looking as comfortable with the more politically polished as she was with her clothes. But with her parents on the road 24/7, the 22-year-old may have to put in as much time baby-sitting her sibs as she does campaigning.

Emma Claire Edwards: The 6-year-old daughter of the Democratic vice presidential nominee may arguably be the star of this year's kiddie corps. But don't expect her to campaign. Her real value will be to underscore — as Caroline Kennedy did 44 years ago — images of "youth" and "vigor."

Elizabeth Edwards: She's smart, savvy and a native of Florida. And though she's a lawyer in her own right, the 55-year-old traded in her suits to have two late-in-life children — Emma Claire, now 6, and Jack, 4 — after the Edwards' first son, Wade, died in a 1996 car accident. Her strength, though, seems to lie in her sense of humor — her ability to laugh off the he's-prettier-than-you comparisons to her husband and to wave away the brownies that aren't on her South Beach diet.

Teresa Kerry: With her strange accent (she was born in Mozambique and speaks five languages), her quirky sense of humor and her I-have-more-billions-than-you-ever-will confidence, Heinz Kerry exists in a rarified world all her own. But so far, the 65-year-old heiress and mother of three sons (and two stepdaughters) seems to be connecting, thanks to a willingness to discuss anything from Botox to cheating spouses (she favors the first, not the second). Her biggest challenge: to make herself less Chanel, more Kmart.

Of course, she is hot. BTW, this blog system is kind of upgraded. I can even use color;)
 
Daily News
Condoleezza Rice, sex symbol?

If you're Steve Earle, she is. The rebel cowboy professes his love for Rice in the song "Condi, Condi" on his new CD "The Revolution Starts...Now" in what might just be the first love song to a national security adviser. 
 
"You be the flower and I'll be the bumblebee/Oh she loves me; oops, she loves me not/
 
People say you're cold, but I think you're hot."

The country singer also croons:

"They say you're too uptight, I say you're not/Dance around me spinnin' like a top/Oh, Condi, Condi, don't ever stop."

While cynics may see the song as satire, Earle sincerely believes her power is an aphrodisiac. He recently told a skeptical writer for the music magazine Ice, "Well, don't you think she's kind of hot?"

A White House spokeswoman for Rice, herself a classical pianist, told us: "I don't think we'll be commenting on that."

Newspapers! + this blog

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
country, and who are very good at crosswords.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country
but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like　their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the　country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave　LA to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the
country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's
running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a
seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the　country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably　while intoxicated.

9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there
is a country .... or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they　oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the　leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs, who also　happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they　are Democrats.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country
but need the baseball scores.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the
grocery store.

This Blog is read by people who are run by Hiro.

Oh my god.... Wanna try?

Gimme a hug!
The 'Cuddle Party' is New York's newest feel-good-about-yourself fad
DAILY NEWS

The latest entry in the self-help revolution, the cuddle party is a way "for adults to get together and explore affectionate touch and communication without it becoming sexualized," said its founder, Reid Mihalko.

Here it is:
Cuddle Party

It sounds sweaty.

Movie Review 26
The Notebook (Rating: 5)

This movie got so awful reviews from bloody critics. But I found it's one the best movies so far this year. It could be described as cheesy melodrama and story may be very predictable, but their acting is really amazing. Besides, every scene is so beautiful like painting.

The movie develops through a story told by an old man to an old woman at nursing home: Teenage kids, Noah and Allie (so pretty!!!) loved each other (very purely). But Noah was so poor, while Allie was so rich. Expectedly, Allie's parents (especially mom) don't want her to date Noah. Anyway, since Allie has to go to college, they had to break up. And Noah went to World War II. Several years later, Allie was engaged with some rich guy. Since Noah still loved Allie, he was shocked to death when he found out that. Lucky to him, however, before the wedding, she went to meet him!

So, who did she choose? Who are those old man and woman? I will not spoil here;p

I was surrounded by elderly people in the theatre. They are crying of course after the movie. And me too. It's really touch, emotional, and lovely. It's funny that Wall Street Journal gave it a good review, while NYT gave it shit (as always!!). Maybe it's too conservative movie.

Movie Review 25
Fahrenheit 911 (Rating: 5)

Although Bowling for Columbine was funnier and more entertaining (+ I am too liberal), I felt it was kind of too exaggerated. For example, I heard from Canadian people that they of course lock the door when they go out.

911 is basically "fair and balanced." Actually, it's not. But I don't as the movie is anyway a propaganda for urging people to beat Bush! They are truth and fact and reality after all even if it's biased.

Story is obvious.
1. Bush stole election in 2000 w/ help of Fox etc.
2. He took half of his time on vacation.
3. He didn't do anything about 9/11 attack, before or after.
4. He let Saudi people out of country right after 9/11, including Laden's kins.
5. He got gazillion amount of money from terrorists-linked people. Cheney also.
6. That's why he made up that 9/11 attack was by Iraq.
7. Many of soldiers in Iraq were from economically devastated cities.
8. Therefore, Vote for Kerry.

Movie Review 24
Spider-Man 2 (Rating: 4)

It is as good as the 1st one. I could not surely say it's better than the 1st one, but it's much much funnier and lovelier. I felt it's kind of too lingering in the ending though. And they tried to make the movie focused on the 3rd one, which slightly distracted the story.

One big problem is, Dude, you showed your face too much! I sometimes did not understand why he had to take off his spidey mask. That kind of hero shouldn't be that easy for responsibility. Be sneaky!

Anyway, as I had been thinking since the 1st one, I confirmed myself that M.J.(Kirsten Dunst) is not cool. They should have used some other beauty, like ummm, Spicy-Girls or something. Name is similar.

DVD is supposed to be extended version, called Spider-man 2.5. Should be 2.5 hours?

As it is from Daily News
Bush's twin terrors

Just like any dad, President Bush may sometimes feel exasperated by his children.

Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens reports in his August column that "a prominent senator" told him that, while visiting the President recently, the senator complimented Bush on his desk photo of First Daughters Barbara and Jenna.

"You have children?" Bush asked.

"Oh yes, Mr. President."

"You like them?"

"Of course, Mr. President."

"Mine are a pain in the a--," a straight-faced Bush allegedly responded.

I've started being confused of the concept of this blog
Love 5 hours late for court
Newsday

Rocker Courtney Love showed up more than five hours late for a court appearance in Manhattan yesterday -- and got a dressing down from the judge, who warned that she could have issued a warrant for her arrest.

"I want to make it clear to you I expect you to be at my courtroom at 9:30 in the morning," Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson told Love, who showed up after the lunch break in a light pink dress with a sequined sash and a flower on her breast.

"Sorry, your honor," responded Love, 39, who faces assault and endangerment charges stemming from her hurling a microphone stand in the audience at an East Village club on March 18, striking a fan.

When a courtroom artist asked her to sign her sketch, Love didn't like the way she looked. "Oh God, that hair," she said. "Can I have a hat?" She sketched a hat on the drawing.

How to protest in 10 days
Toke a look at pot rag's Bush-bash tips
DAILY NEWS

On the cover of High Times magazine's new issue, an anti-war activist places a marijuana leaf in the barrel of a police officer's gun. The magazine is offering wanna-be activists a guide to protesting President Bush and his supporters during the upcoming Republican National Convention.

The 20-page supplement offers practical tips on everything from how to exercise your constitutional rights to where to eat on the cheap.

If you don't want to get arrested, be polite and respectful to the cops, offers the New York Civil Liberties Union. But if you do plan on raising a ruckus, ride in a bloc of cyclists - say 50 or more - and shut down the streets, High Times advises.

And if you land in jail, write the National Lawyers Guild's local number, (212) 679-6018, on your wrist or ankle, carry lots of quarters and a phone card, and some granola snacks.

There is even a resourceful list compiled for convention protesters. For cheap vegetarian grub, go to Dojo in the Village. (FYI, I went there last night.)

Daily News

NO ONE's cuter than Natalie Portman (Agreed). Except Keira Knightley (Agreed).

Back when she was 12, the "King Arthur" actress was cast as the "decoy" for Portman's Queen Padmé Amidala in "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." Knightley tells Webster Hall's Baird Jones: "We looked so much alike that my own mother came into my makeup room once and said, 'Natalie, have you seen Keira?' I said 'Hey, it's me!'"...

Frogs
Suzy Homemaker?
DAILY NEWS

"What if I want to get married?" Britney asked Federline last month on a mile-high flight to New York from Ireland. "And I kind of went from there to asking him if he would marry me. I asked him."

"And I said no," said Federline, a 26-year-old dancer. "I was taken by surprise," he said. "I thought the guy was supposed to ask the girl. So a couple of minutes went by and then I asked her."

"And I said yes, of course," gushed Britney.

(Damn...)

"Here's something new," she said. "I love cleaning, I really do. I'm like Suzy Homemaker. I'm starting to learn how to cook. ... I'm learning how to make all my mom's salads."

(Agh...)

"I knew instantly," she said of her love for Federline. "I kissed a bunch of frogs and finally found my prince. I feel like I've found my happily ever after."

Frog 1
Frog 2
Frog 3