(Helen) Thomas arrived in Washington in 1942, at age 22, shortly after graduating from Detroits Wayne State University. Already University of Dearbornistan?
United Press (later UPI) hired her in 1943.
While working for UP, she went on a date with John F. Kennedy, then a young Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, whom she subsequently covered in the White House.
How did it go? her friend asked her.
He was too fresh, Helen reportedly replied. So she was already 'old' in 1942. Just imagine how history might have changed with Helen Thomas presiding over Camelot instead of Jacqueline Bouvier.
Q: how can you tell Michael Kennedy really was a Kennedy?
A: check the family tree.
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Jeebus, Ricky. I bet she was a popular guest at Halloween parties
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What makes you think he looked at her face, USN
Barb, What makes you think that ugly stops at the neck.......?
Probably has more folds (below the neck) than a origami class.....
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If you date a Kennedy you might want to wear a bathing suit and a life jacket. If you date Helen Thomas you may want to do exactly what JFK did, keep it a secret for 60 years.
[An Nahar] Miley Cyrus is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons again. A public row with pop veteran Sinead O'Connor is raising questions over whether she may be the latest onetime child star heading for a fall. Old tasteless meets new tasteless.
The former "Hannah Montana" actress turned pop princess burst into the wider public's mind with her sexually suggestive twerking performance at the MTV video music award show in August. Didja ever notice how these dipsy doodles all play likable, commonsensical young women and then drop sixty IQ points about the time they're coming up old enough to vote?
Then came the video for her latest single "Wrecking Ball," in which she swings naked on a demolition ball and licks a sledgehammer in an almost laughably suggestive manner.
The 20-year-old has defended herself by saying she is merely growing up. Looked more like she's going the other direction.
And the publicity will certainly do no harm to sales of her records. Probably it won't hurt her sales. Madonna's been doing such things for years.
But others warn she could be following in the footsteps of the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and more recently Zac Efron, Who?
as she makes the transition to the grown-up world. I know lots of grownups. None of them "twerk."
"There is such a thing as bad publicity," Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture of Syracuse University, told Agence France Presse.
"Especially these child stars in their transition years, some of the publicity turns them from people who actually had promising careers to... objects of mockery.
"Lindsay Lohan really suffered that," he said, while Miley is "well on that path... Whenever you hear Miley Cyrus mentioned in the last couple of weeks, it's always been in a form of mockery, and often disdain."
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"South Park" predicted this would happen a while back.
http://youtu.be/ci4EAmF1bZo
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Mu daughter was racking her brain to think of who or what Ms Cyrus reminded her of, in her MTV video award show "performance" - and she finally remembered. Bill the Cat, from the Bloom County comic strip.
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"Whistle While You Twurk"
Ying Yang Twins
Thug Walkin', 2000
I was trying to figure out what is repulsive about her, despite the beehive dance crap. The tongue thing is just a schtik. Its her teeth, whoever did her teeth did a horribly unnatural job.
And yes, a person can have a head injury without an accident; its called drugs. I ain't talking about having a beer after a hard day or poking a smote to untangle a fishing line of difficulties - talking x or something similar.
[An Nahar] Pope Francis on Friday advised married couples not to go to bed angry "even if the plates fly" in a light-hearted address during a pilgrimage to the sites associated with St Francis of Assisi.
"Argue as much as you like, even if the plates fly that is fine, but never end the day without making peace," the pope said in Assisi Cathedral. Cheeze. He's been talking to my Mom.
"If married couples learn to say sorry, that is peace... It is a nice secret and that is life, rather than painful separations," he said.
Married couples who separate "have not managed to forgive each other in time," the pope said.
The pope also told priests not to give "endless and boring homilies that no one understands".
He told them to get to know their own parishes and said he had met clerics in Argentina "who even knew the names of the dogs in each family".
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A relationship advice from life long celibate---groovy!
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He told them to get to know their own parishes and said he had met clerics in Argentina "who even knew the names of the dogs in each family".
Not a bad idea... and one area takes it a bit further
A priest blesses a dog wearing a tutu outside Madrid's San Anton Church, where hundreds of pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of San Anton, Spain's patron saint of animals.
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Pope Tells Bickering Couples not to Go to Bed Angry
And if you have to go to bed angry, try to go to bed without clothes on.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II paid his first visit on Saturday to the headquarters of Al-Azhar, to extend good wishes to Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb as Eid El-Adha approaches.
The pope headed a delegation from the church to Al-Azhar, Egypt's highest Sunni-Islamic institution, visiting El-Tayeb, Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam and Minister of Religious Endowments Mohammed Gomaa before the Feast of the Sacrifice starts next Monday.
The Pope said that communication and activities between the Church and Al-Azhar are reflective of "the original character of Egypt," adding that this image should be spread to the "Egyptian streets for peace."
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[AAWSAT.NET] Congo's President Joseph Kabila pledged on Saturday to turn the recommendations from three weeks of national dialogue into policies to tackle the central African nation's daunting social, institutional and economic problems.
The talks in the capital Kinshasa were boycotted by some members of opposition political parties, who said they were denied the opportunity to discuss the validity of Kabila's disputed 2011 presidential election triumph.
Closing the meetings, Kabila said he would convene a joint session of the two houses of parliament on Thursday to discuss legislation based on the recommendations, which were not made public.
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[Al Ahram] Guinea's opposition coalition demanded the annulment of last week's parliamentary election on Friday, citing what it said were widespread irregularities in the voting process and threatening to call for protests.
The opposition's decision raised fears of a return to the political violence in which at least 50 people were killed in the months preceding the polls. The climate of instability has deterred mining investment in the world's largest bauxite exporter.
"The opposition demands the annulment of this election because of the scale of fraud witnessed," said a statement read by opposition front man Aboubacar Sylla during a news conference.
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[Al Ahram] Dubai unveiled plans on Saturday to become a centre for business that follows Islamic principles in areas from banking and insurance to food processing, tourism and education.
With a freewheeling commercial culture and a diverse population with cosmopolitan lifestyles, the booming emirate of 2.1 million people is not known for its Islamic scholarship.
But in the past few decades, Dubai has used its international ties to become the Gulf's main centre for finance, trade and travel. Officials said they would now focus on business related to the religious beliefs of the world's 1.6 billion Mohammedans.
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Beverly B. "Omg this is hysterical. I need to grab a beer and just keep watching the negative comments roll in. It's like a car wreck, you just can't help but stop and stare. Strong work, Obama."
I agree Beverly.... CHAOS sheer CHAOS....
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I clicked on the headline to go see and my computer froze... karma?
The U.S. will end 2013 as the worlds largest producer of petroleum and natural gas, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, the Energy Information Administration said Friday.
The EIA estimated combined U.S. petroleum and gas production this year will hit 50 quadrillion British thermal units, or 25 million barrels of oil equivalent a day, outproducing Russia by 5 quadrillion Btu.
Petroleum production includes crude oil, natural gas liquids, condensates, and biofuels.
U.S. and Russian energy production over the past two years have been roughly equivalent. Since 2008, U.S. petroleum production has increased 7 quadrillion Btu, with dramatic growth in Texas and North Dakota, the EIA said.
U.S. natural gas production has risen 3 quadrillion Btu over the same period, the agency said, while Russia and Saudi Arabia each increased their combined petroleum and natural gas production by about 1 quadrillion Btu since 2008, the EIA said.
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...And we're being run by the one set of goons who absolutely can NOT appreciate what this means.
Mike
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I think they appreciate the fact that a conversation between a Harvard ethnic studies graduate and a kid with a petroleum engineering degree from LSU now includes the question "And do you want fries with that?"
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LOL and why aren't you preparing for Hell-Storm Karen Matt?
Champ almost got away with taking credit for it during the pre-election debate.
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Just think how much farther ahead we could be if Obama and the EPA hadn't done everything they could to stifle production!
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Rambler: Beat me to it. We have natural gas up the....well you know. Instead of this electric car crap, we could be running fleet vehicles and commuters on natural gas. Even can cogenerate for residential and commercial buildings.
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The "proper" sort of people aren't running those companies, AP.
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Imagine how much more we could do if there were not an obstructionist regime in power? Keystone, shale, more areas open for exploration and production...
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I told this to my guys here in our work unit out on the rig and they were pretty meh about it. In fact, there's still alot of hostility toward oil field workers out there. My wife gets no sympathy for the fact I am gone half or more of the month, people assume we make craptons of money, which I don't. And worse yet, they watch those horrid programs like Black Gold which pretty much has nothing to do with the real oilfield.
I should be happy about this I guess but it's hard to generate alot of whee while the rig is out here bobbing like a cork and I don't get to go home to my wife for another two weeks.
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Talked to an oily one day. To me he was a customer like anyone else. He told me a story about a town which had a rig go in, he worked on that rig. Said the store there increased all their prices and gave out community member discout cards. I was shocked, these guys bust their ass all day long in a dangerous occupation, I respect that.
But it does. not. help. when the drivers run across the highways without stopping, or a pipe truck slamming on its brakes and scalping a prominant family which failed to brake in time, then me and my neighboring associates have to go scrape their neighbor and friend and kids out from underneath a trailor because a driver was trying to make up 2 minutes.
I can seperate that out, know that shit happens, and the drivers should be extra careful when they see those trucks working. A lot of people can't, especially when its family involved.
Driver's safety would be a great place to start. Second would be somehow to show that shunning and poaching field workers, though there may be an immediate financial gain, will keep them and their wallets in the bunks. They have an oder? So what every hard working profession has an oder. Know what a feedlot smells like? Money. Know what petroleum smells like? Money, get some of that smell on ya.
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pipe truck slamming on its brakes and scalping a prominent family which failed to brake in time
A tragedy, but how does responsibility fall to the truck driver? Takes a long time to stop those rigs even if they 'slam' on their brakes (without jackknifing.) No ordinary vehicle should be unable to stop in time to not hit them. I must be missing something in your narration.
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Procopius, do we really want politicians with backbone to stand firm with the unending stupid decisions they make, just to get the one or two good ones to stick? Need to repair the brains before the spines (zombies starve in DC.)
BALI, Indonesia The United States isnt backing away from Asia, Secretary of State John F. Kerry insisted Saturday, as President Obamas canceled Asian trip set his policy pivot toward the region onto the back foot.
Acknowledging that Obama is missing opportunities for direct diplomacy with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others attending a series of international trade and cooperation meetings, Kerry was at pains to tell Asian leaders that they should not read too much into the absence.
That left Kerry, as Obamas stand-in, arguing that the United States is every bit as committed to Asia as the presidents first-term promises led many in the region to believe, and that the government shutdown that led Obama to stay home threatens Americas reputation abroad.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[An Nahar] Miley Cyrus is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons again. A public row with pop veteran Sinead O'Connor is raising questions over whether she may be the latest onetime child star heading for a fall.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II paid his first visit on Saturday to the headquarters of Al-Azhar, to extend good wishes to Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb as Eid El-Adha approaches. 
