It is rather uncomfortable calling the 67-year-old House Speaker HouseNancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), mother of five and grandmother of six, hot. So we let others decide.
There is a Facebook.com group called I cant say why, but I kinda think Nancy Pelosi is cute. Theres another group there, too, but its name is too crass to print.
Moreover, Pelosi has become a fashion icon in colorful Armani skirt-suits. Robin Givhan, the Washington Post fashion critic, earlier this year wrote, She looks polished and tasteful dignified and serious [and] she also happens to look quite good. A copy of a Chinese Sea Pearl ring that Pelosi has been wearing sells on eBay. Opening bid: 88 cents.
No question that wealth, posh homes and a loving family have helped smooth the rough edges of life.
Nevertheless, it is puzzling just how the first female Speaker of the House stays so fit. She is always working and traveling, rarely exercises and reportedly noshes on Ghirardelli mint chocolates. Maybe Pelosi was right when she told The New York Times, Ice cream for breakfast is a good thing.
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1st most beautiful was John Edwards
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Well I would assume if you have to make the DC prostitutes, strippers and the escort services ineligible for the list, that would cut way, way down on your choices.
A few of them, anyway. But there will be more, and as it accelerates the issues argued will change. A Washington Times staff editorial.
One of this week's more notable Washington events flew under the media radar save for "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and a few conservative Web sites. Vets for Freedom, a "pro-mission" band of Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans, took to Capitol Hill to try to convince senators that the mission in Iraq is worth the effort.
Most of the 25 or so who came to Washington are combat veterans, some of them wounded. Alongside them were the father of a Marine killed in action in Iraq and supportive veterans of all ages. They knocked at the office doors of Sens. John Warner, James Webb, Carl Levin, Barbara Boxer and dozens of others on the opposite side of this war debate. Most weren't available. They also were met in person by two Iraq stalwarts, Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Nine senators showed up at an afternoon press conference, including Joe Lieberman and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Mr. Warner met the Vets in person. The meeting was reportedly icy, but the Virginia Republican deserves plaudits for granting the unscheduled group a hearing.
Two of the group's messages cannot be highlighted enough. The first is that Washington's penchant for re-arguing the decision to enter Iraq is utterly irrelevant to the most important Iraq question right now. It is not enough to argue that al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq before the invasion. It's surely there now, and people who turn their backs on Iraq could not also be serious about combating al Qaeda. The terrorists consider that country the prime current battleground. We cede it at our peril.
The second message is that the surge is a serious improvement over previous efforts in Iraq. It deserves a chance, and it is beyond hypocritical for Congress to undercut it. This Congress confirmed Gen. David Petraeus by an 81-0 margin to be commander in Iraq with a mandate to keep fighting. That they have gone wobbly before the surge is fully in effect says everything one needs to know about this Congress and nothing much about the general. "You can't create D.C. timelines for what's going on Baghdad," the head of Vets for Freedom, Army National Guard First Lt. Pete Hegseth, told "Hardball" on Wednesday. "As a soldier who has been there and seen what this strategy can do, [the surge] has the opportunity to bring about real change, finally," he also said.
Let's keep an eye out for this bold first lieutenant, in the hope that his future matches up to this first endeavor.
We should find 20 to 25 of these guys, fresh out of the military with good service records and Iraq experience, to run as Republicans (or centrist Democrats) for the 2008 Congressional elections. Wouldn't that shake things up a little.
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The republican party should be on this like a duck on a junebug. That is, since 90%+ of the military is republican, that is where they should look for upcoming political talent. Even the democrats had some success recruiting anti-war military for the last election.
One of the biggest problems that Washington has is a lack of prior service military personnel in elective office. Instead, most politicians are first lawyers, second, tied in with local politics and business, and with burning ambition but lacking leadership skills. Pretty faces with empty heads.
If they have any doubts, they could run a few hundred for State offices, in what would probably become a big sweep of wins. Then take the best of that bunch for federal offices. In four to eight years they would have an incredible team in the batting box.
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Excellent. Better to hear about the "military's feelings" from those actually impacted rather than Pelosi, Chollie Rangel, Edwards, Hillary, Schumer, Frank (!), et al. I haven't served, yet supported Duncan Hunter, my congressman, because I felt he supported the military and our national security first and foremost (lucky I didn't live in Duke's district). Once his kid (Duncan Duane Hunter) returns from deployment - I'll support him.
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The Republicans are nto doing a damn thing. I can tell you that first hand. We are rattlign doors, and calling and so on, but they are so oparalyzed with fear of losing thier power that they are almost inactive. It explains a lot about why they are such piss-poor representatives and why they are so weak against awar opponents, immigration proponents adn all that.
They have been "Country Club" Repubs for so long they;ve forgotton about us "Sam's Club" types that put them there - and the Reagan Democrats who woul dvote thier way if they'd just have the guts to stand up and say the right things followed by doing the right things.
Guys, people leading the Repub party in many places are quivering like a damn chihuahua, I half expected them to piss themselves. And the other bunch acts like you owe THEM a favor for listening to a plebe like yourself (think Warner, or Trent Lott). The former are gigantic disgraces, the latter are more in line with Ted Kennedy and his elitism than they are with you and me.
The Republican party has gotten fat and lazy and has lost its way. We need to rip out the drywall and rebuild it ourselves. Get involved, push hard and challenge ANYONE thats leading your local party to do things right or get the hell out of your way.
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We shoulda been doing this after the first unit returned from Afstan. The Democrats have been doing nearly all of the outreach, and even a lot of the "compassionate" things, like bitching loudly about care at the VA system.
THE GREEN ZONE (Baghdad) All quiet on this Saturday morning here in Emerald City: Sitting here in the media compound alternating between a Gatorade and a cup of coffee, checking e-mail (which I've been unable to do in a few days), and looking through the window at a pair of Black Hawk helicopters thundering past. . . .
As far as the weather; still incredibly hot and lots of fine, blowing sand everywhere ... on and in everything.
The images we all see of the heavily accoutered U.S. troops speaks nothing to the extreme temps they are operating in, especially the combat arms types infantry, spec ops, and the poor bloody tankers.
It's so easy to become dehydrated out here.
An Army captain back in Kuwait described how soldiers and Marines in combat sometimes cut open the top of an IV fluid bag, mix-in some Kool-Aid powder from an MRE, and drink it. "It tastes pretty bad, he said. "But it's almost instant rehydration, and soldiers keep fighting."
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In the Sonora Desert in summer, with water consumption about 5 gallons per man per day, we got into the habit of carrying around ampules with a mix of 1 teaspoon each of sugar, salt and baking soda.
When added to 1 quart or canteen of water, it would instantly absorb through the stomach, while keeping your blood salts balanced, though it tasted like crap.
It could get bizarre. Constant thirst, even when your stomach was full of water, and because the humidity was 3%, you never felt sweat, but your t-shirt would get covered with salt stains.
And even drinking 5 gallons of water a day, you still had to force yourself to urinate, because otherwise you wouldn't. And your urine would be dark yellow to light brown. Not good.
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"cut open the top of an IV fluid bag, mix-in some Kool-Aid powder from an MRE, and drink it"
Marf. They're certainly better men than I am.
Oh, wait....
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Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, W. Thomas. Have Achmed pour you another banana daquiri and see if you can make up some more "Bradley's running over dogs" type stories before TNR's next deadline...
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trailing wife: Gatorade can seriously mess you up unless it is cut at least 50/50 with water. It has to draw water into your stomach before you can absorb it, and if you are already dehydrated, that can be bad.
Salt tablets are also a no-no, because you miss out on other salts. If you tend to lack potassium, resulting in ringing in the ears, a teaspoon full of vinegar will be quickly absorbed, though obviously not when drinking baking soda water.
The US Army did some post-WWII tests out in the Sonora in Summer, and discovered, for example, that the typical life for a brand new pair of black leather combat boots is 3 days. The rubber soles get soft and crack apart.
5 gallons per man per day is also in the shade and with minimal work.
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3031: National Review is the good guys. Smith is on his way to an embed slot with the USMC, and has been blogging each stage of the trip in NR's "The Tank," which is a military affairs blog.
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Hassan Haydar
Beirut- Standing on the very same spot from which he covered last summer's war in Tyre, South Lebanon, a reporter for an Arab satellite channel pans his camera out to the sandy shore of the beach to reveal swimmers of all ages cooling off in the water under the summer heat. This reporter proceeded to assure his audience that these people - among others in South Lebanon and the Lebanese in general - were "prepared to sacrifice once more if such a sacrifice would lead them to another victory." He made this bold assertion without bothering to ask any of the swimmers in the water - whose numbers included many women and children - the position he had just taken in their name.
Anyone listening to the recent speeches of Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah knows now that the ambush of Israeli soldiers that forced the Lebanese to make the sacrifices the reporter referred to was in fact three months in the making. Thus, the same Hezbollah that had been attending the famous national dialogue and reassuring the Lebanese that the summer and tourist season of 2006 would be a peaceful one was planning an operation that would inflict pain on Lebanon as a whole and not just on two kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Throughout this planning, Hezbollah did not bother to grant others a say in the matter which would affect them - or to ask whether or not others were willing to pay the necessary price for Hezbollah's actions.
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