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America’s “ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes?” Celebrities!

Obama to Celebrities: ‘You’re the Ultimate Arbiter of Which Direction This Country Goes’

When I first read that, I actually had to look up the word,

ar·bi·ter   [ahr-bi-ter]
noun
1. a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.
2. a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.

Yes, it means what I thought it meant. I wasn’t the only one looking it up in the dictionary, but it gets better,

The president and first lady Michelle Obama made a rare joint fundraising appearance when they visited the home of actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. The intimate dinner banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,000 each.
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Speaking in a dimly lighted, art-filled room, Obama told supporters they would play a critical role in an election that would determine a vision for the nation’s future.

“You’re the tie-breaker,” he said. “You’re the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes.

One of the “ultimate arbiters”, host Matthew Broderick, wasn’t home for the party, since he has something 12.7 million Americans lack, namely, a job.

Bruce McQuain raised the question,

Tell me folks, are George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Spike Lee, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Cher who you look too for advice or direction on which way this country goes? Yeah, me neither.

Is the President out of touch? Oh yes, and ‘Obama Entering a World All His Own’.

And don’t ask questions about the enormous grab of power.

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The Trojan condoms pigs

A friend just emailed this:

The lyrics say,

Take another look at what I got,
’cause honey, you have to admit,
I know what it takes
to make your heart sing,
but look again, baby,
I just got wings

I’m of two minds on this:
It is funny.
And it’s appalling that only the men are shown as pigs.

Face it, it’s not just men who go into bars looking for sex.

Is the ad anti-men? Should TV stations show this ad? If so, at all times of day? Care to comment?

Digg!
technorati: Trojan condom

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Chastity in the news, and other items

Not Sonny and Cher’s daughter Chastity, but chastity, via The Anchoress: Casual sex is a con: women just aren’t like men
Former groupie Dawn Eden explains how she realised morality made more sense for women than free love

Our culture – both in the media via programmes such as Sex and the City and in everyday interactions – relentlessly puts forth the idea that lust is a way station on the road to love. It isn’t. It left me with a brittle facade incapable of real intimacy. Occasionally a man would tell me I appeared hard, which surprised me as I thought I was so vulnerable. In truth, underneath my attempts to appear bubbly, I was hard – it was the only way I could cope with what I was doing to my self and my body.

The misguided, hedonistic philosophy which urges young women into this kind of behaviour harms both men and women; but it is particularly damaging to women, as it pressures them to subvert their deepest emotional desires. The champions of the sexual revolution are cynical. They know in their tin hearts that casual sex doesn’t make women happy. That’s why they feel the need continually to promote it.

The article was published in the London Times. I’ll be very surprised if the NYT would carry it in their Styles section. Just a couple of weekeds ago they had a feature article about a 50-yr old porn actress. Dinesh D’Souza writes on Pornography — The Real Perversion (h/t Maria)

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Don’t miss LGF‘s videos of Dispatches: Undercover Mosque.
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Afghan civilians stop terror attack at U.S. base. As U*2 put it,

This seems to clash with the “America out of everywhere” mantra which is incessantly bleated by the French mainstream preSS.

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Say ‘ello to my leetle fren’? Well, My leetle fren’ has more fun than Hugo and Mahmoud!

Speaking of Hugo, he says Fidel doesn’t have cancer. Not if he’s dead, he doesn’t.
Update Dada lives: Elephants In Academia posts that CNN is concerned about Fidel Castro’s right to privacy.

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Muslims say they’ll boycott Northwest Airlines. I predict the stock price will rise.
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Via Larwyn,
American Digest says There’s No Stopping This Insanity Now

The media as red Cell

Saudi Arabia Joins Egypt In Supporting Bush Iraq Plan

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While waiting for Pres. Bush’s speech,

Jay has a great round-up.

Via Maria, EU rule: Ambulance crews take break while man dies. Heart-attack victim forced to wait 20 minutes, although emergency vehicles 5 minutes away
Speaking of the EU, hold on to your wallets: EU plans ‘industrial revolution’. While it may come 200 years late, you can bet it won’t be a euro short.

Via Larwyn, Dale Amos posts on Congressman Conyers and Islam

In a lighter mode,
Yesterday I linked to the tin foil hats in California, and today I have the dunce caps in England. In other headgear news, Camilla Parker-Bowles made the worst-dressed list because of her hats.

Definitely not appropriate for work, but laugh-out-loud funny:
Darren’s been watching Sex and the City. Again.
Not appropriate for work, from The Manolo

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