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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73573)	7/19/2006 1:55:05 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362361

I Love Being on the Side of My President Bill Maher 07.19.2006 First of all, I know I should blog more, I don't know why I don't, I beat myself up about it all the time. I should blog first thing right after breakfast. You know, about 1:30. Anyway, Arianna and I are like an old married couple, except instead of having obligatory sex on our birthdays, we blog or do panel. Happy Birthday, darling, you're not getting older, you're getting closer to your own fuck-you money. And I hope this doesn't ruin your birthday, but I have to say, watching George Bush talk about Israel the last week has reminded me of a feeling that I hadn't felt in so long I forgot what it felt like: the feeling of pride when your president says what you want your president to say, especially in a matter that chokes you up a bit. I surrender my credentials as Bush exposer - from the very beginning - to no man, but on Israel, I love it that a U.S. president doesn't pretend Arab-Israeli conflict is an even-steven proposition. Lots of ethnic peoples, probably most, have at one time or another lost some territory; nobody's ever completely happy with their borders; people move and get moved, which is why the 20th century saw the movement of tens if not hundreds of millions of refugees in countries around the world. There was no entity of Arabs called "Palestine" before Israel made the desert bloom. If those 600,000 original Palestinian refugees had been handled with maturity by their Arab brethren, who had nothing but space to put them, they could have moved on -- the way Germans, Czechs, Poles, Chinese and everybody else has, including, of course, the Jews. But I digress. I really wanted to say that, for all those who accuse the likes of myself and the birthday girl of being unpatriotic, or hating America first, the feeling I've had watching Israel defend herself and a US president defend Israel (a country that is held to a standard for "restraint" that no other country ever is asked to meet, but that's another story) just reminds me how wrong that is. I LOVE being on the side of my president, and mouthing "You go, boy" when he gets it right. He just, outside of this, almost never does. Now can I get a piece of cake? huffingtonpost.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73573)	7/19/2006 2:08:05 PM
From: manalagi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362361

Wharf: you are terrible! You caused tears in my eyes: On Memorial Day Saturday (this year) my son was married. One of the agenda was for the father of the groom to dance with the bride, and so I did. The music played by the DJ was just that great song Satchmo. I was so swayed and touched by the music, but I thought that it is not the younger generation type of music, and that maybe they never heard Louis; so I said to my new daughter-in-law: "that is the great Satchmo Louis Armstrong famous song". She instantly replied: "we know that. we especially selected that just for you!" Now Wharf, is there more touching experience than that?