According to the Boston Herald, an upcoming piece in the New Yorker includes these heartwarming tidbits about Ter-ay-za Heinz Kerry;

The daughter of a doctor, Heinz loves to dispense medical advice. Friends think she is “delightful, loving, funny and kindhearted” but her step-daughters, Vanessa and Alexandra Kerry, did not hit it off with her at first.
“I thought, `I love kids, kids love me, I’ll be fine.’ Baloney,” Teresa said. “You have to treat stepchildren like pets. You’re nice to them but you don’t get too close or they chew you up. Well, I did it the other way.”
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In fact, we hear the gals refer to Heinz as their “step-money.” As for her hubby, the piece says that Kerry spoke French to Teresa when he was wooing her, as is his wont.

Meanwhile, over at the field, John Forbes steps into the QB role to show the young kids a thing or two about football….

What makes the first half of this clip so great is that the coach called a sweep play that involves a pulling guard. For those of you out there that don’t know what that means, the short version is that pulling a guard leaves the quarterback less protected on purpose.

The White House is too small for these people.
What they really need is a sitcom.
Hat tip – Tim Blair and Inoperable Terran.

CTV news;

“I left in the middle of the hurricane season and this year is a terrible year for hurricanes. There were eight scheduled.”
Rommel’s boat capsized five times in all and when he saw that it was letting in water, he decided to use the distress beacons and ask for help.
Crewmen from the Federal Elbe, which was relatively close, plucked Rommel from stormy seas about 600 kilometres east of St. John’s, Nfld, last Thursday.

Oh, I should mention that he was in a rowboat, attempting a solo crossing of the North Atlantic.

He said abandoning his boat was out of the question.
“Rule No. 1 when you’re in trouble is “Never leave your boat’ even if it’s half sunk.”
Rommel said travelling alone is a “special thing” and “pretty intense.”
“You change psychologically. I think you become a bit nutty as well. You start talking to yourself.”

Our plucky oarsman calls himself the “black sheep” of the family, though, apparently, he’s not the first.

Matt Drudge is having great sport with yet another bungled Kerry “he man” photo-op.

KERRY COSPONSORED BILL BANNING GUN HE WAVES
Was Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry seen this weekend waving a gun which would have been banned if legislation he co-sponsored became law?
Kerry co-sponsored S. 1431 last year (�The Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003) which would have banned a “semiautomatic shotgun that has a pistol grip.”
Opponents of the bill successfully argued how nearly all guns have “pistol grips,” inluding millions of Browning Auto-5 shotguns produced since 1903.

Kerry was presented with the gun during a Labor Day stop in Racine, West Virginia. “I thank you for the gift, but I can’t take it to the debate with me,” Kerry told a cheering crowd as he held up the device. [Kerry’s gun bill would also ban any “gift” transaction. Kerry did not submit to a waiting period or background check before he claimed the gun.]

Photos show Kerry’s hand resting on the semiautomatic shotgun’s “pistol grip.”
Kerry’s bill would ban millions of semi-automatics, including those with “pistol grips.” [Section SEC. 2; (H) (ii)]

Another self-inflicted foot wound.

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Saskatchewan – an important player in the war against racial diversity.

Leading global market research company, Synovate, in a recent survey found overall, 38% of women surveyed in Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan use skin whitening products. This is up from 34% in February 2002.
Daisy Sam, associate director of Synovate said : “Across the region, 61% of respondents agreed that they look younger with a fair complexion, 49% believe that whiter skin can cover wrinkles and age spots and 43% are more attracted to members of the opposite sex with fair complexions.”
Dollfaced Siti Nurhaliza has the look Malaysian women want. The men agree. It looks like skin-whitening is a strengthening trend in Asia. It’s that classic “want what you don’t have” part of human nature “many people with Asian complexions want to be fairer, and many people with fair complexions go to a great deal of trouble to tan their skin darker,” she said.
Leading the charge in the billion dollar industry is Fytokem Products a Saskatchewan company that makes ingredients used in skin whitening products sold worldwide.

Spent the evening out at Bridge City Speedway’s half mile stock racing track. It was more fun than I expected. And clean – very few cautions, despite some pretty agrressive racing all night. Lots of bumping and a few spinouts, but most emerged relatively unscathed.

The Auto Clearing Chrysler Superstore 150 feature race (300 laps) had the top three fractions of a second apart at the finish.

The winner (far right) was a local driver, Chris Shirley.
Indeed, only one bad bump all night. A little slide in reverse along the retaining wall during the Streetstocks didn’t do the rear tire and axle on Craig Katelnikoff’s car much good….

More photos in the extended entry.

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I’m starting a new category.
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