Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009


She is writing a book.

And she is going to talk about the affair.

But on May 12th, Broadway Books, a division of Random House, is releasing a new short memoir by Elizabeth called “Resilience,” a follow up to her best selling “Saving Graces.”

The publication of “Resilience” may not prove so inspirational to one reader, however: Rielle Hunter, the woman who gave birth last year to a baby girl whom many speculate was fathered by Edwards. Hunter has privately told friends that the child is Edwards’. Sources say the resemblance is as good as a paternity test.

Elizabeth Edwards, is including the relationship in her new book.

Her publicist says she will be addressing John’s “affair and how she experienced it.”

You know the music before the President of the United States comes into a room is played?  Surprise!  Turns out,

“He’s not a ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ kind of guy,” says press secretary Robert Gibbs of the new president.

The Obama Way will be to play Sting’s “Desert Rose “  in Arabic or some Cole Porter.

This Arabic language song will be played at public events instead of the traditional “Hail to the Chief.”

Cheb Mami:  A little background.

Cheb Mami is currently under an international arrest warrant after being indicted in October 2006 for “voluntary violence, sequestration and threats” against an ex-girlfriend, and failing to answer a court summons on May 14, 2007. He is accused of having tried to force his former girlfriend, a magazine photographer, to have an abortion. During a trip to Algeria in the summer of 2005, the alleged victim is said to have been locked in a house belonging to one of Mami’s friends, where an abortive procedure was attempted on her. Back in France, however, she realized the fetus was still alive and decided not to abort. Mami has reportedly accused his manager of organizing the abortion plan.

Muslim pandering?  Yes.

Lounge act?  Yes.

Inappropriate?  Yes.

SUPER UPDATE:  Daschle witdraws.

Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild fame sits in jail once again.  Well, he is being monitored at home. Nice.  Tax problems, you know.

He is facing charges in a tax evasion case which was filed in 2007 by authorities in Nevada but transferred to L.A. because that is where he lives.

Francis is accused of failing to pay taxes on more than $20 million in business expenses. The tax trial is due to start in March. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Tom Dashle gets a pass because he is sorry and well you know, “nobody is perfect.”  Wonder if Joe knows about this excuse.

Shout out to Joe…this is how it’s done.  Oh yeah, there is that Rangel rule and then there is the Geithner thingy.

UPDATE:  Daschle is a repeat offender.

Double Update from El Paso Times

If it isn’t a war zone, it would be hard to tell by the body count, which has reached 207 in the Juárez area this year.

In the first five days of February, 54 people were slain, surpassing the 37 homicides in all of February last year.

UPDATE:  Armed and beyond.

Last week Gen. Ángeles Dahuajare announced that more than 17,000 soldiers had deserted in 2008.

“The Mexican Army is becoming a revolving door for the enforcement arm of the drug cartels; they simply pay better,” Stewart said.

Oh really?

It’s a war that last year claimed four times as many lives as were lost in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan — and it is right on America’s doorstep.

Drug-related violence in Mexico has reached record numbers with an average of 15 people executed daily — and some 6,000 killed last year. As a result, a chorus of U.S. officials has been sounding alarm bells.

Last month Mexico was cited as one of two countries that “bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse,” according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats. The other is Pakistan.

If this is true, why do the Mayor and other officials live in the US ang drive to Mexico daily to govern????

State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, noted that not only does the Juárez mayor commute to his job from El Paso, but so do other Juárez city officials.

Also chilling is this quote in the article from one U.S. law-enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity: “Dozens of El Pasoans are kidnapped by gangs working for the Mexican cartels in Juárez.”

Mexican Police officers taken to the local county hospital in El Paso, Texas.

No, Mexico is NOT winning the war on drugs.

MORE:

  1. Mexico drug gang clashes kill 15 in Tijuana
  2. Head of Interpol Mexico arrested for drug ties
  3. Nine headless bodies found in Mexico
  4. Federal Cops Continue Round-Up in Juarez, Mexico
  5. Drug smugglers bribing U.S. agents on Mexico border
  6. Report: Mexico More Dangerous Than Iraq
  7. Mexican Drug Cartel Violence Off the Charts
  8. Drug violence kills at least 49 in Tijuana this week
  9. Mexican drug wars worry some Americans
  10. Journalists targeted in latest Mexico drug violence
  11. Mexico police chief’s head found in ice box
  12. Drug Cartels to Mexican Police: ‘Join Us or Die’

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