Buy the Cheerleader, Save the World: Win a Date with Hayden Panettiere on eBay

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1. Dear Lisa Lee:
   I have not idea-1 as to your coverage and your “beat” here, but I admire and dig your style, which is the crux and the crucible itself in showbiz, right?
   Whatever, forgive me for butting in to hang this one on your peg, to wit:
   Selling.
   In all its hype and glitz and promo glory.
   Here, it’s some chick’s promoting self by way of saving large seagoing mammals.
   Next to today’s London Guardian Rory Carroll piece out of Havana, one presumes, about Aleida Guevara’s (she may well boast a hyphenated surname as well) denunciation of the blatant and baneful selling of products alongside the unauthorized and unseemly exploitation of the photographic image of her father, one Che Guevara, Hayden whatsername’s shilling and pimping is minor misdemeanor next to the larceny of the Guevara ripoff.
   And the upshot is even worthier here.
   Ms. Guevara’s response is short and sweet, bittersweet?, you bet, and here it is:
   “We (she and her three siblings) don’t want money, we demand respect.”
   BRAVO.
   Frank Eng
   P.S.: Alongside today’s Clinton “exit” proclamation, Counterpunch reiterates, having iterated before, three self-serving Obama campaign “promises” as follows:
   1: His courting of the Florida Cubano vote by denouncing the Castro reign, which Fidel himself lamented recently on the Info Clearing House venue, and which is contumely indeed.
   2: His affirmation of this nation’s shameful undergirding of Uribe in Colombia and the “Iran-Contra”-style connivings vis-a-vis drug cartels on the part of both “embassy” and CIA? One online assertion here is that at least half of the 650-millions of tax dollars for Colombia will wind up in Blackwater coffers, you know, those patriotic “independent” (and HOW) “contractors,” formerly known as “war profiteers,” and, in my book, the REAL thugs and goons in the matter. Yankee Janjaweed, anyone?
   3: His public obeisance to AIPAC, read IDF/Likud/theoneocon, in re Palestine and Jerusalem.
   All that said, there is no other alternative for the American electorate. Billary was to the “Right” along with McCain.
   So, worst scenario, Obama will at least “talk” the talk before walking the nuke, smart of otherwise. All parties hereto should be reminded that the winds blow whichaways, and that even “accidents” infect the entire region. Sidebar, MSNBC today noted that flu viruses appear to be sufficiently “intelligent” as to morph into alternate forms that defy “scientific” preclusion.

   –Frank Eng on Jun 07, 2008

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