Where's Ahhhnuld?!1 California and his kids, a mess

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112009/gossip/cindy/moon_dance_complex_173621.htm?page=0

MARIA Shriver on motherhood, as per Bettina Cirone, who took it down:

"My daughter told me I'd live to regret it when I took her BlackBerry away. One son is selling clothes I bought him on eBay. My 11-year-old called me five times and left a handwritten note saying he is very sad I'm missing his spring performance. My own mother, a force of human nature, smoked cigars, wore tweed pants with a car full of dogs, and we'd always want her to drop us off four blocks from the school. The other day I had dogs in the car, my hair all over the place when I dropped my kids off at school, and I thought, 'I have become my mother.' "




http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102009/gossip/pagesix/ear...

EARN TO LEARN

ARNOLD Schwarzenegger -- who came here from Austria with nothing and made himself into a movie star, a Kennedy in-law and governor of California -- might be proud of his son, Patrick. The boy threw a party in the family's guest house for his ninth-grade classmates and allegedly charged $5 at the door and $15 in the VIP section. "He says his parents don't give him allowance," joked our source. The Governator's spokesman said, "It's our protocol not to comment on the governor's children so I can't confirm or deny the story. I can tell you the governor teaches his children how to be entrepreneurial and encourages them to earn their own money so they understand its value."

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THE PROBLEM WITH A DISCLAIMER is its coming off as defensive, especially when it's preemptive. Trouble is, it's damned if do/don't: NOT including it first results in the predictable problems.

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1. Gesundheit! n/t

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2. Nothing wrong with gossip--it amuses at times. INTERESTING that the POST is giving Ahhhnuld so many

column-inches. Gee, isn't the steroid-addled weight lifter 'just like us?' A regular guy, with kids and a wife with messy hair who takes the kids to school?

You have to wonder what this in in aid of, eh?

Your second link comes up PAGE NOT FOUND, though. Not sure if they moved the story or what.

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3. Yeah, it's the CUTE-ification of Ahhnuld, but I blame Maria a lot more

Without her, his image (and reality) would have been the Nazi-druggie-male&female-escort. But because of her, he has been cast as not-that-bad.

Plus, she dragged all of her KENNEDYs over to support him. As Tweety said at his first victory speech, when the doors onto the stage opened, "Here come the KENNEDYs," and all those preppies trooped in to stand behind the podium.

And she has tried to mollify true Dems by saying he's NOT THAT BAD, that his wingnutty gung ho-ness is "because HE'S AN IMMIGRANT!1"

And I still remember and resent her nasty comment about KERRY, that she "grew up around (so-called) men like him and" she married Ahhhnuld because he was a real man, not like all those rich dudes she grew up around.


Yaas, it's the cute-ification of Ahhhnuld. I almost feared there WILL be a Constitutional change to allow non-native-borns to be president, just for him. But even if not, I'll bet one of the SWARTZENNEGER(sp) kids will be claiming the legacy someday.

And, Maria?!1 You're not your mother.

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4. Is Dianne Feinstein well?

I always wonder when he'll make that move to try to get to the Senate.