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Laura Ling and Euna Lee Broke North Korean Law

Hollywood Grind — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:13:28 +0000

Lisa Ling, sister of Laura Ling, confirmed today the Laura and Euna Lee did in fact break North Korean law, and were rightfully convicted and imprisoned in North Korea. Lisa said on CNN it was professional duty to research a story on human trafficking that led Current TV journalist Laura and Euna into North Korea on March 17.

According to Lisa, Laura Ling (32), admitted to family members that she "very briefly" trespassed into enemy territory with colleague Euna Lee, 36. This led North Korea to detain the two journalists and sentence them to 12 years hard labor, which resulted in an international incident that this week saw former President Bill Clinton meet with North Korea’s President Kim Jong Il to arrange the release of the women, who were returned to American soil Wednesday.

"She did say that they touched North Korean territory very, very briefly," Lisa Ling, 35, told CNN on Thursday. "She said that it was maybe 30 seconds, and everything just got sort of chaotic." Adding that Laura has details she will provide, Lisa noted, "It’s a very powerful story and she does want to share it."

In a phone conversation with Meredith Vieira that was aired live on Friday’s Today" show, Lisa (who, like Vieira, is a former cohost on The View), said it may take Laura some time to tell her tale, given that during her imprisonment she spent weeks not uttering a word.

"Even getting sentences out is challenging, because she’s not used to talking as much,” Lisa said of Laura’s current condition. "So we’re just taking things very, very easy with her."

She did say that her sister, who is at home with her family, is enjoying have fresh food again after subsisting on a less-than-adequate diet while under North Korean detention: primarily rice mixed with rocks, small vegetables and fragments of fried fish, "which she developed a reaction to," Lisa told CNN.

"Bathing was a little bit difficult because they didn’t have hot water," she also said. "So she would fill up buckets and she would say, ’Okay, on Saturday I’m going to wash my hair.’ "

As for those who stood watch over her sister, Lisa said, "I think she won a lot of her captors over. She had some really lovely things to say about the people who were watching her. She had two guards in her room at all times. And even though they couldn’t speak together, they developed a sort of strange kinship."

Perhaps the most moving sight as the two women left the plane that brought them to the Bob Hope International Airport in Burbank, California, on Wednesday was Euna Lee’s embracing her young child Hana. Now that the mother is home, said Lisa Ling, "I hear that Euna’s 4-year old daughter does not want her to leave her sight. She keeps following her from room to room."

Someone needs to keep an eye on Euna since she seems prone to make stupid decisions.

The North Korean border, from what I understand, is made up of a river, so stepping onto North Korean territory would require a boat, and once arriving a person would stay only 30 seconds, especially if they were following a story. It’s blatantly obvious Laura and Euna are liars. They should have served out their sentence, and kept their dignity, but instead they have returned to sell their story.

Thank to these two stupid criminals one of our most admired Presidents sat and showed his respect to Kim Jong Il, and even did a photo shoot with him, all at a time when Kim Jong Il has restarted his country’s nulcear program using our money meant to help his people. Nice job Laura and Euna, you’ve made the United States look like even bigger fools in the eyes of the world. Laura and Euna are both a disgrace. These two criminals deserve no more sympathy than any other criminal. These two are not the victims, the American people are. The pictures below show our now disgraced ex President Bill Clinton with Kim Jong Il.

I don’t blame Bill Clinton for wanting to help, when it comes to women, he’s always thinking with his little Bill.

The Lisa Ling CNN interview is below.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee Released From North Korean Prison

Hollywood Grind — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:03:44 +0000

Laura Ling (32) and Euna Lee (36) got really lucky. The pair’s boss, Al Gore, was unsuccessful in getting them released from a North Korean prison, but his former boss Bill Clinton was successful, and they are heading home on Clinton’s play to Los Angeles. Kim Jong Ill pardoned the trespassers after meeting with Clinton. The families of the former criminals said in a statement:

"We are counting the seconds to hold Laura and Euna in our arms."

"The families of Laura Ling and Euna Lee are overjoyed by the news of their pardon. We especially want to thank President Bill Clinton for taking on such an arduous mission and Vice President Al Gore for his tireless efforts to bring Laura and Euna home. We must also thank all the people who have supported our families through this ordeal, it has meant the world to us."

We hope Ling and Lee have learned their lesson.

Ashley Tisdale Gives Obama a Lap Dance

Hollywood Grind — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:05:35 +0000

Ashley Tisdale appeared on a TV show called El Hormiguero in Madrid, Spain where she gave a Barack Obama look-alike a lap dance. The host said it’s a good thing Ashely did this for Obama, and not Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton has the Back of Fran Drescher

Hollywood Grind — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:55:32 +0000

Bill Clinton lent a hand to Fran Drescher as he escorted her into the Life Ball in Vienna over the weekend.

Hillary Clinton Roasts Bill Clinton At Swearing-In

Hollywood Grind — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:53:44 +0000

Hillary Clinton thanked Bill Clinton, at her Secretary of State swearing in ceremony, for a lifetime of … "All kinds of experiences…"

Hillary knows how to give as good as she gets.

Sarah Palin Plays the Flute in Miss Alaska Competition

Hollywood Grind — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:38:42 +0000

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin played the flute for the talent portion of the Miss Alaska competition in 1984. See above video.

During the 1992 Presidential Campaign, Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, see video below, wearing dark sunglasses, he played "Heartbreak Hotel" on his saxophone. At the time, he was trailing in the polls, and some critics have suggested that this appearance captured the imagination of the American people, and turned the race around. In the end, Clinton carried 43 percent of the vote, easily defeating George Bush Senior and Ross Perot, and making him the forty second President of the United States of America.

Having musical talent helps win political campaigns.

Artur Davis Blames Fellow Democrats for Financial Market Meltdown

Hollywood Grind — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:02:42 +0000

Alabama congressman Artur Davis issued a statement yesterday to "Hannity & Colmes," in response to last night’s airing of clips from the 2004 Congressional oversight hearing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

“Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues, I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit that when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong. By the way, I wish my Republican colleagues would admit that they missed the early warning signs that Wall Street deregulation was overheating the securities market and promoting dangerously lax lending practices. When it comes to the debacle in our capital markets, there is much blame to go around for both sides.”

(WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO THE END. OUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON YOUR VOTE IN NOVEMBER.)

The root cause of our financial market meltdown is the housing foreclosure crisis, caused by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac giving bad loans to people who couldn’t afford them. The crash is now called the Housing Bubble bursting. Remember when Bill Clinton was President he had what was called then the Dot Com, or Technology Bubble burst, and that caused our markets to crash as well. Every time the democrats gain control of our government they crash our financial markets. Not only did Bill Clinton, a democrat, cause the Dot Com Bubble to burst, and cause a stock market crash, we can thank Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and the democratic majority congress, for the Housing Bubble that caused our current stock market crash that is rippling into global markets.

The current market crash was set in motion when Jimmy Carter and the democratic majority Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act. The act actually gave INCENTIVES to low income borrowers to get home mortgages they couldn’t afford. In 1995 Bill Clinton revised the Community Reinvestment Act forcing banks to approve subprime mortgages even though it might result in defaulting on the loan, because borrowers couldn’t afford to keep up with the payments. The risk of defaulting on those loans was huge, but it was okay after Clinton’s revisions because he made it law that the government would back up the loans, like a co-signer. Banks then were FORCED to give out $1 Trillion in new SUBPRIME loans. Does that number sound familiar? It should. That is the exact amount being proposed to bailout the banks and financial markets today.

Artur Davis admits the democrats were at fault. The republicans, especially John McCain, warned in 2004 that tax payers would be stuck with the bill if something wasn’t done to correct the accounting fraud, and bad loans stemming from the Community Reinvestment Act. Republicans also warned in 2004 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were at the center of the problem, and both agaencies were owned by the Federal government, so they had the power to stop the train before it crashed the stock market today. Democrats got angry, as seen the video above, and said there was no problem, so they blocked any effort to reform the lending practices, and now we have the stock market, and mortgage market crash that could cause another 1929 depression. The bailout will cost tax payers more than $4,000 each. Thank you democrat party for creating the worst financial disaster in our country’s history. To make things worse, Barack Obama says he’ll raise taxes if he is elected.

Don’t forget, when those same low income home owners default on their home mortgage a second time, our democrat congress, will once again try to blame someone else, while again demanding the tax payers bailout the home mortgage market again.

Watch the video below and learn what you need to know to make an informed choice in the November election.

John McCain on Raffaello Follieri Boat – Pic

Hollywood Grind — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:29:33 +0000

John McCain is seen in the picture above boarding the boat of Vatican con-man Raffaello Follieri on August 29, 2006 in Montenegro. Ahead of McCain is his co-campaign manager Rick Davis. On the left side of Follieri is Anne Hathaway. Although some would like this photo to somehow make McCain look bad, there’s no scandal here whatsoever. No one knew Follieri was a con-man until he was arrest in June 2008.

At the time he met McCain, Follieri was adept at collecting friends in powerful places and using those connections to attract investments in projects which later turned out to be bogus. His ties to Bill Clinton and his entourage have been well-documented; the charismatic Follieri, whom Vanity Fair has likened to an ambitious nineteenth-century protagonist from a Balzac novel, ingratiated himself to President Clinton and aides by posing as a mega-donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. He also formed an investment partnership with California business mogul and Clinton donor Ron Burkle to develop surplus real estate properties owned by the Catholic Church, which Follieri claimed to represent. Burkle later sued Follieri for $1.3 million in misappropriated funds.

Both Follieri and McCain have said their meeting in 2006 was "entirely social and nothing came of it." Clinton on the other hand was much more involved with Follieri.

No one knew Follieri was a con-man until he was busted, so there’s no juicy story, and no scandal.

Follieri, who posed as Vatican chief financial officer in order to win friends and investments, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Manhattan district court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. As part of the plea, Follieri admitted to misappropriating at least $2.4 million of investor money and redirecting it to foreign personal bank accounts that were disguised as business accounts.

Barack Obama Kisses Hillary Clinton

Hollywood Grind — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:14:01 +0000

Thursday at a Women for Obama fundraiser in New York City, Barack Obama closed a fundraising deal with Hillary Clinton by kissing her … a$$. Who’s the boss of Obama now? Bill Clinton isn’t worried. He’s got plenty of things to keep him busy … like this girl.

Bill Clinton Fuels Cheating Rumors

Hollywood Grind — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:29:33 +0000

While leaving a $200 – $500 a ticket speaking engagement in Canada on Friday, the Edmonton Sun caught Bill Clinton holding hands with an unidentified woman.

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