TEXAS oilman T. Boone Pickens, a leading advocate for alternative energy sources, told a tale out of school yesterday about Rudy Giuliani at an energy summit in Las Vegas. While acting as an adviser to Giuliani’s failed presidential campaign, Pickens recalled, he warned the candidate not to make promises he couldn’t keep about weaning the US off foreign oil. “I said, ‘Please do not get up and say you’re going to be energy independent because you can’t produce that,’ ” Pickens related. “That’s going to take time and a lot of planning to do. He said, ‘OK, OK, I got you.’ ” Two weeks later, Pickens said, Giuliani announced that he’d make the nation energy independent if he became president. “I [had] told him by the time you get to November of ‘08 you will be this deep in energy problems and it will be the No. 1 issue. I did get that right on the time. I didn’t get it right on Giuliani.”

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Those picture of George W Bush playing volleyball with the U.S. Women’s Beach Volleyball were too funny not to post. I think that is the happiest I have seen him since he became President!

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Apparently if you have sex with a politician or if you have sex with the person who is having sex with the politician you get hush money. Now, I’m not sure if you would get more than couple of Dairy Queen coupons if you are having sex with a local County Recorder, but if you have sex with a presidential candidate, then, well you are set.

In one of the most ridiculous things I have read in a long time, Fred Baron, who was the former finance chairman for Edwards gave several million dollars to Rielle Hunter and bought her a mansion in California just to keep her quiet. Baron said that Edwards never knew about the hush money. Uh huh. So, apparently Edwards was convinced she had won the lottery or something because she never really had any money and lived on the east coast. So, soon after the affair ended, she turns up in California flush with cash and a new place to live.

But wait, it gets better. Andrew Young who is the guy who decided to admit he was the father of Hunter’s baby also got relocated to California and got cash to keep quiet. Now, why was he keeping quiet? Because he had a baby with Hunter? Or maybe it was a payoff for saying the baby was his, because the first story doesn’t make any sense. If they were paying him to keep quiet about the affair, then there would have had to have been a whole bunch more people to be paid off. You think only Hunter and Edwards and Young knew about it? Maybe there is a whole subdivision out here somewhere that has everyone who knew about the affair. They have little get togethers with the next subdivision who is filled with people who had sex with members of Congress.

How does Edwards not see that his former mistress is living in California and then all of a sudden another former member of his campaign is also living in California and they are both stinking rich.

No one wants to involve themselves in hush money because that is how you go to jail. Did both of the recipients report the income? How did Baron document the expense? Where did the money come from? What was Baron going to get out of it and from whom? Did he get something?

I don’t understand why everyone continues to lie when a story breaks. It is all going to come out, so just tell the truth. It’s like they enjoy the bandage being slowly ripped off as it pulls hair and the scab right along with it. Oh, it also allows Elizabeth Edwards to add to her misery on a daily basis instead of just for a few days.

Oh, and did you hear this lovely rumor? When the diagnosis was made of Elizabeth Edwards, allegedly John Edwards wouldn’t let her discuss her alternatives with her doctor. Instead he made the treatment decisions for her, and chose to just let it eat away at her instead of aggressively fighting it when there was a chance. Rumor? Sure? Thinking of himself? Seems more likely now huh?

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A former presidential aide claims in a lawsuit that plot and marketing elements of the Kevin Costner and Kelsey Grammer movie “Swing Vote” were stolen from him.

Political commentator Bradley Blakeman, a former deputy assistant to President Bush for appointments and scheduling, said in the lawsuit filed Thursday that he gave a copyrighted screenplay entitled “Go November” to Grammer in 2006.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Long Island, claims Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as an incumbent Republican president but ended up portraying a similar role in “Swing Vote,” which was released Aug. 1.

A spokesman for Grammer and his production company, both named in the lawsuit, dismissed the claims as frivolous.

“I am not sure why Kelsey was even named in this suit,” spokesman Stan Rosenfield wrote in an e-mail. “He was an actor who signed on to the project AFTER the script was written.”

Blakeman’s lawsuit, however, claims the former “Cheers” and “Frasier” actor told him to consult a producer who later told him repeatedly that they were interviewing potential screenwriters and planned to go ahead with the project.

The lawsuit claims Blakeman’s screenplay shared a basic premise with “Swing Vote,” although it focused on an election hinging on multiple swing voters instead of one swing voter.

Blakeman claims “Swing Vote” incorporated other elements that he proposed, including: the timing of the film’s release, the use of real-life newscasters as actors playing themselves, the use of dirty tricks by both major political parties, marketing strategies and other plot points.

“Essentially, except for the character names and the relationship developed between the main characters played by defendant Kevin Costner and his daughter, the entire concept of ‘Swing Vote’ … was taken from the copyrighted work,” Blakeman’s lawsuit claims.

The Walt Disney Co. is named as a defendant in the suit, as is Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group Inc. and Disney division Touchstone Pictures, which distributed “Swing Vote.” Costner and the writers of “Swing Vote” also are among those named.

Spokeswomen for Disney and for distributor Treehouse Films said they hadn’t seen the lawsuit and wouldn’t comment. A spokesman for Costner, who helped finance the movie, said the “Dances with Wolves” and “Field of Dreams” actor was on vacation and couldn’t be reached.

Blakeman’s lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.

Grammer was hospitalized in New York in late July after feeling faint, which Rosenfield said was possibly due to his heart medication. Grammer suffered a mild heart attack in late May.

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If Prince Charles spent less time nattering to rhododendrons and more chatting to the great unwashed, he might have known who Dita Von Teese was.

And he would have saved himself from the undignified pickle of accidentally booking an erotic dancer for his own son’s birthday bunfight in September.

The generously-eared royal met the gothic flasher at the toff-infested Cartier International Polo Tournament at the Guards Club in Windsor, London.

Charmed by her alabaster assets, he asked what she did for a living and Dita, 35, replied: “I’m a dancer.”

This vague job description failed to convey that her act involves giving a rhythmic biology lesson in a giant martini glass and doing the sort of things to a massive olive which are illegal in most countries.

Perhaps buoyed by the sun and Pimms and presuming her performance involved a cheeky Charleston, Chazza invited her to perform at Prince Harry’s 24th birthday.

Our man said: “Poor Charles was so embarrassed when he realised what he’d done. He genuinely had no idea about her raunchy stage act.

“She was stunned when he suggested the idea, explaining that his son loved a good dance.

“But he gnawed his fist to within an inch of its knuckle when his aides explained what sort of dancing she did for a living.”

We’re sure Prince Harry will forgive his old man when the burlesque performer toasts his big day with a giant glass of champagne garnished with her own breasties.

Talking of Harrys, Harry Potter star Emma Watson, 18, was at the posh party.

The saucy beggar spent the evening with her head cocked to one side while Prince William lookalike Francis Boulle poured oily words of seduction into her ear.

Later that night, young Francis entertained Emma by making unsavoury human organs from the balloons in the Chinawhite Tent.

Fortunately Charles didn’t see, or Harry’s bash would probably be adorned with penis-shaped decorations.

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Will Dan Quayle be putting on his dancing shoes? The former Vice President of the United States is “on the short list” of potential stars for the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars,” according to online sources.

While no official cast names have been announced, celebs rumored to be under consideration include socialite Kim Kardashian and former boy bander, Lance Bass. An official announcement will soon be made on “Good Morning America.”

Quayle served as Veep under the first George Bush, and is best remembered for incorrectly correcting a spelling bee contestant’s spelling of “potato” to “potatoe.”
Season 7 of “Dancing with the Stars” premieres September 22nd on ABC.

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AS much as the Bush family is going to hate “W.,” Oliver Stone’s biopic - which depicts the young Dubya boozing, brawling and getting locked up before he makes it to the White House - the Kennedy clan won’t like it, either.

The first teaser for the flick - being rushed into theaters 18 days before the presidential election - begins with George Thorogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.”
Josh Brolin, as the future commander in chief, is seen doing the bump with a hot blonde on top of a bar and then winning a drinking contest by guzzling beer through a funnel. He’s also seen being hauled into jail.

Bush’s dad, George H.W. Bush, portrayed by James Cromwell, slams his son’s bad behavior and failed business ventures, raging: “What are you cut out for? Partying? Chasing tail? Driving drunk? Who do you think you are, a Kennedy? You’re a Bush. Act like one!” Then father and son nearly come to blows as the elder threatens, “You want an ass whipping?” - to which Dubya taunts, “Try it, old man!”

In Stone’s version of history, an insider says, “It’s like the ‘Godfather’ story, [with] the outsider brother, Michael, who avenges his father and takes over the family business. This movie is about family. It’s about vengeance. And it’s a wild ride.”

Stone trivializes the US invasion of Iraq as the younger Bush’s personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein, who had thumbed his nose at Dubya’s dad. “And Brolin captures the Bush malapropisms beautifully,” the insider said. But the director also shows his marriage to Laura Bush (Elizabeth Banks) as “a touching love story.”
In a crucial scene, the Bush family tells Dubya he can’t run for Texas governor “because it’s Jeb’s turn.” He defies their wishes and runs successfully against Democratic superstar Ann Richards, serving at the same time his brother Jeb is Florida governor.

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Actor Jon Voight, the 69-year-old father of Angelina Jolie, has penned a biting critique of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

“The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way,” he wrote in the Washington Times Monday.

“The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds,” he wrote, comparing Obama’s campaign with the “Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement” in the 1960s.

Voight theorizes that “Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger” who “will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America” if he is elected.

The actor concludes: “If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.”

Jolie has yet to make up her mind about the election.

“I think people assume I’m a Democrat,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “But I’m registered independent and I’m still undecided. So I’m looking at [John McCain] as well as Obama.”

She has also used the editorial page to get her opinion out.

In February, she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about the “moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families.”

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, reportedly turned down an offer from Jolie’s beau Brad Pitt to appear for the candidate.

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The NY Post is reporting today that The Hooker was back to her old tricks on Tuesday as she and a married father of two spent the day together, and then decided to go ahead and get a hotel room together for the night.

Now look. I am all about Ashley Dupre needing to make a living and honestly, if she wants to run tricks I think that is much better than being some kind of personal slave to Joe Francis which appears to be her other option.

This post is more directed to the guy involved here who the NY Post says is TJ Earle who lives just two miles from Ashley and did all this while his wife and kids were at home wondering where Daddy was. I don’t know if this guy just decided he could afford it so he was going to see what the Governor found so fascinating about Ashley or that he doesn’t care about his wife and family any more or what? Unless he is the dumbest ass wad on the planet he must have known that being out with the most famous hooker in the world in the middle of the media capital of the world at the swankiest hotel in New York was probably going to get you noticed and blasted on the front pages of the paper.

So, that little lie you told the wife about playing some golf or the asphalt conference in Hoboken is going to be pretty much shot when the wife opens up the paper or has one of her million friends call her and tell her. She’s going to look stupid and all you are going to have to show for it is a lighter wallet and a sex date who was famous for having unprotected sex.

Good times.

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The soft-spoken “Today” show host shocked the audience when she walked onstage at Caroline’s on Broadway the other night and performed a set. “She had a camera crew from the show with her,” said our spy. “She was filming a segment on facing your worst fears, and hers is public speaking, so she did stand-up.” Curry was a huge hit, with a style similar to Margaret Cho, our source said. “Ann imitated her mother, who is Japanese. It was hilarious. She got great laughs. She also talked about how people come up to her on the street, and leave telling each other how nice it was to meet Connie Chung. She’s really very funny and you wouldn’t expect it.” Curry spent weeks prior to her official debut rehearsing at the Comic Strip with Gilbert Gottfried, who coached her.

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Tony Snow

Former Fox News reporter Tony Snow has died. Snow, former spokesman to President George Bush, was diagnosed with cancer last year. He was only 53. Snow, was a broadcaster for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as President Bush’s press secretary in May 2006. Snow served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. He resigned as Bush’s chief spokesman six months later, in September 2007, citing a need to earn more money, he then joined CNN as a commentator.

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Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton

US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton speak at the ‘Women for Obama’ breakfast at the Hilton Hotel in New York City.

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Tired Prince Harry

Prince Harry With The People Of Lesotho

British royal HRH Prince Harry visited Lesotho in southern Africa, where he is working with the Household Cavalry to rebuild a school, with the support of his charity ‘Sentebale’. It’s nice to see that the Prince is just like his mother Princess Diana. He is involved in many charties and everyone should be more like him.

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His royal Highness Prince Charles has joined the new celebrity craze of ‘going green’ by powering his vast car collection on eco-friendly fuels.The Prince of Wales, who owns huge amounts of high-powered vehicles, has turned his 38-year-old Aston Martin into a hybrid, fuelling its engine with surplus English wine.The royal’s other vehicles, including Jaguars, an Audi and Range Rovers, are powered using bio-diesel made from cooking oil. In an effort to reduce his carbon footprint, the eco-conscious prince has managed to slash his carbon dioxide emissions by 18 per cent. Charles’ chief aide Sir Michael Peat says, “Charles only travelled two or three hundred miles a year in the Aston but he wanted it to be environmentally-friendly. It just happened that our bio-ethanol supplier makes the fuel from surplus English wine.”

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BILL Clinton gave the cold shoulder to Barack Obama’s biggest supporter, Oprah Winfrey, at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday in London. A source at the dinner in Hyde Park, catered by Gordon Ramsay, told us, “There was a very cold reception between them.” When Winfrey went over to Mandela’s table, where Clinton was seated, “Oprah and Bill, who used to be very close, barely acknowledged one another,” the source said. But insiders in the Clinton and Winfrey camps claim the two spoke to each other at a private reception before the dinner. Other guests included Robert De Niro, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman. And despite rumors that Naomi Campbell - who calls herself Mandela’s goddaughter - was denied presenter duties at tonight’s concert for Mandela’s 46664 AIDS charity, the cellphone-hurling catwalker was seen “hugging everyone” at the party.

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