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Monica Lewinsky Still Stigmatized By Her Jizz-Stained Past, Her “Self-Esteem Is At An All-Time Low”

It’s been almost 20 years and poor Monica Lewinsky still hasn’t gotten over Slick Willy skeet shooting all over them thangs… She was the White House intern who found fame for all the wrong reasons. Now, 17 years later, Monica Lewinsky is still trying to play down her scandalous affair with then-President Bill Clinton. She is single, her line of handbags failed to catch on and, according to the National Enquirer, is living the life of a near recluse. Monica, 38, flits between homes in Los Angeles owned by her mother, her father and brother and an apartment in New York that is also owned by the Lewinsky family. But her life is far from a social whirl of a-list parties and she is said to spend much of her time alone. An insider told The Enquirer that Monica has given up her own place and moves between the two coasts trying to work out projects that may never get off the ground. Her apparent goal is to set up her own public relations company. The insider said: ‘Monica’s self-esteem is at an all-time low. ‘She said she’s been doing some freelance work for a friend who has a public relations company. And she’s got some family money, so that keeps her going.” Monica, apparently, is desperately trying to live down her past. The insider told the Enquirer: ‘She’s alone most of the time and is pretty much a social pariah.’ The source claims Monica has more or less given up on finding love. ‘Monica still feels like she’s the punchline to a dirty joke,’ the source said. ‘The publicity over her affair with Clinton ruined her chances of ever finding a decent guy. In June she made a rare outing with a small dinner party at Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe in Hollywood. An eyewitness told the Enquirer that gawkers at other tables were making jokes at her expense, while she looked emotionless. ‘She stared at her food throughout the dinner and uttered maybe three sentences, the eyewitness said. ‘It was a very awkward, uncomfortable evening.’ In March, MailOnline.com told how Monica is reportedly still in love with him and ‘always will be’. ‘Monica still hasn’t got over Bill and would take him back in a second,’ a friend told the Enquirer. ‘She told me: “There will never be another man in my life that could make me as happy as he did”.’ When Clinton’s memoir My Life came out in 2004, Miss Lewinsky spoke of her upset at its contents to the Daily Mail, saying rather than being a physical fling, it was a mutual relationship. ‘He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. ‘I really didn’t expect him to go into detail about our relationship’, she added. ‘But if he had and he’d done it honestly, I wouldn’t have minded.’ She believed he made it sound like the dalliance came only at her initiative and was purely physical. ‘He talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn’t resist the dessert.’ Clinton wrote that his affair with Monica revealed ‘the darkest part of my inner life’ and led to his temporary banishment from the White House bedroom. He said on CBS’ 60 Minutes that he became involved with Lewinsky ‘for the worst possible reason. Just because I could.’ But according to Lewinsky at the time, ‘That’s not how it was. This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through.’ Initially following her rise to notoriety Lewinsky tried to cash in with the handbags venture. She even appeared on Saturday Night Live and hosted a short-lived reality show Mr Personality. Then she attempted to drop out of public life. She even moved to Britain for a time to study at the London School of Economics, from where she graduated in December 2006 with a masters in social psychology. Awww Ho Sit Down! Monica can cry us a cotdamn river! She knew Bill Clinton was married when she started messing with him and she should have thought about how miserable she would be 17 years later before she started slurpin’ in the Oval Office. Take a note from Superhead and turn your dirty ho rep into some dollars — and no handbags ain’t the way. Source

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Why is the UN silent on Qaddafi ties and crimes?

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From UN Watch: [ Download ] The head of the London School of Economics has resigned over his ties to the Qaddafi regime. Rock stars Beyonce, Nelly Furtado and Mariah Carey have expressed remorse for their paid peformances at Qaddafi family parties. Former Egyptian minister of culture Gaber Asfour renounced his 2010 “Gaddafi International Award for Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Vlad Tepes Discovery Date : 04/03/2011 20:35 Number of articles : 2

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Kinsella on This Week in Law discussing IP, Net Neutrality

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Yesterday I was a Guest panelist on Denise Howell’s This Week in Law, Episode 97, entitled “God Creates. We Patent.” TWiL is part of Leo Laporte’s impressive and growing private TWiT (This Week in Tech) netcast network (I regularly listen to the TWiT network’s This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, and TWiL, in addition to my some of my other favorite podcasts, such as Mises podcasts, Lew Rockwell, and… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Mises Economics Blog Discovery Date : 05/02/2011 17:54 Number of articles : 2

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Solar Cinema Takes Rural Kenya by Storm (Video)

Image credit: SolarAid I already knew that solar is a life saver in Africa , and that it can be a great way to boost school performance too. But it hadn’t occurred to me that it is also a fantastic way to bring the joys of a good Jackie Chan movie to the masses. That, and some well-aimed education on the benefits of solar over fossil fuels. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Exported $723M More Solar Power Products Than It Imported in 2009: New Trade Balance Report

photo: Oregon DOT / Creative Commons Next time someone bemoans the fact that even all the renewable energy manufacturing is heading overseas, point this next report out: According to new industry analysis carried out by GTM Research for SEIA , the US is a net exporter of solar power products, to the tune of $723 million in 2009. Here are more of the key points from the

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How Can Insurance Companies Help Halt Climate Change?

Image credit: Forum for the Future Insurance isn’t the first industry people think about when talking about business and climate change. Yet from moving to pay-as-you-drive car insurance , to discounting LEED-certified buildings , we have already seen a number of ways that insurance companies can reward sustainable practices. Given the likelihood of

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How Saving Energy at Work Can Light Up Africa With Solar (Video)

Image credit: Wieden + Kennedy London I already wrote about the Off-On program’s efforts to turn energy savings in London into money for solar in Africa . We already know that solar can be a life saver in developing countries , and it can be a great boost for school performance too. We also know tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rush Rips AP’s Misnamed Wiseman As ‘Ignoramus’ Over Perils of Letting Unemployment Benefits Expire

In no uncertain terms, Rush Limbaugh (link will become unavailable in seven days) ripped into an Associated Press report today on the alleged perils of allowing unemployment benefits to expire for what the Labor Department says is nearly 2 million unemployed: I have not had one class in economics since high school in the 1960s — not one — and I understand more about this through my own self-education than these wizards at the AP. And I'm still convinced they just repeated it. They just printed a fax from Pelosi's office or whatever. … After 23 years and we still get trash like this in our major, #1 wire service. I guarantee you whoever wrote this story is an absolute, abject ignoramus. I don't know about you, folks, but I don't like being surrounded by stupidity. The chief ignoramus in question whose name Rush didn't have is the misnamed AP Economics Writer Paul Wiseman, with the ignorant assistance of Christopher Rugaber. Behold their ignorance: read more

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North Sea Fisheries Throw Away Half Their Catch

Photo: Guardian North Sea fishermen throw away almost a million dead and dying fish every year. Most are tossed back because they are too small or the wrong kind or will make the fishing boats over their quota. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall , national treasure, celebrity chef and serious food campaigner was so outraged at this “insane waste” that he has started a campaign, Fish Fight, to get this practice banned. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If US Doesn’t Price Carbon, Could Nations Boycott American Products?

Photo: American Food Store British economist and lead climate negotiator Lord Nicholas Stern (of the famous Stern report ) issued something of a warning to the United States last week. He effectively argued that if the US fails to address climate change by enacting a pricing scheme to reign in carbon emissions, we could face an international trade boycott on American-made goods. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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