Rice's Beatle break from diplomacy (arrives at Liverpool's Lennon Airport)

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Rice's Beatle break from diplomacy
U.S. secretary of state in Liverpool, will meet British counterpart
From Elise Labott
CNN
Thursday, March 30, 2006

LIVERPOOL, England (CNN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is breaking from diplomatic troubleshooting during a visit this week to the home of both the Beatles and her British counterpart, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

Rice arrived Thursday at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport for a three-day stay that will take her to Straw's hometown of Blackburn.

About 20 percent of Blackburn's population is Muslim, and Rice had been invited to visit a mosque in the city. That invitation was withdrawn, however, amid reports that widespread protests about U.S. policy toward Muslims and the war in Iraq were planned. She will, however, meet with the area's Muslim leaders....

***

A Beatles fan, Rice also will have an opportunity to indulge in her passion for the band in its home city.

Straw's Blackburn and the southern United States where Rice grew up share historic ties to the cotton industry....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/30/rice.straw.liverpool/index.html

[54anickel]

1. That whole article is just sooo bizarre. Ties to the cotton industry? wtf?

She just drops in to say hi to Chirac while passing through?

Highlight historic links between the US and Britain?

[Retrograde]

9. not to mention the African slave trade

from wikipedia: "Substantial profits from the slave trade helped to prosper and rapidly grow." John Lennon once lived in Gambia Terrace, so named because it was built with those profits.

Dr. Rice's ancestors in the agricultural arena may have grown the cotton that the Liverpudlians made into cloth, so that explains the ties to the cotton industry. Liverpool was also a major port of departure in the mid-19th century for Irish tired of their potato-less (and everything-else-less) diet.

[BillZBubb]

2. I know Lennon would be no fan of Condoliar.

I guess the clueless one missed out on the whole "Give Peace a Chance" thing.

[Roland99]

3. Lennon is spinning in his grave over Kindasleazy "Volcano of" Lies

[Gman]

4. John Lennon would have us all out in the streets

he'd (again) be wiretapped, no doubt he'd be on the no-fly list, and probably jailed by now on some kind of conspiracy with al-queda charge.

But he'd also be inspiring all of us to be in the streets.

[Maine-ah]

5. Beatles fan?

does she understand any of their lyrics, or does she prefer the early stuff like "I want to hold your hand"?

[truthisfreedom]

6. *yawn*

rice is still around?

[symbolman]

7. FUCK YOU CONDOLIESA

Keep your grubby mitts OFF ANYTHING BEATLE..

They represented the BEST in revolution, PEACE AND LOVE, something YOU would know absolutely NOTHING about!!

I want to VOMIT when they put her and Beatles in the same sentence and they've done it more than once, this is a propaganda move and it's ponderous, retarded and won't work..

These guys would have been the first in line to BURN Beatle albums, denounce them, thow them in jail, keep them from living here (like they did to John in the 80's, threatening his green card if he spoke up), and telling them all to "get haircuts"..

They'd treat the beatles the same way they'd treat Christ, and in my opinion Lennon shouldn't have apologised for saying they WERE bigger than Christ, because at that time THEY WERE :)

Let CONDOLIESA have a look at the CELLAR where they played and then LOCK IT up, and brick it over while she's still in there and THEN I wont complain if they use Beatle and CONDOLIESA in the same sentence

:)

[Bridget Burke]

8. All Hail Marx & Lennon!