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February 27, 2005
What a life--Dinner, Duran, Dancing
Last night three friends and I went to the Duran Duran concert at Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles. This review is pretty darn close to our experience, except that it does not accurately capture the essence of our total rapture. Henry, Marla, Roxie, and Michela (moi) went headlong into the dreaded DT Los Angeles for a night of our lives, and unlike the unfortunate Floridian reviewers in this article (from Broward County no less...) who were only treated to 70 minutes (unless those crazy chad counters just couldn't watch a clock correctly), we writhed and gawked to over 2 hours of pure boy toy joy.
Us and everyone around us and behind us and to the side of us could scarcely take our eyes off the dream boy band to whom we had secretly listened since grade school, nor could we bring ourselves to sit even for a second. The party was on; the closet Duran fans were out; the music was alive. There is nothing quite like hearing 19,000 people sing "Hungry like a Wolf", "Girls on Film", "Planet Earth", in damn good unison. Nothing like three girlfriends arm-in-arm swaying to "Save a Prayer" and singing with the crowd, near tears. There's nothing like holding hands with 2 gay men you have never met while belting out "Her name is Rio and she dances in the sand / just like that river flowing through a dusty land / and when she shines she really shows you all she can..." while dancing your heart out, knowing the concert is drawing to an end. There's nothing like a flash of light from special effects illuminating 38,000 arms up in the air as the 19,000 bodies to which they are attached bounce in near-brainwashed synchronous waves.
We were, those 19,000 of us, bonded as we couldn't imagine possible. Just as Marla points out, they were the first boy-toy band in the history of music and they sang their own songs, played real instruments (although what Nick Rhodes really does up there is subject to debate), wrote their own songs, virtually invented the live-or-die by MTV phenomenon, and reinvent any cover they do and make it their own. They belted out a screamin', rockin', hip hoppin' version of "White Lines" that really puts the treasured original in a dark shadow. I always loved their version of "Fame"; I favor that one over David Bowie's as well, I'm sorry to say (though not performed Saturday night).
I think I will always remember this show, from the fantabulous dinner at The Clubhouse, the fantabulous company, the fantabulous parking spot (we're not tellin' where it was, either!), our two new friends in front of us, shakin' their fannies and groovin' with us like there's no tomorrow, being stricken by an incurable dance fever, the dazed and confused pill popper Jenny who repeatedly tried to correctly frame the question, "Who is your fave Duranie?", I wouldn't live without one second of this night. We all had so little psychological build-up to this concert; we nearly sold our very good seats on eBay for triple the money, and then we were so blown away it's a night none of us will ever forget.
Whodda thunk the boy band all grown up (along with their grown-up fans) would be able to captivate us so. Whodda thunk a band so techno-poppish and synthetic could be so outrageously good live. And whodda thunk we'd find it so cool one day to be right there, waving and screaming and boogeying and hugging as though it were 1984. Oh baby!
Posted by Michele at 07:56 PM | Comments (8)
February 23, 2005
the wage gap is as wide as a sliver of glass
Just as the research has proved for many years, the feminist claims that women make 80 cents on the dollar are anywhere from slanted to patently false. In fact, so much of the available research (helloooo femmes, that's 'r-e-s-e-a-r-c-h' as in 'scientific' as in 'method' as in 'back up your fathead claims with facts')indicates that women earn more than men in some fields.
If it was truly so much cheaper to employ women, no firm in business to make money would do anything but employ women. That's an obvious fact. Few misogynists will care more about their sexist views than their wallets. In fact, I've found that pig and cheapskate seem to go hand in hand.
The femmes completely ignore (it's so convenient to do so) the glaring fact that women in droves avoid high-stress, high-travel, high-danger jobs. I know not a single woman who would be a plumber even if her life depended on it. They won't work 100 feet up on electricity line poles as a repairwoman, or as Alaskan king crab fisherwomen, or as longshorewomen.
Additionally, I can attest to an area patently missing women as well; the computer sciences. Just a few years back, long after the burned bra ashes had blown away, I found myself getting a BS in computer science. There were four women in the starting class of 80, and two left at the end of our program, including moi. Of course plenty of the guys dropped out too, but with only a starting number of four, there's no room for dropouts and still maintaining percentages.
Forget trying to explain my little anecdote away with "girls just aren't encouraged to go into the sciences"... Yah, and a lot of guys have fathers telling them they are worthless and can't do shit either. Don't these poor guys get a pass for not having been nutured to achieve their wildest dreams and maximizing their potentials? NO? Pourquoi pas?
That's because as grown-ups in a frequently harsh world, we must pick up our bootstraps, and get the job done. We must make the choice to be manicurists, receptionists, electricians, or computer scientists. We must not expect the world to bend over backwards, to create our opportunities; we must create them for ourselves and seize them when they materialize. The world will disappoint us the more we expect and demand from it without putting effort into it.
With abdication of personal responsibility, how can we expect to be respected for our choices. The femmes shove big white posters of coat hangers in my face and demand freedom of choice, simultaneously they say women are too incompetent to make choices when they have the freedom to do so because some bad daddy in the past didn't help them go farther in life. So Gloria Steinham, Susan Falucci, Barbara Boxer, Diane ConFeinstein, are we responsible for our destinties, or not? Which is it?
Posted by Michele at 10:04 AM | Comments (2)
February 21, 2005
Schools Not Prepared for Terrorists--Thank God
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It first sounds like an odd proclamation; do not allow schools to proactively prepare for terror attacks. But just a passing moment's reflection on the concept shows why.
First, by any standard US students score far behind their counterparts. Either we're all stupid or we're all lazy or we're poorly educated. None of these scenarios will be much helped by terror attack preparation.
Second, we must fear a government who has the power to instill fear in small children; fear of terrorists and terrorism, fear of bad people, fear of jews. Fear so easily morphs to hatred. No arachnophobe feels anything less for those daddy long legs they happily drown in the shower.
The likelihood that any individual school anywhere will be attacked is so microscopically small, any diversion into terrorism prevention, reaction, whatever, is a complete waste. It's nothing short of a money and power grab by some wing, whether left- or right-wing.
If this proposition had any sincerity behind it, they would start by advocating the arming of all teachers with guns, as in Israel. It's been quite effective; no Israeli school has ever been attacked. Given that their schools must be the most terror-targeted in the entire world, it seems Isreal's apporach would be the most effective place to start. It might keep a few thugs home as well so the kids could really learn, which would be one solution to problem A presented above.
Posted by Michele at 05:36 PM | Comments (0)
February 19, 2005
You'd sell your soul to live here too
I have lots of ex-Californian friends. Friends who've fled to Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, even Ohio for God's sake (but she's back!). They all send me pix of their houses and tell me, Michela, my dear, why do you stay there. Look what you get here for so much less money. This is why. It can pour down rain for 24 hours straight, then sunny and warm enough the 25th hour to put the top down on the car, and to see this view from my balcony...
and to be geographically minutes from this, on any day in January...
I'm supposed to trade this for 1000 extra sqaure and 1000 times the humidity?
Posted by Michele at 02:22 PM | Comments (0)
February 17, 2005
You have no pain, so say I
Dr. David Graham, you are truly a vile person. Yet another pompous ivory tower know-it-all ready to dictate to all humanity that pain and pain medication are things that should remain strictly in the domains of pompous know-it-alls.
Dr. Graham so easily dismisses the real pain endured by arthritis sufferers and says that the best medications they might have to control that pain are not worth the risk. Dear god Graham what planet are you living on.
Start with the statistics; the worst estimates of the increased heart attacks for those using COX-2 inhibitors (such as Vioxx) is twice that the rate of everyone else. That means instead of two people out of a thousand having a heart attack, four people out of a thousand will. "Yeah but you'd hate to be one of the extra two..." Really? Not if I was in unbearable pain.
Second, it is impossible for one person to categorically assert that someone else's pain is not worth the risks of those medications, never mind how small or not. Let's just say the risk is big. What kind of inhuman little Hitler (we know what free speech means too, University of Colorado) is willing to force people to suffer in pain because of risk; why are those people not allowed to assume the risk in pursuit of a better life. That's what motorcyclists do every day they ride one. What I do every day I drive a car, on US highways where over 40,000 people every single year perish. Where's the outcry there...
Last, the FDA as gatekeeper to all medications is the most alarming of all. Once again, we're servile children to our big daddy government (something Republicans profess to despise) to protect us from us. They stranglehold the release of medications or cause the withdrawal of medications based on absurd increased risks. Why am I not allowed to assume those risks as an informed person?
Posted by Michele at 12:06 PM | Comments (11)
February 15, 2005
Extra extra!! Bulimia is caused by communism
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Jane Fonda goes blah blah blah about how her 35-year bout with bulimia is due to her desire to be the perfect wife, to be beautiful, blah blah about how all her dreams were destroyed when she became self-aware.
While our friend in ultra Communist, ultra egalitarian Hollywood claims it was her desire for perfection that caused her to become bulimic, MWB knows the truth; it's communism that makes one upchuck one's food on a regular basis.
After all, it really is enough to make you hack up your lunch, the very idea that anyone in the most class-based society on earth would spout off about esteem (translation: egalitarianism). If you've ever experienced the joys of Hollywoodland (for bloggers in the know, the original Hollywood sign read "Hollywoodland" but when "land" fell down, it was never replaced), you well know you are either an a-list, a b-list, a c-list, or a nobody. You either know somebody, or you should kill yourself. And you hang precariously in one category, always perched by one lost investment, bad movie, or invitation slight to fall one or more categories down.
I was in a Hollywood restaurant a few weeks ago, and the humanity on display was enough to make me wanna barf. There was a group of 5 or 6 people in the corner, but the only talker was an animated 35-ish guy dropping names like tarnished pennies... "Dustin said it was the funniest script he'd ever seen!" His audience was rapt. The plebes grouped around this fruit and hung onto every word because he could say things like "Dustin" and "Hilary" and "Clint" and it meant something. Something really important. The waiter had to fawn over these idiots to make sure he did not alienate a FOD (Friend of Dustin). But clearly, he was annoyed. The tone of his voice was degrees more severe than simple sarcasm when he said, "Can I help you?" to the fawning crowd. Witnessing such a display one no longer wonders how Jim Jones came to be.
Me, a real nobody, simply sits in the corner trying to enjoy a nice late-night meal after a fabulous trip to the Opera and observes this exchange with the interest of a psychology student. I was quite fortunate, since this was my only chance to be granted entrance to the inner sanctum--a premium a-list attended restaurant on Sunset Boulevard--it was 1 a.m. and the a-listers had moved on to a-list parties. During prime time, my only chance for a booth would be as a FOD (that earns you an automatic letter list designation). Alas, I am not; you recall, I'm a nobody.
Knowing this, experiencing this, seeing this, knowing the a- list b-list c-list bullshit, Hanoi Jane makes us laugh when she pleads for young ladies to have self esteem and not to wolf up their lunches in the name of perfection. The world she promotes, the world she lives in, the very world she helped to create and continues to propagate shamelessly promotes stick figure looks and damnation to outsiders. Why would any of the girls at her little talk listen when the alluring twinkle of Follywood beckons?
Posted by Michele at 08:00 AM | Comments (12)
February 14, 2005
Words that do not go together well
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Those words are:
single-engine, two-seat, homebuilt, and airplane
Since the predictible next word-set is:
lost, crash site, human remains, medical examiner.
Just words to the wise.
Posted by Michele at 07:32 AM | Comments (2)
February 11, 2005
How to reconcile the sheep
The headline is "Social Security not in Crisis, Most Say" but the first sentence is "Most Americans are certain Social Security will go bankrupt but are not ready to embrace changes that would shore up the system's finances..." The headline should be, "Americans too chickenshit to do anything about bankrupt social policies."
Posted by Michele at 08:40 AM | Comments (2)
February 10, 2005
Mike Farrell, First Winner of MWB Movie Star Pig Fucker Award
Los Angeles radio KFI AM 640 and its "John and Ken Show" brings us Mike Farrell, leftist activist uber ordinary who appeared at Cal Poly Pomona to babble on his opposition with the death penalty.
Twenty years ago, four human beings were brutally murdered, and Pig Fucker Farrell and other activists of his ilk have taken up the cause of the murderer [It]. Its execution was stayed one year ago to re-test all the evidence, and to ensure there were no stones unturned under the noose. A year ago, Pig Fucker Farrell spoke out about this case and said racist The Man conspired yet again against The Brother. However, DNA testing and all new reviews of evidence prove once again the convicted killer is The One.
The father of one of the murder victims has worked at Cal Poly Pomona for 30 years, and he and his family must have been offended by Pig Fucker Farrell's fervent efforts to spare a murderer (see lefties, we can spell that word too), right in his face, right in his own workplace.
These murders were brutal. The killer's identity is not in doubt, not even to Pig Fucker Farrell. He has therefore shifted his arguments against this execution from whitey's conspiracy to calls for human compassion. The evidence, now freshly reviewed and retested, is overwhelming. We should have, he pleads, compassion for the murderer of an entire family and their son's 10 year old friend... He has the nerve to appear at this man's place of business on a key anniversary related to his son's tragic death.
I wonder if anyone would continue to fawn over Pig Fucker Farrell if he showed up at, say, Intuit or Bank of America to give a speech for the crowd while the poor father must work away in his cubicle. Here, he gets to use the University as a shield and the leftist activists can pass it off as free speech instead of the inhumane harassment that it really is.
For the record, Mediawatchblog is not pro death penalty. And still, we think Pig Fucker Farrell's appearance is worse than poor taste, it's evil and vile and revolting. And isn't it a shame that Scumbag Killer and Pig Fucker Farrell live while the murder victims are still dead.
Many, MANY kudos to Mary Ann Hughes, the wife of the Cal Poly employee and mother of his child for countering Pig Fucker Farrell's lack of humanity with a human face. Many Kudos to the John and Ken show for exposing once again just what a Pig Fucker Farrell is.
We are not giving any publicity whatsoever to Scumbag Murderer we have named It. However, here is a tribute to the victims:
F. Douglas Ryen
Peggy Ann Ryen
Jessica Ryen, 10 years old
Joshua Ryen, 8 years old (survivor)
Christopher Hughes, 10 years old (inset)
Posted by Michele at 08:00 AM | Comments (0)
February 09, 2005
Unemployment overview
MSNBC ran the story that France is easing the rules on the 35 hour work-week created by the Socialists in 1998 and implemented slowly thereafter to ease unemployment. Since it has remained either in or near double digits, it hasn't helped.
An overview of unemployment rates ending 2004:
California (the world's 5th largest economy): 3.1%
Japan: 4.4%
Ireland: 4.8%
UK: 5.0%
US: 5.1%
Australia: 5.1%
Denmark: 5.4%
Sweden: 5.7%
Italy: 7.2%
Canada: 7.3%
France: 9.9%
Spain: 11.3%
Germany: 11.4%
Poland: 19.6%
Not much commentary required. While all the leftist nutcrackers whine about "free" medical care, perhaps it's good to remember: there is no free lunch. That "free" medical care is paid for by 2x the tax rate and most likely your job.
It reminds me of a mildly funny line in a favorite TV show; the glamorous lead pours herself a drink from her well-appointed bar and her villainous visitor asks for one. She replies, "Buy your own." What a concept.
Posted by Michele at 04:54 PM | Comments (0)
The herd is thinner still (maybe)
Every kid with a taste for thrills has hung onto a car while on a bike, skateboard, roller blades, anything with wheels and no motor. But you hang onto the back end of the car, k? Still not as safe as a day at the library but you won't get run over by the car you are hanging onto. If you fall, see, the car is in front of you. Was this guy hanging onto the grill or what? That's (A). (B) The "kid" was 25 years old! Hopefully he hasn't reproduced yet; otherwise his death was too late to save the gene pool.
Posted by Michele at 01:55 PM | Comments (0)
February 08, 2005
Womens' Studies, have you studied THIS?
Today's crime reports are too much to stomach and nearly too grotesque to repeat. Headline after headline:
"Texas couple accused of abusing baby"
"NJ woman charged in teen daughter's slaying"
"Pair in child torture case return to FL"
"Mother admits to starving children"
"Woman scalped girl after slight"
And from the not-so-distant past:
"Woman drowns 5 children in bathtub"
"Woman stabs boyfriends teen son to death"
"Police say Smith drove car into lake with sons in car seats"
The headline Texas couple accused of abusing Baby doesn't even come close to describing the horrors behind it. An XX chromosome devoid of any soul and its equally soul-devoid sperm donor sexually assaulted and broke nearly every bone in their six month old baby's body. SIX months old. Hitler would be proud, since the baby appears to be of Hispanic descent. Before anyone accuses me of racism, note that making Hitler proud is not exactly a compliment... and Mengele could scarcely come up with a more gruesome experiment than what was done to this poor baby. And the mother was there.
Scott Peterson became the face of the patriarchy for the liberal feminazis when he murdered Laci. He proved, for all the world, exactly how brutalized women are, Laci being the murdered-pregnant-woman-as-gender-archetype-as-victims-as-anything-else-they-came-up-with-in-gender-studies-class. Proof, proof! women are not safe and men, MEN! are the doers of all evil. He also proved that men, yes, MEN! hold the lock on murder, abuse, mortifying mayhem. One could scarcely change the channel after his arrest without hearing a gender equality professor leftist spew out, "No woman is safe when she is pregnant."
Applying nifty lefty logic, the reality is "no child is safe", if there is a woman around. Absurd, of course, but we're just applying the rules equally, as the feminazis claim to demand. Applying the rules equally, we see that women, yes, WOMEN! murder more of their own children than men. That women, yes, WOMEN! are anywhere from complicit to active to the sole participants in heinous acts performed against their own children. That there are women, yes, WOMEN! who serve their own sisters up for rape and murder to their men.
Unfortunately, womens' studies programs can--and do--dismiss the realities with yet more patriarchal gender oppression rhetoric. They obstinately stand behind the assertion that men commit all crimes and women are not responsible for any crimes they do commit, were they to commit any crimes. This belief system is (of course) not clearly stated anywhere, because if it were it would sound ridiculous, even to them. It also leaves the belief system virtually immune to real debate and challenge. If I say, "You think it's okay for a woman to drown her five children because her husband was an asshole!" they can say, "We never said that! She was denied treatment". Always an out...
Frankly, my new defacto response to "guys are such jerks" is "and women murder more children than men!"... so there! There's enough evil for all chromosomes to share. They contain the makings of a person, but no the soul or conscience or shred of humanity, not one feminine nanoliter's worth. We cannot prevent the carnage documented in today's headlines without acknowledging the root cause. And womens' studies will do more to help "women" (and future women who are children today) if they studied this frightful phenomenon a little more and the Patriarchal Easter Bunny a lot less.
Posted by Michele at 05:00 PM
February 07, 2005
Jed, hang onto that hat in '08--Hillbilly's comin' down the mountin'
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The Dems have only one left foot remaining and they want to shoot it off by nominating Hillbilly for the White House '08? The Dems have lost 7 of the last 10 elections and 3 of the last 5. Let's not waste whitespace on the other offices lost, such as Governors and House/Senate seats. Hillbilly gives one speech without igniting a forest fire and suddenly the media lefties sing her '08 songs (and this is Foxnews I'll have all you commies know).
Hillbilly has so many Achilles heels, an enterprising news station could do a 24/7 "Hillbilly Mouth and Foot Malfunctions" feature for an entire election. That includes her horrifying behavior during President Bush's speech to the Senate immediately following 9/11 (rolling her eyes, limp-wristed clapping, laughing). To true liberals, for whom history began yesterday, incidents such as this one don't matter. But to the majority, even many Dems, she's an evile leftist in the truest sense. The list is a mile long: Travelgate, 9/1l Speechgate, lying-about-her-daughter's-location-in-NYC-on-9/11gate, Villagegate, and and and. Serve her up Dems! We'd love a shot at her...
The Republicans will pick a stunning candidate, such as Giuliani, who will proffer a whopping punch--especially without a serious contender. Edwards is the Dems only chance to eliminate the buffoon factor they have thus far put forth. Gore? Kerry? Hillbilly Clinton? Are they crazy?
The Repubs worst choice (if you don't count Bush who has won 2 elections, so...) in decades was Bob Dole, and let's face it; Billary was unbeatable and Dole was a throw-away. As disposable as Republican toilet paper. Why waste a good candidate like McCain on Billary. If Hillbilly gets into the running, watch the vultures circle; they'll just have to glide above the Dems' carcasses until November 2008 and then they'll have quite the feast. If the Dems lose the next election this blogger predicts the Dems will cease to exist as we know them today. Can leftists who went to California public schools spell "Whig"?
Posted by Michele at 10:20 AM | Comments (2)
February 06, 2005
Creepy chick of the year award
A "woman" (I use the term because the third and fourth genders required to classify creepy male and female chromasone-containing homo sapiens have yet to be created) marrys a sex offender and sells her home because she lives too near a school? And while $250k won't buy you a parking spot in my hometown of THE OC, in Alabama, it must be the rich part of town. Can you imagine having your investment destroyed by this creepy chick and her sex offending soul mate? And what the hell is someone who "molested young girls" --yes, PLURAL--doing out of prison, period? That's another blog topic...
Posted by Michele at 08:22 AM | Comments (3)
Mediawatchblog is watching...
A Mediawatchblogger on the street reports that a local law enforcement agency (probably the Los Angeles Police Department) is likely consigning police-seized pirated DVD's to auction houses for resale.
What's the deal? Let Mediawatchblog tell you... according to our gumshoe blogger, the covers of the DVDs looked damn good. If some poor unsuspecting soul buys them, take them to a swapmeet (which is the likely resource for many enterprising auction attendees trying to make a living), re-sell them, voila! The movie companies have lost another sale to a pirated DVD and the police gain a customer via fines, and the profits from--YES! You guessed it!--consigning the seized property, AGAIN! Pity to the poor unsuspecting auction guy who falls into what amounts to police entrapment.
Mediawatchblogger is watching this situation and will provide corruption updates as received.
Posted by Michele at 12:16 AM | Comments (0)
February 05, 2005
Smitten kitten met 9th life
The Recording Industry Association of America mistakenly identified an 83 year-old woman as a music swapping maven and named her in a lawsuit. When she dies after a protracted illness and her daughter sends the death certificate, the best their media baffoon (aka a "Spokesman") can come up with is "[she] was likely not the smittenedkitten" they were seeking. This genius definitely earned his paycheck this week.
Posted by Michele at 10:22 AM | Comments (0)
February 04, 2005
Does heaven suck and only the Catholics know it?
Why do the Catholics always gasp in terror when the Pope sneezes? He's 84 years old, he sounds terrible, can barely hold his head up, has lived a fantastic life, and is about to go to heaven. What's the tragedy here?
Posted by Michele at 10:16 AM | Comments (2)
Laura we love you but this is laughable
Whitebread as they come Laura B is going to somehow work to 'curb' (a laughable goal no matter who leads the charge) gang violence. I'm not even sure I'd recruit Laura B to manage the 'violent books' section of Barnes and Noble (were there such a thing).
Posted by Michele at 10:13 AM | Comments (0)
More herd culling
You gotta love stories of idiots. The ones who do handstands on balconies, drink too much alcohol, and now, water even. Gotta love dead fratboy stories. And for you Pinko, this guy is most likely a red bludded American boy (prounounced with 2 syllables) who voted for Bush. See, foos come in all political affiliations. Except it would seem a lot less likely to die from drinking too much water than saying "gonna shoot me?" to a guy with a gun....therefore the East Coast pompous itch-b still wins the dumb idiot of the week award.
Posted by Michele at 09:00 AM | Comments (0)
February 03, 2005
No mention at all of slow drivers in the fast lane
Fatal accident patterns "identified"?
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I have witnessed (and, er, maybe, more than once committed) unsafe maneuvers related to drivers trying to get around the stoners driving slowly in the fast lanes. Okay people, get your lips off the bong, hands on the wheel, and get over. And you stoner vigilantes who think you'll be the gatekeeper of traffic speed, you're a source of justifiable road rage and you are a complete menace to my serenity and to public safety. No mention in this article about those assholes! I'm 100% sure they are 50% the cause of deaths.
Posted by Michele at 07:00 AM | Comments (0)
February 02, 2005
Complete Accident?
Original graphic on the front page of CNN...
Clearly, it reads "HATE of the Union"; crafted with a clever font so the lefty graphic artist can deny deny deny. Gimme a break CNN! I try, really, try hard, to find unfair-ities on Fox, but I haven't found them. CNN serves them to me daily on a fine platter.
Posted by Michele at 01:23 PM | Comments (4)
Girl talk
The Victoria's Secret parent company recently murmured the possibility of getting rid of their flailing Express/Limited clothing stores after a spate of poor performances, but keeping the wildly successful lingerie/skin care lines.
I don't understand how any chick shops at Victoria's Secret, no offense to my dear friend who must have suffered dearly to give me an abfab birthday present. Guys, you're stuck. You gotta go there for the once-a-year obligatory purchase. How are you chicks shopping there _all the time_?
The stores are a mess, the lines are long, the available sizes are alternately gigantic stick figure or gigantic blow up doll, they're constantly out of stock on things they should have (like their house brand panty hose or bras), their quality sucks (the first washing of their primo brand bra crumpled the padding like a piece of paper and basically ruined it; subsequent replacements did the same thing), the staff is either permafrost or permadumb, and that's just from the memory of a year ago. Indelible though it is, since it was my experience every other goddamn time I went there to try to get just the simplest thing! And by the way, their perfume reeks!
Maybe they waft the air with opium fumes, how else to explain anyone tolerating this lingerie trainwreck otherwise. My undies are off to Nordies, as usual, they always have my size and the staff might be a little dim sometimes but they always, always try hard.
Posted by Michele at 12:27 PM | Comments (2)
February 01, 2005
The UN will say anything not to have to do anything
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Rape, torture, mass killings, but it's still not enough to intervene. What a worthless, ineffective, meaningless, pathetic excuse for an "organization" whose supposed sole reason for existence is to help these situations. Were the UN to have existed in 1942, the Jews still wouldn't stand a chance...
Kofi Anan the First, 1942 AD: "Well they're rounding up the homos and retards too, so we can't really call it genocide, exactly. So we can't exactly do anything, really."
Posted by Michele at 11:22 AM | Comments (0)
Speaking of mental patients...
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A professor compares the thousands of innocent victims of the WTC attacks "little Eichmanns" and he still has a teaching job? It's just not that we disagree with his vulgar attitude toawrds innocent lives, but only a complete sociopathic psycho could believe such tripe; hardly a fit candidate for a university professor (just look at the picture for christ's sake). Warning to parents sending their kids off to school; this is the mentality of the university scholar today.
For my action-minded bloggers, here's the Colorado State Univesrity at Boulder telephone number, if you want to voice your opinion (I did): (303) 440-9969
If this picture doesn't convince you what a whackjob this "guy" is, nothing I have thus far written will!
Note: CNN had not a single word on this.
Posted by Michele at 10:59 AM | Comments (2)
Was it Darwin or self-righteous leftist bitchiness
I really hate to make an example of an otherwise innocent victim, but I can't help myself. I'm sure I'm up for another 2,000 years in pergatory for this one. But only an idiot or a leftist-know-it-all would say something like, "What are you going to do, shoot us?" to a robber who is wielding--what else--a gun pointed at directly at the group comprising the "us" in that question. Thank god the us's weren't all shot, with a mouthing off like that.
Posted by Michele at 09:29 AM | Comments (4)
the martians made me do it
The latest in an ever longer list of Norman Bates my-mother-made-me-do-it and twinkie defenses, "It was... The pill company!!!" A mental patient murders his grandparents and it's the pill company's fault. Err, what? My guess is the kid is whacked and some family doctor or piseeacheeatrist (my favorite of all Ricky Ricardo mis-pronunciations) slapped him on a pill and now it's the pill company's fault. My guess is even the doctor pill dispensers couldn't see how black this kid's head was, mental patients who don't even know enough not to kill people somehow are clear-headed about being tight-lipped to those who are trying to help them.
Posted by Michele at 09:20 AM | Comments (3)