Hey!

Can't help but feel slightly optimistic - there's been lotsa rain in Dallas, and the Obama people seem to be going after one another!

I hope open threads are covered under obamacare

I'm in OK right now, and we just got some of that rain. Wow. I was soaked in the distance from the car to my apartment.

Just got back from a 3500 road trip looping from Seattle to Glacier Park, Yellowstone, Jackson, Salt Lake City and so on through Idaho and Oregon. The only place I saw 0 bumper stickers was in Oregon. Hm.

I'm so over the birthers, but we could start a cakers thread ... if anyone knows why TOTUS' cake is so frakkin' ugly, I'm all ears...
44? Everyone knows he's 48... how full of himself would he have to be to have a cake decorated with the presidential count?
Image: obamacake.jpg

re: #6 tradewind

I'm so over the birthers, but we could start a cakers thread ... if anyone knows why TOTUS' cake is so frakkin' ugly, I'm all ears...
44? Everyone knows he's 48... how full of himself would he have to be to have a cake decorated with the presidential count?
[Link: media.nbcwashington.com...]

You know there is a whole blog about ugly cakes. Wonder if this one made it.

re: #6 tradewind

I'm so over the birthers, but we could start a cakers thread ... if anyone knows why TOTUS' cake is so frakkin' ugly, I'm all ears...
44? Everyone knows he's 48... how full of himself would he have to be to have a cake decorated with the presidential count?
[Link: media.nbcwashington.com...]

We won

re: #6 tradewind

I'm so over the birthers, but we could start a cakers thread ... if anyone knows why TOTUS' cake is so frakkin' ugly, I'm all ears...
44? Everyone knows he's 48... how full of himself would he have to be to have a cake decorated with the presidential count?
[Link: media.nbcwashington.com...]

He will throw the baker under the bus...

re: #7 pbird

Seriously?
I had no idea.
Then this cake definitely has its own thread there. Somehow I'm not curious enough to go see, though...

re: #6 tradewind

Yea!
But was Carrot Cake..Yum!
To bad it doesn't go with BEER!

...Why is that??

re: #3 Shug

I hope open threads are covered under obamacare

How long can one wait with an open thread?

I'm flat broke but I don't care.
I strut right by with my tail in the air.

re: #2 harpsicon

send rain! it is hotter than hell here.

re: #11 reloadingisnotahobby

I didn't see what kind of cake was under that impossibly fake-looking barrage of frosting.
But you just know that TOTUS didn't go near it with a fork.

re: #2 harpsicon

Can't help but feel slightly optimistic - there's been lotsa rain in Dallas, and the Obama people seem to be going after one another!

Yep, we're above average for the year, and it looks like we're gonna get more tonight. Wish the folks in Austin, San Antonio, and the RGV could get some. It'll take a hurricane to break their drought.

re: #12 unrealizedviewpoint

You could have a thready pulse under Ocare and you'd still have to wait a year to get an echo.

re: #4 Altermite

I'm in OK right now, and we just got some of that rain. Wow. I was soaked in the distance from the car to my apartment.

You guys have been getting hammered, with the storms and all.

Oh dear.

Clinton's cake had a naked lady in it.

re: #16 Ward Cleaver

Yep, we're above average for the year, and it looks like we're gonna get more tonight. Wish the folks in Austin, San Antonio, and the RGV could get some. It'll take a hurricane to break their drought.

[Link: au.news.yahoo.com...]

Former Gitmo detainees work on Bermuda golf course

Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island.

The four members of China's Muslim Uighur minority began working last week to help prepare the lush, seaside Port Royal course to host the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October.

re: #15 tradewind
You didn't see the little carrots on the frosting?
At least I think they were carrots!!
INVESTIGATION??

re: #13 FrogMarch

I'm flat broke but I don't care.
I strut right by with my tail in the air.

like this?...

re: #19 FrogMarch

Now the Obamites are trying to encourage Americans to rat each other out?

re: #22 MikeySDCA

I'm sure you're right. If it had been up to him. he'd have had it piped with arugula.

re: #23 Killgore Trout

Former Gitmo detainees work on Bermuda golf course

"You make bogey, you die, infidel"!

re: #23 Killgore Trout

Former Gitmo detainees work on Bermuda golf course

Mohammed, I want you to kill every gopher on this course

pardon me, but if I kill every golfer, they'll put me back in Gitmo

GOPHERS ! GOPHERS ! You silly man. Not golfers.

Oh, gophers, Yeah we can do that. We don't even need a reason

License to kill gophers by the government of the Bahamas. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior firepower and superior intelligence. And that's all she wrote.

re: #25 albusteve

Shoe throw at me from a mean old man.
Get mah dinner from a garbage can.

It appears that at least one Democrat will be getting single-payer health care for the rest of his life: former Rep Wm. "cold-cash" Jefferson (D - La.) convicted today on 11 bribery counts. Don't bend over for the soap...and don't go around hiding $90,000 of dirty cash in your freezer.

re: #23 Killgore Trout

Former Gitmo detainees work on Bermuda golf course

Nice work, if you can get it.

thrown at me...

Auto update isn't working.

/at least for me/IE7

The reason there are so many believers that Obama's birth certificate is phony is because he lies about everything and gives the impression that he doesn't like the country.

re: #30 FrogMarch

Shoe throw at me from a mean old man.
Get mah dinner from a garbage can.

I saw them years back...just an excellent gig...very under appreciated

re: #22 MikeySDCA

In fairness to Bambi, he probably had no input on the cake. I certainly hope not, he's got plenty else to think about.

In fairness to everything, why is this cake an issue? Pouncing on this cake is the same sort of craziness that is making conservatives look so silly. In my opinion, the cake is not an issue. Geeessshh.

re: #30 FrogMarch

Hey, don't cross MY path...(guitar solo)

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

In fairness to everything, why is this cake an issue? Pouncing on this cake is the same sort of craziness that is making conservatives look so silly. In my opinion, the cake is not an issue. Geeessshh.

The cake may even be a lie.

re: #21 Cannadian Club Akbar

[Link: au.news.yahoo.com...]

Sad. The hill country (Austin and SA) and South Texas (Rio Grande Valley) are experiencing what is called an "exceptional" drought, the worst kind. The kind that lasts several years. Dallas went through the same thing in the early to mid 1950s, and ours didn't break until the wet year of 1957, the year the tornado went through the Oak Cliff part of Dallas, and West Dallas, killing ten people. It was the first tornado extensively covered by TV news cameras. My mother was working in downtown Dallas that day, and remembers it well.

re: #36 P. Aaron

The reason there are so many believers that Obama's birth certificate is phony is because he lies about everything and gives the impression that he doesn't like the country.

and they're morons

re: #39 LionOfDixon

Hey, don't cross MY path...(guitar solo)

*Meow*

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

In fairness to everything, why is this cake an issue? Pouncing on this cake is the same sort of craziness that is making conservatives look so silly. In my opinion, the cake is not an issue. Geeessshh.

I love cake! Is that better?

re: #1 pbird

Hey!

That's the first word of my favorite Talking Heads Song.

re: #35 Killian Bundy

Auto update isn't working.

/at least for me/IE7

IE7? Gah!

Use Firefox (3.5.2 just got pushed out today).

An "open source" thread?
hmmm ... someone'll think that means "open source" comments.

*grabbing wallet* ... Five bucks on #190 !

re: #47 Ward Cleaver

IE7? Gah!

Use Firefox (3.5.2 just got pushed out today).

took me an hour to open the new tool bar...DUH!...I hate it when I do that

re: #22 MikeySDCA

In fairness to Bambi, he probably had no input on the cake. I certainly hope not, he's got plenty else to think about.

I tend to agree. But whoever came up with that design should be permanently barred from ever decorating a cake in the WH again.

re: #42 Shug

and they're morons

Still, it doesn't help 0bama's case, anyway. He's definitely a polarizing figure, at least as much as Bush.

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

In fairness to everything, why is this cake an issue? Pouncing on this cake is the same sort of craziness that is making conservatives look so silly. In my opinion, the cake is not an issue. Geeessshh.

Up next on Hannity!
I wasn't paying attention. btw- If there's birthday cake, that means it's Obama's birthday. I'm not a fan of his over-the-top disastrous fiscal policies, but he is the president. Happy Birthday Mr. Obama.

Have some cake.

re: #20 Shug

Clinton's cake had a naked lady in it.

So did Hannibal Lecter's/

re: #50 Wendya

I tend to agree. But whoever came up with that design should be permanently barred from ever decorating a cake in the WH again.

another Shiny Cake

Bug flight patterns under a street light. Music too. Forty-four seconds. Cheer up your afternoon.

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

In fairness to everything, why is this cake an issue? Pouncing on this cake is the same sort of craziness that is making conservatives look so silly. In my opinion, the cake is not an issue. Geeessshh.

The first criticism I saw of it was on left wing sites bemoaning the fact that our "stylish" president could have such a hideous cake.

Thanks to Obama, I'm hoping for change.

There's cake?

re: #31 LionofDixon

Well he's movin' on up... To the Big House..

re: #7 pbird

You know there is a whole blog about ugly cakes. Wonder if this one made it.

There's enough sugar on that to put him in a diabetic coma.

re: #45 Soona'

I love cake! Is that better?

You know what I am talking about. It has nothing to do with whether you like the cake or not. A good number of threads on LGF is about the crazy side of the conservative movement and how they hook on to things like the birth certificate and this silly issue and that silly issue.

And as soon as a shiny little babble like this stupid cake comes up, here we are, treating it like some sort of political football, some sort of partisan issue, looking as silly as the next crazy right-winger.

It like it cancels out all the intelligent discussions we have here about serious political problems and the issue that are plaguing the conservative movement and throw it all to the wind to make fun of a birthday cake.

At least that's the way I see it.

re: #540 opnion

Rhinoplasty IS THIS WHAT SPECTOR HAD TO BECOME A DONK?

re: #59 tradewind

He finally got a piece 'o the pie.

re: #57 The Curmudgeon

Thanks to Obama, I'm hoping for change.

If the Dems keep demonizing any critic of their health care plan, you're going to get it.

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

It's an open thread, and the cake falls under the ' Screw it if you can't take a joke' category.
Forgot the sarc tag.
/sarc/

re: #57 The Curmudgeon

Thanks to Obama, I'm hoping for change.

I've got...counts change in pocket...89 cents. Here you are.

re: #62 yochanan

Rhinoplasty IS THIS WHAT SPECTOR HAD TO BECOME A DONK?

More like a penectomy.

re: #20 Shug

Clinton's cake had a naked lady in it.

A "layer" cake is very appropriate for Slick Willy.

re: #62 yochanan

Rhinoplasty IS THIS WHAT SPECTOR HAD TO BECOME A DONK?

Hey, that's in another thread! Now I'm confused.

re: #65 tradewind

It's an open thread, and the cake falls under the ' Screw it if you can't take a joke' category.
Forgot the sarc tag.
/sarc/

Whatever, I think it makes us look like idiots to be complaining about a birthday cake.

re: #61 Walter L. Newton

You know what I am talking about. It has nothing to do with whether you like the cake or not. A good number of threads on LGF is about the crazy side of the conservative movement and how they hook on to things like the birth certificate and this silly issue and that silly issue.

And as soon as a shiny little babble like this stupid cake comes up, here we are, treating it like some sort of political football, some sort of partisan issue, looking as silly as the next crazy right-winger.

It like it cancels out all the intelligent discussions we have here about serious political problems and the issue that are plaguing the conservative movement and throw it all to the wind to make fun of a birthday cake.

At least that's the way I see it.

CakeGate...get on board

"The Dirty Dozen" is on tonight! Yippee!!!

re: #67 calcajun

More like a penectomy.

Bobbittplasty.

re: #66 acwgusa

I've got...counts change in pocket...89 cents. Here you are.

I'll take it. You've done more for me than Obama has.

re: #18 Ward Cleaver

You guys have been getting hammered, with the storms and all.

I can't really claim to be from here, since I'm just interning for the summer, but this summer has had its share of short, brutal rainfalls. Terrible for most crops- not enough rain, and the rain that does come down is flattening.

Why Shariah Must Be Opposed

Those of us who argue against Shariah are sometimes asked why Islamic law poses a problem when modern Western societies long ago accommodated Halakha, or Jewish law. In fact, this was one of the main talking points of those who argued that Shariah should become an accepted part of dispute resolution in Ontario in 2005.

The answer is easy: a fundamental difference separates the two. Islam is a missionizing religion, Judaism is not. Islamists aspire to apply Islamic law to everyone, while observant Jews seek only to live by Jewish law themselves.

Two very recent examples from the United Kingdom demonstrate the innate imperialism of Islamic law...

[Link: www.danielpipes.org...]

re: #58 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

There's cake?

Didn't you say at some time pie is liquid cake? I might be wrong.

re: #72 cannadian club akbar

"The Dirty Dozen" is on tonight! Yippee!!!

Lee Marvin? Yeah buddy!

re: #70 Walter L. Newton

Whatever, I think it makes us look like idiots to be complaining about a birthday cake.

I don't think I can take it...

re: #75 Altermite

I can't really claim to be from here, since I'm just interning for the summer, but this summer has had its share of short, brutal rainfalls. Terrible for most crops- not enough rain, and the rain that does come down is flattening.

As bad as we get it in Dallas, OKC gets it worse.

re: #63 LionOfDixon
His last name is Jefferson,, he probably gets that a lot nowdays.
Fish don't fry in the kitchen
Beans don't burn on the stove
Cash can't hide in the freezer
Once the feds find your trove

Craziness in a political party never results in victory.

except for the last 4 years or so

re: #78 Ward Cleaver

Lee Marvin? Yeah buddy!

AMC. 8PM.

re: #70 Walter L. Newton

/Throwing stuff now.../

re: #58 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

There's cake?

What about ice cream?

/two scoops of homemade vanilla

re: #81 buzzsawmonkey

Don't get me started on the mom jeans...

Lazy afternoon and I'm inspired to quote Winston Churchill...El Presidente can send the man's bust home, but he can't string words together like this. Not one single "let me be clear":

"The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

Churchill appears to have been correct, and The One is a poser in way over his head.

re: #82 tradewind

His last name is Jefferson,, he probably gets that a lot nowdays.
Fish don't fry in the kitchen
Beans don't burn on the stove
Cash can't hide in the freezer
Once the feds find your trove

Now you gotta work in soap, and the shower.

re: #6 tradewind

I'm so over the birthers, but we could start a cakers thread ... if anyone knows why TOTUS' cake is so frakkin' ugly, I'm all ears...
44? Everyone knows he's 48... how full of himself would he have to be to have a cake decorated with the presidential count?
[Link: media.nbcwashington.com...]

But is it chocolate inside?

Looks like GM, and Detroit leading in sales is doing OK with CFC:

"Among manufacturers, General Motors Co. had the largest share, accounting for 18.7 percent of new sales, followed by Toyota Motor Corp. with 17.9 percent. Ford Motor Co. was third with 16 percent of the sales. Detroit automakers represented 45.3 percent of the total sales while Japan's Toyota, Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. accounted for 36.5 percent."

GM.

re: #86 Ward Cleaver

You just know he only eats gelato.
Maybe an occasional dish of toffuti.

re: #55 Silvergirl

Magic Flashlights

re: #85 tradewind

/Throwing stuff now.../

Not the cake!

re: #89 Ward Cleaver

Not touching that one.
/Someone else can work it in/

re: #91 avanti

Looks like GM, and Detroit leading in sales is doing OK with CFC:

"Among manufacturers, General Motors Co. had the largest share, accounting for 18.7 percent of new sales, followed by Toyota Motor Corp. with 17.9 percent. Ford Motor Co. was third with 16 percent of the sales. Detroit automakers represented 45.3 percent of the total sales while Japan's Toyota, Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. accounted for 36.5 percent."

GM.

Supposedly the Focus is the biggest seller among C4C replacements.

Well, we've had a nirther thread and an abortion thread; why don't we have an evolution thread and go for the trifecta?

/I'm game

re: #90 Alouette

But is it chocolate inside?

It's full of bullshit.

re: #70 Walter L. Newton

Whatever, I think it makes us look like idiots to be complaining about a birthday cake.

Oh please. Just look how this commentary is written. You can't blame us for that. We aren't complaining about cake - the folks at NBC are. all while they attempt to slather frosting on the president.

"Maybe this is just wild conjecture here -- and we all know how much everyone loves opinions in Serious Journalism -- but isn't Barack Obama's birthday cake hideously ugly? This is not at all in line with Obama's sleek, skinny-tie persona, and frankly, we're shocked."

to that I say to NBC - oh shut the hell up.

re: #97 Salamantis

Well, we've had a nirther thread and an abortion thread; why don't we have an evolution thread and go for the trifecta?

/I'm game

Do it!

The vimeo videos are a little "clippy" for me. Anyone else have the same problem?

re: #70 Walter L. Newton

Whatever, I think it makes us look like idiots to be complaining about a birthday cake.

Come on, Walter. We've made fun of a lot more trivial things than birthday cakes.

re: #96 Ward Cleaver

Supposedly the Focus is the biggest seller among C4C replacements.

My local dealer is down to a handful, but more are on trucks coming in. BTW, the Focus is a damn fine small car.

Uh oh, here comes the thunder. Time to go home. Got no umbrella with me. Lay-tuh!

re: #91 avanti

Looks like GM, and Detroit leading in sales is doing OK with CFC:

"Among manufacturers, General Motors Co. had the largest share, accounting for 18.7 percent of new sales, followed by Toyota Motor Corp. with 17.9 percent. Ford Motor Co. was third with 16 percent of the sales. Detroit automakers represented 45.3 percent of the total sales while Japan's Toyota, Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. accounted for 36.5 percent."

GM.

And how do you reconcile these two paragraphs. First one says GM was the leader in sales, and the second paragraph says Toyota and Ford has the biggest sellers. GM is not even mentioned in the top-seller list below. And yesterday, the list said Ford had the biggest seller. We are getting different stats every day, and article like this that make no internal sense.

Among manufacturers, General Motors Co. had the largest share, accounting for 18.7 percent of new sales, followed by Toyota Motor Corp. with 17.9 percent. Ford Motor Co. was third with 16 percent of the sales. Detroit automakers represented 45.3 percent of the total sales while Japan's Toyota, Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. accounted for 36.5 percent.

The Toyota Corolla is the top-selling vehicle on the list, followed by the Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Toyota Prius and the Toyota Camry. There is one SUV on the list, the Ford Escape, which also comes in a hybrid model that can get up to 32 miles per gallon. Six of the top-10 selling vehicles are built by foreign manufacturers, but most are built in North America.

Okay, walter... we'll move on to something really heavy...the Clinton's toxic sludge has ruined Michelle's jewel of a garden...
/Laughing my fanny off/
[Link: sweetness-light.com...]

re: #103 avanti

My local dealer is down to a handful, but more are on trucks coming in. BTW, the Focus is a damn fine small car.

I just can't take its homely restyle (the first one's New Edge styling was cool). Waiting for the Euro Focus that's coming (if the stylists here don't screw it up). That, and the Fiesta.

re: #93 Killgore Trout

Magic Flashlights

Snowboarder flight patterns.

re: #99 FrogMarch

Arghghghghhh.
I had my tongue wedged so far into the side of my cheek, that I thought surely walter would see it.
Most everyone else did, though..
:)

re: #30 FrogMarch

Shoe throw at me from a mean old man.
Get mah dinner from a garbage can.

re: #109 Silvergirl

Chemtrails!

re: #77 cannadian club akbar

Didn't you say at some time pie is liquid cake? I might be wrong.

Pie is liquid cake.

re: #109 Silvergirl

Snowboarder flight patterns.

boarders suck...keep them away fro me...poles can be a deadly weapon you know

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

I found the "mom jeans" thing silly, though if Obama wanted to wear loose trousers (and why not?), he would have been smarter to go with a pair of khakis.

Rather, I'd say that Michelle's couture, which look for the most part like she's modeling Miss Ellen's portieres without tailoring or the curtain rods being removed, tend to show the penchant for swags and drapery and overdone grandeur that is the very hallmark of lower-middle-class taste.

In other words, she has the fashion taste of Elvis Presley.

Good Evening Lizards. I just logged on and have not read the last thread. I am sure it was very "interesting". Any meltdowns?

re: #89 Ward Cleaver

Now you gotta work in soap, and the shower.

Down in the prison shower
they got their soap on a rope
nobody needs to bend over
unless you want some of that hope

re: #105 Walter L. Newton

And how do you reconcile these two paragraphs. First one says GM was the leader in sales, and the second paragraph says Toyota and Ford has the biggest sellers. GM is not even mentioned in the top-seller list below. And yesterday, the list said Ford had the biggest seller. We are getting different stats every day, and article like this that make no internal sense.

Among manufacturers, General Motors Co. had the largest share, accounting for 18.7 percent of new sales, followed by Toyota Motor Corp. with 17.9 percent. Ford Motor Co. was third with 16 percent of the sales. Detroit automakers represented 45.3 percent of the total sales while Japan's Toyota, Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. accounted for 36.5 percent.

The Toyota Corolla is the top-selling vehicle on the list, followed by the Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Toyota Prius and the Toyota Camry. There is one SUV on the list, the Ford Escape, which also comes in a hybrid model that can get up to 32 miles per gallon. Six of the top-10 selling vehicles are built by foreign manufacturers, but most are built in North America.

Walter, the Chevy Cobalt was number 10 in the best selling models, but GM makes more then Cobalt's, or Chevy's for that matter, and Ford makes more then Fusion's, they make Mercury's too.

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

I think Michelle's style is fine, whatever. But it kills me that she is hailed as some kind of a fashion icon. She seems pretty normal, meaning she has some hits and some misses.
The only thing that drives me a little nuts is watching her when she does wear a designer original, and then slaps a cardigan on it, like election night. Even the designer bitched and moaned that she had ruined his dress. Wear the J. Crew sweater sets, great. But don't try to add one to a five thousand dollar dress.

re: #114 albusteve

I don't mind them too much. I came across one guy in the back country who was wearing these really odd snowshoes. When he got to the top of the trail he flipped the binding around ans snapped the two shoes together to make a snowboard. Very cool.

re: #116 Erik The Red

Walter is frosting over my cake post, but otherwise, copacetic.

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

I found the "mom jeans" thing silly, though if Obama wanted to wear loose trousers (and why not?), he would have been smarter to go with a pair of khakis.

Rather, I'd say that Michelle's couture, which look for the most part like she's modeling Miss Ellen's portieres without tailoring or the curtain rods being removed, tend to show the penchant for swags and drapery and overdone grandeur that is the very hallmark of lower-middle-class taste.

Her day clothes are just as bad. She needs to give up the little cardigans. They're not flattering on a tall woman. She'd probably look good in a tailored suit, or at least a dress with a structured jacket.

re: #116 Erik The Red

Good Evening Lizards. I just logged on and have not read the last thread. I am sure it was very "interesting". Any meltdowns?

Hi, Erik. I just got here too, and the first thing I said when I opened LGF was, "Thank goodness I missed the abortion thread."

re: #80 Ward Cleaver

As bad as we get it in Dallas, OKC gets it worse.

God's stomach just rumbled, up there overhead.
Looks like we're gonna get some.

re: #123 doppelganglander

Her day clothes are just as bad. She needs to give up the little cardigans. They're not flattering on a tall woman. She'd probably look good in a tailored suit, or at least a dress with a structured jacket.

Condi Rice knew how to dress.

re: #97 Salamantis

Well, we've had a nirther thread and an abortion thread; why don't we have an evolution thread and go for the trifecta?

/I'm game

An anti-vaxxer thread or a euroneofascist would be an acceptable substitute...;~)

We must have had an Open Registration in our yard. I saw a hatchling lizard this morning. It was cute!

Gotta go. See ya's.

re: #127 Alouette

Condi Rice knew how to dress.

Absolutely. Fabulous suits, coats, and those awesome boots she wore to Russia.

re: #120 Killgore Trout

I don't mind them too much. I came across one guy in the back country who was wearing these really odd snowshoes. When he got to the top of the trail he flipped the binding around ans snapped the two shoes together to make a snowboard. Very cool.

at $100 dollars a day, I don't want them around...they have their own parks at many resorts...they blow off all the powder into ice...they know what they are...in the back bowls or extreme I don't care...they are too fast and cannot recover from mistakes

re: #130 Soona'

Gotta go. See ya's.

Layta'.

re: #122 buzzsawmonkey

Well, no. Elvis Presley is dead, so he has no fashion taste. But when he was alive, he went for flash in his performance clothes because...he was a rock performer.

Michelle Obama is not.

Elvis and rock parted when he was drafted...he was a pop icon from then on...he sold out

re: #125 doppelganglander

Hi, Erik. I just got here too, and the first thing I said when I opened LGF was, "Thank goodness I missed the abortion thread."

So did I. :)

So what's wrong with the cake? All of these inkjet-printed, 3d-sculpted cakes are all the rage. Seems fine to me, as long as Helen Thomas doesn't jump out of it.

re: #124 buzzsawmonkey
Really, I didn't judge her fashion sense. I said she looked nice sometimes, and other times, not so much. ... that her style was pretty ' normal ' for American women.
But since you mention it, she could use some advice. What I have seen written is that she does not use any stylists, but thinks she knows what looks best on her, which in almost every woman's case, is not true. All of us benefit from another set of eyes, and not the ones looking back at us in the mirror.

BRB. Re-starting. :(

re: #127 Alouette

Condi Rice knew how to dress.

What is the connection? Condi wasn't a First Lady, and their builds aren't that similar. Condi is at least three inches shorter and more petite, true?

Behold the icon of fashion

re: #137 itellu3times

So what's wrong with the cake? All of these inkjet-printed, 3d-sculpted cakes are all the rage. Seems fine to me, as long as Helen Thomas doesn't jump out of it.

it looked like the Bisquick version of a low rider imo

re: #133 buzzsawmonkey

Apparently, rare poster blueherron doesn't like a few home truths about taste and class. I fart in his/her general direction.

Speaking of class, buzz ...

:D

re: #133 buzzsawmonkey

Apparently, rare poster blueherron doesn't like a few home truths about taste and class. I fart in his/her general direction.

How can you tell when it holds its breath too long? Does it turn more blue?

re: #141 Bobblehead

Behold the icon of fashion

Did she find some of Cindy Lauper's old outfits at the Goodwill?

I don't see this as a good trend:

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

The US is enticing the Chinese to buy more debt by offering more adjustable rate bonds which are linked to the CPI. So as inflation increases, we pay more and more interest. Like an ARM.

re: #137 itellu3times

So what's wrong with the cake? All of these inkjet-printed, 3d-sculpted cakes are all the rage. Seems fine to me, as long as Helen Thomas doesn't jump out of it.

It doesn't always come out as expected.

re: #147 CyanSnowHawk

It doesn't always come out as expected.

LOL!

re: #146 KingKenrod

I don't see this as a good trend:

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

The US is enticing the Chinese to buy more debt by offering more adjustable rate bonds which are linked to the CPI. So as inflation increases, we pay more and more interest. Like an ARM.

New acronym, America Reduction Mortgage.

For those wishing to assist the WH in their efforts to smoke out fishy stuff on the net about O and his health care reform ... here's the address: flag@whitehouse.gov

I forward EVERYTHING now ... in OSX it's just an "Apple-I" which converts the site you are on to an email ... the with flag@whitehouse.gov in your clipboard it's amazing what volume you can put out, letting Google or Bing bring up the goodies to inundate the bastards with.

If ya can't beat 'em - join 'em.

/

re: #148 buzzsawmonkey

I've never made any claims to being particularly high-tone.

You've referred to yourself as a "slippered pantaloon", IIRC.

re: #148 buzzsawmonkey

I dislike "posters" whose primary contribution to a conversation is to hit the ding button. You got a problem, buddy, let's hear it, and thrash it out. You haven't got the 'nads to voice an opinion, I have no reason to respect you.

And as far as "class" goes, knowing what constitutes class distinctions is not necessarily an indication of having class one's self. I've never made any claims to being particularly high-tone.

New Mexico awaits you...

What a cautionary tale: ( attn: Stinky, you have a heavy responsibility)
[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

re: #148 buzzsawmonkey

I dislike "posters" whose primary contribution to a conversation is to hit the ding button. You got a problem, buddy, let's hear it, and thrash it out. You haven't got the 'nads to voice an opinion, I have no reason to respect you.

And as far as "class" goes, knowing what constitutes class distinctions is not necessarily an indication of having class one's self. I've never made any claims to being particularly high-tone.

*grin* ... I agree, and will scramble to explain myself.
I should have pointed the wisecrack toward the airs you gave yourself ... uh ... blueherron.

*cough choke holdnose*

Rand Paul officially enters race for US Senate (KY.)

[Link: bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com...]

re: #151 Bobibutu

For those wishing to assist the WH in their efforts to smoke out fishy stuff on the net about O and his health care reform ... here's the address: flag@whitehouse.gov

I forward EVERYTHING now ... in OSX it's just an "Apple-I" which converts the site you are on to an email ... the with flag@whitehouse.gov in your clipboard it's amazing what volume you can put out, letting Google or Bing bring up the goodies to inundate the bastards with.

If ya can't beat 'em - join 'em.

/

How many people are sending them [Link: www.senate.gov,...] [Link: www.house.gov,...] [Link: www.whitehouse.gov,...] [Link: www.cars.gov,...] et al.

Those are all suspicious if you ask me.

re: #111 BlueCanuck

Yep. Albusteve beat you to it, though.

I don't bather chasing mice around.
I slink down the alley looking for a fight.
Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night.

re: #152 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You've referred to yourself as a "slippered pantaloon", IIRC.

"slippered pantaloon"...Sounds like a character in a Georgette Heyer period novel.

Every time you forward a nasty post re Obamacare, you get carbon offset points...

re: #157 buzzsawmonkey

Hmmm...a doobie and adobe. It could work.

millionaires go out for ice cream in their pj's out here...we are all equal...you'd love it

bother p i m f

re: #157 buzzsawmonkey
Hey buzz! Just a drive by as we are starting to get huge T-Storms and lightning, but did you hear that the Obama Administration considers Achmaddinerjad the Elected Leader of Iran?
[Link: www.breitbart.tv...]

h/t jill e

re: #153 albusteve

New Mexico awaits you...

We all boo quirky things like are out there.

/G*d, I hope my daughter doesn't find out I said that!

re: #166 buzzsawmonkey

I will repeat my comment from when I heard it yesterday: How do you say "ACORN" in Farsi?

Basij

re: #167 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Basij

OMG, should I have added a sarc to that one?

re: #153 albusteve

New Mexico awaits you...

She's not even commissioned yet, although they did serve the first meal from the galley on Monday and the crew is moving in.

re: #166 buzzsawmonkey
Don't know how to say ACORN in Farsi, but do know how to say MURDER, BEAT OR JAIL ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTE - it's ok, the USA will still recognize the "winner" of the election.

re: #146 KingKenrod

I don't see this as a good trend:

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

The US is enticing the Chinese to buy more debt by offering more adjustable rate bonds which are linked to the CPI. So as inflation increases, we pay more and more interest. Like an ARM.

Don't worry. The government will bail them out if they can't make the payment...

oh wait...

re: #158 CyanSnowHawk

How many people are sending them [Link: www.senate.gov,...] [Link: www.house.gov,...] [Link: www.whitehouse.gov,...] [Link: www.cars.gov,...] et al.

Those are all suspicious if you ask me.

Rgr. Today I have been sending every youtube, article and opinion where O is either caught or accused of lying. An inexhaustible resource!

Since I think horoscopes are b.s., this made me laugh: TOTUS' horoscope. Specially loved this part:

for August 4
You should embrace: Quiet times, progress, sensitivity
You should avoid: Rash decisions, idle promises, egotism

[Link: entertainment.howstuffworks.com...]

re: #165 pre-Boomer Marine brat

We all boo quirky things like are out there.

/G*d, I hope my daughter doesn't find out I said that!

my daughter would live in Manhattan if she could...and she loves NM...very laid back

Whoa, short open thread today! Hope it wasn't something I said!
Hope I get the chance to see y'all down the road - damned lightning!

re: #169 CyanSnowHawk

She's not even commissioned yet, although they did serve the first meal from the galley on Monday and the crew is moving in.

she's a beast...the history museum in ABQ has a little gig about her...and btw, the New Mex National Guard kicked ass in Iraq...these people know how to fight...ragin patriots

re: #78 Ward Cleaver

Lee Marvin? Yeah buddy!

Sergeant Clyde Bowren: [as Reisman exits the room] :

What's going on, sir?

Major John Reisman:

Oh, the gentleman from the South had a question about the dining arrangements. He and his comrades are discussing place settings now.

re: #174 albusteve

my daughter would live in Manhattan if she could...and she loves NM...very laid back

... :D ... Sounds like a split in the personality.

re: #177 buzzsawmonkey

One more thing on Obama taste, if I may.

Harry S. Truman was not a "classy" guy. He came in for a lot of criticism--a veritable firestorm of it--for having a second-floor balcony built onto the columned portico of the White House, because it was considered to be a vulgar defacement of the classical Colonial facade, but Truman was used to an upstairs porch/balcony (if you go to Kansas City, you will see that they are common), and since he was the President he got what he wanted.

The problem with Obama taste is not that it's bad. It is bad, but that's not the problem. The problem is that the Obamas don't have the courage of their bad taste; they keep trying to "put on the dog" and show how classy they are--which is why they keep coming a cropper in the taste department. Truman was comfortable being the middleclass guy he was; the Obamas are neither comfortable in their middleclassness (that's what you get, Barry, for going to a church that "disavows middleclassness" for 20 years) nor capable of brazening their way into the manners of the upper class.

It shows.

When Obama keeps referring to "his" house and in other references to White House living, two words come to mind: nouveau riche.

re: #179 pre-Boomer Marine brat

... :D ... Sounds like a split in the personality.

NM will split you...everything you thought was cool is now reconsidered...

re: #175 realwest

Hi real,
Don't worry, you'd never clear a room.
Hope you are well, take care.

re: #81 buzzsawmonkey

I don't want to urge anyone to actually see the film, which I remember as not being particularly good--but if you recall the scene, you will understand the distinction between good taste and Obama taste.

Believe me, I understand the distinction. It's the same disconnect with reality that makes me roll my eyes when people compare the current first lady to Jackie Kennedy.

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

In fairness to everything, why is this cake an issue? Pouncing on this cake is the same sort of craziness that is making conservatives look so silly. In my opinion, the cake is not an issue. Geeessshh.

It's not a political issue. It is an unattractive cake, though.

It must be just me but I no longer find myself interested by Charles' blog. Just a little sick of reading about the 'nirfers' and the ID'ers. I find myself coming to LGF strictly for the link viewer nowadays. C'mon Charles - mix it up a little!

re: #185 campisi

It must be just me but I no longer find myself interested by Charles' blog. Just a little sick of reading about the 'nirfers' and the ID'ers. I find myself coming to LGF strictly for the link viewer nowadays. C'mon Charles - mix it up a little!

You could just walk away. It's a big internet out there, you know...

Dissent is patriotic...

Except when it a mob...

re: #185 campisi

Go make seven comments somewhere else and your world will be back in balance.

re: #185 campisi

It must be just me but I no longer find myself interested by Charles' blog. Just a little sick of reading about the 'nirfers' and the ID'ers. I find myself coming to LGF strictly for the link viewer nowadays. C'mon Charles - mix it up a little!

You walk into someone else's house as an invited guest, and when you are served prime rib complain there is not fish?

You don't like what our host is serving, go somewhere else.

It's not hard.

re: #119 tradewind

I think Michelle's style is fine, whatever. But it kills me that she is hailed as some kind of a fashion icon. She seems pretty normal, meaning she has some hits and some misses.
The only thing that drives me a little nuts is watching her when she does wear a designer original, and then slaps a cardigan on it, like election night. Even the designer bitched and moaned that she had ruined his dress. Wear the J. Crew sweater sets, great. But don't try to add one to a five thousand dollar dress.

Someone needs to teach her how to walk and carry herself properly. When you're in the public eye, you shouldn't clomp around like a linebacker.

wow! I think I have a voice job for a new animated film working with John Cusak & Rob Morrow

re: #90 Alouette

the thing sure looked like over compensation to me

re: #177 buzzsawmonkey

give um hell harry t. was a American in the cultural sense as well as being born here the zero was just born here,

re: #185 campisi

It must be just me but I no longer find myself interested by Charles' blog. Just a little sick of reading about the 'nirfers' and the ID'ers. I find myself coming to LGF strictly for the link viewer nowadays. C'mon Charles - mix it up a little!

Then go away.

We have this calender using moments in history over the past 150 years as each monthly photo.

Augusts photo is this, taken after Maggie Thatcher won the 1979 election.
We hang the calender in our laundary toilet (as you do with boring calenders)

BUT, I couldnt help poner what what was going through the minds of Maggie and Dennis...

Maggie"Right, time to sort out the miners union, tell the French where to stick their EU thoughts, yes lots to do"

Dennis " Boy, am I going to get laid tonight!"

re: #24 reloadingisnotahobby

You didn't see the little carrots on the frosting?
At least I think they were carrots!!
INVESTIGATION??

You want carrots, I got'cha carrots right here! Caution! The blog associated with that link has been known to cause hysterical laughter and tears streaming down the face. You have been warned! :-)

re: #198 Caboose

You want carrots, I got'cha carrots right here! Caution! The blog associated with that link has been known to cause hysterical laughter and tears streaming down the face. You have been warned! :-)

Yay! Thats the blog I meant.

OT: I was wondering why two reporters where arrested when they accidental crossed the border from China into North Korea. Having had a father who served with the 2nd ID in Korea during the war made me suspicious. What do I find?
[Link: www.laweekly.com...]

They crossed the border on purpose in making a documentary for AlGore.
What the hell? Will he stop at nothing to make a buck?
Guess not.
I am glad there back. But there is no reason to take such risks just to make AlGore happy {and richer}

Like the publicity now won't help him?