Headband Heroines

This hasn’t been reported elsewhere, butt there was a scary moment the other day when MO BO and the Wee Wons were handing out food packages at Martha’s Kitchen (no, not THAT Martha). Big Guy got hold of something that appeared very suspicious to him: “Whoa! What have we here? It looks like a IED! Call 911! Call Secret Security! Hit the floor!

 Dad…it’s a sweet potato. You know, Mom grows them in “her garden”

I guess Big Guy’s still a little jumpy after returning from his Asian trip. I think it’s because of  the Burmese billboards that were intended as laudatory congratulations on his second historic win butt were so over-the-top that everyone said they were “creepy.”

So I’ll give you that the colors may have been a bit, shall we say - garish, butt I’d have to say they nailed the ear and smile, no?

               

    

While most Americans are getting used to BO’s big, charismatic smile, I guess the Burmese – or Myanmararians as Big Guy calls them – just weren’t quite ready for all that animal magnetism. It looks like they sided with the Twitchy crowd as far as the creepy factor was concerned:

There, that’s much better.

I don’t blame the painter. Frankly, no artist’s rendition will ever do justice to the real thing:

Now THAT’S creepy!

In other news: guess who Lady M’s channeling these days? Oh never mind, you’ll never guess:

I’ll just go ahead and tell you - that’s right! Hil!

Queen of - and still head cheerleader for - the greatly underappreciated headband!

  

I know Hil was always shooting for the Eva Peron look - you know, the heroic spouse:

I’m not so sure what it is with Lady M. Maybe the same thing?

   

And what the heck, it’s worth a shot; it worked our okay for Madonna:

        

From “Desperately Seeking Susan” to “Evita” in one short decade!

 As you may recall though, things didn’t end well in real life - for either Eva or Argentina.

 

Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina: Madonna

PS: in case you were wondering, Argentina isn’t doing any better these days: default, riots, general strikes. Butt don’t worry – it could never happen here (Tip: play the traveling music while you read this).

Now let’s everyone with any coins left in their pocket or purse get out there and shop Small Business Saturday!

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Caution: Bird Brains May Find The Story of Thanksgiving Offensive

This year Thanksgiving was marked by the issuance of a statement of infallibility:

… (the)President issued a new constitutional declaration on Thursday in which he assumed sweeping powers that will not be subject to appeal…

“The constitutional declarations, decisions and laws issued by the president are final and not subject to appeal.”

Thankfully, it came from Egyptian President Morsi, where they are accustomed to such edicts. For his part Big Guy continued his commitment to the separation of church and state and issued his own godless Thanksgiving Day message, after pardoning Cobbler and Gobbler and doing some good works for humanity at the local soup kitchen.

Sorry little bro, that’s the last cherry pie and it’s mine. Give me five!

So I guess that Arab Spring really paid off, eh? The Egyptian people spoke and apparently what they said was they wanted to replace their tyrannical secular dictator with a tyrannical Islamist dictator. Like we like to say around here, elections have consequences. Get used to it.  

And I see the let’s-spoil-every-holiday crowd was busy yesterday taking offense over the message of the American Thanksgiving; complaining about the impropriety of celebrating the Pilgrims’ survival in the land of the First Peoples. Where, as the enlightened younger generation has learned in school and on NPR, the colonialists came to rape, pillage, slaughter and impose their racist imperialist values on the natives.

We should all be grateful that for one day out of the year this normally open minded, judgment-free crowd comes out of the shadows to condemn the White Imperialist holiday as a “glorification of racist barbarity” and self-righteously proclaim their hatred for the “haters.”

Nobody – and I mean NO-body – is immune from their sanctimony: not even cartoon character Charlie Brown who came under attack again this year for his racist/segregationist ways. The charge is based on the fact that Franklin, the only little character of color in the comic strip, is forced to sit all alone on one side of the table. Note also that Snoopy – the only half black/half white character, is made to cook the dinner for the otherwise all-white group.

Others take the criticism of Charlie Brown a step further and object to the anti-feminist overtones in the imperialist Thanksgiving production as well.  

Butt Big Guy and Lady M swore not to let the blatant racism of this holiday get in the way of their enjoyment of their uniquely secular Thanksgiving festivities with friends and family. The menu was pretty much the same as always:

Turkey (George, the Unforgiven one) and Gravy

Ham (halal?)
Cornbread Stuffing
Oyster Stuffing
Greens
Macaroni and cheese
Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Dinner Rolls

Dessert:

Banana Cream Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie
Sweet Potato Pie
Huckleberry Pie
Cherry Pie

(Six kinds! One for each swing state that sweetened up the ballot box)

So even though BO pardoned two very lucky turkeys, we ate another one and spit-roasted one very unfortunate pig,

 

Today everyone around here has moved on to football and basketball with brother Craig and team Oregon who joined us for yesterday’s pig fest:

I thought you all might be more in the mood to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. If you do, be sure to take notes as you notice for the first time all the subtle racism, sexism and otherwise insensitive treatment of special interest groups embedded in this American classic. Because remember: we’re all racists in our hearts. And only by exposing and picking at the scab of racist politics will be be able to maintain that position, and our power over the majority for the coming decades. So thank you for participating.

Charlie Brown: International Symbol of the Evil Empire

Now playing, the original, unedited version of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Caution: contains scenes that may be inappropriate and offensive to some.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

h/t: American Glob via Doug Ross

Enjoy your leftovers.

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Thanksgiving 2012

…and in addition to all the other blessings

you have conferred on my reflective frame

I wish to thank you, Lord,

for the companionship of steadfast comrades

whose wit and wisdom and strength

help steer me through these tempestuous seas

of flattery and lies churned to fury by the ill will of demagogues. 

Amen.

A special thanks to all who visit here. I wish you all a peaceful, happy Thanksgiving – because there is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

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Pardoning Our Turkeys

Here I am, back in time for Thanksgiving. You’ll be relieved to hear, as was I, that my checkup at Langley yesterday located no viruses or otherwise invasive programs in my circuit boards so I’m cleared to continue my assignment at the Big White for now. Apparently  my firewall is holding. (h/t to Raj!)

And there is so much to be thankful for around here. Take the other day for example; Lady M took time out of her busy post-reelection schedule to celebrate the arts and humanities in a recycled Zero + Maria Cornejo frock with our signature boob belt.

To update the look from the first wearing, we matched it up this time around with ankle belts as well, and midnight blue/black nail polish with the new squared-off nail tip look. Very au courant.

 

Big Guy got back late last night from his very successful, if boring, ASEAN conference.

   

With Hillary dispatched to the Mideast to clean up the latest mess resulting in “Palestinians being massacred all week” (if you believe Whoopi-lodge–accusations-first-ask-for clarification-of-facts-later-Goldberg) Big Guy is freed up to handle more pressing matters of state. Such as pardoning the official White House turkeys later this afternoon.

I thought originally the pardons might include some of the rather large bird brains around here:

Butt I guess it’s just Cobbler and Gobbler, this year’s not-for-Thanksgiving-dinner birds sent in for today’s Big White photo op.

Cobbler and Gobbler’s press conference from their digs on the roof of the W Hotel.

Still, I’m surprised we couldn’t find at least one turkey-of-color to pardon.

Sir Pall McCartney has signaled that he, for one, is pleased to hear about Big Guy’s stay of execution for the birds even though they’re both white. As you know, Sir Pall stands with Lady M on the healthy eating front.

“Say No Thanks to Turkey,” boy, how long have people been saying THAT around here?

I think it’s quite understandable that somebody who shares such an affinity with turkey necks would want to spare them from the chopping block.

    

Apparently there is a limit to what magic can be done with a scalpel after you hit the big 7-0.

Despite Sir Pall’s support of Lady M’s food police program, suffice it to say he’s not listed amongst this year’s Thanksgiving guest list (Yes, there will be turkey. And ham.).

Moving on to other pressing matters of State ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and feast: Lady M will be “receiving” the official Big White holiday tree at 11:00 am today. I can’t wait. it’s generally the only time all year that I don’t need to worry about trying to make her butt look small.

If you catch my drift.

    

Whoa! Nelly!

My! That is a big bird!

And now I must be about my Thanksgiving feast preparations. I’ll be moving around the country tomorrow through Sunday, so posts will be short. Hope everyone has a great holiday.

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L’icon Fragile

This is going to be a shortie today as I’m on my way over to Langley to have my motherboard scanned and Little Mo is driving like a maniac.

There’s been a lot of Chinese and Iranian hacking going on around here and Big Guy want’s to be sure that all my circuits are up to snuff. So I’m going to give you L’icon Fragile to play with today. I’ll check in later to make sure you’re playing nice. Bwahahahahahahaha!

Michelle Obama: L’icon Fragile.

Bwahahahahahaha!

Ok, I should have posted a “Put Down Your Beverage” warning, butt I just couldn’t help myself. I sprayed my keyboard when I read the review of this Sophie Coignard canard in Forbes, and I thought you should too.

“Warning: Put Down Your Beverage”

“Seen from France, Michelle Obama embodies the happy news: Beautiful, intelligent, funny, smiling; She has built a solid marriage and raised two delightful daughters whom she has been able to protect from the tumult and vanities of power and fame.”

So tells us the author of “Michelle Obama, L’Icone Fragile” (Fragile Icon), a recently-published book that is turbocharging the canonization of the first lady among venerated American idols like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.

I gave you fair warning that time, so don’t tell me I owe you a new keyboard or monitor or whatever.

I’m going to have to rely on Forbes’ analysis because I’m not wasting my hard earned dough I don’t have any more room on my Kindle, butt the “Lady M is a fragile icon” notion is a little at odds with what my hard drive returns when I ask for “fragile Michelle”:

What does your hard drive give you?

See you later!