These actually render me wordless (which rarely happens), so I’ll just post the pictures.
Wowie.
Wow.
Wow.
PS- If you want to buy these beauties and just love the idea of a built in sparkly whale’s tail, they’re made by Sanna’s of Brazil and they’re only a hundred bucks! So sexxxxxxxy. You’ll for sure be the flyest girl at the club! Bye bye Banana Republic, hello Sanna’s!
[Posted by Kathleen]
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To all of those whining about the 62 cent raise on the cigarette tax and a whopping 40 cents for the cigar tax, which becomes effective on Wednesday, I have three words for you: Get over it.
Why so harsh? Because the money generated from the tax increase will go towards expanding children’s health care, known as the SCHIP bill and signed into law by President Obama in February. Instead of just seven million uninsured children receiving health care from the government, SCHIP has now been expanded to cover 11 million children.
But, naturally, some people are pissed. By some people I mean the tobacco companies who don’t give a you-know-what about you or your health and some really addicted smokers.
This gem of a quote came from NPR:
Customer Pat Collier of Zephyrhills, Fla., calls it a punitive tax aimed at smokers. “This is really just like the tea tax in the Revolution.”
Well…no. Because when our early American heroes, the colonists, were taxed, the money went back to the evil King George. This time around, Pat, the money will be used to help children. CHILDREN. POOR AND INNOCENT CHILDREN. Think about it. Good. Now let’s move on.
Smokers, you know the deal. The cancer sticks are bad for you, your lungs turn black and all that jazz. Maybe you are too addicted to quit, but for Pete’s sake (and Pete, by the way, is a 4-year-old with no health insurance and a life threatening illness), don’t let your addiction get in the way of helping a kid out. You chose to smoke, these kids did not choose to be uninsured.
It is a sad fact of life that prices go up all the time. The price of milk, the price of a pack of gum, even the price of the wonderful treasures at the 99 cent store. At least this time, when you pay those extra pennies, you’re doing something good.
More inspiration for you to quit smoking...
Or maybe, just maybe, this might encourage you to quit smoking, which, you know, would be AWFUL. (But, of course, you quitting has nothing to do with why the tobacco companies are so upset.) So Joe the Smoker and others quit. Over time, the number of smoking-related illnesses and deaths decrease, which also decreases the amount of state and federal dollars used to care for these people when they are in the hospital. The taxpayer wins! Oh, and if you quit, you run less of a risk of gum disease (eww) and you won’t get that hideous smoker’s mouth with all the lines and wrinkles.
Here’s another scenario to convince you that this might just be a good thing: Raising the tax on cigarettes will give health insurance to 10 million children. Having insurance will enhance their quality of life. Healthy kids go to school. (And like School House Rock tells us, “knowledge is power!”) Healthy kids grow up to be healthy adults. Healthy adults work. The American workforce is the engine of our economy. Voila! The economy thrives!
…And I’d like to thank the Nobel committee for awarding me this most prestigious award in Economics… just kidding because really, it’s not that big of a stretch.
I’m so fortunate that my parents never had to choose between taking me to the doctor or feeding me. But there are so many children that are not as lucky as I was/am and until we have universal health care, we need to take care of the ones that need our help the most– the very old and the very young.
[Posted by Kathleen]
Extreme sheepherding…is it a sport? Is this even real!? I love this sort of tomfoolery! Happy Monday, work force!
[Posted by Kathleen]
So the roommate and I are having a lounge day of healing the ankle for real and watching as many chick flicks as we can stomach. We both agreed that Nights in Rodanthe is perhaps one of the worst films ever made (you’re saying…well, what were we expecting? It was a Nicholas Sparks novel. And we say, um, touche?) but JESUS I could watch Love Actually a hundred times over and never get sick of it. Each time, I sob with joy at the end. If you don’t agree with me, I say you don’t have a soul. I will argue with you about this. I mean, look at Karl (aka Rodrigo Santoro):
If nothing else, you should love Love Actually for Karl.
And wise observation of the day, courtesy of the roomie: Every Nicholas Sparks movie can end with a person walking on the beach wearing a cable-knit sweater.
[Posted by Mallory]
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Does it annoy you when I post music videos? Do you watch them? I always wonder that. I post them so often because (a) it’s easy, (b) I love lots and lots of songs and want everyone else to love them too, and (c) I genuinely enjoy learning about new music on other blogs. And I know, it’s not like I’m breaking artists that you’ve never heard of (faaar from it), but I like posting music because I can’t make my own music and sharing what’s already out there makes me happy. Fair?
If I start to get hate mail telling me to stop, I probably won’t, but the hate mail will make me sad. (I guess that’s the good thing about all of your readers being your friends, though…the hate mail is less frequent. And if there is hate mail, at least I know where the haters live.)
So um anyway, here’s another song I’m loving right now:
I’ve surprised myself by actually…almost…maybe kinda liking the fan video. It’s sweet, right? If you ignore the classic fan video literal images technique?
[Posted by Mallory]
Wow, so I just realized why I never became a famous basketball player like my father might have dreamed of: I have no ass. No, seriously. Apparently this matters. Pete Thamel of the New York Times wrote an entire article about how Pitt’s DeJuan Blair’s large “backside” has afforded him a great advantage. I’ve never been a fan of boys with big butts, but in this case, I’ll support Blair and his booty. If only because it compelled a writer to reference Sir Mix-A-Lot in a NYT piece.
[Posted by Mallory]
“I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.”
–From My Point…And I Do Have One
I think I need to buy that book.
[Posted by Mallory]
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Did they seriously make “Where the Wild Things Are” into a movie? (Let me answer my own question: yes, they did.) Are you okay with this?! (I’m clearly struggling with it.) What are your thoughts? It seems kind of dark and twisty…
[Posted by Kathleen]
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This is why I love Southwest! Okay, is it just me, or would this be even better with the Fresh Prince music playing in the back?
My grandmother is actually the cutest person in the world and LOVES to watch the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on Nick at Night before she goes to bed. She’ll inform us that she is watching “The Prince” and then retires to her room. Haha. Though recently she’s developed an addiction to Keith and Rachel, which conflicts with “The Prince”. Such is life.
And now that the Fresh Prince theme song is stuck in your head for the next week, I should just help you out/make it worse:
Happy Tuesday!
[Posted by Kathleen]
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As much as I hate to contribute to it by writing about it, I’m always interested when Joe the Plumber manages to extend his 15 minutes of fame– even if only for a millisecond. How on earth does he do it?! Well this new JTP blip on the media screen is fairly hilarious. Thank you WashPo’s The Sleuth for the important news! Joe recently spoke at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards”. I know you’re DYING to know what that is; it sounds gripping! Apparently all the people who hate democracy get in one room to slam the liberal media. Doesn’t that sound fun? Umm…boooooooring. So good old Joe the Plumber/Journalist gets up there to accept some bogus award about really sticking it to the socialists. Naturally, the neocons are clapping for this pure paradigm. He eloquently expresses his humble appreciation:
“God, all this love and everything in the room – I’m horny,” declared Joe, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher.
And cue the chirping crickets. Rawr?
When you get that special feeling, Joe, you should just go on home, slip into something more comfortable (but really, is there anything more comfortable than the JTP flannel shirt? I don’t think so!), light some cheap smelling candles, pour yourself a fine glass of boxed wine and run a nice bubbly wubbly bubble bath for yourself. But for the love of all things holy and sacred, DO NOT tell your sexually oppressed conservative friends how you feel!
I was going to go off on a HUGE multiple-paragraph tangent about the so-called liberal media but I’m going to keep this as short as possible…aka one paragraph. Guess what, folks? The liberal media smear is spin concocted to protect the Bush Administration and its followers from the press. By turning the American people against the press, the news stories– which contained the truth — were seen as biased and became irrelevant. But reporting on the horrors of war and unveiling the lies of the government is not liberal bias, it’s the job of the press. Take Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann out of the equation now, please, because they have equal and opposite forces named O’Reilly and Hannity. We’re talking about the journalists whose names you do not know. There is an unspoken vow among journalists to bring the truth to the people– a sort of Hippocratic Oath, if you will. Challenging and questioning a president, Congress, the government, or taking on the rest of the media? That is their function in society. If the media were so liberal, we would have had a Democratic president years ago. Trust me. I’m appalled that the liberal media excuse and tactic is still being used and people are still buying it. (McCain lost. Sarah Palin sucked. Get over it. It was their fault.) Now that Obama is president, the press will do its job to report everything that goes on. In fact, Obama seems to be losing the media fight when it comes to selling his economic plan, is he not? Not so liberal afterall…And I’m spent!
Now back to the important stuff. A most appropriate music video in honor of JTP:
And one last uber-serious thought: Has Akon ever sang about something other than sexytime?
[Posted by Kathleen]
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six words to change the world. 