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Thursday, 14 Aug 2008
I want you to think about this: There is a theory that states that the wife of any successfull political candidate has to be uglier than him or at the very least in the same realm of attractiveness, because if she is prettier than him, then for some reason women won;t vote for him. This is why John McCain will lose, because his wife is too pretty for him (and a heiress, of a beer empire, that motherfucker lucked out), while Obama will win, because he is a good looking dude and Michelle, well, she looks pretty busted. She looks-as one of my friends so eloquently put it- as if her face was hit by a bus. Women who look like that are the reason why we have dentists.
If you doubt that, think of the last 10 presidential elections, the candidates and their wives, and see who won. And since many of you will bring up Jackie O, please remember that her Husband was John Fuckin Kennedy, and he was scoring major Hollywood trim that was far prettier than her. So yeah, one could argue that he is at the very least equally attractive to her. So the theory holds. Come on, try it. Test it out. I dare you!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
1 mean
2 rude
3 racist (typical of caucusoid/arab egyptians) BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
4 down right base
crawl back in your hole and have a drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I nominate SM for Captain of the SPANISH TEAM!!!!!!!!!
August 14th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Interesting theory.
I wonder if our ladies will agree.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Rosalynn Carter was hotter than Jimmy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/TitoCarter1978.jpg/406px-TitoCarter1978.jpg
She must have married him for his nuts.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
If that theory was true Clinton would’ve had to serve more terms than Mubarak and Bush should hurry up and marry Condy for a guaranteed constitutional change allowing indefinite terms
August 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Radwa,
Racist? Are you sure? I mean I would say slightly sexist. But racist? I am sorry, I love black women, but that one is really ugly, and she does need a dentist. When was good dental care racist?
August 14th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Racist and stupid.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Hmm, 2 replies marking this post as racist… Just how do you figure?
August 14th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Um, radwa? Anty? What does racism have to do with Sandmonkey’s assessment of Michelle Obama’s appearance? It had nothing to do with her being black. Nothing at all. What-so-ever.
In any case, an amusing theory.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Racist-shmacist.
It is like somebody saying “I am not gay/black/Jew/Arab/…, not that there is anything wrong with that”.
You can pretty safely guess this person tries to hide the fact of own bigotry.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
If by ‘racist’ you mean ‘hilarious,’ then yeah, I would have to agree.
And SM some retards would call you ‘racist’ if you happen to disagree with his defeatist foreign policy too, not just Michelle’s dental care. So just laugh it off…
btw - Arab-speakers, sadly, are some of the most racist people around.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
peter for a copt who always screams the sky is falling you seem very crass…SM draws on plantation racism you would not be familiar with!!!!! He is hinting that mrs obama looks like aunt jemimah…..
August 14th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Lynn, that’s not what I got from his post.
You don’t know any white people with bad teeth?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Blacks are stereotyped as having bad teeth, now? I always thought it was the British who had infamously bad dental hygiene!?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
‘blacks’ & ‘whites’……….what is this 1968!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! might as well call people ‘orientals’ instead of rugs….
But i digress michelle is a ‘dog’ regardless of hue.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Yeah great theory except for 1 problem…
Richard Dick Nixon was President twice and probably won the 1960 election too… and his wife was a pretty good looking regal woman.. and anyone/thing was/is better looking than him…
Also - I disagree with you on McCain… many women have seen pictures of him before and after he came back from Vietnam when he looked like a Hollywood movie star in a war movie…
Second, his wife isn’t “good looking” now… she may have been at 1 point… but now she looks like a frozen ice queen… she looks very cold and angry… and if anything I was thinking that she could be a detriment to him because of that…
Jackie O was never “hot” she was classy and nice looking…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
http://www.missxpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/michelle1.jpg
August 15th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I didn’t know that the role of the first lady included modeling or beauty contest. Shallow indeed!
August 15th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Soor Monkey. Your taste in women suck. i have to agree with Mike Nargizian.
his wife isn’t “good looking” now… she may have been at 1 point… but now she looks like a frozen ice queen… she looks very cold and angry
August 15th, 2008 at 12:41 am
That’s not a good pic, twosret. She looks like she has something stuck in her behind. And considering where the future(?) Prez is standing…
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 am
” He is hinting that mrs obama looks like aunt jemimah…..”
SM’s Quote about Michelle:
“as if her face was hit by a bus. Women who look like that are the reason why we have dentists.”
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070730/070730_obama_hmed_2p.h2.jpg
As a descendant of slave owners I have no idea where you got that one. She’s angry, ugly, classless and just wait until Barry loses (in part thanks to her), then you’ll really see what she’s made of. Aunt Jemimah? SM doesn’t come close to saying Michelle looks like Aunt Jemimah, You’re the one being racist. Hell, Aunt Jemimah is attractive compared to Mrs. Obama! Leave her out of it.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:50 am
tedders, what’s wrong with you? You don’t see how SM ‘draws on plantation racism’ from that sentence you quoted?? What are you, illiterate?
August 15th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I’d just like to ask some of the above commenters, is there anything anybody can say against Mr. and Mrs. Obama without being labelled as racist, if he isn’t black, or as a “crab in a barrel”, if he is? Anything?
This is only one, and not even the most important reason why I don’t want Obama elected. Enforcers of political correctnesss had left the US president as just about the only subject of free criticism. But if Obama gets the position, goodbye to this last island of free speech! Because blacks cannot be criticized.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am
This is one of my favourite cultural statements that my black friends and I have always agreed on and you can blame that on Rio! I think we can all agree that CR ain’t a KKK MOFO! Hell he might even vote for brotha Bin Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peoffYMIqXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFK2PZKa60&feature=related
August 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
It’s unbelievable to me that a personal opinion by Sandmonkey about Michelle Obama’s teeth has a bunch of race baiters coming out of the woodwork with pitchforks and torches. How is making fun of one person be considered a stereotype about that person’s entire race? This thread just reaffirms once again that any disparaging remarks against the Obamassiah or his wife will automatically and preemptively be condemned as racist. It is this very race card which the Obamassiah and his wife have played that helped them get to where they are today, and it is the same race card that his worshipers are using against his critics. The Master has taught his students well. There are a bunch of racists posting at this blog, but Sandmonkey isn’t one of them.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am
wow ‘SAD Monkey’ has sycophants just as racist as he, Dixie Teddy please dont boast your southern ‘plantation cred’ on the web!!!!! You guys are sad.
nuff said.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
gail, is he supposed to be ashamed of where he’s born? he was probably just thinking that his ancestry might have given him an edge in determining whether a remark might be contrieved as racist or not…
But please do elaborate on how you figure Sam was being racist in this topic - I’d love to see the logical and (reasonably) objective explanation for this instead of unfounded, subjective flaming… Put some arguements behind your words! If you can’t do this, consider yourself a sad troll.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Adam B.,
And why did you not criticize the attacks on a woman facial features f you are really logical and reasonably objective?
How mature it is really to attack someone’s teeth or face because you disagree with their political views?.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Twosret,
Even though I agree with your point of view in general, comments on this thread have to be viewed in context of thread’s subject. Which is relationship between first lady’s looks and first man’s popularity.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Michelle Obama is FUGLY, take that you race baiters!
August 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Just a whole lot of crap!!! Dont ye have more intelligent things to say about the election?? If not rearrange your bookmarks and add NYT, WOP, Huff Post etc. and Kick out the National Enquirer, Fox, Peoples Magazine and all the other yellow press farts!!!
McSame knows that he can only win if the whole show gets down to a cheap carnival game, with ads like Hilton and Spears comparisons and a whole lot of other crap coming soon! Ye bet!
Yack!
P.S. and then to be a lil racist for a change. The muslim ideal woman is more a buxom type model, isnt it? So how about all the big booped mama types like Mamie Eisenhower, the Trumen woman, Lady Bird Johnson and last but not least Baba Bush? Arent they all smashin good looking broads for your muslim guys…?
August 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Maybe she has done something different with her hair, but Michell Obama looks damn hot in this picture.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/cm/harpersbazaar/images/12_052HB_27JUN08_049-de-54167004.jpg
August 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Twosret->
…but your comment has nothing to do with the post. Sam is comparing the looks of the president and his wife with his popularity. That’s neither racist nor sexist, since he he takes into account the looks of both the man and the woman and doesn’t hint at the race of any of the candidates… So why would any comment about womens’ facial features be at odds with an objective comment?
Methinks you have your own agenda and just don’t recognize it…
August 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I dunno, I think Mrs. Bush looks a lot better than W. I think he married up in the looks department.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
SM attacked the looks of a lot of women who aren’t the same ethnicity as him. Why is it only what he said about Michelle Obama that is racist? That’s just silly. Some of you are exposing your own racism with that hypocrisy.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Agenda? what agenda Adam? I didn’t agree that the comment was racist I only said it is shallow and rude to call someone ugly because people disagree with their views.
Someone like you who speaks with such wise logic should not have a problem understanding my point. My comment has nothing to do with the post really?
August 15th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Why do people think Obama is “black”? He is precisely half African and half European. He is just as much “white” as “black”.
I doubt if an African racist such as Mugabe would accept Obama as African.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Don I guess you haven’t studied american history (or just dozed off it is quite boring.) A drop of african blood made you black in the land of the free…ie terms like passing and high yellow were often bandied about. Authors like Langston Hughes have written about such racism in many a poem and book.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
And not to sound racist (sarcastic), Condi is pretty fugly herself.
And, as the once great Dave Chapelle would say, I love Cunnilingus Rice!
Halle Barry is gorgeous. Does that now make me unracist? Phew, thank god.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Wow peter, now did you blurt that via your Iphone in your ford F1 pickup while blasting Toby Keith? I bet you also think it’s ok to say what you said cuz ‘you have A Black friend….. Alah yerham
August 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
leo,
I’m concerned I have been reading you lately and agreeing with you much.
What’s going on?
August 15th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
BOB Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Maybe she has done something different with her hair, but Michell Obama looks damn hot in this picture.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/cm/harpersbazaar/images/12_052HB_27JUN08_049-de-54167004.jpg
That’s because the picture is of Tyra Banks! Tyra is hot, a complete goofball but hot none the less!!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
“Dixie Teddy please dont boast your southern ‘plantation cred’ on the web!!!!!”
Boast of my plantation cred? Ha, if that’s what you want to call it, I call it American history! God sure must love stupid people, he made so many of them!!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
#39, whoever you are, probably one of the aforementioned trolls roaming this blog. Not a big fan of the iPhone - I’m a Palm OS guy, I don’t have a pick-up but I’m definitely a fan of buying ‘American’ and I don’t care much for country but I love Classic Rock.
Now what exactly where you bitching about? Was it about how I find Halle Barry attractive??
btw - get a name instead of using a stupid Egyptian stereotype on pronunciation.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
what exactly *were* you bitching about.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Twosret-> But you’re still seriously putting words in Sams mouth, and not making much sence as far as the topic is concerned… He’s not making any obvious political statements or taking any sides (even though most of us regulars know where his car’s parked) so I say you’re projecting your own opinions and world-views into the subject, ie. you’re being extremely subjective…
No matter how you slice and dice it, you’re not gonna be making much sense arguing that Sam is being particularly sexist, racist or political in this post. He may be jumping to far-out conclusions based on ridiculous “facts” but hey… he did little to hide the fact that the post was meant as a light-hearted stab at “serious” political observations…
As for your agenda, well… Let’s just say I believe you take pride in being opposed to just about anything written in this blog, and you’ll twist anything around if it suits your purpose, no matter how nonsensical the result may be… But then again, that’s part of what makes this blog so interresting!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Adam B,
Do you read anything I write really or are you just ranting?. Where did I say that SM is making racist or sexist comments?
I disagree with EVERYTHING on this blog? and I’m twisting this topic to suit my purpose? lol
You make me giggle
August 15th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Twosret->
Here…
“I didn’t know that the role of the first lady included modeling or beauty contest.”
…and particularly here…
“And why did you not criticize the attacks on a woman facial features f you are really logical and reasonably objective?”
…you’re pointing out your opinion that Sam is being sexist. Need I spell it out? Need I really remind you of your own posts?
And since you’re still not putting up any arguement, choosing instead to keep up your nonsensical rant, I see no reason to change my mind regarding your agenda.
Please, prove me wrong. It’d be nice to see some real arguments from your side for a change. You might even make me see things from your point of view if you make an effort…
August 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Adam B.,
Let me try again
I wasn’t saying that SM is racist or sexist I was saying that to be very beautiful is not a requirement for the first lady, his post is about president’s wives and it happened to be a woman this is why I referred to her as woman. If the topic was about Bill Clinton or JFK I would have said the same.
Now as for my comment to you, I noticed that you are making sense that the post is not racist or sexist and you displayed some wisdom there, I was trying to note that you should also disagree about putting people down men or women because of their looks. It is ridiculous and childish.
Putting people down for their looks is just something I don’t do.
Hope that explains…..still trying to understand where is the agenda here
August 16th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Twosret @ 40,
Yeah, it puzzles me too. But not to worry, all good things come to an end.
August 16th, 2008 at 6:23 am
According to this principle Sarkozy should be doomed to lose next time around, right?
August 16th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Reading this I was just wondering, in which way is Sandmonkey exactly qualified to compare the attractiveness of a man and a woman. Afterall, I have assumed that he is not an equally polarised bisexual, who could perhaps do it objectively. Additionally, even if he was, even such a concrete thing as physical attractiveness, as we have witnessed even here on this discussion board (sorry for the triple use of ‘even’!), is such a subjective thing, a thing that cannot really be completely isolated from the abstract things affecting to our being attracted to specific people. I think Sandmonkey just … as an individual happens to be more attracted to Cindy and Barack rather than John and Michelle ………. Or, just a wild guess, Sandmonkey might be getting mentally ready for his favourite candidates loss by looking possible reasons for his loss outside McCains own blurt outs.
And finally, personally I just think dissing people’s looks, a matter most of us has very little control over, is just one of the nastiest things.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Ha. Sandmonkey, yer wrong!
The key qualification for an American president is the ability to survive hazing. If the first son of Mary Mild Himself were to run for President of the US of A, 45% of voters would wind up thinking He’s too radical, 45% would think think He was too old, young, experienced, or inexperienced, and 30% would think He was too stupid to be President, and they’d all think He was a liar! Yes, that does add up to more than 100%.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
uh, do you know that pretty president’s wives are likely to be addicted on drugs ?
ie McCain’s, Carla in her last CD sings that her new “love” is her afghan’s shit replacement , so be aware it’s unbearable to know that your a pretty woman
August 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Leo,
Yeah let us enjoy it while it lasts
August 17th, 2008 at 2:46 am
I’d still rather be married to Carla than Michelle
August 17th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
<blockquote? Egypter
I used to think Condi was attractive… something about that intelligent relaxed look she has… maybe it’s all that yoga and exercising she does… she has some kind of aura to her..
Halle Berry of course is hot…. but you’re comparing a movie star to a Sec of State.
Michelle does come off as angry but Barack’s handlers have put the softner media clamps on her….
August 17th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Mike don’t get me wrong. I’m a big fan of Condi. It’s just something about that gap-toothed smile. lol
August 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Sorry. The theory is bunk. At least in there here parts, women vote for the same reasons as anyone else does. All else being equal, the better looking man will get the vote, but then again, all else is never equal.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Either way I was just saying that I honestly used to find her attractive…. something about her…
August 17th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
just watched part of McCain’s interview with the Evangelical pastor…. who’s actually a good guy unlike Robertson… and he looks beat up… bad skin and those torture injuries from Vietnam are now taking their toll it appears in his movements… probably arthritis in that limb the Vietcong broke up pretty bad…. (while Jane was posing for pictures with them attesting to their human treatment!)
August 18th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Have you seen this? any thoughts? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602063.html
August 18th, 2008 at 12:34 am
One word DISGRACEFUL:
“Female travelers consider Egypt one of the worst countries in the world for harassment on the streets — second only to Afghanistan, where the Taliban forced all women behind the veil and into seclusion in their homes.
And it’s not just women’s perceptions. The United States and Britain both warn female visitors in travel advisories that they may face unwanted attention, or sexual attacks, in Egypt.
When Egyptian lawmakers objected to Britain’s advisory this summer, calling it a slur, Britain responded that more female British tourists were harassed and assaulted, even raped, while in Egypt than in any other country. “
August 18th, 2008 at 5:42 am
61. CC -> It seems that the British foreign ministry does indeed warn about a rise in sexual assaults against female tourists in Egypt these years:
“In 2007 Egypt was one of the countries with the highest number of cases reported to our Consular staff of British nationals who were the victim of a sexual offence. Half a dozen of the cases reported to our Consular staff involved children under the age of 18.
There has been a noticeable increase recently in cases reported to Consular staff of British nationals who were the victim of sexual assault. Many of these assaults have occurred in what were considered to be safe environs e.g. hotel premises. The majority are connected with tourist related activities e.g. massage in spas. For more guidance about this see Rape and Sexual Assault.”
It’s odd that the danish foreign ministry has no such warnings on their site…?
One explanation (and I know I’m going to get a beating for this!) could be the british women themselves… When I was in Tunisia with my girlfriend some years ago, we noted the many middleaged british and german single females making good use of the fact that the local population of young men had the same urges as other young men around the world but no girls of the same age to interact with - a picture of an overweight, sweaty, 40-something german woman in leather hotpants surrounded by 10 young tunisian men of around 18 comes to mind… Shudder! I would say that “misunderstandings” are quite likely to occur!
Oh well, just an idea, and not really an excuse anyway…
August 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
“Either way I was just saying that I honestly used to find her attractive…. something about her…”
Now I know why you and I will never get along
August 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
CC and Adam B,
How many women signed up for the violence against them in the US? It will be really nice for everyone to examine oneself and his/her own country before pointing at Egypt as the worst example.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
It is uncharacteristic of me to be so mean, so I apologize in advance:Interesting theory, however,how many women want to vote for a man with a wife so plastic, it lookslike she would melt in the sun?And you know what? Who is SM to judge anyone’s appearance?
Look at him, he’s just plain funny looking.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I think Mrs Bush is pretty. I was just thinking that the other day while watching the olympics..I think they are a stunning couple.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
How many women signed up for the violence against them in the US?
It’s always about everyone else, isn’t it? Especially if everyone else is Israel and the US.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Nixon was butt ugly. Mrs. Lincoln couldn’t possibly be as ugly as Abe was. Big teeth are hot on black women. Just ask Condi.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:32 am
I think Mrs Bush is pretty. I was just thinking that the other day while watching the olympics..”
Laura is fairly attractive for her age. Her daughters on the other hand ….. yummmmmy
August 19th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Twosret -> Of course you’ve got a point… Statistics like these are definately much more interresting when you’re certain you have equilibirious material to compare with, and none of us have any idea if Egypt is overrepresented when it comes to reports filed for sexual abuse.
That being said, I have the feeling that the british foreign ministry do not publish such warnings lightly, and have probably done their homework when it comes to comparable statistics.
We’re not saying that Egypt is THE worst place on earth to visit as a female tourist, but the numbers speak for themselves, and even though they may be misleading to some degree, a general tendency can certainly be concluded. Other factors have a say in the matter, as I have myself pointed out, but it’s still not a pretty picture…
August 19th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
WTS: Sense of humour. Any buyers?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
im afraid it doesnt plan out that way in the arab world:
mama suzanne (too classy and educated for mubarak, her suits always beat his)
Khadija mubarak (check out the hair, and the body)
Asma Al Asad (sexy syrian seductress)
Queen Rania of Jordan (adrenaline addict with a thing for guys on bikes)
respectively: (check out suzanne mubarak with the 80’s hair!!)
http://myhero.com/images/Women/Muburak/g1_u5542_medMuburak.jpg
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/assadandasmashotsmaller.jpg
http://static.zooomr.com/images/1071773_d712ce32d9_m.jpg
http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0705/a_br10questions_rania_0521.jpg
when it comes to first ladies, we’re ahead on that one!
August 19th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Hi CC-
That must be it..
Maybe if I vote for him, she will make plastic surgery reasonably priced:)
On another note, it gets confusing to see someone like Dolly Parton look younger than someone who could be her granddaughter. It’s kinda trippy, like we are in some time warp or something.
In Israel, they have more of a selection..it sucks how we have to choose one of the two candidates. I’m voting for Michael Phelps.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Michael Phelps is not running (he is swimming).
August 20th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Hahahaha… just shows my wide, varied and seasoned taste in women… even a possibility I could even find you attractive… though something tells me you talk wayyy too much,
- lol…
August 20th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Leaving aside Twosret’s very predictable PC response - Are there any stats from any country or Britain regarding women’s complaints of such in the US?
It seems very surprising and odd that Britain - (perhaps one of the most PC country on the planet in regards to making such “”judgments”" specifically regarding the Arab world and Egypt) - would issue the advisory regarding Egypt unless there was real cause for concern??
Something tells me due to the freedom and non repression of sexuality in the US that such attacks would be the same average (low) as in Britain….
as opposed to where women and sexuality is generally more so repressed…
That’s not to say today’s modern day with internet porn available is prefarrable to what was 15 years ago here.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:30 am
“Hahahaha… just shows my wide, varied and seasoned taste in women… even a possibility I could even find you attractive… though something tells me you talk wayyy too much,
- lol…”
I envy Condi for her inside beauty day in and day out, I was seriously Jealous when she referred to the war on Lebanon as a rebirth for the Lebanese people. Man! where is Khalil Gibran to witness the rebirth of civilization by Condi?!
I highly discourage you from a wild cyber imagination to find me attractive
and I do talk too much how did you know?! LOL
August 20th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Becky,
Welcome back
Leo,
Phelps is awesome! I’m so proud of him.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:34 am
“as opposed to where women and sexuality is generally more so repressed…
That’s not to say today’s modern day with internet porn available is prefarrable to what was 15 years ago here.”
I think CC, bj, teddy will be best to comment on this
August 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“Michael Phelps is not running (he is swimming).”
You are right, and I think i heard them say on the olympic channel he was his own country anyway. I’m sure if we put a little seed on some of his fan sites…..
Hi 2-thankyou for the kind welcome. I also heard on the olympic channel the people on the diving team from Mexico were called “Mexicans”…bad
August 20th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I saw Dolly Parton in concert.
She said,
” You know, it costs a lot of money to look this cheap!”
August 21st, 2008 at 3:04 am
Dear ladies,
I hate to bring this news to you but I think chances for Michael Phelps to become president any time soon are seriously impaired.
By the time he is ready to run for presidency his 18 (or more) Olympic medals will not weigh as much as this:
“In November 2004, at the age of 19, Phelps was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Salisbury, Maryland. He pleaded guilty to driving while impaired the following month and was granted probation before judgment and ordered to serve 18 months probation, fined $250, obligated to speak to high school students about drinking and driving and had to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) meeting.”
August 21st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Leo -> Does a youthful incident like that have any consequence in a presidential campaign? If it does, the US has not only reached the limits of what political correctness should be allowed to dictate - it has far, far breached them!
Tha said, I’m not sure wide shoulders and olympic medals should be the best qualification for the presidential seat…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Obama is HALF black…Mama was white…and I really don’t give a flying fuck anyhow…
But why is he always referred to as black? He is just as white and he is black.
And yes…there have been MANY psychological studies about looks and people’s perceptions…
What is the bumper sticker:
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere”..
Yep…people form many opinions based on looks and looks affect the behavior of others and good-looking people have more opportunity in life.
Look back in the Old Testement for starters. Do you know how many references are made about folks being good looking…especially women?
Anybody notice yet that life is unfair? Any nice fat, ugly suckers out there in the audience that want to share?
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 am
Of course looks are important… that goes without saying… they take little kids and show them pictures of faces and they are more drawn to and smile when they see a more attractive looking face… it’s called human nature… and anyone bringing up that lame point needs to get a clue… that’s why ads and movies have good looking people in them…
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:22 am
Twosret @78,
I think internet porn is clearly better today than it was 15 years ago, and I’m sure tedders and CC would agree.
bj
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I have to say, some of you are either: weird, hateful, or plain idiotic. Stop calling this post “racist”… there isn’t the slightest hint of racism in this post, and seriously, just because someone is talking about two people who happen to be black and white, doesn’t mean that the talk is racist.
This theory is interesting but not accurate in my opinion. I don’t know how many people would pick a president according to this candidate’s wife. So I say no.
And on the subject of Michelle Obama and whats-her-(plastic)-face McCain’s girl, ahm, I pick Michelle Obama no doubt. She’s a mother of, what, 3 kids? She’s nearing what I call “old”, she clearly didn’t have any work done on her, and she’s one of the people. She’s no Jackie ofcourse, but she’s reasonably pretty, and I like her attitude. McCain’s girl is meaningless. She’s just a trophy wife. I wouldn’t want her representing my country.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I smell pee-pee, yuck, stincky…so stincky. Plus the gastro fluids of Egyptian immigrants to Canada and the U.S. who still have not found any happiness in their new lives due to their inferiority complexes and awareness of their origins. Buy American mwhahaa….
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“I think internet porn is clearly better today than it was 15 years ago, and I’m sure tedders and CC would agree.”
I’ve never encountered internet porn.
I have seen a few “art” sites though!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Ew.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 am
You’ve just got to see this: http://digg.com/politics/REAL_Iranian_President_cries_and_slaps_himself_in_concert
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 am
It’s amazing, the artistic uses for- on second thought, never mind.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Hamas leader’s son, now a Christian, says only Gospel can transform Mideast :
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=28663&ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0811
August 25th, 2008 at 2:04 am
US woman jailed for wearing short shorts to court
August 25th, 2008 at 6:08 am
93. -> Without knowing exactly what she was actually wearing, that is a pretty sick sentence - is that even within the boundaries of the law over there??? I mean, if the woman doesn’t break any laws concerning indecent exposure (i don’t get the impression that she showed up in court topless!) who the hell is the judge to demand a certain dresscode?
Someone should have her license to practise law revoked…
August 25th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Oh well, before I get to worked up about the moronic judgements sometimes passed in the US, I should perhaps look at the state of the law in my own country, Denmark…
A few weeks ago, a 17 year old kid was sentenced to 4 years in prison. His crime? Passing up a complete stranger in the street 1½ years ago, knocking him unconscious, hitting and kicking him all over his body, jumping several times on his head, dragging him across the street so he could use a streetlight to get a good picture of the victim with his cellphone and finally snatching around 5 $ from his wallet, leaving the man, a father of two little kids, to die. Later he showed the pictures to some of his classmates, bragging about the murder, and his classmates congratulated him on his bravado…
4 years for a crime of this caliber… There’s something very, very wrong with that! The panel of judges decided that the kid didn’t intend to kill his victim, and so he got off with an 8 year sentence for particularly violent assault, the sentence halved to 4 years because of his age… which means that the little psycho will be out in about 2 years because ALL sentences are eventually halved anyway… I tell you, if it was someone from my family that was kicked to death by that creep, I’d be waiting outside with a gun. This kind of complete lack of consequences is what forces people to vigilante-behavior, which is the last thing a civilized society needs!
Needless to say, public opinion exploded in the days after the sentence, but as usual, the predictable reaction from the judges was that everyone else were just laymen and couldn’t understand the depper reasonings behind the law and their judgements…
No shit!?!
August 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
” who the hell is the judge to demand a certain dresscode?”
A judge has the right to “JAIL” people who don’t follow his rules in a court room. There is a long history of proper dress code in the court room. In England the still wear those gay wigs, of course Judges still wear their robes. Even if a woman attorney is dressed too racy the judge can ask her to leave and come back dressed properly. All attorney’s are aware of this, it’s the trailer trash perps who think they have the right to waltz into court in daisy dukes and a tube top!!!
http://www.ci.crowley.tx.us/index.asp?NID=183
http://www.jeffcitymo.org/court/etiquette.html
Get froggy with the Judge, go directly to jail!!
August 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
From the woman going to jail for the short shorts article:
“Booth had warned Arnold about her clothes in two previous court appearances, and in the last appearance had fined Arnold $50 (£25) for her attire. A court videotape of Monday’s proceeding contains the following exchange:
“Why shouldn’t I put you in jail for contempt today?” Booth asked. “I told you twice.”
“I’m sorry,” Arnold said.
“No, you’re not,” Booth said. “I told you twice. I even fined you for being in contempt. Why shouldn’t I throw you in jail today? You apparently don’t care about the court’s orders.”
“I forgot,” Arnold said.
“How could you forget?” Booth said. “No, seriously, how could you forget? It’s a complete disregard of court order. Complete. You should go to jail today, and you’re going.”
“Well, next time I won’t wear shorts,” Arnold said.
“I bet you won’t,” Booth said. And with that, Booth ordered her to serve three days of temporary detention “for disregard and disrespect for court proceedings”.
Arnold declined to be interviewed yesterday. Booth could not be reached immediately for comment.
Arnold would have been released yesterday except that she got into more trouble when she allegedly tried to conceal a drug from Lancaster police officer Allen Weston. Court records say that Arnold moved Suboxone, a drug for treatment of opiate addiction, from her purse into her pocket.
She was then charged with possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence, possession of drug paraphernalia, and having a controlled substance not in its original container.”
Well, that pretty much supports my trailer trash theory!!!
August 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Tedders, you’re talking about dresscode for the people working at the courts, not for the people forced to show up for whatever reason… There’s a HUGE difference - this ruling is a gross violation of the woman’s rights in my opinion. If in the US arbitrary things is subject to the whim of judges, I seriously grieve for the state of your nation…
Her other transgressions has nothing to do with this matter whatsoever.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
No Adam, it’s the dress code for appearing in court period. I’ve been lucky enough not to have been in court too many times but the people who work there dress accordingly because they know not to upset the Judge. If you are a defendant you certainly don’t want to piss off the Judge. You address the Judge as “your honor”. You (not you personally) can dress anyway you want to in court, but only you will reap the negative benefits of disrespecting the court or the Judge, a Judge has more power over you in his court than you or most people realize. Some Judges do go overboard and end up paying for their mistakes but you can bet that the Judge is a former lawyer and knows the letter of the law better than you or I. Did you have time to click the links in my first post? Here’s part of what one said:
Court Rules:
All cell phones must be turned OFF.
Talking must be quiet and kept to a minimum.
NO food or drink allowed in Courtroom.
Dress Code:
NO shorts
NO tank tops
NO tube tops
NO inappropriate t-shirts
NO caps
All defendants must present themselves in a clean and professional manner.
The judge and prosecutor has discretion over court rules and dress code.
Failure to comply with rules and dress code may result in defendant being called last during arraignments or contempt of court.
That’s the rules for everybody in the courtroom, defendants, employees, visitors. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s wrong or right but it is the law that we all have to live with. When you walk into a Judges courtroom you put yourself at his mercy. What was the old song, “I fought the law and the law won”! Evidently the young lady was asked to dress appropriately for two days straight and on the third day the Judge said that’s it! I’m not defending it but as an adult you have to acknowledge authority or pay the penalty, as she did, there is no right given to US citizens that allows them immunity from contempt of court in a Judges courtroom.
Here’s a case where the Judge did go too far:
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/12/01/wtf/doc474d1a409902a467248942.txt
But the bailiffs still put the 46 people in jail because they know that a Judge is “the authority” in his/her court room. My advice would be to dress appropriately, turn off your cell phone and say, “yes sir your honor” when speaking to the Judge!! You maybe also may not want to bring any illicit drugs into the courtroom with you just in case the Judge woke up on the wrong side of the bed that morning!! LOL
August 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Wow, that actually sounds like a joke. If I were on a jury when the Judge said that, I would have laughed. Serious. Is this world getting crazier everyday, or am I just getting older and more aware of it?
Where’s SM? Does he do this quite often? Is he kind of moody?
August 25th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hey Becky, I’m pretty sure SM has an active social life outside this blog!! Being married with children I can only reminisce of the days when I enjoyed the same!!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
SM’s priority in life needs to be to entertain me through his blog!! Period.
Where the hell else am I gonna get fair and balanced news