Our new weight loss support blog! We will be re-launching this effort January 2010! As hard as it is to maintain more than one blog area, I truly believe that the support to be found in the DGMS blogmunity is unrivaled. Stay tuned!
When your side is losing to facts, reason, sanity, and intelligence, resort to hollering.
I do believe the word I shall insert up there is a simple one: ASS.
And I have one simple question for Bill. How many babies have you adopted? As in how many late term fetuses have you begged the mothers to keep and then legally adopted upon birth?
(insert sound of crickets)
(Oh, and I love his lead into the break - You take a deep breath - um, Bill? She's not the one hollering, posturing, flailing about.)
I love Nia Vardalos. I could watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding a million times over. But, have I noticed that there is currently a lot less of her to love physically? Sure. She lost weight. Big whoop.
Well, of course it's a big whoop. Anytime a celebrity drops weight or packs on the pounds, the headlines scream it - usually in bright red - like bloody murder.
I just ran across this piece she wrote over at Anderson Cooper's blog, and I love it. She is honest, candid, completely up front.
Like me, she constantly gets asked for the "secret" - as if I am hoarding some bottle of skinny pills in my pantry.
And like me, no one wants to hear her answer.
The truth is that it's hard work. It's sacrifice. And it's daily.
Anyhoo, I enjoyed reading it and thought you might as well...
I was away when the news and photos came, but with Alex's permission, I will share both with the DGMS family...
Alexandra was going about her business this past Sunday, the 7th, when her water broke. According to her, baby Lily decided she didn't want to miss the action of her upcoming baby shower set for June 14th.
Gorgeous Lily Alyse was born on June 7 at 907pm - 6 pounds, 11 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long - every inch perfection. :O)
Congratulations to Alex and Tim, and big DGMS kisses to our newest little member!
Perfection in a burrito wrapper
Jealously alert! None of my daughters had that much hair till they were at least TWO YEARS OLD!!!
That's what this ongoing hoohaa over David Letterman's Top Ten which DARED to mock the fine, upstanding, moral, family values Palin family.
MOVE ON.
I wrote last night that perhaps he strayed a tad close to the line with the one about Bristol getting knocked up by Rodriguez. Shame on David. He should have qualified the statement by making sure to insert Bristol's name, thus making it impossible for Sarah I-Am-The-GOP-Hear-Me-Snore Palin to go all self righteous and garner herself national face time.
And he should know better than to disparage Alex Rodriguez in this fashion. He may be a man whore, but come on, he had Madonna and dated Bethenny from Real Housewives. Even insinuating he's fallen so far as to contemplate a Palin is just insulting to him.
(Pull your knickers out of the wad they are forming in your asscrack. It's a joke.)
Bristol Palin's anonymity was sold by her mother when she paraded her in front of the globe during the election. In what will stand forever as one of the most hypocritically telling hallmarks of the Family Values crowd, there she stood, proudly declaring her teen daughter pregnant, proudly declaring her daughter was going to have the baby (take that, you Pro Choice baby killers!), and proudly stuffing Levi into a suit and showing her soon-to-be son-in-law to the world.
Ahhhh, the stuff of GOP family portraits, huh?
And when it didn't work out the way she wanted? Well, I hope Levi sleeps with one eye open these days.
Bristol Palin is legally an adult. She has also made the rounds of talk shows and magazine covers, revelling in the photo shoots and "telling her story." Only I can't keep up. In one interview abstinence-only is "not realistic" and in the next, it's the only way to go.
Here's what the Palins don't seem to yet grasp. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot whore out (YES. I said WHORE OUT) your entire family, then act surprised when all the media coverage is not to your liking. And you can't wave the Free Speech flag only when YOU are the one speaking, or when someone is saying something you LIKE.
FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly, et al - ALL spew hatred and misinformation, fomenting the fears of their viewers and listeners ALL DAY LONG. And they do it by hiding behind the words FREE SPEECH. But when some oatmeal brained foillower opens fire in a museum or threatens the President, it's not their fault, AT ALL.
Palin went on The Today Show, lambasting Matt Lauer as "naive" for thinking David Letterman's apology was sincere. Why? Because YOU say so?
I suppose accepting the apology is not in your best interests though. Accept it, and the news cycle ends. Take a big steamy dump on it and the flies continue to circle.
GIve me a break. The last person who should be lecturing the world about etiquette and being careful with their words is YOU, Miss Queen of Campaign Hatespeech.
And while you're taking Letterman and anyone who doesn't give you a sympathetic ear to task, may I ask your opinion of your former campaign bud, John McCain? He once called Chelsea Clinton ugly and said that her father was Janet Reno. That was back in 1998 - she was a CHILD.
But he was a fine, upstanding maverick, you betcha, huh? (Until the whole campaign didn't work out too well, that is. Have dinner with him lately, Sarah? Oh wait - sorry - I know you're insanely busy these days running everything but your state. I bet you Tweet old John, right?)
The bottom line with the Letterman business is simple - the Top Ten lists are, and always have been, JOKES. And late night television is rife with them. You got pissy, he apologized on national TV.
Quite frankly? If you don't want the potential for any unfavorable attention paid to your family, stop dressing them up like Barbie Dolls and pimping them out for the paparazzi, Sarah. Johnny Depp is arguably one of the best known celebrities on this planet - how often do you see his children in People or US Weekly?
But now you stretch this particular 15 minutes by insinuating that allowing Willow near David Letterman would be dangerous. Exactly how? Because David Letterman is some pedophilic rapist?
Give it a rest, Sarah.
Where's your righteous indignation for "slutty flight attendants"?
As this faux "controversy" continues to be beaten to death, FOX News, of course, jumped in via Sean Hannity to defend Sarah Palin's outrage. And, of course, they managed to make this whole thing Obama's fault.
I'm not kidding.
Bogarting the great idea born here in the comments section of everything being Sarah Palin's fault, conservative columnist S.E. Cupp actually said this whole thing owes to Barack Obama. Watch...
Um, ok. I guess then, to follow that logic ( gag, hock, spew), the shooting at the Holocaust Museum is Sarah Palin's fault. After all, she spent hour upon hour riling up the "base" (more like the baser instincts) with her hatespeak. And George Tiller's death should be laid squarely at the feet of Bill O'Reilly - after all, he went on national TV 29 times all but calling for his demise, giving out his address, etc.
And every wackadoo threat leveled at the President should have gotten Palin a comfy cell in Guantanamo by now, shouldn't it? I mean she DID incite these people, feeding into their delusions, misinformation, and outright bigotry.
For Ms. Cupp, here's the truth - you know, THE TRUTH, that thing so freely dicked with by people like you who can't handle it? When the first media wave hit about Bristol back in the campaign, THIS is what Barack Obama came out and said, IN DEFENSE OF THE PALIN FAMILY, "I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who's supported me understands that's off limits."
Off Limits. His personal, strongly stated opinion. And he NEVER stood in front of a crowd and played on Bristol's obviously easy-target pregnancy, much less cracked a single joke about it.
As for the media. He doesn't own them. So redirect your indignation.
Those "slutty flight attendants" are still waiting for a champion.
OK, I finally tracked down the Top 10 list, and while I do think most were funny, yes, he probably strayed a tad too close to the line in speaking of Bristol, not Willow, and Alex Rodriguez.
BUT - she has courted the media every bit as much as her yeah-you-betcha mother, and like it or not, she is now 18 years old - an adult.
18 and putting yourself out there? Sorry, but you're fair game.
As more sponsors continue to pull their adverti$ing dollar$ (Chipotle, the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, SONIC, Verizon, the Carl's Jr. restaurant chain, Wells Fargo, Nissan, AT&T, and McDonalds), the morning DJs who broadcast from Sacramento's KRXQ, and their station owners / managers seem to be getting the message: http://www.robarnieanddawn.com/
Hate speech, inciteful rhetoric, and blatant disregard for any responsibility for their words has long been the hallmark of this group.
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