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LOL. so yall know i love President Boo (known also as Obama) with all my heart and soul til the end of all time, and i’m bout sick of all the Kanye hullabaloo as anyone, but this is too awesome.
(via the Huffington Post)
so i was all set to hop on to wordpress today and type about how stunning michelle looked last night. because it’s true, she really really did look stunning. i was very pleased to see that she stayed away from crazy ass betsey johnson’s designs. she looked phenomenal, as i’m sure you’ve noticed; i thought her first outfit of the day was atually kind of old lady-ish, but apparently i’m the only one who think s so, so it’s prolly just in my head. she looked gorgeous in her jason wu, too.. so refreshing to see women in the political world NOT cooped up in pantsuits. let them sexy shoulders breathe girl!
i have to report, though, that someone showed ‘chelle up last night. oh yes lord–jill biden COMPLETELY stole the show.
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omg. not enough is being said about this dress. it is GORGEOUS! i much prefer this dress to the gown michelle wore (while it was a lovely gown, might i remind you), and i actually would have loved to see michelle in something like this–her skin would carry that color so well.
jill definitely rocked it though. it was designed by Reem Acra, whom i have never heard of. i hope her buisness jumps through the roof after this though, cause Reem is apparently doin the damn thing. it just brightens everything; i never noticed that jill was such a beautiful woman until this gown. i mean everything was on point, hair, makeup, all that. kudos! kudos all around!
so designers everywhere are clamoring to get michelle’s bits and pieces into their designs for her boo’s inauguration. i just took a look at some of the sketches and she’s got some great choices! unfortunately, she has some sucky ones too.
these caught my eye, for better or for worse:
Monique Lhullier. i really like this one because i think michelle’s skin tone carries red really, really well, and she’s got like 1800 miles of legs to rock that dress with. perfect for the length and flourish of the dress. go nique!
Monday, November 24, 2008 — WASHINGTON, D.C.: The presidential tradition of manic pardoning continued today, with soon-to-be former President George W. Bush issuing pardons to 14 chosen convicted and jailed persons around the nation, and commuting the sentences of two others. Among the names on the list are Paul Julian McCurdy of Sulphur, Okla., sentenced for misapplication of bank funds; Daniel Figh Pue III of Conroe, Texas, convicted of illegal treatment, storage and disposal of a hazardous waste without a permit; Leslie Owen Collier of Charleston, Mo., who pleaded guilty in 1995 to unlawfully killing three bald eagles in southeast Missouri; and rapper John Forte.
Forte was arrested in 1994 after being caught with a suitcase containing 30 pounds of liquid cocaine at a US airport, of all places. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but is now faced with 5 years of probation after Bush’s decision to issue a pardon, a decision that, frankly, caught many people off guard. We spoke with an insider in the Bush camp to get some background information on just what brought this decision about.
“It’s pretty simple,” said an aid speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Well, in his mind it’s pretty simple. He said to us, ‘look–’” here, he lifted his arms slightly, jutted his head forward, and curled his lips into a smart alec yet completely oblivious and dead beyond the surface sneer, seemingly in impression of President Bush– “‘look, uh, y’know.. uh, the people wanted change and now they got this uh, this.. this color–this brown guy up fixin to be presidunt. I, yknow, I’m in a heap’a shit, heheheh… we’re on the playground and erv’body wants to be on his team, so yknow what, rather than be on that court with no team, I’m gon’ git right off and be cheerleader instead. Heheheheheheh.’” When asked to expound on what the President may have meant, he said plainly, “Black is the new black! The new president’s black, he’s appointing a lot of black people to White House positions. Everybody hates the President and he’s trying to fix that. He’s trying to get in on this new trend. By pardoning John Forte. Cause Forte’s a rapper. And black people like rap. ‘I’m cool with ‘em now, heheheheheh!’”
We then contacted a man who is currently imprisoned and has been fighting for his release, along with some notable names in the entertainment industry, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life in 1981. Asked to comment, he said, “Ain’t this about a bitch??!”
-The Impoverished Times
i love bob cesca. i thought i had him in my links, but apparently i didnt before today. bob is an all around awesome writer & thinker and owner of the best blog name EVER. he’s got a new book out too! he’s also a contributor to the Huffington Post, where i ran across his open letter to Joe Lieberman today. its a great read, but a long one, so i’ll only post pieces and portions here. if you havent been by his blog yet, you should sooooooooo go. now. quickly. RUN!
Dear Senator Lieberman,
Congratulations! You got away with it! So despite having supported and endorsed the Republican candidate for president — and going so far as to question the patriotism of the Democratic nominee — you’ve managed to keep your chairmanship. By rights, you should’ve been summarily ejector-seated from your committees, bonked on the head with your gavels — cartoon-style — and hauled from the Democratic caucus naked and on a rail whilst being pelted with wadded-up copies of your RNC address.
You got away with it, despite those meddling kids, right?
Not so fast.
I submit to you, Senator Lieberman, that you were punished yesterday more than you realize. Stick with me on this. I’ll explain.
& im half sure they're wearing these same outfits.
because, ladies and gaydies, at long, long last, light-skinded men are coming back in style. hooray!
this comes after the delicious, delicious appointment of barack “sexy casserole” obama and more recently, his appointment of caramel cream colored Eric Holder as Attorney General today.
now, granted, he is no where near touching the all-eclipsing sexiness that is barack o-damn-he’s-fine-bama. but i mean, i dunno. if he lost the 80s porn star stache and maybe got a tight little fade goin? maybe? we could work with him then? i dunno. its tough when this man is your competition.
at any rate, Holder’s sexiness isn’t the real point, nor is his porn stache (& thank bob for that). this is a big day for the light skinned penis-having contingent of this great nation! everybody knows that when wesley snipes stepped on the scene and malik yoba (he used to be fine, yall remember?) & morris chestnut swooped in as reinforcements, light skinned dudes have kinda been on the back burner. oh and then djimon hounsou came along and that was IT. what actually did it for me, though, was the 4 years i spent in college. as ive mentioned, i went to pretty much the whitest school ever created, and while there i became absolutely hungry for ANYTHING black. so when it came to men, it was the blacker the better for me. i wanted to be able to put my head on his chest and hear fuckin… sahara war drums beatin, nahmsayin? i wanted to be able to lick this dude and taste the diaspora. i needed to be able to just.. just damn, hold his hand and feel the souls of a thousand cotton plants livin in them shits, you know?? that’s how *I* crossed over.
but this aint about me. let i refocus.
light skinnnit dudes, it’s lookin up! yall crawlin back in the spotlight! with wesley’s dumb ass goin to jail and denzel’s prose unable to save him, and with a few more appointments like this, yall might end up on top again!
i wanted to see how light skinnnedned men around the nation felt about this, so i pulled some strings and talked briefly with a few well-known folks in the black community. in a B.mc.P Exclusive, i will now share those conversations with you. first up: Morris Day.
if anyone has read more than three entries here, then you know how i feel about Obama’s sexiness. and what you know is the tame version. if i told you how i REALLY felt, you’d look at me like this. and then you’d be all like this. but, i bet at least one or two of yall freaks would be like this, and i worry for your souls as much as i do mine.
but, my friends, as big an Obama perv as i am, i saw this and & i was like THIS.
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i got this from bourgie who got it from glennisha morgan who got it from necole bitchie.
now, this really made me check my pervishness. a lot of people see this as disrespectful. if so, then is my open unbridled lusting for him disrespectful too? i dunno. this is extra and a mess, but iono that id call it disrespectful. but, i gotta try and put myself in barack or michelle’s shoes. if i was barack id either think A – fuck them, they’re calling me a dick, pretty much; or B – hell yeah! bitches want me in they vajayjays! if i was michelle, i might feel peeved. or, maybe id shrug my shoulders and say ‘ah well. he’s famous. people fantasize about famous ppl all the time.’ or maybe id be like, ‘let them hoes dream abt havin him while he’s laid up with me. I WIN YOU LOSE.’ i dunno.
do yall feel this is disrespectful? funny? just plain sad?
okay first things first:
DIDN’T THAT MAN LOOK DELICIOUS ON THE TV LAST NIGHT YALL?!?!
oh my sweet, sweet jesuschild!!!!! he was SCRUMPTIOUS!! he had been lookin kinda old and kinda tired, but last night they got them clippers out, hooked up the hairline, shaped up the brows, moisturized the hell out of his skin, and BAM! President Sexy reporting for duty! WOO!
now that that’s out of the way,
CONGRATULATIONS YALL!! im gonna have a long winded wordy response potentially with some pictures later on, prolly tomorrow, but really quickly i want to share with you the three greatest/most hilarious things i witnessed last night.
#1 – i was at an election night watch party at Sole Food here in philadelphia. free drinks (sort of), free food (i never saw none), and a DJ. after Obama won a key state, i cant remember which one it was…. the line dances start. seriously, it was the blackest thing ive ever witnessed. the cupid shuffle followed by the cha cha slide (has the cha cha slide officially replaced the electric slide?? cause they didnt play that one. i dont think i’ll stand for that)
#2 – out on market street, right near city hall where they’re doing some drilling and work on the street, two construction workers (black) are sitting. well one is sitting, the other is standing and leaning down to the other guy and says loudly, through a laugh: ‘WE GON HAVE FRIED CHICKEN TOMORROW!!’ i instinctively dropped my head, but then i felt torn. i said, ‘o, my brother, i am shamed. but somehow.. i want to join you.’
#3 – this was perhaps my favorite. i saw, with my two own very eyes, a white man walking the streets yelling: FREEDOM! WE’RE FREE!!! FREEDOM!!
yall. white people are in the streets proclaiming freedom… i think it’s official now. lol!
the streets of downtown philadelphia were beautiful last night. it looked exactly the way i imagine Juneteenth looked when i think abt it.
what was it like in your city?? did people take to the streets?
where did u watch it? where were you when you realized he got it?
what was your initial reaction?
did you cry?
did you get drunk?
did you take off work today??
tell me all about it! run! run to the comments! at least three people have to because otherwise i’ll look like the kid sitting by herself in the lunchroom!!!
lol. anyone who knows me knows that im allergic to canadians, but id risk itchy red welts to hug these guys. hilarious! the link in the article posted below didnt work to me, so i’m including youtube audio too.
lol. WHO IS SCREENING HER CALLS??!
Prank Caller Targets Sarah Palin
By CHARMAINE NORONHA
TORONTO (Nov. 1) – Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday.
“Maybe in eight years,” replies a laughing Palin.
Political Machine: Hear the Prank Call Audio
The Republican vice presidential nominee discusses politics, the perils of hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney, and Sarkozy’s “beautiful wife,” in a recording of the six-minute call released Saturday and set to air Monday on a Quebec radio station.
Palin campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt confirmed she had received the prank call.
“Governor Palin was mildly amused to learn that she had joined the ranks of heads of state, including President Sarkozy and other celebrities, in being targeted by these pranksters. C’est la vie,” she said.
The call was made by a well-known Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel. Known as the Masked Avengers, the two are notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state.
Audette, posing as Sarkozy, speaks in an exaggerated French accent and drops ample hints that the conversation is a joke. But Palin seemingly does not pick up on them.
He tells Palin one of his favorite pastimes is hunting, also a passion of the 44-year-old Alaska governor.
“I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun,” the fake Sarkozy says.
He proposes they go hunting together by helicopter, something he says he has never done.
“Well, I think we could have a lot of fun together while we’re getting work done,” Palin counters. “We can kill two birds with one stone that way.”
The comedian jokes that they shouldn’t bring Cheney along on the hunt, referring to the 2006 incident in which the vice-president shot and injured a friend while hunting quail.
“I’ll be a careful shot,” responds Palin.
Playing off the governor’s much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into
sacre bleu! ze sarah palin, she iz eh, how you say, eh, dumb as a box of panties! hawhawhawhawhaw!!
foreign policy because “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska,” the caller tells her: “You know we have a lot in common also, because … from my house I can see Belgium.”
She replies: “Well, see, we’re right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes.”
When Audette refers to Canadian singer Steph Carse as Canada’s prime minister, Palin replies: “Well, he’s doing fine and yeah, when you come into a position underestimated it gives you an opportunity to prove the pundits and the critics wrong. You work that much harder.” Canada’s prime minister is Stephen Harper.
Palin praises Sarkozy throughout the call and also mentions his wife Carla Bruni, a model-turned-songwriter.
“You know, I look forward to working with you and getting to meet you personally and your beautiful wife,” Palin says. “Oh my goodness, you’ve added a lot of energy to your country with that beautiful family of yours.”
The Sarkozy impersonator tells Palin his wife is “so hot in bed” and then informs her that Bruni has written a song for her about Joe the Plumber entitled “De rouge a levre sur un cochon” — which translates as “Lipstick on a Pig.”
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama derided his Republican challenger John McCain’s call for change in Washington as “lipstick on a pig,” days after Palin made a lipstick joke at the Republican convention. The McCain-Palin campaign then released an ad implying Obama was calling Palin a pig with that remark.
The caller asks Palin if Joe the Plumber is her husband and adds: “We have the equivalent of Joe the Plumber in France. It’s called Marcel, the guy with bread under his armpit.”
He also tells the Alaska governor that he loved the “documentary” made about her and referred to a pornographic film with a Palin look-alike made by Hustler founder Larry Flynt.
She answers tentatively, “Ohh, good, thank you, yes.”
The callers then reveal the prank and identify themselves and their radio station.
“Ohhh, have we been pranked?” Palin asks. “And what radio station is this?”
Obama’s campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs, commenting on the prank, said: “I’m glad we check out our calls before we hand the phone to Barack Obama.”
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