It's Not Just the National Debt...

No, it's not just the national debt that's getting bigger and bigger with each passing month of the Obama administration.

Has anyone else noticed how much larger Michelle Obama's butt has been getting lately? The federal budget has ballooned to twice the size it was a year ago, and so has Michelle's butt. I noticed this a couple of days ago on a news story in which she happened to be walking away from the camera. I went back through some photos of her during the campaign and compared.

Yes, it's grown. Inflation, I guess.

A blog I ran across a few weeks ago made the observation that "... she annoys the crap out of me. Not so much her, now that I think of it. Moreso people who think she's great. And the next Jackie Kennedy. And Jesus' wife. Fist off, she looks like Helen Keller dresses her half the time. Second, she looks like she tried to make out with a weedwhacker. While juggling knives with her face."

I'm not sure about the face part. But, man, that butt....

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Keeping Up With Those Wacky Obamas

Set the DVR! Michelle Obama is all set for her big premier on Sesame Street. In November, Michelle will travel to Sesame Street to educate the muppets on the benefits of growing your own vegetables, which she assures everyone, will be healthy and will taste great! No word if the Sesame Street garden has high levels of lead and had been fertilized with sludge.

And if you can't get enough of that First Couple, you can own the very seats they occupied in the Belasco Theater on their infamous New York Date Night last May! Yes, it's true! Seats K101 and K102 can be yours! Opening bids start at $500 and all proceeds go to a theater based charity group. You know, word is that after the Obamas attended the play, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, that ticket sales for the production doubled!

Meanwhile, the Obamas are using local school children as junior lobbyists for the 2016 Olympics, and are still refusing to answer questions about the funding and staffing for the official White House Olympics Office. Not to worry though, kiddos! On Thursday, the Obamas will jet off to Copenhagen to use their considerable persuasive charm on the IOC in hopes that the Olympics will soon come to The Windy City! Of course, not all Chicagoans are hoping for an Obama success story in that regard; there is the Chicagoans For Rio group who are, you guessed it, pulling for Rio!

And, never idle, those wacky Obamas went on a sightseeing tour Sunday evening with First Grandmother in tow as well as Maya Soetoro-Ng, the president's half-sister, her husband, Konrad Ng, and their daughters Suhaila and Savita. They visited the Jefferson Memorial, where he stayed for ten minutes, and then the Washington Monument, where the group spent about 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Russia.....

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White House Refuses to Answer Questions About Green Jobs Czar

More than five months after the Obama administration announced the hiring of its “green jobs czar,” Van Jones (right), the White House has refused to explain whether it knew of Jones admitted black nationalist and radical communist history and just who hired the advisor.

Also questions continue to fester about how Jones, who has an arrest history, passed security clearances for his White House position.

Cliff Kincaid, an editor at Accuracy in Media, attempted to answer some of these questions when he used the Freedom of Information Act in April to request immediate access to all documents relating to the appointment of Jones to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he serves as special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation.

The Council, which hired Jones, replied that it “searched its records system and found none responsive” for Kincaid’s request.

The Council recommended more information be sought at the White House Press Office, which did not respond to Kincaid’s requests about on how Jones was hired.

The White House also did not reply to numerous WND requests for comment.

Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck program similarly asked the White House whether it was aware of Jones radical history.

The White House provided the following response: “Mr. Jones is entirely focused on one policy goal: building clean energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources.”

The lack of available information concerning Jones is unusual since the Obama transition team previously touted it developed a seven-page questionnaire that included 63 questions about an applicant’s background and qualifications for a federal job. Kincaid pointed out that CNN reported the document was to be for “every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions in the incoming administration.”

However, there is no information Jones ever filled out the document.

Also, there are open questions as to how Jones obtained a White House security clearance. He spent time in jail several times, including in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots.

Jones was the leader and founder of a radical communist and black nationalist group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.

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A Piece of the Pie

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Michelle Gets a $6000 Purse

While I wouldn't say that the story of Michelle Obama's expensive alligator purse rises to the level of a scandal (much less a crisis), I have to say I'm glad to see it being reported:

Earlier this week (while strolling the wooded landscape outside of Moscow), she carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag - with a retail sticker price of $5,950.

Hmmm.... Analyzing this is going to be complicated, I'm afraid, as there are a variety of competing political and cultural factors at play. I don't know which should be a greater concern -- the price of the bag, or its animal origin. Six grand is a lot to pay for a purse, but considering that the president gets in more trouble for swatting a fly than for profligate spending, I'd say that enabling the slaughtering and skinning of alligators should be considered more serious than the amount on the store price tag.

It does seem there is a double standard here. Sarah Palin got into huge trouble over the alleged cost of some clothes purchased during the last campaign while the nation was entering a recession, and Condoleezza Rice was excoriated for buying an expensive pair of shoes in New York when people were dealing with Katrina in New Orleans.

Not to get off track here, but has there ever been a time when someone wasn't hurting or poor?

But aside from that, there seems to be another issue: a credibility gap between the White House and the purse manufacturer:

The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875.

The First Lady, who has impressed with her chic, affordable style sense, embracing Everywoman brands like Gap and J.Crew, flashed the shiny handheld while walking with her husband, President Barack Obama, during their Monday meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana.

Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It's definitely ours."

Whoaooohhh there!

I'd say VBH and Kelly Vitko better be careful or they might soon learn that they are about to be audited by the IRS (... by people who don't file returns and who don't get audited, of course).

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Caption This

Let's have some fun. I took this photo from a photo essay on CBS news' website, fawning over what a fashion icon Michelle Obama has become. How would you caption this photo?

(Caption doesn't have to be fashion related.  Just the funniest, or most appropriate thing you can think of.)

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Work It, Girl

There were a lot of high profile, potentially world-changing stories that came across the news wires this week. The stories ran the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. In Iran, people have been taking to the streets in protest of their presidential election shenanigans. Many of them have been murdered. After the 2000 American presidential election, the worst example of “protest” was Al Gore growing a beard. In North Korea, resident madman Kim Jong Il is threatening to launch a nuclear war, because it is much more important to rattle a saber instead of say, feeding your people. Oh, and President Barack Obama fired an Inspector General who was investigating one of his supporters. Nothing to see there.

Naturally, one would think that the above stories would be of utmost importance. However, one would be wrong. See, there is a much more pressing issue that affects each and every person on this big blue marble we call Earth.  At least according to many media sources, which buried the stories mentioned above but highlighted the one mentioned below.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America held its annual awards on Monday night. Who is the Council of Fashion Designers of America? Members of the Council are like the Jedi Council, but instead of lightsabers, they wield hatpins. They protect and defend the rights of clothes-wearing citizens everywhere. In short, they are the fashion police.

Most of the awards were bestowed upon the giants of the industry. Apparently, the CFDA believes that First Lady Michelle Obama is one of these giants. That’s right; Michelle Obama – the woman who wore the curtain from the old Merv Griffin Show to the Inauguration – is being recognized as a fashion icon.

Michelle Obama, are they kidding? Last week, this woman was seen wearing something from the Cyndi Lauper Collection: a white top with multi-colored fabric wrapped around her stomach. It was an abomination that even Peg Bundy would not be caught in at her insane, inbred family reunion. What’s next for the First Lady, feathered boas?

(For more, including pictures, see this previous post.

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Somebody Needed To Say It: Our First Lady Needs Help Dressing Herself

John Hawkins at Right Wing News is right on this one.  Somebody needed to say it:

I'm not the sort of person who generally has anything to say about how someone dresses especially since I'm certainly not going to make anyone's "best dressed" list myself. That being said, Michelle Obama consistently wears more butt-ugly outfits than any other famous woman in America. Now, I wouldn't even bring this up except for the fact that people keep talking about Michelle Obama like she's some sort of fashion diva. Seriously? Come on, people would laugh at anybody else who regularly wears these sort of garish outfits,

I know, the one where she looks like a black widow spider is probably from some famous designer and the one where she looks like a monk is probably something Lady Gaga's cousin made for her or something -- I'm just saying, give us a break on the hero worship of the Obamas. It's bad enough that the mainstream media acts like their press flacks and that they're on the cover of every magazine, but listening to people rave about Michelle Obama's wardrobe is like a bad Saturday Night Live skit.

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Obama's Date Night Cost $73,000 and Leaves Huge Carbon Footprint

Apparently, Michelle Obama is not a cheap date. A $73,000 "date night" for the Obamas will cost taxpayers about $73,000.

Not that I care all that much about the cost.  This country has a lot bigger spending problems to face than Presidential travel.  And, to a certain extent, this is one of the perks of the job.  All Presidents traveled for personal pleasure, and being the President means having an entourage and a security detail everywhere you go.  It’s unavoidable.

What I’m much more worried about is the carbon footprint.  After all, Obama wants to tax carbon emissions and regulate where our thermostats are set and what sort of vehicles we drive all in the name of thwarting what he believes will be a global warming apocalypse, yet he can whisk his wife away to New York on a gas-guzzling jet (not to mention a gas-guzzling helicopter) for a date?

Obama tells me I have to change my lifestyle and sacrifice for the greater good while he’s busy flying down to New York for some fine dining and theater.

If you ask me, this little move by Obama should kill his cap and trade legislation.  If global warming isn’t enough of a threat to get Obama to change his lifestyle, then why should it be enough to justify regulating every part of my lifestyle?

When it comes to Global Warming, Obama is Al Gore Part 2:  Do as I legislate, not as I do.

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Michelle: Give Something Back

In case you missed it, first lady Michelle Obama, spoke at the graduation of California's smallest and youngest public institution. Her message to the graduating seniors was an urge for them to give something back to their community.

"Many of you may be considering leaving town with your diploma in hand, and it wouldn't be unreasonable. By using what you've learned here you can shorten the path perhaps for kids who may not see a path at all. I was once one of those kids," she said. "Remember that you are blessed. Remember that in exchange for those blessings, you must give something back. You must reach back and pull someone up. You must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders so that they can see a brighter future."

Give as she says, not as she gives.

In 2000 through 2004, Barack Obama and his wife gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned to charities. Less than 1 percent, for those of you who were reaching for a calculator.

Maybe that's because Michelle O wasn't "proud" of her country back then. Or maybe it's because, like most democrats, what she says doesn't match up very well with what she does.

Just ask Turbo Tax Tim Geithner, who wants to catch tax cheats.

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