politi-couture for the urbane sophisticate
Just days after Republicans were branded “Party of the Rich” by serial vacationist President Obama, wrap dress aficionado Diane von Furstenberg has designed a special bag for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser that took place this evening.
The average DvF bag is $875.
Pissed at your boyfriend’s lovegames? Upset that the economic stimulus was less than stimulating and want to let some steam out? Well then you may be in luck, as a mall in Shenyang, China has created a “women-only venting store.” Sorry Mel Gibson— only women are allowed to lose their cool here. For one minute and one minute only, women are allowed to come into the store and break old TV’s and cell phones after donning a helmet and gloves. Shopping mall business manager Wang Jingyu describes the purpose of such a store so that, “women can come here to feel like they are in their own homes but without any limitations, and they can break anything here.” Interestingly enough, most “customers” are college students and white-collar workers. Wait a minute, you have to PAY for this?!
I know that when I’m angry my first thought is to hop in the car and drive twenty minutes to my local mall so that I can take a baseball bat to the wall. I imagine most women looking like this upon entering the store….
I love that ABCNews doesn’t even try to hide how ridiculous this is:
“On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there’s a 10′ x 11′ road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there’s another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That’s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is “Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and is “Putting America Back to Work.” The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.
ABC News has reached out to a number of states about spending on stimulus signs and learned the state of Illinois has spent $650,000 on about 950 signs and Pennsylvania has spent $157,000 on 70 signs. Other states, like Virginia, Vermont, and Arizona do not sanction any signs.”
Arianna Brown, the single daughter of Sen. “Scottie too hottie” Brown (R-MA), will be working with her agent to advnance her modeling endeavors for the summer. The Syracuse student is spending her summer with Maggie, Inc., the Boston modeling firm with which has been for two years. This picture, by the way, is not her. It’s her sister Ayla. I just like her because she looks like a friendlier Leighton Meester. I can’t stand Blair Waldorf.
I just hope there’s no father-daughter shoot…
We’ve got another half of the year before we start hunting for Christmas trees, but the government does things a bit differently. The superintendent of the US Capitol grounds flew out to Wyoming over the weekend to pick the perfect Christmas tree from Bridger-Teton National Forest. Don’t worry, you paid for the private jet and luxury accommodations.
There were 23 potential trees, which went to 10, but slowly each was eliminated under the perfect contestant was determined. Number 7 didn’t get enough spray tan, while number 4 obviously wasn’t watching its photosynthesis this year, that glutton.
The winner? A 67-foot Englemann spruce. I have no idea what that means, but it doesn’t sound flame retardant.
Since an organization that has within its bylaws specific limitations on allowing fully white men and women into it is definitely not racist, the NAACP will be voting on a resolution to official call out those of the Tea Party Movement “racist.” This is a good use of time and resources.
From FoxNEWS:
Nation’s leading civil rights group is poised to decide on a resolution to condemn the Tea Party movement as racist, despite claims from Tea Partiers that the measure is just a political ploy.
In a recently published study conducted by Minnesota Majority, it was discovered that at least 341 convicted felons illegally voted for the SNL funny man turned politician, Al Franken, in his recent Senate race. Sen. Franken beat his Republican opponent by a slim 312 votes, suggesting that at least some of the convicted felons contributed to his victory. Minnesota Majority stumbled upon this information after eight months of matching conviction information with local voting records. Their executive director, Dan McGrath claims, “We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn’t compromised.”
Along with Al Franken, Minnesota has had some other highly-qualified and experienced politicians including former WWF-er/Governor, Jesse Ventura. My Yorkshire Terrier, Berkley, will be running for the Minnesota Senate this upcoming election. He likes to wrestle and he is hilarious, so voters will obviously see his abilities to run state affairs.
Since she believes people should just tan in peace, Snooki told Meghan McCain in an interview for Daily Beast that she in fact voted for the Arizona senator. She commented, “To be honest with you, I’m not really a Republican or a Democrat. I actually signed up as an independent, just because I don’t want to pick any side and also I don’t really know a lot about politics. I only know politics about, like, you know, tanning and being a Guidette. So when I saw it was Obama and McCain, to be honest with you, the only reason why I voted for your father was because he was really cute and I liked when he did his speeches.”
I think it’s adorable that registering to vote in Snooki’s world is “signing up,” like it’s some sort of cheerleading try out. Interesting that the over-baked fake Italian prefers the super white candidate to the partially black one. People never give reality stars enough credit these days.
