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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - Do NOT EVEN sacrifice the Gosslin family due to some piss-poor skankface housewives!!! For the love of Jon, Kate, Mady, Cara, Alexis, Joel, Hannah, Collin, Leah and my luv muffin Aaden... not all reality television programming is worthless.
I love you... plus eight ;)
Welcome to my life... Good luck with unemployment, it's a fucking joke.
Sorry - who me? bitter? Nah ;)
You know how I feel -
Destiny's Child put it best "No, No, No, NO"
ok so I just tested this meebo shit - you can edit your user name on the chat. Click on "edit nickname" on the bottom of the screen, and it lets you type in a name :)
and for those of you hell bent on being "Guest18952489348" - no, I wont be providing you with my Social Security Number, or forward $1,000 to an African bank account.
Love :)
So, I've come across various different srticles today, all discussing the same thing... the amount of money that is being spent on pimping out the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, your friend and mine, Sarah Palin.
Here's a snippet from MSNBC & the Associated Press-
WASHINGTON - When the Republican Party decided to coordinate expenses with John McCain's presidential campaign, who knew it would be color coordinated.
The Republican National Committee spent about $150,000 on clothing, hair styling, makeup and other "campaign accessories" in September for the McCain campaign after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined the ticket as his running mate.
The McCain campaign now says the clothing will go to a "charitable purpose" after the campaign.
The expenses include $75,062 spent at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis and $41,850 in St. Louis in early September. The committee also reported spending $4,100 for makeup and hair consulting. The expenses were first reported by Politico.com.
The RNC also spent $4,902 at Atelier, a stylish men's clothing store in New York. Other purchases included a $92 romper and matching hat with ears for Palin's baby, Trig, at Pacifier, a baby store in Minneapolis.
Wing Witthuhn, who owns the store with her husband, said a young staffer with an RNC credit card purchased the clothes during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Trig wore the romper the night Palin addressed the convention.
"With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it's remarkable that we're spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses," said McCain spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, who has been traveling with Palin. "It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign."
In 2007, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards sparked Internet derision and jokes from late-night TV comics after his campaign for the party's nomination paid for two $400 haircuts by a stylist from Beverly Hills, Calif. His campaign said the bill was paid by the campaign by mistake and that Edwards would reimburse the campaign.
The RNC has been helping the McCain campaign financially now that McCain is locked into spending only $84 million for the fall campaign under his agreement to accept public financing. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, chose not to participate in the public system and raised a whopping $150 million in September.
The RNC is allowed to spend up to $19 million in "coordinated expenses" with the campaign. In September, it spent a a total of $4.4 million. The clothing and styling was part of that, but most was spent on postage for campaign mailings.
So why did the RNC and not McCain's committee pay for the accessories?
The 2002 campaign finance law that bears McCain's name specifically barred any funds that "are donated for the purpose of supporting the activities of a federal or state office holder" from being used for personal expenses including clothing. A quirk in the law does not specifically mention party committees, however.
That doesn't mean the expenditure would not be subject to a challenge before the Federal Election Commission.
Lawrence M. Noble, former general counsel at the FEC, noted that as a coordinated party expense, the clothing purchase could be considered a contribution to the campaign.
"And if it was a contribution, then it could not have been used for buying clothing," Noble said. "I don't know how the FEC would come out on that question."
"If it is covered (as a personal use expense), the argument that we were going to give it to a charity doesn't help," he added.
Fifteen years ago, McCain himself complained that restrictions on political contributions for personal use at that time were too broad and he wrote an amendment to tighten the law.
"The use of campaign funds for items which most Americans would consider to be strictly personal reasons, in my view, erodes public confidence and erodes it significantly," he said on the Senate floor in May 1993.
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Does anyone else find this absolutely REDICULOUS?!?! This idiot woman is walking around billing herself as Mrs. All-American Joe-Sixpack, and she's spending more money on campaign clothing than most of the people in this country spend on their homes!!! And really, I get their slant of trying to say that the clothing will be donated to charity, but seriously, the Salvation Army really needs designer labels from Neiman's??? WTF?!!
A Sidenote - I'm glad to know that Michelle Obama shops at the GAP :)
She's thrifty, AND keeps a paycheck in my pocket!
We need a kitchen party - PRONTO.
I want to drink 3 bottles of wine, sing along with the ipod, smoke cigarettes (and cough), eat cheese out of the fridge without you or Jonas noticing, and drive home well past bedtime.
I'll expect an invitation within a week - please and thank you.
Martha Stewart suggests catagorizing them by date, and also color-coding them by embarassment level. She reccomends using Marigold for "eh, I didn't really want that job anyway", Pink Blush for "I guess I was pretty underqualified for this position", Robin's egg blue for "Wow, maybe I bombed the interview", Lavender for "maybe I should have flashed the recruiter my boob", and Slate Gray for "maybe I SHOULDN'T have flashed the recruiter my boob".
Happy organizing!
LK's was a bit more positive than mine, but I think I've gotten to the point that if you can't laugh at your pathetic ass, then you're just gonna cry when everyone else does... hahaha, here goes...
1. Go to your part-time job and complete menial tasks to make a minor attempt to increase your self-esteem and self-worth.
"Have you seen our new sweaters? We JUST got these in for Holiday!"
"Do you need those Long and Leans in a Regular or Ankle length ma'am?"
And my favorite "would you like to open a GapGard today? You can save 20% off your purchase AND put your family one step closer to food stamps when you can't afford to pay our astronomical annual fee and finance charges!"
2. Do at-home Yoga or Pilates in your skivvies while hoping the neighbors can't see in the windows. And when you get tired, continue to watch the work-out while eating high-calorie, carb-rich sugar cereal.
3. Check your bank statement online - religiously. Pray that your unemployment claim that is 10 weeks behind finally comes through, then weep after seeing how close your coming to complete destitution, while also rejoicing on the days that your part-time job desposits the $67.04 that you made the week before. (yeah, it's sad - but that's beer money bitches!)
4. In the middle of the day, Call ALL of your friends that have jobs... you know that they're busy, but you aint got shit to do. Remind them that you just woke up an hour ago, and then ask if you can borrow 20 bucks for beers this weekend :)
5. And finally, when you're at your breaking point... check the local craigslist ads for adult gigs. See if your dream of becoming a dominatrix may just become a reality, thanks to that naughty little pig-boy that wants to lick your boots...
wait - they aren't the same person???
dammit.
1. Find a new job.
2. Get a new car.
3. Enjoy Thanksgiving - with all the carbs I can eat!
4. Carve a million pumpkins with Sarah - using ideas found on MarthaStewart.com
5. Visit Michelle in New Hampshire and roll around in the leaves.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit...
DO NOT WANT!
um... I already have that one... it's in braille on my upper left ass cheek.
(if you're gonna be a skank, at least be an equal opportunity one!)
ooooh - only if you name the first album "Tossed"
dirty dirty girl ;)
1. Matching birds with Sarah.
2. A cover up or addition to the butch tribal monstrosity on my hip.
3. "hope" - location and language to be determined
4. generic kanji symbol for "independent" or "independence" (which could qualify for Caleb's "something white people get")
5. I always thought it would be fun to pull a Britney, shave my head, and have my entire scalp covered in a giant tattoo - which would then be covered once my hair grows back :)
yeah, yeah - I sorta expected this response from all you bread-eating carb lovers. I was just hoping that my delicious turkey BLT lettuce wrap would qualify within your sandwich hierarchy… oh well, it’s not going to stop me from enjoying every bite of the “salad in my hands” :P
A question for all of you sandwich connoisseurs from your low carb companion -
does your definition of a sandwich HAVE to include bread?
I've made a few kick-ass meals lately with sandwich-esque qualities, however, replacing the bread with lettuce... Is this a sandwich?
