When Whitney Port made the move from LA’s “Hills” to document her fashion coming-of-age in “The City,” we rejoiced. We felt Port had more to offer than just the blank stares and backstabbing of her cohort. And while Port’s 20-something escapades were definitely more interesting to watch than Spedi/Justin Bobby/Whoever else ate up screen time on the West Coast, we paid more attention this second season with the addition of Kelly Cutrone. Cutrone is the powerhouse between fashion PR, branding, marketing and production firm People’s Revolution. Known for her no-nonsense attitude, we live for Kelly’s “There’s No Crying In Fashion!” bon mots.

Apparently we’re not the only ones. Cutrone’s reality show “Kell On Earth” premieres on Bravo February 1. Visit Bravo’s blog to catch exclusive video of Cutrone explaining what her show will be like and what audiences will be shocked to learn about the fashion world icon,

Attempts by regular people to be on the public eye, have ranged from silly, i.e.: Heidi & Spencer Pratt (“Speidi”), from MTV’s The Hills, having a fake wedding in Mexico, to irresponsible, i.e.: the balloon boy hoax and lately, with the Virginia couple who crashed a White House dinner, has even exposed flaws on the Secret Service. These hoaxes may start silly and innocent enough, but it makes you wonder what would the next fame hungry person will do to make a name for themselves? They can only up the amp.

Balloon Boy Family

One thing all these cases have in common is that they all are/aspire to be in a reality show. Recently and innocently enough, Nadya Suleman, a mom with six children went trough in vitro in order to have more kids. She ended up having eight more babies and being known as Octo-Mom. As I said before, she’s doing it for the fame. Richard and Mayumi Heene, aka “balloon boy masterminds” had already appeared in ABC’s “Wife Swap” a few times and were looking to up their notoriety in order to sell their reality show to networks. With this hoax, not only they had a nation worried about the safety of a six-year-old, but they spent a lot of tax-payer money in order to retrieve a child who wasn’t in the balloon to begin with. Not only that, but what example does this gives to three young kids?

Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the White House dinner crashers.

And as recent as last week, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Virginia couple who crashed the Obama’s dinner are also trying to get more notoriety for an upcoming “The Real Housewives” reality show with Bravo. I must admit, however, that even though they did crash the party for fame and pictures, it was only the Secret Service fault here. They should have known this couple wasn’t invited to the wedding.

Fame has become so easy to attain for anyone, before, fame used to mean something. It meant someone was a talented performer, player or political figure. With the advent of reality shows and Youtube, more and more careless and irresponsible individuals have been trying to become famous no matter what. Jon and Kate, from TLC’s Jon and Kate plus eight, don’t really care about the safety of their kids. If they did, they would’ve shut-down production a long time ago and not to negotiate more money/presence in the show. Nadya Suleman, would’ve used the disability money she had not to pay for in vitro or plastic surgery to look like Angelina Jolie, but to feed her original six kids, to provide them with clothes and better shelter and hopefully a future. Now, with rumors still existing for a book and a TV deal, plus constant coverage on US Weekly, her efforts have paid themselves. Yet, who cares about these 14 children? No one. And now, Nadya is famous for getting pregnant.

We need, as a society, as a nation and as consumers to avoid anything that has to do with any of these people, or future individuals who will be careless enough to put themselves, their children or anyone else in danger for their benefit. Even if it’s not reckless, even if it’s stupid like “Speidi” is, we need to put a check and not put them in the cover of a magazine or as a center story. The media also has a big responsibility when it comes to this and it’s time they are held accountable. On that note E! should be congratulated by banning any news regarding Heidi and Spencer Pratt (unless it’s legitimate, like babies or death). I can’t imagine what hoax or desperate-attempt-for-fame someone will do, but hopefully it will go unnoticed.

It’s becoming a habit: HSN’s celebrity vendors winding up on the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column. Monday it was “Top Chef’s” lovely Padma Lakshmi.

Page Six offered a tidbit, from its upcoming interview Thursday with the pregnant Lakshmi. It will appear in Page Six Magazine.

Bravo star Lakshmi, who has done a line of her cookbooks, teas and spices for HSN, tells Page Six, “I like me better naked….When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s just you, raw, and you can’t hide.”

We’re sure that will catch the attention and spark some fantasies for many red-blooded American men.

We can’t wait to read the full interview Thursday.

Over the weekend, the usually-fine folks at Gawker posted an item we can in no way get behind: “Seven reasons why the White House party crashers are awesome for America.”

Now we’re late to the party on this one (meaning we’ve had some time to think about it), but we do know one thing: that’s just stupid. These two morons played dress-up, snuck into the White House (Secret Service fuck-up, or not), posted their pictures on freakin’ Facebook and now are trying to get top dollar for their retarded story. And of course the proverbial cherry on top of their super-ghey escapade is that it’s all for the sake of reality TV.

The White House party crashers actually represent everything that’s bad in America: They’re selfish, pathetic and driven almost entirely by status. To boot, Tareq Salahi has even been involved in litigation with his own family (not surprisingly, over a vineyard). They’re social climbers who believe the way to the top is through trashy TV; in other words, they’re the ballon boy’s parents in formal attire. In fact, they’re so quintessentially American that we’re surprised they’re not fat.

Are they the worst people in America? Probably not…well, maybe. But more importantly, they’re the latest sad chapter for a society that’s obsessed with nonsense. From Oprah’s Favorite Things (R.I.P.) to Tiger Woods’ car crash/assault, and from Brangelina to the Mark Sanford scandal, people are far more obsessed with the trivial and the stupid than with anything of consequence.

On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Republican strategist Ed Rollins summed up the situation in a way we can only applaud:

They basically trespassed,” Mr. Rollins said. “They had no right to be there. The Secret Service has a tough-enough task without having people dress up and pretend they’re important.”

Referring to the Salahis’ reported intention to appear on the reality television show “The Real Housewives of Washington,” Mr. Rollins continued, “These people want a reality TV show, give them one. It’s called ‘Dealing With the Federal Prosecution System of the District of Columbia.’ ”

That.

Yes, send them to Gitmo.

Cuando tenía 4 años

aprendí a leer y a escribir

ayer recuerdo, leía todo lo que veía,

hoy veo, escribo todo lo que leo,

mañana leeré

todo lo que he escrito

y he visto

habrá un día

en el que la educación

y la cultura

llegará solo al bravo pueblo.

Lion Chinaski

When in trouble, whether it’s over a sinking economy, a highly unpopular health care plan, terrorist attacks on our own soil, climategate, spending us into oblivion, and countless other instances of fraud, deceit, and failure…

CREATE A DIVERSION! Enter: Tareq and Michaele Salahi… AKA “The Party Crashers”.

“Party Crashers” had five-year relationship with Obama before state dinner
Article: Canada Free Press

While the big gun media and American Secret Service are out there investigating “party crashers” Tareq and Michaele Salahi, no one’s telling the truth: Obama knew the Salahis when he was still an Illinois senator.

Polo Contacts Worldwide could make it easy for the investigating Secret Service by brown-enveloping them this picture:

Oh my God. He’s holding a Gobson Les Paul. It says “ROCK THE VOTE”. This disgusts me.

Hey Secret Agent Man, here’s Obama, the senator flashing his pearly whites with Randy Jackson, better known as a judge on American Idol. “Others pictured are Black Eyed Peas Rock Band; Tareq Salahi the President of the America’s Polo Cup; President Elect Obama, Fergie from Black eyed Peas and Michaele Salahi, posing this time as a former Miss USA and SuperModel.”

Interesting little detail for White House gumshoes: As the above photo was published in June 2005, Barack Obama was still Senator Obama and not the President Elect.

And with Michaele Salahi yesterday having been caught out—Facebook pompoms notwithstanding—as a bogus cheerleader for the Washington Red Skins and not a model for Victoria’s Secret as claimed, Canada Free Press (CFP) leaves it to FoxNews.com to find out if she ever was a “former Miss USA”.

We do know for a fact that among the slew of memberships on charitable boards, Tareq Salahi is a former member of The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP). The only way to know for a fact is because even though ATFP scrubbed all references to Salahi as a board member, he can still be found on Google cache. (Canada Free Press)

Sad that White House Secret Service are looking like Keystone Kops in the aftermath of Obama’s very first state house dinner in the tent.

Google has a thing for scrubbing anything that might shine a negative light on BHussein. They even removed the term “climategate” from their drop down search menu. It was there several days ago.

While the media is fixated on the hitch in Michaele Salahi’s git-along, there can be no doubt that these recently minted “party crashers” really get around.

We take you back to June 9, 2005 when Tom Nelson, operating officer of AARP, was summing up the Rock the Vote Awards night. According to the Washington Post “everyone from Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson and R&B singer Mya gathered in the National Building Museum’s Great Hall:

“You were probably wondering, as you sat down at your table, ‘What the heck is the AARP doing in a Rock the Vote Event?’” Nelson noted.

Time would soon tell that the AARP would show up in other fishy places.

And if there is anyone who must know that this weekend’s party crasher story is a crock it’s John McCain who was at the Vote Awards Night, and who along with Barack Obama, was honored with the Rock the Nation Award, Obama “for forming a multiracial coalition in winning his seat”.

McCain was handed his award for “his work on campaign finance reform”. “Just call me Funk Master McCain,” he told the audience of 1,000 in accepting his award.: (washingtonpost.com, June 9, 2005.

Hey, McCain. How about you stop cheezin’ it up over an award and tell BHussein how to work on a GODDAMN BUDGET. Yeah, I get it. Fat chance.

Meanwhile, don’t know why Obama’s long time associates possibly could be mistaken for party crashers when they came into the tent with a Bravo Reality TV Show “Real Housewives of DC” professional camera crew and makeup artist in tow unless he was hoping for a Reality gig for wife Michelle, CBS celebrity Katie Couric or Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Well, at least they didn’t use their child as a tool in order to get a spot on a Reality TV show. We ALL remember BALLOON boy. Fucking idiots.

Obama could end the “party crasher” goose chase for White House Secret Service in a proverbial New York Minute by coming clean on his almost 5-year-old social/political relationship with Tareq and Michaele Salahi.

It could save money in these recessionary times and put an end to the drama of Washington’s “unprecedented” first state dinner in a tent.

Wait; did THIS CanadaFreePress journalist just use “Obama” and “save money” in the same article? COME ON, NOW.

Every minute of the last episode of Top Chef made your stomach turn with nerves. Each season of Top Chef, which airs on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. on Bravo, includes the highly anticipated “Restaurant Wars” episode. In the show, the contestants are split up into two teams, and each team is given one night to open their ideal restaurant. Restaurant Wars has become notoriously the most difficult and unpredictable challenge for the Top Chef participants. Everything from “front of house” service to menu selection and execution are left up to the teams. There is very little guidance from the judges, who include Tom Colicchio (head judge), Padma Lakshmi (host and judge), Gail Simmons, Toby Young, and the guest judge for this particular evening, celebrated sustainable seafood chef, Rick Moonen.

The show is now in its sixth season, yet rather than seem stale, the competition, challenges, and contestants just keep getting better. The tension in the kitchen this season is so thick you could cut it with those big, dangerous knives of theirs. Although the structure of the competition is the same (each episode still contains a “Quickfire” challenge and an elimination challenge), the catch this season is that, in honor of the Las Vegas location, the winners of the Quickfires are offered either cash in the form of poker chips or immunity from elimination. The winner of the elimination challenge is awarded upwards of $10,000 in poker chips, as well.

The Quickfire that kicked off the ninth episode of Top Chef was as difficult a challenge as I have ever seen. Each team of four (Team One: Jennifer, Laurine, Mike, and Kevin and Team Two: Eli, Robin, Bryan, and Michael) had forty minutes to create a dish. The twist? Each team member had only ten minutes to work on the dish, and none of the team members were allowed to discuss the dish until it was his or her turn to be “tagged in” to the kitchen. The chef’s even wore blindfolds so that they could not see what was going on prior to their turns. It was extremely nerve racking, and I could hardly keep myself from shouting to Kevin “POACH THE FISH!” as I felt Jennifer’s distress over the final plate.

Padma offered the winning team from the Quickfire to either take the $10,000 to split among them, or risk the money to win $40,000, if they won the elimination challenge. The winning team risks it, and the show acquires an even higher level of intensity.

The same teams that were matched for the Quickfire remained for the elimination challenge. Michael and Bryan are brothers and they are both arguably the best chefs on the show. However, Jennifer and Kevin have been paired before with great results. The teams seemed well matched, even though the brothers together were obviously going to be stiff competition.

Jennifer’s team came up with “Mission” for their restaurant title. I thought at first they might be referring to the lovely fig, but its meaning simplistically implied their task at hand. Michael’s team came up with “Revolt,” a name that earned mockery from Colicchio.

I couldn’t help but root for Kevin and Jennifer, my two favorite chefs, who both have a quiet, focused disposition. Although I agree that nearly everything Michael creates is unique and mouthwatering, I find his cocky attitude to be very unappetizing.

According to judge Toby Young, for one team, “the wheels just came off the bus.” The members experienced extreme dysfunction and disappointment. However, the other team earned the title of “the best restaurant in the history of Restaurant Wars,” by a typically very tough critic, Colicchio. The episode certainly fed my appetite for drama and excitement. Did I feel as though the correct team got their just desserts? You will have to watch and see.

-Leila Mattimore

My Saturday was pretty much spent watching a youtube marathon of “Kathy Griffin – My Life on The D List”. I fricken love Kathy Griffin. I love her crass, no filter potty-mouth humor. She and I have a lot in common when it comes to our sense of humor.

I was noticing that since she divorced from her husband that she has been on the road a lot more than when she was with him. Or am I making this up? I really don’t understand how people don’t know who Kathy Griffin is. If I passed her on a crowded street I’d probably first pee my pants and then run over to her yelling, “Kathy Griffin! Kathy Griffin! I’m your biggest fan! You’re fricken hilarious, Kathy Griffin!!!” I even found myself fantasizing (Yes, Kathy, I fantasize about you!) about how I could be the ‘assistant to the assistant’s assistant’. I mean, they look really stressed out flying from West Hollywood to London to Miami and back to Ireland. They need one more assistant to lighten the load. Oh, oh oh… I got it! I could be Kathy’s resident photographer AND her event manager and her biggest fan!

Kathy Griffin! Book your next show in Portland, Oregon! This is a gay man’s and woman’s mecca and all the Portland weirdos would love to see you too! I’ll even be your biggest fan.

p.s. I forgot to mention that my heritage goes back to Ireland AND I own the same pair of mary jane Dr. Martens as Kathy. Thanks for listening.

There is a tremendous amount of hubbub around the D.C. socialites who crashed a White House Party this week.  It seems that Tareq and Michaele Salahi just showed up at the White House, gave the Secret Service their IDs and Social Security numbers so they could be run through quick background checks, and then shook hands with President Obama while enjoying his first (and theirs) State Dinner.

So….what is the problem?

Well, it turns out that they weren’t on the guest list and after she posted numerous photos on her Facebook page, the Secret Service was extremely embarrassed.

Because…..well……um…..this is a head scratcher.

What exactly do you do with uninvited guests?  What do we do with unwanted Customers.

Go ahead and gasp, but we all know that we have all had Customers that we don’t want.

They may be the ones that complain about every little thing.  They could be the ones that are never satisfied.  Perhaps they are the ones that take up all of your time (hello, Mr. Pareto!)

Whatever the case is, what do you do with them?

Do you kill them with kindness?  Do you lavish attention on them and work tirelessly to make them happy? Or do you tell them to go away, as did Southwest Airlines co-founder and former CEO Herb Kelleher when a long-complaining Customer once threatened to leave?

Whatever the case, I would suggest that you find out what they want and then determine if it is reasonable and can be achieved.  Do they feel like they are not getting enough TLC?  Is our product simply flawed and they are unhappy?  Or are they perpetual complainers and we may have to actually fire them (a la Herb).

However, I would not suggest arresting them…especially if it takes a week to figure out exactly if what they did was wrong.

I’d love to hear your stories about Customers that you wished would go away…and your thoughts on the D.C. Party Crashers.  By the way, in case the White House is interested, I am still available to consult as the Customer Service Czar!

Thanks for reading,

Brandon

If there is one thing that I do give Obama and Crew credit for, particularly the wanna be Machiavellian himself and his cohort Rambo, with a serving of Axelturf on the side, it is two things.

1.  They have no consciences.  And are if not politically “smart” then political “bullies.”  Or play good cop/bad cop, with no problem in literally beating up opponents.  That’s why Obama chose Rambo to begin with.

2.  All three are undemocratic, authoritarian media whores and power hungry bastards who know the art of using pr and media manipulation to a T.  Valerie Jarrett to some extent has a hand in this, but she knows knothing about media, this kind of imagery at this kind of sophistication (although she certainly does have a knowledge of the importance of the promotion of the “imperial” leader through symbolism) or any sophistication about DC.

In fact none of the current White House staff do, with the exception of Rahmbo, and he has no conscience or morals.  The Chicago crowd Buppies on the White House staff are all first or maybe second generation wealth, all corrupt, and extremely tacky, Buppy Oreos.

With NO TASTE. Tacky, as they say in the south.  I’m surprised Michelle Obama didn’t give the Indian Prime Minister a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book..  For those of you who DON’T get the reference, the joke or the lack of Mrs. Obama’s cultural sophistication, much less education, which depends far more on WHAT you learn than WHERE you went to school (much as she would like to pretend that she has it or can buy it, right along with “class”), Kipling was a British writer during the height of 1800’s English Imperialist rule of “Inja,” and while a good writer and sometimes sympathetic to the natives, usually an unapologetic booster of the Crown and British Imperialism.  Not to mention the British East India Company.  In other words the equivalent of giving Gordon Brown, The British Prime Minister, upon HIS arrival at the Obama White House, American movies you could pick up from Target on a format you can’t play in England.

But certainly appropriate in this situation, if you have rotten dark humor like me, considering that both the East India Company and Michelle’s  husband are doing  the same damn stupid things, two hundred years apart, a few hundred miles north.  And for the same reasons.  But we’ll come back to that in a second.

Diplomatically, however, it would have been what those of us who do speak more than one language and do have a background in international affairs would call a major diplomatic faux pas.  Or, in translation, BIG NO NO.

But all of the above is completely lost, if not far above the heads of the elitist, rich Buppies (who got that way through corrupt activities) and white male twits on the make who now staff Obama’s White House.  Plus kiss ass Washington insiders, white or black, who flushed their morals down the toilet long ago.  And began cashing in connections for greenbacks, no questions asked, well over a decade ago (see Rambo for starters).

You see why I left DC?

But back to the event and “who dunnit” and why.

I think it was Rambo, Obama and Axelturf’s work.  With Stephanopolous on the side.  And Begala.  With of course Oprah.  And Anna Wintour (where is Bravo located, for one thing – New York in case you didn’t know -  and who has the kind of pull to GET Bravo to get involved in this kind of stunt?  One word.  Oprah.  Who needs something to do now she’s given up her own show and put Obama in the White House, and who’s own demographics mirror to a T that damned reality show those two “party crashers” were supposedly “auditioning” for.)

Why do I think this?

For starters, what would an ex cheerleader for the Redskins know about Indian fashion (what was she wearing folks), much less how would she get access to the theme of the event in the first place to know how to dress so she would fit in so perfectly?   Better in fact than anyone except the real Indians in attendance.

And for those of you unfamiliar with Indian fashion, those were not cheap duds.

And if the MENU of the affair was considered a state secret, not to mention the guest list, which it was, you can bet your bottom dollar, that somebody spoke to someone else about what the theme of the event was going to be, not to mention arranged this whole thing on the QT in the first place.

Which means that our “gatecrashers” were plants seeded by the White House.  To sow suspicion, and grow toxic waste just as hazardous to your health as Mrs. Obama’s toxic HAZMAT site on the White House lawn.  If not produce equally toxic byproduct for your consumption.  With equally toxic strategies in mind.

Elementary and logic, Dr. Watson.

These are not the kinds of things that are hard to figure out if you have a clue, an education and know where to look.

Or, if you know who’s who, and who the White House keeps, um “Classified,” if you know what I mean?  Especially in secret ops, and diversions.

Because if looking for finger prints, clues and evidence of perps at the scene of the “crime”  EVERYONE is a suspect.   And sorry for the very bad pun, but I’m really pissed at Obama about all of his crap on National Security, FOIA and FISA, and I couldn’t resist.

What are you going to do?  Laugh or cry?

But back to our “gate crashers.”

There is no way in hell this was an “accident” or even the work of two idiot “gatecrashers” on the make for their fifteen minutes of fame who, I also doubt would be able to talk their way into this event. Their IQ’s aren’t that high, for one thing to “talk their way in” which is one of the theories propounded at the moment by a White House reporter who knows damned well that this is impossible.  Even for Einstein.

Not that many of the other attendees were geniuses either, but they at least were celebrities.  These were rich, dumb idiots from one of the wealthiest suburbs of Northern Virginia with nothing to do with their time, and some connections, who decided that this would be a gas to try to pull off and pass off as a prank.

Spin again and try another answer on the “gate crasher” theory.  ‘Cause that one does not pass the laugh test.  Or as I say constantly the gas test.  In that it stinks.  Of corruption and deliberate media manipulation.  Commonly called manufactured propaganda.

Especially in the kind of distraction and propaganda this kind of thing has already created (i.e. were they terrorists, was the guy a Palestinian operative, was the President in any danger, etc. and if you don’t believe me, just watch some of the unbelievably inane conversations on the links to the news coverage I’ve included in this article), while concealing something devious and at the same time really underhanded, but a connection very obvious to make.

And stinks of the tactics of Obama, Axelturf and Rambo.  With the tackiness of Michelle thrown in for good measure.  Why do I think so?  Keep reading.

That’s their favorite kind of game and MO.

Psychopathology in politics is a very interesting subject. I recommend Reinhold Neihber’s classic work on the topic about the psychopathology of politicians.

And if you look at the bottom of the link about the man’s bio I’ve included above, guess who cites his work as his “fave.”

But if you look at this FABULOUS clip, a true classic from when TV was really TV, and the interview while long by today’s standards, excellent, unbiased, and eerily relevant in more ways than one, to modern events, you will see what I mean when, just like Bush, despite all that professed “brilliance,” I think Obama is a bit like Otto in that truly fabulous film, “A Fish Called Wanda” where he, unlike Bush actually read all the greats – he just, like his predecessor, who read the Cliff’s notes instead, still didn’t understand them.

But Neihber wrote a great deal about both religion and the psychopathology of politicians.  As well as morality in society in general.  I highly recommend this work,  “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)” absolutely required homework and reading, if you’re REALLY interested in understanding the inner workings and getting the 411 of what’s yet to come from our head honcho.  And apparently a book Obama thinks he alone has read.  Because naturally he’s superior to everyone else on the planet.

But just like Bush, who, for example thought my late uncle’s phrase “Management by Objective” was to make himself as rich as possible by starting two wars right over the wealthiest oil fields in the world (Cost, what’s that?  Taxpayer dollars aren’t for infrastructure, they’re for fighting wars.  Civil liberties?  Who needs them?  Down the toilet they go. And daddy may have paid for his education, (just like Obama’s daddy helped him get into Harvard through legacy preferances and minority advantage) and both Obama and Bush read all the greats, but Bush, just like Obama sure doesn’t seem to understand them.

Or deliberately twist them because they either think they can get away with it, or because they assume that nobody will catch them in the act.  Or are claiming they are above the law, because of expanded Executive Privilege.  Also known as BULLSHIT.

And despite all this crap surfacing lately in the mainstream media (written I notice by established, white male journalists with White House access, what a surprise)  about “give the man more time, the “mistakes” are just because he doesn’t know what he’s doing and therefore forgivable” blah, blah, blah, are wasting both your time and mine.

That’s all crap.

They’re just the same.

Obama is just as cynical, if not worse than Bush.

Because he ran on a lie.  He is literally on something like 515 campaign “promises broken ALREADY.  And what’s worse, making not only a mockery of the Constitution and the presidency by his lawbreaking actions, but COMMODIZING IT.

And not only by the blatent product promotion of Google on the White House Website, but by literally, as of today, begun its own marketing efforts, hawking “can’t be missed” Obama embossed winter fleece jackets.  No pun intended.  To fleece me of bucks I don’t have since they’re doing such a great job up there at the White House with job creation and civil rights for gimps. Not to mention, uh, security, if you really want me to run their noses in it.  Not that I’d ever be a walking billboard for that man in my life.

And now this crap.

I think this “gate crashing” story was a set up all along.  And another way of marketing the Obama brand, the Afghani war, the increased need for a security state (I mean “the safety of the President was never in danger right? gushed one reporter breathlessly) give me a break, and had several other nefarious motives behind it.  Planned not by two dingbat rednecks with money from the rich suburbs of Virginia, but the inner sanctums of  the White House itself.

But this is EXACTLY how tacky the very idea of “branding” a President is, not to mention undemocratic and dangerous, and why I’m opposed to the commoditization of the Presidency in the first place.

Just like there’s a separation between church and state, and there’s a separation and supposed balance of power between the Executive, the Judiciary and the Congressional branches of power.  Not to mention a suppposedly independent “Fourth Estate” (the press) to act as guard dog, the Presidency IS NOT FOR SALE.  Nor is the President a brand or a commodity.

Or some kind of reality show.

And neither is our Democracy.

So this “gatecrasher” BS is precisely that.  I’ve been to AIDS fundraisers where the security is tighter than that.

This was deliberate, and planned by the White House.  And Obama knows what he’s doing.

And he’s doing it very cynically.

And this Tinkerbell and Dingbat Cinderella Act at the White House Ball scenario was just another media event “insider photo op” set up for your amusement and distraction by the Disneyworld La La Land production section of the White House propaganda corps.  Not to mention another way to “brand” the presidency.

Don’t believe me?  Okay.  Here’s why I think so.

First of all, let’s start with the obvious.  The gatecrashers are even claiming, through their attorney that they WERE CLEARED BY THE WHITE HOUSE TO BEGIN WITH, which makes this whole thing even MORE STUPID.

Not to mention suspicious.

But a great eye candy story to take your attention off of what is really going on.  Like the deployment of a great many U.S. troops just north of India next week in an area we still have not formally declared war in, are spending billions of dollars to fight phantoms in for no purpose whatsoever, are going to get our asses kicked, destabilize the region, and need those dollars at home even more.  But that is PRECISELY why the administration DOES NOT want you thinking about those issues.

They want you thinking about rich, bored ex cheerleaders who crash the White House state dinner party (and conveniently disappear right before dinner, knowing damned well they would run a greater risk of being caught, another piece of insider information that someone tipped them off to) again leading me to believe that this was not a, excuse the pun “lone gate crasher” operation.

I told you.

I read the MF as in POTUS, not to mention the witch that is FLOTUS, like there is no tomorrow, now that I know where both are coming from.  I have been consistently right, since I made the fatal flaw of NOT paying attention to the many bells that should have tipped me off last year, and voted for him anyway. And thought Michelle’s moving stories about her dad would move her ass on the disability issue.

And then watched, to my horror, as Obama appointed Rahmbo as Chief Pitball. And as for Michelle?  Well, let’s put it this way.  Mom-in-Chief, much less showing up at the Vatican in a veil, is hardly my idea of being the epitome of the modern role model for women.   And as much as I despise her politics and her guts, and think she’s as dumb as a plank (but given Michelle’s screw ups to date, I’m not so sure she’s superior in the IQ department either, despite those Ivies), and certainly just as corrupt as this administration, Sarah Palin has a lot more going for her.

At least she’s not dressed up as a Saint.  She’s a badass bitch from hell and she doesn’t care who knows it.  At least she’s HONEST about it.  And doesn’t put on this BS piety act in public while bitching about how difficult it is to keep two kids in private school at $20K per kid per year plus piano lessons of another $10K per year each, and then take quarter million dollar date nights to New York on the taxpayer dime, wear tennis shoes that cost TWICE as much as those on disability benefits recieved in the bailout (the least any demographic received under the bailout) and rent vacation houses in exclusive enclaves that cost as much per WEEK as the medium annual salary is for the average American worker.  If they still do have a job that is.  All the time talking about her pious understanding of what it meant to grow up poor.  And how her heart bleeds for those poor Americans out of work.  Thanks to her husband’s stupid economic policies.

Thanks, lady, but we don’t need another Evita Peron.  Stick it where the sun don’t shine.

I AM FED UP, with the lies, hypocrisy, deceit, illusions, and smoke and mirrors.

And this latest incident is just another example.  So I thought I would dissect it for you.

But back to Obama.  Since the naming of Rambo to Head White House Bully, it’s all been downhill ever since.  On rocket propelled jet skis.

Having worked in DC for well over a decade, both on the Hill and in the national press, including for international news AT White House pressers (i.e. inside the gates of the White House) even before 9/11, there is absolutely NO way that anyone could “crash” the White House.

Especially during a HIGH SECURITY EVENT.

Especially this kind of event and under these circumstances.   Especially during these times.

Not even Desiree Rogers (the White House Social Secretary) is that dumb although of course bravely falling on her sword in media reports, like all the White House staff are supposed to do in the service of the Massah, (although that is no defense of her IQ, which is somewhere around that of her dresses).

The people I feel sorriest for are the Secret Service guys, who are predictably going to pay the highest price for a plan cooked up at what I suspect is real estate very close to if not in the Oval Office itself.

While I’m no fan of testosterone addled, paramilitary outfits and people who work for them, which is basically what the secret service is, I do have respect for the folks who guard the President.

Who, while their heads may not hold the largest brains on the planet and may not be the brightest beans in the basket (although their other heads, at least those of the male persuasion, are quite impressive, I have to say, from personal experience, having dated a few during my tenure in DC, but just like I refused to give my gay (male) friends any salacious details, much as they begged, such details will remain a national security secret in blog form as well, DO NOT make such dumb mistakes as letting people talk their way into White House State Dinners with foriegn heads of state, high ranking U.S. officials and other VIPs in attendance.  Particularly this foriegn head of state.  Particularly right now.  We’ll get back to that in a sec if you don’t see where I’m going with that one.

However, let’s just put it this way.  While the heads they really think impressed the hell out of me, (in reality it was the other ones they have, do not expose in public, and not of the cranial variety that did) they do know how to do their jobs.

Which are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.  24/7.

Which means they are very well trained before ever getting the White House assignment.  Especially on nights when high ranking domestic AND foriegn heads of state and CEOs and VIPs will be present.

They are very brave, well trained, and operate on autopilot to do things like body frisk you, naked, with or without a warrant, in two seconds flat,  if they have the slightest reason to think that you are not supposed to be where you are and you are a “threat,” which trust me, they are much better trained to identify than say Fox News, however much they aren’t exactly the people I’d go say recruiting rocket scientists from, and I suppose picked for their unswerving unthinking ability to do just one thing.

Protect the head of state and his or her family.  No questions asked, no excuses allowed.  And literally, no bullet dodged.  And no idiots with no ID and no names on ANY guest list, allowed in the door.  No matter how much sweet talking occurs, or cash flashed, unless the right ID is shown and the right names are on the right lists.

Because their job, when one’s natural instinct is to duck and run for cover when one hears gunshots, is to literally throw themselves IN FRONT OF THE BULLET or whatever danger du jour potentially confronts the President.  Which no minor White House flunky has the authority to overrrule.  Again as some idiotic DC White House reporters are even mentioning, when again, they know better.

And the Secret Service does this as a matter of course.  Even if they think personally, the man they are putting their lives on the line for is a lying snot.

They are not allowed to even let their own personal political or religious beliefs, much less excuses,  get in the way of literally putting their lives on the line for the Commander in Chief.

That’s why they get my respect. And those who are blaming them for this little escapade get nothing but my scorn.

So say what you will about their IQ, but it’s a job I couldn’t do.  They are brave and put their lives on the line EVERY DAY.

And why this “blame the secret security staff BS” makes me so steamed. I’m not saying that mistakes don’t happen.  But this is part of an unfortunate and oft recurring pattern of this administration…and right on the heels of the departure of the White House Chief Counsel.

Who Obama blamed for Gitmo, when it was clearly his fault.  And is also a part of another pattern.  The rampant elitism and classism of the White House.  Not to mention the “blame the fart on the dog in the room” when Obama needs to lay off a screw up on somebody else.

Obama is always blaming someone else for his fuckups and that’s when he expects someone to fall on a sword.  That’s why I am beginning to really despise him.  And why he’s so dangerous.  So far every time he’s needed a victim, he’s got one to volunteer.   That’s the sign of something far worse.

And for this kind of thing to happen at an event like this is even MORE suspicious.

It’s like the Reichstaag Fire for those of you with any sense.  Or understanding of history and manipulation of imagery for propagandistic purposes in politics.

This is just the modern day version.  For various nefarious political, propaganda and other purposes which are just as destructive.

And this crap about “investigating” the White House secret service’s supposed failure is exactly that.  And what’s worse is that the national DC press corps, especially White House reporters, who are reporting on this story, all know that.

They know, as well as I do, and anyone who has ever been anywhere inside the front gates of 1600 Penn, let alone the FRONT DOOR of the White House, knows you are entering Fort Knox.

And practically need your social security number, plus other unassailable ID tattooed on various body parts.  EVEN THE PRESS COULDN’T GET IN THAT NIGHT.

And trust me, with a real press pass, from a mainstream news outlet, or even semi respectible news outlet, and know what you are doing, you can practically get away with murder in DC.  Figuratively speaking of course.

BUT……there is ABSOLUTELY NO FLIPPING WAY that an unknown couple who, let’s face it, look like trashy Northern WHITE Virgininian Republicans, (in fact the woman in question WAS a cheerleader for the big DC sports team, the Redskins) and the breaking news is confirming this, (you see I am a very accurate, if cynical ex um “escapee,” shall we say ex denizen and commentator) could get in, much less get their names announced, at the event, without somebody checking out and authenticating some ID.  See the picture below?  Disagree with my assessment?

My point exactly.

While I’ve done my fair share of fancy talking and distracting to get into places I wasn’t supposed to be, (as all good investigative reporters learn how to develop those skills if they want to get the real low down on what the government is covering up) getting into State Dinners at the White House, past multiple security checks and guest lists and ID checks with BOTH White House personnel (with MAJOR ‘TUDE towards white people who aren’t celebrities) and secret service security staff at each step of the way doesn’t pass the credibility test with me.  Or the laugh or the gas test for that matter.

To put this in perspective, I’m the ONLY independent filmmaker to get onto the base of Fort Benning, the infamous American army base in Georgia that was also home to The School of the America’s (also known as the School of Coups) which had the distinction of training if not directly causing ALL of the coups and overthrowing all of the democratically elected governments in every country south of our border for at least sixty years and causing things like the slaughter of innocent nuns engaged in humanitarian work throughout our Southern Hemisphere during the entire Cold War (at your expense).   Isn’t that how you want YOUR taxpayer dollars spent?  But of course, despite the excuse that this was a program necessary to “defend” Americans from the “Communist Threat” kept secret from the American public for most of its existance.

For our own safety of course.

Which is why getting on base was, no pun intended, such a coup to pull off.  And why I know a thing or two about getting into classified, high security, no access to the general public, much less THE PRESS, places.

So take it from a pro at getting in where you’re not supposed to go, there is absolutely NO WAY that I could have pulled this stunt off, without some “unofficial” help from the inside.

And trust me, while the White House is secure, it ain’t an army base that houses a National Security Secret, Black Budget and highly classified military (and CIA) Program.  Not even close.

And in fact, as several of these news reports I’ve linked to seem to indicate, it appears they may have been “unofficially” invited anyway.  Which is again, one of those typical, underhanded Rambo/Obama/Axelrod moves.  Remember all that confusion about who contacted the Governor of Illinois over Obama’s senate seat?  Doesn’t this sound just a tad familiar?

Along with the fact that rather conveniently, who are these “dangerous” gate crashers shown next to?  Well apart from the female CEO of Pepsico India,as seen below….

which is rather convenient product placement for both a domestic and an Indian audience (if you recall that intense “policy” debate from earlier this year about whether White House staffers preferred Coke over Pepsi, like who cares, except a very product and brand conscious White House),  Obama, as seen here….

and in this picture……

and also video, Biden and Rambo.

Gosh, what a coincidence.  Don’t you think?  But again, one more piece of evidence, Colonel Mustard that this whole thing was a SETUP.

The dead body and the Candelabra are in the Kitchen.  Thus my filing this under the Open Call Tag.  Not to mention this was a WHITE HOUSE DINNER.

And this is even MORE suspicious when you consider the circumstances under which it took place.

Consider, this was a White House state dinner hosting the INDIAN head of state.  Who for those of you weak in geography, is the country just south of Pakistan, and in fact used to be one and the same country.  And the entire region is just to the south of a country you might of heard about in the news lately called AFGHANISTAN where Obama is about to do the absolutely DUMBEST THING ON THE PLANET and send more troops to go fight Vietnam II, Revenge of Mount Everest.

Where we are going to get our ASSES kicked.  And in fact I think this whole gate crasher thing is one big diversion for that troop deployment, along with something else or two.  That is how Obama operates.

ON TOP OF THAT, these two diptwits are “being considered” (yeah right, the ink was drying on their contracts) and in fact, as this news report, as in others, reveals, were actually being filmed the entire day before they made their White House entrance getting ready for their “break in” BY BRAVO as they were getting ready for the escapade, which makes this even MORE FISHY) for the “reality show” in question and sure enough, there was Bravo, wading right into the middle of the Brew ha ha as soon as the news even BROKE saying they were going to run with this.

Come on folks.  Wake up.  You don’t need to have worked in TV to know that these things don’t happen “by accident.”  Or “coincidence.”

UH UH.  Trust me, if you still hold on to that naive thought, try a tin foil hat to keep the solar rays from Mars out.  Works ocassionally (like once in a blue moon), and the neighbors only look at you funny most of the time.

The fact is that network channels DON’T operate like that.

Plus, if the White House is so worried about “terrorists” that we are spending an absolute fortune to literally bleed this country dry to go fight them in lands far, far away, suspend our civil liberties at home, not to mention beats up a gimp (me) at a TOWN HALL MEETING ON HEALTHCARE IN NEW YORK CITY, for merely telling the meeting organizer that his facts were incorrect (I was right, he was wrong) resulting in an NYPD police report documenting CRIMINAL ASSAULT AND BATTERY that the Federal Justice Department has yet to investigate and keeps hanging up on me, and the White House is “embarrassed” about THIS incident, and “considering” dropping charges all the while making noises about “felony acts”, which they will never do anything about, with of course the conservative news channels like Fox talking about things like “domestic terrorist threats” (trust me it will never get that far and the White House knows that too much embarressing stuff will come out)  to the point of not even discussing to date forbidding those pictures from airing on the internet “discovering” the perps as it was put on the internet (exactly who was doing any investigating in the first place or why, or knew where to look, (which raises even more disturbing questions about say FISA and electronic monitoring) or lack of any threats from the White House about say putting a ban on any TV network from airing the misadventures of those two, in either still pictures, taking them down from the “perp’s” webpage, or forbidding the news from carrying the video of the event, especially given the teeth baring fights the White House is engaging in with Fox right now, and Mrs. Obama is making such a big deal about an unflattering picture of her showing up on a Google search (and Google actually backing off and removing it) are you KIDDING ME?

This was a set up folks.

FROM THE INSIDE.

If you STILL think that this was an “accident” or a “prank” by two idiots seeking their 15 minutes of fame, and not a deliberate distraction created by say Axelturf/Rahmbo/Michelle and Obama to give fairly uneducated, definately politically and visually if not unprepared for this kind of sophisticated propoganda machine – i.e. supposedly what the White House will and is prepared to do, dollars to doughnuts, which is paint or create one way or another, as a paternalistic, noblesse oblige, drop all charges (if any are even pressed) way to let middle Americans have an “inside” albeit pretty low brow if you ask me, voyeuristic peek at a “high society White House event,” as well as to divert mainstream America’s attention from what Obama is about to do next week, what do you think they were doing?

Embarressing themselves on purpose?

I mean who is the demographic for Real American Housewives….?

Martians?

Bravo has some GREAT shows….but that one ….I can’t stand.

Nevertheless, this was a set up. And a distraction.  As well as convenient propoganda.

Call me paranoid, call me stupid, call me anything you want, but I’ve seen this show before. It’s a rerun, if not in content, then in purpose.

It’s called propoganda, and distraction, you dumb morons at the White House, who think you are so much more clever than the rest of us.

And welcome to the world of Obama manipulation mind f*cks.

SNAP.

That’s the sound of a little Obama rat who’s been figuratively caught in a Marguerite rat death trap.  It’s little toes are still wiggling.   And it’s tail is still twitching.   I hope it suffers a long,  slow and agonizing painful death.

I’m not a sadist, by the way, and I love animals. Even rodents.   In fact I have a mouse in part time residence in my studio apartment.  We cohabitate rather well. His name is Newton.  He has good manners and there is mutual respect.  So please, no PETA threats for that last analogy.

The above latter reference was a metaphorical literary parallel to display my disgust with this presidency.

I know this MF, very well.  And have been calling him and his mindset accurately, ever since the appointment of Emmanuel.

Which was the first sign that something was going seriously wrong.  Not that I didn’t have some niggling doubts during the campaign last year.

FISA and throwing out the promise to stick with public financing were understandable.  Or at least that is what I told myself.  And excused Obama for it.  I heard it from sources I still have on the Hill that Obama’s arm was twisted on the FISA legislation.  And I know damned well how deep the RNC’s pockets are.  I was willing to forgive him that too.

And there were other little things too that were vaguely disturbing.

But I was also very distracted last year.  So I paid them no attention. No candidate is ever perfect.  And look at what the alternatives were.  Especially after Edwards dropped out.  And look at what happened there.  And I still think that HE was also set up in California.  By the same team who brought us THIS scenario.  The fingerprints seem to match rather well.

I told you, after the election, I’ve done some investigating, partly in just writing these blogs, and especially given the way I’ve been treated.  And what I’m seeing.  And I REALLY don’t like what is going on.   Which is the understatement of the year.

And I mean I was REALLY DISTRACTED last year.  Like developing a life changing disability thanks to my ex employer, filing an EEOC case against a very big bank and dealing with a few other battles of equal shall we say “intensity.”  While fighting for literal economic survival.  Which I still am.

But this time, it’s the White House I’m directly fighting.  THIS ONE.  Among other Goliaths, essentially on my own and penniless because the god damned government has taken it all all away.  And destroyed my life in the process.  As in obliterate.  And beat me up on top of that.

So I missed things I wouldn’t normally have done during the election.  Or explained them away.  As I never would have done otherwise.  I’ve worked in national politics for too long.  I know DC like the back of my hand.  It’s not a boast.  It’s what happens when you waste your youth in national politics in DC.

So if 2008 had been a normal year, I would have been a little more suspicious.  Not to mention done my homework.  And a little less elated upon election day.  With far fewer hopes.  And frankly, far less pissed off now.

But 515 campaign promises gone south in less than ten months Obama has been in office and now this?

With Obama “selling” the escalation of Afghanistan next week to “his base?” as one reporter put it.  Are they nuts?

And the blood on the pavement still not dry from Fort Hood?

Folks, you’ve got to be FUCKING KIDDING.

This was arranged propoganda.  Called a distraction. For a reason.

Call me nuts.

Call me ANY name in the book all you want.   But been there, done that, seen it before.

You want reality TV?

Tell the kids in Afghanistan to start sending their cell phone pictures and videos via wireless internet of what is really going on on a daily basis to the world via any other service EXCEPT YOU TUBE (they lose their intellectual property rights).   G3 phones shoot video clips you can send via email and you can put right on your website.

If the White House really wants to play this stupid game, we can give them REALITY TV they will never forget.  IN THEIR FACE.  That trust me, will be far more embarressing and “dangerous” to the Obama presidency because of his lying BS than any suburban couple who wanted their 15 minutes of fame. And apparently coordinated with both the White House and a network to get it.

And dollars to doughnuts somebody at the White House new media department, along with someone higher up, struck a bargain with Bravo to cook this whole thing up to begin with.

You want reality TV folks, it’s time we started watching the channel where the action is really happening.

Instead of being deliberately distracted.

Like the dog….you know…the oldest trick in the book to fool the stupid pooch?  Fake throw the stick and watch ol’ Spot run half way across the yard  before he turns around and says ‘huh?’  And they you really throw the stick….the other way.

There is a channel of reality TV that America should be watching.  Several of them in fact.  One is Channel Afghanistan.   And don’t forget Channel Iraq.  One is Channel Wall Street.  One is Channel Foreclosures and Evictions.  One is the Rising Tide of Jobs Lost & Ain’t Coming Back.  One is Channel Global Warming.

And I’m just getting started.  I’m a damned network….a whole series of programming.

But the fact is that Bravo, not to mention the rest of mainstream corporate TV, doesn’t cover those shows.  Although maybe it should start.

And the fact that I also have a proposal that is widely circulated AT the White House as well as key cabinet level offices mentioning a reality Bravo show tie in for one of MY projects, so far both conspicuously ignored, and has gotten me beaten up, physically intimidated, threatened in writing, my civil rights violated, and of course completely blacklisted, BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE WHITE HOUSE, is also rather interesting.  Especially in that this is ANOTHER idea that they’ve stolen from me.  While my phone remains strangely silent on that proposal.

So for all these reasons folks,  to believe anything but “sucker, you’ve been had,” is to be drinking what is known as Kool Aide.

And look at what happened to them.

The ones in Guyana, and the ones here, if you don’t WAKE UP.

Happy Turkey Day Folks.  A day or so late.  Consider these the leftovers.

Do you want to be the Turkey for NEXT YEAR’s date?  Or the one who gets excused from that fate?

Time to start doing some waking up.  If you haven’t already.

In other words, flip the dial.  Turn the switch.  Tune it out.  If not TURN CHANNEL OBAMA OFF ALTOGETHER.

And organize for REAL CHANGE we believe in.

Otherwise, you will be turkeys, if not dinner, for somebody, by this time next year.  With NOTHING to be thankful for.

And that’s a reality that probably nobody will even bother filming.

Unless of course you plan on setting yourself on fire outside the White House gates.  And even then they’ll probably call you a Tibetan terrorist, so I wouldn’t recommend it.  Bravo will be off filming Virginia Housewives II, Michelle will be doing some other Muppets does Hazmat on the White House Lawn Experiment, and Barack, well, I’m sure he’ll be bombing Iran by then.  Which although I didn’t include it on the map, is also conveniently the neighbor immediately to the left of what country?

Afghanistan.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE.  Right?

And we’ll all be out of work, don’t worry.

Reality Show “White House Break In” my ass.

Even that’s been done before (remember NIXON) by a White House who thinks it’s so brilliant everything it does is, as rightly mocked by a very cynical reporter the other day, as “unprecedented” and “original” and of course never done before, when it’s clearly old hat.

With mildew growing on it.

Even this little stunt.  Ever heard of Watergate?

How stupid does Obama really think Americans are?  Or how brilliant, in comparison to the rest of the world does he think he is?

That’s the really scary thing, isn’t it?   Because people carried away with their own ideas of how brilliant they are usually make the biggest mistakes.  I learned long ago that the definition of stupidity was self professed brilliance.  See Exhibit A in the Oval Office.

And we don’t need any more stupid and entirely avoidable “oops.”  Which weren’t really, although they are of course, being played that way.  Now.  However, if you recall even just ten months ago, this administration has been continually warned DO NOT ENTER.  DANGER.  And then promptly blacklisted, if not beaten up, even those who offer constructive criticism.  While breaking CRIMINAL LAW, not to mention civil rights, to do it.

Unfortunately we’re about to get even more of them.

Escalation in Afghanistan is just the latest in a line of very avoidable and so far disastrous Waterloos.

You want to watch Reality TV?

Tell the White House to go jump in a lake and send NO to the War emails to all your elected reps, local, state and federal.  Not to mention the White House.

And start getting off your asses and doing something about it.  Plus of course the other issues Obama’s screwing up.

You shouldn’t be watching TV anyway. There’s far too much to do, and we don’t need any more couch potatoes.

So turn off the dial and turn up the heat.  And get off your asses and start go kicking some.

Unless you’d prefer to start selecting what kind of stuffing you’d like to be accessorized with as next year’s turkey.  I hear cranberry sauce is a nice condiment.

Your choice, Pilgrims.  Now or never.

As for me and Tonto, well, we’re heading out, as fast as we can, from this shit eating, one horse country.

Gee up, boy.  Let’s get going.

Because the natives of this rinky dink Banana Republic are all bloodthirsty, stupid, cannibals, ignorant and or uneducated, deaf, oblivious, will not learn whatever you do, say or write, and as a result are therefore just as dangerous as the murderous leaders they “elect.”

Or asleep.  What is the difference?

Because if they accept it, it means the White House has won.

And Democracy?

RIP.  So long buddy.  Nice knowing ya.

“Interesting governing and social experiment,” I can hear the social anthropologists of say two millenium into the future, “but not to be wasted on such idiotic neanderthal primitives.”

And if you have any doubts about MY perspective on looking back and analyzing the perspective of cultures long ago, my other paternal uncle began unlocking the secrets and translating The Dead Sea Scrolls in his book on the subject, The Dead Sea Scriptures.  A document created by another society ruled by decidedly undemocratic Kings and Queens, that included slavery (who do you think built the Pyramids) and went extinct because of its own dead weight and unsustainable policies.

You want the Constitution to be compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls?  Keep going America.  Because that’s where we’re headed.

Won’t that be a fun “Reality TV” show.  That trust me, you won’t have the luxury of watching from the comfort of your lazy boy recliner on your spanking new HDTV.  Because you won’t be around  to see it.

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Well, not quite!  Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed a dinner in honor of Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night.  The couple entered without being invited but still had to pass security.  The internal issue is what part of security did they miss?  It seems that almost anyone accompanied by a seductive blond has instant access.  The media is playing this angle all over the news.  News reporters are having a fit over how much coverage this is getting when there are other issues to address to publics.

The White House should be the epitome of what maximum security is.  After all, every single American is paying to ensure that happens just so.  Reporters and experts are concerned with how easily someone could enter the White House and off the Presidential staff.  (God forbid).  If they were not invited they cannot enter.  No one even really knows who they are.  Granted, we don’t know every single person associated with the White House staff.  However, Joe Biden and the Marines that posed with the crashing couple in photos made it look alright.  Did they even know when the photos were taken?  Who knows.

I think we have too much Transparency in the White House after all.  I am a huge supporter of our President and his initiative to be more informative to his publics.  Nothing has been said if the Salahi’s have been punished, fined or imprisoned.  I think all three are in order!  Unfortunately, the Reality Show must go on.  The Salahi’s are going to be featured on the Real Housewives of D.C.

FRom: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/11/gamble-on-american-idol-sex-and-the-city-slot-machines.html

If you’re over 21, you can now play slot machines based on two of your favorite shows, “American Idol” and “Sex and the City.”

Both slots were new releases at the 2009 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. In “American Idol,” slot players can trigger a bonus round that lets them become one of three judges — Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi or Randy Jackson — and then plays video clips of past contestants, good AND bad.

According to Sphere.com, Paula Abdul was the lone holdout participant even BEFORE she announced she was leaving the show. Innnteresting.

Meanwhile, the “Sex and the City” slot machines are subtitled “Change of a Dress.” Clever, no? They feature bonus rounds that include video clips of all four women plus Mr. Big.

International Game Technology spokeswoman Julie Brown told Sphere, “There’s shoes and purses and lots of bling and big bonuses and the music track, and it’s a very interactive game.”

Speaking of Mr. Big, Chris Noth helped unveil the “Sex and the City” slot machine in Las Vegas. Video below.

Exclusive footage of Justin Bieber arriving at the Bravo building in Germany for his last commercial shoot before returning to the America’s

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Arvan, et tallinna inimesed teavad seda kohta kõige rohkem. Avasid uksed 2005 aastal. Pakuvad rahvuslikke India toite ja Nahkla tubakat. Hubane. Sessioon – 125EEK

Vesipiibu Kohvik
Ainsana Eestis pakuvad Azfali tubakat ja ka naturaalsütt. Praeguse sooduskampaaniaga on üks sessioon – 80EEK. Wifi ja kahes erinevas stiilis suitsutuba.

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Kohvik, baar ja ööklubi. Nahkla tubakas, Wifi on ka olemas.

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Araabiateemaline söögikoht. Pakuvad ka cateringi teenust.

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Aafrikateemaline. Rahustav Reggae  ja sessioon on üks kirves – 200EEK

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Hiina, India ja Jaapani köök. Kõik on OK.

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Kuubateemaline katusekohvik ja latiino muusika – salsa, bossanova jne. Cosmopiibud. Sessioon – 75EEK

Tareq and Michaele Salahi with V.P. Joe Biden

I promise I’m not making this one up.  According to ABC News, Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed Tuesdays (Nov 24th) state dinner at the White House in honor of India. It seems that the Secret Service failed to follow check point procedures by allowing the Salahi’s who were dressed and acted like they belonged enter even though they were not on the guest list.  The Salahis posed for pictures with Joe Biden, Robin Roberts, Rahm Emmanuel and other celebrities.  Oh, and they did all of this while being trailed by a TV film crew. It seems that a crew from Bravo, the network that has the Real Housewives series, was capturing the Salahis excursion on tape.

I am puzzled at how this couple was so easily able to crash a party at the White House. This is a serious breach of protocol and serious safety issue.  Something needs to be done to prevent future incidents.

The audacity  of the Salahis is also baffling. Apparently, they told friends, a TV, and even posted it on Facebook that they were going to the dinner for India. No one questioned whether they were invited.  One friend of the Salahis said the the couple enjoyed parties and did not really care who’s party it was or if they were invited. They seemed to have a sense of entitlement and believed that anyone should and would welcome their presence.  They even posted pictures of the event on Facebook. Apparently this is how they got caught.

Obviously this stunt was to help them get attention and land a spot on a TV show. Well, they did get a lot of attention. It seems that the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are very interested in them now. They are facing possible criminal charges of at least trespassing.

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Perhaps you’ve been too busy to learn the story of the couple that wasn’t invited to the White House the other night, but who went, and got in, anyway.

Not two hours after the party, Mrs. Salahi had on her Facebook page a dozen photos of her and her husband with Washington’s social elite.

I had been wondering how they do security at the White House at a big state dinner. You can’t treat dignitaries and VIP’s like regular schlemiels, making them stand at the gate while background checks are run, can you?

The Secret Service is investigating how a couple aspiring to be reality-show celebrities managed to appear at President Obama’s first state dinner without being on the guest list, provoking questions about security at the White House.

There has to be a sort of passive screening, I’d assumed, which allows VIP’s to be admitted with fairly casual security.

The inquiry was begun after a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, slipped past multiple layers of high-level White House security Tuesday night and managed to rub shoulders, literally, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, among others, at Washington’s most exclusive social event this year.

Word is it took the Salahis a couple of tries to make their way inside, getting in on foot after driving in failed.

Brian Williams, the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” and a guest at the dinner, saw the Salahis arrive when he was waiting in a line of cars to enter the East Gate of the White House. In interviews broadcast on NBC on Thursday, Mr. Williams said the couple’s vehicle was turned away, adding, “Actually the first ring of Secret Service security had worked.”

You have to hand it to Brian Williams, situating himself where news is likely to break.

“After their vehicle was turned away, they hopped out,” Mr. Williams said. “What attracted our attention was there was at least one camera trailing them. And a makeup woman got out and fixed the woman’s hair and then started powdering the man’s forehead.”

Mrs. Salahi is reported to be under consideration for a reality TV show, and a team from Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of D.C.” was following her around that day as part of the selection process.

Whether or not they wind up on “Housewives,” the couple have certainly acted as if they were stars. They are now scheduled to be on “Larry King Live” on Monday.

For all the work they do to keep the President safe, isn’t it interesting that it all comes apart when there are some celebrities around?

“Obviously, somebody dropped the ball,” said Rep. Peter King, of New York. “I mean, you’re talking about the president of the United States and the vice president and a powerful world leader, the prime minister of India.” The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, was the guest of honor.

Hollywood tycoons and other critical Obama supporters like Oprah girlfriend Gayle King were there in what was billed as an extremely difficult guest list to make.

Mr. King said he had seen people turned away from similar White House events, including a congressman who brought his daughter instead of his wife, whose name was on the list. He also raised concerns about the Secret Service’s assertion that Mr. Obama was safe because all guests passed through metal detectors.

King, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, is appalled that the president didn’t have better security.

“The fact they went through the magnometer is incidental,” he said. “They could have had anthrax on them. They could have grabbed a knife from the dining room table.”

Others have crashed presidential events in prior administrations.

Richard Weaver wormed his way into President Bush’s 2001 inauguration and shook Mr. Bush’s hand, repeating a stunt he pulled off at President Clinton’s 1997 inauguration. Security caught him attempting to crash the 2005 ceremony and he was barred from entering the White House or Capitol grounds for five years.

Bravo’s new fashion reality TV show “Launch My Line” partners successful professionals with established fashion designers to do just as the title says:  create a fashion line. 

A graduate of the Harvard Executive Business School, Marilyn Crawford, who lives in Las Vegas, has established herself as the ultimate expert and spokesperson in business and entertainment.  Crawford is the CEO of Windsor PTM, a global strategic marketing company. She is also Chairman of 2810, a private business membership club. 

When she was three years old she got the fashion bug–  a woman who lived down the street from her made clothes that Crawford designed with the help of her father. 

Fast forward, now Crawford figures if she could catch a fashion guru’s eye, she shouldn’t have a hard time launching a fashion line.  She envisions a clothing collection designed for the “average-sized woman,” which Crawford describes as 12-14.  She says her line would be a cross between Miranda and Samantha from the TV show “Sex and the City,” and, like those two characters, make a loud statement. 

Meanwhile, not to let grass grow under her feet, Crawford continues to travel extensively around the globe for her business and entertainment clients which include: Coca-Cola, Sony Universal, Master Charge, CNN, Volvo, Larry King, Russell Simmons and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. 

Crawford has been named “Woman of the Year” from Arts Horizon and TD/Commerce Banks, and has received The International Women’s Exchange Compass Award, The Humanitarian of the Year Award and Ebony’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. 

“Launch My Line” premieres Wed., Dec. 2 at 11 p.m. (PT) on Bravo.

For those of us who can’t get enough of the Housewives, we have all gasped at their many bad parenting moments. This list is devoted to their impeccable parenting skills.

5. Jeanna Keough and her rude son, Shane Keough

Now, maybe this is not all Jeanna’s fault, being in a toxic, abusive relationship will screw up the kids. Yet saying on TV that you want to hit your mom in the head with a baseball bat shows that some bad parenting occurred somewhere down the line. What’s sad is she just takes it and later on apologizes for him. I hope her life becomes normal after leaving the Housewives. Good luck Jeanna!

4. Simon McCord, Simon van Kempen, Francois, and Johan

I could write more than a bit about the sons’ and their horrible names and ugliness. Maybe it’s their haircuts, but I wouldn’t want those freaky kids around me. I must stick to my topic, though. Now there are quite a few items that I can mention here: giving your children pretentious names (oh yeah already mentioned that one), staying in a house under-construction where it’s easy for your wild boys to get hurt, and teaching them no manners at formal events. Would you like screaming with your coffee and dessert? Well, maybe the McCord-van Kempens will have the last laugh with her online parenting advice and her “parenting” book. I can’t wait for the next season.

3. Teresa Giudice, Joe Giudice, Gia, Gabriella, Milania, and Audriana

Not only did her and “beefcake” husband produce a set of trolls with questionable hairlines (humans or another species), she spoils them like crazy. Do 2 year olds need to have that many clothes or even purses? I’m sure these children, who will never have their looks to fall back on, will be incredibly hard to deal with. They’ve also witnessed the freak out of all freak outs. I wonder if table flipping is normal at home. I haven’t forgotten her insane stage-mommery. It’s like watching an extended version of “Toddlers and Tiaras.”

2. Lynne Curtin, Frank Curtin, Raquel, and Alexa

Now, this season I had a moment where I felt that one of Lynne’s daughters had actually had a realization about life. After hearing that Alexa and Lynne were going in for mother-daughter plastic surgery, Raquel was upset, regretting the changes that the family had been through. She even chastised them both for turning to the superficiality of plastic surgery. I was shocked, awed, dumb-struck that such a critique occured, BUT then Raquel’s critique was later shown to be fueled by petty jealousy. She felt that her sister was getting too much, a car, a new nose. She wanted money spent on her. Ohh NJ’s Teresa, this is what you have to look forward to.

1. Tamra Barney and her son Ryan Vieth

I have to say getting fellow housewife, Gretchen Rossi, drunk and sitting her next to her rape-face, man whore son has to be the worst example of parenting on the show. How could you use your own loser son to prove your suspicions about another housewife? It’s really low, manipulative, and sick. Good Job Tamra! Keep it coming.

The television shows mentioned in the previous blog are all great tools for gaining a better understanding of the real estate game. Following are some of Buildium’s additional honorable mentions.

• No frills, no acting, no drama … just some nice old-fashioned real estate rehab. This Old House is a time-tested staple of real estate television.
• Learn how to transform your property into a revenue producer with HGTV’s Income Property.
• Maybe a little different than your average rental, Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing follows high-end real estate brokers as they try to move property in Southern California. Due to the economy, recent episodes have even showcased some high-end rentals.
• Don’t make the same mistakes as these Property Virgins on HGTV; learn from their house hunting lessons.
• Here is yet another fun show where investors take a piece of real estate, smash it up, and create a masterpiece.  Flip This House on A&E is the perfect Saturday morning pick-me-up.

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QVC CEO Mike George

Then back in October, we couldn’t believe it when a sharp-eyed poster on QVC’s jewelry forum said that upscale jewelry designer Stephen Dweck, whose chunky gemstone masterpieces are featured in Neiman Marcus, was on the No. 1 home shopping network’s schedule. THE Stephen Dweck?

We checked QVC’s program guide ourselves, and there it was: Dweck was doing a lower-priced jewelry line for QVC called Dweck’s Diamonds. His Neiman Marcus pieces didn’t even have diamonds. The high-end stuff is made with semi-precious stones.

Also in October, we were checking the press releases on HSN’s Web site when we saw the network had struck a deal with one of the most famous and elite fashion houses: Badgley Mischka, designers of bejeweled gowns for the red carpet and celebrities.

We’ve written bits and pieces of this during the past two months, but we thought we’d tie it all up in a tidy package for Thanksgiving: There has been a sea change in the home shopping world, prompted by the disastrous economy and the crash of the luxury market.

Yes, home shopping networks have seen their sales hurt by the economy, like everyone else. But they claim they are still managing to steal market share from brick-and-mortar retailers. In fact, QVC is making a full-frontal assault on them this Black Friday, with 28 hours of special products and programming stunts starting Thanksgiving night.

The consumer press will continue to mention “cubic zirconia” in every story it writes about QVC or HSN, oblivious to the fact that some of the most esteemed names in fashion, jewelry and cosmetics — brands you find in Saks, Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus — are plying their wares on the aforementioned home shopping channels.

ShopNBC CEO Keith Stewart

Male journalists are blind to this. You still have the nerds at Gawker, a snide Web Site for the navel-gazing media, chiding HSN for selling “useless crap.”

If you have ever seen how male journalists dress or their fashion and style sensibilities, you will realize that you can’t expect them to know names like Badgley Mischka, Judith Ripka, Robert Lee Morris, our fellow Montclair, N.J., resident Bobbi Brown, Yves Saint Laurent, Smashbox, Lancome and Dweck. And these brands and artists don’t represent “useless crap.”

Luxury-good makers are hurting, and they need to make up their loss in sales. So they are turning to outlets like QVC, as CEO Mike George explained at a recent Liberty Media conference, as outlets to distribute new lower-priced lines to the masses. George cited fashion designer Vivienne Tam’s QVC alliance at the meeting held in Manhattan by his parent company, Liberty.

“This complete implosion of luxury retailing in America has caused all these folks to rethink their business model,” George said.

And that means partnering with QVC, HSN or ShopNBC.

As we said, it will take the consumer press years to figure out that home shopping channels are distribution powerhouses that have undergone a transformation, in part because of the infllux of talent like a Morris, who does couture jewelry for designers like Donna Karan and RLM Studio sterling silver jewelry for QVC.

The Big Three — QVC, HSN and ShopNBC — are aggressively trying to broaden their audience and potential customer base, those who don’t normally watch any of these three networks. That means the three are actually “programming” the channels, doing “shows” that have entertainment value, not just product shilling, so they will attract non-QVC or non-HSN watchers.

We remember once interviewing a QVC exec years ago and asking what the network’s ratings were. He said ratings were irrelevant: QVC was only concerned about how many products were sold in an hour.

HSN CEO Mindy Grossman

That’s a totally different tune from what we heard recently from QVC’s George, and from the strategies that HSN CEO Mindy Grossman and ShopNBC CEO Keith Stewart have initiated.

Like traditional TV networks, the home shopping players want viewers to “sample” a QVC or an HSN. These new audience members, hopefully, will then see products that they want to buy.

For example, singer Natalie Cole recently did a live concert on HSN to promote a new Holiday CD set she is selling on the channel. If you’re a fan, you might tune in to HSN to see her, and then actually decide to purchase her CD. Artists such
as Jose Feliciano have also performed live on QVC.

QVC alum Stewart on a recent third-quarter conference call pointed out that actress-entrepeneur Suzanne Somers, who came to ShopNBC from HSN, had succeeded in attracting new viewers to Minneapolis-based ShopNBC because she was “entertaining.” And these networks want new eyeballs.

And home shopping networks’ capacity to reach millions of consumers and do fulfillment of orders has not been lost on magazine publishers, celebrities or cable’s reality TV stars. With circulation falling, women’s magazines such as Lucky, Allure, Glamour and Self are partnering with HSN to sell subscriptions.

And stars have seen the light. In a recent interview in Oprah Winfey’s O magazine, Joan Rivers, who’s had a jewelry line on QVC for almost 20 years, told O she was on home shopping when “nobody except dead celebrities was doing merchandise on TV.”

Nowadays, it’s hard to find a celebrity or TV star who doesn’t have a home shopping line. Even Madonna was interviewed on HSN when she was selling her children’s book.

Here’s a partial list:

Paula Abdul, HSN, formerly “American Idol,” Fox

Rachel Zoe, QVC, “The Rachel Zoe Project,” Bravo

Isaac Mizrahi, QVC, “The Fashion Show,” Bravo

Padma Lakshmi, HSN, “Top Chef,” Bravo

Ramona Singer, HSN, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” Bravo

Susan Lucci, HSN, “All My Children,” ABC

Carson Kressley, QVC, “How to Look Good Naked,” Lifetime Television

Dr. Robert Rey, ShopNBC, “Dr. 90210,” E! Entertainment Television

Tori Spelling, HSN, “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” Oxygen

Paula Deen, QVC, Food Network

Rachael Ray, QVC, “The Rachael Ray Show,” syndication

Ingrid Hoffmann, HSN, Food Network and Univision

Home shopping is a big business. ShopNBC is the also-ran in the group, but in the third quarter Stewart made some nice progress cutting its losses. Sales for the Big Three were all down, but down less than previous quarters.

And we are not talking chump change for these networks. The three home shopping channels generated $8.3 billion in net revenue in 2008. QVC domestic posted $4.9 billion, HSN netted $2.8 billion and ShopNBC had $568 million.

Even with revenue still slipping this year, for the first nine months QVC had revenue of $3.308 billion; HSN had net sales of $1.4 billion; and ShopNBC had $372.6 million in net sales.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Luni, 23 noiembrie, a avut loc balul facultaii mele nu am sa va spun prea multe… v-am spus pana acum. Insa uitandu-ma la poze, la culoare, la personalitatea fiecaruia, transpusa in culoare, in outfit, in atitudine.. nu pot sa spun decat ca imi plaaace mai mult FCRP-ul .

Armina

Isabelle nu e din FCRP, dar e plina de culoare si arata super!

Marina si CatalinG

The Bravo ‘Launch My Line’ press has begun! Can’t wait for the NYC premiere party and the December 2nd deubt!

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