GRRRRRLS ROCK!

Joan Jett is one seriously bad ass rocker. That song is AWESOME. I first heard that cover in the 1999 movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, a wickedly funny movie about teen beauty queens. The cover is perfectly done by JJ - kicking ass and taking names - and if (and when) I get a drum set, I am learning that song - and maybe I'll sing it too!

The song, if you haven't guessed, is "Love is All Around", the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore" show. I vaguely remember watching that show in the mid 70s on our little 10 inch black and white. The lyrics are awesome - who among us girls didn't think of Mary throwing her hat into the air when moving to a new city or starting a new job?

"Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all

How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all

You're the one most likely to succeed
Just be sure to keep your head
Cause girl you know that's all you need
Everyone around you adores you
Don't give up, the world is waiting for you

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all,
You're gonna make it after all

Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all,
You're gonna make it after all."

For fun, here's the 1st season opening theme (with the much less certain "You might just make it after all"):



And here's the song used in Seasons 2- 7 (Mary's "gonna make it after all!"):



As we Queens say, ROCK ON!

I love it when...

...Republicans eat their own. I'm talking, of course, about Scott McClellan and his new book "I worked for the Worst Administration in the History of this Great Republic". No, that's not it, it's "Karl Rove is the Biggest Asshole in Washington, DC (and Texas)!" No, wait it's "Shilling and Lying on the Taxpayer's Nickel". No, it's "You Suckers Got a War in Iraq and Didn't Even Get a Tee-Shirt!" No, actually it's:



Not to be confused with this:



The Republicans are none too happy with Scotty, but let's recall what George Bush had to say about him when his resignation was announced:

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush's administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet.

Appearing with Bush on the White House South Lawn just before the president boarded a helicopter at the start a trip to Alabama, McClellan, who has parried especially fiercefully with reporters on Iraq and on intelligence issues, told Bush: "I have given it my all sir and I have given you my all sir, and I will continue to do so as we transition to a new press secretary."

Bush said McClellan had "a challenging assignment."

"I thought he handled his assignment with class, integrity," the president said. "It's going to be hard to replace Scott, but nevertheless he made the decision and I accepted it. One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days."

As for whether Scotty and Georgie will ever be sittin' 'round chewin' the fat and talkin' about the good ole days? I don't THINK so! (see the video above from one of the funniest mockumentaries to date)

The Mister and I are headed to NYC to see a live taping of "The Daily Show" with John Stewart next week. His very special guest that night? One Scott McClellan. Hopefully the brouhaha over his memoirs will not have faded from the limelight before John gets to take his pound of flesh.

On Memorial Day

It's nice to have a day off once in a while, isn't it? Especially now, with the weather getting nicer and school almost out for the summer. But far too often, we enjoy our respite from work without remembering why we have the day off.

I present this video for Memorial Day, 2008.

My friends...

they know me so well. I celebrated my almost 40th birthday on Friday, and was fortunate to meet up with one of my closest friends (variously called the "MCBC" and "L'S...") at Panera Bread for coffee (...sigh...like the good ole' days in Cairo...) and then with another (the "QB") to see the Capitol Steps downtown at the Ronald Reagan Building (the irony is delicious: the president most known for being in favor of "small government" has his name on the biggest and most expensive federal building in the country) with our "goozs".

Anyways, the QB gave me the following for my birthday:

I proudly wore this pin on my purse last night - on the other side from the Pope Benedict pin I got when the QB and I saw him in downtown DC in April.

The coffee mug starts with red and blue states (indicating which team won which states in '04) and then changes to all blue when strong Dunkin' Donuts (or Tim Horton's) coffee is added. Love it!

It's funny, there are multiple political viewpoints expressed among my circle of friends, though we all seem to be united on one point: none of us can stand Hillary Clinton.

Drop out already, will ya????

The Wingers get their panties in a bunch.

AGAIN. Seriously, the wingnuts on the right seem to be perpetually afraid of their own shadow - and everyone else's to boot. For as much grief as I give those cowards for not signing up to fight, we're probably all better off that they're here in the states being douchebags rather than having them sit in a foxhole soiling their pants everytime a person of Arab descent walks by.

What's got them all atwitter? This:

Rachel Ray holding an iced coffee. AND OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! WEARING A KEFFIYEH!!1! She's a member of Hamas, no Hezbollah, no she wants to bear Osama's children !!!!1!

Of course, a keffiyeh looks like this:

and this:

Even some of Malkin's brain dead followers know that she's making a mountain out of something that's not even close to a molehill. Rachel Ray is wearing what we call a "scarf". See how the patterns are different between what RR is wearing and a keffiyeh? And how her scarf has long tassles, and keffiyeh's don't? That means THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING. Morans.

Besides, everyone knows that this is the way to wear a keffiyeh, beautifully worn by our pet olive-wood camel, Ali Talal, who greets visitors in our front entryway:

Update: Oh my god....this Army/Navy store is selling keffiyeh-like scarves! Why do Army/Navy stores want the terrorists to win????

Update again: The good folks at Sadly, No! found this interesting pic, which obiviously means Michelle Malkin is a terrorist sympathizer:

Lucy...you got some 'splainin' to do!!!

Supporting the Troops - for real

The Senate voted today on another war supplemental (the Senate votes every six months on funding for Iraq and Afghanistan rather than add the costs to the annual budget), and added on Jim Webb's GI education funding bill. As late as last week, Webb was 2 votes shy of getting the 60 needed for a veto-proof majority. Today the Senate stood up and did the right thing and voted 75-22 to pass the bill. President Bush has promised to veto the bill. Good. Do it. The Senate will override your veto and pass the bill over your temper tantrums.

Roll call (with Republicans who stood up to the President and did the right thing for the troops in bold):

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---75
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---22 (all Republicans):

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Voinovich (R-OH)

Not Voting - 3
Coburn (R-OK)
Kennedy (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)*

I'm fairly impressed with the list of Republicans who grew a set and voted yes. It's a real mix of passionate conservatives (Chambliss, Crapo, Inhofe, Isakson, Thune, Vitter, Wicker) and fairly moderate Republicans (Specter, Snowe, Collins, Hagel) and everyone in between.

But speaking of temper tantrums, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) threw one today and it's got to be seen to be believed.



He's got it completely backward. You will be rewarded if you vote against the Webb bill - with a one way ticket back home on November 5, 2008. Unsolicited advice to McBush: please, please, please pick Lindsay Graham as your Veep. I would love to see the conservative Christians supporting McBush stand up for a guy like Lindsay with some...how shall I put this...interesting rumors about him....

*Apparently, presidential candidate John McBush couldn't be bothered to come back to DC to vote - too busy raising benjamins.

I love pictures like this

Looks like ole' Georgie has a new BFF! Tell me you don't look at that picture and sing to yourself:

"King Fahd and Georgie sittin' in a tree..."

I cannot begin to imagine the outrage on the right if John Kerry or Al Gore were photographed holding hands (twice - scroll down below!) with the leader of a country that produced 15 of the September 11th hijackers! We would hear about it ad nauseum on Faux News...

Personally, I agree with my friend who thinks the Saudis have some secrets on our country and/or leaders and blackmail us to keep those secrets secure. The only other explanation I can give for our continuing friendship with the Saudis is they feed our oil addiction and we are addicts always coming back for more...

Update: As habibi gooz politely pointed out to me, George Bush's BFF is not King Fahd, but King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, son of of King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud. You can read all about him here.