Sunday, May 29, 2005
Condi Nasty
In the Inquirer article today (pA10), called "Rice rejects calls for inquiry into Guantanamo prison", there are just too many "absurd" quotes from Condoleezza Rice for me to type in here. My head would explode. Please read the article. I can't find it in the on-line versions of that paper, or I would have given you a link.
I happen to think Condi is brilliant. I've watched her answer questions about the political conditions in the Middle East, South America, Africa, New and Old Europe, and Mexico, one after the other without a moment's hesitation. She spent the first 4 years of the Bush administration patiently teaching Georgie all she knows about foreign affairs. I don't hold that against her. In fact, I admire the fact that her head didn't explode. She knows her stuff. But what she doesn't know about hair is amazing.
You know that I am not a fashionista. I like my clothes to cover my body, to make it fit for public consumption. I tend towards purple and comfort. My hair style changes every couple of years - short, long, permed, blond, red, but always easy to take care of. Condi's hair is stuck in 1970. If you look through my high school yearbook, you will be able to pick out my African-American sisters who didn't get with the whole Black Power thing that was going on during that era, and see hairdos just like Ms Rice's. She has that curled-under bangs thing going on, with the rest of it Afro-sheened back, ending with that nasty flip we all wore from 7th grade through to high school. It makes me crazy. Just reading the first quote from her in this article, "The United States is as open a society as you will find," and the administration is being held accountable "by a free press..." I can't get the image of her hair out of my mind to begin to comprehend what goes on in her mind. Please, Condi, get a hair cut.
I happen to think Condi is brilliant. I've watched her answer questions about the political conditions in the Middle East, South America, Africa, New and Old Europe, and Mexico, one after the other without a moment's hesitation. She spent the first 4 years of the Bush administration patiently teaching Georgie all she knows about foreign affairs. I don't hold that against her. In fact, I admire the fact that her head didn't explode. She knows her stuff. But what she doesn't know about hair is amazing.
You know that I am not a fashionista. I like my clothes to cover my body, to make it fit for public consumption. I tend towards purple and comfort. My hair style changes every couple of years - short, long, permed, blond, red, but always easy to take care of. Condi's hair is stuck in 1970. If you look through my high school yearbook, you will be able to pick out my African-American sisters who didn't get with the whole Black Power thing that was going on during that era, and see hairdos just like Ms Rice's. She has that curled-under bangs thing going on, with the rest of it Afro-sheened back, ending with that nasty flip we all wore from 7th grade through to high school. It makes me crazy. Just reading the first quote from her in this article, "The United States is as open a society as you will find," and the administration is being held accountable "by a free press..." I can't get the image of her hair out of my mind to begin to comprehend what goes on in her mind. Please, Condi, get a hair cut.
Friday, May 27, 2005
Georgie Porgie
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
Thus spake the President of the United States of America. I see Karl Rove whining over that one. "Georgie, when are you going to learn the difference between what I say to you in our private time, and what you are supposed to say in public?" You can argue that the quote is out of context. It's true I didn't read the article, even though I do prefer to read what he says rather than listen to it. When he starts talking and gesturing and pounding the podium and grinning like it's all just the grandest thing that he gets to stand there and tell the people what it means to be a Real American, I get embarassed for my fellow Americans that this fool is representing us to the world. And it really doesn' t matter what the context is anyway. All he really understands is 9/11. That was his biggest moment, and he wants you to continue to praise him for how he handled it. And to fear. You must fear. So he will always mention 9/11.
To see more Bushisms, go to http://www.slate.com/id/76886/
Thus spake the President of the United States of America. I see Karl Rove whining over that one. "Georgie, when are you going to learn the difference between what I say to you in our private time, and what you are supposed to say in public?" You can argue that the quote is out of context. It's true I didn't read the article, even though I do prefer to read what he says rather than listen to it. When he starts talking and gesturing and pounding the podium and grinning like it's all just the grandest thing that he gets to stand there and tell the people what it means to be a Real American, I get embarassed for my fellow Americans that this fool is representing us to the world. And it really doesn' t matter what the context is anyway. All he really understands is 9/11. That was his biggest moment, and he wants you to continue to praise him for how he handled it. And to fear. You must fear. So he will always mention 9/11.
To see more Bushisms, go to http://www.slate.com/id/76886/
Day 1
Well, I'm really not so angry now that I got my own blog. So many things to rant and rave about - just give me time.
