I enjoyed reading your post very much.

Liz, You just quoted one of my idols…Carmen Dell’Orefice, one of the most beautiful models in history. God, she is stunning at 77, and has had the snow white hair ever since I can remember. And thank you for showing us her picture.

Thanks so much for the snippets from the British Times and Heather Mallicks contribution. I still haven’t gotten over the shock of Palin. The twang, the doncha and woncha, the gettin and meetin and all of those beautiful words that she uses to endear herself to the general public. I really cannot figure if those are real or she is using them deliberately. I have spent a few months (total) in Alaska. I cannot say if the people are crazy (most seemed very pleasant) but to the liquor problem I can attest. The ritual of the cocktail hour seemed to be unheard of—just belly up to the bar boys, take a fifth to the table and drink it. This may have been a Fairbanks thing but it seemed to spill over into Anchorage also. A zillion men, some with beards, some without, all in boots and flannel shirts, half drunk and very noisy. And where does this leave the women. Apparently wantin to be Mayor of the Town. I think Ms. Palin will be a very adequate Governor in Alaska, the population is small, the huntin is great. But before she plays with the big boys she is going to have to clean up her act, her speach, her good old girl looks and try to set a higher standard for the people who are listening to what she says. Can you imagine her in Shanghai? It is full of foreigners as is France and Germany and Italy——-more later, she really upsets me.

Outstanding…the quotes blew me away! Liz, keep it coming…more…more…more!

Liz, with your few exceptions here, even quotations ain’t what they used to be. Monroe gets more admirable with each passing day. “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.” - Gustave Flaubert. On that note, does anyone else see the fact that Obama has been radicalized as an asset? If fire must be fought with fire, (yawn) let McCain’s would-be arsonists defend his stated admiration for David Ifshin, ‘the traitorous’ Tokyo Rose of the Vietnam era. (Note: John wasn’t eight years old at the time.) Read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-cooper/mccains-own-60s-radical-p_b_13… Back in the woods, they call this pine duff. And we’re not out of the woods, by a longshot.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s food watchdog has ordered China-manufactured snacks from Nestle SA and Mars Inc to be taken off shelves after detecting melamine in their samples, it said on Saturday. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said 2.38 parts per million (ppm) and 1.78 ppm of the substance were found in M&M’s milk chocolate snack and Snickers peanut Fun Size, both produced by Mars and manufactured in China. “We are urgently recalling the products due to melamine detection,” KFDA said in a statement. Mars said it was temporarily withdrawing the products from the Korean market because it was legally obliged to do so and that the melamine levels announced by the KFDA did not pose a health risk. Kit Kat bars from Nestle were also found carrying 2.89 ppm of melamine, bringing the total number of melamine-detected items to 10 in Seoul. Nestle said the KFDA asked it to withdraw one batch of mini Kit Kat made in China from the market, after their tests detected minute traces of melamine in a single batch out of eight Nestle confectionery items tested. No melamine was detected in the other seven products, the company said. “The company immediately complied with the authorities’ request, even though this product is absolutely safe by recognized international standards,” Nestle said in a statement. “South Korea has no regulations on maximum levels of melamine in food, and the conditions under which the South Korean authorities conducted their tests are unclear,” it added. Melamine, widely used in kitchen utensils, can pose serious health risks if consumed in large quantities. At least four children in China died after drinking tainted infant milk formula last month. Continued…

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“Western doctors were concerned about a growing demand for designer vaginas.” What is a designer vagina? Thought I had heard it all, but shown once again not. Caught a bit of “The Girls Next Door” last night, and Holly got a mold of her privates, which was then used to pour liquid chocolate into,so she could have a chocolate vagina. Thought that was beyond the pale, but this story tops that easily.

“The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.” —British satirist Victor Lewis-Smith Not from this dead movie star’s perspective, dahling. I wouldn’t be caught DEAD drinking martinis with Ringo and Paul. And Liz, dahling, Marilyn sends her best, and asks you think of her the next time you have champagne and good Russian caviar. She’s been spending quite a bit of time with James Dean lately - but you didn’t hear it from me.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/report-mccain-exploded-wi_n_133… MUST READ AND WATCH GO OBAMA!!

Sarah Palin is a nut case. She comes to us courtesy of John McCain. John McCain survived 5 years in a cage in Vietnam. I salute him. He is a survivor. He is not a hero. Being a survivor (or a hero, were he one) would not qualify him (or anyone else) to be president. Being kept in a cage for five years messes with your head. This was proven to us when he chose Sarah Palin for his running mate. This is a woman whose son is on his way to Iraq because it was that or jail. Her daughter is pregnant and miserable. (Take a look at the poor kid’s face) The boyfriend doesn’t want the baby. Her husband joined a weirdo group. And she has no foreign policy experience is that she can see Russia from her house. Well, I can see the moon. Does that make me a scientist? The woman is Nutsy the squirrel. I would love to see a woman become president, but the right woman. This one is no smarter than Paris Hilton. Years ago I worked for the UN in Rome. This was during the Nixon administration and I left the country because I was disgusted. I was young and single then. I could leave. Anyway, the day he resigned I picked up my paper on the way to work and when I saw the headline I got all excited. The newspaper seller told me, “The American people are babies. They expect politicians to be honest and good. They are no good. You are all stupid.” I wasn’t in the least bit offended. We are incredibly naive. I didn’t think that we were stupid. I do now. I am convinced that the majority of the people in this country are stupid after the events of the past eight years. If we elect John McCain and the frozen loonie we deserve what we get. Our children, however, do not.