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The Wine Warrior

The Wine Warrior

My Comments (61 so far…)

Fey: 'I'm Done' if McCain-Palin Wins the White House

Tinay Fey has a LOT of people on her side, and a LOT of admiration for her saying it out loud. Sarah Palin/McHoover are an extension of the Nightmare on Main Street. Bush polices have rewarded crooked banks and hedge funders and are literally killing good Americans. People are losing everything and suicides are way up.

What do people always say to you that drives you crazy?

What FP said. I’m leaving Wed AM for three weeks on the beach so…c’est la vie. But this is an amusing cat whose antics have been watched 13.5M times: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo And Villefranche-sur-Mer….hmmmm, heaven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslI-aAELms Kryssi, This ‘Bitch’ wine is sold in an upscale market nearby…they can barely keep it in stock. http://www.volunteer.blogs.com/winewaves/images/bitch_barossa_grenache_2… Breakfast of Champions.

Liz Smith Presents Fashion's Simon Doonan in an Anti-Hockey-Mom Mood

Potty mouth????” Doesn’t that at LEAST involve some swear words. Is it a prerequisite to belong to the GOP must be a roaring hypocrite. OK to support ‘candidates’ who incite racism, violence, etc… Some ‘family values.’ “I’m beginning to worry about the level of craziness on the Republican side, the over-the-top, stampede-the-crowd statements by everyone from McCain on down, the vehemence of the crowds that McCain and Palin are drawing with people shouting “Kill him” and “He’s a terrorist” and “Off with his head.” Watch the tape of the guy screaming, “He’s a terrorist!” McCain seems to shudder at that, he rolls his eyes… and I thought for a moment he’d admonish the man. But he didn’t. And now he’s selling the Ayres non-story full-time. Yes, yes, it’s all he has. True enough: he no longer has his honor. But we are on the edge of some real serious craziness here and it would be nice if McCain did the right thing and told his more bloodthirsty supporters to go home and take a cold shower.” — Joe Klein,

Liz Smith Presents Fashion's Simon Doonan in an Anti-Hockey-Mom Mood

Palin Supporters: Fat, dumb, loud, uncouth and calling for Obama to be killed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_R3hQGYT4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E 12New Stomach Turning Revelations About Palin: http://www.alternet.org/election08/102345/12_new_stomach-turning_revelat… David Swanson, Author of Downing Street Memo, on Palin: “Because I’m not a fundamentalist hoping for the end of the world, a raving lunatic unclear on the concept of science, or a certified moron who claims to read every newspaper in the country but reads and knows essentially nothing. In other words, I’m not Sarah Palin. The entire damn planet is in danger, ecosystems are collapsing, the mild warming is getting dangerously close to entering a vicious cycle that nobody will be able to reverse, species are vanishing at an ever faster pace, and the town I live in, no matter how pleasant it may be at the moment, is not an island. If it were, it would be in danger of going under, as real islands are. So, it comes to this: Are we a nation of complete and utter imbeciles? It’s been the better part of a century since H.L. Mencken predicted this danger with these words: “The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts’ desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” I’d be the last to question the moronicity of George W. Bush, but Sarah Palin is substantially dumber, bizarrely crazier, and dangerously and arrogantly less aware of her own shortcomings.” Time Magazine’s unequivocable rebuke of Palin on Troopgate and how it revealed the lying incompetent that she is: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849399,00.html The Palin’s un-American Activities: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/ Associated Press: Palin Bonds Church and State http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_el_pr/palin_church_and_state Palin’s Creepy Ambition Should Worry McHoover: http://www.alternet.org/election08/101685/sarah_palin%27s_almost_creepy_…

Liz Smith Presents Fashion's Simon Doonan in an Anti-Hockey-Mom Mood

Diana, Email me on Facebook and I’ll tell you…. can’t remember your last name (dumb me) and going through 1,070 people is too much tonight as getting ready to leave for Shell Beach for 3 weeks! Thanks. “another nomme d’plume” yes I really like that pix….am starting a facebook ‘group’ as opposed to a ‘friends’/ Groups can have any number and be more commercial and trying out how different things look…can’t decide exactly what…but can brainstorm with my friend in Shell Beach. She’s brilliant.

Happy Columbus Day! In life, what uncharted waters have you traversed and what ones have you yet to traverse?

Kryssi, After a very consequential accident Oct 24, 2000, I started having panic attacks (didn’t know what they were until diagnosed.) Read an article in the NYT that just as life threatening and life diminishing as cancer, etc….seemed an exaggeration then but now see it. I’ve never taken meds but tried to fix with exercise, meidation, diet etc….everyone needs to figure out what works best for them. But yes, chaos in the world does impact us all and creativity thrives in security and the peace to think. So….feed your creativity I think, in nature, music, poetry…whatever. Give your energy to that…and find the peaceful place you need to create. Best of luck…I think you’re great!! Creative, fun and a good writer.

A Post-Election Talk-Show Future for Sarah Palin? A Right-Wing Oprah? A Velveeta Martha?

I think given the report on her illegal firing of former brother-in-law that she and/or the State of Alaska are in for a very time consuming civil suit, She most reminds me of Tom Delay—evil, stupid, lying, stealing and no respect for the law. He was eventually thrown out and indicted…she’ll go that same course…and hopefully before November. And shouldn’t Moose have rights of self-protection from wacko Kill and Dril types like her?

What factors might motivate you to relocate outside of America?

Tina Fey said if Palin/McCain get in, she’s done and “Leaving Earth…cannot take four more years.”

Happy Columbus Day! In life, what uncharted waters have you traversed and what ones have you yet to traverse?

My favorite lines are from Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Ulysses is Latin for Odysseus , and like Cafavy’s “Ithaca” reference Homer’s 800 B.C.“Odysesy” the universal tale of humanity. “…I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little… “…Come, my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew “Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” And Sir Sean Connery reciting Cavafy’s “Ithaca” (references Odyssey) which was also read at Jackie Kennedy’s memorial mass by Maurice Templesman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk I think life is about as they said “To strive, to seek, to find…and not to yield.” And so in unchartered waters we, America and the world now go…

Liz Smith Presents Fashion's Simon Doonan in an Anti-Hockey-Mom Mood

As far as I am concerned, Sarah Palin is a dirtbag. Can’t stand her. Hope she is sued by the former brother-in-law, thrown out of office, indicted or all three. She is dreadful, the pits, genuine piece of squirrel/religious-wacko MERDE. Sarah Palin: Get Lost you lying, moose slaughtering, racist, hick-fest, total dummy creepazoid. Let me know if I’ve minced words…I try my best to amp them up.

What factors might motivate you to relocate outside of America?

I’m relocating to France next year because; 1) my son is a French citizen and has lived in Europe most of his live, can’t envision him returning to US and miss him very much. 2) While I love the US, I loathe the US government under GWB and while I am a Democrat I am not a fan of Nancy Pelosi, either. 3) I’m not just leaving something (I love Northern California very much) but going to something. Really love France, and appreciate the health care system and pace of live/values in Provence and proximity to Portugal/Spain/Italy etc. What’s kept me here are mostly my parents, and work committments. For the first time in their vibrant/active/healthy lives both, at 78 and 80, are in compromised health. Even though I can’t do much about that but call everyday and support them as I can, it is extremely distrubing, esp since my brother’s death in late July and the impact that has had on them…and I can’t just leave. Am torn. Miss my son so much and love France, and can’t leave my parents and love Nothern California. Aiyee!

A Sarah Palin-Hillary Clinton Catfight? Liz Smith Explains on FOX News (Video)

Emcye, Loved it! Saw the film when it was first out years and ago and thought….that CD had gotten pretty chubby….ah…now she looks super. Ha….and Fanny Ardant too. That was so nice to see felt at home as if in sane wonderful France.

A Sarah Palin-Hillary Clinton Catfight? Liz Smith Explains on FOX News (Video)

Time Magazine on Troopergate Report—-It shows an inept, impetuous, amatuerish, entitled administration/Palin. Like we hadn’t noticed. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1849399,00.html Ed Rollins GOP pundit said McCain has lost it and probably his inciting racism/violence against Obama will lead to the GOP losing 10-12 Senate seats and 25 in the House. I may weep.