The Next Best Thing to an Ivy League Education: Fashion

Finally, the event we’ve all been waiting for: Lady M’s important White House "Fashion Education Workshop.”

Not everyone can go to Princeton and Harvard Law, so Lady M addressed students gathered in the East Room yesterday to speak about the significance and importance of the fashion industry:

"Now, when it comes to the fashion industry, so often people think it’s all about catwalks and red carpets and 'who wore it best,' and whether some famous person wore the right belt with the right shoes –- like I’d know what that’s like," she said to laughter from the audience.

"But the truth is that the clothes you see in the magazine covers are really just the finished product in what is a very long very complicated and very difficult process, as I’ve come to learn working with many designers."

Boy, isn’t that the truth!

You can never be too thin, ladies!

h/t iOwnTheWorld and Gerard

What most people don’t realize is that there are so many different aspects to this industry.

Whether it’s business marketing or technology and manufacturing, even agriculture that produces the wool and the cotton that ultimately becomes our clothes, it’s a big, complicated industry.

Just like your government!

Obamacare flowchart, part A

The industry is also a huge contributor to this economy. Last year alone, Americans spent more than $350 billion on clothing and footwear,

And that’s $350 billion that actually does work its way through the economy! Like San Fran Nan told us – it’s just like food stamps and unemployment: for every dollar we spend on these welfare programs, it puts like $2 back into the economy! Or something.

Economics from the gang who flunked Econ 101 and never heard of “opportunity cost”

 

and about 1.4 million American workers are employed annually by retailers and others in the fashion industry --

Albeit part-time these days; thank you Obamacare!

so a lot of jobs, a lot of income that is generated by many of the people who are sitting in this room.

Anna, spreading the wealth around by shopping at Starbucks

 

But for so many of you –- whether you’re already in the industry or aspiring to be there some day -– I know that in the end, fashion is really about passion and creativity.

Can we tone done the passion just a tad? And maybe rein in the creativity a bit?

Just like music or dance or poetry, it’s what drives you. It’s what gets you out of bed each morning. It’s what you write about in essays in school and what you read about in the news.[ed. because you sure won’t read anything about all those phony scandals] It occupies every ounce of your daily lives.

I know this because with creative people, that’s what their passion does -- it makes everything else worthwhile.

Creative Passion: it makes everything else worthwhile.

Or something.

Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps

MO’s $635 half “pumps” - not just pretty

or the perfect hemline.

perfect hemline…all of them

For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it’s a way they feed their families.

Remember when ordinary people used to be able to do that too?

Have a career and feed their family I mean?

So that’s why we thought it was important to bring the industry to the White House, and to share it with all of you who are coming up in the next generation.

Later, (Lady M) told the story of Spanx, and talked up the product to the crowd. "Just take Sara Blakely, for example…14 years later, Sara’s idea, Spanx, is a multibillion-dollar company with products selling in more than 50 countries. (Applause.) And we all wear them with pride. (Laughter.)"

Whether we should or not.

One size fits all

So what do you say, how about a thank you and a big round of applause to our wonderful FLOTUS for bringing a little fashion into our otherwise sad little fly over lives!!

Whoa! How about some of those spanx?

(applause)

Class dismissed.

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Tales From the Dark Side

The dark side of the moon that is.

Did you catch this morning’s total lunar eclipse? It was pretty awesome.

Referred to as a “blood moon” it occurs when the the moon is in full phase and its orbit meets the orbit of the earth around the sun. When directly aligned the moon is completely enveloped by earth’s shadow, with jusst a thin band of infrared light shining through and bouncing off the moon’s surface, thus creating the illusion of a “blood red” moon.

“You might expect Earth seen in this way to be utterly dark, but it’s not. The rim of the planet is on fire! As you scan your eye around Earth’s circumference, you’re seeing every sunrise and every sunset in the world, all of them, all at once. This incredible light beams into the heart of Earth’s shadow, filling it with a coppery glow and transforming the Moon into a great red orb.”

It can be rather creepy…

causing some people to consider the occasion of a blood moon as a celestial omen of approaching sea change. Others have read much more into it. 

In truth, it’s name comes not from biblical or astronomical designations, butt rather from a politically incorrect reference:

…it comes from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead.

“You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the wood,”

Based on that we would normally denounce its name and replace it with something more culturally acceptable such as “Rose Red Moon” - except for the fact that the Farmers Almanac credits the designation to Native American hunters. Talk about the horns of a dilemma.

 Comanche Warrior Buffalo Horn Headdress 

I for one would like to go on record as favoring Blood Moons, as it is quite obvious that white, silvery moons are blatantly racist.

And speaking of celestial orbits, it is with dismay and a heavy heart that I report Big Guy’s orbit has been severely foreshortened recently; perhaps signaling the end of the expanding Obama universe. Maybe he should have left NASA’s mission in place,

instead of turning it into a Muslim outreach program.

NASA’s new Muslim Outreach space program: flying carpets.

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4 Weeks Left: Still Hitting Singles and Doubles Along With a Few Flies

"But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them."

Can we suck these eggs any harder?

Today is your 4 week warning, people: the midterms are on November 4th. In order to assist you with your decisions I was going to recap all of Big Guy’s achievements during his first 3 historic quarters of play.

Butt I see that Don Surber has already done that for us: nearly a trillion dollar stimulus that didn’t stimulate, a Cash for Clunkers program that was a clunker, Solyndra Solar which sunset shortly after the loan was gone, Obamacare – need I say more?, Iraq troop withdrawal – losing at winning. Oh yeah, he did whack Osama bin Laden, butt according to Don, he even screwed that up.

His summary of the Obama years:

Every single thing this president has tried or promised has failed. The economy? Fail. Transparency in government? Fail. Easing racial tension? Fail. Ending war? Fail. Winning Afghanistan? Fail.

Hell, he could not even pull off the Beer Summit between Professor Gates and the white cop. It ended with no one conceding anything.

The only two things he got right in nearly 6 years is his 2009 NCAA bracket and killing that fly on TV.

Butt damn! He was fine with that fly, wasn’t he?

And he is pretty good at catching flies:

Pitching them, not so much:

(We’re talking insects and baseball – don’t go there)

As I recounted previously in my very popular Sad Brat’s Diary post:

Dear Diary,

They send their vermin to torment me,

thinking they can get under my impossibly thin (black) skin. It won’t work. (more)

So remember, these soul sucking policies are on the ballot in 4 weeks, “every single one of them.” Choose wisely, weedhopper.

“Lies only become true if person choose to believe.” – Mr. Miyagi

Because remember, he’s our Lord of the Flies for another 2 years no matter what.

(Actual time can be cut in half if adjusted for vacation, fundraising and golf time) 

Let’s make his remaining days as lame-ducky as possible.

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Are Any of You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

Poor Joey. He’s been under a lot of pressure lately.

Being Numero Duo for so long has taken its toll in gaffes. And while we’re all used to his off-key notes by now, apparently the rest of the world isn’t as forgiving. They’re still a little off-put by being accused of aiding and abetting terrorists. So over the weekend Turkey’s President Erdogan and  Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed both demanded apologies from the Veep.

“Wait, what? What did I say now?”

In fact Joey’s been so distracted by all the problems in the world - like who’s done the most to earn the nod to run as the Democratic nominee for president -

It’s my turn, baby!

that he hasn’t had time to focus on insignificant things like numbers. So he inadvertently began adding and subtracting zeroes at will (161 – 161,000; what difference at this point does it make?).

After a week of little slip-ups, Joey B volunteered to play “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?” in order to bolster his presidential creds.

Let’s start out slowly, with some  2nd grade number bonds; are you ready Joey?

“OK, ready; can I use my toes too?”

Here we go:

Maybe we can stop right here, before we need to drop back to pre-school number bondings. And remember, none of this matters in politics anyway; competence only counts in winning elections and Ebola outbreaks.

h/t Legal Insurrection

And the Democrats are so competent at elections they are even looking to weaponize Ebola to use to their benefit in the midterms.

Yessir, it’s sure a good thing we didn’t end up with a vice president like Sarah Palin isn’t it? Because what good would  plain speaking common sense do when we’re faced with existential threats like war and pestilence? She’d probably try to do something stupid like shutting the borders and banning flights into the country from Ebola hot zones. Silly girl.

“How to stop Ebola? No, no, don’t tell me, I have this one! Wash your hands! Right?”

Right.

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Obama’s #WarOnWomen: Another Victim Bites It

Julia arrived amidst a flurry of HOPE and expectations.

Unfortunately things didn’t work out as well as we’d HOPEd and last week the Administration’s girl Director of Secret Service, Julia Pierson, stepped down due to creative differences. As an “unnamed official” told the Washington Post, she apparently had a different vision for the Service that clashed with the one that included protecting the President and his family.

“In the spring, Pierson was irate at what she considered the excessive security measures her team had planned for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which Obama hosted this summer, demanding that it dismantle extra layers of fencing and reopen closed streets, according to two agency supervisors. Supervisors who had mapped out the security plan said they were taken aback when Pierson, who worked during high school at Walt Disney World as a costumed character and park attendant, said: ‘We need to be more like Disney World. We need to be more friendly, inviting.’”

“More like Disney World?” MORE LIKE DISNEY WORLD!?  Where has she been? If we got any more like Disney World around here we’d have to build corals and charge admission.

h/t BKeyser

I’m just going to run through a few of Big Guy’s Administration’s biggest box office hits to date, and you decide for yourself if we need to be any more Disney World:

Mickey Mouse in Black and White – Volumes One and Two!

                                       

The Lion King:

and “Not even a smidgen of corruption.”

Pinocchio:

“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” Honest.

Dumbo, of course:

Not to mention some of our other popular hits like Robin Hood, The Black Stallion, Peter Pan, High School Musical, Something Wicked This Way Comes…well, I could go on, butt I think I’ve made my case: we ARE Disney World.

So if Julia and BHO were both on the same page, Disney-wise, it seems like she might have been let go simply because she was a girl. The #WarOnWomen claims yet another victim.

Hey! Do you know what would make a great Disney movie? “The Revenge of Julia”

Plot line: Julia gets fired and decides to screw her day job and just follow her bliss. Happy ending: Julia gets to dance and we get to pay her bills.

You go girl!

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