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Michelle and Barry's Excellent Adventures

Photoshop® alert! This apparently isn't one!





First Lady Michelle Obama



At first, (sorry Michelle!) I thought this was a Photoshop® of Barack trying to make him look (more) effeminate. Then, I saw in the caption it was Michelle. Remember, our Fearless Leader rode a girl's bike, too...









Then, we find out the price tag for the Obamas vacationing with the "millionaires and billionaires":

The Obamas' summer break in Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.



But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances. White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10 million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year.

Guess we need to re-write JFK:

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country can do for me!"

-Barack Obama

The First Lady is believed to have taken 42 days of holiday in the past year, including a $375,000 break in Spain and a four-day ski trip to Vail, Colorado, where she spent $2,000 a night on a suite at the Sebastian hotel.



And the first family's nine-day stay in Martha's Vineyard is also proving costly, with rental of the Blue Heron Farm property alone costing an estimated $50,000 a week.



... 'Michelle also enjoys drinking expensive booze during her trips

But, the pressure of being First Lady! It's got to be hell on her not worrying about mortgage payments or where her next gourmet meal is coming from! I hear in the White House, once she even had to draw her own bath!*

While the President and his wife do pay for some of their personal expenses from their own pocket, the website whitehousedossier.com says that the amount paid by the couple is 'dwarfed by the overall cost to the public'.



The magazine also reported that Mrs Obama, whose fashion choices are widely followed, had been going on 'wild shopping sprees', much to the distress of her husband, who, its sources reveal, is 'absolutely furious' at his wife's 'out-of-control spending'.

Now if he could only bring himself to become furious at Congress for their out-of-control spending!









*Probably not true. Staff would have been fired over such a thing!



H/T Rob Port



Cross posted at LCR. More at Memeorandum

Separated at Birth?

We report. You decide.

Barry and Michelle's First Star Trek Convention

Michelle Obama in Vail for weekend

Meanwhile, no one goes downhill faster than Barry!

VAIL, Colorado — First lady Michelle Obama is among the Presidents Day weekend crowd.

Obama arrived Friday night for a weekend of skiing in Vail and Beaver Creek, according to local sources.

No big deal in and of itself, right? But later in the story, we see this:

Obama has made health and fitness one of her primary causes, and skiing burns up to 400 calories an hour

Barry told her to take as long as she wanted!


H/T Memeorandum

The 2010 "Don't Let Them Eat Cake Award" goes to:

...Michelle Obama!



Whether she's telling people they need to take a "smaller piece of the pie", as she and her entourage jet off to Spain, India and Hawaii, or trying to dictate what kinds of foods are available in school lunches, vending machines and bake sales, while she and Barry fly in chefs from Chicago and Honolulu for pizza and luaus, Michelle Obama "takes the cake" for wretched excess and sanctimonious hypocrisy.

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Busybody Act of 2010

There ain't no such thing.

Are you familiar with the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010"? It has apparently passed the House today as a part of the Lame Duck Agenda and goes to Obama for his signature.

A sampling of some of the "goodies" inside.

This new option will allow schools in high-poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without collecting paper applications, which will expand access to more children and reduce administrative burdens on schools.

This is the "don't ask, don't tell" provision of HHFK. Rather than having to document the eligibility for any given student, the school can just count noses to qualify for more federal funds (and more federal control)

Provides mandatory funding to test pilot projects to improve the way we feed hungry children, including during out-of- school times.

Gee. We're borrowing money from overseas and from our grandkids, but it's mandatory that we fund unproven projects to feed kids when they're not in school? Yeah. The feds have money for that. What other mandates are in the bill?

Provides mandatory funding for schools to establish school gardens and to source local foods into school cafeterias.

School gardens??? Because people who teach math, science and English are all expert gardeners! There's no guarantee that the food grown in a school garden will be any healthier for the students and undoubtedly will not be as efficient in feeding large numbers of students, using limited funds. But, gosh! If it makes The First Lady feel better about herself, how can it be a colossal waste of money?

This section would provide the Secretary of Agriculture with the authority to establish national nutrition standards for all foods sold on school campus throughout the school day.

National nutrition standards? Aside from the Nanny State desire to control every aspect of your life from Washington, D.C., I was thinking about what national nutrition standards might have to do with the sales of band candy? How many school organizations sell candy to raise money for field trips, etc.? But, but, but...candy's not good for you! So, maybe the Feds will have schools sell Broccoli instead? Yeah. That'll work!

Sounds like it's too late to inject any common sense into this bill, but the idea of devolving power back to the states, particularly in education, is a good one, whose time has not yet come.

Scanners for Thee, but not for Me!

What might change the administration's stance on scanners:

Michelle Obama Does Sesame Street

Katy Perry Does Elmo was so popular, I wonder how Michelle does Sesame Street will do?



This was from May, 2009, but the first I heard of it was today. The key to watching it is that one of the characters is red and a little fuzzy and the other one is a Muppet.

The "You've Got to See This" Department

No Sheeples Here has the ultimate Photoshop™ of Michelle 'My Belle' Obama as Marie Antoinette!

(Yes! It was even better than mine!) Click over. You won't be disappointed!

Michelle Antoinette

"Did I hear someone say 'Cake'?"