Saturday, September 18, 2010

It's good to be a Queen...or maybe not

Mel Brooks made famous the line: It's good to be the King...


Michele Obama claims her present life is "hell"...yeah, I'd hate it too.
She was once a well paid lawyer, raising her kids and cuddling her husband, but now she's the nagging mama of America, telling us to straighten up and eat our vegetables...

Michelle Obama Talks Breastfeeding And Weight Loss

Babble (blog) - ‎9 hours ago‎
Michelle Obama, speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus earlier this week, called obesity, especially for black Americans, the “slow, quiet, ...

stuck with doing things like:

First Lady to Host Luncheon for UN First Wives at Blue Hill

DNAinfo - Nicole Bode - ‎1 hour ago‎
Michelle Obama will tout New York's finest organic food at luncheon for UN leaders' wives next week. First Lady Michelle Obama enters her car during a visit ...
First Lady Michelle Obama bringing government workers' spouses back to New ... New York Daily


I agree: for me that would be hell on earth. Give me a job at an overflowing hospital in a warzone anyday...

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Poor Lady Gaga, she can't wear a nice meat dress without folks sniping at her.








doesn't she know meat is out and veggies are in?

(Photo from Ruby's school which was sponsoring a "eat healthy" day, and included this nice lettuce dress...which is absurd because here we have to import lettuce from Baguio, it's too hot to grow in our area).


and now the older generation is ridiculing her.


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(Image wikipedia)
Attention Hollywood: Not Xena, but Queen Zenobia would make the heroine of a great movie.

Atlas Obscura reports
her town of Palmyra is still there, so plan to visit the next time you visit Syria.
more HERE
She ruled the Middle East at a time when the Roman empire almost broke up...but instead of letting her protect their flank from Parthia, they destroyed the uppity woman...



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Disney princesses rule the younger set, but now Ruby is getting older, and wants the real stories of their lives...alas, most of them never "lived happily ever after"...

Librivox audiobook on the Queens of England...

most have sad stories, but Eleanor of Aquitaine's life would also make a good movie.
(Catherine Hepburn played her in A Lion in Winter).

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