"Audacity of Taupe"

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Col. Morris Davis @ColMorrisDavis
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I'll take the "Audacity of Taupe" over the "Mendacity of Dopes" (aka #RWNJs) any day.
5:37 PM - 30 Aug 2014 Gainesville, VA, United States

Comments @ http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/30/first-family/

[betsuni]

1. Audacity of Taupe! That's a good one.

All I could come up with was "Yes, we tan."

[sheshe2]

3. "Yes, we tan."

Good one, betsuni!

[IrishAyes]

8. Hooray for you too!

[Cleita]

2. Been watching history stuff today and every President from FDR on up seems to

have a nice summer suit like that. I like the color combination and am thinking of a lady's outfit that would incorporate them.

[IrishAyes]

10. I'll have to make a point of wearing more tan in the near future.

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Only can't wear it with black, or my Irish ancestors will all rise up and smite me at once. Might even bring Michael Collins with them. Orange wouldn't do either. Think I'll stick with green.

Yes, it's worse or at least as bad as gang colors almost. Easter Peace Accord notwithstanding. The good news is that Sinn Fein is now the third largest party in Northern Ireland, and growing. I can't die before unification. (on edit: I mean restoration of the two halves of Ireland into one, of course. Not continued occupation or even voluntary UK membership.)

But GOP hacks hassling President Obama over a snappy summer suit is just plain stupid as it has no significance whatsoever. True, they have nothing better to whine about, and I'd dearly love to see their total political demise.

[sheshe2]

12. LOL!

They went there.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) went on an extended rant about President Barack Obama's decision to wear a tan suit during a statement about the terrorist group ISIS he delivered on Thursday at the White House.

"There's no way any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday," King said on NewsMaxTV on Friday. The interview was flagged by Buzzfeed. "When you have the world watching … a week, two weeks of anticipation of what the United States is gonna do. For him to walk out —I'm not trying to be trivial here— in a light suit, light tan suit, saying that first he wants to talk about what most Americans care about the revision of second quarter numbers on the economy. This is a week after Jim Foley was beheaded and he's trying to act like real Americans care about the economy, not about ISIS and not about terrorism. And then he goes on to say he has no strategy."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/president-obama-peter-king-tan-suit-rant

Holy S**T he said that?



Well



Judge Judy~



Say~ WHAT!

[MH1]

33. Someone should send Peter King that pic of Cheney in a parka. nt

[napkinz]

35. I love this one!

[sheshe2]

38. That had to have been the best debate evaaaah.

[Cleita]

20. Well, my Irish Catholic Belfast friends did avoid the black and orange and I don't

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think you do not want to do black and tan together either. Didn't know that the Sinn Fein is becoming that respectable. Gives one hope for the new terrorists in the ME becoming tame down the road. It's the blood shed that precedes it that is so sad.

[IrishAyes]

28. Bite your tongue, my dear... wear black and tan together? Perish the thought.

In the eyes of many, Sinn Fein has always been respectable. America didn't reject English oppression with a polite request, and neither can we expect the Irish State to do so. No apologies needed. 800 years of slavery is quite enough, don't you think? Consider the genocide practiced against the Irish by people whose own historical records contain the declaration: "At last we shall be free of the plague of the Irish in Ireland." However, with what amounts to an apology from Lizzie the Hun, it is indeed time to work through more peaceful means.

I'm only second gen American born. My grandfather and GG fought with Collins and after his assassination fled Ireland one jump ahead of John Bull, so I was raised in a politically saturated close knit group who sent $ back home as a matter of faith. I love political cartoons, too; my favorite being on a tee shirt still offered by Zazzle. It shows the front view of Goliath (with Union Jack designation) in full battle armor, towering over a little David we see only from the back, designated IRA. Goliath's bellowing: "Yer A Bleedin' Terr'ist!"

800 years of occupation by a totally foreign invader that practiced massive literal slavery and at one time even genocide. Time for change; although yes, by the most peaceful road available. I personally wouldn't agree with real estate ownership by foreign nationals or anyone w/o Irish citizenship, swearing sole fealty to Ireland herself. None of this UK crap. God bless Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

You win a free shamrock if you can guess who gets my house when I die.

[Cleita]

34. Oh dear my iPad edited my sentence. I meant you never want to wear

black and tan together. I edited my post to say that. My late husband was a native born Irish from Limerick. I'm well schooled in the eight hundred years of the British oppression of the Irish.

[IrishAyes]

43. No harm, no foul.

Just a chatty little note to close on: I actually bear a Welsh surname because my Granddad and GG had to slip over to Wales first for new identities before they could safely immigrate. They also said a hastily acquired Welsh accent was much easier to fake, and since most Americans knew squat about the Welsh - who were and are largely sympathetic btw - once they were beyond the reach of the British, they were pretty safe. That's another reason they chose the remote upper reaches of Maine to settle down. Actually not much got said about the family adventure except in whispers until after my dad retired from the U.S. Army. After that it wasn't very dangerous, except my sister hated it as an embarrassment, especially because I proudly told everyone who'd listen. Especially if they started criticizing immigrants.

It's like when people start spewing other racist crap. I've been known to look at them and ask, "How do you know I'm not 'passing'?" That with the death ray stare proves a great squelch.

[IrishAyes]

29. Please see my 'on edit' in #10.

One needs to be careful with overseas terminology which may hold different meanings. Those who don't follow Irish affairs might not be aware that over there, the Republicans are the good guys!

You might like to know that at 68 I've finally eased my total ban on the color orange. I do happen to like it as part of a print, for instance, with yellow and green. No political connotations there, after all. Just never, never, no never with black. It would make me twitch. That ban still holds.

[lonestarnot]

4. Fucking A straight!

[babylonsister]

5. The stupidity never ceases to amaze me. Never. nt

[sheshe2]

6. I know what you mean, bsis.

Just goes to show you that they got nothing! And they never frigging will. The dinosaurs are in their death throes. May they rest in hell for all eternity.

[Barack_America]

19. Do you think there is ever a moment of painful self-realization?

"Wait a minute, am I really this concerned about the color of a man's suit? This is who I have become? "

[sheshe2]

21. You know what is so sad, Barack_America?

I don't think they do. Not once and not ever. That party has lost it.

[3rdwaydem]

7. Great!

[DesertRat]

9. Brilliant!

[treestar]

11. The audacity of being totally moronic

as right wingers generally are.

[sheshe2]

13. Say...WHAT!

Morans one and all, treestar!

[IrishAyes]

17. I wonder if the teabagger with the original "Get a brain, Morans!"

has any idea of how his spelling has provided so many hours of amusement?

[sheshe2]

26. Ya~

USA USA USA!

[William769]

14. Kick & recommended.

[sheshe2]

15. William~

[William769]

16. Thanks. Sleepless right now.

[sheshe2]

18. Good thoughts~

Then sleep.I know for a fact that is easier said than done.

[freshwest]

22. Try to feel the way you did when you were last loved. Remember those sweet dreams.

[William769]

23. Thats to long ago to remember.

But thanks for the encouragement.

[freshwest]

24. That's true in my case, too. It takes a lot of work to get that elusive feeling, I know.

Hope you can find something to make you feel better and at ease. I know, too, that's it's not really enough. But I find turning off DU and reading certain things will help me go there, to remember the feeling.

[IrishAyes]

32. Wise advice, as always.

I try to turn off the computer at least an hour before bedtime, not only so the blue light won't interfere with melatonin production but also in order to read a real book! and reflect on the day.

[sheshe2]

25. You are loved~

We are in it together, we do it as one.

[IrishAyes]

30. Would rec this post if I could.

[Major Hogwash]

27. In other words the GOP is saying . . . "We got nothing."

And yet, they think they will be re-elected to office this fall.
They ought to go ask Eric Cantor what it is like to have 24 hours to kill each day of the week, now that he is out of a job.

[sheshe2]

40. Yup! they got nothing, Major!

but....

[rock]

31. If he only had thin orange stripes running diagonally across the suit

and a bow tie, people might think he was a republican! (sarcasm? really?)

[napkinz]

36. President Obama gets the Republicans again with the old "Rope-A-Taupe"!

[napkinz]

37. ...

[napkinz]

39. :)

[sheshe2]

41. Well done, napkinz~

[janlyn]

42. Sheshe2, I can almost guarantee

the real reason they didn't like it was because it emphasized his skin color! And the fact that he looked way more awesome than any of them could look!!!
The thing I noticed was the fact that he looks older now, you see that with a lot of presidents. With the exception of Nixon who seemed to thrive on the stress of the office,like a vampire thrives on blood! And Dubya who was to stupid to stress!