Great Dane Puppy! and she's blue.

So far this morning I have (1) spilled a pint of homemade turkey stock ALL over the kitchen, (2) cursed loudly at myself, causing Dylan to start crying, (3) spent half an hour cleaning turkey stock out of everything on all of my kitchen counters while DH calmed our son down, and (4) finally got to work to discover that THE COFFEE MAKER IS BROKEN.

I have now finally achieved both coffee AND bagel with the help of a Starbucks and a deli and would like the rest of today to please go more smoothly.

It looks like W superimposed Demi Moore's face on a (much younger) model's body for her cover shot:

That model seems kinda bony.

THE COFFEE MAKER IS BROKEN

Did you figure you were trapped in a Hell dimension at that point?

msbelle, sorry you had a rough night. I hope today is better.

And Jessica, I hope your day improves from here!

Re: the Demi thing... I suppose it was only a matter of time but it still makes me sick. For a little something different, I give you Beth Ditto (from Gossip) naked on the cover of Love magazine (NSFW, obvs). [link] According to Bitch magazine, she was actually retouched to be slightly *bigger*.

Well, the coffeemaker at Starbucks across the street was working, so it may be a localised hell vortex just in my office's kitchen.

It looks like the RNC is considering a purity test . . .

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WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama’s socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan’s belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates; and

WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion;
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further

RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy positions of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee; and be further

It's kind of sweet that they take the 8 out of 10 thing so literally. Almost like it was a verse out of revelation.

Hey! Fake AP Stylebook is mocking us!

KO said yesterday that Reagan would fail that Reagan test.