Fausta's Blog

Michelle Obama, of course!

Yes, really,

“There are also aspects of her that make me think of spirited Katharine Hepburn in Holiday, elegant Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca…”

“… wise and proud Greer Garson in The Valley of Decision, and adventurous Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Michelle Obama is not any of these characters, of course, but bears traces of the universal characteristics these women brought to life.”

You can’t make this up if you tried.

What the hey??
Mercedes-Benz Uses Communist Madman Che Guevara to Sell Luxury Cars

Mercedes forgets that

Che Guevara, not to put too fine a point on it, was a psychopath whose sadistic lust for blood was not easily quenched. He killed for pleasure.

As Ed Driscoll puts it, The Baader Meinhof Complex comes full circle.  Or, is it Stockholm Syndrome for marketers?

(updated with photo)

7 dead,
91 jobs lost,
5,464 arrests,
rapes, thefts, assaults, drug dealing, public defecation, in a really long rap sheet,
and TIME is so desperate for attention that they name “Protester” Person of the Year.

(more…)

Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers for sexual resemblance

Is the cleric living in the outer reaches of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?

No.

The cleric’s living in Europe,

An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avoid any “sexual thoughts.”

Carrots and zucchini are also to be avoided.

No word on parsnips or yuca, though.

Is that a daikon in your pocket…

Hugo Chavez shoes, $67.00

Being stupid enough to wear them, priceless.

There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.

Hat tip: Venezuela News and Views – you’ll love his headline.

Buffett: I beg you to raise my taxes

Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man in the world with a net worth of around $80 billion, is demanding the U.S. government make the rich like him pay higher taxes and says they should no longer be protected like endangered “spotted owls.”

Warren’s own spotty logic shines through here: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich because he only paid $6,938,744 in federal taxes last year.

Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.

Well, I’m so glad Warren rounded up to the nearest dollar. However, to the best of my knowledge, Buffett has never made his tax returns public, so who knows?

Warren, dearest, you can stop bellyaching and start preaching by example: Give ALL your money to the federal government. Every red cent. I asked you to do it last year, and you’ve kept me waiting.

Step up to the plate, Warren.

I beg you.

UPDATE,
Here’s the address, Warren,

Gifts to the United States U.S. Department of the Treasury Credit Accounting Branch 3700 East-West Highway, Room 6D37 Hyattsville, MD 20782

If you send it via FedEx they’ll have it by Wednesday morning.

Busy day here, while everyone is blogging about Pres. Obama’s budget speech.

However, an equally interesting subject is this Manifesto For Conscious Men, which starts with an apology for being men. You can watch the YouTube in its full unmanly self-conscious groveling glory here.

Conceived, redacted and read by a guy name Gay. Really.

The whole thing is not only wrong from the get-go (starting with that photo of Dante Gabriel Rosetti’s Beata Beatrix – yes, I know my Pre-Raphaelites – on the Facebook page), it totally misses the point. As Bill Whittle says in the Trifecta,

The antidote to brutal men is not weak, femminine men. The antidote to brutal men is strong, good men.

Now, whether the Manifesto is actually “the most elaborate pick-up line ever”, I’ll leave for Citizen Renegade to decide.

More blogging later.

Out of 34 countries assessed, U.S. ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science, 25th in math, but this ought to make us #1 in idiocy:

Warner Todd Hudson writes about the Crystal Lake’s Prairie Ridge High School lesson on female anatomy,

As a teaching tool Levin used “The Vagina Dance,” a song replete with dance steps and arm movements, and required her entire co-ed class to participate in it – all to the tune of The Hokey Pokey, no less.

No word on whether a penis dance was added for a full Hokey Pokey effect.

EU sends out £4.4m diaries to schools which list Muslim, Chinese and Hindu holidays… but miss out Christmas and Easter

The European Union has sent millions of diaries to schools which list the dates of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish and Chinese festivals – but omit any mention of Christian celebrations.

In an extraordinary move, three million 2011 notebooks were printed at a cost of £4.4million to the taxpayer. Around 350,000 of the diaries have already been shipped to schools in the UK alone.

There is no record for Christmas, Easter or Lent – despite bureaucrats carefully listing the EU’s self-styled ‘Europe Day’ on May 9.

Self-serving? Oh yes.

Those asking for an explanation got none,

EU officials have described the diaries as ‘a rather gross error’ but were at a loss to explain how it might have occurred.

Yeah, right…

The blogprof pounds on the EU with the big stick.

Astrology’s newest: The sign of Ophiuchus.

Not enough to have the sign of Cancer, now there’s a new sign that sounds like an infectious skin condition:
New Zodiac Sign Dates: Ophiuchus The 13th Sign? (h/t Instapundit)

Astronomer Parke Kunkle says that due to changes in the Earth’s alignment the dates of many zodiac signs have changed, according to NBC. In addition, there may be a 13th Zodiac sign: Ophiuchus.

Now I wait for the catchy song to follow,