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topsy
06/01/09

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Maybe Obama thought Nancy was dead. I try to forget everything connected to the Reagan years.
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Lymed
06/01/09

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The article isn't clear whether Nancy or the reporter raised the issue. For all we know, the reporter asked her if she attended, or if she had been invited, and that was her response.
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bluebears
06/01/09

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You know what? She's right. It would've been a smart political move to invite her to attend. She HAS done a lot of campaigning on the issue and she DOES have appeal to conservatives. I don't think she's being all whiney here, I think she's just being straightforward. Plus she's also publicly voicing her support for his policy again, so its all good.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
06/01/09

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Because, you know, former First Ladies totally can't inform the nubbin' Presidents that they are willing to go or anything. That would be too forward.
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morninggloria
06/01/09

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That's called a "trickle down invitation."
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
06/01/09

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The lady in red is staring at me ...with her eyes

There's nobody here, it's just you and me (and your silly couch)

But I hardly know this First Lady by my side

I'll never forget, the way you look (sitting on that silly couch in a park by yourself)
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dreamweave
06/01/09

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And once again, Huffpo gets all ridiculous with a screaming headline "Nancy Reagan said she was snubbed by Obama!!!!!" when actually she seems pretty okay with it. They kill me.
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wishing upon
06/01/09

@dreamweave: I stopped reading HuffPo a lot because of their OUTRAGEOUS headlines. I think they make liberals look bad but all of my liberal friends seem to love that blog.
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dreamweave
06/01/09

@hollygolightly: There are a couple of regular posters who I enjoy - but I don't go there for straight news, but to see how absurd their headlines are compared to actual content. It is really bad, but good for a daily chuckle.
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HarpMadness
06/01/09

@hollygolightly: Eh, only in the same way Drudge (back in the day when he sort of, kind of mattered) made all conservatives look bad. Oh wait ...
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
06/01/09

@hollygolightly: Their front page is suck a joke with the GIANT FONT for anything remotely newsworthy.
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/01/09

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This kind of makes me chuckle.

"I could have been used as a political symbol, Barack! Loaded symbolism! Come ON! I just wanted a plane ticket! GOD"
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hortense
06/01/09

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I wonder if her invitation would have read:

Will you come to the White House?

Circle One:

YES

JUST SAY NO
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MilointheMeadow
06/01/09

@hortense:

Choose the correct option from the following:

HUGS

DRUGS
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Lymed
06/01/09

@hortense: You are killing me with your formatting.
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)
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MilointheMeadow
06/01/09

@Lymed: Hee!
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danadevin85
06/01/09

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oh Nancy

looking so nice in all her red

but atleast he called
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hortense
06/01/09

@danadevin85: You are killing me with your formatting. Please follow these guidelines:

[jezebel.com]

Thanks.
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suck_it_monkeys
06/01/09

@hortense: Please don't make the unintentional poetry stop. It's been cracking my shit up all morning.
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hellosunshine
06/01/09

@hortense: Oh Hortense, please let it continue. I'm envisioning the poetry scenes from "So I Married An Ax Murderer" while reading these posts.
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debo matar la zombi goldberry83
06/01/09

@suck_it_monkeys: I keep kind of wanting to add "Burmashave" to the end, but then I feel like a jerk.
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hortense
06/01/09

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Of all the first ladies I grew up with, Nancy Reagan is the most Emily Gilmoresque.
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ShanaElmsford
06/01/09

@hortense: Well, she has a point about him getting more political mileage out of it. And heck, even Emily Gilmore was right some of the time.
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queenieinmanhattan
06/01/09

@hortense: I just watched the episode where Emily sees Gran kissing the guy in the track suit. The scene where she tells Lorelai about it is so fricking Emmy-worthy, it's not even funny. I LOVE Emily Gilmore.
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Don't Get It Twisted (don't take mah starhhh!)
06/01/09

@queenieinmanhattan: on that note.. how did she NEVER win an Emmy for her work on that show???
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queenieinmanhattan
06/01/09

@Don't Get It Twisted: Oh, that show was so robbed when it came to recognition, awards-wise. Don't even get me started. I don't think she was ever even NOMINATED. Unreal.
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sciencerules
03/07/09

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"It is unethical to use human life...to advance science."

So clinical trials are unethical? Case studies? Surveys? Censuses? Autopsies? All those nights and weekends of my young human life I've sacrificed while working on prostate cancer are unethical? Good to know!

Newsflash: human life is always going to be used to advance science, just as it always has been.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
03/07/09

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Oohhhh, but he should have done it his FIRST WEEK IN OFFICE!! He is not making good on his promises from the campaign trail! Annnnnnd he said that every Democrat will have a beachside home and a pony, I FEEL BETRAYED!!! IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH!!

/snark
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elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
03/07/09

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I (and my stepmother, who was diagnosed with Parkinsons in her early 40s) am SOO GLAD about this.

For those of you with concerns about the embryos, it said in the NPR article I read this morning that the lady whose embryo it is has to give permission for the embryo to be used for science.
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LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman
03/07/09

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"Today's news that President Obama will open the door to direct taxpayer funds for embryonic stem cell research that encourages the destruction of human embryos is a slap in the face to Americans who believe in the dignity of all human life," Perkins says, "It is unethical to use human life, even young embryonic life, to advance science."

This is probably a guy who supports the illegal use of chimps in research. I watched about 3 minutes of an undercover video about chimps in labs sent by the Humane Society the other day. I couldn't get the sound to work, but still almost wept. It was AWFUL. So, seriously, Mr. Perkins? Really? An embryo?

"But if he decides that embryos that have already been created and are going to be discarded are the ones that would be used, that would be reasonable as well. These things exist and are going to be discarded. It's really mind-boggling to me these things are going to be discarded and scientists haven't been allowed to use them to do research."

And that is what really confused me--embryos that will be discarded couldn't be used for research? What did Mr. Bush propose, giving them a proper burial?
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Shelwood
03/07/09

@LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: That was exactly what the prior ban was about, prohibiting the use of ANY embryos.
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
03/07/09

@LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: No burial, just throw them out. Yes, that's the way we've been doing it: unused embryos from fertility clinics had to be thrown out/destroyed so scientists couldn't get their evil heathen hands on them to, you know, try to help people. We had to destroy the village in order to save it!

Good riddance to madness.
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