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Debra Messing
Posted on 11/02/2012 6:26:56 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Let them eat moldy pastry!
Celebrity twit Debra Messing and various heartless other stars proved beyond doubt that some fabulous New Yorkers don’t have hearts beating in their cold, dead chests.
Fires were barely snuffed out in Breezy Point. The dead were still being counted from here to Jersey. And the bodies of two tiny Staten Island brothers, 2, and 4, who were ripped by Hurricane Sandy from the arms of their frantic mother on Monday, were finally found yesterday, 20 yards from each other. They were gone.
But the rich, the famous and narcissistic weren’t about to let a little weather event ruin their party.
Messing, 44, of TV’s “Smash’’ and “Will and Grace’’ fame, proved on Halloween night that if you have enough money and face recognition, humility and breeding are useless distractions.
The same night, bodies were being pulled from the murky waters around New York City. Folks mourned family and friends killed by falling trees.
And Wednesday, a night of sadness and rebuilding, is when Messing chose to don the costume (left) of Marie Antoinette, whose utterance “let them eat cake” when there was no bread reputedly sparked the French Revolution. She attended an event so hideous, it should have been banned and the revelers buggy-whipped.
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Yeah, let the Jersyans eat cake.
I read that, too.
I would make that a campaign point on the trail about how Big Government and its dysfunctional apparatchik stop progress and hinder safety.
The government should have told everybody ...stock up on can food and fill the bath tub with water...you need at least a weeks supply...and fill the gas tank on the car...I live in Florida and two weeks is better...These reporters think the power crews can get it up in a couple of days...it takes a couple of days to get there most times..
I’m tired of bailing out the NE, NYC especially. We bailed them out after 911, after the crash (which they caused) and now they want bailed out again. Instead of relying upon themselves and their neighbors they want Federal bailouts. Not this time I hope.
once again, mankind is living the same way as in the days of Noah. These self-centered “it’s all about me!” kind of people will not let anything, including a historic hurricane, stop their partying. Our media has created this type of people and those who crave to know everything about them, while around them, the world is in turmoil and so despairing yet they can’t or won’t acknowledge it.
They might call themselves “priviliged, celebrity, rich” but they really are the basest of humankind. Sadly, their mirrors don’t provide a true reflection...
bet the folks who don’t have power will be really p.o’d when this truth comes out. Union vs nonunion at a time like this is totally stupid.
“you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.” seems to fit somehow...
What else can you call them but scum.
Most people do not understand this famous quote.
'Cake', as meant by Marie Antoinette in her infamous quip, in this instance refers to the black grimey crap that would stick to the inside walls of bread ovens used back in the day.
Nominally edible, but pretty bad stuff, and a far cry from the chocolate cakes, marble cakes or pies that spring to our contemporary minds when we hear the word, "cake".
“Let them eat cake!”
Most people do not understand this famous quote.
‘Cake’, as meant by Marie Antoinette in her infamous quip, in this instance refers to the black grimey crap that would stick to the inside walls of bread ovens used back in the day.
Nominally edible, but pretty bad stuff, and a far cry from the chocolate cakes, marble cakes or pies that spring to our contemporary minds when we hear the word, “cake”.
Yup!
Pretty much the modern day equivalent would be: “Let them eat Crap!”
While they are commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her. They appear in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, his autobiography (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau’s account was his desire for bread, to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, in feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he thus recollected the words of a “great princess”. As he wrote in Book 6:
Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: “Let them eat brioche.”
Rousseau does not name the “great princess” and he may have invented the anecdote, seeing as Confessions was, on the whole, a very unreliable autobiography.
Zhu Muzhi, president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, asserts that Rousseau’s version is an alteration of a much older anecdote: “An ancient Chinese emperor who, being told that his subjects didn’t have enough rice to eat, replied, ‘Why don’t they eat meat?’” That emperor was recorded by historians as Emperor Hui of Jin.
I definately didn’t know this. I thought that she thought she was being generous. Since they ran out of bread she was willing to share their “cake”. Oh well. Thanks.
“..stock up on can food and fill the bathtub with water . .”
Also add, BE SURE TO GET A MANUAL CAN OPENER and park your car on the highest ground possible.
The explanation I heard (from a French tour guide, no less) was that it was more a matter of cluelessness than of contempt.
Marie Antoinette was royalty by birth, of course, and had known nothing but abundance in her cosseted little world. If there was no bread, then the servants would serve something like brioche (a sort of popover). The idea of people not having, or being unable to afford, something as simple as bread was completely foreign to her.
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