Posted on 08/24/2011 9:28:26 AM PDT by Nachum
The Obamas' summer break in Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets. But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances. White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year. Branding her 'disgusting' and 'a vacation junkie', they say the 47-year-old mother-of-two has been indulging in five-star hotels, where she splashes out on expensive massages and alcohol. The 'top source' told the National Enquirer: 'It's disgusting. Michelle is taking advantage
Video: Pres Obama biking with
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Is that the Queen they are toasting?
Their plan is to make it a three-way race. They are hoping someone like Trump will jump in and do it for them. If not, they’ll find a straw. This is how the extremely unpopular—and close Obama confidante—Duval Patrick of MA got a second term. One Dem and two conservatives [by MA standards, anyway] split a three way vote. Patrick won with well under fifty percent. This is the Obama strategy, and I just hope the GOP is on top of it as much as is humanly possible.
To true martini lovers a vodka martini is NOT a martini they have gotten very popular in the last 30 years especially with the advent of premium vodka such as Effen or Grey Goose. Technically, you are correct a vodka martini is not a true martini. Personally I’m a switch hitter when it comes to them you’ll usually catch me drinking Grey Goose in the spring and summer months and during fall and winter I’ll switch to Tanquery. Cheers!
P.S. Tip from a former bartender: To make an excellent martini always make dry vermouth ice. To make dry vermouth ice coat the inside of a martini glass with vermouth and place in the freezer before you shake the booze in your shaker. By the time you’re done shaking and you take the glasses out of the freezer you’ll have the ice for your drink!
Nice tip erod. I’m always looking to up the ante on my home bartending skills.
I always like Christmas time when my go-to drink becomes the Peppermint (Vodka) Martini with Absolut Vanilla and white Creme de Menthe and a peppermint stick.
Yum!
She apparently doesn’t wear it on vacay.
Remember her bag lady getup at the Grand Canyon? Shudder!
No joke!
Whoa—thanks for that tip! I’m cutting and pasting the instructions ASAP. Sounds like a winner!
As for the rest, people say vodka has no flavor but it absolutely does [no pun], and I just don’t like it. In an extremely fine Bloody Mary it’s okay, but that’s the only time I don’t mind it. I know it’s very popular and tons of people love it. I just fail to see the appeal.
Why do they spend the taxpayers money on themselves so lavishly, -—because they can and there is no controlling legal authority-—SUCKERS!!!!
I feel the same way. It tastes like rubbing alcohol to me. I’m not a big drinker but if I do have one it’s usually rum or tequila, maybe a beer.
Thanks everyone for making me more aware of what the National Enquirer does. I see them at the grocery store but I haven’t actually bought one in 30 years, and from what you are saying here they have changed.
Excellent tip - I like my drinks cold, so I chill everything first, including the olives! I wonder if you can freeze olives and use them like an ice cube?
Sounds good—we’ll hoist one of our respective favorites in Nov ‘12, when The Won loses in a landslide.
Btw, I’ve been told my favorite, Tanqueray, tastes like Pine Sol. There really is no accounting for taste. ;)
“The scenario being played out these days is pretty much the same regardless of the particulars. You knock on the door – it’s always closed. Always. Often you have to knock for some time before being given approval from inside to enter. The big screen will be on – the volume loud. You can easily hear it from outside the door. The sports channels are the ones most commonly playing, though sometimes the channel will be set to music, or Fox News. Sometimes Valerie Jarrett might be there, but most often it is just the president and his personal aide. A large leather chair will be facing the television – it’s well worn. Not part of the White House furnishings but something the president must have brought in from back home.
That’s where you’ll most often find the President of the United States – the most powerful man in the free ****ing world. He often sits with one leg draped over one of the chair’s arms and the other leg stuck straight onto the floor. Shorts, sweats, a t-shirt, and like I said, no shoes or just those sandal things that so many of the younger people like to wear these days. And that leg that’s draped over an arm of the chair will be bopping up and down, like…like someone with a lot of nervous energy. Like a kid does. And there’s the smell of smoke hanging on the president. The guy never quite smoking – that was all bullsh*t. I told you that already. In fact, there’s one of those smokeless ash trays on the desk in there. And that desk, it’s a mess. Magazines spread out all over it. Stupid shit too. Real low brow reading material the president is into. People. Rolling Stone. Lots of those tabloid things. The most common thread with this sh*t is it’s about the president. If it’s about him, he’s gonna read it. Good or bad – doesn’t matter. If somebody is talking about him, he’s reading it. He’s watching it. Whatever. The guy’s self-obsession is off the ****ing charts.
So that’s what you first see when you enter the room – the upstairs office of President Obama. Next you’re gonna notice how small the guy looks. Really thin. He pads his suits up you know. The top end. The shoulders. It became an actual issue during the 2008 campaign – some of his handlers were saying it made his neck look too small. Fact is, it made his neck look just like it is – small. The guy is scrawny. All knees and elbows sitting in that chair. Sometimes he gets up when you come in, sometimes he remains seated and will just turn the volume on the TV down with the remote and say, “What you got?”
That foot is bouncing up and down while you give him the briefing, but he rarely looks over at you – always looking at whatever is on the television. If it’s Jarrett in the room, or the personal assistant, one of them is there to keep the time. Your time. Don’t go over that fifteen minutes. And even if the president doesn’t look like he hears a word you’re saying, they are listening to everything. Every go**amn syllable coming out of your mouth, and if something is said they don’t like, they jot down notes. Been told it’s to use for the end of day summary they give the president – their own version of what is important and what can be ignored…and who might need to be pushed down, or pushed out…or whatever. So you’re looking at the president, this skinny guy, who’s ignoring you, who’s dressed like some kind of f***ing frat boy wannabe, with somebody else taking notes on what you’re saying, and then you get up and walk out. The president might acknowledge you on some days, give a little nod, maybe even a thank you, but most often he just continues to look at the TV, bounce that foot on the chair, his skin looking off-color, pale, the eyes out of focus, the hair a helleva lot more gray than is shown in public, the wrinkles around the mouth far deeper…and the hands. His f***ing hands are so…they are just these thin little stick digits. They are like these long-fingered woman’s hands. And his wrists, you could wrap your own fingers all the way around those wrists – again, so much like a woman’s hands. Almost freakish. Certainly not the strong alpha-male type image that America was given during the 2008 campaign.”
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/
Sounds good you can probably swirl some of that cream in the glass to make ice makes a huge difference imo. :)
The best vodka should have no flavor that’s why Grey Goose is so smooth and Smirnoff is so sharp, Grey Goose has more filtration. If you hate vodka you should try to make a little effort to give it a second chance buy a good brand, 3 Olives is decent and smooth but not Obama expensive, use it in a White Russian, B54, Chocolate Martini, Long Island Iced tea, or a shandy (frozen lemonade made with beer instead of water (I use Sierra Nevada pale ale) with 4ozs vodka). The vodka adds a smoothness and gives the drink a good umpfh. I’m going to make this girl I’m dating a chocolate martini on our third date next week hope it works, it never failed to impress before.
Try Grey Goose and get back to me later or put a shot of quality vodka in your next batch of mojitos it gives a nice boost. Just buy good stuff like 3 Olives or Voxx it won’t taste like rubbing alcohol promise. Jmo you’re missing out FRiend. :)
Lol! May I just say I would be impressed by a chocolate martini. A waiter who liked me once brought me a complimentary apple martini. I didn’t care for it, but anything chocolate is worthwhile, imho.
You could but then you would be stuck with mushy olives. If you wanted to go really high tech a popular trend right now is to use liquid nitrogen to freeze garnish like olives and plop them in the drinks. I’ve seen some bartenders smash frozen jalapeños (frozen by liquid nitrogen) and place them in drinks. But then you would have to run out and by liquid nitrogen, real frigging hassle I like to stick with Vermouth ice try it because I swear the drink looks like it came out of a fancy resort when you’re done with it.
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