The economy stinks and these women can’t get their diamonds!?

In a non-political post that I think is worthy of mentioning: Late last week, The New York Times ran an article about the girlfriends, wives and mistresses of Wall Street’s bankers. It seems that the economic turmoil is taking a toll on their relationships. They can’t have their normal excesses of $200+ dinner for two, one woman can’t get a romantic getaway to Bermuda with her lover (who happens to have a wife and two children) and they now have started a “support group” in the form of a blog to cope.

The Times’ article was fairly polite and mentioned the blog, known as Dating A Banker Anonymous, as more of a support group for these women who clearly have it rough (diamonds are a girl’s best friend and if we can’t have the extreme luxuries in life, is it even worth living?). However when you actually read Dating A Banker Anonymous, you quickly discover that it isn’t a support group, but just a place for women to bitch about how they aren’t being lavished with luxurious gifts and that their boyfriends, husbands and lovers are really stressed.

Relationships can have added stress in a tough economy, but when the stress is caused by question of why one partner hasn’t given the other a really expensive gift!? The women behind Dating A Banker Anonymous are without a doubt quite shallow, petty, selfish and hopefully don’t vote or become involved in politics.

Analyzing the site

This site has analyzed The Centrist Voice’s authors (based on our posts) and concluded the following:

The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generelly prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts.

We disagree, as we are always up for a good inter-personal conflict.

Not to cause trouble but…

So I am reading Andrew Sullivan earlier and I discover a nifty post talking about the smear campaign about Sarah Palin that is running around the blogosphere. It seems that there are some bizarre circumstances surrounding Palin’s most recent pregnancy. It seems that she did not really show at all (more power to her) and that when her water broke while she was in Texas, she hopped on a roughly 8-10 hour commercial flight back to Alaska (with a layover in Seattle), and gave birth there?

So questioning whether or not she is the mother of her own child is definitely the point where we all cross the line in what is acceptable. However, if this were your neighbor and not your presumptive GOP VP nominee, people would gossip left and right.

Sarah Palin is clearly pregnant

Thankfully, this picture will hopefully bust the rumor.

Chelsea hits the gay bar scene in Philly

Chelsea Clinton, led by Governor Ed Rendell, went on a gay “bar crawl” through Philadelphia on Friday night. The term “bar crawl” is used very loosely, as these were clearly scheduled appearances (when asked if she was going inside of a particular bar, Chelsea replied that she didn’t know, and was mostly just following directions). So, the correct phrasing might be Chelsea Clinton went on a series of publicity stunts at gay bars in Philadelphia Friday night. Naturally, there was nothing more than polite small talk permitted. No questions about “Don’t ask, Don’t tell”  or the Defense of Marriage bill. Just good old fashioned desperate attempts to make the GLBT community forget about those things altogether and buy into this shameful exploit.

Hey you punks! Stay out of my yard!

So…in regards to the voters of “a certain age” commentary from the Billary camp… Correct me if I’m wrong, but if Hillary Clinton is working so hard to court the youth vote (American Idol, SNL, The Colbert Report, Crown Royal), it must mean it is important to her. And her husband certainly benefited from younger voters. So by tossing aside the judgement of those of us in the Facebook generation and indicating that we are too naive to make informed decisions, what is Clinton trying to say? Wait, Bill, so did all the young voters who supported you do so just because they were easily duped? Or was it different back when you were Obama’s age? When young voters walked ten miles in the snow, uphill both ways, to get to the polls.

In useless celebrity endorsement news…

Jane Fonda is going to vote for Obama, giving people who already hate him even more to gripe about. Also, Heidi Montag (the other talentless young D-Lister from the reality show The Hills) is backing McCain (Quel suprise!). I am doing my best to restrain all jokes comparing the 21-year-old blonde to McCain’s former rodeo queen wife, because Cindy McCain would have never done this. For his part, McCain is thrilled, and claims to be a huge fan of her show. So much that he doesn’t miss an episode. So far, no new (useless, possibly damning) endorsements for Clinton. Oh well, Hillary, you still have Jenna Jameson.

ADRIAN!!!

In an effort to appeal to Pennsylvania (particularly the working class) Hillary Clinton has recently started comparing herself to Rocky Balboa, even going so far as to unveil “Gonna Fly Now” as a new campaign song. I can’t really come up with a better way to explain everything wrong with that picture than the Slate already did. But, they did forget to mention one small thing that I personally find amusing: Stallone endorsed McCain.

Note from JAlan: Rocky lost and it was to Apollo Creed, a black man.