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(Full article title: Pretty as a flower! Michelle Obama steps out in a floral dress for an upscale vegan lunch with her Secret Service detail in Los Angeles) Michelle Obama was spotted out and about in Los Angeles again this week, just days after a candid talk and reading from her upcoming memoir in New Orleans. The former first lady was seen slipping out of the side door of Crossroads Kitchen, an upscale vegan restaurant on West Hollywood's famous Melrose Avenue. Michelle walked in between two Secret Service agents before slipping into a black car. She sported a black dress...

Complete Headline: Michelle Obama Tells Grads: ‘I Could Take Up a Whole Afternoon Talking About’ Barack Obama’s Failures First lady Michelle Obama in her commencement speech at a high school in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday said she could “take up a whole afternoon talking about” her husband’s failures. “And then there’s this guy, Barack Obama, who lost – I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but – he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband,” she told graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School during commencement...

Idaho Professor To Hunt Bigfoot With Drones Jeff Meldrum, an anthropologist at Idaho State University, is spending $200,000 to scan the Cascades with drones. The unmanned aircraft will use thermal imaging equipment to peer through thick forest in search of Sasquatch. "We're simply asking a biological question: Is there a species of primate behind the legend of Sasquatch?" he said. Other professors in the field have called any questions about Bigfoot a “waste of time.”

It’s officially legal to kill Bigfoot in Texas Cryptid conservationists, be on the alert; it's officially open season on Sasquatch. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, if you can find Bigfoot in the state of Texas, you can kill it. Cryptomundo reader John Lloyd Scharf sent a letter to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department about whether it would be legal to kill Bigfoot, and apparently department Chief of Staff L. David Sinclair replied that killing an indigenous cryptid would be legal since it isn't listed as a game animal: The statute that you cite (Section 61.021) refers...

If You Spot Bigfoot, Should You Shoot Him? In the new Animal Planet reality TV show optimistically titled "Finding Bigfoot," a team of experts examines video of an alleged Sasquatch spotted in the Canadian Rockies. The video, shot by a man named Todd Standing, shows something large and dark, standing atop a wooded ridge and then ducking back behind a bush. It could pretty much be anything, and when the experts concluded that the subject was probably not a Bigfoot, Standing expressed his frustration: "No video is ever going to be evidence, ever. It's never going to be good enough…"...

No surprise here: Vogue is out with its "Top 10 Best Dressed" list, and Michelle Obama has won the honor. Branding Obama "The Independent" the fashion bible's website shows a photo of the first lady stepping off of a plane in a flowing blue and white dress. Vogue has also released a "Best Dressed" edition that hits newsstands this week. The special issue features Obama sporting designers Moschino, Peter Som, Tracy Reese, Narciso Rodriguez and others. Vogue’s at-large editor, Andre Leon Talley says of Obama: "Style is not an afterthought to this wife and mother committed to national service; whether...

Vacation Gal is still busy travelling around the world as we all know. In this episode, Vacation Gal starts in Detroit, some various domestic stops, a visit to the One Nation protest in D.C., a quick stop in Africa and then on to India. Be sure to visit the original threads: First was 'Tourist Guy' followed by 'Looter Guy' and now introducing: 'Vacation Gal!' 'Vacation Gal' Part II (There she goes again!) See the original video on youtube of 'Vacation Gal' and bump it! Pinging all photoshoppers, poets, and friendly snarkers to join the fun!   Please keep comments and...

LAS VEGAS -- First lady Michelle Obama has made a day-before-the-election stop in Las Vegas to boost Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's bid for re-election. The first lady joined Reid on Monday at a high school for a get-out-the-vote rally, framing the race as a battle over the "American Dream" and its promises of unfettered opportunity and middle-class comfort.

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Showing that the media sees every act by the Obamas as an historic achievement, at the end of Sunday’s Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer was amazed by the romping of First Lady Michelle Obama: “Michelle Obama took it to another level as she set records as the first First Lady to run barefoot across the White House lawn. She also became the first to jump rope there.” After explaining how Mrs. Obama “took it to another level,” Schieffer praised her efforts as example to the rest of us: “But whatever her skills at jumping rope, she performed a mean...