skyfish's Comments (79)

“Great interview - sounds like Icelanders have an honorable and decent public servant in Mr. Hauksson. We could use people like him over here in the US.”

“Those beauty treatments sure aren´t doing much for her...”

“If these arms were pale (or Palin's), all we'd hear is envy and admiration over how beautiful, sleek and muscular they are...”

“Thank you for this post Arianna. Yes, these guys ought to be fried. On a different note, I recently had to look up this famous phrase...this is from Wfor those of you historically inclined...:) ( I do like the reference to "Madame Déficit"...)

"Let them eat cake..." is a translation of "qu'ils mangent de la brioche." ... brioche is actually a type of highly enriched bread... While typically attributed to Marie Antoinette, (she was to have uttered it during a famine when alerted that people were suffering due to widespread bread shortages) the original source is not settled among historians. English historian Antonia Fraser, states: "[Let them eat cake] was said 100 years before her by Marie-Therese, the wife of Louis XIV. It was a callous and ignorant statement and she [Marie Antoinette] was neither."

...From the beginning of his reign, Louis XVI was seen as ineffective, uninformed and naive, while Marie Antoinette's frivolity and extravagance were seen as factors that worsened France's economic recession. ..the public was so convinced that it was Antoinette who had single-handedly ruined France's finances that they gave her the nickname "Madame Déficit."

In Confessions, in 1767, Rousseau stated: "At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Then let them eat pastry!"
Marie Antoinette arrived at Versailles from Austria in 1770... Whoever the "great princess" was, it was not Marie Antoinette."”

“Kria, I am looking at the above picture of the protests - the protesters sure don't look like "some thugs" - and are you suggesting that Icelandic news media are lying about what is going on in the country? Yesterday I saw on one of them that 6,000 had gathered to protest, peacefully, the story noted, in downtown Reykjavik.
As for "Iceland is burning" being "nonsense" - a fire was started in front of the parliament house - pictures of which were distributed all over the world - so ... "burning"... Looks also like Icelanders are "burning" with anger... When you look at Icelandic news sites, this seems to be the "burning" issue...
As for Watergate/Deep throat reference - what has the only way this information will get out is if someone within the government or the banks divulges it. (oh, and one of Iceland's "public servants" the Minister of Commerce, just resigned, saying he is one of those responsible for the collapse).”

“She is about to have her teeth cleaned.”

“"He is an artist. That's why he got all the women he wanted." Artist? Art my ass! It's money!”

“He's rich! Wake up, this is America!”

“This list makes me think there ought to be a law:
Apple (Gwyneth Paltrow), Bluebell Madonn (Geri Halliwell), Camera (Arthur Ashe), Destry (Steven Spielberg, Kate Kapshaw), Diezel Ky and Denim Cole (Toni Braxton's kids), Fifi Trixibell (Bob Geldof), Hopper (Sean Penn), Ireland (Alec Baldwin), Lark Song (Mia Farrow), Memphis Eve (Bono), Moon Unit (Frank Zappa), Sage Moonblood (Sylvester Stallone), Suri (Tom Cruise), Tallulah, Rumer, Scout (Bruce Willis, Demi Moore-they think their kids were dogs?), Shiloh Nouvel (Brangelina), Moxie CrimeFighter (Penn Jillette), Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily: Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence”

“I decided I had to check out what was prompting people to write all these comments... Is this for real? Isn't there some stupidity standard in broadcasting... content may only be so stupid and the broadcaster is slapped with a fine...? Of course, that would immediately put E! and all these celebrity shows out of business.”

“And you just need to go back to 2nd grade. Or apparently real men can't spell...”

“Yum.”

“Don't you have homework or something to do...?”

“Ugh, she looks hung over or just unhealthy somehow...”

“One doesn't have a right to privacy in the middle of a ski-mountainside; it qualifies as being "in public."”

“Yes, that would not surprise me. Many Americans seem to value brain cell deficiency of the frontal lobes in their elected officials. Just look at Reagan, Shrub jr. ...”

“Sign me up for a dozen dozens...”

“"...if he could have found some special person to relate to"
You give hef way too much credit!”

“Yes, Huffpo, a moratorium on Palin and the plumber.”

“Yeah, and they could win too with all the bright bulbs out there, rednecks and biblethumpers.”

“You are right - Huffpo, why do you put her on the front page like she's some big news, don't you have any jugdment!} Dear God, please drop a Steinway on her head, anything to make her shut up...”

“There is none.”

“Why is this story even on Huffpo?”

“Get a king charles cavalier, they´re awesome dogs.”

“Ugh, she's the worst thing to come out of this election. The woman should shut up. Every word she utters confirms how stupid she is.”