Know what "trout pout" is? If you watch much TV, you've seen it often. (UPDATED)

Twisted sifter Update:

News for the low-information reader:

Watch out for 'trout pout,' one actress warns

"The lips get thinner as we age, and stars see lip plumping through injections of various substances as a way of looking younger.

Jocelyn Wildenstein after

"The problem is that many patients and doctors don’t get the lip proportions right. That’s when a full, “youthful” lip transforms into something fishy, said Youn, who runs the blog Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery.

"“The lower lip should be one and a half times the size of the upper lip,” he explained. “Some patients and doctors don’t know this and they go overboard with the upper lip. Some patients come in and say I want a bigger upper lip. And when you enhance it to the point where the upper lip is bigger than the lower lip, you get the ‘trout pout.’” Google photos





Jocelyn Wildenstein before

Vanessa Ferlito used to be on "CSI-NY", playing the typical, scowling, don't-mess-with-me role that was of a piece with the "trout pout" look. After the two previous photos, she looks almost normal, but then again, her look is the new normal.



Actual trout

Alan Caruba; A Cabinet of Dunces

Warning Signs  "A President reveals a lot about himself by his choices of his cabinet members to head various government departments and agencies. Some choices turn out to be historically significant such as Truman’s Secretary of State, George Marshall or Nixon’s choice of Henry Kissinger, but since the President sets policy, the blame or approval belongs to him."

...."This deliberate destruction of jobs, delaying access to traditional sources of energy, resistance to the actual transportation needs of the nation, a failed foreign policy, and panoply of other policies pursued by the out-going cabinet members will be continued by President Obama’s new choices to replace them."

The Rifleman; I knew Chuck Connors. Chuck Connors was a friend of mine and you, sir, are no Chuck Connors!

http://www.wnd.com/category/opinion/cartoons/

 

More irony in this administration

 

What reason would Obama have to NOT go after our IRA or 401k?

From Western Center for Journalism: Full Steam Ahead On Obama’s Theft Of IRA’s And 401k’s   ...."Linda and my daughter both want to know what the Obama administration intends to do after January 1. Is the national media so distracted by fiscal cliff hype that news concerning the potential federal theft of countless trillions from American citizens will not be forthcoming prior to January 1^st?"

Obama going after your 401k’s and IRA’s  Fear this man.

Others disagree emphatically with this:  "This is a really stupid article, and posting this thread requires a complete failure of rational processes.
" This was a hearing to collect viewpoints on why Americans aren't saving as much as they probably should. The idea that the government is considering eliminating IRAs and 401k plans is absurd; the idea that they're actually on the verge of "confiscating retirement accounts" is braindead stupid.
" Seriously. You're a pretty bright person. Quit believing all this stupid bulls***."
The reply to this:

They are talking about it. Can you deny that?
---The hearing, held in the Labor Department’s main auditorium, was monitored by NSC staff and featured a line up of left-wing activists including one representative of the AFL-CIO who advocated for more government regulation over private retirement accounts and even the establishment of government-sponsored annuities that would take the place of 401k plans.
 A representative of the liberal Pension Rights Center, Rebecca Davis, testified that the government needs to get involved because 401k plans and IRAs are unfair to poor people. She demanded the Obama administration set up a "government-sponsored program administered by the PBGC (the governments’ Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation)." She proclaimed that even "private annuities are problematic."

Other post-ers in this thread speak of "Wall Street" going after our money and they show a fearful ignorance of what Wall Street is. They have bought into the Obama-occupy philosophy and reveal it even while they refute conservative concerns.
I am a retired electrician, having worked with a tool bag all my career and (at present) not one of the left's despised factions in that regard. All those years my wife and I saved a good portion of our money, doing without many luxuries in order to prepare for retirement.
Much of our thanks goes to the hated "Wall Street" (In our case, Charles Schwab) for the growth of our money as their funds invested in the economy. Any wise decisions we made with our savings came from the wisdom of others who understood investing and the economy. We owe nothing to leftist academics nor to their progeny defecating in the streets and certainly not to Barack Obama.
In fact, "Wall Street's" help with our retirement has probably earned our family a place on Obama's enemies list.  The Tunnel Dweller