A Lunch Fit For a Queen

She is sure acting like one.

"Michelle and Sasha Obama meet Spain’s royal family" by Associated Press | August 9, 2010

PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain — Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha had lunch with Spain’s king and queen yesterday at the royal family’s holiday retreat on the resort island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean....

Lunch was Andalusian-style gazpacho, chargrilled turbot, veal escalopes with mustard, Oriental rice with sautéed mushrooms, a Mallorca-style vegetable ratatouille, and sliced fruit with ice cream, accompanied by wines from the northern regions of Rueda and Rioja, the palace said...

After lunch Obama party was to fly back to the United States aboard Air Force Two.

Eating and running from Spain's royalty?

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Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Look Who I Had Lunch With

Actually, I would rather eat somewhere else:

"Government gives BP mixed review on oil spill response" by Associated Press | August 9, 2010

WASHINGTON — In Theriot, La., yesterday, docked fishing vessels were bedecked with red, white, and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a preshrimp season tradition known as the “Blessing of the Boats.’’

The menu for the festival included barbecued chicken, smoked sausage, and potato salad — but no crabs or shrimp....

Why not?

See: Slow Saturday Special: FDA's Gulf Coast Feast

FDA gave it the grade A!

The government’s point man overseeing BP’s response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gave the company high marks yesterday for its engineering response, but low marks in dealing with people....

BP has stopped skimming for oil in the open ocean because it’s finding little crude on the surface, Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for exploration and production, said. About 74 percent of the oil that flowed from the well evaporated, dissolved, or biodegraded, or was burned, skimmed, or captured, the government said in a report Wednesday....

Nothing about that report being called into question by the government's very own scientists, though.

Yeah, this MSM really stinks.

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I give them both a big fat F for FAILURE!

I think I've lost my appetite again, readers.

Happens every time I read a newspaper.