A pre-inauguration candlelight dinner is being held at Union Station’s main hall tonight night. Attendees include the top echelon of those who have supported the Trump-Pence campaign and transition. (Live Stream Here and embed below)
Kellyanne Conway stops to talk to reporters on her way into the event:
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So gorgeous! Melania looks so elegant!
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Definitely a step up from:
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OMG 😲 LOL
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And….who dressed her? Thank goodness she or he wasn’t an option for Melania!
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Who can forget Michelle’s green & and yeller monstrosity she wore to the 2009 inauguration:
The Left fawned over her fashion sense, which always seemed of a caliber suited for middle school.
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Melania would be hot in a rain poncho off the rack from Cabela’s.
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Hahahahah Cabela’s! I wonder if Melania has ever bought anything from a Cabela’s? My one and only purchase from them was my Ruger. 🙂
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Did you know bass pro has bought them out? Went to bass pro just before Christmas. It was a mess and it took 40 minutes to make a purchase.
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So glad to see these two ladies are at the gala.
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Was thinking the same thing.
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They were probably pretty confident Slick wouldn’t stalk them there.
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They must be thrilled that Hillary lost.
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Winning! When they appeared at that debate Bubba got the public shaming he derserved and Trump allowed them theie public exoneration. Wow. I am so glad they are at the events. Never again do they have to bear Bubba’s shame.
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The fashion industry has been on life support for many years and now with Melania they will get a “much needed” shot in the arm…they should thank her! I read that Ralph Lauren and Karl Lagerfeld were designing inaugural gowns for her. Fantastic I envy her figure!
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Wow, Lagerfield too? I think he’s a genius.
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Melania is NOT second and tier designers unlike Michael/Michelle…Melania is haute coutoure!
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Haute Couture. WE need an edit for these messages.
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In all fairness to the designers for Mooch, it’s tough to make a 200 pound linebacker look elegant. Even with those fauned-over “toned arms.”
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What? This isn’t elegant?
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EYE BLEACH, STAT!!!
I’d forgotten about this particularly hideous outfit.
Sandra, Sandra, Sandra, what have we done to you to deserve such pain?
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Trying to be Beyonce. Ick, just ick.
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Ghetto Chic
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Drag chic…
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Klingon chic
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In spite of the incessant descriptions of her as “beautiful” and “elegant” by our lugenpresse, nobody was buying it. Now we truly will have the genuine article.
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She lost a lot of weight and had spanx for every part of her body. They did what they could. But the vogue cover as a fashion icon? Really?
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Unfortunately never Spanx for her mouth where she badly needed them.
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Tough when you have someone like Michelle O as the first lady. She spent tens if not hundreds of thousands on clothes, but she was not gracefully and was just as if not more divisive as her husband.
Agree fashion and dressing with class will come back within a few years. The 20-30s generation dresses like they are at a slumber party, but the cream of the crop will dress like the Trumps.
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Michelle is bitter. Bitterness is defiling.
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She is truly a goddess. That dress is amazing. I love Lauren’s high-end work and Lagerfeld goes without saying. Very exciting.
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Explosive!!
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The night Trump won the election, Melania walked out in a draped white outfit that put me in mind of the Statue of Liberty, and I wondered if it was intentional. Tonight, the dress she is wearing is reminiscent of the dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday Mr. President!” Makes me wonder more! She is so beautiful and classy, I’m so glad she’s our First Lady.
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I truly think Trump loves Melania to dress classy and sexy…he loves to show off his “spectacular wife.” Great for America!
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He looks pretty darn good himself.
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I believe he very much loves his spectacular wife. The way he looks at her tells it all.
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Even more, she obviously LOVES AMERICA. Such a refreshing change from the last 8 years.
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And we learned with the “pussy bow” her fashion choices are deliberate and cerebral.
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I’m seeing them all over. Edith Head did a great one for Bette Davis in “All About Eve”-big pussy bow with tailored suit-fabulous.
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Ralph Lauren off the rack.
The gown at union station is custom, one of a kind. The designer makes wedding dresses
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When the Pope concluded his dream, the author to whom he related it did not make any comment on what had been said. But he did write that “I had never seen such a sad expression on the face of this man.” Considering that this was the same man who had related the horrors of his young manhood under Nazi occupation, the author’s remark shows the deep impact this dream had on the Pope.
If the Pontiff offered a commentary on his dream, Anton Gronowicz does not share it with the reader. But we are told that John Paul began to recite the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love …, where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.”
Many years after Cardinal Wojtyla had his dream and had become Pope John Paul II, he made a pilgrimage to Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis. In the Message of Reconciliation he delivered there, the Pontiff spoke of the Saint’s love for animal, as well as human, beings. And he likened that inclusive love to an anticipation of the Peaceable Kingdom, envisioned by the Prophet Isaiah, a world in which all God’s creatures will live in peace with each other.
The Pope also said that the “solicitous care, not only toward [people] but also toward animals and nature in general,” that St. Francis demonstrated is “a faithful echo of the love with which God in the beginning pronounced his ‘fiat,’ which brought them into existence.” And, the Pope added, “We, too, are called to a similar attitude.”
Some who read these remarks are surprised to find in them such strong support of God’s other creatures. They are surprised to hear the Pope refer to the lives of animals as a manifestation of God’s love: lives that deserve our “solicitous care.” But I was not surprised. By the time I came across a copy of the message he gave at Assisi, I had read God’s Broker and the lengthy account of the Pope’s dream. And I knew that if John Paul II had not wanted this very revealing dream to be published, it would never have appeared in print.
So in spite of the policies and pronouncements of [religious people] of the same or other persuasions, who try to denigrate the value and the importance of the lives of God’s other creatures, we know that John Paul II had a dream. And although [people] of lesser vision and lesser spiritual development have closed their hearts and their minds to the needs of other creatures, John Paul has given witness to a need for the “solicitous care, not only of [people], but of animals.”
In this witness, the Pope is being true to the Gospel message in which Jesus also gave witness to the need for the solicitous care of all beings: “I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.” (Matthew 25:45 TEV)
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Context?
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Father Mike Bergero: “The night before my departure from Canada to New York, which I had never seen, I had a strange dream. It was a terribly severe winter in New York; the city was completely covered with snow. Inhabitants were well off and warmly dressed and walking slowly along roads because cars, due to mountains of snow, could not be operated. I was happy that I could walk on top of the snow on avenues of white.
All my physical effort was spent on walking. To this day, pictures of huge apartment houses on both sides of the avenue are instilled in my mind and the doormen quickly closing and opening entrance doors as though trying to prevent humanity and warmth from escaping.
On top of the snow, I noticed a brown cat emerge from a side street and walk on the snow. I looked closer and, to my surprise, saw that this big cat was being followed by six small brown-and-white kittens, all of them following the big brown cat in a perfect line. The mother cat looked back from time to time to see if her babies were there, but her main concern was to reach the entrance door. I presumed she was trying to find warmth for herself and her children, but as soon as she reached the door, a man in a well-pressed uniform jumped at her with a broom and chased them away. I followed this procession and prepared to deliver a speech to the doorman. I opened my mouth and tried to complain, ‘Where is your proverbial American generosity? Where is your American good heart and fair play? Let them in. Let them in!!’
I tried to speak, but the words would not come out. Maybe I was afraid of the doorman with the broom. I started searching my cassock pockets for a piece of bread, found some crumbs, and put them on my palms, calling, ‘Kitty, kitty, kitty.’ But the words would not come from my supposedly intelligent mouth. Instead, the wind blew the crumbs from my palm, and I said, ‘What can I do? I can’t speak to the cats. I can’t speak to the doorman. But there are many hungry birds. They might pick up the crumbs.’
Again, I walked after the cats, now with a pain in my chest, feeling tremendous cold. On the left, I saw a church building and thought, ‘There we will find help.’ I heard singing, and again, the idea occurred to me that it must be a Catholic church. The music grew louder, as though trying to convince God that they were praying to Him.
The mother cat jumped in front of me and climbed the stairs, followed by her kittens. I raised my head and saw a tall Jesuit priest chasing the cats off the steps. But as I was about to shout at the Jesuit, ‘I am a cardinal!’ and give an order to accept the cats, the mother cat and her offspring ran behind the church because from there came the appetizing aroma of food. Probably there was a kitchen there. But a second Jesuit appeared at the kitchen door and scared the cats away. They returned to the avenue and started walking north.
They walked on the same side of the avenue as the Jesuit church and I followed. Then they reached an imposing red brick church. An Anglican bishop appeared and said to the cats, ‘My dear animal children, please go immediately to the animal shelter. There is food for you there. We Anglican clergy donate lots of money to the animal shelter every year at Christmastime.’
The mother cat and her kittens didn’t even meow. They knew the authoritative voice of the Anglican bishop. They walked uptown and gradually the luxurious buildings disappeared, together with the doormen, and we saw drab dilapidated apartments.
As they walked and the buildings grew shabbier and dirty, a door was opened, not by a doorman but by an old wrinkled woman in a cotton dress. [She saw the cats] and shouted, ‘Oh, little mother,’ and when she opened her mouth, I saw she had few teeth. She gently ushered the mother cat and kittens inside, who jumped happily about because the warmth of the house embraced them.”
The narrative ended as the cats found a safe haven with the woman who had little enough, herself.
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Beautiful. And so true.
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Preview of Jackie Evancho singing the Star Spangled Banner a capella at an NFL game 2 years ago. The way it SHOULD be sung.
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Beautiful.
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Classy. And right.
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Go Jackie for we are rooting for you in Pittsburgh. Go STEELERS!
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Great picture and tweet.
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I love each and everyone of you and thank our Heavenly Father for the Trump family sacrifices on our behalf.
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Somewhere in there with those fur coats, glamorous gowns, and no more MOOCHelle is Joan Rivers’ spirit having a cocktail and telling jokes.
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Another plus of the Trump Era: making comedians funny again.
I can’t be alone in the disgust with the joyless PC lecturers that passed for comedians that last 8 years.
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You’re not alone 😉
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So true and I miss her humor…she told it like it was!
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World leaders are probably thinking how did we have it so good with those fools Obama & Biden and now we have two men we must respect & fear.
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Melania and Donald….the Lady and the Lion.
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Lioness. Very protective lady.
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Class is back in fashion.
No more foul mouthed rappers and hate preachers adorning the White House .
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No twerking.
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00 DAYS – 12 HOURS – 00 MINUTES
TWELVE HOURS
Oligula’s last half-day in office
It is now Friday, January 20, 2017–Inauguration Day–in the Eastern Time Zone.
This is the date every American has been looking forward to! The day when a real American moves into the White House.*
Not that I’m counting, mind you.
Please note: Reports that I am, in fact, counting should be regarded as Fake News. My attorneys will be in touch with the Klinton News Network.
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Classy.
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‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE THE INAUGURATION…The Best Poem Of 2017!
By 100% FED Up – Jan 16, 2017
http://100percentfedup.com/twas-the-night-before-the-inaugurationthe-best-poem-of-2017/
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a keeper. Should be in the Trump Library.
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So, I am watching the same event on TV, and K. Conway’s dress is draped over her LEFT shoulder. The above video shows it over her right. Which is correct?
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It ís her right shoulder, but facing her, you see it as the left side.
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I love the look on President Elect Trump’s face.
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Melania looks beautiful just as I knew she would. Mrs.Pence looked pretty too and she is a nice lady.
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Melania Trump’s gown was by Reem Acra, who designs evening wear and bridal gowns.
Acra, a native of Beirut who has also lived in Paris and Hong Kong, is known for her refined, often intricately crafted eveningwear that draws from a diverse range of influences. Trump chose a gown with a high glam factor: a form-fitting silhouette with high neck and long sleeves in glistening allover pale gold embroidery.
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http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/reem-acra-outfits-melania-trump-for-d-c-dinner-10758224/
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Clean. Simple. Stunning. Gowns like that call for great bodies. And the sense that a lot of jewelry would just ruin the look. No “statement” necklace, bracelets, nothing to distract.
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All of the women at the ball are stunningly beautiful, exuding class. From Mrs. Pence to the entire Trump family, they have just restored the visage of leadership that has degraded to undesirable levels in the previous administration. No more nouveau faux fashion, this is the real deal. Even my eyes are WINNING. Mrs. Conway in that gown/dress, just wow.
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I hope Kellyanne Conway has a wonderful birthday. She really has a very convincing, reassuring and clear way of speaking. Grateful for what she does and hopeful that I’ll get to listen to her often
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Class is back in style ☺
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