PERSONIFIES

"An Argentinian Woman" Personifies "The-Reason-State-Side-Dudes-Who-Should-Know-Better-Lose-All-Common-Sense"

Personifies.com is three in a row with women as post topics.  But the ladies are the ones making most of the interesting news so we'll roll with it.

We have long had our suspicions about the seductive powers of the women from Argentina.  

Once one has you in her arms, you start to think you are 10ft tall, possessor of supernatural powers over time and space and a walking ATM machine with dibs on all the cash at Goldman Sachs.  

First we hear of the financial misfortunes of Edmund L. Andrews, Economics Reporter for the NY Times. This is a guy who knows the ins-and-outs of finance. 

However,  he gets remarried to an old flame.  Next thing you know, Andrew's personal finances are on the ropes and his recently purchased house is in foreclosure.  

How could this happen to one so knowledgeable about financial affairs, one who reported on the Federal Reserve?  Did his old flame have something to do with it?  Who was she, where was she from?  Oh, Argentina...

Then we hear recent news: Republican Governor of South Carolina, Marc Sandford has gone missing for 5 days.  His family doesn't know where he is and even his security detail doesn't know where he is. 

Sanford is a guy whom millions in South Carolina kind of have a reason to keep track of.  He, however, apparently decided to take an unannounced trip out of state to see a certain love interest in...you guessed it...Argentina.  

So we start to see good reason to conclude that "An 

Argentinian Woman" Personifies "The-Reason-State-

Side-Dudes-Who-Should-Know-Better-Lose-All-

Common-Sense."

Carrie Prejean Personifies Oscillation

To the general public, it looks like (now dethroned) Ms. California, Carrie Prejean personifies "oscillation" or "the state of being moved to and fro or back and forth," in this case,  like a "piece" on a figurative "game-board."  

First, Carrie PreJean wins Ms. California.  So, she begins at the "Ms.-California-Position" on the "board," so to speak.  Then she competes at the Ms. USA contest and the whole deal with Perez Hilton happens etc.  She doesn't win Ms. USA, but she's still on the "board's" "Ms. California-Position"

Suddenly some nice "arm-bikini" photos of Prejean decide to come-up-for-air.  Carrie Prejean finds herself  subsequently "moved" to a "Maybe-Not-Miss-California-Position" on the "board." 

Ms. USA Pageant Co-Owner, Donald Trump, however, reviews the Prejean situation and her contract, photos, and statements. After his "due diligence, Trump says -- after justifying his reasoning -- that Carrie Prejean may keep her title as this year's Ms. California.  So, Prejean finds herself "moved" from "Maybe-Not" back to her original "Ms.California-Position." 

Then, unexpectedly, two days ago, Donald Trump announces that he has fired Ms. Prejean as Ms. California 2009.   As such Prejean finds herself moved from the "Ms.-California-Position," over the "Maybe-Not-Ms. California Position" and all the way to the "Dethroned-Ms-California" Position.    

Will Prejean find herself moved back to the Ms. California position?   Nah, but I suspect that her lawyer will bluff her likely complaint up to trial  even though her case doesn't exactly look bomb-proof.  Prejean will probably find herself moved to an "Out-of-Court-Settlement-Position" that identically replaces the "Ms.-California-Position" on the figurative game board.   

 

Sonia Sotomayor Personifies Grace

She's a Federal Appeals Court Justice nominated by the Obama Administration to fill a recently opened seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. 

For 44 years, she has had to juggle the heavy, day-to-day challenges involved with managing her own Type 1 Diabetic condition (Something this blogger knows a thing or two about having himself been a Type 1 Diabetic for 19 years, since 1990).   

Are her aforementioned "challenges" planning to "take-a-vacation" just because Sotomayer must traipse the veritable miles of U.S. Senate Office Building hallways on her path to her confirmation hearing?  Yeah right.  

And to top all this off, Sotomayor -- who's obviously hugely busy during the confirmation process run-up -- falls in NYC on June 8th and ends up fracturing her leg!  

Now she is forced to hit the Senate Halls wearing a cast and crutches, too (I can only hope that the White House and U.S. Senate might now arrange a wheel-chair to convey her throughout the U.S. Senate Office Buildings and to the Senate Floor).  

Despite these pressures, though, have we seen Sotomayor bail on the confirmation process or otherwise asked for a postponement?  No way, she's just grinned and born it.

So, we say that Sonia Sotomayor Personifies "Grace" -- a "beauty of manner and action"  that, in this case, defies both the seemingly peerless pressures of the confirmation process and the unusual physical hardships she must face.