I believe that building is the Oregon State Capitol building. That’s where we hold those Loya Jirgas when Allah doesn’t bless our crops.

Doesn’t Carlyle Group have a big investment in DD? Maybe George HW Bush hates America?

I knew we’d lost the War On Terror when a cop came into our local DD and ordered baklava.

I know Rachel’s mother to say hello to. And I see Rachel on occasion as well. I believe that neither of them are of Arabic descent as there are very few Arabs in upstate NY. That thing around her neck is what we in the North Country call a scarf.

Sicilian. Capiche?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ray

Aw, leave the Goofs alone. The more time they spend checking scarves and countertops, the less time they’ll have fore real mischef.

Though thinking about it this may be one of those cases where the Doh’ Nuts managed to be right even if for the wrong reasons.

Boycotting Dunkin Donuts seems reasonable, if for no other reason than your health. Meanwhile Rachael Ray’s recent television shows where she breathlessly tells you which tourist traps the locals eat at are bad even by Food Network standards.

40 dollars a day was quite possibly the worst TV I have ever endured, and only because the G/F, for some odd reason like Ray.

Deee-lish … e-v-o-o … awww … I’ll give her this, however, she made her career from scratch, with hard work, good luck and her personality.

Was he wearing a balaclava?

OMFG. The Stoooooopid! It Buuuuuurrrrrrnsssss!
As Fauxmaxbaer said, it’s called a scarf. Not even a headscarf, just a scarf. With a swirly, trendy floral pattern that Arafat wouldn’t have been caught dead in a ditch wearing on his head.
Shows what a bunch of idiots hang out there…from the blog owner on down. Has a single commenter there pointed out what a kuffiyeh actually _is_? Or that it’s not Palestinian, but pretty much ubiquitous in the Gulf States?

FunnyD

Yep… Oregon State Capitol building:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Capitol

Good grief. What a pathetic bunch of morons. I really think there a quite a lot of more important issue that they might get their knickers in a knot over than Rachel Ray’s wardrobe.

Even better, now that I got a better look at her neckwear, I am not sure that is even a proper kaffiyeh at all and it is certainly not a Palestinian version (which has a simple check pattern).

Their real fear here is that they’ll be forced to swap the old tube sock from their college days — the one with the many sweet memories and stains from long lonely nights fantasizing about being with someone, anyone — for a keffiyeh; it wouldn’t mop up the mess nearly as well, and then mom might start asking questions and make snide remarks about “perhaps leaving the house soon what with the cost of laundry and food…”

No one shall wear black patterns on white cloth, lest they be branded an appeaser!!!!!

This alleged scandal is so ridiculous, I wouldn’t be surprised if Alec Rawls were behind it. You know that Rachael Ray has a C in her name, and C’s are crescent-shaped, and therefore she must be a tool of Islamofascism.

Y’know…at a certain point, the relentless parade of idiots on the intenets tubes, the boob tubes, and on public transit (The Tube) stops being funny.

And, after a day of being reminded that the corporation I work for is, like most corporations, run by idiots, that point seems very, very nearby.

I go to Dunkin for their breakfast croissants. Don’t tell Charles Johnson or Alec Rawls that croissants are shaped like crescents.

On the other hand, tell them. Like Quakerinabasement said above, might keep them sniffing their own buttcracks well into the fall.

And I like $40 a day. Where else are you going to get a glimpse into the relatively lowlife enclaves inside San Diego, Southern Vermont, and Salem, Oregon?

¿What if we rename them Freedom Donutz™?

From your wikipedia link:

“The design was labeled a combination of Egyptian simplicity and Greek refinement.“

AH-HA!!

And it IS Oregon, land of 75,000-strong turnouts for B. Hussein Obama, so that pretty much connects all the dots….

When Pammycakes originally “broke” this story (via S,N! I saw it) one of her someone whose connection with reality is obviously not impaired made that exact observation: “it’s a scarf”.

I guess now we’re down to neckwear as a sign of the class of civilizations and American Fealty. Sad that. I guess Rachel better quit shopping on the street in NYC.

I’m looking at the part of the scarf on Racheal’s left shoulder, and I see potential evidence of a paisley pattern. Remember paisley? Hippies, drugs, rock&roll and all that? Yeah, I miss those things too, but I suspect the subliminal paisley link is what is driving these morons nuts - it makes it very clear how many long, lonely decades it has been since any of them got laid.

It’s not a ‘kaffiyeh’

It’s a ‘Woven Coalition Desert Scarf’, and you can get them — in six colors — from any good Army-Navy store.

I’m sorry it’s not a kaffiyeh. For a moment there, I was starting to like Racheal Ray (in a good way, and not a Hentai way).

Don’t tell Charles Johnson or Alec Rawls that croissants are shaped like crescents.

It’s worse than that - not only are they shaped like crescents, they have a French name. So they’re doubly appeasalicious.

Thank you for expressing your concern regarding the Rachael Ray advertisement. In the ad that you reference, Rachael is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design that was purchased at a U.S. retail store. It was selected by the stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we will no longer use the commercial.

Donut Dudes, thanks for the info, but don’t tell us, tell Malkin and Pammy. They’re the ones with their kaffiyehs in a bunch about this.

By the way, on the rare occasions my cardiac status allows me doughnuts, I like Dunkin’s better than the products of the mighty Krispy Kreme empire. This is in spite of my decidedly lukewarm feelings about Rachel Ray.