Bella does lame duck-face, Gigi wears lame slogan tees – basic tropes of 2013 that are virtually nostalgic in 2016.
But Mr Abbas contended then and later that Mr Olmert was a lame duck, facing corruption charges and poised to resign.
Instead we've gotten three decades of (let's face it) lame disappointments — funny ads, emotional ads, sexy ads, animated and live-action ads, glossily professional and do-it-yourself ads.
"I walk down Fifth Avenue," he told me, "and look at everyone, and I think, 'Wrong... wrong... fabulous... wrong... fabulous.' "Marc took one look at my lame Lens-crafters, and his face promptly darkened.
Several tax cuts are slated to expire at the end of the year, which means that the lame-duck Congress will face several tough decisions come November.
In the weeks after next Tuesday's elections, the White House and a lame-duck Congress will face immediate decisions testing the balance of power -- on extending the Bush-era tax rates, approving overdue spending bills to keep the government operating and, possibly, debating the recommendations that President Obama has directed a bipartisan debt-reduction commission to offer by December.
Their shoulders to the wind, they must often trudge back to Congress for a lame-duck session to face their enemies, watch their offices be dismantled, accept an endless stream of condolences from colleagues, and vote yea or nay one last time, sometimes on the very bill that was wielded against them in their run for re-election.
With no time to recover from a thorough election day whooping, Republicans in a lame duck Congress are facing an even worse budgetary nightmare than last year.
Hard drive clock (not a lame clock with a hd face) via [Hackaday].
They have a chance to start work on these goals almost immediately, because the lame-duck Congress soon will face a pressing issue that directly concerns both themes: the estate tax.
