Archive for February 27th, 2009
Chicago Tea Party: Friday 2.27.09
Chicago, IL Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Daley Plaza Civic Center
50 W Washington St.
Contact Info: 312/282-9310
info@officialchicagoteaparty.com
http://officialchicagoteaparty.com/
UPDATE: If you are attending any of the Tea Parties, in Chicago or elsewhere, wear all black, like it’s a big funeral for Democracy and the American republic. Which, it kind of is, come to think of it.
UPDATE: Photos from the Chicago Tea Party:
Things kicked off at Daley Plaza in The Loop at 11am, just across from the new Block 37 studios of CBS Chicago. Once assembled, the group of about 500 marched with police escort from Daley Plaza, up to Wacker, then over to Michigan Avenue, across the Chicago River, and onto Tribune Plaza, where giant statues of Grant Woods’ American Gothic stand.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today? February 27th
11:00 a.m. Bilateral with Her Excellency Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Vice President for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy of the Commission of the European Communities.
11:30 a.m. Bilateral with His Excellency Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic.
SPECIAL BRIEFINGS:
11:00 a.m. Senior State Department and USAID Officials will brief reporters ON BACKGROUND on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s upcoming travel to the Middle East and Europe. The briefing will be held in the U.S. Department of State Press Briefing Room, room 2209.
12:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs David T. Johnson will deliver remarks on camera, on the record on the release of the 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report in the U.S. Department of State Press Briefing Room, room 2209. Assistant Secretary Johnson will respond to questions following his opening remarks.
Go, Hillary, Go!
Friday Randomness
Sometimes we’re really amused by the completely random Google search terms people use to reach this site. Outside the realm of politics, people looking for information on werewolves, hot guys, Queen Hatshepsut, and Pearl Harbor stop by here, for whatever reason, no doubt as surprised as we are that a Hillary Clinton site is part of their day.
There’s totally a haiku in this somewhere, we just know it.
Sexy man.
Chicago's wasting $10.1 million to design Olympics mascot
This is one of those things we keep telling you about that’s absolutely ridiculous, but how things are done, The Chicago Way. $10.1 million for designing an Olympics mascot? Of course it’s not going to really cost that much, in actual dollars. It’s probably about $5,000 or $6,000 to design the mascot, and the rest of those millions will go to graft and corruption. The way things are always done around here.
And, of course, this is consistent with the problems we have with Obama’s Trillion Dollars in Spending: how many of the projects in the spending bill Obama rushed through Congress are like the $10.1 million Olympics mascot design? Projects that should cost millions less than what was listed, but because they received no debate or scrutiny, millions will be wasted needlessly…on a much, much larger scale than the Olympics mascot boondoggle.
Which, in the end, will most likely produce something hideous and bizarre, like Atlanta’s 1996 “Izzy” character.
The best suggestion for Chicago’s Olympics mascot that we’ve heard so far? A foursome of cuddly Chicago inspired animals, to conjure up images of The Chicago Way: a sloth, a rat, a pig, and a weasel.
Much like the animals that symbolized the Salt Lake City Olympics and mountain winter spirit, but instead representing all that Chicago really has to offer, now brought to the national scene by way of Obama.
Hope!
Change!
Graft!
Corruption!
Hooray!
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Great
![Secretary Clinton hosted a working dinner for [R] His Excellency Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and for [L] His Excellency Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.](http://hillbuzz.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/hrc22509.jpg "hrc22509")
Secretary Clinton meets with Her Excellency Dora Bakoyannis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic (Greece).
Secretary Clinton meets with His Excellency Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
The room these photo ops take place in at Foggy Bottom is so beautiful, with that pretty pale blue and the crystal chandalier.
It makes us so happy to see Hillary Clinton thriving in her role as Secretary of Great — Go, Hillary, Go!
Hillary Clinton really does have a badass coat
We don’t watch Rachel Maddow, and for the longest time thought she was Ralph Macchio, but find it interesting she’s now apparently a fan of Hillary Clinton — or at least of her coat.
And, it is a very nice coat.
But, not as nice as the one she wore last year during the primaries, with the resilient little squares on it, like it was made from T-Rex or velociraptor. That defiant coat that weathered many storms, and turned up everywhere from McKeesport, Pennsylvania to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton proved each and every day why she’s our champ and hard-working heroine.
THAT, is a coat.
THAT, is a fighter.
And that’s why this lady is our CHAMP.
And while we’re happy the Karate Kid approves of what Clinton’s wearing these days, Maddow’s a little late to the party.
And it’s not the coats that make this woman, as fabulous and elements-defying as they are. This woman makes everything she wears, and everything she does, special.
We. Love. This. Woman.
And all her coats too, apparently.
Is Strawberry Shortcake just Rahm Emanuel in drag?
This is Rahm Emanuel’s Smurf-blue and strawberry pink house in the Lakeview area of Chicago, in Illinois’ 5th Congressional District.
And this is Strawberry Shortcake’s strawberry pink and Smurf-blue Cupcake Cottage, in the Berry Falls area of Strawberry Land’s Porcupine Peak district.
This is Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, a foul-mouthed grown man living in a fabulous Smurf-blue and strawberry pink dream house.
This is Strawberry Shortcake, adventuress of Strawberry Land, a sassy grown woman living in a fabulous strawberry pink and Smurf-blue dream house.
Separated at the berry patch?
Who would have thought that foul, vile potty-mouth was hiding so much strawberry scented sweetness.
“Pass the creme anglaise and a rusty fork, Motherf***ers! Momma’s schooling you down to the strawberry patch, and you’re gonna like it berry, berry much”.
