Archive for April, 2009
Friday Open Thread
What’s on your mind this Friday?
What do you think were the most important things that happened this week, and what were the things the media distracted Americans with?
What are some things you learned about ACORN this week that you didn’t know before? We ask, because we honestly believe ACORN is COBRA, K.A.O.S., S.P.E.C.T.R.E., whatever you would have called it, in whatever generation-specific cartoon or movie you grew up with, where a villainous organization attempts to undermine American democracy while most Americans fail to take them seriously.
After what we witnessed in Iowa, Texas, Ohio, and Indiana, with our own eyes, in terms of rampant voter fraud during the primaries and general election, we believe ACORN is a bigger threat to America than Al Queda, the Taliban, the Somali pirates, and many other fringe groups combined. ACORN is here, on US soil, and is being funded by the US government, with the goal of bringing down said government. That’s like Romulus Augustus sending arms and monies to the barbarians at Rome’s gate, while the last of the ancient Romans did nothing to prevent their world’s demise.
Well, we want to take ACORN on. Every day, we get a little closer to figuring out how to do this, since no one else out there that we know of seems to want to do anything about them.
We need to rile up people in the caucus states, especially, to agitate for changes that will keep ACORN from pushing forward a Republican candidate who can’t beat the incumbent President in 2012. That seems to be the plan: for the MSM to cajole Bobby Jindal or Mike Huckabee to run in 2012, and then ACORN would seal the deal by rigging the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary so that Jindal or Huckabee is the Republican nominee, guaranteeing a second term for “The One”. We believe Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford, and maybe Mitt Romney could wipe the floor with “The One” in four years — but Jindal and Huckabee would be toast, for varying reasons. The demonization of Governor Palin should give you an idea who ACORN and the Left thinks is the real threat on the horizon for “The One”. The fawning over Jindal should tell you who the Washington General is to the Left’s perceived Globetrotter.
We have less than four years to stop ACORN from rigging the Iowa caucus and influencing the Republican primaries. This weekend, we’d love for you to brainstorm and try to come up with ways we can join with other Democrats, Independents, Republicans, and others in this country to stop ACORN once and for all.
Hillary Clinton, yet again, is warning that Pakistan is a mortal threat to the world
The government of Pakistan looks like it will collapse before the end of summer.
We know this.
People who come here and read us know this.
Why on Earth isn’t the current Administration doing anything to STOP THIS.
There are 100 Pakistani nuclear weapons that either the Taliban or Al Queda will gain control of when the government in Islamabad goes under. This is far more precarious a situation than when the Soviet Union collapsed because its successor state, the Russian Federation and former Soviet constituent republics, had a plan in place to ensure those nukes didn’t fall into the hands of kooks, loons, and petty despots.
In Pakistan, it’s anything goes.
And it sure seems highly likely the Taliban and Al Queda see a weak, pontificating, indecisive American President as little impediment to securing a nuclear arsenal.
This is the sort of thing COBRA was always trying to do, when fighting GI Joe (and sometimes the Transformers in weird team-up comics). Only, now it’s not a stale 80s cartoon we’re talking about, but reality in a world where it seems cartoons play in the White House all day, in between rounds of kumbaya and Whole Foods organic snack and juice time.
What Al Queda and the Taliban would do with nukes would wholly eclipse the wildest, most outrageous, most unbelievable plots and schemes of any cartoon fanatic, too.
Hillary Clinton, as always, knows what she is talking about. The current President was always so good at following behind her and repeating, “Yah, what Hillary said”, during all the debates in the primaries. Now’s the time for him to parrot what she says and follow her lead again, because the current President’s special blend of meek mollycoddling and prostration is sure on a collision course with what could very well be a nuclear-armed Al Queda.
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOM!
For those of you who want the US to become another France
There are several people we know, all of whom grew up very comfortably in nice suburban homes, who have a particularly middleclass bougie disorder that makes them believe everything is so much better in Europe, especially France and Italy for some reason (despite all those Europeans who continue to immigrate to America, as these clowns want to leave the States and head to Paris or Rome).
All these people ever talk about is how they want to move to Italy, or to France, and take cooking classes or horse riding instruction or spaghetti harvesting workshops there. Because Europe is such a wonderful place and France and Italy, in particular, are so much better than America.
One particularly spoiled and overindulged American princess we know was tired of working her $85,000/year job and living in her beach house in Florida (because she sometimes had to work weekends and her house wasn’t as close to the beach as others she knew), so she just quit one day and signed up for Italian lessons in Milan — but came back pouting after just a few weeks because, “The whole place smelled like garbage. They haven’t picked up the garbage in months because the garbage people were on strike. And everyone was mean to me because they were in such a bad mood about the garbage. Nobody paid attention to ME. They were all so mad about the strike. I hate Italy.”
Welcome to European socialism, fools.
We’re sure you have anecdotes like this too, but every time we think of France we think of a high school trip we took for college art and history credit, where half our fellow travelers had never been to Europe before and expected some sort of glamorous amusement park (the rest of us were more realistic, and knew what to expect in socialist countries). The transit workers were on strike in Paris at the time, so there was no transportation to speak of. Half of us lucked out and made it to the Louvre a day before a museum workers’ strike closed almost all the cultural sites around Paris. There very well may have been a garbage workers strike during that trip, too — or else the sanitation department’s job-for-life workers just couldn’t care enough about their positions to keep the streets we saw clean. It was a mess, and about 30 of Greater Cleveland’s best and brightest came home to Parma Heights and Independence, Ohio rereshed in their appreciation for all things American.
We’re not saying America is perfect or infallible, but it sure as Hell is worthy of our respect and appreciation. There’s a reason people keep wanting to immigrate here, and why they are not beating down the door to get into France and Italy (unless they are spoiled 33 year olds who want to do yet another study abroad instead of working a responsible job like the grown women they are).
So, it’s yet another strike in France: this time the electricity workers who are randomly shutting off power to various cities on the Paris grid, hoping to force the government to capitulate to their demands.
For those of you who voted for the current President and believe these are effective tactics to get what you want, or bring socialism to this country, we once again admonish: be careful what you wish for, Hope and Change Gang, because you might not want it when you get it.
Go ahead and prosecute President Bush, so in 4 years President Palin can prosecute YOU.
Since the 100-day mark of this Administration is coming next week, and MSNBC, TIME, the New York Times, and all the other mouthpieces in the White House’s propaganda ragtime band are all revved up in hallucinatory fielty mode, it’s an opportune time for the current President to toss red meat to the Left and do something dangerous and myopic to score political points with his deranged base: invite prosecution of the previous Administration’s officials for keeping Americans safe from terrorist attacks for the last eight years.
Two things will come of this sort of behavior:
(1) We honestly believe another large-scale terrorist attack will happen very soon, because the current Administration does not seem to take the terrorist threat seriously. Obama’s dithering with the pirate situation made that crystal clear. Navy SEALS reported the White House wanted to send JAG officers in to “monitor” and “negotiate” the situation when our best SEALS were needed to rush in and clean a few pirate clocks. While the President wet his pampers in University of Chicago law lecturer mode, and dithered over what course of action to take, the people who keep us safe on a daily basis knew what to do but were impeded by this current Administration. These pirates were a very small test…and this President got a “D” for dithering (or dunce, if you prefer). Pakistan’s implosion in a few months or a year will be another test. There is no scoring on a curve, or giving him extra credit for his supposed charm and charisma or ability to fix broken souls or turn water into Kool-Aid. Because of the disrespect he has already shown the military and CIA, when something terrible does happen on his watch, do not expect these people to be silent as to whose dithering and professorial nature prevented proactive action from being taken to eliminate these threats. Heaven forbid a crisis interferes with his latest TIME photoshoot or umpteenth round of basketball free throws somewhere.
(2) Scoring points with the Left by attacking the former Administration is pointless, because it will alienate people in the middle who voted for the current President, but now realize what a giant mistake they made. We have never done this sort of thing in this country. Even Ford and Carter, following Nixon, did not move backwards and attack their predecessors along political lines. This is a dangerous, dangerous precedent. A President who espouses socialist tendencies and Rules for Radicalism should be very careful when setting these sorts of precedents, because whatever he does to former President George W. Bush and his Administration will most certainly be done to him in 4 years by his Republican successor. Being weak, meek, and bowing to the Saudi King while mollycoddling terrorists sure invites a President Palin to remedy the current President’s profound testosterone deficit. Effete and naive are the order of the day in this White House; couple that with perceived attacks on the people who have kept us safe for 8 years, and add in whatever fallout will come from this Administration’s naive, genteel approach to the threats America faces, and it’s hard to imagine centrist Americans being deluded by the kumbaya malarkey four years hence. Really, more so than that, it’s hard to imagine Republicans sitting home again in four years, claiming “another Carter will get us another Reagan”, and letting someone like the current President take office believing “there’s not much damage he can do in four years”. Well, there certainly is a great deal of damage he can do in four years…and that damage is starting to show itself now.
American history is chock full of unintended consequences.
Bush made a lot of mistakes as President, but doing everything imaginable to keep Americans safe was not one of them. Now that the management of Whole Foods is running the White House, there’s more concern for organically-grown arugula on the White House lawn than there is for extracting information from the people who have pledged to kill as many of us as possible. Our enemies abroad perceive this weakness as an opportunity to strike, so it’s hard to imagine they don’t have something wicked on its way to us, at a time when the White House is impeding efforts to prevent such an attack.
If that happens, the President who decided to prosecute the former Administration for keeping us safe might very well be prosecuted by his successor for dropping the ball and exposing us to needless harm.
Be careful what you wish for.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today?
9am – Testimony before House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs
230pm – Bilateral with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand
325pm – Meeting with Children of State Department Employees, “Bring Your Child to Work Day”
400pm – Meeting with President and Vice President (no word if this is also part of BYCtWD)
Go, Hillary, Go!
There are no such things as anti-terror excesses
This is very interesting — and it’s coming from POLITICO of all places, which should honestly just set up shop in the West Wing and officially declare itself part of the Administration, the amount of cheerleading they do for the White House.
But, yet, even POLITICO has to admit the White House has completely lost its mind in going after Bush Administration officials for keeping this nation safe from another terrorist attack for 8 years.
Democrats claim they want to prosecute “anti-terror excesses”, but do such things even exist?
We’re sorry, but how can anything that stopped another terrorist attack be considered an excess?
How quickly, exactly, does the current president want to become Jimmy Carter, Part Deux (or is that Duh?)?
Even the documents the White House has been releasing in attempts to lash out at Republicans and rev up that same, tired old partisan rancor clearly admit interrogation techniques used against terrorists at Guantanamo Bay yielded valuable information that prevented new attacks on Americans.
Even POLITICO has to admit how absurd it is for the White House to attack Bush era techniques, when those techniques proved so very, very effective in keeping America safe.
Mark our words: mollycoddling terrorists, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia, and treating Hugo Chavez like a long lost best friend will not keep America safe, but will instead invite all sorts of nasty events to come in the next four years.
Even Joe Biden admits the villains of the world want to “test” the current president — and when that happens, it seems even the MSM propaganda machine won’t be able to grade on a curve ludicrous enough to mitigate the damages terrorist mollycoddling could do.
Thursday Open Thread
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
Miss California didn't say anything wrong. We support Carrie Prejean's right to have her own opinion.
Miss California answered honestly a question posed to her, and is being savaged for it.
Of course, the Left is calling her all sorts of misogynistic names, because that’s what the Left does. No doubt, here in Boystown, places like Sidetrack (that seem to look for any excuse whatsoever to weaponize the “c-word” and direct it gleefully at women) will be rolling relentless attacks against Carrie Prejean on Comedy and Showtunes nights.
Just like they did that to Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain, and Hillary Clinton. Because, frankly, Sidetrack really is the place to go in Chicago if you’re gay and hate women and think it’s fun to drink way too many frozen cocktails out of frosty mugs and make a complete ass of yourself on any given night.
Beauty contests are incredibly stupid.
Unless they involve Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Rudd, Jude Law, and whatever speedo-related shenannigans our imaginations can conjure for the best swimsuit competition since last year’s Market Days at Hollywood Beach here in Boystown.
Carrie Prejean is not stupid. She’s honest. Wholly ignorant of her surroundings, and the fact that her crown’s in the hands of people who would give her big, Oprah-sized zeros for speaking her mind, but honest nonetheless.
And it’s acceptable that she does not support “gay marriage”. This is still America, despite attempts by Janet Napolatino, Eric Holder, and the current President to change that. Prejean can support, or not support, whatever she wants. After all, 80% of the people who voted for the current President did NOT support “gay marriage” in California (including almost ALL of his black supporters: the absolute largest group of voters to support Proposition-8 by demographic).
We keep telling you that the term “gay marriage” is the problem, not Prejean and Democrats who voted for the current President while deciding to institutionalize discrimination in the Golden State. As long as the word “marriage” is used, people will make statements like Prejean’s.
There is no doubt in our minds that Prejean is a good woman. We believe she would never actively campaign for any sort of discrimination in matters financial, healthcare related, involving pensions, or otherwise. But, the word “marriage” conjures a knee-jerk response in many people — including those millions of true blue Democratic lockstep voters who helped pick the current president while backing Prop-8.
Do you remember when “dried plums” were called “prunes”?
And prune sales were stagnant, so marketers decided to rebrand the product so people who had knee-jerk negative reactions to it would give prunes a chance, as “dried plums” instead.
Same product, better PR, increased acceptance.
The Left, being as slick as it is in all things marketing and branding, suspiciously doesn’t seem to grasp this concept…which makes us believe they have no real intention of ever securing equal partner benefits for all LGBTQ Americans. Allowing the word “gay marriage” to quash all attempts at true equality is poor public strategy. The only explanation for this stupidity is that the LGBTQ community, at large, really doesn’t want this to pass anymore than the black community ever wants its main issues to be resolved. What happens then? There’s a multi-million if not billion dollar grievance industry in this country. Successfully achieving equal partner rights, or successfully admitting racism as described by the Sharptons, Clyburnes, or Holders of this world no longer exists, would put an awful lot of well-established Leftist hucksters and clowns out of business. All the fun these people have screaming and yelling and attacking people would be lost.
Look at how delighted so many are to attack Miss California right now. It will be literally years before Prejean falls off the Sidetrack comedy playlist. Nobody beats a dead horse more gleefully than balding, aging, queens.
Except maybe Al Sharpton.
Wednesday Open Thread
What’s on your mind today?
April 29th will mark 100 days of The Golden Age of Hope.
Have you received your unicorn yet? Where is all the change we can believe in?
What do you think about the current presidency as it reaches this first milestone in its term?
We can't wait to hear cries of RAAAAAAAAACISM! over this one: Hail to the Chimp, the video game
Yesterday, it was pouring rain so we ducked into, of all places, a video game store in Evanston, Illinois.
The clerk was on the telephone with a buddy complaining about having to work 6 days a week now that corporate decided to ship most of its product on Saturdays to save money on shipping, and so store managers had to work 6 days a week to receive all those shipments. This was, supposedly, part of a cost-cutting and hours-watching strategy for corporate (though the only way that makes sense is if store managers are salaried, not hourly, and so making them work 6 days with no extra pay is a way of cheating hourly employees down to 4 days a week of work instead of 5).
As we browsed the store waiting for the rain to subside, trying to understand the conspiracy theory involved in the clerk’s shipping problems, we also heard a grandmother arguing with her grandson over the cost of video games. She promised him a game, but only one $5 or under, and the little boy grew increasingly frustrated and angry that nothing in the store was less than $10, but grandma wouldn’t budge on that $5 spending cap. The grandmother kept repeating, “These days no one has any money to spend on things, so $5 is all I have so find something for that or you get nothing at all.” And the little boy, making a lot of sense, said, “Grandma nothing in here costs $5. It’s cruel to make me look at things when I can’t have them, so why did you bring me here? All it does is make me feel bad.” The kid was about 8 or 9, and was in tears by the time he and his grandmother finally left the store.
Personally, if we were the grandparent in the above, we would have used the $5 to buy some art supplies or cupcake mix and eggs and either had a fun day drawing and making construction paper projects with the kid, or baking cupcakes to eat while we played board games or something. We sure as heck wouldn’t have brought him into a video game store where the lowest priced games are $10 when we’d only let him spend $5. That is pretty cruel (unless you live in Walnut Grove, and you think this is the Olsens’ General Store, where you can get armfuls of dried goods for $1.47, and still complain how much money that is all the way back to your little house on the prairie). It’s like promising to change the world, lower the oceans, fix all of our collective problems, and give everyone lemonade, pixie dust, hope, and unicorns and, after close to 100 days, still not articulating exactly how any of that is to be done, or what good’s going to come from any of those nonsensical things you’ve managed to shove through an acquiescent Congress.
Which brings us serendipitously to this game, Hail to the Chimp, which we spotted only because the little boy in the vignette above dropped it as he tried to put it back on a shelf after checking its price ($15.95). We walked over to pick it up and put it back for him, when we took one look at its cover and wondered how long it would take for the race-baiters at large to realize the game existed.
Hail to the Chimp centers around a monkey named Crackers who wants to be President of the Animal kingdom. It is a perfectly innocent and poorly-designed children’s product that makes our eyes bleed the way most children’s animation these days does, but because it features a monkey as President, we honestly wonder why it hasn’t set the Al Sharptons, Eric Holders, John Lewises, Spike Lees, and James Clyburnes to work ranting and raving and race-baiting the way they all so love to do.
Those clowns usually LIVE for this kind of thing. Finding it’s like their own personal Holy Grail — something actually depicting a presidential chimp? That should be ranting and raving lunatic GOLD for this lot.
The game’s existed since June of 2008 and not one of these race-baiters ever used it to spark feigned outrage and faux anger.
Why not?
The scene Sharpton, in particular, made when a NY Post cartoon depicted spending-spree-addled-Congress as the deranged chimp that attacked a woman in January didn’t even involve a depiction of a chimp as President. The cartoon was all about Congress being out of its mind, wasting taxpayer money, and passing bills without reading them. Yet, Sharpton dialed us up to racial Armageddan again, for no reason.
But, he said nothing about a game that actually depicts a President as a chimp, right on it’s box cover, with its actual title being Hail to the Chimp.
It’s all completely ridiculous, really. The video game isn’t a racial attack any more than the political cartoon was. But, it’s funny what Sharpton, Lewis, Clyburne, Lee, Holder, et al choose to mushroom into major issues, and what they choose to completely ignore. Quite obviously, they are all very agenda-driven…so maybe crying about this game back in June 2008 when it came out would have been bad for whatever agenda they had at that time, but crying about that cartoon in January 2009 fit perfectly into something they wanted that week. It’s interesting to continue to monitor this Kabuki nonsense, because eventually even the densest members of the public won’t be able to see what a shame the race-baiting truly is.
And it just gets more and more ridiculous each and every day.
