Archive for August, 2009
Most unbelievable thing we have seen in a while (in a gross way). Largest pimple ever.
Seriously…do not follow this link unless you have a strong stomach. A friend of ours sent this to us on Facebook. It’s video of a guy with the largest pimple (or is it a boil?) anyone we know has ever seen…massive, on his back near his neck. His friend takes some kind of medical knife to it to pop it…and, well, you have to see it to believe it…but please see it long after dinner.
A friend of ours who went to med school says this is probably an MRSA infection. We have no idea what that means. But it sure sounds bad.
After being equally grossed out and fascinated by this, we’re thinking about something else our med school friend told us. She said popping this at home probably saved the guy about $700 in a visit to the ER. That made us think about all the things we’ve done at home ourselves, too, because we didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford to go to the hospital. Once, one of us here used fishing line and a thick needle to put in his own stitches after a bike accident because he couldn’t afford to go to the hospital. And then, after the wound healed up, he took his own stitches out, too.
That’s crazy, but we’re sure it happens all the time. Home surgery, because people can’t afford to go to the doctor to have these things taken care.
The Deathcare plan the liberal Dems are now pushing through Congress isn’t going to change this…because it’s going to make access to doctors even HARDER to get (adding 57 million more people to the insurance rolls, including illegal aliens, without adding more doctors means more home surgeries may be needed, even for people who can afford to go to the doctor now…but will have limited, rationed access to doctors if Deathcare passes).
Scary, crazy, gross stuff
Hillary Clinton worked hard to prevent the release of the Lockerbie bombing terrorist. If she was in the White House, that Islamist would still be in prison.
Hillary Clinton did everything she could to prevent the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
If it was her White House, that terrorist would still be in prison.
There is no way Scotland released this man without a green light from Dr. Utopia himself. Considering the sorts of people the Utopias have surrounded themselves with their whole lives — even using Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers as baby-sitters for their daughters — is it no surprise Dr. Utopia would have zero objections to letting the Lockerbie bomber loose?
Elections have consequences.
Every day, we hope Americans realize more and more what they did in choosing Dr. Utopia over Hillary Clinton, and then choosing him over John McCain.
Clinton and McCain would have kept this terrorist in jail.
Who knows who’ll be released next under Dr. Utopia’s watch.
Charles Manson?
Chelsea Clinton getting married on Chappaquiddick Island?
The NY Post is reporting that Chelsea Clinton will be getting married soon on Chappaquiddick Island.
It really does feel like the wedding was supposed to happen this past weekend, but Ted Kennedy’s funeral put a wrench in those plans. And now, if the NY Post is right, the Clintons are making a marvelous political move in drawing attention to the one place in the world the wretched Kennedy Family wants everyone to forget.
Enormous media attention would be drawn to wherever Chelsea got married.
Chelsea Clinton is a smart, smart, wonderful young woman. The kind of person who, like us, has never forgotten what happened to Mary Jo Kopechne..who was roughly Chelsea’s age when Ted Kennedy killed her.
What would we do if we were the sons of two of the most famous people in the world…and we knew our wedding would draw enormous global attention…and we personally felt the MSM had completely ignored Chappaquiddick and the murder Ted Kennedy committed there 40 years ago?
What would we do if we, on some level, wanted to take a major slap at the self-declared royals who had betrayed our parents repeatedly?
To be honest, we’d have our wedding on Chappaquiddick Island so that the MSM would be forced to report on it…would be forced to say the word “Chappaquiddick” and Americans would instantly remember the REAL Ted Kennedy, the one that wasn’t eulogized this weekend.
Because in talking about the wedding on Chappaquiddick, the MSM would be FORCED to talk about what Ted Kennedy did there in 1969, when he killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
If the MSM’s going to make a big deal of our special day, we’d want that attention to be good for something…and shining a strong light on Kennedy’s real legacy sure seems to be a wonderful and apt redirection of all that media attention.
If this is true…if Chelsea Clinton really is holding her wedding on Chappaquiddick, she will join her parents permanently as one of our personal heroes.
Because this would be genius.
UPDATE: Once again, today there were no public appointments posted for Hillary Clinton. The Kennedy funeral and Hurricane Bill cut short the vacation the Clintons were on in Bermuda last week. They were supposed to return home on Saturday night. So, Clinton should have been back to a regular schedule of public appointments this week. It sure feels like there’s a personal reason she’s not making public appearances…and knowing how much she loves her daughter, and how much she would enjoy wedding planning, if Chelsea is getting married this week, that would explain everything.
Last July, Clinton came to Chicago for her best friend Betsy Ebeling’s daughter’s wedding, held the same day as a teacher’s union event. We got to see Clinton that day, at Navy Pier, and she was BEAMING with pride that her friend’s daughter was getting married that day. BEAMING. She was so, so happy. And that was just her friend’s, not her own, daughter. So, the more days that go by without public appointments, and the more articles like the one in the NY Post are written, the more we do believe that something’s up with Chelsea.
We’re starting to wonder if it’s going to be a Stella McCartney dress, too. Chelsea is friends with Stella…so we’d be surprised if it wasn’t a dress by her.
UPDATE #2: Can we just say how excited we are by the NY Post story? It’s been a rough year for us here in Chicago — friends dying, other friends diagnosed with cancer, a brutal job market here, you name it. There’s been very little joy, not much to make us smile and make us happy. But, Chelsea Clinton getting married would be so joyous. We would be so excited for her, and that would make us so happy. But, more than that, if it’s true the Clintons would really use Chappaquiddick for the wedding, we would love these people more than we already do — because that would be the greatest F-U to the miserable Kennedy family any of us could ever imagine. We thought it was hilarious and wonderful how all of Hillary Clinton’s supporters came together in December of last year to take HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy down in her presumptive insistence her imagined royal lineage entitled her to Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Everyone we know in New York on Team Hillary worked day and night to make HRH Princess Caroline look as ridiculous as possible. People with connections made calls and put pressure where it needed to be put. Those of us mere mortals just hit the Net, doing what we could to turn the tide against the Princess and make it impossible for Governor Paterson to buckle under Kennedy Family pressure to give Princess what she wanted (“I wants it, I wants it, I WANTS IT,” the dilletante would shout, running up and down the aisles at Bergdorf’s, throwing Jimmy Choos at anyone she’d spot, so furious she wasn’t automatically getting her way, for once in her overindulged life).
But, drawing so much attention to Chappaquiddick would top all of this.
It would effectively pop the MSM-fueled Kennedy memorial bubble…and bring reality to all the artificial tributes to this murderer.
It would be a passive-aggressive A-bomb sure to generate countless F-bombs from the ranks of the stunned, self-proclaimed royals at Hyannis Port.
The Clintons are wonderful people. If you are loyal to them, they will stand by you when you need it. They never, ever forget who’s on their side, and who isn’t. They will always help those who helped them…and they will always get back at those who backstabbed them.
And they do both things with relish and vigor, like only they can.
Oh, how we hope the NY Post is right, because it’s beyond anything we could have ever dreamed of doing to the Kennedys.
UPDATE #3: Serena Roosevelt says on Facebook that Chelsea Clinton is NOT getting married on Chappaquiddick…that the preparations are for two other women getting married (on different days and not to each other). The article at the link also says Chelsea will not be getting married this year, period.
Ted Kennedy and Michael Jackson both put themselves above the law
Here’s a great read that makes a connection that didn’t occur to us before: this is the summer that both Camelot and Neverland came to an end, where two artificial fabrications melted like so much sugary-sweet, bad-for-you, rots-your-teeth, ice cream left out in the sun.
Kennedy and Jackson both stayed on the national stage decades after they should have been forced into ignamous retirement. Instead of receiving the tar-and-feathering they both deserved, or being run out of the country Roman Polanski-style, these two were doted on, catered to, and declared “Lion of the Senate” and “King of Pop”, respectively.
In reality, they were “murderer” and “molester”.
That’s how they should be remembered. Not for how long a stint in the Senate one of them did, or how awesome the Thriller album was for the other.
The author of the article linked about is right: these two put themselves above the law, so lost in their fantasy world kingdoms of Camelot and Neverland respectively. Meanwhile, the rest of us living in mundane, real-world “America” were forced to watch endless tributes to two people who, without their fame and fortune, would have spent the majority of their lives in prison.
As more time passes, and as we get further and further away from the MSM-fueled hysteria surrounding their deaths, we hope people start to see the simple truth that there was not much to idolize in either of these men — or their famous, eccentric, omnipresent families.
Monday Open Thread, August 31st 2009
What’s on your mind this Monday?
Here in Chicago, it’s now official that we’ve had the coldest August on record…and are poised to have the coldest fall and winter in years too, we believe. So much for anthropogenic global warming. The cold coincides perfectly with the lowest solar flare activity in years, which is what we believe’s affecting our planet’s climate. Curbing pollution is always a good thing, but it’s not going to impact what’s going on with the sun. No amount of Cap&Trade can do that.
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Boston Globe is pushing the Cape Wind Project some more…which we think should be named the Edware Moore Kennedy Memorial Cape Wind Project, so that liberal loons would be forced to stop opposing it and the clean energy project could finally be built, after 7 years of Kennedy stalling, and bring electricity to 300,000 people on the Cape Islands in Massachusetts.
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Dr. Utopia’s approval ratings are down to 46%, according to Gallop, which heavily favors Dems and has been adjusting its numbers to make the White House look as good as possible, in our opinion. So if Gallop says it’s down to 46%, Dr. Utopia’s in real trouble. How long before you think it will get below 40%? We think sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when holiday shoppers realize how little money they have to spend and how, just a year before, Dr. Utopia promised them all things would be unicorns and rainbows by now.
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Totally on a tangent, we heard a leaked copy of Whitney Houston’s new album, dropping later this week, today. It’s FANTASTIC. Not what we were expecting, kind of sedate, but something we will listen to over and over again. We are rooting for Whitney 100% and want her to have the biggest comeback in a generation. She’s earned it. Just wait until you hear it.
Ted Kennedy must be honored. The perfect opportunity is to build the Wind and Tidal Energy Project in Massachusetts and name it after him and his wonderful family.
Ted Kennedy must be honored.
An enormous amount of taxpayer money must be spent to immortalize the liberal’s great, mythic lion.
Since he’s not getting a pharoah’s tomb, and has been laid to rest below a simple cross like his brother Bobby’s at Arlington, a massive structure must be built somewhere so that no one ever forgets Senator Edward Moore Kennedy.
Such a project exists in Massachusetts that could not only spend a lot of money, produce a great many jobs, and permanently leave a mark for Ted Kennedy in this world…but it could also be a small step towards making this country energy independent as well.
For years, the Kennedy family has personally block a wind and tidal energy project from being built near their compound at Hyannis Port in Massachusetts. The project would have obscured Ted Kennedy’s views of the ocean, which he loved, but since Ted Kennedy is now, according to the MSM, enthroned on a cloud high above surrounded by adoring angels, there is no longer any reason the wind and tidal energy project should not be built.
Ted Kennedy is no longer at Hyannis Port…but just imagine the wonderful legacy of clean energy his spirit could create if only the Edward Moore Kennedy Memorial Tidal and Wind Energy Project was allowed to go forward. The whole thing could even be shaped like his face, Ozymandius-style, where it could weather in the salty air and stormy sea, like Kennedy himself through the years in the endless tides of politics.
As so many rush to force projects through bearing Kennedy’s name…it seems wise for Americans of the moderate and conservative persuasions to also appreciate the power of “Ted Kennedy Memorial” this or that.
Any project stalled, or repeatedly defeated by liberals, could get a sudden boost if it was renamed “The Edward Moore Kennedy Memorial” whatever, or designed to look like Kennedy in some way.
How could the Kennedy family continue to fight against something worthwhile to the public that would also be built in their royal honor?
How long does mass-hysteria mourning last? The Michael Jackson example.
This is all anecdotal to our lives in Chicago, but today we are thinking about the mass-hysteria phenomena that afflict this country from time to time. Like the wave of imagined grief that swept the whole world, really, when Princess Diana died. Or the post-911 hyper patriotism that forbade any criticism of the government or President Bush for several years after the attacks on the Trade Center and Pentagon. Then, there’s the Hope! and Change! MSM-fueled hysteria that propelled Dr. Utopia into office (the expiration date on which we’re still waiting for).
After Michael Jackson died, there were all manner of tributes to him here in Chicago, from the ridiculous to the sublime. On the day he died, we remember walking home from work, on a gorgeous day, hearing Billie Jean and Beat It playing out open windows in every neighborhood we passed. People on their sun decks were doing the Thriller moves, spontaneously. One group of very talented high schoolers breaking out into an impromptu rendition of Man in the Mirror that literally stopped everyone in their tracks on an El platform, letting trains pass and deciding to wait for later rides because they didn’t want to leave before the song ended (they were seriously THAT good).
In Boystown, Jackson died a week before Pride, and all during Pridefest whenever a band played anywhere, they did covers of his old hits after the crowds shouted MJ! MJ! MJ! repeatedly. In bars, when VJs spun Jackson’s remixes, people would cheer, some would shout “King of Pop!” or “Long Live the King!”, and everyone would get giant smiles on their faces grooving to Billie Jean, in particular.
Notice how everyone choose to remember Jackson as he was up to 1983 or so. Jackson Five songs got people on their feet. Anything from the Thriller album was well-received…but people completely ignored the Jackson of the 90s and beyond.
Now, finally, they’re just ignoring Jackson period.
Last night, we were out in Boystown and for the first time people didn’t cheer when Billie Jean came on the screens at Roscoes. They just reacted to it the same way they used to, before Jackson died, the same way they react when Lady GaGa comes on, or Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper, or whomever. Just another song. No MJ! MJ! MJ! cheers. No King of Pop accolades. No special attention at all.
The mass-hysteria passed. People moved on. It took awhile, but whatever need people had to deify Jackson was filled, and now they’re on to something else.
In light of everything Jackson did in the 90s and 2000s, we say NOT SOON ENOUGH.
It’s interesting to see this all play out every now and again…some event triggers the MSM’s wall-to-wall coverage. The talking heads tell Americans how historic the moment is. People are oversaturated with tributes to someone who may or may not actually deserve them. And then the bottom falls out of it. The MSM moves to something else, the public forgets, and the whole thing starts up again with the next “historic event”.
We seem to get one or two of these “historic events” a year. And usually when the MSM wants to drive ratings, or has nothing else on the books to fill all that 24/7 cable air time.
Funny how that works.
Quick! Look out your window. Cats are chasing dogs. Rain is falling up. Barney Frank is right about something. Audit the Federal Reserve.
Over Fourth of July weekend, we talked to our friend Wess about starting to organize in Chicago so that we’d be ready in 2011/2012 should either Sarah Palin decide to run for President or Hillary Clinton decide to challenge Dr. Utopia for the Democrats’ nomination. This came on the heels of Sarah Palin’s resignation as Governor, which we see as the first step towards such a presidential campaign — and it echoes the retrospective wish we’ve long had that we organized better for Hillary Clinton back in 2007 so that the massive ACORN-fueled caucus fraud that pushed Dr. Utopia to the nomination would have never succeeded. Wess is obsessed with the 2008 Democratic primaries — he has stacks of papers from the caucuses, and from the convention in Denver, and still talks to Hillary delegates all the time…where some of them, including Wess, have a hard time moving on and seeing what lessons can be applied to the future (as opposed to every day reliving the past, and pouring over all the ways the DNC gamed the system for Dr. Utopia). We are all about the future.
We were there in the caucuses. We know what happened. We don’t want that to ever happen to Hillary Clinton again, when she next runs for elected office. We don’t want that to happen to Sarah Palin either.
So, Wess set up a conference call with us that we assumed would just be us and him — only Wess had several other people on the call, which was supposed to be about exploring what we could do to organize a Hillary or Sarah contingency force to hit Iowa depending on how things shake out for 2012. But, instead of talking about Iowa, or Hillary, or Sarah, the conference call got hijacked by one of Wess’ friends in California, who is obsessed with the Federal Reserve. She kept chanting, “End the Fed! End the Fed! End the Fed!” over and over again. This woman’s mad at Hillary Clinton because she hasn’t gone to war with the Federal Reserve. She says she’ll only support Sarah if she makes taking down the Fed the cornerstone of her campaign. It was crazy. We had no idea what to say. As much as we hate conference calls (as it’s so hard to hear all those people at once, on just the phone), we went through with the call because we wanted to talk Iowa…not lunacy about taking down the Federal Reserve.
We were totally unaware of the “End the Fed” zealots, and after that conference call, we thought they were nuts.
BUT, that call made us actually look into the issue…and we realize, like so many things, the “End the Fed” people have a major problem with branding, marketing, and their spokespeople. The crazy person on the phone is not the best person to bring someone to the table to talk about the fact that the Federal Reserve is a private — NOT GOVERNMENT — institution that has operated with complete impunity for decades. IT HAS NEVER BEEN AUDITED. No one really knows what goes on there. Very likely, the Federal Reserve is the cause of a great deal, if not all, of our current financial problems.
No one can tell for sure, since THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS NEVER BEEN AUDITED. Ever. And the American public has no idea, really, what the Federal Reserve even is.
So, in the month since July, we’ve come around to fully support a detailed audit of the Federal Reserve. Today, we were stunned to learn Barney Frank is pushing for just such an audit…along with Ron Paul calling attention to the Federal Reserve as well.
Great Merciful Zeus, that’s a double-whammy for us.
Ron Paul supporters were some of the most fun to hang out with during the 2008 campaign. They would dress up as “V” from “V for Vendetta” and did crazy things like holding Ron Paul signs up at intersections in freezing cold pre-caucus Iowa, dressed only in red, white, and blue speedos (“Vote”, “Ron”, and “Paul” written in masking tape on what remember to be very perky swim team butts…which more likely than not ended up with hypothermia).
But, we’ve always thought the Ron Paul-Dennis Kucinich orbit was nuts. The two of them were hilarious on the campaign trail, and wildly entertaining in the debates, but the things they push are so out of left field most times.
But, there’s no reasonable or rational excuse NOT to audit the Federal Reserve. We aren’t advocating “ending the Fed”, as Wess’ zealous friend wants; we just want the Federal Reserve audited to determine what the Hell’s going on there.
How can anyone ever argue with an audit? Audits are how you determine where money’s going, and if anything is amiss.
There is no valid reason the Federal Reserve should not be audited.
Now, this is where there’s great danger of drowning in conspiracy, squarely on the back of Big Foot or Elvis (or, most recently, people who believe there’s really footage of Michael Jackson climbing out of the coroner’s van, Death Becomes Her style, after faking his own death). Because one of the things Wess’ friend insists is that John F. Kennedy was killed because he wanted the Fed audited…and five years later, his brother Bobby was killed because he wanted the Fed audited…and every other crisis or tragedy we’ve endured the last 50 years is somehow linked to someone wanting to audit the Fed, with the Fed striking back through shadowy agents to protect itself.
If you swim too deeply in these waters, you’ll end up in a speedo in Dubuque when it’s 10 degrees outside. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
But, you can never say the Federal Reserve doesn’t need to be audited.
It’s been years, if not decades, since we’ve had any respect for Barney Frank or agreed with him on anything. In high school, as young gay guys, we instinctively supported Frank because we liked having an openly gay member of Congress. But, as adults, we’ve got Tammy Baldwin who’s a respectable person we support, who’s also openly lesbian…and we’ve got other members of Congress who we hope will come out someday soon, like a certain young Congressman from Peoria (who sure has no trouble hanging with the Aberzombies at Minibar whenever in Chicago). So, we long ago stopped supporting Barney Frank just because he’s gay. Frank’s behavior at the Town Halls he’s been hosting underscored that for us, big time.
But, Frank’s right about auditing the Fed. As right about that as we are that Frank’s a gross and generally crazy person who should be booted from office.
But he is right about auditing the Fed.
The Federal Reserve needs to be audited.
Sunday Open Thread, August 30th 2009
What’s on your mind this Sunday?
It's her again…on Facebook
This video is great…made by our friends over at Conservatives4Palin…alluding to the fact that Governor Palin will indeed stop Dr. Utopia’s Deathcare plans dead in their tracks…and the woman is doing it using only Facebook.
Let that sink in…the White House has a fawning press in full propaganda mode. Democrats are using millions of lobbyist money and all the muscle of the unions and other cronies to intimidate, cajole, and recklessly force through Deathcare.
All Sarah Palin has is Facebook.
And Sarah Palin is WINNING.
How funny is it that an effeminate black man always seems to be up against a wily white woman for a nemesis?
And it would be HILARIOUS if, in 2012, Hillary Clinton yanked the Democrats’ nomination from him, just as Sarah Palin geared up to run against Dr. Utopia, so in essence he’d be hit from two sides, by the two women who probably give him nightmares.
And that’s not even getting into the nightmare Dr. Utopia sleeps next to.
No wonder the man’s wee-weeing all over the place these days.
