Archive for August 5th, 2009
Would-be Presidential Assassin Squeaky Fromme To Be Released From Prison
The woman who tried to kill President Ford (and later became one of the most annoying parts of a musical we’ve never been able to stomach, thank you very much Stephen Sondheim, you sadist), Squeaky Fromme, is being set loose unto the world.
Somehow, we don’t believe something like this would be happening with Ashcroft or Gonzalez at Justice, as flawed as those two were in their posts. Fromme, unlike Sarah Jane Moore (Ford’s other would-be assassin), IS A MANSON FAMILY MEMBER.
But, if we’re setting all the loons loose from Gitmo in The Golden Age of Rainbow Sparkle Unicorns, why not let loose the rest of our national rogue’s gallery too? Hope! Change! Release the murderers!
But, all things considered, this is the nation where Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy is still “Senator Kennedy” and not “Inmate #67890, duly tried and convicted in 1969 for the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne”. He’s called “Presidential Medal of Honor Winning” Senator Kennedy…and not “Hey, bitch, get me more smokes, or else” Jailbird Kennedy, as he should rightly be.
But, even in a perfect world where Kennedy paid for that night on Chappaquiddick with the last 40 years in prison, the Justice Department under Eric Holder would probably let him out today too. If the Riddler, Joker, and Catwoman were real, they’d all be freed too. Why not? ”We won”, after all.
Considering who the current president’s lifelong mentors have been, and whom he’s always chosen as his friends, this comes as no surprise.
It does make us feel bad for Betty Ford. Fromme should have been denied parole at least until former First Lady Ford has passed on. President Ford served this country well in the moment it needed him most. People remember Chevy Chase and the idiot Libs at SNL mocking him, falling down all the time, but Ford brilliantly kept this country from one giant national meltdown after Nixon resigned. He’s someone who didn’t want to become President (instead dreaming of becoming Speaker of the House his whole life), but did as good a job as anyone at that moment in time.
But, sometimes he was a real jerk, too. The other time someone tried to kill him, just three weeks after Fromme, a gay sailor named Oliver Sipple yanked the gun away from Sarah Jane Moore. Unlike with Fromme (whose gun had no bullet in the chamber, and she never aimed it at Ford), Moore could have killed him, and probably would have if not for Sipple.
All Sipple got in terms of thanks was a letter from Ford in the mail. Type-written. No “Beer Summit” for Ford’s gay hero.
We want to give Ford the benefit of the doubt on that one, though…and chalk it up to being rattled he had two attempts on his life in the month of September 1975. Maybe he thought an invite to the White House would encourage more attempts so more heroes could be made.
Who knows.
It’s just sad that now BOTH of Ford’s would-be killers are free to romp and play outside the prisons they both belonged in for the rest of their lives.
Why Are You Forcing This Healthcare Bill Through In 3-4 Weeks When the Current President Took SIX MONTHS TO PICK A DOG?
Oooooh. Now this is what we, in the 80s, would have called a true BURN….SNAP!
Watch this video at the Breitbart link (which won’t let us embed directly here).
Steny Hoyer, the House Majority Leader, comes off like the Cruise Director on the Titanic telling everyone to have another drink because everything will be just fine, since the ship’s not taking on THAT much water, and the ocean’s not THAT cold, and pay no attention at all to the people screaming for their lives around you. Just drink that Kool-Aid, baby, and everything will be Obatastic.
Towards the end of the clip, a registered Democrat (like us), stands up and yells directly at House Majority Leader Hoyer:
“Why are you forcing this healthcare bill through in 3-4 weeks when it took the President SIX MONTHS TO PICK A DOG?”
Oh, no he didn’t.
Oh, yes he did!
Cue accusations of RAAAAAAAACISM! against blue-collar, small-town, bitter, clingy Americans who DARE question the intelligence of ramming legislation through at breakneck speed…and bringing up the dog FINALLY decided on by Dr. Utopia (and given to him by America’s favorite Oldsmobile-cum-submarine driving murderer to boot!).
Hope!
Change!
Revolution already in progress…
We Will Go To Hell And Back For Sarah Palin
We. Love. This. Woman.
Why?
Because this woman loves America. She wakes up every morning, works hard, and does her best to do what’s right each and every day. In the face of the nastiest, most misogynistic, most vile attacks from Left, she soldiers on, with grace, class, style, and charm. People call her a hillbilly, comment on her looks, talk about her marriage, attack her daughter, but she continues to put herself out there because she believes she can make a difference for this country.
Every once in a while someone out there concern-trolls over here and asks, “How can you support both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin?”. Read that paragraph above and appreciate how much it can be applied to either HRC or The Guv, two women who dare to keep going when a well-funded, zealous, attack machine keeps lobbing new assaults on them each and every day.
On even the worst day here in Chicago, and probably most especially on those no-good, dirty-blue, terrible days, we thank our lucky stars there’s both a Hillary Clinton and a Sarah Palin in this world — two of our future presidents, two women who make us want to be better men by having more of their personal brand of fortitude.
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No, Asperger's Syndrome Isn't Always This Adorable
On Friday, we’re totally going to treat ourselves to a movie night and see Adam, the new movie about a man with Asperger’s Syndrome.
It’s poorly named, though, because “Adam”, to us, instantly conjures up little Adam Walsh and the early 1980s movie about his abduction (also called “Adam”) that was one of the 20 or so videos that Curtis Mathes had to rent back when VCRs first came out (if you can believe it, back then VHS tapes cost $99.95 for a movie like Radiers of the Lost Ark, which one of us bought for his dad one Christmas…in today’s dollars, that would be about $225 today…for a VIDEO…crazy).
It also doesn’t seem like the same experience with Asperger’s that all of us here had when Sebastian’s ex, David, was still in our lives. Whatever kind of Asperger’s David has, it sure isn’t adorable like this. It was more of a malicious variety. Like tasting a plump, ripe, succulent, juicy strawberry…and then biting into one that was soaked in nail polish remover. That’s David!
There is one bit in the clip above that really makes us want to see the movie, though, because it does hit EXACTLY on a lot of what David did that caused a lot of awkwardness for those around him. It’s the part where the woman asks Adam if he can give her a hug and he says “Yes” and then just stands there. And then she has to tell him, “Adam, I would like for you to give me a hug” and he gives her one.
Everything with David was like that. One word answers. Very literal responses to questions. In instances where homonyms could be in play, David would (it seemed to us) deliberately select the one that made no sense, just to cause problems (or, in weird instances, he’d buy “celery salt” when someone would ask him to pick up stalks of “celery” because since “celery” was on the label he’d insist that should be what we needed…and it had salt in it too, so that was two for the price of one!).
And there Sebastian was, every Christmas, every birthday, with no present, not even a card, from his boyfriend because David insisted giving presents was meaningless since one day Sebastian would be dead and everything he owned would be donated to the Brown Elephant Thrift Shop and bought for pennies on the dollar by people who’d one day be dead themselves and it would all end up in some other thrift shop in the even more distant future. David could go on with this tangent for hours, with all sorts of hypothetical people inheriting Sebastian’s things and then dying and someone else getting them.
A true joy for all of us to deal with, let us tell you.
That bit where Adam says, “I can see that you’re upset…but I don’t know what to do” is heart-breaking, because Sebastian would have given anything to have David learn to say just that.
So, this will be an emotional movie night this Friday, to be sure. Wherever he is, and whoever he’s with now, we hope David’s doing well…and maybe he’s a little more like “Adam” now.
Asperger’s is fascinating because many people aren’t diagnosed with it until they are in their late-30s. Because these people are smart and excel in at least one area (since they tend to specialize their interests in something, like model trains or math puzzles or Lego building, creating works of startling beauty in many cases), teachers at school don’t see anything but social awkwardness.
But, in adulthood, the scope of the Asperger’s comes out, and it’s the person’s boyfriend or girlfriend who really bears the brunt of it. Everyone should get a Christmas and birthday card, David. We will never care how obsessed you are about the landfill and thrift stores — buy (or make) people who love you cards on holidays!
Wednesday Open Thread, August 5th 2009
Today we’d like to pursue the questions raised by The Chicago Diner’s use of jars labeled “Sarah Palin Retirement Fund” to collect thousands of dollars over Market Days weekend here in Chicago — with no intention to give that money to Sarah Palin, and a refusal to print a disclaimer on the jars (when specifically asked to) letting people know they were in fact not raising money for Palin but for themselves.
Here are some of the questions we’d like answered today if you can help with the research:
(1) Is there an IRS tax law The Chicago Diner broke by using jars with a “Fund” label on them to collect money they intended to keep for their for-profit business?
(2) In the City of Chicago, Illinois, what specific agency would have enforcement jurisdiction over a business that masquerades as a “Fund” to collect money at a street festival like this?
(3) What is SarahPAC’s position on a business like The Chicago Diner using jars labeled “Sarah Palin Retirement Fund” to collect money for itself, with no intention of giving that money to Palin?
(4) What are the specific city, state, or federal governing statutes pertaining to businesses misappropriating the word “Fund” to solicit donations when they are not, in fact, in any way associated with an actual “Fund” 501(c)3?
(5) Can The Chicago Diner lose its business license for masquerading as a charitable “Fund”?
The reason this all matters is because we truly believe Governor Palin is running for President in 2012.
While her ground operation has not yet been formed, her opponents attack her on a daily basis. The radical loons at The Chicago Diner (some wearing pink wigs, even) take swipes at Palin every day — in much the same way that Andree McLeod filed all those baseless, nuisance complaints against The Guv when she was in office. If The Chicago Diner suffers some consequence for their “Sarah Palin Retirement Fund” scam, believe us, the other loons in Chicago will take notice.
Chicago is where Dr. Utopia collected most of his ACORN and Alinsky recruits to game the Iowa Caucus last year. It’s also where, in 2012, ACORN will find similar recruits to game the Republican Caucus to pick whomever Dr. Utopia wants to run against as the GOP candidate. The only Republican on the field we can imagine beating Dr. Utopia is Governor Palin. Romney, Jindal, Crist, Huntsman, Barbour = all men Utopia would happily go up against.
But The Guv scares these people. For a reason.
As Governor Palin, private citizen, begins traveling the country, raising money for candidates, collecting political chits, and prepping for her next national campaign, people who support her should push back against the Libs who attack her whenever possible.
For the last two years, we’ve seen just how rancid and awful the Liberal Left can be, especially here in Chicago. As Hillary Clinton supporters, they pummeled us through the primaries, using their Alinsky text books issued by their utopian community organizer to elevate thuggery to an artform.
If you want to take back the country from these loons, you have to start somewhere. You have to get practiced at pushing back, and turning up the heat on businesses like The Chicago Diner so they think twice about pulling their stunts in the future.
We have three years until 2012 to get as practiced as possible in pushing back against this Alinsky nonsense. Every day is a chance gain a little more of that practice.
