Archive for August 19th, 2009
Chris Kennedy will not run for Senate…Princess Caroline did much more damage to the family brand than we at first thought.
This is fascinating…Chris Kennedy has announced he will not run for the Democrats’ Senate nomination in Illinois.
There are a lot of reasons for this…not the least of which is the simple fact that all of Kennedy’s shady business dealings in Ohio would come up in a Senate run. But, Alexi Giannoulias, one of Dr. Utopia’s basketball buddies, is running and will most likely be the Democrats’ nominee…and his family owns Chicago’s mob bank, Broadway Bank. The Giannoulias Family is also connected to convicted felon Tony Rezko, and just about every shady deal in Chicago for the last few decades. So, Kennedy could have gone round for round with Giannoulias in terms of sleaze, corruption, and scandal.
Why did Kennedy REALLY back out? No one knows, but on the ground here in Chicago people say it’s because of the disastrous attempt Kennedy’s cousin, HRH Princess Caroline, made in December to appoint herself a United States Senator.
The Kennedys realize they are very much on thin ice…having greatly overplayed their hand…after Princess Caroline made herself into a complete and utter laughingstock.
The “Camelot Mystique” was forever destroyed by the spoiled, inarticulate, lazy, um, you know, daughter of former President Kennedy.
And the Kennedys know it.
People have also, surprisingly, started questioning why the Kennedys have abused their wealth and connections to block coastal wind farms in Massachusetts because they’d obstruct some of the views the self-styled royals have in Hyannis Port. They’ve been blocking this project for years, but it was only after Princess Caroline made an ass of herself that people really started to wonder why the Kennedys have been getting away with it.
So many days of Princess on the news, looking so foolish, inviting people to look behind the mystique and myth and see these people for who they really are. With Ted Kennedy ill, there’s a very good chance 2010 could, at last, bring us a United States Senate without one of these aristocratic leeches in it.
No more Kennedys in the Senate, at last…though when Ted Kennedy finally leaves this plane to answer for the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, we imagine Deval Patrick would appoint either his wife or one of his children to his Senate seat. Hopefully a Republican governor will be in office when Kennedy’s seat goes vacant, so someone other than a Kennedy family member could actually serve the best interests of the people of Massachusetts…and not just be the Senator in charge of keeping the views at Hyannis Port glorious for this one family.
We thought Princess Caroline’s embarrassing antics just nipped her own political career in the bud…but it sure feels like she went a step further and really bit her own family in its bulbous collective butt. They just didn’t seem to have the ability to rally together behind Chris Kennedy and win this seat for him in Illinois…when, a year ago, that’s exactly what they probably would have done.
Very interesting.
Now, it’s just up to Republicans to wait until Giannoulias wins the primary against Cheryle Jackson, and then pound him to the ground for his mob connections while defending Kirk from all the dirty secrets that are going to flood out of his divorce…and Republicans win Dr. Utopia’s old Senate seat.
If you aren't reading The Showtune Mosh Pit, you don't know what you are missing
Our good friend Paul started writing a column called “The Showtune Mosh Pit” for Broadway World, all about the gossip he gleams from his various conversations around town about what’s going on in New York on Broadway, including things he overhears at Sidetracks on showtunes sing-a-long nights. We don’t know how Paul does it, but the guy gets all the latest gossip on Broadway, typically causing a good portion of Boystown to twitter and tweet with excitement about whatever latest tidbit Paul’s got.
It is all just simply BEYOND gay.
Welcome to fabulous, people.
Though if you don’t enjoy yelling highly inappropriate and often vulgar things up at video screens in place of the actual lyrics to musicals, you might not think any of this is at all amusing.
But, we are really proud of Paul. We’d been telling him for YEARS he needed to start a column on all the Broadway gossip he gets, since the guy knows just about everyone in the Chicago arts community and has all sorts of adventures in New York with the theater crowd.
Plus, for those of you who enjoy our stories of life in Boystown, here’s another take on it, by way of Paul, focusing more on the showtunes side of the street where we go for the political jugular generally.
Go, Paul, Go!
PS – The video above has nothing to do with Paul, Broadway, or mosh pits. But, it’s a clip from a benefit they did at Sidetracks recently for something, with lots of singing and a rendition of our new favorite thing in the world, “Don’t Stop Believing” from FOX’s upcoming show GLEE. Just a taste of some of the fun to be had in Boystown…and why we love this place so much.
What was really on that Russian ship and who really "hijacked" it?
This is absolutely fascinating…and we doubt we’ll ever know the real answer to any of these questions…but what was REALLY on that Russian “timber ship” and who really “hijacked” it and took it to Africa?
This article speculates some sort of nuclear device could have been snuck out of Russia for sale to Syrians (or maybe Iranians). The “hijacking” could have either been a ruse to turn off the ship’s tracking devices and go somewhere it shouldn’t have gone…or possibly “good guys” of some kind, most likely Mossad, took over the vessel and diverted it so that its nuclear cargo could never make it to Syria or Iran. If that’s the case, then we love Israel more today than ever. Way to go Mossad…doing what America won’t do under Dr. Utopia.
This is the kind of thing that can keep you up late at night too freaked out to fall asleep, thinking about what REALLY went down with that ship.
Sure is fishy though.
Sarah Palin asks who's keeping America from energy independence and why
This is interesting — Sarah Palin’s asking the same question we started this week with. Who, exactly, is keeping America from energy independence and why?
One of the things we’re trying to do around here is become disciplined about focusing on a question like this and finding the answer. The thing is, we’re not detectives or trained journalists. We are a group of guys in Boystown who do the best we can to juggle this effort with all the other drama in our lives. We don’t have the experience systematically going after something like the answer to this energy independence question.
So, we are trying our best to get there. We’d like your help with that evolution, because if we can master this between now and 2012, maybe we could have a real impact on the next presidential election and help bring Dr. Utopia down.
Sarah Palin, private citizen, is being remarkably effective in getting her message out. We hope she continues to force energy independence to the front as a signature issue for 2012. The questions she raises need to be answered. If states are BEGGING to develop their energy reserves, then who in Washington is preventing this from happening?
Once those people are identified, the next question is what needs to be done to get the public to drive these people from power so energy independence can be a reality.
We need a whole new generation of detectives to develop the skills to get to the bottom of this stuff. Each of us, every day, getting that much better about being disciplined, focused, on point, and relentless about using the Internet, government agencies, and other research tools to do the job that reporters in the MSM refuse to do.
Knowledge is power…and an empowered public possessing knowledge is a nightmare to vested, entrenched anti-American interests in Washington.
Sarah Palin seems to be rallying people to step up and start learning and investigating on their own…and we certainly want to answer that call.
As always, Go, Sarah, Go!
UPDATED: Three men beaten near Boystown: one an off-duty fireman
There was another attack last night near Boystown: this time it was an off-duty fireman, beaten and robbed in Lincoln Park.
What’s really interesting to us is how the media is choosing to report on these attacks. There’s a much, much bigger story here they are refusing to report on…which seems to follow the Liberal Democrats’ agenda here, especially at a time when Mayor Daley is so desperately pushing to win the 2016 Olympics.
We believe the MSM is doing everything it can to not fully report on racism/homophobia in the black community directed against the LGBTQ community. In essence, it really feels like blacks have declared open hunting season on gays in Chicago. And the liberal media refuses to talk about this racism and deliberate targeting of Boystown by residents of the South Side and Humboldt Park.
The media’s getting less and less informative about these attacks.
(1) They try not to report the race of the attackers, so that they don’t have to admit it’s blacks from the Southside heading North to crack skulls and steal wallets.
(2) They keep saying the police do not think the cases are related. This is deceptive, because they are parsing what the police are most likely actually saying. We know a lot of cops. To cops, two cases are not “related” unless the same perp committed both. What’s happening here is that gangs of black thugs are coming to Boystown to rob gays. Today criminal A and criminal B could jump someone. Tomorrow criminal C and criminal D could make a hit. Friday, it could be criminals E, F, and G doing the robbing. When these people come to Boystown, loitering at the Center on Halsted first, it seems, they travel in packs of 15-20 people at times. Unless criminal A has been caught in two of the attacks, the police will say “it’s unrelated”. However, it is actually very MUCH related because while the individual criminals might be different every time, they are all related because these criminals are all black Southsiders heading north to commit crimes in Boystown.
(3) The media also plays games with geography to make these attacks seem like they really aren’t happening all in the same vacinity. And this is SO EASY to do in Chicago, where every neighborhood has 12 different names. ”Lincoln Park” is a huge area. It’s like referring to Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and other states as “the Midwest”. It’s a big, loose term. In this example, if attacks happened in Akron, Cleveland, and Toledo, you could either say the attacks all happened in Ohio (Boystown) or they happened “in the Midwest”, which would make you think they were more spread out than they really were. Also, the media sometimes calls an area “Lakeview”, “Lincoln Park East”, “East Lakeview”, “Edgewater”, “northern Gold Coast”, “Wrigleyville”, etc. These are all essentially, give or take a street or two, the same place. It’s like saying “Cleveland” versus “Brookpark”, “Parma”, “Shaker Heights”, “East Cleveland”, “Euclid”, etc. in our Ohio/Midwest example. People who have no idea how close these areas are to one another might think these events are happening at random all over a great distance. In reality, the crimes are laser focused to hit the white, largely gay, upscale hunting grounds the Southsiders are targeting.
(4) This morning we ran into a friend who is a paramedic and said a few days ago he treated a gay man who was pushed down the stairs at the Armitage Brown Line station where three blacks from the Southside robbed him of his wallet and iPod. The only way the cops caught the guys was because the iPod was a gift and was inscribed “Happy Birthday” on the back. After his attack, the cops spotted 3-4 big black guys walking in “Lincoln Park” with a big bag. They searched the bag and found 22 iPods and a host of cell phones, all stolen. The “Happy Birthday” iPod was in the bag. None of the robbers ever have any ID on them, according to the paramedic. Sometimes these Southsiders go to the hospital for treatment when they are injured assaulting someone (like sharks who have their snouts ripped apart by the seals they’re hunting)…they deliberately don’t carry ID so they don’t have to pay the emergency room bill, but also so that the police can’t “relate” them to any other crimes. ”How did you get that gash on your face?”. They fell, they say. ”We have reports that there was an attempted robbery and the victim slashed his would-be attacker. You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?”. Nope. Of course not.
A few years ago, a serial killer was working Boystown and the local media did the same thing that they’re doing now….they kept insisting the murders were unrelated. There were 4-5 guys who were killed in their apartments with every instance sounding like the same person did it: the guys were all in their late 30s-mid 40s…they were all picked up from bars in Boystown (where, incidentally, Jeffrey Dahmer used to drive down from Milwaukee to hunt)…they all lived alone with no roommates…they all brought someone home to their empty apartment with them…they were all murdered naked in their kitchens.
But the police insisted these murders were “unrelated”. Maybe in one instance the guy still had his underwear on…so that’s unrelated because the other victims were naked. Maybe another guy was killed in his dining room and not the kitchen…UNRELATED! Everything can be unrelated if you want it to be. Like sorting clothes into color piles, something can be red or it can be burgandy or scarlet or crimson. You can have as many piles as you want, or you can have a red pile that sees the bigger picture.
When it comes to black-on-gay crime, the media wants to have as many piles as possible because the Liberals who run the media do not want to admit there’s a serious and dangerous problem with black-against-white racism and homophobia in Chicago.
With another attack near Boystown every night, things feel like they are going to get a lot worse before they get better…and the puzzle pieces won’t come together to find a solution to this because the media is so Hell-bent to insist everything is as “unrelated” as possible.
While, in the meantime, gangs of young black thugs keep heading north to Boystown to hunt and prey upong gay men, stealing their iPods, taking their wallets, and declaring open season on the LGBTQ community.
And, because the LGBTQ community is Liberal central, it’s like sheep happily, and suicidally, agreeing with wolf propaganda that there’s no danger out there from wolves…that wolves are oppressed and misunderstood…that wolves aren’t coming north to prey upon the sheep.
Baaaaaaaa!
We’d love to tell you the LGBTQ community will wake up, but the serial killer working Boystown was never caught. Either he moved away, stopped for some other reason, or he’s still working and the media just got really, really good at covering up for him. But, he’s still out there.
And so are all the wolves on the Southside, stalking their prey.
UPDATE: Two more guys were beaten and robbed near Boystown. Read the report in the Tribune. Once again, they are pulling that crap where they say the police claim the beatings are “unrelated”, though in both of the two cases this report is on the victims describe the 5-6 attackers wearing the same clothes in both attacks. Also note the Tribune DOES NOT report the race of the attackers. They report the color tee shirt and pants the attackers are wearing, but not their race. That’s interesting. We wonder if they’d report the race if 5-6 white guys attacked two black men at different times on the Southside. What do you think?
More are keeping chickens and other animals in the city — contrary to the MSM's insistence we're not in a Depression
Here’s another story about people raising chickens in cities.
We have told you before about our dear friend Abbey back in Cleveland who is urban homesteading — she bought a bunch of abandoned houses and is tearing them down to build a farm in the heart of the very worst part of the city (affectionately known as “Thunderdome” by those of who survived growing up nearby). Abbey’s already got chickens and rabbits in pens there…and recently acquired a small goat. She wants to add pigs, cows, sheep, and ostriches in the future…raising and butchering her own proteins, alongside a massive vegetable operation as well. Abbey is as hardworking and industrious as the come…and admittedly a little nuts. Love her to death…but the skinning of the bunnies thing is just creepy. No matter how tasty Abbey keeps insisting they are.
Now, we don’t think operations like Abbey’s are going to start popping up everywhere, but as things continue to worsen in this Depression the MSM refuses to admit we’re in (just listen to them read the White House’s talking points every day that “Things are getting better!”, “The recession has ended in Hong Kong!”, “Jobs will be created soon, just you keeping hoping for that change!”, etc.), we think you’ll see more and more people find creative ways to feed their families.
Back in the 90s, Martha Stewart inspired well-off people to do things like build chicken coops in their well-appointed gardens, Marie Antoinette-style, to “play farm” in odd places. But, what’s going on now is different.
This isn’t “play farm”, but people desperately trying to find ways to weather the economic storm. Growing your own food because you think that’s the only way your family is going to eat is as far removed from Martha Stewart Living as you can get.
What sort of creative things are you doing, or see your neighbors and friends doing, to stay afloat these days?
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today? August 19th, 2009
For some reason, the State Department doesn’t have Secretary of State Clinton’s schedule up today (she might be spending the day with President Clinton, as it’s his birthday and so she and Chelsea may just be celebrating with him…or, as crazy people believe, she might be spending the day plotting and scheming against her enemies…in which case, as always, we heartily say, “You go, Hill!”), but here’s what she did yesterday:
7:45am – weekly breakfast with Vice President Joe Biden…where Hillary Clinton most likely had something sensible like whole wheat waffles and fresh fruit, while Biden ate ice cream out of a carton or cream cheese frosting straight out of a can (with his fingers, no doubt). It’s hilarious that a Cabinet member has to breakfast with Biden every day to watch him (like the armed guards that, by city law here in Chicago, have to accompany Oprah anytime she gets too close to one of our bakeries…lest we have a repeat of The Great Cupcake Induced Tragedy of ’97).
100am-300pm – swearing in ceremonies for people we have never heard of in the State Department (but whom we assume are very nice)
415pm – meeting with the Foreign Minister of Columbia
Remainder of the day: being AWESOME
