Archive for August, 2009
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.
Sick. Sick. Sick. Democrats use child to push Deathcare during Kennedy funeral
1039am CST: the Kennedys used little Max Allen, a Kennedy grandchild, to offer a prayer that Deathcare passes (We Pray to the Lord. Lord Hear Our Prayer).
Inappropriate. Sick. At least have an adult do this, if you are going to Wellstone it up at a Catholic funeral. Let the children talk about how much they loved their grandfather, which we’re sure they did…but never, ever use children as political props.
Shameless Kennedys.
Michelle Obama falls sound asleep during Ted Kennedy's funeral
[In second clip, watch about 6 minutes 20 seconds in...it's the ABC footage...FOX had a better shot, where ZZZZZs could almost be seen buzzing around her head, but the FOX footage keeps getting taken off YouTube for some reason]
Why are the Clintons, the Bushes, and the Carters the only ones paying attention?
Michelle Obama fell sound asleep at 10:32am CST (11:32am EST) during Ted Kennedy’s funeral. A friend of ours spotted it while watching FOX live. It’s while the priest is talking, and FOX ran a shot of Dr. Utopia looking up in the air, the way he does, with Mrs. Utopia, eyes closed, doing that thing someone does when her head’s about to topple to one side and wake her up. A few moments later, it’s time to stand up for the next part of the service, so she’s woken up by the noise of everyone coming to their feet. The video above is of her starting to nod off…but there’s a better shot off FOX of her actually sitting there with her eyes closed for a while (still looking for that clip…at 1032am CST, FOX News).
The least this woman can do is stay awake during the funeral of the murderer who gave their family that dog her husband named after his own initials.
While we can never defend the odd things our current first lady chooses to wear (such as today, where she has a giant black bow on her dress, like she’s some sort of present for the funeral), we can excuse her for falling asleep in church — since she spent so many years at Trinity United, listening to Jeremiah Wright screaming and yelling and caterwauling, rolling around on the ground, talking about how evil white people and the government are, a sedate Catholic service must be positively boring to her. No accusations of RAAAACISM! being thrown around, no talk of chickens roosting, no praise for terrorists who kill Americans. Mrs. Utopia must be BORED TO TEARS.
After all, remember, THIS is what “church” is for the current first family:
After a lifetime of that, it’s no wonder she can’t keep her eyes open when nobody’s damning America and everyone’s behaving appropriately.
Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Thread
Today, as so many luminaries gather in Washington to pretend a crooked, old spider stuffed into a handsome wooden, flagged-draped box was a great Hero for the Ages, we choose to skip the spectacle and spend the day volunteering here in Chicago. While we are doing that, our thoughts will not be on fairytales spun by Jackie Kennedy that have enthralled the MSM for far too long. No, today we will be thinking about Mary Jo Kopechne.
Who was Mary Jo Kopechne, as a person?
What was her family like?
What do you think would have become of her had Ted Kennedy not murdered her back in the summer of 1969?
We know we are in the minority here, but we don’t have any more respect for Ted Kennedy than we have for Robert Chambers, Phil Specter, Scott Peterson, Joseph Gamsky, or the Menendez Brothers. All of these men thought they were too wealthy and privileged to ever be held accountable for the lives that they took.
Only one of them got away with murder, and that’s the one being eulogized by a president today.
The rest are rotting away in prison, because justice prevailed and the murders they committed to further their careers, gain access to vast fortunes, or prove their power over women didn’t go unpunished.
But, none of them were Kennedys.
Kennedys are special.
Kennedys are royal.
Kennedys are above the law.
On Earth, anyway. If Catholics are right about what comes next, all bets are off, Teddy.
But, today should be about Mary Jo, not Ted. Just like every day should be about Jennifer Levin, victim of the Preppy killer…or Lana Clarkson, the actress killed by Phil Specter…or Laci Peterson, murdered by her husband…or Ron Levin and Hedayat Eslaminia, victims of the Billionaire Boys’ Club…or Jose and Kitty Menendez, killed by their own sons for their money…every day should be about the VICTIMS, not the animals who killed them.
It reminds us of the scene from Dangerous Liaisons, where the powerful queen spider finally gets caught in her own web and the public gives her the boos she rightfully deserves, refusing to toe the old line and worship her anymore. THIS is what America needs to do to the entire Kennedy Family, for all the lives they’ve destroyed, for all the awful things they have done, for all they have taken from the public to embiggen their own “legacy”.
This is the kind of memorial service Ted Kennedy deserves, today and every day. Where the truth comes out at last…and The Verve plays…icons topple…and the spoiled, rich, manipulators answer for what they’ve done.
Be it in liaisons dangerous, or with intentions cruel…if only people got up, left the church, and turned their backs on the Kennedys, ONCE AND FOR ALL, and headed outside to celebrate the too-short life of Mary Joe today instead.
UPDATE: Mark Steyn has a good take on this too: Airbrushing Out Mary Jo Kopechne.
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Saturday Open Thread, August 29th 2009
What’s on your mind this Saturday?
Here’s an article that’s worth reading, about Kennedy Liberalism and how it died years ago, as America became a center-right nation. The highlights are that the Kennedy Family sided with Dr. Utopia against the Clintons last year because the Kennedys resent moderate Democrats like the Clintons, and want the Democratic Party to be leftists. The problem is, Americans don’t want leftist Democrats running the country, like they are now. Hence Dr. Utopia’s precipitously falling poll numbers, Democrats losing both governors races this fall (VA and NJ), and big gains expected for Republicans in 2010.
The article is interesing because it ties into another thought we’ve been having, that the worst possible thing for Democrats would be if they held onto both house of Congress in 2010. Clinton was able to break away from the liberals after Dems lost Congress in 1994 and he had an excuse to move into the moderate middle where Democrats belong (and where we are firmly entrenched). If Democrats have control of Congress next year, then Dr. Utopia has no excuse for the last two years of his presidency, in terms of everything the left wants. The article above notes, as we repeatedly say, that Dr. Utopia did not win in 2008 because America wanted socialism…he won because Republicans stayed their asses home and independents protest voted against Republicans in a year when they bought the media’s constant assault against President Bush to “throw the bums out”.
In 2012, after four years of leftist lunacy, Republican voters should wake up and get their butts to the polls. Independents will want to throw a new bunch of bums out. So if Dr. Utopia doesn’t manage to keep his liberal legions enthralled, they could very well sit out the election themselves. The problem is, the more he does for these loons, the more he alienates the middle and revs up the conservatives. AND, as the article notes, a majority of people, by far, consider themselves either conservative or moderate…with only 30-something percent calling themselves liberal.
So, hope for the defeat of Dodd, Reid, Boxer, and other terrible Dems in the 2010 races…and hope the Republicans take New Jersey and Virginia’s governor’s mansions…but let Pelosi remain speaker until 2012, and let Dick Durbin be promoted to Senate Majority Leader. THAT will do a great deal towards putting Sarah Palin into the White House in 2012.
