Archive for September 8th, 2009
Sarah Palin Does It Again — this time not on Facebook, but in the Wall Street Journal
Sarah Palin: stopping Deathcare with just Facebook and editorials
Great Merciful Zeus, Palin’s smart. Once again, she underscores the fact that Dr. Utopia wants to give the federal government, controlled by liberal Democrats, control over life or death decisions.
Not doctors.
Not family members.
BUT DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON.
We hope every senior citizen reads Palin’s editorial and heeds her warning.
The Death Panels are real. They are very much part of Dr. Utopia’s Deathcare plan. They are the cause of much heartbreak and disaster in Great Britain, France, and Canada.
Death Panels have no business in this country. The federal government has no place in making end of life decisions for Americans.
Sarah Palin is, yet again, right on the money.
And perfectly timed to set the discussion before Dr. Utopia’s speech tomorrow…yet another ‘historic oration of historic importance” that will say little, clear up nothing, and ramble on for an hour as Dr. Utopia enjoys not only hearing his own voice, but making Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi pop up repeatedly like whack-a-moles behind him.
Ice cream-stealing, Botox-addicted, out-of-touch, crazy whack-a-moles.
UPDATE:
Here’s Senator DeMint on Greta talking about Palin’s editorial:
The Audacity of Nope – a Gayco production
This really surprised us today.
Gayco is a local theater company here in Boystown, based in The Center on Halsted. It’s our favorite gay-oriented theater group in town, but 90% of its staff are Kool-Aid drinkers, so we’ve avoided their productions the last year because we didn’t want to pay to see Dr. Utopia propaganda pieces. Back in 2007, they did a show called iHole that was funny…which included a dig at Dr. Utopia for refusing to support LGBTQ rights in anything but lip service (and reminding the audience this was an Illinois politician who had never marched in a pride parade, and never did a damn thing for gays, despite all his eloquent speechifying).
But, after Dr. Utopia became the Democrats’ nominee, Gayco worshipped him as “The Lightbringer”, along with almost everyone else here in Boystown. So, we found other groups to support and let Gayco fall off our radar. In the interest of full disclosure, we also ended a friendship with one of the actors, because this guy couldn’t get over the fact that we were (and remain) Democrats for McCain. To this day, this guy will still come up to us when we run into each other on Halsted…we try to be nice to him, and don’t even bring up Dr. Utopia or politics, but he just lashes out at us: “I can’t believe you supported McCain! I can’t believe you wore McCain shirts and recruited volunteers for him! I can’t believe you went to McCain events! I can’t believe you liked Sarah Palin!”.
Uh, there’s no past tense to that last part, mister. And once this actor gets in our face, we tell him that we might not start something with him, but we damn well will FINISH IT if he starts it with us. So, without fail, encounters with him end with us: (1) telling him how much we are looking forward to working for the Palin 2012 campaign and raising money for SarahPAC and (2) asking him what, exactly, Dr. Utopia has done for the LGBTQ community, what promises he has kept, and how all that Hope! and Change! is working out for everyone.
And the guy just stares at us, mumbles something about “I’m not going to get into all that with you”, and then saying something hateful about Republicans in general. He never, ever is able to defend what Dr. Utopia has done in the White House. A few months ago, he used to say, “Well, he’s only been in office six months”…but sometime around July, he stopped doing that. ”He’s only been in office nine months!” is pretty weak, when babies are conceived and born in that time. If a whole new life, an actual person, could be created…then Dr. Utopia could have kept a damn promise or two and done something worthwhile.
So…imagine our surprise to see the advertisement above for Gayco’s new production: The Audacity of Nope…which appears to skewer Dr. Utopia for his lies to the LGBTQ community.
Not that this, or anything, will ever convince gays to abandon the Democratic party. Democrats are identity-voters. If you are gay, you are a Democrat. That is the way people in Boystown think.
We were STUNNED when Cleve Jones was in town a few weeks ago and actually called Boystown out on this — for those of you who don’t know, Cleve Jones was one of Harvey Milk’s inner circle (played by Emile Hirsch in the movie Milk), who later became a prominent LGBTQ activist, and who originated the AIDS memorial quilt. Jones spoke at several venues in Chicago, including the Victory Gardens Theater and at Sidetracks, and he repeatedly told anyone who would listen that gays are foolish to automatically vote Democrat…since Democrats have been screwing the LGBTQ community over for decades. “What has the Democractic Party ever done for you? What have they done for us? All they do is lie,” pretty much sums up Cleve Jones’ take.
Cleve Jones is no fan of Dr. Utopia.
It’s nice to see the Kool-Aid wearing off over at Gayco, too.
They really are tremendously talented, and very cool people. We like them alot and miss the friendship of the actor former friend of ours. But, we just can’t be around Dr. Utopia’s followers and have discussions about him without calling him out on his lies, deceptions, and downright fraud. And, for some reason, even though these people know how we feel, they insist on talking about Dr. Utopia with us…which always ends with them failing to find any substantive defense of his behavior…so they degenerate into hateful diatribes about how bad Republicans are and how bad we are, as gay men, for backing McCain and supporting Sarah Palin…when we should be “good little Democrats” who always toe the party line without question.
Not anymore.
Not ever again.
And the DNC has Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, May 31st 2008, and Dr. Utopia to thank for that.
Count us in for Opening Night of “The Audacity of Nope”…we’re intensely curious how harsh Gayco will be to “The Lightbringer”, any criticism much deserved.
Could James Traficant really return to Congress?
Former Congressman and convicted felon James Traficant is out of prison after 7 years’ incarceration — and he seemingly, potentially, could be gearing up to take his old seat back in the House, representing the Youngstown, Ohio area.
When he was on trial in Cleveland back in 2001, we had the chance to sit in on a few days of courtroom proceedings. Traficant always dressed up in crazy suits, with his wig all askew, and made wild accusations during the trial. We remember the judge just rolling her eyes at him most of the time. At one point, the prosecutors started saying things like, “Your Honor, he’s doing it again”, to which she’d reply, “Just let him finish, we’re almost done”. All the while, Traficant invented all sorts of conspiracies against him, blaming everyone in the world for his problems…except himself for using government resources to remodel his home, and then lying about it.
Could Traficant really make it back to Congress? Stranger things have happened in Ohio…and he is not barred from holding federal office.
Happy Indoctrination Day! Tuesday Open Thread
Happy Indoctrination Day!
How will you be celebrating Indoctrination Day today?
Today’s the day Dr. Utopia reaches into classrooms to touch the hearts and minds of young children everywhere. If you watch is speech, tell us what you thought of it here. What do you think of politicians speaking to children like this, in general?
Personally, we think it’s grossly inappropriate…if ANY adult wants to address children as a captive audience, and speak directly to them, parents need to be present to make sure the children understand what is going on and answer any questions that come up. The setting is too rife with potential for indoctrination, no matter how subtle. Small children, in particular, respond effectively to authority…and nothing could possibly more authoritarian than a political figure coming on a giant TV screen and telling a child what to do. Even if nothing insidious is said in that particular message, it primes the child to sit quietly and obey in the future, having established the precedent that this sort of thing is acceptable, and that this politician in particular is allowed to speak to them, tell them what to do, when their parents are nowhere in sight. We’ve seen enough public school teachers in action to know that a good many of them would not pull the plug on any future transmissions where a political speech indeed did cross the line into true, unalloyed indoctrination.
It’s a slippery slope…and today Dr. Utopia does damage we won’t be able to fully appreciate for a while.
This is why, just a few years ago, that Democrats launched investigations and demanded oversight and checks and balances when President George H. W. Bush gave a speech to students. Democrats audited the money spent on the speech and questioned the appropriateness of using classroom time to drop everything and listen to a politician speak directly to children without their parents present…so, in 1991, Democrats were against this enough to use Congressional committees to see that it didn’t happen again for a while…but in 2009, Democrats feel Dr. Utopia should be able to do as he pleases.
This is the root of the problem we have with the current incarnation of the Democratic Party. Just like with the caucus and primary fraud Dr. Utopia committed…just like all his overseas campaign contributions…just like all of his race-baiting, his misogyny, and every other rotten thing he does…Democrats have completely changed who they are for this one man. Dr. Utopia can do no wrong in Democrats’ eyes, even if that means Demcorats reverse long-held positions just to cover for him.
It’s a slippery slope.
Will Democrats ever rein Dr. Utopia’s ego in? If so, will that happen before moderate Democrats abandon the party altogether and complete that transition to unaffiliated, independent status that’s been under way since May 31st, 2008?
