Archive for September 10th, 2009
Get ready for Dr. Facilier — Disney's Princess and the Frog
Dr. Facilier is NOT Dr. Utopia. Even though they look alike.
Here’s one of those things that are totally a coincidence, but amusing nonetheless.
This Christmas, Disney’s latest animated film comes out — with “the first black princess”, as Disney has been billing this…a character named Tiana, who is turned into a frog, has an adventure in the swamp, and then presumably returns to human form to live happily ever after with her Prince, Naveen (the characters were named Maddy and Harry, respectively, until Al Sharpton and the RAAACIST! brigade complained they weren’t “African” enough).
The story’s set in New Orleans, a city we love, and the cartoon itself is chock full of as many fart jokes as Disney could manage, based on the trailers — because, apparently, that’s what Disney does nowadays. Oprah Winfrey’s doing one of the voices, so maybe that’s why there’s so many fart jokes in this (because, as you know if you’ve ever been in an elevator with Oprah, where there’s Winfrey, there are farts).
The villain of the story is a charismatic huckster named Dr. Facilier, who hypnotizes his victims, promises them hope and change, and deals in the shadowy and nebulous.
If Disney had drawn him as a skinny, effeminate black man, we’d swear it was a nod to Dr. Utopia…but Facilier is a skinny, masculine black man, judging by the trailer and his trading card image…so the two have nothing at all to do with one another.
We haven’t watched a cartoon in years, but were intrigued by Princess and the Frog because of the 1920s New Orleans setting. However, we will never pay money to see anything with Oprah in it. Not when we can just wait for our very own local Charybdis to beach herself somewhere, closing down large swaths of the city like she did this last Monday, and gape at her enormity for free. If we end up seeing this in theaters, it will be one of those occasions when we buy a ticket for something else starting at the same time and then walk into Princess and the Frog instead…just to screw with Disney’s box office.
And, for the record, Oprah’s not the only one we do this with. We will never pay to see a Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, or Ashley Judd movie because we don’t like those people either, for various reasons. Though, none of them managed to close down a large portion of Chicago this week, to hold a giant farting contest, or tape her show, or be fed whole herds of cattle — or whatever Oprah was doing that taxpayers helped pay for.
OBAMA'S JUDGEMENT: MACHINE CANDIDATE HE ENDORSED IN 2006 NOW HAS 10% APPROVAL RATING
Judgment….the virtue by which we were supposed to judge Barack Obama during the election (along with, of course, being cool)….
Today, the Chicago tribune reports that the Obama endorsed, Cook County (Chicago’s county) President, Todd Stroger, now has a 10% approval rating……
How’s that for judgment?
In all honesty, 10% actually seems a little high…..after all, this is a guy who demanded his own private elevator in City Hall shortly after inheriting the job from his father…..a man who oversees a county with the highest tax rate in the country, yet still has crippling budget issues…….a leader who oversees a failing county health system and a school system that saw a child murdered on the average of once per week last year.
You know what’s funny and sad at the same time….this isn’t a new story…this same story existed last year…the media just chose not to run with it….and the people of Chicago chose to remain silent….
This is exactly why I decided to start my old blog, Chicagoans Against Obama, last year during the primary….
Here’s what I wrote last year after creating the blog:
This site was started for one reason……
TO EXPOSE BARACK OBAMA FOR WHAT HE IS…..A TYPICAL CHICAGO MACHINE POLITICIAN.
To those unfamiliar with Chicago-area politics, you may not know much about the 77-year old Chicago political machine…about what it does, and how it operates.
But when I see Barack obama give his,generic, and nuanced speeches in front of his wide-eyed YES WE CAN! contingent……and talk about bringing change to Washington……and how he is the only one who can do this……I feel nauseous….how do people not realize that he has had numerous opportunities to change Chicago, and has never done anything…..
For the last 20 years Obama has had a chance to shake the Chicago Political Machine, which has controlled Chicago’s neighborhoods for 77 years……he has had a chance to stand up to the crooked Alderman….he has had a chance to stand up against Todd Stroeger and the corrupt Cook County government…..but….he hasn’t….in fact, he’s appeased, and appeases, the existing machine….he continues to allow alderman to accept bribes….he’s allowed our cities’ health care system to collapse……he’s allowed our vital public transportation system to deteriorate to a point of no return…….he’s watched a mayor destroy a city airport in the middle of the night, without permission…..he’s watched, and continues to watch Chicago’s county President abuse his power, and misuse our tax dollars…….which is hard to do, considering Chicagoans pay the highest sales tax in the country.
And, to the Obama supporters that are supporting him because he did not vote for the war in Iraq.
WELL THAT’s JUST A FAIRY TALE……..
While it is true that he didn’t vote for the war………. Neither did I………..see Barack, like myself, and anyone who is probably reading this, was not in the US Senate when the vote was taken…….Obama wasn’t a Senator…..he was a schmo…a part-time politician, otherwise known as an Illinois state senator……he didn’t have a vote, he didn’t have the national intelligence data to make an informed decision….he had no say….ie. the vote is a fairy tale….
Not to Mention…………after seeing Obama’s preacher speak…one can get a grasp on the turf Obama was representing back in 2002, in the State Senate, when he spoke against the war…….Barack’s standing up against the war was about as courageous as my eating a bagel for breakfast this morning……I mean, when your preacher is equating the USA w/ Al Qaeda, in front of a cheering audience, 5 days after 9/11…….to stand up against the war, in fact any war…….is sort of a no-brainer.
Sadly, a year later, nothing has changed…..
The unions rule the day…..
The anti-war candidate continues to back two wars….
The gay rights activist who never marched in a single Chicago Gay Pride parade…..continues to support don’t ask don’t tell….and shows no support of gay marriage….
Political patronage, in which he was a willing participant in Chicago, continues in Washington under the leadership of machine maven Valerie Jarrett
And of course…..just as it was a year ago….the media remains silent…..
We don’t….
therefore, just like we were a year ago….
we remain….
racists….
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snitchellreport@gmail.com
What's Glenn Beck going to say about ACORN today?
Glenn Beck’s going after ACORN today on his show…which is something every American needs to do.
ACORN is a domestic terrorist organization.
We saw ACORN hard at work, in person, in the leadup to the Iowa caucus…organized to game the caucus for Dr. Utopia back in early 2008. We saw them in Indiana for the primary and general election, where we witnessed them intimidating voters they believed would not support Dr. Utopia.
And make no mistake, Dr. Utopia got his start with ACORN…Dr. Utopia believes in and supports ACORN…Dr. Utopia gave money to ACORN…and Dr. Utopia is counting on ACORN for his second term.
ACORN must be stopped…but the problem is, when attacked, ACORN just regroups and re-emerges in some other form, like Dracula in old movies.
Here’s hoping Beck’s our new Van Helsing…and that he does to ACORN what he did to Van Jones…bringing ACORN down with its own words, its own actions, and its own videotapes. All Beck did with Jones was get Americans to see just how bad Jones is…now let’s hope he can do the same thing with ACORN.
Can you BELIEVE what Joe Biden wore last night?
What on Earth was Biden thinking?
We just can’t get over what Joe Biden had on last night — really, come on, a pale blue tie? What was he thinking? It’s hard to take him seriously, when he’s bouncing up and down clapping and carrying on like a whack-a-mole behind Dr. Utopia, when he’s wearing a color like that. Really.
And that suit…makes his hips look big…not flattering AT ALL.
Also, Joe Biden has cankles. You heard it here first. Cankles up the wazooooo. There he is, wearing another suit, just to hide his cankles. Why doesn’t Biden ever wear kilts? Too much ice cream, that’s why. His kilt-wearing days ended when he passed a certain age…it will be full on suits from now on…and always in such odd colors.
What color was that again, and who do you think made that monstrosity? Was it navy or was it midnight blue? Was it Brooks Brothers or Armani? Did he and his son Beau make it themselves in their basement while watching Project Runway and eating someone else’s ice cream?
Really.
Puh-lease.
We just can’t stop talking about Joe Biden and his clothes!
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In some alternate universe, where men are judged on their clothes, and where no article can be written on them without 80% of it being devoted to their fashion sense, color choice, and commentary regarding their body, how their body fits into clothes, and what parts of their body they are trying to hide, this is a taste of what Joe Biden is getting today.
Think about it.
Every article you ever read about Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin is like this…”Why’d she wear that red suit again? What’s with the pantsuits? Why doesn’t she ever wear a skirt?”. And then Palin gets hit with, “What’s up with those boots? Why’s she always wearing a skirt? Why’d she wear someone’s logo on that parka?”.
And then maybe they write something substantive about something they allegedly said or did.
With men, like Joe Biden, the clothes are never mentioned. We never find out if his tie was robin’s egg blue, or just periwinkle. We never know if he’s wearing Hugo Boss or Bill Blass. We aren’t updated on what his weight is today.
How do any of us survive?
Thursday Open Thread, September 10th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
