Archive for October 1st, 2009
BREAKING: Chicago Olympics celebrations beginning; City Workers told "it's in the bag"
More as it comes in…but friends of ours who work in event planning for the City of Chicago are abuzz tonight, being told the Olympics are “in the bag”, and that big celebrations need to happen around town tomorrow when “the official announcement” comes down from the IOC.
This jives with what other sites are saying, that Dr. Utopia was told to come to Copenhagen because it was a “done deal” and that the trip would be a “crowning victory” with no risk of defeat.
We sincerely hope all this is not the case, and it’s just the people who work for Mayor Daley being idiots some more and jumping the gun.
If you don’t know Chicago, you don’t realize how many billions are going to be wasted on these Games…it will be like throwing treasure down a well…a well where goblins like Valerie Jarrett dwell at the bottom, ready to get incredibly rich off the biggest scam and graft operation ever conceived.
The Chicagoans in Copenhagen are farting through silk tonight, it seems, supremely confident “they’ve pulled it off…it’s OURS”.
We have a gorgeous City, but we just aren’t able to handle this kind of event because of the greed and corruption of our elected officials.
Chicagoans have already started uncorking the champagne tonight…but we hope wiser heads at the IOC prevail.
SAVE OUR CITY — VOTE FOR RIO!
Disgusting pig David Letterman involved in more sick sex scandals
David Letterman is an absolute pig of a man — a pervert and deviant who thought it was funny to joke about a 34 year-old professional baseball player raping a 14 year old girl early this summer, all because Letterman doesn’t like her mother, the former Governor of Alaska.
What’s even more disturbing is the fact that Letterman tried his level best to weasel out of any accountability for the “joke”, claiming he was talking about another of Palin’s daughters being raped…a daughter who was thousands of miles away and nowhere near the baseball player Letterman was “joking about”.
Sick.
Now, news is breaking that Letterman’s been carrying on sexual relationships with his subordinates and staff members, which could potentially date back many years. All the while he had a wife and young son at home, while he carried on this way at the little fiefdom of depravity he runs at CBS.
Absolutely disgusting.
What sort of network is CBS, anyway?
Why is this pig still on the air?
What sick details about this pig’s life are going to come out now?
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UPDATE:
Via Michelle Malkin, here’s the disgusting pig mocking Mark Sanford’s infidelity…which Sanford committed with a woman who did not work for him. Letterman, on the other hand, seemingly requires at least some female staffers to include his penis in their job assignments and work tasks — which is sexual harrassment. Sanford is a vile pig too, but not a sexual harrasser, and certainly not porcine enough to make “jokes” about the statutory rape of minors by professional athletes.
Glenn Beck, Thursday October 1, 2009
Anyone near a TV?
We’ve gotten four emails today telling us we need to watch Glenn Beck today, but mysteriously none of them told us why.
Anyone have a clue?
What’s cooking on Beck this Thursday?
Chicago losing big in online GamesBids Olympics poll
This poll is interesting for a lot of reasons — conducted by GamesBids.com, it’s completely unscientific, but Chicago’s a distant THIRD in the poll, with Rio winning the Olympics bid and Tokyo coming in second.
(1) About 47% of Chicagoans support having the Olympics here. The reason almost all of us want Rio to have the Games is because we know how corrupt our City is and do not trust our Mayor or City and State (and federal, for that matter) to handle all of the billions in Olympics-related spending appropriately. That money’s going to criminals, political cronies, and every possible villain all of us can imagine — and we know it. 45% of Chicagoans give a big Hell-to-the-NO! to the Games…while 8% just don’t care anymore. By comparison, when Atlanta won the Games in 1996, 80% of the people there wanted the Olympics. Something like 95% of the people in Rio want the Games. More people in Tokyo and Madrid want the Games than Chicagoans do. The fact that so few votes are going to Chicago should tell you something in this GamesBids poll. Yes, it’s unscientific, but if people in Rio and Tokyo can figure out how to vote in a poll on one of the few sites out there that really follow the bid process, then why aren’t Chicagoans blowing Rio and Tokyo out of the water, if Americans are so computer savvy (and if the Chicago bid has bought so much ad space on that site, nearly taking the thing over).
(2) Why didn’t the Chicago Olympics supporters organize a big push to win that online poll? Dr. Utopia’s followers are supposedly so good with computers and rigging polls (and caucuses and primaries)…so why isn’t Chicago winning this? We find that strange…and perhaps indicative of either incompetence or hubris on the part of Team Chicago. Yes, it’s just an online poll, but a day before voting means ANYTHING that says Chicago should win the Games would seem worth pursuing. Unless, of course, the Chicago people really ARE trying to get votes in this poll and still only 8,000 people or so deign to vote for Chicago.
(3) It sure feels like the readership at GamesBids is much more international than most American sites. All we hear in this country from the MSM propaganda machine is how excited everyone is for a Chicago Olympics. But, we know that’s a damn lie because walking around this city all we hear people say is how much they don’t want the Olympics. We do not know of a single longtime Chicago resident who wants these Games. Not ONE. And others we know plan on leaving the City in 2016 to avoid all the hassles if Chicago gets the Games. If people internationally were so Gung-ho on Chicago being the host, don’t you think we’d be closer to Rio in this poll? The fact Tokyo’s #2 is startling to us. We had no idea Tokyo had so much hidden support out there…as we’ve heard not a word about Tokyo this whole time. Perhaps it’s the dark horse in all this.
We’re fascinated by what happens with the IOC vote tomorrow. Not only will it be interesting to see how the IOC explains their decision if Rio loses the Games, but we’d love to hear them also explain how Chicago wins without even 50% support for this in the City itself. Has the Olympics ever gone to a City whose people didn’t, as a majority, actually want it?
Just imagine how much grief, resentment, heartache, corruption, scandal, and bad headlines 7 years will bring if the Games indeed come to Chicago.
Support Martha Coakley for US Senate
Help Coakley become Massachusetts' first female Senator.
One of our favorite people in the world is Ricki Lieberman, a New York City dynamo who worked her heart out for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign and tirelessly raised funds to pay off Clinton’s debt (in record time) by the close of last year. Liberman sends out email blasts whenever something’s important to her, and today we got one asking us to support Martha Coakley for Senate in Massachusetts.
We’ve always liked Martha Coakley, and are happy Lieberman’s with us on this.
For those of you who don’t know, Martha Coakley is a strong Hillary Clinton supporter. Coakley was a Clinton delegate to the Convention in Denver and refused to surrender her vote to Dr. Utopia, even when Deval Patrick and the Kennedy spiders pressured her to do so. Coakley stood by Clinton, and Clinton Democrats need to stand by Coakley now.
To everyone out there, those of you who remained loyal to Hillary Clinton have our friendship, love, and loyalty in return forever. Those who sided with Dr. Utopia, like Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Tom Daschle, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Claire McCaskill — well, you deserve what you get.
Martha Coakley deserves to have that Senate seat.
Please help make Martha Coakley the first female Senator from Massachusetts.
Team Hillary rides again!
PS - Isn’t it interesting that Hillary Clinton’s 2008 supporters all still email each other, stay in touch, keep a list of who was good to the Clintons and who was a backstabber, and organize whenever one of the “good people” needs help. Hmmmm. Wonder why Hillary’s Army never disbanded and continues to hone and improve their political and organizational skills. Couldn’t be because we, and people like Ricki, hope some day our champ will call us out of winter quarters to campaign for her again. Could it?
Why doesn't Congressman Aaron Schock just come out of the closet already?
Photo ops like this didn't work for Rock Hudson or Tom Cruise either.
Here’s one of those weird things that happens that we like to pass on to you from our perch here in Boystown, because we think you’d find it as interesting as we do.
Last night, we literally bumped into two ongoing conversations about Congressman Aaron Schock, from Peoria, taking place in two different parts of Boystown…which is strange because none of the people talking about him are political types, and all of them were under 20 and not the least bit Republican. The fact that they knew who Aaron Schock is amazed us.
The first group was a trio of nineteen year olds waiting in line for pizza at Pie Hole last night, where we ordered a sausage and marshmallow After School Special and were enjoying it counterside. The three of them, two girls and a boy, were up from Peoria for the night trying to figure out what bars they could sneak into underaged (fat chance, kids…all bars in Boystown card and you have to be 21 to get in…wink, wink). And, honest to goodness, they started talking about Aaron Schock going to MiniBar every time he is in Chicago. The boy in the group sighed, and made a teenaged “I’m disgusted” sort of noise and said, “I’m so sick of hearing about that big Mo. He’s like totally slept with a bunch of my friends and totally has a boyfriend who he never takes anywhere and won’t let anyone know about. I hate him.”
The girls both agreed Schock isn’t fooling anyone, and reiterated that “everyone in Peoria knows he’s gay”.
Now, we never believe anyone who says “I have a lot of friends who” did this or that…who are those friends? Why should anyone believe them, or you? If you have friends who are so well-connected and hobnob so frequently with the rich and famous, then why do you dress the way you do?
And why are you in Chicago at midnight on a school night when the lot of you live in Peoria?
But, we were amazed the three of them knew about Schock going to MiniBar. We’ve seen him there ourselves and have friends who’ve done more than seen him (now we’re doing it, too), if you know what we mean. In June, he literally went straight from a speaking event in Wrigleyville and was at MiniBar not an hour later, wearing the same white polo shirt and khackis he had on at the earlier event (though, we noticed, he did take his Member of Congress pin off when at the bar).
MiniBar is the most pretentious of the Halsted bars in Boystown. They just did a big remodel and setup a VIP, Studio-54, area that has actual velvet ropes and big beefy bouncers to keep the rabble away from “the beautiful people”, who get their own bar and bartender up there, with velvet couches and all sorts of other Gossip Girl touches. There’s also a new, secluded downstairs area too, where presumably closeted-guys can hide and get up to all sorts of shenannigans (a club called Jackhammer in Andersonville also has a downstairs room, but you really don’t want to go there…or maybe you do, if you’re Rahm Emanuel).
After pizza at Pie Hole, our friend Panda wanted to go to the Lucky Horseshoe because that’s what Panda always wants to do whenever he’s had too much to drink. As we’re walking south down Halsted, passed Cocktail, Sidetracks, the random bad Chinese restaurant whose name we don’t know, we come upon MiniBar and Panda “just had to go in” because he hadn’t seen the remodel yet. We can’t stand MiniBar and only end up there on nights out with Panda…like that night in June…and other nights when we’ve seen interesting people there (like a certain gardener from Desperate Housewives).
While Panda looked around, we spotted someone we know casually, who was there having a drink, and asked him how busy MiniBar’s been since the remodel. It was totally dead in there that night, so we wondered if spending all that money on VIP lounges was worth it. Dale told us it’s only busy on weekends, and that most people were more excited about Scarlet opening up again (a bar that burned down in February and the whole Boystown community has been rooting for in its comeback). Dale said, “Oh, but this place will still be popular with the people who like coming here. Like the ones who think they’re famous. Like that ass that’s a Senator or in Congress or something. That dick’s in here all the time.”
He didn’t know his name, but he was totally talking about Aaron Schock. Who the kids in Peoria also said was a jackass. We can’t say we’ve ever seen him act that way ourselves, because we’ve only seen him in person a few times and he was very well-behaved, if a wholly uninspiring and bland public speaker. The fuss the media makes about him is because he’s young and good looking, and ended up in Congress because he didn’t want to take showers with other guys in gym class, so he fought his school board so he didn’t have to take gym, got on the school board, and then ran for Congress, and won, after that. It’s a great story, even if group showers are nothing to be afraid of (and are great for the environment, if you think about it, with all that water-sharing and everything). Unless somebody’s got something he’d rather hide under a towel, that is.
It’s still weird and surprising that, without any prompting from us at all, we swear, two different conversations about Aaron Schock going to MiniBar happened within an hour of each other right here in Boystown, involving people who don’t follow politics and one who didn’t even know his name, but knew what he gets up to.
So, why not just come out already and be the young, good-looking, Republican gay dude in Congress?
We would ADORE having someone other than Barney Frank representing gay men in Congress. Tammy Baldwin is the only openly lesbian member of Congress, so we could use a young woman to come out on the Republican side too, then we’d have a complete set. A gay Dem Congressman, a gay Republican Congressman, a lesbian Dem Congresswoman, and a lesbian Republican Congresswoman.
Surely Frank and Baldwin aren’t the only ones.
Surely not “everyone in Peoria” knows about Schock, but enough of them do that we keep hearing about it, even when we aren’t looking to hear anything in particular and are just waiting to enjoy the wonder that is a sausage and marshmallow After School Special (and, no, we aren’t the only ones to ever order this…it’s one of Pie Hole’s signature pies).
What’s worse…coming out, or having to endure the humiliation of being posed repeatedly with busty, bikini-clad, leathery women to keep proving “how straight you really are”?
Aaron Schock should just come out already…and it’s a great time to do it, now that MiniBar’s got a center stage VIP lounge all ready for him to hold court…shirtless, many hope.
UPDATE: There’s actually a fundraiser with Aaron Schock with Republican candidates this weekend at Wrigley Field for one of the last Cubs games. Apparently, there’s a glut of tickets left to this, as Republicans we know in Chicago keep asking everyone they know to buy tickets…in what seems like an unusually hard press to fill seats. One of them told us, ‘There’s only like 15 people going to see Schock”. Ouch.
Our point in telling him to come out is this: he’s been trading off being “the youngest member of Congress” when that’s really all he has going for him. He is not brilliant. He is not a good speaker. He is not exceptional in any way except his looks and his youth. If he’s pretending to be straight, he’s also deceiving the people who vote for him.
He has a chance to be a real role model, and a true star in Congress…as a young, good looking, gay Republican. Just imagine a young gay star like that in the GOP and all it could do for both the party and LGBTQ issues. It would turn a great many things upside down…and give a better picture of gays in Congress than Barney Frank.
THAT’S why we want him to come out…for the betterment of his own career and also all the good his coming out would do, since he’s already such a media darling.
If he hits MiniBar this weekend after the Cubs game, we’ll totally tell him this ourselves if we run into him, too.
Pawlenty launches 2012 campaign. Republicans decide to lose election three years early.
Tim Pawlenty (above, right) is gearing up to launch his 2012 presidential campaign — which will ultimately end in defeat at the hands of Dr. Utopia, should he become the Republicans’ nominee.
Like Mark Sanford before him, Pawlenty is frequently talked about here in Chicago as the GOP’s “great unknown savior”. Every picture of him looks like he’s tired, on sedatives, or crazy in some way. We’ve honestly yet to see a flattering picture of the man. Yes, the MSM chooses what photos to use of people (the same way, incidentally, that we do…as you will never see an unattractive photo of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, or anyone else we like around here…and you will never see a good photo of people we don’t care for), but it really does feel like there aren’t ANY good photos of Pawlenty to be had. He’s just not an attractive man, and he dresses badly.
Is that a shallow thing to say?
Well, it’s said about every single woman who runs for office, where her looks and clothes are the first thing anyone talks about.
We just don’t see Pawlenty as someone people get fired up and thrilled to vote for…or someone large throngs of volunteers quit their jobs and devote two years of their lives to…because that’s honestly what a presidential campaign involves. We did that for Hillary Clinton, where quitting was techinically replaced by “being fired” because some of us took too many days off to head to Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and wherever else our champ needed reinforcements. We spent every last red cent we had in support of Hillary, and would do it again for her any day of the week.
Do people love Pawlenty that much?
Is he “conservative enough” to get Republicans up off their butts and into the voting booths?
Because, remember, no matter what fictions the MSM tells you about “the surge in youth and black voters”, which didn’t exist, the reason Dr. Utopia is in the White House right now spreading socialism and using Alinsky Methods with glee is because Republicans voted in less numbers for McCain than they did in 2004 for Bush. ”McCain isn’t Republican enough, so we’re staying home…and fudging our dydees!,” is what many Republicans we know, particularly Log Cabins, said about Election 2008. ”We’ll let the Dems have a new Carter so we can get a new Reagan”.
The GOP can’t nominate Mitt Romney…that man will be another disaster for Republicans. It’s really time for him to get off the stage. The delusional belief amongst Romney supporters is that the economy will be the driving force of the 2012 election and Romney can claim he is the best at economics of the lot of GOP options. But, Romeny is such a flip-flopping opportunist. He is a used car salesman and everyone knows it. Conservatives don’t seem to like or trust him any more than independents do. By all accounts he’s a very nice man, but the reality is that being Mormon is already creepy enough to a lot of people in an insurmountable way (since people freely say how much they dislike Mormons, which is something they would never feel comfortable saying aloud about women or blacks, since there is never any PC-backlash about trashing someone’s religion).
Add Romney’s flip-flopping to that and we envision another “sit our butts out of this” scenario where Republicans give Dr. Utopia a second term in hopes of “raising a new Reagan in 2016″. For those of you out there who watched the show “True Blood” this season, that completely reminds us of the whack-a-doodle maenad character Maryann, played by Michelle Forbes, that kept trying to concoct bizarre blood rituals and sacrifices of giant meat statues in her attempts to raise the god Dionysus from the dark unknown. Every time her ritual failed, she never realized how crazy she was – she just tried a new recipe.
Bringing Ronald Reagan back from the dead is just as nuts. If Republicans feel Reagan was the right man for his time, the way we moderate Democrats feel the Clintons are the right leaders for our times and only Hillary Clinton can turn this country around in 2012, then Republicans need to look for the man or woman in their midst who can not only defeat Dr. Utopia at the polls but can also save this nation from all that he’s wrought.
Romney loses on both counts above…we don’t see him beating Utopia, and if he did, we don’t see him fixing anything. He’s too nebulous, malleable, and goes wherever the political wind blows him (but, never, John Edwards style, his impenetrable Mattel-fashioned hair).
We don’t think Pawlenty can energize voters to turn out in droves for him, let alone staff his volunteer operations with fervor. We don’t have an opinion on whether he could turn the country around as we haven’t look deeply enough into his record or watched him operate enough.
Sarah Palin could ace both fronts, if she wants the job. We believe she’s running in 2012. The conservative base will back her, and we hope she corrects a mistake Hillary Clinton made and runs as a WOMAN from the get-go. Dr. Utopia was able to claim his campaign was historic out of the box since he is part black. Clinton didn’t run as a woman, but ran as a candidate who happened to be a woman. That cost her the “time for a change” label Dr. Utopia employed so successfully. There have been over 200 years of men in that presidency…and a few of them had as much black blood in them as Dr. Utopia does, despite not calling themselves black (see Thomas Jefferson for one example). There’s never been a woman. It was Clinton’s biggest mistake not to emphasize that from Day One.
We hope other female candidates, on both sides of the aisle, learn from that.
In honesty, we hope Clinton herself learned from it and runs in 2012 too. The odds of her doing that are still slim.
But so are, in our opinion, ,the odds Pawlenty has of actually pulling off what all of us want to see happen: Dr. Utopia’s defeat in 2012.
UPDATE:
Pawlenty is on FOX right now…on Neil Cavuto. He is so boring when he speaks that it’s really hard to listen to him. He does not come off well on television. He seems so wimpy…worse than George H.W. Bush. His hair is at least combed nicely today, which is unusual for him, but they’ve dressed him in a suit that’s a size too big and a shirt that’s an inch too large in the collar (with an ugly Sears tie). He also says “siduation” instead of “situation”, which might be a Minnesota thing. He’s said it a few times, so it’s not just a one-time mistake.
The siduation with all of this is that it’s so very hard to see Pawlenty lighting the world on fire any time soon, or convincing people they need to work hard for him to beat Dr. Utopia in 2012. As much as we want Dr. Utopia to be a one term president, we have to be honest and say right here and now that we won’t be working for Pawlenty, Huckabee, or Romney in 2012. If Republicans nominate any of them, then Heaven help us all, because Dr. Utopia will coast to victory.
The only person who can stop him — that we can see on the field now — is Sarah Palin. Maybe another woman could do it…but we just feel it’s going to take a woman, the first one to win the nomination of a major party, to steal enough of Dr. Utopia’s thunder in 2012 to be able to win in the end. Another boring white man won’t work (and don’t even get started on Bobby Jindal…who is absolutely CREEPY on television).
And Pawlenty could very well be the most boring and milquetoast Republican we’ve seen in a while.
