What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
What good Halloween costumes have you seen or thought about?
Post links and be as random as you want to in this Open Thread.
Here are some things we’re thinking about today:
(1) It would be funny to start a movement to petition the UN to rename “October” as “Baracktober”, because “almost no one knows who Octavian Ceasar was, and anyone who doesn’t love the current US president is a damn dirty RAAACIST! Besides, Ceasar already has August named after him too, and that’s two months for a white person and no months for the Lightbringer, which is RAAACIST!”.
(2) We wonder how well Obama masks are selling for Halloween. We see them in stores, and see people pick them up, but have never seen anyone actually buy one. Would white people feel comfortable wearing a black mask, or would they be afraid of being called RAAACISTS for it? During the campaign, we saw plenty of idiots wearing Bush masks, dancing around and acting stupid at all Democrat events we went to — maybe mask wearing to lampoon someone you don’t like is just a liberal left thing. We don’t remember ever seeing anyone wearing Clinton masks. We’re sure they did for things, but we just never saw them.
(3) Here’s an article from MSNBC about Dr. Utopia repeating the same phrases again and again, like “Let me be clear”. What’s interesting is how the article couches this observation. In the Bush years, we bet the author would have written it up as if Bush was an idiot using a Speak-n-Say wind-up toy to regurgitate canned phrases whenever he needed them. However, since it’s Dr. Utopia, and MSNBC is indeed very much on the White House payroll, the whole article is basically about how awesome it is that Dr. Utopia uses the same phrases again and again…because his followers love them so much and he is such a benevolent and caring Lightbringer so he gives his fans what they want. Like Cyndi Lauper singing some lines from Girls Just Wanna Have Fun for anyone who stops her on the street and wants to hear, “They just wanna…they just wanna…just wannnnnnna-a-a-a”. Let us be clear, when Dr. Utopia finally goes down and sinks below 40% in his approval ratings, he is going to take MSNBC down with him. These fools are so tied inextricably to the current president, we highly doubt they’ll be around by the end of Utopia’s single term.
HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS:
We’re just asking everyone we talk to what they are doing for Halloween and writing it up here every day. Ultimately we’ll collect these into a thread unto themselves for easy use by you, but until then we’ll just assemble them as we go:
(A) The Seven Deadly Sins: two groups of people we know, one liberal and gay in Boystown and one young Republican are going as the Seven Deadly Sins. Which is funny because these people don’t know each other, and it’s the Dem group that’s going for the expensive, chic look. The other group is going vulgar/cartoony funny with it. For example, “Greed” in the former is going to be all in high-end black clothes, with lots of classy gold jewelry, a gold sparkly vest, gold hat, and gold glasses. “Greed” in the other group is going in a suit with fake dollars bills all over it and a George Washington wig with face painted light green (like he’s made of money).
(B) Rainbow Care Bears – another group of friends is going as a bunch of rainbow Care Bears…red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, you get it. It’s a good multi-use costume, too, because you can wear them again at Gay Pride…or at IML in Chicago or anything else that might need a “bear”.
(C) Science Fiction Party – some people we know are going to a SciFi party, with one of them going as Jabba the Slutt, which is interesting because the obvious sexy choice would have been a cliche Princess Lei Slave Girl outfit. Lots of Star Trek people, dressed up like the young cast from the new movie. One particularly handsome guy with Montgomery Clift (pre-car crash) good looks is doing a retro Adventure Guy look…parts Rocketeer, parts Sky Captain from the World of Tomorrow…with leather jacket, jetpack, aviator goggles, silvery space blaster, whatever. Just using his imagination not to mimic some established character, but to create something of his own. Which is what Halloween is all about to us.
(D) Someone going to the above party is planning on making a Klingon costume. We said, “So, you’re going to be making a Jason Wu inaugural gown out of old coffee filters, are you?”. He didn’t get the joke, but we trust you will.
(E) A lot of guys we know who like to dress up as ladies for Halloween (or, let’s be real, random Tuesdays) are honoring Bea Arthur, a fallen gay icon. Aside from doing a Golden Girls full on tribute, they’re going as Maude Bea Arthur…or Broadway Bea Arthur, with Angela Lansbury in tow from this musical number, “Bosom Buddies” (uh, can you tell we were interviewing people about their costumes at Sidetracks on a Monday night?):
(F) The Kardashian Sisters — there are three of them, so you need three friends. The smallest friend dresses like she is pregnant. All three should wear shirts that say “Vote for Kim”, and all should have padded big butts. We honestly have no idea who these people are, but two sets of girls are dressing up like them that we know it.
(G) Project Runway — great group costume. Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Koors, Nina Garcia, and memorable designers like Christian, Chris March, Laura, Kenley, Uli, Jeffrey, and Season One winner Jay.
(H) Real Housewives of Atlanta — everyone fights over who gets to be Nee Nee. And who has to be Lisa Wu.
(I) It will be interesting to see how many Michael Jacksons are out for Halloween. Several Chicago costume companies are claiming people are making the phones ring off the looking looking for sequined gloves, etc. And it turns out this is the first year Jackson licensed his image for official outfits to be made as costumes of him. SO, there are much better quality costumes out there. We know of no one who is dressing up as MJ, but bet there will be quite a few zombies out there doing the Thriller dance. The MJ-Zombieland pop culture junction should be pretty big.
October 13, 2009 at 3:46 am
I am disturbed this morning by this long lost speech given by ‘the one’.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-to-seiu-now-time-has-come-for-us.html
I suppose many of the folks in Chicago already know about his relationship with these thugs.
Here in N.Y. the first time I ever heard these names was during the campaign.
And I sincerely wish I had never heard them!
October 13, 2009 at 7:21 am
‘mornin buzzers. Here’s an article that will make your day….
http://www.examiner.com/x-19823-PostPartisan-Examiner~y2009m10d12-As-Obama-turns-on-internet-left-fringe-liberal-bloggers-should-apologize-to-Clinton-Democrats
October 13, 2009 at 9:00 am
Well, it’s begun. I have been a customer of BC/BS for years. We carried it for our employees, and now currently have Personal Choice 65….but it will be discontinued as of Dec. 31, 2009. I have to go looking for a new Insurer. So much for my having my being able to stay with my private option. Is this an end around way of pulling this Grannies plug?
October 13, 2009 at 10:51 am
Same with me Joanne. I have had United Health Care for the past 5 years and have been very happy with the service. Just found out that my employer will not carry UHC after December 31, 2009.
October 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm
It is their way of denying they are going to pull the plug on Grannie….Grannie won’t even be given the chance at being plugged in because she won’t be able to afford the supplemental insurance. Yikes, they’ve thought of everything.
October 13, 2009 at 9:18 am
Hillary says she will not run for Prez again.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/12/hillary-clinton-says-she-wont-run-for-president-again/
October 13, 2009 at 9:28 am
Allahpundit at Hot Air says she’s “totally running” but not in 2012.
She didn’t give a definitive “no” answer to twerpy Curry.
October 13, 2009 at 9:18 am
I think a Chris Matthews costume with a vibrating leg would be funny…and gross.
Obama covered in Nobels would be good, if you could figure out how to make the costume levitate, because once you reach perfection there’s really not much else to do but start hovering three ft off the ground. Be sure he’s wearing that Nobel in chemistry for his invention of Hopium.
You could be the Global Warming Fairy, covered in snow and ice since we’re entering a most uncooperative period of global cooling. Mother nature always laughs last.
Robert Gibbs, the press secretary would be a good costume, if you could figure out how to make a costume out of jello.
October 13, 2009 at 12:36 pm
How about a Halloween costume of a Obama mask, big Acorn shell to wear over your body on which is pinned the NO Olympic Medals button, and a button stating No-Ball Pudz Winner?
Pretty scary, heh?
Especially for America!
October 13, 2009 at 9:39 am
In case you don’t believe that history repeats itself or that life frequently imitates art … read this for proof, then picture Zippy in a purple toga with laurel wreath perched on his rapidly graying locks. Just wonderin’ … are all D.C. pharmacies out of Grecian 5?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/how_to_take_down_a_great_power.html
October 13, 2009 at 9:48 am
Obama Flag for sale on eBay. Good grief.
http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390080162883
October 13, 2009 at 10:48 am
Does anyone know what happened to Phil Berg’s website at http://www.obamacrimes.us?
October 13, 2009 at 11:44 am
Interesting.
http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-obamamarketing/#more-15954
October 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Holy Smoke … seen this video??? Who are you going to believe, Zippy “I didn’t know ACORN was getting federal money” or your lying eyes? And ears. I hope these bozo politicians never learn that everything they say is recorded for posterity. (Or blackmail.) No use denying you said something, dude … because somebody, somewhere has you on tape saying the exact opposite.
http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/12/seiu-seiu-seiu-obama-pledges-to-paint-the-nation-purple/
October 13, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Interesting for your open thread…..
The Rise and Fall of ObamaMarketing
Never before had I seen such an orgy of political merchandising. And that was before the election. Afterwards, ObamaMarketing got cranked up to 11, going from street corners and the backwaters of cable TV to mass-market advertisers. In the weeks leading up to President Obama’s inauguration, Pepsi launched an ad campaign featuring Obama campaign poster look-alikes and modified slogans like “Yes You Can.”
Never before had I seen such an orgy of political merchandising. And that was before the election. Afterwards, ObamaMarketing got cranked up to 11, going from street corners and the backwaters of cable TV to mass-market advertisers. In the weeks leading up to President Obama’s inauguration, Pepsi launched an ad campaign featuring Obama campaign poster look-alikes and modified slogans like “Yes You Can.”
From a business standpoint, that seemed a bit risky to me. Big brands usually try to appeal to the widest possible audience, so why would a company like Pepsi risk being seen as endorsing Obama, potentially alienating some of the nearly 60 million people who voted for someone else? Was Pepsi willing to cede the non-Obama vote to Coke?
In baseball, even the best batters go through major slumps. And in politics, presidents have periods where they lose popularity. So companies tying their brands to individual politicians are either naive about politics, or they and their ad agencies are run by people suffering from groupthink. Were they all drinking the Obama kool-aid? Had they not considered what might happen when Obama inevitably fell from messiah status to that of mortal politician?
http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-obamamarketing/
October 13, 2009 at 12:54 pm
So, Snowe is going to side with the democrats and vote in favor of the Baucus bill? I get the feeling someone has some dirt on her or they are paying her off. There has to be some way of fighting these bureaucrats before the elections.
October 13, 2009 at 1:19 pm
New!
Date-Rape Drug, and
Obama Kool-Aid Detector kit!
http://www.eatmedaily.com/
October 13, 2009 at 7:36 pm
this is fun – (just ignore that they put Hillary in it for 5 seconds)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_to_enter_diplomatic_talks