Archive for October, 2009
Great Merciful Zeus, Chris Christie is hilarious and awesome
Please read this tidbit on Chris Christie, who is running for New Jersey Governor, and who is HILARIOUS.
If Republicans wake up and abandon third party spoiler Daggett and give Christie the win next week against Corzine, it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. While we support Corzine because President Clinton does, and because friends of ours are working that campaign, Christie’s a Republican we like and have no problems with winning.
And Corzine’s dead wrong in what he’s been doing: calling Christie fat, but in roundabout not too subtle ways, like repeatedly saying Christie “throws his weight around”.
Christie, to his credit, tells Corzine “just call me fat already. I am fat. I am a fat, fat man. Who is fat. Deal with it.”
Love that.
And Christie says that unless he keeps his campaign promises and rescues New Jersey from the mess it’s in, that voters should “kick (his) fat ass all over the state”.
Loves that, too.
Have problems with Republicans who throw votes to third party candidates in tight races to “teach the GOP a lesson”. WELL, idiots. you aren’t teaching anybody anything but Democrats how to win…and that’s to nominally support a third party candidate that will do well enough to spoil it for the Republican, but not endanger the incumbent Dem.
Bob Barr took enough votes from John McCain to make a difference in several states, not enough to make a difference once McCain lost Ohio, but enough to flip a couple red states bluish for a day last year.
For statewide and national elections, no one should ever vote third party. What happens is that you then help elect the person you LEAST want to win. All those Nader voters didn’t like Gore but hated Bush. And all those Nader votes helped Bush win.
Support third party candidates at the school board, PTA, local, community, City Council, and state rep levels. THAT’S how a successful third party would emerge of what’s now “Independents” and moderate Dems/Republicans. There is a potential for a Clinton-esque third party…and if 2008 taught us anything, it’s that people who were once lifelong, dyed in the wool Dems and committed Republicans, who hated each other, can indeed come together, and work together, when need be.
The American Party, the Tea Party, the Phoenix Party, whatever, is theoretical at this point, but it can never, ever start at the top. All Daggett is doing is helping Corzine win. All Ross Perot did was secure 1992 for the Clintons (which is why there will always remain a Ross Perot shrine of thanks in our hearts). All Nader was good for was securing two terms for Bush. Nader also smells like stale farts.
But, most people don’t bother to become informed on the local elections and only tune in for the big ticket races…where they then foolishly try to do the third party thing, and only result in voting in the person who supposedly gives them nightmares. Then they pout, mess their dydees, and wail about how bad Republicans are, but how much they also hate the Democrats.
Grow up.
Wise up.
Stop playing these losing games.
Realize change in the two-party system comes from the school board and dog catcher level up, not at the statewide and national tier.
Disaster coming for Mayor Daley in Chicago — but he doesn't realize it
The Tribune and other sources are reporting today that Chicago’s Mayor Daley is thinking about furloughing police officers and fire fighters to save money for the City.
In case you have just returned from an all-expenses cruise to Mars, Chicago is the very same city that wasted upwards of $60+ million on the Olympics bid disaster.
Daley’s the very same mayor who pissed away BILLIONS of city revenue by selling our parking meter collection to a private company, for 75 years, for the relatively paltry sum of a billion dollars (when the City could have made that much itself in just a year or two, if it retained its rights and upped the meter rates the way the private firm did).
He’s also the mayor who wasted $900 million on the idiotic Block 37 Project in the heart of the city, where he planned to build a futuristic, unbuildable, set of fantasy trains underground to both of our airports.
This is the mayor who now wants to sell the City’s water rights and waste water utilities to the highest bidder…in a deal that would be as lopsided and wasteful as the parking meter debacle.
Well, Daley’s got another brilliant idea: let’s furlough cops and fire men.
Back in Cleveland in the early 2000s, Jane Campbell was mayor of the city. She was a good mayor, and a truly decent person whom we knew personally back in Ohio. After 9/11, just about every business looking for an excuse to screw Cleveland over and either relocate or cancel conventions took advantage of the crisis to cut costs and clip city tax revenues. Campbell was forced to cut police and fire fighters.
She lost her re-election bid a few years later, we believe because of this, and is now Chief of Staff to Senator Mary Landrieu.
You do not mess with police and fire fighters and survive politically. No matter who you are.
Daley’s just asking for it these days. He really and truly is.
David Letterman Implosion Watch
How much trouble is David Letterman REALLY in right now…and how much longer does he REALLY have on the air?
Here’s the thing, the National Enquirer has said CBS is looking at surveillance footage of Letterman having sex in stairwells and other service areas with people who work for him.
Yesterday, Drudge ran an article about a former Letterman staffer who said she left the show and moved back to Los Angeles because it was widely known the way to get ahead at World Wide Pants productions was to let Letterman drop his pants in front of you.
The operative word consistently used when people are talking about Letterman is “hostile work environment”.
The staffer who moved to LA said she never intended to sue Letterman, and she left in 1990, so there seems little in the way of anything actionable she could do now.
But, what about the other people working for Letterman and CBS now?
What about the men working for Letterman, who could claim they had no access to promotions because promotions were doled out based on sexual performance…and if Letterman wasn’t having sex with his male employees, too, then those men were not given the same work opportunities as the women.
What about all the married men and women whose vows prevented them from ever getting promotions at Worldwide Pants?
The Enquirer was talking about John Edwards and his mistress Rielle “Lisa Druck” Hunter back in December of 2007. They were the only ones saying Edwards would be destroyed in 2008 and would lose everything. But, the MSM ignored all that because it wanted Edwards to pull enough votes from Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucus to deliver the win to Dr. Utopia.
So, Edwards had to be protected.
Letterman’s a liberal favorite, and also an Obot, who just so happens to be one of the most high-profile attackers of Sarah Palin (apart from Tina Fey, acknowledged anti-immigrant racist).
Letterman will be protected by the MSM at all costs.
In fact, Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC, CNN, and others are very quick to note that “Letterman’s been receiving huge ratings bursts because of his scandals”, as if this is a good thing. Traffic accidents prompt huge increases in the number of people staring at the side of the road for a short stretch of time, but after the shock is over, and people sober up, they don’t feel the same way about staring at that particular part of the road where everything bad went down.
We wonder how CBS is going to resolve the “hostile work environment” business? CBS is NOTORIOUS for employing disgusting pigs up the chain of command, from Les Moonves who diddled his employee, Julie Chen, before giving her plush assignments and making her the host of Big Brother…to Sumner Redstone, who diddled his employees too, and is second only to Kathleen Sebelius on the list of people we think look like The Cryptkeeper.
At CBS, a shriveled, disgusting, yellow-toothed, balding, pervert is a self-proclaimed Master of the Universe possessing unstoppable, unquestionable, unanswerable thunderstick weiners.
And those weiners must be OBEYED.
But, isn’t CBS the network for people who still tune in expecting to see Dr. Quinn, Doctor Lady or Murder She Typed (And All the People She’s Close With Are the Victims or Suspects)?
How are all of those old people going to react to CBS when it finally gets out what Letterman’s been up to all these years, and how CBS condoned it?
“The Hostile Work Environment Network” should turn off all those Jane Seymour and Jessica Fletcher fans.
Really, Letterman’s a disgusting pig who wears diapers who should be turning everyone’s stomach, but there’s no accounting for taste in television.
ACORN diagram to share with everyone you know
We’ve been telling you all along that ACORN cannot be underestimated…that it is indeed a criminal enterprise and domestic terrorist organization. ACORN is Obama and Obama is ACORN. The current administration will not allow ACORN to fail…and the White House is counting on Republicans to do what Republicans always do, which is pack it in, give up, lose interest, and go home.
For years, we’ve watched Republicans behave this way.
They’re like the Chicago police officers working the Boystown beat. We’ve told you for months that the Center on Halsted attracts large gangs of black youth from the Southside, harbors them, gives them a clubhouse, and lets them loiter outside to plan attacks on the LGBTQ community here in Lakeview.
The Chicago police show up when called, and all of these kids scatter like roaches and rats when light is shined on them.
The cops congratulate themselves and then — we aren’t joking — return to their own clubhouse, which is the 7/11 at the corner of Barry and Broadway, one block east and three blocks south of where the Center on Halsted gangs are causing trouble.
The cops get free coffee at that 7/11, and it is not uncommon to see four or five squad cars out there, with the cops inside having a marvelously good time, in what we have started calling “The Donut Party”.
Meanwhile, the Center on Halsted kids just wait for the cops to head back to the 7/11 so they can come out of hiding again, getting up to trouble some more.
Last night, we saw a group of six of these Southside kids harassing old people, trying to yank a small dog’s leash away from a little guy, and banging on cars to set off their alarms. The Center Gang terrorizes the stores on Halsted open past dark, threatening shop owners, scaring away customers, and — honest to goodness — actually howling at the moon like animals.
The cops chase them away and think it’s done for the night and never bother to come back to make sure the gang’s gone.
And then everyone acts surprised when another gay guy’s beaten and ends up in the hospital because the Center Gang’s struck again
This is the same thing with ACORN.
Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, Michelle Malkin, and others (including, in a very small way, us), keep drawing attention to ACORN and occasionally Congress and some in the media take note of the un-American, subversive, corrosive things ACORN and its allies are up to.
There’s a big commotion about ACORN…but then Republicans let it go, and head off to a Donut Party, and ACORN’s free to get up to its old plots and schemes with a vengeance.
There should be NO MORE DONUT PARTIES.
For cops or Republicans.
ACORN and the Center on Halsted Gang count on complacency and Donut Parties to mount their criminal enterprises. It will take years to destroy ACORN. Just because you give these criminals a good scare with momentary exposure does not mean they’ve changed any of their ways.
Thursday Open Thread: October 29th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Thursday? Here are some of the things we’re thinking about:
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The attacks on Sarah Palin just keep coming…which means Sarah Palin is doing exactly the right thing.
We maintain that if Palin wants the nomination in 2012, it will be hers. And we believe she is doing exactly what she needs to get it.
If she runs, we will volunteer for her and go all-in the way we did for Hillary Clinton. Unless, of course, Palin ends up running against Clinton, in which case you know damn well whose side we will ALWAYS be on.
But, a woman will be president in 2012. Either Clinton or Palin. We will work every day doing whatever we can at great personal cost to ourselves to make that happen.
Here in Boystown, Palin is attacked every single day by low-information fops and, surprisingly, angry, bitter lesbians. What they say about Palin is too vulgar and nasty for us to repeat, but essentially it’s similar to the irrational hatred directed at the Clintons for the last 20 years by lunatics on the Right. Now, the Left has their new favorite target.
There is not a day that goes by that we don’t correct someone who’s repeating lines Tina Fey delivered as if they were actual quotes from Palin. Sometimes, we wish Palin supporters would orchestrate a subversive campaign to plant quotes out into the world attributed to Fey personally…talking about how much Tina Fey hates Mexicans, or how Tina Fey beats her black housekeeper and calls her Mammy.
It’s true. We heard it “somewhere”. Tina Fey is a rabid racist who spent thousands of dollars to have a specially built toilet installed with Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and George Washington Carver’s faces tiled into the inside of the bowl. “Now, whenever I eat enchiladas those filthy disgusting Mexicans make me, I can look forward to s******* all over all those black people I hate. Because I’m Tina Fey, and that’s how I roll. I am a damn dirty racist and PROUD OF IT,” Tina Fey apparently said, though no one can remember where, according to random people in bars who insist it must be true because their friend “who knows a lot of stuff and reads a lot” said it was.
What’s really shocking to us is how gleefully lesbians jump on the Palin, and even Hillary, hating wagon.
Last night, we were in Haunted Hallway at the Southport Brown Line checking out Halloween costumes and we saw a man buying a Dr. Utopia mask — the first person we’ve ever seen buying one of those. We’ve seen Dr. Utopia masks for sale, and have seen people look at them, but have never seen anyone buy them or even try one on. So, we asked the guy (a 40-something gay man) if he was going to wear the mask out for Halloween and he said, “Oh, yah, for sure. I’m going to go out and act like a big dumb clown because that’s what I think of this idiot. Still waiting for my hope and change. Where is that anyway?”.
The lesbian who was with him was in her 40s too, and was huffing and puffing over that. Clearly, she was an Obot and kept trying to tell her friend he wasn’t allowed to go out wearing the Dr. Utopia mask. “Screw you,” he said, “I’m wearing it, so you can get over it”.
The woman looked at us expecting support, and wanting the three of us to back her up and stand up for Utopia.
“We don’t like him either, sorry, for many reasons but chiefly because he doesn’t keep any of his promises, especially to the LGBTQ community”, we told her. And then we went into our usual Cliff’s Notes of all the opportunities Dr. Utopia had to do something substantive for the LGBTQ community, but decided not to…including refusing to march in Chicago’s June 29th, 2008 Pride Parade because he had to get a haircut and play basketball (and enjoy a long, luxurious, nude steam afterwards at the East Bank Club) that day instead. Guess what was his favorite part of that day, from what we understand.
Blowing off the Pride Parade (and, in doing so, telling all LGBTQ people what he really thinks of them) is certainly not the WORST thing this man has ever done, but it’s just so glaring.
More so that he didn’t at least dispatch his wife to the parade. She was in Chicago that day too, being proud of haircuts for the first time in her adult life since her husband was getting one. Maybe she was still diverting the poor and sick away from the University of Chicago medical center to substandard “health clinics” in terrible neighborhoods back then (sure kept her busy doing that before the campaign). Whatever she was up to that day, she could have marched in that parade too.
Hillary Clinton marches in Pride Parades.
Every major politician in Illinois marches in Pride Parades.
Senator Roland Burris, who many of you attack and malign without knowing anything about him (just because SNL does, just like the way they attack and malign and caricature Palin), marched in the 2009 Gay Pride Parade.
Just not Dr. Utopia.
So, it’s refreshing there are people out there who don’t read HillBuzz and don’t chime in with us who independently mock Dr. Utopia for the clown and fraud that he is.
The Left has Tina Fey aimed at Palin, and SNL and other venues to take Republicans down at every turn. The Right has never been good at defanging its opponents through ridicule.
Y’all need to get better at that. Right quick.
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Have you been following the Redstate developments on Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio?
If not, you should be.
Essentially, Redstate writers and readers caught Charlie Crist’s campaign creating a bogus video featuring Hitler that Crist claimed Marco Rubio’s people made. Crist then put up a fake “TruthAboutMarcoRubio” website on October 27th, 2009, talking about how awful Rubio is for making that video (which Crist actually made). Well, Redstate went through the source codes for that site and found the names of Crist’s campaign staff everywhere.
When exposed, Crist yanked the Rubio site and deleted the video.
Questioned about this, Crist knew WAY too much about the site and video, only up for a day or so, then he should have if indeed he “had nothing to do with it”.
Hopefully, this will be enough to take Charlie Crist down and remove him from the MSM’s field of chosen candidates for the GOP in 2012. Mark Sanford, Charlie Crist, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney, and Tim Pawlenty are the men the MSM want to run against Dr. Utopia…because all of them will lose.
The operative question now is if anyone goes for the throat on Crist now that he’s vulnerable…and introduces The Green Iguana and Crist’s cross-dressing hobbies into the mix.
Crist tried to take a below the belt hit at Rubio…so nothing should be off the table with Crist now.
In our opinion, one of the worst things in the world is a gay politician who gets married and pretends to be straight. Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Trent Lott, Rahm Emanuel, Aaron Schock.
For whatever reason, the MSM doesn’t out these people…even though reporters must know what’s up…until such time as outing them is convenient for a story. Craig and Foley helped bring down the GOP in 2006. Both of them were indiscrete in the past, but were only exposed nationally when the Left wanted to hurt the GOP. Trent Lott got out of politics when PerezHilton started pushing the story about him hiring rentboys in DC. Rahm Emanuel’s a liberal Dem, so he can pretty much do anything (and anyone…even on his Secret Service detail) without ever getting outed.
Aaron Schock’s a time bomb for the GOP…someone the liberal media’s building up so they can take him down. They like pushing the “hot, young Congressman” thing…and Schock is only too happy to oblige by posing shirtless for their cameras. Meanwhile, Schock’s indiscrete whenever in Chicago and in Boystown, so those on the ground know all about him…and those in GOP politics in Illinois know all about him.
Which is heartbreaking because if the guy would only just come out and be honest about who he is, he could have a very, very bright future ahead of him. Instead of putting himself on a collision course for Foley and Craig style disaster. Or, worse, going the Charlie Crist route, turning orange, amateurishly creating bogus websites to smear opponents, and marrying a woman who’s heiress to a novelty, practical joke, and fake beard fortune (which is what Crist did, believe it or not…a fake beard novelty mail order heiress…no joke).
For those of you who ask why we care so much about Schock, it’s because we’re tired of this nonsense…tired of the MSM nurturing closeted gay Republicans only to take them down when the time is right…like naive, misguided, self-hating veal.
We wish Schock had the guts to come out, stand up tall, and defy the MSM. His advisors are fools not to see he’d be stronger for it, and could start commanding the attention (and donations) of the LGTBQ community, which will have a hard time defaulting to auto-hate mode when the Republican in question is young, good looking, and gay.
Tuesday Open Thread: October 27th 2009
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
How do you think the races in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York will shake out next week?
What else are people you know talking about today?
It was bound to happen eventually: someone had a GOOD idea for how Chicago can raise money, one not involving selling public assets
Times are tough for everyone these days. Many of us here have been getting by selling books, DVDs, art, and vintage designer clothes on eBay and Amazon…whatever we can sell to make some extra money. We’re picking up catering and bartending gigs wherever we can, in addition to working full time day jobs and, in two cases, holding down second jobs waiting tables too. People we know are selling their TVs, cameras, scooters, you name it on Craigslist.
And the City of Chicago’s in on the Great Fire Sale too...first selling off our parking meter collection and now trying to sell the City’s water supply and wastewater treatment rights.
Ridiculous.
Unlike that Donna Karan jacket that’s rarely worn (and, truth be told, fit best 15 years and 25 pounds ago), the City of Chicago actually NEEDS its water supply and public utilities.
The Olympics and parking meter mess was bad enough. Mayor Daley needs to knock it off with the reckless selling of assets.
That’s why we were heartened this evening when we ran across this piece in the Tribune about soliciting corporate sponsorship and naming rights for the city’s train stations.
It is a brilliant idea we support whole-heartedly for many reasons.
For starters, the public art in all of these train stations is hideous. It’s thst schlocky, faux-funky, forced multicultural, abstract, bright colors garbage that big cities force upon commuters.
Hideous.
Madison Avenue can do so much better.
Miracle Whip does a small sponsorship of the Addison Red Line Station by Wrigley Field that’s really good, actually. There are interesting Burma Shave-style signs here and there that are fun to read, on the floor of the station, on the ceilings, walls, wherever. Just imagine if Miracle Whip or Heinz Ketchup or whatever could actually sponsor the entire station and pay for a remodel, making it a big ketchup and hotdog or sandwich-themed funhouse. We’d love it.
Apparently, Apple is in talks to pay for the renovation of another station, which it would presumably look Apple inspired, with naming rights.
We say bring it on.
Get Coke to sponsor another one and create something Times-Square worthy and imaginative.
Have Disney do another one and blow the other stations out of the park.
In Cleveland at the turn of the 20th Century, every millionaire in the country had a home on Euclid Avenue, known then as Millionaire’s Row. Rockefeller. Carnegie. Mellon. You name them. And each one competed with the guy next door to create the most opulent, awe-inspiring house possible. One mansion had an indoor skating rink. Another was built with an observatory. Down the street, yet another one looked like a giant wedding cake. The street was lined with linden trees for strolls in the spring and in the winter horse drawn carriages took riders on a tour through an American Wonderland.
None of that remains, of course, but the creativity and potential for awe inherent in competition remains.
The City, if it was smart, would enthusiastically goad corporate America into creating a REAL stimulus. The Coca-Cola Station could top the Apple Station. Nike could swoop in and best the rest. McDonald’s could dazzle with something imaginative and food-themed.
It could really be incredible.
And, though commercial, a DRASTIC improvement on the generic, pedestrian, and sometimes filthy stations we have now.
Whatever we can do to encourage this sponsorship deal, we are totally on it.
