Archive for October, 2009
Saturday Open Thread: October 24th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Saturday?
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Here’s something you won’t find reported ANYWHERE by the MSM. We only heard about it because, somehow, we got onto a Log Cabin Republicans email list.
Do you remember a few weeks ago Dr. Utopia went to a Human Rights Campaign event with Joe Solomonese (president of that group), where Solomonese was so drunk on Kool-Aid he completely embarrassed himself, standing there next to that fraud Utopia, claiming this administration actually gave a powdered-donuts chance in Oprah’s reach about LGBTQ issues? It was a total and complete FARCE. Dr. Utopia stood there, speechified, and all the assembled fools stood up and clapped, then cheered, then clap-cheered, like Nancy Pelosi’s whack-a-mole impression during the State of the Union (minus, mercifully, the puce or chartreuse Bizzaro World fashions).
The only saving grace for that event was that someone was smart enough to invite the cast of Glee, so they all got to dress up and look extra spiffy adorable in fancy duds for the night. Love. Those. Kids.
If any of you believe for an instant that Dr. Utopia intends to do anything for the LGBTQ community we remind you of June 29th, 2008 when he refused to march in the Chicago Pride Parade — just as he refused to march in ANY Pride parades every year for all 20 years he’s been in public life. Instead of marching in Pride, he got his hair cut on the Southside and then played a sweaty game of basketball at the elitist East Bank Club in the Loop, before enjoying a long sauna and steam and who knows what in the locker room. Just like the old days at Man’s Country in the 90s.
A rub-a-dub-dub. Lots of men in a tub.
It’s not that Dr. Utopia doesn’t like parades. He loves them, in fact. Marched in the Bud Billiken parade in the black community just a month after Pride. Marched in St. Patrick’s Day parades. When his followers start holding parades for himself, parades his fashion icon wife will be proud of for the first time in her adult life, nothing on Earth will keep him from marching all day long for that.
But, the Pride Parade, not so much on the radar.
LGBTQ rights…not so much with the importance.
Human Rights Campaign…a collection of idiots who buy anything a huckster schills to them, while giving millions of dollars in donations to the Utopia campaign.
Well, here’s word from the Log Cabins that while Dr. Utopia has been lying to the LGTBQ community at events like that Human Rights Campaign dinner, his Attorney General, notorious race-baiter Eric Holder, has been ordering the Justice Department to aggressively dismiss lawuits Log Cabins have filed against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT).
Yup, Dr. Utopia is saying one thing to his gay audience — that he wants to end DADT — while his minions do the exact opposite. The operative case is Log Cabin Republicans vs. The United States of America, which is currently the only active legal challenge to DADT to make it passed the district level. One of the complainants is an Army Human Intelligence Collector who speaks multiple foreign languages, including Arabic, and was booted from the Army after 9/11 because he likes guys. With Islam trying to destroy the West and kill Americans, declaring war on us, the United States is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars training specialists in intelligence gathering and Arabic only to boot them once some rival outs them and gets them tossed out of the service.
That’s just poor business and money management at its core.
And it’s also ridiculous because all of us here have dated at least one service man each…and we can assure you none of them ever turned up on anyone’s Gaydar. We live in Chicago near the Great Lakes Naval Base and meet sailors out just about every night in Boystown. For every gay man or woman (and it’s actually lesbians who are tossed out the most) who gets booted under DADT, there are probably hundreds of other LGBs who serve their full tours of duty…so long as they don’t run against some nemesis who outs them for their own reasons.
Which is what seems to be happening. Is someone in your unit making you look bad because they work harder than you and do a better job than your lazy sorry ass? Want them gone so you can be the cock of the walk? Tell Sarge how much he loves the Santa hat scene in Jarhead.
Which is awesome.
BAM!
He’s toast. Don’t ask, don’t tell.
The Utopia Administration is doing everything it can to stop the Log Cabin case from being heard in California on November 16th. There seems to be no legitimate reason for Eric Holder to be doing this — especially not in light of Dr. Utopia’s lip service to the Human Rights Campaign (and we could so totally do another Man’s Country joke here, in relation to lip service, but you get the idea). The Justice Department has a “duty to defend” in relation to all suits brought against the US, but what Holder is doing far exceeds that.
It’s unprecedented, actually.
Delay, delay, delay.
Almost as if Dr. Utopia just wants to keep stalling and using DADT and DOMA as carrots to rev up the LGBTQ community whenever he wants, getting their hopes up, and manipulating these gullible fools at will…since few in our community have sense enough to stand up and demand actual action.
Well, the Log Cabins are doing just that. We might not agree with them on everything, but we sure back them this time.
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Pursuant to the above, we also just saw that 55% of Americans now believe gays should openly serve in the military.
We aren’t aware of that ever breaking the 50% majority mark before. It might have, but this is the first time we noticed it.
Republicans should take heed here.
If you read us on a regular basis, you have to understand that we are a bunch of guys in Chicago who live in Boystown and are never going to suddenly wake up one morning and like women. We like guys. We know women who like other women. Those women won’t ever like men. We also know some people who like both men and women. That’s just how everyone’s wired. We don’t presume to know why that is. Frankly, there aren’t enough hours in a day for us to care. We’re too busy trying to stay afloat financially while doing everything we damn well can every day to assure Dr. Utopia gets only one term and either Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin becomes the first female president.
So, hating on gays is stupid.
Counterproductive.
So early 90s.
You might as well still be wearing Members Only jackets.
If 55% of Americans are no longer bigots like Sam Nunn (who believe submarine shower rooms are soapy lovefests directed by Chi Chi La Rue) and have no problem with gay men and lesbians defending our nation openly (because, wake up, they ARE in the military already…they just have to worry about being tossed out every day, at MASSIVE taxpayer expense), then the tide has turned.
There is no going back.
Gay marriage will happen, too. Nationally. And, yes, the first few months or year of it will indeed be obnoxious….since ain’t NOBODY who can be more outrageously obnoxious than the like of all of us in Boystown, the Castro, Lakewood, the Village, Peoria, you name it. A lot of conservatives probably dread the spectacle of those early days, but look at the nonsense we’ve survived the last year. Dr. Utopia’s campaign, election, and inauguration was the most obnoxious thing we could have ever imagined. The Race Industry capitalized on it like nothing before…and was more in your face and flamboyant in its displays for “the historic first black president” than we even thought was possible. But, Obamania is receding. By this time next year, it will be hard to remember just how bad it really was…and how irritating the MSM’s force feeding of the Kool-Aid seemed.
It will be the same for all of you who dread drag queens getting married in hot pink gowns or hordes of Harley-mounted lesbians roaring into town and descending upon your City Halls. There will be an obnoxious, rainbow-coated release of decades of pent up frustration, with guys marrying left and right and lesbians pushing and shoving to be first, first, FIRST! everywhere.
To be totally honest, at least one of us would get on a plane and head down to Philly and marry one of his exes if he could. The first day he’d have the chance, just so he could do it…and be a part of this…and have that life experience denied him for so long.
And then there would be a sudden drop in the excitement as reality set in that WE WON. No one would know what to do with themselves. There would suddenly be all sorts of free time for all those who made it their life’s mission to elect a black man president achieve marriage equality. Then, there would be a whole LOT of divorces…and an eventually (10-15 years or so in the future) settling down into a pattern pretty much on par with heterosexual marriages.
Some people would do it, others wouldn’t. Children would be born and would grow up in a world where gay marriage was always legal, so it would be a nonissue.
The MSM would need to find another wedge to drive in the Culture Wars to boost their ratings…and the likes of Fred Phelps will have to find a new raison d’etre (possibly raisins themselves, since they are so wrinkly…and GOD HATES RAISINS). The MSM will probably still be driving abortion as a cultural wedge, because unfortunately that’s so effective, even if it’s been legally decided for 35 years now.
But, it is only a matter of time before supposedly blue states like Illinois wake up and join the likes of Iowa — IOWA — and see that gay dudes in particular will blow tens of thousands of economy-stimulating dollars on flowers, bands, hotels, and at Tiffany’s should they be allowed to throw giant parties with rings like straight people (who don’t have the same disposable incomes, but who get to do all of this and then get divorced whenever they want, sanctity of marriage or whatever be damned).
All of this would happen sooner if we could find another word for it besides “gay marriage”, which is what’s still setting the religious people off. ”Civil Unions” is semantics that sets the LGBTQ community off. If we could only just rename “marriage” as “cromulence for all”, we’d have a done deal, folks.
But that deal will get here eventually, no matter what you want to call it.
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This is hilarious, but Alex Rodriguez really is all kinds of affectionate with Dereck Jeter.
It’s like Congressman Aaron Schock at MiniBar up in that Yankees dugout.
We have only the vaguest concept of who A-Rod and Jeter are…we know they are baseball players, and pretty good ones at that. They make millions of dollars by hitting things with sticks. Nice work if you can get it.
Guys in tight pants sure get handsy with one another.
That’s kinda MiniBar too.
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Someone sent us this today and we just had to share:
Chicago 2016 -- what happened to all that Green Olympics recycling crapola?
Congrats again to Rio!
Now you can have a giant mess, and we can have a clean non-messed up, non-bankrupt (whoops) city for the next 7 years!
It might actually be a fun costume to do something with the Chicago 2016 stuff for Halloween. How do you make an Olympics that will never happen into a costume? How do you express politically the angst felt by so many that all that money was wasted on this fool’s quest…and express that in a costume?
Could be a good Chicago challenge.
Chicago Halloween 2009
We like to augment our political coverage with highlights of our lives here in Chicago, as many of you out there always seem interested in learning more about the city from locals. So, in that spirit, here’s what’s going on in Chicago for Halloween 2009 — our favorite holiday. We’ve been asking everyone we see around town what they are wearing for costumes, and below you’ll find a running list of everything people tell us, as well as all the Halloween activities we hear about. Please help make this as comprehensive a list as possible by including ideas of your own: for costumes and for things to do around town. If you aren’t in Chicago, please feel free to add your two cents too, because maybe what’s going on in your town can inspire us here to do something similar either this year or in the future. This post will be archived as part of the “Our Chicago” feature on this site, so in the future if you ever need costumes ideas or want to know what Halloween in the Second City is like, it can be a resource for you. The ultimate goal there is to create a HillBuzz Guide to Chicago in the future, so you can come to town and visit all the things we like to talk about every day…and maybe even run into one of us, too, if we happen to be headed out for some pumpkin ravioli at Nookie’s or Cereal Killer pancake flights at Orange at the same time.
Consider this post a running work in progress through Halloween itself, with as much info and goodies as we can give you.
Friday Open Thread: October 23rd, 2009
What’s on your mind this Friday?
Thursday Open Thread: October 22nd, 2009
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
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It’s just down the street from his own home, where he lives with his wife, Elizabeth — a woman who should not be treated as a saint just because she has cancer. Elizabeth Edwards is an opportunist of the highest order; she knew about her husband’s mistress and love child back in 2007, yet enabled Edwards’ presidential campaign…which seemingly existed just to split the vote enough for Dr. Utopia to win the Iowa caucus. That’s what the DNC wanted to take the nomination from Hillary Clinton. Without Elizabeth Edwards, the plan would not have worked.
So, don’t cry for her Pasedena, don’t shed any tears for her Peoria…Elizabeth Edwards is not a good person just because she is sick.
People make jokes about Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, but John Edwards sure looks like a polygamist in all of this. Two women. Two homes. Two families living parallel and concurrent.
It’s weird…in the realm of “should be on HBO”, “should be starring Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn” weird.
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Does anyone else see disaster coming in this: Government to cut salaries by 90% in seven companies.
Do you remember the old “monkey’s paw” story about unintended consequences? The Simpsons did a take on this, where Homer would wish for things, or dream up elaborate fantasies and plans, only to be smacked in the face by things he never anticipated as direct results of his actions.
While we believe the salaries at this big companies are OUTRAGEOUS, we believe in the free market more. Here in Chicago, the dairy traders we know, who hang out at Minibar, are, in particular, the biggest douches you will ever meet in all your life. They make fortunes, trading dairy futures. None of them seem all that bright, and they act like jackasses. They are paid a LOT of money…more than any of us here make in several years.
The market thinks these guys are worth it. The market thinks those big wigs at those seven companies are worth large salaries. SOMEONE out there is going to be all of these executives a lot of money to come work for them. If the dairy trading companies suddenly cut salaries 90%, those jackass traders we know would leave and go somewhere that paid more. Who would be left to do that trading? Us? We have no idea what any of that is about and would be terrible at it.
So, let’s follow the logic here: taxpayers paid a fortune to prop up these seven companies. Now, the government is going to chase away the people who are best in their field and know how to actually run these companies. Granted, they ran them into the ground to begin with, but what sense is there in the belief that paying LESS would attract BETTER people into those jobs? Can’t we agree that taxpayers deserve to have people who know what they are doing in those seats if taxpayers are ever going to get a return on this immense government infusion of cash?
Do any of you out there see disaster coming in all of this?
After propping up these seven failing businesses, the White House is now going to guarantee they go under anyway, despite that bailout.
It’s almost as if this current president wants the entire economy to collapse so he can replace it with socialism.
Oh…wait.
Does Hera punish those who mistreat Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin?
Months ago, we upset a lot of crazy people for noting that bad things seem to happen to people who are bad to Hillary Clinton.
We don’t believe Hillary Clinton has anything to do with this, and we don’t think Hera atop Mount Olympus dispatches flights of furies to punish those who wrong her, but sometimes we wonder.
Bill Richardson = disgraced, indicted, future Arby’s assistant manager
John Edwards = disgraced, indicted, exposed as a philandering campaign funds misappropriating criminal
Ted Kennedy = dead
Tim Russert = dead
Robert Novak = dead
HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy = humiliated
Chris Dodd = disgraced, soon to lose his Senate seat
Harry Reid = soon to lose his Senate seat
Claire McCaskill = wakes up every morning as Claire McCaskill
Kathleen Sebelius = basal cell carcinoma deformed face
We don’t think any of the above is funny. We don’t particularly take any joy in any of it either. We just note it all happened…to terrible people…people who were terrible to Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, who we personally think is one of the greatest people on the planet right now.
And we think Hera agrees.
Know who else is pretty damn great?
Sarah Palin.
Know who else Hera, or at least Artemis, seems to like a lot?
Sarah Palin.
We have no idea if this is true, but it sure seems plausible: apparently, according to a growing number of sites out there, word is spreading that CBS has video surveillance footage of David Letterman sexually abusing women…footage of him in areas backstage doing vile things to people who work for him. People — we assume all women — who have no real choice but to let Letterman inflict his perversions upon them, lest they lose their jobs.
And with unemployment in major cities like New York reaching 20% when freelancers (who can’t score gigs) and the underemployed are factored in, you can imagine what lengths people have to go to if they want to keep their jobs these days.
Sexual predators take advantage of situations like this — and we imagine lawyers could successfully argue CBS creates a toxic environment in the Ed Sullivan Theater that enables this sort of predation.
We imagine there are many women out there, and who knows, maybe some men too, speaking to lawyers about what responsibility CBS has for David Letterman’s shortcomings.
And we imagine they are VERY short indeed, in the Worldwide Pants department.
The gist of LameCherry’s piece on this is that CBS seems to want an excuse to get rid of Letterman…and might have been wanting such an excuse since Letterman made jokes about Alex Rodriguez, a 34 year old man, statutory raping 14 year old Willow Palin at a Yankees game this summer. When that happened, the liberal Left came running to defend Letterman, the same way these loons run to defend Roman Polanski, who raped a 13 year old girl he drugged and forced himself upon.
But, enough Americans stood up and let CBS know it was unacceptable…that Letterman is unacceptable…and that while the Left laughs and laughs over the sickest most deviant things, Middle America isn’t laughing.
Hera and Artemis aren’t laughing.
It’s believed any surveillance videos of Letterman’s perversions will come to light during the trial of his alleged extortionist. If that’s true, we can’t imagine how Letterman survives on the air.
That image of him doing whatever it is he’s supposed to be doing backstage, with whomever he’s doing it with, will certainly guarantee a wonderful divorce settlement for his wife. As we understand it, even the most iron-clad pre-nups have clauses that allow a wife to enact great financial revenge if their husbands do something this despicable.
We hope Regina takes this pig who wears diapers to the cleaners.
We hope CBS fires this awful wretch of a human being.
We hope Hera and Artemis really are up in the stars looking out for Hillary and Sarah…and making sure those who wrong them get everything coming to them in return.
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Great Merciful Zeus, the Letterman sex tape indeed appears to be real. The story originates in The National Enquiror, which, in the The Golden Age of Hope, Change, and Unicorns, is actually the most respected and consistently accurate published piece of journalism around.
The National Enquiror was the only source reporting on John Edwards’ career-ending affair and illegal misappropriation of campaign funds to pay for his mistress…while the MSM pretended they never heard of Rielle “Lisa Druck” Hunter.
The National Enquiror was the only publication accurately reporting on just how sick Ted Kennedy really was…while the MSM pretended he was getting better…and Harry Reid actually said at one point that the cancer that finally sent the wealthy, entitled murder to meet his Maker was in remission.
The National Enquiror has a pretty damn good batting average.
If they say David Letterman’s caught on tape being a loathsome pig copulating with one of his subordinates, then that tape exists, baby.
There are apparently so many people who hate the cantankerous Letterman at CBS, and so many people in the nation who hate him after what he did to poor Willow Palin, that it sure seems pretty guaranteed the tape’s going to get out.
What a disgusting pervert.
Time to start writing, calling, and emailing Letterman’s advertisers again…to ask them why, after repeated incidents show what a degenerate Letterman is, they continue to support his program.
The ghost of Ross Perot haunts Democrats this Halloween
Technically, Ross Perot isn’t dead, in much the same way Carol Channing’s not dead either, or how David Guest wasn’t dead when he married Liza Minnelli a few years ago, even though everyone thought he was (or, at the very least, if not dead, then a dime store mannequin whose face had melted).
So, Perot can’t really have his ghost haunt anything, unless it’s a time traveling ghost from the future sent to warn Democrats that a tsunami’s coming in 2010 that could very well make the 1994 Contract With America take over of Congress look like a tiny splash in a nondescript pond.
Here’s an article that goes with the tsunami metaphor, while inventing a new word entirely: Dems Have Reawakened the Perotistas.
It’s really interesting because back in 1992, we remember being in high school and Perot won the straw polls our schools took.
We also see pretty clearly that absent third party Perot’s influence, the Clintons would never have been elected President…Perot spoiled it for Poppy Bush (in much the same way Daggett’s going to spoil it for Chris Christie in New Jersey in just a few days).
Here’s an interesting bit from the article above:
In 1992, the incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, was a disappointment to his party’s base and a pariah to the Democrats. Government seemed to have lost its grip. The deficit became a massive issue, a symbol of out-of-control government. The hangover of Cold War sacrifices, the S&L bailout, runaway crime, huge trade deficits, the long-term trend of manufacturing decline, and, of course, the recession contributed to the sense that America desperately needed to get its house in order.
That’s followed up by this next part, which pretty much describes all of you who come here to read us:
But the Perotista revolt of “raging moderates” and “angry centrists” reinforced Clinton’s rhetorical commitments and the voters’ expectations.
We realized the other day that we’re Clintonian Moderates more than we are Democrats at this point. After what the Left did in the 2008 primaries and what the Left in the form of Dr. Utopia is doing to this country in the White House, we’re more raging moderate than ever.
Back in 1992, with Bush in the White House, moderates and centrists turned against him…and the Clintons, in the campaign, smartly harnessed that. Coupled with the votes Perot stole from Bush, it’s how the Clintons got their first term.
But, these moderates and centrists, the article argues, didn’t like healthcare reform and didn’t like Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, so they “shallacked” Democrats in 1994 and gave Gingrich the House and Senate. The article maintains Liberals still don’t believe that’s what happened and are wearing their Cleopatra costumes year round, not just at Halloween: queens of denial all.
Fast-forward to today. The tea-party protesters are in large part the heirs of Perotism, and they are being subjected to the same insults. Liberal commentators are deaf to the tea partiers’ disdain for both political parties, preferring to cast the protesters as a deranged band of birthers and racists or hired guns of a Republican “AstroTurf” campaign.
Meanwhile, as National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru has argued, the Democrats have convinced themselves that the moral of Clinton’s failed health-care push is not that he was wrong to try, but that he was wrong not to cram it through against popular opposition.
President Obama promised a “new era of fiscal responsibility,” but he’s governing as if exploding the size of government is what Americans want, polls be damned. The Democrats’ budget games and giveaways amount to poking the angry Perotista beast with a stick.
If the GOP can convincingly align with and exploit the growing Perotista discontent, it very well might ride to victory on a tsunami the Democrats can’t even see.
We strongly believe Sarah Palin is positioning herself to appeal not just to the GOP base and rally them in the years ahead, but also to take advantage of everything this article is describing.
Palin sure seems like she’s going to offer up a Contract With America style alternative to Dr. Utopia…and could be the person everyone rallies around in the next year for 2010…so she can capitalize on that success to run for president in 2012.
Liberals keep insisting Tina Fey and Katie Couric and all the other lapdogs of Dr. Utopia “destroyed Palin” and “made her unrunable”…but we echo what the author of this article says about Liberals being foolish and unable to see a tsunami forming against them.
They hate Palin so much, they don’t see her support building…and they don’t see the stars aligning and Fates conspiring to give her the perfect environment in which to run for president and defeat Dr. Utopia and the Liberals once and for all.
We wish it was Hillary Clinton who was positioned somewhere out there to do this, but if it can’t be our champ HRC, we’re behind our Sarah 100%.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today: October 21st, 2009
SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON:
11:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton delivers a Major Policy Speech on Nonproliferation to the United States Institute of Peace, at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Pre-set time for cameras: 9:15 a.m. No video cameras will be permitted to set up after 9:45 a.m.
Final access time for writers and still cameras: 10:30 a.m.
3:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with William Hague, Member of British Parliament and Shadow Foreign Secretary, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton holds a Swearing-In Ceremony for Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:45 p.m. Secretary Clinton attends a Bureau Briefing on Counter Terrorism, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
THERE WILL BE A DAILY PRESS BRIEFING AT APPROXIMATELY 1:00 P.M.
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Hillary Clinton delivers major speech on arms control to the US Institute of Peace today.
What stupid things is Joe Biden doing lately?
Here in Boystown, there are two ice cream/gelato stores near us, both featuring wonderful pumpkin and spice flavors, perfect for fall. Every time we pass them, we wonder how much of the ice cream inside Joe Biden would eat.
Joe Biden, the current Vice President, the man who eats other people’s ice cream.
Like this:
If you wonder what else Joe Biden does all day, here’s some of what’s turned up about him lately:
For some reason, Biden keeps changing his story on how Dr. Utopia picked him to be his Vice President. His latest version has him first turning the job down, then thinking about it some more, then eating more ice cream, then saying yes, then being disappointed he didn’t get surfer Tad in a game of Mystery Date, then insisting the only way he’d agree to continually embarrass the current administration as Vice President for four years (by saying increasingly more ridiculous things) is if Dr. Utopia “agreed to change the course of this country”. More like “drive the country into the ground”, from the looks of it.
And wasn’t Biden supposed to be “the stimulus police man”, charged with traveling the country making sure the Trillion Dollars in spending Dr. Utopia forced through Congress in the first days of his presidency wasn’t wasted on all manner of ridiculous pork barrel pet projects?
How good of a job at that has Biden been doing?
Well, 49 out of 50 states LOST jobs since Dr. Utopia’s spending spree. That’s not very good, and something “the stimulus police man” maybe should have been policing. Only North Dakota’s actually gained jobs since February. Maybe that’s where Biden’s been policing things. Taking it all one Dakota at a time. Next up, South Dakota. Followed by Dakota Fanning, where Biden will presumably help the former tyke transition into ingenue and ultimately leading lady (or, should Rahm Emanuel really be the one giving her that kind of advice?).
Biden revealed a report (he did not write himself) on expanding green jobs and middle class energy savings, called Recovery through Retrofit. Who here thinks this report will actually lead to anything useful being done in any sense of the word useful? Who here thinks Biden actually read the report?
Who thinks Biden got ice cream all over it?
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Here’s something else interesting: it looks like Joe Biden’s son, Beau, WON’T take Biden’s place in the Senate after all. It felt like Beau would pull an HRH Princess Caroline Kennedy and demand the seat because a relative held it, in “don’t you know how my father was?” fashion. But consensus is Beau would be a fool to try for the seat, since he’d pretty much get beat down in a primary, let alone the general.
Wednesday Open Thread: October 21st, 2009
What’s on your mind this Wednesday?
In the spirit of Halloween, here’s the scariest damn thing we’ve seen in a while: the job lossees comparison chart for all previous post-WWII recessions, courtesy of Big Government.
We are in a Depression, people. Joe Biden’s right.
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If you are wondering what happened to Kathleen Sebelius’ face, she had a basal cell carcinoma removed from her forehead yesterday. We don’t like the woman and think she’s doing a terrible job at Health and Human Services, but we wish her a speedy recovery. Cancer is a horrible thing in all its forms, so please send Sebelius good thoughts and prayers today.
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Here’s something that makes David Letterman’s sick, disgusting joke about Alex Rodriguez, 34 year-old baseball player, raping 14 year old Willow Palin at a Yankees game her mother attended with Rudy Giuliani all the more bizarre and surreal:
If this is what goes on in the Yankees’ dugout, the only one who has to worry about statutory rape around A-Rod is Derrick Jeter.
Also, if this is what goes on in the Yankees’ dugout, sign us up to be Yankees. Pronto.
David Letterman is a sick, disgusting pig who wears diapers.
That’s appropos of nothing in particular, but true nonetheless in a tangential way.
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Today seems to be fun with charts and graphs day. As beautiful a sight as the pic above is to us here in Boystown, this presidential approval poll graph is frame and hang on the wall worthy:
Here’s the operative question Rasmussen’s not addressing: how does the White House’s insane attack on Fox News relate to this chart?
Because, with Rahm Emanuel in the White House, two things are for certain: (1) male interns in tight khacki pants are guaranteed pinched bottoms worse than Derrick Jeter’s and (2) everything, everything, everything is about the polls.
Is the attack on Fox meant to energize the loony Left and raise those approval numbers…in the vein of “let’s draw everyone attention to Fox and how much they hate Fox so nobody notices how bumbling and incompetent we all are at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”?
What will this graph look like in a week, once Americans at large have fully processed the fact that the White House…the ACTUAL White House, and not some house that’s painted “eggshell” or “ivory” or “pearl necklace” (Rahm would sure know about that last one) on the corner of some random street in Peoria…has declared war on a news network.
Even Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon never did that.
It’s the kind of thing Idi Amin would do. Before eating people.
Americans do not like this sort of garbage, no matter how well the RAAACISM! charges have worked to keep so many people afraid of ever criticizing “the historic first black president”, Dr. Utopia.
Most Americans have not realized what the White House is doing to Fox, but once they do, we bet Fox’s ratings will soar while Dr. Utopia’s approval tanks.
The magic number we want to see before October 2010 is 35% approval. If it gets that low, and if Democrats are smacked in the face in the Congressional off year elections, we hope Hillary Clinton resigns as Secretary of State in early 2011 and starts running to challenge Dr. Utopia in a head-to-head with Sarah Palin in 2012, where no matter who wins, we have our first female president, chosen between two women we respect and trust to lead the free world and restore American strength and glory worldwide.
No more apology tours.
No more kumbaya crapola.
Just GETTING STUFF DONE.
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Madonna was one of the big celebrity supporters of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries (along with Cher, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, and pretty much everyone adored in Boystown at Sidetrack’s on a Monday Showtunes night).
Glee is the new show adored by pretty much everyone in Boystown.
Madonna, very smartly, has given Glee the rights to use her music…for an ALL-MADONNA EPISODE next year.
Whitney Houston, as much as we love the woman, and as much as we’re rooting for her comeback, very stupidly turned down a guest starring role on Glee where she would have played the part of a Gospel choir director (the part went to Eve instead).
We love Glee’s rendition of “Don’t Stop Believing”, which was one of Hillary’s campaign songs, and can’t wait to see what they do with the Madonna catalog.
Philadelphia ACORN video drops tomorrow at 930am EST
We have no idea what’s going to be on it, but the Philly ACORN video drops tomorrow at 930am EST.
There’s a clue over at James O’Keefe’s Twitter account…saying something about “NPR and Philly”.
Should be interesting.
We have not heard anything more about a Chicago video, but everyone here believes that would be the mother of all ACORN videos, since Chicago’s easily the most blatantly corrupt city in the country.
Remember, Dr. Utopia got his political start with ACORN in Chicago. It defies logic to believe there are no videos from the very belly of the ACORN corruption beast.
