Archive for November 3rd, 2009
Republicans: if Christie's win is taken from him, do not allow Democrats and ACORN to get away with it this time. STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR IT.
Michelle Malkin and others are noting all the reports of ACORN-related voter fraud in New Jersey today. Even Democrat pollsters say Chris Christie has the votes to win that race…but that every thug ACORN and its affiliates had available was out in force today intimidating voters, casting fraudulent ballots, and doing everything they can to steal the election.
Republicans, if they steal this, do not go quietly into the night.
Take a page from Al Sharpton/Henry Gates/Jesse Jackson and the rest of the Race Industry.
Take to the streets.
Get torches and pitchforks if you have to.
Voter fraud should be the NUMBER ONE CONCERN for ALL AMERICANS. Regardless of party. No one should be elected because of fraud in this country. This is not a banana republic. It’s not a Gap either. It’s supposed to be the leading democracy in the Free World…and our elections are effectively determined by thugs, homeless people bribed to ride buses around town and vote repeatedly all day, and criminals who rig elections by enfranchising the dead.
It needs to stop.
Stand up and MAKE IT STOP.
2009 Election Results Open Thread: UPDATED – McConnell (R) clobbers Deeds in VA; Christie defeats Corzine in New Jersey; still waiting on the NY-23 race
Use this thread to update the latest on the races in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Maine, and elsewhere.
Besides the gubernatorial contests in VA and NJ and the Congressional race in New York, tonight Maine’s voters are deciding if they want to treat gays and lesbians as human beings or if they want to tell us to get to the back of the bus. We hope after tonight we’ll be able to say “Remember Maine” and have it mean something altogether different, something intensely positive for the LGBTQ community.
Republicans, we are telling you, it is not politically astute to stand in the way of two guys or two women who want to have the same protections, rights, and benefits that Britney Spears was afforded to someone she legally entered into a spousal contract with in Las Vegas, but then annulled herself away from the next day, once sobered up.
And Hera knows we loves our Brit-Brit, but it’s true.
But, please notice folks, we did not use the word “marriage” in the context above. Deliberately.
“Marriage” is an emotionally charged word that we personally believe is keeping millions of people from having equal rights. As we get older around here, and we look at all of our straight friends who find someone they want to commit to and buy a house with and have a family and a dog and all sorts of other shades of stability with, we look at our own fabulous single lives and start to crave some of that stability. Especially when we realize how impossible it will be to have all the things we want in life as single guys.
But, we don’t insist on the word “marriage” because to us “marriage” involves a church with a steeple and inside scores of people. Insert various mumbo jumbo, some heinous flower arranging, precocious tots chucking petals into the air with glee, and mountains of taffuta and you’ve got yourselves a “marriage” — in the sense of the word that we were raised with and that’s indelibly part of our cultural fabric.
What we really and truly need in this country is a dramatic change for ALL Americans…a 21st Century leap forward in tandem with the invention of a cromulent new word for the joining of two people into a spousal contract that is completely in the hands of the state and not any church. ALL couples should have to go to City Hall for “spousage”…where the City would acknowledge a legally binding contract between them that makes them in the eyes of the law SPOUSES. It can be a man and a woman who are now spouses, like Britney and what’s-his-name from Lousiana in that church in Vegas. It can be two men who become spouses. It can be two women who become spouses. Everyone’s of legal age. Only two people are allowed to be in this spousal contract, with neither of them allowed to be the spouse of anyone else.
And religious people can then depart City Hall to head to a church to be married, just as they always have. The priest can don his finests reignments and gospel choirs can Hosannah on high as the whole damn town comes out to celebrate, just like they always have.
Meanwhile, after one of us leaves City Hall, he can head over to the roofdeck at Sidetracks or the garden atop the Center on Halsted with his husband and have a great big celebration of his own, with whatever traditions the two of them want to have. Miss Foozie can officiate it. The Chicago Spirit Brigade could rah-rah-sis-boom-bah. There could be strippers and drag queens and obscure B-movie actresses or pop princesses bused in for the occasion.
And think of all the money it would pump into local economies, ’cause ain’t NOBODY know how to throw a party better than the likes of us in Boystown. Hell, half of us are party planners to begin with.
We know few of you out there really understand our position on all of this, but we hope someday we’ll explain it in a way that really gels. We want to have everything we dream of in this life, including owning our own homes, having families, settling down, and ultimately phasing away from Boystown and the nonstop adventures and shenannigans and moving on, growing up, and doing all the things our straight friends get to do. Only, we don’t want a woman at our side for all of that. We’ll always have plenty of women as friends, and if you look at the masthead on this site you’ll see just one of the amazing women we’d go to absolute Hell and back for, but we like guys and won’t ever stop. And that should not mean we never get to be homeowners, never get to know security and financial stability, never get to become the best, most responsible, most established citizens we can be.
What’s standing in the way of that is the church, the temple, the mosque, the synagogue, the tinfoil space ship of Xenu. None of us want to traipse into any of those places and cause a ruckus.
We just want — when we find a nice guy — to be able to have all the things that a drunk pop star got to have one wild night taking solemn vows before an Elvis impersonating Justice of the Peace, but then was able to “take a mulligan on” the next day.
The semantics and religious connection of “marriage” is the problem…we’ve told you how we think it can be solved…and know we won’t ever see any progress as long as the Culture Wars rage on in this entrenched issue.
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UPDATE: It’s very early, but already Virginia’s being called for McConnell, who appears to be clobbering Obama supported Deeds. We don’t know how bad Deeds is losing yet, but it could be a very, very bad night for the Kool-Aid Gang.
UPDATE: Republicans take New Jersey and Virginia; Bloomberg might be in trouble in New York; still waiting on the NY-23 race, but it looks like ACORN shenannigans are making a difference there.
Don't forget, the anti-Obamania "V" remake premieres tonight (despite ABC's best efforts to quash it)
An effeminate, strange-looking, sharply dressed stranger comes to town and the media falls all over itself declaring this being "The Lightbringer", "The World Saver", "THE ONE"...with only disaster to follow.
We’ve been telling you everything we could find out about the new “V” remake on ABC for several months now, including reports out of Comic Con in San Diego that ABC, under pressure from parent company Disney and other “higher ups” (which we take to mean the White House), demanded the show-runners halt production on the show and “retool it” to be less anti-Obama.
You can see why the current White House would not want this show to air, when you read this description of it in the Tribune today:
Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.”
So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait — did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who’s come here to eat us?
You are going to see the first four hours of “V” as the showrunners intended…because contractural obligations forced ABC to air the show as-is. However, ABC forced major changes that will be seen in March if they bring the show back…those changes are meant to make things more friendly to the current White House at the expense of the show’s premise.
Chances are, ABC will do everything it can to relegate “V” to Friday or Saturday nights in the future and kill it off so it does not become an issue between the network and the most vindictive and enemies-list drafting administration in generations.
It is not hard to imagine ABC being punished for this show by having press credentials revoked for its news division. If this White House decides what is and what is not a news organization, then perhaps that’s what’s made ABC so skittish about calling a lizard a lizard in the case of the obvious parallels between “V” and Dr. Utopia’s Magical Mystery Tour.
UPDATE: This is interesting, but various people are emailing us today saying they believe the Chicago Tribune is guilty of plagiarizing us in this “V” piece…since we first starting talking about this show back in January and the feel of the Tribune article is almost dead-on to what we have been saying for 11 months now.
Here are our posts on the TV show and its assault on Obamania, and ABC’s progressively adverse reaction to that:
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http://hillbuzz.org/2009/05/19/they-came-in-peace-they-offfered-hope-they-lied/
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http://hillbuzz.org/2009/09/26/abc-effectively-cancels-obama-centric-v-remake-before-it-even-airs/
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We don’t have an opinion on the Tribune other than thinking it’s nice they are finally reporting on what a bunch of gay dudes in Boystown have been talking about since January.
Though, it would be nice if actual reporters in the Jurassic Media got around to doing what we do for free everyday, when they’re the ones collecting actual checks to do it.
If a ragtag band of amateurs can scoop these fools on something like this, then why on Earth is the Tribune even paying a staff?
Great Merciful Zeus, the lot of us could use those jobs (and would be better at it in many ways, too, we think).
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UPDATE: The ratings are in for “V” last night, and they were HUGE. ABC won that timeslot for the first time in as long as anyone can remember…making “V” one of the biggest premieres this season.
However, it looks like the current White House is most displeased with “V”…ABC has axed its producer and top writer, replacing them with people who have seemingly promised to make less references to “hope”, “change”, and the other catchphrases and slogans of Dr. Utopia.
Tuesday Open Thread: November 3rd, 2009
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
What are your predictions for the three races contested today, in New York, Virginia, and New Jersey?
What do you anticipate the propaganda MSM’s spin will be for Team Utopia?
It’s going to be a very, very interesting day.
We really wonder if Corzine spoiled himself in New Jersey with those fat jokes about Chris Christie. And boy, what a comeback from him, calling Corzine out for being a coward and saying, “Yah, I’m fat. I clearly weigh 550 lbs. Just man up and call me out on it, Corzine”. Love that.
Corzine has shades of “you’re likeable enough, Hillary” to him. You live by Obama, you should lose at the ballot box with Obama.
What do you think these three races mean for everything going forward to 2010?
Because, officially, tomorrow will start those 2010 campaigns. Republicans don’t seem to understand this, but it’s how Dems think.
The GOP will celebrate and party tomorrow and then take several months off to congratulate themselves on jobs well done, but Dems will start working on the 2010 campaigns, with eyes also looking ahead to 2012.
We wish conservatives would wake up and realize all of this…so we can all stop Dr. Utopia in three years.
And then, of course, when the Liberals are defeated we want you to all forget everything we have taught you so that when next you are up against someone we like and support, you will get creamed some more.
How deep into BizarroWorld are we when the current First Lady has never looked more appropriately dressed than in her Halloween costume?
The current First Lady looked WONDERFUL in her Halloween costume. The best we have ever seen her look, actually. She did a GREAT job for Halloween, truly.
We’ve been saying for months that she should exclusively wear yellow, purple, and leopard prints. She could look very classy, stylish, and fashionable if she wanted to — and other people dressed her.
People who are not drag designers like Jason Wu or crazy people, apparently, like Narcisso Rodriguez. People who are not legally blind or deliberately trying to make her look stupid.
Because in the right shade of yellow (golden canary) and nice medium range purples (aubergine through concord grape) or leopard print, she looks very pretty.
It’s just unfortunate that in the BizarroWorld we’re all trapped in thanks to this administration, the photo above is of a Halloween “costume”, while what we consider costumes (see below) are things Mrs. Utopia wore proudly (“for the first time in my adult life” in this country on days that were decidedly NOT Halloween.
Flattering, appropriate clothes are now costumes.
Bizarre costumes are now regular clothes.
Cats chase dogs.
Rain falls up.
Hope, Change, Unicorns, Orange Terror Demons!
Where is Obama minion Helen Jones-Kelley today…and how many Muppets did she massacre for Halloween?
Here’s an update on Helen Jones-Kelley, the Utopian flying monkey dispatched by Team Obama in the last days of the 2008 campaign to spy on Joe “the plumber” Wurzelbacher after he asked Dr. Utopia a question, in front of his own damn house, wondering if “The One” was really a socialist out to redistribute American wealth.
Yes. Why yes, he is.
But, Wurzelbacher had to be punished, so Jones-Kelley, a maxed-out donor to the Utopian campaign, quickly rushed to her bank of computers deep within Ohio’s Department of Family, Child Services, and Abusing Authority While Destroying the Public Trust to dig up as much dirt as possible on this man.
A private citizen.
“Oh, I’m gonna find the good stuff, oh yes I am. Yes, I can! I’m gonna dig deep, deep, deep, like Oprah looking for Twinkies in Stedman’s purse. Oh, I’m gonna find the good stuff on this guy. I’m gonna prove he tears the tags off his mattresses and I’m gonna tell EVERYBODY that he squeezes his toothpaste from the middle and not from the bottom down LIKE HE’S SUPPOSED TO. Where’s my ugly, bougie-ass powder blue Muppet skin suit? I need to look GOOD when I’m misappropriating government property for Obama’s gain. Ooooh, Michelle is gonna be my new chit chat buddy after I pull this one off. We’ll be farting through silk together the two of us, laughing all about what I did in no time, you just watch. And if you got a problem with that, then you are a DAMN DIRTY RAAACIST!”
That’s Helen Jones-Kelley for you, The Butcher of Fraggle Rock, the Scurge of Seasame Street.
She’s one of two criminals from 2008 that we will always keep tabs on…because we just know ultimately Dr. and Mrs. Utopia will repay her service with a big cushy job somewhere. It is only a matter of time.
For now, thanks to JB for this update on the bougiest, rottenest, most shameless Ohioan we have seen in a great while:
Dear HillBuzz,
Ms. Jones-Kelley, enemy of Hlliary doing fine in Dayton, Ohio, still. She is being taken care of and has been named to the governing board of this foundation which doles out millions in grants. She this year, 2009, got named to the governing board and is to serve for 5 years. Most of these people are retired local longtme politications or the cream of the crop of business leaders or retired from the local Air Force Base. So what are her qualifications? Was interesting to see she is listed as being a ‘special assistant’ to the President of Strategic Initiatives, whatever that is, at a local state university, Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio.
From the website of the Dayton Foundation:
Governing Board
A Governing Board of up to 15 volunteers provides stewardship for The Dayton Foundation and its charitable activities.
These experienced civic leaders are appointed to five-year terms by the senior judge of the U.S. District Court for Southwest Ohio, the probate judge of Montgomery County, the mayor of the City of Dayton, the chief executive officers of the Foundation’s trustee financial institutions (two appointments) and fellow members of the Governing Board (up to 10 appointments).
The Governing Board also serves as the Board of Trustees for the following related organizations: The Dayton Foundation, Inc., Dayton Foundation Charitable Accounts, Inc., Dayton Foundation Depository, Inc., Dayton Foundation Realty, LLC, and The Greater Dayton Pooled Income Fund (which invests gifts and pays income for life to donors and their beneficiaries).
The Governing Board also appoints at least one representative to the boards of each supporting organization of The Dayton Foundation.
Governing Board (As of January 1, 2009)
Charles A. Jones, retired chief operating officer/assistant city manager, City of Dayton, chair
Gary L. LeRoy, associate dean for Student Affairs and Admissions, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, vice chair
Thomas G. Breitenbach, CEO, Premier Health Partners
Craig J. Brown, retired senior vice president, treasurer and CFO, The Standard Register Company
Franz J. Hoge, retired managing partner, Dayton Office, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP
Ellen S. Ireland, community leader
Helen E. Jones-Kelley, special assistant to the president for strategic initiatives, Central State University
Vicki D. Pegg, retired Montgomery County Commissioner
Colleen M. Ryan, vice president, Defense Programs, Dayton Development Coalition, and retired 88th Air Base Wing and Installation Commander, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Douglas C. Scholz, president, Unibilt Industries
Richard W. Schwartz, president and CEO, WinWholesale, Inc.
Fred C. Setzer, Jr., chairman, Setzer Corporation
Jerome F. Tatar, retired chairman, MeadWestvaco Corporation
Fred E. Weber, president and chairman, Weber Jewelers, Inc.
