Archive for November 17th, 2009
2012 Movie Randomness: Why didn't those idiots just build the world's largest fleet of dirigibles?
One of the great tragedies of our world is the fact dirigibles went out of fashion after the Hindenberg disaster and rise of the jet engine. There’s a great alternate history book called “The Two Georges”, written by Harry Turtledove and, of all people, Richard Dreyfus (he of the opus belonging to Mr. Holland and the being terrorized by Bruce the Shark).
“Two Georges” is set in a world where George Washington met with King George III in Britain to avoid the American Revolution. The “Two Georges” in question is a Gainesborough painting of the agreement the two came up with to preserve peace, and – flash forward – the British Empire into the 20th Century and beyond.
Chicago doesn’t exist in that world, instead a city called Astoria sits where we’re typing now in Boystown (which, we’re sure, knowing British men, is still alive and well). O’Hare is an Airship Port, the busiest in the world, where massive dirigibles stop to refuel on transcontinental journeys.
2012, the new Roland Emmerich disaster pic, is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but we have to give credit where credit is due: it’s got us thinking about a lot of random things over the last few days since we saw it.
Today, it struck us the simplest solution to a problem like the, uh, the end of the world might be something wholly ignored today from our past: the dirigible.
The reason Germany used hydrogen in the Hindenberg is because the US would not sell Hitler helium from Texas, of which we have large reserves to this day. The Hindenberg was actually a very solid structural design, save for the hydrogen reliance.
Thinking about the movie 2012, where earthquakes and tidal waves destroyed just about everything on the surface of the planet, we wonder why the government, led by dithering president Danny Glover, didn’t construct the world’s largest fleet of dirigibles to just float above the disaster for as long as it took to find some sort of land to set down upon when everything was over and done.
In the movie, planes were flying all over the place. Some of them got caught in volcanic ash clouds from the yellowstone super explosion, but coldn’t airships be built with special filters and purposeful design to stay aloft and operational in a cloud like that?
The sky could have been filled with these escape airships. America could have been saved, if sent into the heavens to ride out the worst of the continental shifts and tsunamis, and then resettled wherever the flood waters didn’t consume all the land.
Like we said, a random thought from us tonight, but one that has a practical reminder for daily life and all things going forward: sometimes the best solution to something is what you’ve forgotten about that people long-dead and forgotten themselves came up with and the hubris of our modern world discards.
We wonder what other relics of the pre-computer world could make our lives better today, if only we had the sense to reintroduce them into our lives.
Caucus and Primaries Project for 2012
Here’s something we want your help with, that is a long-range project that’s going to take a lot of effort, a lot of research, plenty of writing, and most likely just about all of the free time we have left.
But, we have been working behind the scenes for some time on a side project that will ultimately turn into a book of our own on the 2008 campaign, specifically focused on the vile things Dr. Utopia’s supporters did to us personally, and things we witnessed on the road for Hillary Clinton in 27 states last year.
The book started out as a travelogue for the presidential campaign, but has turned into much more than that — really, what it’s become, unintentionally, is a guidebook of what to look for, what to expect, and what we need to prevent in 2012 when the Republican nomination contests start.
We are currently working under the assumption that Dr. Utopia will run unopposed for the Dems’ nomination, so our focus is going to be on how to prevent Liberals, Leftists, and the White House (which, really, is redundant to even list after those first two) from gaming the Republican nomination and picking one of the Five Horseman of the GOP Apocalypse as the 2012 nominee: namely Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, Charlie Crist, or John Huntsman.
In 2007, when we first started campaigning for Hillary Clinton, we had never worked on campaigns before. We had no idea what to expect. We collected petition signatures for Clinton around Chicago and witnessed the nastiness of the Utopia campaign and its supporters on the ground here. That’s the first time these thugs called us RAAACISTS for supporting a candidate other than ‘The One”. By the time we started going to Iowa to canvass and campaign for Clinton there, we were starting to see clearly that the Utopia campaign had been organized since 2004 with every dirty Alinsky trick ready to go.
We were always playing catch-up on the Clinton campaign because Hillary Clinton, God love her, played fair and is a decent human being the likes of which we all should every day be thankful for, because she is the only responsible adult at the table in this administration.
Seriously.
And for those of you new to this site, check the banner above and the domain name. This is HillBuzz. We started as a site to rally Clinton’s supporters during the primary campaign, and we have kept going to continue that support for Clinton in all she does — but also to make sure what was done to our champ Hillary is never done to another candidate, particularly a woman, by the Leftists and the MSM again.
There have been many times when we’ve wanted to walk away from the Internet, to stop writing 10,000+ words a day on here, but there’s a weird energy that drives us…because we reach thousands of people a day on this site, and if we could convince just a small percentage of you to do something every day to stop ACORN, the SEIU, and the Utopia campaign from committing massive fraud and voter intimidation in the future, we can partly avenge what happened to our champ in 2008.
Sometimes, late at night, we are literally haunted by what we personally witnessed in Dubuque, Iowa in 2008 on Caucus Day. That’s where we were stationed. The Caucus site was run by Dr. Utopia’s people. How they did that is beyond us, but everyone running check-in, everyone standing by the doors wore Utopia buttons, shirts, hats, etc. They would walk outside and pull Clinton signs out of the ground and throw them away, leaving the Edwards and Utopia signs. Old people excited to FINALLY, after all these years have a chance to vote for Hillary Clinton for something were turned away at the doors and told they were at the wrong caucus site. And, old people being old people, they would shuffle off confused, get back into their cars, and go on wild goose chases believing the people at the door were authority figures without alterior motives. And then, moments before the caucus started, DOZENS of young Chicagoans poured through the doors and headed straight to the Utopia side of the room. The parking lot was filled with Illinois license plates. None of these people checked in, and the Utopia caucus organizers just let them all vote — even though they did not live in Iowa.
We need to make sure as many people out there as possible on the Republican side know what happened during the caucuses and primaries. Texas, if you can believe it, was even worse.
Michael Steele will be in Chicago on Friday and if have the chance to talk to him again like the last time he was here, we’re going to tell him in person, again, that reforming the caucuses and primaries should be Mission Critical for Republicans…because Democrats are already gearing up to do whatever they can to game the Iowa caucus again. Chicagoans will once more flood into Iowa to vote…this time probably for Mike Huckabee to ensure someone who can’t win the general election becomes the GOP nominee.
People, we need to come up with a plan to make the state GOP organizations listen and take this threat seriously. We have three years to do this. Because the Caucuses and Primaries are party affairs, it’s technically not illegal for Democrats to do the things they did with the Iowa caucus. It’s wrong, underhanded, and the antithesis of Hope and Change, but none of it was prosecutable because primary and caucus voting is not governed by any federal election laws.
It is up to the parties to ensure fair outcomes.
And it is up to the people on the ground to hold the parties accountable for that.
SOMEONE out there will have a lighting in a bottle, flash of genius moment an come up with a way to make sure 2008 is never repeated, not ever again. Maybe it will be us on this site — we doubt that, but maybe. We, currently, have no idea how to stop Dr. Utopia in 2012 because now he’s got the White House and full use of the MSM at his disposal, in addition to ACORN, the SEIU, the Black Panthers, and other hired thugs.
Maybe getting all of our stories out there, showing people what Utopia’s campaign was actually like…putting all of this down on paper and distributing it to as many people as possible…maybe that will make people stand up in 2012 and prevent all of this from happening again.
Please offer your thoughts here, because our mission going forward includes but is not limited to:
(1) Dismantling and destroying ACORN, the SEIU, and all of their affiliates
(2) Taking down the Al Sharpton/Henry Gates/Jesse Jackson/Eric Holder Race Industry
(3) Reforming the nominating contests to make the primaries fraud-proof…while eliminating caucuses completely (as they are the easiest to game)
(4) Making sure Democrats do not pick the Republican candidate they want to run against in 2012
(5) Doing whatever we can to put the MSM out of business as payback for their rampant sexism and misogyny
2012 will be here before any of us know it. There is an awful lot of work to do. All of the above is so important to us personally that we’re willing to skip days off, willing to postpone vacations, willing to literally give all of our free time to this.
All we ask is for those of you out there to help out too. Just imagine if we could create a virtual community in the thousands who every day brainstorms, learns from each other, recruits friends and family to help, and mobilizes as a true grassroots army to defeat Dr. Utopia and his band of greedy socialists in 2012.
Nothing like that has ever existed in American politics.
We can make it happen.
We’ll do our part in Boystown here in Chicago, and on this site.
What will you do in your hometown?
If you are going to Palin book signings, be sure to make friends with the people in line, get their emails, and start Sarah Palin Support Clubs in your communities
We would love it if all the Palin supporters who read this would share this idea with all the Palin forums you go on. It’s something we wish we had thought to do for Hillary Clinton back in 2003 when she did her Living History book tour. It would have given us a major ground support advantage in 2008 that we didn’t have.
If you are going to a Palin book signing, don’t just stand there in line quiet by yourself or talking to whomever you came with. Introduce yourself to the other people in line. If you are all waiting in the cold for a store to open to have a chance to maybe see Palin for a few seconds, you are a committed supporter of hers….and in those lines you will be surrounded by hundreds if not thousands like you.
Get all their emails.
Friend them on Facebook.
Make sure they know about awesome sites like Conservatives4Palin.com that keep the truth about Palin and what she is up to out there.
Network, people, network.
You might spend a few hours in line at that signing. That’s a few hours you could be meeting other Palin supporters near you, and over the next few years friendships could blossom that will give Sarah Palin an unprecedented ground team for 2012 — if and when she needs it. The worst that can come of the effort is that you make a heap of new friends who also like Sarah.
Not everyone is clued into the Sarahverse online. Not everyone knows there are people already working hard to organize for her should she run in 2012.
These book signings are a chance for people to come together organically and start to seed the grassroots efforts for 2012.
Let’s make the most of them.
Learn from everything that Dr. Utopia did to Hillary Clinton in 2008, and everything we Clinton people would do differently if we had the chance to replay the last several years.
Her first national campaign bus of her own; UPDATE: Palin on Limbaugh delivers more substantive policy in 30 minutes than Obama has in 11 months
Check it out: a thing of beauty.
Sarah Palin’s first national campaign bus of her own. For some reason, the child of the 80s in us can’t help but running the old Transformers cartoon theme through our head. “More than meets the eye”.
Ostensibly, this bus is to promote Palin’s book, Going Rogue.
But, Transformers-style, there’s a point in the future where that bus could transform from book-tour mobile to presidential campaign coach.
In other news, today’s the day all of us here get our copies of Going Rogue.
We plan to read them all around Chicago, in coffee houses, at the gym, on the trains. Even when we are done with the books, we plan on taking the paper covers and putting them on the next books we are reading, so that we can carry around Going Rogue’s artwork all over town…so as many people see it being read out in public as possible.
We’ll keep track of the responses we get and report them back here. There’s a very good chance people will be Obot, Kool-Aid soaked hatemongers and say vile things about Palin to us. That’s what they do when we wear Palin tee shirts. For people so keen on Hope!, Change!, and Unicorns!, Dr. Utopia’s supporters sure are filled with plenty of hate.
Why is that?
Why does Sarah Palin rattle them so?
Remember, this woman is supposed to be so stupid, according to them, that she can’t even read a book let alone write one (especially since she’s never met William Ayers, so she couldn’t ask him to write the book for her).
Also, Dr. Utopia’s supporters keep telling us how everyone hates Palin, how she has no future in politics, how she’s a waste of space who should get off the stage.
So, why do these people wake up each morning as William Shatner staring into the bathroom mirror shouting SAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAH! in Wrath of Khan mode?
Why does she unnerve them so?
What are they going to do when they get a look at this bus?
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UPDATE: Palin was on Rush Limbaugh today, so share your thoughts on this thread too. Someone will link to a transcript and audio feed for this at some point as well. Apparently, Palin put forward more substantive policy points in 30 minutes than our current president has in 11 months. Go, Sarah, Go!
Tuesday Open Thread: November 17th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
We’re still so ashamed our current president bowed and groveled before the Emperor of Japan. H/t to Michelle Malkin for spotting a cartoon in Investors Business Daily that sums it all up so perfectly:
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ABC late night news is reporting that Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin’s first grandson, has now not only officially changed his name to “Ricky Hollywood” for all media purposes, but has also backed out of the full-frontal Playgirl deal because, in his own words, “My weiner is just too small. They tried and tried and tried to shoot it from different angles, like from below and with these big lenses, but there ain’t nothing nobody can do for me. It’s just that little. Man, Playgirl is mad too, ’cause now they got no weiners for that week and they’re gonna need to go find some more somewhere to put that online. Maybe there’s some other dude with a normal sized weiner who wants to humiliate himself in order to strike out at people who have been good to him who can step up and show his non-tiny, non-embarrassing weiner to everyone.”
It’s pretty sad that if you’re posing for Playgirl you are so ashamed of your junk that you need to back out of the deal once you see the first round of pictures and realize that even Industrial Light and Magic can’t make your manhood look non-hilarity inducing.
We almost feel sorry for Ricky Hollywood.
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UPDATE: Playgirl released a teaser shot of Levi shirtless and in a shower…we’ve seen it, by way of HuffPo, but won’t link to it here to give them any more traffic. We will tell you that it’s nothing impressive. Supposedly he was working out 6 days a week at the gym, where it looks like he spent all of 15 minutes inside said gym, mostly at the juice bar. He’s over 18, so he’s legal, and this is no aspersion on Playgirl, but we have to say the shot we saw looked like an exploited child. It’s not sexy at all, but disturbing. The photo’s in black and white and just screams degradation at the heights of all things pathetic and lost. This is someone who has no scruples or sense in his head. He likes riding in limos and being on TV, and so he seemed to think this Playgirl thing would be good for him. It’s like when guys here in Boystown have too much to drink and take their shirts off in bars thinking they are big studs, only they’re rocking muffin tops and the beginnings of man breasts. Sure, there are some other drunks who cheer them on, while the rest of the bar laughs at how pathetic and delusional these guys are.
That’s what Levi looks like in that photo. If the rest of the shoot is like that, Playgirl is going to have a lot of disappointed people wanting refunds. We’re sure Levi himself will want to take all of this back at some point too — but that’s never going to happen. He sure seems like he’s headed towards a collision course with an E True Hollywood Story.
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Here’s a great piece lambasting Newsweek for running that Runner’s World photo of Sarah Palin on its cover, as well as an interesting bit tying back to the misogyny and sexism directed at Hillary Clinton during the 2008 campaign.
It reminds us of one group of people we have not sufficiently gone after around here: the women who didn’t support the first viable female candidate for a presidential nomination. These SAME women are now the ones attacking Sarah Palin, many of them contributing to the attack book “Going Rouge”.
Geraldine Ferraro said during the campaign that there is a special place in Hell for women who attack other women, when they try to pull other women down out of jealousy, or for whatever other reason they do this.
All of the women who sided with Dr. Utopia against Hillary Clinton took really stupid right now. What has Dr. Utopia done for them? How did electing Mr. Hope and Change and Unicorns increase opportunities for women or better women’s lives?
Having a female president will do that. It will sure be pretty hard to limit women in business and all areas of life when a woman sits in the Oval Office with a thoroughly smashed glass ceiling.
That special place in Hell for these “feminists” needs a time share here on Earth as far as we’re concerned.
Looks like we might have a new mission around here — one that can help Hillary and Sarah both in the future. Who are these women who contributed to “Going Rouge”? What did they say about Hillary in 2008? Why are they still respected in their fields if all they ever do is tear down the women who could actually shatter that glass ceiling?
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Going Rogue drops in bookstores today. We will be picking up a copy and reading it as fast as we can — can’t wait. Our goal is to do a little study guide/book club thing as we read it, writing our thoughts on the book chapter by chapter. We hope to have the first chapter, at least, outlined and discussed some time today. In the mean time, use this thread to talk about the book as you read it too.
Palin’s on Good Morning America with Barbara Walters this morning…should be interesting to watch. We won’t be near a TV at that time, so if you are please post your thoughts here. We appreciate it! Go, Sarah, Go!
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Our friend Murphy over at PUMAPac.org raises an interesting point. Dr. Utopia has been in Asia on his “Lookit Me, I’m the First Pacific President Tour”, embarrassing himself and the country, bowing to Emperors and doing we-don’t-want-to-know-what in those infamous Japanese saunas (and if you’d lived in Andersonville here in Chicago in the mid to late 90s, you might have gotten to see more than you ever wanted to of Dr. Utopia at Man’s Country…when a state senator did much, much more than bow in places like that).
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were both “Pacific Presidents” too, spending the majority of their lives in California, a Pacific state, where they are both now buried.
For that matter, another Pacific President was William Howard Taft, who was the Governor of the Phillipines and lived there for many years. George H. W. Bush also lived in Asia for quite a while. John F. Kennedy spent a good deal of time in the Pacific himself, during WWII. Even Jimmy Carter has “Pacific” cred, having served on a Pacific-based attack sub in the Navy.
