Archive for November 21st, 2009
Oak Park's new penis logo too shocking for some
This is an example of a decision by committee run amuck.
Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago where we like to go sometimes to watch movies and walk down the cute, Mayberry-like main street, hired a bunch of consultants to come up with a new logo for the city.
So, of course, they chose one that looks like either a penis or a sex toy, depending on your imagination.
We would have drawn something that looked like an oak tree, or maybe a park, for Oak Park. But, what do we know. Penises are in this year.
Dealing with liberals who have any sort of ability to spend public money is always hilarity waiting to happen. These people are RIDUNKULOUS. Trust us, having lived in Chicago for over five years, and having been privy to more than our fair share of meetings after meetings related to special events in this town. Every decision is a decision by committee. The end results are normally as aerodynamic and graceful as a hippopotamus on roller skates. Committees do not make the best decisions. Watering everything down so that “everyone has a say” is never the right move. Does anyone else remember that car Homer Simpson once designed, which had a bubble top and ice cream maker and separate pod for the kids to sit in? That’s what we always think of when we hear “consenus decision” on anything.
Oh, and now we’ll think of the Oak Park penis logo too.
Because this one’s classic.
And the FUNNIEST thing about it is that the committee refuses to even admit it looks like a penis. Because, if they admitted that, then they’d look foolish, and have to say they were wrong, and those are things liberals can never, ever do.
It’s why the most entrenched liberal elites will never admit what a disaster the current president is either. Because that would mean having to say they were wrong. And copping to what a d*** they put in the White House, too.
Best photo we've seen of defacto Air Force Three, Nancy Pelosi's personal plane
h/t Big Government for this one.
It’s the best picture we’ve ever seen of what’s defacto Air Force Three, Nancy Pelosi’s personal flight as Speaker of the House.
After 9/11, the government realized the third in line to presidential succession should be traveling on secure military flights. Speaker Hastert had a small military plane reserved for himself, which he used sporadically.
Nancy Pelosi, upon becoming Speaker in 2007, demanded an upgrade to a 757 because she said San Francisco was too far to travel to in a small military jet. She also needed more room for her family and friends to travel with her. Apparently, she had an Aliyah-esque fit or two over luggage, and how much luggage said planes could accommodate as well.
We personally believe there SHOULD be secure aircraft reserved for the following people:
(1) The POTUS
(2) The VPOTUS
(3) The FLOTUS
(4) Speaker of the House
(5) President Pro Tem of the Senate
(6) Secretary of State
The government should know where all of these people are at all times, and they should have a dedicated flight available to them to do what they need to do to serve the country.
We believe naming these flights Air Force Three, Air Force Four, etc. would also lead to more acountability.
As things stand now, the flights these people are all on are labeled “Special Air Mission XXXX”, so it’s harder to tell looking at flight manifests who was going where and what the purpose of the flight was.
With Pelosi, in particular, the more scrutiny the better.
When monsters emerge, heroes rise. Let's all hope Sarah Palin answers that call.
In grade school, we were all big Clash of the Titans fans…playing Perseus vs. the Kraken in the pool, checking out Edith Hamilton’s mythology again and again and again from the school library. The nuns just loved that, let us tell you. “Can’t you read something on St. Sebastian or St. Thomas of Whatever?”. Nope, it was Theseus, Hercules, Jason, Perseus, Aeneas, baby all the way.
We were always conscious of the fact that not many women made it into the ancient league of heroes…save for Atalanta, maybe, if you really stretched things. When giant monsters came a’terrorizing, the women in those stories were the ones chained to the rocks or held prisoner someplace terrible, like Detroit. The boys donned the winged sandals and took up the vorpal blades.
For all the emphasis on political correctness in our world today, this is something that’s not really been fixed. Sure, there’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who rescued the boys, and the whole town of Sunnydale, on a regular basis. Disney put out Mulan, which had a female lead hitting back against the cartoon huns. Here and there, we have female characters rising to the challenge, addressing the needs of the moment, answering the call.
One of those moments is now.
America needs a champion to stand up to the Utopiacare monstrosity.
We believe if Sarah Palin stands up and provides leadership to do whatever it takes to thwart this madness, she will indeed be the 2012 nominee and the next president.
We don’t believe she can be careful here, or sit on the sidelines. She’s going to have to speak out against this 2,000 page bill and lead her supporters to jam the Senate phone lines to put a stop to this.
Palin will have to lead a march on Washington, a march on every Senate office in the country, and make a stand here.
If she does this, Palin could become the hero this moment needs.
The Utopiacare bill that Harry Reid is trying to force through is a monstrosity. Whenever a monster’s threatened society before, heroes have risen to stop them.
Will Sarah Palin be the hero that stops this monster?
We hope so.
Time will tell.
Please, Sarah, answer that call when your country needs you most.
Saturday Open Thread: November 21st, 2009
What’s on your mind this Saturday?
Here’s a GREAT piece on Hillary Clinton in Vogue magazine, by Johnathan Van Meter. Part of the article is nonsense, in that Van Meter thinks he knows the real story on HRC becoming Secretary of State. No one outside the inner Clinton circle knows that story. Van Meter falls for the lines he’s given about HRC “answering the call to public duty”, which is indeed what truly does motivate her 90% of the time. But, we maintain the other 10% had to include consideration of what staying in the Senate would have meant for her in terms of being forced to vote for all sorts of things she’d have forever on her record afterwards.
So, Van Meter deals with the HRC side that’s doing what’s best for the country and knowing she’d be one of the few grown-ups in this administration, but he ignores the political calculations that went into this move.
As we remind all of you who say things like “she should have stayed in the Senate”, we are thrilled she’s not in the Senate and does not have to cast votes for Cap & Trade, Utopiacare, and all the other craziness that’s been forced through this body right now.
Van Meter does a good job describing his trip through Africa with Clinton, including the memorable day a student in the Congo asked her to channel her husband and tell them what President Clinton was thinking. We love that she smacked back on that point…and love that Van Meter captures a lot of what HRC is really like.
Looking back on 2008, we realize how blessed we were to see HRC in person about once a week for several months straight during the primaries. There were times when we got to be in a room with her that had few other people in it and we saw how she acts when she’s just around her friends and Chelsea. Words fail us when we try to talk about this: but it’s like being able to travel back in time and see Eleanor Roosevelt in action like that, or to be in a room with George Washington.
She is an incredible American…but more than that, she’s a very nice, funny, and caring person. We will never forget a breakfast we went to with her in July of 2008, after she suspended her campaign, and she walked around a small room comforting the peolpe who had volunteered so hard for her. Here, she had the nomination given to someone else, and she had to realize that he would now be president instead of her — and yet, SHE was the one who was comforting other people. Her spirits were up, and she was propping everyone else up too. It was incredible. She was radiant in her bright canary yellow pantsuit, like Hera come down from Olympus, and she was so kind, so warm, so inspiring.
We. Love. This. Woman.
Love her as Secretary of State, but can’t wait for her to get into politics again some day because there are few joys in life greater than hitting the campaign trail for our champ.
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UPDATE on the Levi Johnston Playgirl pics, which is probably the last we will say about these. There is a site that has these pics up now — the real ones, not a joke of ours — called Dudetube, that you can click over to and see for yourself — but fair warning, it’s a site with lots of full frontal male nudity on it, even if Johnston’s johnson is not amongst it. The shots of Levi are from behind, and show a troubled young man who should have done a lot more squats before agreeing to pose nude. They aren’t sexy or erotic photos in any way — but are pathetic and sad, much like Levi himself. The pics up at Dudetube are from the “shower photo shoot”, but not the “hockey rink shoot” that also apparently took place.
For Levi’s own sake, we were hoping these photos were going to turn out better. The kid threw everything away with these pics. Not only did he forever alienate the Palins with his behavior of the last several months, which will make life very difficult for his son Tripp, but he cut himself off from any help the Palins may have been able to give him to get his life on track and make the changes he needs to make to grow up.
The Palins are good people, and after everything he did, we bet they still would have forgiven him and helped him if he asked them to.
But, after exposing himself in Playgirl like this — and the photos aren’t even any good — well, that must be the dumbest thing anyone’s done in a great, great while.
It’s going to be really hard for even MSNBC to use Levi to attack Palin now. ”Nude model” does not have much heft when it’s below your name on a TV screen, if you’re up on a panel trying to inflict harm on your child’s grandmother. ”Lackluster nude model” comes off even worse.
The saddest and most pathetic thing about all of this is that you can just see in his eyes he has no idea the harm he’s doing to himself with these pictures. No idea whatsoever. What. A. Joke.
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If you don’t read AintItCoolNews.com, you’re missing out on some good scoop about movies and TV shows…but you are also missing out on the vulgar, Leftist, misogynistic, and sexist comments that are left on most articles over there. We like the site for the movie and TV news and admit to checking it every day, but cringe any time the site gets into politics. The commenters there are very low-information, and we’ve seen the phrase “she should be raped” used more than once for any woman the 38 year olds in their mothers’ basements don’t particulary care for. They are, by and large, Obots in Austin, Texas as a rule.
Today they’re wondering who is going to portray Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live from now on — a show we didn’t even realize was still on the air. Apparently, Tina Fey has said she’s not going to do the Palin caricature anymore, but Tina Fey says a lot of things (she also keeps promising to write and star in a funny movie, but that hasn’t happened yet either).
If Palin is going to run a successful campaign in 2012, she has a unique challenge ahead of her that none of her male peers will have to face: how to overcome the damage Saturday Night Live will continue to do to her. SNL seems to have promised the White House to treat Dr. Utopia with kid gloves. So, the attacks for the next three years will be solidly on Palin.
Knowing this, it’s up to Palin’s supporters to turn those attacks into a net positive somehow. Palin needs to come out and mock those who mock her…to be funnier than they are. She can’t allow their attacks to go unanswered, but can’t show that they bother her, either.
Saturday Night Live needs to be marginalized, as does Tina Fey.
What really needs to happen is for a national Misogyny/Sexist Brigade to form similar to Al Sharpton’s RAAACISM! wailers. If SNL or any show does any joke that’s remotely RAAACIST!, they know the next morning Sharpton will be outside their offices hooting and hollering and mooning anyone who walks passed, screaming about RAAACISM! this and RAAACISM! that.
People should stand up for women when SNL whips out the sexism and misogyny, too. Hillary supporters know how damaging SNL can be to a campaign…and now Palin supporters see it too.
Together, maybe we could all find a way to render SNL irrelevant.
