Archive for November 28th, 2009
URGENT: Read this article on efforts to thwart Federal Reserve Audit
We don’t have time right now to comment on this further but will update tomorrow.
Here’s an article about efforts to thwart an audit of the Federal Reserve.
This is something else Republicans need to get behind and force to happen. Something is seriously wrong, and we believe George Soros has control of the Federal Reserve system…it’s what he is using to cause the economic havoc we’ve been facing lately.
It’s been a progression for us on this issue…we aren’t in the “End the Fed” camp, but are squarely on the side of the Federal Reserve being audited for the first time in its history.
There is NO VALID REASON this organization should exist in secret, with all the power it wields, and the potential that George Soros could actually control it and use it in all his schemes.
Republicans now have three vorpal blades to take down the Liberal jabberwock
We hope Republicans realize Christmas came early this year; they’ve been handed three vorpal blades with which to strike deep into the heart of the Liberals’ jabberwock.
(1) Climategate
(2) The Khalid Sheik Muhammad 9/11 trial in NYC
(3) ACORN, and more importantly, increasingly embattled Attorney General Eric Holder (see 2+3 = time bomb for the White House)
These are three areas that have the potential to drive a deep and perhaps generational wedge between average Americans and Liberals, in ways that could decimate the DNC if played correctly by the Republicans.
The goal should not be to create new Republicans with this stuff, because that would be overreaching and doing the impossible. We’re a great case study in this ourselves. No matter how bad we realize the Democrat party is today, we are not going to become Republicans. However, we’re precariously close to becoming Independents.
THAT should be the Republicans’ goal: to push enough people away from the DNC that they go Independent, so disgusted with what the Democrats stand for and how they’ve behaved in power.
The Climategate scandal has the potential to make people question everything Democrats say. It is the equivalent of finding a secret cell phone your spouse has kept, and reading all the sexts that have messaged back and forth between him and Clay Aiken. No matter what lame explanations are given, after this you will never look at your husband the same way again…and you most certainly will no longer be a Claymate.
People need charts explaining Climategate to them simply. The emails leaked are too much reading for average people. Remember Ross Perot and his graphs and charts? What if Republicans found someone with deep pockets like that who could take to the airwaves in a TV special and pound the Left on Climategate, in folksy terms that regular people could understand, to show them how the Left and the MSM lied to them all these years? Even better — what if that person doing the instructing was Sarah Palin, and she got her own TV special like the ones the current president always gets to push a Liberal agenda. All she needs to do is pay for it and it can go on the air…so Republican donors need to make that happen.
The Tea Party movement needs to merge with the 9/11 survivors and family lobbyists to work together to rile regular Americans up over Eric Holder, personally, and specifically over Holder’s gruesome decision to give KSM and the other Muslim terrorists a soap box in NYC to spout hatred at America and justify their actions by claiming how terrible this country is. When regular people see the Democrat party is FOR this nonsense, that’s a wedge that will be hard to heal for most people (already inclined as they are to believe Democrats hate America).
The same is true for ACORN.
Eric Holder is arguing in favor of ACORN receiving federal money. Jerry Brown in California, who is running for governor, believes ACORN is harmless, despite everything ACORN is doing to skirt the law and destroy evidence against it in order to survive. ACORN-backed Democrat Secretaries of State in many blue states work overtime to protect this criminal enterprise.
Republicans need to make regular Americans believe: Democrats = ACORN, criminals, anti-American, pro-Muslim, lying, con artists, Anthropogenic Global Warming fraud, socialists.
How best to do this is the operative question.
It is VERY hard to capture the general public’s attention with anything, especially as we hit December and there’s so much shiny tinsel everywhere. But there’s enough time to get some of this through to people so that when Christmas dinner rolls around and everyone gathers together from parts far-flung, they have something to talk about at that dinner table…and it should be how much Democrats have lied to them, and what they think about voting Republican for the first time in their lives in the next elections.
Saturday Open Thread: November 28th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Saturday?
You have just 15 days to prepare for the new national holiday of Obamamas, to be held December 13th from this year forward in the golden Age of Hope and Change. Do you have your Obamamas decorations, food, presents, and aluminum pole ready yet?
If you aren’t celebrating Obamamas, then you are a damn dirty RAAACIST.
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If you are in Chicago, please take part in one of our most favorite of all things: the Christmas Train. It’s something oddball and fun the CTA does here every year, that the PC-crowd and grinches have not managed to spoil (like that awful Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky in Seattle who made them pull down all the Christmas trees a few years ago).
The Christmas Train is one of the greatest surprises we ever had in Chicago. One day, we were just waiting for the Brown Line a few years ago, and instead of a normal train, this garish, red and green, peppermint striped monstrosity showed up at the station. Inside, Christmas carols played, there were midgets dressed up as elves, haranguing people to sing, women dressed up like Mrs. Claus were passing out candy canes, men dressed like reindeer were dancing, the inside of the car was covered with wrapping paper, all the chrome in the train was peppermint striped. It was surreal and incredible and the greatest surprise we’ve ever had in the city.
Turns out the Christmas Train is a great tradition here, one that people actually look at the schedule to ride (unlike us, who just found it by happenstance).
If you are in Chicago through the holidays, try and ride it. We’ll do our best to clue you in on days the train is running…but you can always find the schedule here: Chicago 2009 Christmas Train.
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How big a deal is it that the White House continuously misspells things they consider unimportant?
CNN posted the menu from the lavish, “night at Versailles”, unbelievably expensive State Dinner Dr. and Mrs. Utopia hosted this week, riddled with spelling errors.
Here are the errors CNN noted, only two of which we would have even caught (highlighted):
–The Riesling was bottled in “Willamette Valley, Oregon” not “Wilamette Valley”; guests were actually offered a “2007 Grenache” (not a “2007 Granache”) and a “Thibaut-Janisson Brut” (not a “Thibaut Janisson Brut”)
–The meal featured “chick peas” (not “chickpeas”)
–The dessert “Gelees” were missing an accent on the final “e”
These are things that, personally, we would have never cared about. We also don’t use spellcheck here on WordPress because we don’t have enough time to ever proof anything we write here. But, we are not paid by the American people to snark on this blog. We’re also not doing anything here that’s as important as a State Dinner while working at the White House, where every piece of paper produced in the Administration will indeed become part of the historic record.
So, is spelling a big deal?
In the full scope of things, we’d have to say yes, it is. If the White House is supposed to run at the highest level possible, then it should be running on all cylinders at all times, at the maximum level of attention to detail as possible. This is our ship of state, and every spelling or grammatical error the staff allows into final copy is one more rivet to burst at the seams…and too many of those popped means the chances of a Titanic-style disaster increase dramatically.
Why?
Because people who don’t sweat the small things can’t be trusted with medium-sized or large things…where do these people draw the line for what’s important and what’s not?
We’d be amazed if something like this happened at Buckingham Palace, or the Elysee Palace, or even the Blue House in Korea. We’d be stunned if this sloppiness was tolerated in the Kennedy White House…or would have been allowed in Hillaryland when the Clintons were president in the 90s. It would be interesting to see if anyone can find such lack of attention in either of the Bush presidencies, too.
Can people unable to spell chickpeas correctly really handle 3 am disaster calls?
In a world where comma placement often makes or breaks treaties, every dotted “i” and crossed “t”, or missing accent mark, really does matter. Especially to foreigners, who often enjoy rubbing anything they can in Americans’ faces. We’ve known more than a few people from overseas who hang on every word we say or write just looking for a spelling or gramatical mistake. We’ve also told you about David, Sebastian’s ex, who had Asperger’s Syndrome and was OBSESSED with diagramming every sentence anyone said to prove they used a word incorrectly.
It was insane.
For us, it feels like Alex Rodriguez taking the field for a Yankees game without bothering to check if he remembered to put on his pants. Surely, not many people will mind if he played the game strutting around in his jock. Some in the crowd would be bemused and delighted by the carelessness, laughing, pointing, having a gay old time. People who don’t like A-Rod would relish the fact he was so stupid to let it all hang out like that. Those who were fans would look the other way, pretending it never happened.
But, no matter how good a game he played, the carelessness would be what people remembered. It’s a needless distraction for someone who is paid and trusted to operate at the highest level of the game always.
So, attention to detail does matter.
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Something fun for a Saturday: here’s what we imagine the inside of Dr. Utopia field operative Helen Jones-Kelley’s head looks like (the fraction of skull space that’s not filled with pudding, that is):
