Archive for November, 2009
What if the West took terrorism to the Muslims' home turf?
Here’s a VERY interesting discussion we had at lunch today here in Boystown, with more than a few people at the table fans of alternate history works by the likes of Harry Turtledove and shows like FOX’s old Sliders series (not, as Oprah believes, about those little hamburgers she has by the dozens at “snack time”, but the show starring Jerry O’Connel as a scientist with a magic remote control that slides him into dimensions where history played out differently).
Our friend Panda met most of us at Nookie’s Tree today, where we all had samplings off their fall menu (chicken pot pie, braised spare ribs, hearty beef stew, pumpkin ravioli, with stuffing and corn bread and sweet poato casserole), except Panda, who had a hamburger like always (and then, like always, covered it in ketchup, ate about 1/4 of it, and then regretted he didn’t get a “fall special” like the rest of us and instead got a hamburger again like always. “It’s those raccoons in my walls,” he said. “They make me so tired with their gnawing and scraping and talking all night that I can’t think straight and didn’t want to read the menu because reading things makes my head hurt”).
Oh, Panda. Perpetually bedeviled by imaginary raccoons, forever ordering hamburgers he never really enjoys because he doesn’t like reading menus.
Randomly, while using a butter knife to scoop more ketchup out of the Heinz bottle, Panda started talking about the movie 2012, the Roland Emmerich disaster flick we’ve mentioned before on this site (which we thought was boring…a remarkable feat, indeed, for a movie about the end of the world). “I read on Perez that they wanted to blow up Medina, Ohio in that movie but then Muslims said they’d kill everyone involved with the movie if they did that, so they blew up Rome instead,” Panda told us, getting most of the story right.
But, it was the Medina in the Middle East the Muslims threatened to kill people over, as it’s written in the Koran, somewhere, that none of the Muslim holy sites will ever be destroyed — and so if a movie showed Mecca, Medina, and the Dome of the Rock, Hagia Sofia, and other famous mosques being obliterated, Muslims apparently would have seizures in the street, unable to process what they were seeing.
They would go more unhinged, apparently, than they do when someone draws a picture of Muhammad (“I bet he looked just like a big butt,” Panda said, “and that’s why they won’t draw him. A big butt for a face, or he looked like that big guy in Goonies who ate the Snickers bars and had the messed up face. I wouldn’t be drawing him either if he looked like that. I’d scare myself.”).
For too long the West has molly-coddled Muslims, with the PC police geared up to come after anyone who speaks the truth about them. Islam is not a religion of peace; it’s not even a religion in our book. It’s just a giant cover for a worldwide terrorist organization bent on global domination, something that makes C.O.B.R.A. from the old G.I. Joe cartoons look tame, religious, and peaceful in its own right.
When Muslims shout Allah Akbar and kill our soldiers, ram planes into our buildings, and set off bombs in the streets or on buses, the MSM rushes to insist how misunderstood Muslims are, how peaceful they really are, and how Islam is just another way of saying “I sure love all mankind”.
Yah, right.
Panda, still trying to get more ketchup out of that bottle, like a sunbear after the last of the honey in a slippery jug, asked what we all thought would have happened if Roland Emmerich had the stones to show Islam’s holy sites being destroyed, as Emmerich gleefully showed the Vatican, the Christ statue in Rio, and Tibetan monestaries being crushed in the apocalypse.
We all agreed Emmerich was right, and that all over the peaceful, misunderstood Muslim world turbaned, black-robed lunatics would have climbed up into minurets to scream for the director’s head, and for the deaths of every single person on the credits roll for the movie (because, Islam, you must remember, is the religion of peace, and this is how peaceful people behave when they don’t like something in pop culture: they call for beheadings and the deaths of hundreds).
Panda pushed the question and wondered what would happen if one day the West got sick of “all this terrorist crap” and Westerners started using terrorist tactics against the Muslim world, to “see how they like it”.
We’re actually surprised Muslims haven’t attacked the Vatican and taken out St. Peter’s by now. It would be a lot easier for them to do than hitting anything in the United States. For anyone who’s ever been to Italy, you must realize how incompetent the Italian government is in general. Garbage strikes can last for years, it seems, and every cop we’ve run across in Italy sure seemed amenable to bribes of all denominations. The Vatican itself is defended by gay swiss men wearing brightly colored clown suits. There are no ninja nuns lurking in the shadows like gargoyles protecting the place. There are no metal detectors to get into the basillica itself. The last time any of us was there, we could still find unlocked wooden doors, unguarded, where we could access storerooms and long corridors in which we could wander as long as we wanted without ever being stopped by anyone.
Muslims remind us a lot of a dog named Zodie who we’re friends with. Zodie, when left alone, will rip up newspapers, pee on the carpet, destroy a pillow or two, and cause controlled chaos in the apartment whenever she’s upset about something or wants to lash out at the bad humans who’ve been ignoring her. But, she doesn’t ever do anything TOO TERRIBLE, as if she knows if she did she’d take a last ride to the pound. She’ll sit there, with her big eyes, staring up at the Thanksgiving turkey, smacking her lips and thinking about going for that ultimate score, but she won’t do it. She somehow knows the punishment for that would be much, much worse than what she’d get after ripping up the latest Vogue.
If Muslims hit the Vatican, or took out another major Christian symbol, we bet the payback for that would be the destruction of Mecca or Medina. At least we hope it would, because the West can’t keep standing by idly while Muslims attack and attack and attack.
If it’s really true that Muslims believe none of their religious sites can be destroyed, and someday, or in some alternate universe, either a military strike or a reverse-terrorist attack takes out the Dome of the Rock or one of their major mosques, then the faith in Islam could very well be shaken in many people. It seems like that would have the effect of pulling back the curtain on the Wizard, rendering all those crazed imams and ayatollahs powerless as people realized most of what’s in the Koran is utter garbage.
There would probably be WWIII, but it would be a war between a civilized West with modern weapons versus people who want it to be the Middle Ages. Terrorist attacks and the economic games the Saudis play are one thing, but a direct confrontation between the West and Islam would not go well for Islam at all.
And it would be wonderful, in the aftermath of that, if Islam was then treated worldwide like Nazism was in Germany. No more mosques, no more Korans, no more coddling of terrorists.
We tend to believe Muslims realize all of this too.
But we wonder what would have happened if they had taken out the White House and the US Capitol on 9/11 back in 2001, instead of hitting the Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Maybe it wouldn’t take a religious, Christian target to launch a full scale reprisal against Islam…maybe if they had hit American political institutions with vested emotional importance to all Americans, Islam would have been struck back hard too.
The same could be true if they hit Parliament or Buckingham Palace, or if they took out the Eifel Tower or Arc D’Triumphe. There are a lot of buildings in the world that seem like they would have already been targeted by Muslims, but have been left alone…perhaps knowing that if they hit these targets, the consequences for them would be too great for them to bear.
It’s Zodie the Dog versus Thanksgiving Dinner some more. She knows what she can get away with, and what she can’t.
It would be very interesting if Turtledove or someone like Tom Clancy ever wrote a book in which the West hit back at Islam by taking out its holiest sites in retaliation for some abominable attack on Western culture and history.
What do you think would happen?
Maybe we’ll collect enough ideas and write some fiction ourselves in that vein.
What think you?
If Sarah Palin is no threat, then why are Liberals working 24/7 to destroy her?
h/t to our friends at Conservatives4Palin for the above video, where Jackie Mason rips into the Left for saying in one breathe how stoopid they think Sarah Palin is, and in the next they shout at the top of their lungs how much they need to destroy her.
The only other person in the world who drives the Left as crazy as Palin does is Ronald Wilson Reagan, or the ghost thereof, to be technical.
At Sidetracks here in Boystown, there’s a brief appearance by Reagan in his acting days in a video clip of Kate Bush singing God Bless America. They play this clip on Monday nights during the big Showtunes Sing-a-long they have (which we love). Kate Bush is singing at a microphone in a big glittery gown, and then there are shots of service men working on airplanes and such, and then there’s a very young Reagan in military uniform reading a paper and listening to the radio. And then all the guys in the bar BOOO! loudly.
The funny thing is, 80% of them have no idea why they are booing. They have no idea that’s Reagan. During the Sing-a-long, alternate lyrics are shouted out, napkins are thrown into the air at various points in time, flashlights are used as props, etc., Rocky Horror-style. Things work their way into these little bits and go on for years and years, as new waves of regulars take the place of older guys who age out of the bar scene.
So, someone years ago started booing at Reagan, and after that people kept booing, not even knowing why they were booing anymore.
When we call the LGBTQ community low-information voters, it’s because of behavior like this. Which we see every day here. “My friend who is smart told me Sarah Palin is a bitch and a c**t, and that’s she’s stupid, and my friend reads Advocate and watches Anderson Cooper, so he knows. OMG, look at that guy over there, he’s so cute. What was I saying? Oh yah, Sarah Palin’s an airhead ’cause my friend who is smart told me.”
Welcome to Boystown!
As we’ve said repeatedly, Palin, and Republicans in general, need to just write off the gay and black vote, because these two groups are the most deliberately low-information and bigoted of all. They walk into a voting booth and look for the (D) after a name and vote straight ticket Democrat (unless they are black, in which case they look for anyone who they know is black, or whose name sounds black, and then they vote for that person first, and all Democrats after that).
Palin needs to keep her conservative base fired up, while making Independents (included alienated Dems who are now more or less independent after how the DNC behaved in 2008) see her as the more sensible choice when put up against radical Liberal Dr. Utopia.
And she also needs to be sharp, witty, and funny.
There’s no better way to stop those who make fun of you than to make fun of them right back. Bullies crumple when challenged.
Katie Couric, Tina Fey, Anderson Cooper, all the MSM henchmen those “smart people I know” like to quote need to be eviscerated by 2012. How we do that is the operative question, but just imagine what 1 million Palin supporters could do to the Left’s favorite talking heads if we put our minds to it.
We personally know Couric to be one of the nastiest people in the news business, despite her well-manufactured reputation. When her husband Jay was dying of colon cancer, a friend of ours cut Couric’s hair once. Her husband would call for her, and call for her, and finally she took the call just to yell at him that she was busy getting her hair done and he needed to stop calling. He told her he just called to say he loved her. She told him to go lay down and stop using the phone, hung up in a huff, and said to our friend, “Sometimes I wish he’d just die already so I can get on with my life”.
That’s the “perky one” for you, when the cameras aren’t rolling.
There must be more stories like that out there, about Couric, Fey, Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, and the rest of the drive by media.
All of these people are being used by the White House to take Sarah Palin down, since the current administration clearly sees her as Dr. Utopia’s greatest threat.
Either we stand by and let it happen, or we give these people doses of their own medicine so low-information voters in bars can’t quote their “smart friends” anymore, once their friends stop listening to the talking points issued by the MSM.
Tuesday Open Thread: November 24th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
Here is an EXCELLENT article from American Thinker called “The Wilding of Sarah Palin”.
We’ve read it three times now, because it sums up a lot of what we’ve been saying on this site for some time, based on our experiences campaigning for Hillary Clinton and then McCain/Palin (but mostly Palin).
There are millions and millions of former lifelong Democrats who are so disgusted by what the DNC did in 2008 to secure the nomination and presidency for Dr. Utopia. Disgusted by the Left calling Hillary Clinton a bitch, a witch, and a monster. Disgusted by the constant attacks on Sarah Palin after that. Ashamed we ever called ourselves dyed in the wool Democrats now that we see the Democrat Party for what it is, particularly when it’s under complete Liberal control as it is now.
We feel there’s something revolutionary building out there, and that Democrats refuse to see it coming. If disenchanted Dems abandoned Carter for Reagan in 1980, we wonder what’s going to happen to Dems in the years ahead because Carter did NOT shake loyal Democrats’ foundations the way Dr. Utopia and his gang of thugs did in 2008.
People we know who have voted Democrat for every election in their adult lives, people who HATED Republicans (though they never knew quite why), tell us repeatedly “I am done with Democrats”.
The DNC won the White House for Dr. Utopia in 2008, largely by getting so many Republicans to sit their butts home on election day. But the cost of that win has not been actualized just yet.
We’re five guys in Boystown who will never blind-vote Democrat again. We plan on campaigning for Republicans in 2010 who are going up against Liberals. In 2012, we will campaign for Sarah Palin (or Hillary Clinton if Dr. Utopia gets dumped and she gets another shot at her nomination).
There will probably be a point, very soon, when we officially stop calling ourselves Democrats at all.
People — that was unthinkable in 2007. While we have never been liberals (and have always been Clinton centrists and moderates), we always called ourselves Democrats.
But, read the article above and know how much we agree with the author. The Left went too far in 2008, and goes too far in its single-minded effort to destroy Sarah Palin now.
This will come back to the DNC in a big, big way…because it looks like all the things Carter did to drive Democrats to Reagan in the 1980 election are happening again, but this time there’s also this misogyny and sexism and downright evil coming from the Left that’s driving lifelong loyalists like us away too.
The MSM’s not reporting any of this, of course, but this article makes us see it is indeed out there.
And we all need to be more vocal than ever to make sure others like us know they aren’t alone, and that we are all in fact part of something revolutionary to come — something that damn well might just destroy the DNC for good.
Senator Roland Burris will save this Republic
Roland Burris is a master strategist who needs our support
We get a lot of very strange and downright nasty hate mail around here because we speak our minds, support people we like in both parties, and every day hit the socialists in the current White House with everything we’ve got.
Doing this is harder than many of you can ever realize, because it costs us friends and opportunities too numerous to mention, particulary here in Chicago, where we long ago had the choice of either going along with the madness of the Utopia Administration and getting good political (or political related) jobs in Democrat controlled Chicago or struggling along as we do, as pariahs for the moment, until the rest of the country wakes up to the horror show Dr. Utopia has inflicted. We do this because we think it needs to be done and are willing to suffer the consequences for it in hopes that more people out there will speak up too.
Another person who has taken a nonstop barrage of hate and scorn is Senator Roland Burris, the greatest hero we have in the Senate today, and someone we will go to bat for eight days a week.
Let the hate mail begin.
We get four or five emails a day asking us why we support Senator Burris, why we are big fans of him personally, and why we keep insisting people back off him and let him do his thing.
Senator Burris has been wronged by just about every Democrat in Washington at this point.
He is a distinguished CPA and Auditor who believes in balanced budgets and fiscal sanity.
He is an honorable man whose reputation and good name were dragged through the mud by the media at the behest of none other than Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett personally. And we know that for a damn fact it came straight from those two Gossip Girls, the orchestrated attacks on Burris when the White House wanted a number of others, from Lisa Madigan to Jarrett herself to take that Senate seat.
Burris stepped up when called to serve the people of Illinois, as he always has throughout his career. He knew being appointed to the Senate by Blagojevich would mean sticking his neck out like never before, and getting pounded left and right by the White House and its media propaganda machine.
Burris knew the stress this would put on his family, but he chose to serve anyway.
When we asked him to march in Chicago’s Pride Parade, becoming the first sitting Senator to represent Illinois in the parade in as long as anyone can remember, he agreed immediately. ”Where and when do I have to be there?”. Remember, Dr. Utopia refused to march in any Pride parades his entire public career…including June 29th, 2008 when he got his hair cut on the Southside of Chicago and played basketball at the East Bank Club downtown instead of marching in Pride.
Shameful.
But by now you all know well how we feel about that.
And you should know how we feel about Burris.
But, do you realize how smart this man is? Do you realize Senator Roland Burris has the potential to save our Republic by being the craftiest, sharpest, wiliest Senator we currently have?
Burris is liberal Democrats’ worst possible nightmare, because he is insisting — all caps, INSISTING — that no healthcare bill will pass without a public option, massive government insurance agency. INSISTING. He has pledged to the far left that he will be a vanguard of this and will not, under any circumstances, allow the Utopiacare bill to pass without that public option.
Put aside your feelings about the public option itself and play a little 11th dimensional chess on this for a bit.
Burris is, essentially, the architect of the Democrats’ civil war. We certainly don’t know what he is thinking, but considering how smart he is (the man speaks three languages, studied constitutional law overseas, was instrumental in cleaning up massive amounts of financial fraud in our state, and can pull facts and figures out of memory faster than anyone we have ever met), it’s sure an awesome intellectually, political, and ideological trap of epic proportions from where we sit.
(1) Burris’ stance has revved up the left to pressure other Dem Senators to also refuse to vote for any Utopiacare bill that does not have a public option (Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, and Colonel Sanders have all taken a stand with Burris on this).
(2) Burris will block any attempt to end filibuster if there is no public option. Dems need 60 votes to end filibuster and push Utopiacare through, so Burris alone will stop that…but it looks like he’ll have at least three others backing him too.
(3) Joe Leiberman is our other national hero, in that he has refused to vote to end filibuster if Dems DO include a public option provision. Lieberman’s play here would not work without Burris putting the pressure on the other side, so together they ensure filibuster will kill Utopiacare.
(4) Absent Burris, the liberal leftists would not be as revved up and angry as they are now at the White House. If Roland Burris is fighting for public option, why isn’t Dr. Utopia himself? Why is the man everyone maligns who holds Utopia’s current Senate seat fighting so hard, but the current president is up to Liza knows what, possibly having tickle fights and giggle contests in the Oval Office with Rahm Emanuel and Eric Holder.
Do you have any appreciation whatsoever for that means for Dr. Utopia’s remaining time in office?
The Left is a notorious grudge-holder of the most irrational and implacable variety. Once something gets into their craw, oncce someone they supported “betrays” them or falls short on their litmus test, the Moveon.org and Daily Kos lunatic squads set out for blood. Those who built this particular monster will tear him to shreds if they believe he is not toeing their line and obeying liberal directives. And that public option is something the liberal Left is willing to go to all-out-war for.
Burris’ actions are making that war possible.
If not for him, we doubt Brown, Franken, and Sanders would have gone on the line with this. Burris is not seeking re-election, so he could stick his neck out and run this gambit. The others want to remain in the Senate, and so would have been unwilling to draw the line in the sand. It is far, far easier to stand behind someone who has done that for you.
Burris, for his part, gets to watch the White House that maligned him self-destruct. Emanuel and Jarrett must be apoplectic over the forced issue of public option. There is no good that can come of this for the White House, because Burris-Leiberman forced there to be just two paths taken, both leading nowhere:
(A) Public Option is dropped, so liberals go to war with the White House and remove his strongest, most active, most Kool-Aid crazed supporters for 2010 and 2012 (remember, everyone, the excuse for losing New Jersey and Virginia in the elections earlier this month was that Dr. Utopia’s voters didn’t turn out because they didn’t know he wanted them to; well, Democrats need those voters to turnout in 2008 numbers to avert a midterm debacle…and Libs won’t want to turn out if public option wasn’t pushed through).
(B) Public Option is kept, and moderates and blue dogs in red states bail on this bill because they know voting for a public option ends their Congressional careers instantly.
Either way, because of the ingenious machinations of Burris-Lieberman, Democrats will not have enough votes to end a Republican filibuster of this madness. The GOP can read and re-read this bill over and over again, with each day more Americans realizing what a monstrosity it is, while Sarah Palin tosses out more of her Facebook comment throwing stars to keep lowering and lowering the approval rating of this entire measure.
If Dr. Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid keep pushing this madness, it could lead to a national revolt to make the Tea Parties thus far look like, well, actual tea parties (of the sort former ballerina Rahm Emanuel would think it’s dreamy to bring a hunky Secret Service “escort” to).
We know a lot of you have been reading us since the mention we got on Dennis Miller’s show, and that the hateful comments about Burris lately must be coming from a group that reads sites like Little Green Footballs or Ace of Spades — sites we also like for some things, but sites that unfairly take glee in making fun of Burris.
All we ask is that you take a step back and think about 11th dimensional chess.
Think about the man the White House and liberals treated so badly in the Senate…the man whose reputation they stepped all over and tossed into the trash…the man who was asked to fill a Senate vacancy and was villainized for it.
We knew Roland Burris before he was a Senator. He is a good, good, good man. We know his heart. It is a servant’s heart.
We might not know exactly what game Burris is playing with his bold moves in the Senate, but it sure looks like master strategy chess to us.
Help Us Dick Cheney, You Are Our Only Hope
Somewhere, cats are chasing dogs again.
Rain’s falling up. Tom Cruise is an accomplished heterosexual. The current First Lady is dressed stylishly and appropriately. Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder, and the rest of the race-baiting gang admit the black community is responsible for its own problems.
The whole world’s gone upside down, topsy-turvey mad because we’re at it again: agreeing with Dick Cheney some more.
Seriously, Dick Cheney has become our favorite ex-Vice President EVER. We love that he still receives intelligence briefings, in whatever secure and undisclosed location he’s currently in, and that he’s more outspoken than ever about what stupid things our current Utopia Administration is doing.
Dick Cheney is our Obi Wan Kenobi.
He needs to mentor Sarah Palin into the Princess Leia/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo hybrid we need her to be.
The Palins and the Cheneys need to join forces, STAT, because former Vice President Cheney has never been more right and Palin’s never had a bigger audience of people willing to listen to. Someone reading this in either the Cheney or Palin camps should get on that…the sooner these two merge onto the same page and support one another, the better.
And, no, GOP strategists, Dick Cheney is not a toxic asset that should be ignored. The man is SPOT-ON correct about the naive foolishness and stupidity of the current occupants of the White House.
He calls Dr. Utopia out for bowing to the Emperor of Japan…something we hope every WWII Pacific veteran gets out in public and condemns. One of us here had a grandmother who worked with the USO in California during the war, cheering the troops leaving Los Angeles to, in many cases, meet their demise at the hands of the Empire. To her death, she’d talk about “those babies, those faces, those young, young boys getting on those gray ships” and she’d well up with tears remembering it was “ship after ship after ship” that went off to never come back. Sixty years later, that grandma never forgot Emperor Hirohito, and never forgave Japan for the atrosities it committed to not just American troops, but to mainland China, Korea, and Russia too. Japan may be all about Hello Kitty and cheap electronics now, but back in the 40s under its god-Emperor, it was mainly concerned with rape, torture, blood-letting, and barbarism. There are those of us who might not have been alive to bear witness to this, but remember it nonetheless.
The American President should bow to NO ONE, least of all Earth’s last living Emperor. As residents of Chicago well aware of the current president’s fondness for Man’s Country in Andersonville, we appreciate how much this man enjoys jutting his rump into the air and wiggling it before non-white foreign royals. The Queen of England was treated by Dr. and Mrs. Utopia like the perfume sales lady at Marshall Fields on one of Mrs. Utopia’s extravagant shopping sprees, practically pushed out of the way as the Utopias jockeyed for the best camera angle to make her appear most insignificant and diminutive. But, the King of Saudi Arabia, Falafel the Hutt, had his ring kissed by the current American president (who, it’s quite clear, would have kissed much more than that if allowed by Secret Service). For months, since that disgusting display in April, liberals have been claiming Utopia didn’t hoist his rear in the the air and slobber over Falafel the Hutt’s claw. Maybe the display before the Emperor was just more of his “Lookit what I can do! I can do whatever I want!” ego tripping. Maybe he really does miss Man’s Country in ways that only Rahm Emanuel could ever understand. But it certainly does seem like compulsion.
And Dick Cheney calls him out on it.
Dick Cheney also calls out notorious race-baiter Eric Holder for doing what it’s clear this administration wants to do: give Khalid Sheik Muhammed and other 9/11 Muslim terrorists a Broadway-styled stage show in which to attack America in words the way they hit us with airplanes eight years ago (which is, like, so totally YESTERDAY and SO TOTALLY LONG AGO to all of Dr. Utopia’s supporters, we’re sure). Americans are going to pay tens of millions of dollars in court costs, security fees, and loss of business in the area surrounding that trial…and all we will get for that trouble is, as KSM’s defense team has already noted, a spirited explanation of WHY exactly Muslims decided they needed to murder 4,000 people on that terrible, terrible day in 2001.
Dr. Utopia and Eric Holder are ecstatic over this. We picture the scene in the Oval Office, with the two of them yukking it up, high-fiving each other, possibly mooning over Tiger Beat photos of R-Pat or the shirtless werewolves in New Moon. In runs Rahm Emanuel, out of breathe, as usual. ”I know what you were doing,” the current president says, a wink in his voice. Eric Holder giggles like a school girl. Closing the door to the Oval, a sunglassed Secret Service guy checks his zipper, red-faced.
“No, girl, not this time. But the day’s still young!,” Rahm insists, giggling with Holder for a beat, before telling the other two Gossip Girls how thrilled they all should be that everything’s going so well and according to George Soros’ plan.
“Oh, George is going to be so happy with me. First he made sure I got that Nobel Prize for being awesome, and now I want him to get me an Oscar.”
“Make it a De La Renta and I’m in!,” Holder pipes up, scoring a “good one”, according to the other Gossip Girls.
“Make mine a Chanel. I wanna be Jackie Kennedy!,” Rahm preens.
“At least someone in this White House would look like Jackie Kennedy, no matter what we have the media insist,” the current president rejoinders, eliciting squeals from his underlings. That one is so good they all collapse to the floor for a two-minute tickle fight.
“I win! I win! I win!”, the current president brays, before insisting the three of them get back to work to think of more ways to embarrass America, make it less safe, and undermine the economy and public morale to the point of collapse. “We better get back to work or George Soros will be mad at us”.
How far off the mark are these imagined antics, really?
For eight years, we insisted Dick Cheney was hidden somewhere plotting and scheming, and we bet he was. He’s still plotting and scheming. But, you know what, that man was plotting and scheming FOR US. He was plotting and scheming to PROTECT US. He remains active and vigilent doing all he can to keep America safe and expose the current administration as the giggling, naive, reckless Gossip Girls they really and truly are.
We are thankful every day his daughter Liz Cheney is also emerging as a force of nature in her own right.
It is not unrealistic for us to believe Team Cheney meets on a regular basis, with the input of Lynne and Mary as well we hope, to find some way to stop the KSM and Muslim terrorists trials from ever happening in New York City civilian court.
We’re certain holdovers from the McCain campaign and RNC are advising Sarah Palin to stay away from all things Cheney. We’re also sure the people around Cheney are advising him to stay away from Palin, as she’s a legitimate threat to the stale GOP elite (“She’s too rogue. The media makes fun of her. She’s too folksy”).
But, if the two camps, Teams Cheney and Palin, cut through that noise and team up…WOW…they would really and truly be able to stop the KSM trial by shaming Congress to step in and overrule Eric Holder before any of that madness comes to pass. Cheney has the heft, the perspective, and the access to classified intel as a former VP that Palin does not have as a private citizen and former governor. Palin has over 1 million Facebook friends and is on a national book tour where her every word is being broadcast to millions.
If the Cheneys and Palins support each other, play off each other’s strengths, and come out on the same page, America wins.
Dick Cheney, in his secure and undisclosed location, is a voice America needs to listen to RIGHT QUICK.
And Sarah Palin, in our opinion, is just the person to make his points heard in a very big way.
You betcha.
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UPDATE: One of our good friends asked us how we reconcile our current appraisel of Dick Cheney with how they feel (and how we felt) about the intelligence failures of 9/11…a day when we personally lost a friend in one of the towers, and where many people we know lost friends and family.
We’re going to try to keep this brief, but 9/11 is something that’s still so raw for us all these years later that it’s hard to talk about in a few paragraphs. In addition to our friend Jane (the most foul-mouthed, erascible Asian you would ever meet) dying that day, one of us here actually had breakfast at Windows on the World two days before the planes hit — and he’s never been the same since, either, realizing that breakfast overlooking the Statue of Liberty happened right at the time, a few days later, that the planes hit. It’s a sobering and scary thing to think about, which further underscores how personal that day will always be.
Our first thought ever about 9/11 is about comic books and cartoons, ridiculously enough, and the fact that we always just assumed the government had missile batteries up in tall buildings, or transformable antennas that turn into lasers, and other fail-safes to keep our major cities free of such attacks. It’s ridiculous, yes, but growing up with G.I.Joe and the Transformers, it’s part of that Child of the 80s take on the world that doesn’t always serve us well. Our parents had the James Bond world view, where super spies stop things like 9/11 from happening, so our assumption that the government would “somehow” shoot down an errant plane like that before it hit a building has some precedence.
9/11 woke us up to the reality that the government doesn’t in fact know everything and can’t be Mother-Father-God-Protector even if it wanted to.
When we played hockey and soccer, the goalie was the most underappreciated guy on the team, largely, because he never got the glory of scoring any goals and the many saves he made weren’t chalked up to him by spectators…instead, the opposing side just “sucked” for not being able to score. But, it was the GOALIE who was blocking shot after shot after shot, to exhaustion. It was the goalie who prevented disaster every time he suited up and hit the ice or field. That guy has to block a million different possible attacks, while the offense just has to find one small exhaust pipe or ventillation shaft to blow up the whole Death Star.
During the campaign in 2008, we got to know someone who spent a lot of time in defense contracting, doing very nebulous, not-talked-about things. He was campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Akron, Ohio even though he was a Republican. ”She needs to win this state and we need her to win the nominaton because it will be a Democrat president in November, and it can’t be Obama,” the man said, believing the Utopia gang would be an unmitigated disaster. He insisted the Clinton people would know what they were doing with terrorist intelligence, while the Utopians would waltz in thinking they knew best, and that their approach to the world would warm the cockles of Muslim hearts and stop terrorism forever.
This man said the Utopians are fools who will get a lot of people killed.
He said they are worse than Condoleezza Rice’s crowd when she was National Security Advisor.
The man, who we’ll call Jim, was not knocking Rice, whom he respects and of whom he says, “she got better later once 9/11 woke her up”. But, he does say when she came onto the scene, she was all Russia-focused because that’s where her background is, on Russian and Soviet studies.
The Bush Administration came into office under a cloud of illegitimacy in 2001. The normal presidential transition from Clinton to Bush was usurped by the drawn-out election battle that really did eat into valuable passing-of-the-torch, sharing information time.
We remain convinced the Clinton Administration very much indeed warned the incoming Bush White House about the potential for Al Queda to hijack jets and hurtle them into tall buildings. Ultimately, Rice even admitted this was true. HOWEVER, as anyone who has been involved in a lawsuit can attest, when stacks of paper are delivered to you and you are a human being in an administration of human beings, you might as well have a haystack with a needle embedded in it sitting on your desk.
Rice and the Bush team were told about thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of potential attacks on the US from all sorts of people. Jim, in Ohio, told us about a dozen attacks he knew of that were stopped leading up to New Year’s even in 1999. Jim believes a lot of Y2K’s hysteria was dreamed up to put people on edge and distract them so they’d be less likely to be able to stop the actual crippling attacks, like blowing up LAX and thereby smashing a large part of the world’s pan-pacific air hub and spoke system in the process. Jim called Y2K the chatter and shouting fans do to throw goalies off their game, and it almost worked but intelligence sources stopped all those attacks.
There have been plots to destroy the New York, Washington, and Chicago subways. There have been plots to take out Las Vegas, destroy Hoover Dam, and bomb the aquaducts supplying New York with water — which is the least talked about but most devastating plot we’ve ever heard of. Without potable water, New York City would have to be abandoned in a matter of days because drinking water could be trucked in, but the sprinkler systems wouldn’t work in any of those buildings anymore, and neither would the fire plugs on the streets. So, round one would have been cutting off the water…round two would be waiting a few days for all the sprinkler reserves to bleed away…round three would have been an arson spree to torch the whole city.
If the aquaducts were taken out in several sections along their route from upstate down to the city itself, it would take years to replace them. New York would have to be walled off, John Carpenter-style, in that time to keep it from being torched.
Can you just imagine that?
But, goalies stopped that.
The Bush Adminstration stopped plenty of attacks before, and after, 9/11.
But, 9/11 got through. We do not believe it was allowed to get through. We do not believe the Bush Administration wanted it to get through. IT JUST GOT THROUGH.
A friend of ours was the goalie on our hockey team and the guy would cry after games when he’d miss a save and we’d lose the game. Cry. in the showers. Balling. And he was a big, big guy. But he would cry and all of us would leave him to it because the pressure on this kid was so massive all the time. We just had to worry about either getting the puck to score off the opponent or running defense to take down whichever offensive members we were covering, but the goalie had to block EVERYTHING and fans expected him to be everywhere at once, like the giant naked blue man in Watchmen.
99% of the time, our goalie was great, and didn’t end up crying in the shower. But it’s that 1% of the time that people remember and talk about ad nauseum.
We can say with 100% certainty that our friend Jane who died on 9/11 would not blame the Bush White House or Condi Rice for what happened. She would blame Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheik Muhammad, and the Muslims who murdered her. If one of us had been having breakfast at Windows on the 11th instead of the 9th or 10th, he’d feel the same way. As scary of a concept as this is to accept, the government cannot solve all problems or stop all attacks. Some will get through.
At the end of the day, though, it boils down to whether or not we have people in government who are willing to do everything it takes to stop as many attacks as possible and to prosecute with unlimited fury those who attack us.
We can never, EVER say the Bush White House did not do its level and determined best to bring all responsible for 9/11 to justice. We also an never, EVER say the Bush team did not, from top to bottom, try to stop as many terrorist attacks from happening as possible.
One got through.
Towers fell.
4,000 died.
But, Los Angeles is still here. The rest of New York is still there. Las Vegas is still here. 300 million people are still alive.
There will be no recriminations against the Bush Team in this regard from us.
Not after we’ve spent 8 years talking to people like Jim, having a meal with Jane’s family every year to talk about how foul-mouthed she was and how much she would want to rip the eyes out of everyone who did that to her, and rethinking our initial thoughts on Rice — who we did feel, back in 2001, was too Russia-focused and might have missed something about 9/11.
We wonder, now, what Russia was up to in 2001 that had Rice’s determined attention. She is not a foolish woman. She very well could have been averting WWIII if Putin wanted to launch his planned attacks on the Ukraine and other former satellites back then, when he thought America was destabilized and divided over the 2000 Gore recount. The recent plays Putin has made in Georgia, with eyes always set on the Crimea, have made us seriously wonder what secrets someone like Rice could tell if ever she was allowed to.
And that’s the thing we conclude all this on: we are all regular people who don’t know the full side of things. Sometimess we run into Jims who have more insight than we do. Sometimes we encounter powerful politicians or military types who give us a tidbit here and there about the real deal. But 99% of the time we’re all low-information about the REAL DEAL going on.
But, we’re 100% sure the Bush and Clinton White Houses loved this country and worked night and day to defend it.
We know one current Cabinet member is dedicated to that same purpose and sleeps about 3 hours a day because of her workload.
The rest of this administration, in our opinion, is a giggle-prone and naive slumber party of naivety the likes of which the world has never before seen.
We are serious when we say this, but GOD HELP US ALL.
Take some more, Jews. Obama guts Hannakhah party, but throws most lavish state dinner in YEARS for his Hollywood friends
A few months ago, someone did something to one of us that we won’t soon forget.
There was a nonprofit we were doing pro bono consulting for, setting up focus groups, doing event planning, using what connections we still had in Chicago to get this group’s name in front of “the right people”. We wrote their annual report and put together grant proposals for them, with unrealistic and near-impossible turn-around times (meaning, the nonprofit would give us an ALL-CAPS, gibberish infused, nonsensical draft and ask us if we could have the perfect, submission ready final copy the next day by noon). We believed in the cause and liked the people on the Board, so we worked hard, for free, on this project — always with the carrot dangled that should a paid position ever come available, or at least a position on the Board itself, that one of us would get that (since it was our work that kept this group from failing, or even folding, during those lean days).
The nonprofit put on a big fete to re-introduce itself to the LGBTQ community, which we event-managed, calling in just about every favor we had left to get the venu for free, to get an amazing deal on the catering, to get our own personal friends to waiter and bartend the event gratis, etc. We even used up personal credits we had with a printer, left over from the 2008 primaries, to have all the banners and flyers for the event done up, not costing the nonprofit anything. The event was a big success, better than anyone expected, at minimal cost to the nonprofit.
So, imagine our shock when at that event one of us just happened to be talking to the nonprofit’s president, Jason, who was rummaging through some papers he had in his little briefcase. Absent-mindedly, Jason asked us to read a letter the nonprofit wrote to a major donor about something, and on the letterhead were several new Board positions that didn’t exist before. Two of the positions were “Director of X” and “Director of Y”, which were the areas we were specifically told for months would go to one of us should this group ever create those positions and expand the Board.
We were FLOORED.
All that hard work, all that support, all those excuses that the Board didn’t have the leeway to expand, that they didn’t have the resources for paid consulting, etc., and here they went and created several (not just ONE) Board positions without including or informing us…and one of those positions was a paid consulting gig going to a good friend of Jasons whom we knew had never worked in the field. But, Jason wanted to give a plum to a frat boy he’s been secretly crushing on, so we got the shaft.
It was the very last event we ever put on for that group, and the last day we ever spoke to Jason.
That’s the story we’re thinking of today as we see the White House announce a lavish state dinner with a Hollywood Who’s Who of liberaldom in attendance, at a time when not only most Americans are struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads, but when Dr. Utopia and his fashion icon wife have decided that Jews are not worth spending the normal Hannakhah budget on.
The White House gutted the annual Hannakhah party by half.
They claimed they needed to cut costs and could not afford to throw a lavish party with that many guests.
Yet, the Utopias are throwing one of the most lavish, extravagant, spendthrift celebrations Washington has seen in YEARS to delight the multimillionaire spoiled children of Hollywood (which will have more guests than the Hannakhah party would have). The premise is a state dinner for India; the reality is that it’s an overblown, Mrs. Utopia-inspired, “let them eat curry”, tented bougie affair using India as an excuse to have all of Hollywood fly in on private jets, carbon footprints be damned.
Normally, a state dinner like this would be held inside the White House itself, without a tent. But, what’s a big Hollywood party without a tent? Oprah always has a tent at her parties in Montecito, and that’s just the Muumuu she wears to the breakfast trough hours before the actual party begins.
Some of you got all stirred up the other day when we said Jews are liberals before they are Jewish. That is something we see time and again, in our daily lives, and observe on the national stage, too. The PC police will claim, “Oh, I know a Jewish person who isn’t a liberal, so that’s not true!” the same way the delusional PC brigade here in Boystown keeps insisting the black kids who hang out at the Center on Halsted all day and mug people at night aren’t a problem (“They’re just misunderstood, and it’s RAACIST to say they are mugging people, even though they are mugging people”). We personally now know four people who’ve been attacked by those black Southside gangs that have been prowling Boystown since the Center on Halsted opened several years ago (another issue we’ve been talking about for some time). Yes, we’re sure there are black youth going to the Center who are not mugging people. Not all black people are mugging gay guys in Boystown. Clearly.
But enough of them are, by our own observation, to call the Center on Halsted Gang a real threat to people’s safety in Boystown. BECAUSE WE SEE THEM DO THIS.
Just as we see Jews we know, and on a national level, put their liberalism before their Jewishness.
It’s shameful to have a big Vanity Fair Oscar-style party with all the trimmings and excess while simultaneously the traditional Hannakhah celebration, which actually means something to a great many people who look forward to this White House event every year (and the symbolism that comes with it), is cut in HALF.
Surely, not tenting the White House lawn would save money.
Surely, uninviting the Hollywood contingent and limiting the guest list to people with an actual connection to India, the supposed honoree at this fete, will reduct costs.
Surely, the combined cost savings from a more traditional state dinner and guest list would be enough to reinstate the traditional full-scale Hannakhah celebration.
Surely.
What’s really intersting is how many Jews from Hollywood are gleefully making their way to the White House for the state dinner, but not saying boo about the Hannakhah celebration being gutted. Steven Spielberg’s on that state dinner guest list, as is Jeffry Katzenberg, Arie Emanuel (brother of ballerina turned foul-mouth Congressman turned White House Cheif of Staff and Skeletor impersonator, Rahm Emanuel), and a host of movie and TV people.
Why not decline your invitations asking the cost savings of your unused portion of the event go to restoring the Hannakhah event to full size?
Because they are liberals before they are Jews. They are Hollywood before they are Jewish.
And that Center on Halsted Gang really is a big problem, no matter how much people don’t want to speak the truth and admit it.
Monday Open Thread: November 23rd, 2009
What’s on your minds this Monday?
Last night, most of us here went over to our friend Panda’s house because he’s been insisting there are raccoons living in his walls (and he’s been scared, but told us nojt to write that on the Internets…but he was SCARED, really, really SCARED). So, those of us who didn’t have to wake up early for work today stayed up most of the night watching TV, which is really rare for us. Panda doesn’t have cable (and he doesn’t have raccoons, either, for the record, just an active imagination), so we watched the late ABC news…hosted by a very cute guy who looks all of 12 and a woman whose name we don’t know. They were, as far as newscasters go, very tolerable and surprising. MUCH better than the cable personalities on any channel but FOX.
One of the stories they ran, in all about two minutes, sandwiched between bits on the new Zhu Zhu pets (robot hamsters) craze and other Christmast shopping nonsense, was FASCINATING and something we want to explore more this week, pulling the hard data if we can find it.
The story was about the economy, and new polls released that say 30% of Americans are either unemployed or have someone in their homes living with them who is unemployed, and been looking for a job for over six months. 80% of people in that poll report having some sort of money problem. 61% of the people polled said they are very angry about the economy.
Shortly after this bit, ABC had a very quick blurb from an economist who says he does not expect the economy to rebound until 2012.
We remember the 1992 election, when the Clintons first won the White House. Economists said the economy had already rebounded, but the mood on the ground was tied to actual job growth, and people in each household being employed if they wanted work (that 30% number above would need to reach damn near zero for us to be “recovered” as an economy). That did not happen before the 1992 elections.
Thinking back to 1989-1992, we were too young to have paid attention to any of the figures at the time, so we don’t remember if 61% of the population was angry about the economy back then. Maybe they polled things like that, maybe not. But, we do not remember things ever being as bad as they are now. We’ve told you how all of us are working several jobs each to stay afloat, and how people we know who have never in their lives had money problems are losing their condos, selling their clothes and electronics on eBay, and even having to give up their pets because they can’t afford them anymore. Things didn’t get this BRUTAL for anyone we knew back in the 90s. What’s happening now is hitting EVERYONE we know, on all levels, in all classes.
BRUTAL.
Even the White House admits things are going to get much, much worse before they get even a little bit better.
Nuriel Roubini, an economist we find very compelling, consistently says it’s all going to get much, much worse…and that the White House is glossing over things, with the media doing its propaganda best to whitewash whatever Dr. Utopia wants them to.
But we keep thinking about that “61% angry” number. How high can that possibly go between now and 2010, and now and 2012? At what point will that number spell complete and utter doom for Democrats in Congress?
Are we at that point of no return already, and do Democrats in Congress already know that? Is THAT why they are all voting the way that they are for Utopiacare, knowing that no matter what they do that anger about the economy is going to boot most of the incumbents out of office and take both the House and the Senate away from Dems?
Do they know the tsunami is coming, so they’re living it up and doing all the crazy things they always wanted to do because come next November they realize they’ll be flushed from their offices regardless?
SOMEONE has to be doing polling that we’re not privy to.
Tonight was the first time we heard that “61% angry” number, but Congress has to have known about that months ago. They have to see this trend materializes that’s not going to get any better until people on the ground start collecting decent paychecks from steady work.
And if these people KNOW — without any doubt — that voters are going to punish Democrats in 2010, how many more crazy things are the liberals going to force through while they still have enought bodies to do so?
What’s your take on all of this?
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Total randomness, but here’s an interesting bit on our new favorite show Glee (which, thanks to Hulu, we can almost watch as soon as it airs). Whitney Houston turned down a role on Glee that was supposed to be a gospel choir director, because Whitney has a criminally stupid agent. The guest star slot was filmed long before Glee was first aired, so Whitney’s people probably didn’t realize what a hit the show would be…and how appearing on Glee would INSTANTLY put Whitney back in rotation in every gay bar we know’s VJ play lists (the clips of Kristen Chenowith singing on Glee are shown every Sunday, Monday, and Fridays at Sidetracks, guaranteed). Well, Whitney said no so the Glee people went with Eve instead.
What’s interesting is the character Eve plays in the clip above is NOTHING like what Whitney was supposed to be playing: Eve is playing the director of a reform school’s choir. Whitney was definitely supposed to be a gospel choir director.
So, our great, great hope is that Glee decided to rewrite the part so that Whitney could indeed appear as the gospel choir director in the future, hopefully in an episode that revoles around her own songs.
Madonn already gave permission to use her music in an episode next season. Rumor has it Cyndi Lauper will also be guest starring next year (she’s a wonderful actress if you’ve ever seen her in any of the cameos she’s done). We’re holding out hope Cheyenne Jackson comes to Glee at some point too, in his Xanadu cut-offs (or, without them, which is how he appears most often in our dreams).
Why do we back Whitney so much? Because we met her a few times and she was good to us. We’re loyal like that, and if anyone deserves a well-executed comeback it’s the woman who put up with, and was dragged down by, Bobby Brown for too damn long.
Go, Whitney, Go!
Who are black conservatives who can run for Senate in blue states in 2010?
Republicans have a great opportunity in 2010 to do serious damage to the Democrats’ reliance on black voters as part of their voting-bloc-coalition.
Democrats count on their voters remaining blindly loyal identity voters, where blacks, Jews, gays, and other subgroups never think of voting Republican, because they were taught since birth that Republicans are evil and Democrats are good.
We used to think that way too, as gay men who grew up in Democrat households in the midwest.
All of that changed in 2008, when we saw how awful the DNC behaved itself, with our final break with the party coming on May 31st, 2008 when the Rules & Bylaws Committee met in Washington DC and took delegates away from Hillary Clinton and gave them to the DNC’s chosen candidate, Dr. Utopia.
That was it for us, folks, in terms of blind loyalty to the Democrat Party. Our eyes were opened, and we haven’t looked back since.
We know we aren’t alone in this either.
But, there are other opportunities out there for Republicans to drive wedges between the DNC and blind party voters.
One ripe opportunity is running black candidates for Congress in blue states with heavy black populations. Wherever you have big cities, you have large concentrations of both black voters (who will vote for a black candidate regardless of party, since race trumps party affiliation for them) and urban, liberal elites (who are so terrified of being called RAAACISTS, they will not vote against a black candidate regardless of party). If Republicans run black candidates who are credible, non-crazy people (so, not Alan Keyes), and the campaigns are professional-looking and not half-hearted, we don’t see how Republicans would lose.
The black candidates have to be conservative, so the Republicans who love sitting elections out “to teach the RNC lessons” (which are never learned) can’t have the excuse of sitting their butts home. With normal conservative turnout in a blue state, combined with votes pealed away from Democrats in the black community, plus votes urban liberal elites either cast for the black candidate or waste sitting home (because they can’t bear the thought of voting against a black candidate), Republicans win.
What would be REALLY smart would be to find black WOMEN to run as Republicans.
Recruit them from big law firms in the major cities, or use Congressional staff or media people and business women. There are more successful black business women than Oprah or Gayle King.
This is another reason we want young gay Republicans like Congressman Aaron Schock to come out of the closet, too. Just like with the black community, Republicans could drive a wedge between the DNC and the gay community as well…if they ran candidates that are attractive to conservatives while also appealing to liberals in niche demographics (who won’t vote against these people for identity reasons, even if they can’t necessarily be made to vote FOR them). Schock could defeat Dick Durbin in 2014 if he came out: as a white gay Republican, he’d never get the black vote because the black community is the most homophobic and racist segment of voters in the country. But, closeted, Schock’s not getting the black vote anyway. He WOULD, however, force Boystown to have a meltdown, and with it the Gold Coast, Northside, Loop, and most of Cook County. How do they vote against a nice looking, smart, affable gay man? A lot of these voters would sit home…and if Republicans just do 4% better in Cook County than they typically do, they’d win the state. The conservative downstate vote, Republican base, independents, and depressed Dem turnout would win that Senate seat for Schock in a few years. But, only if he’s a niche identity candidate appealing to the gay market in this state where liberal Chicago dominates.
Notice, we are not advising Republicans to adopt any liberal principles. Republicans lose when they try to be Democrat-lite.
Republicans win when they offer a clear alternative to spendthrift liberalism, but do so without getting into messy social issues…and can present their message in a package that’s attractive to low-information identity voters who see a candidate’s skin color and sexuality first and foremost on the ballot. Conservatives need to be energized in the blue states, and liberals need to have depressed turnout generated by Republican candidates they find it hard to vote against, hard to hate, lest they open themselves up to being called RAAACISTS and bigots.
So, Republicans need black women and young handsome gay male candidates. A crop of those, and an Aaron Schock out of the closet, would make Rahm Emanuel apoplectic.
How does Sarah Palin defeat the Race Industry?
Going forward, we’re operating under the reasoned assumption Sarah Palin is running for president in 2012. This is a minor convention we’ll adopt, to save us from having to couch everything we say in terms of “well, if she decides to run…if she runs…this is what would need to happen if she ran, etc.”
The “Going Rogue” book tour is the opening volley of a presidential campaign, as far as we’re concerned.
On the ground here in Chicago, we’re wondering how Palin’s going to combat and defeat the Race Industry, which will be ramped up to full Sharpton for Dr. Utopia’s 2012 campaign. In order for her to win, she needs to start dismantling what Sharpton, Henry Gates, Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, John Lewis, Eric Holder, James Clyburne, and other shameless race-baiters have carefully constructed as a cottage industry over the last 30 years.
Where does she start?
How instrumental will the Race Industry be to the 2012 campaign?
The Race Industry was Dr. Utopia’s golden ace in 2008: he needed it to alienate the black community from the Clintons, and with them the white, urban elites who are so fond of telling everyone they know how much they support the long-suffering blacks (though they would never want to live near them, or actually have any of them as real friends, and not just cocktail party props). Dr. Utopia’s surrogates like Lewis and Clyburne actually accused the Clintons — THE CLINTONS — of being RAAACISTS, people who have done more for the black community than just about anyone we can think of, including Sharpton, Gates, Jackson, and Dr. Utopia himself. There’s a reason people drop to their knees and weep in the streets when Bill or Hillary Clinton head to Africa, and it’s not because the two of them say “Hope” a lot. It’s because those people wouldn’t be alive if not for the Clinton Foundation, they wouldn’t have medicine for their children or roofs over their heads if not for the Clinton Global Initiative. In poor school districts in Arkansas, little black kids are still eating healthy breakfasts and good lunches because of programs Hillary Clinton put in place, TWENTY YEARS AGO, as First Lady of Arkansas.
You sit and think about that for a minute.
Back when Dr. Utopia was in New York City, by his own admission in his books, abusing cocaine and doing other mysterious things, the Clintons were working hard to do everything they possibly could to better the lives of blacks first in this country, and then later in Africa through President Clinton’s post-presidential work.
We will never forgive the Utopias for labeling our champs RAAACISTS, and we won’t forgive any of Utopia’s surrogates for that slur either.
Part of the payback coming to Dr. Utopia and his race-baiting gang is the ultimate destruction of the Race Industry. Like ACORN, another ally Utopia will rely heavily on in 2012, the Race Industry is a hydra that evolves and reformulates whenever attacked. It needs to be discredited, lampooned, exposed, and prosecuted financially. In addition to forcing average Americans to see these race hucksters for what they really are, we need to convince corporate America to cut off its support for the Sharpton-Gates-Jackson race-a-palooza…and, when we’ve got a new Attorney General who will actually prosecute criminals and not our CIA and FBI, hopefully get Sharpton-Gates-Jackson and the rest on whatever income tax or other charges that might be out there. That’s how the government took down Al Capone.
Surely, the corporate shakedowns Sharpton and Jackson have been engaged in for the last twenty years are prosecutable in some way, if the climate in this country became such that a corporation could step forward and reveal, exactly, how Sharpton and Jackson come to their offices and tell them that the only thing standing between them and disruptive race protests is a sizable donation to the Sharpton-Jackson coffers.
It seems to us RICO charges should be applied to these two, as their shakedowns cross state lines, work in collusion with one another, and involve multiple parties causing great loss to business should the extortions not be paid.
The MSM refuses to cover Sharpton and Jackson as the common thugs they are. They’re both anointed “Reverands” and treated with a deference neither of them earned or deserve.
Sarah Palin might just be the public figure we’ve all been waiting for: someone beholden to no one who takes chances and speaks the truth.
What we’d like to see is this: the next time Sharpton, Gates, Jackson, Holder, Lee, or any of the rest of these racial-grievance-mongers gets going on something, Palin needs to call them out. She needs to be the voice of what everyone else in this country is thinking, but is afraid to say. Sharpton et al will call her a RAAACIST, of course, but they do that now anyway. That’s their whole schtick, their entire plan for 2012 as well. “She’s a RAAACIST! RAAACIST, RAAACIST, RAAACIST, WAAAAAH!”.
Instead of being afraid of these clowns, why not face them head-on and say something like, “Well, here Al Sharpton goes again, calling everyone in sight RAAACISTS! Haven’t we had enough of this? There’s a black president. Where is all this RAAACISM that Sharpton and Jackson keep screaming about? Let’s take a good look at all the money these two make off of screaming RAAACIM! and stop being afraid of the screaming and the yelling, because I know you’re as tired of this as I am, and I am tired of the media giving these clowns a pass on this because they are black. Race cards expired at twelve noon on January 20th, 2009. I call upon our illustrious president to denounce race-baiting for what it is. We’ve all had enough of this garbage”.
Sarah Palin needs to rent Bullworth.
It’s largely an insufferable movie, one of the last Warren Beatty vanity projects, featuring Halle Berry in her first or second role. But, we’ve long thought a politician following the Bullworth model would mop up at the ballot box — someone who came out and told it like it is, who stood up and said what everyone is thinking but is normally too afraid to voice.
Ross Perot had a little of that, and we believe could have won in 1992 if he’d stuck to his guns and ran a harder, more determined, more dedicated campaign. Perot shook things up, spoke from his heart, and made a lot of sense to a lot of people in a folksy way.
Does that sound like anyone we know today?
You betcha.
If by any chance anything we write ever gets to Palin herself, we want to always insist she remains herself. Don’t hire any GOP consultants. Do not bring on staff any campaign veterans from the McCain team. If anything, try to hire as many Hillary people as possible, because we’ve gone up against this nonsense already. There were many on Team Hillary who wanted the Clintons to hit back HARD against the black community and the accusations of RAAACISM. We wanted President Clinton to deliver a speech, straight into the camera, calling out Lewis, Clybourne, Sharpton, Jackson, et al by name as the cowards and race-baiting liars they are. But, the Clintons didn’t want to do that…they were stuck in the paradigm that “acknowledging those vulgar attacks gives them more life:.
No, letting Sharpton, Gates, Jackson and the rest get away with this garbage all these years gave it more life.
Being afraid to push back against this garbage gives it new life.
Not calling out the black community’s virulent, persistent, and vocal RAAACISM gives all this enduring life.
Palin’s in a different position than the Clintons were in, because black people aren’t going to vote for her no matter what she does. Since Palin is white, and not a Democrat, she has no chance in Hell of winning more than a fraction of the black vote.
Black people vote for other black people, by and large. Regardless of party.
Absent another black face on a ballot, black people default vote Democrat.
That is not going to change between now and 2012. About the only way Palin could siphen off even a fraction of the black vote would be to run Michael Steele as her VP — something we would very much like to see happen, as we are big fans of Steele (he is a good, good, GOOD man we’d go to bat for ANY day). If it was Palin/Steele in 2012, we believe many blacks would just sit home, figuring they’d “win” no matter what happens…either they’d have a black President or a black VP. Black voters are the least reliable, least consistent American voters. They were energized in 2008 to elect the first black president. In 2012, it will be a challenge for the White House to get them to turn out to re-elect Dr. Utopia. If Republicans can offer any excuse whatsoever to get these voters to just sit home and blow off election day the way they normally do, that could be another 2-3% easily that Palin/Steele would win by default.
The urban, liberal elite might sit home too, as they trend where the black community trends, and like to prove their liberal bonifides by telling everyone how much they support the black candidate in this or that, or always hire the black applicant, or just love the new hippit-hop album they downloaded to their Iphone.
Steele on the ticket as VP would sure blur a lot of lines. It would be fun to call liberals RAAACISTS for not supporting Steele as VP. We relish the chance to say, “Oh, what’s a matter? Are you RAAACIST? Is Steele too black for you? So, you can vote for a guy who has a white mother, but you won’t vote for Steele who’s all black? Is that it? You RAAACIST.”
Accusing a liberal of being RAAACIST is like throwing Holy Water on a vampire and kicking his brooding butt into the sun.
There are so many great opportunities in a Palin candidacy to dump the entire Race Industry into an inland sea, if not a full ocean, of Holy Water, if Palin’s astute enough to seize the Bullworth moment to eliminate one of the liberals’ favorite weapons against conservatives.
In a town called Sunnydale, a sharp, indominable woman slayed vampires by being herself, being different, and keeping her stakes as razor sharp as her wit.
Where Buffy took on vampires, Sarah Palin could take on the Race Industry, and slay it once and for all.
Sunday Open Thread: November 22nd, 2009
What’s on your mind this Sunday?
What things are your friends and family talking about?
How much are the regular, non-political people around you talking about the Utopiacare bill, Sarah Palin’s book, and the exposure of the massive Anthropogenic Global Warming fraud emails?
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Here’s the SNL Palin 2012 spoof from last night.
Here’s the thing: Liberals are TERRIFIED of Palin running for President because they know she will win.
TERRIFIED.
Here in Boystown, the memo the low-information fops have received is to just keep calling her stupid. Our advice to Palin is to put out one more book before 2012. The next one should be a strictly policy book on energy independence, national security, and financial management — using her experiences as Alaska’s governor as a framework to show anecdotal examples of her policy in action, then extrapolating them to illustrate what her approach would do for America.
Palin will then have two books by the time she’d run in 2012. Dr. Utopia had two books written. It might seem ridiculous to you, people who are reading a political site and are engaged in matters beyond Boystown, but trust us, “Oh, he wrote two books, he must be smart” is one of the things the voters here said about Dr. Utopia back in 2008.
Palin needs to control her media appearances and not give Tina Fey any more ammunition. She also needs to put out another, more substantive book…so that people calling her stupid can open themselves for one hell of a left hook back in their face, when Palin supporters call them sexists and misogynists.
If Dr. Utopia “wrote” two books (or had William Ayers write them for him), and Palin has two books under her belt (that she actually wrote), then liberals will next get into, “Well, he went to Harvard and Columbia”, at which point we hope Palin presses hard to ask why his college transcripts (and medical records too, while we’re at it) have never been released. Every other president’s academic and medical records are a matter of public information…but not Dr. Utopia’s.
We believe the reason for that is the Harvard Law Review.
Dr. Utopia was an affirmative action choice to be president of the Law Review. He did not have the best grades in his class…he was by all accounts a middling law student. But, Harvard wanted a black Law Review president, and so they gave the position to him. Instead of working hard and proving he deserved the position, Dr. Utopia didn’t even bother to write a single article for the Review. To this day, his year remains the least-cited Law Review in modern memory.
Releasing his transcript from Columbia and Occidental College would open up questions as to how he got into Harvard to begin with.
It’s clear the White House, and the institutions involved, don’t want to get into affirmative action debates.
Palin’s candidacy, and the “stupid” attacks liberals are already launching against her, could really blow back in these attackers’ faces.
Just imagine Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews and Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell on Election Night 2012. The lot of them just might kill themselves, or have Tim Russert-style heartattacks on the news room floor.
Not saying we hope that happens.
Not saying it wouldn’t be wonderful if it did.
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About that opening SNL skit last night, where Dr. Utopia’s in China and gets a lecture from the Chinese president about how ridiculous and destructive his socialist policies are. Towards the end, the Chinese president repeatedly bends over and makes frequent jokes about Dr. Utopia having man-sex with him. All we will say about that is “Man’s Country in Andersonville here in Chicago”. There are plenty of SNL writers who spent time at Second City in Chicago. There are reasons jokes about the current president having man-sex are funny. In the same way that jokes about Oprah eating too much are funny. If you live in Chicago, and know people who lived in Chicago in the 90s, there are a lot of levels to humor you might not immediately pick up on if you don’t have that Chicago connection.
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Here’s some child of the 80s randomness you can help us with.
We’re trying to remember the name of a cartoon that aired in syndication on Sunday mornings back in Cleveland in the late 80s.
It had a toy line with it, but we never had any of the toys: they were vehicles that shot little foam missiles and used string to fly around…the strings were supposed to be cables these vehicles could shoot into mountain cliffs.
The premise of the show was that a new continent suddenly appeared in the ocean near the Antarctic, and all sorts of plants and animals were mutated into giant monsters on that continent.
There were a group of heroes who had orange/yellow/red vehicles versus villains in blue/purple/green vehicles. We remember the name was something like “Cable Raiders”, but have not been able to find the cartoon on any 80s cartoon lists.
For some reason, we started thinking about the show after seeing the movie 2012, and thought about it today after the SNL Palin 2012 parody. It’s the resettling the Earth, new frontier of an unkown continent that has us thinking about this.
Does anyone know the name of this show?
