Archive for November, 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.
Identify Obama's chess pieces for 2012 so they can be removed from the board
Here’s an interesting idea we had, inspired by a comment someone left yesterday relating things political to a chess board.
We started thinking about that, and wondered what “chess pieces” we could all identify that Dr. Utopia will rely on for his 2012 campaign. We would, thus, have three years to work hard to remove these pieces from the proverbial board to weaken his candidacy further in that 2012 race.
Here are his allies that we can readily identify, off the top of our heads:
* ACORN and its affiliates, and whatever ACORN morphs into once the name “ACORN” itself becomes too toxic
* the SEIU
* the Mainstream Media (MSM), but most specifically MSNBC, NBC, CNN, the New Y ork Times, Newsweek, and TIME
* the Black Panthers
* the Race Industry, as led by the likes of Al Sharpton/Henry Gates/Jesse Jackson/Eric Holder
* George Soros
* ACORN-backed Secretaries of State like Jennifer Brunner in Ohio
* Operatives on the ground, at the county level, in early states like Iowa where the DNC’s plan is to game the caucus and install a beatable Republican like Romney or Huckabee as the nominee
David Axelrod now has the full power of the White House to conjure up all sorts of additional allies for 2012, so removing the above pieces won’t mean others couldn’t materialize to take their places. But, ACORN especially was established for YEARS, and if that pawn alone can be obliterated, it’s going to be very hard to rebuild that infrastructure in just 3 years’ time. Booting out as many corrupt Secretaries of State like Jennifer Brunner also will be a huge help towards the goal of fair elections.
What other chess pieces can you identify and what do you think can be done, in a concerted effort, to limit their ability to game 2012 for Dr. Utopia too?
In particular, what do you think could be done about the biggest asset the White House has — the Mainstream Media?
Have you noticed the tabloids reporting a lot on lung cancer for Dr. Utopia?
At the grocery store today, we saw quite a few tabloids with stories on Dr. Utopia having lung cancer, attributing his recent dramatic weight loss and skeletal appearance to that. These aren’t The Enquirer, which is more accurate than the New York Times, but tabs like The Globe and others in that ilk.
We personally believe Dr. Utopia has Parkinson’s, and that Parkinson’s will be the excuse he gives when he chooses not to run for a second term (after it’s clear to him he’s not going to win, he would rather take his toys and go home rather than face that defeat on a national scale…LBJ style).
Parkinson’s helps explain the reliance on the TelePrompTer, since whenever he goes off script he seems addled, confused, and makes ridiculous comments.
It would explain his weight loss and the facial twitches he has.
There’s a direct link between Parkinson’s and heavy cocaine abuse, of which Dr. Utopia freely admits in his book, The Dreams of William Ayers, or whatever it’s called.
Apparently, this Wednesday Utopia said something in an interview that many people was a sign he won’t be seeking a second term. We didn’t see that interview, so please post more information here if you can. It would be interesting that he’d drop that information now. It seems much too soon for that.
There are other theories here in Boystown as to what, exactly, Dr. Utopia has, in terms of illness, that would make him forego a second term. Those are the kinds of diseases a guy who loves to bow as much as Utopia does could pick up at a place like Man’s Country in Andersonville, a place where many here remember a young state senator frequenting before he became nationally famous. But, those aren’t the kind of diseases someone would tap into huge reserves of national sympathy with. Parkinson’s, or lung cancer, are two ailments Utopia would certainly use, to great fanfare, to step down in 2013. But, like Liberace and others before him, he’d fight tooth and nail to keep the other stuff secret, if that’s what, indeed, was wrong with him.
We’re waiting for The National Enquirer to start reporting on any of this. In the BizzarroWorld we live in, the Enquirer is the only reputable journalists left. If they start weighing in on this “no second term”, “he has Parkinson’s”, “it’s lung cancer”, or “AZT makes someone drop weight like that”, then we’ll all know what the real deal is.
Oprah's departure means the Obama presidential library seems likely in Honolulu
Something Oprah said today really caught our attention, and for once it wasn’t the “Give me FOOOOOD! Oprah HUNNNGGGRY!” we hear bellowed from the general direction of Harpo Studios twelve times a day. Right before those military choppers scramble overhead with circus elephants and overstuffed manatees, marinated in teryaki sauce, destination unknown.
No, it was something Oprah said about her move to California in 2011…about how she hated living in Chicago because it’s freezing cold and how she wanted to use her mansion in Monticeto, California as her new home base.
We’ve thought for a long time that Dr. Utopia would screw over Chicago when it came time to select a site for his presidential library. Oprah’s comment is something we could see Mrs. Utopia saying herself: ”Why do we want to go back to Chicago when we can live in Honolulu where it’s warm, and I can wear more ridiculous things than even I could imagine because so many people are on vacation there and dress in costumes most of the time themselves?”.
The University of Chicago has been working hard to secure the Utopia presidential library. The failed Olympics plans included a scheme to build the infrastructure for a library that would have been placed where a temporary stadium would have been built in Washington park.
Mayor Daley wants, and feels that he’s owed, that library.
But just watch, it’s going to go to Hawaii. Presumably, someone as egocentric as Dr. Utopia will want to devote a great deal of time to the “Utopia Institute” or whatever he will call the think tank that is attached to the library. By 2013, when he’s out of office, we hope most of the country has awakened to the realities of what importing so much of Chicago to Washington has done to the country.
We wonder how willing Dr. Utopia will be at that point to underscore all of those negatives by builing that library on the Southside of Chicago, where the Utopias currently have a house they bought with convicted felon Tony Rezko’s help. We’ve long suspected they won’t be living in that house once he leaves the White House. It’s not grand enough, and it’s on too common of a street. After farting through as much silk as they could get their hands on in the White House, with Mrs. Utopia’s mother, Grandma Robinson-Utopia, along for the ride too, there’s no way they’re going to be living in Hyde Park again. Maybe they’ll buy a big estate near their dear friend Jeremiah Wright, who’s living in a big mansion himself these days. But, if you’re going estate shopping, why do it in Chicago…when Honolulu’s calling, baby?
Don’t forget, Oprah and Mrs. Utopia are chit-chat buddies.
If Oprah’s so willing to give up her Chicago turf, of which she presumes herself a queen, to move to nicer weather, we bet Mrs. Utopia will be on that same page, too.
We doubt Mayor Daley will be in office by 2013, and he would be a driving force in trying to use every hook, crook, and cudgel available to get that library. Absent his efforts, we see the building going to Honolulu more and more every day.
Oprah's presidential endorsement last year hurt her more than she will ever admit
Did I do that?
Read this article from Nikki Finke over at Deadline Hollywood Daily. It’s about the end of the Oprah Winfrey Show. What’s really interesting are the comments.
Deadline Hollywood Daily is read by almost everyone in the entertainment industry every day, but it’s not something regular people read normally. It’s very heavy on the behind the scenes deals and contract negotiations of Hollywood, and not the Perez Hilton sensationalism…so the audience it attracts is more mature than an average site, and a lot more informed, too.
Read the comments.
There is no love for Oprah out there, at least not on the level Lake Michigan’s own Charybdis believes.
There is, however, strong indication Oprah did herself great harm in 2008 by pushing Dr. Utopia for president. As we’ve noted before, the first time Oprah endorses a candidate and it happens to be a black candidate. That fact has not been lost on most people. Nor should it be.
Oprah’s ratings are the lowest they have ever been. Sarah Palin’s appearance this week gave her the biggest spike she’s seen since 2006, before the Utopia endorsement. Following Palin’s appearance, ratings dropped back to their normal toilet levels. People tuned in to see Palin, then tuned right back out again.
Oprah will remain on the air through 2011, but will be off the air right before the first primaries start to gear up for the 2012 nominating contests. She’s starting her own cable network called OWN (which stands for Oprah’s Weird Noises, where she’ll film herself, in the bathroom mostly, making “weird noises” her audience will find “unexpected, if not gruesome”. Apparently, this has been “a great dream of (mine) for some time, because some of the noises I make are so interesting that I have to share them with others besides Gayle”).
We believe many liberals, independents, and moderates are loathe to admit they made a mistake with Dr. Utopia.
One way to get them to drop their support for him is to say they were tricked into backing him by Oprah, who called him “The One”, said he was sent from space to save the planet, and promised he would work all sorts of miracles.
If a concerted effort is made to remind people Oprah is largely responsible for everything that’s happening in the White House now, not only will Oprah’s ratings continue to flatline, but so will Dr. Utopia’s poll numbers. Which is a win-win for everyone but Utopia and Winfrey.
“Next time Oprah, keep the Change” would look great on a tee shirt, as would “This is all Oprah’s fault”.
Friday Open Thread: November 20th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Friday?
What do you think the most important or interesting things that happened this week were?
What do you think will be the big stories next week?
What is Rudy Giuliani Up To?
This is interesting news, that former NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani is now positioning to run for NY Senate next year — and not against Chuck Schumer for the full 6-year term, but against Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the remainder of Hillary Clinton’s Senate term.
For starters, here’s what strikes us:
* Giuliani will never be president, because he dressed in drag, is pro-choice (great way to keep the base home on election day), and has a wife, Judith, who tortured and killed puppies as a surgical sutures rep in the 80s and 90s. There is a whole Vanity Fair piece run in 2007 that spells out all the sick and perverse things the two of them have done through the years: it’s been too long since 9/11 for Giuliani to profit off being mayor on that day, which is the only thing that would have trumped most of the negatives about him, especially for conservative voters. The GOP cannot run a moderate and expect to win because those conservatives will sit their butts home. Learn from 2008, people.
* It’s a BIG DEAL that Giuliani is not running for NY governor. That means the state is in too much trouble to save. David Paterson said it would be broke by Christmas, but this is a good indication of how bad things must really be. It seems like Giuliani would win the gubernatorial race if he wanted it. It’s also interesting to us that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to be governor of New York either. Paterson is a weak governor. If he survies the Dem nomination process, he will be a weak general election candidate. It’s interesting Giuliani wants to head to the Senate — a place where he won’t be able to do much of anything because of Senate seniority rules. When so much bad legislation is coming up consistently for votes, being part of the Senate is the last thing anyone should want.
* It is interesting that Giuliani is going for Gillibrand’s two year term and not after Schumer’s 6-year term. That means Giuliani would be either up for re-election in 2012, or he could try to run for president again. Unless Sarah Palin backs him, he’s toast for the presidential nomination. Sorry, but all of us here are gay and we don’t want a president who dressed in drag (that goes for you, too, Charlie Crist). We don’t care why he did it. He did it. It’s not appropriate for a president. It should indeed be used against Giuliani. As should his wife’s puppy killing (where she used live puppies, cut their stomachs open, then demonstrated how surgical sutures she was selling are used to close up wounds like that. After her demos, the puppies were euthanized). By 2012, America will have suffered so much under Dr. Utopia. We really, really don’t need the Rudy and Judith Show after having gone through the adventures of Dr. and Mrs. Utopia.
We heard rumors former Governor George Pataki was running for the Senate. Maybe he’ll run for Schumer’s seat. Governor Paterson humiliated HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy and forever ruined any chance she had of becoming an elected official herself, so for that the man has our constant gratitude. We know people who’ve worked for Paterson who say he’s kind of an ass and a big baby to deal with, so we won’t be helping him in the slightest — but man, to do what he did to Princess Caroline, that guy’s forever on our Christmas card list, let us tell you.
