Archive for December 5th, 2009
Question of the Day: Why would you keep your college transcripts from being released?
Here’s an interesting question someone posed to us in an email. ”Why would you keep your college transcripts from being released, if everyone who held your current job was forced to release them in the past?”.
This is, of course, in no way whatsoever connected to the current occupant of the White House.
But, we thought about this question and came up with only two reasons why we would refuse to release our college records to the public if we held positions where every man who held the job before us had relased theirs:
(1) Our grades were terrible and we’d ruin the fantasy we created that we are incredibly intelligent; as minorities, we’d also be worried the terrible grades would make people think the only way we got into the expensive Ivy League schools we attended was because of Affirmative Action
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(2) The transcripts would include financial aid information, specifically showing how our education was financed and who paid for it; either we received scholarships such as a Fulbright grant for foreign students that we shouldn’t have as US citizens or someone unseemly funded our studies.
Those are the only two reasons we can think of for why we would refuse and refuse and refuse all attempts to release these matters of record to the public, when, as noted, everyone who held the position before us did just that — without making a big issue of being compelled to do so.
What would keep you from releasing your own records in a similar situation?
Will Saturday Night Live do anything with Climategate tonight?
Saturday Night Live, a show that was funny once before many of us here were born, is “live from New York” tonight, with host Blake Lively (who, oddly, shares a name with one of the best strippers at the Lucky Horseshoe in Chicago…the things you people learn from us, right?).
Will SNL do anything with Climategate?
We’ve been thinking about what it will take for regular people, who don’t read political blogs, to catch on to the massive fraud and data fabrication committed by the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hoax Brigade.
Something like SNL would indeed make a lot of people wonder what the heck Climategate is, since they have not heard about it on the news yet.
Once the AGWHB starts getting ridiculed, the MSM will cave and start to cover it, lest they go down with the self-proclaimed climatologists.
It feels like an enormous dyke about to burst (no Oprah or Rosie jokes here, so don’t even try it), with everyone in the media frantically shoving wads of gum everywhere, trying to keep all that water back…and the pressure is just blowing these giant pink water balloon bubbles that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson and all these other gibbons are juggling, carrying more water for Al Gore and Dr. Utopia than Gunga Din.
Those bubbles will burst.
The truth will get out.
Either SNL will prove itself relevant and start bursting those bubbles, or it will end up being ridiculed itself for refusing to cover what we believe will become one of the most historic scandals to ever rock not just this country, but the world.
We truly wonder what Lorne Michaels will do.
ACTION ITEM: Send the DNC and AARP your phone books via their "No postage needed" envelopes
Thanks to a reader for this idea.
Do you still get mailings from the DNC or AARP that include a “No Postage Required” envelope intended for you to send a check back to them? Instead of giving the DNC or AARP — two entities we abhor because of their recent behavior — any money, why not start costing them money with those mailings?
Since the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee met on May 31st, 2008 to take delegates away from Hillary Clinton that she won in Florida and Michigan, we’ve sent back every contribution envelope we’ve received from the DNC filled with as many flat rocks as we could fit into the envelopes, hoping to cost the DNC a lot in postage.
Well, SSmith has an even better idea: start sending the DNC and AARP your phone books.
You don’t use them anymore, because most likely you just look numbers up online these days. So, here’s what you do:
(1) Get a box
(2) Put your phone book (and maybe some rocks, too) in the box
(3) Include a note telling the DNC and AARP why you no longer support them
(4) Close the box up
(5) Tape the DNC and AARP’s return envelope to the box
(6) Take it to the Post Office
(7) Enjoy the idea that instead of the DNC or AARP making money off that envelope, you could conceivably cost them a few dollars
Most likely, just like what happened with us, you will soon stop receiving these contribution mailings and will probably go on a crackpot list.
We’ve been to DNC headquarters a few times and know the sort of people who work there. We guarantee this will drive them nuts. Most of them are spoiled, entitled, fresh out of grad school kids who throw tantrums easily and sweat whenever the public rebels in the slightest. Around Mother’s Day in 2008, Hillary Clinton had a big event in DC and most of us went…on the way, we stopped at the DNC’s HQ to scream and shout about the Caucus and Primary fraud. All those people working there looked terrified that people had come to protest…and we were a bunch of well-dressed young gay men and middle-aged nicely dressed women, all standing up for Hillary while driving those people nuts.
One of the best days of our lives, seriously.
You, too, can take part in screwing with these people by mailing them your phone book (and maybe some rocks from your yard).
“Hey, you keep asking me for donations and I keep telling you that I stopped supporting the DNC after what you guys did to Hillary Clinton on May 31st, 2008 at the Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting. You asked me for a donation, but instead I thought you could use a Schaumburg phone book instead. Hope you like the rocks, too. They match the ones you have in your skull. Hope! Change!”
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UPDATE: Another good idea is to save up any religious, hunting, NASCAR, or other such catalogs you receive and send those to the DNC and AARP too. We’re sure they’ll love them and be so grateful they got them “in lieu of a donation”.
“Sure hope these religious catalogs help your cause. I know you will find a good use for them. Please send me more of your pre-paid donation envelopes as a thank you for my contribution. I await more opportunities to help you in this way.”
Photoshops needed: Disney has handed everyone a new caricature of Obama in Dr. Facilier
Effeminate? Check. Liar? Check. Skinny and supposedly charming? Check. Surrounded by shadowy subversives? Check.
UPDATE: In the photo above, doesn’t it just lend itself to parody of the current Congress? There’s a demon on the left of Dr. Utopia that looks just like Nancy Pelosi. Below her, to the far left, is another one that looks just like Harry Reid. ON THE FAR LEFT. To the right of Dr. Utopia, there’s a three-headed monster that looks like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Tim Russert epitomizing the drive-by media. Then, there’s Rahm Emanuel, dressed up like he just left a production of CATS, lurking in the far right corner.
Seriously…can someone photoshop this using the ideas in this post? We’d love to start using this whenever we run photos of Dr. Utopia.
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Next Friday, Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” opens in theaters.
The main villain is an effeminate, lying, skinny, supposedly charming, malevolant huckster who looks an awful lot like the effeminate, lying, supposedly charming, malevolant huckster currently occupying the Oval Offce.
Someone talented with Photoshop should get on the ball and start cranking out artwork of Dr. Utopia, our current president, done up like Dr. Facilier, Disney’s newest villain.
Just like Jaffar in Aladdin, Dr. Facilier is fey, overly enamored with himself, with his greatest weakness, it seems, being his own vanity.
The comparisons to the current president simply do not end.
Change the "Dr. Facilier" to "Dr. Utopia" and who does this remind you of?
* Just replace the skull and crossbones with the creepy “O” logo from the campaign that looks like a giant eye.
*Change the background to smurf blue instead of purple.
* Replace the background skulls with that narcissistic faux-presidential seal he created for himself in 2008.
*Dumbo-ize the ears a bit.
*Remove the moustache and close the gap in the teeth.
* Take away the feather in the hat.
* Add a tie and white shirt to the jacket.
* Replace the bones and teeth around his neck with unicorn horns on a string.
What really works for us is that “Dr. Utopia” is now more apt than ever, with Dr. Facilier entering the pop culture starting Friday. For whatever reason, Disney has chosen not to promote Princess and the Frog, so at the moment this character is on no one’s radars.
The conspiracists in us wonder if Disney realized too late how alike Dr. Utopia and Dr. Facilier are: remember, these cartoons take years to draw. Dr. Utopia was not on the national scene until late 2007. The character design for Dr. Facilier was begun long before that. The similarities and comparisons are thus serendipitous and coincidental.
Maybe when we see the film we won’t walk away with the feeling that Utopia and Facilier are separated at birth — but just from the character art we’ve see, there is so much a talented photoshop artist could do with this that would seriously hurt Dr. Utopia’s chances for re-election…as nobody in their right mind would work to re-elect Jaffar, Ursula the Sea Witch, Malefficent, or any of the other Disney villains to a second term as POTUS.
We are officially fans of Sue Lowden now too, and will do all we can to help her defeat Harry Reid in Nevada
A message to the RNC: if you keep running great candidates like Sue Lowden against terrible Democrats like Harry Reid, you will win more elections.
Just a thought.
Sometimes, based on some of the numbskulls that win GOP nominations, this seems like it might be some sort of rocket science in the climatology mode…but, honestly, Harry Reid is in for the fight of his vile, repugnant, incompetent life.
Anything we can do to help Sue Lowden will be a sincere pleasure.
It is now shaping up that Republicans have managed to run a great candidate against Reid in Nevada…and another great candidate, John Dennis, against Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco.
Just consider for a moment the marvel it would be if these two destructive fools were cast out of Congress on their rumps by strong GOP challengers.
Please explain to us, again, the reason behind not running strong, likeable, decent candidates in EVERY race?
Go, Sue, go!
Go, John, go!
We need more like you!
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Here in Boystown, “The Snows of Kilimajaro” is either a literary-flavored Craigslist code for doing cocaine or a book carried around by poseurs to one of the two Caribous (or, CareABoys/CareToCruise) as a prop to seem intelligent while pretending to be seriously reading (while, in fact, just cruisin’ for dudes).
It’s also a key part of Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming pitch, as you know if you’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth.
Gore deceived millions worldwide into believing human economic and industrial activity was melting the snows of Kilimanjaro. In reality, Dutch scientists have now proved snow levels on the African mountain vary over time. Currently, we’re at the tail end of a relative dry spell in Africa, based on solar flare activity. Dutch biologists have now shown, based on the fossil and soil records, that Kilimanjaro has for millions of years experienced periods of deep snow, melting snow, no snow at all, and all points in between.
A long, long time ago one of our first posts about Global Warming sparked an inordinate amount of hatemail because we said, firmly, that we do believe the Earth’s climate is changing — the way it always does, because it is not static — but that we don’t believe human activity is causing it. We have always believed solar flares are to blame (because the sun is RAAACIST, of course).
We remember, clearly, learning in second grade from Sister Francis Borgia that the sun caused Earth’s weather. She drew a large circle on the board with yellow chalk, then she drew energy waves coming from the sun towards Earth. Then, she drew another picture of the ocean and an island, and the waves from the sun hit the water and air and made waves in the water and made the trees on the island blow from the wind.
Maybe they don’t teach this in public schools, but in Catholic schools this is what we learned. The sun causes weather. The moon causes the ebb and flow of tides. During sex ed and religion classes, all sorts of half-truths and subjective speculation was served up, but the rest of our classes were based on sound science and historical facts. At lunch time, we ate a lot of pizza and tater tots. At recess, we played kickball. At no time was anyone who taught us, or anyone in our classes, as pathologically and deliberately stupid as the MSM and Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Sarah Palin refers to “the Man-made Climate Change Priesthood”, which is very apt. The way Al Gore and the “climatologists” approach science is the same way the nuns taught those religion classes in grade school: for one period a day, we were not allowed to question anything and just had to listen to what the Bible told us, and how the Pope interpreted all that. John Paul II was infallible, and all the saints were much better people than we could ever be and were, thus, ghostly agents we needed to pray to so they would intercede on our behalf with hosts of angels who would then go and whisper in God’s ear and maybe, if we prayed hard enough, get him to help us with our science test tomorrow.
But, in actual science class itself, writing down “Jesus made it” or “Whatever Jesus thinks the answer is” was not acceptable. You had to show your work, have accurate numbers recorded, and specify correct verifiable facts in answers to all questions. There was a time for mysticism and the nebulous, and there was a time for cold hard facts and proper scientific method. Though the same woman in a habit taught us in both realms, she never, ever, not even ONCE mixed the two.
And yet, here we have scientists who call themselves climatologists — people who hide data for years so no one can verify their results, before destroying the data sets and claiming they were lost. People who create computer programs to perform magic tricks on temperature values so that complex, junk calculations can spit out the number they wanted all along, before any readings were even taken.
That reminds us of an extra-credit bonus question Sister Francis once had on a math test: What is 3 x 12 x.12345 – 8.9009 x 65789 x4534 /56567 + 2346 – 85690 + 87 – .89790 /5657689 x 345479 x 0 + 125?
The “x 0″ part is the “magic box” that altered everything that came before it into the 125 that was desired all along. Sister used that bonus question to keep students working on SOMETHING until everyone was done with the actual test…once you figured out her game, all you had to do was look for the “x 0″ in her bonus question and then solve the remaining few bits of the problem to get the answer she wanted. Everything else that came before that point could be thrown away, since the “magic box” part of the equation was a game-changer.
Well, folks, now that the computer code for the “magic box” used by Al Gore and AGW alarmists has been located, we can see clearly why Penn State and East Anglica claim to have “lost” all the raw data used before the “magic box” conversion to the figures they used in their own games. If that data could be reconstructed, it would be clear how big of a trick the magic box performed on those numbers was, to force them to fit the predetermined curve the Cult of AGW wanted to see.
That goes against everything we learned about science, in an environment that understood well the dangers of mixing mysticism and blind faith in the realm of the quantifiable.
Every day, we get more angry and disgusted by Climategate.
We hope you do too.
Sister Francis Borgia might have taught us the Pope was infallible…but she had a different opinion on Al Gore.
Mercifully, Michelle Obama decides against nude tree lighting event.
Here was the headline New York Magazine just ran, about the current First Lady at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony:
MICHELLE OBAMA WORE CLOTHES TO LIGHT THE CHRISTMAS TREE
Here’s a screen grab of the post because we’re sure they’ll scrub it:
We can only assume two things:
(1) The current First Lady intended to perform her duties at the ceremony nude, so wearing clothes was a news-worthy change.
(2) The bar has been set so low in terms of competence, decorum, and expectations that managing to wear clothes when going out in public is considered an accomplishment for her.
In either event, this makes us realize something that’s escaped us to this point: while the “outfits” Mrs. Utopia parades around in, from giant Playschool wrestling belts to furniture upholstery dresses, range from ridiculous to vulgar, at LEAST she’s wearing clothes. Things could, thus, be much, much worse in terms of what she wears out in public.
On this Saturday, please join us in thanks for small blessings.
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UPDATE: And of course, as some of you have noted, this being a festive Christmas event the First Lady, naturally, wore a somber and dour all-black funereal attire — less joyous and celebratory than the giant bow, holiday present-inspired frock she wore to Ted Kennedy’s funeral this summer. The same FLOTUS who revels in mixing orange and blue and purple and yellow in color wheel collisions apparently has a problem with red and green, worn completely appropriately, at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
Now, we do know the current FLOTUS doesn’t select her own clothes, and that an elaborate White House “outfit” selection process is in place that decides what dreadful thing she’ll leave the house in that day. White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers leaves one of the gates open each morning and the first person to wander into the mansion and up to the FLOTUS’s wardrobe gets to pick the color scheme and spirit of the day’s ensemble. The proximity of a school for the blind so close to the White House explains much of what the FLOTUS wears, as students get lost on their way to class and end up selecting Jason Wu and Narcisso Rodriguez for the FLOTUS at a greater rate than sighted people would. There’s no explanation for why Mrs. Utopia wore funereal black to a holiday lighting, other than a group of raccoons might have gotten passed Rogers again, and raccoons, being somber by nature, would have evidently selected something like this for her to wear.
