Archive for December 7th, 2009
When people ask you "What do you do?" you can say "I volunteer for the USO"
A nice story ran on the USO today that prompted us to again ask you to consider volunteering some of your time with our favorite organization on Earth.
Here in Chicago, we’re lucky because there are multiple ways to help the USO in our city. You can help at either airport, being a concierge on volunteer shifts helping service members make their travel arrangements or find fun things to do in Chicago while they are in town. You can volunteer at the USO’s Navy Pier station, helping service members get theater tickets or other fun things to enjoy. You can volunteer at the Great Lakes Naval Base and serve meals for trainees who are far from home and need to know how much their sacrifices and dedication mean to those of us who aren’t privileged enough to currently wear those uniforms.
If you do this, if you volunteer your time once or twice a month with the USO, you will be changed.
First of all, you will get an immediate connection to the men and women put in harm’s way. You will not only appreciate them more, but you will take a paternal interest in the money being spent on our military. You just cannot see those young faces and NOT watch every dime Congress spends to make sure our troops are getting what they need in timely fashion. And if any Senator or Congressman thinks he can stiff the troops, on our watch, and get away with it, that fool’s got another thing coming.
These troops have our backs, and we need to have THEIRS.
So, as holiday plans are being drawn up, we’re a bunch of gay Hillary Democrats in Chicago who challenge you to match us pound for pound and hour for hour volunteering for the USO in 2010. When people here ask us what we do when they first meet us, we don’t answer “Event Planner”, “Freelance development consultant”, “Unemployed grant writer”, or whatever we do for money. We answer, “I volunteer for the USO every chance I get”.
Then, usually we mention this site and talk about how we try our damndest to get others out there to volunteer for the USO, too.
We have this connection from the McCain campaign, and we started doing it to honor McCain’s own service in harm’s way during the general election. Now, we do it because it’s part of what we do. We can’t imagine NOT doing it.
Hey Independents: if you disagree with Democrats on ANYTHING, you are RAAACISTS!
Using concern troll tactics against the Left: help push Independents away from Democrats
During the 2008 campaign, the absolute most effective thing the Left did to elect Dr. Utopia was to send concern trolls out into the Internets to mind-game people.
Our biggest challenge on both the Hillary primary team and the McCain/Palin general election were Eeyores: people who we counted on as volunteers and supporters, but who suddenly would drop out of events or disappear completely, because trolls convinced them all hope was lost and they needed to just stop what they were doing. Eeyores don’t realize what a self-fulfilling prophesy that garbage is: of course you will lose if you stop what you are doing and sit out the election. What’s worse is that Eeyores would come to a debate watch party or other event, and would then depress other people in the room who had been pumped up to make calls, go canvassing, and do everything else we needed done. But, a session with an Eeyore made them want to just give up too. Muuuuuuuuuuh! Tim Russert said there’s no way we can win Ohio for Hillary! We need to just stop! Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh! And then Eeyores would be stunned when we’d kick that effeminate huckster’s can to the other side of Akron and back.
There were even more Eeyores on the Republican side of things in 2008, with the added phenomenon of Republicans believing we should “sit this election out” so Dr. Utopia could become ‘the new Carter” in hopes of getting “a new Reagan” in 2012. You have Eeyores and Republicans who sat the election out to thank for everything that’s happened since January 20th 2009.
Remember that, always, because we do.
But, it occurred to us how marvelously the Left’s online tricks can be used against them — but with a twist.
Currently, we are seeing Independents abandoning Democrats in droves on a national level. They are doing this because Dr. Utopia promised to be a centrist Democrat in the campaign (even though none of us believed him) but ran to the far Left the day after the election. Independents left the Clintons in 1992 during their first term as well, because they felt the Clinton adminstration was too far to the Left (and boy, in comparison to what’s going on today, doesn’t that make people shudder).
What needs to happen is this:
(1) We need to concern troll the concern trolls; go on their sites, pretend to agree with everything Dr. Utopia stood for in the campaign, and just put it out there how disappointed we are that he’s not being Liberal enough. Propel the meme that “this is not what we were promised!”
(2) Lunatic fringe groups like Code Pink and Moveon.org need to be revved up — make them go after Democrats they don’t think are Liberal enough…get them to force every bad Democrat out there into being MORE Liberal than they are now. Have these nuts drive people like Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Pat Murphy, John Murtha, and other BONKERS.
(3) Do everything possible to encourage the far Left to throw all their chips in, right here right now. Make the biggest push to the Left this country has ever seen…and make sure Independents see what is going on.
If Independents are driven away by too much Liberalism, and if we can stoke the Left into being as Liberal as possible, then 2010 will be an epic disaster for Democrats — who, after the way they behaved in 2008 and are behaving now, deserve to lose big.
Instead of concern trolling to dampen their spirits, which is what they did to Hillary and McCain supporters last year, we should troll to pump up their most Liberal firebrands…so those nuts can kamikaze the entire DNC with their zealotry.
Add your thoughts below to HOW we can begin doing this, so we can develop Action Items and get to work.
Question of the Day: Where do you think Osama bin Laden is today?
There is another report today saying someone spotted Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in early 2009.
We’ve never believed bin Laden was lurking in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
We think he’s either in Switzerland, the south of France, or in Saudi Arabia itself, where he’s being protected by King Falafel the Hutt himself. He is not living in caves, but living it up somewhere in a gorgeous mansion, smart enough to keep a low profile.
With his beard shaved, he looks nothing like the wild crazy person in all the photos we see of him.
Saudi Arabia is, in our opinion, the single worst country on the face of the planet. It is the fount of many evils in this world, far worse than Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, or other nations that openly claim to be our enemies. Saudi Arabis is a frenemy, and as anyone who’s gone to junior high school can attest, frenemies are worse to have around than people who openly and unquestioningly hate you.
The Saudis have been spreading militant, crazed Islam throughout the world for the last 30 years. Their Wahabbism is the battery acid of organized religions. It is the Saudis who sent textbooks to poor countries rewriting history to claim Muslims invented everything from algebra and geometry to television and radio. It is the Saudis who depict Jews in these text books in worse light than even Nazis did back in the 1930s. It is the Saudis who teach small children to hate America and the West, and to pray to Allah they one day grow up to take down as many infidels as possible.
These are our dear friends in Riyadh.
It’s ludicrous for us to believe bin Laden would have left himself vulnerable on 9/10/01, knowing the next day his plan would be set in motion. Why be in Afghanistan or Pakistan when all that went down? He knew the US would strike back. He does not have a death wish. There was a chance the US could have (and we believe, should have) bombed the mountains of Afghanistan into a glass parking lot an hour after the planes hit the towers in New York. If speculation is correct and the Pentagon plane and the plane that went down in Pennsylvania were really meant for the White House and US Capitol, then bin Laden, if his plan had been fully realized, would have known that the US would hit back HARD.
So, why would he sit and wait for that to happen where he could be harmed?
Instead, doesn’t it seem like he’d make a better move by going to Saudi Arabia long before the attacks, so that he could be protected there, in his own country? The Saudis harboring bin Laden would be something they’d naturally want to do, especially since bin Laden is one of them. And that’s on top of the Saudis enjoying what bin Laden is up to. Even if the US government knew that’s where bin Laden was, would we act on that?
What happens to the global oil economy and our status quo relations in the Mideast if we expose the fact Saudi Arabia hid bin Laden and protected him?
That’s an interesting question to puzzle over.
But, we believe with all the Saudi money and influence, that Falafel the Hutt could have set bin Laden up in a desert palace where prying eyes would never find him. He could be living it up in the lap of luxury having the time of his life right now, and we wouldn’t be able to touch him.
In the 80s, several movies came out dealing with foreign scumbags in Washington with diplomatic immunity who could commit any crime with impunity because of who they were. The bin Ladens are a wealthy Saudi family with strong connections. They are the Kennedys of Saudi Arabia. And just as Ted Kennedy got away with murder in 1969, and got away with abusing women and doing all sorts of other vulgar things for decades, bin Laden in Saudi Arabia is a national hero, lionized by his supporters and given preferential status.
Just like a Kennedy, no matter what he does.
It would not surprise us if that’s where bin Laden is right now, Saudi Arabia. Most of his 9/11 hijackers came from there too.
Where do you think he is?
Do you think the US will ever catch him?
Do you think Eric Holder, notorious race baiter and bumbling idiot, would try bin Laden in civilian court too?
Great Merciful Zeus, we might have to thank the Russians for Climategate
All of us here are boys who grew up in the 80s, playing with Thundercats and Transformers, waging war between GI Joe and Cobra, dressing up as James Bond or Superman at Halloween, and nursing major crushes on Chad Allen and Jason Bateman. When the Cold War ended, we oddly missed the Soviets, because life made a lot more sense when the Russians were behind anything strange and mysterious. After the Evil Empire imploded, and the Russians were disorganized and screwing around doing whatever it is they’ve been up to all these years, we forgot how bizarrely comforting it was to go to sleep at night knowing, right at that moment, somewhere there were Russians plotting and scheming and keeping our own intelligence and diplomatic teams forever sharp.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe were nothing without Skeletor.
Lion-O and the Thunderans were little pussy cats without the withered mummy that was Kathleen Sebelius Mumm-Ra.
GI Joe would have probably turned into the Village People at some point without Cobra.
Jason Bateman was, is, and will always be, dreamy.
There is speculation the Russians might have actually hacked the East Anglia University’s Climate Change Cult computers and released the emails they found as a means of torpedoing the Copenhagen summit, since Russia is a major gas and oil producer and the Russian economy depends on the world using as much oil as possible.
You have no idea how relieving it is to know the Russians are on the job. THANK YOU, VLADIMIR PUTIN for being the conniving, resourceful, underhanded, 11th dimensional chess player the KGB taught you to be.
Here’s why this is a good thing, if the Russians really are behind all of this:
(1) That means there is more information to come out, perfectly timed, to ensure the Anthropogenic Global Warming Cult dies. Putin does not f*** around. Putin goes full frontal Mumm-Ra on you when you least expect him. If he wants this craziness to end, it will end. If he’s behind this, then what’s come out about Climategate is only the beginning. Expect another blast of cold water on the Warming Cult if this story starts to die down.
(2) If Putin is determined to prevent the Global Warming Cult from screwing with the global economy out of Russian oil production’s interests, that’s actually VERY good for the US…as it’s going to force us to develop our own energy reserves, too. With the Global Warming Cult discredited, and Ted Kennedy dead, in 2010 we bet we’ll move forward to actually developing the Alaskan oil fields were a treasure trove of energy riches waits. This could actually become a campaign issue in 2012, which could help put Sarah Palin into the White House. A one-two punch of the Global Warming Cult’s demise combined with Russia’s energy belligerence could create thousands upon thousands of REAL, high-paying jobs as a new American energy industry is born. Those are jobs that can’t be outsourced, either. It could mean that by 2016 or so, the US could be stronger economically and more self-succifient than it has ever been. The seeds for that could be planted right now and we don’t even realize it.
(3) If Russia really is behind this, then it means we might FINALLY be headed back to the days of bipolar gamesmanship that served the world so well between Washington and Moscow. Think Rocky IV…Drago forced Rocky to be his very best (while Drago, in the form of Dolph Lundgren, looked hotter than any Russian that ever came before him)…that competition between the Soviets and Americans produced many of the modern wonders we have today. America, we hate to say, has gotten a little Copland Stallone in the days since Russia went the way of Lundgren’s career…fat, lazy, and under the current administration, lost and delusional. Spirited competition with Russians at the top of their game is a very good thing in our book. And since Russia is no friend of Islam, and Russians are not PC-pushovers like the Europeans or American liberals, Muslims are in for a real wakeup call if Putin decides to reassert Russian dominance on the world stage. That is also a VERY good thing.
Russians are known for their timing and showmanship.
They know how to set the stage, hold interest, and deliver crushing blows at just the right time. That means if they really want Copenhagen to be a laughingstock, and if they REALLY indeed are behind this, then expect some bigger revelation to come about Climategate in the days ahead.
This could get very, very interesting in an old school 80s kind of way.
Those Playschool wrestling belts are not only NOT going to catch on, but have become the source of great parody
Photo h/t Free Republic
Here are three things we’ll say about this picture of the current FLOTUS:
(1) It was ridiculous of someone to advise this woman that wearing “giant, hideous belts” was a good idea. Clearly, she was told that if she started wearing something oddball, she would start a new fashion trend she’d be credited for, and she would most certainly love that sort of attention. Essentially, the giant belts were supposed to be her “buffant hairstyle and pearls” a la Jackie Kennedy. We doubt anyone in the current White House talks about President Cleveland, or his wife Frances, or Grace Coolidge much, but Cleveland and Coolidge heavily influenced fashion more than even Jackie Kennedy did. But, the two of them, like Kennedy, wore clothes that were attractive and look nice on them. The current FLOTUS is determined never to do that. No matter how many giant Playschool wrestling belts she wears, the only people who will copy her are Hulk Hogan and, on a whimsical day, perhaps Mr. T.
(2) If the White House staff knows what room the FLOTUS will be speaking in, they should endeavor to keep her from ever matching the drapes. Yellow and purple are complementary colors. She would have looked smashing against those yellow drapes in a bright purple dress that fit her well, was unadorned with belts, and had a nice texture that photographs well. This reminds us of amateur newscasters who wear green before going in front of green screens — and, thus, hilarity ensues when some inappropriate graphic gets emblazoned across their chests. You never want to bleed into your surroundings when you are giving a speech. It’s like someone’s trying to dress this woman in camouflage inside the White House itself.
(3) What’s most stupid about those giant Playschool wrestling belts is that the current FLOTUS was largely untouchable until she started wearing these. Yes, her clothes were always ugly, but they never crossed the line into self-parody, and she never consistently made the same amateur mistakes, so nothing ever “stuck” with her. She’d wear a dress that looked like cat-stained nursing home sofas one day, but then the next she’d be dressed up like a big spider, or she’d wear a dress made of used coffee filters that looked like an off-the-rack discount Wilma Flinstone costume. She wore that last one to the Inaugural ball, so it gets to live in the Smithsonian forever. Shudder. But, the belts made it acceptable to lampoon the FLOTUS with something people readily associate with her now: giant, ridiculous, Playschool wrestling belts, worn over coats, piled over other belts, strapped to her waist like cumberbunds from Hell. That was a very bad move because the MSM made everyone so terrified of being called RAAACIST for criticizing her that she got away with so much Klingon home world fashion choices — and not only escaped criticism for gruesome and inappropriate attire, but was PRAISED for it. The belts, however, have made her a joke…and a joke cries of RAAACISM cannot save her from.
There is no way even Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, or Jesse Jackson can claim making fun of those hideous belts is RAAACIST. Belts are not part of black culture, so making fun of them is in no way making fun of the black community. Any criticism of anything from the FLOTUS’s hair to derriere is labeled RAAACIST, but those belts create a neutral, fair-game-for-criticism zone right at her waist. There is no one alive who is not a member of the WWF who wears those belts. Laughing at them has no cultural or racial baggage associated with it. Ugly is just ugly, belted nine ways to Sunday.
Mrs. Utopia has three years left in the White House.
Our great hope for her is, in that time, for her to someday wander down a hallway and encounter the portraits of First Ladies from the past who knew how to set trends and create fashion buzz without looking like random members of the public were invited to contribute items from their local thrift shops to her “outfit” of the day.
Monday Open Thread: December 7th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Monday?
Our thoughts are, obviously, on Hawaii today. We choose to remember “The Day That Will Live in Infamy” with a little Bing Crosby and some holiday shots from the islands, including some of our Navy in holiday splendor.
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How hilarious is it that Sarah Palin seems to have told Lynn Sweet from the Chicago Tribune that the purse she carried at the Gridiron Dinner was “made from an otter”.
We. Love. That.
She was probably kidding, but, as a comment noted, she no doubt “made Ashley Judd’s head explode with that one”.
We’re telling you, Sarah Palin is running for president. She knows how to push these people’s buttons. She will keep doing that, making heads explode, driving the Liberals and Leftists crazy, all the while making regular people smile.
We are loving every minute of this…and just know in our bones it’s keeping Dr. Utopia up at night. ”Why, oh why,” we imagine he asks Allah in the dark, “why must you forever bedevil me, an effeminate partially black man, with these wily, witty, indefatigable women!”.
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Climategate Must Read of the Day: Scientists Behaving Badly, by Steven Hayward…a great article that gives you a better explanation of “Medieval Warming Period”, “Little Ice Age”, and other important scientific facts the Anthropogenic Global Warming Cult tried to suppress by collusion and fraud.
This is another article that needs to be spread to every single person you know. It is DENSE, so it’s still not what’s needed to reach the general public.
What would be great is if someone took that article, did Cliff’s Notes on it, then put the Cliff’s Notes in a YouTube video with catchy music and visual images people could relate to.
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Here’s another good read for Climategate: Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up, from the Wall Street Journal. The key points:
* It’s not the leaked emails that’s the big deal in Climategate: the emails are just easier to understand, and show the Anthropogenic Global Warming Cult lying, fabricating data, and working to crush anyone who tells the truth. BUT included in the leaked documents was the computer code — 1500o lines of it — that was created to COMMIT FRAUD.
* The computer code is riddled with tricks and “magic boxes” where the Cult made real numbers disappear and replaced them with numbers that were “more what they wanted them to be”
* The data from East Anglia was corrupted by the scientists…then that data was given to NASA and the entities using satellites to create other data sets. The effect this has is that THOSE new data sets are worthless too…fruit of a poisoned tree. It’s like you lied about your age to sign a contract. You said you were 21 but you were really 12 (same numbers just creative use of order). Then, that contract you signed creates all these other side deals, none of which would have happened if not for that contract. What happens to everything if it’s discovered that contract is invalid because you were underage and not legally allowed to sign it? Everything based on that contract is now void, because the contract is void, and the house of cards collapses. THAT is what’s happening now with Climategate.
* www.ClimateAudit.org is run by Steven McIntyre, a man who dedicated himself to figuring out the truth on AGW.
* Unlike with Watergate where journalists actually did their job and investigated important stories, today real news depends on amateurs blogging on the Internet to expose conspiracies and bring down liars.
* There will be more to come on all this every day it seems.
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