Archive for January, 2010
If Larry Kudlow runs for Senate in New York, we will go all-in for him
We think Republicans could win both US Senate seats in the state of New York if they’d just leave the cocktail parties long enough to try. Here’s a tip we learned at Sidetrack like, forever ago: just slip the bartender a fiver, put a napkin over the top of your highball, and then go outside for a while and DO SOMETHING besides revel in how fabulous your cocktail party is. Then, when you go back inside, you can continue to do nothing some more, and your drink will be waiting for you, 100% GHB-free. Trust us, it works.
Why aren’t Republicans taking seriously the chance to snag TWO Senate seats in one state this year?
Rudy Giuliani would have probably beaten Kirsten Gillibrand.
We think Larry Kudlow can beat Chuck Schumer — whom we want to see defeated for his betrayal of Hillary Clinton in 2008.
EVERY Democrat in office now who voted for the Healthcare Rationing bill — without even reading it — deserves to be FIRED.
But, Schumer really is swine. He proved that on the DC-New York shuttle he took last month, when he wouldn’t get off the phone so the airplane could take off. The flight attendant kept trying to get him to hang up, to no avail, and Gillibrand finally had to pull some raisons out of her purse to distract Schumer long enough for the phone to be taken away from him. Schumer’s such a show-off. Give him an opportunity to pop his head back and dramatically catch raisins like an obese trained seal snatching up moldy sardines and he’s in hog heaven. “Raisins are so good….and so FUN!”
Gillibrand and Schumer flying around together, all tandem, feels like the two worst contestants ever cast on The Amazing Race, where Phil Koeghan might want them to make it to the finish line, but we’re hoping they’re both replaced in November. Neither one of them stood up and put an end to the insanity displayed the week before Christmas when Democrats tried to shove that monstrous Rationing bill through to passage, like Panda trying to stuff fruit cake through the neighbors’ mail slots again (“But, if I didn’t, they’d be mad I didn’t get them anything, and their dogs or birds will eat whatever falls on the floor, like they’re so clean or whatever in there they can’t have cake on the floor all day.”).
We’ve decided, actually, to make defeating Chuck Schumer one of our goals in 2010. That means we’ve now got three of our berths filled on what races we will be actively engaged in:
(1) All-in to re-elect Michelle Bachmann so she can replace Pelosi as Speaker
(2) Defeat Barbara Boxer, even if a paper bag or a Muppet ends up getting the nomination against her. Whoever is the Republican nominee is not Barbara “Call me Senator!” Boxer, and that’s good enough for us.
(3) Repay Chuck Schumer for what he did to Hillary. Read Game Change and see why.
All of these races we can have a lot of fun with, while also, we believe, finding our own little niche where we can, hopefully, make enough of a difference that the Left declares war on us some more (since, for whatever reason, our helping Scott Brown for the last month was instrumental enough to his win for them to declare a fatwa upon one of us personally).
We’d like to find two more contests that will hold our interests and give us many opportunities to rally the troops to kick Liberals’ cans.
Thoughts on what the last two should be?
Thoughts on who the GOP will put up for those New York seats?
Will Republicans ever learn that cocktail parties are super fabulous, especially when there are hot jock strippers, but that for a cocktail party to be extra special double triple sec good, YOU HAVE TO WIN THE RACE FIRST.
TROLL DISSECTION 101: How to break apart a concern troll's posting like it's made of astroturf and Legos
This is such a weird concern-troll comment, left on a thread tonight, that we just had to let the comment stand, instead of deleting it, to break it down for you and also ponder WHAT exactly is the intent of leaving something like this.
Here it is, in full, from a poster calling herself “Penny Long”:
HB, may I ask why you like Hillary so much, and also Sarah. I know you started supporting Sarah as a protest against the nasty Obama people against Hillary. But now you sound like a loyal fan of Sarah.
Their politics are entirely different. Hillary wants public healthcare, Sarah not. Hillary for big(ger) government, Sarah not.
What areas of the democratic ideology that you gave up or will not relinquish? Hard to imagine you turning away only becuase of the base behaviors of the liberals, unless integrity trumps ideology. You said to vote them all out. No one on dem side worth saving because of personal integrity?
Just want to understand.
Thank you for helping our camp.
Take care.
This is such a great example of concern-trolling, we’re going to breakdown, line by line, what’s going on here. It’s so textbook David Axelrod, he might have even written it himself.
LINE ONE: HB, may I ask you why you like Hillary so much, and also Sarah.
That sure sounds like the DNC is concerned about Clinton’s recent remarks to Travis Smiley, and also the fact that so many Hillary supporters also luv the Guv. The Left has no idea what to do with this, and constantly tries to make Hillary and Sarah supporters clash. The joke, on them, is that Hillary and Sarah supporters are the same people most of the time. Reagan Democrats are Hillary Democrats are PUMA Democrats are Tea Party Democrats are Scott Brown Democrats are Palin Democrats. Oooga-booga, despite what Donna Brazile claims about not needing the blue collar, working class, “rural people”, this probably terrifies the DNC to no end. Hardcore Hillarians, like us, will never in our lives forgive the DNC for how it treated Clinton. Say “May 31st, 2008″ to a PUMA, and you get the same look on their face you’d get talking about December 11th, 1941 or September 11th, 2001. HORROR. Disbelief, still, years later. HORROR. It sure looks like Axelrod’s trying to rev up the campaign trolls to drive a wedge between HRC and the Saracuda. Maybe this has been driving them nuts since Hillary said she wants to have coffee with Palin and talk about her book. That must have made heads explode.
LINE TWO: I know you started supporting Sarah as a protest against the nasty Obama people against Hillary.
What’s done in this sentence is really interesting. First of all, concern-trolls like to say something that makes it look like they are familiar with your writing. ”I know you started”. ”I know you support”. ”I know you believe”. Etc. That’s done to psychologically establish some connection with you. ”Oh, you read me, really? Wowsers. I HAVE A READER! OMG. I have to totally call my friend Abbey and tell her SOMEONE READS ME! They know I started something. They know I support things. They KNOW I BELIEVE IN STUFF! OMG, who is this person, because I just HAVE TO pay attention to what they say. They KNOW I do things”.
Then, there’s a weird pivot, right away, but slipping in something factually incorrect right into the “I know” statement. No, the reason we support Sarah does NOT have anything at all to do with Obama. We support Sarah Palin because she is awesome. Sarah Palin loves America, that’s why we support her. If Obama never existed, we’d still support Sarah Palin. We supported her before she was McCain’s VP pick and the rest of the country heard about her. We liked her for the last few years because we heard Ted Stevens babbling about the Internets being a series of pipes and tubes bedraggled by dumptrucks one day, and wondered how someone that odd could be a Senator forever. Then, we heard about the bridge to nowhere he wanted to build to name after himself, so he could send more dumptrucks and tubes to places no one wanted them. Sarah Palin came to our attention at that point, YEARS ago, because this sharp, witty, razor sharp hockey mom just eviscerated the fools running Alaska. Since we’ve always been fascinated by Alaska itself, and always dreamed of going there, Palin’s early performance as governor made us curious about her, and we kept her on our radar through 2008…when we started saying in June, on this site, that McCain was going to pick her for VP. Go back and check our back issues on that one. We certainly weren’t the first to want her as VP, but we were early to the game, because we supported her all along.
And we will continue to support her long after Obama is a one-term bad memory exiled to Hawaii with is fashion icon wife, no longer proud of her country because she doesn’t get to live in the White House after 2013.
Note what else is going on in this sentence, though. She says “the nasty Obama people” in a sing-songy, childish sort of way. Like Gollum in Lord of the Rings, talking about “those nasty Hobbit-ses”. It’s a too-cool-for-school put down the Axelrod set are making at our expense. When our friend Panda is afraid of a small dog, like a Pekinese or something, we’ll chide him, “Oh, does big strong Panda get big time sca-wared of the nasty little doggitt? Oh, that nasty doggy-woggy is so nasty to Panda, isn’t he?”. ”Those nasty Obama people sure were mean for winning, weren’t they? No wonder you had to protest against them. That was a good protest. You get a gold star!” is how that line comes across to us.
Maybe it’s because we spend hours writing about 15,000 words a day on this site, so we pay attention to usage, and to the subtle differences phraseology can make in content and spirit of a piece. ”Those nasty Obama people”, that was tossed in deliberately, by someone we think could not contain her or himself and just HAD to take a dig at the PUMA movement.
LINE THREE: But now you sound like a loyal fan of Sarah.
This line is strange because there’s no “now you sound” or “but” about this. We’ve always been a loyal fan of Sarah. Since before Day One, which for most of the rest of you was August 29th, 2008. See remarks above, we were on the Palin Express before the train tracks were even built.
This is CLASSIC concern-trolling, folks.
People who love music could help us with this analogy, we’re sure, but if you don’t focus on the words so much, but just get a sense of the beat in this question, there’s a certain rhythm to it, almost like a haiku.
Like this:
HB (gets your attention), two loud sounds, BOOM BOOM
May I ask you why you like Hillary so much: Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baba ba ba
and also Sarah: DA DA DADA.
Some more of the ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba beat.
Then: BOOM (But), DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DUM.
And then the next sentence hits in a different musical range, where your brain is now primed to listen more closely to the next part, where the concern troll is trying to make you doubt your own stance and logic.
None of this is meant for us. It’s meant for you readers.
Another giveaway is the fact that around here, with regular readers, you call us “Buzz Boyz”, “Boyz”, “Buzzers”, etc. Only very rarely do any of you address us as HB. Yes, it happens SOMETIMES, but it’s just so unusual we can’t remember the last time we saw it. Sometimes, depending on who is responding to emails, we’ll sign something HB, but normally we don’t write anything as a signature, since responding in comments turns up as “HillBuzz” automatically.
That “HB” way of addressing us feels like it’s an Obot used to using BO all the time, and sees that we use HRC sometimes for Hillary, so that person (who, strangely, we get the impression is female….since our demo here, according to Alexia data tracking, is skewed something like 70% female) thought calling us HB would seem natural.
But, it doesn’t. It seems wrong somehow. Like those cats and dogs they bury in Pet Semetary and they come back “wrong” somewhere in Maine. This comment is just “wrong”, and we spotted it instantly amongst dozens of other comments waiting for moderation.
LINE FOUR: There politics are entirely different.
This is the declarative sentence the troll wanted to make from word one. The first few sentences were building trust and a relationship so that you would listen. Ba ba ba ba DA DA DA da DUM. And now that your attention is had, here comes the thing they want drilled into you: YOU CAN’T LIKE BOTH, SO STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY CAN LIKE BOTH.
We think Obama is scared that Clinton voters will back Palin in a BIG, BIG, BIG way in 2012 now that Hillary has said she would not be Obama’s Secretary of State after 2013, even if he won a second term in that unlikely event. There must be some internal Axelrod polling that shows Obama’s approval would be even lower if Hillary was not Secretary of State, reassuring people that there was at least one competent grown up in this Administration. Now that Clinton has said she’s out after one term as SOS, and might not even stay for the full four years of this disaster, it feels like Axelrod’s people are attempting to sink the chance of anyone drifting into Palin waters.
Do you see what we just did in that paragraph above without you maybe realizing it?
We conjured the image of the Titanic sinking, representing the Obama administration, with perhaps Clinton getting into a lifeboat and Obama going down with the ship. We never mentioned the Titanic in the paragraph, but we used words that conjured the image we wanted.
That’s what concern trolls do. Do not think for a moment that every word is not carefully tested and focus grouped with these people.
LINE FIVE: Hillary wants public healthcare, Sarah not.
More incorrect declarative sentences that are stated as fact, now that you are supposedly lulled into thinking you trust and believe this person is speaking the truth.
Hillary did not campaign on “public healthcare” in 2008. We surrogate spoke for her across 27 states. She wanted to open the Congressional health plan to all Americans. Healthcare would have been available to everyone who had ever been denied care for any reason, or could not afford care on their current salaries. Hillary was not going to take away anyone’s insurance and create a nationalized system. She learned, the hard way, in 1993 that Americans see that as anathema. TRUST US, we spent 8 weeks in Iowa giving speeches, going door to door in blizzards, and talking with Iowans by their hearths, warming up with hot CoCo telling them Hillary Clinton was not sent from anywhere to create public healthcare and cause nightmares. But, see how that’s jabbed in there?
It’s also setting Hillary and Palin up on different sides of a fence that the troll wants you to think is really the Great Wall of China, insurmountable and permanent.
The next line is really a follow up of this point, where the troll says, “Hillary for big(ger) government, Sarah not”.
In the two years we’ve been running this site we have never seen a single one of you pull a David Foster Wallace-esque use of parentheses like that on the word big(ger). We might not comment on every post left here by you readers, but we scan each one visually, if not read them all in full, to check for spam, bad words, and trolls. There is a TON of Asian spam for Cialis and Viagra that include a weird amount of parentheses for some reason. Babblefish must use those when it can’t figure out a character…so there will be words with oddly placed characters all over the place. If any of you were really writ(ing) like this we w(ould) notice it immediate(ly).
Just another clue this is not an actual reader, but someone who probably thinks she’s the next Maureen Dowd, if not Sarah Vowell.
SECOND PARAGRAPH: What areas of the democratic ideology that you gave up or will not relinquish?
After stating those “facts” to you for a while, now the troll awakens another part of your brain by asking a question of you. Notice there are words missing in this question. You have to read it a few times to make sense of it. The “are” that should follow “What” at the beginning is gone. And, it still doesn’t make sense without adding a “the” or “some” before “areas”. The word “relinquish” is also suspicious. It’s like reading a book report by an overachiever who abuses thesauruses. “Relinquish” has more syllables in it than any word used in the beat and pattern of this comment so far. The only words that stand out with more than two syllables preceding it are “Hillary” and “government”. But, those two words don’t jump out the way RELINQUISH does, used right at the end, before the question mark.
It feels like, psychologically, the troll wants you to be left with RELINQUISH on some subconscious level.
You would be relinquishing SOMETHING as yet undefined if you chose to support Sarah in the future. And you don’t want to do THAT, now do you?
NEXT LINE:
Hard to imagine you turning away only becuase of the base behaviors of the liberals, unless integrity trumps ideology.
This whole sentence is out of character to the rest of the comment. It feels like it was cut and pasted and written by someone else. Suddenly, four and five syllable words are magically dominant. INTEGRITY. IDEOLOGY. “Base behaviors” is odd, too, because this is the first appearance of an adjective like “base”; it just does not fit with the rest of the “voice”. Neither does the “unless integrity trumps ideology” part. It all feels very grad school intern-written.
What WE THINK happens is that the trolls have a Word document in front of them. It has key bits like the stuff in blue above that need to be put everywhere because they focus-group tested well. The troll however, needs to pose as a member of the forum, so the troll can’t JUST put the required message anywhere. The troll must write an original paragraph BEFORE the blue sentence, so that the comment seems to “fit” better with other comments on each board.
Let’s see if the troll bookends this cut and past job with another reference to something we really said on this site.
You said to vote them all out. No one on dem side worth saving because of personal integrity?
Bingo Bango!
We did say all Dems needed to be voted out.
Whoever monitors us at the DNC pushed the panic button at that, evidently, because we were assigned a better than average concern troll to respond to us. They don’t like the “VOTE THEM ALL OUT” stuff. Not one bit. See how odd it is that the capitalization and abbreviation tendency is so off in that last sentence in green. When did this person abbreviate before the word “dem”.
After a sentence as polished and catch-phrase-y as identity trumps ideology or whatever, why is this person suddenly getting lazy with the word “Democrat”, and using the lower case “dem” as an abbreviation.
Our gut says it might be because this person notices something we do that is actually very odd in writing about Democrats.
We do not call this party “Democratic” the way the MSM does. We say “the Democrat Party”. NOT Democratic, which you find in common use. So, if this troll wants to look like she belongs here, and reads us regularly, then the troll needs to avoid saying “Democratic”. Making the “D” in Dem makes the abbreviation less noticeable, too. Visually, the “dem” just flows into the words around it, instead of looking like the cab on a little locomotive or bulldozer, the way the letters “Dem” look to us. Do locomotives and dump trucks bedraggle the Internets too, we wonder. Quick, call Ted Stevens!
CLOSING:
Just want to understand.
Thank you for helping our camp.
Take care.
What’s done here is out of a need to try to make these Final Exam essay-style posts feel more natural, so the troll says, “Just want to understand,” which is code for, “Brain, do not see this as suspicious. I am NOT a troll. I just want to understand. Nothing to see here, move along.”
We bet that whole closing is used over and over again on different sites, because “Thank you for helping our camp. Take Care” is so generic.
Why not a Go HILLARY! Or something else more personal. ”Our camp” could also be another psychological push to establish community with the readers. ”We are in this together. It is our camp. I am one of you. Do not be frightened. We come in peace. Always”. That’s what you hear right before the space lizard rips off its face and eats a gerbil in front of you.
And you’re just glad it wasn’t Richard Gere with a gerbil instead.
See how you can always tell it’s us posting?
You know our “voice”.
You know our beat.
You know we usually, unless we are PISSED OFF or in rally the troops mode, ALWAYS end posts with some kind of a joke…no matter how dated….or so gay you have to be the ghost of Quentin Crisp to get it.
See…did it again.
Does this help those of us in our camp identify trolls better?
We just want to understand.
Take care.
Horrible news in Hillaryland: ABC cancels America Ferrara's "Ugly Betty"
In December 2008, we attended the “Conversation with Hillary Clinton” event moderated by America Ferrara, who is one of the nicest and sweetest actresses we have ever met. On the campaign trail, America teamed up with Chelsea Clinton to hit the Southwestern states, and the two made an awesome pair.
She was so funny that night in New York, too, when she prodded Hillary to tell stories from Arkansas, about Chelsea growing up, and the Clintons as a family before they hit the national stage. The affection and admiration America had for Hillary was obvious…and Hillary treated America like she was an adopted daughter.
It was one of the best evenings we spent in our lives, and we were seated next to a remarkable young girl from somewhere just outside New York City, who was all of about 15 or 16, but the moment we met her we knew we crossed paths with a future female president herself. We’re confident someday we’re going to say we met that girl “when”.
The “when” being the same week HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy announced she felt “you know, like, uh, entitled and stuff” to Hillary’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat. Everyone in the theater waiting for the event was stunned by Princess Caroline’s demands, and in this buzz, that young girl spoke up and went point by point how Princess would be denied, all the mistakes she would make, and told us, flat-out, that someone we’d never heard of before, Kirsten Gillibrand, would be the next Senator from New York, appointed by Paterson.
Her reasoning and logic was impeccable. That was the day we knew it would be Gillibrand, and when we got back from that New York trip, we started telling you that too.
“Hillary’s my hero,” the girl told us, smiling, so excited to have Clinton sign a framed picture of herself shaking hands with Clinton on the campaign trail, “I want to be just like her in a few years”.
Honey, you already are like her. And we love that. If you still read us, you are going to go so far and we remain so proud of you.
Just as we’re so proud of America Ferrara and always will be.
And so sad to see Ugly Betty get axed.
It’s not only just the star vehicle for one of our favorite actresses, but it’s also one of the most LGBTQ friendly shows ever made.
Sigh.
Can Bobby Jindal now forever be forgotten as a presidential contender? Compare Bob McDonnell's FANTASTIC speech to Jindal's weird awkwardness.
Wow.
Bob McDonnell was incredible in the Republican State of the Union response.
Incredible.
The MSM will completely ignore this and try its level best to never mention McDonnell again, because he is an effective and engaging speaker, is intelligent, and does not come across like a second banana onboard an overrated Tina Fey sitcom.
Unlike, say, for instance, Bobby Jindal:
We absolutely hate listening to this man. He’s like Mister Rogers with less cool and more head injuries. This is how bad parents read to children, who will grow up to resent them and one day put them in substandard nursing homes. Deservedly so.
Still, Jindal was at least better than Kathleen Sebelius in 2008.
Which says a lot.
Because he had a pulse.
Remember Sebelius’ abysmal performance, which forever earned her the moniker, “The Cryptkeeper”:
Why have her give the speech in a Beverly Hills crematorium?
It says a lot that the yule log burning behind her is far more interesting than this incompetent governor cum more incompetent Cabinet member will ever be.
It's official. We have our own gremlin, assigned to us by the DNC. His name is Eamonn and he likes watching Simpsons in his underoos while eating macaroni and cheese
Today, “TheBigotBasher” officially revealed himself to be none other than Eamonn Sean O’Sullivan of Birmingham, England. He’s apparently the gremlin assigned to us by the DNC, to libel and defame private citizens here as racists, over and over again, on his site TheBigotBasher.wordpress.com.
O’Sullivan admitted he is the one who has been defaming various PUMAs as RAAACISTS! on sites such as his own, Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, StupidPUMAS.com, Rumproast, BettyCracker, and others run by the same cabal of self-proclaimed “PUMA Hunters”, who made it their mission in 2008 to personally attack Democrats, such as ourselves, who supported Hillary Clinton and refused to drink the Kool-Aid and bow down before their false god, Oprah’s “The One”, the great and powerful “Lightbringer”.
That’s Dr. Utopia to you and us.
We’ve been in contact with about a dozen PUMAs so far, all of whom have been called RAAACISTS by the likes of O’Sullivan, and his friends and enablers such as Kevin K., Wonk Hussein, Miss Polly, Captain Underpants, Macaroni & Sardines, and all the other ridiculous things these people call themselves.
These are people who hide their own identities while outing anonymous political bloggers, running photos of them, then heading over to Daily Kos to incite physical violence against them — where posts calling people RAAACISTS! are met with plans to “find out where they live”, “bloody their noses”, “beat them”, “get them fired”, etc.
The caves gremlins live in, beneath their mothers’ basements, must share an atmosphere with BizarroWorld, because it just doesn’t make sense that people who call themselves “Wonk Hussein”, “Balloon Juice”, “Tooty Tunes”, or whatever, and hide behind 7-8 different aliases on different sites they host through proxy services in Minnesota or whatever, think they have the right to out, defame, libel, menace, threaten, and harass private citizens without those citizens having the availability of resources to sit at their own computers and systematically research who all these people really are.
Maybe they didn’t teach you this lesson at “Camp Obama” back in the summer of 2007, but we’re parceling it out to you now: IF YOU CALL SOMEONE A RACIST, AND REPEAT THAT LIBELOUS ATTACK ON HIM ON DAILY KOS, DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, AND ANY OTHER SITE YOU CAN THINK OF, AND THOSE SITES ALLOW YOU DO TO THIS, ENABLING THE ATTACKS ON THIS PRIVATE CITIZEN, THEN YOU WILL INDEED BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW…and those George Soros funded sites will be named as co-defendants, along with any and all supposedly anonymous posters who tack themselves onto these attacks, furthering their deliberate intent to destroy a person’s ability to earn a living.
These bullies believe they can destroy someone’s reputation and life, cost them work, and ruin their prospects for future employment and not suffer any penalties under the law. One of the people involved in this actually works for a major advertising firm, has been a VP of web marketing at other firms, and was heavily involved in the Axelrodturfing efforts of Dr. Utopia’s 2008 campaign. That ad firm, by the by, is the very same one that launched the astroturf assault on Sarah Palin in 2008. We bet in discovery, when the case we bring against all these co-defendents for libel and tortious interference with contracts gets moving, we’ll discover in employment records from 2008 that some of the people running these “PUMA hunting” sites worked on that Palin attack, by way of the world’s largest ad firm.
That’s just a hunch, but it sure feels like the pieces are coming together on that. There’s a reason these PUMA Hunters have been trying to delete everything possible from the Net in the last few days, when we started calling them out.
Have they never heard of screengrabs? Every day, the dossier against the “PUMA hunters” grows largely, thanks to what our gremlin, Eamonn, calls “amateur Sherlock Holmesing”.
Congratulations to all of you out there — you are now officially amateur detectives!
You know what that means…it means you can start doing this to the Left all the time now. Is there a level above “amateur detective” we could all aspire to? Perhaps “junior sleuth”? Isn’t that how the Carmen Sandiego games worked?
You caught a low-level bad guy, or gremlin, such as Eeamonn.
Then, you prove the same people who are obsessed with roasts and casseroles, and all things Obama, are the very same people who destroyed the ability of writers (on sites like NoQuarterUSA.net, PUMApac.org, TheConfluence.net, and other friends of ours) to earn a living by calling them racists too, and making them unemployable in fields such as academia, where one Google hit of you being called a RAAACIST! effectively means you’re never making it to the next level of interviews.
All the while these gremlins, orcs, or whatever they are, live in lovely-sounding places like Sunnyvale, which makes us think of another favorite blond woman of ours, who took constant abuse on a daily basis from demons and goblins of all stripes, and whose friends were constantly attacked because of their connection to her.
Oh, yah, we’re going there. It’s Buffy time.
She never asked to be the Slayer. It wasn’t her dream growing up as a child, to miss prom because she had to battle demon-dogs in the parking lot, ruining her dress. She didn’t stay up late at night, with a flashlight, under the covers, looking at brochures for all the hospitals she wanted to be treated in some day, after zombies and ghouls smacked her around for hours on end every Tuesday in syndication. She never thought she’d have a group of loyal friends willing to subject themselves to personal abuse as well, because together the lot of them were stronger than any one of them could ever be alone.
No one out there ever wanted to become a PUMA. We never DREAMED in a million years the DNC would do what it did in 2008, and allow a coup from within to install not just Liberals in the highest ranks of the party, but to push a Chicago politics, Alinsky methods candidate onto America…someone who engaged in rampant voter fraud and intimidation through the primaries…a man who bused in Chicagoans to vote in the Iowa caucus, calling any Iowan who wouldn’t walk over to the “Hope and Change” corner of the room a RAAACIST! because they didn’t support him…a campaign that employed ACORN to raise the dead to vote in numbers greater than in Sunnydale, California itself…and which dispatched the SEIU, Black Panthers, and other hired thugs in the general election to intimidate voters to stay away from the polls if they weren’t “voting the correct way”.
Well, PUMAs had a calling in 2008. On June 8th, the day after Clinton suspended her campaign, we collectively were activated to stand up to the Liberal-Socialist Democrat party that mutated from the party we’d known and loved our whole lives. People like Darragh Murphy and Will Bowers rose to the challenge and weathered immense storms because they refused to be beaten down by the false accusations of RAAACISM! lobbed at them.
So many people are called RAAACISTS! by the Left today, that it’s shocking to ponder how Dr. Utopia managed to win the election, if so many RAAACISTS! are forever standing in his way, lurking under every corner, just waiting to be dragged from their homes and beaten in the streets.
The Left engages in witch hunts, with RAAACISM! replacing the WIIITCH! that was screamed at so many in Salem.
And for those of us who took part in the Massachusetts Miracle on Scott Brown’s behalf, of course the Left would start screaming we are RAAACISTS! the very next day, as punishment for defying the DNC, yet again, and “going too far this time by costing us our 60 vote supermajority”.
We are proud of everything we did for Scott Brown. We heard cheers echoing all around Chicago the night he won, and “The Kennedy Seat” was taken back by the people. That must have been the mating call of RAAACISTS! in January, all that cheering, which was, of course, all Bush’s fault too.
Because that’s the demented logic of these goblins. The madder at you that they get, the more they shout you are a RAAACIST!. Next up, they start using really, really bad pictures of you, like those taken by the French version of Time, Le Monde, from the worst possible angles imaginable, since the French were so high on Dr. Utopia’s hopium back then themselves (my, how things changed in just a year, mais non?).
And we’re actually okay with that, because we sure love using terrible pictures of people we don’t like, too. It’s only a matter of time before we find photos of our own assigned gremlin, Eamonn, and we’ve already got some good ones of the casserole crowd (inside joke they’ll think is hilarious, trust us).
Even in the worst light, from the worst angle, and taken by the French in their moment of pique, we still bet we’re better off than the shots we’ve got of some of these PUMA hunters.
There’s a reason these people live in basements eating macaroni and cheese in their underoos all day.
What’s most interesting about everything that’s happened in the last seven days is the fact that it crystallized something we always intuitively knew, but never had clarity to see big picture before now. In 2008, when candidate Utopia soared through oratory extolling his followers to “get in their faces” and use every means possible to secure his win, including using shouts of RAAACISM! to destroy any opponent he faced, Utopia became Dr. Frankenstein to a monster he can no longer control.
Once sicced, these PUMA hunting Frankensteins, weaponized with shouts of RAAACISM! blaring at full volume on autoplay, were never, or could never be, called off.
The election was over two years ago…and yet the Frankenstein monster of libeling Liberals slouches on, picking new victims every day, ruining people’s careers for the audacity they showed exercising their free speech to discuss politics, engage in political activism, and oppose the socialist creep into America at every turn.
Obama told them to “get in their faces”, and boy, do they ever.
But, when a mirror is held up to these people, or they themselves are dragged kicking and screaming into the light after one of their attacks, the shrieks from these things in unimaginable.
Someone these people attack will one day die from these libelous and defamatory charges. Frankenstein is playing with fire, in that constantly calling private citizens RAAACISTS!, releasing their personal information so PUMA hunters can find them in person, and posting their photos so they could more easily have giant targets drawn on them, will one day not only get someone beaten, with their “nose bloodied”, as posters on Daily Kos like to suggest to do, but these Kossacks and Moveon.organisms will one day cross that line and kill one of their targets.
There is a clear and present danger of this happening, because this Frankenstein Obama created and set loose into the world is that unhinged, unpredictable, and immature to the point of criminal behavior.
Does all this fall under Hope, or is this the Change part Obama promised?
Because we’re still waiting on that unicorn he said we’d get.
Instead all he sent us was a used, overweight, British gremlin obsessed with The Simpsons, his xbox, the sweet savory pungence of his own flatus, and whatever libel he thinks he can get away with on US citizens from his perch in Birmingham, England.
Which, pursuant to that last bit, under British libel laws, does not appear to be much.
QUESTION: WHAT IS SHE UP TO?
If we know her, she very much indeed is up to something. And it probably involves saving America from lunatics.
And, to be perfectly honest, taking down every nutjob and backstabber who pushed Dr. Utopia into the White House.
Is she heading into Uma Thurman, yellow jumpsuit mode?
She looks fabulous in yellow pantsuits, so we’re all for that.
We’re going to let you speculate on what you think Hillary Clinton is up to in this thread.
Later today, we’ll have more on what we think, and what our friend Wess insists is happening.
BUT, we remind you, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton never ended her presidential campaign. She only suspended it on June 7th, 2008. Suspended, not ended.
Hillary’s Army remains in Winter Quarters. NoLimits.org was formed when she left politics to keep her supporters together. We, along with many others who gave up a year of our lives for Hillary in 2007-2008, never went back to our old, pre-Hillary, stay out of politics days.
We love Hillary Clinton. We’ve had every horrible thing imaginable done to us for supporting her. We are willing to give everything up and hit the road for her again if she ever mobilizes her army.
We get asked this almost every day around here, so we’ll say this for the hundredth time at least: if Hillary runs for office again, ever, we will be all-in for her.
Should Sarah Palin ever run for another office, we will be all-in for her, too.
What happens if Hillary and Sarah face off in 2012, after Dr. Utopia steps aside “for medical reasons”, a la LBJ?
If Hillary’s running, we’re on Team Hillary, always. BUT, we will make it our sworn duty to ensure Sarah Palin is never maligned, never attacked, and is always treated with the respect and love we have for her too. If it was a Hillary vs. Palin matchup, we would make sure it is a campaign about the issues, with no dirty tricks coming from either side. More or less, we’d find ourselves in the role of referee, because no matter who won the race, America itself would win having either strong, patriotic, practical woman in office to clean up Utopia’s unicorn droppings and rainbow-splattered “Lightbringer” mess.
We will NEVER, EVER in our lives do anything to harm Sarah Palin. Take that to Alaska and tell her that no matter what happens, she’s got a group of supporters here in Boystown for keeps. And we will NEVER, EVER side against Hillary Clinton either. Those are the rules we live by in our political thinking.
You have your own rules, we’re sure. You might not like how we lead with our hearts on this, but you mess with either Hillary or Sarah, and you bring the battle to Boystown, baby.
Where “you fight like a girl” is the highest of compliments, since the people we admire, and learn from the most, happen to be the two most important and America-loving figures in politics right now.
And, in 2012 as well, some are speculating already.
What think you?
Thursday Open Thread: January 28th, 2010
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
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What do you think of the unveiling of the new iTab by Apple?
Didn’t Tab already have its day in the sun. Pretty can, nasty soda inside. Nod to The Simpsons (and shoutout to Eamonn, our personal gremlin, officially assigned to us by the DNC, Simpsons nut that he is), but no, Tab doesn’t really come out of a keyboard, no matter how many times you push that button (or have a drinking bird toy do it for you).
We’ve seen these tablet PCs in stores for years, but have never in our lives seen an actual person with one before. There are actual laptops out now that are the size and shape of that iTab. For people who want a device that’s smaller, but with some functions of a laptop, there’s the iPhone.
Since we were kids, we dreamed about “electronic ink” that would replace newspapers with little tablets you could carry around that would have all the books in the world, and any paper or magazine you wanted on it, at your fingertips, with no paper wasted.
But, really, the iPhone already is that, sort of. Friends of our that have them can do some pretty amazing, Star Trek, things with them (the coolest, still, is the app that lets you hold the device up to music and the computer will tell you what song is playing, giving you the added option of buying it from the iTunes store).
So, we wonder if people who already have an amazing device in the palm of their hands will want a larger big brother to that to lug around. To us, if they wanted that, they’d just get a laptop.
So, who is the iTab designed for?
But, we still can’t figure out why Avatar makes so much money. We thought it was essentially Disney’s Pocahontas, but with Smurf-cats and a planet that had about 6 different kinds of animals on it, all of which were just blue, six legged versions of the animals here. Like they were all bugs doused with Tidy Bowl. But, it’s the biggest movie ever, and we don’t know why.
Maybe all these Avatar people will buy these iTabs too.
What’s your take?
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UPDATE on today's latest attacks on us at Daily Kos
Daily Kos has been calling us RAAACISTS some more, by playing the game we all know so well after a full seven days of these assaults:
(1) TheBigotBasher, a man in the UK, calls us RAAACISTS on his WordPress blog
(2) WordPress refuses to abide by its TOS policy and remove libelous content like this, even though every day WordPress is notified by us what TheBigotBasher is doing…and under existing law, as we understand it, WordPress will probably join Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, and other sites perpetuating BigotBasher’s libel as co-defendants.
(3) Daily Kos picks up BigotBasher’s libelous attack, and posters there advocate finding us in person, attacking us physically, and much worse.
(4) DU and others then echo whatever Kos is saying, treating it as gospel.
If you think this won’t happen to you some day for speaking out against this current administration and what the Democrat Party we used to know has become — just remember before they came for us, they hunted other PUMAs and came for them. They called the Clintons themselves RAAACISTS. Sarah Palin and John McCain were called RAAACISTS too. Everyone who opposes the Left is a RAAACIST. So, if you didn’t think tonight’s State of the Union Address should be carved into the moon with a sphinx-head of Dr. Utopia himself staring down on us, then you are a RAAACIST too.
We appreciate the support we’re receiving from all of you who recognize these attacks for what they are.
Others who have been attacked by the Left like this have families to think about, or are scared of losing their jobs or whatever. Well, we’re single gay guys without kids. The Left already cost us jobs. While we do believe these people will attempt physical violence against us, and that is in truth the goal of Daily Kos when it runs BigotBasher’s calls to violence, we’re a mix of ex hockey, rugby, water polo, and track and field guys here. So, depending on what we’re up against, we’ve got some chance of making it to another day.
As we keep wondering: if these Leftists were really right. If they REALLY knew best. If The Golden Age of Hope and Change under this president was really so magical, then why do they need to resort to brown shirt tactics to take down anyone who opposes Dr. Utopia?
Why?
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More on all this from Dan Collins over at POWIP
State of the Union Live Thread
Before it even began, the media proclaimed this THE GREATEST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS EVER!
Unprecedented, even.
Let us be clear.
What do you think?
Chime in with your reactions.
Hope you’re not playing a game where you down a shot every time Dr. Utopia says some variation of “I”, “Me”, or “Mine, Mine, Mine”.
You’ll have alcohol poisoning by the first time Nancy Pelosi rockets up off her chair to start clapping like a trained seal, abused with botox, and dressed like it parked its Delorean outside fresh from a trip from 1985.
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UPDATE: Clearly, we didn’t watch Dr. Utopia drone on tonight. Here’s who we should have been watching instead, in one of our favorite speeches she ever gave — the woman who, mysteriously, deliberately planned a trip overseas so she wouldn’t be in Washington tonight. And, she was not the designated Doomsday survivor, either, which makes things interesting because such a person, lower in the Cabinet rankings, would technically be moot tonight since Hillary was nowhere near the Capitol.
It would be interesting to find out if there was even a Doomsday Survivor designated tonight. Normally, it’s someone like the Secretary of Agriculture or Education, who spends SOTU night in a military base underground somewhere.
What’s interesting is that our friend Wess told us tonight that Clinton, on the Travis Smiley Show, said point blank she would not stay on as Secretary of State any longer than January of 2013, at the longest. There’s been speculation since 2008, when she left the Senate to take this position that she would not stay longer than the 2010 midterm elections, when Democrats will be absolutely decimated at the polls. Clinton, out of politics and on the world stage, does not have to campaign for the likes of Charles Schumer, Babara Boxer, Harry Reid, or any of the other people in the party who betrayed her in 2008. She can let them all fall to their doom.
Hillary has one of the world’s greatest laughs. It’s marvelous. She will probably be laughing a lot come November, and we’ll be joining her no doubt.
And then, who knows what she’ll do.
Give more speeches like this, we hope:
Question: Who will be left to help Haiti once all the Liberals get back to thinking about Oscar season?
We’re just going to answer this question right now: Christians.
Christians will be in Haiti helping rebuild that country, working in deplorable conditions, and, frankly, giving every last bit of themselves to rebuild Port-au-Prince and relieve as much suffering as possible.
George Clooney will take his beard back to Italy, or wherever he goes with it (or her, depending on how you want to define that), on his private jet, probably snacking on roast peacock and baby seal, all the while lambasting the rest of the masses for their carbon footprints and general thoughtlessness.
All of the other Hollywood telethon wonders will do likewise, as the ME MEEE MEEEE! Oscar season rolls into town, and Haiti slips from the headlines.
Liberals don’t build things. They don’t get their hands dirty. They just attack people, call them RAAACISTS! when they don’t agree with the Liberal talking points, and then get back into their limousines to ride twelve feet to the red carpet.
More and more we think about the difference between the way we are personally treated by the Left and the Right. To be blunt, neither extreme likes gays all that much. Liberals are smart enough to put on a good face about it in public, but behind closed doors they make their jokes, too, and can be far crueler than you could ever imagine. The Right’s foolish because — and we honestly believe this — conservatives are less prejudiced, reactionary, and hateful than Liberals…but they just don’t know how to do good PR. Maybe it’s because conservatives are largely quiet, on the whole, and tend to mind their own business…so the random zealots who condemn people like us to fire and brimstone and eternal suffering (what, like having to watch MSNBC?) get more airplay.
As we’ve said before, about the worst thing a Republican ever did to us was tell us they were going to pray for us “to get better”, so we would suddenly one day wake up and be all about Ann Hathaway, and not focused on how last-season her Oscar dress is.
Sorry, Ann, neither you nor Michelle Williams are why we watch Brokeback Mountain over and over again. Though, Ang Lee’s cinematography WAS beautiful, it’s all about the Jakey-G, people.
Who did the Liberals in Hollywood give the Oscar to the year Brokeback was up for Best Picture?
That’s right. Crash. A movie noone really cared about then, and doesn’t remember now.
Remind us why Liberals are so much better than Republicans again, for gays, or for anything else. While you’re at it, please explain why Christians are so persecuted by the media, and so maligned day in and day out…and yet these people jump into the fray when people need help.
While Liberals wait in the limousine for the best lighting to step out, for their photo op, to tell the cameras how sad they are about things like Haiti.
And how it’s all Bush’s fault.
