Archive for February, 2010
Hera Comes for Keith Olbermann
H/t Seapea
We love thinking about vengeful Hera, high on her perch above Mount Olympus, plotting and scheming to destroy all the terrible people who backstabbed and attacked Hillary Clinton in 2008…then largely went on to do the same things, in the most sexist and misogynist terms possible, to Sarah Palin as well.
Three of the most terrible men on the planet worked at MSNBC during the 2008 election. One of them, a vile pig if ever there was one, Tim Russert, had a heart attack right in the MSNBC studio and died before he could ever see his boyfriend, “The One”, be awarded the Democrats’ nomination by the corrupt, Liberal-seized DNC. Chris Matthews lost his chance to run for the Senate and wakes up every morning as Chris Matthews, a vile pig.
The third porcine MSNBC personality is Keith Olbermann, and word is he’s close to getting fired.
His ratings are terrible. The majority of Americans know how terrible he is. Olbermann’s making enemies left and right.
And, most importantly, Hera seems to have him in her sites.
Isn’t it funny how just about everyone who sided with Dr. Utopia and worked to destroy first Hillary Clinton and then Sarah Palin in 2008 are getting what’s coming to them?
Coincidence?
Karma?
Or a goddess on the warpath?
A Justice League of Drag Queens
H/t Cary for the Word Cloud
Last night was an eventful night in Boystown where various topics of interest were covered, as we ran into a random assortment of characters, at various levels of coherence and sobriety. So, no different than any Saturday for us, really. But, the takes on Anthropogenic Global Warming, nationality experts, score-settling dance-offs, and Sarah Palin were interesting enough that we thought we’d share them with you, if on this Sunday morning you’d like to curl up in your Snuggie with a cup of Mineral City-worthy coffee and take a trip to Boystown with us. That means putting your abacus away, Lea and Karen, because we’re not concerned with watching the word count in this as much as we are giving you a glimpse of what life is like in the political middle, living in a gay enclave in a Liberal-dominated city where group-think rules with an iron, if pinkened, fist.
Sunday Open Thread: February 28th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Sunday?
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Drudge Report is hitting the Church of Anthropogenic Climate Change HARD today. Three different stories are linked exposing the fraud Al Gore and his “climatologists” committed, in a trillions-of-dollars scheme to redistribute Western wealth through a “carbon-trade” market.
* A Perfect Storm Brewing for the IPCC
* Committee to Review Procedures
* Here’s Al Gore’s (who had been missing for some time, but has apparently now been found) feeble excuse…he claims he and his “climatologists” only made “a few mistakes”.
Actually, ManBearPig, with all due respect, you made more than “a few mistakes”.
(1) Polar Bears are not going extinct. There are more of them today than there ever were in recorded history.
(2) The Himalayan glaciers are not melting, as you claim.
(3) Sea levels are not rising, as you claim.
(4) The rain forest is not being destroyed by climate change, but by agriculture.
(5) Hurricanes are less frequent now than they were 60 years ago, which is the opposite of what you insist.
(6) Earthquakes are not caused by climate change, as many of your followers believe.
(7) Your 2007 UN Report is riddled with more errors than a Wikipedia entry written by a fifth grader. It was not based on sound science, but on scare-mongering and wishful thinking on the part of “scientists” who stood to make a great deal of money by starting a global panic and manipulating Liberal followers into forming a new cult, all centered around yourself as the “Gore-acle”.
It’s a wonder the American media continues to get away with avoiding all reporting on the collapse of the Anthropogenic Global Warming cult. The Olympics have been the latests excuse not to report on this, but that ends today. Earthquakes of late is probably the next reason not to report on any of it…too busy talkin’ ’bout da ‘quakes. Can’t do two things at once!
What it boils down to, though, as many articles state, is that the American media is 100% a member of Gore’s cult. They BELIEVE his lies, so they won’t report anything to the contrary. That makes it highly unlikely they will ever admit the truth, because in doing so they’d be forced to admit their own stupidity. Do you really think that will happen?
So, on the grassroots level, regular people need to find a way to get the truth about the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming out to the public at large.
How can we do that?
It’s a real test of new media and grassroots activism…to see if there is a way to effectively disseminate information that’s been embargoed by the news networks and publishing world.
CAN we do this?
How?
Any ideas?
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Question: Have Democrats become the party of cruelty?
Watch the clip above from O’Reilly, it’s about a focus group done regarding the Family Guy jab at Sarah Palin, in an episode where a character dates a girl with Down Syndrome. The Democrats in the focus group were shown to be absolutely beyond cruel…to the point of being sociopaths.
We’ve told you already what we’ve faced in the last two years, really three years now, since we started opposing “The Lightbringer”, Dr. Utopia. In those three years, Leftists have done more harm to us and shown us more evil than Republicans ever did in our first 30 years of life. Some Republicans might not like that we are gay, and might not like that we support the Clintons, but no Republican has ever threatened our lives, libeled us, thrown rocks through our windows, punched us in the face, or sought to deprive us of employment opportunities and ruin our good names. Leftists did all of those things, because we do not support “The One”, oh He of the Hope and the Change.
The most a Republican ever did was say, “I’m going to pray for you boys so the Lord straightens you out, and then you’ll get nice wives”. Which, honestly, is kind of sweet, considering the source and knowing the intent was something along the lines of “I really like you guys and I believe you have been challenged and I am praying for you because I want you to have a happy life like I have so that you can be happy as I am the way I understand happiness”.
The Left, should you not agree with them, will pound you and hit you and beat you into the ground until you submit. If you won’t ever buckle, they will just seek to destroy you, throwing every possible weapon they can dream up your way.
It’s impossible for us, at this point, to justify anything the Democrat party does, or to relate to liberal Democrats anymore.
If we, as moderate/conservative Dems feel this way, we wonder how Independents out there feel.
Or, more importantly, how those Independents will VOTE.
Saturday Open Thread: February 27th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Saturday?
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Be creative and help us come up with some ideas for patriotic superhero costumes that are original and not Superman, Uncle Sam, etc. We have a party to go to in June that’s superhero themed, and we want to make some really great, pro-America, superhero costumes that we can wear not only for that, but for Fourth of July, Tea Parties, and Halloween too (more bang for the buck).
We want to do some original things…like maybe a male version of the Statue of Liberty…something like that. We’d like to great a set of four characters…and have a couple months to pull it off, so any help brainstorming would be great.
Would people “get” a male Statue of Liberty…like he’s a “Son of Liberty”? Or is that too random.
Remember, in Chicago, we tried a male Medusa (a Mandusa) last year, and no one got it (they thought it was Cleopatra). SO, nothing can be too cerebral.
Any ideas?
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Are you aware of everything Roger Ebert has gone through the last few years? He’s going on Oprah on Tuesday to talk about it, and it’s one of those rare occasions when we’ll tune into the Charybdis of Lake Michigan, because our hearts go out to Ebert. He had mouth and jaw cancer which stole his ability to speak. His whole lower jaw was removed. It’s horrifying really, but the man has not been broken and continues to appear in public to talk about movies, using a computer like Stephen Hawking, no matter what he looks like.
We really admire his spirit and his ability to get passed the physical aspect of what’s happened to him. It’s incredible.
Ebert’s a man we never much liked, because we always thought of him as an ass. In 2004, we met him at a book signing on Michigan Avenue and he was rude and surly to people who waited a long time in line to meet him. In retrospect, he was probably already suffering from the cancer, so the rudeness makes a lot more sense. Usually, people in the entertainment and political worlds are really nice in person, because they know their livelihoods depend on it. They might be rude in a restaurant or in an elevator where there are no cameras around, but they’ll be all smiles for hours at book signings or movie premiers or whatever, because that’s when they are “on” and that’s when they know their checks depend on good performance.
So, it’s a reminder to always give people the benefit of the doubt. And it’s always appropriate to reevaluate your opinion of someone if you find out new information that gives insight into their bad behavior. The same is true for David’s mother, Louella, who was horrible to all of us, but Sebastian most especially. She mad Bast’s life a living Hell for three years, but now that we know she has Alzheimer’s, her behavior makes a lot more sense, and we’ve let go a lot of the negative feelings we had towards the woman because we can see how she wasn’t really “all there” when we knew her.
If there’s anything worse than losing a jaw to cancer, it’s Alzheimers, which is probably the worst disease we can imagine. We would not wish that on anyone. Not even Louella.
So, tomorrow at mass, if you go, if you could find room in your prayers for both Louella and Ebert, we’d appreciate it. We have no idea how much they are suffering, but there are people out there who love them both very much, so we hope you will ask for comfort and respite, as much as possible, for the two of them. We promise to return the favor for you if ever you need anything fabulous done here in Boystown that we can lend our own particular skills to. But a coast to coast infusion of positivity towards Louella and Ebert can only help, and certainly can’t hurt, so we hope you will consider doing that.
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Al Gore heckled at Apple Shareholders' Meeting
He was still re-elected to Apple’s Board (where he’ll receive enormous compensation), but Gore was called out as a liar and a fraud at the Apple Shareholders’ Meeting.
Specifically, the issue was raised of whether or not Gore was competent enough to be a Board Member, since as Pope of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, he claimed the glaciers were melting, the rain forest was disappearing, the sea levels were rising, and global temperatures were on the rise: when all have been proved false in the last several months since Climategate broke, and it was revealed Gore and his team of “climatologists” have been fabricating and manipulating data to arrive at predetermined, apocalyptic results.
Gore and Ben Nelson of Nebraska deserve OJ Treatment whenever they head out in public.
We’ve mentioned this before, but one of us personally witnessed OJ Simpson walk into a restaurant in Florida once, years ago, and the entire place booed him and shouted “MURDERER!”, until Simpson was forced into a private dining room, away from everyone else.
When Ben Nelson walks down the street, people in Nebraska should shout “Whore!” and “Slut!” for his shameful Cornhusker Kickback in the Senate, a bribe that will live in infamy, and memory, until Nelson’s ultimate electoral defeat.
For Gore, wherever he goes for the rest of his life, people need to shout FRAUD! and LIAR! or HOAX! at him. The man deserves enormous shame for knowingly driving a cult based on fabrication, deceit, lies, and the willful suppression of the scientific method.
Shame on you, Al Gore.
Shame on Apple for retaining you on its board.
Hooray for hecklers who have started your much deserved ridicule, oh Fallen Pope.
Sarah Palin throws wonderful ninja stars at the Five Main Lies of the Rationing Summit
Sarah Palin throws more ninja stars at the Administration...from Facebook
Sarah Palin’s hitting the Five Main Lies of the Rationing Summit yesterday, in typical Sarah Palin ninja-throwing-star-style.
Love. This. Woman.
Word is she’s got a whole warehouse full of those things, ready to dispatch via Facebook. Like this:
An unlimited supply of truth-telling and ridicule for those who deserve it, kept somewhere near Wasilla, Alaska.
Read what the Governor has to say and then chime on on what you think about the Administration’s Five Lies.
Healthcare Polling and Why It Matters
H/t Chrissy the Hyphenated
Dear HillBuzz,
Humans are tribal creatures. Most of us like to feel we belong, so poll results can influence our opinions. I’ve compiled some tips to help you sort out the good polls from the crappy ones.
Look at who did the poll. Polling companies like Rasmussen and Gallup have reputations to protect, so they’re careful not to do skewed polling. Other groups are more interested in producing fodder for their propaganda and use various techniques to “push” their poll results in a desired direction.
While you should beware of polls done by special interest groups and biased media agencies, you should not ignore a poll simply because it was PAID FOR by a special interest group. One of the best, fairest and most informative abortion polls I ever saw was paid for by Focus on the Family, which definitely has a pro-life agenda. But they hired a reputable polling agency to do the work and, from what I saw, they genuinely wanted meaningful information about where Americans stood on the issues at the time of the poll.
Look at who has been surveyed. Political polls generally poll one of three populations: All Americans (A), Registered Voters (RV), and Likely Voters (LV). Typically, All Americans poll more liberal, Likely Voters poll more conservative and Registered Voters fall in the middle.
Look at how closely the breakdown of Democrats, Republicans and Independents matches the current population. Gallup keeps a running count of how Americans are self-identifying. Good polls will weight their results to reflect the most current numbers. Crappy polls will allow (or promote) skewed findings to get the numbers they want for their headlines.
Look at the “margin of error” number. Smaller is better. A typical margin of error for a good poll is “plus or minus 3” which means that where the survey results showed, say, 47% approval, the likelihood is that the entire population’s approval is somewhere between 44% and 50%. Plus or minus three. Get it? Ignore polls that do not report their MOE. And give little credence to any with large MOE numbers. The worst I ever saw was plus or minus nine. Sheesh! How meaningful could their numbers be with an EIGHTEEN percent range?!
Look at the size of the sample. The larger the number polled, the more reliable the results are. The magic number for national polls is 1,000, which you can see reflected in the margin of error numbers. Bigger survey sample = smaller MOE.
Look at how respondents were contacted. Most polls are done by phone, which means that to some extent the results only represent the opinions of people who have phones. But given the number of people who have phones, this is not a serious limitation and it is one that is difficult and costly for pollsters to overcome. However, polls done at web sites, via mail, or to call lists that were not properly randomized are questionable. But even here, it depends what the purpose of the poll is and what they’re saying about it.
For example, I am on the mailing list for Republican opinion polls, probably because I returned the first one so they figure I’m worth the stamp. Since these polls seek to discern what active Republicans are thinking about current issues, the sampling method is justified. However, if the GOP tried to publish their results as representing Americans in general, they’d be way out of line.
Beware of deceptive WORDING in news reports and ads. For example, advertisers would like you to assume that “Three out of four doctors recommend this product” means “75% of all Medical Doctors in the United States believe this brand is superior to all other brands.” But it could just as easily mean “Three out of four doctors I play golf with said, ‘Sure, that brand’s okay’” or “75% of the doctors we called said they’d give free samples of this brand to their patients.”
The list of polls included on this graph show a bunch (like WaPo/ABC) that I wouldn’t trust. The MSM and Democrats trumpet these skewed polls as “proof” that “a majority of Americans” want the Democrats’ plan, yet even at the very beginning when disapproval was at rock bottom, the most biased poll only garnered an approval rating of 50%.
I marked the first and last of what look to be the two most extreme of the “skewed to show support” polls with GREEN arrows.
February 2009: Favor 50% vs. Oppose 20%
February 2010: Favor 48% vs. Oppose 43%
They show an interesting trend – i.e., the more we learn about the Democrats’ plan, the less we like it. The same message is also displayed in the range and mixing of dots. The Favor (gray) dots have a much smaller range than the Oppose (pink) dots:
Favor: 25% to 52%
Oppose: 20% to 62%
Also, in 2009, the Favor and Oppose dots were spread out and intermixed, but in the last couple of months, the dots have gotten more tightly clustered and less mixed.
And according to this cumulative Gallup graph for the last four months of 2009, the majority of Americans has most often been opposed to the Democrats plan. So if you hear some Dem saying, “Most Americans want this,” call ‘em out on it. Cuz they’re wrong.
Here’s a little homework for you. Check out THE latest poll I could find and see what YOU think it means. (There won’t be a test <g>).
Chrissy
BREAKING: Desiree Rogers finally fired as Social Secretary
"I play dress-up all day" - Desiree Rogers, in her official White House photograph as Social Secretary, describing her job duties and use of taxpayer money.
Desiree Rogers, who used to leave the White House gates propped open with a brick so “anyone who wanted to could crash the White House parties, because that’s funny”, has apparently been fired as Social Secretary, according to Rush Limbaugh.
More to come.
But, if Desiree Rogers wasn’t safe in this White House, and she was someone who Chicago insiders said would NEVER be fired, then we wonder how long Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel can continue to stink up the place with their poor performance, abrasive agendas, and general lack of competence.
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Update: Here’s Desiree Roger’s official statement on her firing.
We really wonder what finally prompted this, because Rogers was incompetent in her position from Day One. It feels like the decision was made to fire her over her embarrassing fumbling of the India State Dinner, which turned out to be the most ineptly-run and embarrassing state dinner held in generations. India was apparently outraged Rogers thought nothing of protecting their Prime Minister from just about anyone in a sari who’d walk in right off the street. Instead of taking a post checking invitations at the door, Rogers was apparently on the dance floor and hitting the buffet line, having a grand old time. It looks like the White House just waited until the furor died down to fire Rogers, trying to save face by not sacking her right when this happened.
On the other side of the coin, what if Rogers really wasn’t fired, but instead, as she claims, is really leaving the White House to look for opportunities in the corporate world?
Let’s analyze the logic of that for a minute.
Right now, it’s the worst time in generations to be looking for a job, even if you did work at the White House. Why leave a cushy gig where she could play dress-up all day and carry on any way she pleased spending as much taxpayer money as she could in the White House, to go to a corporate gig somewhere? That makes no sense at all…especially if Rogers really and truly believed her good, close, personal friends the Utopias were going to be in the White House through 2013.
If Rogers really believe Dr. Utopia was getting a second term, wouldn’t she have wanted to stay in the White House for all of it? At the end of an administration, people like Rogers start to leave so they can get a good corporate job while their president is still in office, and it still carries great weight on a resume to be part of the administration leaving for a big paycheck. That happened at the end of Clinton’s last term. It happened at the end of Bush’s last term.
Know when it didn’t happen?
In 1994 or 2002.
Because Clinton’s staffers knew their boss was getting a Part Two, and Dubya’s team wanted to be part of his second term.
Either Rogers was canned like the ham that she is, or she knows she’s on a sinking ship and wants out while she can still get a decent corporate job being incompetent and spoiled somewhere on the shareholders’ dime.
Leaving now makes no sense if she did it voluntarily and really believed her good friends were going to live in that building for a full eight years.
More Alice in Wonderland comparisons being made of Obama
We like to think we started the ball rolling on this meme, with the excellent work by Seapea depicting Dr. Utopia as we see him, “The Queen of Farts”, clutching his pork-a-corn, happily strolling through the mess s/he’s made of our country:
The Queen of Hearts in her Golden Age of Hope and Change
But, it looks like other cartoonists are picking up on the Alice motif as the new Tim Burton movie gets closer to release. For some reason, they’re drawing Dr. Utopia as the Mad Hatter, with Harry Reid as the White Rabbit (RAAACIST!) and Nancy Pelosi as the Queen of Hearts. Joe Biden is the Doormouse (when we see him as a giant, ice-cream devouring, caterpillar). Pelosi and Reid are the Tweedles, clearly, not the WR and QoH. And with giant mushrooms looking so phallic in a cartoon like this, we can only imagine Rahm Emanuel rolling around on the ground salivating, as a Wonderland ballerina wishing he was back at Studio 54, where Truman Capote once took him over the moon to his own very personal “Wonderland”.
