Archive for February, 2010
They did crazy things like this in Germany, China, the Soviet Union, and in Science Fiction, too.
When we first saw the new design the Utopia Administration created for the Missile Defense Agency, we immediately thought “they are talking Obama’s personal emblem and branding government agencies with it now”.
This is a time-honored tradition of tyrants and egomaniacs.
Saddam Hussein did this all the time.
Before he was toppled, Hussein drew up elaborate plans to create the world’s largest mosque in the shape of his thumbprint. He put his initials everywhere, and plastered his face every place he could.
Hitler did this, too. So did Stalin, Mao, the Kims of Korea, the Perons in Argentina, Hordack in the She-Ra cartoons.
We have no doubt that in 2013 all of this garbage will be pulled down, like the statue of Dr. Utopia briefly erected in Indonesia (which has since been removed from a public park).
Everyone who voted for this man, or sat their butts home on election day 2008 because “McCain was not conservative enough” are responsible for fascism in America, and displays of ego like this (h/t Michelle Malkin):
Original logo on top, Obama-fied cult logo in the middle, and Obama's personal emblem below
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H/T FreeRepublic
Why does this logo look so much like the Iranian Space Agency’s logo?
Why is the US president so gung-ho to help develop the space programs of Muslim countries?
Question: Is it possible to defeat the vile Jan Schakowsky (wife of a felon) in the 9th Congressional race here in Chicago?
Putting Jan Schakowsky on the House Intelligence Committee is like assigning us, a group of gay guys, to judge the Playmate Centerfold Competition at Hugh Hefner's mansion. We don't know the first thing about bunnies. Schakowsky has no intelligence.
Wednesday Open Thread: February 24th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Wednesday?
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We truly hate admitting this, because we love the woman, but Whitney Houston is in very bad shape. We didn’t believe how bad it’s gotten, or what the National Enquirer and other tabs have been saying, but below is a clip of Houston performing overseas in what was supposed to be her big comeback tour.
She’s addled, croaky, and skips all the difficult notes. At one point, she takes a break in the concert for several minutes to catch her breath.
It’s heartbreaking.
SOMEONE out there, please get through to her. Don’t let her become Michael Jackson. Whether you like her or not, please know this is someone we’ve loved for years, more so than Madonna, but a little less than Cyndi Lauper. Truth be told, for us, it was always Laura Branigan, then Cyndi, then Whitney, then Madonna.
We so want Whitney to get her groove back and get back into stellar form. It’s shocking to see her fumble like this, and while we know there are many more important things to worry about in the world, we just want this woman to get better.
Here’s hoping she takes action and does that.
Hillary is 45
If you were wondering if people from the grassroots side of the Clinton 2008 campaign are actively conspiring to give Hillary Clinton a window for another run for the White House, the answer is Yes.
Resoundingly so.
Either as the Democrats’ 2012 nominee, or as a third party candidate.
Now, we don’t believe Clinton would ever run as an independent to take Dr. Utopia down, but today Hillary’s Army in winter quarters had a sort of round robin fire drill…and the network we forged in 2008 still works great. People are still in touch. Thousands and thousands of people in all 50 starts are ready to hit the ground running for our Champ again…and next time around, we’ll be campaign veterans.
If we were in the White House right now, we’d sure cut our losses on the Rationing Bill disaster and start focusing on jobs and the economy…pronto…because those Utopian fools are sort of playing right into a perfectly designed and well-executed trap.
Hera’s smiling tonight.
Life is good.
The Queen of Farts at last presents the promised unicorn to the American people. Hope! Change!
H/t Seapea
The Queen of Farts presents the unicorn he promised to the American people, in the ruin his followers have made of the capital, dressed in all his Utopian finery.
Hope!
Change!
A failed presidency captured in one classic image!
The Opposite of Fabulous: Charlie Crist's Staff Abandons Him
The second most believable wedding ever.
The winner, and still champion
The notion that Charlie Crist has a sound and viable campaign for the Senate, at this point, is as preoposterous as his marriage to Carole Rome. It is, frankly, the opposite of fabulous.
Apparently, things are so bad for Crist, people are leaving “Brad” and “Linda” shaped holes in the walls as they race to leave his campaign while they still have a shot of finding work with someone who will be around for the general election.
According to all reports, Crist is in total denial, head turbaned, pacing through the governor’s mansion holding peacock feathers, muttering about how it’s not his chances of winning that got small, oh no, it’s that POLITICS got small, too small for him. His orange skin flush with indignation, Crist composed himself at the top of the grand staircase to address his staff, giving his best and most delusional full-on Gloria Swanson, insisting he can still win, that he’ll be president someday. “Where’s Mr. DeMille? Where is that little stinker? I’m ready for my close-up, and honeys, it’s gonna be FABULOUS. Just you wait. Somebody put my Evita CD in like I told you to do, but you can’t do anything right. This is the part where I sing, where I show you my heart, where I tell you not to cry for me, and you realize how wonderful I am. That number ALWAYS killed at the Green Iguana, you bitches. I’m still a star. The media says I should be the GOP nominee in 2012. Hear that Marco Polo, or whoever you are? Hear THAT. Anyone who wants to leave, fine, leave, but just know that I hate you. Next time Lady Gaga’s in town, just see if I get YOU any more backstage passes. Puh-lease!”.
The reason we think all of this is so important is because the destruction of Charlie Crist means the MSM has one less Horseman of GOP Apocalypse to push for the 2012 nomination. Crist’s place on that roster seems to be effectively filled by Mitch Daniels at this point. It’s interesting, because when Mike Huckabee self-destructed over the revelation his pardons as Arkansas governor set off a chain of events that led to the deaths of several police officers in Washington state, suddenly Haley Barbour started getting much, much more attention as the “fat Southern conservative religious person” the MSM wants in the 2012 race.
With Crist imploding beyond any hope of salvation, the MSM wanted another male governor to push, so they chose Daniels. A much less orange, and exponentially less fabulous choice, but the new Horseman in Crist’s place. Mitt Romney, John Thune, John Huntsman, Bobby Jindal, and Tim Pawlenty round out the other candidates Dr. Utopia would easily beat to win a second term.
So, watch how the MSM pushes them.
Crist, like Mark Sanford before him, was a candidate the MSM wanted to get far enough in the nominating process before they eviscerated him, causing great embarrassment to Republicans, and setting Dr. Utopia up for a win.
Shame on Crist for being so stupid to allow himself to be played like this. Marco Rubio is cleaning his clock nine ways to Tampa, leaving Crist with no political future that we can think of, and a new wife who’s probably having tea with Katie Holmes, Kelly Preston, and Renate Blauel in a support group no self-respecting woman should ever have to join in 2010.
BREAKING: Parma, Ohio man builds castle out of snow, proposes to girlfriend. She says yes.
One of the Five Great Wonders of Parma, Ohio
Those of us from Cleveland like to check back in with the local news to see what’s going on. Today, Robby’s mother called and said “You have to turn on the news, do you get the news from Cleveland, it’s all over WKYC that some guy in Parma built a snow castle. Out of real snow. And he proposed to some girl in there and she said yes, and the whole city’s talking about it. He had rose petals and a space heater in there and everything! Some schools closed, people took off work, and everyone came running. Several heart attacks were reported, but those people are okay. They told the doctors they just got too excited. All Hell’s breaking loose”.
Parma is a suburb of Cleveland, where there’s not only a mall, but a famous peirogi shop that Bill Clinton once ate at during the 1992 campaign. Clinton’s face is still crudely drawn all around Parma, on the sides of various stores, with a giant fork spearing a peirogi, saying “Yum!” or “Nom nom nom!” in big Sunday morning funnies lettering. Many residents of Parma have giant ornamental shiny balls in their yards, resting on pedestals, guarded by plastic flamingos and little lawn jockeys. These may or may not be commemorative memorials to “The Day the President Came to Parma”. The houses are post-WW2 red and orange brick, and many men wear black socks with sandals all summer, “Because the white ones get so dirty, and I am not about to walk around without socks on, like an animal”.
WKYC is the local NBC affiliate in Cleveland, famous for having a morning show set in a general store during the 80s, where two old men (Del and Tom) would read viewer mail and occasionally explode a rooster puppet, so all the feathers would go flying. ”Taught that rooster a lesson, they did. I saw it on TV this morning! Del and Tom really let him have it!”.
It feels like a million years ago, but something like the Parma snow castle makes us remember what life was like outside Chicago. Here, someone building a fort out of snow and proposing to someone inside would never make the news. In Cleveland, the guy who did this might get a parade. In Parma, if you’re on the local news, people come up and ask for your autograph, and sometimes stalk you. ”Saw you on TV! Now, I see you here. You’re REAL! Not one of those CGI-a-ma-things! You are as real as Hollie Strano, that nice weatherologist, and I met her once too at the mall, and she was real too. Saw her on TV many times!”.
We really miss Ohio sometimes.
Stuff like this is so cute.
And, it would be nice if some great guy built one of us a snow fort someday, with a space heater in it, which hopefully wasn’t electric and pumping out enough BTUs to melt the fort and cause an electricity-related tragedy…which wouldn’t be unheard of in Parma, quite frankly.
God Bless Robby’s mom…it’s always a delight to hear from her, and catch up on local news.
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UPDATE: Because so many of you wanted to see the Great Snow Castle of Parma, Robby’s mom sent these in, from the Cleveland FOX affiliate:
The engaged couple, Ryan Knotek and Christi Lombardo
Deep inside the Great Snow Castle of Parma
Christie leaving the Snow Castle after getting engaged. Congratulations Christie!
The couple seem really sweet.
We hope you get the impression from the article above how nice Parmaranians are. Cleveland’s suburbs all have a different flavor to them. David grew up with his mother Louella in Chagrin Falls and Richmond Heights, which are the very snooty parts of town. The super rich live in big mansions in Bratenahl by the lake. Shaker Heights and University Heights are the upper middle class, rich college professors and “big thinkers” crowd (Obama voters). Then there’s Euclid, which is lower middle class. This is all “East Side”.
On the West side of the Cuyahoga River, there’s Parma, Middleburg Heights, Brookpark, and Parma Heights, which were all developed after WW2, and have a high percentage of Polish and other Eastern European immigrants (for those nationality experts who were wondering). They’re nice people whose children usually buy a house down the street and live in the same neighborhoods their whole lives, for the most part. They commute downtown to work, or more often than not these days, they work in the little office parks that sprouted up everywhere on the West side in the 90s. Further out, you have places like Strongsville, Brunswick, etc., which are subdevelopments and people who can afford bigger houses and longer commutes every day.
Parma’s a town of church bazaars, fish fries, raffles, kids’ basketball and volleyball games on Saturdays, and where a fun time is still going to the mall, walking around, and then getting pizza at Antonio’s afterwards or hitting the Olive Garden or Ground Round.
It’s the Midwest, to the core, and it’s wonderful in its own special way.
Believe us when we say that while we’ll never live in Cleveland again, we will always have Cleveland in our hearts. As much as we’d love all of you to come to Chicago some day and explore our new home, it would be nice to think our stories of Cleveland prompted a few tourist bucks to head to the Plum City and its suburbs too.
Cleveland rocks, y’all.
They’ve got snow castles there!
What we need to watch out for: more political pay-to-play bribes for votes on the Rationing Bill
Here’s an interesting article over at roomfordebate, that’s actually several pieces, from several different authors, talking about Reconciliation.
What jumps out at us is the fact that for the Reconciliation scheme to succeed, Democrats are going to need to not only flip many of the original NO votes they received when the scheme worked its way through the House the first time, but they will need to ask a very large number of Democrats in conservative, angry districts to end their careers and lose their jobs by supporting something the majority of Americans do NOT want to happen.
Here’s our thought: if the White House tried to bribe Slestak in Pennsylvania to keep him from running against Specter in the Dem primary there, and they tried to bribe Romanoff in Colorado from running against Bennett, offering both high-level administration jobs to do what the DNC wanted, then what bribes will be going out from Pelosi and Reid to convince Representatives and Senators to commit “political suicide”?
How can we keep our eyes on this, because we know full well the MSM won’t be doing that?
We think it’s a safe assumption to work under that members of Congress like being there and feeling important. To convince them to give all that up to vote for the insane Reconciliation scheme, it’s going to take something very posh and coveted to get them to give up their seats. These people aren’t stupid, and know full well the public is watching these votes, and will punish those who go against the public will.
So what are Democrats going to give these people as golden parachutes? Where are they going to land?
How illegal is this sort of practice?
What think you?
Question: Could Al Gore and the other high-priests of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming go to prison?
H/t Seapea
Senator Inhofe has asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into the massive fraud Al Gore and his other high-priests of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming committed in the last two decades, using taxpayer money to fund bogus research and make wild claims about AGW that detrimentally impacted American industry and cost untold thousands of jobs.
Someone needs to go to prison for this fraud, and increasingly that person looks like it should be Al Gore.
Inhofe wants to summon him before Congress to reevaluate the testimony he gave regarding his film, An Inconvenient Truth, now that 95% of what’s in that Oscar-winner has been proved to be false.
The American media are refusing to cover the Climategate story, because it makes the MSM look bad: they can’t talk about the fraud committed because they were either in on the fraud from the beginning, or they were just too stupid to realize what was going on. Either way, they’ve dug their heels in and won’t tell the American people what’s going on.
The Inhofe staff report describes four major issues revealed by the Climategate Files and the subsequent revelations:
- The emails suggest some climate scientists were cooperating to obstruct the release of damaging information and counter-evidence.
- They suggest scientists were manipulating the data to reach predetermined conclusions.
- They show some climate scientists colluding to pressure journal editors not to publish work questioning the “consensus.”
- They show that scientists involved in the report were assuming the role of climate activists attempting to influence public opinion while claiming scientific objectivity.
The report notes a number of potential legal issues raised by their Climategate investigation:
- It suggests scientific misconduct that may violate the Shelby Amendment — requiring open access to the results of government-funded research — and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) policies on scientific misconduct (which were announced December 12, 2000).
- It notes the potential for violations of the Federal False Statements and False Claims Acts, which may have both civil and criminal penalties.
- The report also notes the possibility of there having been an obstruction of Congress in Congressional Proceeds, which may constitute an obstruction of justice.
Now, the Department of Justice under notorious race-baiter and Obama flunky Eric Holder has refused to prosecute Black Panthers for intimidating voters in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008, has refused to prosecute Obama friend and surrogate Bill Richardson for his crimes while in office as Governor of Nevada, and has refused to vigorously pursue the fraud and graft committed by Obama-supporting criminal enterprise ACORN, so there’s little hop of Holder going after Al Gore and his other high-priests of the AGW Church.
Perhaps public pressure can change that.
How many Obama supporters can Holder refuse to prosecute before Holder and Obama themselves are the ones facing prosecution?
Do you think it’s possible Al Gore could actually end up in prison?
Bristol Palin to guest star on "Secret Life of the American Teenager"
Bristol Palin is one of the people much younger than us that we admire greatly, because of her strength in the face of relentless and withering attacks from the Hopeychangey Left.
The fact Obama’s most ardent supporters go directly for the jugular of this young woman, who did nothing to them, just because she is the daughter of a political rival, should tell Americans all they need to know about what Hopeychange really is. It’s also telling ‘The Lightbringer” does nothing to call off his thugs, or chastise them for attacking an innocent. Because she’s over 18, and is a mother, the same age as Obama’s mother when she had him, actually, she’s treated as a target by the Left.
It’s a horrible situation, but instead of shying away from it or hiding away in Alaska, Bristol has made the courageous decision to travel the country raising awareness of the consequences of teen pregnancy.
We applaud her.
She’s got grit, heart, and a whole lot of soul to be able to look passed the evil being done to her and do her part to help other teens out there avoid the pitfalls she’s now faced.
Going on television is hard, people. It’s nerve-racking, terrifying in many ways. We can only imagine how hard it must be to do a scripted show, if someone’s not an actress. It’s probably very intimidating, especially a show that stars many Hollywood veterans such as Molly Ringwald (who was a favorite of ours growing up in all those John Hughes movies).
Just like we say about the Clintons, the greatest accomplishment the Palins will ever make is the great children they are raising, who are all growing up to be terrific Americans. Bristol is becoming an educator and an advocate. Brave Track is off in Afghanistan fighting for his country. Willow seems to have the heart and potential for many great things. Little Piper’s going to be president herself someday. And Trig, well Trig’s an angel undercover who is teaching many Americans compassion and love for the special needs, just by being an adorable little baby loving life.
The Palin family will one day soon be our First Family, and Bristol proves every day she’ll be a First Daughter we can all be so very proud of.
The young woman made a mistake many young people make, but instead of taking an easy way out and shirking her responsibilities, she’s owned up to all of them and is emerging to be very much her mother’s daughter.
We hope the attacks from the Left only make her stronger, only make her fight harder, and only test her mettle in the best possible way, so whatever Bristol Palin chooses to do in life, she’ll succeed beyond the Left’s wildest dreams.
Go, Bristol, Go!
