Archive for March 26th, 2010
Something we would like to see more often: reports on what you see in your neighborhoods
Here’s something we want to see more of from all of you out there who are quiet and never comment on threads.
Every day, when we run our Open Thread, we’d love reports on what people in your neighborhoods, towns, communities, cities, and social groups are talking about.
It’s fascinating for us, and helps us get a good handle on what real Americans are engaged in, instead of what the MSM tries to cram down our throats.
We try our best to do this for you here, to tell you what we are hearing on the ground here in Boystown. We actively seek out opinions of those around us and write down as much of it as we can to fill you in later.
Can you start doing this for us too?
Some of you already do this, and it’s wonderful.
But, there are an awful lot of people all across the country and the world who pop in here — if a larger percentage would report in what people are talking about in their parts of the country or globe, we can’t even begin to imagine how helpful that would be.
Just imagine all of those real world, first hand reports, across all demographics, chiming in with the voices of all those different cities and states.
It would be an amazing resource for us, and would factor mightily into our analysis of what’s going on politically.
So, think about it. It would only take you a moment or two each day. It would probably be hard at first, just as it was hard for us to start writing essays every day on this site. But, after a few days, you’ll get used to your Reports.
“Helen reporting in from Altoona here, with the scoop on opinions at the grocery store”.
“Bruce reporting in from Boston, with what people are talking about here”.
“Mercedes reporting the word on the street in Pittsburgh”.
If enough of you did this, and we had people reporting in from all 50 states, we’d become a better news source than the MSM itself. We’d have eyes and ears on the ground everywhere, and if we kept building that busy bee network, just imagine the influence we could all have combined by 2012.
We’d be an absolute nightmare for the Left, because we’d have a complete national picture of what was going on, instead of what the MSM was told to force feed us.
Like we keep saying, we are willing to put in yeoman’s work and dedicate ourselves to doing everything we can to defeat Dr. Utopia and his Leftists. This is one awesome way in which you could help, that would cost you nothing save for five minutes of your time each day to report in what people are talking about politically and culturally in your parts of the country.
Think about it.
Then report on it tomorrow in the next open thread!
Majority of Americans believe Obama is one-term president
Here’s an interesting read in the LA Times: a majority of Americans now believe Dr. Utopia is a one term president.
Here are a few things we see in play that are dangerous at the moment:
(1) Republicans have not lost any of their desire to be loved by the Leftist media, and constantly allow the MSM to beat them into submission. Instead of acting boldly and doing what Americans want them to do — ie, acting like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin 24/7 — these fools in their Brooks Brothers blazers temper everything they say, and tamp down everything they do, because they are so afraid of the MSM criticizing them. If Republicans don’t cut this garbage out, this country is toast. We already have an effeminate dithering fool in the White House. We don’t need more in the GOP if we want to give Americans a chance to boot Dr. Utopia out.
(2) Pursuant to the above, the MSM’s crusade to install a boring, dull as dirt, unelectable, cucumbers and mayonnaise Republican as the 2012 nominee continues full force. Republicans at large don’t seem to have a clue in Hell they are being manipulated. AGAIN.
(3) Democrats are very effectively pushing third party candidates to split the Republican vote in 2012. This is working. We hear all the time so many fools say, “I’m voting Libertarian! I hate both parties!”. Translation: “I am a damn fool who will hand re-election to Obama by being so fatally stupid! Third parties are a Democrat’s best friend!”. After all we have been through in the last year, if people are so foolish to go on about third parties when it’s clear they will only help re-elect Dr. Utopia, then there really is not much left to say. They are just hopeless.
(4) The Left is firing up the Alinsky Machine to eleventy. Anyone not agreeing with this president or his policies is being attacked. That’s making a lot of people clam up and slink into the shadows instead of fighting what’s going on tooth and nail. Trust us, we know how awful it is when the Alinsky Machine is turned on you. It’s brutal. It costs people everything. It’s hard to keep fighting. But, we must not give up and let these thugs and bullies win. The problem is, we see too many people giving up, and the Alinsky Methods working too well. It’s disheartening.
We do not believe the White House will go quietly into the night. If things are this bad for them already, expect every dirty trick known to Democrats to be used in 2012 to squeak Utopia to a victory. Just look at all the reprehensible behavior they engaged in to win Obamacare for him. Multiply THAT by eleventy and stare in abject horror at the realities that await us all when the 2012 campaign attacks are directed at all who stand in his way.
Republicans do not seem up to the task of defeating this man.
They seem scared to throw the needed punches — perhaps forever concerned with being called RAAACISTS! by the media.
They need to get over that. They need to finally realize the media will hate them no matter what they do, but Americans would love Republicans if they just proved themselves to be real American fighters with conviction and backbone. American wants testicular fortitude.
The only two Republicans we see supplying that, in spades, wear dresses.
Palin and Bachmann, baby, the toughest, no holds-barred, American heroes on the block.
Every other Republican looks like a whiny, sniveling sissy man next to the two of them.
Either the GOP needs to fully embrace Palin/Bachmann, or men like Romney, Pawlenty, Daniels, and the rest need to grow a pair, man up, and in the case of Pawlenty, become magically 190% less ugly.
Pronto.
Addressing a new round of Catholic Church sex scandals
First of all, before we say anything negative about the Catholic Church, we would like to point out the simple fact the MSM does not, ever, report on the millions of young boys who are raped on a daily basis in the Middle East, in the name of Islam, by Muslims who consider sex with young boys to be their right. All of us here studied Islam in college, and no study of Islam is complete without a look at what Muslim men do to young boys. “Women are for children, boys are for pleasure” is a very common phrase in Islam. Harems of young boys have things done to them no priest has ever done, in any country. But, in terms of calling Islam out on its many sins, the MSM issues just the sound of crickets.
That said, we’re very disheartened to read of more Catholic Church sex scandals breaking in Europe. Specifically, we’re upset Pope Benedict appears to have had full knowledge of what was going on. This is akin to the current president knowing about all the bribes made to secure Obamacare, and Nancy Pelosi knowing about Congressman Eric Massa abusing his young, gay, male staff and keeping them as his indentured house boys.
If it’s really true all three of these people knew what was going on but did nothing to stop it, then they all should be removed from office in disgrace.
We’re not religious, we don’t go to church, but we’re culturally Catholic around here, save for one protestant in our midst. Four of us went to Catholic schools across the Midwest and Texas. All of us belonged to great parishes, with adorable church ladies, good guys for fellow altar boys, awesome nuns, and priests who were kind and appropriate at all times.
We’ve talked repeatedly about how inappropriate we think it is in the gay community for guys to dress up as pregnant nuns or child molester priests for Halloween. Drunken, lecherous popes are other costumes very popular here in Boystown. We just find all of that so disrespectful to our cultural upbringing and don’t like seeing it.
Especially not since we feel Catholics are targeted with garbage like this, when other religions, especially Islam, are off limits for these barbs.
What many people don’t talk about whenever church sex scandals arise is a simple fact we see clearly: part of the reason there’s a problem with this in the Catholic Church is that for many years boys who were suspected of being gay were forced by their families into the priesthood. They were never allowed to be themselves, were shunted into seminaries, and years later they express their sexuality in destructive and criminal ways. That’s not an excuse, but an observation in terms of what’s happening with these men.
We know guys, OUR AGE, who were identified in high school as potential gays, and the schools and their parents pushed them into the priesthood. Out of the four priests from our respective classes, three of them are in parishes now — and all three are clearly gay but won’t admit it. One guy was a priest for a year or two, then left the clergy and now lives with a man and still hates himself, but is better off than his three peers.
This is such an explosive issue for us to talk about, because one of the things homophobes and anti-gay activists use against the LGBTQ community is the “gays are child abusers” attack, which is not true. The most common child abuser is a straight male molesting a young girl.
The closeted, gay priests are just such a ripe and visible target when they commit these crimes, that they overshadow everything else and do great damage to both the Church and the LGBTQ community. Then, ironically enough, in our opinion, the gay community makes everything WORSE by parading around at Halloween dressed up as collared child molesters or dirty old popes. Way to perpetuate a vulgar stereotype, guys.
Hopefully, in the 15 or so years since we graduate high school, the new generation of potential-gay guys are no longer being actively recruited for the priesthood. That’s just a recipe for disaster. Send those boys to Broadway or put them on a track to art school, where they can not only discover themselves, but tap into their creative genes and contribute something wonderful to the world. Don’t hide their rainbows under all that black, with the little white square on the collar, and drown out their fabulous with incense, candles, and organ music.
The fabulous won’t go anywhere.
It will just fester into something scary and revolting, which has been proved time and again by the priests involved in all of these reported abuse episodes.
Which, we must note, are but a handful of priests out there, in just a few cases.
No matter how bad things are, they are nowhere near as bad as what goes on in mosques and harems in Islam.
Not that the Leftist MSM will ever admit or address that.
Very strange: suddenly Ellsworth campaign emails are popping up in our inbox
This is a very minor mystery, but it’s still very strange nonetheless.
Our email for this site, HillBuzz@gmail.com, is only used for correspondence with people who want to write us on this site. We’ve never used it for anything else.
We have never signed up for any newsletters. We’ve never given it to the DNC or RNC or any political organization.
Anything political we’ve done we’ve done as individuals, and we all get plenty of emails from the DNC, the RNC, and various politicians because of our support for both Hillary Clinton and the McCain/Palin campaign. It’s clear being on those email lists led to our contact info going out to all sorts of other groups, because we get plenty of political spam on all of our private accounts.
But, HillBuzz@gmail.com has never received a single email from a campaign — until recently.
We’re being hit with at least one email a day from the Ellsworth for Senate campaign, at an email address that, to our knowledge, has never appeared on any campaign email lists.
It’s just odd.
These aren’t personal outreaches to us from the campaign, they are just form-letter emails that go out to thousands.
We wonder how our HillBuzz email got on the Ellsworth lists. CLEARLY, if someone on the Ellsworth staff added us, they have never read us, because we don’t want Ellsworth to win that seat. We spent the last two days trying to remember if we ever used a HillBuzz address for anything we did in Indiana in 2008 or any of the times we’ve contacted Evan Bayh about something, but are 100% certain we’ve only used our personal emails for that. Never HillBuzz’s itself.
So, this is just bizarre.
Has anyone else ever had an experience like this? Maybe we can together figure out how a campaign suddenly picks up an email there’s no way it could have ever gotten unless someone out there working for the campaign did research of some kind and decided to add it.
Did you know Muslims stole IDs from Bally's to use to plot terror attacks?
Last night, while we were out here in Boystown talking to people about what they thought of the Obamacare travesty, we ran into a friend of Robby’s who used to live in Boston. We started talking to him, and somehow in the conversation 9/11 came up — we think because Panda brought up the Real World, when one of the former cast members was spotted in Scarlet (quite a few reality has-beens live in Boystown) and he told everyone the story of Beth from the New Orleans cast.
She was the girl who was supposed to be on one of the Boston to L.A. flights that hit the Twin Towers; the reason she survived was because about 20 minutes before she was supposed to leave for the airport to make her flight to California, she got into a random fight with her boyfriend that ended in a screaming match, and her refusal to keep her trip to visit him. That fight saved her life. If not for the argument, she would have boarded the plane and been one of those to die when Muslims took over the cockpit and turned the jet into a cruise missile.
The guy from Boston, Jake, then told us a 9/11 story we’d never heard before, but that we’ve checked out and it is most definitely true.
Jake used to workout at a Bally’s gym in Cambridge, near Boston. One of the personal trainers there was Muslim, and he was arrested not long after 9/11 for stealing the identities of club members. He photocopied all their member info, which included copies of their drivers’ licenses. This information was given to Muslim cells in California, where the information was used to make all sorts of fake IDs, fake passports, and the like for Muslim terrorists operating in the US.
Apparently, this guy kept his eyes open for anyone he saw who could pass as a Muslim male for future use by one of the cells. He wasn’t looking for people who looked like specific terrorists. He was just looking for dark haired guys with pictures on their IDs that were close enough to what Muslims could make themselves look like if need be.
This happened at a Bally’s.
We wonder where else this is happening. It’s not all that hard to get a job as a trainer, and apparently gain access to membership files like that.
It’s also not all that hard to get a job in Human Resources just about anywhere.
Big hotels have hundreds of people working there. Large companies might have thousands. Just imagine the goldmine of useful information Muslim terrorist networks gain access to by having moles like that trainer in these sorts of environments.
Scary stuff.
Jake also told us that at the big mosque that’s in Boston, he noticed black SUVs with dark windows parked nearby for a long time, but eventually they disappeared before he moved to Chicago in 2009. So, after 9/11 this mosque was watched for a good 8 years, but once the Golden Age of Hope and Change began, it appears the feds have backed away.
Why is that, we wonder?
Is the mosque suddenly no longer a place of concern, or does the current administration just not want to keep its eye on it anymore?
Even scarier stuff.
Question: What are twenty-somethings saying about Obamacare?
Last night, we all went to Scarlet for their Frat Party Thursday, where they have $5.00 40s, beer pong, Nintendo, and other games, attracting a much younger crowd than we typically find ourselves in here in Boystown. Joaquin loves it, because he was in a frat back in Texas, and thinks it feels a lot like the parties he used to go to in college.
Panda loves it, too, because he gets to be in all his glory, since all these younger guys have never heard any of his jokes or seen any of his stunts (or his dance moves) before, and are just endlessly marveled by his antics. Last night, he wore a deconstructed fedora, thick coke bottle glasses he found at a garage sale, and a houndstooth jacket that only he could pull off, and everyone just loved it. They were all drinking a lot, too, so maybe that explains it.
Joaquin got us into a game of flippy-cups with a bunch of twenty-something guys and their female sidekicks (pretty straight girls who choose to spend their Thursday nights at a gay frat party yet wonder why they’re single). During the game, we gently pushed to hear their thoughts on Obamacare, and were genuinely surprised by their lack of knowledge and general reactions.
Seth, a football player-built 26 year old consultant crammed into a tight black shirt and de rigeur monochrome black vest and pants, looking much like a gay ninja on his way to a side gig bartending at MiniBar, started the conversation after successfully flipping his cup so his teammake could chug and start his own flip.
“Well, I think this helps capitalism because if the government takes over the insurance companies, then that fosters competition because then the insurance companies won’t be able to charge so much”.
Robby doesn’t drink, and is charged with the notebook and pen when we’re out on these investigative missions, so these are direct quotes, folks.
Seth went on to explain that “socialism isn’t inherently the enemy of capitalism, and I learned that at the University of Dayton in a poli sci class. My professor told me that a little more socialism would be good for this country, and my professor was very smart”.
Now, Seth is not a “Brenden”, so this was all rather surprising to us. “Brendens” are the male airheads of Boystown, and can be spotted as any guy, for whatever reason, wearing a tank top out in public when the weather’s below 75. Brendens do this to show off their guns and chest, but in reality reveal more about what’s between their ears than they realize.
Brendens typically just parrot whatever they heard Anderson Cooper say on TV the last time they were at Steamworks and caught a little CNN in the lounge, resting up before another loop through the sauna and steamroom, where they get to parade around totally naked and give everyone more than the usual tank top show.
Another instance where we wish we were kidding, but this is Boystown.
Seth’s sidekick, Katie, was a loud and lively (in a very good way), Midwestern blond who more or less votes Democrat, “but doesn’t really know why, it’s just what my parents always did”. We asked her if she knew the government was going to force her to buy insurance, and she said she didn’t realize that and hadn’t really been paying much attention to what was going on, because she has “been busy”. Also, she lives above one of the bars on Halsted and “hasn’t been getting a lot of sleep, so this stuff is all really hard to follow”.
We asked her if she had health insurance and she said she didn’t, but that her friends told her insurance would be free.
They told Katie it “was part of the stimulus thing” Congress passed in February 2009.
We told her that wasn’t true, and that she’d have to pay for insurance out of pocket whether she wanted it or not, or pay a $750 fine. We asked her if she had that kind of money and she said she didn’t. “That’s a whole month’s rent”, she told us — her share of the three bedroom she rents here in Boystown.
Some of the other guys playing flippy-cups talked about the fact that largely everyone in the bar was a Democrat, because gay guys are Democrats, and that people don’t really think about politics or government much, because “it’s so boring”.
We asked them what they planned to do in the upcoming elections, and they asked us, almost to a guy, “what elections?”.
“The ones in November”, Sebastian prompted.
“Didn’t we just vote. I voted for Obama,” a Brenden said proudly. “I went down there and it was boring but I did it. And then they gave me a sticker and I almost wore it but my jacket was suede and my mom said to stop putting stickers on my suede because she won’t buy me a new one, unless I get a girlfriend and then I can have whatever I want, even a car”.
“Do we vote on stuff every year? That’s a lot of work,” Brenden #2 complained.
We explained how off-year Congressional elections worked, but the Lady Gaga/Beyonce “Telephone” duet revved up the crowd, so of course Panda seized the opportunity to challenge drag queen Frida Lay, resplendent in a sea foam green gown, to a lip-synch-for-your-life challenge. This is similar to the “dance-offs” Panda’s forever igniting almost wherever he goes, even at the rundown Sears on State Street, or with the guy who stirs the paint at the Home Depot near Diversey (aka, the lesbians’ promised land).
The political conversation pretty much derailed after that, because Panda made such a scene, taking the Gaga part, mouthing every word perfectly, and doing all her dance steps like he choreographed them himself (which some of us speculate he did).
“Just look at him go,” Katie said, flipping another cup on the table. “You know she was at Kuma’s Corner like a month ago and had a Pantera Burger and waited in line like everyone else”.
“Panda?”, Joaquin asked.
“No, Lady Gaga. She was really chill. I was there that night.”
Just as all the assembled pieces of “the true cross” displayed as icons in churches all throughout Europe could build several life-size replicas of Noah’s Ark, if everyone in Boystown who claimed to be at Kuma’s when Lady Gaga ate her Pantera Burger came together in one place, they could fill Wrigley Field several times over.
By all accounts, Lady Gaga was chill, though. For the record.
And Pantera Burgers are indeed delicious.
Even when Panda insists on calling them “Panda Burgers”, which we’d never recommend for a restauranteur, with all that potential to have not only the health department but the World Wildlife Fund and various truth in advertising groups on your back for no good reason at all.
Are any of the rest of you having conversations with people in their twenties?
If so, what are they saying about Obamacare?
What do they think of when they hear the word “socialism”?
Are they still quoting their college professors?
Do they think Lady Gaga is chill?
How would they place in either a dance-off or a lip-synch-for-your-life with Panda?
What think you?
Question: What do you think's going on with the Koreas?
Are you following the naval developments with the two Koreas?
What do you think is happening there?
Is it a case of the North testing Ameria’s resolve, now that we have an effeminate and dithering president who won’t check their aggression?
Will this lead to anything major, or will it just blow over as these episodes largely do?
