Archive for March, 2010
Question: Do you know of any small businesses that are now going to cut staff to avoid the Rationing Bill's penalties?
Here in Boystown, we have a lot of friends who work in the bars and restaurants on and around Halsted.
Most of these small businesses have around, or just over, 50 or so employees. Only one of them currently offers healthcare to its employees — Sidetracks, which has about 65 people on staff.
The other businesses, we’ve been told, are going to start layoffs to get their staffs down to under 50 so that they don’t incur the penalties specified in the Rationing Bill.
Outside of Boystown, we also know a few printing shops, distributors, and construction companies that are also going to cut staff to avoid new taxes and fees.
Are you hearing anecdotes like this where you live?
We’re interested in seeing just how many people are going to lose their jobs — or not find future jobs because small businesses stop hiring — as a result of what Leftists did on Sunday.
Can you give us any information you are hearing?
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Avatars aren’t just creepy smurf-cats in outer space re-enacting Disney’s Pocahontas.
They’re also those little squares that pop up whenever you make comments on various sites, like this one.
We learned today you could change your avatar to anything you want it to be, by using the site www.Gravatar.com
Just go to the site and you can upload a picture from your computer that will link to whatever email you use on various sites when commenting. Then, instead of generic avatars assigned to you by the computer, you’ll have whatever picture you want to use for yourself.
You can be a blue smurf-cat if you want.
James Cameron would love that.
Purple dog people will chase you.
Don’t blame us.
Question: Which designer purse will Steny Hoyer take to the bill signing ceremony? Will he go wild with leopard, or be pretty in pink?
Washington's new power couple, with supervillain chaperone
Just like Carrie Bradshaw, but with purses instead of shoes.
That’s Congressman Steny Hoyer above, on his way to the Capitol on Sunday, with his purse stuffed full of Tic Tacs (in case anyone got hungry) and Kleenex (for when Leftists started weeping with joy), tightly holding what we think is fellow Congressman John Lewis’ hand.
We’re not sure how long the two have been dating, but we hope it’s going well. They make a really cute couple, and Democrat leadership seems really supportive of their romance — so much so that it seems George Soros himself has been assigned to chaperone these two on their dates, lest anyone get too “grabby” and run bases before the time’s right.
Can’t rush lovin’, folks. Gotta keep the dates to the streets before you mess up the sheets.
It’s sweet and old-fashioned Soros is chaperoning these two love birds.
Creepy, too, because it’s GEORGE SOROS following them around, constantly suggesting Steny buy John a rose from a vagabond street vender and nudging John to talk less about his exes and how terrible they were and instead focus on complimenting Steny and making him feel special.
“Remember to tell him how much you like his purse. He’ll like that. I can tell he spent a lot of time picking out which one he would wear, and I think he wanted to impress you. You should recognize that and make him feel special for caring so much about you to take his best purse out on your date,” we imagine Soros advising, all smiles, as happy playing matchmaker to gross Marxists as he is ruining banks and tanking economies.
Apparently, Steny’s got such a collection of MARVELOUS purses to choose from, he’s known as “The Carrie Bradshaw of Congress, But With Purses, Not Shoes”. So, if he indeed picked out his BEST purse to take on his date with John on Sunday, then Congressman Lewis should be beyond flattered.
“He’s my sweetie. He’s my boo. His heart is pure. Our love is true,” John was heard to rhyme, before the two (plus Soros) headed to a quiet part of the Capitol grounds for some “quiet time to get to know each other”.
We’re wondering if the two will color-coordinate their ties, suits, and underwear again today for the Healthcare Rationing signing ceremony at the White House.
And we, like just about EVERYONE in Washington, are just DYING to know which marvelous purse Steny will accessorize with.
Will he go wild with leopard?
Should he be pretty in pink?
Is the occasion appropriate for basic, classic black — or is that too funereal for the occasion?
What about something slick, bold, and designer — too flashy?
“Whichever purse my boo brings, I will love him just the same. A purse doesn’t make the man, the man makes his purse. Any purse would be lucky to hang on that arm, just as I’m so lucky to get to hold his hand and make laffy sounds when he whispers jokes or tickles me”, Lewis insisted, giggling a little, following Soros’ astute advice to keep the magic growing in this budding relationship.
George Soros.
Supervillain. Nazi collaborator. Evil opportunist. Criminal.
Cupid.
Tuesday Open Thread: March 23rd, 2010
h/t stacy
h/t stacy
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
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Here’s something totally adorable we saw over at Ace of Spades and had to repost here:
The Swedish guy who did this made himself into a twin using camera tricks — it’s a very cute run through of various TV show themes.
What struck us, too, on a personal note is the kid looks like a slighter younger Sebastian. It could be his kid brother.
Here he is singing more songs:
We kind of have a thing for guys who can play guitar and sing. A talent absolutely none of us here have in the least.
Musicians rock.
In some cases, like Fredrik above, literally.
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Question: Whatever happened to the current First Lady's "visit military families" campaign?
"I'm proud of visiting people for the first time in my adult life!"
Today, some comments on another thread reminded us that Michelle Obama once claimed she was starting a campaign “to visit military families” and, we assume, “scowl at them”.
We believe she went to three military bases, all on the east coast, and traveled a total of 800 miles or so “visiting”.
Apparently, few on those bases wanted much to do with her, and she didn’t especially like going, so it appears that whole “visit military families” thing went the way of the organic vegetable garden that doesn’t actually produce edible organic vegetables (since it was so poorly planned and haphazardly executed in soil that’s not anywhere near organic).
Is Mrs. Utopia still doing anything with military families? Does anyone know?
Her latest push for something to do is telling people how fat their kids are, while ignoring not only the fact that she herself has ample junk in her trunk, but that she repeatedly calls her own daughters “chubby” yet takes absolutely no responsibility for her own role in feeding her children and supervising their activities. Before this woman can call any other American out for raising obese children, she needs to reconcile the names she taunts her daughters with the responsibility she bears, as their mother, for whatever shape they are in.
There’s a reason Liz Minnelli isn’t a spokeswoman for temperance and Tom Cruise isn’t the poster boy for heterosexuality.
Practice what you preach (or scowl) before you set off on a big publicity tour to scold other people about that.
And if you start something high profile — like visiting military families — maybe you should do that more than three times, whether people want you to visit or not. And, for crying out loud, please dress appropriately when you sporadically do the things you promised the nation you were going to do while living off their dole and playing “fashion icon”.
Why is Steny Hoyer carrying a purse and holding this man's hand?
Take a look at what's going on in this picture. How bizarre is this?
Are they on their way to Congress, or headed to the Chapel to get married?
"Quick, fool, hold my hand so nobody notices your purse!"
What is George Soros doing there?
Here’s this photo from yesterday again, of Red Queen Nancy Pelosi leading a troop of fools to the Capitol to smash the Constitution to bits.
We wonder what on Earth is going on with Steny Hoyer in this shot.
Why is he carrying his purse to the Capitol?
What marvelous things could he have inside that bag of tricks?
Why is he holding the hand of the man next to him, who we think could be John Lewis, or another of Congress’ stable of race-baiting Leftists?
Do Hoyer and Lewis hold hands and go for walks outside often?
Carrying purses?
What gives?
The Red Queen Nancy Pelosi laughing at the assault on the Constitution
H/t Seapea
The Red Queen Nancy Pelosi, holding her Constitution-smashing gavel, laughing all the way.
John Boehner's first speech as Speaker of the House
Our choice for the next Speaker is Michelle Bachmann. We are committed to finding a way to make her Speaker, as we believe, honestly and truly, that Bachmann has been touched by greatness and is destined to be one of the heroes of this Republic that saves this nation. She would make an excellent Speaker.
But, Republicans seem determined to make John Boehner the replacement to Red Queen Nancy Pelosi.
Last night, Boehner proved he could do a very admirable job as Speaker.
In fact, history will probably record the above as his first speech as Speaker of the House.
America is going to give Democrats a loud vote of no confidence. If Boehner steps up to the plate and leads the way he spoke last night, he’ll assume the role of Rightful Speaker, while Red Queen Nancy continues her madness on the sidelines, trying to do as much damage as she can, until Speaker Boehner (or, if we do have our way, Speaker Bachmann) replaces her.
Another head of the ACORN hydra folds — but don't think for a minute it's not reforming elsewhere
"We've had enough of this garbage" from ACORN
We’re all children of the 80s here.
Guys who grew up watching Thundercats, Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Jem, and other cartoons where the villains always came up with some new plot to commit various forms of evil, were beaten back by the (usually underpants-clad) heros, only to be allowed to run off before the end credits to plot more nefariousness for another day.
In one memorable episode of Jem, we remember the character Shana, when faced with the eleventyeth attack upon the Holograms by rival, malicious band The Misfits, shouted, “I’ve had enough of this garbage!”.
That’s how we feel about ACORN…and the simple fact that Republicans have continuously allowed this criminal enterprise to slink away, reform, rebuild, rename, and get up to its old tricks again every time it’s come under attack.
ACORN pretends to be disbanded, but will just reappear tomorrow as NROCA — like in a bad cartoon where terrorist organization COBRA thinks so little of its adversaries that it structures itself as “a legitimate business” named the ARBOC Corporation.
Seriously, are you kidding us?
We thought this was ridiculous 25 years ago when we saw it on morning TV.
We think it’s absurd today, as adults, that no one seems committed to figuring out exactly what ACORN is up to, how it keeps reforming, where its funding comes from, and how each of its many heads, tails, claws, and mouths can be sliced and diced until the criminal organization it most certainly is has been taken down completely.
Even Al Capone’s ingenious, inventive, and resilient criminal network was taken down — eventually — no matter how many times it tried to reform.
It’s a big project, but here at Buzzquarters we’re going to take the pictures down from one of the apartment’s walls. We’re going to use index cards to try to piece together what ACORN is, as of today, what branches are operating under what names, and make it a mission of ours to determine who is funding all of these various heads and what their end game is.
We bet all roads will lead back to usual suspects like George Soros, but who knows what pattern will emerge when we actually, physically, chart all of this out.
As we continue to find ways to improve this site and move us forward, we want a redesigned HillBuzz to make it easier to tackle projects like this, and solve mysteries like ACORN and its ambitions, structure, reorganization, and funding.
We want, with your help, to be part of the force that takes these criminals and terrorists down once and for all — doing the job the GOP doesn’t seem capable of doing.
Maybe what was needed all along was a coalition like ours, of moderates, conservatives, and independents to take on something like this that Republicans on a party level won’t touch for whatever reason — and which Democrats, of course, are loathe to do anything about because ACORN is an arm of the DNC, whether 90% of Democrats want to admit that enough.
Well, quoting our cartoon friend Shana, we’ve had enough of this garbage.
We don’t know HOW we’ll do it, but we’re committing to solving the ACORN problem, and working hard on it as a long-term investigative project of ours. Maybe we should do a weekly column on it, every Sunday, and commit to working hard each week gathering as much as we can find on ACORN, then reporting to you what we have learned so that collectively we can keep compiling this information to the point where we uncover enough so that something actionable forms out of the emerging patterns.
Maybe, together, we can do all the yeoman’s work the GOP won’t do…and we can deliver to them the ammunition they and law enforcement needs to shut down every head of this hydra once and for all.
Even the most resilient of all the cartoon villains got canceled eventually.
What happened to Mumm-ra, the Decepticons, Skeletor, COBRA, and The Misfits needs to happen to ACORN in all its forms too.
Who are the Marxists in this neighborhood? In this neighborhood. In this neigh-bor-hood.
We need your help to identify all the people in this photo, as we think it’s going to become an important tool for the Resistance.
Left to right, it looks like we can spot:
(1) Steny Hoyer carrying his purse and holding race-baiting pig John Lewis’ hand
(2) George Soros (small head)
(3) Race-baiting pig John Lewis
(4) Red Queen Nancy Pelosi
(5) Frankenstein (behind Pelosi, in place of her Jabberberrywocky no doubt)
(6) Part of Dennis Kucinich, maybe
(7) Big fat white-haired Marxist
Can you identify these people?
Even the ones that are just partial shots of their heads, ears, etc.?
What we’d love to make is one of those photos that has outlines numbered to correspond with who these people are — like in dinosaur books or whatever that tell kids which species of critter they are looking at.
Americans need to know who all the critters in this picture are so come November they can join dinosaurs, under glass, in a museum somewhere, near the dodo birds and the Whigs, where all Leftists belong.
