Archive for April 16th, 2010
Great article on Alexi Giannoulias over at BigGovernment
Make sure you head over to BigGovernment and read this article on Alexi Giannoulias.
In short, it highlights the weird tea dance Giannoulias is doing, desperately shaking his rump, trying to distract Illinois voters from the fact that he loaned $20 million to the mob and then aggressively checked up on his family’s investment. He’s now fan-dancing, giving the old razzle dazzle, and channeling some Obama audacity to claim he never really knew what was going on at Broadway Bank, his family’s bank — the MOB’S BANK. The story, today, is that he just came in every day, looked nice in his suit, smiled at people, pushed some papers around, spun around on his swivel chair for a few hours, barfed, then slap a few assistants on the ass and called it a day.
That’s not the story he told when he ran for Illinois Treasurer, when he said he was the genius behind the bank’s success and the place could not run without him.
That’s when he used his banking experience with the mob as justification for why he should be given the job of Treasurer — which, unlike with glee club or the Sherman Oaks Ladies’ Guild, has monumental responsibilities.
This is Illinois, so we the people who reside here are forever doomed with one corrupt buffoon after another, largely because the media is Leftist controlled and generally looks the other way in terms of Democrats’ corruption. Before anything’s reported, someone checks to see if there’s a (D) or an (R) after a person’s name. If the former, they can get away with just about anything save murder. They are even celebrated as weird, anti-heroes. If you are a Republican and so much as sneeze without excusing yourself, you’ll be excoriated nine ways to Sunday.
Illinois is a case study in how bad things can get when the media’s allowed to control the news so lopsidedly.
It’s stunning that more people don’t realize just how crooked and vulgar Giannoulias truly is, and how mobbed-up his entire family remains.
It does not help matters that Mark Kirk is running a shadowy campaign, doing who knows what who knows where, and being almost completely invisible in this race. Clearly, he’s being advised to stand back and allow Giannoulias to self-destruct. Perhaps he’s playing with an Easy Bake Oven and amusing himself with light bulb cooked brownies, Claire McCaskill-style. He sure as heck isn’t out there making the case against Giannoulias, or for himself in this race.
Odd strategy for a very odd bird.
It’s horrible to think Giannoulias could actually win this race and become our next Senator. Read the article above and pinch yourself, because you aren’t dreaming, or having a waking nightmare, though everything involved in this race is so bizarre we can easily see why you’d think it’s a John Grisham book sprung to life.
More Ninja Throwing Stars From Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin’s done it again — with gusto.
Read her Facebook post up today smacking the White House for more of the anti-American-exceptionalism garbage the current president so fondly vomits on the world stage.
Tomorrow, we get to hear Palin in person, in Washington, IL at the Five Points event she’s doing.
If any of you are going, maybe we’ll see you there. If so, we hope you say hi.
You betcha.
Question: How is Liberalism like a cult?
Lately, we’ve heard “Liberalism” described as a religion, if not a full on cult, to its adherents.
Here in Boystown, many guys are Liberals before they are gay, and we know Jews who are Liberal before they are Jewish. Meaning, they will blindly support Leftist candidates, because they have a (D) after their names, regardless of if they do anything for the gay or Jewish communities respectively, or even regardless of it they are competent and good public servants. All these people do is obsess over who is and isn’t “Liberal” — those not in the cult are the enemy, and must be destroyed at all costs.
Here’s an interesting letter we received yesterday, from a reader who works in the nonprofit world here in Chicago. Tammy’s experience is similar to what all of us have encountered ourselves, because nonprofits and educational institutions are almost always liberal-controlled. The culture in these workplaces can accurately be described as fascist in its enforcement of Liberalism. You will not be hired if someone suspects you might be Republican, or even Independent. They want only loyal, blind-party-voting Democrats on staff. Voice an opinion that’s not out of the Liberal playbook for approved thought, and kiss any hope of promotion goodbye. Forget about being treated as an equal or respected for your frame of reference or alternative point of view. If this isn’t fascism, we don’t know what is.
Have you encountered other examples, in your own lives, of Liberalism as a cult, and its followers as fascists dictating thought at work places or other inappropriate situations?
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Dear HillBuzz,
OK – so it’s taken me a while to finally write up this letter, but I really felt like I needed to finally write it, and in light of an e-mail exchange I had with my friend Stacy last week, it finally spurred me on to write this.
She and I have fallen out over her communist tendencies….it pisses me off so much when she says, “you know, I think communism is wonderful…”
I finally lost it with her one day and was like, shut the f*** up, you don’t know what you’re talking about, you stupid b****.
Talk to anyone my age or older who grew up under this so-called “wonderful” totalitarian regime in Eastern and Central Europe and they can tell you just how wonderful it was.” Stupid b****.
Not only am I offended for all of those countries that had to quietly suffer behind the Iron Curtain, but I am personally offended because you are completely dismissing what my own family went through, especially the ones who were picked up by black Volgas in the middle of the night by the State Police, never to be heard from again.
Another one of her favorites is, “you know, I just don’t see how you can’t believe in global warming and that we’re causing it. I don’t think that I can be friends with someone who denies that global warming exists.” Stupid b****, who clearly doesn’t read anything except Michael Moore’s blog. And are you serious? You’re telling me how hateful Republicans are in the same breath that you say that you can’t be friends with someone BECAUSE THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION. What’s next? Separate drinking fountains and restaurants?
“You really, REALLY need to rethink Sarah Palin’s “stupidity” as you call it.
Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with, Stacy, and she is counting on people like you and Anneli who underestimate just how ruthless and intelligent she actually is. And meanwhile, she’s laughing all the way to the bank.”
Tammy in Chicago
Friday Open Thread: April 16th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Friday?
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Did you see Michelle Malkin’s post on would-be Tea Party crashers? She’s got great photos of the Tea Party crowds calling out Alinsky Leftists who tried to disrupt the protests yesterday — they had large INFILTRATOR signs they used to block out the signs the Alinsky troops had, which they tried to use to paint the Tea Party as something that it’s not. Their goal was to depict the protests as violent and racist, because, of course, that’s what the Left accuses anyone that opposes it of being. But, they failed spectacularly.
Epic Fail.
