Archive for May 2nd, 2010
People Magazine Done Lost Its Mind
Debbie Schlussel has an interesting piece up on Gabourey Sidibe being named as People’s “Most Beautiful Person”.
Schlussel is harsh and direct, and has all the subtlety of being hit in the face full-blast with a thousand gallons a minute by a fire hose, and we don’t agree with the tone of what she says — though the notions behind it are true.
We think Gabourey Sidibe is a wonderful young woman and, by all accounts, a very sweet soul.
She’s not the new Jennifer Hudson, however, because Jennifer Hudson is still doing just fine being Jennifer Hudson.
AKA, the overweight poor black girl plucked from obscurity and fawned over by the MSM and Liberal Left.
In both Hudson and Sidibe’s cases, there’s actually real talent there, so for once the Left’s not promoting a substanceless black person as some sort of inspirational deity. The press pool has the Obamas for that.
And the MSM sure loves calling Michelle Obama “beautiful” too.
But, she’s not.
She could be. If she frowned and scowled less, and if she stopped picking 5 random people a day from the White House tours line, blindfolding them, and then asking them to pick out her “outfit” for the day. In the dark. Did we mention blindfolded?
Lose the wigs. Dress appropriately for the time of day, her age, the occasion, and her station as First Lady. 86 the bad attitude, the bitterness, and the racial grievances. Then let’s talk about Michelle Obama getting closer to “beautiful”.
As for Gabourey, we just don’t agree with People Magazine’s PC-push to overlook her life-threatening obesity.
For the last 20 years or so, there’s been a weird Hallmark shift to emphasize “the inner beauty” of someone, at the expense of reality. This does no one any good.
It does not make the obese person less of a risk of heart disease, diabetes, and early death.
It does not magically make the general public better people, because this is not a cheesy movie and seeing Gabourey Sidibe declared “The World’s Most Beautiful” will not suddenly make that fact so, or convince millions out there to bulk up to be more “beautiful” too.
We wish there wasn’t a “People’s Most Beautiful List”, because it’s just so shallow and stupid. But, if there has to be such a thing, let it be what it is and go for the jugular with it. Sincerely show us the truly most beautiful person in the world — someone so captivating, so enchanting, as to make grown men and women weep. Someone deserving of Paris’ golden apple. Someone to make the goddesses of Olympus jealous.
But, do not promote a young woman with serious health problems as “The World’s Most Beautiful” when she’s not.
This reminds us of Stephen King’s Carrie, actually.
Where a group of wise-asses make Carrie the prom queen, to make fun of her. Everyone laughs. Carrie’s momentarily flattered and shocked, then humiliated and tortured. It doesn’t end well for anyone, except drag queens in Boystown who got an iconic and relatively easy to fabricate Halloween costume for the rest of forever.
It also reminds us of stories we hear where black fire fighters or police officers are promoted to fill diversity requirements, but aren’t physically fit enough, and don’t test well enough, to earn those promotions on their own. Yet, they are bumped up the chain of command anyway, often with disastrous results.
Who really benefits from the Left’s need to promote mendacity as the norm, because that’s the only way they can fill their quota of affirmative action that day?
We feel really sorry for Gabourey.
She’s not asking for any of this attention. It must be overwhelming for her, to be the new pet project of so many liberals out there, all clamoring for the chance to tell her she’s beautiful and perfect and the new greatest thing in the world — because she’s black, obese, and can do no wrong in the MSM’s eyes.
She might as well be Oprah.
Minus Oprah’s attitude, racism, grievance-mongering, grudges, and gluttony.
It would have been great if Gabourey had declined the People award, saying she didn’t feel she deserved it and that it was not appropriate for her — just as Obama should have declined the Nobel Prize he won for “Awesomeness”.
Because she went ahead with this farce, we think a little less of Gabourey than we did before — but, maybe like Carrie White, she was just so shocked and pulled into the moment that it didn’t occur to her that she could have refused this, and thus nipped the joke in the bud before anyone got hurt.
Schussel may have gone overboard in her assessment of all this, but we agree with her in the sense that absolutely no one benefits by pretending morbid obesity is just fine. Weight’s a touchy subject for a lot of us, and no one here looks perfect…but when your health is indeed threatened by your obesity, you should just not let yourself appear on a magazine proclaiming to the world that your condition is an ideal.
Being a black media darling and beloved pet of Liberals just does not make this so.
What's remarkable about all the worry about Obama suspending elections is that people remarkably believe, in their hearts, the current president is capable of this.
Today, we had a very interesting conversation with a friend in the South that hit on a few points we’ve seen and read elsewhere, repeatedly, in the last few days. One of the things we talked about was that this friend truly believes all of us engaged and following the news closely these days were “called” to do so — to be eyes and ears, and to evolve into the 21st Century town criers to warn our friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans about the dangers of allowing the current Socialist-Democrat party to maintain its hold over the nation.
She told us there’s a reason the lot of us in Boystown have kept up this site, a reason why we’ve sunk everything we had into this effort, and a reason we keep going, despite how exhausting it is and how hard it is to keep track of everything the DNC’s Cloward-Piven Strategy and Alinsky Methods are doing behind the scenes.
As we’ve said many times before, we do this because we want to do our part for America, when America needs it. We look forward to some day in the future when we can go back to our regular lives, already in progress, and let someone else take up the mantle of town crier. Until then, this is our watch and — we hope — your watch too.
We’ve been seeing a lot of people, across a wide spectrum, who consistently feel the current White House and Socialist-Democrats in office nationwide will manufacture a crisis that allows Obama to declare martial law and suspend November’s elections, declaring himself Lightbringer and, essentially, Pharaoh.
We don’t believe this will happen, because we think the slumbering giant of the American spirit is already waking from its nap. Socialist-Democrats and the White House don’t realize it yet, and the MSM is too busy running spin operations to pick up on it, but Democrats are toast. Party-ending toast. They went too far in the Golden Age of Hope and Change. People like us, who were lifelong partisan Democrats now hate the Democrat Party and work hard every day to do everything possible to take the DNC down, bankrupt it financially, and salt its ruins like vanquished Carthage.
When the Left is finally defeated, between now and 2012, we hope Americans coast to coast do everything possible to send as many of these Leftists to prison as we can, and make sure the rest never have another elected office from which to attack this country.
So, we think the worry about Obama suspending elections and declaring himself Pharaoh is unwarranted. He might want this, but he is not a stupid man. He’s a narcissist and, frankly, a homosexual (and we can call him out on that because, hello, we’re gay ourselves here in Boystown), and the biggest diva the world has ever seen, but even he must know doing something as “unprecedented” as declaring martial law to prevent his party from losing Congress will be a disaster — and will light the fire for a Second American Revolution.
BUT, it’s fascinating to us that so many — and we bet the numbers in the millions — people believe Obama’s capable of doing something like this.
That says an awful lot about this president, and the political trouble Democrats are really and truly in.
If the public believes you are so corrupt, un-American, untrustworthy, and vainglorious that it’s plausible you could institute martial law after manufacturing a crisis to essentially pull a Reichstag fire putsch on American soil, then you have serious credibility and electoral problems.
No amount of hopey-changey posters are going to resolve this.
No photo spreads playing basketball and trying desperately to appear manly are going to make this go away.
If Americans really and truly believe, in their hearts, that the President of the United States is essentially a cartoon villain out of the imagination of a show like 24, then the White House is facing an unprecedented challenge — a complete and utter vote of no confidence from the public.
Even Jimmy Carter, at his nadir, didn’t face a public who believed he had it in him to destroy the country to save himself.
More and more people are admitting this is how they feel about Obama.
Where this goes from here, we can only conjecture, but it’s uncharted territory.
“Unprecedented”, even.
Question: How can the White House and Democrats at large manage and dictate your healthcare if they can't come up with an effective strategy for handling an oil spill?
Here’s something we are wondering and thinking about today.
Dr. Utopia, our current president, spent much of 2008 high up on stages that put many of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s spectacles to shame.
He nanced, and he pranced, and he razzle-dazzled the same sorts of fools who, back when we were in grade school, were razzle-dazzled by Milli Vanilli — like Obama, these were charming, effeminate, foreign, light-skinned black men without substance (but knew how to put on a show in a big stadium).
We clearly remember “The Lightbringer” announcing the end to all human problems, effective immediately upon his inauguration. He was going to heal the world, he said, lower the oceans, repair the hole in the ozone, eliminate all diseases, and usher in a Golden Age of Hope and Change upon this Earth. The audacity of his personality and the superhuman capabilities of his own personal charisma would convince hurricanes to bedraggle us no more, and tornadoes to “chill out”.
The current First Lady, Mrs. Utopia, hectored non-believers, admonishing them that not only was she proud of her country for the first time now that her husband was winning elections on the national stage, but that soon he’d set about work “fixing your broken souls”.
Please.
Mary sure hasn’t been able to fix the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Miss Thang doesn’t even seem all that concerned about it, if he had time enough last night to yuck it up with Jay Leno in his tux, with Michelle squeezed into a red velvet sausage casing.
So, we wonder, with all the powers of the most powerful country to ever exist on this Earth, with all of the umpteen government departments and the entire reach of Washington — as Commander in Chief of the world’s most powerful military, including the greatest navy to ever sail the seas — why hasn’t the Lightbringer averted disaster and saved the Gulf coast states from the oil spill?
Obama said he could do anything.
He promised he had the leadership and the know-how to usher in a utopia of his own making.
Where are our unicorns?
Aren’t they good at soaking up spilled oil?
Better question: if Obama and Democrats can’t handle an oil spill — something that government agencies should have been prepared for since the Exxon Valdez spill in the late 80s — then how on Earth are these same slow-moving, myopic, delusional buffoons going to handle the myriad of unanticipated and unpredictable disasters that await in the government takeover of 1/16th of the economy.
If the Gulf states are waiting for Washington to decide what to do with a black pool of disaster headed towards shore any day, how are you going to feel waiting by the phone under a black could of uncertainty as an Obama-created Death Panel decides whether or not you’re going to get the cancer treatment you need when you get sick and Washington starts overruling doctors as it rations our healthcare?
Obama promised miracles.
Instead, he’s thrown a great many parties, had plenty of laughs, and his wife has scowled an awful lot — like, Guinness Book of Records-winning in terms of clocking in those scowls — but we’ve yet to see any miracles.
Considering how much Democrats are supposed to love the environment, and how effective and dynamic Obama is supposed to be as a leader, then we wonder how on Earth a disaster like this oil spill can be explained, in this the Golden Age of Hope and Change.
AND we also have to stop and think about whether or not the people behind this failure of basic competence and resource utilization can be trusted with managing the nation’s healthcare resources.
If Obama can’t stop an oil spill from spreading and killing everything in its path, should he and his death panels be trusted with treating your cancer and saving your life?
What think you?
Who's Dressed Better: The First Lady or Potatoes?
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Who looks better in burlap?
Whose bumps and protrusions are more appropriate in context?
How bad does the First Lady dress if she can actually be in a contest with potatoes, where one of them is indeed dressed better?
Potatoes.
That’s worse than Keeley’s 5th birthday cake topper.
PO-TA-TOES.
Great. Merciful. Zeus.
HillBuzz on the Radio: 95.3 The Bear, Bama's Best Country
We’re really excited to announce something that’s been in the works for a while — starting this Wednesday, May 5th, we’re going to start appearing on the Madison & Shepherd in the Morning Show on 95.3, The Bear in Alabama.
We’ll be doing political commentary right here in Boystown, broadcast in Alabama during drive time radio.
Worlds collides!
Our mission, as always, is to reach out to as many Americans as possible and teach them to recognize all the things the Left is doing to this country — and give them the tools and encouragement to stand up and start doing something about it.
So, if you are in Alabama, listen to the Madison & Shepherd show every Wednesday, and tell all your friends. We’d love to see this become a permanent weekly thing. Doing these guest-spots is great practice for getting our own show up and running, and continuing to build a bigger platform to do all that we can to take down the Left and defeat Obama and his lunatics once and for all.
We’re very excited about Wednesday, and looking forward to our debut in ‘Bama.
The one without the “O” in front of it.
The good ‘Bama.
Sunday Open Thread: May 2nd, 2010
What’s on your minds this Sunday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
