Archive for September 9th, 2010
GORGEOUS, happy, and doing something to encourage girls to play sports — THANK YOU Michelle Obama. Let the pigskin fly.
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This is the nicest photo we have ever seen of Michelle Obama, and we are thrilled she took to the field, played a little tag football, and SMILED so big and bright today.
She should do something like this every day…and she should be praised for EXCELLING, today, in the role she should be playing in the remaining time her family lives in the White House.
Young girls need to be encouraged to play sports…and we especially like when someone gives girls who want to play male-dominated sports a role model.
There is no reason on Earth why girls cannot play football. They should be playing hockey and lacrosse and wrestling, too, if that’s what they want to do. If they are good enough, they should be playing in the NFL, NHL, and other pro-leagues too. There should not be an NBA and a WMBA. If you are good enough to make a team, your plumbing shouldn’t matter.
The reverse is true, too: boys should be encouraged to take ballet and dance, ride horses, play field hockey, and do whatever they want as well, without arbitrary gender limits. All of these sports involve running, hand/eye coordination, jumping, and being active. A penis or a vagina should not limit your involvement if your heart is in this game.
So, BRAVO to Michelle Obama today.
This is actually a huge deal, people. It’s something that no other First Spouse before her could have done. Hillary Clinton would not have been able to take the field like this, and we can’t imagine Laura or Barbara Bush playing football. Those women, in their roles, did a lot of activity promoting in areas that they were comfortable and appropriate in. But, a rousing game of football was not one of them.
In a few years, we’ll have Todd Palin hitting the field doing all sorts of great outdoorsy, active, things…and we hope to take in as many of those games as we can, we don’t think we need to tell you, because the man is a stone cold fox. He, too, as First Spouse, will excel in things that his predecessors in the role were not able to do, by nature of his unique abilities.
Michelle Obama makes a lot of mistakes as First Spouse that hurt this nation, and she has not grown into the role as Democrats promised she would. Part of it is that she’s trying to be a bougie something or another that she’s really not, and keeps insisting on being stuffed into designer duds just because they are expensive and going on lavish trips abroad just because she can.
Michelle, if we could give you any advice, it would be to BE YOUR DAMN SELF. Which you are clearly doing in that photo above. You are not faking that smile. You are happy. You are being active. You are playing football with kids in New Orleans who are thrilled to be running around out there with you, getting active. You are giving a little girl who hasn’t worked the nerve up yet to ask to play football some MIGHTY ammunition if she’s later confronted by a NO, Girls Can’t Play attitude.
“Well, lookit, here’s a photo of Michelle Obama playing…so why can’t I?”.
In political life, when someone you don’t particularly like, someone you criticize on a regular basis for her mistakes, does something positive, we feel you need to acknowledge that.
This was a fantastic use of her role as First Spouse, a good trip to New Orleans that made sense, because the city could use all the exposure and positive stories it can get, and a terrific opportunity to inspire kids of both genders to get outside, leave the video games and computers alone, and play some football together.
Brava, we say.
For the first time in our adult lives, we’re proud of Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama should play football somewhere every day.
Dressed appropriately, having fun, being nice to children, not spending any tax money -- what's not to love about this?
QUESTION: Could Donald Trump, in Bruce Wayne-really being Batman-mode, be secretly setting the Ground Zero Victory Mosque up for an eminent domain defeat?
Even better than when he gets into those ridiculous fights with Rosie O'Donnell over nonsense.
Go ahead and laugh at him, the way Gotham City laughs at the playboy antics of Bruce Wayne, and yes, his hair is more ridiculous and hard to believe than Charlie Crist’s marriage to novelty-products heiress Carole Rome, but Donald Trump is every so (not-often-enough) often Batman under all that bluster.
He’s offering to buy out some of the Muslim investors in the property they want to build the Ground Zero Victory Mosque on. He’s offering 25% above the actual value of the land.
The Muslims will refuse, because the front company Islam setup for this conquest monument, Cordoba House, SPECIFICALLY chose this land after careful study because parts of the hijacked planes crashed through the Burlington Coat Factory that was standing on this site and caused the building to become available for sale. To build the Victory Mosque, they need land that was scarred on 9/11…and this property met that obligation. Islam always builds a mosque on land that was conquered in a battle. Plane wreckage hitting a Burlington Coat Factory, to Islam, is like Americans planting flags on the moon or raising Old Glory over Iwo Jima. They need land that is stained with blood, where they have “planted their flag”, for the Victory Mosque project to mean what Islam wants it to symbolize in the Middle East.
We think Trump wants them to refuse.
We also think Trump’s going to propose a hotel for the site…and will then make an eminent domain appeal in court to take that land from the Muslims, after giving them this chance to be bought out. According to the recent supreme court ruling Kelo v. City of New London, authored by Justice Stevens, the government can take property away from private individuals if they have a plan that can build something there that will make more money for the government…because that is in the greater public good.
The Ground Zero Victory Mosque would be a non-tax generating building.
If Trump puts a hotel there, then that business would generate all SORTS of taxes for New York City and state: payroll taxes, business operating taxes, food and beverage taxes, hotel room taxes, taxi cab taxes, taxety-tax-tax taxes, you name it.
A further argument could be made that the Ground Zero Victory Mosque would dampen development in the neighborhood, while a hotel would draw new businesses there, resulting in even more revenue for the city and state at that location.
The state of New York has offered the Muslims land away from Ground Zero to build whatever the Hell they want — but they are refusing because the Victory Mosque MUST be built on the blood and bones of dead Americans, on land that was occupied by a building hit during the attack. They won’t willingly give up that land, because it defeats the purpose of what they are trying to do with this.
Trump’s an under-the-radar genius for doing this. We’ve been hoping he’d step into the fray.
But, we also hoped New York would listen to him nine years ago when immediately after the Twin Towers were taken out, he called for their rebuilding, bigger and stronger and taller than ever, so that Islam would, in just a few years, see New York’s skyline restored as if the attacks had never happened. You knock us down, we get right back up again.
But, that’s unfortunately not what happened. Nine years later, Ground Zero is still a gaping hole in the ground, with nothing built there, and in many ways it feels that Islam has won. You are seemingly not able to criticize Islam in the slightest, though we are supposed to have free speech in this country. You are not allowed to draw pictures of Muhammad’s face, though Muslims are allowed to behead anyone they believe offends them. You are not allowed to challenge Islam on anything, but Muslims are allowed to call for the deaths of anyone who does not agree with them.
Every time something evil Islam does is reported on, it must be couched in copious, flowery terms about how wonderful the “Religion of Peace” really is and how all Muslims are really good at heart, but are just misunderstood Care Bears that sometimes get grumpy. And you are a bigot and an Islamophobe and a racist and probably a leprechaun because you will not just shut up and allow Muslims to murder, threaten, torture, and terrorize people in peace.
It’s just what Democrats allowed the Ku Klux Klan to do to this country for decades, behind their similar veils and sheets, with threats unveiled and weapons always drawn, locked, and loaded.
It’s high time the West stopped appeasing Muslims and started drawing lines in the sand that demanded Islam accommodate itself to Western civil society — where we don’t murder people we disagree with, no matter how many drawings they make that they don’t like or how many pulled pork sandwiches they eat — instead of the West constantly having to alter the way we live, think, and act so that we don’t offend those thin-skinned, paranoid, lunatic Care Bears.
We wish Chris Christie had been born as identical octuplets, then scattered across America to as many states possible
Conservatives, listen up.
THIS is who you need to push for office.
Governor Chris Christie.
Governor Jan Brewer.
Representative Michele Bachmann.
Soon-t0-be Governor Nikki Haley.
Senator Jim DeMint.
Lt. Colonel Allen West.
Governor Sarah Palin.
Conservatives…this is how you win. By having people with backbone, verve, and FIGHT IN THEM take it to the Left and rip Democrats to absolute shreds.
No more cocktail parties, folks. No more soggy cucumber-and-mayonnaise-soggy sandwiches.
No more Mittens Romneys, Tim Pawlentys, Mitch Danielses, John Thunes, Lisa Murkowskis, Arlen Specters, Lindsey Grahams, Charlie Crists, Mark Kirks, Mitch McConnells, Olympia Snowes, Susan Collins, or the rest of the go-along-to-get-along gang.
You need Momma and Poppa Grizzlies.
To punch the Left right the face…not mouse around in the background, complaining about how spicy their sandwiches are and how they wish they could have more skim milk at the fancy country club party.
When will conservatives boot out their mamby-pampy impotent, limp, gutless establishment Romney Republicans and start CLONING CHRIS CHRISTIES?
America’s waiting.
Get with the program.
Victor David Hanson's new piece on Obama's petulance is so good you'll want to wallpaper your kitchen with it so you can gaze at it in morning, coffee-scented sunshine EVERY DAY
You need to read this, RIGHT NOW, because Victor David Hanson has Victor David Knocked This Out of the Park.
Seriously. If you are remodeling your house, you might want to buy some high-quality stock for your printer and then wallpaper your kitchen with this essay, so every morning, bleary-eyed, you can waltz into your sun-drenched, coffee-scented breakfast nook and bathe in the joyous, distilled, unalloyed truth in this piece.
Hanson just lets Obama, and the cult of personality the state media and Democrats fostered around him, HAVE IT.
He also takes big swings at both Icecream Joe Biden and Dirty Harry Reid for commenting during the 2008 campaign on how nice they thought it was that Obama’s skin was light, he didn’t speak with a Southern patois, and he was the first black person either of them had liked or could stand to look at, apparently.
He indicts the media for pushing a man with no record into the presidency, just so white liberals could at last forget about blacks and pretend they don’t exist because they are now guilt-free, having put a black man into the Oval Office.
He excoriates the academic world in this country, which plucked Obama from Occidental College in California with questionable grades, affirmative-actioned him into Columbia, then sent him to Harvard despite no evidence his achievements as an undergrad warranted his place there. Then, Harvard wanted “the historic and unprecedented first black president of Harvard Law Review”, so the school waived all of its protocols and requirements and instead of awarding the honor to the student with the best grades (as had been tradition) they gave it to, in Hanson’s words, the guy with “the exotic name, the mixed racial heritage, and the street cred cool, juxtaposed to the nerdy professorial sermonizing”.
And every time Obama’s been given whatever he wished for, he never delivered on the requirements of those positions, kept his promises, or achieved anything.
Hanson points out the humiliating embarrassment to the Nobel Prize that was the committee’s decision last year to bestow this once-meaningful award to Obama, “for awesomeness”, because “he said hope a lot, and because he’s black, and so that’s good enough”.
For those of us who have lived through all of this madness, and have seen the Leftist elite worldwide fall all over themselves at the feet of Obama because they are so inherently racist that a black person who does not wet his pants and collapse onto the ground in seizures when speaking in public makes the lot of them GIVE HIM THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WITHOUT ACTUALLY WORKING FOR IT, it’s 31 flavors of schadenfreude at Christmas, baby, since the Obama presidency is now such a world-recognized disaster that everyone who pushed him into office, and lavished him with every imaginable award, looks like an abject, naked FOOL.
‘Bout damn time.
Where’s the plaster. There’s wallpapering needed here at Buzzquarters. Maybe if we do a good job, don’t wet our pants, don’t have seizures, and say we’re part-black, kind of, we can have a Nobel Prize too!
QUESTION: Are there words we use, or things we talk about, that you don't (or didn't) know the meanings of?
Please buzz in on this thread and help us collect good FAQs for the site upgrade that's coming.
One of the ideas we have for the new site we are building is a Vocabulary Page, maybe worked into the FAQs, that defines various terms or the importance of idioms we use on a regular basis that some people might not instantly know.
Today, for instance, we channeled our childhood in Cleveland and talked about pierogis in Parma, and everyone in Cleveland would have known what that was about, but people reading in North Dakota or the Netherlands wouldn’t have gotten the reference.
We bet there are Boystown terms and riffs in pop culture that some of you might not know too.
So, we’d appreciate if if you’d please do two things in this thread:
(1) List any terms we use, or references we make, that you don’t know but were afraid to ask before
(2) List any terms or references you learned from us that were novel, and that you have never seen used elsewhere
(3) Tell us other things you’d like to see explored in a FAQ section/vocabulary list for future new readers
It would be a big help to us if you took the time to do this because we hope to be around for a very long while and would like to create the new site as a place where people just stumbling upon it would instantly be able to know what we are about, what were’ talkin’ ’bout (Willis), and what the heck a pierogi is, apparently (a polish ravioli, basically, as served in Parma to President Clinton in the 90s to much Cleveland fanfare).
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UPDATE: This is actually really fun for us. We just glanced at a few of the comments so far and see how great the revamped FAQ could be that we want to ask all of you who enjoy this site to PLEASE add something to the thread on this one.
It’s interesting for us to see what has made an impression on you, what’s become part of your vocabulary, and the things you find more interesting/hilarious/or bizarre about HillBuzz, Boystown, Mineral City, our own lives, and the other things we talk regularly about.
It would be a personal favor if you took the time to add something…and in a way would be like signing our little yearbook as we approach that 11 million milestone and look towards the new and improved site…because this thread is destined to become a big part of at least one page of that. So, please comment.
A Herald for Governor Palin in Australia: The Sir Joh Effect and the Madness of the Left
Here’s an interesting insight from the Australia Tea Party regarding a herald of things to come for Governor Palin, by way of something that happened in similar circumstances to a plain-spoken, relatable, unapologetically conservative Australian governor the Left hated and the media vowed to destroy.
They call this ‘The Sir Joh Effect”, and it’s a phenomenon named after Queensland Governor (what they call the State Premier in Australia) Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen, who held office for 20 years despite the Leftist media’s blind hatred of him, and the Left’s constant insistence that he was “polarizing”, “stupid”, “evil”, and fill-in-the-blanks with everything else the Left trots out in this country as well when lobbing pejoratives at conservatives.
The Australia Tea Party says:
In general the Sir Joh effect is where the anti-establishment politician creates an environment where he /she is privately supported by huge sectors of the population but publicly excoriated and in all manner of polling both human and mechanical gets between 25 and 30 points less than appears at the actual ballot box. To the stunned disbelief of the commentators who are left bewildered.
Both Sir Joh and Governor Palin are anti-establishment conservative politicians.
They are both supported by huge sectors of the population (ourselves included, in the seemingly unlikeliest of places here in Boystown, as a group of gay Hillary former-Dems who are committed to making Governor Palin our 45th President).
The media publicly excoriates them both — where polls are setup on a regular basis by the Left to keep insisting Governor Palin has less national enthusiasm and support than Mittens Romney has (which is absolutely absurd…and if you believe that, you need to attend both a Palin and a Mittens event and see the massive difference in attendance between the two), which is apparently what the Left did in Australia to Sir Joh.
The Left keeps wishcasting a desire for Governor Palin to fail, but the Governor keeps hitting everything right out of the park, every day, and manages to derail the Obama agenda and the full weight of the current administration with a simple Facebook post whenever she chooses. It seems the Left did this with Sir Joh, too, and was “bewildered” every time he won his elections because they were so rooting for him to lose that it blinded them to all reality.
The Left’s hatred of conservatives, wherever they find them, is so strong it leads to mental illness and the inability to do their due diligence properly. Because they have such a low regard for the actual voting public, the media ignores what’s actually happening on the ground and instead writes about what they WANT to be happening, or what’s being talked about at the tables in fancy bars and restaurants where all the elites go to bemoan how terrible Governor Palin or Sir Joh are, and how “everyone they know hates them”.
Similarly, here in America today, the media keeps insisting that “everyone they know loves Obama and thinks he’s the greatest president ever”. They keep telling themselves this, over and over, to reassure themselves of the fact that they FINALLY have the Leftist they’ve fantasized about having in the Oval Office…so voters must be as happy as they are, and therefore there’s no possibility Obama won’t automatically be given his second term, or a third or a fifth or an eleventyeth one if he so wants, Constitution be damned.
These people are insane.
Their utter disregard for the wishes and sentiment of the American people is staggering.
What the Australia Tea Party is heralding is the fact that all of this happened Down Under already, and just as Australians are now dumping Leftists in their election and righting their ship of state by moving towards conservative candidates in droves, the same thing is going to happen in the United States…which will surge President Palin to office in 2012, and more likely than not keep her there through two successful terms in office.
Obama, in our opinion, has destroyed the Democrat Party for a generation, at least. The media won’t admit this, and many of you even are skeptical of this fact, but we keep telling you that we’ve never seen so many lifelong Democrats abandon the party, disgusted by its complete and permanent takeover by the Left. People didn’t feel this way in the 80s, after the disaster of Carter and the bumbling of Mondale and Dukakis.
This is new.
It’s an awakening to the fact that Democrats aren’t just bad at governing, but are bad for America. Period.
As the article from Australia insists, the more the media screeches, the more it tries to attack regular people for not supporting the Left, the more is screams RAAAACISM! ISLAMOPHOBIA! BIGOT! the more average person prick up their ears, listen, and realize just how out of touch and insane the Left and its media loudspeaker are.
So, people tune out the media.
They start ignoring the Left’s slurs, attacks, and insanity.
And they just quietly wait for the next election and vote every last one of these mental patients right out of office.
On election night, with cameras capturing everything, the stunned talking heads explode, unable to comprehend what’s happening…because they failed to do their jobs properly and report on what’s ACTUALLY happening in the country, not what the Leftist elites WISHCAST would happen.
QUESTION: Has anyone noticed that ever since Obama and Kal Penn broke up, there's no more state media focus on his workouts or "basketball buddy" sessions?
Here’s something weird that’s occurred to us: when is the last time the state media waxed on for pages about Obama’s workouts, or how he loves “playing basketball” with all of his various 20-something male “buddies”?
Whatever happened to the Obama desire to rip out the bowling alley in the White House and replace it with a basketball court, for more “basketball playing” with young men? Shirts vs. skins, yo (or, as it would be played in Boystown, on a private court like that, jocks vs. c***s).
Remember during the 2008 campaign when Obama used to divert from whatever event he was at in Chicagoland, drive hours out of the way, then rush inside the random apartment of a man who worked as his “body man”, spend fifteen minutes inside, and the media would say that he had “gotten in a quick workout”?
Whatever happened to all that reporting on his “workouts”?
Why did that suddenly stop…right around the time that Kal Penn (who had abruptly left his job on a hit TV show to come to Washington and work “closely with the president” in a nonsensical, made-up position created solely for him) left the White House and coincidentally had the ever-living-fear-of-God put into him near Dupont Circle (Washington’s gay district) when an “unknown assailant” robbed him at gunpoint?
Did Obama get tired of the “workouts” and the “basketball playing” at the same time he got tired of Kal Penn?
Or does the timing of the media’s sudden lack of interest in all this male bonding have anything to do with the fact that this was all right about the time Globe Magazine started reporting on Obama’s adventures at Man’s Country in Andersonville here in Chicago…which lend great credence to everything Larry Sinclair and others have said about Obama since 2007?
Today’s “reporters” are so lazy that we find it hard to believe they’d stop writing those “workout and basketball” fluff pieces unless they were told to. It felt like David Axelrod pushed that stuff during the campaign because Obama’s so naturally fey (just watch him ride a bike in mom jeans) that he needed him to seem more manly…but for all the good this did Axelrod should have just inserted Obama into an old Village People video and called it a day…hey, hey, HEY HEY HEY.
Macho, macho man, yah.
It’s so rare for the state media to change stripes on something like this…so what really gives?
