Archive for September, 2010
MAKE THIS AD HAPPEN: Carl Paladino standing before the Ground Zero Victory Mosque site, surrounded by construction workers, saying HELL NO, THIS WON'T BE BUILT
*** Here’s Carl Paladino talking about the government officially recognizing the radius of where the WTC’s dust cloud reached as being the site of human remains, since the cremated and vaporized bodies of those in the Twin Towers pushed the remains into the crevices, nooks, and edges of buildings that were pelted by that cloud. We remind you that this site’s dear friend Jane’s body was never found, and is part of the remains we’re talking about. No mosque should be built on land where Jane’s remains could be, not after Muslims murdered her nine years ago and Muslims today wish to build this sick and twisted monument to conquest. Not on our watch. Not on yours either, we hope. ***
We want you to commit to a mission — something we believe can net conservatives the Governorship and at least one Senate seat (but probably both of them) in New York state.
Carl Paladino, the Republican nominee for Governor in New York, needs to make a TV commercial hitting the Democrats hard for their support of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. This is something the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is skittish about, because the media will HOWL and RAGE at Paladino for doing this…because Democrats strongly support building the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and call anyone opposed to it a bigot, a RAAACIST, and any other vile thing they can think of. Republicans, traditionally, have been too terrified of Democrat name-calling and media disapproval to ever hit Islamization and those who support it hard…but we firmly believe New York voters are looking for a candidate for office who will stand up to this abominable project and directly commit to making sure the Ground Zero Victory Mosque is never built.
Here’s the ad we want Paladino’s team to create:
* Paladino walking on the street in lower Manhattan, talking about the Ground Zero Victory Mosque project. It’s a shot of him, in a shirt and tie, no jacket, telling voters that Cordoba House, the shell company behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque, takes its name from Cordoba, Spain — where a massive mosque was built to tower over the site of a battle in which Islam claimed a conquest. Cordoba is known throughout Islam as the westernmost push Muslims ever made in conquering the West. This name was deliberately chosen by the people behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque, just as the site for this mosque was deliberately picked because it is where part of the second jetliner’s landing gear hit after it was plowed into Tower Two of the World Trade Center.
* As Paladino walks, he’s joined by New Yorkers…families and friends of those who were murdered by Islam on 9/11. Paladino continues speaking, and tells voters that the people personally affected by the 9/11 attacks do not want Islam to build a symbol of conquest at Ground Zero. Paladino, with the 9/11 families behind him, holds up a map of lower Manhattan that shows all the buildings that filed insurance damage claims because of the 9/11 attacks…it is a very large circle, where remains were found and the cremated ashes of victims were scattered. This area clearly includes the Ground Zero Victory Mosque site.
* As Paladino and the others walk down the street, more and more people join them…business people, merchants, cab drivers, children, firemen, cops, you name….Paladino tells voters that Andrew Cuomo, Kristen Gillibrand, and Chuck Schumer all back the Ground Zero Victory Mosque…and that President Obama is one of the most eager and enthusiastic supporters of building this mosque at Ground Zero.
* Paladino and the others reach a crowd of construction workers in their hard hats. They are standing in front of the site of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. He comes before them and he tells the construction workers that New Yorkers don’t want this Ground Zero Victory Mosque built. He asks them if the construction workers of New York want to build a symbol of Islamic conquest on the grave of so many New Yorkers who died nine years ago when those planes were flown into the World Trade Center. The construction workers shout, HELL NO.
* “HELL NO”, Paladino says, directly into the camera, as the construction workers mix with the rest of the crowd and they all surround Paladino.
“Hell no, as your Governor I will dedicate myself to preventing this abomination from being built at Ground Zero and will use the weight of my office and every agency at my disposal to see to it that the Cordoba House project is prevented from victimizing the families of 9/11 survivors again. As your Governor, I believe the people behind this project need to show tolerance and sensitivity to the people of New York who were forever changed that horrible day nine years ago when 3,000 New Yorkers were murdered not far from here. I’m here today saying what needs to be said, while Democrats in the White House and here in New York are siding with the builders of this Ground Zero Victory Mosque. Well, I say this ain’t right, this ain’t respectful, this ain’t the way we should do things in America and as your Governor I’m going to listen to the people and put an end to this madness. I’m Carl Paladino, and if you make me your Governor, I’ll make sure this Ground Zero Victory Mosque is never built”.
We don’t think we’ve ever seen an ad like this…because, as we’ve said, Republicans have always been so scared of fighting back and hitting hard. If Paladino made this ad, here’s what would happen:
* Instantly, the media would excoriate Paladino. They’ll call him a RAAACIST. And a bigot. The talking heads on all the news networks would run the ad over and over again, each time with new experts telling viewers how despicable “Crazy Carl” is for doing this. George Will will scoot his glasses high up near his brow and articulate a thesis on Paladino being a Cro-Magnon. Bill O’Reilly will hate the ad, and call Paladino “Crazy”. Blah blah blah. The end result will see the ad airing, for free, almost nonstop for probably a full news week.
* Paladino’s ad will make him a household name coast to coast, and will definitely get him on the lips of all New Yorkers. We think New Yorkers will, in fact, love the ad. Because New Yorkers by and large agree that Ground Zero Victory Mosque should not be built. Most New Yorkers don’t know the significance of the name “Cordoba House” or that Islam dictates a mosque needs to be built on ground conquered from an enemy, where blood has been spilled, and where the weapons of Islam have damaged an enemies’ structures. Once people hear this, and learn what’s behind this project, they will be horrified. Once horrified, when they see that Democrats support this project, there is no way in Hell they are going to vote Democrat this year. Paladino’s ad, when played nationally, could very well help Republicans coast to coast.
* The Cocktail Party establishment in the GOP is so terrified of upsetting the Media and “giving them ammunition” to say terrible things about Republicans. For too long, the GOP has not pushed hard on issues like this because they’ve been scared of a blowback from the press. Great Merciful Zeus, don’t you see that’s exactly what you want here? The more the Left and Democrats try to demonize someone like Paladino for fighting this Ground Zero Victory Mosque with everything he’s got the more the media will make Paladino a champion of the people…because the people do not want this mosque built. Democrats, in pushing for this mosque, will reveal just how out of touch with both voters and reality they are. The end result will be a gaping chasm between Democrats and the electorate.
* We believe this chasm is waiting to form…and voters want it to form…but it just needs an earthquake triggered by something like Paladino’s ad in New York state. Voters need to be angry with Democrats. They need to lash out emotionally at them at the ballot box. An ad like the one we suggest would accomplish this, because New Yorkers for the most part feel this way…they just need license to vocalize what they are feeling.
Families sitting around the TV watching this ad will start talking about it. Things they might not have said to each other will bubble to the surface. They will be disgusted that Democrats want to build this mosque at Ground Zero. They will be revolted that Democrats are siding with Islam against the 9/11 Families. They will be angry that Democrats and the media attack Carl Paladino for telling the truth.
When it’s time to vote, these people will line up bright and early to vote Democrats out of office…and we think those lines will extend coast to coast.
This is a ballsy, in your face, take no prisoners ad…at a time when Americans are desperate for ballsy, in your face, take no prisoners people to win elected office and kick ass big time in state houses, governors’ mansions, and Congress.
Chime in with what you think.
We’d love help storyboarding and piecing this ad together.
If anyone is in New York and can get this directly to Paladino, we’d appreciate it…because if he did this, Andrew Cuomo would go absolutely insane. Democrats would LOSE IT, and would more likely than not do something stupid and self-destruvtive in response. Paladino wouldn’t just win the election…he’d win it BIG.
We don’t think we’re wrong here, but if you’re in New York, especially, let us know how you think this would go over.
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UPDATE: H/t Davette for writing the above idea up as a script. Can anyone storyboard the visuals on this for us with photoshopped images to complement the setting we’ve established and depict Paladino and those around him the way we’ve envisioned?
EXT. LOWER MANHATTAN – DAY
Paladino, dressed in a shirt and tie, sleeves rolled up, walks alone down the street in lower Manhattan.
PALADINO
(directly into camera)
In 784 AD a massive mosque was built to tower over a battle site where Islam claimed a conquest. It was in Cordoba, Spain, which is known throughout Islam as the furthers conquest Muslims made in the West.
People start filtering into the shot behind him as Paladino walks. These are the families and friends of 9/11 and Ground Zero victims, some of them, such as Debra Burlingame, recognizable.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
The name, Cordoba House, was deliberately chosen by the people behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque, just as the location for this mosque was deliberately picked because it is the site where part of the second jetliner’s landing gear hit after it plowed into Tower Two of the World Trade Center.
An increasing number of people, cops, firefighters, mothers with children, etc., join in walking behind Paladino as he advances through the street. One of the recognizable victims walks at his left shoulder.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
Most of the people whose loved ones were murdered in the attack do not want Islam to build a symbol of conquest at Ground Zero.
Paladino continues walking, holding up a map of lower Manhattan showing all the buildings that filed insurance claims due tot he attack. A large circle shows where remains were found and the cremated ashes of the victims were scattered. The Ground Zero Victory Mosque is clearly indicated within the circle.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
Andrew Cuomo, Kristen Gillibrand, and Chuck Schumer all support the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. President Obama is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of building this mosque. All in the name of “fairness”.
Paladino and the crowd approach a number of construction workers in hard hats standing in front of the proposed site for the Mosque.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
(to the workers)
Most of these people do not want the Victory Mosque built here. Do you want to build a symbol of conquest on the grave of the many New Yorkers who died here nine years ago?
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
(shouting)
Hell, NO!
Paladino turns back to the camera as the construction workers join the crowd behind him.
PALADINO
Hell, no!
Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch join Paladino behind his right shoulder.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
As your Governor I will dedicate myself to preventing this abomination from being built at Ground Zero and will use the weight of my office and every agency at my disposal to assure that the Cordoba House project is prevented from victimizing the families of the 9/11 survivors again. I believe the people behind this project need to show tolerance and sensitivity to the people of New York who were forever changed that horrible day. I’m saying what needs to be said, while the Democrats and the White House are siding with the builders of this mosque.
Close in on Paladino.
PALADINO (CONT’D)
I say that ain’t right, it ain’t respectful, and it ain’t the way we should do things in America. As your Governor I’m going to listen to the people and put an end to this madness. I’m Carl Paladino, and if you make me your Governor I’ll make sure this Ground Zero Victory Mosque is never built.
QUESTION: Why do you guys call Alaska's senior Senator "LeNa JaBrowski"?
Someone emailed us a very lengthy note yesterday wondering why we call Alaska’s Senior (citizen) Senator “LeNa JaBrowski”, when that’s not the name she was born with, and not the name Alaskans are used to hearing her called.
Well, folks, don’t blame us. We don’t make (up) the news. We just report it (kind of).
In another twist this week in what’s already been a bizarre saga of Senator JaBrowski refusing to accept the results of the Alaskan primary race, on Wednesday the Senator called a press conference in the back room of an Arby’s in Anchorage to announce she had morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably changed her name to “LeNA JaBrowski” and that her write-in campaign for the United States Senate would proceed by asking all Alaskans who want to vote for her to use red crayons, lipstick, or their own blood to spell her name L-E-N-A-J-A-B-R-O-W-S-K-I on their November 2nd ballots.
The press conference left many Alaskans bewildered, not only by the sheer insanity of the move and name-change, but also by the new style of dress that JaBrowski has taken to wearing, believing it makes her more relatable to Alaskans and decidedly more approachable to people in general. “It’s the real me, the me I’ve kept inside, the me I wish I could have taken to prom,” JaBrowski gushed, adjusting the sparkly glasses she bought at the fire sale the soon-to-close Liberace Museum (Juneau Annex) was having. ”I’ve always wanted to wear a dead gay man’s clothes and Phil Specter’s hair, and now that I’ve renamed myself and started a fresh life, by golly I’m going to do it! My dad said I could!”.
The next day, JaBrowski’s campaign staff issued a statement, from the candidate herself, further explaining this lunacy, and once again urging all of her supporters in Alaska to refrain from using her “stinky old name” and instead adopt the “more glamorous and personality-reflecting” nom de flume of “LeNa JaBrowski”.
“I call it my nom de flume because my daddy, Horatio Q. JaBrowski, used to be Governor and Senator and he would take me to a water park near Fairbanks and we’d ride on this big log ride, and it had a flume in it, and I’d be so scared and daddy would say, “Now, hold on LeNa JaBrowski, my little idiot, there ain’t nothing to be scare of you big baby. I’m making half the state wait to ride this thing until you’ve had your turn and have ridden it all you want while they wait and do whatever you say, so you better enjoy this for all it’s worth!”. So you can see why the name is so special to me, because of that flume, and all the stuff my dad gave me that you can’t have because you aren’t a princess like me”.
Now, if WE were running this insane write-in campaign, we’d create an ad that made it super-easy for Alaskans to remember how to spell LeNa JaBrowski’s name and to also bring with them the crayons, lipstick, finger paint, or even nail polish they will need to write-in her name on those ballots (since pens and pencils are not allowed to be used on Alaskan ballots, due to an obscure local law that’s just ridiculous if you ask us).
Here’s the ad we’d run:
* It’s set to the music of Shirley Ellis’ “Name Game/Banana” song…which is this:
* Instead of Ellis, it’s this image of LeNa JaBrowski that’s singing:
Her mouth is moving, like how the guys at JibJab.com make cuts in a face and turn it into a ventriloquist’s dummy.
* For the duration of the song, LeNa JaBrowski sings to the people of Alaska…spelling her name for them, in as many creative ways as possible
* Text instructions flash on the screen for Alaskan supporters of JaBrowski. These include:
(a) Reminding people that pens and pencils are not allowed in a polling station because of arcane Alaskan laws
(b) Voters must use one (or a combination of all) of the following to write-in LeNa JaBrowski’s name: crayons, lipstick, finger paint, nail polish, human blood, ketchup, invisible ink, Elmer’s glue, or animal (but not human) urine or feces
(c) Voters are also allowed to draw a picture of LeNa JaBrowski instead of writing her name. This, actually, is highly encouraged. The picture must, however, depict her in a yellow Caucasian-fro, wearing Liberace’s sunglasses and red jumpsuit, with an ascot leftover from Horatio Q. Jabrowski’s Halloween costume a few years back (when he went as Fred, and LeNa was Velma, with Ted Stevens playing Scooby), and a great big smile
(d) The last step for casting a write-in ballot for LeNa JaBrowski is the most important one, because voters must write, in giant red letters across the entirety of the ballot, the phrase “Vote Only In Nobility”, or VOID for short, because this lets the election department know that voters want Princess LeNa to keep this Senate seat because her dad, King Horatio, gave it to her fair and square and no one else can have it. Ballots that don’t have VOID written on them in giant letters just won’t be counted towards the preservation of the JaBrowski dynasty
* The ad closes, after a few variations on the spelling/name game, with the JaBrowski campaign slogan: “Fighting the State of AkaSka”.
JaBrowski, JaBrowski, Bo-Browski, Bananafana Fo Frowski…JaBROWSKI!
Now, that’s an ad she and her dad can be proud of.
Convicted Felon and Obama Operative David "Popcorn" Kernell Update: Conviction stands, first appeal denied — sentencing October 29th, 2010
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David “Popcorn” Kernell’s appeal has been denied, with a judge ruling this week that his felony conviction for destroyed evidence and impeding an FBI investigation should stand.
His sentencing is scheduled for October 29th, where he’s expected to get between 15-21 months in prison for his crimes against Governor Palin.
In 2008, Kernell, an Obama operative in Tennessee, broke into Governor Palin’s email account, gave access to her emails to the public via a website, and then tried to delete all evidence from his computer once he realized the FBI was coming for him.
Kernell is the son of disgraced Tennessee state Representative Mike Kernell, a fellow Obama operative who taught his son to do absolutely anything to make sure Obama was elected.
The Kernell family is trying to appeal Popcorn’s conviction to a higher court — and we imagine the Obama administration is going to do everything it can to make sure Kernell is released from prison in time for the 2012 election, so that he could get up to more shenanigans on Obama’s behalf.
Hope! Change! Felonies!
Saturday Open Thread: September 25th, 2010
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You would think every bartender in Sidetracks would be able to pour rainbow shots like this here in Boystown, that being the largest gay bar in North America and the #4 gay bar in the world.
But, they can’t. We’ve asked them. They just sort of look at us funny.
If you ever get a chance to go to any sort of bartending competition, they do really neat tricks like this. The best bartenders have a great understanding of chemistry and hydrology, and an appreciation for the density of different spirits and liquors. Hence, the ability to layer colors like this.
Wicked cool stuff.
Wonder if we could figure out in this thread what all the spirits are, and how they should be layered.
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What’s on your minds this Saturday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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Here’s a fun way to make a little extra money for anyone who likes going to see movies.
The site is www.TheMovieSpoiler.com and it gives out Amazon.com or iTunes gift certificates for synopses of movies.
When you go to the site, look for a film that does not have a SPOILER synopsis yet, then if you are going to see a movie that day, go see one of those and while watching it just take some short notes so that when you get home you can immediately sit down and write everything you remember about the flick.
Then, send it to TheMovieSpoiler and if he uses it, you’ll get either the Amazon or the iTunes gift card for $10 (when you send your synopses in, tell him what you want to be called as an author, and also which you would prefer, the Amazon or the iTunes).
We wrote a few spoilers for the site…but haven’t seen a movie in theaters in ages. Today, though, our friend Althea wants to meet for lunch and maybe see a movie, so we checked to see what needs spoilers just in case we make it to the theater.
In doing so, we thought we’d give all of you the chance to have some fun with this too.
It’s also a nice way for those of you who don’t write much to get into the habit of doing so. You’d be surprised at how quickly you can bang out prose if you are used to writing SOMETHING every day. The payoff is great in no matter what field you are in…and can lead you to all sorts of adventures.
Of course, our dream is for you to use all of your skills and talents to help defeat the Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment…so consider this another creative nudge to get you to tap into your potential to aid the Tea-sistance.
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Speaking of movies, we’re fascinated by something that’s happening very quietly but is changing entertainment as we know it.
We’ve told you many times that all of us gave up our TVs last summer, after our friend Abbey in Cleveland told us about her success doing the same thing. ”Never even missed it,” she said. This was all prompted by the fact that our TVs were older models and needed whatever that cockamamie upgrade thingamajig was to comply with whatever the government did to broadcasting last year, taking free TV off the actual airwaves. We didn’t want to screw around with whatever needed to be done with that garbage, and decided to take Abbey’s challenge to save a lot of money on the cable bill by just unplugging, selling, and removing the TVs from our homes.
She was right — we never missed those things.
BUT, we do need to keep up-to-date on pop culture, or we’ll stagnate and lose relevance quickly. We remember the nuns back in Catholic school having no idea who Cyndi Lauper or Madonna were, being clueless about what Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was, and not knowing what anyone was talking about when people would say “I pity the fool” in a gruff, Mr. T. voice. The nuns didn’t watch TV either, and deliberately stayed away from movies and reading the entertainment section of the newspaper, because they thought all of these things were silly. Their words, not ours.
It all is silly — and we have always heard Republicans, too, say they deliberately ignore Hollywood and whatever’s the latest fad, thinking there’s some sort of intellectual or moral superiority in this.
There’s not.
It’s stupid to keep yourself deliberately ignorant of pop culture, because you soon find it difficult to relate to people you want to persuade to your side of arguments…and that’s deadly in politics.
Since cutting the TV cord, we rely on a network of TV and movie sites, Netflix, and Hulu to keep up on what’s going on in the world of entertainment.
Sites we follow regularly include:
* www.DarkHorisons.com, run by an adorable Australian gay guy named Garth Franklin who actually was one of the inspirations for us starting HillBuzz (he essentially started his site as a movie blog, because he loves movies, and wanted to share his opinions and news-collecting with friends…and over a decade later, he’s still at it, with a worldwide readership)
* www.AintItCool.com, run by Harry Knowles in Austin, Texas (it’s also great for getting a peek into what the Left is thinking politically, because every so often Knowles runs a thread with a political bent to it and his TalkBack commenters become a focus group that parrots whatever they are picking up from the media or Daily Kos in terms of the attack points against conservativism that day)
* www.Deadline.com, run by Nikki Finke in Hollywood (the inside scoop on the entertainment business, following the deals and legal maneuverings of the industry)
* www.EW.com, powered by Entertainment Weekly (a Cliff’s Notes of what’s going on in pop culture, though the writers are all 100% Leftist)
* www.TelevisionWithoutPity.com, another small site that evolved into something big (with recaps of TV shows that just aired)
* www.TheMovieSpoiler.com, started by Dave, a guy who used to work in a movie theater and write these synopses himself, but now asks readers to submit write-ups of films they see so you can find out what happens without having to pay money to go see this stuff yourself
Checking out the above on a regular, if not daily, basis, we stay up to date on everything relevant pop culture-wise, without having to watch all these actual episodes and movies.
If something IS worth seeing ourselves, we check it out on Netflix or Hulu, where we can stream a great deal of content. For films in theaters, we either try to score tickets to a free advance screening (which they have all the time here, with a short essay contest for most of them that we usually win…or Panda scores tickets through one of the marketing companies he works with on a regular basis) or we just wait until the movies come out on Netflix, which is just a few months nowadays (and we know what happens because we read the spoilers over at MovieSpoiler).
Netflix is really working hard to make deals with all the movie and TV studios to get as much content as possible streaming live via the computer.
This is going to replace DVDs very soon.
For Christmas, Abbey bought us a Netflix membership and we honestly have the hardest time sending DVDs back and forth because there are surprisingly few mailboxes here in Chicago…and it’s just become archaic for us to deal with the US Mail. But, we usually have something streaming while we’re at the desk typing here at Buzzquarters.
Netflix is still not next-day in terms of content, the way Hulu is currently, but Netflix wants to change that.
Hollywood Video and most local mom & pop video chains here in Chicago have all shuttered. Blockbuster is in bankruptcy protection now, and is trying to reinvent itself to compete with RedBox and maybe even Netflix, in both the grocery store kiosk and streaming realms. We doubt they’re going to be able to compete with Netflix though, and expect Blockbuster to go the way of Gimbal’s in a few years.
It’s fascinating to watch the tech change this little slice of American life…we think for the better.
But, we do remember being on dates with guys and going to the little video store/tanning salon across the street from Kit Kat here in Boystown…looking through the DVDs to find something good, then waiting for the adorable little Indian guy who ran the place to race over from the tanning bed side to look our account up in the computer and rent us the DVD. That shop’s been closed for about three years now, and was supposed to be turned into a restaurant until the Depression hit and plans for new small businesses were scrapped. Hope, change, Obamanomics and all that.
It is nice not paying $3.00 a night to watch a DVD one time though.
It’s great to now be on a date, come home, and have thousands of things to cue up…and being able to switch to something better if a movie is a turkey.
Fascinating to think about a day coming soon when CDs, DVDs, and the like will all be memories…with all content being digital from then on.
Just like we’re looking forward to the day when the New York Times stops printing, and newspapers coast to coast stop wasting all that paper every day and go digital too.
While we’re on this long tangent…what are some changes in this vein you’re noticing…and what things that are common objects in our lives today do you not expect to see in 5-10 years.
The story we told above about movies and DVDs will be repeated for something ELSE that’s commonplace now…and we’re wondering what you think that NEXT cultural item will be to end up in the Smithsonian as a modern day relic?
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What boring and ordinary things do you do that you could make videos of for YouTube?
The above is a video made by a woman who shows people how to add Lush bath products to a tub. Lush is a chain of homemade bath products that we have in Chicago — they make a great product called bath bombs that you drop in a tub and there’s some sort of efferevescence in them that’s released in the water.
It’s really just product + water = bath, so there’s no real need for a video of this, but now one exists.
If you can’t figure out how to make a bubble bath by yourself, then you should not be taking one unsupervised. We’re looking at you, Claire McCaskill.
Because YouTube is free, and there’s no film to buy or waste, people can make movies of anything and everything today. Which is kind of cool, actually, provided we’re not still talking about Claire McCaskill taking her monthly bath (“How do these things work again? Am I supposed to put water in, or take water out of the tub? These bath-a-ma-bomb-thingies taste good and make my mouth feel bubbly”).
So, for the first time in history we all have these glimpses into the everyday lives of ordinary people. And presumably all of this is being stored somewhere, so historians 50 and 100 years from now who study our time will have a massive amount of first hand accounts to pour through…like never before.
Someday, a scholar might write a dissertation on bathing practices in the early 21st Century, and this video could be the central focus of that.
We really should get on the ball and start making YouTube videos here in Boystown and assigning ourselves the role of information gatherers and data collectors for our part of the universe…as you should wherever you are from too.
Not sure why today’s Open Thread has rocketed on this tangent on the Age of Wonders we live in, but it has.
OPEN THREAD: HillBuzz on The Andrea Shea King Show, tonight at 9pm EST/8pm CST
Don’t forget to listen to The Andrea Shea King Show tonight at 9pm EST/8pm CST.
We’ll be on, having some fun, talking about the use of humor and ridicule as an effective tool against the Left.
Here’s the link to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow
There’s a chat feature there, so we hope you sign up and join and ask questions so Andrea Shea King can include them in the program.
BE SURE TO LISTEN IN AND JOIN ANDREA’S CHAT!
Use this thread to comment on the show!
It's Not Your Seat LeNa! New ad hits JaBrowski where it hurts, and compares her to HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy
It's not your seat, LeNa JaBrowski!
If we had audio and video skills, this is the sort of ad we’d make.
For some reason, they don’t have it on YouTube so you have to go their site to view it: It’s Not Your Seat, LeNa!
Honestly, LeNa JaBrowski is not the only person who should be mocked relentlessly for all of this…the Cocktail Party GOP leadership should also be eviscerated for not completely stripping JaBrowski of her rank and membership in whatever committees she’s sitting on.
Who cares if she votes with Democrats in a lame duck session after the election.
We GUARANTEE you Democrats will be so rattled by what happens on November 2nd, and so terrified of the public, that they will not have the guts to do anything crazy between November and January.
And if they do — God help them — there very well could be a march on Washington by the American people to stop it.
So, LeNa JaBrowski has been threatening to break ranks and vote for crazy things out of spite if she doesn’t get to keep her committee memberships. Let’s call her bluff. All she will do by joining Democrat ranks is further destroying whatever hope for a future she has left.
Republicans need to stop being so wimpy when it comes to blackmailers.
CALL THEIR BLUFFS.
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UPDATE: Here’s the ad on YouTube
Governor David Paterson to appear on SNL this weekend. He should not give credibility to this show by appearing on it.
Word is that New York Governor David Paterson will appear on Saturday Night Live this weekend — ostensibly to prove what a good sport he is about the sick and twisted skits Fred Armisen portrayed Paterson in the last few seasons.
Normally, we encourage politicians to appear on SNL and in other entertainment programs because it can do wonders for softening an image and showing “what a good sport” that person is.
This business with Paterson and SNL is different, though, because we think the skits SNL has done mocking Paterson are just beyond the pale.
For the uninitiated, SNL uses actor Armisen to depict the New York Governor as a bumbling Mr. Magoo, who knocks over stage lights, trips and falls over furniture, endangers the safety of others on the set by wildly waving large objects, and generally doing things that mean-spiritied 12 year old boys would dream up for a skit about the blind at summer camp.
We’ve known and worked with several blind people through the years, and are watching a good friend of ours now deal with her macular degeneration.
None of these people carried themselves like circus clowns, and Paterson doesn’t either.
He’s a clown, mind you, and does ridiculous things…but that’s not because he’s blind.
He makes bad decisions, has a history of drug use, and isn’t the sharpest crayon in the box…but none of that has to do with his vision, and he’s never once been reported on as having knocked something over, caused a disaster because he bumped into things, or otherwise harmed anyone because of his lack of sight.
Saturday Night Live should make fun of Paterson…for his dreadful job performance. SNL should make fun of every elected official who’s not doing a good job. That starts with the White House and should carry through coast to coast, including way more Democrats than are typically lampooned on this show.
But, doing skits based on stale blind jokes?
Really?
This is seriously the best these people can do?
Governor David Paterson makes a lot of mistakes in office. The only good thing we can think of that he did was to deny HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy that Senate seat. That was so good, however, that the man has a permanent well of affection with us…because, really, how wonderful was it that the Kennedy Family got told NO about something.
It’s a mistake to validate those blind jokes by appearing on SNL like this.
Paterson evidently just wants to be on the show, while he still can, before he’s out of office. His political career is over and if this is what he wants as his reward for sticking it to Princess Caroline, then let him have it…but we hate that this might embolden SNL’s talentless writers to do more blind jokes in the future.
“See, he didn’t have a problem with it. He came on the show. So that means we can push the envelop further next time, and really make fun of the blind”.
It’s sad anyone would lend any sort of validation to that thinking.
Two Major Obama Supporters Bite the Dust at NBC and CNN
Jeff Zucker has been fired over at NBC.
Jonathan Klein has also been removed as head of CNN.
These two men are big Obama Kool-Aid drinkers, and pushed for their respective networks to become Obama cheerleaders in 2008.
Zucker did this, in large part, because he believed betting everything on Obama would mean that, once president, Obama would give big payback perks to GE, NBC’s parent company, and Zucker would look like a major hero to his corporate overlords for increasing their profitability with this newfound love coming from the new White House.
That really didn’t happen though, because Obama does not reward any of those who’ve served him. Their reward, in his mind, should be limited to the joy they get in worshipping at his feet and doing his bidding. SERVICE to “The One” is, thus, it’s own reward.
Klein over at CNN is the dumber of the two network executives, which is saying a lot for anyone who has watched Zucker tear NBC down from the top network to the fourth. FOURTH. That’s staggering. To go from first place to last, while raking in millions of dollars a year in salary. It’s stunning GE let this man get away with it.
But, what did Klein and CNN get for throwing out all credibility in service of Obama?
Aside from tainting their long-established brand, neither of them got anything out of that deal.
Now that Comcast has purchased the networks of NBC, and now that Zucker has been booted to the curb, we’re waiting to see how Obama is served by the media in the days ahead.
It’s clear Obama-worship is not profitable, and will not lead to high ratings.
If either was true, then GE would not have sold money-losing NBC to Comcast, and NBC would have never lost money because its shameless and relentless Obama promotion would have kept the network at number one (provided viewers were as infatuated with Obama as Zucker seemed to believe they were).
Do you think NBC can recover with a new president?
Will CNN ever be seen as anything but a Democrat propaganda channel?
What do you think this bodes for coverage of Obama in the national media for the last two years of his term?
How the Left destroyed the Democrat Party: the loss of the Clinton Coalition
All of us here were Democrats for about 32 years of our lives…until 2008 when the Left took over the party and pushed the Clinton Coalition out.
Here’s an article today by Jay Cost touching on this a little, and it’s worth mentioning because WE are literally some of the people discussed in it:
Clinton inherited a coalition consisting of minorities, liberals, urban voters, and a decent remnant of Jacksonian voters in the Ohio River Valley and the South, who still preferred a moderate-to-conservative Democrat to a Republican. This coalition became a majority coalition when Clinton used a combination of fiscal conservatism and social moderation to bring suburban voters on board. This was a huge innovation for Democrats; suburbs like Nassau County, NY, Orange County, CA and Fairfax County, VA had fueled the rise of the Republican parties in those states. Clinton moved them substantially toward his side. This coalition allowed him to win by eight points in 1996; absent Perot and a last-minute fundraising scandal, he probably would have won by more.
Almost all of us (save Joaquin, from Texas) have roots in the Ohio River Valley and come from lifelong Democrat-voting families that, as noted above, “preferred a moderate-to-conservative Democrat to a Republican” all those years.
That’s why Hillary Clinton absolutely TROUNCED Obama in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and wherever Democrats like us abhorred the Left and were part of the Clinton Coalition.
The Clinton coalition was a political winner, for a while. But liberal Democrats were none too pleased with Clinton’s style of governance. Al Gore had to fend off a primary challenge from Bill Bradley, then Ralph Nader played spoiler, blasting Gore and George W. Bush as “Tweedledee and Tweedledum,” then finally the left rebuked Hillary Clinton in 2008.
This was the Left’s plan in 2004: to advance Obama, usurp Hillary Clinton, and in 2008 FINALLY, at long last, after having plotted and schemed for so long, install a Leftist president, with a Leftist-controlled national party, controlling a Leftist Congress, to usher in The Golden Age of Hope and Change utopia these Leftists had long fantasized over.
They thought they could force their will upon the American people, regardless of what voters wanted, because for some reason they assumed that once they had taken over the entire government they could hold it by force for as long as they wanted.
The article notes they shouted YES WE CAN! in 2008 not so much in regards to nominating Obama and electing him president, but in terms of defeating the moderates and conservatives on the Democrat side of the aisle and making the Democrat Party a complete, 100% Leftist party.
Oh, yes they did.
But comeuppance for this is coming.
Oh, yes it is.
We’ve told you many times how permanently disgusted with Democrats we are. Never again will we vote Democrat, so long as there’s a Republican alternative who is better for this country. If in some strange instance the Republican running is more terrible, even strategically, than having a Democrat win, there’s a good chance we won’t vote for either of them. But, that would take a truly terrible Republican for us to reach that point.
Democrats, under Leftist control, just shouldn’t be trusted with elected office.
All across the Ohio River Valley, throughout the whole Midwest, and we hope coast to coast, people seem to be waking up to that reality.
Glad it’s not just us.
QUESTION: Are Democrats making Speaker Michele Bachmann more likely?
We’ve made no secret of whom we want to be the next Speaker of the House — and that’s Michele Bachmann.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has been set on John Boehner becoming Speaker, and frankly, we can’t stand the guy.
He’s a wimp.
Not as bad as Mittens Romney or Tim Pawlenty, and certainly not as effete as the current president and the wusses of the current administration, but Boehner is not the sort of strong-willed, determined, take-no-prisoners, punch-them-in-the-face, leader the nation needs as Speaker.
That would be Michele Bachmann…the absolute perfect successor to Nancy Pelosi.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has long made it clear it would block any route to a Bachmann speakership, because it wanted good old boy Boehner in that role.
But, now Democrats are coming forward claiming Boehner had an affair, and are using this to hit him in an election year, trying to distract voters.
This, as we’ve told you dozens of times before, is what Democrats do.
They gather files on every Republican, particularly against the closeted gay ones like Aaron Schock, Mark Kirk, and Lindsey Graham, then wait for a moment when they need to generate negative headlines for the GOP, and WHAM!, out come the revelations of whatever secret things they’ve been up to.
Because Republicans claim to be leading wholesome marital lives — or in the cases of Schock, Kirk, and Graham, these men claim to be straight, when they are anything but — the National Enquirer-grade attacks Democrats launch are always effective because it paints the GOP as the party of hypocrites. The goal here is to make Republicans seem just as bad as Democrats, so that voters fall into the “lesser of two evils” meme…which makes them more likely to muscle-memory vote Democrat if that’s what they’ve been doing for the last 30 years.
The Cocktail Party is never going to learn, folks. This is how they’ve been doing business for the entirety of their individual times in Washington. All of these guys know Democrats have files on them. All of them know that some day that file will be used. But the allure of wealth, power, beautiful Brooks Brothers blazers, and unlimited cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwich buffets blinds these fools to the fact that they only get to stay at the cocktail party as long as Democrats want them there.
We hope the Tea Party seizes upon Boehner’s upcoming scandal — if Democrats successfully launch one — and take this opportunity to install a Speaker Bachmann, who would break all the old paradigms and give Democrats a real run for their money.
Do you think that’s a possibility?
