Archive for November, 2010
Thanksgiving Open Thread: November 25th, 2010
Please use this thread to tell us something you are thankful for.
Also, it is now one month before Christmas.
There are many opportunities to volunteer for something in your community that would make someone’s Christmas merry.
Toys for Tots.
Food drives.
Spreading cheer at nursing homes.
Visiting people with AIDS and cleaning or cooking for them.
You pick something you are comfortable doing…then do it in the spirit of Christmas.
This can be a new favorite family tradition.
So many people will spend “Black Friday” crammed into stores fighting over gadgets and acting the fool.
Why can’t the day after Thanksgiving be “Give Back Friday” instead of take, take, take.
Eat all you want today, and be grateful for it. Enjoy it all.
But tomorrow please start thinking about how you can make a difference in someone else’s lives at Christmas.
For the last 6 years, I have given my friends two gifts at Christmas: a tree ornament I make, and a card…which has a promise in it to dedicate a day of service to a charity that means something to that person. I ask everyone to do the same for me, and give me just the gift of promising to make someone else’s life a little better one day in the New Year.
I mention that because maybe you could avoid the nightmare consumer crowds of Black Friday and think about replacing store bought gifts with new ones from the heart.
That would sure put the “Christ” back in “Christmas”…and I guarantee these gifts would be remembered much longer than anything you can buy at the mall.
Something to look forward to in 2011: Congressman Issa's investigation of Eric Holder and Obama for voter fraud and intimidation
There is a bigger reason I have been ginning up buzz about voter fraud and intimidation Democrats engage in.
This is part of it.
The other part is Pigford and what happened during the leadup to the 2008 Democrat primary in South Carolina.
There are a lot of people in the Obama administration who are going to jail over this stuff.
Voter fraud.
Voter intimidation.
Election tampering.
Bribery.
Quid pro quo and pay to play schemes.
Obama is directly involved in all of this.
Come 2011, Congress will investigate this and we cannot let the Cocktail Party GOP establishment thwart these investigations.
Issa needs to go for the jugular, because once Obama is investigated his house of cards tumbles…taking the whole Democrat Party with him.
Thomas Sowell is the new Ben Franklin…and calls for security profiling in airports
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/23/airport_security_108037.html
It is just not acceptable to take an “everyone must suffer” approach to airport security that involves groping nuns and stripping little boys while the Left pretends the only people blowing up airplanes aren’t Muslims.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all airplane-downing terrorists in the last 30 years have been Muslims. Profiling is thus required, because we clearly see where the threat is…but Democrats want to pretend kindergarteners and cancer patient grandmothers are as likely a terrorist as a Muslim.
That is madness…and our new Ben Franklin, Thomas Sowell, rightly addresses this.
Those misunderstood CAIR Bears of Islam are lobbying the Obama administration for Muslims to avoid invasive body searches and genital groping, and Obama seems eager to comply. So the people most likely to blow up planes will receive less genital groping than 5 year old boys or 80 year old nuns.
The Left’s insane insistance against profiling Muslims is going to blow up in its face…especially if Muslims receiving less security checks than kindergartners make it onto planes and engage in terrorist acts, after Democrats forced this “everybody suffers” approach when the Israeli profiling model works so much better.
Please make sure your neighbors and friends have somewhere to be for Thanksgiving tomorrow
I put this in today’s Open Thread, but I wanted to say this again in the evening, now that people are home from work…and before it is too late for you to knock on people’s doors or call them on the phone.
Can you check with your neighbors and make sure they have somewhere to share in Thanksgiving?
Buzzquarters is in a big Victorian building here in Boystown with 25 units. It took me yesterday and today, but I finally got to talk to everyone, and I asked them if they all had somewhere to go for Thanksgiving…because if not they could join me and my friends.
Everyone had plans – mostly college kids or young professionals – except for one guy, who I hadn’t met before, who is now going down to Pilsen tomorrow to help serve Thanksgiving to homeless and sick vets with me.
So, I got another volunteer just by knocking on doors in our building…and this guy has somewhere to go tomorrow instead of sitting in his apartment alone.
There are a lot of gay guys whose families do not welcome them home for holidays because they like guys. Out of my group of friends, there are five of us in this boat…and most have created their own “orphan” holiday traditions.
Mine is serving the homeless on Thanksgiving and delivering meals on wheels to AIDS patients who are homebound on Christmas.
I would much rather be doing this than sitting on a couch watching TV somewhere because these holidays are not about eating, being lazy, and spending money…but they should be about spending time with people you care about, people you can take care of, people you can share in God’s love with as you count your many, many blessings.
There are friends out there you have not met yet.
There are elderly people with amazing stories who would love to be invited to your table.
There is a greater meaning to Thanksgiving and Christmas than spending money and sitting around.
This is your chance to discover it, and I hope that you do.
Trust me: you actually end up getting more out of this, in your soul, than anyone you reach out to.
Left losing control of gays: stupidity and hypocrisy openly questioned in Boystown
Nightspots is a weekly free publication in Boystown mostly known for its photos of who was where, and when, at all the local bars.
But, in edition to that, Nightspots runs little political catoons that have been turning more and more conservative.
They’ve hit the Left for being pro-Ground Zero Victory Mosque and they’ve lampooned gays for blindly voting Democrat again and again when Democrats really just use us as a gAyTM and then break all their myriad promises to the community.
Nightspots has now made fun of the Left’s bizarre outrage over Bristol Palin making it to a dancing show’s finale.
Every day, Democrats seem to lose a few more gays who dare to wander off the reservation, never to return.
How to thwart a terrorist plot
A great read
SICK: woman singled out for TSA groping because agents wanted to touch her breasts
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/25902334/detail.html
Janet Napolitano has given the TSA unprecedented ability to touch the public’s private areas (except for Muslims who are immune from searches, even though they are the ones who blow up airplanes).
TSA agents are sexual, human beings.
Some members of the public are very attractive.
TSA agents can pick which members of the public get extensive searches.
Are records kept as to which people certain TSA agents grope and fondle, specifically?
Because it sounds like these people are selecting women and men they WANT to grope, instead of people who are actual terror threats (that would be Muslims, who are not being profiled or groped).
I can’t imagine Jake Gyllenhaal or Zac Efron making it through an airport ever again without every TSA agent on duty manhandling their junk.
Not that either of them would seem to complain all that much.
HillBuzz on WABC with Joe Crummey at 935 am in NYC
I will be on WABC radio in NYC this morning with host Joe Crummey talking about voter fraud as much as he will let me, so if you are in NYC, tune in.
Voting for Bristol Palin was great practice for conservatives with phone banking and multi-media for 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704369304575633573087725054.html
Conservatives really rallied behind Bristol Palin during her run on Dancing with the Stars.
A surge of energy and activity kept Bristol and her partner Mark Ballas dancing with elegance and grace week after week, like enchanted figurines atop a music box.
Conservative viewers supplied the gears that kept the music playing for Bristol.
The Left got all wound up that conservatives figured out how to get off their butts and become involved in something.
We have two years until the next election…two years to keep conservatives engaged and involved and off the couch.
What are other things we could phone bank, organize, and direct conservative attention towards that are fun and sharpen the skills we will need to counter the Left and defeat Obama and his goons?
Remember: George Soros and the DNC pay ACORN, the unions, the Black Panthers, and other thugs to do these things for them.
Conservatives are a volunteer force with no such patronage.
We need to overwhelm the Left with our energy and effectiveness, just as we did week after week for Bristol.
It took a woman impersonating Jennifer Grey…who has been practicing the same dance moves for 30 years now…to defeat us.
We have two years to practice all the skills we will need to defeat the Left once and for all.
Suggestions for keeping these skills sharp?
TSA complains of "fatties and smellies". Unrelated news: Oprah Winfrey begins flying commercial for first time in decades.
The TSA is complaing the people it gropes and photographs naked are too fat and smelly.
This comes as a surprise to many of us in Chicago who assumed Oprah Winfrey flew exclusively on private jets, with John Travolta as her pilot.
The TSA: never a dull moment with these poorly trained, incompetent, perverts.
