Archive for December, 2010
Class vs. Crass: Martha Washington vs. Michelle Antoinette Obama
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In 1777, Martha Washington had the option of remaining at Mount Vernon, her home with then-General George Washington, where she had all manner of luxuries and comforts available to her in a warm house packed with friends, loved ones, and servants. Instead, she chose to live in tents freezing in the Pennsylvania winter at Valley Forge so she could be with her husband and his troops while they were encamped in winter quarters during the Revolutionary War. Lady Washington entertained the other officers’ wives, organized teas and social events, and did all she could to keep her husband’s spirits up while he served his country.
In 2010, Michelle Antoinette Obama cost American taxpayers an extra $63,000 for her latest no-expense-spared vacation, this time to the Hawaiian islands. Instead of waiting an extra two days to fly there on Air Force One with her husband, the current First Spouse demanded a private 737 jetliner for herself and her ostentatious 30-person retinue. In the midst of a depression when tens of millions of Americans are out of work, Michelle Antoinette didn’t want to forgo two days in tropical paradise to save the Treasury more money than the average household makes in an entire year.
Class vs. Crass.
Christmas Eve Open Thread: December 24th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Christmas Eve?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Can you share how you spend the holidays where you live?
Do you have any special Christmas Eve traditions you can tell us all about?
Is there anything fun and region-specific they do where you live for Christmas?
Fun With Search Terms
It’s fun to take a look at some of the odd search terms that lead people to HillBuzz.
We remain one of the world’s strongest authorities on both “Miss Piggy” and “random hot guy”, which is nice.
Here are some of the other mysteries of life people seem to come here seeking answers for:
(1) Nautilus?
A: This is either the ship Captain Nemo terrorized slave traders with in the Jules Verne novel, or it’s a weird squid-like cephalopod with a shell. OR, it’s a machine at the gym that has a distinct 80s vibe to it.
(2) Global warming on life support — scientists admit lying, but they don’t like it?
A: Yup. It sure is on life support. The Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Change is collapsing. Britain, where a lot of the lunatics who followed Al Gore live, has now had three years straight of brutally cold, record-setting winters. A mini Ice Age is actually coming, since the sun’s activity is going into a cycle of dormancy unseen in a hundred years or so. Scientists, or should we say “scientists”, lied about global warming for a few reasons. The primary objective was for them to keep getting massive grants to study this. They essentially glued toilet paper rolls or old plungers onto mangy horses, called them unicorns, and then asked governments for unlimited funding to study them. Well, after the Climategate emails were released, it was proved the amount of duplicity and conniving that went into this scam…people ripped the cardboard horns off the horses…and now regular people are telling the “scientists” in Al Gore’s cult to go, uh, climate-change themselves…and the unicorns they rode in on. So, of course they don’t like this. ”Science” and “scientists” have a long way to go to earn back the public’s trust…much like “journalism” and “journalists” do.
(3) Kal Penn gay?
A: Damn straight he is. Lookit:
"Kal, I'm just a fool, just a fool for your lovin. I can't get enough of your kissin' or a huggin".'
(4) Miss Piggy?
There you go!
(5) White House portraits?
The White House has many portraits. You can find most of them here.
(6) Jon and Elizabeth Edwards?
A: John Edwards is a terrible man, who is currently under investigation by a grand jury to determine whether or not he embezzled campaign funds to pay off his mistress, Rielle “Lisa Druck” Hunter during the waning days of his presidential campaign in 2008. His wife, the late Elizabeth Edwards, was also a bad person…and does not deserve sainthood because she died of cancer. It’s terrible she had cancer, and this should not be wished on anyone, ever, but if not for Elizabeth Edwards Obama would not be president today. It was Elizabeth Edwards who enable her husband, John, to run in 2008 as the spoiler that took the Iowa Caucus win away from Hillary Clinton…which then gave the media the opportunity to trumpet Obama as the Democrats’ 2008 nominee. If not for Edwards, HRC would have won Iowa, and been the nominee and president today. If not for Elizabeth Edwards covering for her husband and encouraging him to run, Edwards could not have mounted a campaign. Elizabeth Edwards thought she would be the Secretary of Health and Human Services today, and John Edwards thought he would be Vice President. Instead, the both of them got a rather Shakespearean end to their story of betrayal and manipulation. They are a tragic cautionary tale in so many senses.
(7) Allison Taylor?
A: This is the fictional president in the last two seasons of the defunct TV show on FOX called “24″, which starred Keifer Sutherland as an anti-terrorism expert/super agent who had just 24 hours to save the world from destruction (during which he was never allowed to sleep or go to the bathroom, or even eat so much as a Cheet-o, which does explain his not going to the bathroom). Taylor was played by actress Cherry Jones, who is a confirmed Obama cultist so during the run of the show she repeatedly insisted she was not playing Hillary Clinton as the first female president…even though she looked very Hillary-like on the show.
(8) 2009 State of the State Sarah Palin?
A: Here you go…it’s a really great read. Can’t wait to see President Palin deliver the State of the Union address in 2014.
(9) Aaron Schock?
A: Yup, he’s gay too. Just ask the guys in the VIP area at MiniBar in Boystown.
(10) Random hot guy
A: Well, since you asked so nicely:
No wonder Aaron Schock loves MiniBar so much.
(11) TSA groping breasts?
A: They sure are. Like this:
Checkout Threadless.com for the great shirt. Wonderful to wear at the airport.
(12) April Glaspie?
A: The former US Ambassador to Iraq in the first Bush Administration. Glaspie had a fateful meeting with Saddam Hussein prior to his invasion of Kuwait where some sort of misunderstanding seems to have transpired…where Hussein believed Glaspie gave him the go-ahead to invade Kuwait, since Glaspie told Hussein the US would consider this “a regional matter”. Meaning, to Glaspie, that if Hussein did it, the region would ban together with the US to kick Hussein out of Kuwait…which is what happened. The opposite of what Hussein claims he was told.
(13) How many US ambassadors are there?
A: Too many. See if you can name any of them, without looking…and don’t count Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, because that’s too easy.
(14) Pequot Indians?
(15) Ancient greece temples?
A: Contrary to Obama’s belief, no they were not made of styrofoam…and no, people did not build them to themselves.
The insane and hubristic styrofoam columned Greek temple Obama built for himself at Invesco Field in Denver for the Democrat Convention in 2008
(16) Whitney Houston a song for you?
A: That’s nice of you. How about playing the most awesome Christmas song ever from her?
(17) Oregon map 1955?
A: Are you typing this from your Delorean? Oregon’s pretty much been the same for a while, since before 1955, and long after it, so this map should be just fine for your purposes:
This is a super accurate and realistic map, so when you are in Oregon, be sure to watch out for the giant birds.
Lindsey Graham about to be outed…whom did he cross on the Left to end his usefulness to them?
If you include a shoutout to Bette Davis in your official Senate picture, you aren't fooling anyone.
Apparently, Lindsey Graham is about to be outed…because he did not give the Left votes they wanted in this lame duck session.
That seems stupid, frankly, because Graham squeals “How high?” whenever the Left tells him to do anything.
Whenever I write about closeted gay Republicans, I know a lot of you write in thread comments that “people shouldn’t care about their sexual identity”. This is, on the surface, true. If we lived in a world of “should”, then this would be the case…where in addition to this these closeted gay Republicans “should” stick to conservative principles, vote the way their constituents want them to, and never allow the Left to blackmail them. But, that’s not the magical world we live in.
Instead, we have men like Lindsey Graham, who are closeted gays, who have been blackmailed by the Left for years…so that whenever the Left needs a turncoat Republican to stick the GOP and conservatives in the back, and the Maine Sisters and Lisa Murkowski are busy somewhere, Graham can be counted on to do whatever the Left wants…lest the Left release the pictures it has of him, doing whatever it is he’s doing, which I’m sure isn’t flower-arranging.
The Left might be cutting Graham loose now that Mark Kirk is heading to the Senate from Illinois, and he’s another gay Republican the Left has all the goods on and will out in spectacular fashion the next time they need to give the GOP a black eye about something. Apparently, there’s a video — not just pictures — of Kirk at some party, which was an all-boy affair. In the last days of the Senate race here in Illinois this year, there was buzz in GOP circles that somehow David Axelrod had got ahold of “the video”. That was the first many of us had ever heard of a “video”…but the fact that Kirk’s campaign was worried about it getting out must mean a video of him and guys up to various hijinks could possibly exist. Maybe Democrats have it. Maybe they will start blackmailing Kirk as Graham’s replacement. Maybe there’s no video but Kirk’s just led a very interesting, closeted life and he realizes he set himself for all sorts of guessing games in the years ahead, as to whether or not videos exist.
Republicans prove they are the Party of Stupid in many ways, but how they handle their closeted gay Senators and Congressmen is the most foolish.
They should, honestly, have all these guys just come out of the closet one day…all together…in a big prime time special or something. Just get it all over with. Do it on a day that no one is really paying attention to politics, like on Super Bowl Sunday or something. And then the Democrats won’t be able to blackmail anyone.
What’s hilarious is that in Illinois Aaron Schock, another closeted gay Republican, is being groomed to be the GOP’s 2014 Senate nominee against Dick Durbin…which would mean, if Schock wins, that Illinois would have two closeted gay Republicans representing it. If Schock would just come out, he’d probably win that 2014 race by a wider margin…because he’s great looking, a nice and smart man, and it would be mighty hard to make an argument against his election in many circles here in Chicago. If the GOP can pull just an extra point or two in Chicago and do well in its suburbs, it wins in Illinois. Schock could do that as a young, gay, conservative…and could do wonders to changing the perception of both conservatives AND gays in Democrat and Republican ranks, respectively.
But, GOP consultants must be telling him to stay in the closet or risk losing conservative support…just as Kirk, Graham, Charlie Crist, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and all sorts of other gay Republicans have been told through the years that they had to allow Democrats to blackmail them and go along with this stupid game if they wanted to keep their positions.
GOP consultants are stupid.
Democrats lose so much power and leverage if all of these guys would just come out, come out, wherever they are.
Intriguing: Is the Saudi King working behind the scenes to move the Ground Zero Victory Mosque to somewhere in the Village?
Obama's on record thinking the Ground Zero Victory Mosque is a wonderful idea. He's also been photographed bowing and scraping before the King of Saudi Arabia, which he later described as "the single greatest honor of (his) life". So, if Falafel the Hutt decides the Ground Zero Victory Mosque is a bad idea, maybe Obama will listen.
Did you catch this on Weasel Zippers the other day?
I don’t believe a word I hear on the Ground Zero Victory Mosque until Pamela Geller writes about it. She is the world’s expert on this abominable project…and, I have to add, a living and breathing American hero for having the intestinal fortitude to punch Islam in the face, every single day, challenging everything those medievalists cult members do.
If you’ve seen anything by Geller talking about the King of Saudi Arabia (aka, Falafel the Hutt) working behind the scenes to diffuse the Ground Zero Victory Mosque situation, please chime in with a link below.
And then call the people at Guinness, because it would be the first time in history that a Muslim actively engaged in diffusing anything explosive.
Class vs. Crass: Lucy Hayes vs. Michelle Antoinette Obama; Christmas Edition
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In 1879, First Lady Lucy Hayes commissioned beautiful china for the White House emblazoned with images of the flora and fauna of America, as well as our gorgeous natural landscapes, to celebrate our country at the dinner table when foreign heads of state and important dignitaries visited.
In 2009, Michelle Antoinette Obama decorated the official White House Christmas tree with an ornament that depicted her husband’s face carved onto Mount Rushmore.
Class vs. Crass.
Thursday Open Thread: December 23rd, 2010
What’s on your minds this Thursday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Are you getting excited for Christmas?
Here’s a video that’s been playing a lot in all the bars in Boystown this year…Annie Lennox’s version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”.
Where have American Presidents spent Christmas traditionally?
Not that the media will ever make a note of this or anything.
Where did the Reagans, the Bushes, and the Clintons spend Christmas?
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
The Clintons spent their first Christmas as President in Hilton Head, which they quickly acknowledged was a mistake. Not only did the press savage them for leaving the White House (and forgoing Camp David) during the holidays, but they personally felt bad that they tore their staff and protection away from their families on Christmas. So, they spent the rest of their Christmases in office in the White House (except the year they went to Sarajevo to spend Christmas with US troops stationed there during the Balkan War).
The Bushes’ family tradition was to spend Christmas at Camp David, so that their staff and protection could be near their families on this special day. Bush the father instilled this tradition in his son, George W., who carried it on during his own presidency. The Bushes spent a combined 12 Christmases at Camp David.
The Reagans spent every Christmas in the White House so his staff and protection could enjoy the holiday with their families. Soon after the holidays, the Reagans took a vacation to their ranch in California…AFTER the people who worked for him were able to enjoy their family time. The Reagans owned the ranch, and paid to have it transformed into a Western White House with no cost to taxpayers.
Every year, the Obamas essentially tell the people who work in the White House to “go f*** themselves”, since the Obamas demand to be entertained and lavished with unimaginable luxuries in tropical Hawaii (instead of Chicago, where Obama is supposedly “from”, depending on what political points he wants to score that day).
In 2010, Michelle Antoinette Obama cost US taxpayers an extra $63,000 to entertain her, by demanding a private flight to Hawaii a few days before her husband was able to make the trip. She just couldn’t wait to get away from Washington. Other massive expenses for entertaining the Obamas in paradise are detailed here.
In 2013, when these people are out of the White House and living in Hawaii full time (where the Obama Presidential Library will be built), Michelle Antoinette can spend every Christmas there, hopefully on her own dime.
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UPDATE: H/t Ace of Spades for more on this
For more Class vs. Crass examples of how the Obamas compare to the first families before them, click here.
Honestly, of all the things we do here at HillBuzz, the one that makes the Left howl the most is when we just simply illustrate, side by side, the behavior of the Obamas compared to the people who lived in the White House before them. Those simple images of the Obamas behaving terribly, wasting taxpayer money, and making asses of themselves just resonate with Americans on a basic level when juxtaposed with facts about other first families.
This crass behavior is historic and unprecedented. There has never been people living in the White House who behave this way, with such contempt and disregard for the American people and American way of doing things.
The Obamas are truly alien in every sense of the word.
If you remind people of what the norm for presidents and their spouses has been and should be, and directly contrast that with the Obamas, the Left goes insane…because they know there is no defense of what the Obamas are doing to this country.
While sticking YOU with the bill!
OUTRAGEOUS: Michelle Antoinette Obama costs taxpayers an additional $63,000 by demanding to leave for Hawaii without her husband…instead of just waiting a few days
"Wheeeeeeeee! I just cost taxpayers $63,000! What depression? Wheeeeeeeee!"
First off, it’s outrageous the Obamas demand to go to Hawaii every year for Christmas in the first place.
Almost every other resident of the White House in history has spent Christmas either there, or at nearby Camp David, so that White House staff, the Secret Service, military officials, and everyone else that travels with the president can spend the holiday with their families…since they all live in and around DC and this would keep their schedules basically the same on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Not the Obamas.
They demand to be in Hawaii for Christmas, thousands of miles away from Washington, so they can disrupt as many lives as possible in the process.
FACT: Before he became president, the Obamas did not go to Hawaii for Christmas. They spent it in Chicago. Going to Hawaii and living in a multi-million dollar mansion at enormous taxpayer expense is a new development for these two. On the street, people call this “farting through silk”.
This year, in addition to tearing families apart at Christmas, Michelle Antoinette Obama demanded an early trip to Hawaii, while her husband stayed in Washington. So, she insisted upon a private flight for herself and Petit-Trianon-grade traveling entourage…which has cost taxpayers $63,000 more than it would have if she had just stayed with her husband and waited a few days to travel to Hawaii with him.
Instead, Air Force C-40B Special Mission Aircraft had to ferry her, the Obama daughters, their dog, and her retinue, at public expense. The First Spouse was allegedly heard to shout, loudly, over the roar of the plane’s engines at takeoff, “F*** them. F*** them all. I got to have my Mai-Tais!”.
No doubt, she was proud of her mai-tais for the first time in her adult life.
REMINDER: These two could have cost taxpayers ZERO by just staying in the White House and having Christmas there (or at Camp David), the way the Bushes and Clintons did for the majority of their time in the White House.
GREAT NEWS: Steven Spielberg is advising Nancy Pelosi on “building a new Democrat brand”
This is fabulous news for Christmas, folks.
Steven Spielberg is one of the most out-of-touch Leftists in Hollywood…and he has been surrounded by YES-men and women for the last 30 years, who tell him everything he does is magic, spot-on perfect, and exactly what needs to be done. He receives nothing but nonstop praise from the media, regardless of what he does, or how stupid it is. He’s the white Will Smith. Who is, himself, the black Barack Obama.
For the Democrat party to survive longterm, the last thing it needs is Steven Spielberg advising it on brand management.
Spielberg’s part of the chorus that doesn’t believe Democrats have gone far ENOUGH to the Left…and he also believes that Hollywood should dictate what Americans think and believe.
Nancy Pelosi thinks all of these same things herself. Or, she would, if she had a functional brain and was not, as we all well know, just running off Botox fumes.
Pelosi and Spielberg, together, will do more damage to Democrats than Pelosi has been doing alone.
No matter what these two come up with, it’s guaranteed to alienate those in this country who feel Democrats are too Leftists…because a Pelosi-Spielberg endeavor will appeal to the Hollywood, urban, elite set (the shrunken Democrat base), as the expense of the “bitter clinging Midwesterners” the new Obama Democrat Party so shuns.
This is fabulous news.
If you thought Christmas came early when Pelosi was made Minority Leader, then you’re getting THREE Christmases this year!
Merry Christmas again, three days early!
