Archive for April, 2011
Gold Action Item: Think of ways to consistently ask Americans if they received the hopeychange Obama promised them in 2008
I have been told the Cocktail Party GOP establishment does not want Americans asked on a regular basis if they got the hopeychange Obama promised them in the 2008 election.
Say it with me: the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is stupid, and far too dependent on consultants who eat their crayons.
The thinking (if you stretch the word enough to cover this folly) is that “Republicans need to save this attack for 2012″.
Right.
The same way the Party of Stupid is forever saving this, reserving that, and generally abstaining from winning strategies…for one inane reason or another.
The article at the top of this post predicts $6 gas this summer…with a massive surge in food prices. States are so broke, many cannot even afford to keep funding their food stamp programs. That means disaster, not hopeychange, is barrelling down on millions of Americans…many of whom were stupidly Obama voters in 2008.
On a daily basis, people who voted for Obama three years ago need to be asked if they received the hopeychange they were promised and if they are in better shape than they were back when they drank all that Kool-Aid.
I do not see any way that people who did NOT vote for Obama in 2008 will be so charmed by his job performance that they support his re-election.
I have never heard a McCain/Palin voter wish they could time travel and pull the lever for Obama instead…not even for the free ride in an operational, flux-capacitored DeLorean.
That leaves our focus on asking the non-crazy, but misguided 2008 Obama voters if all the hopeychange hype and Media zeal was worth it in THEIR DAILY LIVES.
Make people realize what a bad hiring decision they made in wanting to take a chance on an untested, mysterious, exotic who never delivered on the soaring promises of his job interview.
Give people a BUSINESS and not emotional decision to make…and watch them vote in their economic best interests to evict the Obamas from Washington.
Remember: the GOP Cocktail Party establishment will fumble this, because part of me thinks the consulting firms these fools rely so heavily on WANT to lose important elections.
We have a year and change to prevent this.
And it starts by asking every last Obama voter in the country if they got the hopeychange they were promised.
Does anyone out there REALLY know a soul who is better off today than he or she was before The Golden Age of Hope and Change began?
Have seen “Atlas Shrugged” three times in theaters now…and love it more each time
I don’t want to write a review of “Atlas Shrugged”, the film or the book, until more people have seen them…and until I have reread the full book again myself.
But I wanted to tell you that the first filmed production of Ayn Rand’s work is so interesting and inspiring I have now seen it three times, with three different sets of people, and every time the audience cheers out loud as Dagny Taggart dresses down the communists, fools, union goons, and corruptocrats plaguing her drive to successfully run her family’s business.
There are two scenes in particular you will love, I hope, as much as I do: when Dagny eviscerates a union goon and when she puts her idiot, Obama voter brother in his place.
The union goon walks into Dagny’s office and she promptly tells him to get out. He gins up the usual union threats against a business, and Dagny tells him to shut up and lets the thug know she will not be bullied and that this will not be business as usual appeasing the unions. Dagny tells the union to, essentially, commit anatomically-impossible acts upon itself…while the audience HUNGERS for corporate executives nationwide to “Go Rogue” like Dagny and tell the unions plaguing them to do the same.
And then there is how Dagny handles her idiot brother…the sort of “big thinker” who would have bought into all of Obama’s hopeychangey hooey and who still pulls the Democrat lever in elections without realizing the ultimate disastrous personal and economic consequences of those decisions. Dagny walks in on the fool playing with a model train set in his office, during the middle of the day, when he should be working. She unplugs his toy, then berates his stupidity and tells him what she is going to do to fix his mistakes.
THIS is how Americans coast to coast need to “Go Rogue” when dealing with both the Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment.
Unplug these fools from their sources of power and influence.
Take away their toys and tools.
Demand actual grown-up solutions to the nation’s problems, administered by grown-ups, with hard work and determined thought involved.
I left the theater every time I have seen “Atlas Shrugged” with two things in mind:
(1) working towards taking away the Left’s, the unions’, and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment’s stranglehold on this country and…
(2) making more people see it is time to stand up and become Dagny Taggarts in their own way.
The way people like Governor Sarah Palin and others do.
It isn’t easy. It takes guts. We certainly know what we are up against.
But the country we love is worth it.
QUESTION: Have you seen the movie yet? Did it inspire you?
ACTION: How do we foster a nationwide Resistance to the Left and its allies by encouraging an uprising of millions of Dagny Taggarts coast to coast?
What think you?
Boystown Ridiculous Trend #3,218: Raccoon Tails Sticking Out of Back Pockets
My friend Panda emailed me these pics today – though his subject line said, simply, “Cool”, with something in the message about how “fun” this is and how he wished he’d thought to do this because “it’s kind of like being Super Mario a little”.
He is, as I’m sure you well know, referring to a raccoon-tailed Super Mario Bros. 3 power-up that lets players helicopter over Mushroomland using said tail as a propeller.
I don’t think Panda believes the guy in these Boystown snaps can fly…but I also don’t think he looks as cool as Panda thinks.
My boyfriend Justin added some backstory to all of this, in that apparently fashion designers at the School of the Art Institute here in Chicago have been doing this for a few years now: trying to start a trend.
That, in itself, is a popular Boystown parlor game: trend-setting attempts.
There’s a ridiculoud bartender in a favorite bar of mine I’ll simply call “Brenden” who, every summer, attempts to launch a new fad in fashion or hair styling. He recently attempted to update Richard Dean Anderson’s “MacGyver” mullet, with laughable results. He’s popped more collars than William Zabka, but that retro-prep-polo nonsense flopped too. Brenden wouldn’t adopt this raccoon tail nonsense himself – since he couldn’t claim to have launched the trend if he just mirrored a guy on the street like this – but maybe he will one day stick other obscure animal parts to himself.
Antlers. Hooves. Walrus tusks. The possibilities for taxidermy-assisted trendsetting are sadly endless.
Is this raccoon-tail-in-the-pocket thing the dumbest thing you have ever seen…or are you on Team Panda cheering these Art Institute hipsters on?
What’s the most ridiculous trend you were ever surprised caught on to any degree where you live?
Update: Baby Joseph has gone home to Canada
Baby Joseph
A bit of good news for this Good Friday. Back in February, I wrote a piece about Baby Joseph Maraachi who was fighting for his life in Canada’s socialized medicine system. Baby Joseph was born with a life threatening progressive genetic disorder and the doctors at the hospital in Canada where he was being treated wanted to remove his breathing tube and send him home (which was a few hours away). The parents had requested that the hospital perform a tracheotomy so that he would not suffer on his long trip home. They knew that they were taking him home to die but the humane thing to do would be to do the tracheotomy so he could breathe more easily. The hospital refused the tracheotomy and that’s when the story went global. After a few weeks of petitioning hospitals in the United States to see Baby Joseph, Father Frank Pavone of the New York-based Priests for Life decided to pay for Joseph’s transfer to Cardinal Glennon’s Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis. Doctors performed the tracheotomy (which could extend his life up to 6 months) and he is now back home in Canada with his family… resting comfortably.
God Bless Father Pavone.
There are good and decent people in this world.
Friday Open Thread: April 22nd, 2011
Happy Good Friday!
What’s on your minds today?
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
The Wonkette weasels are feeling the heat for their disgusting post about Trig Palin.
Wonkette weasel Jack Stuef
Well….Jack Stuef, the writer of yesterday’s vile post about Trig Palin on Wonkette, is the most unpopular person in America right now. I think he is even more hated than Michael Moore. For those of you who haven’t read the disgusting piece of trash….you can read it here. I am NOT linking directly to that awful website because I refuse to send them any traffic. The link is to the piece done by Weasel Zippers. I encourage you to go there and also read some of the tweets that were posted by advertiser Papa John’s (who has pulled their ad on Wonkette). Several other advertisers have pulled their ads from this site and I would like to stand up and applaud them…..
Here’s the current list (at least this is all I can find so far)
Papa John’s, Huggies, Vanguard Financial, Nordstroms
I guess that Stuef is feeling the heat because he issued a very weak apology (and I mean VERYweak) on the Wonkette website this morning…
UPDATE: I regret this post and using the word “retarded” in a reference to Sarah Palin’s child. It’s not nice, and is not necessary, but I take responsibility for writing it. For those who came and are offended by this post: I’m sorry, of course. But I stand by my criticism of Sarah Palin using her child as a political prop.
–Jack Stuef
That doesn’t sound like a very sincere apology but I bet that even that was extremely hard for him to write. His hatred for Sarah Palin (and all that is good and sane) is palpable so he must have been seething when he wrote that “update”.
So Hillbuzzers….consider this a Purple Team Action Item and let’s start listing other sponsors for Wonkette so we can tell them what we think of this horrid site. I also encourage you to thank those advertisers who have pulled their ads.
This isn’t the only classless post that Mr. Stuef has put out but it is the worst.
Go Hillbuzzers Go!
Thursday Open Thread: April 21st, 2011
Boys will be boys.....just another Saturday night in Libya
What’s on your minds this Thursday?
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
Wednesday Open Thread: April 20th, 2011
Obamamonopoly
(h/t Moonbattery)
What’s on your mind’s this Wednesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
Tuesday Open Thread: April 19th, 2011
In honor of tax day yesterday...the Pick-Pocket in Chief
What’s on your minds this Tuesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
Sunday Open Thread: April 17, 2011
We think it delicious that Governor Sarah Palin, the next President of the United States, chose to (un)officially launch her 2012 campaign in the city that has been held hostage by union goons and absentee leftist politicians for months.
Mr. Obama, Mr. President, you and your cohorts threw all the hatred and all the violence that you could at the good folks here in Madison, Wisconsin but you lost here. And Madison, you defended that 2010 electoral mandate. You are heroes. You are patriots and when the history of this Tea Party movement is written, what you accomplished here will not be forgotten. Your historic stand brought down the curtain on the last election and the 2012 election begins here. We will take the courage and the integrity that you showed all of America, we will take it and we will win back our country.
God has shed his grace on thee America. We will not squander what we have. We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, Wisconsin. It starts here. It starts now. What better place than the state that hosts the Super Bowl champs to call out the liberal left and let them know, “Mr. President, game on.”
And she did it without a TelePrompTer.
