Archive for August, 2011
The Chick-fil-A haters
On any given day (except Sunday), the drive through line at a Chick-fil-A restaurant may be a mile long….at least it always seems to be in Aiken or North Augusta or Columbia ,South Carolina. I don’t mind waiting though because there’s nothing like a Chick-fil-A sandwich. Anyone who says that they hate Chick-fil-A has obviously not had one of their sandwiches, but there are those who truly do hate the restaurant chain and it’s not because of their food. Those haters are the liberals who are protesting the fact that Chick-fil-A’s founder, 93 year old Truett Cathy, is a gracious, generous, Christian southern gentleman with good old fashioned values. For instance, you will never find a Chick-fil-A open on a Sunday. His employees are carefully screened to make sure they are just the kind of person Mr. Cathy wants working for him (cheerful, friendly and courteous). Chick-fil-A always has the cream of the crop of employees in the fast food business. Mr. Cathy gives millions and millions of dollars to an employee college scholarship fund…his employees love him. He’s been honored by the Children’s Hunger Fund, and won the Horatio Alger award and the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership, for his charity.
Mr. Cathy also gives money to such college groups as the Campus Crusade for Christ and nothing gets a liberals panties in a wad faster than to say the “C” word….as in Christ. They are claiming that Mr. Cathy and the entire Chick-fil-A chain are anti-gay…simply because the founder is a Christian. When a Chick-fil-A opened in Chicago last year, protesters from the organization getequal.org began a campaign to “stop the hate” and distributed fliers that called the restaurant “Bigot-fil-A”.
This is hypocrisy…pure and simple. They are protesting against Mr. Cathy just because he is a Christian….not because he said or did anything against the gay community( because he has never said anything anti-gay). Mr. Cathy is a kind and loving man who welcomes anyone into his restaurants and he is very loved and respected…especially in the South. Why is it that if you are a Christian then you are automatically labelled as anti-gay? If you are a conservative, then you are anti-black, anti-Latino, anti-gay etc.
Are the American people going to see through all the smoke and mirrors of the left’s identity politics? Hopefully.
In the meantime…the liberals can keep on protesting Chick-fil-A because that means there’s less people in line at the drive-through at noon.
I LOVE Chick-fil-A
SHOCKING: Illinois Policy Institute proves high taxes equal massive job losses
Prepare yourselves for the shocking news you are about to hear, but the Illinois Policy Institute has concluded that…brace yourselves…high taxes equal massive job losses.
In other news, going out into the rain without an umbrella equals getting wet…eating the menus Michelle Obama prepares for the White House equals getting fat…and saying one thing but doing another makes you a hypocrite (see: Ben Cohen, and come to think of it, Michelle Obama).
The graph above really shows it all: when Illinois decided to ramp up its taxes yet again, employers started shedding jobs to compensate.
Democrats have bankrupted the “blue states” by ratcheting up taxes every year, to keep paying for more and more entitlement programs and bribes to unions, so these groups can continue to keep the Democrats in power.
The end result is that not only are state treasuries drained dry, but the businesses that existed in the state are forced out because of the high taxes that prohibit them from staying in business.
When Democrats destroy one state, like California, and things start to fall apart there, the most Leftist of their elite emigrate to neighboring states (like Colorado, Nevada, or Texas) and start trying to raise the taxes and increase entitlement programs there.
It’s a cycle that needs to be stopped, because it sure can’t carry on forever if we want to have a country left.
HillBuzz Open Thread: Wednesday August 24, 2011
Today in History:
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet. Meanwhile, at Disney World in Florida, the other Pluto is labeled a chihauhua to the consternation of throngs of confused children.
1995 – Computer software developer Microsoft releases its Windows 95 operating system. I was in high school when this happened and remember my lab partner Brett saying he was going to miss school on such and such day, so I had to finish whatever project we were working on myself. I asked him where he was going and he said he was camping out to buy windows. I pictured some sort of glass shortage I was previously unaware of, with his parents making this kid wait in line, fighting contractors and professional remodelers, to get windows for his house. Like, they only had Reynolds wrap keeping the cold out and he needed those windows so badly that he had to miss school. Instead, it was some kind of thing for the computer.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane. I was in grade school when this happened. I never saw destruction like that until Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey). I know 2012 is going to be a historic first for another woman I can think of, havin nothing to do with airplanes.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory. Serendipity sees above!
Please leave comment on Sidetrack’s official page and ask them about hypocrisy of hosting a Ben Cohen anti-bullying event just two weeks after Sidetrack aired the Only@Brunch video bullying Trig Palin
Here is Sidetrack’s official event page for the “Ben Cohen Standup Foundation” anti-bullying event they have scheduled for August 30th, 2011. “Anti-bullying” in this sense is actually the gay community claiming it is bullied by conservative and Christian people…when in fact Sidetrack the Video bar here in Chicago routinely shows videos that aggressively bully conservatives, Christians, women, and children with special needs. The “victims” are actually the victimizers at Sidetrack.
Please leave a comment on this page telling Sidetrack’s owners what you think of the hypocrisy of this bar hosting an “anti-bullying” event on August 30th, when on August 16th, 2011 Sidetrack screened the “Only@Brunch” talk show that featured a tasteless and unjustifiable bullying attack on Trig Palin…in addition to bullying attacks on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (five minutes of pure hatred directed at the Congresswoman because of her looks, on top of an attack on Trig because of how he was born).
For the complete story, click here.
Please also note how you feel about Bradley Thomas Balof being the MC for an “anti-bullying” event, after being one of the co-hosts of “Only@Brunch” featured prominently laughing while co-host Jesse Budlong made the bullying attack on a toddler with Down Syndrome.
The hypocrisy is too much to stand…so I ask you with all my heart to stand up for special needs children against the gay bullies of Sidetrack, who chose to air this “Only@Brunch” video and now want to host an “anti-bullying” event where the gay community will complain about being victimized by conservatives.
Sidetrack cannot have it both ways. Please tell them so by leaving a comment on this event here.
I have been told the Ben Cohen Standup Foundation is convening a special emergency board meeting to decide what to do about this, so I know your comments on this Facebook page will be viewed by them.
Please comment, and also write to the Board directly here.
Together we can standup against hypocrisy and the gay bars who bully people with special needs, small children, conservatives, Christians, and women.
Do not let Sidetrack the Video Bar get away with this hypocrisy!
UPDATE: Here are the screengrabs of comments Sidetrack has received as of 600pm CST 8/23/11
In case you missed it, here’s Rush Limbaugh reading HillBuzz on the air last week
Here’s Rush Limbaugh reading from one of my essays last Thursday.
The full essay is here:
Here is Rush’s full transcript from last week
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081811/content/01125107.guest.html
HYPOCRISY ALERT! Ben Cohen to hold anti-bullying event August 30, 2011 at Sidetrack the Video Bar in Boystown, which is a bar that airs videos bullying special needs children, conservatives, Christians, and women
On Tuesday August 30th, Ben Cohen is making an appearance at Sidetrack the Video Bar here in Chicago to promote his “Ben Cohen Standup Foundation”, which claims to work against bullying of gay people. Cohen is a straight rugby player who started this foundation to assist various gay charities that support gay youth who are bullied growing up.
It’s a noble cause, but quite hypocritical of Cohen to hold the event at Sidetrack the Video Bar, because this same venue aired a high-profile bullying attack on Trig Palin on August 16, 2011 in the premiere episode of the gay talk show “Only@Brunch”. Because of national criticism of this bullying, The Jared Hall Company and Downtown Cupid Productions edited the attack on Trig out of the current video they’ve posted on YouTube (while deleting all comments calling their bullying out for the tasteless and unjustifiable attack that it was). Sidetrack the Video Bar, owned by Art Johnston and Jose Pepin “Pepe” Pena (and managed by Chuck Hyde), approved the original “Only@Brunch” video complete with the vile attack on Trig Palin and aired it in the most high-profile and prominent part of the bar.
As I’ve covered this week, “Only@Brunch” features Sidetrack bartender Bradley Thomas Balof as one of its co-hosts. Balof did nothing to stop the bullying of Trig Palin that aired in the “Only@Brunch” pilot. In fact, he sat there and laughed along with Jared Hall, Terrence Chappell, Craig Rathwell, and Brian Felder when co-host Jesse Budlong bullied Trig Palin.
Balof is scheduled to be the MC for Ben Cohen’s anti-bullying event at Sidetrack, despite appearing in a video mocking a toddler with Down Syndrome just two weeks before.
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Sidetrack stands to make a large sum of money on August 30th, as Ben Cohen is quite the beefcake pinup in Chicago’s gay community; he’s guaranteed to bring in huge crowds to see his handsome face and athletic build, and to listen to his Foundation’s speeches about how bad bullying is.
Sidetrack enticed a large crowd on August 16th to view the attack on Trig Palin contained in the “Only@Brunch” premiere episode, by dispensing free mimosas to those who came to Sidetrack and watched a video not only bullying a special needs child, but also attacking his mother and other conservatives and Christians with malicious zeal.
The hypocrisy in the gay community is obvious and endemic.
So, this morning I sent the below email to the Ben Cohen Foundation asking them for comment on the appropriateness of hosting an anti-bullying event in a Boystown venue that encourages the bullying of children with special needs.
We have a clear situation here where leaders of the gay community claim gays need to be protected from bullying because of the way they were born…when the very same gay leaders encourage the bullying of children with Down Syndrome because of the way they were born. On top of that, the gay leaders who scold conservatives and Christians for not accepting them are the very same men who revel in attacks directed against women who are conservative and Christian.
Someone has to standup to this hypocrisy.
Since Ben Cohen’s foundation is actually named “The Standup Foundation”, perhaps he can show some leadership and address these matters with Art Johnston at Sidetrack so attacks on special needs children, conservatives, Christians, and women are no longer prominently made in Sidetrack the Video Bar.
Please email the staff at Ben Cohen’s Foundation either a link to this open letter or your own personal letter asking these people to “Standup to Hypocrisy!” and reconsider the appropriateness of hosting an event at Sidetrack the Video Bar, where the “Only@Brunch” attack on a toddler with Down Syndrome originally aired.
CONTACTS:
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We’re Aghast: Obama parody of Beauty & the Beast “Be Our Guest” highlighting Obamas’ lavish spending
Here’s a parody of the Obamas’ lavish spending and complete disregard for the privations and austerity most Ameriacans are suffering in this “The Golden Age of Hopeychange”: rework Disney’s “Be Our Guest” into “We’re Aghast!” and list all of the ridiculous things the Obamas have done while in the White House, proving they are completely out of touch with the voting public.
Since the original “Be Our Guest” song features so many references to food the Obamas already copiously devour (they’re two gore-mates, in case any of you bitter-guns-and-religion-clinging, pedestrian Midwesterners hadn’t heard), it’s actually pretty easy to rework.
All we need to do is make up some photoshops of them going to town on all sorts of lavish foods, at any of the umpteen fancy events they schedule for themselves, and add the new lyrics karaoke-style to a YouTube video.
Voila!
Something fun for people to watch…so they can recall just how many horribly ostentatious things the Obamas have crammed into their two and a half years in the White House so far.
Can’t you just see Joe Biden as Lumiere…with perhaps Harry Reid as a broke-down, dingy clock. What sort of inanimate objects would other members of the Obama administration be (apart from the near-inanimate objects some of them are in real life)?
If you have been reading this site for more than two days you already know which of the Obamas I think should be twirling around in a pretty dress…and which one should be hulking out awkwardly in weird, ill-fitting, monstrous clothes.
In the thread below, take your stab at some of the parody lyrics and contribute other ideas.
We’re aghast, we’re aghast, we’re aghast!
The original words are here:
HillBuzz Open Thread: Today in History August 23rd 2011
Today in History:
1994 – Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. It’s a shame that so many honors fall into the “better late than never” category.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. This gives me hope, here in 2011, that, per chance to dream, Shelley Long and Bette Midler will some day do another movie together. What? Am I the only “Outrageous Fortune” fan around? Why, yes. Yes, it appears I am.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. Here in 2011, Oprah Winfrey’s attempting the same strategy to get people to appear on her OWN (Oprah’s Weird Noises) network, taking various people hostage and forcing them to appear as guests or audience members on her low-rated cable network. If it worked for one racist maniacal dictator, it can work for another.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. You know what’s funny? Half the kids who walk around college campuses think the tee-shirt they’re wearing, with the guy in a beret on it, is Chavez. Another percentage of them think “Cesar Chavez” was either the guy who played the Joker on the TV Batman or “some woman dancer”. Uh, that would be Cesar Romero and Cyd Charisse. The jury’s also still out on whether Chavez invented a certain salad (hint: not him either!).
1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion. King Putt, the current American president, probably thinks the same thing of the tens of millions of people who don’t support his efforts to “fundamentally transform America”.
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Gallup Poll: GOP Top Tier = Romney, Perry, Paul & Bachmann
To defeat the Left, it’s important for libertarians and conservatives to understand how media coverage works to shape the debate. And it’s vital that we be able to recognize when a RINO candidate (such as John Huntsman or Mittens “Mood Ring” Romney) is being shoved down our throats, lest we get a repeat of Bob Dole and John McCain.
However, it’s just as important for us to recognize when the media is using sleight-of-hand and misdirection to keep us from seeing what’s behind the curtain.
Although this story was posted on Drudge today, I doubt that you will see this headline anywhere:
Gallup Poll: Romney, Perry, Paul & Bachman In Dead Heat With Obama Among Registered Voters
A survey of 879 registered voters conducted August 17th and 18th reveals that the Top Tier of GOP candidates is Mitt “Mood Ring” Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann. The margin of error is +/- 4%.
When considering the 4% margin of error, all four GOP candidates would be in a statistical dead heat with Obama if the election were held today.
- H/T Gallup
And Mittens, Perry and Ron Paul all beat Obama among Independents, which Michelle Bachmann not far behind.
And another interesting statistic: Herman Cain has incredibly high “positives,” beating out all the other GOP candidates.
Now, why is this important?
Because you WILL NOT see this voter preference reflected in media coverage.
If you’re a new reader, some background for you. I’ve been a Ron Paul fan for at least 10 years. I know Ron’s positions on the issues inside and out. I’m pretty familiar with his voting record. And because PR is my profession, I pay a LOT of attention to media coverage and bias.
Yes, there is bias against all GOP candidates. But because my focus has been Ron Paul, I’m in more of a position to notice bias in coverage of his campaign. And the bias against him has been outlandishly obvious. It used to take the form of complete fabrications about his policy issues or voting record. But now, it’s most often a bizarre, near-total news blackout. As John Stewart asked on The Daily Show, since when does the second-place finisher in the Iowa Straw Poll become the 13th floor in a hotel?
Of course, this frustrates me, as a Ron Paul supporter. But what frustrates me more is GOP voters continuing to get their candidate information from the lamestream media.
And just to clarify…I don’t care whether or not you like Ron Paul! I know that Kevin will work tirelessly for Sarah Palin once she enters the race. And I would be thrilled with a Sarah Palin presidency.
What I’m urging you is to do your due diligence on EVERY GOP CANDIDATE.
Do not let the overwhelmingly Leftist Washington Press Corpse tell you who is “electable” or “top tier” or “serious.” That’s YOUR decision to make. We will only know who is electable after the election.
Put the pejorative “unelectable” in the garbage with “polarizing,” where it belongs.
And remember, when the Lamestream Media calls a GOP candidate–ANY GOP candidate—”polarizing” or “not serious” or “unelectable,” that’s code for “Oh sh*t…this one could beat Teh Messiah.”
UPDATE: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism conducted a study of news coverage in the days after the Iowa Straw Poll. The word “shocking” is perhaps overused when referring to blatant media bias…but kids, it doesn’t get much worse than this:
H/T PRC Project for Excellence in Journalism
Barack Hussein Obama, who is not a Muslim, has received the bulk of media coverage since January 1st.
Pew’s analysis of three network Sunday morning shows on August 14, the a.m. and p.m. network news programs on August 15, and four hours of prime-time cable and one hour of daytime from each of the three major cable news networks on August 15 revealed that Ron Paul was mentioned just 29 times.
By comparison, the LSM covered Rick Perry 371 times, Michelle Bachmann was mentioned 274 times, and Mittens Romneycare was mentioned 183 times.
A new gym is set to open in Boston that caters to…..gang members.
Hey, the gym could use the gang members mug shots for gym membership ID pictures.
There’s a new gym that is set to open soon in South Boston. Well…to be accurate, the InnerCity Gym had a grand opening date when the community found out who the members of the gym would be. This isn’t going to be your local Gold’s Gym or LA Fitness. This gym specifically caters to the ”most influential gang-involved youth in the Boston area,” including active and former gang members. The developer of the gym, InnerCity, decided to keep the community in the dark about their plans and sunk $30,000 in renovations into the building and signed a 3 year lease. Once residents in the community were tipped off about the plans, the protests began and the opening has been delayed. I wonder if any stimulus money went into this project. You know…one of those shovel ready jobs to help “reinvest in the community”. After-all, gang members need to stay in shape too.
I have one question though.
How exactly do you cater to “influential gang members”?
