Archive for September 20th, 2011
Wake the Hell Up, America!
DADT Repeal: Open Thread
The big news on my various social media feeds today is that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) has been repealed.
Thankfully, with a bit further research, I found out that it was also actually replaced with different legislation that is supposed to improve the situation (though I will admit I do not yyet know much more about it than that). I always found it interesting that people were so focused on the repeal, without really thinking about what to replace it with (after all, DADT was hastily created for a reason, that reason being that the previous status quo was not good). It would have been ironic (and unsurprising) if they had merely pushed for and celebrated a repeal, only to wind up in an even worse situation than before. Thank goodness someone in there had half a brain…
Anyway, this is an Open Thread, not Happy Fun Michelle Ranting Time, so… Thoughts? Concerns? Cheers? Apathy? Fill us in on the details in the comments!
Honey Badger
Your “WTF?” Moment of the Day: Obama And His Slaves
This photo offends me more than the president’s non-existent “jobs” bill. I don’t recall an American president who ever had an umbrella-carrier. As a woman, I of course have had an umbrella held for me by my father and then by my husband. It’s good manners for a gentleman to hold an umbrella for a lady. But when a man has someone shielding him from the elements it sends a whole different message that has nothing to do with appropriate behavior. It is the opposite. It says, “I’m important. Wait on me.” Only douchebags do it.
Case closed. Here we have P-Diddy, who by all accounts is a strong, healthy young man but has more money than is good for him and feels it necessary to hire another human being to keep pace with him and shield him from the sun. Douchebag.
Speaking of douchebags, here’s a famous one you probably have never heard of in History class. This is Neville Chamberlain, most famous for falling in love with Hitler and trying assure England Hitler had no plans to attack…as the Luftwaffe was on the way to London. Chamberlain, not surprisingly, liked a little help with his umbrella.
And who could be weirder than Michael Jackson who, while occasionally seen carrying his own umbrella, was more often seen being followed about by sychophants appeasing his fear of the sun. Poor Jackson was definitely a victim of too much money and too much fame (like most of the others who begin to feel the weight of an umbrella handle is too much to bear.)
During my search for American presidents who don’t carry their own umbrellas (of which I found none except the current guy) I found the man I expected to be a possible perpetrator actually holding an umbrella for someone else! Have we reached a point in history where we can truthfully say that Carter wasn’t the worst president in the history of this nation?
And even despicable despots have been known to carry their own umbrellas. This is a guy who probably has people assigned to pick the grit from between his toes and yet he can still stomach the laborious task of holding his own weather shield.
At this precise moment, I’m not sure who the guy walking with Gadaffi is, but I’m 99.9% sure he’s a douchebag who probably ran some third-world country into the ground.
On the other hand, the majority of the photos I found Googling presidents with umbrellas were of George Bush struggling with his own umbrella.
Or, just using one like a normal person.
Even Hillary Clinton has the ability to carry her own rain guard device with quite a bit of style! Lovely photo.
Maybe the offensiveness isn’t that he isn’t carrying his own umbrella but that he keeps reminding us, at a nauseating level, that he is elevated above us. Obama likes to reinforce the idea that he is someone special with his Wednesday night cocktail parties where Stevie Wonder plays in his living room and they dine on food not many of us can afford. Maybe it’s the fact that I was taught in America, anybody could be the president. You could come from nothing, know no one and simply work hard and get elected to the highest office in the land. And most of our presidents have had that sense of awe about their stay in our nation’s capitol. None of them have openly rubbed their good fortune in our faces in the way this man has or treated the wealth of the nation as their personal piggy bank. He has treated the presidency as if he has won the lottery and it is his to do with it what he wants.
Are you offended yet?
Note the umbrella holder in this photo is dressed the same as the one on the plane steps with a very similar hair cut. Could “umbrella carrier” be an actual job in this White House?
Hillbuzz Open Thread: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
More hilarity from the Internets, inspired by Joseph Goebbels, Barack Hussein “Not A Civil Libertarian But Probably A Muslim” Obama, and AttackWatch.com.
The Internets tell me that Joseph Goebbels was “a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler‘s closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism.”
Golly…zealous oratory and anti-Semitism. Now who does that remind me of…?
Whoops…gotta report myself to #AttackWatch.
Again.
So, who did you report to #AttackWatch today?
What smears about Teh Won have you been spreading?
My momma always said, “If you can’t say something nice, come sit by me.”
