August 29, 2010

I can’t believe I forget the best part of that run-in with loony Keifer last week — the part about Sarah Palin “coming to get us”

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Last week, I told you a personal story about a run-in I had with a guy named Keifer here in Chicago, at the Holiday Club, where he tried to pick me  up at a birthday party until he figured out I am not only a supporter of Governor Sarah Palin’s, but I’m going to be one of the people on the ground working to make her our 45th president.  You betcha.

This made Keifer degenerate into a sputtering mess of Leftist cliches, lashing out, name-calling, and generally making an ass of himself as he followed his Lefty operating program and attacked me, with everything he had, because I don’t belong to the Cult of Liberalism (never have, never will, folks, so deal with it). 

Well, in telling you the story, while here in Washington all revved up about the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally the next day, I forgot the VERY BEST part of the exchange.  Looking through my little moleskin notebook, I just had to tell you this bit, and will have to go back to the original post and add it in, because I think it’s just too funny. 

At some point in screaming and yelling at me in the Holiday Club, after calling me “an evil celebrity”, and telling me he knew who I was because I’m so frequently excoriated in the gay papers here in Chicago and in the Leftysphere in general, Keifer went on a wild tear about how much he hates Governor Palin, and I asked him why that was, and he said, “Becuase she is coming to get us”. 

“Get us what?,” I asked. “Lemonade? What’s she getting us?”

“No, she’s coming to get us.  She’s coming to take us away.”

“Take us where? Alaska?  I’ve always wanted to go there.  She can take me anytime. Sure would love to try a mooseburger.”

Unintelligble barnyard noises from Keifer followed, which I think meant he was frustrated to the point of serious mental illness, and his blood pressure was going up, up, up. 

“She’s coming to get us.  She wants to kill us,” Keifer growled, getting edgier and more irrational by the minute.

“Well, I met the Governor a few months ago with my friend Joaquin.  Her staff was so kind to me, and I got an invitation to go backstage at a reception for her and she took the time to speak with me, and she was so very kind, and knew exactly who I was, and that I’m a gay Hillary former Dem who supports her.  So, if she wanted to “get me”, or “get Joaquin”, or just “get” two gay guys, whatever “get them” means, she had a perfect opportunity to do so.  There she was, right in front of me, and she shook my hand.  Right there, she could have grabbed me, shouting “GOTCHA!”.  Todd was standing right there, watching, so she could have barked at him, “Get moving, hot stuff, grab those ropes.  I got ‘em, so tie ‘em up and let’s get ‘em back to Wasilla. Ha, ha, ha, my plan worked!  I got ‘em!  Ha ha ha ha!”. 

I’m not going to write another word about Todd Palin tying me up with ropes and taking me to his snow machine, because that’s just pregnant with all sorts of unintended potential, but if the Palins are supposedly  so determined to “get us”, as Keifer insists, they seem to have all sorts of chances to do that, but never seem to follow-through. 

What’s happening here is that the Left is trying to start a meme in the gay ranks that Governor Palin is the second coming of Anita Bryant.  The Governor is a conservative woman, so to the majority of gay men she’s evil on two counts.  She’s “the other sex”, which is berated, degraded, and (most importantly) FEARED BEYOND ALL REASON, by misogynistic gay men who are horrified by the wombs they were formed in, let alone the rest of the female anatomy, which they believe is Lovecraftian plumbing culminating in Cthuthlu. Most gay men are Peter Pans who evolve no further than 12 year old boys at eternal summer camps, terrified of cooties, reveling in all things rude, crude, and He-Man-Woman-Hating. 

I never went to summer camp, and don’t reside there now, so WHY these guys are like this is as mysterious to me as it is to you, but I’m telling you this is what I have to deal with here in Boystown on a daily basis. 

And quadruple this insanity when it comes to conservative women, like the Governor, or Representative Michele Bachmann, or authors Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin.  I like all of these women very much, and have agreed with almost everything they have all said in the last two years. And I defend every last one of them when they are attacked here in Boystown, not because I don’t think they can take care of themselves, but I just refuse to be a guy who stands there, silently, while misogyny’s put on display by any Peter Pan, uninformed, loudmouth vomiting more of the DNC-approved talking points for gay men. 

I refuse to allow the DNC to spread the idea in our ranks here in Boystown that Governor Palin is “out to get gays”, because that’s just lunacy.  Like I said, she had a great opportunity to “get me”, and “get” Joaquin too.  All I “got” from the Governor that day was a handshake, a smile, respect, and her promise to work hard for America and do all she could for this country.  As long as she keeps this up, she’s “got” a lifetime supporter in me, no matter who out there tries to shout me down. 

While this incident with Keifer has become par for the course for me ever since Fran Eaton at Illinois Review outed me and the Left declared open war on me, on a personal level, for speaking out against Leftism and vocally supporting Governor Palin and other conservative women, and conservativism in general, it is memorable as the first time I ever saw a Leftist actually run screaming and muttering away from me, into the night, like in a cartoon, because he just couldn’t process the fact that he met a gay guy who is determined to see Governor Palin become our next president. 

No matter what happens to Keifer, or where he goes in life, I’m sure he won’t ever forget meeting me. Maybe he’ll join the ranks of the other Lefty loons who write libelous, vile, threatening filth about me because I don’t toe Leftism’s approved line for gays. 

I realize I’ve reached a major turning point with all of this garbage, in that I just don’t care what these people do to me anymore.  This nation is in a lot of trouble, and the Left is behind all of it. Whether I like it or not, this is my watch, my time in life to stand up and do something about this, and through HillBuzz and in my daily, personal life I need to be who I am and stand up for what I believe in…no matter what the Left, in all its forms, throws at me. 

If Governor Palin is coming for anyone, if she’s out to get anyone, then she’s out to get the Leftists and push them out of office and influence in America. 

This will REALLY make the Keifers run screaming, burbling, and muttering away…but in this regard, I’m happy to say I’m right there with the Governor, and I hope all of you are coming to “get” the Left too. 

Let’s all “get” them, because we all collectively “get” the rotten things they are trying to do to America and we just shouldn’t ever take that. 

Got it?

K.D.

Washington, DC 8/29/10

 

August 29, 2010

New functions: Share HillBuzz posts on Facebook and Twitter

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Yesterday, in the crowd at the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally, Robby ended up meeting a nice family from Kansas, who actually turned out to be readers (by way of the mom, who found us through our Open Letter to George W. Bush last y ear).  In talking to them, the daughter in the group explained to Robby how to setup Facebook and Twitter reposting functions for our posts. 

It looks like it worked, because we see these new buttons on the bottom of posts to share items via Facebook and Twitter. 

Many of you have been asking for these, but we never knew how to do this…so please tell us if it’s what you wanted and if it’s working for you. 

Just another of the great things that came out of the Restoring Honor rally.

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UPDATE:  Someone asked how we added those buttons to the posts, and it was actually easier than we imagined.  

This must have been a WordPress update we didn’t know about, because here’s all we had to do, using the backstage area at WordPress (that you have access to if you have a WordPress blog site). 

* Go to your dashboard

* Look in the left hand column for the Settings icond; it looks like a tool box.

* In Settings, look for SHARE function

* Click on SHARE, and then a list of things pops up, that includes Facebook, Twitter, and those other things we don’t really understand, like Reddit, and DigDug, or BurgetTime or whatever

* Drag the Facebook, Twitter, and whatever you want down from the top and put it into the box that says THESE THINGS TO BE SHARED, or something to that effect

* Then, at the bottom, click “Open in New Window” so that the shared items, when click open a new window instead of taking someone away from the regular page

* Click UPDATE at the bottom, and it’s done

This was very simple, and we know it didn’t exist when we started the site, or the last time we looked into it, so it’s really providence and part of our quest that Robby ran into that family and found out about it through that very nice girl.

 

August 29, 2010

There were EASILY a million people at the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally in Washington, DC yesterday. And the state media does itself, or Democrats, no good by lying about it.

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We were all on the ground at the Restoring Honor rally in Washington, DC yesterday. 

We took positions at different parts in the crowd, so we could talk to as many people as possible, and meet as many Americans (and readers) as we could, getting a full picture of just how big a response Glenn Beck got to his open call to come to the Capital and help restore honor to the country. 

There were EASILY a million people there…not the “several thousand” the state media is reporting. 

This was a running joke on Beck’s part through the rally, saying the media would report there were 100,000 or maybe 300,000 people there. 

Well, Beck told us that the area arround the reflecting pool alone held 250,000 people or so.  As you can see in the photo, that area was jam=packed. 

Beck also told us the field to the left of the reflecting pool holds 300,000-400,000 people itself.  That area was filled to bursting. 

Additionally, attendees for the rally filled the WWII memorial space and spilled across the street and onto the hill where the Washington Monument stands. There were people in the spillover areas to the right of the reflecting pool as well, going down to the Vietnam Veteran’s memorial too. That adds probably another 200,000 people to the total. 

Math majors, this means 250,000 + 400,000 + 200,000 = 850,000 people, at least, using conservative estimates for that crowd.  We think it was easily a million, though, based on what everyone else in the crowd was telling us about their own experiences with crowd-counting. 

We met cops, coaches, city planners, and business people (who work in skyscrapers overlooking parade routes in large cities) who all told us that the size and depth of the crowd, its density, and the length of time it took for people to disperse when the rally was over all made them believe more than a million people were there that day. 

RIVERS of people flooded every street once the rally concluded. 

We remember watching the crowd at Grant Park for Obama’s crazy cult rally the night he won the election in 2008.  We had a bird’s eye view of that event, which the state media claimed at the time was a million people.  It was 150,000-200,000 people if that…and the site was cleared of people in about 15 minutes after the rally ended that night.  We saw the size and shape of that crowd, because we were in the hotel across the street, watching it, and it was nowhere as dense, as large, and as overflowing as the crowd in front of the Lincoln Memorial for Glenn Beck’s rally yesterday.  Yet, the media called it “a million people”, because the media lies. 

And we think this does not help Democrats in any way, shape, or form.  

Any logical person looking at the crowd about in that picture can see there is more than 300,000 people there.  So, yet again, it’s more proof the state media lies to Americans…which is not good for the state media, by the way, because it makes them look like Saddam Hussein’s minister of propaganda when he kept claiming American troops would never take Baghdad (as tanks full of US GIs rolled passed him in the background). Every day, more Americans realize they are being lied to by the people on television and the hacks writing their garbage for the dinosaur ink and paper Obamaganda centers. Soon, the only people believing this stuff will be the people writing it, who know they are lying, but just keep writing what they WISH to be true every day, instead of what’s really happening. 

For Democrats who enjoy reading the “fake news” and want to believe only 300,000 people were there, it’s like someone with no money in the bank wanting to pretend he has $10,000 in his checking.  It might feel great to pretend reality doesn’t exist, but when he heads to the ATM to make a withdrawel, in say, oh, we don’t know, November, he is going to be in a very awkward and painful situation when that screen reads – $500, instead of the support level he wishcasted himself into having. 

Democrats need to understand that America has not just turned against them, but is mobilizing to take them down.  Downplaying the attendance at the rally yesterday might make the Leftists happy, and give them false comfort and succor, but printing that lie is not going to make those other 700,000 activists present disappear.  Pretending there are fewer people who oppose you than really exist is a bad strategic move on your part, not on the part of your opponents.  Because over a million people turned up yesterday, at great personal expense, from as far away as HAWAII. 

People actually got on a plane and spent HOURS flying thousands of miles to stand up, be heard, and be counted.  They drove in from all over the country, some spending all day and night on Friday waiting patiently to participate in this rally. Motivation and drive like that is going to be carried back to their home states, to the communities they live in, where millions MORE people, who couldn’t make the rally, are today being filled in on everything that happened…and being energized and mobilized to battle the Left at the ballot box. 

Democrats can pretend NONE of these people exist, at their own peril.

 

August 29, 2010

Sunday Open Thread: August 29th, 2010

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What’s on your minds this Sunday?

What are people talking about in your part of the country?

Look for the thread above, on the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally and tell us what people you know are talking about that — in that thread — so we can keep all things together. 

Use this thread to tell us what people are saying about other things in the news today.  

We had an absolutely transcendent time in Washington, DC for the Restoring Honor rally and are working hard today to get everything we want written up about it. 

There’s so much to cover, it’s going to be in five parts:

PART ONE – an experiential piece capturing what it felt like to be at the rally, for those of you who couldn’t go, so you can know what it feels like to be on the ground at something like this, which we think was a major turning point for the American Resistance that is very much now at war with the Left. 

PART TWO – an analysis of the brilliant political moves Glenn Beck made at every step of the way in this Restoring Honor rally. 

PART THREE – an analysis of Governor Sarah Palin’s brilliant strategic moves for 2012, as made at this Restoring Honor rally. 

PART FOUR – an analysis of the themes brought out in the Restoring Honor rally, specifically on the rally’s core of Hope, Faith, and Charity…and how those can apply every day in our lives to help take back this country. 

PART FIVE – what this rally, its themes, and Governor Palin’s speech mean to us on a personal level, and what we hope they will mean for you going forward in every day we have between now and 2012.  

We’re tuckered out from the travel, staying up all night to camp out for good seats at the rally, the rally itself, and the beating sun coming down all day yesterday, but we think this is important enough to work hard on all day to get this up in a timely matter…so the goal is to get all five parts up, in order today…wish us luck with that. 

Honestly, though, this was one of the most amazing experiences of our lives, and we are more energized than ever to do everything we can every day to defeat the Left and make Governor Palin our 45th president…so she can not only restore honor to America with Glenn Beck, but can restore prosperity, stability, and patriotism to a nation coming apart at the seams in this the Golden Age of Hope and Change.

 

August 28, 2010

Calling all cyber-only ralliers! (aka, the envious stuck-at-homers )

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If you could’ve gone, what would you wear or carry or pin on yourselves?  Here’s my choice:

UPDATE: I found a bunch of stuff in the Gremlin’s Maw by a blogger with the handle Mike Kirby. No avatar. I’ve been waffling back and forth about whether to approve or trash them. It bothers me that I have the power to dispose of other people’s comments and I find I am loathe to do so without a better than “he annoys me” reason.

I strongly believe the best and strongest part of HillBuzz is the community and that it has been K.D.’s diligence at comment moderation that has created this safe environment where we can share our thoughts. Up to now, I haven’t had any comments on my blogs that gave me any pause. It was all just stuff that either belonged in the trash or else needed to be approved.

I guess it was only a matter of time and I should have been expecting haters to show up on my blog threads as they do on K.D.’s. But poot. I don’t like it much!

Here’s a sample:

The Teabagger gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards.

He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

It goes on in that vein for a very long while. Apparently, every single thing that anyone could ever want or like about our way or life is the result of “some liberal” forcing it on evil and/or stupid Republicans.

He also posted this:  “By the way… very impressive logic in this cartoon! The truth can’t hold a candle to this sort of razor-sharp reasoning!”

Even though there’s no /sarc tag, I get the distinct impression that he meant that in a mean way, especially after I saw some of the stuff he posted on Saturday’s Open Thread that also got snagged.  Examples:

Sorry, did I say “your” yoke? I meant, the yoke of your Corporatist leaders. It’s going to be great when all our rights are taken away, not by government officials who can be voted out, but by faceless private interests, answerable to nobody but themselves. Keep hiding your head in the sand, it’s already started, but it’s easy to see from your blog that polemics are more important to you than the truth.

Just looked over your recent posts – just want to say you do an admirable job of spreading the force-fed neocon hypocrisy, hate, lies and half-truths that are destroying our country. Keep up the good work, “Patriot”! America will be crushed under your yoke yet!

K.D. will probably tell me I’m being a fool to let this guy bother me, but heck, he’s had YEARS to get used to this stuff. I’m still barely crawling. (Speaking of which, Baby Buzz learned to crawl for realsies this week-end!!!!)

Bear with me here. I need to let you hear me think this through and tell me if I’m on or off base.

A) Tea bagger. Beyond offensive to anyone (like me) who was sodomized as a child. I’ve sent very stern mail to a few legislators for using this term. I don’t think I need to feel guilty about banning its use on my own blog.

B) General tone. I am all for respectful dialogue aimed at sharing ideas and facts. This guy’s comments feel more like someone who has come up on my front porch and taken a dump on my welcome mat.

Ew. I didn’t realize I felt that way until I typed it out. Okay. Guilt trip is over. Trash it is. Sorry, Mike ol’ buddy ol’ pal. We don’t entertain haters here.

 

August 28, 2010

Glenn Beck Lincoln Memorial Rally Open Thread

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Please use this thread to discuss what you are seeing and hearing about the Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial today.

We’re all going to be there in that crowd, so we hope to meet as many of you as possible. We’re getting there super early in the morning, and will be staying all day, so we might not be able to do any updates on what’s going on until we can get back to the hotel and onto our computer.

So, until we can post our recaps and reports, we need your help to keep people up to date with what’s going on.

If you are following us on Twitter, you might be able to get a running stream from us on that, provided our cell batteries hold out and we can get a signal in that big of a crowd.  Here in Boystown, whenever there are big events like Pride or Market Days, the cell networks get overwhelmed with that many people all in one place…so all those magical little bars just disappear and something like Twitter can’t come up.

But, we’re going to try our best to make use of Twitter to give a running commentary, since we know we won’t be able to access WordPress remotely until much later in the day.

Those of you following us on Twitter would be a huge help if you could repost our Tweets into this thread, because WordPress doesn’t have an ability to auto-do-that for us.

Thanks so much…and wish us luck in getting some good scoops, photos, and info at the rally.

 

August 28, 2010

Saturday Open Thread: August 28th, 2010

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What’s on your mind this Saturday?

Please use the above thread on the Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally to talk about that.

We’re going to be on the ground in Washington, DC for this event, so our posting might be limited until we can get to a computer later in the day to start doing our recaps.

It’s going to be a momentous day here in the nation’s capital…but tell us what people are doing in YOUR part of the country and what they are talking about.

 

August 27, 2010

HillBuzz rally video

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I’m sitting here reading rally updates and wishing I could be there!!!

SECOND BEST to BEING THERE … make a video of Buzzer Pics of the rally.

Note to Buzzers at the rally — If you could please send me good snaps you took and would not mind me using in this way?

chrissythehyphenated@yahoo.com

If you know how and could do this for me, it will save time uploading and downloading the attachments:

PHOTO FORMAT:  150 dpi with canvas size at or smaller than 5×7. File size per photo at this size should be around 250 kb.

CROPPING: If you want to pre-crop for best effect, the image ratio I will use for the video is 4×3 landscape.

 

August 27, 2010

Well, it’s official: Sarah Palin has made me both a vampire and “an evil celebrity”, whatever that is

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Dear Readers, 

I have never written to you on a personal level before, because I’ve long tried my level best to keep some sort of wall between the HillBuzz world of politics and my own normal life in Chicago.  When my friends and I started this site back in 2008, it was to help Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and I found myself churning out 15,000-20,000 words a day combatting all the lies the Media was telling while trying to break the Clinton campaign and force now-Secretary Clinton to “just quit”. 

I was a lifelong Democrat who became so disgusted with the actions and behaviors of his party, and saw the dangers of what the new Obama Democrats wanted to do to America, that I accepted an overture from the McCain campaign to put all my energy — and HillBuzz’s reach — into Democrats for McCain efforts the day after Secretary Clinton suspended her campaign. 

Soon after that, when Governor Palin arrived on the national scene, I knew she was the real deal, and that America would be well served with her as Vice President.  It was a thrill and an honor to campaign for her as a Democrat for Palin back in 2008. 

Now that I no longer consider myself a Democrat, but some kind of independent since the Democrat Party is so unrecognizable to me, I’m proud to be a supporter of Governor Palin’s and have made a personal pledge to do everything I can to see her become our next president.  I believe in her.  I know she loves this country.  I have read everything she has ever written and have been closely following every word she’s spoken since she was announced as McCain’s VP pick.  I have yet to disagree with anything she has said or done.  

She IS our next president, you betcha, and I will continue, every day, to do all I can to see that happen. 

Now, on a personal level, this has cost me more than I have ever let on.  Because the Left does not want to allow a gay man living in Chicago to do everything he can to defeat Obama, as I have been doing for over two years now, the Left decided the best way to shut me up was to blast my name everywhere, call me a racist, and try to get as many people in the gay community to hate me as possible…making life for me as hard as they could.  As I noted before, we kept HillBuzz totally anonymous for this very reason — because all of us involved, my friends and I, wanted to have lives outside politics.  

I never wanted to be a gay activist.  I wanted to continue being a freelance project manager and development consultant to nonprofits who just happened to be gay, and who just happened, in his spare time, to write about politics on a site run with his friends, in the heart of Boystown, essentially broadcasting our own snarky little conversations to all of you. 

Fran Eaton, the Editor of Illinois Review, change the course of my life in December of 2009 when she published my full name and gave information on how to find me in Chicago, linking me for the first time to HillBuzz — which she knew was anonymous because of the potential damage the Left would do to any of us if they knew our real identities.  Fran Eaton deliberately did this to me because she wanted to ruin my business, make me unemployable in Chicago, and shut me down.  She did it willfully, knowingly, and fully conscious of the damage she’d do.  She wanted to ruin my life, and for a while I believed this evil glutton did just that. 

Since Fran Eaton gave the Left the means to attack me, I’ve lost a lot of friends…all of whom were in the gay community, and all of whom are blind-party voting Democrats.  These are people who were raised to hate Republicans, to call Republicans all sorts of vile names, and to lash out emotionally at anyone who dares criticize Democrat-proffered dogma.  I realize these people were never, in fact, friend of mine at all.  They were people I knew, socially and casually.  Some of whom were guys I’d dated, and because I was a moderate Democrat, and a Hillary guy, I never saw how much hate was in them. 

It took being on the other side — coming out as a conservative and a patriot — for the hate to be leveled at me, once Fran Eaton served me up on a platter for these attacks.  And I have to say, on a very personal level, that there were times for several months after Fran Eaton did this that I wanted to kill myself.  Every day, reading the filth the Left sends to the mailbox here at HillBuzz, or the nastiness I got on my personal email from those Fran Eaton sent my way, really sapped me of all will to live. There were some pretty dark times, between Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts in January and very recently, when I started to realize that maybe Fran Eaton was a puzzle piece in a larger quest I didn’t even realize I was on. 

I wrote a piece the other day about the movie “Eat, Pray, Love”, and a throwaway line Julia Roberts has in the film where she talks about “Quest Theory”, and how we are all on these quests, set up by God or whatever you believe in, and everyone who we encounter is meant to either help us get to where we need to be, or hinder us from getting there.  Everything around you is a clue or puzzle to solve to get you to where you need to go, whether you know where you are going and want to be there or not. 

I never wanted to be a writer, though my friends always enjoyed my emails and little stories.  I never wanted to be involved in politics, though that was always a clear passion of mine.  I never wanted to run a website, even though I spent hours pouring over pieces others had written, and had always kept up with favorite politicians the way most guys around me in Boystown followed celebrities. 

I always kept that wall between HillBuzz and my personal world because part of me hoped that one day I’d be able to walk away from all of this and go back to just being me.  While I was an anonymous writer, that was possible, because no one knew Bruce Wayne and Batman were one and the same.  But, something happened a few nights ago that made me realize there is no going back for me now, ever, and maybe that’s a good thing…maybe that’s part of my quest. 

A good friend of mine had her birthday party at a little hipster dive bar near Boystown called The Holiday Club.  I’d never been there before, but guarantee I will be going back: it’s retro, crazy-cool inside, with lots of knicknacks and collectibles, bowling pins as decorative art, and scores of old photos on the wall highlighting a more glamorous Chicago of the past.  The bartenders are cool, the drinks are strong, there’s an actual photo booth you can play around with, and a BLT wrap with a heaping mound of sweet potatoe fries is $6.00, tax included.  It’s an awesome place for a birthday party, and I honestly had one of the best times in years meeting all sorts of interesting people and just relaxing and enjoying myself.  Not thinking about politics. Not jotting notes down into my little pocket moleskin for the twelve essays I wanted to write tomorrow.  I got to be just some guy, at a party, in a cool little space, having fun. 

I can’t remember the last time that happened. 

And I should have known it was all ultimately a setup for some lesson or clue on “The Quest”, becuase during the night I started talking to a guy I hit it off with, who knew a lot of the same people as I did, including a guy named Jacobi I’d been dating in January…who broke up with me on January 21st, the day after the Left bombarded Google with all those shouts that I was a racist, that I should be found and beaten, and that I should be attacked because I helped the Brown campaign fundraise and strategize, via HillBuzz, and this was cause for the Left to declare open war on me (at last having the ability to do so, because of the actions of Fran Eaton at Illinois Review). Jacobi said this was “terrifying”, and even though things were going well for us, despite him being a Liberal, and despite him knowing I was a strong supporter of Governor Palin’s, he said he didn’t want to see me again because “the Internet says you are a racist”.  Thanks alot, Fran Eaton.  That was a 24-year old ballet dancer who was seemingly allergic to wearing clothes in the house…and he liked me just fine as Kevin, development consultant, but not Kevin, the writer, who inconveniently writes with a conservative bent that for whatever reason drives the Left bat-guano insane. 

So, Jacobi was the last guy I dated, and he ended it because he Googled me one day and didn’t like what the Left had put out there.  I’ve lost more jobs than I can count since Fran Eaton did what she did to me, because that Google attack from the Left has kept all the nonprofits I used to work with from hiring me on, since they don’t want to be associated with someone the Left keeps calling RAAACIST! on Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, and all those other Soros-backed insane asylumus in the cyberverse. 

Since Fran’s outing, I’ve done a lot more radio and TV commentaries, because I felt like the cat was out of the bag so I didn’t have anything to lose.  If anyone Googling me would find all this stuff, and track me back to HillBuzz anyway, and learn I was a gay conservative unafraid to ever back down, then what was stopping me from really getting my message out?  

Until this birthday party at the Holiday Club, I didn’t actually realize people were recognizing me off the street, and putting me into the same category as Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Governor Palin, and other people who actually matter. Though I realize HillBuzz has made a small impact here and there across the political spectrum, and it’s been involved in a few Chicago stories that became national news, if only briefly, I didn’t realize how much Fran Eaton and the Left’s attacks on me had actually taken me to a whole other level. 

Because while I was at that party, and talking to this guy named Keifer, and chatting about just every day things that didn’t matter, I realized Keifer liked me and kept the conversation going hoping for more.  I enjoy when people talk about their pets, or when old people ramble through stories that don’t matter to anyone else, because I love how sweetly they all talk about these nonsensical things so close to their hearts.  Keifer started in on his cat, and how it does this, that, or the other, and the stories were legitimately boring to anyone but me, but I enjoyed them all the same because it was this little insight into a person I doubt they share with too many others.  Jacobi, being gorgeous and in prime physical shape, used to love talking about his cat too (a monster, who was jealous of anyone else getting near Jacobit, so he’d bite and scratch me the whole time I was in Jacobi’s apartment)…the only time Jacobi would talk about anything besides how gorgeous and in-shape he was, or how much people loved and hitted on him.  Those cat stories, however, revealed a Jacobi that was surprisingly sweet, playful, and interesting. Which is not the impression he gives off of himself 95% of the day. 

So, Keifer’s cat stories had me interested…until he started in how something his cat did was “dumber than Sarah Palin’s retarded baby”. 

If you have been reading this site for any length of time at all, you can pretty much guess how the rest of this went down, up to a point. 

I told Keifer that calling anyone “retarded” is wrong, and that Trig Palin is a hero of mine.  I told him the story of how I met Sarah Palin in Washington, Illinois earlier this year, right before Trig’s birthday, and she told everyone in the room how he was doing and that he bolts upright every morning, giggles, and greets each day with a giant smile on his face and a laugh that just fills his room.  I am in absolute awe of the goodness, joy, and LIFE inside that little angel.  

I also told Keifer that I am a strong supporter of Governor Palin’s and that every day I try to do whatever I can to make sure the RNC does not keep her from winning the nomination in 2012, because I think that’s actually going to be more of a fight than winning the presidency for the Governor.  

“Oh my god, I know who you are.  I thought you looked familiar, but I’ve read about you. I’ve seen you on TV.  You’re that guy I hate.  You’re that guy who helps the Republicans. You’re that guy who loves Sarah Palin,” Keifer shouted at me. 

His eyes got wild, he started shaking, and he pointed his finger straight in my face. 

“You’re an evil celebrity,” Keifer continued, “and I hate you. I hate you like that girl on The View, the dumb one, the one I hate”. 

“Whoopi?”, I asked. 

“No, the other one.”

“Joy Behar?”

“Yah, that’s her.  I hate her. And I hate Sarah Palin.  And I hate you, because you’re a vampire,” he said, before throwing what was left of his PBR right in my face. 

I bet a year ago, I would have probably answered this outburst with one of my own, and things would have degenerated into some kind of shouting match.  I might have even hauled off and punched this guy in the face (even though I’ve never hit anyone in all my life).  

But, instead, I was shockingly calm.  I learned a lot from watching Hillary Clinton up close on the campaign trail in 2008, and how she handled lunatics who popped up in rope lines calling her a murderer, and claiming wildly that she killed Vince Foster and all sorts of other people.  And Secretary Clinton would look at them, smile, and say, “Well, thank you for your opinion.  That certainly is a unique take on things, and I hope you have a good evening”.  

She was wonderful at that.  

And Governor Palin is the same, as evidenced recently when a woman in Alaska started railing at her for resigning as Governor, even though, in the same breath, that woman said Governor Palin was the worst governor EVAH.  ”So, you wanted me to stay your Governor, or you didn’t want me, which is it?,” Palin asked, and the woman was befuddled and didn’t know what to say.  

It was the same with Keifer when, after he threw his drink in my face, I calmly told him that was a very rude thing to do…and then asked him if this is what all Obama supporters do to people they don’t agree with.  I asked him where he learned to hate people so much, including Elizabeth Hassleback from The View, whom he hates with burning passion, without knowing her actual, real name. 

Keifer couldn’t process the logical and non-emotional response to what he did, and instead just screamed, “I hope you get AIDS and die!”. 

Longtime readers will know there’s a woman in New Hampshire named Susan Traversy who send us emails that say things like this, so as horrible of a thing as that is to hear, it’s not like I’ve never heard that before.  Traversy used to habitate all sorts of aliases, and send those messages one after another, carrying on conversations with herself where she told us how much she wanted us to die terrible deaths.  

I asked Keifer, as I’ve asked Traversy, “Is that the Hope Obama talked about in 2008?  The hope that someone you don’t agree with gets AIDS and dies?  Is that the Hope we were all promised?  Because if so, I volunteer every weekend cleaning the homes of people who are living with AIDS and in their last bouts with it, and I think you might learn a thing or two if you’d tag along sometime, or better yet go volunteer with TPAN or Chicago House or other organizations that help the AIDS-inflicted, because that’s not something you should wish on anyone, Keifer”. 

At that point, he just made barnyard noises, started pulling on his hair, and then raced out of the bar and into the night like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon.  It was bizarre, everyone stared at him, and I was wearing a black shirt so no one could tell I had beer all over me (and in a dive bar that smells like beer anyway, no one noticed). 

As I walked home, though, I kept thinking about Keifer calling me “an evil celebrity”.  Which I don’t think I am.  Evil, or a celebrity.  But, apparently, I do get recognized now, and once again I have to decide if I want to slink away and give up writing about the things I am passionate about, or just accept the reality that I’ve indeed made enough of an impact through HillBuzz to threaten these people and make them come unhinged. 

Whenever these people bad-mouth Governor Palin or insult little Trig, I know I have a choice to make: either I have to stand up for people I believe in and admire, or I can be a coward and say nothing, allow them to be besmirched, because I am in Leftist territory and vastly outnumbered.  This makes me flash to Catholic school, where Sister Francis Borgia taught me in second grade the story of Peter denying Jesus thrice before the rooster crowed one morning.  He had three chances to stand up for who and what he believed in, and he took the coward’s way out because he was afraid of the Romans. 

Well, I’ll take a beer to the face, or even a punch, for Governor Palin and little Trig any day.  I’ll accept whatever nasty thing the Left wants to do today, willingly, because I am tired of seeing people run in terror from these lunatics.  I am sick to death of watching Republicans buckle when threatened by the Daily Kos crowd, and I’m so very tired of conservatives allowing the Left to run roughshod over this country because they are scared of the Left targeting them for resisting. 

Just as Jacobi broke things off with me because he Googled me after the Left’s attacks in January, and Keifer threw his drink at me and told me he hoped I got AIDS and died because he realized I’m a conservative political writer he’d heard of (and hated), I know that in the future there’s going to be some crazy Leftist zealot, most likely in the gay community, who’s going to take things even further…and possibly physically harm me because I won’t shut up, sit down, and allow the Left to tank this country.

Will I still say I support Governor Palin and still stand up for Trig, even if the Romans want to throw me to lions?

Most definitely. 

I crossed the Rubicon with this stuff a long time ago, folks. 

And it’s apparently changed me. 

I might not be as handsome as my friend Sebastian, or as sweet and kind as Robby; I’ll never be the life of the party that Panda is or have the frat boy cool of Joaquin.  But, I can churn out a Hell of a lot of content in a day.  I can plot and scheme with the best of them and I specialize in thinking outside the box and finding ways to not only beat the Left at their own games, but drive them completely insane while doing it. 

If I’m recognizable enough of a threat to get that drink in my face, and the umpteenth wish of AIDS upon my head, then I’m taking flak because I’m over the right target. 

I’m someone who’s been labeled a gay activist, when I never set out to be one. 

I’m a writer, where that sort of just happened. 

And apparently, now I’m an “evil celebrity” in conservative ranks because the Left has devoted so much time, attention, and energy into building me up into one. 

And for that, I guess I have to say, “Thanks lunatics”, because you created your own worst enemy. That drink to the face just fired me up even more to work harder to bring the Left down, expose it for what it really is, and do whatever I can to  bring reason to the gay community so that I can drive big of a wedge as possible between these blind-Democrat voters and the DNC. 

I can’t help thinking that HillBuzz can indeed become successful in this, because if I wasn’t onto something, then I wouldn’t be taking the heat that I get…in spades…from the Jacobis, Keifers, Traversys, and other nutters out there. 

I must be doing something right…or they wouldn’t be calling me a vampire…or “an evil celebrity”. 

Just think, all of you here get to say you knew me when I was just some anonymous guy on a snarky little website, with no idea what a boogeyman he’d become for these crazy people. 

K.D.

Washington DC, 8/27/10

 

August 27, 2010

First Impressions on the ground here, in the leadup to the Restoring America Rally tomorrow

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So, this is going to be very brief, because I want to get back outside to meet and speak with as many people in town for the Restoring America rally tomorrow as possible, but I just wanted to communicate how mind-blowingly massive this thing is going to be.

I watched the rally rehearsal, sound-check, and tech preps all morning and afternoon today…and people are already camped out to be up close for the rally.  They are going to sleep on the mall, near the Lincoln Memorial, because they want to be up close for what’s going to be a historic event all of us will remember as one of the American Resistance Movement’s first shows of forces against the establishment in Washington. 

We’re seeing people from all over the country in town for this.  All wearing tee shirts that talk about how much they love America, and hate what Obama and the current crop of Leftists running Washington are doing to this nation.

It reminds me of those opening scenes of “Neverending Story”, where all the critters, creatures, and people of Fantasia send representatives to the Ivory Tower to consult the wisdom of the Empress about the growing, dark threat of the evil Nothing sweeping the land. 

But, instead of mystical creatures, we’ve spotted Texan grandmothers…and Florid Momma Grizzlies.  We’ve got whole families of folks from Indiana, with Michigan and Ohio well-represented too, and every other state you can imagine, even far-flung Hawaii.

People are mad.

People are scared.

People love their country and don’t want to see it go backwards.

So, they’ve come to the Capital to be heard.  .

They’re flying in, taking buses, driving cars and RVs.  Some are probably walking, if they have to.  

They are coming to the Capital to tell Democrats what they are doing to the nation is wrong, and that the American people just won’t take it.

Seeing these people riding the Metro into the city made us smile.  Walking in their midst as they made their way to the Washington monument made us proud to be in their company.

But, Great Merciful Zeus, when I got to the WWII Memorial, and saw all of these Restoring America attendees there, paying their respects to the Greatest Generation, and looking out at the mall being prepared for the rally, I teared up. I tingled, in the way Chris Matthews does when he looks at the current “president’s” pants.  This ENERGY flowed through me and I thought about all that was sacrificed by my grandparents’ and their peers to win the fight against Hitler and the Emperor and preserve freedom and liberty in this world.  

All those men and women mobilized to save the Free World.

And, here, in 2010, a new group’s coming together…and the current Democrat Party has no idea whatsoever what it’s in for…just like Hitler and the Emperor never dreamed they would be clobbered by American spirit and ingenuity. 

I am so proud to be an American today.  So proud to be able to be here in the Capital to witness the Resistance in action.  So proud of everyone who has come to the Capital to make this happen. 

And I’m so grateful for everyone who chipped in to help make this trip possible for us, because it would not have happened without you.  I can never thank you enough for that…but I can promise you the essays, columns, and strategy pieces that will result from this Restoring America Rally experience will be some of the best pieces I ever write…and I will make sure I work hard every single day to build on what’s happening tomorrow, and do all I can, with everything I’ve got to TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY and save your children’s futures. 

More updates later…and photos too, just as soon as we’re at a computer that can upload them. 

K.D.

Washington, DC 8/27/10

 

August 27, 2010

IMPORTANT MEETUP NOTICE: changes of plans because of venue closure

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Things are really crazy on the ground here in DC…in an exciting and good way.  

We believe the turnout for this rally tomorrow is going to ASTOUND the country.  The city is just PACKED to the brim with people already, today. 

We’re going to do a meet-up with any readers who would like to meet us, or other readers…it will be from 2pm-4pm after the rally tomorrow, at a location near the Lincoln Memorial. 

If you would like to join us, please email HBmeetup@gmail.com. 

Then, you will be given the location.  

If you have already been told about the Exchange Saloon original location, disregard it:  the plan has changed because Exchange Saloon has decided to close tomorrow because it does not want to handle the rally traffic.  So, our original meetup spot is scratched out, and we’re going to another restaurant near the Lincoln Memorial instead. 

Please email for the address.  

Hope to meet you!

 

August 27, 2010

QUESTION: Has anyone tried the new Gmail telephone option?

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Apparently, you can make telephone calls from your computer now, via Gmail.

You still can’t get any Tab out of your keyboard by hitting “tab”, though.  Not that Fran Eaton at Illinois Review doesn’t try, repeatedly, all throughout the day.

Who are we kidding — anyone who’s seen her knows Fran Eaton doesn’t drink Tab.  Now, hitting Control/Alt/Delete/Cupcakes is something we CAN imagine keeping her busy.

Gmail sent us an announcement today that we can now make calls, and even video calls, through its service…for free.

Have any of you looked into this or tried it?

Can you give it a shot and let us know how it works?

At first blush, something like this seems wonderful because it could save people a lot of money.  Instead of wasting your cell minutes while you are at home, you can theoretically use this gmail phone calling system instead.  That could allow some people to drop down to a cheaper minutes package, and save themselves a couple of hundred a year or so.

Let us know if you’ve tried this, and know the scoop on how it works and if it is worth it.

 

August 27, 2010

QUESTION: Do you think Michael Bloomberg has now completely removed himself as a potential 2012 spoiler?

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The other day, we were in a waiting room somewhere here in Boystown and they had MSNBC playing.  It was not socially acceptable to cover our ears, or vomit, so we had to sit there, while staring at the floor or ceiling, but still listening to what was being said by Chris Matthews, whom we consider to be a vile pig, because he is one. Not to name-call or anything, but it’s true. Oink, oink, oink.

Matthews was rambling on about some nonsense, and then decided to name a personal hero of his after the commercial break, and this hero was not the person who can eat the most cereal or who gets the most tingles up their legs (as we’d imagine Matthews’ heroes to be), but Michael Bloomberg — because he is fighting tooth and nail to build a giant Victory Mosque at Ground Zero.

These people are all insane.

Chris Matthews for believing Bloomberg is a hero for helping a radical Muslim group create what will be viewed in the Middle East as a symbol of Islamic conquest in New York…Bloomberg for being so damn stupid…the executives at MSNBC for allowing Matthews to have a show…the executives at GE who keep MSNBC on the air…all of them, certifiably insane.

One of the Democrats’ potential tricks for 2012 has long been fielding a Ross Perot-styled third party candidate to split the conservative vote and give Obama the only chance he has, in our opinion, of winning re-election.

The only way he wins is if a third party candidate divides Republicans, the way Perot did to pave the way for the Clintons in 1992.

Bloomberg was being setup to be this candidate, but we think this Ground Zero Victory Mosque has completely neutered him.  He will never be able to run a national campaign now, which is a wonderful thing for America.  No matter how much of his billions he sinks into a race, he is not going to be able to turn back time and remove all the footage of him going on and on about how much he wants the Victory Mosque to be built at Ground Zero.

He is forever tied to this insanity, and in a sick, silver-lining way, this is perhaps one of the best things that could have happened for all of us.

It removes Bloomberg from the Democrats’ bag of 2012 tricks.

They’ve still got Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, and the rest of those soggy sandwich milquetoast candidates they are trying so hard to make the GOP nominee…and maybe Democrats will convince one of those idiots to mount a third party, independent presidential run…the way Democrats have talked Charlie Crist into doing in the Florida Senate race, and how they seem intent on doing with Lisa Murkowski in Alaska.

The Republican Party needs to start teaching its members that if you lose a primary, you get off the damn stage, and not mount a vainglorious, ego-parade of an independent bid, just so you can hand the election to the Democrats.  The stars have aligned and the fates have conspired to doom tangerine Charlie in Florida, and Murkowski is going to lose in the end in Alaska, but we can’t help thinking Democrats are going to convince Mitt Romney to run as an Independent in 2012 after Sarah Palin wins the GOP nomination.

Romney should be running, as of today, as Palin’s Treasury Secretary in waiting.  The rest of the men who want to move to Washington with the Palins need to start running as future Secretaries of This, That, and the Other too.  Just imagine that campaign, where the American people would know, from Day One, EXACTLY what they would get when Palin wins.  Has that ever happened before, where the ENTIRE Cabinet was decided and presented to the public as a big team effort so that there would be no surprises like tax-evading Tim Geithner and the rest?

Maybe this can’t work for the entire Cabinet, but it might be an interesting selling point with voters tired of all the chaos, uncertainty, and ineptitude of the Obama presidency.

If Democrats seemingly spend most of their time coming  up with new tricks, it would be nice if Republicans did the same. Soggy sandwiches and the “usual half-assed things we do” aren’t going to cut it in 2012.

But, mercifully, we think Democrats just lost their best hope for a third party spoiler, and that was Michael Bloomberg until the Ground Zero Victory Mosque business.

Is this your take on it, too?

 

August 27, 2010

Friday Open Thread: August 27th, 2010

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What’s on your minds this Friday?

What are people talking about in your part of the country?

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If you are going to be in the Washington, DC area today through Sunday, and you’d like to meet us, please shoot us an email and we can coordinate.

HillBuzz@gmail.com

We’ve never done meet-ups before, and are a little hesitant because of the crazies that are out there (we’re looking at you, Susan Traversy of New Hampshire). But, we shouldn’t let lunatics prevent us from meeting good people face to face, and having this chance to start building the on-the-ground networks America will need to defeat Obama in 2012.

So, we’re not comfortable putting meet-up information directly on the site, but will be checking our email at various points throughout the day today, and in the lead-up to tomorrow’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

Let us know if you want to meet-up for dinner tonight, meet-up after the rally tomorrow, or do something on Sunday before we head back to Chicago.

It would be an honor and a privilege to meet as many of you as possible in person, and to thank you all so very much for all of your support with what we do here.  You all mean a great deal to us, and give us the strength and the energy to keep going…even when it’s scary, and we feel like we just can’t take any more beatings from the Left.

But, we have a sinking feeling that after the November elections, when the Left realizes just how much trouble it’s in, these irrational loons are going to start lashing out EVEN MORE than usual…which might be the scariest thought of all.

They’re currently deluding themselves into believing November won’t “be that bad”, so when the you know what hits the fan, they’re going to howl, scratch, bite, and spit with rage…and all of us need to start prepping for that, because they’re going to most likely stay in that frame of mind between the fall and the 2012 campaign.

It’s going to be a rough two years ahead of us, folks.

So, we hope we can seize every opportunity this weekend in the Capital to week as many of you as we can…because we’re all going to be in this together for a very difficult, long haul.

 

August 27, 2010

Help us cover what the Leftist media won’t

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