Saturday Open Thread: October 24th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Saturday?
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Here’s something you won’t find reported ANYWHERE by the MSM. We only heard about it because, somehow, we got onto a Log Cabin Republicans email list.
Do you remember a few weeks ago Dr. Utopia went to a Human Rights Campaign event with Joe Solomonese (president of that group), where Solomonese was so drunk on Kool-Aid he completely embarrassed himself, standing there next to that fraud Utopia, claiming this administration actually gave a powdered-donuts chance in Oprah’s reach about LGBTQ issues? It was a total and complete FARCE. Dr. Utopia stood there, speechified, and all the assembled fools stood up and clapped, then cheered, then clap-cheered, like Nancy Pelosi’s whack-a-mole impression during the State of the Union (minus, mercifully, the puce or chartreuse Bizzaro World fashions).
The only saving grace for that event was that someone was smart enough to invite the cast of Glee, so they all got to dress up and look extra spiffy adorable in fancy duds for the night. Love. Those. Kids.
If any of you believe for an instant that Dr. Utopia intends to do anything for the LGBTQ community we remind you of June 29th, 2008 when he refused to march in the Chicago Pride Parade — just as he refused to march in ANY Pride parades every year for all 20 years he’s been in public life. Instead of marching in Pride, he got his hair cut on the Southside and then played a sweaty game of basketball at the elitist East Bank Club in the Loop, before enjoying a long sauna and steam and who knows what in the locker room. Just like the old days at Man’s Country in the 90s.
A rub-a-dub-dub. Lots of men in a tub.
It’s not that Dr. Utopia doesn’t like parades. He loves them, in fact. Marched in the Bud Billiken parade in the black community just a month after Pride. Marched in St. Patrick’s Day parades. When his followers start holding parades for himself, parades his fashion icon wife will be proud of for the first time in her adult life, nothing on Earth will keep him from marching all day long for that.
But, the Pride Parade, not so much on the radar.
LGBTQ rights…not so much with the importance.
Human Rights Campaign…a collection of idiots who buy anything a huckster schills to them, while giving millions of dollars in donations to the Utopia campaign.
Well, here’s word from the Log Cabins that while Dr. Utopia has been lying to the LGTBQ community at events like that Human Rights Campaign dinner, his Attorney General, notorious race-baiter Eric Holder, has been ordering the Justice Department to aggressively dismiss lawuits Log Cabins have filed against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT).
Yup, Dr. Utopia is saying one thing to his gay audience — that he wants to end DADT — while his minions do the exact opposite. The operative case is Log Cabin Republicans vs. The United States of America, which is currently the only active legal challenge to DADT to make it passed the district level. One of the complainants is an Army Human Intelligence Collector who speaks multiple foreign languages, including Arabic, and was booted from the Army after 9/11 because he likes guys. With Islam trying to destroy the West and kill Americans, declaring war on us, the United States is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars training specialists in intelligence gathering and Arabic only to boot them once some rival outs them and gets them tossed out of the service.
That’s just poor business and money management at its core.
And it’s also ridiculous because all of us here have dated at least one service man each…and we can assure you none of them ever turned up on anyone’s Gaydar. We live in Chicago near the Great Lakes Naval Base and meet sailors out just about every night in Boystown. For every gay man or woman (and it’s actually lesbians who are tossed out the most) who gets booted under DADT, there are probably hundreds of other LGBs who serve their full tours of duty…so long as they don’t run against some nemesis who outs them for their own reasons.
Which is what seems to be happening. Is someone in your unit making you look bad because they work harder than you and do a better job than your lazy sorry ass? Want them gone so you can be the cock of the walk? Tell Sarge how much he loves the Santa hat scene in Jarhead.
Which is awesome.
BAM!
He’s toast. Don’t ask, don’t tell.
The Utopia Administration is doing everything it can to stop the Log Cabin case from being heard in California on November 16th. There seems to be no legitimate reason for Eric Holder to be doing this — especially not in light of Dr. Utopia’s lip service to the Human Rights Campaign (and we could so totally do another Man’s Country joke here, in relation to lip service, but you get the idea). The Justice Department has a “duty to defend” in relation to all suits brought against the US, but what Holder is doing far exceeds that.
It’s unprecedented, actually.
Delay, delay, delay.
Almost as if Dr. Utopia just wants to keep stalling and using DADT and DOMA as carrots to rev up the LGBTQ community whenever he wants, getting their hopes up, and manipulating these gullible fools at will…since few in our community have sense enough to stand up and demand actual action.
Well, the Log Cabins are doing just that. We might not agree with them on everything, but we sure back them this time.
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Pursuant to the above, we also just saw that 55% of Americans now believe gays should openly serve in the military.
We aren’t aware of that ever breaking the 50% majority mark before. It might have, but this is the first time we noticed it.
Republicans should take heed here.
If you read us on a regular basis, you have to understand that we are a bunch of guys in Chicago who live in Boystown and are never going to suddenly wake up one morning and like women. We like guys. We know women who like other women. Those women won’t ever like men. We also know some people who like both men and women. That’s just how everyone’s wired. We don’t presume to know why that is. Frankly, there aren’t enough hours in a day for us to care. We’re too busy trying to stay afloat financially while doing everything we damn well can every day to assure Dr. Utopia gets only one term and either Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin becomes the first female president.
So, hating on gays is stupid.
Counterproductive.
So early 90s.
You might as well still be wearing Members Only jackets.
If 55% of Americans are no longer bigots like Sam Nunn (who believe submarine shower rooms are soapy lovefests directed by Chi Chi La Rue) and have no problem with gay men and lesbians defending our nation openly (because, wake up, they ARE in the military already…they just have to worry about being tossed out every day, at MASSIVE taxpayer expense), then the tide has turned.
There is no going back.
Gay marriage will happen, too. Nationally. And, yes, the first few months or year of it will indeed be obnoxious….since ain’t NOBODY who can be more outrageously obnoxious than the like of all of us in Boystown, the Castro, Lakewood, the Village, Peoria, you name it. A lot of conservatives probably dread the spectacle of those early days, but look at the nonsense we’ve survived the last year. Dr. Utopia’s campaign, election, and inauguration was the most obnoxious thing we could have ever imagined. The Race Industry capitalized on it like nothing before…and was more in your face and flamboyant in its displays for “the historic first black president” than we even thought was possible. But, Obamania is receding. By this time next year, it will be hard to remember just how bad it really was…and how irritating the MSM’s force feeding of the Kool-Aid seemed.
It will be the same for all of you who dread drag queens getting married in hot pink gowns or hordes of Harley-mounted lesbians roaring into town and descending upon your City Halls. There will be an obnoxious, rainbow-coated release of decades of pent up frustration, with guys marrying left and right and lesbians pushing and shoving to be first, first, FIRST! everywhere.
To be totally honest, at least one of us would get on a plane and head down to Philly and marry one of his exes if he could. The first day he’d have the chance, just so he could do it…and be a part of this…and have that life experience denied him for so long.
And then there would be a sudden drop in the excitement as reality set in that WE WON. No one would know what to do with themselves. There would suddenly be all sorts of free time for all those who made it their life’s mission to elect a black man president achieve marriage equality. Then, there would be a whole LOT of divorces…and an eventually (10-15 years or so in the future) settling down into a pattern pretty much on par with heterosexual marriages.
Some people would do it, others wouldn’t. Children would be born and would grow up in a world where gay marriage was always legal, so it would be a nonissue.
The MSM would need to find another wedge to drive in the Culture Wars to boost their ratings…and the likes of Fred Phelps will have to find a new raison d’etre (possibly raisins themselves, since they are so wrinkly…and GOD HATES RAISINS). The MSM will probably still be driving abortion as a cultural wedge, because unfortunately that’s so effective, even if it’s been legally decided for 35 years now.
But, it is only a matter of time before supposedly blue states like Illinois wake up and join the likes of Iowa — IOWA — and see that gay dudes in particular will blow tens of thousands of economy-stimulating dollars on flowers, bands, hotels, and at Tiffany’s should they be allowed to throw giant parties with rings like straight people (who don’t have the same disposable incomes, but who get to do all of this and then get divorced whenever they want, sanctity of marriage or whatever be damned).
All of this would happen sooner if we could find another word for it besides “gay marriage”, which is what’s still setting the religious people off. ”Civil Unions” is semantics that sets the LGBTQ community off. If we could only just rename “marriage” as “cromulence for all”, we’d have a done deal, folks.
But that deal will get here eventually, no matter what you want to call it.
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This is hilarious, but Alex Rodriguez really is all kinds of affectionate with Dereck Jeter.
It’s like Congressman Aaron Schock at MiniBar up in that Yankees dugout.
We have only the vaguest concept of who A-Rod and Jeter are…we know they are baseball players, and pretty good ones at that. They make millions of dollars by hitting things with sticks. Nice work if you can get it.
Guys in tight pants sure get handsy with one another.
That’s kinda MiniBar too.
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Someone sent us this today and we just had to share:
Chicago 2016 -- what happened to all that Green Olympics recycling crapola?
Congrats again to Rio!
Now you can have a giant mess, and we can have a clean non-messed up, non-bankrupt (whoops) city for the next 7 years!
It might actually be a fun costume to do something with the Chicago 2016 stuff for Halloween. How do you make an Olympics that will never happen into a costume? How do you express politically the angst felt by so many that all that money was wasted on this fool’s quest…and express that in a costume?
Could be a good Chicago challenge.
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How about some relief from all the Mad King George’s, er Barry’s insanity?
I could use some more Jeeter n A-Rod!
http://www.joesportsfan.com/mediaspace/common/profilepics/ArodJeter.jpg
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H/T Hot Air:
Stimulus spent $2 million on hairdressers
Stimulus spending clips the taxpayer
In an economy where there is a pressing need to help the growing ranks of jobless in manufacturing, public safety, technology and construction, it seems the height of folly for $2.3 million in federal economic stimulus grants to be targeted to train more hairstylists, nail technicians and masseuses in the Tampa Bay area. What else to call this capricious use of precious stimulus funds but a taxpayer clip job?
The stimulus money being spent to train hairstylists to craft a French braid is administered through Pell Grants to area vocational training facilities. Several beauty schools have received between $250,000 and $1 million in public money to help cover tuition that can run up to $12,000 a year — more than tuition to attend the University of Florida for a year.
Never mind that even professionals in the hairstyling business say there are few job opportunities. In determining how to allocate stimulus dollars, the federal government inexplicably does not conduct an assessment on which job skills are in demand and focus on funding training in those in more needy areas. How shortsighted. How wasteful. How mystifying.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/stimulus-spending-clips-the-taxpayer/1046134
Also….
Bay State liberals shun Barack Obama’s visit
By Edward Mason and Hillary Chabot
Friday, October 23, 2009 – Updated 1d 4h ago
President Obama blows into the bluest state today facing a cold shoulder from once true-blue admirers, as gay rights activists, anti-war protesters and vexed environmentalists vow to picket a fund-raiser he’s headlining for Gov. Deval Patrick – a marquee event that hasn’t even sold out.
As of last night, liberals who once braved frigid temperatures to behold Obama were shunning tickets to the fund-raiser at the posh Westin Copley Place featuring the president, sources told the Herald. And despite campaign denials, Patrick operatives reportedly were pushing the ducats – between $500 and $6,000 – by e-mail up to the last minute.
“He’s reaching the point in his presidency where not only has the honeymoon ended, but the fighting has begun,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia presidential scholar.
Found over on the Boston Herald.
H/T Hot Air
Buttered, that’s almost as bad as giving millions to job hiring/retraining centers so people can get on file for hiring and retrain for jobs that DO NOT EXIST AND AREN’T COMING BACK TO THE USA.
Seems the only ones actually getting jobs are those that are working for these retraining centers. WTF?
Since people in the LGBTQ community are first and foremost human beings, I can totally see why they bought and are still buying into The One’s promises and rhetoric. So many others still are. Even though he has done nothing but take this country further down the road to ruin, my Kool-aid drinking friends still believe he’s going to make the USA the end of the rainbow.
There are still many people out there who believe that talking about something is just as good as doing it. The Nobel committee certainly did.
That’s pretty much what I was thinking. Like everyone else who fell for him and is now stuck in this bad relationship, it’s gonna take awhile to admit they made a bad decision. It’s gonna take even longer to get out and publicly admit they were wrong.
It’s the abused spouse syndrome.
Sarah Palin has arrived. And it looks like she is here to stay.
GOING ROGUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjW_16aFPnA
Sarah Palin Tribute Song – Rich & Mario
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHJabX0YuQ
That was great..Thanks for sharing.
Whoever mades this needs to edit the Hillary picture out of it.
Someone get on this right away. We like the song and everything else in this…but Palin supporters need to understand that Hillary is off limits for any attacks.
Hillary people like Sarah.
We are on the same side.
Limiting Dr. Utopia to one term avenges Hillary. Defeating him is our priority…and destroying the Liberals who usurped Hillary is our goal.
Helping Sarah is not just something we want to do personally, but something we feel a need to do to strike back at the Liberals.
DO NOT GO THERE with attacks on HRC.
Republicans do this a lot, we’ve noticed. You make enemies needlessly with people who are inclined to help you.
You do this with gays, who should be voting Republicans financially, but don’t because of all the hate slung at us from the right.
And you do this to moderate Dems who are Clintonian and always will be.
Why alienate us?
Note: we did not say, “You need to kowtow to us and placate us”.
You don’t need to a damn thing for us. We don’t expect you to.
Just DON’T alienate us.
Sometimes it feels like the jackass high schooler who just can’t help making picking on someone on the bus…for no reason…he just can’t help himself and isn’t mature enough to see that petty battles started over nothing are counter productive and make enemies with people who might just have the last laugh in the end.
Great Remark!
I don’t know why the GOP insists on being so alienating. They are as bad as the Left.
What I think is hilarious is when the Right Wing accuses Barky of being pro-gay.
Anyway, your marriage article is thought provoking as always.
Thursday night, we attended the Empire State Pride Agenda’s Fall Dinner and Dance. It only took the MC, the always repellant, always greasy-faced Margaret Cho three sentances to make a Palin remark. I thought of Hillbuzz to ask “Did Sarah Palin ever say anything about “tolerating Gays”
What a strange quality to attack someone over: Toleration.
I would rather have Palin’s “toleration” then Barky’s “support” anyday.
Naturally, Marriage Equality was the topic.
And I would write more, but, that Photo of Jeter and A-rod is really causing me to lose my train of thought..
Hillbuzz:
Please don’t lump all republican’s into the same category. Of all the repubs and conservatives I know NONE of them would be against gay rights. Times they are a changing! I have always been a conservative, do not attend church (but do believe in God), do support pro-choice (not at the government’s expense)and I could go on and on….
RE: “I would rather have Palin’s “toleration” then Barky’s “support” anyday.”
AMEN Chelsea!
That’s what I say too! I am so sick of trying to listen to Rush, only to hear him going on about the Clintons. Hannity takes shots too whenever possible. I’ve noticed Beck has idelled back a bit, so I can watch him. It really ticks me off, especially since so many of us Hillary supporters found it in our hearts to back Sarah even though some of the conservative views don’t jive with ours. The Republicans could go a long way if they would lay off the hate. Don’t be like these libs that are currently running this country on hate. I suggest they do what they can to get more moderate Clintonites on board, and this constant Hillary bashing isn’t helping them at all. It’s time to stop, as it wore thin years ago.
They don’t have the high profile, but liberal radio hosts can be cruel and hateful. I had to stop listening to Air America during the primaries, it was so awful.
I agree.
This is unnecessary villification of HRC.
It’s stupid. And it can only harm Sarh in the long run.
SYD
THAT was the first thing I thought, and why I did NOT pass this video around to anyone. They just HAVE to attack Hillary it is so stupid.
When exactly did Hillary put her down. If I remember correctly Sarah made some comments about Hillary not compaining.
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I’m not knocking Sarah, but I bet it would have been smarter to leave out the word whine.
She did say “perceived” whine.
Unfortunately, women to have to be more aware of “perceptions” than men.
I remember hearing Bobby Rush say that Dr. U would have to keep his voice in check (my words, not his). He went on the say, if he raised his voice too much on specific issues, he would be “perceived” as an angry black man and many white voters would be turned off.
I agree with you Hillbuzz, but I’d go one step further …
Actually, I’d get rid of the images of Democrats all-together, and instead use press clippings of the misogynist attacks against her. The one I have in mind is the headliners after she gave her acceptance speech that read “Is Trig really her baby?” and details proferred of how she could have faked this pregnancy. The comments made by feminists (so sadly) about she should have aborted Trig; and others showing common ignorance conflating her acts and deeds with a SNL skit. I’d also show the lynched Palin in Hollywood, among countless other examples of put downs to make the point of how she has held her own despite everything. Personally, I really liked the VP debates, when after the media hyping for an entire week that she wasn’t ready for such a debate, showed humility and grace to Biden and the moderator. She was proud to be there, and to have reached that hurdle, and I loved her for that!
Otherwise, this is such a positively themed video that those Dem faces just pit her as one of those Republicans who hates Dems. How about some pics of her with her lesbian friend, a headline of her SUP Court appointment … there is so much more to tap into.
Gary Chapel Hill has some interesting comments on the self-indulgent, so-called GLBT leaders.
Selective Outrage
http://garychapelhill.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/selective-outrage/
If the swine flu is a national emergency, I shudder to think what it will take for Obama to declare as a national emergency that results in martial law. Maybe I’m overreacting, being an alarmist, crazy ….. or am I? Anyone know what the typical numbers for deaths from a flu is for USA in a year? Is this really out of the ordinary death rate so far?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_swine_flu
this number of deaths is within the range that is there every year, in fact the number is actually higher… Fox News did a special on this, using CDC’s own numbers..
as for National emergency.. the scarier part is that the illegimate fraud says “federal govt can bypass certain federal rules”… WTF does this mean? what federal rules are going to be bypassed?
patriotroom.com has a great post on this.
I think that means ACORN can get our taxpayer dollars and set up combo whore house and flu shot sites.
Obama most likely owns the flu vaccine firms. So he’s got to feather his nest.
I wish I could remember where, ask but yesterday I read that a reporter asked Robt. Gibbs if the Obama girls were being vaccinated. The article said he said no–that the vaccination was only for kids that have compromised immune systems to start with and they don’t. I thought that all parents are being encouraged to get it.
Did anybody hear this statement from Gibbs?
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/08/first-daughters-not-vaccinated-against-h1n1/
Nope just another way to use a “crisis” to cause panic and to control us…I just cannot believe what a bunch of morons…
OhioDee, I am so right there with you. He and his Commie thugs will find one pretext or another to take over. Since the Washington Bureau Chiefs wouldn’t knuckle-under to his demands to snub FOX, no doubt the takeover time frame was accelerated. I truly am not a paranoid old bat, but I sure am a nervous one.
Did you read that Mark Steyn referred to Obeyme’s communication’s Czarina as Mao Tse Dunn? Delicious!
Do you have a URL for that?
Rich! lol
Is this the link?
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/mao-tse-dunn-another-communist-at-obama.html
The H1N1 Swine Flu is milder than the regular flu viruses that go around every year.
The deaths are lower than from other flu viruses every year.
The MSM lies to attract viewers.
hmmmm……..
There are laws against shouting “FIRE” in a crowded theater, but….
I hear what you’re saying – but I also heard that technically he had to declare it a national emergency to get the wheels turning to get the vaccine out there more quickly. (Never mind that we’ve had a year to know this was coming. If Bush was president – he’d be getting assassinated in the press for the shortage.)
Please don’t take this as a defense of Dr. U!!!! ;0
I don’t think so. REmember it was a few years ago that we began hearing that closed military bases/national guard training centers are being turned into detention centers in case of a national emergency with a health epidemic being cited as one of the leading reasons. These new centers are also outfitted with guard posts and what I call barbed wire on steroids — instead of barbs there are razors — which I’ve been told are called concertina. They had similar units set up for the Natl Dem Convention in 2008.
Incidentally, on our campus, kids who show up with flu like symptoms at the healthcare center are deemed to have the H1N1 flu; they aren’t even testing them for it anymore; it’s just assumed they have the flu and are sent home. So, I’m really really really doubting the need for a national emergency declaration & I’m deeply suspicious of Obama’s motivations.
It could also just be a ploy to get people more afraid and even more reason to pass the woeful Obamacare.
All I know is that my daughter received the flu shot (basic one) and she is 16 years old. She was deathly sick for three days. It was terrible. I felt so guilty as I made her get that shot because she has asthma. She told me she will never never get another flu shot in her life. My daughters that are 26 and 19 also had the shot as they are in the medical field. A person just doesn’t know what to do or believe.
I was just reading a book by Dr. Daniel Amen – I think it was How to Make a Good Brain Great. While he did not tell people not to take flu vaccines, he did note that one researcher has found an increased incidence of Alzheimer’s in people who had a flu vaccine five years in a row. Additionally, while there is no conclusive proof that thimerosol, a mercury preservative added to vaccines, causes autism, mercury is a known neurotoxin. Amen asks the logical question: why inject yourself with something like that?
I had to get one last spring because we’re trying to get pregnant, and I’ve been sick ever since. I don’t believe in vaccinations unless they are really really necessary. I’m also a big proponent of natural health care.
young children and pregnant women seem to be very vulnerable to the HINI
Good Lord, check the Druge deadline, Dr. Evil just declared the swine flu a National Emergency.
I’m heading out for a Tea Party in a few minutes! I can’t wait! Never done anything like this before …….. this is exciting!
I set up a blog of photos from the tea party today! Check it out!
http://www.woosterteaparty.blogspot.com
If you don’t agree with all the signs, just ignore them! I’m just glad to live in a nation where we are free to express and protest peacefully!
Would love for you folks to make comments on the blog, too! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Loved the signs OhioDee! Thanks for sharing with us. It’s good to see people still involved. To quote one of my favorite lib’s, gives me a “tingly feeling.”
LOL!
All the signs were great. Hope ya’ll had a fabulous time.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/23/dallas-tea-party-activists-push-back-against-gingrichs-straw-men/
I hope you see this, it is the latest open thread
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/9614177/Barack_Obama_and_the_CIA_why_does_President_Pantywaist_hate_America_so_badly/#
Barack Obama and the CIA: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people – not even Jimmy Carter.
Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail….
I just realized this was an old article from April
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/obama_ties_bush_on_golf.html#
President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.
CBS’ Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, “Today – Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.
Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months.”
Bush was better at golf too!
He’s also had more vacations than Bush and more TV appearances than Bush and Clinton combined!
and fundraisers
True, but they Egobama admin. knows it’s just all the racists that are bringing his poll numbers down. Everything will be all better when he gives amnesty and millions of hispanics will bring those numbers back up.