Posts Tagged ‘Great Merciful Zeus
Great Merciful Zeus, there is an Islamic Revolution underway in Egypt and security forces have abandoned Cairo
This is absolutely horrifying.
The secular (albeit dictatorial) government of Egypt is now on the verge of collapse — as security forces abandon the capital of Cairo.
No doubt, part of why this is happening is that Muslims worldwide know Obama is sympathetic to whatever they do, and with the Left in America controlling this country now, it’s a ripe moment in history to repeat the Islamization of the 1970s under Jimmy Carter. A weak, foolish US president back then is echoed today by a weak, deceptive president in Obama…whom I have a very hard time imagining crying any tears over a secular government falling to Islamists.
Tunisia first, and now Egypt, becoming Islamized is an absolute horror show we will be dealing with for decades to come.
If you never got a chance to see the Sphinx and Pyramids, there’s always video of them on YouTube from other people’s vacations to live vicariously through, because you will not want to (or possibly be allowed to) go there again for a very, very long time (as in, you’ll be able to see Persepolis on the same trip as Luxor).
It feels a little like that moment in Star Wars when the Death Star fires on Alderaan and all Princess Leia could do was watch.
Another country falling to the medievalist evil that is Islam.
Absolutely horrifying.
GREAT MERCIFUL ZEUS: Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie admits there is no birth certificate for “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.” — which is because his post-adoption birth certificate actually says “Barry Soetoro” on it
Just listen.
Neil Abercrombie admits to his friend, a radio host, that there is no birth certificate with the name “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.” on it.
That is because his birth certificate says “Barry Soetoro” on it.
That is what his birth certificate says since he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro in the 1970s. Once a child is adopted, the original birth certificate is sealed and the adopted parents and the child’s new adopted name appear on the birth certificate.
There is a “Barry Soetoro” birth certificate on file in Hawaii…but there is none for “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.”.
GREAT MERCIFUL ZEUS: Christine O'Donnell might be on Dancing with the Stars next season
I really like Christine O’Donnell.
The article above says Governor Palin suggested to ABC that she dance on DWTS next season…but SarahPAC denies this happened.
I really love the idea though, whether or not the Governor originated it.
We could have more fun driving the Left crazy by keeping a woman they hate on the show week after week and O’Donnell would build the sort of national brand name recognition she would need to run for office again or become a big time pundit on FOX (which is where I see her future).
Personally, I would love to see Track Palin on DWTS…mainly because I kind of really want to see Track in a tux being awesome.
If not him, let Willow dance.
There are enough Palins to keep this up for years.
You betcha!
Great Merciful Zeus: Bill Clinton to appear in The Hangover 2
I knew there was a reason Michelle Antoinette Obama is starring in “A Klingon Christmas Carol” here in Chicago…which seemed a strange choice for her career-wise (but inspired casting).
Well, it seems she’s just trying to scratch President Clinton’s eyes out again, the way she said she wanted to on the 2008 campaign trail.
Must be jealous Clinton did a cameo in The Hangover 2 over the weekend, so she’s trying to top it by doing an entire play.
In the native thlIgon Hol Klingon language.
Is there anything this woman WON’T do for negative attention?
Great Merciful Zeus! 2,000 Marines are headed to Chicago from May 11-17. In other news, May 11-17 is officially the most awesome week EVER.
2,000 Marines are headed to Chicago from May 11-17, making the week of May 11-17 2008 the greatest week EVER.
If they need someplace to stay, Buzzquarters will happily take as many as fire code will possibly allow.
Love. The. Marines.
There is no finer human being on this planet than the men and women who put on a USMC uniform each day.
So, if you live in Chicago and you are out at a bar or restaurant and you see some of these Marines out enjoying the town, we ask that you consider doing something our parents and grandparents used to do back home: anonymously pick up their checks.
Don’t embarass them by even letting them know you did it, just get a manager and pay their tabs, then just tell the manager to let the Marines know a grateful American wanted to take care of that for them.
It’s rare for us to see Marines in uniform out, but whenever we do, at the very least we’ll buy them a round anonymously. And, truly, it is the very least we can do for people this awesome.
It is going to be an awesome week to live in Chicago next week — we can’t wait to thank as many of these service men and women in person for all that they do to keep us safe from harm.
Wherever you are, we hope you remember this too.
Great Merciful Zeus! Dubya raises $100 million in 100 days for his Presidential Library
This is interesting for several reasons:
(1) For anyone working remotely connected to nonprofits, you know what a terrible environment it is for fundraising. Our Buzz brother Sebastian Gray is a nonprofit development consultant here in Chicago, and fundraises for educational and arts organizations. In Chicago, many funding sources are depleted because of Mayor Daley’s Olympics bid push, but others untouched by that have dried up as big money’s fled Chicago for better tax districts in Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. In other cities, Sebastian’s friends report the same thing happening: money that was there less than a year ago, and could be regularly counted on, has just vanished. It is a brutal time to be in development. It’s stunning that Bush raised $100 million so quickly in a normal year, let alone in this economy.
(2) For a President who is supposedly a pariah or persona non grata this number is amazingly high, at a time when Bush has absolutley no political favors to give, has zero clout, is a constant punching bag for the new administration, and remains the butt of Jay Leno’s stale, chin garbled jokes. What’s the incentive to give money to Bush when he can’t do anything for you? There’s an interesting book out by neurologist Jonah Lehrer called ‘How We Decide’ that addresses decision-making as not a rational process the way we fool ourselves to believe: giving money, especially, is emotional in nature. It’s not about what we can get in return generally speaking, but the feelings we have for the receiver of our largesse. This means that $100 million is, to a large degree, coming from people who miss having Dubya in office and who generally like the man on a very personal level. That’s diametrically opposed to what the MSM would have us believe, and adds more credence to our firm belief that Bush will ultimately settle into the middle of the presidential pack, somewhere above his father but somewhere a few notches down from Bill Clinton. All that ridiculous talk of Bush finding himself in the company of Harding, Hoover, Buchanan, and the like is wishful thinking on the part of the MSM, but won’t be the reality for historians. In 20 years, the prosperous, democratic, stable and secure Iraq Bush envisioned will indeed be a reality, and will stand alongside Germany and Japan as stalwart American allies repurposed somewhat in our own image from the enemies of the past. Now, before you get all crazy in comments, we still do not believe there were WMDs in Iraq, and we believe Bush misled the nation by imagining they were there, sending his willing fool Colin Powell to the UN to lie about their existence. We understand why Bush lied though, as he needed some excuse to go ahead with the transformation of Iraq for long-term US interests, and the WMDs ended up being that excuse. IRAN would have been our target back in 2003, as it is the root of about 70% of terrorism in the world, and almost 100% of the threats to Israel. But an American-Iranian War would have been brutal, costing tens of thousands of lives and endangering Israel in the crosshairs. Bush took out the paper tiger of Saddam Hussein and had guts enough to sacrifice his personal popularity for the long-term benefit of Americans. That took a lot of guts, even if most people do not understand it, and do not agree with it. Someday, when you can vacation in Baghdad the way you do Berlin and Tokyo, and the stabilizing influence of the SECOND democracy in the Middle East, after Israel, brings great benefit to oil production, energy policy, and saftey worldwide, a man villainized in his day could very well be Trumanized in posterity. Evidently, there are many who think this, or there would not have been $100 million given so fast to firmly establish his legacy in the form of his library.
(3) All of this money came in without any large push for it that we are aware of. Since joining the McCain/Palin campaign, we started monitoring Republican sites, and have continued to do so more or less since the election. We’re now on both Democrat and Republican fundraising lists. We have never once been invited to any event for former President Bush and have never been asked to contribute anything for him. But we hear from just about everyone else out there. We have never caught so much as a whisper about a fundraiser being held anywhere for the Bush Library. That’s absolutely amazing. All that money was raised without the usual bull horns and cajoling that goes into a project like this. We know for a FACT there was no event for Bush’s library here in Chicago, and there are deep, deep pockets here. So this money came in with minimum effort, which is, once again, remarkable from a development standpoint.
All of this is fascinating to us.
And it further underscores what we have told you many times before about Republicans we know and how they voted in 2008: they just didn’t want a moderate candidate like McCain to win, and preferred to have a Jimmy Carter Part Deux so they could swing back with a new Reagan in 2012. That person will NOT be Mitt Romney, Bobby Jindal, or Charlie Crist. All of them are nice men, exorcists, or orange transvestites, as the case may be, but if so much money is being poured into Bush’s legacy, with such wild enthusiasm, and said enthusiasm was lacking for a GOP candidate who sought to distance himself from Bush the way McCain did, then it sure feels like a winning GOP candidate will be of the He-Man, outdoorsy, plain-spoken, salt-of-the-Earth variety that Bush and Reagan before him patented so well…and a certain Governor of Alaska gives a fresh spin to, you betcha.
If Bush seemingly forced the electorate to swing wildly to the Left with the current president, Dr. Utopia, then these four years in The Golden Age of Hope and Change will themselves force a swing towards the conservative spectrum, and Romney’s just not going to be man enough to be the vanguard that’s needed. That man’s going to actually be someone in a dress…and it sure as heck won’t be Charlie Crist (as much as he would like it to be).
Brace yourselves for this, because we can hardly believe it ourselves, but we really miss having Dick Cheney around
Nobody knows what Dick Cheney did all day — but whatever it was, it was certainly important. Whenever the government said the Vice President was in a secure, undisclosed location, we pictured Cheney racing through the tunnels under the Greenbrier resort, through the supposedly decommissioned fallout shelter and secret command center entombed beneathe that isolated swath of West Virginia, plotting and scheming and keeping terrorists awake at night, wondering when Darth Cheney would strike and how many of them would live to tell their tales the next day.
Dick Cheney, as Vice President, was the twisted, relentless, ruthless love child Batman and the Penguin biologically could never have. He may even be a robot sent from the future to keep us all from harm. He was, without question, the exact Vice President needed at just the right moment in history. Who knows what he was up to, but we’re certain, 100%, that it helped keep this nation safe for the last eight years.
It’s probably what he’s still working on now, from somewhere secure and undisclosed as you read this.
And Cheney never needed to be babysat. Whenever he said strange things on television, there was clearly an alternative motive at work. Most of his oddball appearances on the Sunday morning shows were so ballsy that even though they often made steam shoot out of our ears at the time, we laughed at how utterly brazen and in your face they were. Cheney was the master of the F-U, in a way we doubt we’ll ever see in politics again. When one reporter, in March of last year, told Cheney that 3/5 of Americans thought the Iraq War wasn’t worth it, Cheney said, “So?”.
Great Merciful Zeus, that’s ballsy. Refreshingly so.
Joe Biden would have said something memorably ridiculous in response to the same question, but more likely than not he would have made up crazy nonsensical things, and contradicted himself as he stumbled and rambled his way to commercial.
We don’t know what Joe Biden does all day, but the amount of breakfasts he is required to have with Hillary Clinton each month seem to indicate Biden needs to be babysat by grown-ups. On days Clinton’s not watching him, we’re not sure who has that duty, but “breakfast with the Vice President” sure seems like “it’s your turn to keep him from embarrassing himself for part of the day”.
And for the love of Betsy Ross, keep that man away from the ice cream. He gets after it like Rahm Emanuel after a strapping, new Secret Service agent on one of their movie dates.
So, Mr. Cheney, in whatever undisclosed location you are in right now, just know that a bunch of Hillary Democrats here in Boystown who hated your guts for years now realize what remarkable service you gave this country when we needed your gruff Burgess Meredith meets Michael Keaton self. You were just the quiet badass genius strategist we needed, and we’re sure you pulled no punches and coddled no evil-doer on your watch. You also, we must remind the liberals of the LGBTQ community, were FAR MORE SUPPORTIVE of LGBTQ rights than any Vice President before you, Republican OR Democrat, and you have personally shown more willingness to advance our causes than your successor ever has — and you did this without a single word of thanks from ANYONE, including us. You are a decent man who won’t eat everyone else’s ice cream, because you’ve got more than enough of your own tucked away in whatever secret room you spent almost eight years keeping us all alive with whatever it was you were entrusted with.
Some day, we hope to have the honor of shaking your hand and thanking you in person, Mr. Cheney. Because you deserve not just our thanks, as people who FINALLY appreciate your efforts, but the thanks of the whole nation.
Go ahead and freak out in comments that we’ve gone and done it again, and are thanking the Bush Administration for keeping us safe all those years, but we just have a sinking feeling Hope, Change, and Joe Biden are setting us up for something awful before the summer’s out…and that very soon more than just those of us at Buzzquarters are going to realize what a great Vice President we had in Dick Cheney.
He may be a crotchety, gruff, surly, wiseass who shoots people in the face — but he was OUR crotchety, gruff, surly, friend’s-face-shooting wiseass…with great emphasis on the WISE part.
Unlike some people, whose emphasis rests ELSEWHERE.
