Wednesday Evening News & Notes

-Are we hitting the new Morning in America? It appears so. There's been a lot of good news since Trump won; the markets shattered records, a huge oil discovery in Texas and now this:

And 'optimistic' might be an understatement. According to the latest report, in some cases, Americans are the most hopeful they have been in more than a decade. For the first time since 2006, 37 percent of households said they expect their personal finances to improve in 2017. Also hitting decade highs: real income expectations, as wage growth continues to gain strength in a broadening swath of the economy. 

Note that Bloomberg tries like hell to tamper the news that this is because of Trump but they are Bloomberg and they are biased. Now let's all hope Trump can come through. 

-Well this is funny. So a magazine called Blackhair that bills itself as the leading publication for women of color in Europe accidentally had a cover model who is white woman named Emily Bador. But what if Ms. Bador identified as black that day, it worked for Rachel Dolezal. 

-The Trump people say Elton John will play the Trump inauguration. John has not confirmed as of yet but he did play Rush Limbaugh's wedding. Here's a funny dig by a Trump transition team member:

“This will be the first American president in US history that enters the White House with a pro-gay rights stance,” Scaramucci claimed.

-Ace remains the funniest guy on the Internet day in and day out. Dude gives no fucks. 

-Tommy Hilfiger is a capitalist and knows that dressing Melania would be a huge get for any designer. You may recall that Michelle Obama's designer (I forget her name and don't care enough to look up the sniveling weasel--it's probably in the article but I'm not giving her the plug) said she would not work with Melania and no other designers should either. I guess Tommy is giving her the finger. Plus, have you seen the dresses? 

-Megyn Kelly has a new book out. Apparently Trump supporters have pretty much trashed her in the reviews...or maybe the book just sucks. Anyway, Amazon is covering for her by erasing some of the reviews. I used to like Kelly but she just comes across as arrogant and not too bright now that she's on daily. 

-Allegedly General Mattis changed Trump's mind on waterboarding. Mattis supposedly said “Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I’ll do better.". If we can get better results with a few Coors Lights and a pack of Marlboro's I'm all for it. 

Thoughts on CPAC

The American Conservative Union just finished hosting the 2013 version of CPAC. This was looked at as a meeting where we could turn the tide and put the party back on the winning path after losing an election that should have been a runaway fro every GOP candidate.

The ACU doomed the narrative from the beginning by not inviting the GOP Proud--a group of gay conservatives and republicans--and omitting Chris Christie. The former because they are, well, gay and the religious right still holds sway and the latter because he essentially gave Obama the election by inviting him, praising him and posing with him in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy (a premature declaration of success while thousands of homes are still in ruins, BTW).

We as a party have got to start examining exactly where we stand on issues. Whether it be gay marriage, immigration or drug policy, we have been marginalized because of our lack of inclusiveness. I credited Romney losing to Obama to the fact that the Dems put the GOP in a corner. We are considered by a great many Americans as the party that hates gays, minorities and wants to outlaw abortion over everything else. There was a Facebook article that went viral saying that Romney wanted to ban tampons if he were elected. It was ubiquitous and I believe it helped push the election to Obama. Of course it's ridiculous that anyone would believe it but we have been so marginalized that the non-political junkie type voter would believe it to be true. Think about it, there was outrage that the US military supposedly flushed a Koran down the toilet at Gitmo even though it's physically impossible.

But getting back to CPAC, there was some good things that came out of there: Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben Carson were standouts. Sarah Palin got her shots in at Bloomberg and Obama and the crown failed to take the bait when a set up by supporters of Ashley Judd failed miserably. But we need to shed the image of not being inclusive. The three men I listed above are in order: an Indian-American, a Latino and an African-American; that's inclusive but we fail to get that message out with a clear voice.

We've got a few more years to get the ship righted and an increasingly deep bench but we need to take the steps in that direction starting today.

Romney Spokesman Ousted For Being Gay

A huge mistake by Mitt.

It's time for Romney to stand up and be a leader.

His spokesman who is openly gay was pushed out of the campaign by social cons. Romney cannot let these zealots hold sway over his campaign and this may very well hurt him on many fronts.

To my fellow Republicans, I ask you, think about what this looks like. We are the party of opportunity and to allow this to happen bothers me and makes me wonder just what kind of leader Romney will be. To accede to the wishes of these closed-minded bigots is the wrong move and Romney will need all the brains he can hire for this campaign.

Doesn't the Romney campaign see exactly how this will play in the media? At a time we are seeing Obama get creamed on a bunch of fronts, Romney allows this BS to happen?

He was running a pretty good campaign over the last several weeks and needed to just allow Obama to continue to implode. His Osama victory lap isn't playing well at all and he was riding a nice wave. Now this.

Mitt needs to get out there and slap down the bastards who forced this to occur and make damn sure everyone knows that the GOP is not going to play this game anymore.

Update: There's some arguments as to why he was asked to leave but my original thoughts remain valid; it looks terrible for the campaign but luckily it appears this story doesn't have quite the legs it would have if Obama had put out the ridiculous "Julia" garbage.

Monday Night News and Notes

I'm back in a more limited role. The Phillies lost to the hated Yankees and the Eagles lost to the vile Cowboys so I'm in a foul mood.

Here's what's new:

-A boycott against Obama by his gay supporters. Kind of half-hearted but the beginnings of a schism none the less.

-"The jihadi's will return"

-Yo Sammy, WTF.

-Remembering the victims of communism:

Wednesday News and Notes

News and notes from all over the place:

Natalie Dylan--the virgin for sale--has made a name for herself. Sex sells for damn sure (pictured at right). Her parents must be so happy.

Russian navy scores first win in decades against pirates. Of course, a cruiseliner also beat them recently so don't get excited, Ivan.

Stan Lee to create first gay superhero. That's not necessarily so, Stan:

The Ambiguously Gay Duo @ Yahoo! Video

The Obama nominees are on a record-setting pace for ethics violations prior to the inauguration.

Hollywood has-been begs shady nominee to jail president who is no longer an issue.

Blago Gives Dems the Finger

One thing you can always count on is this: whenever the Democrats win, they will instantly fall into disarray and get nothing done. Think Nancy Pelosi's Congress or Harry Reid's Senate.

The latest incident involves the Blagojevich Senate selection to replace Obama. Here we are, less than three weeks from the inauguration and all anyone is talking about is the Blago scandal and Illinois politics--well, that's the grownups who are actually covering politics, the "big media" (I.E. The Washington Post) are embarrassingly salivating (and that's the dudes) over Obama's pecs or printing clear Palestinian propaganda so they really don't count.

Blago selected a man who has has some success in elections, is a black man and seems to be qualified to succeed The One. He did this after Harry Reid and the Senate told him not to. Of course, no one cares what Harry Reid says so I didn't expect Blago to cede his authority to the shady man from Vegas. Instead, Blago not only selected Roland Burris but played the race card in the process:

Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks.

He urged people "not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer" and, after saying repeatedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate, said that he believed no senator would want "to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate".

...As he left the room, Blagojevich echoed Rush, saying: "Feel free to castigate the appointer but don't lynch the appointee."

Live by the race card, die by the race card but I digress.

So now, Reid will have to either accept the legal nomination of Burris or fight a battle to keep Burris out--a nice racial skirmish that Dems have been loathe to nut up on before. Blago looked around and saw that he was quickly shunned by the party establishment so he decided to telling them to screw themselves and go about his duties. They want him gone and the bad press to end, he says "hell no" and the scandal continues. Blago is the best thing to happen to conservative commentators since the primaries.

As I said before, every time the Dems get ahead, they end up looking stupid. Obama wins, gays slur Blacks for their support of Prop 8. Obama wins, Rahm Emanuel gets caught up in the Blago scandal. Obama wins, liberals are pissed at his selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation and his choices for his cabinet. Obama wins, a Black man is about to be vilified by his own party and the racism charges are already flying.

It's awesome, isn't it?