The Bang a Gong Show: Far East Version

Don’t ask why. Just take my word for it: Lady M’s trip to Japan/Cambodia reminded me of this 70’s era glam-rock mega one-hit wonder from T. Rex.

"Get It On"

Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black
Don't look back

And I love you
You're dirty and sweet oh yea

Well you're slim and you're weak

You got the teeth
Of the Hydra upon you

You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl

Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo

You're built like a car
Oh yeah

You're an untamed youth
That's the truth

With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl

Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On

Well you're windy and wild
You got the blues
I'm your shoes and your stockings

You're windy and wild
Oh yeah

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo

You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl

Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - ow
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - ow - get it on - mh

And that’s a wrap. Now go have some tea and chill.

Thank goodness for tight black slacks. You can wear them anywhere.

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A Week of Humiliations: Reflections of Sista Silverheels

First - and worst – came BO’s humiliating loss to Bibi. No amount of money, sabotage, or fraud could pull the Israeli election out in Big Guy’s favor.

Bibi, saying the Serenity Prayer: “God, help me to accept the things I cannot change.”

Barry, saying the Serenity Prayer: “Allah, help me change the things I cannot accept.”

Then came Sista’ Silverheels’ humiliating stumble and near tumble into the arms of little Emperor Akihito:

I told her she should just take her traditional matcha green tea straight, butt I think she put a little “cream” in it anyway.

As if that weren’t bad enough, next we were humiliated by the rest of our allies racing to sign up before the March 31 deadline to participate in China’s new investment bank - against Barry’s wishes!

The battle of wills between Beijing and Washington over a China-sponsored development bank for Asia is turning into a rout, and the Obama administration has found itself isolated and embarrassed as its top allies lined up this week to join the proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. – Washington Times

And then, after that already really awful terrible bad week, the White House further humiliated itself by threatening to stop supporting Israel at the UN Security Council, because of what Bibi said. First, Josh:

“The United States and this administration are deeply concerned by divisive rhetoric that seeks to marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens,” Earnest said. “It undermines the values and democratic ideals that have been important to our democracy and an important part of what binds the United States and Israel together.”

Josh was quickly backed up with an official Psaking, over at State:

US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also said the reevaluation in US policy could include a shift in position at the UN.

“The prime minister's recent statements call into question his commitment to a two-state solution,” Psaki told reporters. “We're not going to prejudge what we would do if there was a UN action.”

We ignored Bibi’s explanation that his parsed comments did not mean he would never accept a two state solution, butt rather that he doubted that Palestine would give up terror. Instead, we chose to pick a fight with our ally.

So I guess that leaves us free to interpret Netanyahu’s pre-election comments one of four ways:

1. He has abandoned all hope of a two state “solution”
2. He simply acknowledged the reality that a two state solution would not happen because the Palestinian Authority will never renounced terrorism
3. He was simply following the Barack Hussein Obama re-election playbook: say whatever you have to in order to get elected and then do whatever you want, or
4. He’s still really ticked off at BO for threatening to shoot down Israeli jets

I think we should just hold a multi-cultural Japanese tea ceremony and hope that the terrorists see the beauty of a civilized approach to conflict resolution and decide to lay down their animosities.

Failing that, or we could serve or enemies polonium laced tea cakes.

Assuming we can figure out who our enemies are.

And finally,  I would like to leave you with this from The Sista’ Silverheels little book of reflections:

Exhibit A: Why God invented hosiery

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Obama’s New Individual Mandate

Elections have consequences, just ask BO if you don’t believe me. So far, Israel’s election has had these consequences:

1. Bibi has officially been unfriended by Barry. – New York Times
2. Big Guy is seriously considering taking his toys and going home. Politico
3. Former Obama campaign chairman and presidential advisor, David Axelrod, accused Bibi of “shameful demagoguery.” (this, from a man, as Mary Katharine Ham pointed out, “ran a campaign that accused Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer, blessing scurrilous charges of tax evasion, and darkly warning Ohio voters that Obama’s opponent wasn’t ‘one of us.’” – Powerline
4. Iran’s nuclear arms for peace plan is in jeopardy.
5. Barry is toying with making voting mandatory, citing how it could change, i.e. transform, everything. - Washington Times

Of all of the consequences, that last one, the “Individual Voting Mandate,” probably has the longest legs.

President Obama, whose party was trounced in last year’s midterm election due in part to poor turnout among Democrats, endorsed the idea of mandatory voting Wednesday.

“It would be transformative if everybody voted,” Mr. Obama said during a town-hall event in Cleveland. “That would counteract [campaign] money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.”

Especially if all 102% of the precincts report election results.

I know what you’re thinking; “MOTUS, can the government actually pass a law that makes us do something we don’t want to do?” YES! Big Guy learned from Justice John Roberts that we don’t actually “make you do what we want,” we just tax the crap out of you if you don’t.

It could also deal with the pesky issue of campaign financing that BO finds so troublesome,

“We have to think about what are other creative ways to reduce the influence of money,” he said. “There are other ways for us to think creatively.”

And once we make it mandatory, it could also help eliminating that pesky 1% that Bo also finds troublesome.

First, you see, we require that everyone votes, then we require that everyone votes the right way.

Is that not brilliant!? If Big Guy decides to run for a historic first-black=President third term, he could actually win a historic 105% of the vote (because underprivileged first time voters will get extra-credit just for showing up).

Go ahead, pick a card. It’s your extra-credit for being here.

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“Bibi Wins Big”

Landslide Victory: “BUMMER: Obama loses Israeli election to Netanyahu (UPDATE: includes funniest reactions to the losers)”

I guess the Israeli’s are not as averse to staying viable as Americans are

And that is encouraging! Apparently you can still win even when the elections are rigged, the polling data is fraudulent and foreign DICKtators are working to defeat you: 

This unauthorized funding casts an extraordinarily pernicious light on Obama, especially given that we as a nation ought not to interfere with an ally nation’s election... This is why the president has ordered the non-profits to scrub anything from their websites that leads a trail back to him...

So what do you do when your enemy ally wins? Throw a St. Patrick’s Party, dye the water in the White House fountain green and ignore it.

To be fair, Prime Minister of the Irish Republic Enda Kenny deserved a party far more than Bibi; he at least supports Big Guy’s immigration program.

Kenny, making his traditional holiday visit to Washington, again called on lawmakers to pass an immigration overhaul that would address the high number of undocumented Irish migrants in the U.S.

Let’s see if he feels the same way when Muslims decide to turn Dublinistan into part of the caliphate.

Well, I’ve got to run: touch down in Japan! And I’ve got to brush up on my Japanese. 今日は (konnichiwa).

For the occasion we wore our new sumo wrestlers belt.

I have a feeling there’s going to be a lot of dead fish in my near future.

Can I have one of those? The martinis I mean.

Speaking of which reminds me of Rhambo “dead fish” Emmanuel: if any of you live in Chicago, he could use your vote.

If you vote for me, I promise there will be a dead fish in every pot.

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That Old (Irish) Gang of Mine

I have a special St. Patrick’s Day greeting for you from my time vault; it’s a special performance from 2011, when all the gals - ValJar, Oprah, SanFran Nan, Hillz and Lady M - were still Bffs:

Cherish this timeless memory because the time when you could get this group of dames together to don red wigs and do an Irish jig is long gone.

This video was made before the Tea Party stole Nan’s control of the House, before Oprah was forced to cancel her own show, before the words “Benghazi” and “what difference, at this point, does it make” were permanently linked, before MO demonstrated the evolution of “Mom dancing,”  and before ValJar won reelection.

So, as is often the case in politics, jealousies and long running animosities eventually caught up with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Their stated purpose of fighting for women’s equality, the “the great unfinished business of the 21st century” has broken down along evolving lines of self-interest. As of today Oprah is no longer speaking to MO, MO and ValJar are no longer speaking to Hillary, Nancy is still jabbering to everyone, butt nobody’s paying attention, and Hillz is no longer speaking to anyone, preferring to take her fight to Twitter where she doesn’t have to answer questions if she doesn’t choose to.

All of which is a long way of explaining why this year’s Big White St. Patrick’s Day party won’t be quite as much fun as it has been in the past: no disembodied heads joyfully dancing their little feet off, except for Lady M.

So celebrate today any way you’re so inclined. Pray for Bibi’s victory, if for no other reason than to make Big Guy look small,

It’s for you, Hillary.

And no matter what, keep those Irish eyes smiling:

Especially the “little” one.

We will be entertaining the leader of the free leprechauns, Enda Kenny, at this evenings festivities. As you know, both BO and MO claim Irish heritage so there will be plenty of Guinness, little green men, shamrocks and pots of gold.

 Slàinte!

 

Where ever did you find that charming Keebler elves tree pin!?

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Obama’s Guiding Light

I don’t think this NYT Magazine article on Val Jar is going to do much to squelch those persistent Svengali/Rasputin rumors:

Excerpts:

• In his new book, David Axelrod asserts that Rahm Emanuel, when he was chief of staff, was openly uncomfortable with your relationship with the first family. In a town where access is so important, initially it probably made people a little uncomfortable. I think that has faded. I just want to do my job, and part of my job for the president is to be his friend.

“And friends share everything.”

• You’ve been with President Obama from the very start of his political career. Are you going to stick around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to the bitter end? Oh, my goodness, I intend to stay until the lights go off. Why would I miss a single second of this?

“And I’ll tell you when the lights are going to go out.”

• Some people believe that without Democratic control of the Senate, the White House is freer to act, more liberated from Congress. Is that true? We would far prefer to have kept the Senate in Democratic hands, but we play the hand we’re dealt. The president still has a robust agenda that involves Congress. And he is also going to work closely with partners outside of Washington.

a symbolic shahada

• On immigration, the president used to claim that he did not have the legal authority to stop deportations by executive action, but last year he decided to do just that. Did the legal advice evolve? He encouraged the lawyers at the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to give him parameters. I think the intensity of their scrutiny of this issue grew after it was clear that Congress wasn’t going to act. But the president has consistently said that the best solution is a legislative one. This was not optimal to him.

“Butt as I’ve tweeted him a million times, we don’t need ‘optimal’ to bring people out of the shadows.”

• Starting out six years ago, did you expect a different relationship with the Republicans on Capitol Hill? Yes, absolutely. In Springfield, as a very junior state senator, the president was able to work with the other side of the aisle. What became clear when we came here is that there was not a willing spirit on the other side of the table.

“Believe me Barry, we don’t need to give them anything! You da man now!”

• Some pundits blame the president for failing to foster relationships. They say he should have invited Republicans to golf with him, bowl with him and watch movies with him at the White House. They weren’t interested in playing golf, and they weren’t interested in being schmoozed, and they weren’t interested in going up to Camp David, they weren’t interested in going to state dinners. They just wanted to say no.

The Party of No and the Party of “I don’t know.”

• Does it ever surprise you that people describe your influence at the White House in terms similar to those once used to describe Vice President Dick Cheney’s? Oh! Please don’t say that. Stop right there. The president listens to people who have interesting things to say — that could be the most junior person on the staff or it could be a senior adviser or it could be a person who whispers something to him across a rope line.

Rope line input that helped Barry evolve on gay marriage

So,“until the lights go out,”¹ 

let’s just keep practicing our hand signals.

 

¹ "Oh, my goodness, I intend to stay until the lights go off."  Wow, that's exactly what Rasputin said. Except in Russian. - comment from Steve Speicher

 

And he couldn’t have done any of it without Valerie.

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The Ides of March Are Upon Us

Well, here we are, the ides of March; and needless to say, beware.

As every Romanophile knows, today is the day Julius Caesar was done in by his friends and enemies. Hillary should take note of Spurinna’s warning.

Because I fear the long knives are coming for her. It now appears that her old boss and his consigliore are behind all of Hill’s current woes. (h/t Larwyn’s Linx)

If they’d do it to Rhambo, they’d do it to anybody

Barry promised Bill and Hill to back Hill’s 2016 presidential run if they helped out during the historic 2008 contest. In politics, though, 8 minutes is a long time to keep a promise, let alone 8 years. So it seems BO and Val are now actively working to undermine her – which explains all the long daggers coming from the previously compliant media woodwork as of late. Even sad sack Maureen Dowd.

Perennially depressed MoDo at the last MOTUS Twilight Nocturne Lounge Night

And on Hill’s behalf may I say “et tu, MoDo?” (note: this isn’t the first time I’ve had to ask this question. See “In the End, Everyone Agreed He was Historic.”). This time she’s deftly slipped the old knife in Hill’s rather ample backside. In an open letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com MoDo writes:

It has come to our attention while observing your machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our democracy: The importance of preserving historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an American feminist icon wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states’ payola.

As Guy Fieri would say “Holy Shmenky!”

What follows is a badly written list of the grievances by an abused woman; taking us through all 5 stages of her grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Denial:

If you, Hillary Rodham Clinton, are willing to cite your mother’s funeral to get sympathy for ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails, it just makes us want to sigh: O.K., just take it. If you want it that bad, go ahead and be president and leave us in peace.

Anger:

You exploit our better angels and our desire for a finer country and our fear of the anarchists and haters in Congress.

Instead of raising us up by behaving like exemplary, sterling people, you bring us down to your own level,a place of blurred lines and fungible ethics and sleazy associates.

Bargaining:

What is the trade-off that will be exacted by the Chappaqua Republic for that yearned-for moment? When the Rogue State of Bill began demonizing Monica Lewinsky as a troubled stalker, you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress.

Bill’s female cabinet members and feminist supporters had no choice but to accept the unappetizing quid pro quo: The Clintons would give women progressive public policies as long as the women didn’t assail Bill for his regressive private behavior with women.

Depression:

Because you assume that if it’s good for the Clintons, it’s good for the world, you’re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires, deceptions, marital bargains and gremlins.

And finally, Acceptance: 

None of what you said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasn’t about “convenience.” It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on what’s relevant because you didn’t want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace.

Whew! It’s going to take awhile to sleep that one off. Still, it’s hard to take MoDo seriously, she’s fallen in and out of love with every Democratic president/candidate she’s ever covered. Heck, she even had a crush on George W. Bush for awhile after 9/11 when she was feeling particularly vulnerable. She’s just fickle that way.

So honestly, I don’t blame MoDo; it’s hard when you keep waking up in the morning and find yourself in bed with one whore after another.

“Whatever else you say about this president, he has no shadows.” – MoDo

“You seem like an annoyed queen, radiating irritation at anyone who tries to hold you accountable.” – MoDo

I’m just – in the spirit of the ides of March – trying to gently warn her that she better look out for the next Won that comes along as well. They’re all tainted, and none of them really have your well-being at heart. So don’t say you haven’t been warned the next time your heart is broken.

And you seem like an annoyed queen too…

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