2010 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winner: Moi!

OMG, you will never guess who was named by Doug Ross @ Journal as one of his 2010 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winners...for the second year in a row...moi !!! Seriously!!!

I WON!!!

The Fabulous 50 Blog Awards began last December and were immediately and universally hailed as the most prestigious new media awards anywhere. I was shocked and honored to win the award last year and never dreamed that I would win again.

This is the most elite group of conservative bloggers in the ether and includes the Good Michelle (Malkin), Ed Morrissey (Hot Air), Gateway Pundit, Professor William Jacobson (of my “Supremacy clause”  suit and Legal Insurrection fame), Instapundit (I’m still waiting for my Instalanche), iOwnTheWorld (hi BFH), Pundit & Pundette (hi Jill), Fausta’s blog (hi Fausta), Ann Coulter and, well, too many to list here. Pop on over to Doug’s Fabulous 50 Blog Awards and check them all out!

I know most of you couldn’t be at the award ceremony, Christmas and all, so here is the transcript and a picture of my awkward, unprepared acceptance speech:

OMG...OMG...I can't believe this...I don't even have an acceptance speech prepared...TOTUS are you in the house?

I can't believe this...OMG...first of all, thank you Doug Ross for honoring my reflections with this “most prestigious new media award anywhere”...Thank You sooooo much...

I'd be remiss if I didn't thank my sponsor, Glass Wax, without whom my reflections would be quite dull...I know I'm forgetting so many people...thank you Larwyn for featuring my reflections in your links...

Butt most of all, THANK YOU LADY M and Big Guy! Without you and all that you do, I could never HOPE to be honored with this award.

In closing I’d like...Yo, MOTUS, I’m really happy for you, and I’m going to let you finish, but Doug Ross has one of the most fabulous blogs of all time!!! All time!!! And he really should have won!

Here I am accepting my award, with Kanye West interrupting me to honor Doug Ross. Do you like my necklace? I borrowed it from Lady M’s jewelry box. I hope she doesn’t mind. Or ever find out.

Thank you Doug Ross for the best Christmas present ever!

Winning Transformations

 

Well thank goodness! No Christmas Day panty bombers in Detroit this year to ruin our Winter Holiday dinner at the Hawaiian Big House. You’ve no idea how disruptive that whole mess was to our idyllic vacation last year.

Even though Big Guy didn’t utter a peep for the first 72 hours after the Undie-Bomber’s nearly successful  attempt to blow up a jet over Detroit, he was busy taking phone calls from his terrorism team. They were mostly explaining how they were on vacation too, and didn’t really think it was a big enough deal for either he or them to breakaway for. When finally our MSM got back to work and made it clear someone had to address the incident, Big Guy had to interrupt his golf and basketball therapy to handle the matter himself. You probably remember his press conference 3 days later, to say that the young Nigerian acted stupidly, and, as Bruno was quick to point out, our TSA plan worked, thanks to our cleverly seated “Dutch tourist.”

Butt like I said: all’s quiet on the Western Front this year. So we did our obligatory Marine base tour of duty for an hour yesterday to show how much we, and especially Lady M, care about our military families. And in return, some of the military family members showed how much they cared about the Wons:

Heh. That’s cute kid, now stick that tongue back in your mouth where it belongs.

Lady M had her hair styled in the same island-holiday carefree style that she wore last year:

            

The bun is a little bigger and wrapped a little tighter this year (2009 arrival, left, 2010 visit to Kaneohe military base, right

The same could be said of her bum:

           

2009 visit, left; 2010 visit right: we added a camo-apron to the containment system this year

In addition to the usual golf and hoops, Big Guy is also catching up on his reading, with Lou Cannon's "President Reagan: Role of a Lifetime" among his selections for the holiday.

Other books on his holiday reading list: The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek (in case we missed something), and The Ugly Truth: Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5 – part of his ongoing therapy.

Lady M  is doing a little reading herself, having brought a copy of Now Eat This! which explains how to take everyday comfort foods and make them healthy. It’s for her No Child’s Fat Behind program; she never stops sacrificing for the American people.

We couldn’t stay at the Kaneohe base for dinner with the marines though, since Chef Comfy was busy back at the Big House preparing our Winter Holiday feast of steaks, potatoes and holiday pies. After all that lame duck, we earned a nice fatty steak dinner. It’s just too bad we had to pass on the delicious roast pork this year, butt I’m sure we’ll be adding that back to our daily menu soon, too. Just as soon as Big Guy finishes the Reagan book so he knows how to look (and act) like Ronnie, so he can lure the R-words over to his side.

I’m in charge of optics.

I’m gonna’ be busy! Wish me luck!

A Christmas Blessing 2011

Christmas greetings to you and yours from Team MOTUS (MOTUS, Raj, Little Mo & Little Bo). Please click to zoom in on our card for a reminder of what has been sacrificed to ensure that we remain free to celebrate the day in the religious tradition (or not) of our choice.

Photo Mosaic by Flatsimile Studios

Fallen Heroes photos via Washington Post.

Mannheim Steamroller: Stille Nacht

Blessings to all of our troops and their families during this season of real hope. Drag to re-center and zoom into other areas.

Originally posted December 25, 2009

A Winter Holiday DREAM Act

As many of you have already noted, our DREAM vacay here on Big Guy’s alleged birth island has been really crappy. Literally: crappy. Rain every day and sewage on our lovely beaches, just like we had on Martha’s last summer.

When you think about it, this whole year has been won big buzz kill: we were dissed in Spain, India and Indonesia, lost the World Cup to Qatar for cripes sakes, Crissy McTingles lost the thrill in his pants, our lazy, loser, professional lefty base let you guys  give the keys, AND our credit cards, back to the R-words, some judge acted stupidly and called BIg Guy’s signature Obamacare “unconstitutional,” it’s been raining cats and dogs here in paradisio and now we’ve got Tootsie Rolls on our beaches, part deux.

I’m beginning to think that somebody is trying to tell us something.

Anyway, we couldn’t get out to film our signature Winter Holiday greeting this year and it was putting all of us off our good mood. Butt then, like she always does, Lady M had a killer idea. The result is this heartfelt little Winter Holiday DREAM act we put together on the stage in the lanai out back by our gracious, luxury island estate’s pool. It stars the WONs and 3 or our closest multicultural friends and biggest supporters.

I HOPE you enjoy it!

And on the 7th day, he rested.

 "This has been the most productive post-election period we've had in decades, and it comes on the heels of the most productive two years that we've had in generations."

Barack Obama December 22, 2010

 

Productive in the transformation of America anyway; reviving the failing economy? Not so much. That was never an integral part of the HOPE and CHANGE package. Butt now that “we are on correct path comrades”  (HT: Vereteno) Big Guy is ready to “pivot” in order to fulfill his October, 2008 promise to begin focusing on that “3 letter word,”   jobs.

J-O-B-S: emphasis on the BS

Big Guy, as usual, was reticent about his own accomplishments. In focusing on last minute Congressional goodies like DADT and START, he failed to even mention some of his  greatest hits:

• His purchase of two bankrupt auto companies for the unions to divvy up
• His historic Stimulus: the largest cash injection down the Keynesian rabbit hole in history (along with the accompanying lowest return on investment in history)
• His historic Obamacare: free healthcare, rationing and death panels for all
• His historic Re-write of Wall Street rules (excepting Fannie and Freddie, who, along with Goldman Saks, are the only financial institutions too big to fail) 
• His historic plugging of the the damn hole

And on the 7th day, He rested.

Buh-bye! See you next year.

A well earned rest for the most historic president, ever!

Lei it on me man!

Is TheRe No Shame? EveR?

“No Man’s life liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”

Hey people, don’t let your guard down. Just because it’s Christmas week doesn’t mean Congress is done doing good deeds for the year. Today at least 9 reliable RINOs will be joining Big Guy’s voting block to ratify his new, “disarm America first because you’ve got to START somewhere Treaty.”

 

Should we choose not to ignore it once it’s passed, like the Ruskies will, we will be on track for BO’s college-age pipe dream of a nuclear-free world.

So we’ve got that going for us!

 

 

 

Too kewl then, too hot now

In case you’re done with all your Christmas shopping and baking and still care, the 11 RINOs voting to end discussion of the START bill and move it to vote were:

Senators Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Robert Bennett (Utah), Scott Brown (Mass.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Me.), Bob Corker (Tenn.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Richard Lugar (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Ak.), Olympia Snowe (Me.), and George Voinovich (Ohio).

Call or email if you’d like, butt, there’s really nothing to be done now. All the votes have been bought and wrapped for delivery later today for the treaty Senator Jon Kyl calls Big Guy’s “I’m not leaving here until I buy a car” treaty.

Once that happens, Big Guy will be able to tear himself away from working overtime for the American people to join us here in his alleged birth island for some well deserved R&R.

By my calculation Lady M won’t be ready to expose herself to sunlight for another 2 or 3 days, following her “spa” treatments.

Butt in case you missed this photo shoot of the O’s joining in all the reindeer games at the Big White last week, here they are at one of the last official Winter Holiday gatherings, singing with an a cappella group:

Lady M is resplendent in a fabulously bedazzled Marc Jacobs frock made specially for her…

… with expansion joints. I’m not sure they’re supposed to be showing like that however. It almost looks as though they rushed it out of the atelier and forgot to finish the bedazzling.  As Senator John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) said:.

"Now fully accommodated, with their requests entirely met, they come back and say it's being rushed.
Is there no shame? Ever?"

Indeed. Good question. Care to answer it Senator Kerry?

Christmas Together in the Ether

Ok, so here are some pictures of my little Christmas tree. For those of you who haven’t visited me in person in the Big White, this is my secret sanctuary bunker in the back of Lady M’s closet in her dressing room on the second floor in the family quarters of the West Wing.

Don’t get all wee-weed up if you happen to spot the booze on the shelf. Lady M likes to keep her secret stash of Dom and Courvoisier in my bunker because it’s very secure and a bit chilly (have to keep my circuits from overheating).

Close-up of my Christmas tree on top of my hotel refrigerator full of Christmas curry, Snausages, roots and grubs (for little Mo)

Closer-up of my Christmas tree – can you see my adorable little paper soldiers? I made them myself!

This is my super secret blogging station. Shhh! Don’t tell anyone.

Here’s a little color coded map for those of you who are planning to visit me here in the Big White.

Secret map of MOTUS sanctuary bunker & boutique

Close-up of Secret map of MOTUS sanctuary bunker & boutique

Don’t worry if you forget to bring your map, just tell the storm trooper at the front desk you have an appointment with MOTUS and Little Mo will come and get you.

So please post your Christmas tree pictures too, right  here. It'll be like we’re all having Christmas together!

Dream A Little DREAM For Me

December 21,Winter Solstice, marks day 4 of our Hawaiian Dream. Lady M, the Wee Wons, little Bo and I left for Hawaii last Saturday.

Upon arrival, poor little Bo  was targeted by the TSA for a full body pat down. He was eventually released in the custody of his handlers.

 

 

Unfortunately, that left Big Guy home alone, without his best friend. (Little Bo I mean, not MO.) BO’s been very busy twisting arms over the phone and so far he’s only been partially successful: winning DADT butt losing his DREAM. Although today’s vote is the one nearest to Big Guy’s heart: he’s dreamed of being the President who brings down the U.S. rids the world of nuclear arms since he was just a mere pup himself. And who are we, the American people, to stand in the way of that dream?

So today, the Senate finally votes on the ratification of the START treaty that would let us start destroying our nuclear arms at an accelerated rate at the same time NKorea and Iran are building theirs up.(Think of it as global re-alignment.) Big Guy’s been twisting arms all week to ensure enough votes from his reliable RINOs to ensure that we can do this. It will prove to be embarrassing if Big Guy can’t deliver on the one Winter Holiday present that he promised Dimitri .

“I call, and raise the bid a trillion rubles”

Apparently there’s a bit of push back in the Senate. Something about the sections and amendments in the START Treaty that are written in Russian. Some of the R-words are muttering that the Senate doesn’t pass anything written in Russian. Spanish, yes. Butt Russian: nyet (translation: “No, not yet”).

Lady M and Granny R have some sort of special Winter Solstice services scheduled this morning, to implore the powers of the universe to help Big Guy get his very important treaty ratified. Granny has held these little ceremonies before butt thankfully, my attendance has not been “requested” this time. They always seem to screw up my internal drives and it takes weeks for them to self correct. I suspect it has something to do with magnetic forces, butt I prefer not to think about it.

Well, I have to get to the Spa. They have Winter Solstice specials going on today only, and I have a Glass Wax polish and shine lined up, as well as a special green lithium battery recharge.  I know that the reflections I’ll be called on to make during the coming week will be, shall we say, taxing, so I want to be operating at peak capacity.

Before I go, a weather update from the Big Island: it continues to rain intermittently with snow forecast for the higher altitudes! What’s going on? Is Al Gore spending Christmas here too?