The D.C. Circuit Court’s poster tribute to Black History Month honoring eight “Black Women Paving the Way to Greatness in Politics.”
Shirley Chisolm – first female black Congressman
Patricia Roberts Hall – first female black Cabinet Secretary
Barbara Jordan –first female black cabinet member
Carol Mosley Braun – first female black Senator
Fannie Lou Hamer –American voting rights activist, back when it meant something
Condoleeza Rice – first black National Security Secretary, and Secretary of State
…and then there were two wildcard pics:
Michelle Obama – first female black hospital Vice President for Community and External Affairs to become FLOTUS
And while no one would argue with that selection, the next one is raising a few eyebrows around town:
Angela Davis
Angela: First black female on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List
Tried on charges of conspiracy, kidnapping and murder in 1971, Angie became a cause célèbre for the world wide communist movement. She was acquitted of all charges due to lack of conclusive evidence, although it was established that she bought the sawed off shotgun used in the murders a few days prior to said murders.
Angie: back when revolutionaries were still known as terrorists
Butt seriously? Angela Davis? Paving the way to political greatness – really!? The Angela Davis; the first black female Communist Party U.S.A. member/Black Panther member/"Activist"/critical race theorist/ "free convicted cop-killer Mumia" supporter/inventor of the "Political Prisoners in America" meme/winner of the “Lenin Peace prize” at the height of the Cold War/and charter member of the “acquitted butt dubiously innocent” Hall of Fame, Angela Davis?
Is it just me, or does that grin look familiar?
Q. What’s the difference between these two angry black women?
A. The one on the left is still not proud of her country.
Yes, that Angela Davis. And frankly Lady M is not too happy that she had to share the bill with someone who just talked about a revolution of HOPE and CHANGE, rather than actually having a hand in implementing it.
Angie: All talk and swagger
vs. the Revolution in action
Oh sure, when Lady M was much younger she was inspired by Angela’s revolutionary principles and bravely attended a Harvard Law School sit-in, sponsored by Big Guy’s philosophical soul mate, Derrick Bell, to demand that Harvard grant tenure to two legal scholars on staff, both of whom adhered to Bell’s “Critical Race Theory” which claims, in part, that legal institutions play a role in the maintenance of the white ruling class' position:
h/t MArk
Lady M, back in the day, protesting at the Harvard Law Dean’s Office and forced to survive on unhealthy vending machine snacks for hours.
Butt back to Angie; In her defense, it should be noted that she is trying hard to deserve her plaque on the courtroom wall by continuing her revolutionary, anti-capitalism endeavors in the Occupy Movement - going after the establishment in hopes of ending the “prison industrial complex” i.e. black people jailed as political prisoners in America:
Professor Davis at Occupy Oakland Rally: livin’ the dream
“For first time since the 1930s, we can speak openly and publicly about the perils of capitalism” and says that the “Revolution will have to be a feminist revolution, a feminist of color revolution… against capitalism, against racism, against hetero-patriarchy…and end to the prison industrial complex.”
You can read more on Nice Deb or at the Washington Times, butt here’s the real issue: Lady M doesn’t like being associated with people like this, especially in an election year. I mean for heaven’s sake, Condoleeza Rice? Doesn’t she have, like, blood on her hands or something? Oh wait, no, that’s Angela. It’s just so hard for Lady M to keep all these black women paving the way to political greatness straight.
So the only official statement she wishes to make about being hung in the court room is that she’s “completely down with the schtruggle.”
So carry on.
Un-retouched photo of Angela Davis, 2011. Again I ask: is Angie’s resemblance to both Big Guy and Lady M not uncanny? Rude Photoshops to follow…
I got so distracted by my pink slime investigative report
that I forgot to tell you about Lady M’s sacrifices last Friday while servicing our country.
Dr. Susan Lynch, First Lady of New Hampshire, at Lady M’s photo-op
Unlike Dr. Jill, Dr. Susan is a real doctor – a pediatrician and lipid specialist. She’s an advocate against childhood obesity and created a Walk New Hampshire! program that encourages family physical activity in the state.
Wait a minute -- that sounds suspiciously familiar; like maybe she just cheesed in on Lady M’s ideas and initiatives and stole the whole thing!
What? Oh, Dr. Susan’s been FLONH since 2005? The program’s been in place since 2007? Okay, never mind. Apparently really big brains think alike.
Lady M, impersonating a rabbit doing the bunny hop
Of course we couldn’t stay and play long. We had to head off to Boston to pick up a little loose change for the Obama Victory Fund, aka WTF, at the Institute of Contemporary Art. There were 2 fundraisers, a “cheap seats” one in the afternoon attended by 350 marks folks followed by a much pricier dinner for 100 local liberal luminaries like Joseph P. Kennedy III, (running for Barney Frank’s Congressional); Boston Mayor Thomas Menino; and Big Guy’s former Harvard law professor and Derrick Bell apologist and video concealer, Charles Ogletree.
She has been the ideological muscle behind the president, pushing him to champion what may be politically unpopular, but in her view worthy, causes like universal health care. It is a role some historians and political observers liken to that of Eleanor Roosevelt, who campaigned for antilynching laws, civil rights, and indoor toilets in public housing.
“She has a view of the world that is all about equity and fairness, and when she sees any violation of those values, she reacts with passion,’’ said Philip Johnston, former chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, who plans to attend Friday’s fund-raiser. “She is a progressive and she feels the government should be there for poor people, for children, for people of color, and for women.’’
And by “be there” Johnston means, be there: no excuses.
24 year old Michigan woman wins”Make Me Rich” lottery, continues taking food stamps:
"I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn't, I thought, maybe, it was OK because I'm not working," Clayton said. "It's hard. I am struggling."
She added, "I feel that it's okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay. I have two houses."
Oh, and she wants free contraceptives too.
Ms. Fluke “testifying” on the government’s responsibility to “be there” for women
So your choice is clear: Vote for Big Guy to be there for women, or vote for the R-words who are waging a War on Women.
HBO’s Game Changer: Being there. Now it’s officially ok to trash conservative women
Oh, and Big Guy? He’s been hitting the trail to raise some coin for WTF too. Last week he was in Houston, promising more change in return for, well, a little more change.
Meet and greet with the cheap seats: maybe next time you guys can afford to give a little bit more.
If you are willing to work as hard in this election as you did in the last one [ed. open your wallet as wide], change will come!"
After standing around for 4 hours waiting for Big Guy’s normal storm-delayed appearance, approximately 600 attendees got to hear, for $500 each, all the usual stump speech stuff directly from the horse’s patoot mouth:
The President stuck to familiar themes including promoting health reform, a reduction in the rate of interest students pay for loans and increased taxes on the nation's wealthy population. "If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay a lower rate than your secretary. Most folks who've done well agree," said the President.
It seems to me – although I’m not a campaign expert - that we need to work on that open wallet meme a little more: 600 people at Minute Maid Park? The Huston Astro’s ball park that seats over 40,000? We only sold 600 tickets!? How are we going to WTF with box offices like that? That’s only half as many as the 1200 people Romney had in the Detroit Lion’s Ford Field that everyone laughed at:
Romney in Ford Field: oddly, no crowd shots of Big Guy at the Lemonade stadium were available
Although – and like I said I’m not a campaign expert, so I don’t claim to understand these things – it doesn’t strike me as particularly wise to come to the heart of oil country and say things like:
Having at least temporarily scuttled the Keystone XL pipeline, Pres. Obama took a shot at Houston's bread and butter, the oil and gas industry.
"We don't need to subsidize oil companies when they are doing this well. Rather than continue 100 years of taxpayer subsidies to an industry that's very profitable lets double down on our investments in clean energy,"
Anyway, after the disappointing cheap seats fundraiser at Lemonade Park, Big Guy attended a second big-ticket fundraising dinner in Houston where the price of admission was a more reasonable $38,000 per head. No mention of the “100 years of taxpayer subsidies to the oil industry” at that event.
Butt that “doubling down on clean energy” theme? Now there’s your “winner,winner chicken dinner!” strategy! Let’s do more of that!
Big Guy’s vision for America: An algae in every pot
So don’t worry: everything in our economic symbols book is starting to turn around, and we are now forecasting that “America will thrive again” - according to Big Guy.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that nearly 6,000 USDA partners are teaming to deem March 8, as “What’s on My Plate?” day to heighten public awareness of the importance of choosing nutritious foods for a healthy meal…
The goal of “What’s on My Plate?” day is to create a nationwide buzz about food choices on March 8 as part of national Nutrition Month activities…
Congratulations! Mission Accomplished! There’s certainly been a lot of nationwide buzz about “What’s on My Plate” this past week. And a lot of public awareness surrounding the importance of choosing nutritious foods, especially for school lunch programs, has surely been heightened. Especially after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it's buying 7 million more pounds of what’s come to be known as "pink slime" for school lunch programs across the country.
No, not dessert. This USDA approved pink slime is destined for chicken patties, hot dogs and hamburgers at a school lunch near you.
Before I continue with this disturbing Pink Slime expose (warning: the following is not suitable reading for school aged children or backyard chickens) I want to make it perfectly clear that Lady M knew nothing about this slime job. Just like Eric Holder, her little people let her down and kept her in the dark.
Based on my investigative reporting, so far I’ve determined that this icky mess started with an innocent request from Plouffe-Daddy, who was just trying to curry favor with our community organizer contingency so we can count on their votes again in the 2012 WTF campaign. You see, Medea Benjamin (founder of Code Pink) recently launched a new enterprise and we just wanted to give her new venture a little boost.
Some might call that crony capitalism, P-Daddy just called it “putting America back in the Pink.”
h/t Freaking News
Anyway, Medea assured Chef Sammy – Lady M’s go-to guy for all things nutrition related - that her wonderful pink product was 100% locally sourced USDA approved organic food-stuff (which I guess technically it is, as Ammonia (NH3) is covered in organic chemistry class).
Additionally, I understand that Soylent Pink Products Inc.(SPPI) is a non-profit company and that Medea has pledged all proceeds (after unaudited expenses) from her new enterprise to her other tax-exempt fund, “Prosecute Bush and Cheney for War Crimes.” So it’s a good cause.
Any-hoo, with all the budget cutting going on around here, combined with the incredible increases in food prices (NOT included in Big Guy’s official inflation index, for obvious reasons: we don’t want to panic the public) Lady M and Chef Sam “Sammy” Kass have been looking for ways to make our No Child’s Fat Behind MiPlato school lunches less expensive without having to cut any SEIU workers, pay or benefits. So this fine Pink product looked like just the ticket. And in hindsight, it wasn’t Sammy’s fault for assuming that this new miracle product was made from organic soy beans.
After all, what can’t you make with organic soy beans?
And since Lady M never gets involved in any of the day-to-day decisions involved in her initiatives anyway, you can see how this happened. Just like with Ricky in the Gun Walker incident, she’s just a victim of life’s circumstances. So, just to make it crystal clear, allow me reiterate:
Lady M knew nothing about this pink slime-in-SEIU-school-lunches scandal before some nosey blabbermouth leaked it to the vast right wing conspiracy blogosphere. Nor will it in any way interfere with her continued commitment to the healthy eating to ensure No Child’s Fat Behind. This includes, butt is not limited to, continued support of all SEIU efforts to prepare, deliver and serve food in every school cafeteria in America.
SEIU local 74 team delivering lunch to PS 379
Furthermore, the people originally behind approving this dangerous perfectly safe, albeit disgusting food “additive” will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And, as usual, we discover that this is actually Bush’s fault. Although in this case it’s Bush I not Bush II who gets the blame:
Zernstein tells The Daily that "scientists in D.C. were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval" under President George H.W. Bush's administration. The USDA asserts that its ground beef purchases "meet the highest standard for food safety."
Butt I get ahead of myself: This whole scandal broke with the block buster airing of Jamie Oliver’s documentary which included a graphic depiction of how pink beef slime is “created” from left over “bits” and “parts” after the butchering: intestines, connective tissue, and other unmentionable “beef trimmings.”
Warning: not suitable viewing for small children, those whose immune system is compromised or backyard chickens.
Pink chicken slime is made essentially the same way, only with leftover chicken parts instead: beaks, eyes, bones and wattles. I know, I know: it sounds dangerous with all that intestinal E. coli floating around. Not to worry, that’s why your government has mandated the use of ammonium hydroxide (Ammonia (NH3)) in the process – it kills everything. It also turns all the resulting goop – up till now a rather disgusting tan color, a rather pleasant pinkish tone. Throw in a little extra artificial red food dye and you’ve got yourself some fine neon pink slime that blends well with just about everything.
Butt now that even McDonald’s has announced it will no longer be using pink slime, we’re probably going to have to step away from the slime pit too. Although there’s no way we’re going to be able to do it quietly after Michael Savage broke the story on his show last Friday. It’s bad enough that he’s blabbing about pink slime to his ginormous nation wide audience, butt now he’s penned another in his string of best selling books attacking everything that Big Guy is trying to do to for America:
So anyway, now we’re really in a pickle. We can’t get any more of your money for our SEIU lunch program out of the Do-Nothing Congress; Big Guy can’t afford to let any SEIU members – or their pay or benefits - get cut, and Lady M’s still 100% committed to No Child’s Fat Behind. So it was back to the drawing board for Sammy. Now that the original slime is off the table, he’s been busting his chops to come up with a new way to make school lunches cheaper (as well as tasty).
He’s been experimenting with replacement products and developed gobs of new recipes. Recently he and Lady M took the new recipes on the road and conducted focus group tests on both the recipes and new names for our meat food product. Butt that route was getting us nowhere. We couldn’t even get most people to try the new product.
Here – taste this, and tell me what you think it is.
That’s when Big Guy stepped in and suggested, “Why don’t you just rename Medea’s mechanically separated meat something else? That way, people will stop confusing “MSM” with our media lapdogs, and everyone will think they’re eating something different.” BINGO! A twofer! That’s why he’s President!
It’s a simple, elegant solution and Big Guy has demonstrated over and over how well this tactic works: “Kinetic Military Action” not a war, EPA regulations, not Cap and Trade, a “documentary” not an infomercial, a “Jobs Bill” not Stimulus II – well you get the idea. Pure genius!
So that’s exactly what we did.
“Hurry up and take the damned picture – I’m not getting this crap any closer to my mouth.”
Sammy tasked our Department of Government Acronyms and Obfuscation with coming up with a brand new name and they didn’t let us down: from now on our processed meat food by-product will be known officially as “Bio-molecularly Amalgamated Reconstituted Food (BARF). Since it sounds sophisticated – sort of like the trendy “gastro-pub” and “molecular food” I figure we can use this new “food” term generically to describe all sorts of things in addition to the the new-butt-still-pink slime we’ll be using in school lunches. Even some of Lady M’s veggie dishes.
Lady M and Chef Sam whipping up a test batch of veggie B.A.R.F
Yum! Pink macaroons - no wait! Those are burgers.
Of course, since it’s still essentially the same old, uh… slime, our new BARF will require the same special handling procedures as the original Slime:
SEIU members unloading a fresh batch of Soylent Pink ® Slime at a local school.
100% safe when stored in a specially shielded pantry and used or frozen by the “use by” date.
We’re not kidding
Any way, our focus group gave a thumbs up for our latest formula so I think once again Big Guy has saved the day. We’re now free to slime America again.
Ummm, umm, umm: that’s good slime
One final word on product safety from the USDA: they advise you take precautions when using BARF so as not to confuse E. Coli - a bacteria commonly found in meat - with “e. e. coli, a bacteria commonly found in erratically punctuated poetry” h/t Alexandra Petri –as in “petri dish” (I don’t make this stuff up) at WaPo).
Sorry: I was going to report on our new Soylent Pink Slime lunch program today, butt while I was down in the Big White kitchen with Chef Sammy Kass taking a few notes and moving one of the canisters of our secret new food product that had passed it’s “use by” date… well let’s just say I had to spend the rest of day at the nearest Glass Doctor shop getting my lens and frame decontaminated, followed by a fresh coat of glass wax. Not exactly a day at the spa.
So I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to file my investigative report on the Soylent Pink Scandal.
In the meantime, in case you missed either Piers Morgan’s interview with Davis Guggenheim – documentary director of the new Big Guy Documentary – who apparently fell in love while filming (occupational hazard, I guess):
…or the trailer for his resulting movie which I call “Love Song of Barack Hussein Obama” (with apologies to T.S. Elliot and J. Alfred Prufrock); please enjoy them both.
Let the record reflect for historical purposes that this is a campaign film, paid for by the WTF campaign. Not, repeat NOT, a documentary reflecting actual historical events. Butt then most documentaries these days aren’t.
Where to start? The winners dinner with the Wons? Lady M and Hil’s IWD awards? Panetta’s announcement to Congress that we’ll be following the superior constitution of France – or maybe South Africa – from now on? Or an update on the the pipeline to nowhere?
Let’s start there. Yesterday, Big Guy’s Dems – responding to Big Guy’s big stick – deep-sixed the Keystone Pipeline again, making it clear that the Do-Nothing President Congress has chosen our Greenies over, well, our greenies.
Butt it’s not political. It’s ideological. Hard to say which is worse, butt they both result in thousands fewer jobs so I hope it’s worth it.
She is a role model for me in so many ways. I don't think she realizes how what she has done has made what I am doing partially possible.
Which was nice of her to say, butt I think Hil knows all to well that what she’s done has made what Lady M’s doing here possible.
2008 Debate
Make no mistake, these are truly courageous women – the ones getting the awards I mean. Take Jineth Bedoya Lima for example:
One really brave woman between two really schtrong women
In Lady M’s own words:
And then there is Jineth Bedoya Lima, an investigative journalist in Colombia. Back in 2000, when she was writing about an arms struggling [sic] network, she was kidnapped, brutally assaulted for hours by those who wished to silence her. But instead of backing down, she moved from her regional newspaper to a national one, and despite continued threats against her life, she kept reporting.
Let the record reflect that Lady M and TOTUS TOO meant “smuggling” not “schtruggling” butt either way it makes Lady M’s own schtruggles with fat kids behinds pale in comparison. BTW, Jineth sounds like she could be a schtrong Conservative woman if she lived here.
Many of the courageous women award winners are from countries ruled by tyrannical regimes. I HOPE they aren’t the same countries Secretary Panetta will seek approval from.
Surprisingly, no award was given to the bravest, most courageous woman of all:
Reproductive rights activist, Sandra Fluke, buttons up for a courageous round of “testimony.” At least I think she’s buttoning up.
The winners, above, are ReGina Newkirk, a nonprofit executive from Nashville, and her father, Robert Newkirk Sr., a professor at Tennessee State University; Cathleen Loringer, a former social worker from Wauwatosa, Wis., and her spouse, John Loringer, a Wauwatosa attorney; and Judy Glassman, a retired school administrator from Cambridge, Mass., and her husband Mitch Glassman, a Cambridge artist. Could you find a better group of Big Guy supporters?
Wow! What are the odds that out of dozens of entries you end up with 3 winners from three swing states!? And all 3 of them the kind of women (1 black, 2 white) we’re currently focusing on to help us WTF: a non-profit exec, a former social worker and an ex- school administrator? Wow!
As it turns out, the odds, all by themselves, aren’t that good. That’s why we helped out a little:
Entrants did not need to contribute to the campaign, according to the official rules. Fifty potential winners were selected at random, then narrowed down to three winners by the campaign, based on its own criteria to offer “an appropriate range of views, backgrounds and interests.” In addition to dinner with the Obamas, the winners had their transportation and hotel expenses covered by the campaign.
We took the winners to Boundary Road, a new, not so pricy (by D.C. standards) restaurant that includes locally sourced ingredients, of course, and seasonal dishes such as paprika-dusted flounder over Spanish fisherman’s stew and hanger steak.
As was the case with the two previous “win dinner with the Won” fund raising lotteries, reporters were ushered out after the iced tea pre-prandial chatter and photo ops. After that the Stoli and wine flowed and a good time was had by all.
Previous “Dinners with the Won” winners, above. They all look pretty much alike.
Just like with crony capitalism, when you hand select the winners you always get the same results.
Regarding last night’s meal, I’m not sure what they had to eat, I’m just glad it wasn’t one of our Federally mandated school lunches:
The rest of this expose will be leaked out this weekend. I think Breitbart would have liked that.
vs. the Revolution in action
h/t MArk 
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