Showing posts with label Barney Frank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barney Frank. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Climbing The Greasy Pole In A Skirt

For the past few days we've neglected our coverage of great bargain flights with British Airways and other quality airlines to have fun at the expense of some famous female politicians.

We didn't set out to feature women only - it just came out that way. So why does it just "come out that way"? What is it about women in politics that gets the creative juices flowing? Are women naturally more divisive or is Suciô just a misogynistic, overgrown boy who gets a kick out of teasing girls? We think it's a little of both.

There are no politicians in America who are more polarizing than Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Love them or hate them; there's no quite liking them.


But, why? Why in 2008 did Palin seem like more of a joke candidate than a community activist and absentee senator, whose only qualifications were youth and blackness, or two political hacks, whose only qualifications were age and whiteness?


Why does the Secretary of State make Suciô's flesh crawl? Yes, she's an utterly corrupt political opportunist who has milked family connections to grift her way into office - but who isn't? (Suciô is open to offers from female members of the Bush or Kennedy clans.)

Whatever the reason, Suciô isn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. We'll continue to make fun of women political figures whenever we feel like it. In the meantime, to show we're equal opportunity bigots, here's a fat old fagbot:

Under Massachusetts law, fembots can be male.

(For the record, Suciô thinks that Pelosi is a disgrace to the office of Speaker, Merkel is the best Chancellor in recent history - big deal - and Gillard is God's vengeance on the stupid Aussie electorate.)

Airport Delays Are Expected to Persist for Several Days
Buried beneath snow for more than 24 hours, New York area airports turned Tuesday to the growing backlog of canceled flights, an accumulation that could take far longer to address than the blizzard itself.
Even as flights resumed, ripple effects from more than 4,000 canceled flights threatened to leave passengers stranded through the New Year.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Fair Use

Today I'd like to consider "fair use" in the context of blogs. The issue of manipulation of copyrighted images is well exemplified by the case of the Obama "Hope" poster. Here, the A.P. sued the creator of the poster claiming that the work was based on a photo of Obama taken by one of its freelance photographers.

Reading the linked article, Suciô has a couple of takeaways:
  • the pot of money involved, $800k, was big enough to attract legal flies,
  • the artist covered up his use of the original picture.
Suciô will happy acknowledge claims of ownership of images by any renaissance artists, long-dead photographers or shyster lawyers who wish to contact him. They are welcome to their share of the miniscule puddle of imaginary money that Adsense will find some excuse to avoid paying at some future date.

 Suciô is particularly keen to hear from the East European tentacle-scat-pornographers responsible for the image underlying Cthulthu girl:

Sauce?!


Suciô does not wish to hear from the owner of Barney Frank's body.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Election Reactions #4 - Barney Frank

 A pensive Barney Frank reflects on the narrowness of his election victory.  

Thinks aren't looking too good for Barney; despite squeaking re-election in one of the most gerrymandered districts in the country, he faces a daunting list of challenges in the months ahead.

Firstly, with the change of control in the House, Frank will lose his coveted chairmanship of the House Financial services Committee (where he did such a sterling job of supervising Fannie & Freddie). Next, he faces House Ethics Committee scrutiny of his role in the OneUnited bank scandal. After that, falling census numbers mean that MA will lose a House seat in 2011. With Frank now viewed as damaged goods in DNC circles, his district is prime candidate to be cut.

Maybe, at 71, it's time for Frank to retire to his Maine hemp plantation.

Monday, October 18, 2010

You're Doing It Wrong

Well, Suciô's advice to the Frank campaign came a little too late.
In a bizarre incident, Barney's long time partner, traveling companion and "keen gardening enthusiast" James Ready was caught on camera stalking and heckling Sean Beilat.

YOUTUBE VIDEO #2: Barney Frank's BF heckles Sean Bielat.

When Suciô said Barney's core supporters wanted more ass in the campaign this isn't what he meant.

The lovely couple.