Comments on: Please. Please Make It Stop. I Beg You.

By: sabine01

sabine01 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:28:55 +0000

I don't disagree that such a notion would be just....nuts...There are some details about this article which are a bit iffy from my vantage point as a "local"...

~ Kansas Ave, NW (which eventually becomes Kansas Ave. NE) starts in the Petworth neighborhood of DC and runs to the DC-MD border (it then becomes Kansas Ln.). Most people living around here would call that nowhere near Downtown DC.
~ There's no 1100 Kansas Ave. The building numberings on Kansas Ave. start somewhere in the 3600's-3700's and go upward going toward the state line, not downward.
~ There's no McDonald's location on Kansas Ave (NW or NE).

Reading this, I lean more towards "hoax" than fact (though I wouldn't put it past a handful of people to try to do it).

~S~

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » The cult of personality continues

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The cult of personality continues — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:05:38 +0000

[...] Jazz Shaw and Michelle have more thoughts on this. [...]

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:37:52 +0000

Yeah, we also have Washington's b'day as a holiday of some sort. Jazz, when you first said that we already had a holiday to celebrate this I thought you were going to say, "Martin Luther King's Day".

This sounds like a McDonald's promotion....

I'm all for honoring our nation's heros, but this is too early. While I don't mean to minimize the importance of his historic win but Obama should actually be a sterling president for a couple terms before we start naming a new holiday after him. Come to think about it, maybe the national holiday we already have to honor Obama's triumph isn't President's Day or MLK Day, but Fourth of July, since we are returning our country to a leader who will (I assume) uphold the US Constitution, since that is something Bush was serially unable to do, at least when it came to his own interests and the interest of his cronies.

By: Are You Ready for the Obama National Holiday? : Stop The ACLU

Are You Ready for the Obama National Holiday? : Stop The ACLU — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:50:57 +0000

[...] Jazz Shaw: The point is, we already have too many damned Federal holidays as it is and I’m always on the lookout to see if we couldn’t combine and reduce a few more. There are all too many days now when I can’t get my mail delivered, have my trash picked up, and I find the neighborhood littered with screaming children who bloody well ought to be in school. [...]

By: Rudi

Rudi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:38:34 +0000

Jazz, what makes you think this is an Obama fan, it could also be a wingnut wackjob plant, just like Obama is a Mooslim.

I wonder if this supposed story is a plant by a REAL wacked out wingnut. A Google search shows little results for Obama and Reagan being added to Mt. Rushmore. If the story is a Jim Cates plant, the Dutch lad and other at Memo will fall victim to this viral BS. Cates has an add at the Topeka paper, I doubt if he's part of AirAmerika. I wonder how many liberal newspaper exist in Topeka?

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:37:51 +0000

Well this is so silly.

I think the leadership void in this country was so deep that a gifted leader like Obama is being deified– which places a really unfairly high burden of expectations on his shoulders.

By: Ricorun

Ricorun — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:26:19 +0000

unclejoe40: rallies at a downtown mcdonalds for breakfast and dinner?

Exactly. You'd think they'd at least find a Starbuck's or an Applebees or something. Also, I'm guessing that if you have more than 100 or so people in Topeka inclined to hug a tree, a line is almost certain to form. I'm just sayin'.

By: Celebrating Ubama and the End of American Civilization « Danger West

Celebrating Ubama and the End of American Civilization « Danger West — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:38:10 +0000

[...] Celebrating Ubama and the End of American Civilization November 10, 2008 Posted by casualt in No-Cat. trackback Get a grip, people. Some guy is making plans at a McDonald’s in Kansas to create an Obama holiday, and this is newsworthy? [...]

By: Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » Let then, eat cake … on inaguration day

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:06:55 +0000

[...] Flopping Aces links to Peter Hitchens’s thoughts on a cult of personality. Jazz Shaw’s saying “uncle!”, Please. Please make it stop. I beg you. [...]

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:59:58 +0000

I doubt the guy behind this is kidding. I also think he's nuts. The idea is just so ludicrous that it just shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone but some fools will.

By: unclejoe40

unclejoe40 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:29:48 +0000

rallies at a downtown mcdonalds for breakfast and dinner?

sounds like either a bad promotion, or a very bad racist joke