If a fake Mexican Irish Elitist White Democrat Dude is not your speed, Stacy McCain is trying to make Marianne Williamson happen for the Democrats in 2020! Carrie Anne does sort of work with Marianne, so I think this should be her campaign song.
I am guessing this was not a particularly good week for Felicity Huffman or her husband William Macy. She was arrested today for mail fraud as part of a conspiracy/bribery investigation to get her kids into college by manipulating the SAT process. Definitely not good. It is not yet clear why Macy was not charged.
While I like some of their work as actors, their parenting style is not one I would endorse. Felicity Huffman thought it was ok the bend the rules by using their cash to buy their kids places they would not have qualified for otherwise. Welcome to Hollywood.
I am almost sympathetic...until I think of the hypocrisy of Hollywood politics. This is not a victimless crime: For their kids to jump the line means that two other kids did not get accepted to those schools.
The FBI sound like they played this up to the cameras. The FBI is corrupt as government agencies come. Oh well, then again the FBI also mugged for the cameras in arresting Roger Stone too (I bet Huffman and Macy cheered that on). While I am not cheering it on, this is what you get when you encourage government to go heavy handed.
Of course, there is a perfectly legal way to buy undue influence in higher education. Just make a big open donation to a school (take the tax write off) and get your underachieving kids in that way. At least you can make the argument that money helps fund other kids who can't afford it (in reality it just helps fund college administrators who benefit from these donations).
Bohemian Grove does have an Eyes Wide Shutquality to it...just gayer. Or as Richard Nixon (a member of the Grove) called it: “the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine”
Alex Jones is a nut job, but his Bohemian Grove film is pretty amazing. There is a weird elitist obsession with the occult that should give anyone pause. I love Northern California and the Redwoods too (Sonoma County is awesome), but this elite gathering goes beyond simply communing with the trees (and Alex those are Coast Redwoods at Bohemian Grove, not Sequoias).
The ceremonies of the Bohemian Grove are sort of reminiscent of things the Freemasons, Odd Fellows and other 18th and 19th Century Organizations engage in. I am not suggesting Freemasons are evil (I do not believe that). No doubt, most of the attendees at Bohemian Grove are mostly into hanging out with their fellow elites, getting away from their wives, and getting drunk. I seriously doubt most of them are engaging in gay orgies or sneaking into town to engage call girls (they can do that just as easily back in Washington, D.C. or Chappaqua, as the case may be). Still, there is something creepy in the ceremonies of the Bohemian Grove.
I am not buying all of Alex Jones's theories, but I suspect he is right about how an event like this is a way to bond (aka compromising) people. While I am sure not all the attendees are debcuahering, everything is on the down low (fueled with plenty of alcohol) and certainly plenty of hijinks take place.
Sure they claim no business takes place in the Grove, but you can be sure there are connections made in the Grove that continue on for the rest of the year.
Jack London: Should the Bohemian Grove be referred to as "Call of the Wild Side"?
Vanity Fair: Bohemian Tragedy Are the Bohemians logging their old growth stands? While I am not into logging old growth redwoods, I am still I am trying to wrap my head around this:
In 1999, Jock joined the club. The waiting list was 15 years long, and it still is. Twenty thousand “men of talent” are supposedly waiting to join, although some say the club, like y venerable old men’s clubs, is having trouble attracting younger members. He joined Five Easy Pieces. Music and theatricals, including elaborate productions in makeup and drag, are a big part of the festivities. “Sometimes the homoerotic themes can get weird,” one member told me. Great jam sessions at one camp or another last late into the night. Steve Miller is a member. He wears dark suits and looks like a hedge-fund manager until he straps on his guitar. Two former members of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir, are members—entertainment providers are fast-tracked. Hart is in the posh Hill Billies camp, with Rumsfeld, longtime Grove father figure Walter Cronkite, Papa Bush, and Christopher Buckley (whose father, William F., was also a Hill Billy, hard as that is to imagine). Weir is in Rattlers. Strange bedfellows, one would think. Weir and Hart played a benefit concert for Barack Obama last year, and the Grove of the Old Trees, a 28-acre redwood stand in Occidental, California, was saved from the ax a few years ago thanks in part to the passionate activism of Mickey’s wife, Caryl, who was re-appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to the California State Parks Commission.
Mickey Hart is in the same Hill Billy camp that the Bushes, Rumsfeld, and William F. Buckley are in?
Ok, talking about all this occultism and weirdness, there is a certain break down of moral order (across the USA), and the feminist backlash is taking its toll...
CBS, in response to it being described as the "Country Broadcast System" over reacted by conducting a "rural purge" in the early 70s. This is just a new twist on that.
Petticoat Junction: Bobbie Jo, Betty Jo and Billie Jo
Phil Robertson should tell A&E to go duck themselves. What he said was his opinion, and definitely not hate. A&E should cut them loose and see what happens. Maybe Morrissey will come do a reality show with A&E on hunting for his sexual orientation. Maybe they can get George Takei in on it too (I like George, I just threw that out there because he recently commented).
And since it is the holidays and I am a giver: Bonus Rule 5
