Transvestites, Mao And Obama (on Mt. Rushmore) Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree

Big Government ^ | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 | Capitol Confidential

[kristinn]

Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonon to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonon, who is creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t disappoint.

These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao has his place in the White House.

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And, of course, it wouldn’t be Christmas without an ornament of legendary transvestite Hedda Lettuce.

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And, so soon after collecting the Nobel Peace Prize, why wouldn’t the White House have an ornament super-imposing President Obama onto Mt. Rushmore:

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[GnuHere]

“I don’t think he wants anything to do with the U.S. as it is today (or was yesterday).”

I think both Dear Leader and Moosechelle made that screamingly obvious before the election - of the 53% who voted for him, a few actually wanted our country to be destroyed, and the rest were (and remain) stunningly clueless.

[RegulatorCountry]

There is a gloss highlight on the ornaments in these photos, and there is clearly a thematic collage on each ornament. Think like a green leftist, 70's "decoupage" and recycling.

They found images in old magazines, newspapers and etcetera, pasted them physically onto the surface of the ornament, layering them, and then more or less shellacked the whole thing.

The person behind this all has long been controversial, and deliberately pushed the bounds of what is acceptable, you know, the whole juvenile "shock your parents" phase, that they never seem to grow out of. If jaded New Yorkers had a problem with his work on window displays, though, you know it was completely beyond the pale for normal people.

So, of course the Obama White House was drawn to that like flies on ... well, fill in the blank. I noticed a sort of ecological theme with the very first photo of the White House tree, with several on the tree in the background, behind the First Couple with Oprah Winfrey, looking like the planet Earth. These are no doubt from the same tree. Who knows what's on the side facing away from the camera.

If one of a kind ornaments presented to the White House were used for this and defaced, there should be a huge outcry, just as there should be for tasteless and deliberately offensive political imagery within the defacing of them. It's worse than grafitti. It's like one of those dubbed over American westerns from the Soviet Union, that replaced original dialogue with Communist propaganda. Matter of fact, it's part and parcel of the same mindset.

[Stayfree]

[reaganaut]

This past summer I was at a county fair community church service in South Dakota, and one of the town leaders got up to tell this joke.

There was this train with several cars of coal, one farmer asked the other where he thought it was going. The other one said, “They must be putting Obama on Mt. Rushmore”.

What was funny is she apologized “if there were any Democrats” in the house, not that the joke might be considered “off color”.

[LucyJo]

Remembrances of Christmas past:

The Clinton White House Christmas Tree Decorations

[kcvl]

Simon Doonan Is an Obese Elf Living in a Palatial Gay Fantasia

“Talk of the Town” with Simon Doonan might trigger LSD flashbacks. Not that we would know. We’re just saying, proceed with caution: “’Palatial gay fantasia’ is how Simon Doonan described his apartment in Greenwich Village the other night, as he swept past two garden gnomes crouching under a bright-orange lacquered console in the foyer. ‘Glamorous romper room,’ he continued, heading toward a paisley-patterned Ping-Pong table in the living room. ‘Because Johnny and I are very infantile.’ Nesting on bookshelves and tabletops were scores of ceramic animals designed by Doonan’s spouse, the homeware baron Jonathan Adler. (’I’m just a simple potter!’ Adler insisted.) A burlap bust of Napoleon was tucked into the fireplace, and about a fifth of the room was taken up by a huge black statue of a foot.” Also: “Adler frequently refers to Doonan as an ‘obese elf.’”

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/06/22/090622ta_talk_levy

[papasmurf]

Everybody start emailing and calling your Senator's office. Request that this abomination be removed for OUR HOUSE immediately!

My email I just sent:
I've just seen the ornaments that 0bama has on the White House Christmas Tree.

This denigration is such an insult. I am furious.

This is OUR HOUSE! This house represents US (or is supposed to), and I feel slighted, offended, and insulted.

Many Americans and our Allies, have fought, spilled blood, and died for our beliefs and those of our Countrymen and Allies.

These ornaments feature images of transvestites, Mao, and Mr. 0bama's face on Mt. Rushmore, just to name a few. Some of the images may be viewed here: http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/22/transvestites-mao-and-obama-decorate-white-house-christmas-tree/

I request that your office lodge an immediate complaint and request that these perversions be removed from MY HOUSE!

Sincerely.

FYI: My donations to your Campaign:
My donations to the GaGOP:
My Donations (bundled) to the PAC:
My Campaign District:
My Campaign Manager:

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I’ve just seen the ornaments that 0bama has on the White House Christmas Tree.

This denigration is such an insult. I am furious.

This is OUR HOUSE! This house represents US (or is supposed to), and I feel slighted, offended, and insulted.

Many Americans and our Allies, have fought, spilled blood, and died for our beliefs and those of our Countrymen and Allies.

These ornaments feature images of transvestites, Mao, and Mr. 0bama’s face on Mt. Rushmore, just to name a few. Some of the images may be viewed here: http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/22/transvestites-mao-and-obama-decorate-white-house-christmas-tree/

I request that your office lodge an immediate complaint and request that these perversions be removed from MY HOUSE!

Sincerely.

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I like what you wrote and have likewise sent it to my senators/rep.

[onyx]

Ugh.

[Murp]

This stench is directed at the celebration of the Messiahs birth. I'm not sure there are words that describe this disgusting display. “Vengence is mine, thus saith the Lord” may be the closest thing.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

So are the comments at the NYTimes.

[onyx]

GOOD on you. Since they’re going home for Christmas, I’ll send my email to the local office.

Thank you for the good idea!

Merry CHRISTmas!

[papasmurf]

Thank you.

I broke my digital camera cable, and am waiting for another to arrive. Otherwise, I would have already made a YouTube and uploaded it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Seriously, we need to start a contest to describe the most idiotic, imbecile,or stupid action that Obama can do next.

I was going to recall how Bill Clinton was out of the country for 3/4ths of the July 4th's of his administration, but then I remembered that Obama invited the Iranian diplomats to the White House for a July 4 BBQ.

I'm guessing that the Obama White House will arrange some special event about Obama for the next Presidents Day holiday.

-PJ

[Mrs. Don-o]

Or baby parts strewn hither and thither. Holiday of Herod! (It makes my heart hurt.)

[Lurking in Kansas]

By next year it will be the Black House & yes, he will be in the manager.

[papasmurf]

1. People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong's regime (1949-1975): 40 000 000 [Source]
   • Agence France Press (25 Sept. 1999) citing at length from Courtois, Stephane, Le Livre Noir du Communism:
     • Rural purges, 1946-49: 2-5M deaths
     • Urban purges, 1950-57: 1M
     • Great Leap Forward: 20-43M
     • Cultural Revolution: 2-7M
     • Labor Camps: 20M
     • Tibet: 0.6-1.2M
     • TOTAL: 44.5 to 72M
   • Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts : Mao's Secret Famine (1996)
     • Estimates of the death toll from the Great Leap Forward, 1959-61:
       • Judith Banister, China's Changing Population (1984): 30M excess deaths (acc2 Becker: "the most reliable estimate we have")
       • Wang Weizhi, Contemporary Chinese Population (1988): 19.5M deaths
       • Jin Hui (1993): 40M population loss due to "abnormal deaths and reduced births"
       • Chen Yizi of the System Reform Inst.: 43-46M deaths
   • Brzezinski:
     • Forcible collectivization: 27 million peasants
     • Cultural Revolution: 1-2 million
     • TOTAL: 29 million deaths under Mao
   • Daniel Chirot:
     • Land reform, 1949-56
       • According to Zhou Enlai: 830,000
       • According to Mao Zedong: 2-3M
     • Great Leap Forward: 20-40 million deaths.
     • Cultural Revolution: 1-20 million
   • Jung Chang, Mao: the Unknown Story (2005)
     • Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries, 1950-51: 3M by execution, mob or suicide
     • Three-Anti Campaign, 1952-53: 200,000-300,000 suicides
     • Great Leap Forward, 1958-61: 38M of starvation and overwork
     • Cultural Revolution, 1966-76: > 3M died violent deaths
     • Laogai camp deaths, 1949-76: 27M
     • TOTAL under Mao: 70M
   • Dictionary of 20C World History: around a half million died in Cultural Rev.
   • Eckhardt:
     • Govt executes landlords (1950-51): 1,000,000
     • Cultural Revolution (1967-68): 50,000
   • Gilbert:
     • 1958-61 Famine: 30 million deaths.
   • Kurt Glaser and Stephan Possony, Victims of Politics (1979):
     • They estimate the body count under Mao to be 38,000,000 to 67,000,000.
     • Cited by G & P:
       • Walker Report (see below): 44.3M to 63.8M deaths.
       • The Government Information Office of Taiwan (18 Sept. 1970): 37M deaths in the PRC.
       • A Radio Moscow report (7 Apr. 1969): 26.4M people had been exterminated in China.
       • (NOTE: Obviously the Soviets and Taiwanese would, as enemies, be strongly motivated to exaggerate.)
   • Guinness Book of World Records:
     • Although nowadays they don't come right out and declare Mao to be the Top Dog in the Mass Killings category, earlier editions (such as 1978) did, and they cited sources which are similar, but not identical, to the Glaser & Possony sources:
       • On 7 Apr. 1969 the Soviet government radio reported that 26,300,000 people were killed in China, 1949-65.
       • In April 1971 the cabinet of the government of Taiwan reported 39,940,000 deaths for the years 1949-69.
       • The Walker Report (see below): between 32,2500,000 and 61,700,000.
   • Harff and Gurr:
     • KMT cadre, rich peasants, landlords (1950-51): 800,000-3,000,000
     • Cultural Revolution (1966-75): 400,000-850,000
   • John Heidenrich, How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen: 27M death toll, incl. 2M in Cultural Revolution
   • Paul Johnson doesn't give an overall total, but he gives estimates for the principle individual mass dyings of the Mao years:
     • Land reform, first years of PRC: at least 2 million people perished.
     • Great Leap Forward: "how many millions died ... is a matter of conjecture."
     • Cultural Revolution: 400,000, calling the 3 Feb. 1979 estimate by Agence France Presse, "The most widely respected figure".
   • Meisner, Maurice, Mao's China and After (1977, 1999), doesn't give an overall total either, but he does give estimates for the three principle mass dyings of the Mao years:
     • Terror against the counterrevolutionaries: 2 million people executed during the first three years of the PRC.
     • Great Leap Forward: 15-30 million famine-related deaths.
     • Cultural Revolution: 400,000, citing a 1979 estimate by Agence France Presse.
   • R. J. Rummel:
     • Estimate:
       • Democide: 34,361,000 (1949-75)
         • The principle episodes being...
           • All movements (1949-58): 11,813,000
             • incl. Land Reform (1949-53): 4,500,000
           • Cult. Rev. (1964-75): 1,613,000
           • Forced Labor (1949-75): 15,000,000
           • Great Leap Forward (1959-63): 5,680,000 democides
       • War: 3,399,000
       • Famine: 34,500,000
         • Great Leap Forward: 27M famine deaths
       • TOTAL: 72,260,000
     • Cited in Rummel:
       • Li, Cheng-Chung (Republic of China, 1979): 78.86M direct/indirect deaths.
       • World Anti-Communist League, True Facts of Maoist Tyranny (1971): 64.5M
       • Glaser & Possony: 38 to 67M (see above)
       • Walker Report, 1971 (see below): 31.75M to 58.5M casualties of Communism (excluding Korean War).
       • Current Death Toll of International Communism (1979): 39.9M
       • Stephen R. Shalom (1984), Center for Asian Studies, Deaths in China Due To Communism: 3M to 4M death toll, excluding famine.
   • Walker, Robert L., The Human Cost of Communism in China (1971, report to the US Senate Committee of the Judiciary) "Casualties to Communism" (deaths):
     • 1st Civil War (1927-36): .25-.5M
     • Fighting during Sino-Japanese War (1937-45): 50,000
     • 2nd Civil War (1945-49): 1.25M
     • Land Reform prior to Liberation: 0.5-1.0M
     • Political liquidation campaigns: 15-30M
     • Korean War: 0.5-1.234M
     • Great Leap Forward: 1-2M
     • Struggle with minorities: 0.5-1.0M
     • Cultural Revolution: .25-.5M
     • Deaths in labor camps: 15-25M
     • TOTAL: 34.3M to 63.784M
     • TOTAL FOR PRC: 32M to 59.5M
   • July 17, 1994, Washington Post (Great Leap Forward 1959-61)
     • Shanghai University journal, Society: > 40 million
     • Cong Jin: 40 million
     • Chen Yizi: 43 million in the famine. 80 million total as a result of Mao's policies.
   • Weekly Standard, 29 Sept. 1997, "The Laogai Archipelago" by D. Aikman:
     • Between 1949 and 1997, 50M prisoners passed through the labor camps, and 15,000,000 died (citing Harry Wu)
   • WHPSI: 1,633,319 political executions and 25,961 deaths from political violence, 1948-77. TOTAL: 1,659,280
   • Analysis: If we line up the 14 sources which claim to be complete, the median falls in the 45.75 to 52.5 million range, so you probably can't go wrong picking a final number from this neighborhood. Depending on how you want to count some of the incomplete estimates (such as Becker and Meisner) and whether to count a source twice (or thrice, as with Walker) if it's referenced by two different authorities, you can slide the median up and down the scale by many millions. Keep in mind, however, that official Chinese records are hidden from scrutiny, so most of these numbers are pure guesses. It's pointless to get attached to any one of them, because the real number could easily be half or twice any number here.
   • Perhaps a better way of estimating would be to add up the individual components. The medians here are:
     • Purges, etc. during the first few years: 2M (10 estimates)
     • Great Leap Forward: 31-33M (14 estimates)
     • Cultural Revolution: 1M (13 estimates)
     • Ethnic Minorities, primarily Tibetans: 750-900T (8 estimates, see below)
     • Labor Camps: 20M (5 estimates)
     • This produces a total of some 54,750,000 to 56,900,000 deaths. The weak link in this calculation is in the Labor Camp numbers for which we only have 5 estimates.
   • Notice that many early body counts (such as Walker) completely miss the famine during the Great Leap Forward, which was largely unknown in the west until around 1980. There are two contradictory ways to assess those early estimates which ignore the famine:
     1. "If these are the numbers that they came up with without the famine, imagine how high the true number will be once you add the famine deaths."
     2. "Can we trust any of these numbers? After all, if they missed such a huge famine, they can't have known very much about what was going on inside China."
   • ... so this line of reasoning will get us nowhere. In fact, the median of the 7 estimate that predate 1980 is 45.7M, which is almost the same as the median of the 7 estimates that post-date 1980 -- 58M. (At this scale, a 12M difference counts as "almost the same".)
2. Tibet (1950 et seq.): 600 000
   • Chinese occupation. (For the most part, it's already been included in the numbers above.)
     • Free Tibet Campaign [http://www.freetibet.org/info/facts/fact1.html]
       • Tibetans killed by the Chinese since 1950: 1,200,000
       • Died in prisons and labour camps between 1950 and 1984: up to 260,000
       • 1959 Uprising: 430,000 died
         • K. in Reprisals: 87,000
     • Our Times: 1,200,000
     • Courtois: 600,000 - 1,200,000
     • Walker, Robert: 500,000-1,000,000 (all ethnic minorities)
     • Rummel: 375,000 democides inflicted on etnic minorities
       • ... incl 150,000 Tibetans
     • Porter: 100,000 to 150,000.
     • Eckhardt:
       • 1950-51 War: 2,000 civ.
       • 1956-59 Revolt: 60,000 civ. + 40,000 mil. = 100,000
     • Harff and Gurr: 65,000 Tibetan nationalists, landowners, Buddhists killed, 1959
     • Small & Singer say that China lost 40,000 soldiers in Tibet between 1956 and '59.

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Oh, yeah, I just want, so badly, to honor this animal with a place in MY house. NOT!

[reagan_fanatic]

After seeing this, I want to puke.

[onyx]

PING

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Obama is truly a pathetic person.