Friday, December 31, 2004
As the Media Crumbles...
Patterico Presents the Parade of Prevarication and the Penchant for Preconception, Predilection, Predisposition, and Prejudice, that is the Los Angeles Dog Trainer
[aka the LATimes]
Part One examines the paper’s coverage of the 2004 presidential election.
Part Two discusses other issues, such as the paper’s campaign against Justice Scalia, the editors’ leftist views on various “culture wars” issues, the op-ed page under Michael Kinsley, errors made by the paper this year, and other topics.
One helluvan undertaking—done with Patterico’s usual attention to detail and flair! If free information is the backbone of a democracy, Patterico is surely one of its vertebra.
Free people *RULE*
Doin’ What We Can With What We Got
They’re flying the small stuff—but they’re flying.
Free people *RULE*
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Should Auld Acquaintance . . .
... I forget.....
Ok—it’s the laaaast day of the year. Time to look back.
What is the standout Word/Term of the Year?
-- wardrobe malfunction
-- red state blue state [apologies to Dr Seuss]
-- blog / blogosphere
-- girly-man
-- metrosexual
-- ____________
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the Most Memorable Political Moment?
-- Yeaaaaaaagh!!!!
-- I voted for it before I voted against it.
-- Reporting for duty!
-- Barney’s Xmas video
-- Osama’s video endorsement
-- Yushchenko election
-- War Profiteer Michael Moore’s product *wipes hands*
-- Swift Boat Veterans / Families of POWs for Truth
-- “He met with terrorists in Paris? Oh, that’s great”
-- Dick Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian. ...who is gay. ..and a lesbian.
-- Need some wood?
-- Anyone who doesn’t agree with my husband is an idiot!
-- Just soak the raisins in the gin . . .
-- Are you a liar or an admitted war criminal? Both? Thank you.
-- _____________
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Most Significant News Event
-- SpaceShipOne
-- Chechnian terrorist attack
-- Earthquake/Tsunami
-- _____________
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Dumbest Most Self Destructive Move by MSM
-- “just a bunch of guys in pajamas”
-- Rathergate
-- “You’ve been had, Ted. You’ve been had in a Communist country .”
-- ____________
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I *know* I’m missing some categories and some entries! What’re your favorites of 2004?
How 'bout now?
Now? ‘cept comments page is still a leedle off. --which makes no sense. ...yet, dammit!
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Baaaarney Google...
...with the goo- goo- googly eyes!
Ok—can ya hear me see ‘em now? three little columns all inna row—I know they’re a little goofy, but..... Rome and all that.
MORE: I think i got that goofy spacing thing nailed.... For you?
Dubya! Quit being such a Todd!
I send greetings to those observing Kwanzaa.
During Kwanzaa, millions of African Americans and people of African descent gather to celebrate their heritage and ancestry. Kwanzaa celebrations provide an opportunity to focus on the importance of family, community, and history, and to reflect on the Nguzo Saba or seven principles of African culture. These principles emphasize unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
Kwanzaa strengthens the ties that bind communities across America and around the world and reflects the great promise and diversity of America.
Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a joyous Kwanzaa.
GEORGE W. BUSH
I know—you’ve been a little busy with the WOT and now being nibbled to death by Danish ducks while sending aid to tsunami affected countries. But still—I gotta take issue with your giving even the tiniest bit of approval to this “holiday.”
Let’s start with a bit o’ history, m’kay? Kwanzaa was started in 1966 by a paranoid schizophrenic/sociopath named Ron Karenga; felon, torturer of women African princesses, avowed Marxist, and leader of the United Slaves, the black separatist movement/cult he started. [famous quote: from The Quotable Karenga, a book that laid out the “True Path of Blackness.” “The sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black,"]
Now I got no quarrel with a ‘new’ holiday. I got no quarrel with a nut job—per se. What I do have a quarrel with is mean-spirited divisive bullshit.
taken from the Kwanzaa Information Center:
Derived from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza” which means “first fruits”, Kwanzaa is rooted in the first harvest celebrations practiced in various cultures in Africa.
No one—anywhere-- celebrates harvest in December.
By creating Kwanzaa, African-Americans sought to rectify the cultural and economic exploitation perpetrated against us during the months of October, November, and December (the Christmas season).
Say what?!? that was less than a month ago—I don’t remember perpetrating any cultural *or* economic exploitation against African-Americans. Unless they’re referring to the fact that all of Santa’s elves --- unpaid elves—are black…
During this season, corporate America typically ignored the quality of life concerns of African-Americans, yet encouraged participation in the commercialism of Christmas.
So ... If all those evil corporations fail, then who’s gonna pay the salaries of the pee-pole? Or the taxes that pay the “entitlements” of the pee-pole? Marxist malarkey.
Among the symbols are the “mat of tradition,” and the seven candles for the seven days/principles. *cough*menorah*cough*. The Unity Cup to hold the libation [a 40 o’ malt.] And the corn.
a stalk of corn which produces corn, which in turn becomes stalk, which reproduces in the same manner so that there is no ending to us.
All fine and dandy, but, corn is native to the Americas, developed by the indigenous personnel here and not found in Africa until the honkeys offay white devils spread it there.
Next, the 7 principals [NGUZO SABA].
“Unity: in the family, community, nation and race.”
“Self-determination: ...define ourselves, name ourselves ...” Inescapable, that. No matter what your conditions, you’re still in charge of how you deal, no? I’ve heard that floaty-moldy language before—“name ourselves”: the language of the victim.
“Collective work and responsibility” not mutual support—collective “...to make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems ...” Co-dependent Marxism.
“Cooperative economics” paging Karl.... who’s now giggling like a fool.
“Purpose: To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.” I don’t mean to be cold, but ‘xactly to which “greatness” does this refer?
“Creativity: ...in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.” Good idea—difficult with all this co-dependent collectivity, though.
“Faith: To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.” Remember that “victory” part…
The Flag:
Red is for the Blood . Black is the Black People. Green is for the Land.
The Red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things. We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race.
un huh . . . Whose blood?
The Black man in this hemisphere has yet to obtain land which is represented by the Green. The acquisition of land is the highest and noblest aspiration for the Black man on this continent, since without land there can be no freedom, justice, independence, or equality.
So… No black people own land? Or can buy land? Or is land only *good* if there are no whiteys on it? or near it?
WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE RED , BLACK, AND GREEN , OUR FLAG, THE SYMBOL OF OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE, AND TO THE LAND WE MUST OBTAIN; ONE NATION OF BLACK PEOPLE, WITH ONE GOD OF US ALL, TOTALLY UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE, FOR BLACK LOVE, BLACK FREEDOM, AND BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION.
So Kwanzaa, by this description, is a celebration of Marxism, collectivity, co-depenency, racism and the clear intent to spill blood. Kwanzaa states its goal to shatter the ties that bind communities across America. Kwanzaa reflects nothing of “the great promise and diversity of America.” By giving official Presidential recognition to this celebration of racism and divisiveness, ol’ Dubya is merely pandering to black Americans. In a statement of denial almost French in flavor, he seems to be appeasing. What does he know that I’ve missed?
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*bangs head on wall*
yet another reason Billy da G oughta be shmacked
I just got a load of what e-biscuit looks like in IE—yech!!!! ptui!!! bleagh!!
I’ll be working on that in hours/days to come.....
[note to self—re-pad wall.] [ again.]
Standards are a *good thing.*
That’s why we have so many of ‘em....
The Award he'd Rather not get...
...or maybe he’s honored. *You* ask him.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Sandy “don’t look in my pants” Berger
Terry McAuliffe
- Joseph Goebbels
Thomas Sowell: Events of this past year have shown the need for a special award in journalism for those who think that the purpose of reporting news is to cause the public to adopt the political views of those who do the reporting. Therefore this column announces the first annual Joseph Goebbels award for that journalist who best exemplifies the spirit and the practice that Dr. Goebbels pioneered.
...Had there been such an award in 2003, “Baghdad Bob” would have been the clear winner ... Holding the same official position as Dr. Goebbels, Baghdad Bob would have been the perfect first winner of this award. But such are the lost opportunities of history.
And who would be the winner?
Maybe Ted Koppel who went half-way ‘round the world to interview Vietnamese ‘peasants’ about an incident in the middle of a war 30 years ago? ...with the implicit assumption that these village folk would have known at the time that it was John Kerry charging into their homes, M16 at the ready?!? ...while the interviewees were being monitored by Communist party keepers?!?!? ...and failed to interview one [1] American witness to the same incident who could reasonable be assumed to know the identity of their fellow soldier?!??
Certainly qualified, but for Sowell, Ted is just Miss Congeniality in this contest. Nope, Sowell’s favorite is…
*drumroll*
This year’s Joseph Goebbels award goes by a narrow but decisive margin to CBS News anchorman Dan Rather for his planned broadcast on “60 Minutes”—just days before the election—to discredit President Bush’s National Guard service 30 years earlier. Leave aside for the moment the fact that discrepancies in the documents he relied on have convinced experts and many others that they were forgeries. Why was what George W. Bush did or didn’t do 30 years earlier “news” in 2004?
It was news by Dr. Goebbels’ standard—something that could lead to desired political reactions by the audience. Waiting until it would have been virtually impossible for an effective answer to be made before election day was in the same Goebbels spirit. Had the documents been real, Dan Rather would still have been a strong contender for the award. The fact that virtually everyone, with the notable exception of Mr. Rather, now regards those documents as fake—instead of simply “not authenticated”—makes Dan Rather the clear winner of the Joseph Goebbels award for 2004.
...It is the purpose that is decisive, so that even honest people are eligible for this award. We have to be inclusive.
*standing ovation*
*great throwing of pies*
ThanQ! AQ1!
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Wack-job of the Week
another dodged bullet heard from
Horowitz: On Christmas Day, former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern wrote a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times (and probably many other papers) calling for an American surrender in Iraq .
Horowitz traces this ‘sentiment’ back to Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party in 1948 [“One, two, three, four, we don’t want another war/Five, six, seven, eight, win with Wallace in ’48.” ] through the anti-Viet Nam War activists, “who thought the Communists were liberating Vietnam in the same way Michael Moore thinks Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is liberating Iraq,” right up to Kerry, Terry McAuliffe and the rest of their ilk.
Horowitz continues:
Explained McGovern: “Once we left Vietnam and quit bombing its people they became friends and trading partners.” [1]
Actually, that is not what happened. Four months after the Democrats cut off aid to Cambodia and Vietnam in January 1975, both regimes fell to the Communist armies. Within three years the Communist victors had slaughtered two-and-a-half million peasants in the Indochinese peninsula, paving the way for their socialist paradise. The blood of those victims is on the hands of the Americans who forced this withdrawal: John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, and George McGovern – and antiwar activists like myself.
It is true that Vietnam eventually became a trading partner (“friend” is another matter). But this was not true that it occurred “once we left and quit bombing its people.” Before that took place, a Republican president confronted the Soviet Union in Europe and Afghanistan and forced the collapse of the Soviet empire. It was only then, after the Cold War enemy and support of the Vietnamese Communists had been defeated, that they accommodated themselves to co-existence with the United States .
...a politics of surrender is not a politics of peace.
[1] Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2004.
ThanQ! ReliaPundit
From the ol' email bag
dunno from whence it came… but thanks!
Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, along with a U.S. Marine assigned to protect them, were hiking through the Iraqi desert one day when they were captured by terrorists. They were tied up, led to a village, and brought before the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.
Zarqawi said, “I am familiar with your western custom of granting the condemned a last wish; so, before we kill and dismember you, do you have any last requests?”
Dan Rather said, “Well, I’m a Texan; so I’d like one last bowlful of hot spicy chili.” Zarqawi nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chili. Rather ate it all and said, “Now I can die content.”
Peter Jennings said, “I am Canadian, so I’d like to hear the song ‘O Canada’ one last time.” Zarqawi nodded to a terrorist who had studied the Western world and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the anthem. Jennings sighed and declared he could now die peacefully.
Zarqawi turned and said, “And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?”
“Kick me in the ass,” said the Marine.
“What?” asked Zarqawi. “Will you mock us in your last hour?”
“No, I’m not kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass,” insisted the Marine. So the leader shoved him into the open, and kicked him in the ass.The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled out a 9mm pistol hidden in his cammies, and shot Zarqawi dead.
In the resulting confusion, he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine, and sprayed the remaining terrorists with gunfire. In a flash, they were either dead or fleeing for their lives.
As the Marine was untying Rather and Jennings, they asked him, “Why didn’t you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you in the ass?”
“What,” replied the Marine, “and have you assholes call me the aggressor?"
Monday, December 27, 2004
That must be some cave . . .
I think I know who he’s hangin’ with
Iraq In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera satellite television, a man purported to be Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month’s elections there.
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The Council Has Spoken ! !
Witchhunt
by Dr. Sanity and,
Ratman of the Far Abroad
by The Diplomad
Full results of the vote are over at The Watcher’s, and the week’s entries are too!
Spambots: byte hot bits and die!! [Thanx, Watcher!]
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Dept. of Since When??
all these “offended” folk really offend me...
New Hampshire 12-year-old New Hampshire boy who wanted to jolly up his junior high dance by dressing in a Santa suit instead got a lesson in political correctness when his Scroogelike principal turned the student away, fearing he might offend his classmates.
...Principal Fred Muscara sent the preteen home from the holiday dance by himself to change into more secular attire.
a] since when is Santa a religious figure?
b] How many cases have been recorded of actual Death by being Offended?
c] How many howls of outrage would ensue from a declaration of “being offended” by a mention of Kawansa?
[which I am—but that’s another post...]
ThanQ! Country Store
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Solutions 'R' Us
Federal Air Marshal Service Director Thomas Quinn. The man in charge of our in-flight cops, who are supposed to be spying secretly on would-be terrorist hijackers, refuses to allow his employees to dress undercover. Quinn insists that air marshals abide by military-style grooming standards and a rigid business dress policy regardless of weather, time of year or seating arrangement. He wants them to look PROFESSIONAL.
...That means collared shirts and sports coats ... the “kill-me-first dress-code policy.”
If every man on the flight were similarly dressed, those Air Marshals wouldn’t stick out so, would they? Guys—this is where y’all step up to the plate…
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