Thursday, January 06, 2005
Yes,
I do.
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...or izzit just me?
I’m starting to think that all this “stingy" talk is like that kid in the third grade who tried to get ya to do stuff that’d get ya in trouble by callin’ ya names and “dirty dog double dares.”
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
I am *so* embarrassed...
I gotta get over this “can’t look away from a train wreck” thing
I watched Matt Lauer interview Amber Frey last nite.
ok—stop laughing. I’ll wait.
I did finally figure out who Lauer reminds me of: Dobby the House Elf.
Right at the outset I ought re-state that I have paid as little attention as possible to this whole Peterson thing. It annoyed me at the very outset by being an obvious “oooo, something shiny” dangled by the newzies to distract from the end of the ‘show’ in Iraq. That and it’s inherent repulsiveness were ...off-putting to me.
Having heard bits of her book read by the am radio news guyz, it was too, too apparent the whitewash job Lauer did. Listening to her description of her meeting with Peterson—in her words [yeah—ok, ok...] from her book—I gotta wonder. She fell for those old first meeting lines; “Nice to meet you. I gotta take a shower, come up to my room,” “oh, I just *happen* to have champagne and strawberries in my duffle bag,” “let’s go to the QuickieMart and get a bottle of gin,”—one after the other. Scott hadda be thinking, “I can’t do this woman—she’s a re-todd!”
The whole interview was a visit to the land of the dull-normals. The self-involved dull-normals. “If there wasn’t me there would be no way to find what happened to Laci,” sez Amber. [inaccurate quote from what I like to call my “memory"]
In fact, even when the police told her they had enough tape [of their phone calls] to hang the bastard, she was compelled to keep going, keep contact. Scott had the fascination of a cobra to its prey.
And weirder still; Scott kept calling her! Voluntarily! Even after it became clear that she was working with the cops! Talk about the classic sociopathic “can’t catch me.” Nuttin’ sadder than a dim-witted sociopathic murdering narcissist. He called Amber from the candle-light vigil for Laci. He told her he’d “lost his wife” 2 weeks *before* Laci ‘disappeared.’ pukepukepuke!
Poor Amber is still working to get her mind around just how not-like-us sick and twisted Peterson is. Twice - that I noticed - Lauer put the word “crazy” into her mouth. Just reached right over an unabashedly dropped it in. She chewed a little, but accepted it. Along with lots of other things. It was truly an exercise in media-ized presentation; “here’s what you should think.” Polished and preened for presentation, Amber still looks like a hard, sad, unfortunate girl from a small town in the valley.
And yet—after all this crappola—little Amber is not changing the way she goes about things. Apparently she just had another baby from some guy who ain’t a gonna marry her. I’m guessing scum-sucking bottom feeders will be lining up along Highway 99 to date her. If her book sells really well—really, really well—she could even land herself a catch as good as Kerry.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
I gotta go take a shower.....
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Something's Rotten in the State of Cahleefohrneeiah
not that I’d expect a state-educated kid to get the reference...
The Rand Corp. has revealed that Cahleefohrneeiah is at the bottom of the national barrel in academic achievement. Researcher Steve Carroll [LAT - any relation?] attributes this to the high teacher/student ratio and the dollar amount spent per student. Never mind those other, repeated studies demonstrating that, past a certain point, those factors mattered not at all. We are well past that cut-off point in Cahleefohrnieeiah.
In fact, our county system is so far past that minimum funding point that they toss out piles and piles of 2-3 year old Macs every year—G4s and those kewl titanium laptops, last year. And the administration building is oft called the Taj Mahal. It’s sure prettier than the Apple campus or Xerox Park. But that’s not important, now.
Rand Researcher Carroll goes on to place the blame squarely on Prop 13. Another weight on the scales…
Mr Carroll is mistaken. It is not the amount of money—it is how the money is spent. Attempting to find a usable history text for my step-daughter a few years ago proved impossible. We brought home every single state approved text the teacher could find and not a one of them was readable. To me. So much had been taken out or cluttered up with PC, the effect was semantic content nil. Sentence after sentence after paragraph after chapter with no information, no meaning, nuttin’. Bare as Mother Hubbard’s cupboards.
G’head—throw a million dollars per student at that—it will getcha no where.
It is so time to find a nice Red State home. At least we know where all those Moonbats come from: the Cahleefohrneeiah Ignoratti—our biggest export.
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An Historic Day
...in the history of our species.
We have maintained a presence on Mars for one full year.
Human presence. On another planet.
Tsunami Relief Efforts; up close
can you say cluster f^ck?
Well, The Diplomad is sorry for its past criticism of the UN.
In these times of gentleness and political correctness, we all must acknowledge that we’re all special in our own way. We each do what we can best do. Americans and Australians are good at saving lives and the world; the UN is good at asking for money and going to conferences. We’re sure both talents are equally valid; we shouldn’t judge one better or worse than the other.
Good blog, with an excellent vantage point on the proceedings—and a high snark level. Perfect.
ThanQ! TBK
Stop Laughing!
not that you were...
from The Beeb: An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows.
...authorities are taking it as a sign that the tribes have not been wiped out by the earthquake and sea surges as many had feared ...
MMoore gets a Spankin'! eww
prepare motion sickness bags
The E! Entertainer of the Year Awards are out! We’ve all been waiting breathlessly, I know.
The winners are: *drumroll*
Except:
In Third Place:
Higher Power Player: Mel Gibson
Even though Tinseltown originally balked, Gibson had faith that his self-financed and controversial The Passion of the Christ epic would appeal to the masses. It did, to the tune of $600 million and change worldwide, pushing him into demigod status in that little slice of heaven we call Hollywood. [I guess success is the bestnose-thumberrevenge]
and in Sixth Place [behind a cartoon Ogre]:
Dogmamentary Director: Michael Moore
Anyone can crack a George W. Bush joke around the water cooler, but it takes a real stud to go on the hunt with a controversially opinionated documentary like Fahrenheit 9/11 . Love it or hate it, watching Moore huff around on camera in search of answers is the kind of stuff we could watch all day. [ “stud”—raaaalfffff]
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Monday, January 03, 2005
Interesting...
Debka File exclusive: On December 16, the deposed Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein was allowed to see his lawyer, Khalil Duleimi for the first time. With no one else present and no time limit, Saddam spoke his mind freely.
...He had two main gripes. One was that the Americans will not let him shave his beard despite his repeated requests. He even offered to let a US military barber shave him, but they refused. His theory is that the Americans want to make sure that whenever he appears in public, as he did on June 30, 2004 before an Iraqi investigating judge, he will look confused, unkempt and too low in spirits to bother to shave.
His second complaint was against the Red Cross workers. He wanted their visits stopped because he said they are neither polite nor respectful.
...Saddam asked to convey his regards to three people: the American lawyer Ramsey Clark for joining his defense, Malaysian ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohammed, and independent British party leader George Galloway ...and to gyptian journalist Mustafa Bakri who has a program on Arabic al Jazeera television.
...Saddam said, “I ordered the transition to guerrilla warfare. I told the commanders: the Americans will stretch out full length across Iraq like a viper. That will be the moment to attack and lop off each section one by one.” The deposed president bragged: “All the insurgency and guerrilla operations in progress are the fruit of my decision and my pre-planning.”
...[when informed] that five million Iranians infiltrated Iraq in advance of the January 30 elections to register as voters, Saddam retorted: “This is nothing new as far as the Persian traitors are concerned. We always knew they wanted to grab southern Iraq and that this was the objective of the Badr Brigades. Now the Americans are discovering this for themselves.”
...DEBKA file ’s military sources add:
Saddam Hussein touched inadvertently on the most burning issue between the Bush administration and Iraq’s interim prime minister Iyad Alawi. Ever since the December 21 suicide attack on the US forward base in Mosul, when 22 Americans were killed, Allawi has been urging Washington to launch attacks from Iraq on points in Syria – singling out military locations known to intelligence as bases used to assist and train terrorists preparatory to their infiltration of Iraq. The Iraqi prime minister believes that without military action against Syria, three key goals will remain out of reach:
1. A general election on January 30 orderly enough to be a success.
2. An effective deterrent to Tehran’s meddling in Iraq.
3. Victory in the war against the guerrillas.
Sunday, January 2, US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage arrives in Damascus with a final warning from Washington. The Syrian ruler will be informed that the administration is closer than ever before to acceding to Allawi’s demand.
The Council Has Spoken ! !
Spinning the Numbers by Alpha Patriot and,
Academic Freedom, Hate Mail and David Horowitz by La Shawn Barber’s Corner
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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Badges!?! We don't need no stinking badges!!
Mexican government finally out of the closet
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government is giving out a colorful new comic book with advice for migrants, ...The Guide for the Mexican Migrant .
Using simple language, the book offers safety information for border crossers, a primer on their legal rights and advice on living unobtrusively in the United States.
..."This guide is intended to give you some practical advice that could be of use if you have made the difficult decision to seek new work opportunities outside your country,” the book says.
IOW: you untrained, illiterate burdens on our economy, go leech off visit Uncle Satan Santa.
Thanks, Vicente—at least yer being honest. Now, howz about a barrel of oil per “new work opportunity seeker” per year?
Carlos Flores Vizcarra, Mexican consul general of Phoenix, said ...It’s a way to put it in very simple terms so people will understand the risks. The intention is out of concern for human rights."
How about that most basic of human rights—the right <>not to be protected from the consequences of one’s choices?
Evil Conservative that I am....
or is it just that I’ve had it up to here with primitive, uncivilized behavior?
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I’m getting really, really tired of hearing about how it’s the Great Santa Satan’s responsibility to rescue the entirety of South Asia from their tsunami woes. That we “should” make them whole. That we’re stingy. That Bush caused it by not signing that useless piece of chicanery, the Kyoto Treaty. That it’s God’s punishment.
Piles and piles of magical thinking from the mouths of ignorant, irresponsible, hateful fools. Oh, the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth. Pfaff.
How much help did any of them offer us during our recent spate of hurricanes? Sure—they don’t have much, they can’t do much—but did they even offer? Did they stand up like adults and lend a hand to people in a crisis? I didn’t see it.
I don’t hear anyone calling Denmark “stingy.” Or France. Or the House of Saud, Lybia, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, or Syria. But when Israel steps up to the plate and offers help, it’s thrown back in their face.
Then, to top it all off—*MY* money, taken by force, is being given to the biggest scam organization of all time. The antics pulled by this bunch would make any small-time mafioso blush at the petty shabbiness of it all—and my government *and* my dang Prezzy-dent are acting like this is a legit expenditure of *MY* money!! [not to mention *your* money...] Make Kofi and Son® fatter, pass some along to the goons in South Asia and let the rest of it—about 10% worth—rot on the docks because what little infrastructure there was is washed away. Reaaaal useful, fellas. Thanks again.
The only, sole, solitary reason I am not rioting in the streets about this, screaming “Fuggem—let Allah handle it!” is that the destruction of any and all social structure creates a fertile ground for Al Qaida recruitment. The loss of structure, the starvation, disease, pestilence and lack of an economy creates a rotten spot --like on a peach—that would spread. Both effect US and world stability. That’s the only reason I am willing to give them some sort of rebuilding hand.
As to flying our flag at half staff—entirely inappropriate. Dubya—that’s two Todd strikes this week. Rouse yourself, boy!
Ok—cut loose on me.
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ThanQ! Lovely and Talented Headmistress
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Evolution in Action
or: When Buggy-Whip Makers Attack
Ace points out a columnist in the Minneapolis Star Tribune who, in an attempt to get himself a little attention, wrote a self-consciously oh-so-clever column lashing out at PowerLine, Time Magazine’s Blog of the Year. *cue ironic laughter* Said columnist even goes so far as to impugn the manly attributes of Big Trunk and Hindrocket in a pathetic attempt at Freudian “insight.” *snork*
Well, his little bid for fame seems to have worked. The little column—free of nasty, crunchy facts with a creamy, innuendo-filled center—has roused the blogosphere. By picking on a blog which had a major effect on a national story this year, he has accrued more national attention than a Minneapolis columnist on as paper with a 350,000 circulation could ever hope for. In a sane world this fella would be looking forward to a nice career in retail handbags, but in MSM parlance, he clearly expects to be lauded as a courageous mudslinger defender of the Establishment of his forefathers. [look who’s “establishment” now...]
This incident serves as an excellent example of the two kinds of zeitgeist at war in our country these days. The “column’s” complaint against PowerLine, and blogs as a genre, is that they/we are “megaphones without oversight.” Whereas, Dead Tree Media have editors and others of a “responsible” nature to oversee, check up on and generally keep in line those ink stained wretches on the front lines. Columnist-boy seems to think this creates Validity.
In the blogosphere, we do that for ourselves. Bloggers—those worth reading—hold themselves to a high standard of fact checking, documentation, and attribution. Opinion, never in short supply, is marked as such. Should someone make an error, his fellow bloggers will *ahem* bring it to his attention and it will be corrected rapidly and publicly. The key here is that factual correctness is a source of pride.
Those bloggers who do not hold themselves to these standards are taken care of by market forces—no one pays any attention to them after they achieve a certain critical mass of skewed BS. At best, they are sport. *cough*Olliver Willis*cough*
OTOH, the MSM has embraced reportage with an agenda. It has accepted the practice of slanting its presentation, or withholding, of facts to create a particular impression and thus an opinion in its readers. It’s a long-standing tradition—see Pulitzer and Hearst.
MSM rejects the concept of the responsibility of the primary actor: the reporter/writer. It assumes the necessity of oversight by others—the collective effort. Whatever responsibility is claimed is vested in the group, where it can be passed around like the pea in the shell game. Bloggers assume the opposite. Individual blogs compete to get out a story with more facts, more clearly stated, more broadly backgrounded.
Individuals competing in an open marketplace -vs- bits and pieces of a giant collective moving like a tiny-brained, tightly focused brontosaurus toward its lunch with no regard for what is crushed beneath its feet.
Collective man -vs- Free Men—it’s the Battle of the Century.
*Interesting Note: Hugh Hewett has a new book: Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World
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