Monday, January 09, 2006
CultureBlogging
the newest!! the hottest!!! Sensation from Old Europe!!!!
May I present: *drumroll*
GUNTHER!
*clicky*clicky*
Dedicated to Steve H
for reasons which will become apparent after you *click*
Also recommended: [for the full GUNTHER experience]
The DingDong Song
Tutti Frutti Summer Love
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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Today's Plus Ca Change...
thanx bunches, MurthaSchumerPleosi et al
Friday, January 06, 2006
aeeeyyyyyy-yup.
Radical Islam is what multiculturalism has been waiting for all along. ...[the argument goes] our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.
...Terror groups persist because of a lack of confidence on the part of their targets. ...Jean-Francois Revel wrote, “Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.”
...What’s the better bet? A globalization that exports cheeseburgers and pop songs or a globalization that exports the fiercest aspects of its culture?
...And having been absolved from the primal responsibilities of nationhood, it’s hardly surprising that European nations have little wish to reshoulder them. In essence, the lavish levels of public health care on the Continent are subsidized by the American taxpayer. And this long-term softening of large sections of the West makes them ill-suited to resisting a primal force like Islam.
... In 1970, the developed world had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30% to 15%. By 2000, they were the same: each had about 20%.
...I watched that big abortion rally in Washington in 2004, where Ashley Judd and Gloria Steinem were cheered by women waving “Keep your Bush off my bush” placards, and I thought it was the equivalent of a White Russian tea party in 1917. By prioritizing a “woman’s right to choose,” Western women are delivering their societies into the hands of fellows far more patriarchal than a 1950s sitcom dad. If any of those women marching for their “reproductive rights” still have babies, they might like to ponder demographic realities: A little girl born today will be unlikely, at the age of 40, to be free to prance around demonstrations in Eurabian Paris or Amsterdam chanting “Hands off my bush!”...
ThennnnnQ! Herr BlogSplatt-hates-him-for-what-deponent-sayeth-not
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
The Story of the Miners' Story
MSMBS strikes again: “We make simple tragedy more dynamic!"
quote from a Michelle Malkin reader [scroll to bottom]:
“I have 10 years of experience working in the TV news business, and I can tell you that almost without fail, the smaller the municipality, the less access the media has to “officials” during a crisis. ...Many of them have an actively hostile attitude towards anyone with a microphone.
When this happens, you get the situation we saw last night. CNN and the rest of them were basically reduced to relying on a freakin’ town crier. From there, it becomes the “telephone game,” where false information spreads and then becomes distorted.
...Bottom line is that this was almost bound to happen. It’s unfortunate, but when you don’t allow the purveyors of information access to said information, it’s a recipe for disaster."
So, really, it is all the fault of the citizens—who have learned through long experience that the media rarely reports what people on the scene experienced*—for not trusting the media. gotcha.
I’m thinking more along the lines of Lawrence Simon: Welcome to the Age of the Global Misinformation Sausage Factory. [Though I’m not quite in sync with his PJM optimism, given that they can’t even get their logo right...]
*[and who, like the drive-thru, will f^@% you every time]
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Etiology of a Mental Disorder
the chicken, the egg, or Kerry?
Two-thirds of Americans are more hopeful than fearful about what 2006 has in store for them personally, and six in 10 are optimistic about the world more broadly in the year to come. Despite a spate of natural disasters, the positive outlook for the world is slightly improved from last year, while the level of personal optimism is about the same.
...Two years ago, most Democrats, independents and Republicans alike were hopeful about 2004. Today, Democrats are 32 points less likely to be hopeful about what 2006 has in store for them personally, and 17 points less likely to be hopeful for the world.
So what’s the source of the change? Izzit howlers like Farrikkan and Dean actually having an effect on those of weak mind and weaker reality-testing skills? [while we snigger at them it is good to keep in mind that there are some who actually think the howlers are serious persons of ideas in positions of responsibility… *shudder of fear*]
Or izzit more along the lines of the The Cosmic Test of Political Affiliation, stemming from the individual’s World View mistaken for zeitgeist? Nihilism as Fashion Statement and all that?
I’m thinkin’ the origin of one’s optimism is in one’s View of Human Nature.
Some folks think that Humans are intrinsically Good, capable, strong and, in most instances, will strive mightily to Do the Right Thing. All people really need is a place fairly free from interference and they will build and develop and create and grow and learn to Walk in Beauty.
Some fulk© believe Humans are Bad, nasty, brutish and weak and, given half a chance, will rip you off and dump your bleeding body in an alley. What people really need is to be monitored and restricted from being their ‘real’ selves while being regulated into submission and ‘helped’ into correct behavior and thought. [...er, ...by other humans...but that’s not important, now]
As simply typing that last para made me incredibly depressed and bitterly pessimistic, I think my theory tests true.
Whatchoo think?
ThanQ! Armstrong & Getty
[as an Aside; I also think that someone’s View of Human Nature tells ya more about them personally than about Humans in general. ...in which case I am wont to be veeeerrrrry careful when around the Humans are Bad crowd.]
Monday, January 02, 2006
RAIN
10.25 - 3/4 inch—24 hours
11.07 - 1/2 inch—24 hours
11.9 - 80°
11.26 - 3/4 inch—24 hours
11.28 - 1/2 inch—24 hours
[2.5"]
12.01 - 9:41a Thunderstorm!!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
12.01 - 1 3/8 inch—12 hours overnite
12.01 - 1 3/4 inch—12 hours to 6p
[5.625"]
12.18 - 2”
12.19 - 1 3/8 inch
12.21 - 7/8 inch
12.22 - 1”
12.23 - 5/8 inch
[10.875]
12.26 - 1 1/4 inch
12.27 - 1 5/8 inch [lake spilled]
12.28 - 1 5/8 inch
12.30 - 3/8 inch - 7a
12.30b - 1 3/4 inch - 5:3p
{{{12.30 - unofficial [new weather center for Xmas] [official - see below]
2” since dark - .5” in the last half hour.... [11:3-12m]}}}
12.31 - 4 5/8 inch - 7:3a [spillway - 1’]
[(11.25)]
[22.225]
1.1.06 - 1 1/8 inch - 5:3p
1.2 - 1/4 inch - 7:3a
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1.18 - 1 1/4 inch
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Sunday, January 01, 2006
Plus Ca Change...
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From the Dept of
Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose
Tying in deftly with Ace‘s post about Churchill’s proposed policies of 3-for-1 killing of civilians in response to Nazi Massacre of Czechs, and executing Hitler, should he be caught alive, “like a gangster,” I happened across a series of cartoons by Dr Seuss from 1941. Only the names need be changed to bring them sharply up to date.
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The Scapegoat Game
like makin’ ya dig your own grave
...One...would raise money for cancer research and offer health care insurance for every child in California. [who are already covered e-C]
...proposed tobacco initiative, sponsored by the California Hospital Association, would designate the $1.5 billion raised by the tax for hospital emergency rooms. Nine California hospitals closed in 2004, and emergency rooms clogged by the uninsured have become a drain on hospitals throughout the state. [clue #1—it ain’t smokers who’re clogging the ERs, amigo. e-C]
Reiner plans to focus on the Preschool for All Act, which will appear on a referendum ballots in 2006. The proposal was organized by Parents Action for Children, a group Reiner founded with his wife, Michele Singer, in 1997. [which he wants to fund with yet another tobacco tax… or a tax on the state’s top 1% earners… e-C]
Opponents of ... Reiner’s $2.3 billion universal preschool initiative ... say a series of “public service announcements” are in fact taxpayer-funded ads for the measure. ...Reiner not only leads the initiative campaign, but also chairs the state commission that is paying for the ads – which carry the message that preschool is good for society at large…
[yeah—let the socialist creches take over them gol durn kidz. the sooner the better. e-C]
While we’re talking about well-deserved Awards, shall we start the Let’s All Get Together and Beat Meathead About the Head and Shoulders with a Joint of Beef Award?
Or maybe Mister FatAss could tax his own cheeseburgers instead....
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Time for a raise, fellas!
DHS/SS nails one!
[via email:]
December 24, 2005Mexican-American news service falls victim of
government surveillance and intrusionOn December 23, 2005, four agents of the US Secret Service came to the headquarters of the news and information service La Voz de Aztlan that has a website at http://www.aztlan.net The agents requested access to the news service’s computer and they copied the entire contents of the hard disk with electronic equipment they brought with them. They spent about 2 hours in the computer room.
While 2 agents where copying the entire computer’s contents, two others interrogated LA Voz de Aztlan news publisher.
Among many of the questions asked where the following:1. What is the Aztlan movement?
2. Who are members of the organization?
3. How do you obtain the information published on the
website?
4. Do you owned any weapons?...
The special agent in charge of the operation was in constant communication, through a hand held device, with others outside the headquarters of La Voz de Aztlan. This operation by the government may be related to the recent revelation that the Bush Administration has been spying on American citizens without judicial permission.
Oh? Been getting some ...interesting overseas phone calls, hombres? Or it may be related to the fact that Aztlan.net is an outfit regularly advocating the violent overthrow of the US Government. Hard to say....
*laughs up sleeve*
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New Ribbon Campaign
take pity on the pooooor fools
A new and terrible disease has come to my attention: the dis-ease of Knee-Jerk PC. It is a mental disorder, as we have all observed, characterized by complete and utter unconsciousness. Choices or assessments are not made by the sufferers; instead stock phrases, talking points and spun perceptions are employed.
Case in point: CNN’s anchor Carol Lin utilizing the stock phrase “African-American” to describe black and/or Negro people who were, in actuality, Frentch citizens of Tunisian heritage living near Paris. Yes, Ms Lin, Tunesia is on the continent of Africa, nevertheless, you embarrassed yourself and your grantedly unembarrassable network.
This dread disease is spreading causing extreme annoyance to those around the disease’s victims. [The victims, themselves, remain unaffected. Naturally.] Therefore I propose a Ribbon Campaign—since those are ever so popular and always incredibly effective.
I give you the Ribbon to Cure KJPC: *drumroll*
The Ribbon is made of clear glass to symbolize the cure to KJPC: clarity of thought and perception un-colored by agenda.
Hurry!—email your orders now.
$10 each—shipping and handling included
[discounts available for those on active duty military service]
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