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MMPA Lies, News Dies

Machias Privateer has an interesting essay up noting just one of the deceptions being perpetrated on sub-literate Americans (mostly inhabiting Democratic Fiefdoms):

Here in Chicago, they are celebrating a reduction of the murder rate to 450 murders in 2004 for a population of 2.8 million! Since Iraq has about 25 million people, at the same per capita rate, they would have 11 murders per day. It seems nearly every murder in Iraq makes the news!

You’ll note that were the murder rate in Iraq similar to Chicago, the Iraq murder toll would stand around 4,015 for 2004, instead of being about the same raw number as Chicago. Just read the whole post, including his comments about the difference to MMPA “reportage.”

It’s getting to the place where one can almost listen to an MMPA member pass gas via his oral cavity and know what’s going on by reversing everything that the MMP concludes.

Almost. The sly devils. (N.B. “devil” is a word transliterated from the Greek “diabolos” which means “traducer, false accuser, liar”)

h.t. The Diplomad

“State of Fear”—Michael Crighton’s not the only one who knows global warming Chicken Littles have been snorting exhaust fumes

“…from the Chief Diplomad: Not long ago I read about the freezing winters that Mongolia has suffered. Being a charitable person, I now drive my SUV in honor of the Mongolians. Bumper sticker: Driving for Mongolia!)”

Read the whole post linked above. It includes the Diplomad take on Ten Lies that are favs of the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade and their co-conspirators in the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army.

Oh, and the Michael Crighton reference? It is, of course, to his latest book debunking much of the pseudoscience that seems to dominate the public square, including wacko nutcase environweenie bloviation based on hot air (not “greenhouse gases”).

What? Is it wrong for me to experience a frisson of satisfaction?

This spoof video is apparently making the rounds in email. Unfortunately, the email it’s making the rounds attached to falsely “accuses” Volkswagon of making the “ad.” VW did not make or authorize the “ad.”

OTOH, I might even be more kindly disposed toward VW if the “ad” had originated from them. it depicts a splodydope (read: “suicide bomber”) doing his thing in a VW Polo he’s parked outside a sidewalk cafe.

There’s a flash of light inside the car–an apparent explosion–that is completely contained by the VW Polo, then the Polo tagline: “Polo. Small but tough.”

OK, here’s my ambivalence. Sure, it’s “tasteless.” It trivializes the acts of splodydopes who have wreaked havoc with so many lives. OTOH, it trivializes and ridicules splodydopes as… doofuses, first-class dummies,. And it does introduce the idea of splodydopes removing their defective genetic material from the gene pool without collateral damage to others.

Ambivalence…

On balance, maybe (but just maybe) the spoof ad is not fit for general consumption. But oh! if only the VW Polo were

1.) really that tough and
2.) the best-selling car among splodydopes…

(Thx, Whizbang, for the info.)

Where’s the outrage on the left?

I made an altogether too-obtuse reference yesterday to the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade-induced murders of 45 million innocent lives and the indifference of the LLMB, and indeed nearly all who claim they are liberal (but who are, instead, the most illiberal sort of all) to the murder of innocents, all the while whining about the cleansing of society by the removal of convicted murderers.

Let me just point out the absolute logic of such a stance. Were such vile persons to NOT protest capital punishment, I would be surprised. After all, as aiders and abbetors in the murder of 45 million innocent lives (and in many cases, active participants in those murders), they protest the death penalty for murder in their own self-interest. Were human life truly valued to the extent that extreme sanction were applied to willful murder universally in our society, then their position that the willful murder of innicent babies might come under sharper scrutiny.

And that’s where the outrage over 45 million victims of violence went for the left… It disappeared into the voracious maw of their selfish worship… of themselves..

You’ll never know the answers unless you ask the questions

Michael Levin comments here in answer to the question, “Is it ever right to torture someone?”

Here is just one of the provocative answers he got:

“Here are the results of an informal poll about a third, hypothetical, case. Suppose a terrorist group kidnapped a newborn baby from a hospital. I asked four mothers if they would approve of torturing kidnappers if that were necessary to get their own newborns back. All said yes, the most “liberal” adding that she would like to administer it herself.”

You’d have to wonder what kind of mother would come up with a different answer… Of course, in a society where “mothers–in–waiting” kill their unborn babies, and their co-belligerants in the war against civilization rail against the execution of convicted murderers, there might be some “mothers” who would answer differently.

Just read Levin’s whole argument in “The Case for Torture”. (ht Instapundit for the link to Stalking the Wild Taboo, whence came the link to Levin’s article.)

Those Linux Guys’re a Hoot

Had a notice this a.m. of a response to a post I made on a Gmail/Opera discussion thread.

” Free software to fix windows SP2 problems”

Har. Har. (Just CLICK it for the laugh.)

(Yeh, and I have a Mandrake box semi-running downstairs. That’s gonna change. I’ll put one—a different one—upstairs, soon. Maybe.)

CNN Lies, Thousands Die

It’s not just CNN, of course. LTC Tim Ryan, CO, 2/12 Cav, 1st Cav Div, tells it like it is in “Aiding and Abetting the Enemy: the Media in Iraq”

(ht: Chrenkoff, who crunches the numbers a lil on media bias re: Iraq.)

Hear him Bleat, “My bandwidth, my bandwidth!”

James Lileks does it* daily, Monday through Friday, as well as maintaining his columns, writing such wondrous works as “Interior Desecrations” (a look at ’70s interior “design”) and caring for his daughter, Gnat.

A sample from The Bleat:

“Hewitt has been asking for suggestions to revitalize CBS news and bring in the younger demographic. I have a simple solution: animate it. Give it over to Kent Brockman, the Simpsons anchor. Have Alf Clausen score a new parody network news them [sic]. Upside: since it takes six months to animate an episode, any attempts by the news division to push a particular agenda will be someone [somewhat?] blunted. Or give it over to Space Ghost: three shots, endlessly repeated, with deadpan Zorak reaction shots…”

I’d be inclined to watch the Space Ghost remake of CBS “News,” otherwise, I’ll just continue to boycott everything CBS: news, local, everything.

*Yeh, yeh, so what is “it”? “It” is insightful snark, amusing commentary, griping about his popularity (“I have to increase my bandwidth!” or some such), post touching and amusing vignettes about daily life, etc. Just bang away at his bandwidth for a while and you’ll agree: Lileks is a daily “must check.”

Simply the best browsing experience…

http://my.opera.com/mnmus/journal

Yeh, I do use Firefox to post here, but that’s darned near the only thing I use Firefox for.

Opera is really that much better for most web browsing. Firefox is still too clunky and uncustomizable for me. (Now, if customizing Firefox disn’t DEMAND a new plugin for every damned [BTW, not “profane” just a comment upon the curséd lameness of Mozilla software developers –heh] itty bitty thing I wanted to change/add and if I could move the curséd tabs to the bottom of my screen and if I could open a new tab as easily as in Opera, and… etc. )

But even Opera needs help, sometimes. And that’s another thing I like about it. Microsoft is useless in supporting Internet Exploder. Mozilla “support” is a mess. The Opera support site is rich with discussion groups, techies, external links, etc. Nice place.

And then they offered me another (free) place to bloviate.

What great folks!

🙂

Speaking of which, what’s taking them so long to organize the State Funeral for WJC? Can’t locate enough blue dresses for the pallbearers?

For some reason I was reminded today of the fiasco surrounding Rene Descartes’ funeral.

First, there was the manner of his death. He should have known better. Sitting in a Parisian coffee house. The waiter came by and asked him if Descartes wanted a fresh cup. Descartes replied, “I think not” and immediately… was not.

But the funeral procession for this famous mathematician/philosopher… Oh. My. Heavens. What a fiasco. As the horse-drawn hearse proceeded down the narrow streets of Paris, some juvenile merrymakers thought it fun to spook the horse by throwing stones at it. The horse took off, running wildly, the hearse careening through the narrow streets until finally, on a sharp turn, it jacknifed and the horse went down in front of the hearse, the coffin went flying off, skidding and bumping on down the cobblestone streets… and Descartes’ body came tumbling out to roll, finally to a stop some yards beyond the knackered horse, the broken hearse and the smashed coffin.

Yes, the worst case of getting Descartes before the hearse known to this day.