"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
No thanks. I’ll pass on the grey poupon…
Guest blogger RightWingDuck, posting for Frank J at IMAO, has a list of New Years Resolutions he’d make for other people, such as,
“Michael Moore
He should eat more… ”
Hmmm. how about Hollyweird? I imagine he’d like it with a little Heinz catsup, and it isn’t as though Hollyweird would be any great loss. After being processed by Moore, it’d be back as good as new… in the end.
James Wolcott’s dreams come true in tsunami
(HT: Right Wing News ) Vanity Fair Contributing Editor, James Wolcott speaking about the last hurricane to sweep Florida and the Gulf coast:
“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.”
Well, James, how’s it going with the rooting for natural disaster, now?
What nasty buggers such as Wolcott and other pseudo-intellectual enviro-nazis are.
There are none so blind…
While I appreciate—no! strongly approve!—of the actions and sentiment of these New Nampshire residents who protested against the UN by burning some UN flags, I cannot but wonder at the irony:
“What I object to about the U.N. is that they try to tell America what to do, and take our tax dollars to do it.”—Russell Kanning
Yeh? And how, really, is that different to fedgov agencies telling people thay can’t build on their own land because there’s a puddle some obscure species of mosquito breeds in? Or (take your pick) any number of the other multitude of meddling measures enacted by congresscritters and expanded on by bureaucrats that are entirely ourside any Constitutional authority? Do they not take our tax dollars and try to tell us what to do with our own lives in ways objectionable to any person who was born free? After all, it’s the fedgov that takes your tax dollars and gives them to Kofi, et al, to use as a bludgeon against us.
Protest the U.N. Sure, that’s fine. Better to protest a government that is willfully exceeding its own legitimate authority, not the least by its support of the U.N.
Hollyweird Computer Illiteracy Equalled Only by Hollyweird Stupidity
Yeh, it’s just one minor example, but multiply it by a daily deluge of Hollyweird malapropisms, sub-literate language, lack of plot contimuity and absence of character development in, um, characters (assuming there are any characters that are more than cardboard cutouts), and it’s a constant source of reason to avoid Hollyweird “entertainment”.
Latest example? Really minor, but irritating nonetheless. I was walking through the TV room and caught for a second by what could have been a moderately interesting plotline: automated service systems (water, traffic control, etc.) corrupted by a virus. Chaos, loss of life ensues.
OK, here’s where things fly off the wall. It’s all apparently the fault of a kid who, during a visit to the office of a bigshot in “the” company responsible for the control hardware/software at question, UPLOADS (from media he carries in with him) a piece of music with a virus embedded.
So? So the guy who’s the bigshot genius head of the company (and, BTW, has difficulty using a mouse and faking keyboard use) confronts the kid and accuses him of DOWNLOADING “something” into his computer (which of course is connected to all the public works platforms throughout the city and the world that use the company’s hardware/software).
Download and upload are different. Seems like the bigshot genius head of the company would know that—except, well, he’s a Hollyweird bigshot genius head of the company, so he’s an idiot.
Oh, yeh, and all the other completely implausible minutiae plopped into the thing so that within 2 mins, I was singing to myself “Bored now, bored now, nored now… ” and up and gone.
[yawn!]
If tghe writers, producers and director (not to mention the actors and all the crew) had two brain cells to rub together among them all, it could have been an interesting plot.
But then it would not have been typical Hollyweird.
No, that is NOT me on the escalator. I don’t work out that much… 
All Hat, No Cattle
The story of UN arrogance, incompetence and irrelevance continues beyond Jan Egeland’s disingenuous (and wholly spurious) denunciation of the U.S. as “stingy” in tsunami relief efforts. “Diplomdic” posts on U.N. bloviation about its relief efforts here. Cheap shots, one and all, but then, criticizing the U.N. is only so easy because it’s a worse-than-useless organization.
Waiting for Epiphany
For everyone still caught up in the (secular manufactured, commercial) “holiday spirit” here’s A Wonderful Life—in 30 seconds, with bunnies. (HT: Sean Gleeson)
For the rest of us, who might be quite willing to celebrate Christmas all the way through to Epiphany (or with the Orthodox church, on January 7 :-), why not watch a video of The Passion of the Christ? After all, that’s what Christmas is really all about.
On second thought, it’d be best if both classes of folk watched both productions. The contrast would do us all some good.
The Strib’s Nick Coleman needs his meds moderated
I read this Nick Coleman article (referred by Instapundit) attacking the Powerline bloggers. Then I read Hindrocket’s response at Powerline. Strange… although I can’t say the first portion of the following (I’m not a lawyer), I had almost exactly the same thought:
“It’s been a long time since I went to law school, but I think there is a technical term for journalists who make charges that they know to be untrue.”
Of course, the technical term is “bankrupt and jobless.”
April 13, 2029 might be a BIG day, indeed
While this isn’t news to anyone who’s been connected over the last week or so, there’s a moderately large (1,300 meters across) asteroid that’s scheduled for NEA (Near Earth Approach) for 04/13/2029. In fact, latest calculations give it about a 1/37 chance of actually hitting Earth.
That’s upgraded from an early 1/245 chance.
Hey, not to sweat it. It’s certainly no planet-buster (though regional devastation if it should hit—wherever it hits, IF it hits—should be pretty total…
No problem. After all, Social Security will be belly up by then and all the elderly living in cardboard boxes under bridges willl welcome a Krakatoa-level catastrophe!
Happy Friday 13th!
Can this be a candidate for “Worst Christmas Song Ever”?
Yeh, I’m reproducing all the lyrics to the song, “SantaClaus Got Stuck in my Chimney” below. Who cares about copyright on something this horrible, anyway? Thankfully forgotten… until its mention at Powerline [curse you, Big Trunk!].
[heh]
SANTA CLAUS GOT STUCK IN MY CHIMNEY
(William D. Hardy / Billy Moore Jr.)Ella Fitzgerald – 1960
Lisa Nicole Carson – 2000Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney,
Stuck in my chimney, stuck in the chimney
Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney
When he came last yearThere he was in middle of the chimney
Roly-poly, fat and round
There he was in middle of the chimney
Not quite up and not quite downSanta please come back to my chimney
Back to my chimney, back
Santa please come back to my chimney
You can come back here.Cause baby, made a brand new chimney
Just for you this year!Santa, come on back!
Yeh, I’d like to be able to say that they just don’t write lyrics that bad any more, but then I have a radio, so I know better…