Month: January 2005

“…gripped by an unprecedented degree of irrationality, prejudice and hysteria over the issues of Iraq, the terrorist jihad and Israel… ”

Via Powerline, this link to an article (actually a talk at a conference) by Melanie Phillips, “The Reporting of Iraq and Israel: An Abuse of Media Power”.

An excerpt:

“A friend went into Blackwells university bookshop in Oxford and asked the counter clerk: ‘Do you have a copy of Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel?’ ‘There is no case for Israel’, the counter clerk replied.”

Read ye all of it.

No, not mine. Frank J’s.

A sample:

* Dan Rather does an expose on how Jesus never did raise Lazarus from the dead based on memos allegedly typed at the beginning of the first millenium A.D. It recevies little scrutiny from his audience at the nursing home.

More at the link.

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.