Such a man should have been driven from society or locked up by it. This man is an arsonist with a gas pump and a flamethrower. It's bad enough the morally degenerates of the Democratic Party bow and scrape to this grotesque figure, but does he have to plague the rest of us? In better times, such a notorious person would hide from sight. Now they get their own show on MSNBC.
Begone, weird Al, and take your criminal record and your venom-spewing with you.
It occurs to me that now that we have the Eric Garner issue in New York City, I wonder if any of the racism-shouters and their allied ax-grinders regret that they spent so much of their credibility on the far less suspicious Darren Wilson/Michael Brown matter. The only miscarriage of justice that could have come out of the Ferguson (MO) jury would have been an indictment of Officer Wilson. With the Eric Garner tragedy, the issue is more complicated. Now, however, people are more likely to see these demonstrations as simply hooliganism extended, and will turn away in disgust.
Once you protest something stupidly, people will assume that every protest you stage is also stupid.
Louisiana has a chance to send Bill Cassidy (R) to the Senate to replace their incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu. I feel strongly about this, despite my living nowhere near the state. There is strong evidence that Landrieu had her first two elections stolen for her by the New Orleans Democratic vote-stealing machine. They did it the classic way - by holding their numbers until the other voting precincts have reported their numbers, and then magically producing just enough votes to elect the Democrat. If I were the head of a board of elections in some other Louisiana parish, I would hold my results back until New Orleans released theirs. Better still, I would organize other parishes to do the same.
I loved the Metallica song One until I saw the beginning of their video, in which a young boy asks a man (perhaps his grandfather) "What is democracy?"
The older man responds "I don't know. I think it has something to do with young men killing each other."
Have you ever read anything so pretentiously stupid in all of your life?
I watched a few documentaries lately. The first was "Titanic Arrogance", which undertakes to take an overview of the hubristic errors that led to the great ship's demise on its maiden voyage. The producers of the documentary, having only 44 minutes to work with, wisely choose to concentrate on facets of the story usually left uncovered by other documentaries on the subject. I was particularly startled to find out that the floating city had an outmoded propulsion set-up (I'm no shipbuilder; I don't know the proper word). Information chestnuts like this kept me watching, but there was an odd surprise in store for me.
When Wyn Craig Wade updated his classic study Titanic: End of a Dream, he mentioned in his introduction that he had received (after publication of the original work) letters from some determined defenders of the master of the Californian, Stanley Lord, claiming that the terrible loss of life that night could in no way be blamed at Lord's door. Wade called them Lordites, and noted that in the years since publication the wreck had been discovered by Robert Ballard and the Woods Hole sea search team. The position of the wreck of the Titanic indicates that the Californian was not stopped 19 miles away from the great dying ship, or even 10 miles away as believed by historians who had studied the disaster, but might have been as near as 5 miles away. Dr. Ballard, one of the most genial of men, said after finding the Titanic that "No one needed to die that night." Keep in mind that no one was killed by the collision, and the ship has stayed above water for over 2 hours after being wounded.
Incredibly, the producers of Titanic Arrogance made the fantastic claim that the discovery of the wreck had totally exonerated Captain Lord! He said the position of the wreck proved Lord was correct in his estimate of the distance, when it in fact was a damning refutation of it. Lord's whole alibi for his actions depend on this inverval between the ships. If the ship was in fact only 5 miles away, then the crew on the night watch of the Californian would have clearly seen the 8 (8!) distress rockets launched by the crew of the Titanic considerably above the horizon . It is an accepted fact that the sightings were reported to Captain Lord (who had turned in for the night) and that the Californian took no action until morning. This also makes damning the fact that Captain Lord didn't have the wireless operator Cyril Evans awakened when the sighting of the distress rockets was reported to him. If Evans had turned on the wireless set, he would have caught the distress calls of the sinking vessel in time for the Californian to have saved lives. Sometimes the difference between being a hero in history and being a villain is a single decision.
I give Titanic Arrogance a qualified recommendation.
I couldn't make myself watch "Ghosts of My Lai"; I couldn't help thinking that the script had been written by Billy Ayers and Noam Chomsky and that veterans who appeared in the film were recruited from the phony veterans who testi-lied in John F___ing Kerry's Winter Soldier Show Trials (which historically were as accurate as the show trials during Stalin's Great Terror). I think the honorable Americans who served the cause of freedom in Vietnam have been slandered enough already without having a fresh coating of slime poured over them. Avoid this one at all costs, and shame on you, NewsMax TV, for erring by airing this shameful propaganda.
I give my most unqualified endorsement to History Channel's The Men Who Built America. This is a four-part series telling the stories of financial magnates like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford. The portraits are balanced and fascinating. Several of the magnates of our time appear on camera giving their view of their predecessors. See if you can identify how the filthy legal trick Morgan played on George Westinghouse over Nicola Tesla's patents presaged how the brutal Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh would bully men like Oliver North and Elliott Abrams. Also, you'll find that Hillary Clinton's phony memory loss when testifying was pioneered by John D. Rockefeller in the famous anti-trust case United States vs. Standard Oil.
My only quibble with this fine production (the web page is here) is that the fascinating facts which appear at the bottom of the screen are too small to read from any distance and appear a little too briefly onscreen. I taped the series, but of course the best option is to buy the dvds.
Watch "The Men Who Built America". It is entertaining, disturbing and altogether superb.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Once you protest something stupidly, people will assume that every protest you stage is also stupid.
Louisiana has a chance to send Bill Cassidy (R) to the Senate to replace their incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu. I feel strongly about this, despite my living nowhere near the state. There is strong evidence that Landrieu had her first two elections stolen for her by the New Orleans Democratic vote-stealing machine. They did it the classic way - by holding their numbers until the other voting precincts have reported their numbers, and then magically producing just enough votes to elect the Democrat. If I were the head of a board of elections in some other Louisiana parish, I would hold my results back until New Orleans released theirs. Better still, I would organize other parishes to do the same.
I loved the Metallica song One until I saw the beginning of their video, in which a young boy asks a man (perhaps his grandfather) "What is democracy?"
The older man responds "I don't know. I think it has something to do with young men killing each other."
Have you ever read anything so pretentiously stupid in all of your life?
I watched a few documentaries lately. The first was "Titanic Arrogance", which undertakes to take an overview of the hubristic errors that led to the great ship's demise on its maiden voyage. The producers of the documentary, having only 44 minutes to work with, wisely choose to concentrate on facets of the story usually left uncovered by other documentaries on the subject. I was particularly startled to find out that the floating city had an outmoded propulsion set-up (I'm no shipbuilder; I don't know the proper word). Information chestnuts like this kept me watching, but there was an odd surprise in store for me.
When Wyn Craig Wade updated his classic study Titanic: End of a Dream, he mentioned in his introduction that he had received (after publication of the original work) letters from some determined defenders of the master of the Californian, Stanley Lord, claiming that the terrible loss of life that night could in no way be blamed at Lord's door. Wade called them Lordites, and noted that in the years since publication the wreck had been discovered by Robert Ballard and the Woods Hole sea search team. The position of the wreck of the Titanic indicates that the Californian was not stopped 19 miles away from the great dying ship, or even 10 miles away as believed by historians who had studied the disaster, but might have been as near as 5 miles away. Dr. Ballard, one of the most genial of men, said after finding the Titanic that "No one needed to die that night." Keep in mind that no one was killed by the collision, and the ship has stayed above water for over 2 hours after being wounded.
Incredibly, the producers of Titanic Arrogance made the fantastic claim that the discovery of the wreck had totally exonerated Captain Lord! He said the position of the wreck proved Lord was correct in his estimate of the distance, when it in fact was a damning refutation of it. Lord's whole alibi for his actions depend on this inverval between the ships. If the ship was in fact only 5 miles away, then the crew on the night watch of the Californian would have clearly seen the 8 (8!) distress rockets launched by the crew of the Titanic considerably above the horizon . It is an accepted fact that the sightings were reported to Captain Lord (who had turned in for the night) and that the Californian took no action until morning. This also makes damning the fact that Captain Lord didn't have the wireless operator Cyril Evans awakened when the sighting of the distress rockets was reported to him. If Evans had turned on the wireless set, he would have caught the distress calls of the sinking vessel in time for the Californian to have saved lives. Sometimes the difference between being a hero in history and being a villain is a single decision.
I give Titanic Arrogance a qualified recommendation.
I couldn't make myself watch "Ghosts of My Lai"; I couldn't help thinking that the script had been written by Billy Ayers and Noam Chomsky and that veterans who appeared in the film were recruited from the phony veterans who testi-lied in John F___ing Kerry's Winter Soldier Show Trials (which historically were as accurate as the show trials during Stalin's Great Terror). I think the honorable Americans who served the cause of freedom in Vietnam have been slandered enough already without having a fresh coating of slime poured over them. Avoid this one at all costs, and shame on you, NewsMax TV, for erring by airing this shameful propaganda.
I give my most unqualified endorsement to History Channel's The Men Who Built America. This is a four-part series telling the stories of financial magnates like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford. The portraits are balanced and fascinating. Several of the magnates of our time appear on camera giving their view of their predecessors. See if you can identify how the filthy legal trick Morgan played on George Westinghouse over Nicola Tesla's patents presaged how the brutal Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh would bully men like Oliver North and Elliott Abrams. Also, you'll find that Hillary Clinton's phony memory loss when testifying was pioneered by John D. Rockefeller in the famous anti-trust case United States vs. Standard Oil.
My only quibble with this fine production (the web page is here) is that the fascinating facts which appear at the bottom of the screen are too small to read from any distance and appear a little too briefly onscreen. I taped the series, but of course the best option is to buy the dvds.
Watch "The Men Who Built America". It is entertaining, disturbing and altogether superb.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
