The Looney Left

I found this very interesting piece on Big Journalism - http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/01/27/the-loony-left-remember-when-the-media-was-honest/#more-12870

Watch this 60 minutes from the early eighties and tell me if there is not something very familiar and scary about this. What happened in the UK 25+ years ago seems like what is happening here, now.

Blaming (your) God

Much has been said about Pat Robertson's comments blaming the tragety in Haiti on a pact with the Devil. Here is Robert Gibb's take on the issue - http://www.breitbart.tv/utterly-stupid-white-house-weighs-in-on-robertson-comments/ Here is Don Imus' comments - http://www.breitbart.tv/imus-pat-robertson-should-be-put-to-sleep/

I agree that these comments are not helpful and border on hateful. The idea of blaming innocent people for a natural disaster is just wrong. This kind of thinking is what lead to witch trials and inquisitions and has no place in modern society. Pat Robertson has the right to believe what he wants and it is right that he be called out on these comments.

I wonder how much Danny Glover will be ridiculed for his position on this? http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/pact_with_gaia/
Seems that Mr. Glover thinks there may be some connection between efforts to curb Global Warming and what has happened in Haiti. Is this any less outrageous? Is he not just as deserving of redicule? He does not care about the people in Haiti he only care about the opportunity this presents for the Obama administration. Sounds like he interviewing for a job. What a nut...

Long Time No Posts

Well, I managed to let a pretty good start to this blog but then I let it slip. I am not sure what happened. I mean, there was plenty to talk about with health care and attempted terrorism, it just never made it here.

Here is an article from Fox News I found several months ago but never posted. It just points out how much the president talk about himself in his speeches.

This is an interesting story about how some people want to kill themselves after they see Avatar. Must be a pretty great move to trigger such strong responses from the audience.

Steven Crowder, at Big Hollywood, has a great video essay about the future of America. Will it go the way of Detroit? This one is scary.

I am a very strong believer that ALL movies have a message(s). Sometimes the messages are very obvious and other times they are not so obvious. Sometimes the message is intentional on the part of the writer/director and other times it is unintentional. It is also true that sometimes the writing or directing is so inept that the message is lost but it is there. My wife is a huge fan of the Twilight books and movies and she would probably disagree with this article about the lessons girls learn from Twilight.

Interesting stuff around the web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrsl8o4ZPo Here is a lovely little video of public school teachers teaching little children to sing songs of praise to the president. Very touching...in a creepy, disturbing way.

http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36267 This is an article from a couple of weeks ago. David Horowitz points out how different president Obama is from candidate Obama. Some very good point here. Is he a real life 'Manchurian Candidate?'

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/09/21/steven-chu-americans-are-like-teenage-kids-when-it-comes-to-energy/ Energy Secretary Steven Chu has a very low opinion of the average American. Sounds like he as a plan to straighten out the unruly children...

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506667 If you have been wondering why the 'stimulus' has not been working it might be because it was written by a bunch of radicals. These folks have no interest in reviving the US economy, they want to destroy it and replace it with something completely different. The connections here are scary.

This Month's Camille Paglia Editorial

Once again she hits one out of the park. As usual I find myself disagreeing with many of her points but the honesty is refreshing! This month I agree with about 75% of her points which is more than any other Democrat writer out there. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/

Head Scratchers...

As if His Lordship, Obama, did not already have enough work to do he has decided that important (read meaningless) work in the UN must be handled by him personally. President Obama will be the President of the UN Security Council. WTF - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d0c7a3a-9ca4-11de-ab58-00144feabdc0.html This guy is a major power trip going on. He is looking more and more like a control freak every day.

If you were not already opposed to the massive government take over of the health care industry wait until you find out who will be the primary enforcers of the new law - THE IRS. That should scare the crap out of every American! http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Health-care-reform-means-more-power-for-the-IRS-56781377.html Just what the most powerful agency in the US government needs - tons more power!

The President gave a pathetic speech to the nation's school children today. It was so pointless you might wonder what all the fuss is about? Most thinking people realize that the content of the speech was different today than it was originally planned to be. It is funny that the press and Congress doesn't seem to have any problem with the President addressing school children but when the first President Bush did something slightly similar in the early '90's there were Congressional hearings on the matter. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html Democrats are only upset by stuff like this when they are done by Republicans.

Freedom of the Press...

Here are a couple of stories that relate to the state of the Press today and where it may be going in the near future.

The first is from Big Hollywood and is and excellent example of bias in the media. If you don't think the media has a specific agenda then how can you explain the fact that both the war in Iraq and Afganistan have fallen off the media radar? Remember Cindy Sheehan? She is now protesting President Obama. Did you know that? http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/09/01/where-have-all-the-cameras-gone/#more-213334

Predient Obama is setting up a shadow government in the form of 'czars' for every concievable issue. The new FCC diversity 'czar' seems to be another scary radical. Seems he is not a big fan of freedom of speach and is not affraid to say so. http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=336613763986105