Avoid expressing yourself around the Left, Liberal or radical.
No, really. Because sports, they believe utterly in the diversity of expressing
every kind of opinion, except for yours and mine…
Dear sports, here’s a real old favourite from Saturday September 29 2007. It’s a little piece that really gave me a boost to keep on writing, even if nobody else wanted me to. Now as you probably already dig, I’m a Conservative, Libertarian, inner-city odd-ball musician, alleged artist, writer, Judeo Christian, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, P.J O’Rourke, Groucho Marx, Mark Steynkind of a guy.
So naturally, the following empirical analysis is as clear as day around here in inner-city urban Groovyville. Now not everyone round these here part’s has been infected via a pod from outer space, meaning mass Leftardism, but er, most probably are, I’m afraid. It does give another level of meaning to the recent phrase ‘podcast’.. Eerily, it’s now a cast of million’s. Ah, the Left, Liberal and radical are nothing if not totalitarian fascistic control freaks at heart. Yes, freaks. Sometimes I wake up screaming.
I know many people who at first seem just like regular people. They wear their underwear on the inside of their pants and can tie their own shoelaces. They eat food, watch TV and have jobs. Very few devote gleeful spare hours to kicking boxes full of puppies. But there’s something different about many of them and it’s not always apparent at first. I’ve noticed it more and more as I’ve learnt and changed, always reading voraciously as I research this, global phenomena.
The first sign is that they’re not really that prone to showing enthusiasm and joy. I mean real uninhibited energy and an excitement about the future and its potential. Basically, being a God damned complete and alive human being. It’s as if they’re living in a depressive envelope with some idea that life as it is, is all wrong, basically doomed and cancerous and must therefore end. And at the same time there’s an odd smug conceit, as if there is an inevitable ‘truth’ to their nightmarish viewpoint.
There’s also the creepiest implied undertone, unspoken but it’s clearly all there in their posturing. It’s assumed that they are part of a growing under-group inexorably destined to reach critical mass and you, and everything about you is irrelevant and expendable…Continue reading on Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses for Dinner >>
1) Obama: Hold on one second ’sweetie’: Obama dodges female reporter’s question with the reply “Hold on one second sweetie.” Notice the laughter afterwords.
2) Radio Host Kevin James Walks into a Smackdown: Radio host Kevin James on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews gets into a smack down on TV.
We bloggers are pretty independent minded and we aren’t afraid to share our opinions with the world. Independence can be isolating but blogging should never be a lonely pursuit. The loneliness of writing is usually offset by the discovery of multiple social networks where we can relate to and collaborate with other bloggers of like mind. This usually begins with making it a point to comment frequently on blogs where we feel a common bond. Eventually, if we are fairly consistent and reliable in our work, some multi-author blog owner or editor is going to invite us to join his or her team as a contributor. That’s always quite an honor as-well-as a big responsibility.
One conspiracy theory about the WTC collapse is that traces of tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, prove that nuclear devices, or, in some claims, mini-nukes were used to bring down the towers. However, this is a complete lie.
For one thing, any nuclear device will leave huge amounts of radiation as we see here. Furthermore, there would have been an electromagnetic pulse that would knock out all electronic equipment in range, which can be considerable (source). This quote from here makes the point quite nicely:
Living organisms are impervious to these effects, but electrical and electronic equipment can be temporarily or permanently disabled by them. Ionized gases can also block short wavelength radio and radar signals (fireball blackout) for extended periods.
Hint: This means that the TV cameras in the area of the WTC would have STOPPED WORKING when the towers came down. They did not do so.
It occurs to me that I ought to have a running commentary on the anti-Israel bias in the contemporary New York Times. It is my home town newspaper and I do read it everyday. Sharing rather than silently swallowing my frustration will be an excellent tonic, and good for my blood pressure.
In today’s edition (May 15th), here is how the Gray Lady summarizes what happened in Israel yesterday.
ATTACKS DURING BUSH VISIT
President Bush’s trip to Israel to celebrate the country’s 60th birthday was marred by violence. Four Palestinians were killed, including two militants, and nine were wounded in a series of Israeli Army strikes and incursions into Gaza said medics and witnesses there. In Israel, a rocket that the police said was launched from northern Gaza badly wounded four people, including a two year old girl.
Before we even get to the piece itself which was located at the very bottom of page 6, lemme vent. The first “violence” noted above was that caused by “Israeli Army strikes.” Absolutely no background or context are given in terms of why Israel would strike Gaza. Hundreds, maybe thousands of non-stop Kassam rockets launched against Israeli civilians, children, schoolhouses, hospitals? Could that be it? The Times isn’t saying. And why-oh-why does TimeSpeak keep identifying Hamas terrorists and Islamists as “militants?”
And, now that the Israeli military has been maligned and branded as evil day after day in the Paper of Record, even I tend to trust a smidgen less anything they might have to say. I am meant to; thus, if the Israeli “police” tell us the rocket was launched from Gaza-perhaps, maybe, I am meant to take that with a grain of salt. Not so the “medics and witnesses” of Gaza who have never been maligned and who appear, therefore, as neutral reporters.
Only when you get to the longer piece, do you learn that the Gaza-launched rocket hit a health clinic in Ashkelon (beyond Sderot); that the doctor who was attending to the wounded was also wounded by it; that the rocket was “Iranian made;” that “Hamas has praised the attack.”
Yes, the same Hamas that Presidential hopeful Barack Obama wants us to talk to as does the new left-Jewish group which calls itself J Street- just to make sure you understand that they are truly out of this world. (”J” street in Washington D.C. does not exist, that is their clever point). See James Kirchick’s article “What Does the New Jewish Lobby Really Represent” in The New Republic of May 28, 2008.
But back to the New York Times: In terms of this latest rocket attack upon Israeli civilians, you have to read on to the eighth paragraph to learn that sixty other people were also wounded-but only “lightly.” Not seriously, right? The fact is, that such attacks have been going on for years, the civilian population is being terrorized and traumatized, as well as murdered and maimed. And yes, “lightly wounded” as well.
After a brief period of judicial restraint, California voters watched in horror this afternoon as judicial activism returned with a vengeance in one of the most egregious rulings in American jurisprudence. It took just four activist judges to overturn the historical definition of marriage, not to mention the vote of more than four and a half million Californians, as the state supreme court issued a much-anticipated ruling on the question of same-sex “marriage.”
By a 4-3 margin, the justices struck down a law, adopted by 61 percent of voters in 2000, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. By imposing same-sex “marriage” on voters, the California Supreme Court knowingly usurped the right of the people to effect change in public policy. This outcome is even more troubling than Massachusetts’, in that California voters had already won the right to put a marriage protection amendment on the ballot in November.
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