A busy day, so a few quick links will have to do for now;
With the offensive in Iraq by Al Qaeda working hard to monopolize the news cycle, it’s time for a counteroffensive – Chrenkoff’s Good News From Iraq, Part 31
A smackdown to Gwynn Dyer that the Liberal Death Star wouldn’t print.
This is the same Hollywood that can’t figure out why their fortunes are declining.
Some of us suspect that the field of child psychology is mostly quasi-medical hocus pocus attempting to compensate for poor parenting. Agree, disagree – I don’t much care. Normally, I wouldn’t venture an opinion, as I don’t have a dog in that fight. But let’s make a deal – how about you take your theories back to your panelled offices where they belong and keep them the hell away from the youth criminal justice system? People are getting killed out here.
“Some of us suspect that the field of child psychology is mostly quasi-medical hocus pocus attempting to compensate for poor parenting.”
I do have a dog in this fight and I agree with you. I think that ADD should be renamed to PDD (Parenting Deficit Disorder).
Movie Plans
You know, I wasn’t all that excited about seeing ‘War of the Worlds’ anyway…and that was before the screenwriter explained that the invading Martians in the film were really a metaphor for invading U.S. troops…
O/T
A day without orange juice is like a poll without prompting. -“Anita Bryant”
“Majority say- same-sex marriage bill must stand..
When offered a list of options, 19 per cent chose same-sex marriage as the most notable achievement; 28 per cent picked the health-care accord.”
However, when asked to think of an achievement without the prompting of a list, 60 per cent could not come up with one.
Liberal achievements? That’s easy: they’re biodegradable.
Radical Islam and suicide bombers
“Ultimately, the suicide bomber is just another tool in the arsenal of the international terrorist groups. For the bomber, religion is the basic motivation or excuse. Their mission is legitimized by a supreme charismatic leader or Islamic cleric; special recruiters bring the suicide candidate together with the group. Eliminating the enablers� the recruiters and ideologists � wherever they are (mostly in London, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) must therefore be the first step in eliminating the problem.” newsbeat1.com
http://www.rapp.org/url/?QX59D4BJ
Hollywood clearly likes money from the left side of the wallet as opposed to the right side of the wallet. They haven’t figured out that they’ve been going after the smaller side of the wallet.
I think there’s an opportunity here for centralist or slightly right of center story tellers. Imagine a non-preachy action flick based on honest reflections of recent events, with intelligent dialogue…and then add the leggy blond rocket scientist and the ex-NFL star who’s an expert on bio-chemical body enhancement techniques…..and WAHLAH…a hit.
New investigations by the Saudi Arabian government and an Israeli think tank � both of which painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States � have found that the vast majority of them are not former terrorists and became radicalized by the war.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3269420
Meanwhile, on other criminal matters . . buried in this story . . drinking in a public park @ 2:00am . . bet you that drives the neighbours crazy having drunken men yelling, urinating and probably defecating where their kids are supposed to play the next day.
And yet if the police go after these ‘petty” criminals, the courts slap ’em on the wrist. I’d put them on a chain gang and have them clean up parks for a few weeks. Picking up garbage and crap is good for the soal
As for the kiddy gangs, they have no fear of cops or courts . . they just laugh . . because there are no consequences. Put them in chain gangs and have them clean the local mall in full humiliation mode for all the other teenagers to see & laugh at would really make them think twice about busting someone’s head.
But I can just hear the crys of indignation from the looney-lefties that run the current system, how cruel !!! The little darlings made be scared for life !!
Rupert Murdoch Plans Fox Internet Division –Internet Power Grows
NewsMax ^ | 7/18/05 | Limbacher
Posted on 07/18/2005 9:15:55 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Rupert Murdoch�s News Corp. has announced the creation of an Internet division to oversee the company�s collection of Websites, including Foxnews.com.
The new division, called Fox Interactive Media, follows a warning Murdoch gave to newspaper editors in April that they were “remarkably complacent� about the power of the Internet…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445344/posts
The National Post now gives a weekly summary of violent crime in Toronto- no descriptions of the perps are given. Same thing from the Toronto Sun.
Young offenders don’t even get their names mentioned, ( and don’t think they are not aware of this). ‘Politically correct’- you bet! I say: coverup!
I agree with Fred’s comment. Nothing like a little public humiliation to change a teenager’s outlook. I don’t give a f*&k about little Johnny’s self-esteem ( or little Johnette’s ) Make them clean streets with a big sign telling all what they did.
The biggest question mark coming from the offending death star article is WHY an age-of-Aquarius geo-political burnout like Dyer has any credibility at all? Where modern outlaw warfare is concerned, he, like Eric Margolais, have been demonstrably wrong on virtually every nutty theory they produce. It�s so obvious that all the pseudo intellectualizing they engage in is a smoke screen for hate-America, anti capitalism and anti western culture deconstructionist notions. I�ve never seen a pair of southpaw pontiffs so virulently guilt ridden over North America�s wealth, social stability and military success�.or apologetic for terror as a legitimate political statement/tool.
Frankly, Dyer is very intellectually dishonest in this piece. He�s is trying to deceitfully sell the notion that IF England had not supported the US led coalition to attack the nests of rogue theocratic despotism that produce terrorists, they would not be victims of terrorists�.he conveniently leaves out the fact that Britain and British citizens were attacked by Islamic Jihad for some 5 years prior to their involvement in Iraqi theater. He fails to delineate the true London terror bombing scenario; that the perpetrators were British CITIZENS who had a viable democratic way to make political statements and change foreign policy�.. but the same extremist theocratic poison that the US/UK forces were rooting out in their foreign policy spread its toxic orthodoxies to those in a free nation and had them accept the murder of fellow citizens of their democracy as a legitimate political system for change�.that is what Dyer is really advocating�that free-lance revolutionary urban warriors engaging in civilian murder is a legitimate tool for social/political change.
I mean, we heard all this paisley-clad bolshevism from the very same campus radicals 40 years ago…how long can Dyer shill this tired hippy world view in light of the stark global political realities which speak to the irrelevance of out moded utopianism that places blame for all the world’s ills on capitalism and GWB.
“Procreation Disabled”–I must remember that!
Mo is Less.
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Maurice Strong loses job as UN’s N. Korea envoy
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS � Canadian businessman Maurice Strong has lost his job as the top UN envoy for North Korea, the United Nations said Monday.
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Librano$ will announce a severance package for Mo: Ambassador to North Korea$$$$$$$$$$ Le$$ i$ Mo.
No more “Hello Moe” around the UN front offices but business as usual out back.
Socialist kingmaker of Martin and Trudeau fired in disgrace.
Canada will obviously have to right this wrong with a senate seat for the crooked bastard