In response to the censorship of South Park, I will be participating in “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” EDMD will take place on May 20, 2010. On that day, I will also publish my South Park article, which will cover the source of this revolt. I have a lot to say on this, but I’ll save it for a rainy day.
Muammar Gaddafi gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Complete moron. The guy rambled on for over 90 minutes on familiar topics– the evil West and the more evil Jews. He even touched on the JFK conspiracy to boot.
Anyway, I’m not writing because I care about him or what he said, I’m writing because each time I saw his name, either in print or on TV, it was spelled differently. I know the news business is cut-throat, but can they get some people on a conference call and maybe agree on the guy’s name? Even bin Laden didn’t have to go through this and he’s a much bigger ass-hole.
So here are some of the different ways this guy’s name was spelled. Also, I’m only talking about the last name, let’s not even worry about the first name. That’s a bag of hurt.
Is it Gadhafi (AP), or Qaddafi (Fox News), or Gaddafi (Reuters), or Kadafi (LA Times), or Khadafy (New York Post)? Who knows, and who really cares.
I will preface this article by saying I’m not a Michael Jackson fan, just a very casual listener to a select few of his songs. Like many kids growing up during the 1980s, I was subjected to his music and influence on popular culture. Although not an avid MTV viewer (1993 not withstanding), I did manage to see all his videos at one time or another– at least the classic ones. And although his music is not something I “got into,” I did a lot of singing around the house of some of his hits, including Beat It, Thriller, and Billie Jean.
This article is really just about my feelings and recollections of what I thought of Michael Jackson and what I have to say about this life and death. I did purchase the three aforementioned songs on iTunes in preparation for this article. I imagine with Jackson not around anymore to spend his own money, his debts may get paid off sooner than most people think. As of now, his personal debt has been estimated to be as much as $400 million or more. After that, I’m sure the family, record labels, lawyers, and a slew of others will be in court fighting over rights to his name, likeness, and music. Vultures.
French industrial and automotive designer Jonathan Mahieddine has created quite a stir on numerous popular tech-oriented websites with his Honda Fuzo, a futuristic design for a flying car.
First of all, flying cars will never exist in this country for personal, non-commercial use. You will never own a flying car. Just get that stupid idea out of your head now. The reasons why you will never own a flying car are not even related to technical reasons, such as these “cars” would need a nuclear reactor or some very far-off technology to make them fly longer than a minute or two, while keeping size and costs to a realistic value.
The reason you will never own one is safety!
Yahoo! is my web browser’s start page, so I get a glimpse of the headlines when I start up Safari. See anything striking in the top news section? Gun violence much? To say this country, and indeed the world, doesn’t have a gun problem is like telling a right-wing, gun-toting redneck that his beloved NASCAR racer doesn’t use round wheels. The quizzical look on his face is the same found on my face when I hear the NRA saying that there isn’t a gun problem, people kill people, not guns, and all that jazz.
I used to buy that line, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” And maybe in a sane and moral society, that line works. But we are dealing with anything but sane and moral. We are living in the downward spiral of something that was once great.
I don’t have time to write anything substantive on this issue, I just wanted to make a point. Hopefully, I’ll be able to devote more time to this topic and expose these gun-rights morons for the illogical and misinformed people they are.
One word.. WOW! I heard some commotion about a comic being published making fun of President Barack Obama. It wasn’t until tonight that I saw the comic. Wow!
Either Rupert Murdoch has got one GIANT set of balls or he has complete morons working for him at the New York Post– the paper owned by News Corp, a company for which Rupert is a major shareholder– and the paper that published the aforementioned comic. The execs at Fox News Channel must even be sitting back and scratching their heads, wondering how this one got out.
I missed the debate Tuesday night as I had a 5 hour Advanced C++ class to attend, but I did manage to watch a streaming video of some of it– just enough to hear John “My Friends” McCain. I ended up watching the pundants speak after the debate, then watched some of the replay.
It wasn’t long before I realized that McCain’s campaign is as thriving as Elvis’ pulse. These findings were later confirmed when every major post-debate poll showed that Obama in fact won the debate.
This was really no surprise to me as McCain has been probably the most boring, no balls, candidate I’ve seen in quite some time. The first thing I thought was that I wanted to watch “Fox & Friends” in the morning so I could see how Fox would spin this, and see if they would actually submit to sanity, and agree that Obama won. Boy, was I wrong.
Pwnt! Well, another of the “good reasons” we went to war with Iraq has proved a myth– along with all the others, like WMD and Saddam’s nuclear ambitions. I wonder if Bush and Cheney still hold these “truths” self-evident? Morons!
In a report released today (wow another Friday release, go figure) by the Senate, Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President Bush and Dick Cheney had used to build support for the war in Iraq.
LONDON (Reuters) – They chase each other at high speed wielding axes and hammers. But the famous cartoon duo of Tom and Jerry are in trouble in Britain for smoking on screen.
A channel airing the cartoons has agreed to cut scenes that glamorise smoking after British media regulator Ofcom received a complaint from a viewer who took offence at two episodes.
In the first, “Texas Tom”, the hapless cat Tom tries to impress a feline female by rolling a cigarette, lighting it and smoking it with one hand. In the second, “Tennis Chumps”, Tom’s opponent in a match smokes a large cigar.
In a bulletin posted online, Ofcom noted “concerns that smoking on television may normalise smoking”, and said that the Turner company, licensee for Boomerang which aired the cartoons, had agreed to edit some smoking scenes out of “Tom and Jerry”.
“The licensee has … proposed editing any scenes or references in the series where smoking appeared to be condoned, acceptable, glamorised or where it might encourage imitation”, Ofcom said, adding that “Texas Tom” was one such example.
But it would not cut all smoking scenes, it added.
Ofcom said it recognized smoking was more generally accepted when cartoons were produced in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, but noted that the threshold for including such scenes when the audience is predominately young should be high.
A proposed constitutional amendment to allow Congress to prohibit desecration of the flag has fallen a single vote short of approval by the Senate.
The 66 to 34 vote Tuesday on the amendment was one vote short of the 67 required to send the amendment to the states for potential ratification as the 28th Amendment. The decision was the closest proponents of the initiative have come in four Senate votes since the Supreme Court first ruled in 1989 that flag burning was a protected form of free speech.
