Showing posts with label Wild Card Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Card Wednesday. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Wildcard Wednesday: Why Has This Not Gone Viral?
This is way off-topic but I find this video both humorous and haunting.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wildcard Wednesday: Dr. John Drew Tells Tales Out of School
This is a 35 minute video but well worth every second of your attention.
THE RED DIAPER BABY
THE RED DIAPER BABY
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Hank Williams, Jr.
A little aside. A few years back ESPN fired Rush Limbaugh for interjecting politics into football. Whether or not the press wanted Donovan McNabb to succeed is immaterial. ESPN did the right thing in firing Limbaugh. Spectator sports offer escape from the daily grind. If one compromises the element of escape, the whole product suffers mightily.
I like Hank Jr., but if he loses his ESPN gig, it is his own fault. "Keep The Change" will ring just as true regardless of his fate.
KEEP THE CHANGE
I like Hank Jr., but if he loses his ESPN gig, it is his own fault. "Keep The Change" will ring just as true regardless of his fate.
KEEP THE CHANGE
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: The Machinery of Brainwashing
LARGELY IGNORED BY AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLETS, THIS VIDEO RAISED EYEBROWS AND DROPPED JAWS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Chevy Chase
Ah, "National Lampoon" in its heyday! Ahhh, Chevy Chase when he still had a brain. This is brilliant! Irony: Chevy Chase morphed into the Bullshit-Liberal he once parodied.
CHEVY CHASE AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME
CHEVY CHASE AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Glenn Beck In Israel
Glenn Beck is running circles around everyone: journalism competitors, political enemies, political allies, rival pundits. He is leaving all of them in the dust. Who foresaw his upcoming Jerusalem rally? No one ot anmed Glenn Beck.
Personally, I like Glenn Beck. He might just turn out to be this era's H. L. Mencken. Limbaugh could have seized that honor but he instead chose to play the us vs. them game. The liberal vs. conservative model is still highly profitable and who can argue with Limbaugh's marketability?
But Beck charted a different course starting in 2009. Whereas Limbaugh, Hannity. Levin, et al, mostly cheer for proper nouns, Beck advanced principles. True, Hannity and Limbaugh did some revisionism and retroactively criticized the Republicnas who held power from 2000 to 2006. They embraced the Tea Party and found time to appreciate fiscal conservatism.
For many of us, it was too little too late. Beck, meanwhile, addressed CPAC and warned the audience about The Republican Party. Principle over party. Principle over proper noun. For the life of me, I don't know why the lefties hate him. He is as hard on conservatives/Republicans as he is the Obama Administration. If there is an idea he has advanced above all others, that idea would probably be transparency. But the lefties love to hate and they are not always selective about their favorite activity.
So Glenn Beck is promoting a media event in Jerusalem to show his support for Israel. The lefties are once more enraqed. I wanted to provide a snippet of partisan commnetary. Once more, READ THE COMMENTS! Even in the hardcore authoritarian publications, the readers' comments do not always line up with writers. One more reason to love the Internet.
First up, "The Jewish Daily Forward" and the cranky Noam Sheizaf.
Glenn Beck is in Israel, again. In July, the talk radio host and former Fox News star was invited to the Kensset, where he met “a room full of admirers” — in the words of a Channel 1 report — led by Likud MK Danny Danon. Beck urged Israelis to stand strong; among those shaking his hand was Baruch Marzel, former chairman of the outlawed Kach movement. Yet it seems that this honor wasn’t enough for Beck, who is back for a couple of Israeli rallies this week under the name of “Restoring Courage.”
Americans are by now very familiar with the wild and irresponsible side of politics that Beck represents. Beck stokes hate among ethnic groups and pays little respect to democratic traditions in his own country, let alone in the rest of the world. Many of his comments in recent years have bordered on anti-Semitic. He embraced anti-Semitic writers, and all but one name on his list of “enemies of America and humanity” were Jews. Those were still mild references compared with the language Beck uses against liberals — and Jews are the most liberal group in America. Beck is toxic: Even Fox News got that, and eventually dumped him. If you were representing a company and your product was in trouble, Beck would have been the last public relations man on earth you’d call. Yet this is exactly what Israel has done.
Read the full piece here and DO NOT SKIP THE COMMENTS.
http://forward.com/articles/141673/
Beck also offends "The Christian Science Monitor."
Just as the Fonz's days were numbered the moment he jumped over a shark-infested pen on his summer trip to California (I originally misidentified the infamous shark-jump as having taken place in Hawaii, thanks to readers for pointing out the error), Mr. Beck is in danger of alienating a large section of his target audience on his coming vacation.
The 600 or so tickets for the event at Jerusalem's Davidson Center are sold out, but Beck has been eager to get large numbers of Israelis and foreigners to turn out for a public broadcast. He's not making that task any easier for himself. While Beck often proclaims his love for Israel and Israelis, a recent broadcast makes it clear that he views a vast swath of the Israeli public with contempt.
Full piece here.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0817/Did-Glenn-Beck-just-jump-the-shark-in-Israel
The comments are fairly balanced.
"The Atlantic" is a little more balanced but of course the dissenting commentors are dismissed as trollers.
CAESARIA, Israel -- The tears came early for Glenn Beck. Holding a bible in his hand, his eyes moistened and his voice cracked only moments after he took the stage at the ancient Roman amphitheater of Caeseria, Israel in front of a crowd of nearly 3,000 on Sunday. Beck paced the stage, praising the righteous Gentiles of history who saved Jews from anti-Semitism, and spoke of the greatness of the Jewish people and the need to "love the Jewish people as they are."
Standing on the ancient ruins, Beck also spoke of what he called Jews' "2,000 year old flinch," which makes them shy away from affection from Gentiles (including, presumably, himself) because of "not just the Holocaust, but it's [persecution of Jews] happened over and over and over again."
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/glenn-becks-ambivalent-welcome-in-israel/243917/
In fairness, Media Matters and PuffHo have done a superior job of maintaining idealogical purity in their comments sections. There, Beck is still an ignorant hate monger. Elsewhere, the crowds are a little less manageable.
Personally, I like Glenn Beck. He might just turn out to be this era's H. L. Mencken. Limbaugh could have seized that honor but he instead chose to play the us vs. them game. The liberal vs. conservative model is still highly profitable and who can argue with Limbaugh's marketability?
But Beck charted a different course starting in 2009. Whereas Limbaugh, Hannity. Levin, et al, mostly cheer for proper nouns, Beck advanced principles. True, Hannity and Limbaugh did some revisionism and retroactively criticized the Republicnas who held power from 2000 to 2006. They embraced the Tea Party and found time to appreciate fiscal conservatism.
For many of us, it was too little too late. Beck, meanwhile, addressed CPAC and warned the audience about The Republican Party. Principle over party. Principle over proper noun. For the life of me, I don't know why the lefties hate him. He is as hard on conservatives/Republicans as he is the Obama Administration. If there is an idea he has advanced above all others, that idea would probably be transparency. But the lefties love to hate and they are not always selective about their favorite activity.
So Glenn Beck is promoting a media event in Jerusalem to show his support for Israel. The lefties are once more enraqed. I wanted to provide a snippet of partisan commnetary. Once more, READ THE COMMENTS! Even in the hardcore authoritarian publications, the readers' comments do not always line up with writers. One more reason to love the Internet.
First up, "The Jewish Daily Forward" and the cranky Noam Sheizaf.
Glenn Beck is in Israel, again. In July, the talk radio host and former Fox News star was invited to the Kensset, where he met “a room full of admirers” — in the words of a Channel 1 report — led by Likud MK Danny Danon. Beck urged Israelis to stand strong; among those shaking his hand was Baruch Marzel, former chairman of the outlawed Kach movement. Yet it seems that this honor wasn’t enough for Beck, who is back for a couple of Israeli rallies this week under the name of “Restoring Courage.”
Americans are by now very familiar with the wild and irresponsible side of politics that Beck represents. Beck stokes hate among ethnic groups and pays little respect to democratic traditions in his own country, let alone in the rest of the world. Many of his comments in recent years have bordered on anti-Semitic. He embraced anti-Semitic writers, and all but one name on his list of “enemies of America and humanity” were Jews. Those were still mild references compared with the language Beck uses against liberals — and Jews are the most liberal group in America. Beck is toxic: Even Fox News got that, and eventually dumped him. If you were representing a company and your product was in trouble, Beck would have been the last public relations man on earth you’d call. Yet this is exactly what Israel has done.
Read the full piece here and DO NOT SKIP THE COMMENTS.
http://forward.com/articles/141673/
Beck also offends "The Christian Science Monitor."
Just as the Fonz's days were numbered the moment he jumped over a shark-infested pen on his summer trip to California (I originally misidentified the infamous shark-jump as having taken place in Hawaii, thanks to readers for pointing out the error), Mr. Beck is in danger of alienating a large section of his target audience on his coming vacation.
The 600 or so tickets for the event at Jerusalem's Davidson Center are sold out, but Beck has been eager to get large numbers of Israelis and foreigners to turn out for a public broadcast. He's not making that task any easier for himself. While Beck often proclaims his love for Israel and Israelis, a recent broadcast makes it clear that he views a vast swath of the Israeli public with contempt.
Full piece here.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0817/Did-Glenn-Beck-just-jump-the-shark-in-Israel
The comments are fairly balanced.
"The Atlantic" is a little more balanced but of course the dissenting commentors are dismissed as trollers.
CAESARIA, Israel -- The tears came early for Glenn Beck. Holding a bible in his hand, his eyes moistened and his voice cracked only moments after he took the stage at the ancient Roman amphitheater of Caeseria, Israel in front of a crowd of nearly 3,000 on Sunday. Beck paced the stage, praising the righteous Gentiles of history who saved Jews from anti-Semitism, and spoke of the greatness of the Jewish people and the need to "love the Jewish people as they are."
Standing on the ancient ruins, Beck also spoke of what he called Jews' "2,000 year old flinch," which makes them shy away from affection from Gentiles (including, presumably, himself) because of "not just the Holocaust, but it's [persecution of Jews] happened over and over and over again."
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/glenn-becks-ambivalent-welcome-in-israel/243917/
In fairness, Media Matters and PuffHo have done a superior job of maintaining idealogical purity in their comments sections. There, Beck is still an ignorant hate monger. Elsewhere, the crowds are a little less manageable.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Tom Snyder, Durk Pearson, Jerry Pournelle
TOM SNYDER: TV PIONEER
POURNELLE PROJECTS THE FUTURE
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, TOM. RIP.
POURNELLE PROJECTS THE FUTURE
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, TOM. RIP.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Is This Really Michael Moore Badgering Milton Friedman?
A PRE-GLUTTONOUS MICHAEL MOORE?
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Health Care Redux
I believe the 2700 page monstrosiity will be repealed, if not overturned by the Supreme Court. But our evil overlords are hoping to wait us out in hopes that we lose focus. According to Rasmussen, that has not happened yet.
Whereas the following video offers five excellent arguments against this Obomination, I can offer three better arguments:
1. It is 2700 pages long.
2. It is absurdly complicated and confusing even for lawyers and academics. That might be by design so that lawyers get lots more business in the coming decades.
3. The people who voted on it did not read it. Sad but true.
JUST AN EXCUSE TO SHOW HOT SWEDISH BABES
Whereas the following video offers five excellent arguments against this Obomination, I can offer three better arguments:
1. It is 2700 pages long.
2. It is absurdly complicated and confusing even for lawyers and academics. That might be by design so that lawyers get lots more business in the coming decades.
3. The people who voted on it did not read it. Sad but true.
JUST AN EXCUSE TO SHOW HOT SWEDISH BABES
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Those Wacky Birthers Are Back In The News
Gary Poyssick, an early employee of software giant Adobe System Inc., continues to maintain there is something "fishy" about the Obama long-form birth certificate released by the White House.
"What the White House released is not a simple scan," Poyssick told WND. "Something digital came between the paper and the glass."
Poyssick was at the San Jose-based tech company when it counted no more than 14 employees, and he continues to advise and write on Adobe software products
Poyssick, who today devotes his energies to running The Online Fisherman in Tampa, Fla., has written more than 50 titles about Adobe software, the printing industry, coding and programming, website development and workflow management.
"Get the New York Times best-seller Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President," autographed by Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.
His initial reaction was to declare the birth certificate an outright forgery.
"I could have done a much better replica myself, if the president had asked," Poyssick told The Political Sandbox blog when the birth certificate first appeared and he opened the document in Adobe Illustrator. "The guy that did this is a bimbo in that he forgot to 'flatten' his works to soften the background edges so the fake letters blended, softly into the green paper.
Observing that the birth certificate document had multiple layers when opened in Adobe Illustrator, Poyssick was amazed the White House had released an electronic PDF file that had not been "flattened" so as to remove all evidence that it had been modified.
Read more: Adobe engineer doubts Obama birth certificate http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=314717#ixzz1QCwrChzl
"What the White House released is not a simple scan," Poyssick told WND. "Something digital came between the paper and the glass."
Poyssick was at the San Jose-based tech company when it counted no more than 14 employees, and he continues to advise and write on Adobe software products
Poyssick, who today devotes his energies to running The Online Fisherman in Tampa, Fla., has written more than 50 titles about Adobe software, the printing industry, coding and programming, website development and workflow management.
"Get the New York Times best-seller Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President," autographed by Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.
His initial reaction was to declare the birth certificate an outright forgery.
"I could have done a much better replica myself, if the president had asked," Poyssick told The Political Sandbox blog when the birth certificate first appeared and he opened the document in Adobe Illustrator. "The guy that did this is a bimbo in that he forgot to 'flatten' his works to soften the background edges so the fake letters blended, softly into the green paper.
Observing that the birth certificate document had multiple layers when opened in Adobe Illustrator, Poyssick was amazed the White House had released an electronic PDF file that had not been "flattened" so as to remove all evidence that it had been modified.
Read more: Adobe engineer doubts Obama birth certificate http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=314717#ixzz1QCwrChzl
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Wild Card Wednesday: Her Great Grandfather Warned Us About The Military Industrial Complex
AND SHE WARNS US ABOUT SECRET COLONIES ON MARS
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Wild Card Wednesday: Frank Luntz
Ok, Penn and Teller were a bit harsh in their assessment of Frank Luntz. And they ambush him. He had no idea what kind of tenor or tack or tone they would be taking. So yes, one might be inclined to suggest that those magnificent magic men might have overstated their case a bit. But still...this is Frank Luntz exposed.
WHEN YOU SEE FRANK LUNTZ, YELL OUT THIS MESSAGE
The Paulists saw Luntz and Hannity as shills. High-priced call girls but call girls just the same. Ron Paul presented a problem for the GOP. He reminded one and all of the gulf between GOP rhetoric and GOP action, especially on matters of fiscal and monetary policy. Later, when the Paulists would play a part (how big a part, I cannot say. The Tea Party might have happened without them. But the Paulists nonetheless helped pour the foundation.) in creating the Tea Party movement, Rush Limbaugh would grow infuriated at the suggestions that this rabble sparked a movement he wanted to claim for his own.
Incidentally, when Ron Paul's son would run for the Senate in Kentucky he would be vehemently opposed by the Republican establishment at both the state and national level. Rand Paul is less robotic than his father. He possesses common sense in areas where his father only possesses constitutional scholarship. Specifically, he is more hawkish than his father and he recognizes the unique challenges to our survival that Al Qaeda and other terrorists present. Nonetheless, Ron Paul was a pebble in the shoe and his son would receive an icy reception.
Have the Republicans kissed and made up? Not exactly. Obama, Reid and Pelosi are so polarizing and so destructive that they served to unify the divided such as we have never before seen. But the 2012 Presidentials will be coming to a town near you (if you live in Iowa or New Hampshire) and old wounds and older grudges will be exposed. Grab the popcorn.
GOP FAMILY FEUD GOES PUBLIC
WHEN YOU SEE FRANK LUNTZ, YELL OUT THIS MESSAGE
The Paulists saw Luntz and Hannity as shills. High-priced call girls but call girls just the same. Ron Paul presented a problem for the GOP. He reminded one and all of the gulf between GOP rhetoric and GOP action, especially on matters of fiscal and monetary policy. Later, when the Paulists would play a part (how big a part, I cannot say. The Tea Party might have happened without them. But the Paulists nonetheless helped pour the foundation.) in creating the Tea Party movement, Rush Limbaugh would grow infuriated at the suggestions that this rabble sparked a movement he wanted to claim for his own.
Incidentally, when Ron Paul's son would run for the Senate in Kentucky he would be vehemently opposed by the Republican establishment at both the state and national level. Rand Paul is less robotic than his father. He possesses common sense in areas where his father only possesses constitutional scholarship. Specifically, he is more hawkish than his father and he recognizes the unique challenges to our survival that Al Qaeda and other terrorists present. Nonetheless, Ron Paul was a pebble in the shoe and his son would receive an icy reception.
Have the Republicans kissed and made up? Not exactly. Obama, Reid and Pelosi are so polarizing and so destructive that they served to unify the divided such as we have never before seen. But the 2012 Presidentials will be coming to a town near you (if you live in Iowa or New Hampshire) and old wounds and older grudges will be exposed. Grab the popcorn.
GOP FAMILY FEUD GOES PUBLIC
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