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How’s the weather in N. Korea?
Very sad, according to the the official newspaper of North Korea’s Workers’ Party (via Slate):
-Snow Falling from Clear Sky
Mysterious snow fell at Mt.Paektu Secret Camp from 7 p.m. on Dec. 18 to 7 a.m. on 19.
In general, snow falls from an overcast sky, but at Mt. Paektu Secret Camp snow fell from the starry sky all night.
Local residents said Kim Jong Il was the heaven-born man and so the sky shed tears at the news of his demise.
The Palin propaganda project
Nauseating.
‘An excruciating combination of bombast and whining’
According to the conservative New York Post, the new Sarah Palin movie is the Ishtar of political propaganda films.
“[It's] so outlandishly partisan that it makes Richard Nixon look likeAbraham Lincoln and its febrile rush of images — not excluding earthquakes, car wrecks, volcanic eruption and attacking Rottweilers — reminded me of the brainwash movie Alex is forced to sit through in “A Clockwork Orange.” Except no one came along to refresh my pupils with eyedrops. …
If you’re hopeful (or worried) that this movie is the secret trigger for a Palin relaunch, don’t be. Even if you fixed the blaring soundtrack and took out all the symbols of the cataclysmic evil opposing Palin (barking dogs, disaster footage, a closeup of Rosie O’Donnell), you’d still be left with a hopeless sputtering jumble.
The busted logic and narrative chop of “The Undefeated” don’t suggest the phrase, “spirited new defense of Palin.” They say, “cyclone landed here.”
Propagandart
I’ll never understand artists who suck up to Communists.
[Pianist] Lang [Liang] played a Chinese household song called “My Motherland” at the function to welcome President Hu Jintao. It was the theme music of a 1956 movie named Shangganling Battle, which depicted the fighting of Chinese troops against US troops during the Korean War (1950-53).
A lyric in the song goes, “If the jackals come, we will greet them with guns.”
Lang denied any hidden intentions behind the choice, saying on his Facebook account Tuesday that “it has been a favorite of mine since I was a child. It was selected for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody. I am, first and foremost, an artist. As such, I play music to bring people together.”
“America and China are my two homes. … I couldn’t be who I am today without those two countries,” he added. “My mission is to bridge cultures through the beauty and inspiration of music.”
So I guess he’ll play the Battle Hymn of the Republic next time the U.S. president visits Beijing.
Artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, on a Twitter posting, simply laughed off Lang Lang’s explanation. He wrote “Not political?” — and then dismissed the suggestion with an unprintable expletive.
you can’t save lives AND money
A federally appointed public health task force recommends turning *medical convention on its ear, yet no specialists were consulted.
The task force acknowledged that mammograms can save lives and fear their new guidelines may be misinterpreted. “We aren’t against screening women in their 40s, we just don’t think it should be routine,” Petitti said.
Such vague rationale belies trust, as does the task force’s argument that women need to be protected from a fear of contracting cancer:
A test can trigger unnecessary further tests, like biopsies, that can create extreme anxiety.
You know how women tend to worry themselves needlessly.
Of course, Dr. Berry noted, if the new guidelines are followed, billions of dollars will be saved.
“But the money was buying something of net negative value,” he said. “This decision is a no-brainer. The economy benefits, but women are the major beneficiaries.”
No, the biggest beneficiaries are the insurance companies and, potentially, the federal government.
Others fear insurance coverage of mammograms could be dropped based on the new recommendations.
“Certainly mammography does pick up things at [age] 45 that would have been much more serious in five years,” said Dr. Anne Wallace, director of the University of California-San Diego Moores Breast Cancer Program. “What worries me is if insurance companies won’t allow women who want early detection in this age group to be screened.”
*Note the institutional bias on display in The Times article.
fraud, what fraud?
Partisan hypocrisy defined:
The right wing, the McCain/Palin camp, and now even CNN is screaming fraud on based on 2000 bogus ACORN registrations in Indiana. Like most “Conspiracies” this is probably a case of incompetence rather than any attempt at registering no existent voters for some kind of grand scheme to allow folks to vote multiple times or some other nonsense.
I’m sure the Daily Kos would be similarly assuaged if ACORN was registering mainly pissed-off old white guys.
Read the allegations before dismissing them.
“We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes,” Mellor said. “We believe that by attacking ACORN, they are going to discourage people that have registered to vote with ACORN from voting.”
No denial — barely an acknowledgement. That type of response always makes me skeptical.
The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead — and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law.
Worth following (though not obsessing over). Also note that nothing has been proven.
Basic civics.
how would you describe governor palin’s performance? excellent, outstanding or just plain awesome?
I missed Sean Hannity grill Sarah Palin tonight. I hope he wasn’t as tough on her as he is with most Republicans.
Fox News contributor Turdblossom was interviewed by the interviewer about the interview after its conclusion. “So Karl, who was more impressive tonight, me or Sarah Palin?”
“You were terrific as always, Sean, but Gov. Palin is without a doubt the most prepared and dynamic candidate this country has ever nominated. It’s no longer a question of whether the Palin-McCain ticket will win, but how long it will take for her to join the other presidents on Mount Rushmore.”
boycott will smith
Will Smith is a fraud. Don’t be fooled by his shallow charisma and non-denial denials: the celebrity is a member of a brainwashing cult, which makes him A.) an idiot and B.) dangerous.
He’s best buds with Tom Cruise. He’s opened a private school that will “use instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard called study technology.”
He’s an admitted follower, even if he refuses to label himself a Scientologist (as it would endanger his non-threatening reputation).
“I was introduced to it by Tom, and I’m a student of world religion. I was raised in a Baptist household. I went to a Catholic school, but the ideas of the Bible are 98% the same ideas of Scientology, 98% the same ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism.”
Presumably the other 2% is the part about the evil space emperor who put the hydrogen bombs in the volcano.
Boycotting Smith shouldn’t be difficult; his movies typically suck, and his music is even worse. But hey, if you want to help Scientology recruit new members, that’s your business. It is the Willennium, after all.
don’t ask me, i’m just the spokesman
It’s not what Scott McClellan wrote — the Iraq War was propagandized? I had no idea — it’s that he was in a position to write anything at all.
Bush loyalists are busy trashing their former colleague, but there’s no need to insinuate McClellan was overmatched — anyone who watched one of his press briefings could conclude that.
He seemed perpetually out of the loop and wasn’t credible pretending otherwise. McClellan was exactly what he appeared to be: a career functionary promoted to a position the Bushies considered irrelevant, a la former FEMA director Michael “You’re doing a heckuva job” Brownie.
If Bush/Cheney thought the public had a right to know what it’s government was up to , they wouldn’t have tabbed a hapless bureaucrat like McClellan as their messenger.
This is what a shill does
Can you imagine having to write this paragraph?
“Ryan Seacrest is known and loved by television audiences around the world,” Mike Darnell, president of Alternative Entertainment, Fox, said in a statement today. “His work on ‘American Idol’ is unparalleled in the industry. He’s a consummate host of major broadcast events and a proven talent who always makes it look easy, which makes him the perfect choice for this year’s Emmy telecast.”
Far-left hysteria
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
Watch this chilling propaganda that paints America as the enemy and Islamic extremists and North Korea (!?!) as victims of our insatiable imperialism. I’m surprised the fat toad hasn’t posted this on her blog.
