enough with the bad puns. congratulations to tony snow on the new job. i hope that he won’t be sorry he took it, and that he will be able to help the president get back on track. i will admit that does seem to be a lost cause right now, but things could change between now and november. you just never know.
read this related fiction. it’s from the comic geniuses at imao. i love it. you will too.
more later when the heavy flu meds wear off.
technical problems with my computer have kept me from posting and responding to comments as quickly as i would have liked to this week. bear with me. as soon as the main computer’s back up, you will see more new posts. 🙂
In other important news…ALIAS returns to our TVs tonight at 8pm. Set your DVRs. I’m going to promote ALIAS here since ABC doesn’t seem to be interested in doing so.
the last thing i ever thought that i would do on this blog is defend comedy central’s south park. i don’t even watch the show. i’ve only seen commercials and short previews for it. i have seen enough to know that the majority of south park episodes would offend just about everybody at some point. the creators of south park are equal opportunity offenders and everybody gets skewered. it’s a fair point that Christians are more likely to get abused on this show than Muslims, as recent events have demonstrated.
i just don’t see how it’s possible for outside groups to tell comedy central what kind of junk they can put on the air. comedy central is a cable channel, after all, and isn’t subject to the same restrictions put on regular broadcast channels. most of those who are terribly offended by this show probably don’t watch it on a regular basis. that’s the way we should handle shows like this. if you don’t like the content of south park, don’t watch it. boycott comedy central’s advertisers if you want to. write letters of protest and share your opinion with the network, as many have already done. if comedy central doesn’t lose any viewers, it won’t really matter to them what Christians think of shows like south park.
it’s admirable that people of faith are brave enough to stand up and say that pictures of Jesus Christ should be just as respectful as those of Mohammed. it’s less likely that Christians will riot and burn things here in the united states than it is that Muslims will do so. BUT…i’m not convinced that either would happen here in america. we have better things to do with our time than organize protests around something trey parker and matt stone decided to make their characters say on south park.
maybe the Christian community would have more impact on the culture if they were more interested in changing lives than on changing what’s on TV. that’s not to say that their criticisms of shows like south park are unfair, or that they should shut up and deal with a corrupt culture that celebrates this kind of entertainment. absolutely not. i’m just saying that we should be just as concerned about people as we are about TV shows.
related:
CNN.com – ‘South Park’ aims at censors, hits Bush, Jesus
Michelle Malkin: CARTOON DHIMMITUDE
Sister Toldjah– Southpark and Mohammed – art imitating life
Technorati Tags: south park, christians, mohammed
chris berman is annoying. that’s something we should all agree on. if your favorite team is on tv, and chris berman’s doing that game…do yourself a favor and turn off the sound. if you are fortunate enough to have an XM radio, you can listen to the game there while watching the moving pictures on ESPN. technology is a great thing.
just a public service announcement to fellow sufferers and baseball fans. no need to thank me. oh yeah…and GO METS! 🙂
the truth is revealed at last. at least, the truth according to the right place blog. read and enjoy. 🙂 (h/t:imao)
according to the onion. (h/t -frankj at imao)
We all need to take a moment and not rush to judgment on this matter without knowing all the facts. The Presidents leadership has earned our trust in the war on terror, and surely his administration deserves the presumption that they would not sell our security short. Dubai has cooperated with us in the war and deserves to be treated respectfully. By all means, lets do due diligence, get briefings, seek answers to all relevant questions and assurances that defense officials and the intelligence community were involved in the examination and approval of this transaction. In other words, lets make a judgment when we possess all the pertinent facts. Until then, all we can offer is heat and little light to the discussion.
–senator john mccain, quoted here.
mccain’s making a ton of sense. i agree with this. i think we need to look at this port sale deal carefully and make sure we have fully vetted any company who wishes to be involved with our ports on any level. i’ll be honest. i have my doubts about the wisdom of allowing this deal to take place. on the other hand, i’m not sure if we really want to alienate a country who has provided some level of operational support to the united states in the war on terror. opponents and supporters of this sale have both made convincing arguments.
i don’t think that democrats who have spoken out against this port sale are doing so for the sole purpose of looking tough on security, although that may be a fringe benefit. i’m also not cynical enough to suggest that some of those democrats are protecting union interests by opposing the deal, as some conservatives have done. maybe they are, but i would like to believe that they have actually thought about this before taking a position on it. the most inane argument against it is the accusation that those who have concerns about this deal believe that all arabs are terrorists…that we are racists, in other words. that’s not the right sales pitch.
of course we don’t believe that all arabs are terrorists. we realize that we can’t paint them all with the same brush. that said, based on dubai’s past history, it is rational and natural to have legitimate concerns about any involvement they might have with our ports. it’s not racism. it’s common sense. i think mccain has the right idea. we need to examine all the evidence before we rush to judgment based on limited information.
i’m ok with dubai ports world leasing space in our ports, with these conditions:
there may be other needed conditions to make this transaction work for both sides, but i think that we need to consider the deal. once we get all the information on this, i think the president could win this argument, but i have absolutely no confidence in his ability to sell any of his policies to us (or even to his own party).
related posts/articles:
The UAE purchase of American port facilities (FAQ)–council on foreign relations (CFR)
The Ports Deal Makes a Comeback–real clear politics blog
Security fears about infiltration by terrorists–washington times (bill gertz)
Ports of Politics–opinionjournal.com (WSJ editorial)
Port Security: We Werent Wrong To Question, But Were Satisfied By The Answers–california conservative
Ending the Human Rights Farce –NRO editorial on the United Nations and their Human Rights Commission (an oxymoronic group consisting of dictators with their own sordid history in this area lecturing the united states on how morally inferior we are)
Regardless of whether we participate in the new council, it’s time to create an alternative. The United States should lead efforts to found a new institution devoted to the protection of human rights, and involving eligibility requirements that would limit member states to genuine liberal democracies. Many multilateral organizations exist outside the U.N. structure NATO and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe come to mind and they are effective precisely because, unlike the three rings at Turtle Bay, their member states are committed to common values. President Bush has already set a precedent for circumventing failed international bureaucracies: Faced with the ineffectiveness of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he created the Proliferation Security Initiative, which has been instrumental in, among other things, inducing Libya to give up its nuclear-weapons program.
many things could be changed to make the un live up to to a fraction of its utopian idealistic vision. read more here.
America Must Preserve Its Culture–california conservative
Europes abandonment of the Judeo-Christian foundations of its culture during the last century has left it devoid of any firewall against the enormous encroaching pressures of militant Islam. Certainly its insipid and fanciful premises of social justice and post-modernism are no match for Islamic zeal.
Now, the once-great continent is left scrambling to offer any believable reason why its institutions and culture should be immune to the prohibitions of the Islamists. And for the preservation of their future, Europeans have little more to hope for than the benevolence of an ideology that knows no such concept.
totally agree. while it is important to recognize where we came from and the characteristics that make us the unique people we are, those who are americans have committed themselves on some level to a common identity. this common identity which unites us has started to fade away with the new emphasis on multi-culturalism, and that’s a shame.
other interesting posts:
Europe’s Hidden Conservatives–weekly standard blog
Joe Wilson: pro-Iraq war once upon a time?–sister toldjah
that’s all. read now. 🙂
some non-specific alias spoilers below…don’t read if you don’t want to know if you will ever see vaughn again. i will simply compliment JJ (abrams, also known for LOST) on this fabulous decision and move along. now if we could have an exact date on the return of alias to our TVs…
from tvguide.com’s ask ausiello column:
Question: Michael Vartan is supposedly signed to do four more episodes of Alias. Will it be as a ghost? Brett
Ausiello: OK, major-ass prattle here: According to Pinkner, Vartan is actually returning for five, possibly six, episodes, beginning with the second one back this spring (that’s Episode 99, for those keeping track at home). And I’ll let Jeff address the second part of your question: “As we’ve said from the beginning, the rumors of Vaughn’s death were nothing more than rumors. In this world, don’t take anything at face value. We’ll know by the end of the 99th episode exactly where he is and if he’s alive or not.”
expect more political stuff in the near future. 🙂
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