Every president who has children has taken great pains to keep their children out of the spot-light. They do not place them in front of the media, do not insert them into political issues, do not bring their names up, nor do they try to create something political out of having their child present. Simply put, they separate their family from their political life. And well it should be. The media have no right nor do the voters, of intruding on the lives of children.
This applied to Chelsea when she was growing up in the White House. This applied to her when she was at Oxford, for her time at Oxford was after her father's eight years and wholly unrelated to anything her mother may have done or was doing.
They have pulled Chelsea off the shelf and inserted her into the political arena, YET they argue she should not be subject to questions from the media.
At what point will the media call them on this?
If she does not want to be quetsioned, which she has EVERY right not to be, then go back into hiding, but you cannot jump out into the crowd and urge people to vote for your mother and then say you won't answer quetsions.
What a sham and a shame.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Gestapo = RIAA or RIAA = Gestapo
The music industry is really really really mad - their sales are plummeting, through the floor, beneath the basement, into the nether regions of middle earth. Consequently, they are taking it out on anyone and everyone.
The movie industry is equally upset, frantic even at the drop in movie attendance and film purchasing.
I would be just as frantic or more if I were them. It is a good thing they have a scapegoat. If they didn't, they would have to confront the real problems they face and that takes courage, strength, and intelligence.
The courage to face the truth - the majority of movies are bombs. Not because they are illegally downloaded, but because they are bombs. Mayer and Goldwyn would never have stepped into the pile of shit the studios have today. Films for entertainment not for political indoctrination. the 1950s political films do not even remotely come close to the budget busting political attacks put out today in the name of entertainment.
Strength to make the changes necessary to save your industry even though it will hurt in the beginning.
Intelligence to balance the issues, understand the causes, and recognize that your billions are not being lost on illegal downloads, they are lost on useless musicians paid 100 times too much and actors paid 10 million more than they should be paid, films that should never see the light of an office let alone a studio. Unfortunately, the RIAA, film studiso, music companies are lacking all three so they look for scapegoats and blame the downloaders.
You want to turn your industry around. Here is how you do it:
- the actual Cd costs pennies.
- 1/6 of all musicians, drop them. There are too many producing the same stuff and overwhelming/flooding the market.
- 1 new Cd every 8-12 months and no sooner, can be longer.
- singers - paid according to units sold based upon preceding sales numbers or if a new artist, some standard fee. A musician cannot make 20 million unless their CDs consecutively sell enough units to add up to 20 million, which they will never do.
These adjustments will bring the price of CDs down 20-30%. You will see a spike in purchases.
Allow songs on the internet to be downloaded, but follow Radiohead's example. Devise your Cds so any copying will result in a loss in quality. People will download, enjoy the song and buy the Cd because they want the best quality and it is now cheap enough they could buy two instead of one - AND GUESS WHAT - THEY WILL!
You want to know what will happen if you follow your current insane plan - people will begin trading their CDs. You will see a DRAMATIC drop in sales at that point and ain't nothing and no court anywhere that will listen to you whine at that point. STOP the madness before it comes to that because it will go there.
Want to save the movie industry. STOP making so many stupid films. Honestly - just cuz you hate Bush doesn't mean the entire country is interested in any anti-Bush film just cuz. You spend over $350 million dollars on the anti-war/Bush films and gross an amazing $50 million. Whooppee. Talk about loss. If everyone downloaded a stupid movie it would never equal $250 million or $300 million. be thankful they do - otherwise it would be a whopping 48 people who go an watch your movie and that would be a crying shame. Stop with the intellectually stimulating films - they are less intellectual and less artsy than you think, and second, we don't care because they are not entertaining. Make films that entertain. If we want morality crammed down our throats we will go to church, not the theater.
Actors get paid not based on their highest grossing, but the three last films produced averaged. If they bomb 3 times, they ain't making $20 million. They will be working for whatever the term - standard wages. That will bring the films down considerably. Use Hollywood sets, use the lots you built over decades instead of flying off to Austria or Switzerland - just because the actors and directors want a vacation doesn't mean we need to pay for it. Learn to tighten your belts. Make do. Lower ticket prices from 10 back to 7.50-8.00 and leave them there. 2 times as many people will go to the theater and you can push back video releases by six months and keep the films out longer.
Loss up front in both industries. Suck it up. 6 months to a year and your problem will be LARGELY solved. You lower ticket prices and I promise you without reservation, a dramatic increase in attendance.
Don't believe for one moment raising rates to $11 or $12 will compensate because as you do, fewer people will go to the theater and your numbers will drop.
Look, films cost $10-11 now. Your attendance has dropped between 15-30%. Purchase of illegally downloaded/copied movies has increased by 5-10%. Answer - lower ticket prices to $7-8 and you will see an increase in attendance by 30-40% washing away almost entirely the purchase of illegal downloads and honestly, at that point you'd be making more money anyway.
Fail to make changes and you will be suing everyone because everyone will be trading films, CDs ... and your business will fail.
Continue at your risk, but stop blaming someone who downloaded 20 songs by an artist no one knows and a song that isn't sold any longer. Some people download 1 song by an artist because they want one song now 17 crappy tunes that cost $20 too much. They want one and they want to be able to listen to it anywhere at any time without downloading licenses. Fix these issues and you save your industry. Fail, and your industry sinks.
The movie industry is equally upset, frantic even at the drop in movie attendance and film purchasing.
I would be just as frantic or more if I were them. It is a good thing they have a scapegoat. If they didn't, they would have to confront the real problems they face and that takes courage, strength, and intelligence.
The courage to face the truth - the majority of movies are bombs. Not because they are illegally downloaded, but because they are bombs. Mayer and Goldwyn would never have stepped into the pile of shit the studios have today. Films for entertainment not for political indoctrination. the 1950s political films do not even remotely come close to the budget busting political attacks put out today in the name of entertainment.
Strength to make the changes necessary to save your industry even though it will hurt in the beginning.
Intelligence to balance the issues, understand the causes, and recognize that your billions are not being lost on illegal downloads, they are lost on useless musicians paid 100 times too much and actors paid 10 million more than they should be paid, films that should never see the light of an office let alone a studio. Unfortunately, the RIAA, film studiso, music companies are lacking all three so they look for scapegoats and blame the downloaders.
You want to turn your industry around. Here is how you do it:
- the actual Cd costs pennies.
- 1/6 of all musicians, drop them. There are too many producing the same stuff and overwhelming/flooding the market.
- 1 new Cd every 8-12 months and no sooner, can be longer.
- singers - paid according to units sold based upon preceding sales numbers or if a new artist, some standard fee. A musician cannot make 20 million unless their CDs consecutively sell enough units to add up to 20 million, which they will never do.
These adjustments will bring the price of CDs down 20-30%. You will see a spike in purchases.
Allow songs on the internet to be downloaded, but follow Radiohead's example. Devise your Cds so any copying will result in a loss in quality. People will download, enjoy the song and buy the Cd because they want the best quality and it is now cheap enough they could buy two instead of one - AND GUESS WHAT - THEY WILL!
You want to know what will happen if you follow your current insane plan - people will begin trading their CDs. You will see a DRAMATIC drop in sales at that point and ain't nothing and no court anywhere that will listen to you whine at that point. STOP the madness before it comes to that because it will go there.
Want to save the movie industry. STOP making so many stupid films. Honestly - just cuz you hate Bush doesn't mean the entire country is interested in any anti-Bush film just cuz. You spend over $350 million dollars on the anti-war/Bush films and gross an amazing $50 million. Whooppee. Talk about loss. If everyone downloaded a stupid movie it would never equal $250 million or $300 million. be thankful they do - otherwise it would be a whopping 48 people who go an watch your movie and that would be a crying shame. Stop with the intellectually stimulating films - they are less intellectual and less artsy than you think, and second, we don't care because they are not entertaining. Make films that entertain. If we want morality crammed down our throats we will go to church, not the theater.
Actors get paid not based on their highest grossing, but the three last films produced averaged. If they bomb 3 times, they ain't making $20 million. They will be working for whatever the term - standard wages. That will bring the films down considerably. Use Hollywood sets, use the lots you built over decades instead of flying off to Austria or Switzerland - just because the actors and directors want a vacation doesn't mean we need to pay for it. Learn to tighten your belts. Make do. Lower ticket prices from 10 back to 7.50-8.00 and leave them there. 2 times as many people will go to the theater and you can push back video releases by six months and keep the films out longer.
Loss up front in both industries. Suck it up. 6 months to a year and your problem will be LARGELY solved. You lower ticket prices and I promise you without reservation, a dramatic increase in attendance.
Don't believe for one moment raising rates to $11 or $12 will compensate because as you do, fewer people will go to the theater and your numbers will drop.
Look, films cost $10-11 now. Your attendance has dropped between 15-30%. Purchase of illegally downloaded/copied movies has increased by 5-10%. Answer - lower ticket prices to $7-8 and you will see an increase in attendance by 30-40% washing away almost entirely the purchase of illegal downloads and honestly, at that point you'd be making more money anyway.
Fail to make changes and you will be suing everyone because everyone will be trading films, CDs ... and your business will fail.
Continue at your risk, but stop blaming someone who downloaded 20 songs by an artist no one knows and a song that isn't sold any longer. Some people download 1 song by an artist because they want one song now 17 crappy tunes that cost $20 too much. They want one and they want to be able to listen to it anywhere at any time without downloading licenses. Fix these issues and you save your industry. Fail, and your industry sinks.
World Opinion - Partie Deux
We have a very large country with over 300 million people living at any given time, within our borders. According to recent accounts, we add one new person every 30 seconds, and that is not from birth increases.
We have as many opinions in this country as we do people - on every subject. A few watch Jerry Springer and maybe a few still believe Elvis is alive, that UFOs fly our friendly skies, that bigfoot and creatures from middle earth transform into what appear to be earthlings, all the way over the ledge with the 9/11 conspiracies.
We do have our share of fruitcakes, nuts, fools, idiots, and retarded rodeo clowns, BUT that number is, as a whole, insignificant statistically. Less than 1% of a population at any given time is irrelevant as to what their opinions are and we tend, generally, as Americans, to be middle-of-the-roaders (not to be mistaken for middle -earthers although the US is or could be in the middle of the earth depending on ones perspective. The number of fools and idiots, nuts, and fruitcakes who believe the nonsense listed above are deserving of a strong suggestion that they not reproduce, for all our sakes.
That is generally how Americans regard idiocy.
Then we have the flavorful retarded rodeo clowns who run around screaming and hissing about repairing American relations around the world. One presidential candidate said they would immediately send two former presidents on a round-the-world tour to tell the world we are back (and open for business I presume) and work very hard to repair relations with all the nations of the world that have, for seven or eight years been trampled upon. I assume that also means the Lincoln Bedroom is back up for sale.
A wise owl would ask - who are these nations we must repair relations with. Anyone who does not ask that question is neither wise nor very useful, instead they play to rhetoric and the retarded rodeo clown mentality (aka Jerry Springer guests).
So who are they, these esteemed nations we must work so hard to rebuild relations with ???
Today we work on Egypt, tomorrow, the rest of the world:
We give to Egypt on average of 2.5-3 billion dollars a year in aid. This aid, whether called a bribe or suggested as to be a bribe, is intended for the government of Egypt to use to help the people of Egypt and indirectly, increase our likability factor among the masses who should benefit from our donations. Color it whatever way you wish - International Aid intended to be used for global warming centers or homeless shelters - doesn't matter - it comes out the same - it is our way of making nice and 2.5-3 billion should get some nice out of it. We get none that is or would be discernible by the average middle-earther.
A population that believes (73-80%) no Arab, no Egyptian, no Muslim male took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Over 90% of the conspiracy believers believe THE Mohammad Atta is still alive and in hiding for his life.
A population swept up in believing that the Protocol of the Elders of Zion was actually real, and have a myth spun around the fabrication to offer up a goodly story - that the Holocaust did not occur.
A population that believes (78-90%) that Israel is sending prostitutes into Egypt and or the West Bank (which in some stories becomes interchangeable) with AIDS in order to infect Egyptian men. A population that believes Israel causes earthquakes and does so to wreak havoc on the world in their grand design for controlling the planet.
A population that believes (92%) that Israel is an enemy of their state, with a majority believing Denmark is also an enemy of their state.
What can you say about a population (60-80%) who are in denial about the most fundamental of issues? How do you discuss anything with them? When their intelligence services believe the same lies the retarded rodeo clowns on the street believe - how do you converse with these people?
Surely not by the news - they believe that the Jews and America control Al jazeera - reason: to give a bad image of Arabs to the world.
That Jews steal body parts from Palestinian children. (Not easy to do - they are busy using the blood of Christian babies in their pastries - they don't have time to be gouging out eyes from palestinian children, most of whom are armed and dangerous unlike their Christian counterparts).
What do you make of a population that believes the Jews killed Yasser. Hard to do - he died of AIDs complications from all the little boys he molested.
When the Achille Laurel was hijacked - what did Mubarek do? The ship docked and the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of the ship, were given an escort off the ship and away to freedom (for some). What about the passengers - they spent hours being grilled by retarded rodeo clowns - also known as Egyptian security police. I believe they were still being grilled when the Egyptian airline carrying the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer was forced down by US airforce F-18s hours later, in Greece.
What can you say to these people and why do you want to bend over for them - the best they deserve is to be treated as they treat everyone else. That's my new rule - treat them as they would treat us. I read accounts by scores of passengers on their treatment at the hands, not of the murderers, but the Egyptian Security police.
Finally, October 31, 1999 - Egypt Air Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic killing 217 people on board. The Boeing 767 made a 40 degree dive with the engines shut off. After an exhaustive investigation, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) concluded that it was a deliberate act on the part of the Co-Pilot. Planes can withstand 5 degrees or a 10 degree dive or climb, but a 40 degree dive, engines shut off would have created a speed close to 700 mph, 86% the speed of sound - the plane would have come apart as it sped toward the ocean/cement. The black box found provided tape recordings - the pilot gets up to the bathroom and leaves the cockpit under the control of the copilot. While the pilot is away, the copilot begins to recite prayers before turning the plane into a descent. Then the engines were shut off. The pilot makes it back and is screaming at the copilot - what are you doing, what did you do. The copilot ignores his screams and holds the controls pointing the plane toward the ocean cement fast approaching.
End of facts.
Egyptians blame Boeing. they say the co-pilot has a daughter who needed medical treatments he would bring back from the US on his flights. He would never do such a thing and leave his daughter, nor would he do something so unIslamic. The NTSB conclusions must be fabricated and a lie - Egyptians are convinced the NTSB covered up the crash and blamed it on the poor co-pilot. The percent who believe this, according to the polls - 93% of those polled believe it was a cover up by the NTSB and Boeing was responsible.
The logic - Boeing didn't want to be responsible so they paid the NTSB off and the US government to protect Boeing from bad headlines in the press.
I ask again - how do you converse with people whose national identity is one of conspiracy and fear. What on earth do they do with the billions we provide them? Surely it is not used to develop an educated populace for it has failed.
Everything is a conspiracy with them. If it isn't, that is a conspiracy. If it isn't the Jews it has to be the Americans.
They should be very concerned about how and what we think of them.
Yet, we have a few people who fell out of the stupid tree, hitting every branch on the way down, who believe we need to rebuild relations with the world.
Pakistan, sorted.
Iraq - their government and people should, if they are rational and at all reasonable, be very very appreciative of everything the US has done for them and there is NOTHING on earth we can do better to make them like us any more.
Afghanistan - this is another Iraq issue - there is nothing we can do in Afghanistan that will make them like us one iota more that we have not done or given or do every day. Our blood has been shed for them and many understand that. No hugging by Obama or Edwards or Clinton, Biden, Kennedy, Richardson will change anything in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Thus far - Pakistan and Egypt have been sorted as has Iraq and Afghanistan.
Four countries.
In later episodes we will sort out the other 180 odd countries, one at a time so even the retarded rodeo clowns can follow.
.
We have as many opinions in this country as we do people - on every subject. A few watch Jerry Springer and maybe a few still believe Elvis is alive, that UFOs fly our friendly skies, that bigfoot and creatures from middle earth transform into what appear to be earthlings, all the way over the ledge with the 9/11 conspiracies.
We do have our share of fruitcakes, nuts, fools, idiots, and retarded rodeo clowns, BUT that number is, as a whole, insignificant statistically. Less than 1% of a population at any given time is irrelevant as to what their opinions are and we tend, generally, as Americans, to be middle-of-the-roaders (not to be mistaken for middle -earthers although the US is or could be in the middle of the earth depending on ones perspective. The number of fools and idiots, nuts, and fruitcakes who believe the nonsense listed above are deserving of a strong suggestion that they not reproduce, for all our sakes.
That is generally how Americans regard idiocy.
Then we have the flavorful retarded rodeo clowns who run around screaming and hissing about repairing American relations around the world. One presidential candidate said they would immediately send two former presidents on a round-the-world tour to tell the world we are back (and open for business I presume) and work very hard to repair relations with all the nations of the world that have, for seven or eight years been trampled upon. I assume that also means the Lincoln Bedroom is back up for sale.
A wise owl would ask - who are these nations we must repair relations with. Anyone who does not ask that question is neither wise nor very useful, instead they play to rhetoric and the retarded rodeo clown mentality (aka Jerry Springer guests).
So who are they, these esteemed nations we must work so hard to rebuild relations with ???
Today we work on Egypt, tomorrow, the rest of the world:
We give to Egypt on average of 2.5-3 billion dollars a year in aid. This aid, whether called a bribe or suggested as to be a bribe, is intended for the government of Egypt to use to help the people of Egypt and indirectly, increase our likability factor among the masses who should benefit from our donations. Color it whatever way you wish - International Aid intended to be used for global warming centers or homeless shelters - doesn't matter - it comes out the same - it is our way of making nice and 2.5-3 billion should get some nice out of it. We get none that is or would be discernible by the average middle-earther.
A population that believes (73-80%) no Arab, no Egyptian, no Muslim male took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Over 90% of the conspiracy believers believe THE Mohammad Atta is still alive and in hiding for his life.
A population swept up in believing that the Protocol of the Elders of Zion was actually real, and have a myth spun around the fabrication to offer up a goodly story - that the Holocaust did not occur.
A population that believes (78-90%) that Israel is sending prostitutes into Egypt and or the West Bank (which in some stories becomes interchangeable) with AIDS in order to infect Egyptian men. A population that believes Israel causes earthquakes and does so to wreak havoc on the world in their grand design for controlling the planet.
A population that believes (92%) that Israel is an enemy of their state, with a majority believing Denmark is also an enemy of their state.
What can you say about a population (60-80%) who are in denial about the most fundamental of issues? How do you discuss anything with them? When their intelligence services believe the same lies the retarded rodeo clowns on the street believe - how do you converse with these people?
Surely not by the news - they believe that the Jews and America control Al jazeera - reason: to give a bad image of Arabs to the world.
That Jews steal body parts from Palestinian children. (Not easy to do - they are busy using the blood of Christian babies in their pastries - they don't have time to be gouging out eyes from palestinian children, most of whom are armed and dangerous unlike their Christian counterparts).
What do you make of a population that believes the Jews killed Yasser. Hard to do - he died of AIDs complications from all the little boys he molested.
When the Achille Laurel was hijacked - what did Mubarek do? The ship docked and the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of the ship, were given an escort off the ship and away to freedom (for some). What about the passengers - they spent hours being grilled by retarded rodeo clowns - also known as Egyptian security police. I believe they were still being grilled when the Egyptian airline carrying the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer was forced down by US airforce F-18s hours later, in Greece.
What can you say to these people and why do you want to bend over for them - the best they deserve is to be treated as they treat everyone else. That's my new rule - treat them as they would treat us. I read accounts by scores of passengers on their treatment at the hands, not of the murderers, but the Egyptian Security police.
Finally, October 31, 1999 - Egypt Air Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic killing 217 people on board. The Boeing 767 made a 40 degree dive with the engines shut off. After an exhaustive investigation, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) concluded that it was a deliberate act on the part of the Co-Pilot. Planes can withstand 5 degrees or a 10 degree dive or climb, but a 40 degree dive, engines shut off would have created a speed close to 700 mph, 86% the speed of sound - the plane would have come apart as it sped toward the ocean/cement. The black box found provided tape recordings - the pilot gets up to the bathroom and leaves the cockpit under the control of the copilot. While the pilot is away, the copilot begins to recite prayers before turning the plane into a descent. Then the engines were shut off. The pilot makes it back and is screaming at the copilot - what are you doing, what did you do. The copilot ignores his screams and holds the controls pointing the plane toward the ocean cement fast approaching.
End of facts.
Egyptians blame Boeing. they say the co-pilot has a daughter who needed medical treatments he would bring back from the US on his flights. He would never do such a thing and leave his daughter, nor would he do something so unIslamic. The NTSB conclusions must be fabricated and a lie - Egyptians are convinced the NTSB covered up the crash and blamed it on the poor co-pilot. The percent who believe this, according to the polls - 93% of those polled believe it was a cover up by the NTSB and Boeing was responsible.
The logic - Boeing didn't want to be responsible so they paid the NTSB off and the US government to protect Boeing from bad headlines in the press.
I ask again - how do you converse with people whose national identity is one of conspiracy and fear. What on earth do they do with the billions we provide them? Surely it is not used to develop an educated populace for it has failed.
Everything is a conspiracy with them. If it isn't, that is a conspiracy. If it isn't the Jews it has to be the Americans.
They should be very concerned about how and what we think of them.
Yet, we have a few people who fell out of the stupid tree, hitting every branch on the way down, who believe we need to rebuild relations with the world.
Pakistan, sorted.
Iraq - their government and people should, if they are rational and at all reasonable, be very very appreciative of everything the US has done for them and there is NOTHING on earth we can do better to make them like us any more.
Afghanistan - this is another Iraq issue - there is nothing we can do in Afghanistan that will make them like us one iota more that we have not done or given or do every day. Our blood has been shed for them and many understand that. No hugging by Obama or Edwards or Clinton, Biden, Kennedy, Richardson will change anything in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Thus far - Pakistan and Egypt have been sorted as has Iraq and Afghanistan.
Four countries.
In later episodes we will sort out the other 180 odd countries, one at a time so even the retarded rodeo clowns can follow.
.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
World Opinion - Partie Une
We have a very large country with over 300 million people living at any given time, within our borders. According to recent accounts, we add one new person every 30 seconds, and that is not from birth increases.
We have many opinions in this country on every subject. We also, a few, watch Jerry Springer, and maybe a few still believe Elvis is alive, UFOs fly our friendly skies, bigfoot, creatures from middle earth transforming into what appears to be earthlings, all the way over the ledge with the 9/11 conspiracies. We do have our share of fruitcakes, nuts, fools, idiots, and retarded rodeo clowns, BUT that number, of the whole, is insignificant statistically. 1% or 2% of a population at any given time is irrelevant as to what their opinions are and we tend, generally, as Americans, to be middle-of-the-roaders (not to be mistaken for middle -earthers although the US is or could be in the middle of the earth depending on ones perspective. The number of fools and idiots, nuts, and fruitcakes who believe the nonsense listed above are deserving of a strong suggestion that they not reproduce, for all our sakes.
That is generally how Americans regard idiocy.
Then we have the flavorful retarded rodeo clowns who run around screaming and hissing about repairing American relations around the world. One presidential candidate said they would immediately send two former presidents on a round-the-world tour to tell the world we are back (and open for business I presume) and work very hard to repair relations with all the nations of the world that have, for seven or eight years been trampled upon. One of those candidates suggested that we "U.S divert aid away from its military to social welfare programs."
Hmmm. The fool who should never be permitted near senate hearings and especially not near the WH again knows full well what I will explicate in the following sentences in an especially humorous fictional dialogue: Her: Yes, Mushie, we are a bit concerned about your stance on human rights and murder so the money we normally send to you we want spent on social programs only or we won't send it to you. Do you accept this condition? Mushie: We of course will do whatever your majesty thinks we should because we wish to rebuild relations and telling us, placing conditions on things is the most naturally friendly thing one friend can do to another.
Mushie then calls his aide in to the office. Mushie: Aide, How much do we get from the US now? Aide: Give or take, nearly three quarters of a billion. How much is military? Aide: About 1/2. Mushie: Ok, divert 400 million from social programs to our military programs effective the day we get the funding from the US.
Mushie to HRH: Madam, of course we accept the condition, we will only use money to help and we understand the seriousness.
A wise owl would ask - who are these nations we must repair relations with. Anyone who does not ask that question is neither wise nor very useful, instead they play to rhetoric and the retarded rodeo clown mentality (aka Jerry Springer guests).
So who are they, these esteemed nations we must work so hard to rebuild relations with???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Today we work on Pakistan, tomorrow the world:
It goes without question as to the facts. On December 27, 2007, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto died in the city Rawalpindi after a campaign speech. A man then blew himself up and in the process, up to twenty individuals may have been killed.
End of facts.
Instinct - Al Qaida.
Truth - unlikely but always remains a possibility.
The problem is the government, doctors, army, investigators ... pretty much, the problem is everyone.
My simple chronology - Someone wanted Bhutto dead. While Al Qaida would be the first suspect, they have denied involvement. Why does that matter - because Al Qaida NEVER denies when it does something. In over six years, Al Qaida never once denied its involvement in the attacks of Sepetember 11. It never denied the attacks in Spain or London. They take credit when they commit an act - it is honorable and respectable. To deny what one has done is to deny ones faith for one acted on ones belief, to then deny it, would be to deny ones faith. It is not that I do not think every al qaida member should die a most painful death and spend eternity in hell with Jeffrey Dahlmer, but I do not disbelieve them when they say something. Much different than when the pakistani government says anything.
So Al Qaida did not kill her, they may be happy a pro-US very likely next Prime Minister of Pakistan is dead, but they didn't do it. The most likely suspects, those who benefit, those most afraid - the government/military.
So - the government / military recruit someone, maybe a retarded rodeo clown who believes he is saving Pakistan, shoots Bhutto twice, misses once, then detonates a bomb on his body. The bomb has the effect of leaving no evidence, given the twenty or so people whose DNA is spread all over the area mixed with the killers DNA. Given who it is looking into this murder, they will never figure out what DNA even is let alone who belongs to what DNA.
Immediately we were told she had been shot once in the abdomen and once in the neck.
Bhutto was immediately taken to a hospital where the best and brightest of Pakistani medicine attempted to save her life conducting several procedures to save her life. The chief medical doctor stated categorically that Bhutto had not been shot, but rather she had been killed by shrapnel from the suicide bomber.
So follow the path: a guy starts shooting, none hit Bhutto, after shot 1 and 2, she ducks. Shot three, then detonation. While she is ducking into car, the third shot, then detonation and she is hit with sharpnel BUT NO ONE ELSE in the car is injured. yep. Makes sense to me !!
(Image from REUTERS/Dawn TV via Reuters TV (PAKISTAN) PAKISTAN OUT. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.)
The next day, we are told she died from bumping her head on a sun roof lever.
Brigadier Cheema said: "We gave you absolute facts... corroborated by the doctors' report."
We wait around long enough and the video appears with the bullet shots. Wait longer and the people in the car will tell us as they did the same day that their car was covered in blood as was the vehicle behind them and all the people in the car .... from a bump on her head!
We then heard from the government that they intercepted a secret message from al qaida, admitting to the crime, then al qaida denied it publicly ... then we hear from the person/s who cleaned Bhutto's body for burial ... bullet wounds, hole in her head, entrance and exit wounds, huge holes.
But the government - "We gave you absolute facts... corroborated by the doctors' report."
The government says a gunman fired three shots that missed the opposition leader, before blowing himself up. It says Ms. Bhutto died after the force of the blast caused her to hit her head against the lever on the sunroof of her car.
Pakistan's Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema says Benazir Bhutto was killed after smashing her head on her car's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no bullet or shrapnel was found inside her during a press conference in Islamabad, 28 Dec 2007
A surgeon who treated her, Dr Mussadiq Khan, said earlier she may have died from a shrapnel wound.
On Friday, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema told journalists the assailant was from al-Qaida, and the terrorist group was bent on destroying the nation.
"We have irrefutable evidence that al-Qaida, its networks, and cohorts are trying to destabilize Pakistan which is in the forefront of the war against terrorism," said Cheema.
Al qaida denied any involvement.
Not that irrefutable evidence is given by spectators, but
One of the most direct reports has come from Getty picture agency photographer John Moore, who had been covering the rally all day.
As he was preparing to leave, he told the London newspaper The Guardian, he was "shocked" to notice that Ms Bhutto was standing out of her car's sunroof waving to supporters as her vehicle slowly pushed its way through the crowds.
He continued: "As this happened, I was aware of Bhutto ducking back into the car and heard at least two gunshots. I picked up my camera unaware of exactly what was happening.
Another eyewitness - also unnamed - was even closer: "We were standing right in front of her. In that instant a young man, fair, about 20 to 21 years of age, he fired a Kalashnikov aiming at BB [Bhutto].
"This was the best we could do," he added. "There were four other people travelling with her in the same vehicle... if she had stayed down she would be safe, as all four of them are absolutely scratch-free.
This did not convince some of her aides at the scene, who said she died from two bullet wounds. Meanwhile, a surgeon who treated her believed she had died from the impact of shrapnel to her head.
"There was a clear bullet wound at the back of the neck. It went in one direction and came out another... My entire car is coated with her blood, my clothes, everybody - so she did not concuss her head against the sun roof."
Citing what it said was an intercepted phone call, the interior ministry said Benazir Bhutto's killing had been ordered by an "al-Qaeda leader", Baitullah Mehsud.
Brigadier Cheema said: "We gave you absolute facts... corroborated by the doctors' report."
On 12/31 on CNN, Athar Minallah, who serves on the board that manages Rawalpindi General Hospital made an interesting statement / observation: There is a state within the state, and that state within the state does not want itself to be held accountable.
Who and what this state is, is quite interesting and well worth outsiders reading up on - including the daft Michael Moore and other useless idiots on the left.
Liars, thieves, murderers.
My question, so oft asked - why do some fools in this country care what the rest of the world thinks of US on any subject? The rest of the world should be concerned with what we think of them, not the other way around.
(This was updated 12/31)
We have many opinions in this country on every subject. We also, a few, watch Jerry Springer, and maybe a few still believe Elvis is alive, UFOs fly our friendly skies, bigfoot, creatures from middle earth transforming into what appears to be earthlings, all the way over the ledge with the 9/11 conspiracies. We do have our share of fruitcakes, nuts, fools, idiots, and retarded rodeo clowns, BUT that number, of the whole, is insignificant statistically. 1% or 2% of a population at any given time is irrelevant as to what their opinions are and we tend, generally, as Americans, to be middle-of-the-roaders (not to be mistaken for middle -earthers although the US is or could be in the middle of the earth depending on ones perspective. The number of fools and idiots, nuts, and fruitcakes who believe the nonsense listed above are deserving of a strong suggestion that they not reproduce, for all our sakes.
That is generally how Americans regard idiocy.
Then we have the flavorful retarded rodeo clowns who run around screaming and hissing about repairing American relations around the world. One presidential candidate said they would immediately send two former presidents on a round-the-world tour to tell the world we are back (and open for business I presume) and work very hard to repair relations with all the nations of the world that have, for seven or eight years been trampled upon. One of those candidates suggested that we "U.S divert aid away from its military to social welfare programs."
Hmmm. The fool who should never be permitted near senate hearings and especially not near the WH again knows full well what I will explicate in the following sentences in an especially humorous fictional dialogue: Her: Yes, Mushie, we are a bit concerned about your stance on human rights and murder so the money we normally send to you we want spent on social programs only or we won't send it to you. Do you accept this condition? Mushie: We of course will do whatever your majesty thinks we should because we wish to rebuild relations and telling us, placing conditions on things is the most naturally friendly thing one friend can do to another.
Mushie then calls his aide in to the office. Mushie: Aide, How much do we get from the US now? Aide: Give or take, nearly three quarters of a billion. How much is military? Aide: About 1/2. Mushie: Ok, divert 400 million from social programs to our military programs effective the day we get the funding from the US.
Mushie to HRH: Madam, of course we accept the condition, we will only use money to help and we understand the seriousness.
A wise owl would ask - who are these nations we must repair relations with. Anyone who does not ask that question is neither wise nor very useful, instead they play to rhetoric and the retarded rodeo clown mentality (aka Jerry Springer guests).
So who are they, these esteemed nations we must work so hard to rebuild relations with???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Today we work on Pakistan, tomorrow the world:
It goes without question as to the facts. On December 27, 2007, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto died in the city Rawalpindi after a campaign speech. A man then blew himself up and in the process, up to twenty individuals may have been killed.
End of facts.
Instinct - Al Qaida.
Truth - unlikely but always remains a possibility.
The problem is the government, doctors, army, investigators ... pretty much, the problem is everyone.
My simple chronology - Someone wanted Bhutto dead. While Al Qaida would be the first suspect, they have denied involvement. Why does that matter - because Al Qaida NEVER denies when it does something. In over six years, Al Qaida never once denied its involvement in the attacks of Sepetember 11. It never denied the attacks in Spain or London. They take credit when they commit an act - it is honorable and respectable. To deny what one has done is to deny ones faith for one acted on ones belief, to then deny it, would be to deny ones faith. It is not that I do not think every al qaida member should die a most painful death and spend eternity in hell with Jeffrey Dahlmer, but I do not disbelieve them when they say something. Much different than when the pakistani government says anything.
So Al Qaida did not kill her, they may be happy a pro-US very likely next Prime Minister of Pakistan is dead, but they didn't do it. The most likely suspects, those who benefit, those most afraid - the government/military.
So - the government / military recruit someone, maybe a retarded rodeo clown who believes he is saving Pakistan, shoots Bhutto twice, misses once, then detonates a bomb on his body. The bomb has the effect of leaving no evidence, given the twenty or so people whose DNA is spread all over the area mixed with the killers DNA. Given who it is looking into this murder, they will never figure out what DNA even is let alone who belongs to what DNA.
Immediately we were told she had been shot once in the abdomen and once in the neck.
Bhutto was immediately taken to a hospital where the best and brightest of Pakistani medicine attempted to save her life conducting several procedures to save her life. The chief medical doctor stated categorically that Bhutto had not been shot, but rather she had been killed by shrapnel from the suicide bomber.
So follow the path: a guy starts shooting, none hit Bhutto, after shot 1 and 2, she ducks. Shot three, then detonation. While she is ducking into car, the third shot, then detonation and she is hit with sharpnel BUT NO ONE ELSE in the car is injured. yep. Makes sense to me !!
(Image from REUTERS/Dawn TV via Reuters TV (PAKISTAN) PAKISTAN OUT. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.)
The next day, we are told she died from bumping her head on a sun roof lever.
Brigadier Cheema said: "We gave you absolute facts... corroborated by the doctors' report."
We wait around long enough and the video appears with the bullet shots. Wait longer and the people in the car will tell us as they did the same day that their car was covered in blood as was the vehicle behind them and all the people in the car .... from a bump on her head!
We then heard from the government that they intercepted a secret message from al qaida, admitting to the crime, then al qaida denied it publicly ... then we hear from the person/s who cleaned Bhutto's body for burial ... bullet wounds, hole in her head, entrance and exit wounds, huge holes.
But the government - "We gave you absolute facts... corroborated by the doctors' report."
The government says a gunman fired three shots that missed the opposition leader, before blowing himself up. It says Ms. Bhutto died after the force of the blast caused her to hit her head against the lever on the sunroof of her car.
Pakistan's Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema says Benazir Bhutto was killed after smashing her head on her car's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no bullet or shrapnel was found inside her during a press conference in Islamabad, 28 Dec 2007
A surgeon who treated her, Dr Mussadiq Khan, said earlier she may have died from a shrapnel wound.
On Friday, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema told journalists the assailant was from al-Qaida, and the terrorist group was bent on destroying the nation.
"We have irrefutable evidence that al-Qaida, its networks, and cohorts are trying to destabilize Pakistan which is in the forefront of the war against terrorism," said Cheema.
Al qaida denied any involvement.
Not that irrefutable evidence is given by spectators, but
One of the most direct reports has come from Getty picture agency photographer John Moore, who had been covering the rally all day.
As he was preparing to leave, he told the London newspaper The Guardian, he was "shocked" to notice that Ms Bhutto was standing out of her car's sunroof waving to supporters as her vehicle slowly pushed its way through the crowds.
He continued: "As this happened, I was aware of Bhutto ducking back into the car and heard at least two gunshots. I picked up my camera unaware of exactly what was happening.
Another eyewitness - also unnamed - was even closer: "We were standing right in front of her. In that instant a young man, fair, about 20 to 21 years of age, he fired a Kalashnikov aiming at BB [Bhutto].
"This was the best we could do," he added. "There were four other people travelling with her in the same vehicle... if she had stayed down she would be safe, as all four of them are absolutely scratch-free.
This did not convince some of her aides at the scene, who said she died from two bullet wounds. Meanwhile, a surgeon who treated her believed she had died from the impact of shrapnel to her head.
"There was a clear bullet wound at the back of the neck. It went in one direction and came out another... My entire car is coated with her blood, my clothes, everybody - so she did not concuss her head against the sun roof."
Citing what it said was an intercepted phone call, the interior ministry said Benazir Bhutto's killing had been ordered by an "al-Qaeda leader", Baitullah Mehsud.
Brigadier Cheema said: "We gave you absolute facts... corroborated by the doctors' report."
On 12/31 on CNN, Athar Minallah, who serves on the board that manages Rawalpindi General Hospital made an interesting statement / observation: There is a state within the state, and that state within the state does not want itself to be held accountable.
Who and what this state is, is quite interesting and well worth outsiders reading up on - including the daft Michael Moore and other useless idiots on the left.
Liars, thieves, murderers.
My question, so oft asked - why do some fools in this country care what the rest of the world thinks of US on any subject? The rest of the world should be concerned with what we think of them, not the other way around.
(This was updated 12/31)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
National Guard
The National Guard have a great new recruitment video. Whether it was intended to be a recruitment video or whether it morphed into one, it is regardless a great video. It reminds us of something every human being alive should be aware and give thanks for. While they are Americans who are in the largest numbers, in harms way, what we fight against.
The website to see the video - if you have not already seen it on over 3000 movie screens, go and check it out.
3 Doors Down.
The website to see the video - if you have not already seen it on over 3000 movie screens, go and check it out.
3 Doors Down.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Chinese
What are we to do about them!
According to an article from Mon Dec 17, 10:06 AM ET:
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The size of China's economy is overestimated by some 40 percent based on most current measures, but is the world's second largest, the World Bank said Monday.
Poisoned dumplings, made in China, sent to Japan (March 2008)
They send us toys (NY Times article 11/11/07) with lead / posion, toothpaste that kills, pet food that killed pets, siding with the genocidaires in Sudan to prevent action against the murderers, blaming the US for global warming while they consume 1/3 of the steel, 1/2 the worlds concrete, every minute they burn up 2.5 thousand tons of coal (67% of China's energy comes from coal), 24 million watts, 210 thousand gallons of crude oil, and possess only 10% arable land. On top of this they are adding new hydro electric plants monthly. When people demonstrate against this government as they did azt the Pubugou dam, 100,000 people were dispersed by riot police with thousands arrested. No one in the West heard of such a demonstration and yet, if 100,000 people marched in London or DC, the world would be watching with bated breath for the other shoe to fall. Yet, the Xiluodu dam will displace at least 100,000 people ... and the West looks on as if this is an ideal state developing its industry without catastrophic failures in social, economic, cultural, political arenas.
We enable this tyranical government to continue its oppression and we do so pretending that democracy and capitalism will make them our friends.
They are not our friend. They are not an ally. They are a threat and if it is clear enough to many people without the resources available the governments of the world, who will they blame when it comes crashing down.
International Herald Tribune, November 18, 2007. Chinese dam projects critcized for their human cost.
International Herald Tribune, November 18, 2007. New Book on China Raises a storm.
According to an article from Mon Dec 17, 10:06 AM ET:
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The size of China's economy is overestimated by some 40 percent based on most current measures, but is the world's second largest, the World Bank said Monday.
Poisoned dumplings, made in China, sent to Japan (March 2008)
They send us toys (NY Times article 11/11/07) with lead / posion, toothpaste that kills, pet food that killed pets, siding with the genocidaires in Sudan to prevent action against the murderers, blaming the US for global warming while they consume 1/3 of the steel, 1/2 the worlds concrete, every minute they burn up 2.5 thousand tons of coal (67% of China's energy comes from coal), 24 million watts, 210 thousand gallons of crude oil, and possess only 10% arable land. On top of this they are adding new hydro electric plants monthly. When people demonstrate against this government as they did azt the Pubugou dam, 100,000 people were dispersed by riot police with thousands arrested. No one in the West heard of such a demonstration and yet, if 100,000 people marched in London or DC, the world would be watching with bated breath for the other shoe to fall. Yet, the Xiluodu dam will displace at least 100,000 people ... and the West looks on as if this is an ideal state developing its industry without catastrophic failures in social, economic, cultural, political arenas.
We enable this tyranical government to continue its oppression and we do so pretending that democracy and capitalism will make them our friends.
They are not our friend. They are not an ally. They are a threat and if it is clear enough to many people without the resources available the governments of the world, who will they blame when it comes crashing down.
International Herald Tribune, November 18, 2007. Chinese dam projects critcized for their human cost.
International Herald Tribune, November 18, 2007. New Book on China Raises a storm.
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