Posts Tagged ‘reality’

I like Ken Burns but…

Posted: March 9, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…I guess he will have to make films that can pay for themselves now:

General Motors Corp. will stop bankrolling movies made by PBS filmmaker Ken Burns as it tries to conserve cash and survive the worst sales market in 27 years.

GM, which is in danger of running out of money this month and has asked for as much as $30 billion in federal aid, is curtailing corporate sponsorships and slashing marketing expenses. The automaker, which has lost about $82 billion in recent years, recently ended an endorsement deal with PGA golfer Tiger Woods and opted not to advertise during Super Bowl XLIII, the prime time Emmy Awards and the 2009 Academy Awards, among other moves.

The Civil War and Baseball (although he gave short shift to Stan Musial) are still two of the best films you will ever see and we are lucky to have had them.

Remember when the Lancet was a medical journal?

Posted: March 9, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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Instead of a propaganda organ. It’s hard to do so isn’t it? Tim Blair reports on the amazing disappearing post about bombs that vaporize everything silently:

We have taken down the blog post The wounds of Gaza because of factual inaccuracies.

Funniest line in their Mea Culpa:

We do not endorse any particular side of a debate

Nice job, I’m sure the phony report will suffer the same fate as the phony Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I’m glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that.

Marines and Elephants

Posted: March 8, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Via Roger’s Rules we contrast the reception of two different Commanders-in-Chief

People like to forget what side the president was on in Iraq. Marines never forget. They are polite and respectful as required but they never forget. The reaction of the media person at the end is priceless.

Of course they do that

Posted: March 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Matt Welsh via Glenn when dealing with the Freeman nomination notes the sudden spin of the left from the Saudi’s being the root of all evil to it being no trouble at all:

Remember when Saudi-bashing was a lefty thing? When Michael Moore was devoting a big chunk of Farenheit 9/11 to the over-warm relationship between U.S. leaders and the clannish House of Saud, stewards of the dictatorship that produced 15 of 19 hijackers on that sunny September morning, and Craig Unger was peddling House of Bush, House of Saud? Well now that Barack Obama is in the Oval Office, the proper lefty response has morphed into a full-throated defense of one of Saudi Arabia’s most influential apologists: Former U.S. ambassador Chas Freeman, who has been nominated to head up the National Intelligence Council. Why? Because neocons don’t like him.

What I want to know is why anyone is surprised at this? You might recall our leftist friends were dead set against fighting world war II until June 22, 1941. Until the Soviet Union was under threat the war was not worth fighting. Once the invasion took place then the worm turned very quickly.

As for Andrew Sullivan who has less credentials on the left recall he proclaims himself a Catholic but when Catholic belief conflicts with his personal desires he simply modifies Catholic belief and proclaims his modified belief superior. Why should his beliefs on Iraq or the China or the Saudi’s be any different?

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