Viral videos are “what’s going around.� Here are some family-friendly quick-picks.
Ever wonder if TV news is "staged" for viewers? Here's living proof. NBC actress, ahem, reporter Michelle Kosinski stayed on script as she paddled a canoe in the floodwaters rising in the streets of Wayne, N.J. to illustrate the severity of the disaster. A few seconds into her live report, two men walked right in front of her canoe through ankle-deep water. That's right. The water barely got the tops of their feet wet. Ms. Kosinski commented during the segment that "it's really tough to control a canoe or boat when you're out in it." Did she mean that it's really tough to use a canoe when you're paddling pavement? Click here for this hilarious video.
So what does the Leader of the Free World do in an unscripted moment? Watch President Bush as he demonstrates the Open Door Policy to the press and to China. Click here to watch the President make his first attempt at stand-up comedy.
Is it news, or is it a parody? This time, a BBC reporter interviews armed men in Iraq. Speaking of uniformed humor, here’s some hilarious video from the United Kingdom.
And one that’s all-too-real, a news anchor who can’t stop laughing.
Here’s some bad behavior caught on tape. These are some folks who shouldn’t even get a lump of coal in their stockings next year.
Even after watching these several times, they’re still astonishing, amazing, stunning, awe-inspiring. How did they do that?
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Questions and Answers
Q How many people have visited your blog?
I have no idea…today I finally figured out how to install a hit counter.
Q What was your reaction to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel’s treatment of your blog?
Probably took it better than liberal Ralph D’Andrea, who came across like a stuffed shirt. What’s funny is that a blog I sent to the reporter somehow became fodder for Grand Junction Free Press habitual contributor, Michael Ervin. Now, that was laugh-out-loud funny! Imagine, from all the obscure blogs in the blogosphere, that he would happen to comment on the one that I sent to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel’s reporter as an example of some local blogs!
Q Do you really log onto www.rocketboom.com?
Yes, since I discovered it on some other news site. I don’t always usually okay, I NEVER agree with Amanda Congdon, but she’s really quite entertaining.
Q Do you plan to expand into v-logging?
Yes, right after as each week expands into 8 days that contain 72 hours each.
Q Who is your favorite comedian?
The Fruitcake Lady on the Jay Leno Show.
Q Would you describe yourself as an intellectual or as a class clown?
Yes.
Q Do you consider yourself to be an honest reporter?
I do the best I can to deliver the unvarnished facts. Face it—I don’t have time to add the varnish.
Q Are you pro or anti-war?
I am definitely opposed to just taking it in the chops or turning away from the cries of the helpless and weak.
Q In your opinion, is the War on Terror a success or failure?
We’ve seized and destroyed weapons of mass destruction: Uday, Qusay and Saddam Hussein. These three thugs snuffed out as many as a half million men, women and children, then dumped them into mass graves.
Q Shouldn’t we just pull out of Iraq now?
Yeah, sure, let’s do our level best to ensure that brave men and women in uniform died just so we could create a power vacuum. You idiot! We don’t want our soldiers to die for our country—we want the bad guys to die. If the terrorists want to die to meet the promised 72 virgins, the coalition forces will likely accommodate them.
Q War is hell. You sound like you think war can be justified.
Next time someone breaks into your house and holds your family at gunpoint, tell me that you don’t believe in violence or fighting. Only a total wuss refuses to protect and defend his family. Your country is your extended family.
Q What is your opinion of the separation of church and state?
I’m totally in favor of taking the state out of the free exercise of religion. I also favor putting such questions to a vote of the people, rather than misusing the courts to abridge the fundamental Constitutional rights of American citizens. After all, the Constitution guarantees the “free exercise of religion,� not “freedom from religion.� Presently in our country, we are not allowed to publicly observe or honor Christianity, even though it doesn’t insist on being the exclusive religion or philosophy. However, the philosophy of secular humanism is rapidly becoming the ONLY philosophy allowed in public, and there’s a good argument that secular humanism fits the definition of a religion.
Q Are you pro-life, pro-choice or both?
According to the Constitution, all people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the Constitution names them in that order. The pro-abortionists know this, so they have sent their highly-paid lawyers to successfully argue the non-personhood of the unborn. Otherwise, they’d be in trouble with the next little bit of the Constitution, which provides that no person shall be deprived of any of these rights without due process of law. One therefore cannot hold a pro-abortion position and still support and defend the Constitution. It would be interesting to see how putting it to the vote might affect the industry of abortion on demand. It would be refreshing to see legislation that requires abortion providers to disclose the medical diagnosis justifying each abortion they perform. It would be refreshing to see prosecutors go after rape and incest perps by using either the baby’s blood sample or at least make it standard practice to preserve the aborted fetus and therefore the DNA evidence that the perp is the father and therefore has committed the crime. It would also be interesting to see whether victims of rape or incest decide that putting the perps behind bars is worth going through the pregnancy, especially if offenders get an enhanced sentence for subjecting these women to pregnancy as a result of the crime. If it was up to me, I’d enhance the sentences of rape and incest perps with features that would compel them to endure weight gain, constant nausea, aching feet, aching back, endless questions about their condition, and a sign on their foreheads that says “I’m a convicted rapist,� “I raped my daughter/niece/granddaughter etc,� or some other obvious indicator of their “condition.� Of course, this would only work if Planned Parenthood stopped helping perps destroy the evidence…
Q What is your position on marriage?
Here in Colorado, we call it the Mountain Men State. Not the men mountin’ men state. When my husband and I applied for our marriage license, neither of us were free to marry someone of the same sex. To this day, we aren’t free to run red lights, jaywalk, shout fire in a theater unless there really is one, or otherwise break laws, even if we really, really want to break them. It’s just astonishing that some people will shout “discrimination� when in fact everyone is subject to the same laws. Next thing you know, people will sue to have the law of gravity overturned on the grounds that the heaviest among us are unequally subject to it and that’s discrimination,by golly!
Q What is your position on obsolete marriage laws?
Oh, like miscegenation? That was a stupid law. It’s in a society’s interest to be able to grow. Historically, societies who bought into the concept of pure bloodedness tended to be the same ones that intermarried even to incestuous degrees. What was called miscegenation in the old days is what I would call adding some variety and strength to the national gene pool. Same-sex marriage, if practiced by every American, would ensure the extinction of our civilization by eliminating our nation’s ability to maintain an ongoing supply of new citizens.
Dear National Security Agency,
I hereby give you permission to eavesdrop on my email, phone calls, and faxes. Once in awhile I get a Christmas email in Finnish, German, and English from some friends in Europe.
You may hear my grand-daughter babble or the dog barking in the background. Sometimes you’ll hear an old Western turned up a little too loud. Go ahead and read my email, especially the patriotic messages people forward to me. Read my spam messages, too, and be sure and delete them for me while you’re at it.
Sure, I’m unnerved that my government can eavesdrop on me, but less so than a certain number of loudly whining Senators and Congressmen who may now fear that someone overheard the details of some dirty deed or other. Maybe some of them telephoned Saddam to offer some words of encouragement. Funny how the very legislators who are so busy now bashing the President for using his authority to protect the country remained silent when his predecessor used the IRS to harass and intimidate American citizens. They are also studiously avoiding any discussion of the prior administration’s misuse of the FBI to intimidate American citizens.
So go ahead and listen in on an everyday American enjoying the liberties you are trying so hard to protect.
Here are my top secrets:
- I kiss my dog on his nose.
- Years ago I actually liked Barry Manilow.
- When I first heard about the Swash, I instantly knew I wanted to try it.
- Someone gave me a long-stemmed red rose, and it wasn’t my husband.
- My husband saw the long-stemmed red rose and didn’t ask (it was a Mary Kay saleswoman).
- Despite living there three years, I’ve never been lost in Germany.
- Sometimes I read newspapers from Mexico.
- Flying into or from Frankfurt International Airport didn’t unnerve me nearly as much as the single-prop flight from Grand Junction to Denver, and Denver International isn’t patrolled by men in uniform with an Uzi machine gun strapped to one shoulder and the leash of an energetic German Shepherd in the other hand.
- People who just got off the plane from Beirut didn’t scare me nearly as much as the notorious Free Press habitual contributor, Michael Irvin.
- Among other interesting people I’ve met over the years are refugees from Iran, most of whom were Armenians escaping the kind of tyranny we Americans will likely never know, and who know the difference between reasonable searches and a shake-down by totalitarian thugs.
Between the Lines: What You Won’t Read in the News
Secret courts. Bush administration spying on Americans. Nixon-era.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/253334_nsaspying24.html?source=mypi
But wait a minute…this article includes the words “speculation� and author and book. Could it be drumming up interest in the author’s book to generate sales?
Even more entertaining is the article’s claim that the interview subject is an acknowledged authority, but doesn’t mention who acknowledges the subject’s authority. Perhaps he’s a self-acknowledged authority?
A quick biographical sketch of the book author turned intelligence expert reveals that he has written investigative cover stories for the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Las Angeles Times Magazine. He’s also a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
On Monday 26 Dec 2005 his book Body of Secrets was #1,633 on Amazon’s best seller list, but the next day, Tuesday 27 December it had skyrocketed to #791. Ca-ching!
This author has also made the anti-war circuit, such as at www.antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/av/?articleid=3440
Operated by http://randolphbourne.org/ which is an anti-war site with (surprise!) an anti-war agenda. He’s appeared on Air America http://shows.airamericaradio.com/ms/node/1067 and a google search of the author turned up an impressive association with anti-Bush, anti-war, liberal, progressive sites, but zip in connection with conservative content.
So here’s the caveat: readers should always remember that the objective of establishment media is to sell their product, which means they are in the business of telling and selling people what they want to hear, which may not necessarily be the truth, the unadulterated truth, or the whole truth.
That this author was invited to speak to an anti-war organization suggests that the said anti-war organization believes the author’s message will be what their anti-war members want to hear. Better still, both stand to profit—book sales and membership fees.
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