last sunday morning whilst watching a little television i stumbled upon a bbc program from australia debating whether or not the media has morals. i found myself glued to the tv and not changing channels every 30 seconds as i usually do. it wasn't so much the content that held my interest it was the style and grace of a few of the speakers. say what you want about the british, but when it comes to oration, they have no equals.
here is the first part of the program. i suggest you go to the the 6 minute 30 second mark and listen to kate adie wax poetic about the media morals. i could listen to her ad infinitum.
several of the speakers cited aljazeera english as being a very moral and truthful source of news. i spent some time reading reading their articles and deemed it bookmark worthy. this caught my interest, India battles a surge in diabetes it seems pollution and medical problems are the 2 largest exports of western economies these days.
to sum up, cnn is quickly turning into a tabloid style scandal sheet but i'm unable to fathom what direction the bbc is turning due to the hypnotic elegance of their journalists and i have a schoolboy crush on kate adie.
i love you sons of bitches.
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Ah, you're just a sucker for a posh English voice! I thought Mona Eltahawy had more interesting things to say.
My stupid computer wouldn't play it. Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't.
I've given up on CNN. They are too into the glitz type of entertainment newsy stuff.
At this point I'm just grateful that everyone has stopped caring about Michael Jackson's doc. Can you hear my eyes rolling?
I can't say one or something else have more morals then anther. But once some one or place gets hold of our diet. To me it seem to benefit the pharmaceutical companies.
Coffee is on.
Masterful indeed. Someone once noted that an Englishman would sound better reading a phone book than an American reading the Gettysburg Address-- the single best piece of writing ever, followed by Hamlet's soliloquy,and Black Hawk's Farewell (Lament)[imho].
gb - you got it! as i was listening it did occur to me that she had given that presentation or parts of it several times in the past so it might have been a well rehearsed performance but i still loved it.
silly - yeah, but i suspect we haven't heard the last of michael jackson. maybe he was one of the big contributors to the second mile.
dora - yeah, is there anything the pharmaceutical companies cure rather than treat?
bob - now you have me thinking about what is the greatest piece of writing. yertle the turtle is the only thing that comes to mind and i'm serious about that. adults and children alike can learn a few things from yertle and mac.
The media doesn't need morals, they're just news whores working for money and need to put everything out there so we can run it all through our bullshit filters.
Three days until my infiltration of an enemy camp for a free meal.
wouldn't play for me either..but I love a good English or Australian accent..although some times I can't understand a fucking word their saying..but I enjoy listening anyhow..
Are we bloggers part of the media Billy? I've been accused of having neither shame or morals with some of my attacks on the right.
I'm not apologising mind you. High brow intellectualism has no sway with a rightie. Might as well have fun and call them names.
"You are scum!" She managed to make even that sound sophisticated.
bill - i hope you keep your back to the wall and plan at least 2 escape routes.
yellowdog - i love the english accent but i could live without the australian accent.
truth - i think we bloggers overestimate our importance by a factor of about 10000.
secret - i wonder if she does any audio books?
The enemy doesn't mind that I'm there, they want me there in hopes of converting me.
we could bet on the wars and what countries would disappear first.
Save me a seat next to you. Just put a light beer tap on the arm of my chair, and an endless supply of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
I'm going to stick around for a while and get mean, shoot shit up, protect my turf. :-)
bill - don't let your guard down! the vatican didn't get rich by giving stuff away with no strings attached. maybe you could go to confession while you're there.
The only one going to confession is the catholic chick sucking my dick.
Morals are overrated!
Smelly sure has a bunch of profile views for such a new blog!
thims - yeah, this smelly dude seems to be an international man of mystery although bill seems to think he knows his identity.
Bill simply doesn't give a fuck, I've been attacked by much better than Smelly over the years.
Really, Stinky is a fucking amateur.
Stinky spends most of her time in NJ, not a state to get old in unless you spend a lot of time hiding in a closet or are really rich. I think there is some unwritten code stating that you have to be an idiot to live there.
If that blog wasn't set up by Leslie it was set up by Thimscool, he enjoys his mind fucks.
A few thousand posts down the road in the internut now has taught me that pissy little posts like that will soon be buried in the dust of the ruts of time and space as we hurtle toward the future in the cosmos.
I don't know why those fucking idiots even bother to waste the time to post them.
Go back to them five years from now and you'll see that they're not getting any hits at all while many of my old posts do.
Controversial? Sure, I wouldn't have it any other way.
bill - i've long suspected there is a connection between thims and leslie but i've been wrong before.
It's hard to sort out with those that don't feel free to be honest and up front so they can fuck with others.
The only thing that keeps me from saying they are both the same person is my tracker. It's pretty fucking hard to be in N.C. and N.J. at the same time.
But maybe a geek like Thimscool could pull it off. Not that I would hold it against him, I really like him, but I would expect him to own up to it.
Going back about 4-5 years I'm trying to think who showed up on my blog first, Leslie or Thims. Nope, it's not coming to me.
I won't discount that they work together though, I'm sure they have each others emails addresses, just as I do.
I really don't think that Thims has the time to do Leslie. He has got a family after all.
Remember, I met his little future cocksucker and tit kisser when they were here last summer.
What has that got to do with this post? Not a fucking thing.
People of sound mental health usually organize their thoughts PRIOR to hitting "publish your comment".
I'm sure Thimscool appreciates your description of his children.
Let me refresh your "memory", BBC. You showed up on MY blog first, talking about your preference for sex with plastic. (If only you'd realized that before littering the planet with your offspring!)
bill - smelly shows up and i pay no attention. the next comment is from thims basically directing me to smelly. that is not conjecture, that is factual.
a symbiotic relationship??
BBC, you have a strong streak of paranoia. With friends like Billy, here... it's no wonder.
BBC, you have a strong streak of paranoia.
Well, you're wrong.
And I have no interest in Stinky's blog and views of me so see no point in visiting it other than the one look.
In other words, I simply don't give a fuck.
Ever notice that the babbling idiot never goes opps when she makes a mistake in grammar or spelling? She sure loves to pick on others about it though.
Typos are one thing. Being a moron is another.
And you've been saying you don't give a fuck for years now. I don't believe you.
There must be some unwritten law that only idiots can live in NJ, and there doesn’t seem to be a quota on them. In fact I think it’s a requirement to be an idiot to live there.
Every once in a while some idiot from NJ will show up here and add some color and amusement for about six months and then mysteriously disappear, or end up in jail.
Thims is bating me. :-)
I'm from Massachusetts.
Don't think anyone cares where the idiot came from.
If Thims and I ever share a campfire again I’ll have some things to toss on it to make him jumpy. :-)
i see no paranoia in bill. it seems to me that someone who homeschools their children to stop them from being indoctrinated into a system of government brainwashing displays strong paranoiac tendencies.
but how about buy nothing day. are you guys keeping your money in your pockets today?
I bought dog treats only. He deserves them.
I bought 17 gallons of gas from Venezuela and a 140 pound spring for my broken garage door. And I guess some electricity, some water, and some internet access.
Atticus says that you have misapprehended the purpose of our homeschooling adventures.
did i misapprehend or did you misspeak all those months ago?
has atticus read ender's game? i think he might like it and there are about 10 books in the series.
I'm pretty sure that was one of several reasons mentioned, but by no means dominant.
In any case, it does not require paranoia to recognize that education in any form will sculpt minds.
But on several occasions BBC has speculated that I am Leslie and vice versa. That is a bit of a stretch, don'cha think?
Ender's Game is on his reading list, but not for a couple more years.
i started shadow of the hegemon today. speaker for the dead might be my favorite of the series.
All I bought was a bottle of Brandy.
Massachusetts is a decent state, but she had to move to NJ cuz that’s one of the idiot states.
Should I read Enders Game?
Thims better be careful installing that spring, they can be tricky.
Shootings and all kinds of nasty shit going on at these black friday sales.
I'm glad I live in a town small enough that it's still pretty civil here, we don't even have security in our stores.
Got any pointers for me? I plan to just prop up the door so that I don't have to stretch the spring to install it... then I'll close it and open it from the outside the first times so that I'm not next to it when it snaps and tries to smash my ball sack.
I tell ya.... 140 pound springs, steel cable, and pulleys have got me thinking about making a pumpkin launcher.
I don't see a thing wrong with Thims home schooling, as long as they are getting the kids out in other groups of kids so they can understand what kind of assholes are out there that they are going to be living around in the future.
I trust that this home schooling will include proper firearms training.
First I get to shoot at them, then they get to shoot at me...
Just kidding.
That's the pepper spray lesson.
Got any pointers for me?
Nope, there's different systems and I wouldn't dare give advice unless I was there looking at it.
Even at the most relaxed position those springs have some tension on them so installing them can be tricky.
I have a few special tools for installing springs when doing brake jobs on vehicles, maybe I would make a bigger version for a garage door spring.
The last garage door spring I replaced was one of those long coiled ones that went around a rod at the top of the door but that was over 15 years ago, I'd have to stop and think it out again if I was to do one tomorrow.
I'm reminded of a parts man at the Ford dealership in Kodiak Alaska that decided he would put new springs in his hooker girlfriends T-Bird in the shop one evening.
It cost him a few teeth and I installed the new springs the next day.
the torsion spring on my garage door needs adjusting. i asked sonny, the engineer, if we could do it and he told me to get a professional because mistakes could result in serious injury.
oh yeah, hold my drink and watch this!
My rule #1 is to never drink until the job is done. It's served me well over the years.
These days of course it means that anything that needs to get done has to be done before four in the afternoon and I go to Rick's shop for a few beers and bullshit.
Thims should be able to confirm to you that I don't do anything after four in the afternoon other than think park rangers can piss off while I pack more firewood to the campfire while we drink beer.
Well, we did shoot a few games of pool one evening.
Oh hell, he's a few time zones away, maybe he's in bed now.
And that's were I'm going now. ZZzzzzz.
Garage is fixed, teeth still in my head, balls still in my sack.
His nut sack is a pickup bed designed to pack his balls around so he can pick up chicks.
He seems to have picked up a pretty good chick for his journey through life, I don't think I said more than six words to her when they were here but he seemed pleased with his choice.
Nicole wisely went off with the children and left us guys to our own devices, enjoying a campfire and beers on the beach late into the night.
Thank you hon...
so how did you appointment go? did you get your money's worth?
You bet, I've taught her well, she has as much fun as I do. There's nothing better than a willing and excellent student.
After all, I did learn from some of the masters. And they wasn't males.
Per your comment on my blog.
Silicone is great for some things but I don't use it a lot, it's hard to get rid of on surfaces if you want to paint them and if you don't get rid of it you get 'fish eyes' wherever there is a speck of it.
A good lube for a lot of things is BREAK FREE, that's what smart gun owners use, it dries and doesn't collect dust and debris.
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