Umm, its not working.

And Charles, you should know by now that when the LLL is concerned, there is no bottom.

No wait, its working now.

THOSE BASTARDS.

Warp Records have done a few dance music compilation albums and from what I can remember they were all shit.

I confess -

This hackjob is so ludicrous I can't stop laughing.

But it certainly is a new low.

The sad thing is that Warp have some of the greatest electronic acts, such as Autechre, Two Lone Swordsmen etc. - not exactly fitting to the management's hippie mentality, it seems.

This takes Dowdification to a whole new level. I find myself incapable of understanding the mental perversity that it would take to create such a monstrosity.

This video is incredibly sad and the fact people wasted time editing it is even sadder.

That file is going straight in the digital shredder and away from my hard drive!

I couldnt open the link, either.
Christopher Hitchens (spelling?) calls this no-risk rebellion. They know they are just being noisy pests, that nothing will change for the better because of this idiocy, and no personal risk to them for being pests. I think theres plenty of risk to society if this goes on. Its disgusting.

Evoking Nelson from the Simpsons.

Ha-Ha.

*Puke*

Of course they're evil, they're a major label. There's this thing I call broken capitalism. Capitalism breaks down when the herd instinct comes into play. Capitalism also breaks down when any producer has market power. Both are the case in the music industry.

Come on, it was funny. Most of the editing worked and did not seem technically obvious. there were at least five instances where the edit cuts were really bad and caused Bush to make no sense (which has happened in real life on more than a few occasions).

To me its apparent that the creator of this artistic piece of politcal satire had to spend a great deal of time going over the clips to form the message that he/she hoped to impart. Editing video is not nearly as easy as it looks. I had to do it for a graduate class and did not enjoy the experiance.

I am suprised that this clip has not been linked to on multiple indymedia forums. To people in many parts of the world they would believe that this satire clip is reality.

I thought it was funny, too. Yeah, it's stupid, but come on. You didn't laugh when he said he wants to give every child three nuclear missiles? Or his message to the Iraqi people: "Go home and die"? I don't take any of the Indymedia crowd's bullshit seriously, so I appreciate when it at least makes me chuckle.

This kind of childish (at best) humor actually works in Bush's favor (just like the demonstrations in the UK) because no one could be persuaded by such nonsense. Just some people getting their rocks off and that's about it.

Editing video is not nearly as easy as it looks.

Whoever did the editing no doubt thinks of self as some sort of an artist. I expect professionalism.

Hydrogen-powered doctors? LOL!

OT

European Union ambassadors to the United Nations met Wednesday and considered backing a proposed Irish-sponsored resolution condemning anti-Semitism. If passed, it would mark the first time EU nations back a UN resolution pertaining to anti-Semitism.

Ireland annually submits a resolution condemning
religious intolerance through the UN Human Rights Committee.

This year, following the terror attack on two Istanbul synagogues last Saturday, Israel demanded that Ireland add a specific condemnation of anti-Semitism to the resolution. Ireland refused to change the original resolution, but agreed to draft a new resolution pertaining solely to anti-Semitism.

[Link: www.haaretzdaily.com...]

This is called "Bushwacked 2". What exactly then, is Bushwacked 1? Do I even want to know?

Check out the band that Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave reactionary Tom Morello is producing.

[Link: www.aversion.com...]

It’ll take about a dozen rags and a couple liters of turpentine to strip away the piss, vinegar and spite that’s caked on Anti-Flag’s latest, The Terror State, but underneath the unabashedly fiery leftist rhetoric, the accusatory choruses and the downright pissed-off charges leveled at Capitol Hill, it’s clear that Anti-Flag loves this country. So much, in fact, that singer/guitarist Justin Sane, guitarist Chris Head, bassist Chris #2 and drummer Pat Thetic, deal out the tough love as if it they learned it from Ralph Nader and Mommy Dearest.

This band got coverage in "Rolling Stone".

Watchout for the "Dissent Tour" next summer. Audioslave, The Dixie Chicks and Coldplay.

Anybody got a transcript of the video? I don't have Quicktime and I'm not about to download it just to watch a video like this, that's for damn sure.

OT -- from OpinionJournal link

The Arab News carries a report titled Saba Did the Right Thing, Say Many. That would be Saba Abu Lisan, a Saudi woman wounded in the Riyadh bombing, who "rescued seven people, including her two sisters," and "transported the victims to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in her father's Mercedes."

Some, however, argue that a woman driving is too high a price to pay for saving lives. The paper quotes one Hamad Muhammad:

"What was she thinking? It's not her role to save others. She exposed herself and those with her to grave danger," he said. "She had no right to risk the lives of others. What if she had been involved in another accident on her way to the hospital? She should have waited for professional help. If we approve her action and applaud it, then we are encouraging other Sabas out there. I agree with the Arabic saying 'Close the door through which the wind blows and relax.'"

At least most of the people the Arab News quotes don't agree. Such is what passes for progress among our friends the Saudis.

OT:

Chales,
Nazimedia is trying to shut you down. I am sure you are not worried:

[Link: www.indymedia.org...]

UraniumAnchor: It is basically a video chop of the President's SOTU 2003 address. It's chopped so that the President says "The American Flags stands for ... tryanny, torture, pollution and rape.".

Better link:

This one links to the page itself and also has a link to the original Bushwacked realaudio/mp3.

[Link: www.warprecords.com...]

This thing is really ooold tho, I had it e-mailed to me a while ago. You sure Warp records made it or did they just post it?

Let's see how many videos Warp Records will be making when shariah gets imposed. These punks are bored snot-noses. I'm not even going to watch their silly video.

#18

Watchout for the "Dissent Tour" next summer. Audioslave, The Dixie Chicks and Coldplay.

Maybe they'll even put Thom Dorke from Radiohead on the bill. Did anybody even buy "Hail To the Theif"? I sold all my Radiohead CD's last weekend. Sold my Pretenders stuff, too. I'm tired of self-important rock'n'rollers who think they're clever and rebellious. Maybe Chrissy Hynde will scream censorship if she's not too busy routing for terrorists to win the WoT, or throwing red paint on a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Whatever is happening to the word "dissident"? It used to have a distinctly positive connotation, at least in my mind. Dissidents were courageous people who stood up for truth and justice and democracy. As a result they suffered in the hands of totalitarian regimes. Now Bin Laden is a dissident, Sikh separatists are dissidents and Dixie Chicks are dissidents. So basically it's all about millionaires and terrorists.

Not as wack as the last two Plaid albums. It is sad to see such (formerly) talented blokes run out of ideas.

Warp Records hasn't been relevant for 10 years. Obviously they have too much time on their hands these days.

I was slightly amused however!

Little Birdy

Is it what ROD was all about?

An interesting article from New York's Newsday regarding Iraqis reveling in their new found freedom of expression through graffiti...

"Down Saddam the infidel and long live Bush the believer!"

A few of my favorites from Baghdad's walls

"Neither Bush we want, nor Chalabi; we want beer and lablabee."

"Where are your wife and daughters, Saddam? Are you pimping them in Jordan?"

"A thousand Americans but not one Tikriti"

"The masses are stronger than tyrants," one slogan declared. Next to it a skeptic asked: "When? Before or after liberation by the Americans?"

And my personal favorite...

"Saddam will come again - through my ass!"

Heh. It was kind of droll. Made me snicker a couple of times. While they didn't do a bad job of cut and paste with clips, I certainly wouldn't be lauding their editing abilities. Cuts only? Difficult? Please. All that's required for that is QuickTime Pro and time to work. The compression's pretty good, but I'd expect that from iMovie let alone any serious NLE toys.

The irksome thing the little Michael Moore wannabe's missed in their effort is that the president and country represented in that clip are Saddam and Baathist Iraq. Everything they hold up as awful and horrid about us in that hit-piece was the very thing they wanted to remain in place in Saddam's Iraq. They're not pro-peace, not pro-justice, not anti-war... they're merely anti-Bush, anti-American, and anti-you and me. Yawn.

#21 little birdy 11/19/2003 12:03PM PST

do not feed moronic morlocks at that link i will repeat
this over and over gotta fight the urge charles you must be doing somethin right to make em seethe and whine so much oh and can you make a blank page for them to find a shitload of those racist search terms they posted maybe like that lizard page

#17 Malik al-Mulook

That article definitely lends its credibility to the viewer when it talks about how the American revolutionaries would tweak the nose of George II.

George II? Thanks. I've almost seen enough stupidity.

But wait, not until they said that Cheney was directly quoted as saying he knew exactly where Hussein was hiding his WMDs.

Do they think we're THAT stupid? C'mon!

I did enjoy reading it for the laugh, though :D

Except when they misspelled Reagan's name. That made me (as a hardcore Reagan fan) rather irate. It's not that hard to spell someone's name; especially when they were as important as a president.

This is a complete ripoff of another guy's work! I'm outraged.

The original author is fuckitall.com and his version can be found in his video section.

Re: #21 little birdy

Also OT:

INTERESTING? Right above the drawing of an "anti-racist action" ninja who wields a swastika like a throwing star (*blink*), is a link that claims "The images show cruelty of the Syrian Regime and terrorist atrocities."

The link worked, but I did not explore the professional-looking Web site.

The cited thread seems to show lgf in a bad light, between the "trick" posts they probably seeded themselves and some name-calling (pretty bad, but as bad as the terrorist maiming and killing that provoke the name calling?)

As easy as it would be for someone to highjack a screen name, or just post in the blog, I'm more concerned about readers who do not seem to comprehend things like "sarcasm." OTOH, wouldn't it be nice to keep the language to PG, instead of dragging around down at certain other people's level. (Two f-words in one small paragraph by the "offended party," who doesn't prove s/he can spell "excrement," either.)

BTW, somebody on that thread claimed to receive a "death threat" from an lgf type. I find it hard to believe that anyone who reads the articles in Charles' links would have the low-grade intelligence to waste bandwidth on such trashy tactics.

Speaking of disgusting, here is the cover of the UK edition of Paul Krugman's latest book

Although in terms of the subtitle, the joke's on him.

And of course he doesn't mention that the economy had showed signs of slipping as early as Spring 1999.

"GO HOME AND DIE!!!" Priceless. That should replace GAZE in the LFG vocabulary.

OT - Peace Activist Admits To Sabotage Of Electrical Transmission Towers

The longtime peace activist would face a recommended 27 months in federal prison, but would not be prosecuted in any other jurisdiction under the plea bargain offered by federal prosecutors. [...]

Poulin has been an active member in Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane in the past and participated in several anti-war rallies earlier this year. He also served eight years of a life sentence for attempted murder in the 1970s, the FBI said.

His supposed purpose was to point out "how the nation's power system is vulnerable to potential terrorists". Sheesh. I wonder when he was attempting to commit murder (he is an ex-con) if he was just trying to point out that his victum was exposed to possible murder attempts. So he was just being helpful. This reminds me of the boxcutters on the plane incident. I believe both incidents were meant to disrupt security rather than enhance it. Man, I hate these peace activist anarchists. They are all sociopaths. But worse is that the Feds bought his story. I sure hope they got some info about other peace creeps in exchance for the light sentence. All these evil types seem to spill their guts when they get caught.

Very interesting... but schtoopid.

While watching this, I was struck by how much the text reminded me of the drivel from the Indonesian prime minister...and you don't have to edit that.

Errr, I couldn't help finding it funny too. Nothing original but at least there was some sense of humour.

Little Green Eyed Monster - From the website littlegreenfootballs.com. The envy that conservatives feel over the ability of Islamic states to oppress their own people. Also known as "projection."Wingnut Debate Dictionary

OT - but oops!

Palestinians who died in Iraq considered martyrs

Thirty-year-old Mohammed - memorialised at his father's house in a photo holding a rifle - was one of many Palestinian refugees in Syria who believed their struggle for their land extended to Iraq.

Maybe they thought nobody would notice this admission? OTOH, there's this satisfying tidbit:

"Now they are not going," said Palestinian refugee Issam Kheza'i Jumaa, who said the fighters found neither an ideal cause nor much in the way of welcome from Iraqis. "They learned a lesson."

#29 tmid

You are correct that the mechanics of clipping using digital video editing software is not difficult. The effort is finding the pieces wanted from the mass collection that has to be organized and putting them together into an order that makes sense and also sounds vocally sound natural.

#28 Dirk Diggler

Thanks for that link.

Hussein loyalists shout their yearning for the deposed dictator - "Saddam will come again" - followed by the coda on the same line from a detractor: "Through my behind!"

Great. I love to see Arabs show their sense of humor.

#36 oregonian (QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE YOU LINKED)

He said he was able to damage the towers despite being "62 years old, overweight, arthritic, diabetic, half-blind and a cancer patient living on a minimum of 12 medication pills a day."

In addition to being an unhealthy pinko terrorist, he was also a pill freak. Typical. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him?

I sure hope they got some info about other peace creeps in exchance for the light sentence.

This bozo is skating on thin ice. If he's as unhealthy as the article indicates he may not live to see his own parole. Which would be fine by me.

Taranto in his best of the Web has this gem courtesy of the fine author Frederick ("Day of the Jackal") Forsyth.

London's Guardian yesterday published a series of open letters to the president from various Englishmen and Americans. Many were hostile--the Guardian is a left-wing paper--but we like this one from novelist Frederick Forsyth (ellipsis in original):

You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world's most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable.

I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.

It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second.

Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left's idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il . . . and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time.

Bush seems to have taken Forsyth's advice. Good for him--and good for America.

Kelly

Give it up.

Also courtesy Best o' the Web and also under the rubric "Disgusting"... the cover of Paul Krugman's new book

Come on; the clip is funny. It's not intelligent or subversive enough to be annoying. "...has nuclear chemicals in his arse" is great. Just because these morons think they're making a point doesn't mean that anyone cares. "No-risk rebellion" indeed.

And as tmid says, the editing involved here is very simple. I could assemble this in Adobe Premiere in a half an hour once I had decided on what I wanted to string together.

OT: Reporter 'could have assassinated' Bush [Guardian]

An undercover reporter who worked as a footman at Buckingham palace for two months claimed today that he could have assassinated President Bush as he arrived last night.

Daily Mirror journalist Ryan Parry, who was given the job despite providing a bogus reference, said he was never searched and had been given "unfettered access" throughout the palace for the past eight weeks, including during the build up to George Bush's high-profile state visit this week.

We expose Biggest Royal Security Scandal Ever [mirror.co.uk]

US War ship enters Vietnam Port.

Things are really changing in that part of the world. The Vietnamese welcomed the visit with open arms. It looks like American policy is really changing. I know that for several years there have been non-military government to government relations with this communist country.

A friend of mine who works for CDC was stationed in Vietnam helping with AIDS prevention programs.

OT: Top line story from Reuters Technology News, if you can believe it: Islamists Show 'Iraq Attacks' on Americans on Web. While we all know this, it is interesting to see that it's getting more mainstream notice.

#47 Abu Messerschmidt:

Ahem...

New article posted on imc main site called Kill Jews and LGF.

I am not sure if this was posted by a member of this forum to forment comments but I hope not.

Frank,

D'Oh!!!

hateworldrevengesoonallwillpay

#41 Thom

Thirty-year-old Mohammed - memorialised at his father's house in a photo holding a rifle - was one of many Palestinian refugees in Syria who believed their struggle for their land extended to Iraq.

Oh, great. They want Iraq, too?

#55 Colt

I'm not sure how their nimble brains forged a connection between Iraq and "their" "struggle" for "their" "land", but there it is ...

I was just glad to hear the Iraqis gave them such a "warm" welcome!

#56 Thom

So Kuwaitis, and now Iraqis, are turning away Palestinians.

There's a lesson in that... ;-)

Oh, great. They want Iraq, too?

They want everywhere, dude. A global caliphate, where women wear potato sacks from Riyadh to Buenos Aires, where gays are crushed under heavy rocks from Teheran to Tokyo, where honor killings are as celebrated in Minneapolis as they are in Ramallah,... and all the Jews are silent... dead silent.

You don't want to see the Guardian cartoon.. most definitely NOT funny.

VTK -

All is well. :)

And I realize in my #34, I forgot to hat-tip Sullivan.

I'm still giddy from today's Good News...

#58 Abu Messerschmitt

Oh, I understand that. But I'm not sure how the Palis are going to spin this one...

Guardian Cartoon: EUtopian political satire is obviously far too subtle and sophisticated for us illiterate, retarded Americans.

/sarcasm

Updated Nazimedia pics of the UK
Not as good as the frightfully scary pink tank mind you. But in the first one you can see just how pitifully small their direct action or critical mass or whatever the hell they call it is.

Also, you got a group of nits holding the banner "There was never a good war or a bad peace. Do these people even try to use logical statements anymore. Dindn't think so. Not only does it make no sense in a historical context, but the sign looks like it was made by triple caffeinated monkeys having an epileptic seizure on a moonless night. Are those letters?!?

#45 Joel
Bravo to Forsyth for for puncturing the pretentions and hypocricies of the British Left. His views are like a fresh breeze in a smog-ridden environment

#47 Abu Messerschmitt
I realize the publisher is trying to make a pound or two by pandering to his audience, but the picture of the Veep with a Hitler mustache is a bit over the top, even by British standards.

The crazy murderers are at it again:

Extremists launch recruitment drive
An extremist group has placed an advertisement on the Internet seeking to recruit suicide bombers - volunteers.
complete story on Gulf News

#59 zaza

Well, "Bush the babboon" cartoons are invariably pointless and stupid and generally offensive, but I still can't help laughing every time I see one. Same goes for the "Tony Blair with outrageously bulging walleyes" cartoons.

I must have a warped sense of humor or something.

#58 Messer

Hey don't bring my town in to that rant. ;-)

Users online 1842 and rising. I'm not usually around here this late - is that a typical # for this time o' day?

Kelly (#53)

They get more twisted by the day. I wish they were being monitored. Hateful scum.

#63 RWC,

Looks to me like there are more cops than protestors. Not an overly impressive turnout. Does anyone recognize the "corporate" journalist? I've seen him before, but I can't remember which network.

#59 zaza

Going through those pics made me realize something. I want to be a political cartoonist. That way, I can do one theme day after day after day and get paid for it. Original thoughts, who needs 'em.

Kelly, somebody has copied your comment (#53) and posted it on Nazimedia (with a link that goes to the IDF Hebrew site ;-)

Hey don't bring my town in to that rant. ;-)

Just said they wanted it, didn't say they were going to get it. ;-)

I can imagine the trendy elite eagerly embracing shari'a. If they could be convinced it was novel and chic, the elites in Manhattan would be throwing their hairdressers off the roof of Rockefeller Center. In the American mid-section, where values still count for something, I don't think the Islamists would have an easy time of it.

#63 Right Wing Conspirator

Just like its wrong for the fashionable liberal left to call Jews, supporters of Israel and Israelis the offensive term "Zionazis" its wrong to call the imc crowd "Nazimedia".

there are many appropriate adjectives that can be used for the imc posters with out resorting to this term.

#72 zulubaby

(with a link that goes to the IDF Hebrew site ;-)

Good heavens. How could that happen?!

Keep in mind folks a lot of these "prostesters" are payed by the left to show up to these things. Expect to see more of that when the moveon.com money gets to the streets.

#45 Joel: that was my favourite letter too - second-favourite, after this:

Great job, keep it up!
Julie Burchill
Writer

The gift of synthesis!

Considering among other stuff several of the above links there is quite probably now a well organised strategy in hardline activism to infiltrate and expose any elements of public services and facilities which can be a) shown up or b) sabotaged. Certainly Buckingham Palace was a well massaged target for the London protests. And many media have either knowingly collaborated or themselves been targetted as a vehicle for legally doing this. I honestly think there is an actual convergence of much greater interests, in which the EU for starters (bigel, scroll by) has landed on a significant if not pivotal stake, throughout both the ummah and the dhimmis and far greater networks of funding which, if they are properly known to anyone, are not being exposed. The interests of America are well known. Maybe the UN could become a vehicle for forcing more EU transparency.

As if I weren't depressed enough, I had to go and read this article about how Jews are packing up and leaving Israel. Is this true, or should I consider the source before succumbing to gloom?

#74 Kelly

I disagree, but I'm starting to rethink my position on the far-left. Sure, some are antisemites. But a lot of them really are that stupid.

Sorry, link here:
[Link: news.independent.co.uk...]

2106

#62 Abu mess.: it's the cartoonist for The Guardian (and it's not the first time he has this sort of images either).

If say, the LA Times had a disgusting cartoon of the sort, would I be fair in making that judgement about all of the cartoonists in the US?

Whatever happened to sense of proportions, really...

#72 zulubaby

I wonder who did that. I don't copywrite my postings so I don't mind. Who ever did it can even give the full name of "Kelly Martin" that I am often too lazy to type on this forum.

Charles created a cool little script that causes anyone clicking on a link sitting on an IMC page going to his site gets automatically forwarded to the IDF.

Ohboyohboyohboy,

I'm gonna get nine, count 'em, NINE nukes, three for each of my kids, ohboyohboyohboy! Since two of 'em are too young to possess such things, I'm gonna finally settle that property line dispute with my neighbor! We'll see if he ever plants another tree on my property!!! ohboyohboyohboy!

(Wonder if they are all gonna be short-range or maybe an ICBM or two??? Anyone know VFI's GPS coordinates??? >:-) ).

Bwah-hah-haa!!!

#74 Kelly

there are many appropriate adjectives that can be used for the imc posters with out resorting to this term.

Yes there are. But if had used them I would most assuredly be banned from this site :-) Besides, I usually just use the aidemydni designation but that still takes me a second to get it right. All in all though, I really don't have too much of a problem referring to a site that deletes comments that it simply doesn't agree with yet lets a thread hailing "The Eternal Jew" as great movie that everyone MUST see as Nazimedia.

OT: Everyone should check out Bush's Whitehall speech

Hell, you can ignore the substance of it. It's one extremely well written speech.

#71 Right Wing Conspirator: I think Charles had linked to another cartoon by the same guy some time ago (if I recall right) - and it was even more gross. The same um "coprological" theme... Bell really seems obsessed.

#79 #81 scaramouche

Yes its true that many of the more affluent Israelis are leaving and coming to America. More so now than in other periods.

It is a mater of great concern to the Israeli government and Jewish Agency. I recall reading serveral versions of this story some months ago in Israeli press.

The really funny thing about the Krugman cover is the subtitle - "From Boom To Bust In Three Years" - er, two of those years were in the Clinton Administration. And the recovery is in full swing as just as the book hits the street.

#60 Frank IBC, Abu Dead Celtic Witch,

I'm still giddy from today's Good News...

Then here is something special for you and the rest of LGF

#85 Clutch

Spare a nuke for a childless brotha ??? Please.

#91 PDM

Was gonna look for something to commemorate the passing :-(

:-)

But nothing can beat that. Bravo !!!

#91 PDM,

Genius! Brilliant! A must-see! Ding, dong, the witch is dead. The wicked, wicked witch is dead.

#86 Right Wing Conspirator

It makes sense to refer to the individual that calls for the mass murder of Jews and uses the language of gobals and hitler's followers "nazis". However, using generalities is something that bigots do and i believe that the participants of LGF including you are better than that.

I have read your writting and know that you are creative enough to avoid simplistic four letter words and still have cutting words that more accuratly describe the general LLL that participate on the imc forums.

Something as using lowercase to denote their names is insulting to them.

VFI was banned? :-)

OT: If Britain is America's closest ally, why is it siding with the EUeenies when it comes to Iraq's nukes?
[Link: abcnews.go.com...]

Notice, please, that Canada is on the right side for a change.

RWC and Kelly: If the jackboot fits...

Colt, yes :-)

#96 Colt

And how!

2605↑

Very Fuckin Imperceptible is outa here. Now what are we going to do? What put her over the edge?

Great :-)

Look at that. 2672 users online. We have quite an audience today.

OT - Where has evariste been ??

OT: our friends the Europeans have succeeded in convincing the IAEA not to say anything upsetting to the mullahs about, you know, all that enriched uranium and plutonium and whatnot:

IAEA Likely to Rebuff U.S. on Iran Nukes

The West Europeans fear too much pressure would turn Iran from cooperation to confrontation. But several diplomats suggested the dispute also reflected West European independence similar to that shown by the French-German attempt to scuttle the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

Yet another reason to press ahead with US continental missile defense, and leave the Euros alone in the room with the missile n' nuke-equipped crazies they helped to create.

I think it's great: funny, absurd, and obviously not meant to be any kind of specific critique. Utterly harmless. And as evidenced by the fact that this thread quickly became a link-a-thon instead of a discussion of the topic, I think that most readers agree.

I used to have a couple of Warp techno compilations, I think, a long time ago. Don't be surprised, however, to find looney left horseshit issuing from the diaspora of the rave scene - it was always susceptible to utopian, warmed-over hippie/leftist/vegan/animal rights/new age rhetoric. Just look at Moby!

One of the forerunners of the ambient scene was Muslimgauze (yes, I own an old record by him, too), a stridently pro-Palestinian techno artist who incorporates muezzin and taksim into his beats. And yeah, I used to think that was pretty cool, too.

How things change when the chips are really down, hmmm?

The track Charles pointed to is in the tradition of "The Motorcade Sped On" (a proto-techno cut-up of the Kennedy assasination that used to be a big hit in the late 80s) and Adrian Sherwood sound collages. In the context of techno, it's a spent fart, not anything revolutionary.

Sheesh, some of you are taking this video way too seriously. Much of it made me laugh just because it's just old-fashioned, Mont Python-style absurdist comedy. The stuff where they're seriously trying to score points made me laugh in the same way the idiots with paper mache heads of Cheney or Bush make me laugh - they're both brain-dead and ridiculous. You'd have to be a tinfoil hat-wearing jackass to believe their propaganda.

I'm sorry to lower everyone's mood, but Arutz Sheva has a heart-breaking story about a ten-year-old Israeli boy who nearly lost his sight in the Maxim restaurant bombing.

#101 JimInMPLS

What put her over the edge?

Charles just got tired of her derailing threads. It was on the "Hilarious Item of the Day" thread of all places.

I liked the part about Saddam having a nuclear weapon in his "arse".

2302↓

Aaaahhh...

What put her over the edge?

I wish I could take credit, but I think Charles deduced that letting her spew her snotty, condescending, elitist moral relativism for two years without ever exhibiting even the slightest bit of personal growth or showing the slightest respect to those who disagreed with her was quiote enough waste of bandwidth.

At least I can take partial credit for the nicknames "Celtic Witch" and "Celtic Eva Braun."

#104 RWC

I got email from him a coupla days ago.

#109 Colt,

That is heart-breaking. But, thank you for posting the link.
Stories like that remind me exactly why there will NEVER be any peace with those inhuman SOBs.

VFI is gone and we loose 500 readers instantly hmmm

#115 PDM

To paraphrase Occasional Reader (and I'm going to steal this line - sorry :-) , the Arabs want to destroy Israel, and kill or expel all the Jews. What would anyone suggest as a counter-offer?

Geneva Accords, Roadmap, Oslo I, Oslo II... You'd think they'd have figured it out by now.

This is, at best, pathetic. It is also what they have been reduced to. Accuse me of smoking someone's houseplants if you want but this the best they have. It's as good as it gets. Let 'em rant...I'll be thinking about them durinig GWB's second term in office!

www.nutsanddolts.com

OT When Al Jazeera went west...

Great. Just great.

Is this a non-binding resolution?

Abu Messerschmitt (#113)

At least I can take partial credit for the nicknames "Celtic Witch" and "Celtic Eva Braun."

Celtic Eva Braun is classic.

Officers also found a ball-bearing gun while searching a vehicle at a police checkpoint in Regent's Park yesterday evening. The driver was arrested for being in possession of a firearm but released after being cautioned for possession of cannabis.

Officer: Don't you know that that is considered a firearm laddy. Your under arrest.

Kid: But, but, but constable, I have some smoke on me.

Officer: Away with ya then.

Huh ?!?

Colt

Ouch! What will that entail?

#123 RWC

The UK is a crazy place :-)

#114 Colt

Just busy? Everything alright?

#126 RWC

AFAIK.

#126 RWC

AFAIK, yes on both counts.

#124 veebee

Not sure, yet. Nothing on the UN websites. I'd have thought there'd be a bigger fuss if the resolution were binding or, worse, had "consequences" (sanctions, military intervention, etc).

#127 Colt

Thats good. Hopefully.

OT- Conspiracy theorist getting giddy with delight at their newfound Zionist-9/11 link in 5...4...3...2...

Israeli-American a finalist for WTC memorial design

Just noticed the headline and realized there are no shortage of disgusting links with the anti-Bush, anti-Israel, anti-US, anti-war crowds.

To commemorate, the banning of VFI, check out Volunteer for Israel USA, here. :-)

Prague Revisited
The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away.
By Edward Jay Epstein
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003, at 9:58 AM PT

This month, I went to Prague to meet with Czech officials who had directly handled the pre-9/11 expulsion of a senior Iraqi diplomat, a case that would became known as the Prague Connection. Because it goes to the heart of the issue of whether Saddam Hussein might have played a role in the attack on the World Trade Center, this controversy has continued to rage, without any satisfying conclusion, for more than two years.
[Link: slate.msn.com...]

#132 Colt

Now that's a VFI we can be proud of!

This "Bushwhacked" video edit has been around for months. At least 9 months anyways.

#123 Right Wing Conspirator

Well, since the Mossad was responsible for toppling the WTC, it makes sense that an Israeli should get the gig for commemorating it.

/sarcasm off (but I'm sure you already knew that)

#123 RWC

Now that's my kinda justice. Definitely makes up for their stupid gun control.

Also, I thought this was hilarious. Agree with it or not, that quality of editing, coupled with such ridiculous things, is damn funny imho.

If you're all sanctimonious about "disrespecting the President", well, as George Carlin would say, fuck you! I bet you never shed a tear over the Bill Clinton parody of ZZ Top's "Tush".

#136 scaramouche

/sarcasm off (but I'm sure you already knew that)

But with 744 people peeking in, you can't be too careful. :-)

OT:

FIRE IN THE MOUNTAIN, RUN JIHADIS, RUN!

Charlie Daniels sez: kick muslim ass!

[Link: www.sidneyherald.com...]

A MUSLIM WENT DOWN TO ISRAEL, LOOKIN' FOR A JEW TO KILL:

[Link: www.charliedaniels.com...]

CHARLIE IS TOO HOT FOR TEETHY KATIE COURIC TO HANDLE:

[Link: www.mediaresearch.org...]

Dang- Reagan never offered us any nuclear missles. Where was Pres. W when I was a kid?

ROFLMFAOPIMP!!!

I tried to watch it, but it just didn't click with me. America as terrorist nation, yada, yada, yada. Now, if we could get Frank J to do a video like that it might be funny.

The SoTU source was easy to get and anyone can do video editing these days. Heck, I just put together a video of Justin Hayward's San Juan Capistrano gig from video tape using some free software I found on the internet. Took no time at all, and I ain't exactly Linus Torvalds.

Yawn,
GTC

Maybe I'm losing my sense of humor; maybe it got stuck in the Twilight Zone along with that other Pearl Izumi cycling sock I've never been able to find.

But knowing that the people who made this video -- and the people they made it for -- actually believe its messages ... well ... that just kind of kills the funny for me.

hmmm, i live near some old NIKE missle sites on the east coast; i wonder if my daughter's quota of missles are there for me to pick up?

#143 Charles

maybe it got stuck in the Twilight Zone along with that other Pearl Izumi cycling sock I've never been able to find.

Damn it! You have my sock! Lizardroid master my butt! Stealing socks from the alternate reality where mine went! Bah! ;-Þ

There once was a harpy called View,
Who polluted this list with her Irish spew,
'Til good Charles got tuff
Said "Enough of your guff!"
And banned View and her poisonous poo!

I finally got the thing to run. It's disgusting satire, from a point of view with which I and most of us here do not agree. Nevertheless, it is satire, and makes no pretense to be otherwise. We must remember that there is worse, much worse. People like Maureen Dowd and Michael Moore do much the same thing with a straight face, pretend to be telling the truth, and the LLLs lap it up.

Funny, in a slammed your finger in a car door sort of way.

#91 PDM - Brilliant!!! (As usual.)

On the "Case Closed" thread I sensed the end was fast approaching - after almost a year of her emotionally-flat whining, I noticed a recent exponential rise in her screechiness. And the end came barely 30 hours after I predicted it!

Bartender! A round of Mad Dog for the house!!!

I have to agree with #3 Thom.

It's so asinine I actually LOLed. Anyone besides me recall that old HBO hack. Not Necessarily the News?

#55 Colt

I'm not sure how their [Pallies] nimble brains forged a connection between Iraq and "their" "struggle" for "their" "land", but there it is ...

C'mon, Colt, please! Do you realize there is nothing *but* a connection to Arab lands? I'll spell it out for readers who've been fed a load of pap instead of recent history.

Remember that the original group had *many* foreign work-visa types. The ones that didn't have Egyptian or Saudi passports had Iraqi, or Syrian, or...

For the sake of anit-semitism, these people and their descendents were hung out in the wilderness to rot. Otherwise, there would be no alleged "palestinian" problem.

Arafat is Egyptian, from a wealthy family - think *he* couldn't go home? Where he'd suddenly be a very small fish indeed?

Kelly, about associating Nazis with Indymedia: maybe it would help if the indymedia posters quit using swastikas - but they won't...

Lie down with swastikas, get up with "Nazi-" (*shrug*)

"For the sake of anit-semitism, "

Anti. An-ti. anti-semitism.

(Mail-order thumbs--hard to get a good fit. )

OH! And I forgot the smiley faces, so I would be sure to read like I'm kidding. Sorry, Colt!

"Preview? We don't need no steenking preview--er, well, maybe we do on occasion *mumble, mumble.*

#152 LightTower

I honestly don't understand how they get away with that. I can't imagine my reaction if they were posting burning crosses and the like.

It's a pure-hate intimidation tactic.

I support Bush, and pray he's re-elected in 2004, but that movie is funny as heck. I love the 3 nuclear missles part. We should edit together a speech of Arafat to make him look nuts. Actually wait a sec...

Oh and I've missed out on all of the fun!!
My 'puter died yesterday afternoon...power supply turned into toast. *sigh

Haiku:

VFI
goodbye
saranora
adios
and faretheewell gal

At
[Link: www.indymedia.org...] the thread to which little birdy (#21) referred,
someone posted Tom Tomorrow's "Chicken Hawk Down"; why doesn't someone find and post that tasty parody of the strip there?

This is old news, Charles.

A professor of mine played the audio version of this "speech" during the break between a two-hour lecture, to the amusement of most of the class. Then he played a similar track, this time a Tony Blair cut-and-paste job set to dance music. By the same oxygen-stealing low-lives, I'll bet.

The parody, THIS BOOMER'S WORLD, is at:
[Link: www.whataretheysaying.org...]
I tried to post it to the Indymedia site, but couldn't get it to load properly.

#4 (hans ze beeman)

The sad thing is that Warp have some of the greatest electronic acts, such as Autechre, Two Lone Swordsmen etc. - not exactly fitting to the management's hippie mentality, it seems.

Agreed. Interestingly enough, many of Warp's artists (Autechre in particular) have expressly apolitical public faces and don't use record sales as a springboard to shove their political beliefs in your face. Wish I could say the same about Warp's website staff...

Anyway, all that said, I found the video itself rather amusing -- it's ridiculous enough to be taken lightly.. sort of the same way (though more tastefully) that Cabbageboy cut up audio to make the Queen sound like a drug dealer. It's just silly.

Now, if someone (say the IMC types) were to think "Bushwhacked" a credible political statement, now that I would have a problem with...

Cheers,
Dr. Dog

actually its very funny.
lighten up dudes.

After seeing all of the stupid cheapshots Indy is aiming at LGF I'm really thinking about reconsidering my voting habits. Even though I know leftists are whiny little brats and totalitarian wannabees, I only vote for them because we aren't doing enough to save nature. Why can't the Republicans be more pro-nature? I want a party that throws out all of the leftist social agenda crap and focuses on the environment. Oh well, at least I don't vote Democrat. I'm half-comforted by the fact that the Green Party demagogues I vote for don't have a chance in hell of winning.

#158 Evan: was that the one of Blair singing a Lionel Ritchie love song to Bush?

Speaking of disgusting.

This morning, Jimmy Carter was interviewed on the 'Elliot in the Morning Show' on DC 101.1 (Don't know the call letters, sorry) between 8:30 and 8:45 a.m. And at one point he spoke of the 2000 election and Florida in particular, "It is clear to me that Al Gore won the election, but the Supreme Court handed the presidency to Bush."

Thoroughly disgusting, and the tone of his voice was all grinning, goober-eating gold-ol'-boy.

DC 101 - WWDC-FM

One of DC-101's claims to fame is that it was the first really big station on which Howard Stern aired, in the early 80's. (Yes, he was fired.)

I thought it was funny myself

Guys, seriously. I've gotten in yelling matches with idiotarian co-workers, being the only one in my office with a damn clue, but this thing had me CRYING.

Who thought "No Child Left Behind" was really a touchy-feely cover for nuclear detente in public schools?

This thing was absolutely hilarious.

Course, doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy beating the artists to death with a shovel.

Couldn't open it up either but got it from another source. Charles you might want to look into why so many of your attachments won't open. Anyway, it was a riot. I couldn't stop laughing. Brilliant satire and I am a Bush supporter. I imagine Dubya is laughing too. It's time for a vacation when you stop being able to laugh at yourself,