Letters to the Editor
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Cows are female
I too, had doubts about the cows in Barnyard, due largely to their deep voices and boyish ways. In fact, when a group of cows stole a car for a drunken joyride and both ran from the cops and trashed the car, I smelled boy stuff. However, when the cows returned the car, such as it was, to its rightful owners I breathed a sigh of relief. Obviously girls. Tomboys perhaps. All is as it should be in the barnyard as it is under heaven.
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I'm Confused
Cowsmith, is that you?
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i GONE TO SLEEP/
I had to QUIT after reading the good expansion of Mind after a slow-read of, Sveisker.
He 'gives the goose.' He gives the theatrical slang of the good goose talk.
Goose-Dancers paraded the streets in all sorts of disguises, with mask on' in olden days. Sveister's 'duds' (teasing) often seemed dressed and behaving in unruly manners. The women and children were afraid to go outside when Sveisker's were prowling the streets. People locked the doors and were afraid to venture out. 'He' could expose all kinds of neocon antics and the neocons would eventually just mosey away. A salon could empty. They are of a different good economy? Time tells.
The hobby-horse representative, years ago, was a neoconservative person carrying...a horse's head via the streets. A neocon would use the horse-head and neck, he'd carry the talking-horse-head, and with some skilled contrivance, open the horse-head and pundit-ventriloquist what the 'power's' wished to be said. Fox-head news? By opening and shutting the Horse*Head, a skilled neocon could make a snap-loud snapping noise with the mule-arse-teeth. If the masses were not convinced what the horse said in-Behalf of the king, a neocon would dress in horse-hide, him/her-self, and try to resemble the mule arse real Nature. By biting, curating the mouth, or dressing in animal skins, a politico bullock thought s/he could say about anything? Have times changed? I am pooped. Junked out. How you do it? glory. glory, and Gloria, where are you?
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Jojo and all us have the same-same worries.
My sad feeling arrives when daylight saving means the honeybees work less in the Fall. Turn clocks off. Yes?
Honeybees rebel and hate schedules. Them dear creatures of god want freedom to fly when/where the lazy males are off-schedule. Bees want free-will? What a big Bang-Theory to be here, each day. Yom. Ommmn. burp? A new world symphoney?
Whatever the center or circumference of the Universe 'stinkers' were meant-to-think, them were sure were-a-talkie about...SOMETHING? I think we are all in perfect time...and supposed to be here. Stop clocks.
Hey, what is the title of the Peter/Paul/Mary song, "Don't call me names?" And know the world was formed yesterday. YOM. So, get over it. We stuck her together in this era. Like or Lump...I be here at some ? O-clock in the morning? Maybe.
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Christianity and the Renaissance
Actually, Christianity did not spawn the Renaissance; instead, it funded it. Many of the leading lights (especially in Italy) were funded by Christian leaders (including Popes), just as the tyrants of the Greek diaspora funded philosophers.
Unfortunately for the complete hypothesis, the reactionary portions of the Church tried to shut down many of the Renaissance thoughts, and the expenses of Church funding of the leading lights (as well as paying for its political endeavors) indirectly lead to the Reformation.
Just think, peasants living all over Europe paying their tithes to the Church to create works of art that they could never see, to glorify a religion that was used to justify their servile status, and the overindulgence of that movement lead to its breakup. Irony.
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Bullsmith could confuse jojo?
After a hard day's night; I wished to not do the gnostic, 21st century version, of the 'reiliebogie' on Salon's You-Tube. I am beginning to view the Salon as a ballroom dance-hall..A theatre and dance hall of learning, all at one potentially 'vulgar' place?
It's a fun wild-theatre where girls can high-kick and perform some risque cancan dance? The Salon can get to be a tumultuous assembly when shy males make a issue and wish some disagreement to quack-in-the-air?
To make a great noise about trifles is fun if no one gets kicked by the dance-hall gals while they all do the cancan. The French would say, "The Salon is quacking like a house-full of ducks." It's a 'cancaner,' sometime...It's has a Meaning-apropos to duck-quack noises. It's often a confusion-time of a wee-bit-lot of cancan disorder.
The 'reiliebogie' is a warm-up. start-up 'gig' to shout it's time to dance in in the assembly-houses...Announce it! "Open The Salon Doors!" Then, with no silly chatter, all in attendance at the dance-concert do the 'ole time rock & roll, 'reiliebogi' with our choice?
It's too bad the Salon doesn't have a You-tube where W. T. could demonstrate how to do the 'reiliebogie' with all of us?
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What country is Wolffe referring to?
Perhaps Wolffe is confusing the American presidency with the British manarchy, back when the monarch was the actual head of state?
Wow, what a howler!
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There is so much wrong with MSM
There’s so much wrong with MSM it’s hard to know where to begin, so I’ll defer to the maestro, Bill Moyers, from a public address to the National Conference on Media Reform in May 2005 @ http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1329245 in which he quotes from a Jonathan Mermin essay in World Policy Journal:
…Mermin also quotes public television’s Jim Lehrer, whom I greatly respect, acknowledging that unless an official says something is so, it isn’t news. Why were journalists not discussing the occupation of Iraq? “Because,” says Jim Lehrer, “the word ‘occupation’ was never mentioned in the run up to the war. Washington talked about the war as a war of liberation, not a war of occupation. So as a consequence, those of us in journalism,” says Lehrer, “never even looked at the issue of occupation.” “In other words,” says Jonathan Mermin, “if the government isn’t talking about it, we don’t report it.” He concludes, “Lehrer’s somewhat jarring declaration, one of many recent admissions by journalists that their reporting failed to prepare the public for the calamitous occupation that has followed the liberation of Iraq, reveals just how far the actual practice of American journalism has deviated from the First Amendment idea of a press that is independent of government.”
Take the example, also cited by Mermin, of Charles Hanley. Hanley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Associated Press whose 2003 story of the torture of Iraqis in American prisons before a U.S. Army report and photographs documenting the abuse surfaced, was ignored by major American newspapers. Hanley attributes this lack of interest to the fact, (quote), “it was not an officially-sanctioned story that begins with a handout from an official source. Furthermore, Iraqis recounting their own personal experience of Abu Ghraib simply did not have the credibility with Beltway journalists of American officials denying that such things happened...”
…I decided long ago that this wasn’t healthy for democracy. I came to see that news is what people want to keep hidden, and everything else is publicity…
Professional skepticism is required for auditors rendering opinions on financial statements that are used by investors to make financial decisions. Shouldn’t the same standards be applied to those rendering reports on the events of the day that are used by the public to make decisions so crucial to a democracy? The fact that Richard Wolffe has managed to climb to the top of his profession in spite of seemingly being oblivious to this responsibility is merely a symptom of the overall deterioration of the profession, at least that portion which resides in the MSM.
Some final words from Bill Moyers, also apropos to Mr. Wolffe:
…I realized that investigative journalism could not be a collaboration between the journalist and the subject. Objectivity was not satisfied by two opposing people offering competing opinions, leaving the viewer to split the difference. I came to believe that objective journalism means describing the object being reported on, including the little fibs and fantasies, as well as the big lie of people in power.