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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
It stars grade-school and high-school kids, and is from Writer-Director Cheryl Felicia Rhoads.
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From Ramirez:
We can use a laugh - it's Friday. I may have found the cutest cat pictures in history, here. (Click the "random" button at top of their page to see more.)
THE LATEST GOOGLE SEARCH is for a snake loose in Google HQ.
"What you have heard is in fact true and not an April Fools' Day joke," a Google spokesman wrote in an e-mail to technology news site CNET News.com.
..."Should you see the snake, please do not attempt to touch it or pick it up. Call security immediately."
JIMMY CARTER AND THE KILLER RABBIT -- a tale from the Carter presidency.
Report: "The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of Naval forces in and around the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran".
This is what is needed.
The buildup, which would included a ago second aircraft carrier to the one already there is being proposed as a response to what US officials view as increasingly provocative acts by Iran, David Martin reported on CBS EVENING NEWS.
Recent Iranian naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, support for Shiite militias in Iraq, and its nuclear enrichment program which US intelligence believes is designed to produce a bomb." CBS added, "Military officers say the buildup would take place after the first of the year, not to actually attack Iran but to discourage its leaders from spreading their Shiite revolution."
It would be great to see such action being taken to contain and control the madman, Ahmadinejad.
David Zucker has a new video that cautions against repeating the mistake of Neville Chamberlain, who made an agreement with another madman - an agreement which inadvertently set the stage for the 50,000,000 dead in World War II.
From commenter Olah Chadasha, of the Greetings from the French Hill weblog:
Here’s the message that the sufferers of Darfur get when they call up the “esteemed” UN Human Rights Council:
“We’re sorry we’re not here to take your human rights violation claim, but we’re too busy dealing with the number one human rights violator in the world: Israel. But, if you would like to leave a message, we’ll try to get back to you after our next emergency session dealing with Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Thank for your time. Have a lovely day.”
I posted previously about the new satirical news show from "24" producer Joel Surnow, when I attended the taping of its pilot episode. I also noted Surnow's recent appearance at the Liberty Film Festival, where he said the Fox News Channel was showing interest in carrying it. Today FNC has made an announcement that they will develop the show.
Fox News Satire Targets Left's 'Sacred Cows'
Fox News Channel is preparing a new Saturday night comedy show tailored to its largely right-leaning audience.
Fox will tape two episodes of the yet untitled show and air them in late January, with the possibility that the program could become a weekly feature.
The show would take aim at "the sacred cows of the left" that don't get lampooned very much by other comedy shows, according to Joel Surnow, co-creator of "24" and one of the executive producers of the new Fox program.
The pilot ep was hilarious.
It seems unlikely, but it can't be ruled out. A September 28th post on this site about South Park, which had been linked by Pajamas Media, began with the words, "So it begins." And this week's episode of South Park ended with the same words.
It was a really funny episode. There's a line in it along the lines of "If only there were no religion, there would be so much less violence in the world. No Muslims killing Jews. No Christians picketing abortion clinics." That is so great.
Then they get to the future, and everyone's an atheist, and the United Science League is having a war with the United Science Association. It was hysterical.
Ramirez on the Dems’ Plans for an Iraq War Pullout:
So it begins. Western pop culture knows exactly what to do with people who can't take a joke. We annihilate their mistaken beliefs with comedy. South Park led the way with its episode earlier this year, daring Comedy Central to air a cartoon of Mohammed. Jay Leno again showed the way last week, when he let us see that it was okay to make fun of radical Islam, with this joke:
Iraq has demanded that Pope Benedict issue an apology for statements he made linking Islam to violence. Well, where did the Pope get that crazy idea, huh? I'm stunned! Well, maybe the apologies will stop the church burnings, and the "Death to the Pope" chants.
And with this billboard (which had to have been network-approved), Comedy Central is saying to Matt and Trey, the creators of South Park, that they'll tolerate jokes about Muslims alongside jokes about everybody else. Once this starts in our pop culture, it will snowball and become unstoppable. Our pop culture entertainers have become expert in this kind of thing over the past several decades of going after every so-called sacred cow that anyone could identify.
Islam won't know what hit it. Reform-minded Muslims will have their eyes opened, and will have ammunition provided to them, in their efforts to bring Islam out of the 7th century, and into the 21st.
This is how we defend our freedom of speech. We don't let anyone tell us what we can and can't say - what we can and can't make a joke about - or what we can and can't publish. If someone doesn't want us to make a joke about something, we make all the jokes about it. And it starts just like this, with little digs.
And sure, in response it may be that from time to time the Islamists will demonstrate their stupidity by rioting, burning their own buildings, killing each other - and maybe even getting a few of us, like the nun who lost her life to radical Islamists earlier this month. But you know what? This is a war, and since the enemy can't fight our armies directly, it's one that in many ways is fought in the media. The radical Islamists are already doing everything they can to kill Westerners. They're going to find something to riot about even if it's a goofy story about flushing a book down toilet. (Consider, as Thomas Sowell put it this week, "the physical absurdity of trying to flush the Koran -- or any other book -- down a toilet.") And they're going to try to do that whether we tell them what boneheads they are or not.
It's up to our government to fight this war, that the radical Islamists have declared on us, militarily and politically, until we win it. And in the meantime, it's up to our media, and to all of us, to keep defending our freedom of speech, by using it.
These Islamists wanted a media war, with their assassinations staged in front of MSM photographers. Now they're going to see what media war really looks like.
Radical Islamists: get ready to laugh, you morons.
The set of the pilot episode of the "This Just In"
(Image is merged from two smaller photos. Click for a larger image.)
There was a taping last night of a pilot episode for a possible "Daily Show" style show of news-oriented comedy, with a more Conservative angle on the news. I won't let the cat out of the bag by describing any of the material, but I will say that it was hilarious. Regular readers of Conservative and Libertarian blogs would be delighted to find material they are familiar with used for laughs for the first time on TV. It would be great to see this become a regular series. This kind of show has been very successful when presented with a Liberal slant, but the red-state half of the country doesn't yet have anything of this sort to watch. So this seems very likely to attract viewers. The great cast and strong writing of this pilot indicate that the viewers would come back for more.
I admire Jay Leno for telling a few jokes about Islam, and showing that there's nothing to it:
Iraq has demanded that Pope Benedict issue an apology for statements he made linking Islam to violence. Well, where did the Pope get that crazy idea, huh? I'm stunned! Well, maybe the apologies will stop the church burnings, and the "Death to the Pope" chants.
This is great. I'd like to see this become a staple of a lot of late-night shows. Leno has led the way.
THANK GOD FOR ALL THOSE MSM EDITORS!
From the same editors who couldn't spot all those fake photos -- we now see a headline that's the opposite of the story. In the first paragraph Ahmadinejad is quoted as saying, "we do not need a bomb." But the headline says different!
Actually, given yesterday's post on text and subtext in Ahmadinejad's U.N. speech, I think the headline is correct - it captures what Ahmadinejad really wants.
Update 9-21-06, 12:46pm - they fixed it!
The Independent says that Jennifer Lopez' butt is reportedly insured for 1 billion dollars.
