Jon Stewart Skewers BS About Miami 7

[HMKGrey]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8a4z9N3eYc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erawstory%2Ecom%2Fnews%2F2006%2FVideo%5FThe%5FDaily%5FShow%5Fskewers%5F%5F0627%2Ehtml">www.youtube.com/watch?v=v...627%2Ehtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Priceless video. It's one of those things that seems to say everything that needs to be said in less than 3 minutes and in very few words. <br><br>When the press start asking questions the behavior of Gonzalez et al is amazing. <p></p><i></i>

[boyrobot]

haha that was great, but WHY do they employ such retarded press officers/speakers. If you're going to try and keep the general public scared at least have someone who can convincingly pull it off, otherwise you just shoot yourself in the foot. Are they really that dumb? <p></p><i></i>

[pugzleyca3]

The woman who was shown, telling the camera how scared she was, looks to be the equivalent of a talking head telling everyone how to feel about the situation. <br><br>Interesting how CNN went from one thought crime to another potential catastrophe when there was no real disaster to be found anywhere. Sounds as if they picked these guys up for thought crimes? And the guy pointing to his temples seemed mentally deficient from what was shown on the video.<br><br>Even without Stewart, this was funny. Or would be if there weren't people actually believing it.<br><br>Another Keystone Cops moment brought to you by the B*sh Admin. <p></p><i></i>

[thurnandtaxis]

Yeah, but as with all of Stewart's Schticks, laughter provides a placebo for real outrage. So many of my mainstream lefty/liberal friends simply<br>EAT THIS CRAP UP!! Yet when faced with the true reality - that these<br>times are FAR from humorous - there is little response. <br><br>Who is going to risk their job?<br>Who is going to actually research beyond Salon.com?<br>Who is going to do more than vote a straight Democrat ballot?<br>Who is willing to throw out their TVs? Their NYT subscriptions?<br>Who can admit that the tens of thousands of dollars their parents have<br>spent on their "higher educations" have resulted in a dumbed down<br>perspective on the democratic process?<br>Who does more than laugh?<br><br>Who sees through this impotent sham and cries, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!"?<br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=thurnandtaxis>thurnandtaxis</A> at: 6/27/06 1:31 pm<br></i>

[HMKGrey]

Thurn: Don't disagree one bit. Said exactly the same here many times. <br><br>And even in that respect this 2 minute video shows <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>everything</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> that is wrong today. <br><br>BTW, where's your name from? I've got an album with that title. <br><br>Pugzleyca3 said: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Interesting how CNN went from one <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>thought crime</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> to another potential catastrophe when there was no real disaster to be found anywhere. Sounds as if they picked these guys up for thought crimes? And the guy pointing to his temples seemed mentally deficient from what was shown on the video.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Interesting point there. This does sound like a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>thought crime</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, doesn't it? Which, when one throws in the EU's criminalizing of anything related to doubt or even questions regarding the Holocaust, is suggestive of a pattern, a movement perhaps? <br><br>Gonzalez really upsets me. I have a physical reaction to the guy. I know his kind. I've met his type all over. He has never fitted in. Few friends. Probably been bullied. A lot of shame in his mind. And he's out for <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>revenge</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. I don't rule anything out while he's steering. It's all possible. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hmkgrey>HMKGrey</A> at: 6/27/06 2:07 pm<br></i>

[thurnandtaxis]

Curious about the band/album.<br><br>I took the name from the references to the fictional Trystero family's historical predecessor and rival in Pynchon's "Crying of Lot 49".<br><br>The Trystero family created the underground postal system W.A.S.T.E. a communication network at heart of Pynchon's fictional conspiratorial web. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurn_and_Taxis_Postal_System">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thu...tal_System</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>If you haven't read any Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 is a great place to start. Short, witty, and breezy it cuts to the heart of the cryptocratic maze of post-industrial, post-war America. Though the much denser<br>Gravity's Rainbow is the ne-plus-ultra of this author's dissection of<br>the post-modern malaise.<br><br>Also, the Thurn and Taxis family were brewers, but, sadly their fine rye lager is no longer imported here to the States.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=thurnandtaxis>thurnandtaxis</A> at: 6/27/06 2:12 pm<br></i>

[HMKGrey]

It was an album by electronica outfit Gorodisch. released on the leaf label in 2001, <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.theleaflabel.com">www.theleaflabel.com</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Great label, btw. Some extraordinary stuff. Mostly available/sample-able on iTunes too. <br><br>The new Volcano! album is so out there it's positively in here.<br>[Radiohead-Mars Volta-Coltrane-Sun Ra] <p></p><i></i>

[thurnandtaxis]

Thanks for the info HMK, I'm something of a sound/music afficianado.<br><br>I've heard great things about Volcano!<br><br>And actually their label-mates, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, played a show<br>at my loft here in Brooklyn in 2004. <p></p><i></i>

[StarmanSkye]

Thurnandtaxis sed:<br><br>"Who is going to risk their job?<br>Who is going to actually research beyond Salon.com?<br>Who is going to do more than vote a straight Democrat ballot?<br>Who is willing to throw out their TVs? Their NYT subscriptions?<br>Who can admit that the tens of thousands of dollars their parents have<br>spent on their "higher educations" have resulted in a dumbed down perspective on the democratic process?<br>Who does more than laugh?<br><br>Who sees through this impotent sham and cries, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!"?"<br><br>*****<br>Well and devastatingly said.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[thurnandtaxis]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Who sees through this impotent sham and cries, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!"?"<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Present company excluded, of course!<br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>but I think at times that even "we" are flummoxed about the correct course of action to take.<br><br>Other than being our own media and disseminating that which we learn here and other places to those outside our cozy lil virtual sounding board<br>community, I find myself feeling the frustrations of impotency.<br><br>For every one of my friends, who after years of accepting my various media "strikes" and crypto-conspiratorial musings as quaint or quirky,<br>finally starts to wake-up a bit I see countless hoards beyond my sphere of direct influence still walking with blinders on.<br><br>I dunno what to say other than "let's keep at it."<br><br>-But DAMN that John Stewart get me riled up!!!<br><br>Cynicism is the new Compliance here in the Post-Ironic Age. <p></p><i></i>