Category Archives: Scribbles

Ken Burns’ little oversight

Looks like the PBS documentarian will re-edit his WW2 opus, according to Diane Holloway in the daily, to weave in the Latino perspective (including 15 medals of honor) that he had ignored, but he needed a little arm-twisting:

"Burns is not accustomed to criticism, and his response until last week to the Latino community’s concerns was jarring. After initially ignoring the complaints, he and PBS executives met with several members of Hispanic groups, including Galán and Rivas-Rodriguez, in Washington, D.C., in April."

Apparently he will use stuff by Austin documentarian Hector Galan. Good, and good piece worth a read.

Thought-control

"Islam vs Islamists," a taxpayer-funded documentary told novelistically by moderate and radical imams, is being withheld from the public, says Roger L. Simon, one of the few who has seen it:

"PBS is operating here in the manner of similar institutions in the former Soviet Union and in modern day Iran – financing artists and then withholding distribution of their work when it is not deemed ideologically ‘correct’. It’s a form of thought-control…"

Well, they wouldn’t want Bush’s "scare tactics" to look justified, now would they? Read all of Simon’s take, and watch the trailer. Then read more about the doc and sign the petition to make it available. What we really need is a petition to dismantle PBS.

Looney Tunes

Bush Derangement Syndrome strikes again. Sixty-one percent of Dems either assert or wonder if President Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance, according to this Rasmussen Poll. Even the RP is gingerly with the results, choosing to headline something else. No wonder. Who wants to be first with the news that more than half the constituency of a legitimate political party is insane?

Different Islamic strokes

Now here’s a really different kind of American Muslim. Of course, he would be a lawyer:

"…the Southern libertarian in me, raised in the heart of Dixie, and educated by some of the great conservative thinkers of the American South, refuses to go away."

Well worth a look, a read, and a bookmark.

Via Winds of Change 

The torture of the grave

Another good reason not to convert to Islam (in addition to not being able to safely change your mind):

"In the grave, the deceased Muslim – this composite of spirit and corpse – encounters two terrifying angels, Munkar and Nakir, recognized by their bluish faces, their huge teeth and their wild hair."

It gets weirder

The smell of tear gas in the morning

The French Leftists celebrate the end of an election in their usual, unfettered, boisterous manner:

"In the Place de la Bastille in Paris riot police fired tear gas and at least one burst of water cannon after hundreds of rioters – some wearing masks – began throwing bottles, stones and other missiles."

This guy Sarko might just be worth knowing. At least Chirac is over. Adios Jacques. 

Clamshell cuts

At home, not at the beach. Another victim of clamshell wrap rage. This one wants to sue.