Blogworthies XXII

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ MOOREWATCH, The Curt Jester, That Liberal Media, Belmont Club, cut on the bias, Dappled Things, small dead animals, Power Line, Deo Omnis Gloria, Vociferous Yawpings, I love Jet Noise, Recta Ratio, Captain's Quarters, Lead and Gold, Chrenkoff, Sed Contra, The Mighty Barrister, and ßě@ũŦiFu£ @t®Ø©iŦie$.

Burning Passion @ MOOREWATCH:

As any good Moore-on will tell you, Michael Moore is a true American patriot. He loves America, he just hates the current fascist Bush regime. Well, my friends, as has been pointed out so many times on this site before, Moore has two diffferent messages, one he uses here and the other he uses overseas. When he goes to Europe he foments rank anti-Americanism because it will help sell his products. And now he’s doing it to sell F911.

I was contacted a couple of days ago by a reader named Bob, an American who lives in Belgium. (Poor bastard.) He said that the movie posters for F911 were an image of a burning American flag. I asked Bob if he could get me a picture of one, and sure enough, he came through for me....

That Cover Letter @ The Curt Jester:

.... Now as Jamie Blosser expertly noted at CKW the many differences between the actual letter by Cardinal Ratzinger and the summary as given by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick. Since the Cardinal has said that the letter was incomplete we wondered what might have been in the cover letter that led the Cardinal to his summary. The Curt Jester is proud to give you a world exclusive on what was in the cover letter....

Los Angeles Times Corrects False Statement Regarding Bremer Farewell Speech @ That Liberal Media:

As regular readers know, I have been flogging the Los Angeles Times for falsely reporting on the front page of its Sunday edition that L. Paul Bremer III had left Iraq "without even giving a final speech to the country." ....

A Tale of Long Ago @ Belmont Club:

When Napoleon reconnoitered the Duke of Wellington's position at Waterloo on June 18, 1815 he remarked to his Marshals that beating the English would be no more serious an affair than "eating breakfast". It was the Emperor's habit to disparage the enemy in front of his men, but inwardly his heart misgave him. Napoleon knew that if Wellington's ally Field Marshal Blucher could concentrate his additional forces on Wellington's left before the close of day that "France was lost". There remained but one chance: to rout Wellington before Blucher arrived. He ordered D'Erlon's corps forward at the pas de charge in one last desperate throw of the dice.

In 2004, French audiences flocking to Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 to laugh at the stupidity and weakness of their rivals are subconciously participating in a gambit of equal desperation: the notion that if George Bush's reelection can be prevented by a John Kerry victory, that the liberal project which had been thrown off the rails by the September 11 attacks can somehow be set in motion again and the world restored to its proper course. Absent is the Napoleonic self-awareness of the man concious of impending tragedy yet daring it nonetheless....

You have to do before you can redo @ cut on the bias:

If you can imagine an age, there is someone out there selling the body of someone that age for sexual use. Doesn't matter the age, although in the US pre-pubescent children aren't as readily available as they are in other countries. Prostitution is a difficult crime to combat, and even more difficult to overcome for those who have lived the life. How do you grow up to live an average life when you were turning tricks for a pimp when you were 11?...

Apostolicity and the Ministry of Bishops @ Dappled Things:

Today's Gospel is one of the handful of times that the evangelists catalogue the names of the twelve Apostles. Why this emphasis upon the persons of the Apostles? That Jesus chooses twelve men for His inner circle is meant to call to mind the twelve sons of Jacob who give their names to the Twelve Tribes. The twelveness is something foundational....

The Werewolf Extinction @ small dead animals (embedded ellipsis in original):

Listening to John Gormley Live this morning in the truck, to a discussion on Moore's Moonbat Masterpiece, a caller phoned in who mentioned a website with an address I promptly forgot. He explained that it compiles in one place every half-baked, quarter-baked and unbaked conspiracy theory surrounding the events of Sept.11. We've heard them all by now. The caller, of course, thought the website was credible.

With the contraversy swirling around Farenheit, I've been reminded a lot lately of Oliver Stone's JFK. The parallels are striking — from the media hype to the public debate, to the eventual debunking and consensus that Stone's movie was a pile of unsubstantiated crap. While conspiracy theorists still abound over the events in Dallas, not many of them cite Oliver Stone these days. When all the hoopla is over, and Iraq stumbles its way towards quasi-democracy and Bush has moved back to Texas, replaced by Kerry in 2004 or Rice in 2008... I predict Farenheit 9/11 will be sitting on a dusty shelf, next to JFK. Nobody will take Moore any more seriously than they do Mr. Stone.

But this morning, as the conspiracy seeker was being summarily dismissed as a lunatic, I began thinking about the extinction of the werewolves....

Have you heard the news? @ Power Line:

Fifty years ago yesterday evening [Jul. 5], Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black convened at the small Sun Records recording studio in Memphis. Elvis was all of 19 years old, working full time as a truck driver for Crown Electric. Scotty and Bill had day jobs as well, but they also worked as professional musicians in the Starlite Wranglers, a local country and western group.

They had been called together by Sun proprietor Sam Phillips, who sensed that Elvis might be prodded to produce something worthwhile with Scotty and Bill. At a session a week earlier, Phillips had worked fruitlessly with Elvis by himself at the urging of Marion Keisker, Phillips's gal Friday. But Phillips wasn't prepared to quit....

The Question of Authority: An Ecumenical Discussion @ Deo Omnis Gloria:

Thomas,

I thought it would be a good idea to recap, for our own sake, but also for the sake of any other readers trying to follow this discussion, the main points of our discussion thus far. If anything isn't correct please point it out. I will start from your first post and then work forward so we may recover several things. I will put your original questions/objections, as well as any comeback responses, in italics; my replies will be in bold text....

I Remember... @ Vociferous Yawpings:

I remember my Grandfather telling the tale about how he was shot three times before he managed to reach dry sand in Normandy....

Confusing Freedom With License @ I love Jet Noise:

Michael Moore is an idiot....

Happy Independence Day! @ Recta Ratio:

For those men who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 2nd, 1776, the odds did not look very good. Public opinion polls, if they existed, probably would have told them that only one-third of the population favored the course upon which they were about to embark. One-third was indifferent. One-third opposed independence. The men gathered from the thirteen colonies in Philadelphia, even without polling, probably had a sense that this was the case....

Cosby Wasn't Just Speaking To Blacks @ Captain's Quarters:

The news media was buzzing last night as Bill Cosby's caustic address to the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition conference sped around the country. Cosby, who has dropped his normally humorous approach of late and has taken to scolding and shaming audiences, told people that their problems were primarily of their own making, and to quit spouting excuses — lessons that apply far more broadly than most analysts give Cosby credit....

Killing Creativity @ Lead and Gold (italics in original):

A while back Business Pundit posed an important question:

Are we uncreative because we simply don't have the time? Seriously, creativity takes work. It takes varying stimuli and inputs.

I think he is right and offer the following in support of that argument: ....

Great day for justice, confusing day for the media @ Chrenkoff (emphasis in original):

Have you heard the latest secret? I'll let you in on it: Saddam is defiant....

Empty Cradles On A Global Scale @ Sed Contra:

It is begining to dawn on even the first world elites who, as a whole, support the divorced, aborted, contracepted and sodomized cultures that are their woeful legacy to the broader world, that their societies face hosts of problems because they have turned their backs on having kids....

An Unnecessary Evil @ The Mighty Barrister:

Zenit has an interesting interview with Journalist Carlo Climati on young people's introduction to the occult, and Satanism in particular. Carlo points out that one of the ways in which children are exposed to Satan is through music.

This article is rather timely, as I had recently decided to revisit some of the music of my lost youth. Since I was a bit of a head banger, I decided to pull out my old Black Sabbath albums a few weeks ago and give them a spin. Compared to most heavy metal acts, Black Sabbath was the heaviest and, at the same time, the most melodic. Musically, no one has captured the intensity of rock n' roll found on their first six albums.

Lyrically, it's a different story. Listening to the lyrics after 20 years brought back a flood of experiences....

A Tale of Two Movies: Fahrenheit 9/11 vs Passion of the Christ @ ßě@ũŦiFu£ @t®Ø©iŦie$ (emphasis and embedded ellipsis in original):

A.O. Scott, New York Times:

F9/11: Mr. Moore's populist instincts have never been sharper... he is a credit to the republic.

Passion: Gibson has exploited the popular appetite for terror and gore for what he and his allies see as a higher end....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 07/10/04 07:13:54 AM
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