George Carlin has passed awayhas expiredis dead. As a long-time fan of Carlin’s work, that’s definitely not news I wanted to wake up to this morning. But, in keeping with the spirit of remembrance, I’ve decided to include YouTube clips of my favorite Carlin moments.
Airline Safety Lecture — Part 1
Airline Safety Lecture — Part 2
Abortion
The Reagan Administration (about 6:25 in)
The First Gulf War (sound familiar?)
Rest in peace, fellow traveler of this speck of dust in space. We’ll miss you.
The lone upside of flooding: great catfishing When Mississippi River’s waters rise, hungry channel ‘cats’ head for shore
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. - Treasure lies in the dark river, clothed in iridescent greens and yellows, slipping smoothly down the main channel, bumping up into the flooded bottomlands, gliding, prowling, lurking.
In a crazy commotion of slapping water, it comes squirming and flopping into the bottom of Jim Dockery’s aluminum jon boat.
“That’s a big boy!” Dockery yells, his glee shining through his bushy gray beard.
*snip*
Bad for people, the flooding is excellent for the omnivorous catfish, giving them newly inundated areas in the willows and cottonwoods to prowl for minnows, crawdads, crickets and even — for the bigger ones — snakes, turtles and muskrats.
Michael Reagan argues that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim:
Notice his response to the caller who calls in to complain about his advocacy for “sticking grenades up their babies’ butts and light ‘em.”
REAGAN: If they’re going to raise the children that way — to kill me and my family, I really don’t care.
CALLER: OK. Just listen to the rest of the discussion. I’ve talked to some Israelis here in Las Vegas… you know… and I asked if they think there will ever be peace in the Middle East.
REAGAN: Yeah, when they’re all dead.
CALLER: They say, “No,” because the mothers of the Islamic extremists teach their children [Reagan makes an “I told you so!” gesture] to fight the Israelis. The mothers…they’re doing it. That comment of yours is just—
REAGAN (interrupting): So we kill the mothers and the babies.
CALLER: So your comment is just—
REAGAN (interrupting again): So what’s wrong with killing the mothers and the babies?
What’s wrong with killing the mothers and the babies? What’s wrong with killing the mothers and the babies, you piece of shit? You’re advocating genocide, you sick fuck! That’s what’s wrong with it! We put Nazis to DEATH for doing EXACTLY WHAT YOU’RE ADVOCATING, YOU GODDAMN SHITBURGER!!!
The person who posted the above YouTube video had it right:
Radical Arabs celebrate in the street. American radicals get their own talk shows.
But I guess none of that matters to NewspeakNewsweek, since they have their heads so far up Teflon John’s posterior that they can’t hear rational thought. Nor do they care for it.
While we’re at it, here’s an educational video from The Jed Report that Newsweekshould watch, but probably won’t.
This comes out of the ethic of the link and quote that I have learned from blogs. It says to our readers: Don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself. And: Here’s what the source said; I won’t rephrase it but I will quote it directly so you can see for yourself.
*snip*
The AP was calling bloggers unethical even while the bloggers were operating under their own ethic of the link and the quote. The bloggers believe they are doing the right thing in quoting directly and they think they are doing the generous thing — generous to both their readers and to the AP — in providing links to the source material. The bloggers will also say that this is an ethic the AP itself violates when it homogenizes and commodifies news, rewriting it and stripping it of the identity — and now the address — of the original reporting done by its members and other sources.
Would that the Associated Wankers feel the same way about their so-called ethics. Then again, this is the wire service that gives Nedra Shit-Pickler a paycheck.
