Thursday, June 07, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
A Chinese grandmother has a five inch horn growing out of her forehead.
The horn curves downward and looks like the stalk of a pumpkin, reports the Yangcheng Evening Post.
Granny Zhao, 95, of Zhanjiang city, Guangdong province, says it first appeared three years ago.
"At first, it was only a mole, but it gradually grew and became like a horn," she said.
Zhao says the horn causes her little trouble except to affect her vision slightly: "It causes me no discomfort, but blocks part of my view."
But her family are hoping that medical experts can explain the phenomenon.
The horn curves downward and looks like the stalk of a pumpkin, reports the Yangcheng Evening Post.Granny Zhao, 95, of Zhanjiang city, Guangdong province, says it first appeared three years ago.
"At first, it was only a mole, but it gradually grew and became like a horn," she said.
Zhao says the horn causes her little trouble except to affect her vision slightly: "It causes me no discomfort, but blocks part of my view."
But her family are hoping that medical experts can explain the phenomenon.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
SINGER CROW WITH HER FAVORITE TOILET PAPER
Another liberal gone "potty" - pun intended. She wants the world to use only one square of toilet paper to save the trees!!
Courtesy of good graphicist "Potlatch"Sunday, April 15, 2007
RETURN OF THE CLINTONS? GOD AND GOOD SENSE FORBID
NOTE CHANGES ON THE LOWER PART OF THE BILL (PUN INTENDED)
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
Michael Moore Outed
THE hunter has become the hunted. Michael Moore, the celebrated left-wing film-maker, has become the unwilling subject of a new documentary that raises damaging questions about the credibility of his work.
The director and star of successful documentaries such as Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore has repeatedly been accused by his right-wing enemies of distorting or manipulating the material in his films. On his website he dismisses his critics as “wacko attackos”.
Yet the latest assault on Moore’s film-making techniques has come from an unexpected quarter. In Manufacturing Dissent, a documentary to be shown for the first time at a Texas film festival on Saturday, a pair of left-wing Canadian film-makers take Moore to task for what they describe as a disturbing pattern of fact-fudging and misrepresentation.
“When we started this project we hoped to have done a documentary that celebrated Michael Moore. We were admirers and fans,” said Debbie Melnyk, who made the film with her husband, Rick Caine. “Then we found out certain facts about his documentaries that we hadn’t known before. We ended up very disappointed and disillusioned.”
Melnyk and Caine are best known for their previous documentary Citizen Black, about Conrad Black, the Canadian-born former proprietor of The Daily Telegraph. Last week both of them acknowledged an important debt to Moore for popularising the documentary genre.
Yet when Caine and Melnyk began to follow him as part of their own documentary, their efforts to interview him met with the same kind of obstruction, denial and, ultimately, physical ejection that Moore had suffered when he tried to track down Roger Smith, the former chief executive of General Motors, for his first film, Roger & Me.
It was in Flint, Michigan, Moore’s former home town, that Caine and Melnyk made the first discovery that they say rocked their confidence in his approach. Roger & Me was a hugely successful account of what Moore portrayed as a fruitless task to force Smith to answer questions about GM’s policies in closing the car manufacturing plants that had long been Flint’s economic lifeline.
Caine and Melnyk claim that Moore interviewed Smith on camera twice. But the scenes were left on the cutting room floor, apparently for greater dramatic effect.
Manufacturing Dissent includes a long catalogue of alleged exaggerations or distortions in several of Moore’s films. In Bowling for Columbine, a scathing indictment of US gun violence, Moore visited Toronto to show parts of the city that were supposedly so free of crime everyone left their front doors unlocked.
“In the film, Michael makes it look as though 100% of the doors were unlocked, but his local producer told us it was really only 40%,” said Caine.
Caine and Melnyk said they had hoped to interview Moore about his views on how much editing was acceptable before a factual documentary turned into misleading propaganda.
“We had met him at a premiere of the Columbine film in Toronto, and he said, ‘Oh yes, talk to my people and they’ll set something up’,” said Caine. “We then called his people and they said he’s not doing any more interviews in Toronto. We had his e-mail, we sent a letter to his lawyers, we had his phone number in New York. But each time he said no.”
Then Caine and Melnyk began to run into open hostility. Eventually, in a scene that might have come from Roger & Me, they were bundled out of an event at Kent State University, where Moore’s sister, Anne, knocked aside Caine’s camera.
Moore is reportedly editing his next film, Sicko, about the US healthcare system, and a spokesman said he had no comment on Manufacturing Dissent. On his website he dismissed critics of Bowling for Columbine as “lying liars” and claimed that “organised groups [are] going full blast trying to discredit me”.
Yet Caine and Melnyk insist they should not be confused with the right-wing hordes who want to damage Moore.
“If you have to sell out your values and principles to get at a greater truth, where does that leave you?” said Melnyk.
“If we think it’s wrong for the government to lie and manipulate, how do we think that [left-wingers] doing it is the solution?”
The director and star of successful documentaries such as Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore has repeatedly been accused by his right-wing enemies of distorting or manipulating the material in his films. On his website he dismisses his critics as “wacko attackos”.
Yet the latest assault on Moore’s film-making techniques has come from an unexpected quarter. In Manufacturing Dissent, a documentary to be shown for the first time at a Texas film festival on Saturday, a pair of left-wing Canadian film-makers take Moore to task for what they describe as a disturbing pattern of fact-fudging and misrepresentation.
“When we started this project we hoped to have done a documentary that celebrated Michael Moore. We were admirers and fans,” said Debbie Melnyk, who made the film with her husband, Rick Caine. “Then we found out certain facts about his documentaries that we hadn’t known before. We ended up very disappointed and disillusioned.”
Melnyk and Caine are best known for their previous documentary Citizen Black, about Conrad Black, the Canadian-born former proprietor of The Daily Telegraph. Last week both of them acknowledged an important debt to Moore for popularising the documentary genre.
Yet when Caine and Melnyk began to follow him as part of their own documentary, their efforts to interview him met with the same kind of obstruction, denial and, ultimately, physical ejection that Moore had suffered when he tried to track down Roger Smith, the former chief executive of General Motors, for his first film, Roger & Me.
It was in Flint, Michigan, Moore’s former home town, that Caine and Melnyk made the first discovery that they say rocked their confidence in his approach. Roger & Me was a hugely successful account of what Moore portrayed as a fruitless task to force Smith to answer questions about GM’s policies in closing the car manufacturing plants that had long been Flint’s economic lifeline.
Caine and Melnyk claim that Moore interviewed Smith on camera twice. But the scenes were left on the cutting room floor, apparently for greater dramatic effect.
Manufacturing Dissent includes a long catalogue of alleged exaggerations or distortions in several of Moore’s films. In Bowling for Columbine, a scathing indictment of US gun violence, Moore visited Toronto to show parts of the city that were supposedly so free of crime everyone left their front doors unlocked.
“In the film, Michael makes it look as though 100% of the doors were unlocked, but his local producer told us it was really only 40%,” said Caine.
Caine and Melnyk said they had hoped to interview Moore about his views on how much editing was acceptable before a factual documentary turned into misleading propaganda.
“We had met him at a premiere of the Columbine film in Toronto, and he said, ‘Oh yes, talk to my people and they’ll set something up’,” said Caine. “We then called his people and they said he’s not doing any more interviews in Toronto. We had his e-mail, we sent a letter to his lawyers, we had his phone number in New York. But each time he said no.”
Then Caine and Melnyk began to run into open hostility. Eventually, in a scene that might have come from Roger & Me, they were bundled out of an event at Kent State University, where Moore’s sister, Anne, knocked aside Caine’s camera.
Moore is reportedly editing his next film, Sicko, about the US healthcare system, and a spokesman said he had no comment on Manufacturing Dissent. On his website he dismissed critics of Bowling for Columbine as “lying liars” and claimed that “organised groups [are] going full blast trying to discredit me”.
Yet Caine and Melnyk insist they should not be confused with the right-wing hordes who want to damage Moore.
“If you have to sell out your values and principles to get at a greater truth, where does that leave you?” said Melnyk.
“If we think it’s wrong for the government to lie and manipulate, how do we think that [left-wingers] doing it is the solution?”
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Monday, July 24, 2006
DRIVING TOO FAST? ASK THE PETS
Man's best friend will porbably react like this and not blame you.
The feline will most likely turn into the cat from hell.
On the other hand there could be a situation where you may feel that you need more speed and a bigger vehicle.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
TERRORIST'S FAVORITE READING
Do terrorists need spies when they have the likes of the New York Times to infiltrate our intelligence circles and spread our secret operations?
Sunday, July 09, 2006
HUSBAND OF THE YEAR AWARD
THIRD PLACE - GREEK
SECOND PLACE - SERBIAN
WINNER - Romantic IRISH - see how he's holding her hand?
Saturday, June 24, 2006
ROGUES GALLERY 2
I appear to be limited in space for each Rogues Gallery post, so here is the start of a second one - with Islamic Iran's delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission!! One of the worst of the worst. Only the cat-torturing 'ayatollah" Khalkhali (the hanging judge), who loved hearing the screams from tortured cats may have been worse.
Saeed Mortazavi - murderous Chief Prosecutor
"Just doing his job"
Saturday, June 10, 2006
ROGUES GALLERY 1
Iran's "selected" President and modern day Hitler - Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad
Syrian President Assad with Hezbollah Leader and Ahmadi-Nejad
Supreme Ruler Khamenei - dying of cancer - having his last worldly fling 
Hossein Allahkaram - major player in suppression of opposition
National Security Chief - Larijani 
Foreign Minister - Manouchehr Mottaki 
Iran's Defense Minister (and you criticize Rumsfeld?)
Ayatollah "the Crocodile" Mesbah Yazdi probable new Supreme Leader of Islamic Iran and Head of Hojatieh sect of Islam
IAEA - El Baradei and Iran's top nuclear negotiator & Iran's Security Chief - Larijani
Sunday, May 28, 2006
PYJAMA-HA-EDIN
FreeRepublic.com with some 250,000 members has many who "patrol" the nation and the world to catch liars and point our the truth. Here's their badge or shield as law enforcement would say. Note it's a gold "detective and above" rank.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
What's in Store for Iran
The USA scenario for Iran if it fails to back down. Wait a moment for it to load.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Middle East Fact and Humor
I'm not Jewish but this map shows how ludicrous is the "Israeli Occupation" and the "enormous struggle of the Palestinians"
Don't they hang gays in Iran? Sorry, Mullahs are exempt from their own laws"
Persian text says: "Supreme Ruler introduces his chosen President"
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Saturday, March 18, 2006
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