So the local CTV News reported on one dork rock climber who fell down a rock face and crushed an ankle in the process, and was only rescued by a significant effort by a public rescue team.
The report finishes, I thought weirdly, by the assertion that the fallen climber had prevailed 'at his own risk'.
From the report I saw, I really doubt that. Did this idiotic self-absorbed clown repay the various government agencies for the efforts that were invested saving his asinine butt?
I would wager no.
Please comment if you know otherwise.
My guess is we taxpayers covered this moron's risk and I doubt he has any concern about that at all.
Lots of shows are proudly announcing their last episode of the season.
And WOW I am so peeved at their contract with their viewers.
Bones finished with Tempe on the run. Cute, but not something that wil bring me back next year. If anything, it turns me totally off.
NCIS LA has finished with Callen engaged in a shooting that clearly it not what it appeared to be. I am not amused at being required to catch up again.
It could be all this is good for the 18-34 demographic but I am in my 60s and not confident I will be back for next season. The clear message is they do not care about me and I plan to return the favor.
Man there are a lot of smart black guys and there is Thomas Sowell, as smart as they come, and really funny.
This is just a great interview. Sowell is just SO smart, and his contempt for the idiot-in-chief is rightly amusing.
One of the best minds of my generation, dismissed because he is black and does not sign up for the identity groups. My God he eviscerates the moron-in-chief's pathetic arguments so well.
"Obama has an absolute talent for saying things that make no sense." Too true.
We won't see him on NPR, or the CBC.
He actually has cared to find out how wealth is created, not just, as Obama loves, to suck away.
But not a single one of the readings was about Iraq, never mind the looming threat of Iran or the hypocrisies of the antiwar movement, topics that consumed Christopher and gradually drove him away from the Nation (which, he concluded, had become “the voice and the echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden”) and the left in general. One of his most memorable polemics, the absence of which at the memorial was surely attributable to the fact that it would have offended most of the people in the room, was his evisceration of filmmaker Michael Moore and his Fahrenheit 9/11. This “silly and shady man,” Christopher wrote, had produced a film which represented “a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn.org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic skills, of Sergei Eisenstein or Leni Riefenstahl.”
Of course it was a gang of lefties, more or less, running the show, but still:
No Kurd spoke.
And this:
For those who disagreed with Christopher (and that’s everyone; it was impossible to agree with him on all things), the proper way to memorialize him is captured by his childhood friend Patrick Cockburn: continue arguing. While disagreeing vehemently with Christopher about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Cockburn, writing in the Independent, nevertheless concedes that, “it would be a pity if Christopher’s words and writing on Anglo-American military interventions should be ignored,” because he was “the most intelligent and eloquent defender of these interventions as a means of removing dictators or preventing massacres.”
I confess. I partly cite that as I think Cockburn is Olivia Wilde's uncle, and I really like her as an actress. Yeah that was irrelevant, but I am a male human.
Back to the topic, though. It does seem to me that the left today has really lost its way, and finds it impossible to think that anyone can honestly disagree with the official positions. Many of these positions would not have been their positions when they were a left not utterly dominated by infantile identity politics (like before the disgraceful '60s).
I grew up an atheist, and openly so, and it DID make a difference.
But I note that 'Mad Men' is making a big deal about Jewishness lately. My recollection is that the Protestant-Catholic separation was much greater in my childhood (through my teens) than any Jewish-Christian one. Of course I did not grow up in Manhattan.
It seems to me she is carrying the season and certainly last night's episode, which got all the characters down to some basics. She is learning from Megan how to act (not that she needs a lot of help), and certainly how to stick knives into Mom and Dad, always fun in a Mother's Day episode.
I have seen complaints that the writers are being too transparent about their themes this season. Hmmm. When I watch an episode for the second time and don't slap my forehead saying "How did I miss that?" I will buy in.
There is much I wonder about as this season progresses but it remains well worth an hour of falling-asleep time on a Sunday.
I suppose I should bow down and thank my government that this is on basic cable, but the whole concept sickens me.
I have for several years reflected that "I SO wish all this had been here when I was 12."
There was a lot around when I was 12 and I consumed a lot but I cannot imagine how great it would have been had I known, not just about the hawklets in the previous post, but these baby blue herons and this bluebird nest (at the moment featuring one brand new hatchling).
Wait! I do know what it would have been like! I have spent most of this day checking out the birds!
The heron site is great for having sound (often mostly geese but wow when the little ones are feeding) and including chat, which has made me as emotionally engaged as the rest of the chatters with the latest hatchling, referred to as #5. If you watch long enough it is pretty easy to see one much smaller bird, pretty feistily trying to get its share of food.
Thank you those who created all this technology. You have enriched my lifr do much.
It's sweet that a Canadian-owned horse won but even sweeter that the owner of the horse, a quondam philosophy prof, cites Wittgenstein, essentially saying that philosophical questions mean rather little, while horse means a lot.
I think in this sense the world needs more Canada!
That jockey did an untterly perfect job! Our Latino small guys are better than yours.
There is a long way to go before the Arab-Muslim world empties itself of its fury, of fighting its demons and blaming others for its self-inflicted misery.
Here for now, however, politics is vengeful, history is clash of steel, and peace is desert mirage.
The one comfort I feel is that Christian Europe was almost this badly screwed up as few as a few hundred years ago, and it sure turned out pretty well, I would say. So well that I feel as I look at history to feel that I have been astonishingly privileged to live here now. And this as an atheist and a public one who grew up in a small town with four Christian churches on one corner, and who was noted in school as a a heathen. All they did was call me names, and I did appreciate the sticks and stones notion. No murder of infidels in my childhood.
Whether Arabs can pull it off, I will never find out; it is clear to me they are still on a downward spiral and their religion does not have the universalist drive in Christianity, so I suspect they might never make it out.
It won't be for me to worry about what becomes of them all.
But please stupid people - do not import this crap into our countries.
I have been a total Jessica Pare fan for years, so the fact that she is utterly taking over MadMen is a lot of fun for me.
I love that she did not know the Zou Bisou Bisou song before being asked to do it. I have a ton of respect for Jian Ghomeishi, who does occasionally fall into CBCism (not his fault really - they pay him). But this is a good interview.
But what is so great about this scene in Mad Men is all the other people watching Pare perform.
