Day: March 20, 2006

Stupid enough to question the events of September 11th, 2001. Try this on for size:

Sheen described his immediate skepticism regarding the official reason for the collapse of the twin towers and building 7 on the day of 9/11.

“I was up early and we were gonna do a pre-shoot on Spin City, the show I used to do, I was watching the news and the north tower was burning. I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball.”

“There was a feeling, it just didn’t look like any commercial jetliner I’ve flown on any time in my life and then when the buildings came down later on that day I said to my brother ‘call me insane, but did it sorta look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition’?”

And he goes on and on and on.

This is serious tin foil hat stuff. Sheen, a former drug and alcohol abuser, is obviously hitting the sauce again. What’s next Charlie? Holocaust denial?

He should be ashamed of himself for pushing this crap. It’s disgusting.

Sinn Fein leader Gary Adams is complaining about being on a US “watch list” and believes that what contributed to a delay he experienced this week while traveling in the country. I don’t think the list had anything to do with it.

Adams and his longtime aide, Richard McAuley, were delayed Friday from traveling to Buffalo, N.Y., for a meeting just hours after both Sinn Fein officials were guests of President Bush in the White House for St. Patrick’s Day. They missed the flight — and still were missing two suitcases when they returned Monday to Ireland.

“This is a nonsensical position we’ve found ourselves in, and we’re determined for it to stop,” McAuley said in a telephone interview from a car carrying him and Adams back to Belfast. “In one moment we’re in the White House and Gerry is having his photo taken with the president, … then a few hours later at the airport, you’re being pulled aside for this rigorous, ridiculous special screening.”

Adams is’experiencing something every US traveler is confronted with – long security lines, impromptu “screenings” and lost luggage.

Welcome to my world Gerry.

Related: In case you were wondering, airlines lost over 30 million bags in 2005.

Ahmadinejad must have been unhappy with the amount of space he’s occupied in the US media this past week. He’s decided to start this week off with another proclamation of solidarity toward an atomic program for Iran. I don’t understand why we don’t just call this guy out. His intentions are so obvious.

His mother and father didn’t love him enough and he’s begging for attention. Mere attention isn’t enough though. He also wants power so he can stick it to all those people who never gave him the attention he craves. He believes having his own nuke would satisfy his needs and desires. And because of that twisted belief, he’s a complete wacko and must be taken out. Period.

You see? He’s just your garden variety lunatic dictator. Unfortunately, we don’t have an efficient enough policy regarding garden variety lunatic dictators, so we send government representatives out into the world to give speeches containing big grown-up like words which describe how much we don’t like garden variety lunatic dictators and as such, they must be taken out.

Meanwhile, the days and weeks and months go by.

 

It seems as if I hear or read something about bird flu every day. The virus has either killed another 30,000 birds in one country, appeared for the first time in another country, or is knocking on the door of this country. Just today, the news is that bird flu will appear in the US before the year is out. On NPR this morning (yeah, it’s moonbat radio) I heard a report about how important it is for every American household to stock up on emergency supplies, and be prepared with a 2 month supply. Really? While there has always been a ‘disaster readiness’ community in the US, I’d doubt that 2% of Americans are sitting around worrying about when bird flu will hit their neighborhood.

The fact is, we’re about as worried about bird flu as we are about the next terrorist attack on US soil, and therein lies the real problem. The epidemic of complacency. You got it. I got it. We all got it. Eventually, something will shake it. Will that something be bird flu? Will it be nukes from Iran? Will it be the bombing of a high rise building?

But in the meantime, who’s gonna get kicked off American Idol this week?

I’m tired of US politics, or at least, commenting on Republican verses MSM endorsed Democrat politics. I think this has been coming on for some time, but today, it’s hit a nerve. After reviewing the menu here and here, I shook my head at the prospect of writing anything remotely profitable. I dunno, maybe things will get interesting again around August or so, right about the time the mid-term campaigns rev-up to decent RPMs. Until then though, the daily onslaught of MSM stories on Iraq, Bush’s approval rating, the no plan Democrats and the big spending no plan Republicans has left me completely brain dead.

I’m going to find other things to blog about…until the ship is righted.