Target Centermass

Day: December 7, 2005

  • Nobel Winner Brands Bush, Blair War Criminals

    Besides being dementedly wrong, I bet his plays suck.

    Playwright Harold Pinter has launched a fierce critique of the Iraq War, branding the US President and British Prime Minister war criminals in his lecture as winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Pinter has demanded George Bush and Tony Blair be prosecuted under international law in the lecture.

    “The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law,” he said.

    […]

    Pinter used nearly all of his nearly hour-long lecture to criticise the US.

    […]

    “The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them.

    “You have to hand it to America.

    “It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force of universal good.

    “It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”

    Did I say demented? Yeah, Pinter’s that and then some. Hell, let’s just ignore America’s political opposition to a multitude of regimes that have together killed millions upon millions. Let’s ignore America’s sacrifices that have freed other millions from brutal oppression that Pinter was apparently quite happy to have as a part of the global neighborhood.

    Hell, let’s not stop at demented. Let’s go for lying jackhole.

    “We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Quaeda and shared responsibility for the atrocity in New York of September 11, 2001. It was not true.”

    Hey, Pinter, you sick old leftist probable-hack (really, I haven’t read or seen his crap but, hey, I’m merely prejudging — he’s the one actually lying), just which one of those you accuse, Bush or Blair, said Iraq “shared responsibility” for 9/11? Answer: neither, jackhole.

    Meanwhile, al Jazeera is quite happy echoing Pinter’s garbage.

  • Oliphant, Drawing from the Deep End

    According to his bio, Pat Oliphant is apparently the political cartoonist of all political cartoonists.

    As the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world and a winner of the Pulitzer, he produces work that is as visually stunning as it is metaphorically powerful.

    Visually stunning? Metaphorically powerful? The bio can now be updated with “pathetically disgusting” and “harmful to the national discourse.” Nice additions to the Pulitzer there, Pat. With his latest effort, Oliphant joins the disturbing chorus of the far, far left, spouting horrific insults and baseless accusations of the worst kind while only showing a slim grasp of history and a slimmer hold on reality.

    Oliphant, meet Godwin.

    WunderKraut, a blog previously unknown to me (thank you, Google Blog search), looks at the cartoon and calls out Oliphant on his comparison.

    You know, there was a time when even thinking about calling your Commander In Chief Hitler would have brought a well deserved backlash from the American people and the press. Not today.

    Sure Hitler killed over 6 millions Jews, several million other people, started the most destructive war in history and destroyed most of Europe for his own personal megalomania….

    BUT

    Bush is JUST AS EVIL!!!!

    Come off it already. Give me proof. [emphasis in original]

    WunderKraut continues on and it’s worth a visit. Still, I have to point out the twenty he leaves on Oliphant’s dresser when he finishes.

    PS: Can I officially question Pat Oliphant’s patriotism? Hell, maybe even his loyalty?

    To quote some blogger, “Heh.”

  • Well, the Weather Outside is Frightful

    We’ve had sleet and freezing rain most of the afternoon here in Dallas. The street’s are icy; it’s 25 degrees with a cold north wind blowing briskly. Predictions call for an inch or two of snow overnight.

    I hate winter.

    Especially as a dog owner living in an apartment. That last walk of the night is really going to suck.

    Oh well, time for a workout. Later, y’all.

  • Remember Pearl Harbor!

    Destroyer USS Shaw explodes, 7 DEC 1941

    December 7, 1941, a date which will always live in infamy for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

    As a small child, I constructed a model of the USS Arizona. I was young and knew of its history only from books. Since then, I have learned life’s lessons of death. Come May 2006, I will be paying my tribute at the USS Arizona Memorial.