I knew Ted Turner is the world's richest Communist, but this is going too far: He is letting the ambluance chaser host a movie on one of his movie channels on October 7th. I find the choice of the movie a bit curious... Dr Strangelove.... (But at least it isn't unFairnhype -911, so I guess we should count our blessings. Tell me this: Does VP Cheney deserve equal time?
John Edwards to Host "Dr Strangelove" on TCM Oct 7
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DUmmie FUnnies 10-09-04 {"Will the Rupublicans Nuke a US city to win the election?"}
In todays DUmmie FUnnies we explore the strange new conspiracy theories of DUmmie paranoia. This paranoia, in its latest incarnation, proposes that the EVIL Republicans will NUKE a city in order to win an election. Of course, this is a plot being promulgated by KARL ROVE, the big boogieman of DUmmie conspiricists. To read the DUmmie conspiracy theories about KARL ROVE you have to believe he NEVER gets any sleep since his fingers are in so many plot pies. Not only did he set up CBS with forged National Guard memos but he is now planning to make a...
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Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove'
Dr. Strangelove," Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film about nuclear-war plans run amok, is widely heralded as one of the greatest satires in American political or movie history. For its 40th anniversary, Film Forum is screening a new 35 millimeter print for one week, starting on Friday, and Columbia TriStar is releasing a two-disc special-edition DVD next month. One essential point should emerge from all the hoopla: "Strangelove" is far more than a satire. In its own loopy way, the movie is a remarkably fact-based and specific guide to some of the oddest, most secretive chapters of the Cold War. As countless...
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Profile: Paul Wolfowitz: Hawk with a lot of loot needs a bit of lady luck
Black humour in Washington. A dying man is asked to choose between two donated hearts, a young athletes and that of Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy secretary of defence. Ill take Wolfowitzs, he decides. But the guys 61 years old, the doctors exclaim. Yeah, croaks the thrombo case, but his hearts never been used. However, it seems the neoconservative architect of the Iraq war does have a beating heart for a girlfriend who is causing ructions at the World Bank, Wolfowitzs next posting if President George W Bushs nomination prevails over European howls of distress. She is Shaha Ali...
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Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer, Again
Harvard Professors Cover-up of Fluoride/cancer Link Being Investigated Newly available research, out of Harvard University, links fluoride in tap water, at levels most Americans drink, to osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer (1). The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a highly-regarded Washington DC-based organization, urges that fluoride in tap water be declared a known or probable cancer cause (2), based on this and previous animal and human studies. Elise Bassin, PhD writes, in her April 2001 Harvard doctoral thesis,
for males less than twenty years old, fluoride level in drinking water [about 1 part per million] during growth is associated...
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Hugh Hewitt on the The Tancredo Blunder
The Tancredo Blunder Donald Sensing has all the links that really matter on the Tancredo blunder. (HT: StonesCryOut.) Pastor Sensing notes that I corrected the first post to specifically note that Congressman Tancredo talked of "bombing" Mecca, not "nuking" Mecca. The actual audio is available to anyone now at the website for WFLA 540 in Orlando. Note two things. First, Congressman Tancredo said that if we determined that "extremist fundamentalist Muslims" attacked the U.S. with nukes, then we should bomb Mecca. Why, he should be asked, if "extremist fundamentalist" Muslims are guilty would we declare war on all Muslims? Why...
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After 60 years, debate over fluoride still rages
After 60 years, debate over fluoride still rages Sunday, July 24, 2005 The 30 or 40 patients who come through the Morris County dental office of Dr. Leonard Lawrence each week can get their teeth cleaned, drilled and filled. What they won't get is any fluoride - not in his cements, polishes or fillings.He doesn't even recommend fluoride toothpaste - just good brushing, flossing and eating habits - because he thinks its cavity-fighting claims aren't proven. "The basic knowledge about fluoride is that it is a poison," he said. "That's why there's a warning on the back of the toothpaste...
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DOOMSDAY: UT professor says death is imminent
AUSTIN A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead. Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine, Though his statements are admittedly bold, hes not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanitys collapse is a notion he embraces. Indeed, his words deal, very literally, on a life-and-death scale, yet he smiles and jokes candidly throughout the lecture. Disseminating a message many would call morbid, Piankas warnings are centered upon awareness rather than...
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Dr. Strangelove
.......Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. I just watched it, again. Oh, for the 60s, when there was mass paranoia. To be a child in school where they told us that if a nuclear bomb went off, to hide under our desks. And who can forget being in a public place, never wanting to be very far from a nuclear fallout shelter. The good old days.
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Rude Giuliani
A lot is going well for Rudy Giuliani's campaign. His fund raising is strong. He outstrips his GOP rivals in national polls. His speeches on taxes and health care were solid. He picked up some foreign-policy gravitas with a successful trip to London. But there is a fly in the ointment. Even members of Mr. Giuliani's own staff are appalled at how he handled the incident in which he answered a phone call from his wife, Judith, right in the middle of a nationally televised speech to the National Rifle Association. What was that about? Columnist Robert Novak cites "supporters...
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Rockwall Man Boasts Of Nuclear Reactor, But No Arrest Made (Garage Nuke In Texas?)
Rockwall man boasts of nuclear reactor, but no arrest made Thursday, January 10, 2008 By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News A 22-year-old Rockwall man's Internet boasts that he had made a mini-nuclear reactor in his garage resulted in a visit recently by federal authorities. Representatives with the FBI and the Texas Department of State Health Services' Radiation Control Program took away the man's science equipment on Friday but not because he was doing anything dangerous or illegal. Rather, the man's parents, with whom he is living, asked that the equipment be removed, officials said. The man, who...
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Tom Brokaw Compares Dick Cheney To Dr. Strangelove
As Dick Cheney was literally rolled out of office, in a wheelchair due to a packing accident, Tom Brokaw had one final kick out the door for the Vice President as he compared him to Dr. Strangelove, the mad scientist title character from the film of the same name. During NBC News' live coverage of Tuesday's Inaugural ceremonies Brokaw made the following observation of Cheney as he was being ushered towards Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony at about 11:32am EST: TOM BROKAW: It's unfortunate for Vice President Cheney to have had this accident obviously, because there will be those who don't...
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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
Link only, due to Wired's copyright complaints. Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday MachineI'm posting this without any text, because I think it's important. The "Doomsday" machine is apparently real, and still operational. Read the article for more details.
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Big turnout for the little Texan: Ron Paul at the U
If you think speeches attacking the U.S. Federal Reserve couldn't excite a Friday night crowd on a college campus, think again. About 2,000 people -- students and older adults who were in the majority -- filled Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota to cheer libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, as he joined Rep. Michele Bachmann to preach the gospel of a less powerful federal government. Before Bachmann, R-Minn., introduced Paul, she hailed legislation of his that would require a detailed audit of the Fed. The crowd jumped to its feet and roared approval. When she described the...
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Cap-And-Trade For Babies? Holdren, Cal Your Office)
Earth: An environmental writer mainstreams an idea floating around the green fringe save the earth by population control and give carbon credits to one-child families. Are we threatened by the patter of little carbon footprints? New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin participated in an Oct. 14 panel discussion on climate change with other media pundits titled "Covering Climate: What's Population Got To Do With It?" People who need people they are not. In a recently rediscovered book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with Malthus fans Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Holdren wrote that families "contribute to general social deterioration...
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McCain: Time to 'pull the trigger' with Iran [Title differs from article quote]
Washington - Senator John McCain says the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.McCain opened a Senate hearing Wednesday by saying that Iran will get the bomb unless the United States acts more boldly. Speaking figuratively, the Arizona Republican says the U.S. keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran but failing to "pull the trigger."
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Dr. Strangelove and Company
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention in Los Angeles this month, one of thousands of English professors gave a lecture on a popular film. Although millions have seen this particular movie, it may be safe to say that few of those viewers have examined Dr. Strangelove with the interpretation offered at the MLA. Dr. Joseph Litvak of Tufts University argued that Dr. Strangelove is not just a former Nazi, but that he is also a Jewa claim Litvak makes based on somewhat questionable evidence (the doctors hair and crippled body, and the fact that his creators listed several...
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A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s notebooks
A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubricks notebooks From the notebooks of Stanley Kubrick comes this most excellent list of movie titles that never saw the light of day, but were evidently considered for the film that Kubrick would eventually name Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. There are plenty of mentions of Dr. Strangelove, bombs, and even implications that one should love and cherish said "wonderful bomb," but you won't find the final title in this list. Still, it gives one pause to think how this movie...
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(Weird History) In 1958 America Accidentally Dropped a Nuclear Weapon on Two Little Girls’ Playhouse
In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls playhouse For certain rural residents of the Carolinas during the Cold War, apocalyptic anxiety hit disturbingly close to home. In 1958 and 1961, the American Air Force lost nuclear weapons over the skies of South and North Carolina, respectively, raining potential apocalypse on the folks below. In both incidents, complete catastrophe was avoided thanks to that ever-potent combination of foresight and unmitigated dumb luck. And in the former incident, the bomb fell square on some unsuspecting children's playhouse. The first accident occurred over Florence, South Carolina on March...
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No, a bunker will not save you from the Apocalypse
No, a bunker will not save you from the apocalypse Everybody talks about the apocalypse, but almost nobody actually prepares for it. But let's say you're one of the few visionaries who actually plans for every eventuality. You've been stashing your supplies. You've built a personal bunker, or you've purchased your own spot in a communal "survival suite." When the apocalypse finally comes possibly later this year will you really survive if you're locked inside a bunker? (Answer: No.) Protecting against any 2012 scenario A thriving industry exists to offer structures that will defend against a variety of...
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