Here is an article I wrote a few days ago, and has since been borrowed and published on a few other blogs after some suggestions by commentators it was worth spreading.
It's a fair and accurate account of what racial conflicts exist in France today, and will hopefully help putting things straight in ppl's perception, given the ignorant bullshit most Americans believe in thanks to the US mass media which is worse than ex-USSR's Pravda in terms of biased reporting.
I won't copy/paste the article here. You can find the original here:
No need to reply here. If you have any comment leave them there since it is where I spend most of my blogging time now. By the way, shameless plug here, the address of my new blog, which is a coproduction with a number of people is:
I'm not leaving here completely. I occasionally come back to do my duty and kick Noguru's and MadCAO's smelly asses. Angie emails me when I'm needed, but if anyone wants to contact me and I'm not responding to tMails, here is my email addy:
WhyNot@elektric-kat.com
Awww... look at all the fun Mad Cao is missing - movies and all
Seems Mad Cao is, as usual, talking through her ass, but what's new? Want to see how wonderful the US contribution to international AID relief really is, in comparison with other rich western nations? Look down the bottom of the chart.
Care to explain how this fits in your claim, Mad Cao? Since you're such as CAOward as to block everyone off your blog, maybe you can find the guts to come explain yourself here?
These blew me off my seat. What a spectacular show.
A wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling that when humankind wants, people from all nationalities can get together and create beautiful things even in the most hostile lands.
Beats war any time in terms of achievment, don't you think? :-)
The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both Fahrenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions. This is the amazing sculpture made of snow greeting visitors to the snow festival in 2003...
This year I resolve to give up Fritos, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos and refried burritos; no more succumbing to inner snack-food libidos. In fact I hope to eschew all products in the tasty but fattening -eatos food group....
It was pointing to an insanely funny article she had just posted herself titled "10 reasons to Vote Bush again", and it was the hoot of the century cuz the article was actually a satire of Bush and she didn't even pick it up.
(if you are curious to read her own post, just click on my post's link above - you'll find the link to hers in there)
Anyway, 3 months later, out of the blue, LynnKramer wakes up and leaves me a comment to my post. And some comment too! Longer than my apartment. Just got it 15 minutes ago. I tried to read some, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to me, so I was wondering if any of you ppl could explain.
Skimming through it, I can read bits I *think* I understand. For instance, just to give you a preview:
-"Rabbi Whynot so viperine"
-"Rabbi Whynot forgot to take his antipsychotics" (LOL)
-"Rabbi Whynot is the picture of the insane person on the street, babbling to a tree, a wall, or a cloud," (that's rather kinda poetic, don't you think?)
-"I definitely can't stand Rabbi Whynot or his stooges" (hey ppl, who are the stooges here? Come on, own up!)
-"world that's on the brink of Rabbi Whynot-induced disaster" (shit, that's terrible, ain't it?)
-"Rabbi Whynot's brethren have demonstrated brutally, horribly, and with great terror how they will shred the basic compact between the people and their government" (gee... I'm bad, I'm bad, you know I'm really bad!)
-"Rabbi Whynot asserts that he is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose" (wow.... hey, I'm even more amazing a dude than I thought. I got gift, man. When do I get to be Pope? Can't wait for that first paycheck!)
Why do I get the impression she don't like me? Boo hoo!
What does Rabbi mean? I thought it had something to do with priests in the Jew religion. Who ordained me Rabbi without my consent, eh, LOL?
Ok, don't mean to give the plot out in advance, and without further ado, here is the masterpiece: --------- Okay, let's do it. Let's give our young people the values that will inspire them to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic. Let's start with my claim that Rabbi Whynot O Whynot says he's going to destroy the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study sooner or later. Is he out of his mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that now that I've been exposed to his perorations, I must admit that I don't completely understand them. Perhaps I need to get out more. Or perhaps you probably know exactly what I mean. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that we must understand that he favors manipulative psychological techniques over honest discussion. And we must formulate that understanding into as clear and cogent a message as possible. As a parenthetical note, in order to solve the big problems with Rabbi Whynot, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. I have no idea why he makes such a big fuss over clericalism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a coldhearted wacko. It's a fact. If my memory serves me correctly, Rabbi Whynot is bound to have a rude awakening when he finally realizes how few people approve of his raving taradiddles. An equal but opposite observation is that ancient Greek dramatists discerned a peculiar virtue in being tragic. Rabbi Whynot would do well to realize that they never discerned any virtue in being acrimonious. I want to give people more information about Rabbi Whynot, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I sincerely hope people draw: Those of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still insist that it is literally the case that Rabbi Whynot bickers and argues over petty things, have an obligation to do more than just observe what Rabbi Whynot is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to reach the broadest possible audience with the message that Rabbi Whynot must have known that his holier-than-thou attitudes would cause high levels of outrage and would generate many letters in response (like this one). We have an obligation to reinforce notions of positive self esteem. And we have an obligation to comment on a phenomenon that has and will continue to do the entire country a grave disservice.
I could go on and on about his special form of tribalism, but you get the general idea. I must ask that Rabbi Whynot's vassals stand uncompromised in a world that's on the brink of Rabbi Whynot-induced disaster. I know they'll never do that, so here's an alternate proposal: They should, at the very least, back off and quit trying to create catchy, new terms for boring, old issues.
He claims that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Well, I beg to differ. What I am getting at is this: You don't need to be a rocket scientist to detect the subtext of this letter. But just in case it's too subliminal for some, let me thrust it into your face right here: Rabbi Whynot has no discernible talents. The only things he has undeniably mastered are biological functions. Well, I suppose he's good at convincing people that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt create a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind", but what he is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly wretched activity. Despite the obvious fact that education is vitiated by Rabbi Whynot's off-the-cuff comments, this is not the place to develop that subject. It demands many pages of analysis, which I can't spare in this letter. Instead, I'll just state the key point, which is that honor means nothing to Rabbi Whynot. Principles mean nothing to Rabbi Whynot. All he cares about is how best to extirpate the very things I cherish. It's our responsibility to increase awareness and understanding of our similarities and differences. That's the first step in trying to embrace diversity, and it's the only way to establish democracy and equality.
Logorrheic exhibitionism is a disgrace to humanity, but it cannot be eliminated by moral lectures or by pious intentions. No, it can be eradicated only if we begin a course of careful, planned, and coordinated action. "Rabbi Whynot" has now become part of my vocabulary. Whenever I see someone replace law and order with anarchy and despotism, I tell him or her to stop "Rabbi Whynot-ing". While my half-measures are clearly in defense of decency and human dignity and violate nobody's rights, I receive a great deal of correspondence from people all over the world. And one of the things that impresses me about it is the massive number of people who realize that I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner.
While it's true that there must be some ascertainable mental block that makes Rabbi Whynot so viperine, he has yet to acknowledge that fact. While I don't question his motives, and I certainly understand the frustrations of Rabbi Whynot's pals, Rabbi Whynot says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions -- even our library records. Why on Earth does Rabbi Whynot need to monitor our library records? Well, I'm sure Rabbi Whynot would rather put malicious proponents of pharisaism on the federal payroll than answer that particular question. His stratagems have no basis in science or in human experience. Instead, they consist of raucous, shameless intimations derived from a world view rooted in venom-spouting mandarinism.
A few days ago, he actually admitted that he wants to brand me as sexist. Can you believe that? Perhaps Rabbi Whynot forgot to take his antipsychotics that day. An additional clue is that we can divide his ramblings into three categories: dim-witted, conniving, and silly. He has written volumes about how it is his moral imperative to kill the messenger and control the message. Don't believe a word of it, though. The truth is that if I am correctly informed, he throws a temper tantrum every time I suggest that disagreeable enemies of the people often prove their point by relying on untenable conjecture and unverifiable hearsay. In any case, Rabbi Whynot is the picture of the insane person on the street, babbling to a tree, a wall, or a cloud, which cannot and does not respond to his views. Did it ever occur to Rabbi Whynot that he upholds sin as sacred? I've never really gotten a clear and honest answer to that question from Rabbi Whynot. But what is clear is that I do not propose a supernatural solution to the problems we're having with him. Instead, I propose a practical, realistic, down-to-earth approach that requires only that I challenge the present and enrich the future.
He hopes to finance a propaganda of intensive deception that induces sane and sober people to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings. It's a pity. Let's be realistic: we must overcome the fears that beset us every day of our lives. We must overcome the fear that he will impede the free flow of information. And to overcome these fears, we must resolve our disputes without violence.
What do you think of this: I definitely can't stand Rabbi Whynot or his stooges? Let me put it this way: a great many of us don't want him to crush people to the earth and then claim the right to trample on them forever because they are prostrate. But we feel a prodigious societal pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to his impertinent offhand remarks. No one can claim to know the specific source of his policies, but some sinister four-flushers actually assert that he has the mandate of Heaven to make us the helpless puppets of our demographic labels. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his hariolations. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as mawkish, odious euphuists. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of individuals and organizations, many of whom may seem innocent at first glance, who secretly want to deprive people of dignity and autonomy. Rabbi Whynot asserts that he is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose. That assertion is not only untrue, but a conscious lie.
If you're interested in the finagling, double-dealing, chicanery, cheating, cajolery, cunning, rascality, and abject villainy by which he may make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without his rancorous efforts some day, then you'll want to consider the following very carefully. You'll especially want to consider that Rabbi Whynot doesn't know everything. Sad, but true. And it'll only get worse if Rabbi Whynot finds a way to con us into believing that he is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative. Now, it is not my purpose to suggest that my prime directive is to replace today's chaos and lack of vision with order and a supreme sense of purpose, but rather to make the world safe for democracy. I almost forgot: If you intend to challenge someone's assertions, you need to present a counterargument. Rabbi Whynot provides none. A colleague recently informed me that a bunch of surly power brokers and others in Rabbi Whynot's amen corner are about to support those for whom hatred has become a way of life. I have no reason to doubt that story because Rabbi Whynot is stepping over the line when he attempts to waffle on all the issues -- way over the line.
He used to complain about being persecuted. Now Rabbi Whynot is our primary persecutor. This reversal of roles reminds me that the law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. By framing the question in this way, we see that we must find the common ground that enables others to fight for our freedom of speech. If we don't, future generations will not know freedom. Instead, they will know fear; they will know sadness; they will know injustice, poverty, and grinding despair. Most of all, they will realize, albeit far too late, that Rabbi Whynot's brethren have demonstrated brutally, horribly, and with great terror how they will shred the basic compact between the people and their government. That concept can be extended, mutatis mutandis, to the way that if we let him increase society's cycle of hostility and violence, all we'll have to look forward to in the future is a public realm devoid of culture and a narrow and routinized professional life untouched by the highest creations of civilization. Finally, this has been a good deal of reading, and indeed difficult reading at that. Still, I hope you walk away from it with the new knowledge that Rabbi Whynot O Whynot has nothing but contempt for responsibility, duty, and honor.
The new tBlog Team WMD: the “MyASSQL Died in the Ass” weapon
After the initial frustration, I began to find it quite entertaining.
At least it gave a new piquant to the otherwise very boring "Please wait while we attempt to pull our fingers out of our asses" and "vertical lines" syndromes, and the bang-your-head-against-th e-wall "This page cannot be accessed" screens.
I tried it on various tBlog windows, and the infinite variations of special effects were a sheer delight.
I made a little contest with myself, and sought to find the most colorfully mangled and fucked up tBlog window.
Here is the one I liked best:
MADCOW Unmasked!!! See her TRUE face right here on tBlog!
Those of you who have visited Mad Cao's tBlog site will have noticed her pic, showing herself as an ordinary looking gal, slim and blonde, and with a big machine gun sticking out of her twat.
Altogether not too scary a sight, right? However, I happened to come across her REAL self... nowhere less than on one of her own fan's weblog! Admitedly, it was after midnight, so that might explain the change of looks.
Any of you seen “Shrek”? Remember the Princess? Well, you ain't seen nuttin'...
Are you ready for this? . . . . . You sure?? . . . . . . . You not gonna cry Momy, are you? . . ok, ok, ok, just wanted to make sure you're up to this... . . . . . . . Still time to back out, you know!! . . . . . . . . Right, since you're still here, and fearless... . . . . . . . . . . Here comes Mad Cao!!!! She's back and she's pissed!!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! !!
THE TSUNAMI DISASTER: PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCES AMERICA'S STEPPED-UP COMMITMENT TO DISABUSING THE UNITED NATIONS OF ANY RUDE DELUSIONS OF NON-WORTHLESSNESS
Statement by the President
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Please be seated.
Six days ago, the Good Lord, acting in all His mysterious grandeur, saw fit to summarily exterminate 150,000 people on the beaches of the Indian (dot, not feather) Ocean. A lightening-quick 96 hours later, I finally got around to pledging $36 million, which is almost enough money to pay for ten minutes of America's noble Arab-slaughtering crusade in Iraq!
First sincere thanks to all of you who have tackled Cao's nazi website.
Next, a quick explanation following many of you tmailing me and saying they posted something but it never made it there:
MadCao uses some kind of gadget to protect herself against trackback spams. Fair enough. She talks about it in one of her other blogs but doesn't disclose what the actual spam problem is, nor does she disclose what her anti-spam gagdet is.
However, I just stumbled on something much more interesting and relevant to ya'll ppl's inability to post comments on her blog. Here is a copy paste of it:
"I’m going to bed–filter’s on and your comments will not show until I approve them. G’nite
One more thing: No more fooling around with this guy.
How's that for courage? How's that for freedom of expression? How's that for irony: the bitch who drops hit-n-run abusive comments on tBloggers, who slanders ppl right left and center, who has a mirror site right here on tBlog where all comments are disabled, now has a "no comment passes until *I* approve them" scheme on her main website.
Says it all, don't it?
PS: for those of you wondering who I'm talking about, here is Cao's weblog: MadCao website, and here is her post dedicated to slandering DianneMaire and where a good many of you challenged her: MadCao's slander masterpiece
Hey ppl, my wife and I were just talking about this and laughing our heads off, and she encouraged me to write about it.
Why do *YOU* blog? Is it to just rant on, to have an outlet to say something to everybody and nobody in particular?
Or is it you have a *message*, a *mission* you want to accomplish, and you're blogging so that you might reach as many readers as possible to hopefully see your point, and perhaps even change their mind in the direction YOU wish.
Ok, I'm not even going to attempt to imagine all the possible reasons for blogging, and will just state mine. But just before I do, *MY* reason is actually what my wife and I talked about, and how we have come to the conclusion that most ppl here on tBlog who have the same drive as me, are completely off the mark. ----------
First, *MY* aim:
My purpose for blogging is definitely *mission* driven. I have no time to spend blogging for the purpose of just chatting. But I love to smile and laugh, and while in the course of my *serious mission* won't miss an opportunity to have a good giggle. Still, the main point is that I blog here because I hope that ya'll and me can discuss things that really matter.
Like making this planet a better place for everybody.
Arrogant, I know, but hey, that's me - I'm French as you prolly all know by now. At least, I have convictions and a sincere desire to see our very fucked humankind moving in the right direction. I'm not an adolescent any longer (how I wish!), but haven't lost my idealism for a better world, and my blogging is solely for that purpose.
This is why I only post in the politics section of tBlog. I have never even bothered reading any post in any other section. ----------
Second, my observations:
Here, in the politics section of tBlog, it is pretty obvious that most bloggers are just as *arrogant* (LOL) as me, i.e., they too have a *mission*. They too hopefully want this planet to be a better place (although I sometimes wonder, LOL, but that's not the issue here).
And so, everybody here, from fascists to marxists, post their messages, with the hope they will sway the undecided and maybe even convert the opponent.
So far, so good. Nothing wrong with any of the above, right? ----------
Third, the *failures*:
Because I see *my mission* as the primary goal, I try to preach my message wherever I can. I post occasional blogs when I have something a little different to say (different to what has been recently posted, I mean) because it seems worth bringing up. But the bulk of my writing happens on other ppl's blogs, in the form of comments.
Why? Because it is obvious to myself that I'm not a genius who has *discovered* all the things that are fucked. Most other ppl got the clues before I did. So why should I repost a *NEW BLOG* of my own when there is already a thriving discussion going on someone else's blog?
I mean: is the aim of the game to REALLY pass on the message and accomplish the mission, or is it a personal glory to win tBucks and strive to be the tBlogger of the week?
For me, not a single doubt: the mission is the only thing that counts.
I often even comment encouraging ppl to go take a look at OTHER ppl's blogs where I see on-going debates, i.e. where the action is, and where someone with a mission COULD drop their 2 cents worth and hope to accomplish something.
Now, on the other hand, I notice, after over a year here, that even ppl of similar political tendencies to mine don't seem to get it at all. Or perhaps they are not actually THAT concerned about their mission, but more concerned about their personal tBlog glory?
In spite of my altruistic efforts to redirect ppl to other ppl's blogs where lots of customers are already thrashing crucial issues out, I observe a near systematic obstinacy to just keep on blogging boring-to-tears repetitious waffle that attracts 0 comment, and still won't join in discussions that are thriving.
Why is that? I mean, what's the fuckin' point in ranting if you have a *crucial message* to pass on but nobody reads it? Even worse is: why is it that when the very same *message* topic is already in full debating action, most of the ppl here with similar left convictions as mine prefer to ignore it and say nothing at all in those debates?
Don't make sense to me. No wonder Kerry lost the election, LOL.
The other thing I notice about similar-political-view bloggers to mine, is they drone on & on, never bother even checking out other ppl's blogs and hardly even bother responding to comments you put on their blog. I'm wondering what they are actually trying to achieve in regard to their *mission*.
Interesting concept, don't you think? I hope it does help making the Kyoto greenhouse gases reduction pledge a reality.
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The EU has to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 8% of 1990 levels (Photo: European Commission)
03.01.2005 - 09:27 CET | By Honor Mahony EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS
The EU has started the world’s first emissions trading scheme in a bid to comply with its international environmental obligations.
The scheme, which allows trading in carbon dioxide (CO2) and five other gases, officially kicked off on 1 January.
The scheme restricts the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that a company may make – however businesses may sell and buy quota allowances on the open market.
It covers around 12,000 installations representing close to half of Europe’s emissions of CO2.
The deal is part of an overall commitment to reduce greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.
The EU is struggling to meet its commitments under the Protocol and emission’s trading will be a public test of its environmental commitments.
Under the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries have to reduce their combined emissions of six major greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012.
The EU has agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 8% of 1990 levels.
Lamest website-of-the-year contest: tBlog sure wins hands down
First, happy new year boys & gals. Sure hope 2005 is better than 2004 for everyone ;-)
Now, speaking of "getting better", I sure hope tBlog 2005 will be better than its 2004 counterpart.
Why is it that not one single day goes by without me refreshing a tBlog window only to find tBlog, yet again, just died in the ass?
It usually starts with yummy appetizers such as:
... then moves on to exotic vertical column delicacies like:
... and eventually, systematically, every single fuckin' day, gives me the grand main course, i.e.:
Note that not only being a sucker paying member doesn't lessen the tBlog-down-again syndrome, it doesn't either increase your chances of writing to Rocky and expect him to actually reply to one single query.
Hey, Rocky.... you alive? How about at least having the courtesy of answering your members queries, even if to say "sorry, but our brains are momentarily off line, please wait while we replace them" ?
Blogs that suck:NoGuru's blog
(fascist, racist and proud of it. Hatred and dumb rhetoric are his fav. pastimes). "Just my opinion, but I'll stick to it, just like a fly to shit" Reducto's blog
(written with the vision and logic of a deep-fried zucchini. Highly recommended for a good laugh)
BushLover's blog
(take a Noguru fruitcake, add more fascist sauce, sprinkle with threatening & bullying spices, and you've got a perfect BushLover dessert). Rsheinfield's blog
(pro-israel fanatic - anything the Israel gov says or does is gospel, including mass murder)
RedTigress's blog
(same as above + delightfully racist and fascist. An embarrassment to the Tiger species)
SithSense's blog
(same as above, + he just LOVES dead bodies and massacres)
Jim Doney's blog
(kinda like Reducto's blog. Just change "zucchini" to "potato")
ajhankin's blog
(same as above)
Defensor's blog
(another fascist bore)
LynnKramer's blog
(curious case of religious zealotry having reached advanced paranoiac delusional condition. Also a delightful source of racist blogs (her fav targets are the French, closely followed by Germans - but any European target will do just fine)
jrogg's blog
(not quite as dumb as Reducto, but ok for a bit of fun every now & then. There's hope for him)
Stepdad's blog
(yet another [sigh!] fascist nutcase)
Deshanews's blog
(same as above)
Camel dropping's blog
(A shameful insult to the otherwise very cute and cudly species of camels and dromedaries.
But, as CamelFace himself proudly announces, his thinking mode is achieved by farting through his own brain)
