Monday, February 13, 2006

EQUATIONS PARADOXES and OXYMORONS

INTRODUCTION

When we started this POST 2004 election BLOG and/or COMMENTARY back in Jan. 2005,




we pointed out that in the midst of what seems to be a 'Groundhog Day' (the movie) like parade of recurring themes, the primary threads seem to be 'a lack of symmetry', 'double standards', and 'basic unfairness'. This in turn is driven by an uncompromising and virulent kind of 'viciousness and pettiness and STALINIST-like totalitarian bigotry' on the part of RADICAL LEFTISTS (who now control the DEM PARTY) and their Main Stream Media and Pundit Puke (hereafter referred to as the Mendacious MSM and PP) lapdogs and camp followers. This venom is directed against all those who dare to disagree with their POLITBURO'S DOCTRINAIRE AGENDA, i.e. mainly Conservatives in general and the BUSHIES in particular, and others (like BLOGGERS) who dare to speak out.


In this post we employ the rhetorical devices of EQUATIONS, PARADOXES, and OXYMORONS to make our point. There has already been some precedent for this kind of approach.




Even for those of you who are not algebraically inclined, the use of EQUATIONS provides a way of illustrating a point that may be even more direct than a sound or word 'bite'.


THE NCAA THE NFL and THE OLYMPICS

Historically, vocal carping regarding officiating occurs (and in most cases is justified) in regular season and semi-final games. However, championship games are generally agreed to be cleanly officiated by team partisans on both sides.


Recently, this has not been so. In the 2005 'March Madness' College Basketball National Championship game, the Illinois coach complained about the officiating. Similarly in Super Bowl XL, Seahawks coach Holmgren opined that the officiating was less than 'fair and unbiased', in spite of threats of condemnation and fines for daring to question the 'officiating', from the Commissioner of the NFL. This kind of thing is not exactly unprecedented.




Of course this kind of stuff in the NCAA and NBA and NFL is 'small beer' compared to what has gone on in the Olympics since its modern inception. Among the more egregious incidents was the 1972 Basketball Final between the USA and the USSR.


The crooked refs added 3 seconds to an expired clock (at which point the USA would have won) on three successive occasions (extending the game by 9 seconds) until the USSR finally won. The scorekeepers who were apparently not in on the fix and had to alter the clock, protested. No one listened to them, and the final score stood unchanged.


More recently in the 2002 Winter Olympics, the French and Russian judges 'made a deal' that resulted in the Russian pairs skaters getting the gold while the clearly more deserving Canadian pair did not. After this 'fixing' was disclosed, both pairs shared the gold (the Russkis should have been disqualified) and the guilty official was 'suspended' for 3 years rather than banned from the Olympics.


The kind of pattern described here, if we substitute the Mendacious MSM and PP and/or unaccountable Judges for Referees and/or Officials, happens over and over. A generic equation for this kind of thing might be:




    CLOSE GAME + BIASED OFFICIATING = WINNING MARGIN



It works the same way in politics as it does in sports.




Whether you agree or not also depends on which 'team' you are rooting for. If your team is the victim of 'bad officiating', the only way to win is to be good enough to overcome this, as well as the opposing team. In closely matched 'games' this is not always possible. However, the BUSHIES were able to pull off wins under such circumstances in the Presidential Elections of BOTH 2000 and 2004.


The PARADOX in 2004 was that KERRY and the DEMS actually outspent the BUSHIES (in addition to this, the Mendacious MSM and PP flooded the airwaves with an additional $150 MM worth of pro DEM and KERRY stuff). Yet the DEMS in Congress and KERRY LOST. It was surely not a case of not getting their message out. Their message got out, and was rejected by a solid majority of American Voters.




This in turn brings up an interesting OXYMORON:




    (CORE DEM IDEOLOGY) and (BROAD POPULAR SUPPORT)



Fortunately for the GOP, the DEMS still can't seem to grasp this.


CARTOON INTIFADA and FREEDOM of SPEECH

This is actually a partial replay of something we've seen before. Back in 2005, Isikoff and Newsweek reported as 'fact', an unsupported and unverified allegation (KORANGATE) that Korans had been flushed down toilets in Guantanamo in order to humiliate and intimidate prisoners.


As a result, there were riots and people got killed. For more details, look for the subhead entitled THE KORAN FUBAR in the following post:




There are some differences between the Newsweek fabrication and the 'CARTOON INTIFADA'. The Newsweek stuff was WRONG yet was passed off as 'fact', with the implicit intent of causing the BUSHIES to look bad, never mind the possibility of collateral RIOTS and DEATH. Without even checking their sources, Newsweek could have looked at some simple 'popular mechanics' regarding these allegations.


Given today's 'ecologically friendly' smaller toilet tanks, it would have barely been possible to flush down one of ALGOR's or KERRY's biomass emanations on a single try. Even trying to flush down a whole issue of Newsweek all at once would have been equally challenging. There is no way anyone in their right mind would even TRY to flush a whole book such as the Koran.


In contrast to this, the infamous 'cartoons' appeared in an obscure Danish Newspaper in September of 2005. These 'cartoons' were clearly 'OP-ED' and were not represented as 'NEWS'. They were also not fabricated 'ex-nihilo' as was the case in KORANGATE. What's more, they were reprinted in an Egyptian newspaper in October 2005. Nothing happened.


Apparently, the RIOTS started only after some more POLITICIZED than RELIGIOUS Imams (one of them even added a crudely crafted cartoon of his own creation depicting Mohammed with a pig's snout... playing the PORK card just for added impetus??) and Secular 'agents provocateurs' SPAMMED the Muslim 'street' with these long forgotten cartoons and demanded a violent response. This happened in February 2006.


Syria and Iran using their henchmen, were complicit in circulating the cartoon, and providing both 'rioters and/or protesters to order' and supplies of Danish flags for burning (which we suspect most Muslims didn't even know enough to identify without 'help' from the 'provocateurs'). Did this have anything to do with detracting media attention from Syria's murder of a Lebanese politician, or Iran's nuclear ambitions (soon to be made manifest)??


Surprisingly, the EU Media responded by publishing copies of the 'toon', in an apparently courageous belief that 'Freedom of the Press' trumped 'Multicultural Sensitivity' and 'Political Correctness'. They knew there might be repercussions. Some of them and their families might be hunted down and killed by ISLAMO FASCISTS as was the case for Van Gogh in Holland, or would continually have to watch their backs like Salmon Rushdie, who still has a 'fatwa mandated' price on his head.


On a more mundane level and not so surprisingly, some of those responsible for publishing the 'toon' were reprimanded, disciplined and in some cases even fired for their trouble by their less courageous and more unprincipled bosses.


Meanwhile there is the apparent PARADOX that the American Mendacious MSM and PP showed less of this 'toon' than they did of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction'.




    * JANET JACKSON in the SUPER BOWL... BARELY RELEVANT
    PART (1 of 1)



This happened in spite of the fact that the Mendacious MSM and PP are a lot like 'biomass' in cat litter in that they live in eternal fear of being SCOOPED. The only newspapers who showed the 'toon' were: The Philadelphia Enquirer, The NY Sun, and The Riverside Press - Enterpriser.


Never mind the usual conundrums of 'truth to power', 'the sanctity of the freedom of the press', and 'the people's right to know', that they invoke when showing cartoons of pedophilic priests, and showing and supporting 'alleged works of art' like 'pi$$ Christ' and a 'Madonna Batik' laced with obscenities and elephant dung. Mendacious MSM and PP were both WIMPS and of course, their usual HYPOCRITICAL selves.


One would think that for purposes of 'freedom of the press' this EQUATION




    PI$$ CHRIST = BOMBHEAD MUHAMMED



would be valid. But apparently NOT for our Mendacious MSM and PP. This of course leads to the obvious OXYMORON:




    UNBIASED MSM AND PP



We've said this countless times, but nothing has changed.


NSA vs FISA vs THE CONSTITUTION

This subject matter has been visited in the previous post but deserves additional attention.




As more heat and light emerges from various quarters, it's becoming increasingly apparent that the following EQUATION has a lot of plausibility:




    FISA = .81818181 ...



The numeric result is a repeating decimal. What is not immediately apparent is that this decimal is what you get when you divide nine by eleven. In other words, FISA + OTHER FACTORS = 9/11.


It's very likely that FISA was as much a contributing factor to 9/11 as intelligence failure.




Intelligence failure was partly a result of informational 'firewalls' erected between various agencies (SEE KLINTONISTA DOJ's Jamie Gorelick), and also as a result of FISA, and the need to rely on a single UNACCOUNTABLE JUDGE to provide warrants after extensive paperwork and arguments for 'probable cause' for interdicting atrocities that were yet to be committed. What's more, today as well as prior to 9/11, there are time and technology factors (like cell phones) that may not have been anticipated when FISA came into being on the heels of the killer of our intelligence capability, the Church Committee and was signed into law by 'Inspector Clouseau'... whoops, we mean JIMMY CARTER.


There is also the possibility that FISA is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The President's powers are pretty clearly laid out by the First Article of the Constitution, and this is something that can't be trumped by Congressional Legislation (as in FISA), let alone the Judiciary in the person of an UNACCOUNTABLE Judge.


As pointed out earlier, there seems to be the PARADOX that in the much more serious situation of someone leaking the NSA surveillance activities, there is no call for an investigation of the 'leaker', while the 'non-crime' surrounding the 'Plame Game' has resulted in a Special Prosecutor. Libby was indicted because he allegedly 'lied' about a 'non-crime'.


The HYENAS of HYPE who seem to be yukking and screeching to the high heavens about privacy and government intrusions by the NSA, don't seem to give a hoot about Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald's 'fishing expedition' that resulted in Libby's indictment.


An appropriate OXYMORON for this situation might be:




    JUDICIARY RESPECT FOR THE SEPARATION of POWERS



Of course, Senators like Church from the 70's and Arlen Specter today don't help much either. If they have their way, then we will have to rely on the whims of UNACCOUNTABLE JUDGES like Colleen Kollar-Kelly for our NATIONAL SECURITY. Apparently 3000 victims was TOO FEW!


GOOGLE THIS

PARADOXES and multiple standards also happen outside the realms of the MSM and the LEGALISTAS. Apparently, GOOGLE seems to feel perfectly comfortable declaring themselves to be 'not EVIL', while collaborating with RED CHINESE CENSORSHIP in order to get its service used there.


In doing so, they are not alone (other firms like Microsoft and Yahoo and even Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. have also caved to various Chinese demands). There is no denying that the siren call of '2.6 billion armpits', as one Procter and Gamble executive described the potential of the Chinese market for its underarm deodorant products, will do crazy things to your thinking and ethics.


However, GOOGLE refused to cooperate with the US Government when the latter wanted to look into some of their data in order to ascertain how kiddie porn finds its way into the online search process. Apparently, Microsoft and Yahoo did cooperate regarding the same issue. At least they were consistent.


GOOGLE seemed to think that aiding and abetting kiddie porn was OK using its search engine because that was somehow a 'manifestation of FREE SPEECH', but AT THE SAME TIME also felt that CENSORING such search items as 'FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY' in deference to the Chinese Totalitarians was also perfectly OK and 'FREEDOM of SPEECH' did not matter in this case. Evidently more 'Chinese armpits' seemed to trump their self professed 'principles' such as 'not being EVIL'.


In so doing, GOOGLE did for 'FREE SPEECH' what Ben and Jerry did for rain forests (NOTHING), and bucket seats and pantyhose did for drive-in theaters. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but GOOGLE's stock price seems to have declined by about 10% since this happened.


This 'forked tongue' kind of thing in the information arena is also exhibited by the ALA (American Library Association). The bigwigs of the ALA contend that Homeland Security examinations of e-mails sent by their patrons from Library (and therefore 'anonymous') terminals connected to the Internet is out of bounds even if TERRORIST activity might be involved. At the same time, they refuse to condemn Castro and Cuba for jailing dissident Librarians.


In an online newsletter published by the ALA's rank and file, a recent survey indicated that about three fourths of the rank and file members support the notion of condemning Castro for jailing some of Cuba's Librarians. The ALA bigwigs have since then suggested that surveys in this newsletter should be shut down.


So much for the triumph of 'FREE SPEECH' vis-a-vis GOOGLE and the ALA. An appropriate OXYMORON here might be:




    (GOOGLE + ALA) and FREE SPEECH



To make things even worse, this kind of blatant HYPOCRISY gets very little traction among the Mendicant MSM and PP, while they continue to bloviate about FREE SPEECH in areas where it's barely applicable.


So it goes.


THE PEOPLE SHALL JUDGE



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