A recent study in England among the youth found that the youth are afraid of clowns: Don't send in the clowns Oddly Enough Reuters.
The silent movie star, Lon Chaney, the star of such classics as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera once said something to the effect of, "There is nothing more frightening than a clown in the moonlight."
Well, this coming Tuesday is the primary election in the state of California. There are four people running for the nomination of their respective parties.
Four clowns. In the moonlight.
Be afraid.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
When They Came for the Smokers...
Some years ago the anti-smoker movement started. The movement first started with teh idea that the anti-smokers were saving the smokers from themselves. When the success of that idea came a cropper the hypothesis of second-hand smoke killing non-smokers was started despite the fact that the science of the hypothesis was, and is, shaky. At the time, the wiser heads among us stated that the banning of smoking and the demonization of smokers was just the beginning of a health fascism. The do-ggoders laughed it off and said that it would stop with smoking.
Well, the piper is demanding to be paid: Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats - February 1, 2008 Please note that the "fats" referred to in the story are not inanimate fats like lard or trans-fats. Here "fats" means fat people, i.e. the chubby, the portly, the overweight, the plump.
The proposed law claims that the law is just good for the fat. It is a way to make them slim down. But it won;t be long before some researcher in search of a federally funded grant will develop a hypothesis of second-hand fat. It will be based on the idea that people eating watching other people eating to "excess" will be tempted to over-indulge.
Instead of the creeping health fascism that has been chopping off our freedoms inch by inch, why do the politicians not cut to the chase? Instead of us shopping and cooking for ourselves or eating what we want why do they not start a goverment program to shut down all food stores and resturants and instead provide us all daily, via government vans, with the food that they deem healthy in both portion and content? We'll all stand outside at eight in the morning waiting for the van to bring us our prepackaged and prepared three daily meals of soy protein, vegetables and grains. And then they can pass a law requiring compulsory exercise so that we can all be fit and healthy and bitchy. And the insurance companies can make a lot more money.
Well, the piper is demanding to be paid: Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats - February 1, 2008 Please note that the "fats" referred to in the story are not inanimate fats like lard or trans-fats. Here "fats" means fat people, i.e. the chubby, the portly, the overweight, the plump.
The proposed law claims that the law is just good for the fat. It is a way to make them slim down. But it won;t be long before some researcher in search of a federally funded grant will develop a hypothesis of second-hand fat. It will be based on the idea that people eating watching other people eating to "excess" will be tempted to over-indulge.
Instead of the creeping health fascism that has been chopping off our freedoms inch by inch, why do the politicians not cut to the chase? Instead of us shopping and cooking for ourselves or eating what we want why do they not start a goverment program to shut down all food stores and resturants and instead provide us all daily, via government vans, with the food that they deem healthy in both portion and content? We'll all stand outside at eight in the morning waiting for the van to bring us our prepackaged and prepared three daily meals of soy protein, vegetables and grains. And then they can pass a law requiring compulsory exercise so that we can all be fit and healthy and bitchy. And the insurance companies can make a lot more money.
England. Where No Christian Dare Go
In a previous post your faithful correspondent offered a link to a story about the Bishop of Rochester saying that there were places in England where it would not be wise for a non-Muslim to go. Now the reaction has come in regarding the Rt. Rev. Nazir-Ali's comments and it shows that the religion of peace is, as suspected, the religion of pieces: Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, faces death threats -Times Online.
And if you should have the misfortune of going to a hospital or having a loved one go to a hospital and want to go to the hospital chapel or meditation room to pray, well, if you are not an Islamo-orc, you might want to consider finding another place to perform your devotions: Hospital porter fired in crucifix row - News - Manchester Evening News Apparently, in England, being a Christian is an act of hate while being an Islamo-orc strikes the fear of God into the infidels.
Isn't multiculturalism a great thing?
And if you should have the misfortune of going to a hospital or having a loved one go to a hospital and want to go to the hospital chapel or meditation room to pray, well, if you are not an Islamo-orc, you might want to consider finding another place to perform your devotions: Hospital porter fired in crucifix row - News - Manchester Evening News Apparently, in England, being a Christian is an act of hate while being an Islamo-orc strikes the fear of God into the infidels.
Isn't multiculturalism a great thing?
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