I just saw a Muslim cleric on Fox News who was clearly saying “Barack Obama, you will pay” (it was even part of a chant that rhymed with “way”) and the subtitles changed it to “Barack Obama, you will die.” There’s some journalistic integrity for ya.
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But In An Alternate Universe, China Is Much Freer
The Chinese government is banning tv shows about time travel because they treat “serious history in a frivolous way.”
But wait, there’s more. The powers that be are also training their sights on shows featuring “fantasy,” “mythical stories,” “bizarre plots,” “absurd techniques,” “feudal superstitions,” “fatalism,” “reincarnation,” “ambiguous moral lessons,” and “lack of positive thinking.”
Shoeless, Metal-free, and Obedient
Whenever I see this ad –
– all I can think is: “you’re such a professional, you always have your lunch money ready for the school bully ahead of time.”
Atlas Shrunk, Part 5: Or, More Reasons For Pessimism
Atlas’s description of Halley’s Fourth Concerto:
It rose in tortured triumph, speaking its denial of pain, its hymn to a distant vision. … The Concerto was a great cry of rebellion. It was a ‘no’ flung at some vast process of torture, a denial of suffering, a denial that held the agony of the struggle to break free. … The sounds of torture became defiance, the statement of agony became a hymn to a distant vision for whose sake anything was worth enduring, even this. It was the song of rebellion – and of a desperate quest.
Atlas’s description of Halley’s Fifth Concerto:
It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed effort. Only a faint echo within the sounds spoke of that from which the music had escaped, but spoke in laughing astonishment at the discovery that there was no ugliness or pain, and there never had had to be. It was the song of an immense deliverance.
What the movie is giving us as the “John Galt Theme”:
Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus.
How Roger Pilon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Empire
Bradley Manning and Julian Assange should be treated like a thief and a fence respectively, because our rulers need to conspire secretly with each other, and it would be gauche for the rabble to inquire into the doings of their betters. Thus speaks the director of Cato’s Center for Constitutional [sic] Studies. (CHT Walter Grinder and Stephan Kinsella.)
By the way, a special prize to anyone who can figure out how to make sense of the word “duplicity” in Pilon’s final paragraph.
Equal Protection
“Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister.” — Alabama’s new governor, moments after his inauguration
I seem to recall some Jewish guy expressing a somewhat different opinion.
Alabama governors are famous for putting their feet in their mouths, but this one may have beaten the speed record ….