The View-Point

The Lambeth Walk, Nazi Style
(Quicktime & Windows Media formats; FLV embedded below)

• This clip is worth a view for a bit of entertainment and jolly fun -- as well as an example of the effective use of visual rhetoric to lambast an unpopular figure. (See the link above for QT & WMV formats.) Also embedded below is a more 'traditional' performance of The Lambeth Walk. Enjoy -- Oi!

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Casino Coming To Pittsburgh's North Shore In '08
(KDKA.com, 12/20/06; with video clips)

• "The Pa. Gaming Control Board voted this morning to award Pittsburgh's only stand-alone slots license to PITG Gaming/Majestic Star on the North Shore... Don Barden tells KDKA he's planning to open his new casino in March 2008..."

Majestic Star Casino (Pittsburgh, PA) Conceptual Drawings
(from STRADA, LLC)

• Five artistic renderings of the new North Shore riverfront casino, with details on proposed amenities.

Satellite Photo & Map of the New Casino's Location-To-Be
(via Google Maps)

• The new casino will be located to the west of Heinz Field and the Carnegie Science Center (the building facing the river-bound submarine), presumably in the large, open parking lot area.

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Borat & the Ultimate Test of Reflective Thinking
(via DailyMotion.com, embedded below)

• While superficially offensive in its apparent anti-semitism, Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (see also his exclusive Rolling Stone interview), as the character Borat Sagdiyev, effectively puts to the test the level of reflective thinking that patrons of a country-western bar engage in. Granted that most of them are totally smashed, you would think that at least someone would have the sense to question what they were singing.

(Originally Posted: 12/11/2006 @ 11:20AM)

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A Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism -- Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge to Journalists who Cover Global Warming (PDF from epw.senate.gov)

• From the office of US Senator James Inhofe, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, comes an outstanding document debunking how the media has fueled one side of the so-called global warming controversy.
  
  I find this document to be useful for illustrating the epistemological crisis that results from bombardment by an endless stream of messages from various media-created information environments. How do we know "What is truth?" (cf. John 18:38)

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FBI says Muslim in Illinois planned grenade attack in mall (AP, 12/9/2006)

• I am happy to report that this story represents a succesful thwarting by the FBI of an attempted terrorist attack by a Muslim, one Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef, to whom the ex-mainstream media will only refer to as Derrick Shareef.
  
  The Smoking Gun (as pointed out on national radio on 12/8/2006 by Michael Savage) has the full text of the 11-page affidavit that details the incident, including the reference to "shank[ing]" DeKalb, IL area Jews with a "steak knife" (source) that most ex-mainstream news sources have failed to report:
  
  Affidavit: Shopping Mall Terror Plot Foiled (TSG, 12/8/2006)

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Hit-run suspect tricked family, fled in the SUV (San Francisco, CA - 8/31/06)

• "Omeed Aziz Popal's family, worried about his recent mental breakdowns and erratic behavior, tried to keep an eye on him all the time. But Tuesday morning, relatives and authorities say, the automotive worker from Fremont slipped away -- pulling a trick on his mother and sister that got them out of his sport utility vehicle, then speeding off on a hit-and-run rampage that killed one man in Fremont and injured at least 19 people in San Francisco."
  
  No mention is made in this story of Omeed Aziz Popal's (pictured above, on right) self-made claim that he was committing an act of terrorism. As with the July 28, 2006 incident in Seattle, WA (see below), the accused is being labeled as mentally unstable. This is an example of using words to define reality as meaning what one wants it to mean (see Michel Foucault, "Madness and Civilization"). I say that all Islamo-Fascist Terrorists are by definition Mentally Unstable!

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The ex-mainstream media continues to hammer more nails into its coffin with the refusal to cover the latest incident of Islamic terrorism in the United States. This is where Daniel Pipes comes in. One paragraph of one article on his website contains more information on the recent incident of Islamic terrorism in Seattle than any other reporting I have seen from the ex-mainstream media.

• "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" in Seattle - by Daniel Pipes
  
  "At about 4 p.m. on July 28, on the eve of the Jewish sabbath, a Muslim terrorist of Pakistani origins named Naveed Afzal Haq forced a 14-year-old girl to get him into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building by holding a gun to her back. He then pulled out the two large-caliber semi-automatic pistols he had just purchased and went on a murderous rampage...."
  
  More on Naveed Haq, Seattle's Sudden Jihadi
  


• Flashback to University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill:
  Sudden Jihad Syndrome (in North Carolina) - by Daniel Pipes
  
  "...a just-graduated student named Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, and an Iranian immigrant, drove a sport utility vehicle into a crowded pedestrian zone. He struck nine people but, fortunately, none were severely injured."
  
  More on the North Carolina Jihadi, Mohammed Taheri-azar

(Originally Posted: 8/12/2006 @ 2:21PM)

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