December 8, 2009
November 24, 2009
Patriotic idiots and the case of Qian Xuesen.
McCarthyism was a phase the americans went through, and who is a patriotic american to start with ? Sarah Palin touched on this theme recently.
Naturally hunting for ‘reds’ during the cold war was more an attempt at fud rather than real work, after all a commie script writer in hollywood was really more dangerous to america.
American spies are kept under a closet in america, i bet most people can name some british spies by surname – try it with americans.
Have a think about it….. Did you succeed (they do exist) ? no then read this (my blog)
Qian Xuesen is an interesting example of throwing the wrong person out, for unlike the script writer he helped make China a superpower, strange as might be he held no communist ideology until McCarthy came along.
The ‘true’ american issue haunts american politics even today, since america is a new country by most standards and most people came from somewhere else one could say that no american is a true american at some point of their ancestry.
Obituaries can be well worth reading.
November 12, 2009
a tale of two camps
Charlie and his crack team of zoo security guards as a joke recorded the film imdb tt1055366 (camp rock) for us after I mentioned to them that we* all saw the film imdb tt0342167 (camp made in 2003) on the tv one evening.
Summer camps where never our thing to start with so this strange part of american life that there children do and subsequently filmed into a very sweet and sour version seemed worthy of a blog post here.
Made as an independent film in 2003, camp deals with the more odd members of american teenagers, and shocking dealings with sex and alcoholism, we also discovered that Stephen Sondheim is not dead yet either.
We all liked camp and recommend a view of it. Now on to charlie and camp rock which in many respects is a copy of camp (the first film) which disney made in 2008 but is so sickly sweet, heterosexual plus the kitchen sink thrown in too.
In fact the word corporate would be better as an apparently famous teen manufactured boy pop band also star in this film while they try an independent voice rather than sing covers of hits.
Theres a little amount of bitchiness, and the usual performing song and dance numbers on cue like we all see expect in disney films. Naturally all ends happily ever after – a strange sickly film
Humans we oooked
Anyhow i do recommend a see a camp 2003 for a laugh.
* the monkey house
November 3, 2009
October 19, 2009
Darl of scox is terminated!
About time (my blog) – hint if you want to wreck your business hire him.
October 9, 2009
Charlie muses on High School musical.
Charlie is the head zoo security guy (for those who forget him a reminder) and when we return to zoo from the pub we apes always pop in the security office for a chat, a cup of pg tips tea, and just maybe an after pub banana before we return to the monkey house.
A couple of days ago we started get Miley Cyrus nude spam’s, which the hosts involved were firewalled (we monkeys love iptables on linux) and know she is not a imap mail server but some male human erection magnet for preteens because of an unseen disney film..
So we told Charlie about these, and then he said to us High school musical (that’s the disney film imdb: tt0475293) was on tv tonight in an few minutes time which had the no clothes wearing Miss Cyrus (not an imap server) in. Charlie and his crack team of security staff then all made sure they would be in to see it on the communal tv set. A banana was handed to myself so i decided to stay as well to see what the fuss is about..
The film is about an american high school where apparently admitting you like cooking, playing a musical instrument, or liking maths is something like being gay, The cast of stereotypes including the very camp Lucas Grabeel all come-out in a big song and dance number, while our misfit heros overcome great odds to sing together with their clothes on. I was most disappointed with that.
Theres a point to this as the american school was perfect, with not a spot of graffiti, or signs of Balitmore (this blog) anywhere to be seen and after the last camp scene (it involves biscuits) Charlie and his team said it’s not like a bog standard comprehensive school like Grange Hill (wiki) which it seems Charlie went to.
I asked why and got the response it was too clean, too nice and beyond reality as even we know human children are beastly to each other.
Alas we never saw a no clothes wearing Miley Cyrus. It’s odd that a sugar and sweet tale of humans is so loved by people when it appears is nothing like the reality they know.
We however thanked Charlie for the post pub banana and got a better understanding of humanity in return. More serous posts will return when i finish reading some books which means returning to to the monkey house .
Humans.
October 7, 2009
Olympics when being not too ‘nazi’ like matters.
So why did Chicago not get the olympics ? and should they worry ?
Being that i think sport is 101% homosexual with non mixed events, which cannot stand gender ‘confused’ persons by the people who run sport appear to be worse than the nazi ideal of the perfect race (of which many of the olympic movement where nazis) should it matter that america post 9/11 failed to get the event?
US Immigration was for many the factor that took the city out of the running. Everybody i know hates us immigration, conferences dont like it either. My parents never fly to it for transfers, and you probably know somebody who thinks that theres a better route than via america.
Americans think that they dont get a fair crack of the conference/tourist trade, ever since 9/11 america decided to ramp up those silly forms (have you been a nazi party member?) and long queues, – introduced fingerprinting etc etc, until those of us who not be americans got the message ’stay away’.
Chicago should celebrate not getting the olympics – for the idiots that go to such events are non culture lovers who only wear branded sports clothing, and discourage people from visiting historic places like Athens, or London.
Being a ‘tourist’ i have no no idea on why anybody should even bother to visit Chicago to start with, and the dhs have definitely stopped any desire of me to visit america for fun , or conferences held there.
Canada is ok though, tip – anybody in europe seeking to avoid us immigration travelling to south america should be advised to fly to Spain and change, thus avoiding the Americans getting your fingerprints in a database in transit.
If american deems that i should be treated like a criminal (than Bush, and Cheney), or number 1 terrorist threat for wanting to visit then clearly no one should tolerate that.
If americans wonder whats gone wrong then they alone are to blame for their security theatre. The Olympics still does nothing to promote good health or fitness in the general human population, and wars and repression of civil liberties continue to this day.
September 15, 2009
The Wire in review
Season five of the wire finished recently, i dealt with all five seasons 1,2,3,4,and 5 (my blog). From an unsteady start the wire has been an interesting drama which has had it moments that seemed to have finally gained Mr Simon some decent viewing figures.
David Simon is a talented writer (my blog) of both Homicide (you tv types didn’t watch that one), the corner which had ed burns as co writer who essentially did season 4, but the wire (which everybody saw) was the one that finally that got the attention it deserved.
Season 1 felt way too short, Season 2 got into a gear at the port, Season 3 cleaned up loose ends of 1 & 2 , season 4 got mired in education, and Season 5 did the politicing/come msm angle.
I’m not sure i would want to own the the the wire on dvd (or the next version of dvd after blueray for you suckers to rebuy everything* again) and don’t really see see its appeal that it has garnered.
Yes there have been some great performances by certain actors. It does beat the crap normally on tv but seems easier to watch compared to the harrowing corner, or homicide life on the street.
* A a certian Ridley Scott was done a definitve ‘Gladaitor’ blueray disk with an extra 5 hours of stuff , somebody is laughing somewhere at dvd ownerss..
July 16, 2009
Gary McKinnon and his team what a bunch of idiots.
Is an idiot who I briefly mentioned here (my blog) is still trying to avoid going to America. On a bbc ‘news’* program i caught the end of on the 14th July i was updated on the goings on of this special person.
Mr McKinnon believes that little green exist and that the evidence was to be ‘found’ in american computers. Unfortunately Mr stupid used a credit card number traceable to him, some graphical demo software with a graphical interface on the client computer and the idiot did it during american office hours.
Notice anything ? well somebody did, thus Gary the idiot became the famous little green men hunter who does not want to get raped in american prison everyday.
What is amusing is the way the legal proceedings have taken the McKinnon clan to a new level of idiotic panic. Yes there’s a problem that if an american was found to be hunting for little green men on british computers that person would never even get to england, scotland or wales, but roll over and tickle my tummy Tony Blair thought it best that Brits can be anwerable to americans whatever the case – including the the enron three (my blog).
As a follower of a separate case in the american courts (mr soloway), Mr McKinnon admitted he did the deed without a lawyer present and was offered a deal, which guarantee or not he then refused as was not ‘watertight’.
As an observant bystander my conclusion of the team of idiots who advise our little green men hunter is nothing short of comtempt. Indeed no american criminal plea bargain is a garantee but the courts do take guidance from said documents.
I am not a lawyer, but even i know a fool when i see one, Gary has been fucked by a lot a people including Tony Blair.
The moral to this ? – don’t hire any of Mr McKinnons legal team they know absolutely nothing about american legal procedings.. Consider yourself advised
* selective
May 25, 2009
cbs and the riaa trying to kill last.fm
Last.fm is web radio, who cbs an american corp bought. What you may or may not know is that an application on windows tracks all your media (see a problem yet?) so this means lots of data which is uploaded to last.fm [privacy?]
Last.fm is a london,england based outfit and so should really be under the control the evil ifpi, not the american bit which is the riaa and famous for suing music fans with bad data.
The story is here, the moral is don’t run microsoft windows, or trust americans (even if you are an non american citizen) for your privacy.
So Cbs the American broadcaster wishes to destroy there investment in web radio in last.fm, thats ok with me, but the shareholders of cbs might be a bit angry since thats rather a waste of money.
It is interesting to note that popular music once a benchmark for american freedom means just the opposite of it today, that goodness those commies in Russia lost the cold war, but lets not mention china.
As to the privacy abuse make up your own mind.
Plenty of issues here i think for all.



