The Mouse Does 9/11 and other assorted ramblings
Greetings all. Sorry for neglecting this blog for so long. Honestly, it's a pain in the fucking snards, just because of the whole html tag coding thing. You would thing the Technorati folks would get their act together and work with Google to add a keyboard shortcut. But no, I have to fire up M$ Word and do it through there. {{Joy!!! I just found a utility that I can plug in tags and it generates ready-to-paste code. Do computers rock our cocks or what?}}
But I digress.
As to the Mouse's take on 9/11 (part 1....)
It was pretty intense.
From what I understand from following the news all these years, it seems ABC did a decent job of laying out the timeline.
Of course, we have no idea as to the truth of all the dialog. We know that at least originally, there were some.... problems. Whether they were fixed in the final version, I guess we'll hear tomorrow.
Some things about the show caught my eye and my black sense of humor.
First, did Toyota pay for product placement in the film? Apparently Toyotas are the Official Trucks of Al Qaeda.
Second, apparently ABC is the only news network that covered all these events.... ;)
Third, during the capture of the bomb-maker in Pakistan, when the Pakistani military commander wanted to torture him, the US operative said something along the lines of "that's not how the US does things."
Ummmm, right. That got an out-loud laugh from me. At least that's what it was like back when Clinton was president and the Geneva Conventions weren't merely suggestions or something to wipe you ass on, but international law to which the US at least professed to follow. Now? Ummmm, not so much....
Fourth, there were a whole lot of gratuitous "this person doesn't have any balls" kinda comments and very little explanation as to the reasons why certain decisions were made and the reasoning behind them. The only episode that presented what I consider to be a fair and balanced view was when Madeline Albright told them quite testily why it was that Pakistan had to be notified about the launch of the cruise missiles that overflew their territory.
It was a surprising moment of grey in what has thus far been a whole lot of black and white.
Fifth, after Clinton launched the cruise missiles into Afghanistan and bombed the pharmaceutical/suspected chem weapon factory in (the Sudan?), the GOP jumping all over his ass saying he did it to distract from the Lewinsky thing. Yes, the same GOP that claims the Dems are soft on terrorism.
And goddamn, but the scene in the Al Qaeda training camp where they were showing a Clinton news conference and they were shooting at the screen and calling Clinton "Satan"- I had one of those giddily surreal moments where I wasn't sure if I was looking at Bin Ladin's camp or one of Karl Rove's closed-door GOP "strategy" sessions.
What the fuck was up with some of the music? Jesus, is The Mouse going to be pimping the soundtrack to this?
Those disclaimers periodically flashed across the scene were annoying as all fuck. Yes, we heard- you made shit up. Show it at the beginning and at the end. You fucked with the flow.
And I like this "no commercial" stuff. Which is what I also remember from 9/11- the news was constantly on every channel with no commercials. For once this country put aside its venal money-grubbing mentality and was operating for the greater good.
So now we wait for part 2.
Do you think NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg will invite Ann Coulter to the official memorial ceremony tomorrow?
We will also be taking bets on the over/under for pandering by the Administation and right now the opening line is 237 for the number of self-congratulatory dick sucks offered up by Bush/Cheney/Rove et al.
But just remember- it was what, 7 years between the first WTC bombing and 9/11? Just because it's been 5 years doesn't mean shit. Some of this is due to increased vigilance, but let's not fool ourselves. An unknown part of it is due to the timeline it takes for Al Qaeda to plan and train for something. We are very far from out of the woods.
And this takes me to my final point about part 1 of tonight's episode. It's all well and good that ABC has at least attempted to put together a timeline of events. But what is distinctly missing is any sort of in-depth attempt to understand and lend perspective as to why Bin Ladin and so many others around the world hate our fucking guts and want nothing more than for all of us to die violent and painful deaths. As a nation, we refuse to even consider that our actions help create these monsters and provide the fuel they desperately require to nourish their continued hatred and recruit others. Until we do so, we are doomed to continue to feed the terrorism cycle.
Now, a few other things......
Some of you may have missed the news but....
a> Those CIA gulags scattered across the world that we were told didn't exist? The Prodigal Idiot Son President came out this week and told us they do exist.
b> The dick-sucking and mutual circle-jerking between Bin Ladin/Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that Bush told us went on? It didn't. In fact, Hussein tried to capture Al-Zarqawi.
But as recently as 8/21/06, El Presidente Del Idiota still said there was a tie between them.
But we should continue to believe they're telling us the truth even after it's been shown that they are lying sacks of camel dung.
Let's see how the American public responds in the upcoming midterm elections. Will they reconfirm that as a whole We The People are a bunch of gullible and venal idiots or will the People rise up and let it be known that we don't like to be lied to?
Right now I'm not sure which way this will go. The choices are blindingly clear. We will see.
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But I digress.
As to the Mouse's take on 9/11 (part 1....)
It was pretty intense.
From what I understand from following the news all these years, it seems ABC did a decent job of laying out the timeline.
Of course, we have no idea as to the truth of all the dialog. We know that at least originally, there were some.... problems. Whether they were fixed in the final version, I guess we'll hear tomorrow.
Some things about the show caught my eye and my black sense of humor.
First, did Toyota pay for product placement in the film? Apparently Toyotas are the Official Trucks of Al Qaeda.
Second, apparently ABC is the only news network that covered all these events.... ;)
Third, during the capture of the bomb-maker in Pakistan, when the Pakistani military commander wanted to torture him, the US operative said something along the lines of "that's not how the US does things."
Ummmm, right. That got an out-loud laugh from me. At least that's what it was like back when Clinton was president and the Geneva Conventions weren't merely suggestions or something to wipe you ass on, but international law to which the US at least professed to follow. Now? Ummmm, not so much....
Fourth, there were a whole lot of gratuitous "this person doesn't have any balls" kinda comments and very little explanation as to the reasons why certain decisions were made and the reasoning behind them. The only episode that presented what I consider to be a fair and balanced view was when Madeline Albright told them quite testily why it was that Pakistan had to be notified about the launch of the cruise missiles that overflew their territory.
It was a surprising moment of grey in what has thus far been a whole lot of black and white.
Fifth, after Clinton launched the cruise missiles into Afghanistan and bombed the pharmaceutical/suspected chem weapon factory in (the Sudan?), the GOP jumping all over his ass saying he did it to distract from the Lewinsky thing. Yes, the same GOP that claims the Dems are soft on terrorism.
And goddamn, but the scene in the Al Qaeda training camp where they were showing a Clinton news conference and they were shooting at the screen and calling Clinton "Satan"- I had one of those giddily surreal moments where I wasn't sure if I was looking at Bin Ladin's camp or one of Karl Rove's closed-door GOP "strategy" sessions.
What the fuck was up with some of the music? Jesus, is The Mouse going to be pimping the soundtrack to this?
Those disclaimers periodically flashed across the scene were annoying as all fuck. Yes, we heard- you made shit up. Show it at the beginning and at the end. You fucked with the flow.
And I like this "no commercial" stuff. Which is what I also remember from 9/11- the news was constantly on every channel with no commercials. For once this country put aside its venal money-grubbing mentality and was operating for the greater good.
So now we wait for part 2.
Do you think NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg will invite Ann Coulter to the official memorial ceremony tomorrow?
We will also be taking bets on the over/under for pandering by the Administation and right now the opening line is 237 for the number of self-congratulatory dick sucks offered up by Bush/Cheney/Rove et al.
But just remember- it was what, 7 years between the first WTC bombing and 9/11? Just because it's been 5 years doesn't mean shit. Some of this is due to increased vigilance, but let's not fool ourselves. An unknown part of it is due to the timeline it takes for Al Qaeda to plan and train for something. We are very far from out of the woods.
And this takes me to my final point about part 1 of tonight's episode. It's all well and good that ABC has at least attempted to put together a timeline of events. But what is distinctly missing is any sort of in-depth attempt to understand and lend perspective as to why Bin Ladin and so many others around the world hate our fucking guts and want nothing more than for all of us to die violent and painful deaths. As a nation, we refuse to even consider that our actions help create these monsters and provide the fuel they desperately require to nourish their continued hatred and recruit others. Until we do so, we are doomed to continue to feed the terrorism cycle.
Now, a few other things......
Some of you may have missed the news but....
a> Those CIA gulags scattered across the world that we were told didn't exist? The Prodigal Idiot Son President came out this week and told us they do exist.
b> The dick-sucking and mutual circle-jerking between Bin Ladin/Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that Bush told us went on? It didn't. In fact, Hussein tried to capture Al-Zarqawi.
But as recently as 8/21/06, El Presidente Del Idiota still said there was a tie between them.
But we should continue to believe they're telling us the truth even after it's been shown that they are lying sacks of camel dung.
Let's see how the American public responds in the upcoming midterm elections. Will they reconfirm that as a whole We The People are a bunch of gullible and venal idiots or will the People rise up and let it be known that we don't like to be lied to?
Right now I'm not sure which way this will go. The choices are blindingly clear. We will see.
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