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Hey, this is a coincidence. Yesterday, I mentioned an old article about the making of Disney’s Snow White and Seven Dwarfs [link here], and today Mark Evanier pointed out a video on YouTube with a vintage short subject about the same thing [link here].
Not trusting YouTube to keep anything Disney-related online, I’ll post the video here.
Business Week used to be worth reading, but I let my subscription lapse after they fawned over pre-scandal Enron and praised Bush’s first term tax cuts. But anyway, Business Week has a good article that’s asking the question “Is Google Too Powerful?” [Link Here]
The New York Times has a feature article, including an audio slide show, about what’s become of the Junior Miss Pageant. Click the [link here].
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Through Netflix my wife Carol and I have watched an interesting collection of recent documentaries, a couple of which I’ve highlighted previously.
All of these films are recommended, but I would say that Jesus Camp is the most disturbing. I’ve selected two brief scenes from the film and spliced them together. I’ll let these three minutes speak for themselves, while making the assumption you know what Ted Haggard was forced to admit shortly before the November elections.
For a long time I resisted using my TV tuner card as video wallpaper. I dunno, I thought it was a silly feature. But now I like it. If something sounds interesting I right-click the task bar and select Show the Desktop to watch it.
By this point Karl Rove’s penchant for simplistic catch-phrases and talking points, such as “when they stand up we’ll stand down” and “up or down vote” must be apparent to the majority of Americans, and hopefully everybody is tired of them. The current argument being repeated is that “a timetable for retreat” in Iraq means the enemy would simply hide until we are gone.
Let’s follow that reasoning a bit. If we stay indefinitely the bad guys will continue to fight. If we announce that we’ll be leaving, they’ll run away and hide.
OK, so if the bad guys lay low, that should result in relative calm in Iraq. Will the administration then say the “situation on the ground” must be getting better? Or will we be told there is merely the appearance of stability, and we must therefore stay? I would bet on the latter. In other words, there will be no definition for victory. With Karl Rove there’s just no winning.
Obviously, the so-called surge isn’t working and it won’t work. If Iraq can’t be secured in the next 18 months, then it can’t be done. Not by foreign military occupation, anyway. We’ve got stop enabling the devious, deceptive and dangerous men in the Bush administration, and that means no more money without a timetable for withdrawal.
Added Comment: By Bush’s own logic, by his declaring that the surge would focus on securing Baghdad, didn’t he signal to the insurgents that they should leave the city for a while?
