One has to wonder, one does, about the person who came to my blog (er, so to speak) through a search engine inquiry “Narnia porn.”
May Aslan have mercy on your soul. You fucking perv.
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some hate crimes are more equal than others
The plotting terrorist didn’t really expect to use the guns or the knife. “Hand to hand combat is unlikely,” he noted in his handwritten plans. The way he figured it, the bombs would be enough. Over the past several months, the terrorist had hoarded enough C4, constructed enough homemade explosives and brewed up enough kitchen-counter napalm to bring the building to the ground in an earth-shattering, apocalyptic storm of fire and death.
Yes, some hate crimes are more equal than others. Specifically, hate crimes perpetrated by nice Jewish podiatrists and dentists plotting to kill Muslims are more equal.
It is a matter of some consternation to the Muslim community of central
Florida that Goldstein and his two accomplices had gotten off comparatively lightly for their parts in what even prosecutors acknowledge was a hate-driven plot to murder perhaps scores of innocent people. None of the trio, not even Goldstein, the architect of the plan, were charged under terrorism statutes, or for that matter, under hate crime statutes.It is no small irony, some Muslim leaders have said, that at a time when some in government had claimed a right since restricted by the U.S. Supreme Court to designate some accused plotters as terrorists, and to hold them for years if deemed necessary without ever filing formal charges against them, all three admitted conspirators in the Goldstein case received speedy hearings and comparatively lenient sentences.
And it goes without saying that if any of the conspirators know what Gitmo looks like, it’s from that article Vanity Fair did a few months back.
From the Jewish newsweekly The Forward, via Crime Library:
“What led Goldstein, by all accounts an assimilated Jew, intermarried and living in what, according to a 1999 study by geographer Dr. Ira Sheskin of the University of Miami, is a typically assimilated Jewish community, a place where Christmas trees are not uncommon in nominally Jewish households, where the intermarriage rate is slightly higher than in many places, and where anti-Semitism is no more rabid than anywhere else in Florida, to take up arms as a self appointed avenger of the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? What made this peripheral member of an average Jewish community decide to plot what has been described as a terrorist attack to make a statement ‘for his people’? Even more troubling is this question: Was Goldstein a terrorist, and if so, was he treated differently than he would have been had he been an Arab or Muslim accused of a similar offense?”
Now they’re working for the Intelligent Design lobby
From Fortean Times which I am nice enough to credit even though they banned me from their forum, but I’m so over that!
Completely.
10 March In 1974
Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army stopped fighting World War II. He dismissed the leaflets announcing the end of the war as American propaganda and remained in considerable discomfort on the tiny Philippine island of Lubang on which he had been marooned. Two years later, Shoichi Yokoi turned up in a cave on Guam, and another Japanese veteran was found in Indonesia in 1974. In December 1989, two Japanese civil engineers, who had been fighting with the communist guerrillas in Malaya since 1945, gave themselves up.
Apocalypse Wow!
Is this the worst movie ever made? Dear readers, you will have to tell me, for lo, I haveth not the space on my hard drive, and besides, I’m afraid what all my cool documents will say about me behind my back if I force them to make room for the abomination which is The Day the Clown Cried.
This is proof positive that, no matter how awful a thing may be, how apocalyptically degenerate, how earth-shatteringly horrific, it will, in the fullness of time, get its own fansite.
Where’s mine, bitches?
The site includes not one but TWO scripts for downloading, a first draft and a final, along with comparative analysis (and never has the word “anal” been more apt) and a compendium of articles on this lost meisterstroke (and never has the word “stroke” aw, fergit it).
Lordy, I’m filthy-minded today. Good thing I work for a singles club!
In any case, here is a snippet from the very fine Spy article in which I first learned of the existence of this work of lost…crapitude. And here is the entire article, for those whose lives do not contain enough pain.
JERRY GOES TO DEATH CAMP by Bruce Handy
Illustrations by Drew Friedman
from “Spy Magazine” – May 1992
To artists and intellectuals, the twentieth century has posed no questions more vexing than these:
First, can art make sense of the Holocaust?
And second, why do the French love Jerry Lewis?
The first question can’t really be answered, at least not in the space allotted here. As for the second, it’s my own opinion that the French have confused sloppy, uneven filmmaking with Godardian anti-formalism. Regardless, raising these two issues on the same page is not just a pointless exercise in non-sequitur. Because Jerry Lewis, like Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi before him — not to mention the producers of the NBC ministeries Holocaust — has transformed the incomprehendible into art.
He did this two decades ago, in 1972, a year of cultural ferment that also saw a black man, Sammy Davis Jr., snuggle Richard Nixon on national television. It was Lewis’ 41st film (but his first to deal with the mass destruction of European Jewry), and it turned out to be the most notorious cinematic miscue in history — unfinished, unreleased, said by the few who’ve seen it to be almost unwatchable. Oh, there are also Von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly and Welles’ Don Quixote, among other busts. But no other film, seen or unseen, can boast both Nazi death camps and the auteur responsible for The Nutty Professor.
There is only one The Day the Clown Cried.
It sounds like a punchline in an overheated Hollywood satire: Jerry Lewis in Auschwitz. Depending on your taste, the prospect may be as offensive or as inttriguing as … well, truly, no metaphor measures up to the particulars. A synopsis:
An unhappy German circus clown is sent to a concentration camp and forced to become a sort of genocidal Pied-Piper, entertaining Jewish children as he leads them to the gas chambers.
The story is meant to be played as drama. By all accounts, no one sings “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, and Tony Orlando does not appear.
Show me a sign!
‘k.
Smartass.
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