I never thought that I would find myself criticizing Bob Dylan’s music, but here I am. Dylan’s new Christmas album, “Christmas in the heart,” is simply horrendous. He sounds like the old rusted bugle that’s been sitting in your basement for just too long. At least we know he is not using Auto-Tune. One blogger at sctime.com puts it like this:
Hi, my name is Karl and I own a pug.
To be a pug owner is to understand the meaning of “pug ugly.”
For my family, it means that something is so ugly it’s cute. And that’s sort of how I describe Bob Dylan’s Christmas album, “Christmas in the Heart.”
It’s so bad it’s good.
In fact, I don’t know how Dylan could record a single song on it and keep a straight face — at least he had me smiling from start to finish. It’s like straight schtick comedy.
For example, hearing Dylan’s weathered and nasally voice singing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” is just so wrong you can’t help but crack up.
I’m sure by now you get the idea.
I had wanted to say, “If you buy one Christmas album this year make it ‘Christmas in the Heart,’” but I can’t. In fact, it’s probably only a must-own disc for the die-hard Dylan fanatics.
But that’s the beauty of the download generation within which we live; you don’t have to buy the whole disc. If you choose to go that route, the songs to grab include “Must Be Santa” and “Here Comes Santa Claus.”
If you want more, pick up “Christmas Blues” and “Little Drummer Boy” followed by “Silver Bells” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
I think that sums it up pretty well. I did slightly like the song “Must be Santa Claus.” Except for Dylan barely sings in it.
I guess Bob Dylan is still the ultimate song and dance man. He just needs to focus more on the dancing.
When Barack Obama travels to Copenhagen on December 9th, there is a possibility that he may sign a treaty that would create a transnational government entity which would have the power to tax first-world nations and transfer that money to third-world nations to satisfy something called a ‘climate debt’. The entire treaty, in draft stages now, is based on the fraudulent science of global warming.
I heard on the radio this morning that the officials looking to push this thing through are now looking to settle the ‘climate debt’ owed from first-world nations ‘upfront’. It seems obvious that the diplomats who are pushing this treaty want upfront concessions because of the evidence that was unveiled from the recent East Anglia server hacking.
Below is a video of a climate change expert named Christopher Mockton warning America of the dangers the U.N. treaty will bring.
Islam was invented by U’bul Khassim (later annointed as “Muhammad” or “Praised One”) in order to recruit pirates, thieves and cutthroats for the raiding of caravans, villages and warehouses. Muhammad reigned over an organized criminal association and called it a religion. All was to make U’bul Khassim a wealthy man. In Islam, there is no concept of sin. How better to recruit thugs than to “convert” them to Islam and license them to spread mayham amongst “infidels.” Of course Islam spread by the sword, as people wanted to save their fortunes, their businesses and their necks! By converting to Islam, a degree of security was provided as U’bul Khassim’s thugs tended to leave fellow Muslims in peace. From this, came the myth that Islam is a religion of peace.
U’bul Khassim was a wise fellow, in that he borrowed bits and pieces from Jews and Christians, as well as his own pagan tribe, the Quraish Tribe. From his own tribe, he borrowed Allah, the Moon god as well as the crescent (moon) as the symbol of Islam. All of these things lent to the myth of credibility. Even the English translation of the Quran is written in Elizabethan English, so as to mimick the Bible. The use of Thee, Thou, etc. is just an Islamic ploy to “legitimize” an evil bo0k and to mask the hatred that spews forth from it.
Now I am an Apostate, as I have left the faith. According to Muhammad, I must be killed. If my father, or either of my brothers can find me, I will be killed in order to settle a matter of honor in my family. Muhammad said and Muslims continue to believe, “If any man change his Muslim religion, kill him.” I have no doubt that my father would do this, if he knew where I was.
So much for the “religion of peace, love, tolerance and learning.”
I read this comment from a ex-Muslim in response to an American Thinker article entitled Islam Bashers Repent. Thought I’d share.
Long ago, conservative mastermind Sean Hanity discovered the ultimate argument winning, disarming question to be used only as a last resort in political debates. Hanity used it often on liberal call-ins during his three hour daily radio program. The question was: who is the vice president?
Dobbs: Over the past six months, it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us, and some leaders in media, politics, and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving, as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible.
Translation: Obama has been screwing up the country over the past 6 months. I can’t be constructive, solve anything or contribute to a better understanding of the great issues of our day at CNN. I would like to speak in honest, direct language so I am leaving CNN.
Dobbs: I truly believe that the major issues of our time include the growth of our middle class, the creation of more jobs, health care, immigration policy, the environment, climate change, and our military involvement, of course, in Afghanistan and Iraq. But each of those issues is, in my opinion, informed by our capacity to demonstrate strong resilience of our now-weakened capitalist economy and demonstrate the political will to overcome the lack of true representation in Washington, D.C. I believe these to be profoundly, critically important issues, and I will continue to strive to deal honestly and straightforwardly with those issues in the future. Unfortunately, these issues are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous, empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion. I’ll be working diligently to change that as best I can. And as for the important work of restoring inspiration to our great, free society and our market economy, I will strive as well to be a leader in that national conversation.
Translation: In my opinion, the media is informing us on the issues with strong resilience to our capitalist economy. There is a lack of true representation in Washington which needs to be addressed. The great issues of our day require rigorous empirical thought, forthright analysis and discussion. The discussion is not happening here. I am going somewhere else.
This is just too funny. ABC’s new drama ‘V’ appears to be an allegory on American Journalism, Obamamania and Obamacare. The aliens, the ‘Vs’, appear to be mankind’s salvation, spreading a message of hope and promising universal healthcare while demanding they not be viewed in a negative light in the media. But they really just want to eat people. Sound familiar?
A recent Amnesty International report condemned Israel for withholding water supplies to Palestinians in Gaza. The sub-head on their website news article reads “Israeli settlers enjoy lush lawns and swimming pools while Palestinians reduced to a trickle of water,” and has been published across world news organizations such as CNN, BBC, AP, Reuters, and The Times of London.
Amnesty’s 112-page report - Troubled Waters: Palestinians denied fair access to water - shows how Israel uses over 80% of the water from the Mountain Aquifer, the main source of underground water in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), while restricting Palestinian access to a mere 20%. The Mountain Aquifer is the only source of water for Palestinians in the West Bank, but only one of several for Israel, which also takes all the water available from the Jordan River.
The NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) Monitor discovered that the Amnesty International report “ignores evidencethat not only does Israel provide West Bank Palestinians with more water than required under the Oslo framework, but that Palestinian water thieves are responsible for stealing up to 50% of supplies in some areas.” The report also found that “Amnesty’s report provides legitimacy for a speaking tour beginning November 1 at universities in the US organized by the Palestinian Cultural Academic Boycott of Israel (PCABI) movement entitled, “Israel’s Control of Water as a Tool of Apartheid and means of Ethnic Cleansing.”
In advance of Amnesty’s report, NGO Monitor’s President Prof Gerald Steinberg said, “Amnesty’s report manipulates the issue of water and ignores the complexities of history and law in order to again falsely portray Israel as a brutal regime.
Rather than recognize that water supply is a complex regional issue, Amnesty focuses only on Palestinian shortages. The report adopts a painfully simplistic narrative which places blame solely on Israel, to the extent that the Palestinian leadership is absolved of responsibility for the agreements signed under the Oslo framework.
This report has been cynically timed by Amnesty to boost a new wave of Israel boycott campaigning. It is a pointed example of Amnesty’s ongoing campaign of hostility towards Israel.”
A Jerusalem Post reporters discovered that the Israeli Water Authorities were not even given the opportunity to present information to the Amnesty researchers and a JP editorial points out that:
Water availability to Israelis has fallen sharply in recent decades. In 1967 it stood at 500 cu.m. – so today’s figure represents a 70% drop. Until the Six Day War, Palestinians could count on a mere 86 cu.m. yearly. Their situation has improved by 22%.
This is the sort of misinformation and propaganda that fuels blind hatred towards Israel in the Western world. You would not be able to decipher any of this if you only got your news from the mainstream media. Unfortunately most people only get their news from the mainstream media… that’s why they call it mainstream.
Below is a very funny depiction of the biased BBC coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an Israeli SNL-type TV show.
