How to waste time fashionably
The invention of the Television was a matter of dispute to start with. Nobody really knows who invented the TV. When TV itself is a dubious product what can you expect of the programs on it? I regret spending so much time watching nonsensical programs on TV when I could do bigger and better things in life such as watch the "O'Reilly factor" on fox. For those who don't know what I am talking about, Bill O'Reilly is this ruthless conservative (maybe a redundant phrase) who hosts this show everday of the week thats called the O'Reilly Factor (talk about self-conceitedness to the public). His creativity is "ingeniously" demonstrated by reciting the world news again while slamming liberals, the LA Times and the New York Times and lets not forget the democrats. He actually said on TV that the democrats and islamic jihads are enemies of the white house. What a genius. This is how he propogates hatrid among americans as Fox TV proudly admits to be the most watched channel among americans. Incidentally, I happened to be one of them yesterday.
The first story was regarding the port deal. I dont wanna delve into it as most of you know whats happenening. But this is what O'Reilly has to say after barbariously criticizing the deal a couple of days ago by linking the 911 hijackers and UAE.
Bill: I think Bush should tell the American public that there is nothing wrong with the dubai port deal. The only people who dont want the deal are Iran and Osama.
Hmmmm..I cracked up listening to that. I was wondering where he learnt to effectively read the minds of the Iranians and osama! If he would have done that 4 yrs ago the world would have been a better place. I should have just changed channels right then but I would regret later.
Later, O'Reilly was interviewing this retired US army Col. David Hunt regarding the abuse in Abugharib. This is how the conversation goes as far as I can recollect.
Bill: So col. what do you think about the new allegations regarding the abuses?
Hunt: I think this is just more publicisized than necessary to create sensitivity among the people. There is nothing wrong in doing "bad things to bad people".
Bill: Forget about the publicity but do you think it was ok to abuse the prisoners in the manner in which they were abused.
Hunt: (mind you, he doesn't say no) I think its perfectly ok to do bad things to bad people. That is what the US army is trained to do.
Bill: Define bad things
Hunt: By bad I mean bad. I mean physical torture.
Thats it. I had to change channels. I seriously don't know how they recruit officals in the army with such an animalistic mind set. I decided to increase my IQ by changing channels to msnbc (another news channel).
Apparently Anna Nicole Smith is in the supreme court fighting for her Ex husbands money worth a billion dollars. I didn't even know who Anna nicole smith was before I watched the news and neither did the judges in the suprememe court. My IQ indicator went negative after that story. Not surprising.
I realized that if the media didn't indulge on wasteful news everyday we could do so much good for the society. So I decided to switch to the BBC channel which is considered a bit better. And guess what the headlines was: Dog trial in romania. So a dog is physically on trial with lawyers on the defense as well opposition sides fighting. The allegation was that the dog spotted a foreigner and bit the man on his thigh. Guess what the man, who turned out to be Japanese, does in retaliation? Sues the dog. So he follows the dog around just so it doesnt go astray and then took it to court. I wonder how they will take the oath for the dog. I was wondering what would have happened if he were in India with the bajillion stray dogs?
I was just too pissed off to watch any more news. I felt like I had better things going on in my own life.
Time for a question:
Guess whats the one item thats not available at Mardi gras?
Will be back later
The first story was regarding the port deal. I dont wanna delve into it as most of you know whats happenening. But this is what O'Reilly has to say after barbariously criticizing the deal a couple of days ago by linking the 911 hijackers and UAE.
Bill: I think Bush should tell the American public that there is nothing wrong with the dubai port deal. The only people who dont want the deal are Iran and Osama.
Hmmmm..I cracked up listening to that. I was wondering where he learnt to effectively read the minds of the Iranians and osama! If he would have done that 4 yrs ago the world would have been a better place. I should have just changed channels right then but I would regret later.
Later, O'Reilly was interviewing this retired US army Col. David Hunt regarding the abuse in Abugharib. This is how the conversation goes as far as I can recollect.
Bill: So col. what do you think about the new allegations regarding the abuses?
Hunt: I think this is just more publicisized than necessary to create sensitivity among the people. There is nothing wrong in doing "bad things to bad people".
Bill: Forget about the publicity but do you think it was ok to abuse the prisoners in the manner in which they were abused.
Hunt: (mind you, he doesn't say no) I think its perfectly ok to do bad things to bad people. That is what the US army is trained to do.
Bill: Define bad things
Hunt: By bad I mean bad. I mean physical torture.
Thats it. I had to change channels. I seriously don't know how they recruit officals in the army with such an animalistic mind set. I decided to increase my IQ by changing channels to msnbc (another news channel).
Apparently Anna Nicole Smith is in the supreme court fighting for her Ex husbands money worth a billion dollars. I didn't even know who Anna nicole smith was before I watched the news and neither did the judges in the suprememe court. My IQ indicator went negative after that story. Not surprising.
I realized that if the media didn't indulge on wasteful news everyday we could do so much good for the society. So I decided to switch to the BBC channel which is considered a bit better. And guess what the headlines was: Dog trial in romania. So a dog is physically on trial with lawyers on the defense as well opposition sides fighting. The allegation was that the dog spotted a foreigner and bit the man on his thigh. Guess what the man, who turned out to be Japanese, does in retaliation? Sues the dog. So he follows the dog around just so it doesnt go astray and then took it to court. I wonder how they will take the oath for the dog. I was wondering what would have happened if he were in India with the bajillion stray dogs?
I was just too pissed off to watch any more news. I felt like I had better things going on in my own life.
Time for a question:
Guess whats the one item thats not available at Mardi gras?
Will be back later
posted by Mt. Heaven at 10:44 AM
5 Comments:
im hoping for your own good that you're just joking about the part where you say you didnt know who Anna Nicole Smith was. But, if you're serious, then dude you need to actually lighten up a bit and start watching more TV and maybe even start reading those gossip magazines everytime youre at the checkout line at your local grocery store :-P
and O'Reilly makes for fun TV.. you should watch his show, not for the news, but to learn how not to interview people.
Yeh I have just started to read the gossip magazines. Still have some catching up to do
also dude, whenever and wherever possible, watch VH1 - thats where I get my fix/ updates on pop culture and all that junk.
pay special attention to the "I love the 80s" and the "I love the 90s" shows.. I learnt a lot there, and yes they are very relaxing too :-)
Dude, you are not the guy I met in 2002 summer. Since when did you shift from 60's tamil music?
dae!! it was 80's Ramarajan-Tamil music!! (and 60s and 70s english music)
I dont know how things changed, but maybe I had some hidden fondness for stuff that happened in this country in the 80s and 90s :-P
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