Comments on: Cute Animal News

by: Nelson Guirado

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:56:49 +0000

Good evening friends on the left,

It’s proper to concern oneself about the movies one’s children watch and the messeges they contain. Which issue is more important than raising good children?

Let’s play a little mind game. Let us say some parents on the left take their children to watch a movie like Veggietales or Narnia which contain not-so veiled references to Christianity; or a movie like Cinderella which suggests that it’s OK for little girls to hope a man comes and rescues them from their unideal situation; or one of olderPopeye cartoons insensitive to minorities (I’d complain with them); or maybe a Superman or Warner Brothers cartoon from WW2 supporting America and the war effort; or, perhaps, one of those didactic cartoons of the fifties that taught young girls to take care of their husbands and promoted capitalism. Do you think those parents wouldn’t comment to their friends-perhaps alerting them to the dangers of the movie’s message?

Thanks,

Nelson

www.asymmetricblog.com

by: Charles N. Steele

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:58:22 +0000

One irony is that overfishing is a problem with a private property/free market solution that has worked well where tried (ITQs — individual transferable quotas), yet conservatives such as Sen. Ted Stevens (R. Alaska) have consistently blocked them (they benefit fishermen and fish, not big contributors) and would require admitting enviro problems are real.

I have the ITQ story on my own blog…plus a cute penguin photo.

by: Town Called Dobson

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:09:28 +0000

Ice Melts In Hell

I really can’t believe a movie like Happy Feet is considered by Fox News as a propaganda tool for liberalism.
From Neil Cavuto…
Even more telling to me was the fact that — I though it was like an animated “Inconvenient Truth.” I half…

by: maha

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:58:51 +0000

Mike — You’re thinking of the elephant seals, but they were not all that scary. The leopard seal was scary, but not much like a walrus.

by: Mike

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:25:59 +0000

The walrus is Paul.

But he isn’t in the movie. There were those big-nosed things, I can’t remember what they were, walrussy but I don’t think they were walrus.

by: maha

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:01:45 +0000

BTW, does the movie actually say anything about arctic overfishing, or is it really ANTarctic overfishing that’s being “foisted” on the poor Cavuto children?

Antarctic, and I still say there was no walrus.

by: Paul

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:53:03 +0000

‘Goldurnit, I told them it was gonna be a slippery slope when they let that anti-hunting message into Bambi. And that tree-hugging Smokey Bear, with those Big Brother messages of his, like a person can’t just be expected to have a campfire in the woods without some Nanny State Bear yammering at him! ‘

BTW, does the movie actually say anything about arctic overfishing, or is it really ANTarctic overfishing that’s being “foisted” on the poor Cavuto children?

by: Ian

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:13:42 +0000

Some people seem to have a weird relationhip with cartoons … remember Simba and the dust that forms the word “SEX”? Or remember the little mermaid and the minister that is supposedly a little too excited by the whole thing?

There’s a whole page on snopes.com about urban legends surrounding Disney cartoons … I just gotta wonder who the hell these people are, that go through cartoons frame by frame hoping to be offended by something?? Well … looks like some of these righties have joined their ranks…

-me

by: The Mahablog » Why Does Dennis Prager Hate America? And Other Religious Questions

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:36:57 +0000

[…] Prager’s column is nothing but bigotry and jingoism. Prager and other whackjobs (see previous post) demand that their points of view be respected, but there’s no virtue in tolerating intolerance (or, as in the previous post, plain ol’ idiocy). […]

by: maha

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:48:29 +0000

I say that when someone becomes so intolerant he is outraged by a simple message to please not litter the earth with nonbiodegradable trash, that person has forfeited all rights to have his own opinion respected.