It sucks not having access to Blogger from work

Hence the very light blogging in the last little while.

But just to give everyone something to watch here's a couple videos:

The first, a beautiful example of the MSM in full liberal swing (by way of Hotair):



The hypocrisy is so thick even Kurtz can't seem to make sense of it.

And on the lighter side, a couple of WoW videos;

Starting with the infamous Leeroy Jenkins:


The not so family friendly WoW video (if you're watching this at work you may want to wear headphones)


Whose up for a little 4 wheelin':



And finally, also by way of Hotair, the maiden (and final) flight of the worlds first real X-Wing fighter.

The Wheel of Time ....

.... turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

Yesterday another Age passed and was born into legend with the sad news that James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better know to his millions of fans as Robert Jordan, had finally succomed to the cardiac amyloidosis that had plagued his life these past two years.

Not wanting to dissapoint, he made sure that his legacy would continue by explaining his plans for the WoT series to his wife and cousin as well as through detailed notes and dictations but although the story may continue the world of Rand and Mat and Perrin will never be the same.

Rave reviews for Six Ways to Sunday

MacDaddy's list of fans just keeps on growing and now you can add the reviewer from e.Peak.

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy (and I'm not just saying that because he let me use his cabin the other week; though I'm not above accepting bribes for some positive feedback in case anyone else out there is wondering).

Sicko

I'm not the biggest Michael Moore fan out there, but I decided to give his latest movie Sicko a shot. For the first 30 minutes Moore manages to actually make a pretty good documentary. He does this by focusing mainly on peoples individual horror stories with their HMO's as well as showing Insurance company insiders explaining how things work.

It isn't until he begins to ask the question "Who invented this system?" that the movie moves from strict documentary into the realm of the Michael Moore documentary with it's half truths, misdirection and selective facts.

Even without doing some independent research to expose his 'mistruthes', Moore's editing tricks are quite easy to see for those who are looking. For instance, any part way observant person will notice that when Moore and his boatload of 9/11 rescue workers face off against the guard towers at Gitmo it only shows his face when he is calling out (quite softly for an attempt to talk to a tower several hundred yards away) to the towers to let in the workers for medical attention. When he picks up his bullhorn and yells out the more challenging statements about them only wanting the same care as the US is giving the 'evil doers' you will notice the camera quickly pans to someone else on the boat, never actually showing him say those things. The odd way the camera avoids Moore only when he is supposedly making these more inflammatory statements very strongly implies to those of us who have read up on Moore's previous antics, that the audio you hear is more the result of some post production sound editing than any live recording.

I'm just amazed how someone can make a documentary on a topic like health care in the US, a system most people will admit is highly problematic, and actually make someone come out with sympathy for the HMO's, but Moore does. If he had kept up with the flow of the original 30 minutes he could have made a very powerful movie that with all the exposure normally afforded him, could have had the potential to foster actual change, but instead he resorts back to his old tricks and creates enough holes in his arguments that any defenders of the current American system could drive a semi through sideways.

I guess like most Moore documentaries this ones gets a 4 for looks but a 1 for substance.

If you want to see it for yourself, for the time being Say Anything Blog has the movie, in it's entirety, in this post.

Obligatory Oscar Review

I didn't actually see the show but I did look up the results this morning and all that I had to see was that "Cars" lost to "Happy Feet" and I figured why bother with the rest.

Oh yeah, and Scorsese finally won so there's at least some good news.