Propagandist Feet


I went to go see the animated movie Happy Feet on Friday night with my fiance, who had anxiously been awaiting its arrival. She enjoyed the movie greatly; alas, I fear, I read much more into the movie than did she. I suppose I’m simply wired that way. And that way is this:

Happy Feet, whilst admittedly being a remarkable feast for the eyes and ears (mostly for the eyes), is also one major piece of Eco-Propaganda and Anti-Humanist Propaganda.

The kids may, admittedly, care peripherally. But it is another in a continuing series of movies and animated features emphasizing that “civilization bad, nature good;” “religion bad, secularism good.”

Not unlike the elder 1970 book Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, Happy Feet relies upon one small bird deciding to make a decision and take a line going “against the grain” of the “traditionalists” and the “status quo.” Clearly, the status quo is portrayed as oppressive, unthinking, marginal, inconsiderate, illogical and ritualistic. The Elder Emperor penguins are “pigeonholed” (sorry, couldn’t pass up that one!) as unmoving, unsympathetic zealots, meant to be interpreted as those who are linked to religious inclinations — but of course, with “ageist’ intonations — i.e., “youth good, age bad.”

Guess what Boys and Girls?

Y’all gonna get to be pushing 60 — if’n you’re fuckin’ lucky.

The bottom line is this: “aliens” seem to be decimating the fish supplies for all the penguins, along with the minimizing ice floes. The “aliens” are humans with their fishery ships and “Mumbles” (the main character of Happy Feet voiced by Elijah Wood, who cannot sing but makes his way in the penguin world by means of tap-dancing) is captured and then placed into captivity within a penguin tank. His ability to “tap dance” results in his being tagged electronically which then results in the “aliens” recognizing the entire herd’s ability to dance — which then translates into the United Nations’ confusion and then cessation of fishery exploitation by humans.

And Lovelace leads them there — a penguin adorned as King by the plastic six-pack keeper he’s managed to have caught around his neck. Gosh; another bestiality ploy by humans.

Allow me for a few sentences to cut to the chase. The Japanese and the Russians have traditionally been the worst offenders in the fisheries wars. Asians and Whites. Slant Eyes and Blanchers. Can I possibly make this more racist or offensive, in order to prove my point?

I’m not convinced of Global Warming. In my opinion this is a cycle in the Continuing Big Picture of this planet. Nor am I convinced that age is bad and caucasoid is bad.

But that’s just me.

Simply be aware of the fact that, when you take your precious little ones to the theatre for ANY movie these days, there is always an Agenda.

Repeat: there is ALWAYS an Agenda.

And for those of you who just tuned in:

Happy Feet is a nothing more than a fabulous artistic expression . . .

With an agenda.

BZ

P.S.

Happy Feet really is a feast for the eyes. This movie features animation taken to another level entirely — plus lots of rotoscoping. I freely admit: I have never seen animation taken to this degree of clarity and reality.

. . . another reason your children will believe every moment of every message portrayed or even hinted-at. . .

What, Me Worry?

What, me work?

So you want to be like Europe?

The Democrats certainly believe that’s an area to emulate and, because of this, you must realize they will do their best to ensure its policies and beliefs become those of this country.

Except for one little teeny-weeny problem: Europe doesn’t work. Literally and figuratively. A little wordplay there.

Let’s take Germany for example. I would suspect that Germany rather typifies societal and governmental norms in the European Union. And Germany is beginning to suffer from the exact things that Democrats believe we need in the United States.

I would highly suggest you read this complete article from der Spiegel, Germany’s premiere publication now online. As you might suspect much of the German media leans a tad to the left yet, despite that, this kind of article was published in their “mainstream media.”

The situation is that critical. Here are excerpts. To wit:

Faced with poor job prospects, high taxes and an intrusive bureaucracy, more and more Germans are choosing to emigrate. Most of those who leave, though, are highly qualified — which could mean devastating economic consequences.

The consequences for the United States, if we are listening, are absolutely enormous.

They are tired of living in country where landing a job is like playing the lottery, a country where not even half of citizens live from gainful employment and a country in which even academics in their mid-40s are already considered problem cases when it comes to job placement. In other words, they are fed up with living in a country where all opportunities already seem to be taken: opportunities to succeed in one’s career, to own property and to achieve prosperity.

Stop right there. What might be the largest difference between Europe and the United States? Would that be the actual ownership of property? Home ownership? An actual investment in not only one’s job, one’s culture on all levels to include religion but an investment in what some call hard or physical assets? When one owns something, doesn’t that person tend to take better care of that in which they have a greater investment — again, on all levels?

I would submit they do. Further:

Nowadays doctors are moving to Norway, engineers to the United States and agricultural experts to New Zealand. Germany is becoming a net exporter of people.

Who will pay for all services, when no one works in order to pay for demanded entitlements?

The country’s pension system is losing contributors just as vast numbers of baby-boomers are gradually entering retirement. The demographic crisis is getting worse, especially when one considers that deaths outnumbered births by 144,000 in 2005, and that this gap is continuing to widen.

In the United States, self-considered “elite” and “progressive” cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have the fewest number of children in the nation, per capita.

When you have a goal, when you work for that goal and when you achieve that goal and can keep it and hold it, your investment in that goal is total and complete. You are invested in your country, your local state or entity and, equally important, your community. Those who have achieved nothing not obtained on the coattails of others lack this appreciation for work and investment. And I submit that there you have Europe. People primarily live in apartments. They are subsidized and supported to a great degree by their government(s).

Read this again: “. . .a country where not even half of citizens live from gainful employment.” Did you process that? More than half of Germany’s citizens are “on the dole.” And of that massive number, are they all paraplegics? Blind? Not even remotely.

To a degree Europeans are correct: the United States is lagging behind them. We have not yet experienced, societally and culturally the negative aspects of their collective Western culture. And they have made and are making huge mistakes — finally to the point where there are public admissions of societal and cultural bankruptcy. To have something like this article actually written, approved by editorial staff and then printed for all in Europe to read bespeaks volumes.

The Europeans took a path and finally, bit by bit, they are becoming cognizant of their series of mistakes. With government. With entitlements. With immigration. With over-regulation. With losing sight of long term goals. With even having goals. When people cannot benefit from the fruits of their labors, what motivation is there to even wish to work? That is, further, in my estimation, a killing of the very human soul.

But it is not just the highly qualified who are finding the courage to try their luck in another country. More and more average citizens — many of them in financial straits at home — are finding the courage to make a fresh start. They iron laundry in hotels in Austria’s Southern Tyrol resort region, wait tables in restaurants in Italy and cook dumplings in Austria’s Stubai Valley. Nothing is beneath them, and anything is better than collecting unemployment in Germany.

The virtual killing of the human soul: “. . .anything is better than collecting unemployment in Germany.”

We need to look at this so-called “European Model” and learn from its mistakes.

Because if we do not, we are destined to repeat their mistakes on our domestic soil. And we are well on our way to duplicating their erroneous path. A path, they are finally acknowledging, that is literally and figuratively unworkable — and wrong.

BZ

The More Things Change


The lovely and beauteous Nancy Pelosi, soon to be the Speaker of the House, has decided she wishes the equally-beauteous and sensible John P. Murtha to be House majority leader.

You recall John “Jack” Murtha — I made a few, ahem, “posts” about some of his proclivities and beliefs in the past. Those who recall know I typified Mr. Murtha, a war veteran, as one who is well grounded, logical, rational and having perspective and proportion. And then there was that Moonbat Of The Week thing.

A couple times.

Once I read of this decision, the little girl’s voice from Poltergeist rang in my head: “they’re here.”

From WorldNetDaily:

Some Democratic lawmakers and watchdog groups say they are baffled that Pelosi would go out of her way to back Murtha’s candidacy after pledging to make the new 110th Congress the most ethical and corruption-free in history.

Oh c’mon, what’s the issue? — more crap spread by GOP fuddy-duddies? Perhaps something like this:

Though only 13 seconds of those tapes are available publicly showing Murtha conditionally declining a $50,000 bribe “at this point,” in his words, a 1980 Washington Post report by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative columnist Jack Anderson revealed a shocking transcript of recordings never released to the public.

Anderson characterized the Pennsylvania Democrat’s interaction with the FBI as “perhaps the saddest scene on the secret Abscam videotapes. … He refused to take the money, but his reason was hardly noble.”

“I want to deal with you guys awhile before I make any transactions at all, period,” Murtha explained. “After we’ve done some business, well, then I might change my mind. … I’m going to tell you this. If anybody can do it – I’m not B.S.-ing you fellows – I can get it done my way. There’s no question about it.”

Murtha went from boasting about his ability to get things done in Congress to explaining his hesitation about taking money.

“All at once, some dumb [expletive deleted] would go start talking eight years from now about this whole thing and say [expletive deleted], this happened,” Murtha says, according to the transcript. “Then in order to get immunity so he doesn’t go to jail, he starts talking and fingering people. So the [S.O.B.] falls apart.”

The FBI undercover officer then suggests: “You give us the banks where you want the money deposited.”

“All right,” agreed Murtha. “How much money we talking about?”

“Well, you tell me,” says the FBI undercover operative.

“Well, let me find out what is a reasonable figure that will get their attention,” said Murtha, “because there are a couple of banks that have really done me some favors in the past, and I’d like to put some money in.”

Here’s what Murtha says after the public video cuts off: “…You know, we do business together for a while. Maybe I’ll be interested and maybe I won’t. Right now, I’m not interested in those other things. Now, I won’t say that some day, you know, I, if you made an offer, it may be I would change my mind some day.”

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW, questioned Pelosi’s endorsement of Murtha, listing the congressman in its report “Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch).”

Just like Clinton: the “most ethical administration ever.”

Yeah right.

BZ