"Real Facts" and "Good Facts"
Bill Frantz wrote: > At 10:19 AM -0800 2/2/03, Tim May wrote: > >Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an "information" slug at > >the bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: "Columbia was traveling 18 > >times faster than the speed of light." > "Please mister spaceman, won't you please take me along for a ride." > - J. McGuinn In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling at "Mock 18." Clearly, the guy who did the legendary "Nigger Innis" interview is still employed. The nonsense we are hearing about the danger of the shuttle debris is typical of the new "truth" as defined by the religious and political right wing. "Truth" is no longer the opposite of false. It is what makes the Sheeple act according to the morality of the day. Thus, "liquid nitrogen on the shuttle debris can combine with atmospheric oxygen to produce oxides of nitrogen which are fatal when inhaled" is "true" because it keeps people from touching shuttle debris. "This is your brain on drugs" is "true" because it keeps people from smoking pot. "There are 100,000 pay child porn sites on the Web" is "true," because it causes people to exaggerate a problem for which the government wants zero tolerance. Similarly "The Islamic world is mad at at us because they hate our freedom" is "true." "If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists" is "true." etc... You see, there are "real facts," and then there are "good facts." Orwell would be pleased. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
Re: "Real Facts" and "Good Facts"
At 12:26 PM 02/02/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
"Truth" is no longer the opposite of false. It is what makes the Sheeple
act according to the morality of the day.
Hey, it's Chinese New Year, and my calendar says that this is
The Year of the Sheep. So I guess they're just going with the flow.
(The newspaper calls it the Year of the Ram.
Either way, Gung Hay Fat Choy.
It's also Vietnamese New Year ("Happy Anniversary of Tet Offensive")
though they call it the Year of the Goat.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration is giving us the same old bull...)
Re: "Real Facts" and "Good Facts"
At 12:26 PM -0800 2/2/03, Eric Cordian quoted: >In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling >at "Mock 18." We mach (sic) their idiocy. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | Due process for all| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | used to be the Ameican | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | way. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
Re: "Real Facts" and "Good Facts"
Eric Cordian writes: > In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling > at "Mock 18." There was an interesting article in the New York Times (http://tinyurl.com/5b4x) back in Nov 2001 about stenographers working on 9/11--that was an angle I didn't see anywhere else. When these special reports come on--and then go on and on and on--the captioners don't get a break. There are no commercials and they have to keep typing even though the talking heads get to take turns. On 9/11 it was even worse because communications in NY were so screwed up. Y'all are making a big deal about the "dangerous debris". As you may have noticed, there were very few real facts to report so they kept repeating the few tidbits they had, whether they made sense or not. The danger may well be overblown, but it is just prudent of NASA to say not to touch it. There were some pretty big pieces that fell and it is plausible they are still dangerous: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030203/170/36q9q.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030203/168/36jm1.html Good article from 1980 on the boondoggle that is the space shuttle: http://washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html
