Aloha Daze

I’ve done very little in my life that I regret.

In fact, so far, I may have only one real regret.

When it came out in theaters, I bought a ticket and watched Fahrenheit 9/11.

Somewhere around half-way through the film, I took a nap. I may have taken two. That I don’t regret.

But I supported Michael Moore, and I regretted that move moments after the movie began, and the poo began to fly. From Michael’s film, to my ears, a non-stop parade of Bush-hating and general America-bashing from beginning to end.

And it’s a real shame, too. Yes, shame on Michael Moore for twisting truths to support his anti-Bush, anti-war agenda. But for me, it goes a little further.

When I was in college, enjoying some class, they put on “Roger and Me.” The movie from Michael Moore about how the evil General Motors Corporation killed business and jobs in Flint, Michigan.

I thought, hey, here’s a guy that fights for the little guy.

Then a show came on television called “TV Nation.” Again, it was Michael Moore fighting as the little guy against big, bad corporations.

I’d hear of a new movie or two every once in a while, and – while I didn’t catch the show – I’d think, Michael’s still going at it. Fighting for the little guy!

Then out comes “Fahrenheit 9/11.” I bought my ticket. I watched [most of] the show.

I wanted my money back after it was over. Worse: I wanted my 2 hours back. I’ll never see either again.

What bothers me so much isn’t just that I paid money to watch this joke of a film (ok, maybe it is). But what this brings up for me is serious doubt about all the other films and shows that Michael Moore did on behalf of “the little guy.”

The “little guy,” it turns out, was likely the Big Guy: Michael Moore. Why do for anyone else anything, when you can do for yourself everything? What better way to sell it than by saying “I’m fighting for you! The little guy!”

Only now all his work, for me, means poo. For the last 15 years, I’ve been suckered.

So while I’ll never get my ticket price refunded, or get my 2 hours of life back… I do have something that makes me as powerful as Michael Moore: I have a voice.

And while I have that voice, I’ll be working hard to retrieve that time I lost in the theater that day. My penance is to place links to other voices that realized what a con-artist Michael Moore really is. Those links will now appear in the right-side of my blog, here at Aloha Daze.

I’ll start with a nod to the Rinse Cycle, that had a wonderful little image that I just had to share here:

Yo, Michael. Just a thought that has escaped you: you’ve become the big corporation that you claim to have been fighting all these years.

Me? I am the little guy.

RLR

Run! Hide! Seek shelter! Lord help us, we’re getting another Christian MOW (Movie Of the Week).

This time around, that young, hip, rock ‘n roller, John Paul II. (ABC’s “Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II“)

Part of me wants to watch this gem, airing on ABC on December 1st.

Only I remember watching a Hallmark movie a few years ago called Noah’s Ark.

Now. [cough]. Talk about your disaster movies. In this case, a disaster OF a movie.

The Noah’s Ark MOW was about many things. Just not the Biblical Noah’s Ark.

In short, it was a fiasco. The worst waste of film I’ve ever seen to attempt [and fail] to tell a story from the Bible.

Now here comes ABC’s take on Pope John Paul II.

I hope the writer’s life insurance is up to date. Me? I’d advise folks to steer clear of those same writers. You wouldn’t want to be near them when the lightning bolts start flying.

RLR

(Originally a reply to a liberal over on Peter David’s site, I thought I’d repost it here.)

“Worst. President. Ever.”

Proud of his country. Speaks directly and doesn’t pull punches. A solid American. Yep. I agree. Bush is terrible.

“Biggest liar since the snake in the Garden of Eden.”

So now Bush equals Satan? Yeah. Ok. Sure. (Did someone forget their meds again?)

“More inept than Michael Jackson on his wedding night.”

Yep. And at every turn, this idiot.. this moronic President manages to outwit liberals at every turn.

“A national disgrace which we may never recover from.”

You bet. What we really need is another Clinton, getting his fun in the oral Oval Office, while the World Trade Center, USS Cole, and American embassies in Africa are bombed. No disgrace there.

Or perhaps we could have had John Kerry. Hard to say which of the two – Kerry or Clinton – would be the larger disgrace. Hey! It’d be a race!

Let’s face it: if the Democrats and the whacko Left – which is becoming more and more difficult to tell apart – have their way, we’d be running like cowards out of Iraq.

Why is that? Why is it that, all I hear from the Left is how bad America is? Have the liberal Left joined Al-Qaeda? Al Jazeera loves liberal Democrats. You should visit their site, and see how much they enjoy quoting Democrats.

We’re in a war. We should be supporting the troops, not insulting their efforts. Good things are happening in Iraq. That’s a fact. We’re helping rebuild. We’re training the Iraqi army to take over for themselves.

When should we leave Iraq? When the job is done. When Iraq is ready.

Anything less, like Democrats want, gets you disgrace in the eyes of world. It diminishes America. It’s cowardice. It means all the work in Iraq becomes for nothing. When Al Qaeda fights for dominance of the country and – because we left before Iraq was ready – gets it. Then Iraq becomes a terrorist state. Every person that enjoyed a vote in Iraq would be hunted down and killed.

But, that’s ok. We’d be out of Iraq. We could setup talks with Al Qaeda. Apologize for – well – everything because, y’know, 9/11 was our fault: all those years of being in other countries, trying to spread democracy and freedom… that’s America for you… getting in the way. Let’s just bury our head in the sand, make nicey-nice, sing Kum Ba Ya, and hope that everything returns to a post-9/11 world.

Only we tried that (thankyewverymuch, President Clinton.) We ignored the first bombing of the WTC. We were shocked, appalled, and cheesed off in general about the attack on the USS Cole. We looked the other way, when terrorists attacked American embassies in Africa.

We. Did. Nothing.

We got 9/11.

Finally, we’re doing something. The Democrats – the same guys that are now saying “Bush Lied” – agreed and voted for us to go get the bad guys, wherever and whoever they were.

Part of me wants us to bail out of Iraq, and apologize to all the bad guys for getting in their way, and mucking up their plans. Then we could watch the carnage that results from having given up on the Iraqi people.

But this situation is too serious to allow such an action to take place.

Liberal Democrats that think we shouldn’t be in Iraq should take note of France… y’know the country that takes the position of “hey, don’t look at me.” Yet, they get extremists rioting their anyway.

C’mon, Liberal Leftists, get behind your country. Support our troops. Be Patriotic!

Anything less is just Un-American.

RLR

Sometimes stupidity reaches high points that you can’t help but stare at it and think. And think. And think. But your mind refuses to work because of the sucking power of the stupidity: it’s sucking your brain dry.

Our crazy friends at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have decided to go after those evil people that go fishing.

Yep. That’s right. Seems that fish have feelings, too. Not only that, but eating fish will “rot your brain.” This, according to the PETA representative that was on FOX News recently.

Nevermind the Eskimos: let them eat snow. The Japanese? Obviously, they’ve been wrong all these years, and sushi is the food of the devil. Me? I’m in real trouble. I love eating just about any fish prepared as poke [poh-kee]; a local style of preparing raw fish here in Hawaii.

Raw or cooked. Ahi, marlin, salmon, bass or crapie. You fish? That’s cruelty to animals.

Now. Having received this epiphany from PETA, I went to look at their site. What could I do now? Now that I know that I’ve been bad, and must spread the word!

I checked out PETA’s website. Couldn’t find anything on fish. Curious. You’d think with a plug on FOX (and no doubt any other news channel or crazy fringe group that takes these nutz seriously that gets them exposure), that PETA would have “Fish” highlighted with flashing neon lights on their website.

Nope. No neon flashy things. (Perhaps because a “Neon” is a tropical fish? Found in many home aquariums, keeping Neons in a 10-gallon tank is probably cruelty to animals.)

Did a quick click on their Campaign button. Now I’m at AnimalActivist.com, and enjoying such enlightened tidbits such as “Meat is Murder!” (apparently an anti-hotdog campaign) and “Fish are Friends! Not Food!” Although I’m on the right track, I wonder if Will Smith realized he would be part of PETA’s Save Fish! campaign?

The fact that I was on the right trail didn’t help: still no direct link to save the fish. Did a search on the site, and finally found a link: FishingHurts.com. Why am I not surprised.

What I then found was something that FOX didn’t show on TV. I’d be surprised if any news station shows it. And I’ll display it here, but not on my main page. It’s a fake image, but nevertheless disturbing. One more piece of proof that PETA is a bunch of nutz.
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It seems that Aloha Daze is taking on more of a life of it’s own than I anticipated it might. So, as a reward to it, it now has it’s own domain.

Those that have links [all none of you] to Aloha Daze, please update the URL to point to http://www.alohadaze.com/.

Now… let us just see how many errors I’ve created in my blog by moving it from one folder [and domain] to another.

Whee!

RLR

I’m continually amazed at the failure [persistance?] of people/groups/countries to ignore 800-pound gorillas wearing tutus and dancing hula in the middle of the room.

“Amazed” may be the wrong word. “Sickened” may be more appropriate.

“Bush Lied.” No, he didn’t. Went on the same info that ol’ “Slick Willy” Clinton had. “Happy Hour” Kennedy agreed. John Kerry too. Shoot, show me a list of Democrat leaders, and I’ll show you a list of people that agreed that Iraq needed fixing.

But nevermind any history revisionism that the Democrats are attemping. Let’s get back to the 800-pound gorilla.

The War on Terror.

Nevermind the Cindy Sheehanites out there: this war exists, and like it or not, we’re in it.

World Trade Center bombing the first time around. We did nothing.

USS Cole. We did nothing.

I seem to recall a little incident with the American Embassy in Africa? I’m a little fuzzy on the location, but I’m reasonably sure about the fact that it happened. We did nothing.

All this non-responsive behavior didn’t appease the al-Qaeda thugs. Instead, we got 9/11.

Remember how everyone compared 9/11 to Pearl Harbor? I sure do. Drew a parallel all by myself. I think a great number of other Americans did, too.

Only we had the warning signs. WTC#1. USS Cole. American Embassy. Who knows how many other warning signs we had that didn’t necessarily involve bombs and dead people. (We may never know, since Clinton severed the ties that bind between the left and right hands that made up the the intelligence department.)

Warnings were now over. War had begun. It had began years before: we just hadn’t fought back.

Finally, we had someone in office that did something: Bush. Suggested we go find the bad guys and do nasty things to them. Republicans and Democrats agreed.

The best I can figure, this is when universes split. Reality and Unreality. The Truth and the False.

Here we are now, fighting this war on terror.

Half says that it doesn’t exist. The war on terror; al-Qaeda; whatever. There isn’t an 800-pound gorilla.

The other half says there is. Cripes, there are banana peels everywhere for evidence.

So now the half that says we’re fighting a “quagmire” of a war… the half that is desperately trying to compare it to Vietnam… the half that hates America… they can’t see the forest for the trees.

Just in the last few days, I’ve seen reports on al-Qaeda [or at least Muslim extremists] claiming responsibility for attacks in Jordan, the Philipines, France [we're up to 17 days in a row now], and an attempted attack in Australia.

I’m tired of listening to the ignorant idiots in the Democratic party – and the mainstream media – whine about how we shouldn’t be in Iraq.

We should be. Good is being done there.

What’s sad is that America and Britain (mostly by themselves) seem to be leading the fight on a group that knows no borders. We need the rest of the countries of the world, that want to keep their country safe, to join in this war on terror.

Still disagree with me? I leave you with this delightful thought:

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, what if we’d done nothing? What if America had taken the stance of “we did it to ourselves?”

What sort of country would the United States of America be today?

Hell on Earth, mein friend.

RLR

Now, not being a man of much public knowledge, I have to assUme that Guardian Unlimited – despite their claims at being neutral journalists – gleefully dance to the tune of any bad news for USA/Bush. (Particularly since they seem to be located outside of the States.)
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Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie… Keep on rollin’.

The Political Teen has a video of good ol’ Chuckie. In this video, Chuckie wonders if nominee Samuel Alito will further a positive future, as Rosa Parks did, or if he’ll actually roll back time, and remove all the work that Rosa Parks did.

So… what Chuckie is saying is that he thinks Alito is going to send minorities to the back of the bus? Is this guy for real?

Yes. He is. And the best part is, he’s vocal about it. This genius, who refers to the Right only as the “extreme Right,” cautions that this choice is an Extreme Right choice, and a poor one at that. Chuckie warns that governing from the extremes is a bad thing: “Democrats learned this when we governed from the far Left. President Bush will learn this as well.”

[tap tap tap]… is this thing ON? Chuckie! Ol’ pal. You ARE the extreme Left. But, don’t let that stop you. You’re doing yourself, and your party, a disservice. You’re stinking your party up, by letting everyone see what your party truly represents. You’re making Liberals look bad by displaying their true nature.

Keep it up! You’re doing great!

RLR