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This week in the media...
1. The American television channel CBS announced that hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger would shortly be appearing on one of its current affairs programmes. A month after successfully landing a jet airplane on the Hudson River with two stopped engines, Mr Sullenberger is finally going to answer some questions. I wonder will CBS ask him why he has been avoiding facing the media up to now. Even heroes have to tell the truth eventually. Mr Sullenberger made a public appearance a few days ago at the American Superbowl sporting event. No questions to be answered there of course. The capacity crowd in the stadium along with the millions of people watching on TV were delighted to see him. As of yet though, we have had no chance to hear Mr Sullenberger give a live account of what actually happened on his downed flight. There has been no explanation for Mr Sullenberger's non appearance before reporters. I have postulated that the authorities investigating Mr Sullenberger's miracle landing of a passenger jet on the Hudson River in New York are engaged in covering up a terrorist attack on the United States. Possible motives for such a cover up range from a misguided attempt to protect the aviation industry to a criminal attempt to allow President Obama to proceed with his Release-The-Jihadis-From-Guantanamo-Bay policy.
2. CNN and other news channels finally got access to and played a tape purporting to be Captain Chesley Sullenberger's conversation with air traffic control as his plane went down in the Hudson. Again, it is incredible that this tape wasn't released a month ago immediately after the event. The tape carries a laconic reference to a bird strike stopping both engines. In whose interest was it to delay the release of this tape until now? Did it take until now to create the tape? CNN presenter Kirstie Lou Stout remarked of the film footage of Captain Sullenberger's plane landing on the Hudson: "I'll never get tired of watching that." Fair enough. But in between times, she should try asking a few questions. Starting with the bleeding obvious.
3. CNN presenter Raissa Valitseyeva announced on air that she was starting a blog. Irony of ironies. Only recently a CNN panel of sneering heads concluded that blogs were: "seventy five million people talking about what they ate for breakfast." Over to you Raissa. For God's sake, try to eat something interesting.
4. Sky News devoted hours of prime time coverage to the funeral of a World War One soldier. Sky is rather pathetically and rather belatedly attempting to identify itself as a patriotic British news station. This, after eight years manfully rooting for the Jihadis in the war on terror. I'd say the World War One veteran vomited in his grave when he heard those appeaserish scum eulogising him.
5. Muslim activists took over a BBC office in Scotland. The Arabists wanted to force the BBC to show a propaganda video about the Gaza Strip. The BBC, like Sky, has recently been attempting to resurrect its reputation as an objective reporter of events, having been tarred (mainly by me) as a shill for Islamic terrorism. It must be funny for the BBC. In forty years, the IRA never occupied a BBC office. But the peaceloving followers of Islam aren't shy about letting their feelings be known, are they. Like Sky, the BBC has done everything in its power to discredit President Bush and to win the War On Terror for the terrorists. Remember the phrase "sexed up dossier" with which the BBC attempted to create a perception of wrong doing on the part of Prime Minister Tony Blair in going to war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. You know at one stage, British soldiers actually started referring to the BBC as the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation. In any case the BBC is now discovering that the Islamic activists with whom it has shamelessly curried favour, aren't its friends either. I wonder how the champagne socialists of the BBC will enjoy Sharia Law. We're all going to find out soon enough.
6.The Daily Mail published An Open Letter to the Irish Prime Minister written by one Joe O'Connor about the economic collapse facing the Republic of Ireland. The Open Letter format has become something of a trademark on this blog but I can't really claim ownership of the idea. Joe O'Connor certainly didn't steal any of what he wrote from here. It was all his own work. A heap of verbiage. On the other hand if Joe O'Connor should happen to produce anything else that appears to be based on a format established in this blog, I shall be forced to publish a full account of my relationship with his sister the popstar Sinead O'Connor. That's something none of us wants to see happen.
7. Sky News invited the public to send in their photos and videos of the snow storm engulfing Britain. James Healy advised the public against working for Sky News unless Sky News is paying them for the work they do. "You can send us your photos," indeed. Er, thanks but no thanks. I'll send my photos to people who pay for them, you great free booting Rupert Murdoch worshipping gits.
8. The BBC reported that British Foreign Secretary David Milliband is a potential Prime Minister. Milliband, a teenager who wandered into politics for a bet, is most famous for his traitorous remark to a Hindu audience: "The war on terror was a mistake." This remark alone explains the BBC's championing of him this week. Here is the news. David Millipede will never be Prime Minister. Not unless Osama Bin Laden conquers the Free World, and gives Millipede the United Kingdom as a reward for his treachery.
9. Euronews, an anti American, anti British, pro Islamist, Marxian slanted news station, reported that Hamas was intimidating the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. I nearly fell off my chair. Even the left wing stations are getting a bit embarrassed about the growing public awareness of their hideously pro Muslim reportage. How else can we understand the truth showing up on Euronews? Even if it did show up only in passing.
10. CCTV, the Chinese government's English language news station, reported on the visit of China's Premier Hu Jin Tao, to Cambridge University. Rather charmingly, CCTV neglected to make any reference at all to an attempted shoe throwing incident while the great man was addressing the students. Funny old world. CCTV was quite obsessed with the Iranian backed Islamist coward who threw his shoes at President Bush a few weeks ago. One would have thought this fresh example of shoe throwing would be equally fascinating for them. Perhaps the fact that this shoe thrower was campaigning against the Chinese annexation and oppression of Tibet, led CCTV to omit his gesture from their reportage. We can only guess.
11. The Times (the Brit paper, not the Irish clap trap), tentatively likened President Barack Obama to former President Jimmy Carter. I have no way of proving that the ultra conformist Times lifted their comparison from this blog. My exact words were: "Barack Obama is a black Jimmy Carter."
12. Newsweek Magazine carried the following headline on its cover: "Why China Works! Inside The Command Capitalism Model That Will Outrun All Rivals." The article was written by a Muslim called Rana Foroohar. Newsweek is edited by a Muslim called Fareed Zakaria. Interestingly enough Fareed Zakaria also presents a programme for CNN, which owns Newsweek's main rival Time Magazine. You can see how if all these people are in bed together, we're going to be lacking something in the discourse. It'll be a cold day in Helvetia before any of these quislings write something recognising the greatness of President Bush. But I digress. What the Muslims who wrote and edited this article, fail to understand is that wealth does not come from capitalism, communism, Arabism, or even from rich resources. Wealth is possible only when nations respect the rights and dignities of individual human beings. Hence countries even vaguely influenced by Judaeo Christian values, are exponentially and observably more wealthy than their neighbours. African dictatorships, Russian dictatorships, Chinese dictatorships, and you bet your sweet bippy Arab dictatorships, can never really be wealthy at all. Because there is no respect for the person in those countries. Persons can't own their own homes, their own jobs, their own businesses or even their own lives. The Arabs are a case in point. In their countries, the toughest man in the tent gets to run the country. And he takes whatever he wants from whoever he wants. The Arab and Muslim dictatorships have delivered an extraordinary miracle to their people. They own all the oil on the planet. The whole world has been throwing money at them for fifty years. And their citizens are still dirt poor. The reason being that their citizens have no rights, no freedoms and no dignity. Ergo no wealth. I do not think Western countries are superior to the impoverished regions of the world. I think and I assert only that Western wealth and Western pre-eminence as a civilisation, has been based on values rather than on any system. I would add in all humility that as the Free World has become progressively more atheistic, our wealth has overnight virtually ceased to exist. Gone on a voodoo wind, blowing east from Wall Street. Yes. As the Free World continues to wallow in atheistic abortionism, our own formerly unassailable cultural position, our glittering riches, our sublime vanities, all are evaporating around us. Anyhoo. Memo to Rana and Fareed: You people owe President Bush and me an apology. And if you think China's so great, why don't you go live there?
13. The Irish Times published a cartoon by Martyn Turner depicting President Obama at his desk gleefully reversing President Bush's policies. The policies were shown with pictures of large folders beside President Obama labelled "Stem Cells," "Guantanamo Bay," "Torture," etc etc. Yet Martyn Turner and the Pro Abortion Irish Times had neglected to depict any folder labelled abortion. I cannot understand why people who believe there is absolutely nothing wrong with abortion, who campaign tirelessly for its availability and practice, who champion its most extreme infanticidal forms, I cannot understand why such people as the Irish Times, and Martyn Turner, and indeed President Barack Obama, who veritably love abortion, I cannot understand I tells ee, why they're so coy about actually mentioning it.
14. The Leinster Leader appointed a new editor. Yes, another one. I guess we're all going to be wishing him well. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaah, haaaaah, hoo, hoo, heeee, heeee, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, chortle.
15. This week Ian O'Doherty's excellent I Spy humour column in the Tony O'Reilly worshipping Irish Independent, bore no resemblance to anything ever written, thought or uttered by me.
16. Several log ons to The Heelers Diaries from CIA remote monitoring stations in the past two weeks. Are these related to ongoing attempts to end speculation about the downing of Chesley Sullenberger's plane? Or are the spooks at Langley just big Paddy Pup fans?
17. The New York Times went bust. The newspaper which did so much to weaken America in the face of the Jihad onslaught, had to borrow 250 million bucks from a Mexican loan shark in order to keep trading. The wheels really are coming off the liberal wagon. Whatever next? CNN brought to you by the Gambino family?
18. The Irish national broadcaster RTE has announced some of its "stars" will be taking pay cuts. RTE has a monopoly on broadcasting in the Republic of Ireland. In a system that would shame Joe Stalin, any citizen owning a television set is required to pay RTE for the privelege of owning a television set, even if most of us, never in our lives so much as look at RTE. The station receives hundreds of millions a year to finance its anti Catholic agendas. It is in no way accountable to the general public. It has almost no viewers. The wheel is rigged. But the citizens still have to divvy up the cash. How does RTE spend its millions? An unwatchable presenter called Pat Kenny receives a million a year. A million. That's what they admit paying him. Some of us believe the true figure is higher. Up until last year RTE refused to publish any of the amounts it says it pays its employees. Now senior management types at RTE also claim they are taking pay cuts. It is impossible to verify this as their salaries are not still not disclosed to the public who finance them. Here is the news. Pat Kenny would still be working for RTE if he was paid 50,000 a year. There is no market for Pat Kenny. No other television station is trying to poach him. RTE could have created a hundred new job opportunities in television for the sum of money they waste on Pat Kenny. We need to deregulate the broadcasting industry in the Republic of Ireland. We need to stop forcing the citizenry to finance the propaganda wing of a liberal atheistic left wing rump who spent the Cold War rooting for the Russians.
19. The BBC welcomed back its disgraced "star" Jonathan Ross. Like RTE, the BBC is financed by a licence fee, this time imposed on British citizens who dare to own TV sets. The BBC has no viewers and is completely unaccountable to the general public. I have watched two minutes of Jonathan Ross over the course of my whole life. By accident I came upon his show one evening. He was telling a Hollywood starlet that he "would like to f--- her." I switched off Jonathan Ross forever. But of course these licence fee funded television stations never have to worry about people switching off. They never have to worry about the people who are required by law to finance them. The BBC, like RTE, has no values. No values beyond a vague Marxian urge to surrender to militant Islam and a vague nihilistic urge to champion neo pagan hedonism. Otherwise it's just wall to wall porno. Jonathan Ross did get kicked off the BBC briefly, in a token punishment, after he and a fellow skank left debased and demeaning messages on the answering machine of a 78 year old man, and then broadcast those messages. Now he's back. He ain't goin nowhere. Nor is the BBC.
20. Ah I grow weary of mist and dark and lanes where there's never a house or bush. And tired I am of bog and road. And the crying wind. And the lonesome hush. Well, you know what I mean.
1. The American television channel CBS announced that hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger would shortly be appearing on one of its current affairs programmes. A month after successfully landing a jet airplane on the Hudson River with two stopped engines, Mr Sullenberger is finally going to answer some questions. I wonder will CBS ask him why he has been avoiding facing the media up to now. Even heroes have to tell the truth eventually. Mr Sullenberger made a public appearance a few days ago at the American Superbowl sporting event. No questions to be answered there of course. The capacity crowd in the stadium along with the millions of people watching on TV were delighted to see him. As of yet though, we have had no chance to hear Mr Sullenberger give a live account of what actually happened on his downed flight. There has been no explanation for Mr Sullenberger's non appearance before reporters. I have postulated that the authorities investigating Mr Sullenberger's miracle landing of a passenger jet on the Hudson River in New York are engaged in covering up a terrorist attack on the United States. Possible motives for such a cover up range from a misguided attempt to protect the aviation industry to a criminal attempt to allow President Obama to proceed with his Release-The-Jihadis-From-Guantanamo-Bay policy.
2. CNN and other news channels finally got access to and played a tape purporting to be Captain Chesley Sullenberger's conversation with air traffic control as his plane went down in the Hudson. Again, it is incredible that this tape wasn't released a month ago immediately after the event. The tape carries a laconic reference to a bird strike stopping both engines. In whose interest was it to delay the release of this tape until now? Did it take until now to create the tape? CNN presenter Kirstie Lou Stout remarked of the film footage of Captain Sullenberger's plane landing on the Hudson: "I'll never get tired of watching that." Fair enough. But in between times, she should try asking a few questions. Starting with the bleeding obvious.
3. CNN presenter Raissa Valitseyeva announced on air that she was starting a blog. Irony of ironies. Only recently a CNN panel of sneering heads concluded that blogs were: "seventy five million people talking about what they ate for breakfast." Over to you Raissa. For God's sake, try to eat something interesting.
4. Sky News devoted hours of prime time coverage to the funeral of a World War One soldier. Sky is rather pathetically and rather belatedly attempting to identify itself as a patriotic British news station. This, after eight years manfully rooting for the Jihadis in the war on terror. I'd say the World War One veteran vomited in his grave when he heard those appeaserish scum eulogising him.
5. Muslim activists took over a BBC office in Scotland. The Arabists wanted to force the BBC to show a propaganda video about the Gaza Strip. The BBC, like Sky, has recently been attempting to resurrect its reputation as an objective reporter of events, having been tarred (mainly by me) as a shill for Islamic terrorism. It must be funny for the BBC. In forty years, the IRA never occupied a BBC office. But the peaceloving followers of Islam aren't shy about letting their feelings be known, are they. Like Sky, the BBC has done everything in its power to discredit President Bush and to win the War On Terror for the terrorists. Remember the phrase "sexed up dossier" with which the BBC attempted to create a perception of wrong doing on the part of Prime Minister Tony Blair in going to war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. You know at one stage, British soldiers actually started referring to the BBC as the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation. In any case the BBC is now discovering that the Islamic activists with whom it has shamelessly curried favour, aren't its friends either. I wonder how the champagne socialists of the BBC will enjoy Sharia Law. We're all going to find out soon enough.
6.The Daily Mail published An Open Letter to the Irish Prime Minister written by one Joe O'Connor about the economic collapse facing the Republic of Ireland. The Open Letter format has become something of a trademark on this blog but I can't really claim ownership of the idea. Joe O'Connor certainly didn't steal any of what he wrote from here. It was all his own work. A heap of verbiage. On the other hand if Joe O'Connor should happen to produce anything else that appears to be based on a format established in this blog, I shall be forced to publish a full account of my relationship with his sister the popstar Sinead O'Connor. That's something none of us wants to see happen.
7. Sky News invited the public to send in their photos and videos of the snow storm engulfing Britain. James Healy advised the public against working for Sky News unless Sky News is paying them for the work they do. "You can send us your photos," indeed. Er, thanks but no thanks. I'll send my photos to people who pay for them, you great free booting Rupert Murdoch worshipping gits.
8. The BBC reported that British Foreign Secretary David Milliband is a potential Prime Minister. Milliband, a teenager who wandered into politics for a bet, is most famous for his traitorous remark to a Hindu audience: "The war on terror was a mistake." This remark alone explains the BBC's championing of him this week. Here is the news. David Millipede will never be Prime Minister. Not unless Osama Bin Laden conquers the Free World, and gives Millipede the United Kingdom as a reward for his treachery.
9. Euronews, an anti American, anti British, pro Islamist, Marxian slanted news station, reported that Hamas was intimidating the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. I nearly fell off my chair. Even the left wing stations are getting a bit embarrassed about the growing public awareness of their hideously pro Muslim reportage. How else can we understand the truth showing up on Euronews? Even if it did show up only in passing.
10. CCTV, the Chinese government's English language news station, reported on the visit of China's Premier Hu Jin Tao, to Cambridge University. Rather charmingly, CCTV neglected to make any reference at all to an attempted shoe throwing incident while the great man was addressing the students. Funny old world. CCTV was quite obsessed with the Iranian backed Islamist coward who threw his shoes at President Bush a few weeks ago. One would have thought this fresh example of shoe throwing would be equally fascinating for them. Perhaps the fact that this shoe thrower was campaigning against the Chinese annexation and oppression of Tibet, led CCTV to omit his gesture from their reportage. We can only guess.
11. The Times (the Brit paper, not the Irish clap trap), tentatively likened President Barack Obama to former President Jimmy Carter. I have no way of proving that the ultra conformist Times lifted their comparison from this blog. My exact words were: "Barack Obama is a black Jimmy Carter."
12. Newsweek Magazine carried the following headline on its cover: "Why China Works! Inside The Command Capitalism Model That Will Outrun All Rivals." The article was written by a Muslim called Rana Foroohar. Newsweek is edited by a Muslim called Fareed Zakaria. Interestingly enough Fareed Zakaria also presents a programme for CNN, which owns Newsweek's main rival Time Magazine. You can see how if all these people are in bed together, we're going to be lacking something in the discourse. It'll be a cold day in Helvetia before any of these quislings write something recognising the greatness of President Bush. But I digress. What the Muslims who wrote and edited this article, fail to understand is that wealth does not come from capitalism, communism, Arabism, or even from rich resources. Wealth is possible only when nations respect the rights and dignities of individual human beings. Hence countries even vaguely influenced by Judaeo Christian values, are exponentially and observably more wealthy than their neighbours. African dictatorships, Russian dictatorships, Chinese dictatorships, and you bet your sweet bippy Arab dictatorships, can never really be wealthy at all. Because there is no respect for the person in those countries. Persons can't own their own homes, their own jobs, their own businesses or even their own lives. The Arabs are a case in point. In their countries, the toughest man in the tent gets to run the country. And he takes whatever he wants from whoever he wants. The Arab and Muslim dictatorships have delivered an extraordinary miracle to their people. They own all the oil on the planet. The whole world has been throwing money at them for fifty years. And their citizens are still dirt poor. The reason being that their citizens have no rights, no freedoms and no dignity. Ergo no wealth. I do not think Western countries are superior to the impoverished regions of the world. I think and I assert only that Western wealth and Western pre-eminence as a civilisation, has been based on values rather than on any system. I would add in all humility that as the Free World has become progressively more atheistic, our wealth has overnight virtually ceased to exist. Gone on a voodoo wind, blowing east from Wall Street. Yes. As the Free World continues to wallow in atheistic abortionism, our own formerly unassailable cultural position, our glittering riches, our sublime vanities, all are evaporating around us. Anyhoo. Memo to Rana and Fareed: You people owe President Bush and me an apology. And if you think China's so great, why don't you go live there?
13. The Irish Times published a cartoon by Martyn Turner depicting President Obama at his desk gleefully reversing President Bush's policies. The policies were shown with pictures of large folders beside President Obama labelled "Stem Cells," "Guantanamo Bay," "Torture," etc etc. Yet Martyn Turner and the Pro Abortion Irish Times had neglected to depict any folder labelled abortion. I cannot understand why people who believe there is absolutely nothing wrong with abortion, who campaign tirelessly for its availability and practice, who champion its most extreme infanticidal forms, I cannot understand why such people as the Irish Times, and Martyn Turner, and indeed President Barack Obama, who veritably love abortion, I cannot understand I tells ee, why they're so coy about actually mentioning it.
14. The Leinster Leader appointed a new editor. Yes, another one. I guess we're all going to be wishing him well. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaah, haaaaah, hoo, hoo, heeee, heeee, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, chortle.
15. This week Ian O'Doherty's excellent I Spy humour column in the Tony O'Reilly worshipping Irish Independent, bore no resemblance to anything ever written, thought or uttered by me.
16. Several log ons to The Heelers Diaries from CIA remote monitoring stations in the past two weeks. Are these related to ongoing attempts to end speculation about the downing of Chesley Sullenberger's plane? Or are the spooks at Langley just big Paddy Pup fans?
17. The New York Times went bust. The newspaper which did so much to weaken America in the face of the Jihad onslaught, had to borrow 250 million bucks from a Mexican loan shark in order to keep trading. The wheels really are coming off the liberal wagon. Whatever next? CNN brought to you by the Gambino family?
18. The Irish national broadcaster RTE has announced some of its "stars" will be taking pay cuts. RTE has a monopoly on broadcasting in the Republic of Ireland. In a system that would shame Joe Stalin, any citizen owning a television set is required to pay RTE for the privelege of owning a television set, even if most of us, never in our lives so much as look at RTE. The station receives hundreds of millions a year to finance its anti Catholic agendas. It is in no way accountable to the general public. It has almost no viewers. The wheel is rigged. But the citizens still have to divvy up the cash. How does RTE spend its millions? An unwatchable presenter called Pat Kenny receives a million a year. A million. That's what they admit paying him. Some of us believe the true figure is higher. Up until last year RTE refused to publish any of the amounts it says it pays its employees. Now senior management types at RTE also claim they are taking pay cuts. It is impossible to verify this as their salaries are not still not disclosed to the public who finance them. Here is the news. Pat Kenny would still be working for RTE if he was paid 50,000 a year. There is no market for Pat Kenny. No other television station is trying to poach him. RTE could have created a hundred new job opportunities in television for the sum of money they waste on Pat Kenny. We need to deregulate the broadcasting industry in the Republic of Ireland. We need to stop forcing the citizenry to finance the propaganda wing of a liberal atheistic left wing rump who spent the Cold War rooting for the Russians.
19. The BBC welcomed back its disgraced "star" Jonathan Ross. Like RTE, the BBC is financed by a licence fee, this time imposed on British citizens who dare to own TV sets. The BBC has no viewers and is completely unaccountable to the general public. I have watched two minutes of Jonathan Ross over the course of my whole life. By accident I came upon his show one evening. He was telling a Hollywood starlet that he "would like to f--- her." I switched off Jonathan Ross forever. But of course these licence fee funded television stations never have to worry about people switching off. They never have to worry about the people who are required by law to finance them. The BBC, like RTE, has no values. No values beyond a vague Marxian urge to surrender to militant Islam and a vague nihilistic urge to champion neo pagan hedonism. Otherwise it's just wall to wall porno. Jonathan Ross did get kicked off the BBC briefly, in a token punishment, after he and a fellow skank left debased and demeaning messages on the answering machine of a 78 year old man, and then broadcast those messages. Now he's back. He ain't goin nowhere. Nor is the BBC.
20. Ah I grow weary of mist and dark and lanes where there's never a house or bush. And tired I am of bog and road. And the crying wind. And the lonesome hush. Well, you know what I mean.
posted by heelers | 1:30 AM
8 Comments:
I wouldn't think those CIA fellows would be allowed to post comments...
Personally, I would love the hits on my sitemeter.
I find the TV fees fascinating. Does one get a refund if the TV breaks and isn't replaced? How do they find out who owns a TV, anyway? Does one have to fill out a survey of some sort when purchasing a new TV? What about giveaways - how do they find out about those? (I just received a portable TV from a friend.)
Caite, I'm trying to draw em into plain view!
MissJ, There are no refunds of TV licences for any reason. It is incumbent on the purchaser of a television to buy a TV licence at the post office. There is no official form to fill out when buying the television. The Irish government has a fleet of television detector vans driven by blokes who look like the Nazi with the coathanger out of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and capable of identifying houses where a TV signal is being received. A TV which you have received as a gift is still a TV under the relevant legislation, and therefore you better pay that licence fee and make like you enjoy Pat Kenny, or Cedric and Cecil and Heinrich and Erwin are going to come visiting your humble abode in their big white detector van when you least expect em.
Honestly, I couldn't make this up.
The generation that throws away Christianity wanders into dictatorship very quickly.
James
James, that is so bizarre. I don't watch TV except for occasions of severe weather and (even rarer) political addresses by the governor or president. Then again, I didn't have a TV until 1993, when my parents bought one for use when they visited overnight in my apartment.
Just a few days ago I explained to a solicitor for PBS (Public Broadcasting, our voluntary version of CBC or BCC) that I would not be donating any money to them this year as I only watch during their campaign drives, when they show good programs (like a bio of Pope John Paul II). When she launched into an explanation that it would be used to pay for the conversion to high-definition broadcasts, I gently explained that I don't have cable nor the money for a conversion box to receive the new broadcasts over the air. Then I was off the hook.
So I'm bemused and horrified (yes, I'm ambiemotionally gifted) that you are forced to pay for tripe you wouldn't watch if THEY paid YOU.
James, that is so bizarre. I don't watch TV except for occasions of severe weather and (even rarer) political addresses by the governor or president. Then again, I didn't have a TV until 1993, when my parents bought one for use when they visited overnight in my apartment.
Just a few days ago I explained to a solicitor for PBS (Public Broadcasting, our voluntary version of CBC or BCC) that I would not be donating any money to them this year as I only watch during their campaign drives, when they show good programs (like a bio of Pope John Paul II). When she launched into an explanation that it would be used to pay for the conversion to high-definition broadcasts, I gently explained that I don't have cable nor the money for a conversion box to receive the new broadcasts over the air. Then I was off the hook.
So I'm bemused and horrified (yes, I'm ambiemotionally gifted) that you are forced to pay for tripe you wouldn't watch if THEY paid YOU.
MissJ, your closing line was worth the price of admission!
J
James, since admission to your own site is free, are you implying that my last line is worth nothing? :)
I was thinking (dangerous, I know) that what Ireland needs is an old- fashioned American tea party; e.g. the Boston Tea Party. Involving TVs instead of tea and the appropriate government building instead of a harbor.
Nah MissJ. You only think it's free. The plan is to wait until you're addicted to my light hearted comic stylings, and then hit you with an egregious licence fee demand at the end of the year.
As for the Dublin tea party. I was at one of those tonight. All we did was, er, drink tea.
J
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