Angry Flame: The creators of Flame used the same programming language as did the creators of Angry Birds. It’s really not all that big a deal, and reflects more on the language (it’s easy, that’s why they used it) than on Angry Birds, but you have to admit–it’s funny.
Good: Tel Aviv is cracking down on anti-migrant violence.
Two years later, Turkey is still lying: Today is the second anniversary of the Marbles Mimbletonia “massacre”–the one where terrorists attacked IDF soldiers in mobs and were killed in self-defense, and Turkey is still lying about it. Unbelievably, Israel is offering compensation to the “victims” of the Mavi Marmara incident–which Turkey refused. Meanwhile, this is what a massacre really looks like: One in which whole families were murdered, and half the victims were children.
Bias for thee, but not for me: Michael Moore can present utterly biased films and call them documentaries, but when conservatives do it, the wire services get their panties in a bunch over the bias. But even in their slamming of the film, they can’t hide its legitimate purpose:
Horowitz and co-director Matthew Groff play games with content, their choice of interview subjects and the facts as they try to hide their agenda in this film, which was shot in 2008, premiered in 2009 but is only now shoved into theaters in an election year. They hurl waves of randomly selected and undated TV news allegations (by the likes of Lou Dobbs) against the U.N. They’re slow to identify their many expert witnesses, some of whom are more credible than others. They bury their best, most credible experts into the final third – Jody Williams, who worked for the U.N., bore witness to the horrors of Darfur, and then was chastised and discredited by Syria, China, Algeria and other countries worried about the precedent that preventing a genocide there might mean to their own autocratic and anti-human rights policies.
Uh-huh. Go ahead and bash as many “conservative think-tanks” as you like, the facts remain: The UN is a bastion of waste, thuggery, and anti-democratic dictatorships criticizing and ruling over democracies. When Canada is attacked by its so-called “hunger expert” as he readies his sights on the pressing problem of hunger in the USA, instead of, say, Yemen. 300,000 children starving in Yemen? Clearly, not as important as bashing Canada for its widespread hunger problem. What’s that? You never heard that Canada had a hunger problem?
Shyeah. Defund it. Leave it. What good is it doing that can’t be done by a different body, made up of democracies only?