Chuck E. Cheese has taken up the patriotic frenzy by including a two minute video clip of soldiers in Iraq that is broadcast during little kids' birthday parties:
t r u t h o u t - Victoria Harper Babes in Warland
According to journalist, Dr. Michael I. Niman, the above story is , indeed, true, although some of the details are not exactly accurate.
Chuck E. Cheese is showing a two minute (not five minute) clip of American soldiers distributung toys and candy to Iraqi children and then sequencing to images of tanks and war planes.
The clip was not funded by the Department of Defense, Chuck E. Cheese Productions created this video segment on their own!
Would someone please tell me what the dink is going on?
Read more of Dr. Niman's work here:
Critical Media Studies Resources
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
#38 - Women in History - Eve - Word Origin
I have been prowling around the vastness of the internet in search of the word origin for evening.
My presumption has been that evening was named after our lovely sister Eve.
No such luck.
The word eveing was coined in c. 1440 and it originally looked like this:
cwildtid
Go figure.
The darn word doesn't even LOOK like evening!
And, of course, our Biblical Eve gets no credit for this lovely word... evening.
I have to do some more digging about.
In the meantime, if you do have an interest in word origins (entymology) please stop by here:
Online Etymology Dictionary
My presumption has been that evening was named after our lovely sister Eve.
No such luck.
The word eveing was coined in c. 1440 and it originally looked like this:
cwildtid
Go figure.
The darn word doesn't even LOOK like evening!
And, of course, our Biblical Eve gets no credit for this lovely word... evening.
I have to do some more digging about.
In the meantime, if you do have an interest in word origins (entymology) please stop by here:
Online Etymology Dictionary
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
#37 Women in History: Eve - Our African Ancestor?
Last week I introduced the topic of Eve.
Who is this lady and why are men the ones writing about our sister?
I included some really good links to picture of Eve in history.
NEWS ALERT:
No matter what is portrayed in those museum picture links....
Eve is not some white gal with flowing blonde hair covering her whatevers.
The majority of researchers now contend that Eve originated from Africa.
No one is arguing that data.
But, what is currently under question is if we came from one genetic pool ; a single African ancestor.
The current contention is, "NO."
This goes completely against the writings of the Old Testament, Genesis.
Researchers are finding that humanity developed into different races to adapt to different environmental conditions.
This required more than one gal to create such diversity.
With the advent of DNA science... technically we should all have some African mitochondrial DNA.
But, scientists discovered remains in Australia over 60,000 years old that did not.
How could this be?
Specualtion is that our original homo sapiens may have intergrated with primitive people and thus the genetic diversity.
Who knows?
Is this important?
I would say yes for the simple fact that Eve, who has been considered the originator of a load of humanity's problems has been shouldering a large burden for millenia.
All is not what it appears to have been.
History truly is malleable and as the researchers continus to plunge into the origins of our ancestry... it will be interesting to find what (if any) changes may occur on the icon known as Eve.
Read more here:
National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com
Who is this lady and why are men the ones writing about our sister?
I included some really good links to picture of Eve in history.
NEWS ALERT:
No matter what is portrayed in those museum picture links....
Eve is not some white gal with flowing blonde hair covering her whatevers.
The majority of researchers now contend that Eve originated from Africa.
No one is arguing that data.
But, what is currently under question is if we came from one genetic pool ; a single African ancestor.
The current contention is, "NO."
This goes completely against the writings of the Old Testament, Genesis.
Researchers are finding that humanity developed into different races to adapt to different environmental conditions.
This required more than one gal to create such diversity.
With the advent of DNA science... technically we should all have some African mitochondrial DNA.
But, scientists discovered remains in Australia over 60,000 years old that did not.
How could this be?
Specualtion is that our original homo sapiens may have intergrated with primitive people and thus the genetic diversity.
Who knows?
Is this important?
I would say yes for the simple fact that Eve, who has been considered the originator of a load of humanity's problems has been shouldering a large burden for millenia.
All is not what it appears to have been.
History truly is malleable and as the researchers continus to plunge into the origins of our ancestry... it will be interesting to find what (if any) changes may occur on the icon known as Eve.
Read more here:
National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
#36: Women in History: Eve
I decided to start from the very beginning (to quote Maria von Trapp in the Sound of Music)...
So our first woman of note in herstory would, of course, be Eve.
I thought... oh, I will just spend an hour or two reading up on our gal of origin and have something to add.
NOPE.
This is going to be quite an undertaking.
I googled Eve.
Do you know the biblical Eve didn't show up until page 2?
And that was in reference to sex.
Maybe that shouldn't have been a surprise.
Here's a link:
And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible
and no surprise here....
the author is male.
What's up with that?
I think if I continue to go poking around with this topic... just call it a hunch, but I have a feeling that men have had more to say... or at least to publish about Eve than her sisters.
Anyway... the above website offers some wonderful links to art resources. Do stop by, search for EVE and you are going to find that history painted her as chubby, blonde and caucasian.
Hmmmm....
More to come.
So our first woman of note in herstory would, of course, be Eve.
I thought... oh, I will just spend an hour or two reading up on our gal of origin and have something to add.
NOPE.
This is going to be quite an undertaking.
I googled Eve.
Do you know the biblical Eve didn't show up until page 2?
And that was in reference to sex.
Maybe that shouldn't have been a surprise.
Here's a link:
And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible
and no surprise here....
the author is male.
What's up with that?
I think if I continue to go poking around with this topic... just call it a hunch, but I have a feeling that men have had more to say... or at least to publish about Eve than her sisters.
Anyway... the above website offers some wonderful links to art resources. Do stop by, search for EVE and you are going to find that history painted her as chubby, blonde and caucasian.
Hmmmm....
More to come.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
#35 - "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger..."
In an effort to be fair, I am providing a link to Mr. Cheney's response to this weekend's accidental shooting incident:
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060212154709990003&ncid=NWS00010000000001
He has taken full acountability for the accident.
That is good.
That's what Americans need want to see from a leader.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060212154709990003&ncid=NWS00010000000001
He has taken full acountability for the accident.
That is good.
That's what Americans need want to see from a leader.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
#34 - White House Finds Humor in Cheney Gun Incident
This Forbes news article reports the White House staff's attempts at using humor to minimize the seriousness of Vice President Mr. Dick Cheney's shooting mishap this past Saturday:
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/02/14/ap2525155.html
I admit that I am anti-gun.
Very much.
So I am definitely lacking in humor in regards to gun related accidents.
But, the above Forbes article goes deeper than my distaste for guns...
Is it me or does anyone else just find the fact that White House staff are cracking jokes about this shooting as arrogant to the nth degree?
This situation is not funny.
At all.
The second in command to the greatest power in the world has shot someone, and his staff think it is funny?
He has shot an elderly man, whom will not be able to have the buckshot removed from his skin. And now one of those buckshot pieces has managed to work itself to the man's heart?!
Even more disturbing is the White House stance that the victim is "responsible" for this accident because he did not let Cheney and his group know that he was returning with his quarry?!
Hello!
I thought the person holding the gun is the one responsible for firing it?
The attitude taken by the powers that be is exactly what has gone wrong with political leadership in the United States.
Arrogant.
Defensive.
Lacking accountability.
Completely out of touch with how others perceive their unethical behaviors.
And they get away with it.
According to the National Rifle Association (NRA):
"... the organization's cardinal rules of hunting, including the need to make certain the target is actually what it appears to be."
(http://www.courttv.com/trials/berseth/backgrounder_ctv.html )
That sounds like the guy holding the gun is responsible for shooting... doesn't it?
Shooting someone in a hunting accident is a misdemeanor, or worse, a felony.
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/02/14/ap2525155.html
I admit that I am anti-gun.
Very much.
So I am definitely lacking in humor in regards to gun related accidents.
But, the above Forbes article goes deeper than my distaste for guns...
Is it me or does anyone else just find the fact that White House staff are cracking jokes about this shooting as arrogant to the nth degree?
This situation is not funny.
At all.
The second in command to the greatest power in the world has shot someone, and his staff think it is funny?
He has shot an elderly man, whom will not be able to have the buckshot removed from his skin. And now one of those buckshot pieces has managed to work itself to the man's heart?!
Even more disturbing is the White House stance that the victim is "responsible" for this accident because he did not let Cheney and his group know that he was returning with his quarry?!
Hello!
I thought the person holding the gun is the one responsible for firing it?
The attitude taken by the powers that be is exactly what has gone wrong with political leadership in the United States.
Arrogant.
Defensive.
Lacking accountability.
Completely out of touch with how others perceive their unethical behaviors.
And they get away with it.
According to the National Rifle Association (NRA):
"... the organization's cardinal rules of hunting, including the need to make certain the target is actually what it appears to be."
(http://www.courttv.com/trials/berseth/backgrounder_ctv.html )
That sounds like the guy holding the gun is responsible for shooting... doesn't it?
Shooting someone in a hunting accident is a misdemeanor, or worse, a felony.
I believe that when one of our leaders has committed a mistake that involves the well being of another person... well, I believe that should be up for public scrutiny.
These guys walk around with the power to annihiliate portions of the world.
They are given public consent to kill numerous people everyday.
Should Mr. Cheney be held up for public scrutiny over this shooting accident?
You betcha.
Should he have his hunting license suspended?
Yep.
Should he pay fines?
Yes.
Should he be more forthcoming about this accident?
Yes.
If Mr. Cheney had been Bill Clinton, Ken Starr already would have been snapping at his heels.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
#33 - War Makes People Sick
A team of reaseachers from the University of California have completed reviewing the medical records of 15,000 Civil War soldiers.
The news?
Fighting in the war made them sick.
Well, that is rather simplistic, but the study shows that there was a higher incidence of health problems (both physical and mental) for those who fought in the Civil War.
The BBC extends this information into the effects of war on today's soldiers.
Read more about this here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4686656.stm
The news?
Fighting in the war made them sick.
Well, that is rather simplistic, but the study shows that there was a higher incidence of health problems (both physical and mental) for those who fought in the Civil War.
The BBC extends this information into the effects of war on today's soldiers.
Read more about this here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4686656.stm
Friday, February 03, 2006
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