As IF Times

link AFP: Kims 11-ace debut round recalled on Twitter.

This is all about lack of respect.  A guy scores 11 holes-in-one, on the very first time playing golf and yet the world is largely indifferent.  This feat was witnessed by no less than 17 of his personal bodyguards, so it must be true.  While other so called pros manage to finish perhaps 1 or 2 under par in any given tournament,  their exploits are considered heroic.  I don’t recall any kind of coverage of Kim’s feat on the Golf Channel and certainly no pro to my knowledge has paid any respect to this accomplishment.  Makes you wonder about the bias of the western media.

As we know by now, “Dear Leader” as Kim Jong Il was referred to by his subjects, passed away at the too young age of 69 just the other day.  The importance of Kim to his people as the spiritual and political leader was clearly demonstrated by televised footage of massive demonstrations of inconsolable grief by scores of women broadcast  for the outside world to see.  It’s possible that similar outpourings of grief may also be found in the golfing community, but video just hasn’t surfaced.  Nevertheless, to his faithful and his community, the 5 foot-nothing leader was a giant in his exploits and his life.

But Kim was not just a capable golfer, that was just one of his sideline pursuits.  Kim was much too busy doing important nation building things such as, subjugating his own people, exposing them to starvation and random torture and detention.  There was also the delicate task of sabre rattling in order to make sure everyone paid attention to his latest rants.  There were missiles to be fired off to the south, nuclear weapons to build and people to enslave.  Oddly, these kinds of activities are admired by many, even outside of his own culture.

In other parts of the world, many lesser types were doing exactly the same thing, except that they were getting all kinds of attention and adulation.  Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and even Hugo Chavez have managed to draw as their ardent admirers, prominent actors, writers and journalists breathlessly and romantically describing their struggles for their people.  Kim had the misfortune of being short, pudgy and comical looking whereas guys like Guevara and Castro had beards and looked the part of the valiant revolutionary.  It’s hard to portray an Asian Elmer Fudd as a romantic hero I guess.  At least Cuba had the respect to fly their flags at half mast in respect of their kindred dictator.  It was Kim’s unfortunate fate to be physically unimposing and not have as his native tongue, a classic romantic language.

In the USA,  a backbench senator arrives from nowhere and vaults into the highest position in the world.  Before even passing one piece of policy during his first few months  in office, he is awarded the Nobel prize for peace!  Now that’s impressive.  Not 11 holes in one impressive, but impressive.   As of now, he’s even staking the claim to be among the top 4 presidents in history, sounding like the kind of claim Kim would have made, if only he had the support of a fawning press.  It’s possible that all this swooning over Obama drove Kim mad and may have even caused his heart failure.  Obama takes up golf and plays like Urkel whereas Kim gets 11 holes-in-one on his first outing, but Obama gets the Nobel!?  Obviously, everyone else had a better media team than departed Dear Leader.  Did I mention he was also a bowler?

link School turns heating off to ‘save planet’ | The Sun |News.

And speaking of morons, the hits just keep on coming.   When people with questionable judgement are placed into positions of power or influence, only grief can ensue.   Surely people such as this headmaster have suffered some kind of physiological injury which only surgery can fix.  There has obviously been a severance of the cord connecting his brain hemispheres.   At the very least, the logic wire has come loose.

If the entire global green movement is to have any credibility at all, they should at least be honest about what the end goals are.  If you follow the string of logic to its ultimate conclusion, the end game is to wipe mankind completely off the planet.  Full stop.  That is the only possible way in which all the damage to the planet can be halted.

Who knew that when the first Neanderthal rubbed a couple of sticks together to make a fire that this was the beginning of the end for mankind?   (And they still have the nerve to show their faces on insurance commercials for Geico….shameless ).  From that moment on, it was as if the light bulb went off for mankind as to how to make their existence better.  Now that they discovered how to warm themselves from the elements, it was only a matter of time before cooked food was next.   Yada, yada, yada, fast forward millions of years later and we have New York City.  What the earthies are trying to do is turn the clock back on all of this.  If the green movement is to gain any credibility at all from here, why not just be blunt about what they’re after?  At the moment, they’re pushing the notion of windmills and bicycles, but we all know that’s as likely to last as long as a paycheck in a casino.  To really eliminate any possible scarring of the earths’ delicate eco-system, man has to go.

Do the earthies really think people will resume living in caves, foraging for berries and chasing animals for food?  The entire basis for the existence of all life from amoebas to zebras is the basic struggle of the organism versus the environment.  Survivors adapt, procreate and populate.  Non adaptors get eaten or go extinct.  Some guy named Darwin wrote an article about that at the turn of the century.  The very fact that most humans have developed a superior brain to all other living creatures confers upon them a certain latitude to modify their environment for better living.   There’s no point in having superior reasoning and thinking skills yet still live in the same circumstances as a brown bear in the log hollow just down the path.  That’s preposterous.  That’s why we build condos.

Is the world a better place if people were stripped of their ability to travel, to invent, to mix cultures, to watch football, to eat cooked food?  Look at the tribes living in the African Serengeti Plains.  I don’t see lots of people like Headmaster goofball moving there for the simple life.  This whole save the earth movement should set an example by setting up camp somewhere in Africa and show us all how it’s done…with no internet access.   Boy, that’ll teach us.

link Saudis fear there will be ¿no more virgins¿ and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted | Mail Online.

Let’s just say the evidence is inconclusive.  It’s not as if these are the opinions of random wackos, since as we’ve discussed numerous times, every idiot is entitled to their opinion.  No, this point of view comes from  learned scholars,  professors no less, at the prestigious King Fahd university, or King FU as it’s known to grads.   Presumably therefore, their opinions carry some weight among their peers and certainly to the unenlightened masses.  As evidence, one of the scholars, Kamal Subhi a former professor at the university, cites the numerous instances of women unabashedly leering at him while he sat innocently at cafes.

Being made to feel cheap and as an objectified subject of desire caused him great distress and since he is a learned man, the only rational conclusion he could draw was that this was the result of women being allowed to drive.  He concluded that the natural consequence of this would be the complete disappearance of virgins.  Apparently at the King Fahd university, the greater one’s ability to leap great chasms of logic, the more celebrated are their opinions.  Some of the less widely publicized scholarly papers from the university are:

–Facial hair and the correlation to rectal itching

–Excessive laughing and their effects on literacy

–Penguin ownership and the decline of math skills

–Eyeglasses as a subversive western influence

Having a pedigree from a University of course confers some validity to the studies, at least in some quarters.  After all, most societies respect diligent scholarly works.  While there may be some that scoff at some of these ‘studies’ and their conclusions, consider some of the widely accepted postulates that we all accept (mostly) as truths in this part of the world:

–The Big Bang Theory: not the TV show, but rather the brilliant notion that at some point in history, for lack of a better explanation, the universe just showed up, the equivalent of an I Dream Of Jeannie blink.

–The planet Earth, after countless millions of years of existence (if you believe the guesses) is in its death throes because of man’s existence.  Only taxation will fix this.

–The government has your best interests at heart.

In this part of the world, there are truckloads of people with ‘academic’ qualifications offering similarly questionable opinions masquerading as scholarly thought just like our pal Kamal Subhi in Saudi Arabia.  By now, we all know of Bill Ayers, founder of the ‘Weather Underground’ who openly advocates for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.   This is a guy who still retains academic credibility at the University of Chicago even though he was convicted of setting off bombs at federal buildings during his more active youth.

The media also loves to display the racist rants of Dr. Cornell West as if they were any more lucid than Kamal Subhi’s opinions on women and driving.  The opinions are really quite amusing if they weren’t so dangerous.  The danger is that their academic pedigrees allows them to indoctrinate scores of nubile minds that pass through their academic clutches.  This results in proteges and acolytes who then spread what they have been told once they’re out in the real world.  The consequence is today’s paradox wherein the U.S. produces the largest college graduating classes in history, but also as many who are as ignorant as ever about their own circumstances and especially of how we got to where we are today.

When you combine this with that other source of deep intellectual thought, Hollywood, it can become very difficult to discern fantasy from provable reality if you don’t do your own research.  The strategy for validating science seems to have evolved away from facts supporting theory towards repeating a theory often enough that it becomes fact.  Bleating about man’s influence on global climate changes while dismissing the single most important influence of all on earth’s ecosystems, the Sun, is equally crazy to the correlation between women driving cars and dwindling virginity.  Actually the latter may be easier to prove.

Having a university confer an advanced degree upon you is not a guarantee against idiocy, it only exposes your ideas to the light of day.  And apparently it’s not a guarantee against women leering lustily at you either.  Them’s the breaks I guess.