Reflections From a Murky Pond

Here’s a cartoon that you’ve most likely never seen – Warner Brothers’ 1943 Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs.

The reason you’ve probably never heard of, much less seen, this cartoon is because it’s one of the Censored Eleven. It’s one of eleven Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons which United Artists has banned from syndication or distribution since 1968.

Well, I say to enjoy the cartoon and, if it’s offensive to certain sorts, that’s just a bit of extra spice to the enjoyment.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not truly against Obama’s and the Liberals’ desire to use various social means to stop the spread of- and mitigate the damage caused by the Islamists and the many Muslims who support the goals, either actively or through tacit agreement.

How You Win Their Hearts and Minds

I’m a very firm and committed believer in targeting our Muslim enemies’ hearts and minds, both abroad and at home. 😉

It’s fairly well known that the student legislative council of University of California, Irvine voted to ban the US Flag from their public spaces. In their manifesto cum legislation they cited their reasoning for it:

• The US Flag signifies and encourages a love for America;
• America should not be loved;
• There are enough students at UC-Irvine who don’t love America to be noteworthy

It also fairly well known that the university’s student Executive Cabinet promptly vetoed the legislation. What isn’t known by most is just who those six rabidly anti-American legislative council are.

Meet The Irvine 6

Well here they are: Matthew Guevara, Khaalidah Sidney, Naty Rico, John Salazar, Matthew Tsai, and Negar Fatahi. Read their names and look at their faces. Is any American with any reasonable amount of intelligence surprised by what they see?

Early Nature Walk

It’s still coldish but it’s warmed up just enough that one could reasonably expect to be able to enjoy an early nature walk in the woods … if one remembered to bring the right jacket and boots. 😉

Google modifies, tweaks, and just plain changes its search algorithm on a regular basis, most often to disrupt the effectiveness of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts. Now, however, a Google research team is trying to change  the algorithm, to measure the “trustworthiness” of a page, rather than its reputation across the web.

The system – which is has not yet gone live – counts the number of “incorrect” facts within a page to determine its ranking in search results instead of its reputation or popularity, as measured by incoming links, across the web.

Google – The Internet’s Gatekeeper

This, of course, begs the questions of whose facts? Whose truths? Who will decide what is innacurate and, hence, to be downlisted and effectively censored by Google?

Google’s answers are that facts that the web unanimously agrees upon are considered to be a reasonable proxy for truth. Web pages that dissent from this consensus by containing contradictory information are to be bumped down the rankings, effectively censoring them by removing them from the bulk of the web’s users.

So, insofar as the internet’s greatest gatekeeper, Google is concerned, consensus reality will be the only reality. And, of course, Google will be the arbiter of that consensus.

I guess, if Google’s plan is allowed to be implemented, nobody will read where you wrote, “And yet it moves.“