Saturday, August 26, 2006
Picture From 2006 Cherry Blossoms, Kinugawa, And Other Spring Pictures
I finally got the time to post some random pictures from this spring, though I also need to get around to posting pictures from Cambodia and Australia.
It is somewhat ironic, but the anti-Israeli and sometimes anti-Semitic Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" has an article today on a cartoon published by a smaller newspaper, "Morgenbladet". It is drawn by Mette Hellenes, an overweight and obviously incompetent journalist, whose lack of intelligence should disqualify her from writing on anything but toilet paper. Her Norwegian is horrible as well, but the cartoon text goes loosely translated as follows:
a) Jewish rabbi: What the heck are you doing? Stealing gas?
b) Jewish rabbi: Take this, because you are stealing (shooting).
Palestinian: Stop, what are you doing?
c) Jewish rabbi: This is for the gas! (shooting)
d) Jewish rabbi: This is for the gas can! (shooting)
e) Jewish rabbi: And this is for ruining my hat. And this is for throwing sand in my curls.
It is shocking that a Norwegian newspaper can post something of this nature. The existence of a fool like Mette Hellenes is unfortunate by itself, but that an editor is willing to publish her anti-Semitic work displays an abhorrent lack of common sense. In particular, pay attention to the dollar bills sticking out of the rabbi's jacket. Hopefully this will get the international attention that it deserves. It is good to see that also other Norwegian blogs are focusing on this.
Mette Hellenes seems to be a stereotypical product of the Norwegian educational system, which ideal is mediocrity. Norwegian students are from early on taught that no one is smarter or more gifted than anyone else, and no one is encouraged to perform better than the lowest denominator. In a normal country, someone like Mette Hellenes would have realized by now that journalism is not for her (as she writes Norwegian like a child), nor is the field of political cartoons as she can not draw. Unfortunately, the reason why reality has failed to dawn on her is that she has been encouraged by the Norwegian mediocrity to pursue a career for which she has no talent and which demands far exceed her intellectual ability. The final result is her tragically poor and anti-Semitic cartoon, which hopefully will convince someone to explain to Mette Hellenes that she should stay far away from newspapers and/or public forums. Even better, perhaps she should not be allowed to vote. The sad fact is that severely dumb people do not realize their own lack of intellectual ability, ironically due to the severeness of their dumbness syndrome.
On a more positive note, the second trailer for Borat's new movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", is one of the funniest previews that I have ever seen. Featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, the mockumentary is about the Kazakhstani TV talking head Borat (Cohen) who is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. From the early reviews that I have read, this movie can possibly be one of the funniest movies ever made. The trailer in itself is enough to make me want to run to the movie theater when the movie opens.
I finally got the time to post some random pictures from this spring, though I also need to get around to posting pictures from Cambodia and Australia.
It is somewhat ironic, but the anti-Israeli and sometimes anti-Semitic Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" has an article today on a cartoon published by a smaller newspaper, "Morgenbladet". It is drawn by Mette Hellenes, an overweight and obviously incompetent journalist, whose lack of intelligence should disqualify her from writing on anything but toilet paper. Her Norwegian is horrible as well, but the cartoon text goes loosely translated as follows:
a) Jewish rabbi: What the heck are you doing? Stealing gas?
b) Jewish rabbi: Take this, because you are stealing (shooting).
Palestinian: Stop, what are you doing?
c) Jewish rabbi: This is for the gas! (shooting)
d) Jewish rabbi: This is for the gas can! (shooting)
e) Jewish rabbi: And this is for ruining my hat. And this is for throwing sand in my curls.
It is shocking that a Norwegian newspaper can post something of this nature. The existence of a fool like Mette Hellenes is unfortunate by itself, but that an editor is willing to publish her anti-Semitic work displays an abhorrent lack of common sense. In particular, pay attention to the dollar bills sticking out of the rabbi's jacket. Hopefully this will get the international attention that it deserves. It is good to see that also other Norwegian blogs are focusing on this.
Mette Hellenes seems to be a stereotypical product of the Norwegian educational system, which ideal is mediocrity. Norwegian students are from early on taught that no one is smarter or more gifted than anyone else, and no one is encouraged to perform better than the lowest denominator. In a normal country, someone like Mette Hellenes would have realized by now that journalism is not for her (as she writes Norwegian like a child), nor is the field of political cartoons as she can not draw. Unfortunately, the reason why reality has failed to dawn on her is that she has been encouraged by the Norwegian mediocrity to pursue a career for which she has no talent and which demands far exceed her intellectual ability. The final result is her tragically poor and anti-Semitic cartoon, which hopefully will convince someone to explain to Mette Hellenes that she should stay far away from newspapers and/or public forums. Even better, perhaps she should not be allowed to vote. The sad fact is that severely dumb people do not realize their own lack of intellectual ability, ironically due to the severeness of their dumbness syndrome.
On a more positive note, the second trailer for Borat's new movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", is one of the funniest previews that I have ever seen. Featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, the mockumentary is about the Kazakhstani TV talking head Borat (Cohen) who is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. From the early reviews that I have read, this movie can possibly be one of the funniest movies ever made. The trailer in itself is enough to make me want to run to the movie theater when the movie opens.
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