Hanoi Jane turns 70...still sucks.

this past week saw Atlanta roll out the red carpet for a huge 70th birthday gala for Jane Fonda. in attendence were lovely people like Ted Turner, Eve Ensler, and Rosie O'Donnell (who dragged along that poor woman she's partnered up with...shudder...

among the adoring remarks made on Fonda's behalf were these by a drunk (as usual) Turner:

"One of the things that attracted Jane to me...[audience laughter]...Sorry, i didn't write anything down...I've had a glass of wine. What I meant was, what attracted me to her is her incredible courage. Jane has more courage than just about anybody i've ever met. During the Vietnam War, i kept my mouth shut. I learned early on that you don't get in trouble if you keep your mouth shut. Jane never learned that."

i'm sorry...but wasn't Turner formerly known as "THE MOUTH OF THE SOUTH"??

not everyone, of course, considered her actions during the Vietnam war "courageous". one vet took issue in a guest column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Media glow on Fonda ignores her treason"...

i like his take...he's more pissed at the media for fawning over Fonda all of these year than he his at Fonda herself. but, since he accuses the media of "looking the other way", he reminds the people of Fonda's stated embracing of the enemy through her speeches (she wasn't just an "anti-war" activist...she literally was pulling for the other side!) and the historical facts of her trip to Vietnam:

What she actually did matters far more, of course, than what she thought or said as a young woman long ago. When Fonda took a camera crew to North Vietnam late in the war, her actions easily crossed the line of "aid and comfort to the enemy."

While in Hanoi, Fonda delighted our enemy by cavorting for cameras on an anti-aircraft gun, pretending to shoot at U.S. aircraft. Under pressure in recent years, Fonda said that was bad judgment, but her other actions were far worse.

She made speeches and recorded propaganda radio broadcasts in Hanoi expressing solidarity against " . . . our common enemy - U.S. imperialism." She called our troops, our POWs and our president war criminals and begged U.S. troops to disobey orders from their officers.

Fonda returned to the U.S. and reported our POWs were well treated. When the POWs later came home to tell stories of their sustained starvation diet, maltreatment and torture - real torture, not the kindergarten variety we now debate - she called them liars.

this story would make one helluva movie.

"i'm sorry i answered the question"...dem debate vol. 2

...'because from what i've heard on this stage we're not supposed to'...this is paraphrasing Joe Biden, after he gave a detailed answer about his plan for Pakistan. interesting.

Richardson also gets detailed, kinda, and the he name-drops "Halliburton". pathetic. i take back anything nice i've said about him.

Edwards--will get rid of nukes world-wide. O-K.

Obama wants more international cooperation. O-K.

Dodd talks tough to Pakistan, Hillary agrees. both blame Bush for Pakistani problems. solution elusive.

IRAQ/SURGE/TROOP LEVELS

"One American death is too much"--Richardson. One. money should be used for programs in US.

TRADE

hillary got NAILED on NAFTA. NAILED. tried to joke her way out of it, in response to "was ross perot right?". criticizes bush on poison chinese products...

ENERGY

john roberts asks obama whose backyard nuclear waste should go. no answer given in a long monologue. "...we CAN do it", was his answer. "do WHAT?" is my question...

HILLARY--ARE THEY PICKING ON YOU?

hillary gives parts of her stump speech..."glass ceiling", etc... no answer to "who are the 'boy's club'".

another Chinese attempt to kill our kids....

according to this release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, it looks like Starbucks is having to recall a bunch of cups made in China that were targeted to the kids who drink their coffee...i guess...

i wonder if another "suicide" can be expected?

American Decadence, Full Speed Ahead: Hooters in Beijing

"First Nixon, then Clinton and now the Hooters Girls will make an impact in China’s capital. The Hooters of Beijing will host the grand opening celebration on September 12th."

full story here...

some of my feminist "friends" here in gainesville, FL decided to "fight the power" when they protested the opening of a Hooters downtown a few years back...featuring signs with slogans decrying the objectification of "hooters"...something like "breasts are for baby's milk" or something like that...




...c'mon...GET A LIFE.

"We're sorry you tried to kill our kids"

i've been wanting to touch on this, because i think it's a great illustration of how screwed up the world is.

i can't believe Mattel is actually apologizing to the Chinese people:

Mattel was forced to deliver a humiliating public apology to ‘the Chinese people’ on Friday over the damaging succession of product recalls of China-made toys that the US toymaker has announced in recent months.

In a carefully stage-managed meeting in Beijing with a senior Chinese official, which, unusually, was open to the media, Thomas Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice-president for worldwide operations, read out a prepared text that played down the role of Chinese factories in the recalls.

the washington post has a more "nuanced" take on the apology...sez that china interpreted mattel's statement in an unintended way...

meanwhile, china's war against the rest of the world continues:they're trying to kill our babies with cribs.

it's so disheartening for me to look at all of this and maintain any faith i might have at all for the future. when our corporations have to figuratively bend over and kiss Chinese ass when it's not any fault of theirs, we have to wonder who's got who by the balls. at what point do we have to just say NO to cheap products & cheap labor? i work for a huge multinational company right now who is outsourcing things to mexico like crazy...and we don't make toys. we make things which could be deadly if manufactured improperly.


previously on NGNG...the chinese plot thickens.

Chinese effort to kill Americans expands...

first they tried to kill our pets using banned chemicals in pet food.

then they tried to poison american children with toys containing lead.

now, they seek to spread AIDS, via a condom-dispensing program targeted at Washington, DC, where they've shipped a ton of faulty condoms to help "curb" the AIDS problem in this highly afflicted city.

they were wrapped in paper. PAPER. in my opinion, this should've been a big red flag right from the get-go. but, they were free...

it never ceases to blow my mind why we would let china become the source for almost everything we buy. i mean, OUR FOOD? (have too many of our farms bought into the ethanol hoax?) OUR CONTRACEPTIVES? CAN'T WE MAKE ANYTHING ANYMORE?