Bob Coleman ([info]mandingo) wrote,
  • Mood: torn
  • Music: Animaniacs - Yakko's Universe

KARL ROVE AND WAKKO WARNER

The whole Valerie Plume/Karl Rove thing is weighing on me heavily. I feel torn.

On the one hand, Karl Rove deserves everything he gets for this. Releasing that name was one of the most petty, irresponsible things I've ever even heard of. I hate him that he did that. I hate his whole fucking group of cronies that would defend him for doing that. I hate them even more that they're going back on their own promise to defned such a shitty maneauver. I hate Robert Novak for being a big enough douchebag to print that shit. Fuck em all.

But does it bother anyone else that a journalist was forced to reveal their source? I mean, the end results are nice...but geez. I admit to being more than a little weirded out by it. I tend to shit all over the current administration for the curtailment of personal liberties, so maybe I should be a little bit psyched that something similar is used against them? I dunno.

I guess I just hope it doesn't stop other potentially importanrt sources from coming forward. Ah well. Fuck em.

On the brighter side, I downloaded ten animaniacs episodes, and I'm LOVING them. It's been soooooo long. And man, they do great songs. Also, the Wheel of Morality should be on national television.

Everybody lives on a street in a city or a village or a town for what it's worth. And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent that sits upon a planet known as Earth. And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains, which is out there spinning silently in space. And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals and also the entire human race.

It's a great big universe and we're all really puny. We're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney. It's big and black and inky and we are small and dinky It's a big universe and we're not.

And we're part of a vast interplanetary system stretching seven hundred billion miles long. With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one that has life on it, although we could be wrong. Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids including meteors and Halley's Comet too. And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons in a panoramic trillion-mile view.

And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars in a galaxy we call the Milky Way. It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other and still that's just a fraction of the way. 'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars. And still the universe extends to a place that never ends, which is maybe just inside a little jar!

It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny. We're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney. Though we don't know how it got here we're an important part here it's a big universe and it's ours!


Gotta love it.

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[info]powerstreak

July 22 2005, 20:42:13 UTC 6 years ago

The songs in Animaniacs are fantastic, I still have the old CD soundtrack of them all. My favourite has to be the countries of the world song.

[info]enderwastaken

July 22 2005, 20:57:09 UTC 6 years ago

On the journalist thing, legally they needed to reveal the source. Protecting sources, like every other right, has a set limit as to how far it extends. The journalists knew that going in. They no more squashed their civil liberties then yours are if you are not allowed to fire off your automatic weapon in a crowd.

And Anamaniacs used to do a bunch of TMBG songs, as did Tiny Tunes (I remember Plucky duck getting chased around by angry turks to Istanbul), they might have done that song

[info]rider99

July 23 2005, 08:19:44 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, the journalist protecting their sources thing was meant to protect whistleblowers that came forward from being fired or facing other retribution from the person or organization they tattled on, basically to protect people that were doing the *right* thing from a position of little or no power. These journalists are trying to "protect" very powerful men who did the *wrong* thing for the personal gain of keeping their high up government contacts. Slightly different circumstances.

[info]journalsoup

July 23 2005, 01:03:03 UTC 6 years ago

"Wheel of morality turn, turn, turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn!"

The thing about sources in this instance is the people who got burned didn't even WRITE the friggen story! But they got drug into this whole mess anyway, I think that's one of the things that bugs me the most. And I'm a firm beliver in shield laws. Hidden sources are hugely important to a free and fair press. Without the press, it's even harder to keep the government in line. If the press has to roll over on all of its sources everytime the govt. wants someones head, people are going to stop telling their stories to journalist. Then we're in trouble. Well, even MORE trouble anyways. Shield laws=good.

Which TMBG songs did the Animaniacs do? I don't remember that they did any and I was a pretty big fan of both back in the day. I think I would remember that if I ever saw it. I know Tiny Toons did Istanbul (Not Constantinople) & Particle Man, because that was how I became a fan of TMBG, but I never saw any Animaniacs ones.

KeL
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