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January 23, 2018 By Fausta

The Watchers Forum: What Are Some Of Your Favorite Fictional Characters?



Every week on Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question
: What Are Some Of Your Favorite Fictional Characters?

Fausta Rodriguez Wertz : So many fictional characters to like!

In literature:

Jane Austen’s Emma, “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the original. When other kids were reading Nancy Drew, I was reading Sherlock.

Amor Towel’s Count Alexander Rostov of A Gentleman in Moscow. A man to love.

Guy de Maupassant’s George Duroy of Bel Ami, spiritual ancestor to Mad Men’s Don Draper and Bonfire of the Vanities’ Peter Fallow.

On film:
The entire cast of Casablanca. Every character stands out.

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Leave out the action scenes and you find a human being.

On TV:
Emma Peel of The Avengers as interpreted by Diana Rigg. She took care of Mr Steed in great style. I want to be Emma Peel when I grow up.

Rob Miller : OK, here we go…the short list…Bart Simpson, Alice Kramdon, Chaplin’s Tramp, Odysseus, Vulcan sex kitten T’pau as played by Jolene Blaylock, Rufus T. Firefly (Duck Soup), Bugs Bunny, Yojimbo (in the Kurosawa film of the same name), Edwina and Patsy from Ab Fab, Sherlock Holmes, Guy Hamilton and Jill Bryant (Aussie journo and his love object  in The Year of Living Dangerously), James Bond (the book one, not the movies), Larry Darrell in ‘The Razor’s Edge’ (book version) Jay Gatsby (ditto, the book), Ian Rankin’s detective John Rebus, Suzy Wong (both the book and the film) The Man With No Name, Col. Jock Sinclair (Tunes Of Glory), Chio Chio San from Madama Butterfly, Lucy Warriner in The Awful Truth.

Dave Schuler : I couldn’t name any one favorite and I’m afraid my favorites are pretty lowbrow. Here are a few of my favorites
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October 21, 2017 By Fausta

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September 27, 2017 By Fausta

The week at WoW! Mag

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February 29, 2016 By Fausta

Forum: Dogs, Cats Or ? What’s Your Favorite Pet?

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: Dogs, Cats Or ? What’s Your Favorite Pet?

Fausta’s Blog: I’m very allergic to cats, so I can’t have any contact with them.

Dogs are nice, but at this point in my life I don’t want the responsibility, so I visit my sister and hang out with her dog, who enthusiastically greets me at the door.

The Daley Gator : Dogs, no contest! They are called man’s best friend for very good reasons. Mainly the closeness you can get with a dog that just is not there with a cat, at least to me. I recall being 18, and heart-broken over a girl. As I sat on my bed, head hanging down, here came my dog. He just laid his head on my knee, and looked at me, as if to say it is OK.

The Razor : The older I get the more I like animals and the less I like people. As for cats vs dogs, both have their charms. I have 7 of each, the eldest being a 20 year old cat I raised from a kitten in Japan, down to a 6 month old Rottweiler mix puppy who bangs the kitchen cabinets like a drum when he wags his tail. All are rescues – the 20 year old cat from a plastic bag in a dumpster in Kyoto, the Rottie puppy running under parked cars as a 5 week old puppy at the local WalMart.
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December 28, 2015 By Fausta

Thank you Doug Ross!

Doug has kind words,

Fausta’s Blog: The single best news portal to catch the key events occurring in Latin America

Winner - 2014 Fabulous 50 Blog Awards

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November 13, 2015 By Fausta

This week’s Weasel of the Week

From the Watchers’ Council,

Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…

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 Faisel Mohammed, Jihadi Murderer

 Joshuapundit: Last Friday, the Muslim Holy Day 18-year-old Faisel Mohammed decided to kill as many infidels as he could among his fellow students on the campus of University of California at Merced. He stabbed four people before being shot by police.

The Merced Sun Star reported that Mohammed “smiled as he slashed at people during a stabbing spree.” He was also shouting Allahu Akbar.Needless to say, UC Merced is a gun-free zone.

The response of the media and local law enforcement was absolutely astounding.

Mohammed had numerous jihadi websites on his computer, and a detailed manifesto on his person describing exactly how he was going to tie his victims down and lure police into the room before stealing one of their guns so he could expand the carnage. ‘Praise Allah’ was written several times on each page.

He also had a backpack containing hand-cuffs, a night vision scope, duct tape and a home made explosive using petroleum jelly, which Merced Country Sheriff Verne Warnke described as s a “poor man’s C-4,” a military-grade explosive.

It spite of all this, the media and Sheriff Warneke raced to say that this was not terrorism related, just a ‘kid with a grudge.’ ABC News reported:

UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland says personal animosities, not a political agenda, motivated 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad from Santa Clara in Wednesday’s multiple stabbings on the school’s campus. Authorities say the stabbing of four people at UC Merced was not related to terrorism.


That story changed, sort of, when Merced County news reporter Matthew Gonzales revealed that anonymous law enforcement sources informed him that Mohammad was on the FBI’s terror watch list and that the school was aware of it.

Not only that, but Mohammed had actually been one of the topics of discussion about 6 months ago when the FBI held a terrorist/extremist briefing with Merced County law enforcement leaders.

Ah well, jobs and pensions have to be protected. No wonder they’re sticking to their story so far.

In the name of political correctness, we have normalized Islamist terrorism. Just one of those things that happens some times, like a car accident or a power outage…

Yes,Islamist terrorism as just part of the daily routine. It barely rates headlines these days most of the time. Actually young Faisel Mohammed isn’t really the proper recipient of this weeks’ Weasel. He’s just a mad dog.

Who really deserves it are the FBI officials whom had him on a terrorism watch and refused to do anything about it and the college officials and local law enforcement like Sheriff Verne Warnke who hid what they were told about Faisel from the public and later tried to cover it up. Of course, you and I as well for allowing our elites to do this to us without screaming bloody murder.

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November 7, 2015 By Fausta

The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results

Watchers’ Council results this week:

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”
– Alexander Hamilton

“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.” – Robert Ingersoll

“I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.” – Jessica Lynch

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher and Statesman

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This week’s winning essay,The Noisy Room’s Harry’s Heroine Hikes 1,000 Miles For Wounded Troops… She’s An American Warrior All The Way [Video] is a story of heroism, of not giving in. Here’s a slice:

Meet Kirstie Ennis, one of the bravest Americans out there. Her story moved me to tears and I wanted to share it with you.

Kirstie is a 24 year-old Marine Corps veteran who toured in Afghanistan. Her life changed dramatically on June 23rd, 2012 when the massive Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that she was riding on as the door gunner crashed. She survived, but woke up to a living nightmare that she almost didn’t make it through.

The butt of her gun went through her jaw and ripped it off. She was missing half her face and she was swallowing her teeth. All that happened when her 50-caliber machine gun smashed through the left side of the chopper when it crashed. Her legs and arms were crushed. Kirstie had brain and spinal damage. She thought she was going to die and that it was over for her. They don’t know why the helicopter crashed, but it was fast. When you fall at 150 ft. per second, there’s no time to wonder why. That was the day her career as a Marine ended. It was all she had wanted to do her whole life and now all she wanted to do was survive.

When she woke, she was choking on her own blood in her throat and nose. There was screaming. A medic told her not to close her eyes and stay with him. She knew that if she closed them, she would never open them again. They made it back to Camp Bastion and her long fight began. They really thought she would not make it, but Kirstie is a true Marine… a fighter and she hung on. She was so terrified, she kept throwing up on herself. She knew she would never be the same.

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November 5, 2015 By Fausta

Our Weasel Of The Week!!

At the Watchers Council,

Once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…

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CNBC’s Faux ‘Journalist’ Carl Quintanilla!

 Fausta’s Blog: Carl Quintanilla, who came up with “Congressional Republicans, Democrats and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets of the fear that a Washington crisis is on the way. Does your opposition to it show you’re not the kind of problem-solver that American voters want?”

On the bright side, it gave Cruz an opening for the best line of the night.

Oh, indeed it did. Several of them, in fact.

Rush Limbaugh has said more than once that the rise of talk radio, conservative news, blogs and other media outlet in the last two decades or so are responsible for the main stream media having to break cover and reveal its blatant bias…and that we’ve reached a tipping point as far as a majority of Americans realizing how partisan and biased these ‘journalists’ actually are.

The collective fellatio of President Barack Hussein Obama by these presstitutes was pretty revealing too for anyone paying attention.

Carl Quintanilla is typical of the breed. A grad from the very lefty University of Colorado’s Boulder campus, his major was poli sci, not economics or finance. But strangely, his career was built on ‘financial reporting’ (with ineptness even Jon Stewart took a shot at more than once) and on being faux NBC’journalist’ Brian Williams’s shadow when he was off on vacay or special assignment.

I’m sure he and the other two CNBC clowns received no flak from NBC about the absurd, partisan way they handled the Republican debate…in fact, they likely got compliments and high fives if anything. So we can be sure that Carl Quintanilla’s career as a lefty talking head is secure.

“I deplore… the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” –Thomas Jefferson

In recognition of Mr. Quintanilla and what he’s doled out to the public all these years, I got one of my furry friends to contribute a little something extra to his well earned Weasel.

Juste est juste, n’est pa?

Well, there it is.

Check back next Tuesday to see who next week’s nominees for Weasel of the Week are!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum, and remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it…or any of the other fantabulous Watcher’s Council content.

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