Thoughts of things that hit the reef…

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Actors: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro

Stardust is based on the novel with the same name, written by Matthew Vaughn. It is yet another fantasy masterpiece from the pen of a British writer. It tells the story of a “boy becoming a man” to find his true love. This man is Tristan, a shop-boy, in a mid 19th century village in England. The village is called Wall because there is wall near the village which separates England from the magical kingdom of  Stormhold. Tristan wants to find a fallen star to get the girl he loves, Victoria, to marry him. The star felt down in Stormhold. Tristan finds out, that his mother lives in Stromwind and wants to visit her first and staring his search from there. He tries to travel to her with a Babylon candle, but he accidentally travels to the fallen star witch turned out to be a woman called Yvaine. So he decides to take the star to show her to his beloved Victoria but also promises to Yvaine, that he will use the candle to send her back home once they have reached Victoria. So the journey begins. But Tristan is not the only one looking for the star, there are also three witches and some princes.

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Nice addition to the yesterdays post.

More Videos about life and religion by Somegraybloke.

Today I want to talk about the current attempts to create a public health care service (PHS) in the United States of America. Like Yin and Yang, Black and White, Republicans and Democrats, Capitalists and Socialists, there are two groups in the discussion around the PHS: The Supporters and the OMG-We-All-Going-To-Die-When-This-Piece-Of-Socialism-Comes-True-Group.

What bothers me, is the way how the discussion is lead. The supporters bring there arguments, why it would be good for the community. E.g. poor people have at least a basic health covering. The opposition however argues against the plan. Their arguments are, you will lose your doctor or this is what the socialists always wanted or an enormous bureaucratic machine would stand between the you and your doctor and the best one you are going to die (see video at the bottom).

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Hej, actually I wanted to write more about international politics. But we have elections this year coming up and therefore it is a lot going on in German politics lately. So I am going to talk about the Internet blockades, they are not only a topic in Germany at least.

The last few month the legislature tried to install a law to block web pages with child pornography. I already gave a short summery in another articel. The German law passed the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, our two chambers of legislative, and should have been signed this Friday by the Bundespräsident. Unlike Presidents or Primeminsters of other countrys he has only few rights. One of these few is, that he has to sign bills after they have been accepted by the Bundestag and Bundesrat in order to become law. But the new bill, which should be in order as of August the 1st, wasn’t signed, because it was not ready.

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Yesterday I finished watching all three Godfather movies. I really like those Mafia-movies especially with Al Pachino and De Niro. In my opinion, De Niro is the better one. But I have to admit, that Al Pachino played a very nice Godfather Michael Corleone over all 3 parts. James Caan who played the Sonny Corleone in the first part was also really nice. I am  a bit sorry that he died in the first part. James Caan played later in the TV-show “Las Vegas” a character that is in his behavior somewhat similar to Sonny. And of cause the acting of Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone was great: “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse”. Also the scene with the horse head, you have to see this. I never really like the character of Kay Adamas, later the wife of Michael Corleone, she is played by Diane Keaton. She never fit into that whole Italian family thing. But I think, that’s what the authors intended with this character.

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