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Kewl Video… I haven’t yet watched another iGNiTe video but the concept seams great!
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Neither black nor white
The war in Afghanistan is controversy at best. Should “we” stay there or should we leave it? Was the war even necessary? That depends, what one sees as necessary, of cause…
The war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and on that point, the war against Afghanistan was initiated after the Terror-Attack at the World Tread Center in NY. It was called a counter-strike after the attack. This counter-strike should overthrow the Taliban regime and in some way, it did, and bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. Under the Taliban-regime, Afghanistan was economically and socially in the late medieval. That is not really the fault of the Afghans themselves, it’s more merely bad luck in its history.
Movie Review: Stardust
Stardust (2007) [wiki] [imdb]
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.
No Noob as boyfriend
This is what the futur will probably look like!
PS.: My own personal Teapot
Nice addition to the yesterdays post.
More Videos about life and religion by Somegraybloke.
My own personal Teapot
If you take your religious believes seriously and you become easily angry and upset, then you should probably stop reading here. I did warn you!
What does your supreme entity looks like? Does it look like meatballs with spaghetti tentacles? Or is it a pink unicorn? Has it maybe, six different colored letters? There are people out there who even believe in an almighty text editor. Some people believe in a carpenter who claimed he can turn water into wine. Some religions forbid there follows to imagine or depict there god or savior… Some people fear the souls of dead aliens brought to earth and killed here by Xanu approximately 75 million years ago.
Socialst Doomsday Healthcare
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).
Video Reef
Yust a nice video.
And the winner of the PC-demo contest of the EVOKE 2009
Update: Nice stopmotion, watch it with sound!
Internet Zensorship (IZe)
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.
Rule of Wisdom #1
You only have to satisfy your compiler!
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My Bookshelf at Goodreads.
Here some of my books:
Here some of my books:
| Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez |
| Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37) by Terry Pratchett |
| The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez |
| A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez |
| In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez |