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Say what you will about the changes in our election process in Sedgwick County, and I am sure much will be said, I believe we need to stop for a moment and consider how blessed we are to enjoy our democracy.
Once again we are in the process of a revolution. One that does not necessitate tanks in the streets or the revelation that someone named Raul has been named our new dictator for life overnight. Ours is a revolution of politics by the citizen, armed with the rights guaranteed by our constitution and paid for with the blood and treasure of a multitude before us.
Regardless of your party, or your ideology, you had the opportunity to overthrow or affirm your government without fear of violence or social disruption. In the global scheme of things, that is quite remarkable. This process of political revolution and social reaffirmation should not be taken for granted.
If you were one of the many who choose not to participate in this grand demonstration I would say to you that you will absolutely get the government you deserve. You have abdicated your rights and delegated your authority in spite of the incalculable sacrifices made to secure your privilege to participate. I would also ask you to rethink whatever priorities prevented you from exercising your citizenship.
We need some fun around here!
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell youwhether you are qualified to be a professional. Scroll down for eachanswer. The questions are NOT that difficult. But don’t scroll downUNTIL you have answered the question!
1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?> > >> > >> > >>>>The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, andclose the door.
This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overlycomplicated way. Next question.
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?> > >> > >> > >> >>>>Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close therefrigerator? Sorry, Wrong Answer.
The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, putin the elephant and close the door.
This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of yourprevious actions.
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animalsattend….. except one. Which animal does not attend?> > >> > >> > >> >>>>The correct answer is: The Elephant. The elephant is in therefrigerator. You just put him in there.
This tests your memory.
Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly,you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and youdo not have a boat. How do you manage it?> > >> > >> > >> >>>>The correct answer is: You jump into the river and swim across. Have younot been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting.
This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of theprofessionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolersgot several correct answers.
Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory thatmost professionals have the brains of a four-year-old.
Send this out to frustrate all of your smart friends.Note: Just the fact that I sent it to you should make you feel good!
Ben….so it turns out I have half the brains of a 4 year old…. that’s supposed to make me feel good?? LOL!!
That was on car talk last saturday. besides it has been on the inet for a couple of years.how about something new?
A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, metthis guy whom she did not know. She thought thisguy was amazing, She believed him to be her dreamand she fell in love with him right there but didnot ask for his number and no matter how hard shetried she could not find him. A few days later shekilled her sister.
Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?
Give this some real thought before you answer.
Answer: She was hoping that the guy would appear atthe funeral again.If you answered this correctly, you think like apsychopath. This was a test by a famous AmericanPsychologist used to test if one has the samementality as a killer. Many arrested serial killerstook part in the test and answered the questioncorrectly.
If you didn’t answer the questioncorrectly good for you.
If you got the answer correct, please let me know soI can take you off of my email list.
ok, this is old too, so scroll by dennis.
You know what female to male transexuals say is the most painful part of the operation?
The part where they have a hole drilled into their heads and have half their brains removed…
(rim shot here)
Just kidding folks, keep those cards and letters at home.
21 Reasons the English Language is Hard to Learn
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.2. The farm was used to produce produce.3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.4. We must polish the Polish furniture.5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.6. He could lead if he would get the lead out.7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.10. I did not object to the object.11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.13. They were too close to the door to close it.14. The buck does funny things when does are present.15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed tear.20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There MUST be many more.. feel free to post them to the list!!
Oh, and I got the funeral question right. That should scare some of you. heheh. But Ben, please dont take me off your email list!
Funny sam!
No wonder some of us always argue about context. This shows why.
KFG.. you inspire me to post this!!
THINK ABOUT THIS ONE!
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climbthe stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been done around here.
And that, my friends, is how a political party begins.
Was that the REAL Rep. Nile Dillomore? FYI………I have already voted.
The War Prayerby Mark TwainIt was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety’s sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.Sunday morning came — next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams — visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation*God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!*Then came the “long” prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory –An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher’s side and stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, “Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!”The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside — which the startled minister did — and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:”I come from the Throne — bearing a message from Almighty God!” The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. “He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import — that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of — except he pause and think.”God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two — one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this — keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor’s crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.”You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it — that part which the pastor — and also you in your hearts — fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. the *whole* of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory–*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!”O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.(*After a pause.*) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
Geez. The Representative starts out with a thoughtful and inspiring comment and then it turns into a MENSA convention for retards.
Its election day for godsakes, lets bash on some candidates.
I for one would love to see Eric Carter lose by 20 or 30 points so that he is forced to find another more gulible state to take advantage of.
DAMN, that was too long.Won’t do that again. Maybe.
Uh wildcat…
“another more gulible state”
Is there one?
The state of denial?
I was going with state of confusion but denial might just work.
My state is in Egypt, Julie is yours in China? Ha.
nee hownee how mah
that’s all the chinese I remember :)
foo-yee
(fermented bean cake)
mine was(hihow are you)
Economist’s ViewAugust 01, 2006Gimme Tax ShelterIt’s just a sham away:
Tax Cheats Called Out of Control, by David Cay Johnston, NY Times: So many superrich Americans evade taxes using offshore accounts that law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct, according to a Senate report that provides the most detailed look ever at high-level tax schemes. … Cheating now equals about 7 cents out of each dollar paid by honest taxpayers, as much as $70 billion a year, the report estimated.
“The universe of offshore tax cheating has become so large that no one, not even the United States government, could go after all of it,” said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat whose staff ran the investigation.
Senator Norm Coleman, the Minnesota Republican who is chairman of the subcommittee, adopted the minority report on Sunday as the product of the full committee. … The investigation, which took 18 months, involved 74 subpoenas, 80 interviews and the collection of more than two million documents…
The 400-page report recommends eight changes, some of them aimed at going after the law and accounting firms, banks and investment advisers that the report says enable tax schemes that rely on complexity, secrecy and compartmentalizing information so that advisers can claim they had no idea that the overall transaction was a fraud.
“We need to significantly strengthen the aiding and abetting statutes to get at the lawyers and accountants and other advisers who enable this cheating,” Senator Levin said, adding that “we need major changes in law to stop the use of tax havens” by tax cheats.
It also recommends new rules that strip away the underlying legal presumptions that make offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Nevis, the Isle of Man and Panama attractive places for Americans to hide assets and income from the Internal Revenue Service. Senator Levin said the law “should assume that any transaction in a tax haven is a sham.”
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/business/01tax.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=78269b20Q2FQ23Q27PQ5BQ23Q5C_-8t__hoQ23oBBAQ23B,Q23BdQ23Q5BN8yQ51P88Q23BdhiQ7CGQ5EhQ7Bk
I knew something was wrong when I tried to find my polling place on the Secretary of State’s web site.They couldn’t find me.So I went in Friday and advance voted…or tried to.They couldn’t find me.I was a precinct committeeperson. You have to be registered to do that.Bill Gale came out to talk to me. Man, he’s lost weight lately. Even HE knew there was a mistake, so he looked me up on the “old system” and eventually found me.What the hell do we need a new system for if the old one works better?Anyway, I had to vote a “provisional” ballot–and since I’m a Democrat, they probably won’t count it.Any other horror stories out there?
MrC – not finding you … hmmm … I’ll see what happens this evening when I show up to vote.
KsSam – sounds like the Middle East.
That’s scary, Mr. C. You don’t even need a tinfoil hat to see that.
I walked into my polling place, registered, got right into a “booth” and voted on the new touch-screen machines. In, out, less than 5 minutes. But it was early in the day. Also, the average age in the room must have been in the high 70s. We AARPers vote.
I’ll drive by my new polling place on the way home from work and check out the line. For some reason I’m not into voting this time. I’ve checked the ballot and I can tell you the winners and losers now. My right wing friends will choose a candidate for Gov that has no chance, Sebelius will win in Nov. Sandy Praeger, the Ins. Commish will win walking away, probably the most corrupt republican to ever hold public office in Kansas. She’ll win in a landslide in November.
Our old voting place was one of the buildings at Lake Afton. We’d go early before work, the ladies there were friends, the other people voting were all friends and neighbors, a nice social experience. Now we have to vote in Goddard with the rabble! For the November election we’ll probably vote early; gotta make sure Tiahrt gets in again! Hopefully he’ll run for Gov in ‘08!
Hank
Was that the REAL Rep. Nile Dillomore? FYI………I have already voted.
Posted by: Apophis |
Yep, it is really me and I thank you for taking time to register and vote.
Hello Nile – I’ll be voting this evening – although in my primary there are not many choices.
I voted at 3:30 in Bel Aire at the new city offices (man, that’s a nice building). It was busy, but I got right in and out. We have the new touch screens and they have a paper trail. A very nice lady explained how the machine worked. It was a snap.
Election day quote
“No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties.” –Bob Hope
Good quote outlander!
Ok, here’s my contribution:
Elephant’s Memory – Touching StoryIn 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed so Mbembe approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot, and found a large thorn deeply embedded in it.
As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the thorn out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern look on its face, stared at him. For several tense moments Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty years later he was walking through a zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe and lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at him.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of his legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him. Probably wasn’t the same elephant…
Oh, it was the same elephant all right. It was a republican elephant, named Connie, and Mbembe had converted to Liberalism in the intervening years.
hee hee hee hee you guys!
Where is RD? She would enjoy this!
I’m concerned for RD too.
I ran into a post of hers a couple days ago on the last open. Or maybe the one before. She said she was not feeling well.
So, WTF? A NEW blog on the WE? I feel like a jealous wife, a jilted girlfriend, a woman scorned.
heheheheheh
So, this blog wasnt good enough? They promise to answer back on the new blog? They are SENIOR editors there? WTF? You guys here have all just been JUNIOR editors?
huff huff huff
heheheheh
Phillip, I think you have some ’splaining to do.
And, um, could you all SENIOR editors please take your little dog values boy and all the neocons here along with you?
Reminds me of the burrow move on Meerkat Manor!
Oh please, leave us behind to wallow here in our own filth in the old burrow… hehehehehehehehe
and more news from the RAPTURE front.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×1786642
Ok am I just more lost than usual? Another blog?? whatchu talkin’ ’bout kfg?
Hi, all, I’m here, enjoying the jokes and tests. Looks like I’m a 4-year-old psychopath. It figures.
Have had of and on ‘puter problems or something and then a case of stomach flu over the weekend. Or maybe bird flu? :0 I so rarely get that kind of flu that I am wondering.
Will check back later…
Have a nice rest-of-the-day. :)
I found this web site very interesting. Why were we not told about this from the Wichita Eagle??
http://mfile.akamai.com/12924/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2006/0503/9152183.200k.asx
JR, on the front page yesterday they announced a new blog to talk about the workings of the WE. Totally different (read UPPPER management) people who say they will answer back if we ask questions.
Since these women (mostly) are presumably the ones in charge of the joke that was formerly known as values boy, I took an opportunity to be the first poster in the comment section.
Guess what I asked them? heheheheh
No answer yet. Must have to ask terry, joe and fred first!!!!!!
Hmmmm. How’d I miss that? I’ll have to look for it.
RD -So glad you’re feeling better.
P.S. – It’s only ‘bird flu’ if you have an uncontrollable urge to crap on a car windshield.
Right Angle,The Jiffy Lube story does not surprise me. I have questioned their practices for years.
Hey RD, hope you get to feeling better soon.
This will either make you feel better by laughing or worse by crying.
New NORAD tapes from 9/11 released have got the conspiracy theories going again in the blogosphere. Vanity Fair and WaPo articles are stiring the pot.
Doesnt matter what you believe on that subject, this should make you queasy:
“And on a side note (?), Cheney is implicated in a lie in this same article:
“In his bunker under the White House, Vice President Cheney was not notified about United 93 until 10:02—only one minute before the airliner impacted the ground.
Yet it was with dark bravado that the vice president and others in the Bush administration would later recount sober deliberations about the prospect of shooting down United 93.
“Very, very tough decision, and the president understood the magnitude of that decision,” Bush’s then chief of staff, Andrew Card, told ABC News.”
Woof. NO political grandstanding and revisionist history here!
And no doubt, the bushbots will be along shortly to direct traffic, herd the masses, and say “move along, nothing to see here”.
Kfg, XXX, JMWalker, I sent you an email, but have been having email problems so just want to verify if you got one from me. Thanks.
Hi Deb, yes, the BLUE chicken also visted my coop. Sorry I didnt respond.
Having too much fun here….
http://blogs.kansas.com/the_editors_desk/
Link to the new blog.
“I hope you and your new girlfriend are HAPPY while the kids and I stay behind!”
heheheheheheh
I just finished Richard A. Clarke’s new book “Scorpion gate”, set in the near future it is a story of international deals, betray and a classic tale of “Good” verse “Evil”. After ten years the United States finally pulls out of Iraq, leaving the American imposed Government made up of a majority shiites party. Which almost immediately changes loyalty to Iran. The royal house of Saudi has been overthrown in Saudi-Arabia, replaced with a council made up of freedom fighters and fundamental Islamic. After America shuns the new Government they except aid from China. Between the world need for oil and the desire to spread differing political ideals. The world sets on the edge of war, with all eyes fixed on the middle east.
The people only know what they are told on the news, the Sectary of Defense has his own ideas that is against the best interests of the United States and the world. A small group of people that are aware of the missteps that are occurring and the overwhelming task of trying to stop the world from a possible Nuclear war in spite of its self.
Three things stuck out for me, first the saying on the cover of the book, “Sometimes you can tell more truth through fiction”. Clarke’s first book, “Against all enemies” was a telling account of his behind the scenes view of the working of the United States anti-terrorism efforts. But make no mistake Scorpion gate is a work of fiction, though it is based on personal knowledge on Clarke’s part. Why not just tell it like it is? simple, there is a difference between what you may know and what you can show proof of. By making it a work of fiction he does not have to deal with the matter of National security, getting permission from those he would write about or to divulge secrets that other will want hiden from others. To be frank it give both the author and those that maybe seen within the pages some deniability.
The second thing that struck me involved a conversation between two high ranking military officers after being briefed on a upcoming exercise call, “Bright Star” both we struck by what seems like more equipment and effort then what would be necessary for a simple, ordinary join military exercise. part of their expressing a concern that it maybe a cover for a larger action one said ““Why? Because some set of lunatics from a think tank escaped and took over the Pentagon, that is fooking why”. Doyle exhaled.” Refering to the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. Does the P.N.A.C. and the fact that many of the Bush administration are members of that group come to mind?
The third and final thing that struck me was toward the end of the book, it is a conversation between an Iranian General and a cleric after a failed invasion attempt on the former Saudi-Arabia by the Iranians.In response to the General not want to stop and expressing that they could try it again. The Cleric said,“General you must look at a longer time horizon. In 1986, we ended the war with Iraq without a victory.By 2006, we won, thanks to you and others. And we won without arms. We let the Americans do the dying for us.”.
Though the book overall is an interesting read and again it can not and should not be taken as a whole and telling truth. Even telling the truth through fiction, there must be some fiction to it or it is non-fiction.In a real sense it does bring more questions then answers as to what maybe the total truth of what is happen today and the causes of it.
I’m not really into military fiction, but I’m finding “The World is Flat” a great book.
It’s not for the leftist socialist or the class warfare type of people. It will just make their head explode.
Just out on 08-01-06 is the DVD, “V for Vendetta”. This movie was done by the same folks who brought you the Matrix Trilogy.
I saw it tonight and it was excellent!
It is set in the near future England. And a central theme is — is the protagonist a terrorist or a freedom fighter. There are many allusions to current geo-political issues.
Overcoming a fascist government is the goal.
This is a must-see movie for those who don’t think being different amounts to a crime. You know who you are…
Know why the Bush administration changed the name of “Operation Iraqi Liberation” to “Operation Iraqi Freedom”? Check out the anacronym of the first. The answer should then be obvious — they chose not to tell on themselves.
A good book by Greg Palast is my current read before bedtime:_Armed Madhouse: Who’s afraid of Osama Wolf, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08, No Child’s Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War_
As its title would suggest, this is a great and funny book.
And Joe, in my book the author makes fun of your book.
From my book:”President Jeb Bush declared his reelection victory early, in August, before the machines were fully programmed, but the results were nevertheless assured. President Jeb accepted a call from “Hillary Kerry Gore” – the virtual candidate, put up as quadrennial opponent, designed to lose – who always made the same moving concession speech, “American democracy has triumphed again”, written for her by Karl Rove. The official voting won’t take place until November.
“But there were dissenters from this happy new America – shivering in their basements: Michaelites with their icons of St. Moore. The film-director/holy man was martyred when, through a rapid expansion caused by self-righteousness and fried food, he simply exploded on stage at the 2011 Cannes Film Fesatival, a fitting end given his final film, _I Hate the Bushes So Much I Could Explode!_
“There are few complaints, certainly none expressed openly after the Health Insurance Riots of 2009 when the last licensed union members were “removed” to Guantanamo. “Orange Suit City” is now America’s eighth largest metropolis, “safer and more prosperous than ever.”"
(Palast, 2006, p. 1)
Who couldn’t get interested in a book that starts like this?
And what book what that be Steven?
Thomas L. Friedman: a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to seven hundred other newspapers worldwide.
Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean studies and received a master’s degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities.