Joanna Cassidy (who played Replicant Zhora in the film – she’s the one Harrison Ford runs down on the street & shoots in the back) has just finished shooting new material for the forthcoming DVD restoration!
Tags:Blade Runner
Joanna Cassidy (who played Replicant Zhora in the film – she’s the one Harrison Ford runs down on the street & shoots in the back) has just finished shooting new material for the forthcoming DVD restoration!
Tags:Blade Runner
American Terrorism…but we don’t call it that
AUSTIN — A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today.“It was in fact an explosive device,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department. “It was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death.”
The package was found Wednesday in a parking lot outside the Austin Women’s Health Center, south of downtown Austin.
Nearby Interstate 35 was briefly closed, and a nearby apartment complex was evacuated while a bomb squad detonated the device.
Of course, Zuzu is correct. if this bomb were placed anywhere else, the country would be all kinds of ‘Al Qaeda! Al Qaeda!’
But, because it was done by, what I can only assume are, Christian Extremists, its perfectly normal, and admirable.
No one has ever been able to show me the difference.
Because there isn’t any.
Approving article about tolerating homosexuals gets teacher transferred
A high school teacher who faced losing her job after a student newspaper published an editorial advocating tolerance of gays can continue teaching at another school.
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School officials in the conservative northern Indiana community about 10 miles east of Fort Wayne said Sorrell did not comply with an agreement to alert the principal about controversial articles.
This is just sad.
1) We wonder why so many people grow up not caring about the issues of the day. We are telling them that expressing their ideas is bad, dangerous. They should keep their mouthes shut.
2)Sadder still is that tolerance of homosexuals is considered ‘controversial’
And the midwest wonders why they are seen as backwards hicks.
Tags:homosexual+rights Civil Liberties Freedom Of The Press Freedom Of speech
Fox News: If I read it, it must be true
On Tuesday, Fox News morning show “Fox & Friends” aired at least eight segments on a purported “news” story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.
The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school’s intention to “create an anti-ham ‘response plan.’”
On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime…or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”
No, I’m not making this up
Condi Doesn’t Want To Go To Congress
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a U.S. congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order
(emphasis added)
Ms. Rice,
While I can certainly understand not wanting to give testimony before Congress, and I can sympathize with how you might feel this is a waste of time since you believe you have already answered these questions, and how you feel that all the answers they want are, in fact, protected by executive priviledge…
This is a subpoena, not an invitation, bitch.
Get your not-inclined-ass in the chair.
Yours Truly,
The American People
Tags:Condoleezza Rice
A new Spider-Man film swings into cinemas soon, but an Italian researcher said on Thursday he was working on a project that could lead to real-life versions of the comic book character.rnrnNicola Pugno, a 35-year-old researcher at the Polytechnic University of Turin, said he has worked on a form of adhesion for about 10 years that could lead to something like a spider-man suit.
Obviously, this man knows nothing about Spider-man.
First, Spider-man is more than just sticky.
Second, the sticky, such as it is, does not come from the suit.
Third, when will Target be carrying these?
Tags:Spider-Man
A school in Amsterdam will no longer be teaching students about farm living, after Muslim pupils began trashing the classroom when the subject of pigs came up
its pretty rare that I agree with anything the hate-mongering-muslim-fearing LGF says, BUT…
this is nuts.
It seems to me that these kids have learned that, if something offends their (apparently) delicate sensibilities, violence is the immediate answer.
Of course, this doesn’t strike me as markedly different than some of the responses to being taught evolution so…
(for the record, Jews have been anti-porcine for much longer…)
Tags:islam religion pigs
Bush wants to appoint a war czar
As atrios reminds us, the Commander In Cheif IS the war czar.
At least, so says the Constitution.
The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation
Tags:bush Afghanistan Iraq war
Little Green Footballs Spreads A Rumor
Shocking…
Notice that the link leads to a 2 paragraph Jerusalem Post article that has as its only source Al-Hayat.
1) Since when is the fact that another newspaper ran a story considered supporting evidence?
2) Conveniently, that other newspaper is in arabic. The english site has no mention of this. Neither does a site translated by google.
So, all we have here is “I heard from a friend who heard”
I have begun the conversion from standard, closed source, payware to open-source shareware and freeware.
My hesitation had been based on concerns about reading certain documents and media, but I was simply wasting my time with that.
I’ve found a reader for PDFs, and Democracy Player for all media EXCEPT Real Media. Given that I don’t have an RM player installed at the moment, and have not felt any particular loss for it, I am unworried.
Actually, Democracy Player may be way more than I need, but its fun and fine for now.
Open Office, of course, is next.
I contemplated Linux, and may still dual boot to it, but I need to make sure I have a Windows system for work (yes, yes, it would probably be fine in Linux, but I try not to muck with that which makes me monies)
