Destor on Ordering a Pizza Conservatively in Texas
Ramona: Hatred in a Lovely Church
Gallup: Obama 46, Romney 46
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The caped crusader, the avenger of the night......he goes by so many nicknames. Batman has earned his rightful place in our society by having many different movies, tv shows, books, and comics done in his name. But do any of them really portray the real Batman?
Take the '60's series, which is cheesy, lame, and a stain on Batman's history. Thanks to that ridiculous show, people started mocking people who liked Batman. The problem with this is that Batman is not a person who makes lots of jokes and so everyone in there feels awfully OOC. '60's Batman=bad fanfiction made into reality is pretty much what it was. [Read more]
We need your help. Congress is passing a dictatorial bill that will officially enable websites to be closed down for copyrighted content, which could mean the destruction of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites dedicated to users putting up things. This bill must be stopped, because this anti-piracy campaign is a disguise for censorship by RIAA, WMG, and other greedy, evil corporations who get mad when they aren't recieving money. [Read more]
My story I am writing for a class.
Story so far: Macbeth is an aspiring musician with a British pop band called the Glamis. His best friend, Banquo, is also the lead singer of a British group. One day, three cool chicks appear before him and predict he will be the King of Pop, sell a dozen albums, and make lots of money. Macbeth’s manager is Duncan, but Duncan plans to sign a contract with Banquo’s band. This means that Glamis will have competition, and when Macbeth learns of this, he lures Duncan to a performance and incites a stampede of fans. Duncan is trampled to death, but Banquo sees this happen and suspects him.
Act III, Scene 1
(The scene is in the Glamis nightclub at Liverpool. Banquo and his partner, Fleance enters.) [Read more]
We all know someone who either loves scary movies, or claims they do, and then runs and hides under the bed whenever the killer on the movie comes with that knife and all.....but some horror is worse than that. Even worse than Jaws or Freddy or Jason.
What I'm talking about is how cartoons can be disturbing, especially anime, and people say cartoons are for children...... Sometimes you wonder, what exactly were the creators trying to come up with when they made these terrifying scenes?
5.Digimon Tamers- People have accused this show of being for kids, but after seeing this scene.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc_Srg40mR0&feature=related
4.Nail ripping scene! [Read more]
I think we all know what a copyright is. According to the freedictionary, a copyright is "the legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, distributor, to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work."
In other words, if someone wrote a book and got it published, then they expect to gain money off of how many people buy that book, in what is called a royalty. In return, they wish that no one would copy or steal their ideas. For the most part, copyright infringement really wasn't a problem, or an "issue" until the Internet came. [Read more]
Hooray for Lady Gaga! She is truly a good speaker! You can see the video below.
It appears Lady Gaga is also gay, but supports LBGT rights. She is a true woman who is willing to stand up for what she believes, and for that I salute her.
She is truly a great woman.
These are pictures taken of a city called Pripyat, which was near Chernobyl's reactors. Sadly, the town was abandoned due to fears of radiation. You can see that the photographer was taking a big risk by being in an area where there are high levels of radiation. Surprisingly, quoted from the article:
"For the most part, liquidators did an effective job of washing most of the radiation into the soil, so the concreted areas are relatively safe. The areas around the edges - where leaves and moss have built up - is where most of the radiation is still residing near the surface."  [Read more]
I am sure that all of you heard about the RIAA suing people for taking music without permission, and how Warner Music Group and Viacom have attacked Youtube, and made Youtube remove videos that somehow violated their laws.
Well, I have an account on Youtube, so when I log in and look at my favorites videos (the majority of which are anime), I keep finding that people keep on removing them for no reason-other than copyright infringment.
This infuriates me, because many Youtubers work so hard on making nice music videos for everyone to enjoy, then the dictators who now control Youtube come and remove it, simply because they're not getting money off of it. Guess what, corporations? The world does NOT revolve around you and your money.  [Read more]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0W6C8leU8Y
I think this is based on a musical of some kind. Does anyone know the name of it?
Face it. Most of the TV airing on networks sucks right now. With all the shows like "Survivor", "Jersey Shore", and other trash, it has been going downhill. So many good channels that I liked have gone bad.
There are two I'd like to discuss: Cartoon Network, and Toon Disney. Cartoon Network was established in the '90's by Ted Turner, and was the first network to show all cartoons. The shows ranged from Scooby-Doo to Cow and Chicken and to anime. [Read more]
By Elizabeth Weingarten, ForeignPolicy.com, May 23, 2012
It was 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Mossarat Qadeem was sitting on the floor of a house with about a dozen young Pakistani men -- some of whom had nearly become suicide bombers. Qadeem's goal: to undo the destructive brainwashing of the al-Qaeda and Taliban teachers who trained them in extremism, in part by asking the students to narrate their life stories.
"We were handling one of the boys, and he just came, put his head here in my lap, and he started crying and weeping," Qadeem recalls. "I was taken aback. It is very unnatural in my country that a man that tall can just sit at your feet and put his head here. [The other men] were all crying with him, and I was looking at him, and thinking, ‘my God.'"
All in a day's work for Qadeem. She's the national coordinator of Aman-o-Nisa, a coalition of Pakistani women that convened in October 2011 to combat violent extremism in Pakistan at the grassroots level. [....]
The issue of sexual assaults on American Indian women has become one of the major sources of discord in the current debate between the White House and the House of Representatives over the latest reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
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“We should never have a woman come into the office saying, ‘I need to learn more about Plan B for when my daughter gets raped,’ ” said Charon Asetoyer, a women’s health advocate on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, referring to the morning-after pill. “That’s what’s so frightening — that it’s more expected than unexpected. It has become a norm for young women.”
The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease testing. There are also too few nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.
By Ismail Kahn, New York Times, May 23/24, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency pin down Osama bin Laden's location under cover of a vaccination drive was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a senior official in Pakistan said.
A tribal court here in northwestern Pakistan found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan, the administrator for the Khyber tribal region [....]
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2012
MOSCOW — Stiff new penalties aimed at opposition protesters were given preliminary approval Tuesday by Russian lawmakers loyal to President Vladimir Putin, the target of mass rallies and demonstrations before his March election victory.
The bill, which opposition parliament members termed draconian and protested by threatening to file out of a legislative session, calls for fines of up to $50,000 and up to 200 hours of community service for organizers of rallies and demonstrations that grow violent or exceed the approved number of participants.
The sanctions were approved on first reading by parliament's lower house, which is controlled by Putin's United Russia party. They mark a return by the Kremlin to a tough stance against critics after concessions during the recent election campaign [...]
Also see:
Russians back Putin, strong leadership
Washington Post, May 22, 2012
A Pew survey of 1,000 Russians found that President Vladimir Putin is well-liked by more than 70 percent of citizens, especially older adults.
Associated Press, May 21, 2012
HAVANA — It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.
More than a year after the February 2011 ceremony on Siboney Beach in eastern Cuba, and 10 months after the system was supposed to have gone online, the government never mentions the cable anymore, and Internet here remains the slowest in the hemisphere. People talk quietly about embezzlement torpedoing the project and the arrest of more than a half-dozen senior telecom officials.
Perhaps most maddening, nobody has explained what happened to the much-ballyhooed $70 million project....