Chevy,
It's not out till 19th December in the States.
Limited release. Dunno how limited though.
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UK Site:
http://www.calendargirls.tv/home.html
USA Site:
http://calendargirls.movies.go.com/
Saw this new brit flick recently. I couldn't stop laughing.
Anyone else seen it:
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Arab AlJazeera: "Scientists say prayers work"
by Gerard inhttp://english.aljazeera.net/articles/sciencetechno/scientists+say+prayers+work.htm
scientists say prayers work .
james gooder
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Isn't prayer linked with a God of some sort though?
Unless you mean praying to pink unicorns.
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Do you respect God?
by micheal inyou know the saying, you have to earn respect.
has god earned it?
thousands of years of human suffering does it all for me.
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Who?
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Anyone ever been to a Marylin Manson concert???????
by BLISSISIGNORANCE ini ask because i'm taking my 19 y/o son to a concert he's doing in sydney, australia.. i'm not going to the concert, i'll be spending time with friends shopping and dining out.
but i was just wondering what my son can expect from a mm concert.
i shudder to think.. cheers, bliss.
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*puts Fight Song on*
"i'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist".
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The end of Zionism - Avraham Burg
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israel must shed its illusions and choose between racist oppression and democracy .
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The end of ZionismIsrael must shed its illusions and choose between racist oppression and democracy
Avraham Burg
Monday September 15, 2003 The GuardianThe Zionist revolution has always rested on two pillars: a just path and an ethical leadership. Neither of these is operative any longer. The Israeli nation today rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice. As such, the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep. There is a real chance that ours will be the last Zionist generation. There may yet be a Jewish state here, but it will be a different sort, strange and ugly.
There is time to change course, but not much. What is needed is a new vision of a just society and the political will to implement it. Diaspora Jews for whom Israel is a central pillar of their identity must pay heed and speak out.
The opposition does not exist, and the coalition, with Ariel Sharon at its head, claims the right to remain silent. In a nation of chatterboxes, everyone has suddenly fallen dumb, because there's nothing left to say. We live in a thunderously failed reality. Yes, we have revived the Hebrew language, created a marvellous theatre and a strong national currency. Our Jewish minds are as sharp as ever. We are traded on the Nasdaq. But is this why we created a state? The Jewish people did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programs or anti-missile missiles. We were supposed to be a light unto the nations. In this we have failed.
It turns out that the 2,000-year struggle for Jewish survival comes down to a state of settlements, run by an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies. A state lacking justice cannot survive. More and more Israelis are coming to understand this as they ask their children where they expect to live in 25 years. Children who are honest admit, to their parents' shock, that they do not know. The countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun.
It is very comfortable to be a Zionist in West Bank settlements such as Beit El and Ofra. The biblical landscape is charming. You can gaze through the geraniums and bougainvilleas and not see the occupation. Travelling on the fast highway that skirts barely a half-mile west of the Palestinian roadblocks, it's hard to comprehend the humiliating experience of the despised Arab who must creep for hours along the pocked, blockaded roads assigned to him. One road for the occupier, one road for the occupied.
This cannot work. Even if the Arabs lower their heads and swallow their shame and anger for ever, it won't work. A structure built on human callousness will inevitably collapse in on itself. Note this moment well: Zionism's superstructure is already collapsing like a cheap Jerusalem wedding hall. Only madmen continue dancing on the top floor while the pillars below are collapsing.
We have grown accustomed to ignoring the suffering of the women at the roadblocks. No wonder we don't hear the cries of the abused woman living next door or the single mother struggling to support her children in dignity. We don't even bother to count the women murdered by their husbands.
Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centres of Israeli escapism. They consign themselves to Allah in our places of recreation, because their own lives are torture. They spill their own blood in our restaurants in order to ruin our appetites, because they have children and parents at home who are hungry and humiliated. We could kill a thousand ringleaders a day and nothing will be solved, because the leaders come up from below - from the wells of hatred and anger, from the "infrastructures" of injustice and moral corruption.
If all this were inevitable, divinely ordained and immutable, I would be silent. But things could be different, and so crying out is a moral imperative.
Here is what the prime minister should say to the people: the time for illusions is over. The time for decisions has arrived. We love the entire land of our forefathers and in some other time we would have wanted to live here alone. But that will not happen. The Arabs, too, have dreams and needs.
Between the Jordan and the Mediterranean there is no longer a clear Jewish majority. And so, fellow citizens, it is not possible to keep the whole thing without paying a price. We cannot keep a Palestinian majority under an Israeli boot and at the same time think ourselves the only democracy in the Middle East. There cannot be democracy without equal rights for all who live here, Arab as well as Jew. We cannot keep the territories and preserve a Jewish majority in the world's only Jewish state - not by means that are humane and moral and Jewish.
Do you want the greater land of Israel? No problem. Abandon democracy. Let's institute an efficient system of racial separation here, with prison camps and detention villages.
Do you want a Jewish majority? No problem. Either put the Arabs on railway cars, buses, camels and donkeys and expel them en masse - or separate ourselves from them absolutely, without tricks and gimmicks. There is no middle path. We must remove all the settlements - all of them - and draw an internationally recognised border between the Jewish national home and the Palestinian national home. The Jewish law of return will apply only within our national home, and their right of return will apply only within the borders of the Palestinian state.
Do you want democracy? No problem. Either abandon the greater land of Israel, to the last settlement and outpost, or give full citizenship and voting rights to everyone, including Arabs. The result, of course, will be that those who did not want a Palestinian state alongside us will have one in our midst, via the ballot box.
The prime minister should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements, or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire and suicide bombers, or a recognised international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem.
Why, then, is the opposition so quiet? Perhaps because some would like to join the government at any price, even the price of participating in the sickness. But while they dither, the forces of good lose hope. Anyone who declines to present a clear-cut position - black or white - is collaborating in the decline. It is not a matter of Labour versus Likud or right versus left, but of right versus wrong, acceptable versus unacceptable. The law-abiding versus the lawbreakers. What's needed is not a political replacement for the Sharon government but a vision of hope, an alternative to the destruction of Zionism and its values by the deaf, dumb and callous.
Israel's friends abroad - Jewish and non-Jewish alike, presidents and prime ministers, rabbis and lay people - should choose as well. They must reach out and help Israel to navigate the road map toward our national destiny as a light unto the nations and a society of peace, justice and equality.
· Avraham Burg was speaker of Israel's Knesset in 1999-2003 and is a former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Reprinted with permission of The Forward, which translated and adapted this essay from an article that originally appeared in Yediot Aharonot
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
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David Blaine has given up his controversial stunt
by Pleasuredome indavid blaine has given up his controversial stunt ... he was told that 44 days doing nothing in a box is not going to break the record ...which is currently held by emile heskey at 4 years
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The follow up:
Teen's Felony Case Thrown Out
By Kim ZetterStory location: http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60267,00.html
02:00 AM Sep. 03, 2003 PT
The case of an Oklahoma teen who was charged with a felony for writing a violent short story about attacking his school has been dismissed by a judge who ruled that prosecutors failed to prove the teen actually intended to commit the act.
Citing a lack of evidence showing malicious intent, Judge William Hetherington issued his ruling Friday afternoon, bringing to close a case that has sparked controversy over its free speech implications.
Now, after tens of thousands of dollars spent fighting the charge, Brian Robertson is free, but the accusation that he broke the law will stay with him. Under Oklahoma law, if a case carries on for more than a year, a felony charge remains on the defendant's record, even if the case is dismissed. The felony gets expunged from the record only if the defendant is acquitted following a trial.
As reported on Wired News two weeks ago, Robertson was charged in April 2001 with a felony count of "planning to cause serious bodily harm or death" after a teacher at his Moore, Oklahoma, high school discovered a short story that Robertson had written on a classroom computer. Titled "Evacuation Orders," (PDF) the story described plans for an attack on the school that involved shooting a principal and blowing up the school.
Robertson, who plans to study journalism in college, called the writing a work of fiction. He said he found the first paragraph of the story on the school computer and simply began writing where the original writer had left off.
But despite a lack of evidence indicating the story was more than the product of his imagination, Robertson, then 18, was suspended from school for a year and arrested.
He and his family have spent the last year and a half fighting the felony charge with their defense attorney, Sara McFall, and lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union. Last December a judge dismissed the case, arguing that the Oklahoma statute used to prosecute Robertson was too vague and broad. But the prosecutor successfully appealed to reinstate it.
The statute was passed in 2001 in response to school shootings across the United States. McFall and lawyers from the ACLU argued that the law was unconstitutional since it criminalized violent forms of speech and thought regardless of intent.
Hetherington wrote in his ruling that to convict someone "for merely drafting a plan of violence and nothing more, would clearly violate First Amendment privileges."
"There must be some showing of malicious intent ... (but) the state offers nothing more than the written plan," he concluded.
McFall, Robertson's attorney, said the tipping point in the case came when Robertson's mother uncovered new evidence last week that proved he didn't write the story's initial paragraph. After searching for the first sentence in Google, Kathy Robertson discovered the paragraph was part of a template that came on a CD-ROM for an Adobe PageMaker textbook.
"If the judge ever felt threatened by Brian Robertson as a dangerous student, this made it obvious that the writing was just an exercise in creativity," she said.
Kathy Robertson, Brian's mother and a former teacher herself, said her son's case changed her views of zero tolerance, a policy many schools have adopted in recent years that encourages harsh treatment of kids who bring weapons to school or make violent threats.
"Before Brian's case I was middle of the road, but now I see how harmful it can be when kids are put through something like this for minimal infractions," she said.
Robertson, who launched a website to publicize her son's case in April, said she would not have become so involved in fighting the charge if it hadn't been reinstated last December.
"I was happy to sit back and let things happen, thinking that it would never get to the trial stage," she said. "But after the judge overturned the decision to throw out the case, that's when I got angry."
After the story was published on Wired News in August, traffic on Robertson's website spiked to more than 23,000 monthly visitors. Previously, the most visitors it received in a month was 1,200.
Readers from around the world posted comments on the site. Many were critical of the Oklahoma law. As one reader from New Zealand wrote, "Another failure for independence in 'the land of the free' ... I'm delighted to live in a country where normal sanity prevails."
Brian Robertson said he was grateful for the outpouring of support, especially after others had turned away from him because of the case. After local news stations broadcast his booking photo and likened him to a terrorist, Robertson said, people began to avoid him and he lost a job as a result of the negative publicity.
"The support showed me that people are out there who cared and who shared similar views," he said.
He added, "I can't believe I can finally get on with my life."
Eventually, Robertson hopes to find a way to expunge the felony charge from his record. He also would like to find a way to overturn the Oklahoma law itself.
But for now he's just happy to be thinking about other things for a change.
"A weight has been lifted off of my shoulders," he said.
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The Observer 100 Greatest (UK) TV Moments
by ignored_one inthis is old but i found it interesting.. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=74427&node_id=1010307the observer 100 greatest (uk) tv moments(thing) by amnesiac (2.4 hr) (print) ?
1 c!fri apr 06 2001 at 17:35:49. also broadcast on the uk's channel 4 here is the observer's 100 greatest tv moments of all time : .
100 richard wilson on the 'phone' in one foot in the grave (1993) .
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This is old but I found it interesting.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=74427&node_id=1010307
The Observer 100 Greatest (UK) TV Moments
(thing) by amnesiac (2.4 hr) (print) ? 1 C! Fri Apr 06 2001 at 17:35:49 Also broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 here is The Observer 's 100 greatest TV moments of all time :
100 Richard Wilson on the 'phone' in One Foot in the Grave (1993)
99 Euro 96 - Gareth Southgate misses a penalty and the Germans win
98 Absolutely Fabulous - Edina and Patsy come back home from a night out
97 1970's Green Cross Code advert with Dave Prowse (1975)
96 Torvill and Dean win the skating to Bolero (1983)
95 Cracker: "To Be A Somebody". Robert Carlyle and Robbie Coltrane (1994)
94 Doctor Who : The Daleks (1964)
93 Rising Damp : Rigsby flirts with Miss Jones (1974)
92 Gulf War : Brent Sadler: Incoming cruise missiles (1991)
91 All Blacks vs. The Barbarians: Gareth Edwards' try (1973)
90 Aspel: Oliver Reed 's appearance
89 World in Action : Mick Jagger interview (1967)
88 The Miners' strike (1984)
87 Father Ted : Cows in perspective (1996)
86 Death On The Rock (1988)
85 Clive Anderson Talks Back: Peter Cook (1993)
84 Roger Bannister runs the first 4-minute mile
83 Abigail's Party (1977): Demis Roussos
82 Panorama: Spaghetti grows on trees
81 Michael Fish 's Weather Report: - "no chance of a hurricane" (1987)
80 The release of the Guildford Four (1989)
79 The death of John Lennon (1980)
78 Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time (1977)
77 Comic Strip : The Strike (1988)
76 Celtic vs. Inter Milan : European Cup (1967)
75 The Avengers ' opening titles (not the film)
74 Graham Taylor documentary: swearing 44 times
73 Queer As Folk
72 Six O'Clock News: "Clause 28" protest (1988)
71 Richard Nixon apologises for the Watergate scandal
70 The Naked Civil Servant (The dream scene) (1975)
69 7 Up: The Beginning (1964)
68 Some Mothers Do Ave Em - The Roller-skate stunt (1975)
67 Spitting Image : The Vegetable sketch (1985)
66 John Nott walks out on Robin Day
65 The Prisoner
64 Martin Luther King : I Have a Dream (1963)
63 Steptoe and Son : House divided in two
62 Brideshead Revisited : gay feelings arise just in time for No.61
61 The Word : Shabba Ranks says it's right to shoot gays
60 Liverpool vs. Arsenal championship decider (1989)
59 Brookside: Lesbian snog (1994)
58 Brass Eye : The drug "Cake"
57 Jacob Burlowski : The Ascent of Man philosophy
56 Gibbs SR: 1955 first TV ad
55 Bill Clinton 's Lewinsky denial (1998)
54 Donald Campbell : Bluebird (1967)
53 Russell Harty attacked by Grace Jones (1985)
52 Bjorn Borg 's 5th Wimbledon title (1980)
51 The World At War : Liberation of Belsen (1974)
50 Evacuation of Saigon (1975)
49 Dennis Taylor wins the Embassy Snooker World Championship in 1985
48 The Best of Tommy Cooper
47 Boys from the Black Stuff : Gissa Job
46 Bloody Sunday (1972)
45 Tianamen Square (1989)
44 Panorama: Martin Bashir interviews Princess Diana (1995)
43 David Frost engages in trial by television
42 Gazza's Tears: England vs. West Germany (1990)
41 Ethiopia : Michael Buerk (1984)
40 Black Power Salute: Mexico Olympics (1968)
39 Coronation Street : Stan Ogden dies (1984)
38 Panorama: Report blackout for Richard Dimbleby
37 This Life : The punch (1997)
36 The Two Ronnies : The Hardware Store "Fork handles"
35 Winston Churchill 's funeral (1965)
34 Dad's Army : Don't tell him, Pike (1975)
33 The Sex Pistols and Bill Grundy (1976)
32 England vs. Australia: Cricket at Headingley (1981)
31 England vs. Argentina: Michael Owen 's goal (1998)
30 Charles and Diana's wedding (26.7.1981)
29 Dallas: Who Shot JR ? (1980)
28 Cathy Come Home (1967)
27 Dennis Potter 's last interview ( Melvyn Bragg - 1994)
26 BBC's Pride and Prejudice : Colin Firth
25 Iranian Embassy Siege (1980)
24 Eastenders: Den and Angie divorce (1986)
23 Manchester United win Championship League (1999)
22 Newsnight: Jeremy Paxman grills Michael Howard
21 Monty Python : Dead parrot sketch
20 The Challenger explodes (1986)
19 Nationwide: Sinking of the Belgrano: Margaret Thatcher (1983)
18 Blue Peter : The Elephant (1969)
17 Hancock: The Blood Donor (1956)
16 Margaret Thatcher leaves Downing Street (1990)
15 Morecambe and Wise : Angela Rippon (1977)
14 The Coronation (1953)
13 Parkinson: Rod Hull and Emu (1971)
12 David Attenborough in the jungle with a gorilla
11 Fawlty Towers : The Germans (1975)
10 The death of JFK (1963)
9 Blackadder Goes Forth: Over the Top (1989)
8 Live Aid (1985)
7 Only Fools and Horses : Del Boy falls through the bar (1989)
6 England vs. Germany: " They Think It's All Over " (1966)
5 The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
4 The death of Diana (1997)
3 Michael Portillo loses his seat (1997)
2 The release of Nelson Mandela (1990)
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Yet another example of how silly the Bible is...
by Abaddon inokay, let's go along with the flood story for a moment, to the point where noah exits the ark.. here we have noah, with two of each animal and seven of the clean animals; maybe a few dozen animals that were not essential to the future survival of the species.. what does god do?.
tells noah he can eat animals now.. are you telling me an all-wise, all-knowing god isn't capable of better planning than that?
which strikes you as more likely?
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The ark story just doesn't float with me.
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