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Stolen guns used in fatal Wash. shooting rampage
Zamora’s only comment in court when he was charged last Friday was to twice declare: “I kill for God. I listen to God.”

Keith Tyne, a public defender appointed to represent Zamora, has said little about the case. After Zamora was charged, Tyne said, “Clearly there are significant mental health issues at play.”

Insane

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq – Americas, World – The Independent
President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden’s stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.

Sane

Right?

umm… can someone explain that to me?

If it’s the President of the US killing thousands of people, it’s sane…

but if it is one guy killing half a dozen or more, then it’s insane…

If someone talks to god and god tells them to feed the poor, clothe the homeless and save the orphans… they are sane… also very nice, admittedly…

If someone talks to god and god tells them to build a survival camp in the mountains, kill all heathens, stockpile weapons and food, and fuck their own daughters to keep their gene pool pure… they are insane… despite the fact that all these were commands issued by “god” to various characters in the Bible…

can someone please tell me who decides this shit?

does someone write to the National Divinity Hearing Council to get certification on whether the voices you hear are actually from god or something? Do they get something they can frame or some kind of membership card?

why can people NOT see the irrational dichotomy here…?

psychologists, psychiatrists and psychological institutes and schools are the most cowardly group of human beings on this world… just come out and say that anyone who even thinks of saying they hear god is patently, certifiably fucking off their rockers and should be medicated, restrained and institutionalized long-term.

the average person is a coward as well, because no one with any sense believes that shit but they are too afraid of being chastised and/or shunned by their peers or society. OR, they go along for political or financial opportunism.

god freaks are just that… freaks… and should be treated as such.

like any book that I grew to enjoy and then was made into a movie I was disappointed.

the attempts by Vincent Price (”The Last Man on Earth“) and Charlton Heston (”The Omega Man“) were bad, but never used the title of the book for the title of the movie, so I had hoped that by using the same title there would be an attempt to be faithful to the book…

No such luck.

I can always excuse some changes, things done to expedite the storyline to be compacted into a 1.5 hour visual experience, but I can never get over changes that fundamentally change the nature and intent of the original work.

I’ll give just one example, and that will be enough.

“I am Legend”

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Movie

Neville in the movie never uses that phrase for himself, but the character of Anna describes him as such. She is a refugee, guided by god, from the virus and after meeting with Neville escapes to a safe refuge in New England thanks to the final sacrifice of Neville; which was, of course, inspired by a message from god. He’s a legend because he stuck it out in New York and eventually came up with the cure that saved humanity.

Book

Neville is captured by infectees that have retained some of their humanity and have started to create a new society. Neville’s humanity and continued attacks on the infected, including the more “human” ones, brings him to their attention and enmity. Anna in the book is one of the “societal” infected and meets with Neville to spy on him. The new society eventually captures Neville to execute him. While imprisoned Neville realizes that he is now the last human on earth and is a dinosaur. Once he’s killed he and humanity will only be something talked about in the new world as a myth, as a legend. Hence he himself realizes, “I am Legend”.

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So… I am sure the people who made the new movie had something to say…

I don’t like reading too many messages into movies… no pun intended, but I read for that… movies are for stupid entertainment… though that being said, I do tend to like movies with a message… kinda counter reasoning, eh? oh well…

but, that being said, it pisses me off that anyone will take the message from someone else’s work, throw it aside and use the framework to act as a vehicle for their own message.

It does an amazing disservice to the original creator.

If they wanted to get a message across, that’s awesome… but come up with something semi-original…

It’s not like the idea of a massive viral infection leading to vampirism, zombies or rabid mutants hasn’t been done a million times… from Stephen King’s “The Stand” to the “Resident Evil” video game and movie series…

I’m sure no copyright lawyers would have jumped on these guys if they did something similar to get their message across… whatever it was… if there actually was one besides having faith in god to fix everything… :-(

it was a visually ok movie… but the mutants/infectees were too CGI’d and retained none of the humanity that was in the book… like the attempts by infected females to hyper-sexually seduce Neville or of his neighbour constantly calling for him to come out… in the movie they were just animals…

though that was likely an attempt to minimize the impact on sensitive American viewers of Neville killing hundreds in cruel painful half-assed experiments.. if they aren’t human anymore, why feel any moral outrage…

I mean… no American could be a Mengele could they… especially not Will Smith…  ;-)

bah

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.

The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher.

Source: New York Times

yeah… so…!

let’s say the US population is 350 million

1%, the rich, of that would be 3.5 million
20%, the poorest of the poor, would be 70 million

3.5 million people share $534.8 billion dollars
70 million people share $383.4 billion

I mean, if we average the income of a person in the 1% bracket we ONLY get ~$152800

wow… that doesn’t seem like much, does it…?

yes, a person can be quite comfortable living on $150K a year, couldn’t they… but I mean that’s not excessive or anything…

so, bully for the rich who aren’t really all that rich… and for shame on the detractors… for shame on the socialists and the anti-capitalists…

false-hoods, tilted facts, propaganda, fear mongering, greed and jealousy is rife in ALL their campaigns!!

I mean, even the poor are getting $383 BILLION dollars…

read it again!

BILLION

come on… EVERY American is rich!!

sheesh… that means on average a US citizen in the bottom 20% income demographic makes a whopping…

well, let’s see…

$383.4 billion divided by 70 million people would be…

umm…

errrr…

oh..

$5477

well…

that doesn’t mean anything!

I’m sure if you found out all the money THOSE people make selling drugs, selling their bodies and stealing from us, which DOESN’T go reported, they’d be much higher… probably higher than the 1%!!

and frankly… with people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the Google twins adding to the top 1% of income, I’m sure the total income made is substantially lower… they slew the data!

this doesn’t mean anything!

Statistics can be made to say anything

the New York Times is a liberal news paper with a Communist agenda anyway…

Fox News never covered this!!

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;-D  fucking capitalism!

BBC NEWS | Business | Cash rescue plan helps rates fall

This was a case of the most disgusting pandering to the business community and the wealthy I’ve seen in years…

These people and their money fucked up, people…

let them fall…

no, we can’t have that though because the poor and middle-class would get screwed because of it…

and why is that important?

not because they care… it’s because they don’t want the poor and the middle-class to learn exactly what is happening behind the scenes…

imagine… presidents of banks that go bankrupt and lose people’s cash…

they’ll be on their yachts and travelling to Fiji by the end of the week… while millions of people are now homeless and living on the streets…

can you imagine the upswell of rage that would create…

one bank is fine… one Enron is fine… only a limited and manageable number of peasants will be anally fucked by that…

but if the banks and businesses of the world that SHOULD fall because of what they’ve done actually fold, then there would be millions of people bending over to grab their ankles…

that could present a slight problem…

this is corporate welfare… this is cronyism… this is patronage… this is capitalist oppression of the weak and disadvantaged…

can’t people fucking understand that?

please, stop thinking about how you can afford that 32″ flat panel TV and start thinking about how these people can afford to put a 50″ flat panel plasma in the guest room closet on their yacht!!!

Dear zombie Jesus, fucking open your eyes people!!!

One day in the pavilion at Karakorum the Khan asked an officer of the Mongol guard what, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness.

“The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you,” responded the officer after a little thought, “and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares.”

“Wrong!” responded the Khan, “To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best.“

- Harold Lamb – “Genghis Khan: The Emperor Of All Men”

yeah, that doesn’t react well with my politics, but after 50,000 years of evolution as a hunter it makes my blood boil; makes me want to drink fermented yak’s milk til I vomit and pass out, makes me want to go burning villages, stealing their gold, raping their women, chaining the remainder up as slaves, makes me want to leave the house and car behind and live in a hide covered tent on the steppes with my herd of horses and cattle just outside!

yeah! that is best!

cause deep down, we all know that as horrible and awful as those times were, as cruel and despicable as those men were… politics aside, they still understood honour, community and comradeship. Something woefully missing in today’s individualism with no responsibilities, abhorrent consumerism, obscene consumptionism and impotent “political correctness”.

Ann Coulter quotes

This woman is a rabid animal.

I particularly love these:

[Canadians] better hope the United States does not roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.

Fox News; Hannity & Colmes, November 30, 2004

Canada has become trouble recently. It’s always the worst Americans who go there. We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They’re the only good parts of Canada.

autosarcophagy: is the practice of eating oneself; self-cannibalism

BBC Report on French Strikes

Polls keep saying that the french public agrees with Sarkozy wanting to reform (ie. Newspeak for cut) pensions for certain segments of the public services… most notably transportation workers…

but let’s face facts here… today’s politicians and business executives enjoy post employment benefits that would make Lincoln and the Rockerfeller’s shudder…

yet the public never raises the political will to try and curb those obscenities…

so what do we have… politicians and the business elite coordinating media attacks on one of the few groups in the lower ranks of society that have a marginally nice future for post employment…

the media attacks bring to a boil the common man’s seemingly innate jealousy of each other and absolute rage that “one of their own” maybe getting something they don’t…

oh… the politicians and business men are out of reach… untouchable… and more than a few would say deserving… so, we can’t go there now can we?

so let’s fuck over our neighbour cause he’s got a 24″ TV while I have to make due with a 22″…

I mean… just who the fuck do they think they are… uppity, that’s what they are!!

When the majority of the public sides with politicans and business interests against a subset of their own population you can make NO mistake… its rampant jealousy and mankind’s innate pettiness and penchant for cruelty…

to me, this situation personifies the current thinking of the “common man” in the west these days… it’s sickening, disheartening and makes me want to move to Thailand and crawl into a monastery there and say “fuck you” to the world…

humanity is eating itself at the behest of capitalism and power… doing it willingly and asking for ketchup and mustard on the side!

yum yum…  :-(

Remember, remember the SEVENTH of November!!

a day when the future was filled with hopeful possibilities…

MOST unfulfilled and eventually destroyed at the hands of Georgian fascist dictator Joseph Stalin.

you know… my father has always said that the US is not to blame for every ill in the world…

and I’ve always taken the stance that I pick on the bad things, admittedly, but know that the US does do a lot of good in the world… especially by it’s individual citizens…

but facts like that last post of mine almost can make me reconsider both my stance and my respect for my father’s advice.

Adam Sandler votes fucking Republican

well… at least funds them…

Source:Huffington Post