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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | |
overheardnyc
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9:00p |
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razzlfraz
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6:09p |
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redtailinfy
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8:09p |
Strength
These days, I find myself thinking a lot about strength, though, it probly isn't what most would expect at first glance. In my mind, I just want to know, what does it mean to truly be strong? A lot of people seem to think that to me, being strong has to do with having big muscles, or bring able to pick up things, and other bs like that. But no... that's not what being strong is to me. I really don't have a clear cut definition to be honest. It's always been something that's very gray to me, never black and white. So, what does it mean to be strong? Is it having the muscles and power, or is it more than that? Is it being compassionate? Does it mean being able to persevere though things that pain you? Is it, no matter what life throws in your path, being able to continue being you? Is it to continue walking down the path you think is right? Is it making your own path, despite what you hear? Is it being able to forgive? Is it the capability to know that someone has greatly wronged you in the past, yet in spite of that transgression, being able to go on and have forgiveness in your heart for them? Is it to be caring, about those you hold dear? Is it about being there for other people when they need you? Is it having the knowlege to know when you're wrong, and admit it, and to be humble from that? I don't know myself... Some of these things... I always try to be. Over the years, I noticed that I closed myself up slowly, but in spite of that, I've always tried to do these things. I've always wanted to be strong. For the love of my life who has stood by me since I've met him, to my friends who I can count on through my darkest times, for myself. I don't know if I'm strong or not.... I'll never know I suppose. It doesn't stop the wanting of it. One of these days... maybe I will know. Until then, I'll continue to search for my own meaning of it. For my man, who I feel has always been strong for me when I felt weak. For my friends when they need someone to hold them up when the weight of the world seems too much to bare. Most of all, for myself, so that I don't have to tire when I people who count on me, and need me to be strong for them, so they don't have to be all the time. Current Mood:  calmCurrent Music: Distance by Faktion |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
ukiwa
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4:25a |
Черт побери, а вы когда-нибудь были в Нью-Йорке? А во Фриско? И я нет... До сих пор жалею, что не удалось побывать, когда бывал в Штатах. Но если вы смотрели "Маска" и "Оливер и компания" - значит были в Йорке! А если смотрели "Все псы попадают в рай 2" и "Миссис Даутфайр" - значит были во Фриско! Но лучше, конечно, самим. Меня до сих пор зовут. Ехать, нет, а?.. |
ukiwa
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4:10a |
Бля, я просто охуеваю! Раньше как-то не замечал... Оказывается - на ДВД диске в первом кадре написано "Запрещается вывоз данной продукции из Российской Федерации...". Это реальный пиздец! А что, право частной/личной собственности у нас уже отменили? Ребята, а идите нахуй, а?.. Я этот диск купил! Лицензию. Честно купил. Если я хочу, чтоб мои дети смотрели этот фильм, живя на другом конце земного шара - и куплю, и вывезу, и вы будете сосать со своими претензиями! Потому как уплочено! Точка. |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | |
overheardnyc
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6:00p |
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unclekage
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6:43p |
Kampai!
I have the pleasure of knowing the most delightful gentlemen. Things have been rather rough on me of late, such details of which are unimportant. I'd been really very down, although Gideon made a very determined effort to cheer me up by luring me to his house with sangria and watching with me a delightful movie in which horrific Nazi zombies (who managed to keep their uniforms crisp despite sixty years of personal decomposition) terrorized some innocent Norwegian teenagers. ( Then I swung by my place to check the mail. ) |
atheism
[ upaya ]
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5:38p |
Brilliant debate between Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. Archbishop Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe on the proposition "The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world." Hitchens and Fry devastate the Catholics. Catholic defense for slavery? "We didnt know it was wrong and neither did anyone else at the time." Really? I thought you were in possession of universal morals. And just wait til you hear their defense of child rape by priests. The Audience was polled before and after the debate. Before the debate the numbers were: For the motion: 678 Against: 1102 Don’t know: 346 After the debate: For: 268 Against: 1876 Don’t know: 34 ---------------------------------------- ------------- Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTj9n40rNoPart 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-q8US0QRs4Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQRkfZzyfcUPart 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i391gBoEo58 |
tonyringtail
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6:33p |
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antitheism
[ upaya ]
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5:13p |
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roxikat
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7:02p |
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li_furs
[ jakebluepaw ]
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5:34p |
JAKES FUR MEET IS CANCELLED FOR TOMMORROW
I am sorry to say but I am going to have to reschedule my furmeet duew to some family based uissues it should not be no longer then a a couple of weeks sorry for the inconvenience. |
blueferrret
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5:12p |
Breaking Habits
Something that has been prominent through out my life and childhood is how I act to situations with the result of my parents raising me. Commonly I know that my parents raised me in a style of authoritarian and was at the same time neglectful. When they were at home, they would constantly scream at me but they never considered it screaming even though it was clearly yelling, threatening, finger pointing, all that jazz. Now, as I'm just living my life on in this household, I trade back and forth yelling at them when they yell at me which makes me start to fall under their habits. I've begun to not consider when I raise my voice, as yelling unless I'm outraged. I really don't like this because on occasions when they speak casually, I sometimes yell at them then ward them off. I feel like a prick. It's just something about them that really pisses me off, my brain instantly thinks that they are going to yell at me because they've been doing it ever since I was like -524524 years old. I've grown to become a bit more independent so the only time they need me is when I suspect that I am in trouble or a "We Need to Talk" situation. There's only one way to solve it and to just calm myself down before I speak. It's mostly towards them though, just my family in general. IT'S EITHER A HABIT OR JUST TEENAGE HORMONES. CURSE YOU TEENAGE HORMONES. Current Mood:  frustrated |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
foksu
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1:17a |
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**ля... Опять заливают квартиру.... Current Mood: такая жизнь |
bert_msk
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12:40a |
Современная Москва (да и вся европейская часть России) - это европейский гламурный макияж на немытом лице. Гламурные билборды на немытых зданиях в промзонах, реклама элитных дач в пролетарских районах (хотя у нас пролетарии еще то жлобьё - сначала ноет как мало денег дают на заводе резиновых страпонов затычек для гидротурбоускорителя первой ступени ракеты класса "Протон", а потом ВНЕЗАПНО покупает квартиру на Кутузе. Наликом.) ну и т.д. Вот смотришь на всю эту нелепицу и понимаешь: ты не в европейской стране. Ты в Азиопе. |
tema
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12:01a |
7 ноября
Вот интересная хуйня. Во время СССР не было в стране ни одного человека, который бы отмечал праздник 7-го ноября. Бухали в этот выходной - да. Но праздник никто не отмечал. Никто добровольно не ходил на демонстрации. Никто не хотел сидеть на приуроченном годовщине партсобрании. Никто не пил за октябрьскую революцию. И вообще была некоторая глупость в том, что Великий Октябрь наступал в ноябре. Праздник всегда был тупым и неискренним. С омерзительным огрызком гвоздики в петлице. С блевотными открытками, на которых художники лицемерно изображали крейсер "Аврору" с прожекторами на весь фон открытки и писали 1917-%current_year%. А теперь что? Пиздец полный - всю Тверскую перекрыли, потому что выжившие из ума мудаки вышли на улицу с красными флагами. Подсунутый народу суррогат в виде 4 ноября вызывает у всего народа искреннее охуевание от бессмысленности повода. А 7 ноября вдруг полюбили. Я ебу, блять. Че празднуете-то, а? Перетрудились, блять? Отдохнуть захотелось? В стране пиздец жопа полная, нихуя никто работать не может и не хочет. Матрешки, блять, в Китае дешевле заказать, произвести, привезти и растаможить, чем в любом русском городе их нахуячить. Какой вам еще нахуй праздник? Какие красные флаги, чтоб они все в жопу вам воткнулись? Какой, блять, коммунизм? Какое народное единство? С чурками единяться собрались? Ну а в честь праздничка вам очередная подборочка фоточек из союзика. Снято все американским фотографом Джерри Куком. Такого отпусти погулять - сразу недостатки ищет. Свинья везде грязь найдет. Пусть у себя в Америке трущобы снимает, епты.  Москва. Новый американский автомобиль у подъезда "Националя", 1957 г.  Фотоателье, 1957 г.  Зрители на ипподроме, 1958 г.  Ленинград. Колка льда на улице, 1959 г.  Харьков. Машинка укатилась, 1960 г.  Иркутск. Колхозник с сыном, 1959 г.  Украина. На полевые работы, 1960 г.  Москва. Прохожие на улице, 1962 г. Остальные фотки - http://savok.name/294-ussrusa.html |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | |
pharyngula
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3:21p |
Rudeness required
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/xjN9YrDX9to/rudeness_required.php http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/11/rudeness_required.php The concern trolls are very concerned. They are responding to my posting of Sonia/Tanja/Rosa/Whoevera Jensen's crazy email — she's disabled! She's mentally ill! It's cruel to post her wacky screeds publicly where people will point and laugh! You're picking on her! <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE SONIA ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>
No.
Crazy people — and I don't mean clinically ill people who need medical/psychiatric help — are everywhere, and they are saying and doing stupid things, and they are sending their nonsense to me, and they are engaging in their foolishness in public places where they affect the normal, non-crazy, mostly sensible people. Announcing that they are mildly nuts is not a reasonable excuse to hold off on criticizing them. That logic would mean we'd have to restrain ourselves from mocking Glenn Beck or rebuking Michele Bachmann. They're no less crazy than Sonia Jensen, after all.
My mailbox would depress you. I think I am notified about just about every dufus who pops up and demands public respect for his delusions. Take the bus driver in Atlanta who decided he wouldn't let passengers off his bus if they wouldn't pray with him.
A MARTA bus driver is on suspension following allegations that he forced passengers to pray before allowing them to exit the bus.
Christopher James was one of those passengers. James said, initially, he thought something was wrong when he rang the bell to get off the bus and the door didn't open.
James said the bus driver asked him and three other passengers to join hands in prayer. James said the driver prayed with the group for about four minutes.
Suspend him or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE THE BUS DRIVER ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
Or how about the schoolteacher who thinks the Book of Revelation has warned her about fingerprints?
A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them.
The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the "Mark of the Beast," and hence is a violation of her First Amendment right to practice her religion. Her case is similar to a lawsuit by a group of Michigan farmers, some of them Amish, challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are also the devil's mark.
The latest case is the first in which a teacher is refusing fingerprinting on religious grounds, the woman's lawyer said. The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to decide whether the First Amendment is implicated in fingerprinting, especially at a time when states, local governments and civic organizations are increasingly making them mandatory for anyone wanting to drive a car or coach a youth basketball team.
McLaurin's lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency cites various passages of Revelation, the final book of The Bible:
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand and on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.... Then a third angel followed them saying with a loud voice -- if anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God.... He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
Fire her or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE THE SCHOOLTEACHER ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
I also get email from Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association. He's very excited; Christmas is victorious!
Governor gets message, big victory for Christmas!
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear did not like a Christmas tree being called a Christmas tree. So he changed it. According to the Associated Press, Gov. Beshear recently decided the tree on the Capitol lawn in Frankfort, for 2009, should be called a "holiday" tree.
American Family Association immediately went to work against the forces of political correctness who wanted to remove the word "Christmas" from the Christmas season. Within hours, we sent an email alert into the Bluegrass State asking our 38,370 AFA Action Alert friends to call and e-mail Governor Beshear.
Point and laugh, and call the tree we atheists put up in our homes a Christmas tree too, or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
Or how about this one? It turns out that Iraqi police are searching for bombs…with dowsing rods. A British company is making bank selling these useless gadgets to gullible — and now endangered — people with a risky job.
Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq's security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.
The sensor device, known as the ADE 651, from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Iraq has bought more than 1,500 of the devices.
The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works "on the same principle as a Ouija board" -- the power of suggestion -- said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack, who described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.
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Aqeel al-Turaihi, the inspector general for the Ministry of the Interior, reported that the ministry bought 800 of the devices from a company called ATSC (UK) Ltd. for $32 million in 2008, and an unspecified larger quantity for $53 million. Mr. Turaihi said Iraqi officials paid up to $60,000 apiece, when the wands could be purchased for as little as $18,500. He said he had begun an investigation into the no-bid contracts with ATSC.
Scream and yell that their stupidity is putting their lives on the line, prosecute the con artists selling these cheap and useless gadgets, or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE THE BOMB DOWSERS ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
I guess I'm one of those people who will continue to say that stupidity, ignorance, and even mental illness do not demand that people stand silent when victims of those afflictions thrust themselves forward and demand respect for their views. Polite silence and encouraging words of reassurance is how we got to Idiot America in the first place. Read the comments on this post... |
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overheardnyc
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antitheism
[ peristaltor ]
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76_82
[ gosha_msk ]
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10:56p |
Понимаю, что вопрос выбивается за рамки, но тем не менее, это как раз следствие того, что многие из нас в них попадают. Подскажите пожалуйста, а существует ли видео Новогоднего обращения М. Задорнова 31 декабря 1992 года? Я тогда был еще маленький, а теперь очень хочется посмотреть, ну или хотя бы послушать. |
lozi_cheetah
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10:20p |
Прогеры! :)Кто может скомпилировать пару файликов для меня плиз? Исходники на C++ есть, а как компилировать, я хз.. ( Подробней ) |
keto_galin
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10:52a |
Zac Brown Band
 So I've been listening to country radio a bit more lately, and been picking up some awesome songs by awesome bands like Montgomery Gentry, Love and Theft, and Zac Brown Band. Zac Brown Band has some awesome songs, like "Toes" which I can't help but (attempt) to sing along with... (part of it is in spanish), "Whatever It Is", and "Chicken Fried Rice". Also nice to see an attractive lead singer (the green jacket in front the front in the picture above)... You're probably rolling your eyes but it's weird because I use to ASSUME that country music would have a ton of big hefty hairy guys... but my personal observations have contradicted that thought. Current Music: "Fox on the Run" - Zac Brown Band |
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pharyngula
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overheardnyc
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76_82
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8:45p |
Человек-амфибия
Пересмотрел на днях кинофильм "Человек-амфибия". Не похвалы ради, а, чтобы радостью поделиться скажу -- великолепное кино по всем параметрам. Особенно, если учесть, что Геннадий Казанский снял его в 1961 году. Атмосфера и аромат фильма -- настоящие советские шестидесятые. Многие режиссеры пытаются воссоздать их сегодня в своих картинах, стилизируя их под старину. Но почти ни у кого не выходит. В чем же соль? Прежде всего надо отметить подбор и работу актеров. Какая яркая плеяда -- Вертинская, Коренев и Козаков. От их игры просто уносит башню. Особенно от Козакова. Каков, а! Съемки -- это что-то. Ведь тогда не было компьютеров, на которых программно можно нарисовать все, что угодно. Материал был отснят в реальных условиях или декорациях. Местами скомбинирован, местами дополнен антуражем с повторной экспозицией. Кое-где с применением кукольной анимации. А результат -- удивительно реалистичный и гармоничный видеоряд. Диалоги -- порой глубины вселенского масштаба. Вспоните разговор Ихтиандра и профессора Сальватора о любви, или диалог Сальватора с Ольсеном о счастье. Отчасти это, конечно, заслуга великого советского фантаста Александра Беляева. Но здесь важны и интонации, и мимика, а это заслуга все же авторов картины. Или взять хотя бы разговор Гуттиэре и Ихтиандра у моря. И какая великая человеческая грусть ощущается в финальных диалогах -- не передать словами. Музыка -- это то, что я просто оставлю без комментариев на суд читателей моего ЖЖ, потому, что такое надо смотреть! |
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