How Many More People Without Health Insurance Will Die Before “reform” Takes Effect In 2013?
January 28, 2010
That’s not the question.
The real question is how many cancer victims will die because of it?
How many people will not be denied but will die on a waiting list as they are in Canada and Great Britain?
How much will our taxes be raised to fund it?
In Islam If You Are Taught Wrong, Does It Not Reveal Itself To Others More Than To Yourself?
December 19, 2009
If you did Istakarah once, why are you doing it again for the same reason? Didn’t you turn it over to Allah to begin with. What to take it back and turn it over again to him when he heard you the first time?
I can go on forever about the billions of errors I see from you all, may Allah SWT guide you. If I see them what about those who hate Islam?
Allah SWT gave you a PERFECT DEEN before Muhammed SAW died. Muhammed SAW to Adam A.s. made it all transparent for you. That was over 1431 years ago. When do you think you will understand that very basic fact and stop learning things from these humans onthis earth today.
Allah SWT told you, follow anyone that I have not sent you in clear guidance from me, then you will follow them to your doom.
the last messenger was 1431 years ago. He was your best example and the Seal of the prophets. Why then are you still looking around on this earth for things that you have already been given long before electricity was ever invented? Very STRANGE!
More To The Story And Then We Die, Posted Yesterday?
December 11, 2009
I hate New York. It’s so frigin crowded. I was somewhere in the middle of nowhere and there were so many people I felt like I had been crammed into the middle of a tinny elevator with millions of people in it. Not to mention the fact, I was starving. There were so many restaurants screaming for me to come and enjoy it, but I had left all my money at the morgue. My toga/lab coat outfit really didn’t get any attention. Everyone here looks like freaks.
As a passed a Hot Topic store, I saw a chick walk out with a nose ring, mini skirt, and boots. I busted out laughing. It was HI-LAIR-IOUS. I walked into the store. You see, I had been through here before. I had friends in NY. One of them was Mike. I called him Big Mike. But that’s a whole nother story.
“HEY BIG MIKE”, I yelled at the top of my lungs. He always hated it when I yelled. I walked up to the counter just as he walked out of the back room. Big Mike was about 250 pounds and built. He had black smooth hair, cut military style. He was in one of his many black mussel shirts and tight, ripped, skull genes. As soon as he saw me, he stopped and sighed. Then he started to laugh.
“Nice outfit you got there! Wild party?” He could barley even manage to get those words out he was laughing so hard.
“Yea, yea. I get it. What have you done with your face?” I asked like I was shocked.
“What, what are you talking about?”
“It’s, it’s, it’s just so ugly!”
“Ha, ha. What do you want Rush?”
“Obviously, I need some cloths.”
“Be right back.” He sighed and went to the back.
Big Mike was a good guy. He didn’t ask questions. He only knew so much, but it was enough. He’s helped me out before. But like I said, that’s a whole nother story. All I wanna say is were good friends now and he’s always giving me what I needed. Cloths, money, knives, whatever. He was always there for me.
I was looking at the latest styles in tongue rings when Mike came back out. When I saw what was in his arms I almost choked. WAS HE SERIOUS. When he saw my reaction, he just grinned.
“What, you don’t like it? It’s all I’ve got” He said with a smug little smile.
“No, it’s fine. Lovely, actually.”
I stopped away to the dressing room. There was a shower in there. Mike had put it in just for me. In one of our previous engagements. I stripped off my toga and turned on the water. It felt nice to be free. I turned on the shower and stepped in. You know that chorus of angles that sing beind you on those really amazing parts of movies. You know, the Angles that sing “Ahhhhh”. That’s what it felt like. The water rushed over me like I hadn’t taken one in days. Oh wait, I haven’t. In other words it was great. It was so nice to be clean and wash my body over. Like twelve times. My hair finally felt clean. When I looked down at the water washing off of me, I cringed. It was a reddish brown. Blood and dirt. The price of running for a living. I slid out of the shower and automatically felt wiped out. But hey, I smelled good. Like yummy cherries. Go me.
It didn’t take me long to put on the clothing. There wasn’t much. He’d given me a short, short, green mini skirt, a sleeveless black tank-top, and knee high black, tight leather boots. In fact, if I turned the right way, you couldn’t even tell I was wearing anything.I looked adorable. While I was in the dressing room, Mike through in a brush and some make up. Had to cover up them bruises with something. Brushing my hair was a whole nother matter. Have you ever tried to pull your hand through a bail of hay. Well if you haven’t, it pretty hard. That doesn’t even match trying to brush my hair. It took longer than anything else.
When I walked out, Mike asked if I felt better. I rolled my eyes and walked towards the back. I slid beind the counter and slapped Big Mike on the butt. He he. I’m so funny. The back was basically a mini wear house with cloths and other junk for the store. Back in the corner was a small bed Mike always had set up for me. It was just long enough for me. I was pretty short though, so it’s hard to find a bed for me. I’m only around 5′1. The bed was soft and the pillows were down. The cover and sheet was playboy. Gorgeous. I slid into the bed and as soon as my head slammed into the pillow, kinda like a bulldozer, I was out. Then the dreams started.
I Posted This Question Before… Would Like More Opinions! Would You Read A Book With This Plot?
November 20, 2009
Here’s my idea! Normally I don’t write fantasy, but a while I was reading Dracula while watching Pan’s Labyrinth on TV and BAM! New story idea! I’ve gotten a little over 200 pages in.
Germany, 1915, First World War. The main character is a girl who is eighteen years old. Her name is Maura. Maura’s two younger brothers and father were killed in the war, and now she lives alone with her mother and grandmother. Near their house in the country, there is a small, fast-flowing river, and on the other bank a high wooden wall with the word VERBOTEN (means ‘forbidden’) painted across it. Over a few months, she becomes ever more curious, and when her mother dies she think things can’t possibly get any worse so she decides to see what it is behind the fence. There’s a dark forest, with mossy tree trunks and sinister-looking vines. Strange cries unlike any earthly creature are heard, and when Maura turns to leave the river is there and she can see her house, but she can’t cross back- it’s like there’s an invisible barrier. She walks for about an hour, when she finally comes across a unicorn! Oh, happy happy! Until the unicorn tries to skewer her to a tree trunk with its horn and drink her blood. In the nick of time, a boy who looks about sixteen or seventeen comes into the picture, skillfully brandishing a large sword, and chops off the unicorns head. Only blades can kill unicorns. The boy’s name is Alexander De Leon, and he speaks German with a French accent. His black hair is tangled and longer than would be considered stylish at the time for a boy. He has a light tan and his eyes are a light violet color. He looks too thin, and dirty, so Maura assumes that Alexander has been in the forest for quite a while now. She asks him how long and why he’s lived in the forest, but he ignores her question. (Note: unicorns are evil in this story, and so are phoenixes. A large part of story right now is Alexander teaching Maura how to survive) A long time passes. We finally learn why Alexander is living in the forest. Five years previously, Alexander, his little sister, and his father were forced to live in the forest by some people in a small village. Why? As it turns out, people with purple eyes have the genetic predisposition to become vampyres when they die! (Vampyres, as it turns out, are never created by other vampyres. they are born human, and if they have the defect, purple eyes are a sign of the defect, they will come back as a vampire when they die) He knows this is true, because his little sister died first of starvation, and then his father was killed by a unicorn, and when they became vampyres Alexander ran for his life to the other side of the forest. Apparently a curse was laid on his family a long time ago. Alexander is trying to avoid death so he will never have to suck people’s blood to live. However, death in inevitable for all humans. This scares Maura, but their discussion is interrupted by a sudden attack from a phoenix. Months pass, (I am leaving a lot of plot out here!) and finally they make a breach in the invisible barrier (too many details on how- can’t write everything)! Maura and Alexander both run through and swim the river to immediately get back into the real world. Alexander stays with Maura and her grandmother. Everybody thought Maura was dead, for she had been gone over a year. They don’t tell anyone what happened. After a week or so, one night Alexander confesses to Maura that he’s in love with her, perhaps this isn’t a good thing, but he doesn’t care. Maura tells her feelings and (now I am certainly skipping a scene)… and in the morning Alex is gone, but he left a note on the table reading something along the lines of ‘I love you, Maura. I think I know how to lift the curse on my family to stop us from becoming vampyres. If you want me to be with you forever, there is no way i could allow this to happen until this curse is broken. I long to see you again, but I probably won’t survive my quest. If i don’t remember me as what I was.’ She doesn’t expect to see him again. (Insert here a slight sub-plot about Maura and her grandmother). Skip ahead a year. The night after the war ended. Maura is almost sleeping, barely awake, when she hears a noise. She feels a slight pressure at the side of her neck, but is still convinced that she’s just tired. Suddenly, she hears a gasp, and the pressure on her neck immediately vanishes. Maura turns on the light, and she sees Alexander. His violet eyes are tinged with crimson, his skin is pure chalky white with darker gray veins visible on his wrist, and his lips are dripping with fresh blood! Oh no! He immeadiately jumps out her window and runs into the night, and Maura thinks she just imagined it. But when she wakes up, there is blood on her pillow and the cuts from his fangs on her neck. Maura know she won’t become a vampyre unless you’re born with that destiny, and her eyes are blue, so she’s not worried. She’s just worried about Alexander and wants to t
If You Now Have More Reasons For Loving Your Spouse Than When You Got Married, What Are They?
November 6, 2009
I often read here questions from people who say that the “spark” has gone out of their marriage, the novelty has worn off, etc. These people sometimes question whether they should remain married, because their marriages seem diminished to them.
For me, though, even though the butterflies died long ago, I have learned that there is more to love about my wife than I knew when I married her. Some examples:
1. She has a great capacity for forgiveness, which I had no cause to learn before marriage.
2. Although slow to start a new endeavor, she is very good at following through to completion.
3. She is more intelligent than I realized. (She only had a high school diploma when we married, but she now has a bachelor’s from one of the best nursing schools in our part of the country.)
I could go on, but I want to know what others have to say. Are there things you have come to learn or that you have discovered about your spouse that present good reasons for loving your spouse more now than when you married the person?
What Makes Us Think We Will Succeed In Afghanistan When Many More Before Us Have Failed?
November 4, 2009
If anyones ever seen the movie Rambo III, Rambos Afghan guide tells Rambo that ancient people of mighty empires used to fear 3 things. A) The Tiger, B) The snake, C) Revenge of the Afghan.
Everyones tried to tame the Afghans before, mighty mighty empires before us have tried and failed miserably each time.
E.g The Macedonian Alex the Great conqueror of all the known world was turned back at the Hindu Kush (Afghanistan)
Full of frustation in not being able to defeat the Afghans he died of Syphillis due to his alleged homosexual liasions.
The Russians too have tasted an awful pill of defeat in that country.
The last time Britain was their we tried TWICE in the 19th century to take over their country but FAILED.
So is why is David Milliband so ignorant in saying “We will have to stay until the job is done” I mean why doesnt he stay their until the work is done and see how long he lasts with his sly face.
So what on earth makes us think we will win? What on earth do have this time around huh?
These Taliban we can kill millions of them but they will NEVER NEVER stop, history has shown these people will NEVER accept a foreign occupation. So my question why dont we just withdraw and smash that place to smithereens from the air, use chemical weapons, destroy all their Heroine crop and instead stop all immigration and beef up security at home?
RIP our brave lads, thanks for answering my question……..
Movie Clichés I Never Want To See Again. Can Anyone Suggest Any More?
October 17, 2009
“I’m Getting Too Old For This Sh!t!”
Movie Clichés I Never Want to See Again
• The opening of film on water, panning up to distant cityscape as we fly towards city. So overdone, so lazy, please establish your location in a more original way.
• In an effort to show what a loser/how lonely a character is, they come home and go to the answering machine and instead of reading the digital # readout like we all do, they press the button and we hear the female voice announce “You have no messages.”
• Person being chased reaches car or home. Door is locked, retrieves keys and drops them.
• One character has something important to say, something that will change everything but when they are about to say what they need to say, the other person will interrupt but then will say, “Sorry, go ahead.” But will be told “No, you go ahead.” And as a result, whatever it is the other person says will result in main character not saying what they were about to say. Even worse if afterwards the other person says, “I’m sorry, you were going to say something.”
• If the driver is speaking to the passenger, they will spend an impossibly long time staring at the passenger instead of at the road. Somehow they NEVER rear end the car in front of them.
• “I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you.” Seriously, can everyone PLEASE agree to delete this phrase from our collective consciousness?
• The person who notices some wet substance on the ground or wherever and bends down to run a finger through it, look at the finger (often rubbing two fingers together) and usually realize it’s blood.
• If you’re a woman and there is a killer on the loose, just take a relaxing bath and he will find you.
• If a person with important information to reveal tells the detective to come by at such and such a time and he will tell him all the info, he will be dead when the detective arrives.
• If a person good person dies with his eyes open, a friend will close them, and they will remain closed. If a villain dies with his eyes open, no one will close them, and the camera will linger on his face.
• All characters keep detailed newsclippings of important events in their lives, particularly those events that must be painful to recall, such as the loss of the character’s immediate family due to their own negligence. NB: If the news report would have come out while the character was in jail or on the run, all the more reason for the character to have kept it intact.
• If a person’s clothes get snagged on something, they tear very easily and leave a large, noticeable chunk behind. The Person trying to not be found never seems to realize this has occurred.
• If the movie is animated, one of the kid’s parents will be dead. This is almost always the mother.
• If there are three or more sisters in the movie, one of the sisters will be extremely neurotic and married to a lawyer/doctor/shrink, one will be single and looking for love (the lead) and one will be a mother with at least two kids (a boy and a girl or two girls, never two boys).
• Every sword/knife pulled from a holder always makes a metal against metal sound
• All movie mothers will prepare a breakfast, usually consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Dad and the kids will invariably arrive at the table 30 seconds before Dad has to leave for the office and the kids have to catch the school bus. Each will have time only for a sip of coffee/juice and/or one bite of toast. There must be enough food left over in these homes to feed a third world nation!
• Beverages are served either half full or completely empty (especially coffee).
• Coffee is never served steaming hot unless it is for comedic reasons
• When a helicopter is hit by a bullet or rocket, it’ll explode immediately if it contains a villain, but if the hero is on board, it will loose power, smoke will come out of the doors, and it’ll just reach the ground in time for the hero to get clear then duck just at the moment it explodes.
• Whenever a hero enters a dark room where he feels confident in being alone, someone (villain) will be sitting in a chair waiting for hero to turn on the lights before speaking. Sometimes intruder will be the one to turn on the light.
• The hero will always refuse the assistance of friends or medical personnel after a fight. If the hero gets into a second fight, his most injured body part will always be punched or kicked.
• A hero will show no pain even during the most terrific beating, yet he will wince if a women attempts to clean a facial wound.
• The bad guy has the good guy in his sights, his trigger finger poised to squeeze off a life-ending round. A shot rings out, and we shudder—but the hero does not fall. As he frantically checks his body for the mortal wound he must have sustained, a dazed look overcomes the villain’s face, and he slumps to the floor. Then, and only then, the camera reveals a gun-toting savior who blew away the baddie before he could kill our protagonist.
• Like above, only hero and villain are in a life and death struggle with gun, it goes off, who got hit? The same with a struggle over a knife. Any close up struggle with a pointy object will result in death.
• Walking toward the camera in slow motion as a massive explosion happens in the background, without flinching, and miraculously not being hit by any shrapnel
• In a scary movie, if someone is looking in the refrigerator for a late night snack, when they close the refrigerator/freezer door, the killer will be standing there OR a friend/parent will be standing there, startling them.
• Surprise cat appearances. Almost always shrieking for no good reason.
• Character in vehicle, glances in rear view mirror, nothing suspicious, character reaches for something (radio), sits back up, eyes go back to rear view mirror, killer’s eyes looking back.
• Character stepping lightly past killer’s body only to have him reach out and grab their ankle
• Any movie in New Orleans takes place during Maudi Gras
• The super-sped up cityscape. This scene requires shots of a moving and setting sun, buildings lighting up, and people zipping around.
• Eight to ten-year-old kids are the best computer hackers on earth and can break into any system.
• Anytime anybody picks up pieces of a broken glass they will ALWAYS cut their finger. They will also always suck their breath in through their teeth and stick the injured finger in their mouth.
• When someone, usually the hero, appears to be shot fatally but a few minutes later, when the camera goes back to them -What’s This!- they aren’t dead after all. They will ALWAYS groan, reach up with both hands and rip open their shirt (nobody cares about buttons in the movies!) revealing the –SHOCKER!- bullet-proof vest (even though the obvious bulge from a bullet-proof vest was never visible under their clothes in the previous scene). They will then pluck the bullet from the indentation, stare at it and drop it to the ground. Occasionally the person will do something that defies all reason; they will REMOVE THE VEST and go after the bad guy. Because, as everyone knows, when a bullet-proof vest takes a hit or two they are rendered useless. Again, I have two words for all bad guys: HEAD SHOT!
• When ever a person is being chased on foot, regardless of the time of year or city, there will be some sort of parade to try and loose your pursuer in.
• Any time a secret tracking device is used so the bad guy can track the good guy, the tracking device will have a blinking red light AND when the camera gets a close up we can hear it beeping. An AUDIBLE secret tracking device? Really? See Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.
• When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
• When the tech guy is given a blurry, extremely pixilated part of an image (i.e. license plate) and they are able to clear it up to crystal clear, easily readable condition
• Making hacking look cool by making the computer’s mainframe look like some sweet virtual world of colorful corridors and cubes you need to click on.
• If it’s a tavern in a western, some grizzled old f*ck will spit tobacco juice in response to our hero entering.
I have a site archiving every movie cliché I could think of/find at:
http://movieclichearchive.wordpress.com/
Please feel free to stop by and if you can think of one I haven’t listed, there is a section at the bottom of each category to leave a suggestion.
Enjoy!
I Want To Learn More.?
October 5, 2009
I want to learn more about the Universe in general.
I want to know what is at the end of the universe.
I want to understand how it works.
To become a scientist has been my dream since I was 9 when my Dad showed me an episode of NOVA about the universe, I’m 17 now and I’ve been looking into the Navy, anyways I want to be able to know as much as possible before I grow old and die.
I wish I could live long enough to know about the mysteries of the universe, but sadly I can’t.
Is there a class I can somehow take?
Yes I read a lot and watch a lot of things related to science.
I just want to learn more.
How Many More People Have To Die Before Our Govt. Enforces Stricter Gun Laws?
September 27, 2009
I wonder? Do you?
How Many More Hours Do You Want To Live Before You Die?
September 26, 2009
I want to live 999,999,999,999 more hours.
Hopefully that is enough time lol.