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Dec 5, 2011, 3:11 pm
Yeah!!
Despite being butchered by Hollywood studios and getting its name ripped-off by Mr. "King of the World" Cameron (a genius nonetheless when he shut up and shoot movies), one of the best American animated show will finally come back!
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Dec 5, 2011, 1:38 pm
I was over and out. I was burned and discourage. Cain, Romney, Perry, Gingrich!!!! Obama becoming a ghost, a revolution thwarted and drown in an overabundance of futile insipid information. Harper donning faked glasses and being re-elected with a majority. Jack... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 1:03 am
Masses, educate thyself on the mystery of the Fed and how our tax money find its way, unimpeded as we speak, to the people that are still laughing on their way to the bank at lonely Bernie Madoff: Goldman Sachs. Wait! They own the bank!
I understand we have to spend. I know that deflat... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 12:42 am
I do see your need, Mr. President, to not let the crazies run the asylum and to resist the lowering of the public debate to the basest level where Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, Rove, O'Reilly, Politico, half of the AP and 'new bestselling author' Bush are thriving but resisting alone won't change the deb... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2010, 6:21 am
We all have seen the signs, the strange discomfort is changing into outright disbelief, but not too many can argue now that everything is well in the Republic of Palin and Snookie.
The Right is doing its job all right but the Left is seen as impotent, even thought all the political capit... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2010, 10:24 am
Jobless Claims in U.S. Decreased 11,000 Last ... Rated 06:29am • 1 review • economics ... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2010, 9:38 am
Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- That White House Agreed... Rated 05:31am • 0 reviews • government • tal... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2010, 12:06 pm
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Oct 5, 2010, 9:11 am
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Sep 16, 2010, 10:04 pm
Sarah Palin, Tea Party are not viewed favorably by most Americans, latest poll findsBY Sean Alfano
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, September 16th 2010, 9:40 AM
Sarah Palin may have a magic touch with candidates she endorses, but nearly half of American voters aren't impr... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2010, 9:07 pm
Seriously, I haven't been blogging for awhile but it doesn't mean I haven't been enjoying the ride.
Obama seems poised to finally say all those things we wanted him to say at the very beginning of his presidency, finally remembering that he wasn't elected to play nice with the Good Old Boy's Club... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2010, 1:57 pm
Well, let's say she discovered what we've meant for years about the Wal-Martization of America.
She explains it well, in an articulate, crystal-clear smart piece that suggest we turn our boat around.
That would be a fantastic idea, if it wasn't a tad too late.
Let's be frank: the... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 5:49 pm
From DesignBoom:
African born, Tokyo based designer Serge Mouangue combined African fabrics with the design
of traditional Japanese kimonos since 2008 to create his 'Wafrica' series. Together with Kururi, a Tokyo based kimono maker he produced the traditional Japanese attire in 18 Af... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 5:56 am
It's all about being correct.
Not politically correct but just being right.
I was watching an old episode of Bones the other day and was struck by a familiar pattern of TV characterization:
The uppity Black character that is supposedly brilliant needs to be corrected by e-v-e-r-y other c... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2010, 10:57 pm
I love their tortured shapes, the fake history that they hint at ( and the real ones that they questioned.)
His pieces remind me of one of my favourite sculptor, the African Ousmane Sow.
He will take part of the Vancouver Biennial taking place now 'till May 20th.
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Apr 25, 2010, 9:54 pm
Tea party and the Republicans try to unite to create an anti-government militia?
Armed right-wing activists comparing themselves to Warsaw ghetto Jews and calling for 'thousand little Wacos'?
Michele Bachmann 'Prayercast' against Health Reform?
Can they get anymore bizarre than that?
Yes... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2010, 8:45 pm
Its designer, the Mexican architect Javier Senosiain calls it the Nautilus, I call it the Hobbit house.
I can just imagine Ian Holmes trotting along, preparing cordials with a couple of Russian hookers and Ian McKellen chuckling along (still dreaming of Derek Jacobi)...
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Apr 25, 2010, 8:12 pm
I am happy that Huffington Post caught up with the right answer to give any tea partier who ask what do the government do with his tax money:
It gives almost 50% of it to the Army to make war and gives the rest to Wall Street just for the hell of it.
Give my regard to all the Bushes fo... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2010, 6:17 pm
There is a difference.Capitalism, socialism, they're only systems, only a way to acquire things and reach a goal.
They are complex arrangement of ideas, people and environments that give absolutely no guarantee of success.
The only way people can win all the time - in any system - is by cheating.
Wa... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2010, 7:50 pm
Yeah, I know: it sounds very apocalyptic and desperate but we are in a feverish, high strung , desperate time.
It is clear we're in the centre of a vast political turmoil. The right have declared war on the New Deal Legacy. They just want to scrap at everything FDR left. The left seem un... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2010, 5:20 pm
They rock.
They roll.
They scream bloody murders like 3 years old.
They cry on demand and pout.
They threaten the nation of armed revolt and secession.
They are insanely misinformed.
They seem grassroots enough to look genuine but the bermuda clad old whi... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2010, 3:42 pm
I am not one to go rustic but this house invites Baudelaire's line from 'L'invitation au Voyage' to mind: 'Luxe, calme et volupté'.
Luxury, calm and sensual pleasure indeed...
Discovered on the (beautiful) Style-Files website.
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Apr 11, 2010, 3:15 pm
I love their shapes.
They're like Giacometti figurines but healthier: sturdy, sensual and strongly present.
They all have a strong enough personality to seperate them from Ikea style bland Euro-sculpture.
From the Ana Duncan website.
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Apr 11, 2010, 3:06 pm
These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring ... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2010, 2:07 pm
Bob Herbert did it again. This time, his poise and precisely pitched outrage is all but palpable in his op-ed piece about the lack of an unified voice from the Left that could counter the screeching, perverse, unhealthy liebox of the right-wing media.
Why the thousands of little affiliations and blo... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 9:51 pm
While we're on the subject of whiteness (see my next post or the article in the New Yorker...), I would like to tell you that I'm excited by the adaptation of one of the best animation series out there onto the big screen, but nope.
Avatar, the last airbender is being release soon but I don't think ... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 4:38 pm
The New Yorker has some of the most insightful articles ever published. I've been reading them for close to 2 decades now and except for that crazy Tina Brown episode (that nonetheless gave me my favourite movie critic in Anthony Lane and made Roseanne Barr editor for a week), I still find them exce... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 1:50 pm
One hell of a bright, articulate and funny guy explains just how most Blacks feel about the Confederate flag, history month and what's-not...
Lying by omission is sill lying, and like a coward at that...
Bob McDonnell, take note...
Elie MystalThe Black Side
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Apr 8, 2010, 5:07 pm
From Vanity Fair website comes a unbelievable story:
After bad peanuts, bad lilliputian seats and bad manners from a jaded workforce,
some airlines would like you to pay to go pee.
And Ryanair is actually beginning charging you as of right now.....
Scandal Ryanair Goes Fort... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 1:37 pm
From NewsOne website.
Cop Pleads Guilty To Covering Up Katrina Killings
By Casey Gane-McCalla April 8, 2010 10:36 amNEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer told federal authorities he saw a fellow officer shoot and kick unarmed, wounded civilians in a deadly incident on a bri... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 11:16 am
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 -- 12:08 pm
When conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles released tapes last fall purporting to show ACORN employees advising them on how to set up a child prostitution ring, it resulted in widespread praise for ... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 10:59 am
'Small government, helping the little man, bla bla bla...
Or do we bankrupt the nation so that they have no choice but to privatise EVERYTHING !
And leave the poor and ugly to rot as a bonus! Perfect plan, boys!'
- Republican Idealist
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Apr 7, 2010, 2:37 am
I might have been the only one, I know.
But I did not like the movie The Hurt Locker.
No doubt Kathryn Bigelow is a great director that have matured since Point Break.
No doubt either that the ensemble cast was perfectly chosen. Young, earnest, brazen, adorable fools with gumption... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 6:57 pm
Yes, it was kitchy.
Yes, it was soapy.
Yes, I was too young to watch and I watched anyway. Hey, I watched Shogun and this was even nuttier than that.
Yes, I'm ashamed to admit it: I was only 13 and the TV mini serie The Thorn Bird made me realized that what I was taught to be a congr... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 5:34 pm
We all know some wanted the Bell Curve to be definitive proof that the White Guys had it All: Intelligence, Looks, Perfect Blond locks of hair that can Move in the Wind (the last detail more important than you'll ever know...).
But one very crazy irony of being a right wing bigot, is that m... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 3:54 pm
.... and why we need financial reform ?
Love the toys and their slick, organic design. Hate to think Bernie and friends probably have 2 or 3 already pre-paid by you and the other suckers of Main Street.
Somebody compared them to Douglas Adam's Heart of Gold on water !
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Mar 26, 2010, 4:13 pm
I rediscovered the CBC. They wake me up every morning now and I'm liking it more and more.
I also savor every day the irony that if I want to get a good mix of alternative rock, classic and old decades standards - including jazz and blues - music, I can only count on my national... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2010, 10:06 pm
When the action is all psychological and the bad guys have won, what happen to Martin Scorsese' s camera?I respect Scorsese and love most of his films, I'm generally surprised by Leonardo DiCaprio and his passionate acting slowly grows on me with each successive performance. Beca... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2010, 9:55 am
As you can see: there is a problem. It is huge and not just, as those pics suggest, in 'under' developed countries.
Europe and the States have their own 'over' developed, 'over' polluted water bay to think about.
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Mar 25, 2010, 9:32 am
Ellen Brown: Public State Banks Gaining Support - Time to Bypass Wall Street by: Gary A March 21, 2010 |
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Mar 23, 2010, 2:33 pm
...No. Of course not.
That would be such a bad pun, I would blush...
But here it is.
And here they are. Pictures to make you think about more important stuff than bad puns.
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Mar 22, 2010, 9:22 am
Well, being in Greedland, one have to align oneself to the level of the Greed people and talk a language they will understand.
To get their attention, words like Democracy, Freedom and Respect can't translate well since they mean an entirely new thing in Greed speech as we can see whe... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2010, 11:46 am
Bob Herbert is gentility and lucidity incarnated.
I always wonder tough how he can stay that way in all circumstances. After all he sees and understands....
Where's do the outrage go? But he does inspire a lot of us to take in the damages done and take notice of where we're heading... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 9:56 pm
I hope that John Cory will forgive me if I try to share his outrage and hunger for justice. We must stop the insanity: it must be done before irreparable damage is done to this country and it becomes ungovernable by normal citizens. We are seeing a wonderfully orchestr... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 5:43 pm
...with this bed! Lomme new concept bed with light therapy, alarm clock, choice of colour cocoon, surround sound, massage therapy mattress.... really. Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 4:28 pm
Omnomicon can also show you how to bake a mean Rainbow cake. But I just crave this ridiculously cool red sofa... Comment - Like
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