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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
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Event |
| 2:47a |
icon post animals, Ninja Turtles, Get Fuzzy, Avatar, comics/toons, misc. anime, misc., dark, slash/fetish ( icons ) | | 3:14a |
What the FUCK? The Nursery Rhyme PoliceParents could be forced to go to special classes to learn to sing their children nursery rhymes, a minister said. Those who fail to read stories or sing to their youngsters threaten their children's future and the state must put them right, Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said.
For the first time, parenting orders are likely to be directed against parents whose children have committed no criminal offence.
Mrs Hughes condemned the way governments before 1997 thought they had no role in the upbringing of children, which it 'regarded as the entirely private arrangements families make.' ( full text )Yes, there really is a missing part of a sentence in there, and what looked like a couple grammatical errors. | | 5:35a |
the height rule and ninjas and holy crap! Okay, so while Leonardo is the leader and hardly a pushover, I tend to like him on the bottom of a relationship. Don't matter with who. Raph, Usagi, they just seem more confident while Leo seems more self-doubting. Now we all know that the turtles have different skin colors. Don's olive, Raph's emerald, Mike's green-yellow and Leo's more forest. Hence why I don't think they're related. But there was one difference I never picked up on. And in my defense, when I was reading these the first time, I wasn't reading with my slash fangirl glasses on. And then later in every other incarnation, they were drawn at equal height, perhaps to make them easier for the animators to draw. But look at one of the early comics! ( Leo's the shortest one! )Shorter than Don! A whole head shorter than Raphael! (I ain't positive about Mike 'cause he ain't in this pic but check out the next one.) ( the very first group shot )I think it's fair to extrapolate that Mike's at least a little taller than Leo. Now I don't wanna hear any compensation jokes. A thinner, more compact body would be better for a ninja, I would imagine, since it makes spying or infiltration easier. Arnold Schwarzenegger can't fit through vents, but Jackie Chan can. ^^ Everything was equaled out after not very long and I've never heard anyone bring this up before. But maybe in my slashy glee I was subconsciously picking up on the old height-rule. | | 7:21p |
| | 7:23p |
still hiding Danish cartoonists laying low after Muslim uproarIt has been a time of fear and anxiety for the Danish cartoonists whose caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad a year ago caused an uproar in much of the Islamic world, according to the newspaper editor who commissioned the project.
"The cartoonists had to go into hiding and not appear in public," said Flemming Rose, culture editor of Jyllands-Posten.
"They have been under heavy criticism both from inside the country and outside the country," Rose said, speaking to a luncheon at the Nixon Center, a policy research group.
Rose said he has fared better than the cartoonists even though he was the one who came up with the idea.
"It is true that I have received threats," he said. "I have had a dialogue with the Danish police. I have had to change something in my daily routines in Denmark and have had to involve the police in doing certain things."
But, he added, "It has not changed my life." | | 7:38p |
Islamic fundamentalists, left-wing intellectuals and neo-Nazis British MP warns Europe of 'new anti-Semitism'BERLIN - A "witches brew" of Islamic fundamentalists, left-wing intellectuals and neo-Nazis is causing a new resurgence of anti-Semitism to spread across Western Europe and must be tackled, one of the continent's leading experts on the subject has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.
"You have a witches' brew. You have the rise of ideological Islamism across Europe which is openly anti-Semitic and subscribes to the appalling statements by the president of Iran that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth. Islamist ideological politics are rising in a coherent and organized way - Web sites, meetings, articles and preaching - which demonizes Jews," he explained.
"Then you get the 'soft' anti-Semitism that you get from Muslim intellectuals - these are often religious. The Muslim Brotherhood, who say that there is a Zionist or Jewish control over the media and politics - whereas just in the 1930s you heard talk of the Jewish conspiracy, today you hear talk about the Jewish Lobby.
"And there is also traditional hard right-wing anti-Semitism," he continued. "Don't forget that in Austria, the far-right got 50 percent of the vote, and in France they knocked off the socialist candidate at the last presidential election, and in England the British National Party is now the second party in quite a number of working class constituencies.
"Then you have the Left, and it's not just the far-left but the legitimate Left's hatred of Israel - this kind of distorted association of Israel and America as the twin demons that have caused all the world's problems, and associate the 'Jewish influence' with all of this. ( full text ) | | 10:29p |
into the breech
Farewell, my friends, for I must now begin a most perilous journey from which I know not if I may return. My path is irrevocably set, and though the trail is clear, I already know what confusion lies ahead for me.
I've been on LJ for around five years, and now I am off...to tag every freakin' entry.
If I'm not back in five minutes, call the president. |
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