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Ed Sheeran Really Wants to Write a Song for Britney Spears?
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Karen Handel, bound for the GOP gubernatorial runoff after finishing first in the primary last night, picked up another big endorsement today. CNN reports:
A day after advancing to Georgia's Republican gubernatorial runoff as the favorite to win the nomination, Karen Handel picked up the support of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, CNN has learned.
"A successful businesswoman and public servant, Karen Handel's blend of executive, political, and business experience is just what Georgia needs at this critical time," Romney said in a statement Wednesday. "The leadership skills that she has honed in both the private and public sectors will enable her to make tough decisions and enact the reforms needed to get the economy back on track and foster job creation."
Handel and Rep. Nathan Deal emerged from a four-way primary battle and will now face off in the Aug. 10 runoff. Handel was boosted in the primary by endorsements from Sarah Palin and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. Deal is backed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who represented Georgia's sixth congressional district for two decades.
Romney stayed out of the primary, an aide said, because one of the candidates, state Sen. Eric Johnson, had backed Romney during his 2008 presidential bid.
But Romney has been generous with his money in the Peach State this year. His Free and Strong America political action committee has contributed $39,000 to an eye-popping 42 candidates up and down the Georgia ballot so far in 2010, including Sen. Johnny Isakson and Reps. Phil Gingrey, Lynn Westmoreland, Jack Kingston and Tom Price.
Romney's PAC donated to $1,000 to Handel's campaign on Tuesday.
The eventual GOP nominee will face former Gov. Roy Barnes in the general election.
That makes three big out-of-state endorsements for Handel, who also has Price's support. Deal counters with Newt Gingrich, and from what I hear he can expect Eric Johnson to take his side soon as well. I would also expect a lot of state legislators, who haven't hidden their disdain for Handel's broad-brush attacks on their integrity, also to back Deal.
This thing is going to be interesting.
July 21st, 2010
1:52 pm
What no comment from the repubs? No one for them to hate in this post
July 21st, 2010
2:05 pm
I'll take the GA Insiders versus the Outsiders on any day. At least they know what is going on inside of this state.
July 21st, 2010
2:40 pm
I'm glad Romney is donating money and time to help elect Georgia Republicans! I've been leaning towards Palin, but Romney seems like a smart guy. I think I'm going to go with him in 2012.
July 21st, 2010
2:57 pm
July 21st, 2010
2:05 pm
Are you refering to Fanily Values Newt? He lives in NYC..
July 21st, 2010
3:04 pm
Interesting: Gingrich….an opportunist that no one likes…..
Palin…an opportunist that is taking advantage…
Romney..an opportunist that wrote the blueprint for HCR
…and none of them represent a new idea for me…another re-hash of the SOS (same ol' s#!t!). There HAS to be someone better than this!!
July 21st, 2010
3:14 pm
I'm sure I'll be getting more phone calls from Robo-Palin and Robo-Gingrich in the next couple weeks…
July 21st, 2010
3:19 pm
John Monds for governor. .there's your someone better.
July 21st, 2010
3:54 pm
All these northerners (and defectors) dabblin' in our affairs…
July 21st, 2010
4:09 pm
Newt Gingrich is a dishonorable man who cheated on his dying wife, and rolled over for Bill Clinton when he was Speaker of the House. He is a disgrace. Karen Handel, with the endorsement of Gov. Sarah Palin, offers a new day in Georgia politics. Let's support her, and help her defeat "King Roy" Barnes.
July 21st, 2010
4:10 pm
This is good. Barnes will look above all this national partisan nonsense and focus on actually pulling Georgia's economic future out of the ditch that 8 years of Republican leadership drove it into.
July 21st, 2010
4:41 pm
All Barnes is going to do is raise Georgians taxes, putting Georgia's economic future futher into the ditch. He has already said he would …
July 21st, 2010
4:52 pm
There's two on Romney's list of recipients that I wouldn't support as dog-catcher.
How many times am I gonna have to rethink this? I keep telling myself, I've got until November, November, No
July 21st, 2010
4:56 pm
I don't recall the last time I even cared who endorsed whom. I'll pick my own horses, thank you.
July 21st, 2010
4:56 pm
Palin told Handel she could bailout of the job if she thought she could make more money somewhere else.
July 21st, 2010
5:14 pm
July 21st, 2010
3:04 pm
Interesting: Gingrich….an opportunist that no one likes…..
Palin…an opportunist that is taking advantage…
Romney..an opportunist that wrote the blueprint for HCR
…and none of them represent a new idea for me…another re-hash of the SOS (same ol' s#!t!). There HAS to be someone better than this!!
Expand your horizon a little & read Newt's book "To Renew America." The problem with you, HDB, is you don't like anybody that's not "fair."
July 21st, 2010
5:56 pm
"This thing is going to be interesting."
So let's get this straight. Newty cheats on his wife, tries to impeach Clinton, endorses Scozafava in NY and now Deal.
Palin runs a large state successfully, had an 80% approval rating, is a hard core conservative, took on oil companies, and backs conservatives.
Yep, I'll go with Palin any day.
July 21st, 2010
5:57 pm
Not that it matters, but who cares? It's not like you'd vote Republican anyway.
July 21st, 2010
5:58 pm
No More Progressives!
I've said the same thing about HDB for a long time. He's a leftist and he should stay with the leftist party.
July 21st, 2010
5:58 pm
"Barnes will look above all this national partisan nonsense and focus on actually pulling Georgia's economic future out of the ditch that 8 years of Republican leadership drove it into."
What ditch? Compared to democrat states like Illinois, Michigan and NY, GA is doing very well.
July 21st, 2010
6:04 pm
I used to get phone calls from Newt's "take back America" group. I actually talked to some lady who sounded like a chain smoker. She asked me to donate $500 to Newt's cause. When I stopped laughing hard she asked me why I was laughing and I told her I don't donate money to RINO's. After I explained to her why I was not going to donate she said that she had no idea Newt had donated his support to Scozafava. I then said, well, you need to do some research before you call people up asking for money.
Gotta love uninformed people.
July 21st, 2010
7:14 pm
losing candidates can usually deliver about 50% of their vote to the person they endorse. even
presidents have little effect on state and local elections. barnes is history. looks like georgia will have a woman governor.
July 22nd, 2010
12:17 am
As soon as Romney can admit that RomneyCare is a disaster I'll begin to respect him. Not much of a pickup endorsement for Handel in my eyes. I like Handel, but I hope she doesn't think RomneyCare is the way to go.
As far as 2012 – Mitch Daniels for President! Read about his success in Indiana – he is the leadership America needs to dig us out of of the Democrat Debt / Regulation Mess.
July 23rd, 2010
1:29 am
I am disappointed in Newt, I thought he knew better than to endorse the horse that most watchdog groups consider one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington. I agree we do not need the outsider bringing his big city bad habits back to Georgia. We also do not need to bring back the old gov. who had his own ideas about how to trash Georgias public lands as the current one seems to carry on his tradition. Has anyone driven the Richard B Russell Parkway lately? (Georgias version of the Blue Ridge Parkway) It is trashed and shameful, we need a govenor who will put at least some effort into protecting this states resources and not a fish pond in their own backyard.
July 24th, 2010
12:06 pm
[...] been facing off in Georgia Republican Primary for Governor. Mitt Romney has waded in as well, backing Palin's choice. If Palin's choice prevails we might see Newt again become the nominee [...]
July 25th, 2010
10:27 pm
We all should remember "King Roy". If you go there you will be sorry!! Newt is the smartest man probably in the last 50 years. If we could only be that lucky to have him for our leader.

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Oklahoma City–Marvin won't join the team on this West trip and instead will remain in Atlanta to rehab his back injury. L.D. said an MRI showed no further damage so the diagnosis remains a bruise.
"Hopefully after we get off this week road trip he will be back and be ready to play," Drew said.
Add these four games for Marvin and that brings Atlanta's total to 50 games missed because of injury/illness after 38 games. That number was 25 for 82 games last season.
The Hawks will use the Twin lineup tonight.It's their most efficient defensive lineup and has the best plus-minus differential but tonight the alignment means Smoove draws Durant. There may not be another guy in the league who is a tougher test for Small Forward Josh.
"But there are probably going to end up being three or four different guys guarding [Durant]," L.D. said. "We have to give him different looks because he gets a lot of touches and he's a tough guard. We will have to change some defenses in trying to limit
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Scientists find 4-pound goldfish in Lake Tahoe
LiveScience: Scientists searching Lake Tahoe for invasive fish species ended up finding an unusually large goldfish.
The fish, weighing in at 4.2 pounds and measuring nearly 1.5 ft. long, was likely dumped in the lake by an aquarium owner. The fish is one of about 15 found in a certain part of Lake Tahoe.
Scientists are concerned as goldfish are considered an invasive species that could wreak havoc on Lake Tahoe's ecosystem.
Photo: Handout / Reuters
Pfffft xD
it's like that episode of drake and josh
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Steve Fullhart and Shel Winkley Talk Movie Snack Smuggling
Posting these segments because it may be the hardest I've laughed on the show in a while. Every Monday the crew from Brazos Valley This Morning come hang for the 9am hour. Today we decided to talk about something that apparently we all (except Steve) do. 70-80% of people admit to regularly sneaking snacks into movie theatres. Most of us smuggle in the usual stuff (Candy, light snacks, drinks). Shel and I however go big. Full meals. Burritos, Sandwiches, Taco Bell. I'm a big fan of sneaking in "Adult Capri Suns" aka Target Wine Single Serve packets (best idea EVER!!!).
Some of the things you guys have snuck in though took the cake. Enjoy:
Thanks to the guys for coming in today. Had a blast! Also, remember to watch us on KBTX Monday's at 6:20 for The Buzz. Here's a link to today's segment. I accidently hit the wrong button so the whole thing played on Candy 95 too. Oops. Watch the video to see the look of shame and dissapointment cross my face when Chace let me know about it. The ensuing panic made me hit another button which I'm pretty sure caused the awkward silence near the end of the segment too.
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David Hagen's Carrot Ride featured in today's Express
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Thanks for mentioning it, Mike!
I thought the caption was priceless!
"David Hagen's Carrot Ride is part of an Artomatic exhibit at Reagan National Airport...You don't need a ticket to attend the exhibition...which features a large painting of a bunny riding a carrot. Sure, there are other works, but this is a bunny! Riding a carrot! Look at his little bunny face. We're sure the other art is nice, but there's probably only one piece that features a bunny riding a carrot. And what is art? Art is a bunny. Riding a carrot."
I think I might have to make up t-shirts, "Art is a bunny. Riding a carrot."


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Peel the parsnips like carrots and trim off the tips. Cut into equal-size pieces. Place in a medium saucepan and cover with milk. Add a pinch or two of salt.
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By A. Catherine Noon On Jul 11 2012, 12:00 am
As summer progresses, the heat wave sweeping many parts of the world reminds us that summer isn't always the gentle visitor that some poets would have us believe. Kids home for the summer present unique challenges to households that are bereft of school-year routine. As we zoom from event to event and struggle to stay cool, (or, if you're in the southern hemisphere, deal with winter), let's take a moment to pause and play with the way we see our surroundings.
Get a piece of paper and either crayons, pens, or pencils. The more festive you make it, the more fun you'll have – and you can involve children, if you're a parent. Draw a rectangle. Now look around the room you're sitting in, or the backyard or park, wherever you happen to be. Draw an X where you're sitting, and draw what you're sitting on (blanket, couch, chair, etc.). Proceed to the left and around the rectangle, drawing in little squares, circles, and rectangles to represent the furniture or trees or barbecue pit around you. Go around the rectangle in a counter-clockwise direction. Once you finish, compare your drawing to the space and add anything you missed…
Voila! You now have a map of your room, a physical, tangible representation of physical reality. You can do this with your neighborhood, the route to school, your entire house and property, etc. If you have children at home, have them draw the neighborhood and include things like fire plugs and handicapped parking spaces.
This can be a fun learning exercise, as we get better at understanding spacial relationships. If you are a writer, they're even more valuable, because they help you understand physical space and how to portray it. Rather than having a living room with a brown rug, you have an overstuffed but itchy couch and a table with a tape mar from when the three-year-old put the tape on it while wrapping holiday gifts. You can even do this with imaginary places, such as a fantasy world. Imagine a throne room. Imagine sitting in the throne – what would you see from there? Other furniture, or just a place for penitents to kneel and entreat the throne? What about a café? A restaurant? An airplane? A ship?
You can draw almost anything, even if you can draw no more than stick figures. Start with rectangles, circles, and triangles. Don't worry whether it's to scale. Just try to fit things into the outline of the space and be willing to draw badly. Being DaVinci isn't the point; having a representative schematic is what's useful here.
And remember – have fun with it. Make it a team exercise, parents against kids or have a barbecue and have everyone draw their own livings rooms. You can also have folks draw imaginary spaces such as a spaceship bridge, submarine village, or other unusual place.
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Thanks for sharing this creative exercise!
I really think having maps or blueprints for places in your stories help the writing process. Not only does it make it more real, but prevents slip ups that readers might catch. I'll even find photos for the character's house and rooms as well so I can viusalize them during a scene.
I think they're fun !
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Me: runs to cinema 11
Chris: wow how did you get here so fast?
Me: well i wanted to see the ending credits.
Chris: so you cleaned cinema 13 by yourself - in 1 minute?
Me: yeah
Nicolas: that's cool!
Me: I know. And at night i'm working under the name catwoman. Just fyi.
Sonja: thought you like Harely Quinn?
Me: Didn't say i'm not Harley,TOO. You can never have enough identities, can you?
Chris: i wanna be Spiderman!
We are all grown up. I love it.
…and I hope everyone still enjoys this little blog of mine!
I'm working in a cinema and this weekend will be busy so I might not be around as much as I normally am. However, you can expect some more Cillian Murphy, Emily Browning, Marion Cottilard and Joker/Harely within the next 2 days.
I finally watched Inception today (it was only released in Germany yesterday - lame, I know) and I liked but well, you know, I wasn't overwhelmed or anything. It was pretty good but no *revelation*.
That's kinda sad because I ONLY heard good things about it (and you guys really blog SO much about it!) and thus my expectations got higher and higher (though I knew that's never good and so I tried to slow down lol). I would have loved to see more of the 'dream worlds' and would have welcomed more emotion and drama and less action because it gets kinda exhausting after 2 hours LMAO.
I think that there was much more to tell about Cobb, too. Nolan often creates such interesting characters but he rarely taps the full potential (aside from the Joker, who was like the essence of The Dark Knight but that's another story).
Sorry, I got carried away, I just take movies so seriously, lol
Anyways, I loved the cast except for Ellen Page, she was kinda pale here.
CILLIAN MURPHY OWNS MY HEART, he was SO pretty here, oh my gosh!
And Leo, Joseph, Tom = MAJOR LOVE.
Alright, that's it for now. I'd welcome answers with your opinion about Inception or tell me if you want to see it if you haven't seen it yet.
Love & Light
Rushing and racing and running in circles
Moving so fast and forgetting my purpose
Blur of the traffic is sending me spinning - getting nowhere
My head and my heart are colliding - chaotic
Pace of the world - I just wish I could stop it
Try to appear like I've got it together - I'm falling apart
Save me, somebody take my hand and
Lead me, slow me down
Don't let love pass me by just show me how
'Cause I'm ready to fall, slow me down
Don't let me live a lie before my life flies by
I need you to slow me down
Sometimes I fear that I might disappear
In the blur of fast-foward, I falter again
Forgetting to breathe, I need to sleep - getting nowhere
All that I've missed I see in the reflection
Passed me while I wasn't paying attention
Tired of rushing, racing and running - I'm falling apart
Tell me, oh won't you take my hand and
Lead me, slow me down
Don't let love pass me by just show me how
'Cause I'm ready to fall, slow me down
Don't let me live a lie before my life flies by
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The noise of the world is getting me caught up
Chasing the clock and I wish I could stop it
Just need to breathe, somebody please
Slow me down
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Is this the Mandela?
by Brent Burgoyne
It is inevitable that on some day in the future, we will receive word of Nelson Mandela's passing.
It is inconceivable that we will not remember where we were, and what we were doing when we heard the news. His parting from us will be, of necessity, a sad one, and there will be completely predictable outpourings of grief from everywhere in our country, and from around the world.
How we are impacted by events of every kind depends completely on the stories we tell ourselves about these events. What stories will we tell ourselves about the passing of Madiba? Will our stories and conversations be paeans of possibility, or hand-wringing dirges of the downward spiral that have the potential to consume so much of our national bandwidth?
The 14th Dalai Lama, who is acknowledged by many as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, has been a spiritual teacher to many and a force for good for most of his life. The Tibetan Buddhists take a very conscious approach to ensuring that they are well led. The thread of spiritual leadership provided by the Dalia Lamas has been around for about six hundred years. It is a tradition of stable, authentic and ethical leadership which is now almost taken for granted. And in the death of a Dalai Lama is to be found new possibilities – the temporary releasing of that role, to be taken up anew by a reincarnation of the deceased. And thus the thread of spiritual leadership continues.
In the inevitable passing of Mandela, we need to look for beginnings of something, perhaps a closing of the loop, even a returning to the place we have been before and knowing it for the first time. What we look for, we can, and will, find.
What if, instead of us thinking of the passing of Mandela as an end, we saw it as a beginning? What if we thought of there being a possibility that the universe might not give us just one Mandela, but many?
What if we thought that in the coming generations yet unborn, there might be more leaders of such stature?
Every mother, cradling a new-born baby, would give her or him especial care. At night she would rock her infant to sleep, and look upon the sleepyhead and ask, "Is this the Mandela?"
A father, tempted to devote himself too completely to a high-powered career, or to stray from the family fold, may be constrained by the thought of the responsibility and high calling to be a father to such a child. Watching his child learn to ride a bike under his tutelage on a suburban street, he would observe the wobbling five-year old, have even deeper feelings of tenderness, and ask, "Is this the Mandela?"
Every school teacher and sports coach, every church or spiritual teacher, would look at every child in their care as precious individuals of huge potential, and would give attention with increased focus to nurturing and teaching and developing these nascent leaders, asking all the while, "Is this the Mandela?"
Every political leader, observing a talented young graduate joining their organisation, would be on their best behaviour, realising the high responsibility of modelling ethical behaviour for the emerging class of young leaders and would look at this young man or woman and ask, "Is this the Mandela?"
I don't for a moment believe that South Africa is a play with a lousy third act. Viewed through the lens of possibility (which is a positive and realistic, rather than tragic view of the world) it seems that we could have the experience of coming cohorts of authentic leaders who have been raised whole - or nearly so. They will not have to memorise some palindrome of 46664. They will not carry the overt scars of apartheid. Their existence will depend on only one thing. The story we tell ourselves.
We are not naïve. We know that the life of the next Mandela is not without risks: The infant Christ had his Herod and the adult Ghandi his assassin. Martin Luther King has his James Earl Ray. Nelson Mandela faced an entire system of illegally legislated harassment, maltreatment and discrimination - and gave his entire adult life for his truth.
On the face of it, our country is riven by race, and so many of the current cadre of those who hold public office sate themselves at the public trough. Service delivery continues to be appalling. It would be easy to make the telling of these stories our idée fixe. And on top of that the passing of Mandela could be regarded as yet another tragic story.
But there is another story. It's a story we could tell ourselves that could be both mythical and true: There can be another Mandela, and another, and many more.
All hail, the next Mandela!


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President delays meeting with Members of Congress on immigration reform
June 15, 2009 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
President Obama was expected to meet with Members of Congress to begin the discussion about comprehensive immigration reform on June 17th. The President has postponed that meeting. The postponement is a disappointment, given the momentum that has been building for immigration reform, and given the expressions of readiness by key members of Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who last week in this article put immigration reform in the top three major issues Congress must do this year, along with health care and energy/global warming. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who Chairs the Immigration Subcommittee in the House, reacted to the delay (this is the second postponement), by saying that the President "has to do more than say, 'I'm for it.' It's essential for him to put some personal effort into this."
More on reaction to the postponement of the White House meeting can be read on this blog post.
Update on Appropriations bills
June 15, 2009 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
On June 12th, the House Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security for the government's Fiscal Year 2010. Related to immigration, the bill funds:
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement at $5.4 billion ($30 million below the President's request and $439 above the Fiscal 2009 allocation. Included in the total is $200 million for Secure Communities; $1.5 billion for identifying dangerous criminals and prioritizing these individuals for removal; and $74 million for alternatives to detention ($10 million above the administration's request).
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at $248 million (not including receipts and expenditures from the Immigration Fee Account, which accounts for most of the USCIS budget). This is $116 million below the administration's request, and $110 million above the 2009 level. $100 million was allocated for refugee and asylum applications for which there is currently no charge and which are currently paid for by surcharges to the fees of other applications. (The administration asked for $206 million.) Military naturalization costs will be paid for by the Department of Defense. $112 million was allocated to operate and improve E-Verify. $11 million was allocated to expand immigrant integration and outreach to new Americans (the administration asked for $10 million).
- Customs and Border Protection at $10 billion ($82 million below the administration request and $147 million above the 2009 level). Among other things, this allocation includes: $692 million for Southwest Border investments for Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology ($24.5 million less than requested); $3.5 billion for 20,019 Border Patrol agents, (including 44 new agents) of whom over 17,000 will be based on the Southwest Border.
Both CBP and ICE will receive tens of millions of dollars related to drug interdiction efforts, including efforts to intercept south-bound gun runners.
A summary of the Committee-passed Homeland Security appropriations bill can be found here:
The House Appropriations Committee has also approved the Fiscal Year 2010 budget for Commerce, Justice and Science. In the Department of Justice, that bill includes $1.5 billion for law enforcement along the Southwest border. A summary of that bill can be found here:
Reuniting Families Act introduced
June 15, 2009 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
On May 20, the Reuniting Families Act, S. 1085, was introduced by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), along with Senators Gillibrand (D-NY), Kennedy (D-MA), and Schumer (D-NY). The purpose of the bill is to update the family-based immigration system, which has not been updated in 20 years. In those 20 years, demand for visas in many categories has so out-paced the number of visas available, that some family members have to wait years or decades to enter the U.S.
Among other provisions, this bill would re-classify the spouses and children of legal permanent residents so they would be treated the same as "immediate relatives" of U.S. citizens (for which there is no wait for a visa). It increases the percentage limit for the admission of immigrants from any one country (from 7 to 10 percent). The bill would also allow the continuation of a petition for immigration status for an immigrant spouse or child even if the U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident petitioner dies before the immigrant visa is granted to the spouse or child. In addition, the bill would waive certain bars to admission, and it would "re-capture" visas that should have been allocated to family members in past years but for processing delays that caused the opportunity for a visa to expire.
The bill text can be found on line here:
A summary of the bill, provided by the Asian American Justice Center, can be found here:
A similar bill, H.R. 2709, was introduced in the House by Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA) and 55 co-sponsors. In addition to the provisions included in the Senate bill, this bill includes provisions to allow permanent partners to gain immigrant visas.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Assessing the impact of immigration on the unemployment rate
June 09, 2009 - Posted by Mario Moreno
Today, the editorial writers at the Des Moines Register tackle the age old question: Do immigrants take jobs away from native-born workers?
This question has been posed time and time again— particularly during tough economic times —but, as the Iowa flagship newspaper points out, the perception does not match the facts.
It has perhaps seemed logical to assume that the willingness of many foreigners - particularly those here illegally - to work for low pay takes jobs away from Americans. But it turns out that having a large number of recent immigrants in a location doesn't necessarily correlate with a lot of native-born workers being unemployed, based on an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
One of many examples in the report: Recent immigrants make up 8.4 percent of the population in the Pacific region (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii), but just 2.8 percent of the population in the East North Central region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin). Yet, the regions had similar unemployment rates of 10.8 percent in the Pacific region and 10 percent in the East North Central region as of March 2009.
Another example: In New Jersey, recent immigrants account for 7.3 percent of the population, but in Maine they are just 0.8 percent. Nonetheless, the states' March unemployment rates respectively were 8.3 and 8.l percent.
—Don't Let Fear Distort Immigration Policy, Jun
By the way, the report quoted in this piece was done by the Immigration Policy Center and it is titled Untying the Knot. The report analyzes data from the Census Bureau and finds that there is no clear relationship between the number of recent immigrants in a particular locale and the unemployment rate among native-born whites, blacks, Latinos, or Asians in that locale.
Restrictionists will continue to scream "they're taking our jobs" and they will continue to oppose any proposal that offers a solution-based approach to our immigration troubles. But these perceptions are debunked by leading economists like Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and economic studies that highlight the important role of immigration in our economic growth.
Instead of following our worst instincts, we need to live up to our values and arm ourselves with the truth. Comprehensive immigration reform will get all workers into the system; regularized and protected by labor laws. Reform will level the playing field, improve the wages and working conditions for all workers and it will increase the tax revenues for all levels of government.
Extra! Extra! From Coast to Coast, Campaign Sparks Movement for Immigration Reform
June 04, 2009 - Posted by Mario Moreno
Hundreds of grassroots advocates from coast to coast are gathering together in Washington, D.C. this week to unite forces and launch the Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign. The Campaign calls for an American solution to an American problem by reforming our immigration system to a system that upholds our values, restores the rule of law, and responds effectively to the economy and labor markets.
The Campaign kicked off on Monday with over 40 local launch events all across the country. From New York to Seattle, to Nashville and Omaha, advocates had a clear message to the country: The time is now to reform our immigration system, for families, for workers, for the economy and for security. Here are a few highlights of these local launch events, for a more comprehensive list of news coverage visit: http://www.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/blog/press/
§ Atlanta, GA: Associated Press
Representatives from labor, faith, business and immigrants' rights groups gathered Monday outside the Capitol to launch the Georgia arm of the national Reform Immigration FOR America campaign.
``This is for us to start rallying and for us to start getting the debate going in local cities and communities before members of Congress from both parties start meeting next week to discuss immigration reform,'' said state Rep. Pedro Marin, a Duluth Democrat who is one of few Hispanic state legislators.
—Activists Seek Immigration Reform, June 1, 2009
§ Las Vegas, NV: Las Vegas Sun
Supporters of immigration reform gathered on the steps of the Lloyd George Federal Building on Monday for the Nevada launch of a national campaign to reform American immigration law…
"What we need to do is put parties aside, put political philosophy and differences aside and really sit down and identify the issues that are out there and come up with common-sense solutions," said Alex Garza, a businessman and member of the Latin Chamber of Commerce.
—Immigration Advocates rally for system Overhaul, June 1, 2009
§ New Bedford, Massachusetts: South Coast Today
New England immigrant advocates are launching a second campaign for comprehensive reform, vowing the time is ripe for the federal government to enact measures that failed to pass Congress two years ago.
"It is different this time," said Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. With a new president, a "more progressive" Congress and a "broader, stronger and more unified" coalition of immigration reform advocates, the stage is set for reform that will create a path to citizenship for the country's estimated 12 million undocumented workers, Millona said.
—Advocates push for Immigration Reform, June 2, 2009
On Wednesday, a press conference inaugurated the 3-day national summit with the participation of almost 800 grassroots advocates representing more than 35 states. The conference featured a diverse array of leaders from civil rights, labor groups, business, progressive organizations, faith groups and immigrant and ethnic rights groups.
You can view a full video of the press conference here.
Here are some snippets from the conference:
§ New America Media
The Reform Immigration FOR America campaign announced its plan to garner enough votes to pass what it says are needed changes in U.S. immigration policy.
"Two hundred seventy nine votes, 218 in the House; 60 in the Senate," said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Reform, referring to the number of votes needed to send legislation to the desk of President Barack Obama. Obama's signature, in effect, would be the 279th vote, and should the vision of the coalition hold sway, the legislation would introduce dramatic changes in U.S. immigration policy.
Key concerns include family reunification, the harshness of enforcement raids, border security, and effective means to address undocumented workers. There are an estimated 12 million immigrants in the country.
—Coalition bows to press Congress and Obama for Immigration Reform, June 4, 2009
§ New York Daily News
The group's leaders described "a new political reality" made up of "a united labor movement and a President committed to comprehensive reform," as well as unprecedented voter mobilization and turnout in immigrant communities last November.
The also point to polls showing support for reform from at least 60% of American people, and the practical impossibility of deporting 12,000,000 people.
—Finally, a National Push for immigration reform, June 4, 2009
§ National Journal
They said Obama promised as a presidential candidate to advance immigration reform legislation this year -- and they are holding him to that pledge.
"From the Latino community's perspective, a promise is a promise," Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, said during a news conference to kick off a national campaign for immigration reform.
The coalition, which includes labor, immigrant and religious groups, expects comprehensive immigration reform legislation to be introduced in Congress this fall and enacted by February, said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum.
—Latino groups vow to keep pressure on immigration, June 4, 2009
There's growing momentum for moving forward on comprehensive immigration reform this year. Strong support from new and diverse allies who are joining the battle for immigration reform and a new campaign to lift the voices of those who want a solutions-based approach to our immigration problems will help support President Obama and ensure that his promise to push for comprehensive immigration reform become legislative reality.
The Campaign to Reform Immigration FOR America is Underway
June 04, 2009 - Posted by Ali Noorani
On June 1st, the Campaign to Reform Immigration FOR America launched in 44 cities and 20 states. Over 220 organizations have endorsed the Campaign so far—labor organizations, businesses, community organizations and faith-based organizations—all committed to helping fix the broken immigration system in a way that restores stability, order, and responsibility.
Today, nearly 800 organizers and leaders from faith, labor, business, and community groups in 41 states continue to meet in Washington in an immigration reform summit. What are they asking for?
They want to replace the chaos of illegal immigration with the control and regulation of an orderly system. They want minimum wage and labor standards to be effectively enforced, families to be reunited, all workers to be legal, and safer communities. They want an end to an era of immigration irresponsibility, an era in which the system has been so broken that rules are widely ignored.
The Campaign to Reform Immigration FOR America is based on three elements:
First of all, America voted for change and for leaders to tackle and solve tough problems. The broken immigration system is a symbol of Washington's inability to face tough problems. The Campaign is part of a resurgent "can-do" American spirit. It's time for leaders to tap in to that spirit and do what a majority of Americans want done—fix our immigration system.
Second, the Campaign has a plan that represents a departure from years of failed attempts to enforce the unenforceable laws of our broken immigration system. The Campaign has a plan that will work in the interests of the American people. It is a plan that will bring our immigration system under control once and for all; establish order at the border; focus law enforcement resources on criminals, not workers and parents; and generate billions in new tax revenues.
Third, and most importantly, fixing our immigration system will help fix our economy. With so many workers vulnerable to economic uncertainty, it is critical that minimum wage and labor standards are effectively enforced; that all workers are able to work legally; that all employers and workers are paying their fair share of taxes; and that bad actor employers who violate laws are targeted for enforcement. Legalizing workers will increase their wages, spending, and tax contributions, which will have benefits across the economy.
The organizers gathered in Washington today represent the core constituencies that will be engaged going forward—faith, labor, community, and business. Organizing these constituencies, along with local elected officials, law enforcement and others will be key to winning the 279 votes we need for comprehensive immigration reform: 218 Representatives, 60 Senators and one President.
By working together, we can end this era of profound immigration irresponsibility.
Photo: Old and new allies joining the battle for immigration reform: Speakers for the June 3rd National Press Club kickoff of the Campaign to Reform Immigration FOR America. Left to Right: Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO; Karen K. Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center; John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress; Janet Murguia, President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR); Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum; Angelica Salas, Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA); Rev. Sam Rodriguez, Jr., President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU, also representing the Change to Win labor federation); Robert J. Dolibois, Executive Vice President of the American Nursery & Landscape Association (representing the Agricultural Coalition for Immigration Reform).


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Police officer Brian Post recognized the 16-year-old girl lying face down in the grass at the Whispering Pines apartment complex in Lynnwood, Washington. He had gotten to know her in recent weeks, helping her obtain a restraining order against her abusive ex-boyfriend. Now, here was Sangeeta Lal, unconscious, with two bullets in her chest.
He knew she was a good kid. Brian had spoken to Sangeeta over the phone just a few hours earlier. He knew her mom worked the early shift, and she would be alone. He promised he would come immediately if anything went wrong.
The call came into 911 at 4:18 a.m. that someone was breaking into her apartment. James McCray, 21, had arrived dressed in dark clothes and a red and black stocking cap, according to police reports. He chased Sangeeta outside. "Please don't," neighbors heard Sangeeta scream, before he shot her.
Brian didn't make it to the complex in time. He found her sprawled just beyond the sliding glass door of her neighbor's apartment. He looked up and saw a little girl peering through a window at the teenager in the grass. He felt Sangeeta's neck. It pulsed, and pulsed again. Then, no more. He touched her face.
"I know who the guy is, and I know where he went," Brian told his partner. As the officers moved in on apartment 265 with weapons drawn, James looked out of the window and killed himself with a single bullet.
It was 1995, and for the next 19 years, Brian would blame himself for not being closer to Whispering Pines, for not saving Sangeeta. Brian was 31 when she was killed, and had been an officer for five years.
"She was in the worst environment, and she was trying," said Brian, now 50. "You never know when you've saved a life, but you know when you've lost one."
Sangeeta's death marked the beginning of a downward spiral in Brian's health, spurred on by a psychologically and physically challenging law enforcement career. Brian had been a healthy and fit ex-airborne infantry soldier when he began his policing career. But he eventually developed hypertension, anxiety, peripheral neuropathy, hearing loss, arthritis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
When he was starting out, Brian says he wasn't warned of how the career could do such damage. In 2012, an unprecedented study of 464 police officers, published in the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health linked officers' stress with increased levels of sleep disorders, Hodgkin's lymphoma, brain cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and suicide.
Other studies have found that between 7 and 19 percent of active duty police have PTSD, while MRIs of police officers' brains have found a connection between experiencing trauma and a reduction in areas that play roles in emotional and cognitive decision-making, memory, fear, and stress regulation.
In squad rooms full of cops, Brian would compare blood pressure meds with his colleagues. Most, if not all, of the police he knew with more than 10 years of service were dealing some kind of medical or psychological issue.
At night, Brian would hide his drinking from his wife. He went from sipping whiskey, to downing cheap 100-proof vodka.
"You see nothing but bodies, I swear, dead people," he said. "Car accidents, hangings, suicides, murders, SIDS deaths." He remembered a diabetic who killed himself by overdosing on chocolate. And then there was the conversation with a tongue-pierced meth user with an enlarged heart who had told Brian, "I'm white trash until the day I die." He assaulted people in a parking lot and died in custody after deputies restrained him. The next day, Brian found himself close to fainting after viewing the autopsy photos of the same kid's esophagus, and pierced tongue.
"I was so angry at this one woman for dying, that I yelled at her," he said. "I just didn't want to see another dead body…I should have recognized at that point, it's time for me to back up."
Years passed, and every once in while, Brian would Google Sangeeta Lal's name. He wondered who else remembered her. He wondered if anyone had memorialized her.
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Every few years, I would Google Sangeeta's name too.
She was my friend, and high school classmate. We were the same age. Like the rest of her friends, I had known about her abusive boyfriend, who was gang affiliated, and how she had broken it off, which only enraged him more.
Sangeeta had the face of a child, round and cheeky, with long wavy black hair that she smoothed down with coconut oil. She usually showed up to school in lipstick the same shade as her nails, and jeans four sizes too big for her 5-foot frame, cuffed at the bottoms and held up with a long belt. Her family had relocated from Fiji to our town 22 minutes north of Seattle.
Our campus sat between a grove of evergreen trees on one side, and a run-down mall on the other. It had all of the makings of a public school caught in the throes of a changing urban city. Gangs had begun infiltrating the area, and with them came the occasional drive-by shooting, drug deal, or murder. My freshman year, murders, robberies, rapes, and assaults jumped by 18.4 percent in our county from the previous year, according to The Seattle Times, and our 29,000-resident city of Lynnwood had the highest crime rate in the county per capita that year—about 110 crimes committed for every 1,000 residents.
Sangeeta's apartment complex was about five minutes away from mine. Police referred to Whispering Pines as "Whispering Crimes," Brian later said. On slow nights, officers would drive through the complex and inevitably find someone breaking the law. Sangeeta's single mother worked an early shift at the Nintendo of America headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Sangeeta was killed on the same day that Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168.
That afternoon, I waited for news of Sangeeta's death to come over the television set. But all channels went back to firefighters and frantic parents in Oklahoma. When the newspaper mentioned the murder-suicide the next day, it printed her age wrong. It said she was in her late teens, or maybe 20. It didn't mention her name at all. So I wrote a front-page story about Sangeeta for The Royal Gazette, our high school newspaper. She was the first person I had known and cared about who died violently, and the first death I ever covered as a journalist.
I would go on to become a national reporter, covering many more shootings, deaths, and high profile news events. Sixteen years after Sangeeta died, I ended up writing about a college class on death. It was in New Jersey, taught by Dr. Norma Bowe, a registered nurse who also held a master's degree in health administration, a Ph.D. in community health policy. I also became a student in her class.
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At the center of the Earth, it is believed that only molten stone exists. However, there are people who have traveled to the center and returned to tell the tale of what they saw, only to be shrugged off by scientists and theorists. What truly lies down there is some sort of being, dressed in elegant clothing, standing watch of an enormous crystal. The crystal pulsates as if it is the heart beat of the planet. Some people say they saw this being attached to the crystal, others say it was just standing there next to it. The crystal's color that these people have seen was always different. Perhaps what they see is a reflection of their being, like a metaphor. The one consistent thing is that the guardian is of flesh with smaller crystals growing from it.
This week, we want you to design the guardian and the crystal he/she is watching over. Think about the use of color and what it means.
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- Can be male or female.
- Crystals MUST be growing from the guardian.
- Research what colors represent, and reflect that into the design and attitude or the guardian.(EX: Red could mean anger, so if the crystal is red, then have the guardian appear angry.)
The Rules
- Finals must be posted in the finals thread before the deadline
- Final post must include the CHoW number and the artists username at the bottom of the image
- At least 3/4 of the character must be visible
- Sketches or rushed artwork will not be accepted into the poll
- No photograph paint overs, must be 100% original work
- At least two wips posted with your final in the finals thread
- Background is optional
- Have fun!
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1.) The previous topic will remain open for a few more days. In the mean time, please submit your finals in the appropriate thread!
2.) We are going to run THIS topic and possibly future topics for 2 weeks until we know for certain that the forums will remain up and running.
3.) We are removing the Focus Challenge because no one is taking advantage of going out of their comfort zone with it. It takes us extra time to come up with the challenges and if no one is doing them then there is no point. HOWEVER....We will be adding additional smaller requirements into each brief. Nothing big, but something to push you guys a little more than normal. We feel this will be a good balance. So PLEASE be sure to read all the requirements in the guidelines.
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Just wanted to quickly say that I thought a lot of people were doing the focus challenges, I know especially with the Artemis one a lot of people went with the suggestion for the colour scheme, it would be a shame to see them go. However I guess it is down to participants to come up with their own focus challenges depending on what they feel they need to achieve.
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Yes, some people were partaking in the focus challenge, but your example of the Artemis challenge isn't strong enough for us to consider keeping it because there were only 7 entries for finals, which I found very disappointing considering the number of WIPS there were.
Don't worry though, this also gives us Mods a little more freedom to really make the briefs a bit more descriptive, so in essence we are basically just combining the focus challenge into better briefs.
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I haven't done a CHoW in like a year and a half, I am so in on this. Gotta celebrate the hopefully-permanent (?) return of the forums!
Time to warm up the tablet!
Here is my first WIP. Finished my composition and have moved onto line work...
Started on this yesterday; went for purple, because I never, ever use purple. Its associations are mainly royalty and spirituality, so I tried for elements of both (implied crown and lots of gold, sort of a monkish vibe rather than armour and the like.)
There's an accidental but pretty clear WoW-ish vibe going on here. All that time parked on the Exodar has bled into my subconscious. =\
Spent about 30 on this yesterday, not sure if I'll continue in this direction or not.
I might have to re do this one. Going towards creature more than character. Thought I'd show it anyway.
nice updates so far liking the designs so far
first wip variant, haven't added crystals on body on this yet, goin with red'sh hue for danger, apprehension
decided to join in on the fun, here's a wip, haven't decided on colour yet.
PROGRESS. Proportions need fixing. Staff is questionable. Still mysteriously footless.
Another update decided on green. The guardian is at ease knowing nothing could possibly challenge it.
umm.. not sure if this is more of a render a thing thing, but I came up with this concept..
Been working on this for the last couple nights, here's what I got so far. Black Crystal Guardian.
nice all >D digging them black crystals quinn
another wip...
Did a quick thing, If nothing else I needs loads of practice drawing more people.
Man, everyone's stuff is great so far. Quinn, I love those crystals. Fireblade, that's some gorgeous lighting.
Aaaaand update again. Proportions/perspective are still a little weird, especially around his face and legs.
the guardian of the crystal of boring. the crystal ditorts time & space, slowing them, mostly
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My start.
Nearly finished, until I can think of something else to add. Added more yellow to the green.
some pretty good entries so far too. I particularly like the black crystal dude by Quinn, very reminiscent of Brom, which is cool.
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This is one of mine sketch, not so sure about the color But quite convinced about the Character.
now my Achilles heel ... the composition.
For now mine favorite is the one from Quinn Simoes
redesign on second wip variant...
@fireblade the overall mood and lighting looks great, only crit is to work on the forms a bit more like where the robe flows/drapes over the leg, it's looking a bit flat, granted you don't want detail everywhere but some of the forms could be defined a bit more. Also if the right hand is on the same plane as the foreground (left hand) lighting should capture the same amount on both, kind of looks like it's receding a bit the right hand with the dark shadow compared to the left hand when grabbing the staff (unless the staff is bent), overall I like the character has good design and mood >D
@Saraiva: Yes, you are waist deep into the creature zone with that. Think humanoid.
@Lakka: What you have so far is NOT a character. This is for developing fleshed out character designs so that we can see what you come up with. I suggest you start over, really read the rules, and follow the guidelines for this.
@DeaDer: That is falling awfully close to Illidan from World of Warcraft. Be careful with this one, I suggest that you go and make some thumbnails first.
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Because of his feeding habits, the Kingfishers' range is limited by the extent of favorable fishing grounds. Baileys' (15 Birds of Western United States) says, "They are associated with quieter phases of nature, with still woodland pools and smooth lakes where they give a vivifying touch of active wild life. In a remote narrow canyon, how they thrill you as they dash by overhead--a flash of blue ad white."
The bird is nearly as large as a pigeon. In color, he is bluish-grey over the crest and upper parts, with a blue-grey belt across the breast. Otherwise the underparts are white with dark wing quills.
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The principles of marketing are rather basic: connect with your customer, promote an initiative, and sell products. Despite the relative simplicity of these elements, the amount of marketing clutter consumers are constantly bombarded with has made it increasingly difficult to actually have an impact with normal initiatives and campaigns. This is why it is more important than ever to go against the grain with marketing approaches.
I have been fortunate to build Karmaloop from a bunch of boxes in my parents' basement into the leading worldwide streetwear retailer, and unorthodox marketing strategies have played a huge role in this success. We pride ourselves on creating engaging and unique marketing iniatives, like the Freak-a-thon pictured above, that simultaneously connect with our consumers and improve our bottom line. With this class on Skillshare I hope to provide you with tips, tools, and frameworks to apply unorthodox marketing strategies to your own endeavors.
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As a project in this class you will create a pitch deck for an unorthodox marketing concept of your own. If you choose to create a plan for a Karmaloop initiative, my team and I will look over all of them and choose our favorite. This winner will be invited to Boston to work with the Karmaloop marketing team to execute his or her idea. All submissions must be uploaded by Friday, October 18 in order to be eligible.
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Has science made us gods even before we've become worthy of being men?
"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men"
said the biologist and philosopher Jean Rostand almost 70 years ago, at the beginning of the Nuclear Arms race.
Is that quote even more true today or have we grown to be better people? Has science given us too much power? Will we ever be able to use that power responsibly?
I believe that science has given us power to create and destroy at "godlike" proportions, but we might've not grown enough morally to be able to use that power responsibly. I don't deny science, nor I think scientific knowledge can go "too far". What I'm worried about is how we use (or don't) that knowledge today and how shall we continue to use it in the future.
Just to clear things up: For me this question is purely a question about morals. I don't put any spiritual meaning in it. I don't believe people are divine, gods or anything "special" like that. Even with science we're still men with all the good and bad parts that come with us being just human.
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Bob Shingles 10+Jun 18 2011: We are NOT gods, a god-like creature would have some form of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power) or omnipresence (present everywhere).
We are still men, our sticks for clubbing things have just grown more destructive. We are far from immortal.
If people are going to cite Al Gore for anything climate related, have them try to find a conversation in which he addresses why meteorologists can't get their forecasts correct. Apparently our world is doomed in so many years yet we can't get an accurate weather forecast for the week.
Yes we have made powerful breakthroughs as a species but it can all end in a flash today if a giant rock was to hit our planet.
Jun 19 2011: Of course we're not god(s) and we never will be. We're men with all the good and bad parts that come with this.
However, our knowledge is giving us power of god-like proportions and to quote Churchill (not Spider-man!) -- "With great power comes great responsibility". Responsibility that we might've forgotten somewhere along the way.
And yes it all can end in a flash. From a giant rock *or* a nuclear apocalypse.
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