As I like to tell most people of faith; we both reject an almost identical number of the thousands of putative gods. I just go one step further than you.
Yeah, I agree with ads above. The idea is pretty good, but the shaky grasp of the actual status of fonts kills it completely. Plus "Haha, he French surrender!" is so hack and so old that it's gone once around from hack to ironic standby to hack again - which is the worst kind of hackery there is. Lame.
Jack White and "new forms of music"? He's violently opposed to any kind of experimentation, progression or development of music - because he'd be out of his depth as soon as it got more complex than what you can play after two guitar lessons.
That emperor is about as nude as he can be, folks.
If you think the video is so neat, why post it in the wrong ratio?
Standard hit song formula, version B (semi-indie). Repetitive, unimaginative but well-produced. It is kind of a travesty to post this when Elbow, Sparks, Goldfrapp, The Last Shadow Puppets and about 100 other bands have more interesting and fun songs just out just now.
Subtly racist and homophobic - which would have been fine if it wasn't just barely funny and awfully written. 8 makes no grammatical sense and 20 doubles the if unnecessarily.
The US, for all its incessant crowing about its greatness in the freedom stakes, has never been all that great at actual, real freedom, by whatever metric you care to choose to measure it (other than maybe the right to bear arms).
Free speech is circumscribed by the FCC, more than 1% of the country's population is in jail (a greater proportion than any dictatorship you care to compare to), the average life expectancy is lower and the infant mortality rate higher than in any other Western nation and social mobility is lower than almost any industrial nation. The two-party system and the winner-takes-all division of political responsibilities means that no third party will ever be viable and that both parties need only to pander to the (perceived) middle. It's twice as a good as a one-party system and 2 x 0 = 0.
The government has grabbed vast, unchecked surveillance rights, can imprison even its own citizens indefitely and without charges being brought. It also practices and endorses torture in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Somehow, the media doesn't care much about these things and focuses on Britney and flag pins.
And religion has such a stranglehold on the nation that an Atheist couldn't be elected dog catcher, much less senator or - Heaven forbid - president.
Remind me again what freedoms - again apart from the guns - are available to me as a US citizen that aren't as or more readily available in any other Western nation
I love the US for many reasons, but the idea ever has been - and especially that it is now - the home of freedom on Earth is an outright falsehood.
One of the biggest lies in the world is that an armed society is a polite society. Yeah, go check out Afghanistan or any other nation where assault rifles are more common than cars and see just how lovely those places are.
Sounds like an urban legend that's made its way into the paper (which happens often enough). There's nothing in Middle Eastern culture that says that the husband shouldn't be allowed to see his wife's face or body, quite the opposite. The wife should dress in nice clothes and may even wear lingerie for the husband when they are alone.
That emperor is about as nude as he can be, folks.
Also, he's pretty lame as a poet.
Standard hit song formula, version B (semi-indie). Repetitive, unimaginative but well-produced. It is kind of a travesty to post this when Elbow, Sparks, Goldfrapp, The Last Shadow Puppets and about 100 other bands have more interesting and fun songs just out just now.
Free speech is circumscribed by the FCC, more than 1% of the country's population is in jail (a greater proportion than any dictatorship you care to compare to), the average life expectancy is lower and the infant mortality rate higher than in any other Western nation and social mobility is lower than almost any industrial nation. The two-party system and the winner-takes-all division of political responsibilities means that no third party will ever be viable and that both parties need only to pander to the (perceived) middle. It's twice as a good as a one-party system and 2 x 0 = 0.
The government has grabbed vast, unchecked surveillance rights, can imprison even its own citizens indefitely and without charges being brought. It also practices and endorses torture in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Somehow, the media doesn't care much about these things and focuses on Britney and flag pins.
And religion has such a stranglehold on the nation that an Atheist couldn't be elected dog catcher, much less senator or - Heaven forbid - president.
Remind me again what freedoms - again apart from the guns - are available to me as a US citizen that aren't as or more readily available in any other Western nation
I love the US for many reasons, but the idea ever has been - and especially that it is now - the home of freedom on Earth is an outright falsehood.