Humanity: Good News, Bad News

[KebreI]

I didn't even know it was a movie for the longest time, I thought it was just an extremely popular book.

[Lord J Esq]

It's not just a "male power fantasy," although there is that. It's also extremely anti-authoritarian and totally sincere about it. I have very little patience for even the mildest exponents of anarchy. It's also a movie that paints its opposition as supremely incompetent and inherently wrong. That double combination is poison for my suspension of disbelief. I can take one or the other, or neither, but not both. Not in a serious story, anyhow. With comedy, sure...but Fight Club can only be described as comedic inasmuch as it is ironically bad.

[Thought]

U.S. did not join the treaty to ban landmines: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_arms_landmines

Ah, curse our sudden but inevitable betrayal!

[GenesisOne]

Well, no wonder they didn't join the treaty:



I can now trust the internet a wee bit more today.

[Lord J Esq]

Remember that government worker who was hanged and had the letters "FED" scrawled into his skin? Well, that's bizarre enough, but the real story is five times weirder:

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/1032979.html

When the story broke, I speculated that his "murder" was symptomatic of anti-government sentiment in Appalachia. It looks like I owe the people of Appalachia an apology this time.

[Lord J Esq]

I love this guy...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-sci-virgin8-2009dec08,0,5479695.story

I also think he's a James Bond supervillain.

[Romana]

"Holy Shit" News

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html

MYSTERY SPIRAL

SPIRAL

SPIRAL ENERGY

GURREN LAGANN

WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE

[GenesisOne]

You know, the first picture kind of makes it look computer-generated image.

But when I saw the other pictures, and then the videos, I removed all doubt.

I don't know what it is, but I do know one thing:



Why wasn't I there to see it!?

[MagilsugaM]

That thing looks like a dimensional warp. As if something opened a gate in the middle of the sky and went into it. Then the spinning light look as if it was a star that was spinning! This is something good or bad.

You know what 2012 was going to be according to an old prophet. He actually said that something like this "Lights will flash in the sky, millions of colors will appear in the sky, bright lights that move shining like stars."
Well that was the quote. I don't remember his name thought. So far all his predictions came true including the wars and the terrorist attacks. I
Seems to me that in 2012 only thing that might happen is that some extraterrestial lifeform will come to earth and as long as the US doesn't try to destroy it like in the movies it all be good... >___>

[FaustWolf]

FaF, thanks for that link! Interestingly, President Obama will be arriving to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway soon.

Coincidence? I think not.

The best explanation that I've heard so far is a Russian missile test. Yeah, those Russian missiles got sucked into a freaking wormhole! Hahahaa. People are also speculating that it could have been the Large Hadron Collider's doing too, apparently. It did look suspiciously like the Bat Symbol flying over Gotham to me though. I look forward to seeing how this all plays out.

[placidchap]

Good news:  An actual instance of democracy! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091129/ap_on_re_eu/eu_switzerland_minaret_ban

Bad News:  It will no doubt be overturned for "politically correct" reasons.

[Lord J Esq]

Minarets are not the problem. A minaret never oppressed or murdered anyone. This is xenophobia. The Swiss people's anti-Islamic sentiment is well-founded, but ill-reasoned, which leads to reactions like this. Such "solutions" only create more problems in the long run...

Edit: I take that back. This won't necessarily create more problems in the long run. But it's easy to see how it could.

[Truthordeal]

Bad News: The "Safe Schools Czar" that Obama has appointed is bat-shit crazy.

[Lord J Esq]

Your right-wing blogs would seem to have misinformed you again, young man!

[GenesisOne]

That article sounds more like it belongs in the Record of Right-Wing Crazy.