Gore's Nobel Price, I mean Prize

I feel like I should address the Nobel Peace Prize going to former VP of the US, Al Gore. He earned it, and we now have him to thank for raising global warming awareness, but as my title suggests, it's at a price. As written in my Oct 11 post, the film an inconvenient truth has some exaggerations. This is our price, to stretch the truth for a greater good, in telling people something important. I suppose in order to get people to listen you have to speak in hyperbole sometimes. Truth has a price, just as action has a price. I hope that the balance of truth and awareness isn't skewed any further from here on out.

By the way, I'm glad this UK judge's assessment came out before the award, otherwise it'd look like spiteful slander.

Anjie, someone beat you to it you altruistic song of a gun you

Gore to start polar bear swim classes.

A politician stretched the facts! Satan exclaims "Ice-skating officially commences on the former lake of fire."

Well it appears that Al Gore's inconvenient truths are really just inconvenient poorly made conclusions, as a judge in the UK gives a ruling on whether the film should be shown to 11-14 year-olds. It just so happens that 9 errors were found in his ruling about global warming and man's effect on temperature change. A sample of the errors found:

1) The global sea-level is not going to raise 20 feet "in the near future" rather "but only after, and over, millennia".

2) The four polar bears that were found dead drowned in a storm, "not because they could find ice" ::snicker::

3) Global warming didn't cause Lake Chad to dry up, "It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.”

Goddamn Trolls

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18589 for the video
BOULDER, Colo. -- A man who acted as a modern-day bridge troll faces charges in Boulder after he and his companion allegedly got into a confrontation with an off-duty sheriff's deputy.According to a police report obtained by 7NEWS, Robert Hibbs, 19, was arrested Friday in a park near Foothills Highway and Colorado Avenue after demanding money and attacking the deputy. Police said that Hibbs insisted he was a troll and owned the bridge the deputy was trying to cross.Witnesses told police that Hibbs and Bradley Boville, 19, were demanding $1 from joggers and bikers who attempted to cross the bridge.

The off-duty deputy, who was not identified, told police the confrontation with Hibbs started after the man hit his bike with a broken golf club when he forced his way past without paying. The two became involved in an altercation and Hibbs hit the deputy with a golf club, the police report stated. The deputy said he took the golf club away from Hibbs and struck him in an attempt to defend himself.Boville, who was with Hibbs, reportedly told police that they had consumed LSD and that Hibbs was having a bad trip.Police said they confiscated a large marijuana joint rolled in $1 bills at the scene and then searched Boville's apartment and recovered drugs and drug paraphernalia.Hibbs was arrested for investigation of menacing and possession of a controlled substance, according to police. Boville was arrested for investigation of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

A horse is a pig that don't fly strait

The only sure things in life are death and taxes.

I'll let that sink in. I hate this quote, but its true. But I don't hate the fact that there are so many uncertain things in life, just that the such a true proverb has so much to do with nothing, er something.

I saw Wednesday by J. Hilliard tonight, and it made me think. I wish I had a convenient Frenchman following me around outside singing songs about my failures when ever I left the front door! (Sarcasm!)

Some species of ants are extreme in their dependence upon other ant species. For example, the ant Tuleutomyrmex schneidere spends almost its entire life riding on the backs of host ant species. They seem to contribute nothing to the hosts, but are tolerated and even fed. SlavemakerFormica subintegra, for example) steal brood from other colonies and return the brood to develop and serve the Slavemaker colony. The slaves are absolutely dependent in that if they don't work, they don't get fed. Other ants work together as with the Crematogaster limata parabioticaMonacis debilis. These ants have their nests close together and share the same foraging trails. Camponotus has also been seen giving food to the Monacis workers.

A secret so far

Has anyone heard what they're building on the North East corner of 75 and Springcreek? They're building a BPP, thats right its a Beer Pong Palace! I've only seen these places in Tennessee, Kentucky, Western West Virginia, and Ann Arbor Michigan. So its supposed to just be a parlor of sorts where conditions and futures of warehouses keeping all the unsold copies of Harry Potter books can be discussed and administered in a setting that offers a cool musty ambiance that lets you relive all the good times by playing your favorite covers of those wonderful French-monkey-dancing-to-an-accordion-solos that we all know and love. The stuffed badgers, wolverines, hombers that decorate the walls give it that candle-in-skull darkness and an eeriness that any quaint and sinister abode should have. The lovely sandbag thrones and concrete couches make an inviting and sensible place to plot your scheme whether it is as complex as releasing rapidly reproducing locusts into the countrys farmland, or as simple as giving strong hallucinogens to children in candy form. Yes all your plans to spread chaos can be sewn together right here just like the lampshade you made out of human skin!

Myspace Stuff

There has been a few bulletins going around about banning the group "fuck the troops". :::Sigh::: look at the people in this group if you ever feel a sharp knife of boredom turning in your head. They're either disturbed, screaming for attention, Marxists/socialists, anarchists, what have you. They really haven't got a clue, or they just want to be part of some kind of revolution.

I agree, what right do they have to say about people who have done so much for them, and continue to. Even the actual marine in the group is a member, what does that say about it, a lack of seriousness in some of the members? Maybe, but not for the most part. The group is sort of your only slice of America that survived in the 60's from the Vietnam War. The troops were also hated back then, but it was a MUCH larger portion of America that hated them. These days people can be against the war but very strongly support the troops at the same time. Maybe its because everything is so much more connected and globalized than it was back then, and people just know too many service members. Or maybe people just woke up and understood.

My point about this group is they do have a right to exist. The internet has different goods and evils coming out of it every day. There is a website where clicking a link triggers a donation of a cups worth of food for the needy. On the other hand terrorist use the internet to stay in touch with cells all over the world. So you can hate what comes out of technology but you can't ever turn it back. Its either the dark ages or everything. But back to the point. One of America's great attributes during its founding was people's right to assemble. Like minded individuals can come together and oppose or support whatever they want. Its just another institution of our country that keeps the playing field level.

So being a veteran I have fought for what I believe in, and those who have come before me have protected our rights to do such things. So here's what these morons have forgot: the people that give them the right to say what they say are the ones they hate. Its a paradox, and big-surprise, none of the half-wits in the group have figured it out yet. So let them choose what they want to preach and be a part of, it is their right as free Americans. And that right has been upheld for the last 230 years by those who serve. And those who serve will continue to protect those rights, even if a faction of losers haven't quite seen the big picture yet. I've already signed the petition and so should you if you believe in it. It is just as much your right to dissent as it is theirs.

why tool is great

hi....
you seem smart. could you explain to me why tool is so great?
i've been told they are, but no one can explain why.
that makes me think it's complete crap.
i like a perfect circle though, so that must be because of James Iha...
no one knows the words to any tool songs either.
my ex boyfriend told me it wasn't what he said but how he said it. but my ex was stupid too.

is there an answer here is it a mystery best left in ruin?
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Thats an interesting question that I've asked myself before. But the best answer to a question is always... yup you guessed it, another question. Why is any band good? Maybe the question needs to be fine-tuned. What do I like about them in particular, it has to be that I've never heard a band sound like them, ever. That is besides the point, I think just because you can't classify a sound DOES NOT make it great (remember that christmas album with cats meowing?). Tool has a sound that sort of makes you feel like your plugged into a nuclear reactor because it energizes you with the anticipation of the oncoming onslaught that is there music. But what if you've never heard them before, well you should, and its un-American to say you haven't :). So in conclusion, I think the Why is Tool so great question is a bit flawed because it's difficult to answer that for any band. Why Metallica great, because I like to head-bang, why is Brittney Spears great, because I enjoy something that is always playing 'somewhere'. So all of these questions have huge groundings in opinions, because ultimately they all are just opinions. As much as I would like it to be a fact, published in an almanac, I will never read: Tool is great, fact. Hope that either answers your question, or leaves you exponentially more confused.

There, oh my ex-gf always asked me too, but she never liked them because you can't dance to them.

Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson

Wow, what a guy. Just saw him speak at UTD today. Talk about an amazing story. This guy's ancestor was a slave who went on to become a city councilman in Waco for two terms, in the 1860's. Its enough heritage to inspire anyone! He is now the first African-American Justice, and Chief Justice in the Texas Supreme Court. I didn't know law could be so much fun!

I forgot, I've had a birthday since whenever

Cayster Folster

Layne, stop trying to dance with me! (Dustin is on the left)

This picture pretty much sums up my reason for being on Earth.

What you know 'bout purple stuff?

Elysia is not a crook

Red team go, blue team go!

1. Ray and Alexis
   

So much character in these characters

Clink!

See nothing up the sleeve

Ch-Ch-Changes

So many changes have occurred since last post. At least I know what I'm doing after college now. Makes me happy to know. Now I have something to focus on, other than just completing college. Wish I was done with work, how ironic, after being offered a damn good paying job. Other offerings are going to waste too due to all these changes of plans. 3/5 went back to Iraq, hope they all come back as well as doing something they always do, GET SOME!! Oh yeah, ever since my stereo was jacked outta my car, I've been F'ing singing, what the hell!

I'm going to find a vegan to feed to a bear one day, so he or she can know what it feels like to be a part of the food chain

I get stupified!

I forgot, some people also not mentioned came to the party.

With his PosseSo then I was like, Conan, handle this shit.And Bowie's all
The End...

MLK

Its officially Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this is what he had to say about Jazz.

"God has brought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create - and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music.

Modern Jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.

It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of "racial identity" as a problem for a multi-racial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.

Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these."