The cake is a lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:
Good, I need a sla- I mean, helper to feed me since my owner is sleeping. She snores, too. >><< Also, don't you not eat when sleeping?
Cookies if you give me a jingle ball and a rub on the belly. :p
*walks out whistling, carrying a sign and a hammer* *walks in front of door, takes nail and hammers in nail8 *hangs up sign carefully* *shuts door* *walks to bed, curls up under fifty blankets and sleeps* Sign: "Gone to hibernate for rest of winter. Wake me up in the spring or better yet, in the summer. The rest of my replies will be answered by my cat Aiden."
Beyond the whole race issue that apparently Nick NEVER LEARNED from Saban's mistakes in the original casting. The yellow ranger being Asian and the black ranger being African American being the original casting mistake... And noted later on the Native American getting the red powers. It's just a terrible episode... The monster is terribly done, I can tell in the first few SECONDS it's computer animated and it is easily to see. The whole "secret identity" thing baffles me beyond words on how someone seems to keep it a secret and then morphs in front of everyone. That's one hell of a secret. The villains at the least are bland, at the most just downright dull and unoriginal. The green ranger seems like a whiny little brat who is good at video games. (When did that become a requirement for being a power ranger?) And the rest seem... Eh... Sorry to bash, but compared to Lord Zedd, Evil Green Ranger, and original Goldar before he became a bootlicker, the villains suck. The Power rangers were always a little iffy to me, but they always seemed to get it to work convincingly a lot better than this group. And the monsters were ten times better. As Linkara put it in his reviews, it always had an air of magic versus technology for a long time, and this doesn't have any of that feel. Oh yeah... Apparently you can't also have any friendships/contact with your family... Lovely...
Sadly... I used to love Power Rangers as a kid. I lost massive interest around Zeo... Turbo just murdered it for me, seriously... I wonder if they just picked some random kid to be the blue ranger. Geez, that kid was terrible and totally ruined any assumption I had about more adultish rangers. I am now watching A History of Power Rangers, despite me missing the Space episodes which sounded AMAZING!!! I'm glad I stopped watching. I have to see this now... *goes to look* *five minutes later sobbing in bathtub sobbing like a baby* PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
All I heard about it was the kid with the pacemaker and of course, Christina Aguilara's flub with the National Anthem. It was not nearly as bad as Roseanne Barr's song in 1990 where she purposely slaughtered it and did an impression of a dying cow in the process.
You have to realize disability is a word that has been used for most of my life. Mental ******ation is the equivilant when I was growing up calling an African American the N word. It was used a lot, but my parents would act the same way as me saying ******ed to the same way if I used again, any curse word. When I was a kid, there was no high-functioning, low-functioning or any other labels to the disabilities. The reason why my older brother wasn't diagnosed into his senior year was because no one tested back those days to SEE if there was a problem. The reason why I was diagnosed so early was because I showed very early signs of having what is now called Asburgers. Which is a combination of Autism, ADHD and a learning disability. I didn't speak until I was six years old, I didn't hear until I was three, when I was growing up, anyone with a mental disorder as you put it. I will never call it what you do, btw, was labeled as learning disabled/autistic/adhd and so on. A hundred years ago, if you were in ANY way mentally or physically disabled, you went into an insane asylum or on the streets to beg. Helen Keller and many others made huge strides to improve peoples with disabilities, whether it be physical, mental, or any others, lives. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was made around the seventies or eighties if my memory serves correctly. It's only been very recent that people with ANY disability/disorder have been able to go to school, let alone attend class, or have handicapped facilities for people in wheelchairs. Service dogs have become an add-on even later than that. Today, yes, we have made major improvements on finding out the different disorders/disabilities of people and thankfully are catching it a lot sooner. But when I was a kid, most kids who were diagnosed early ended up in an institution with a crash helmet where they literally ran into walls all day. My mom dug her heels in to stop me from going, and after seeing what happened to several classmates of mine when they did make the transition to regular school, it was a disaster in most cases. A lot barely recovered or didn't at all due to the early education. I had an uphill battle to reach where I have, and yes, I had a ton of teasing. I was a loner and got bullied constantly through all grades because of my disability. I sucked it up in most cases and yes, under your definition of disorder, I do have one. But I grew up using that word and having ******ation being used as a swear, or a derogatory term. The word disorder was NEVER used to define what I had. Neither was high-functioning autism or asbergers until I would say the last three to five years ago. It's a habit that will take me a long time to break, and it won't happen every time I hear a rant telling me every time I say it I'm wrong and I should say it the PC way. Even if you are right, which I don't know if you are. And yes, there are a ton of different parts of the special education (again, what it was called when I was in high school) program. There's even more when you go to college. Including one great one in Maine called North Star that offered me counseling, tutoring and several other things when I was going through community college. You can find a lot of help out there.
There's also a program called: "Dragon Naturally Speaks." It's more expensive, but you speak into a microphone and it types up what you say onto the screen with it correctly spelled. I've seen it used with someone who can't use their hands well.
Before I give my recommendation and why, let me get a few things clear. The author: John Mooney is someone at a very young age who was diagnosed with dyslexia, autism and a severe learning disability. He was told by the principal to his mother that he would never make past the first few grades, let alone through high school. His mother didn't believe him and pulled him out of school to teach him herself for several years before bringing him back. Despite the fact he couldn't read until he was twelve, he was a naturally gifted writer who despite all the teasing, got to high school and became a jock and a bully to "fit in". After failing out of Freshman year in college, he signed up for Brown University. Where it's unique program has no set classes you have to take to graduate. You choose the classes that fit your strengths and with this, he graduated with a masters in writing. After co-writing a book, he took a short bus where all the "disabled" kids had to ride in and traveled the U.S. to find more stories about people with disabilities who are coping and making it on their own despite their handicaps and societies judgment if any on them. And the definition of "being normal" is to these people and what societies judgment is. When I read this the first time, I just graduated from college with a bachelors after growing up with years of therapy to "fit into" societies norms. They said when I started school I would never, ever, make it. Reading this book brings you into the stories of peoples lives who are deaf, autistic, learning disabled and other such problems. But when you read them, you don't see that, you see human beings who live their lives despite everything thrown at them. It's a beautiful book. Many stories fill you with hope as tears slide down your face as you read about a little girl who is legally blind and has 200/20 eyesight in one eye while being deaf. But as you read on, you forget that and find yourself relating to her and her joy in the simplest pleasures. Or relating when she tortures her older brother like all sisters do. The whole book is filled with stories like this, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
In my high school, you were allowed to have oral exams if you were bad at writing down your thoughts. As such my case, or you had a disability that affected your writing/spelling. I have a very minor case, meaning a bad sense of direction, not being able to tell left from right most of the time and messing up on words. I've had years of therapy to get to my point where it barely affects me anymore with my disabilities. I would ask for tests where you can do the answers orally with a writer beside you to write down the answers. It helps a lot, trust me. I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis. My brother was diagnosed in his high school senior year with a learning disability much worse than mine. It should be offered since it sounds like you're in the U.S. I also highly, HIGHLY recommend reading: "The Short Bus" it's for anyone with disabilities and the author was not only learning disabled but dyslexic who got a masters in writing. Another girl I read about has dyslexia and became a vetinarian. Don't allow others to dictate your life. I worked hard despite everything everyone told me with my mom's support to get where I was when everyone else said I couldn't.
Ah... The bane of my childhood. This is one movie that literally made Roger Ebert cringe, the one that he hates more than any other movie out there. The one he calls the worst movie he's ever seen, and the worst movie Roger Ebert and Roeper reviewed in their 20 years... North. The trailer is admittedly cool and flashy. It looks entertaining, then you sit down and watch it. Admittedly, they pull out all the stops with an all-star cast. Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Kathy Bates and two of the actors from Seinfeld amongst many, many, many others. But the writing is terrible and you have to give something to these actors for it to work. It's about a kid who decides his parents are crappy and divorces them. He then travels the world to find new ones. Great concept, isn't it? Here's the thing, the jokes don't make sense, like in Alaska the plane stops by bumping gently against the glass. The stereotypes are horrible, seriously, every single stereotype ever thought of is in this movie and then some. There's a scene where the Eskimos are sending their elders onto ice floes to die before they "embarrass themselves." And that's just one of the terrible stereotypes in the movie. It sounds like I'm bashing, but I'm not joking, this is honestly what happens in the movie. The acting is terrible, even if they have an all-star cast, they can't pull it off in this movie between the directing and the script. All the morals and lessons are screwed up, and the ending is just weird... Seriously, this is a movie to see to believe. To quote Roger Ebert in his review: "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it." He was too kind.
Yes, the Nostalgia Critic. He says Neverending Story I was the best children's movie he's ever seen. I have to agree with him, maybe the Lion King comes close, but the way they made the first one makes even an adult forget that it's supposed to be a movie. Very rarely, as an adult watching a children's movie, do I find this. The name is Falcor, btw. Or Falkor, in the Original German series.
When I was a kid, I heard so many great things about this movie. When I saw the second Neverending Story, I was thrilled to find it and rented it. After watching it and thinking about how terrible the movie was, I returned it and gave up on the series. I was surprised when a third came out and I wondered why they would make another movie if the series was so crappy. I basically turned my back on the series without never, ever seeing the first one because of the second. This year, I sat down to one of my favorite critics online and watched him gut Neverending Story 2 and 3 while saying the first was one of the most beautiful children movies he's ever seen. I finally gave in and looked up the first on Youtube because of his praise. After watching it, my only thought was: "Dear Lord, what the hell did I miss?" The story is amazing, with a plot that intertwines itself perfectly inside the book and inside the readers point of view without imposing neither on the watcher. Bastian, a lonely boy who's lost himself into books after his mothers death. Which it doesn't tell you how or when she died, but that he's just deeply affected by her death has been doing bad in school with a father that either isn't coping with his wife's death well or is struggling into the position of a single father by shoving all these expectations on Bastian with him doing well in school, and also not joining the swim team. He's also massively bullied by kids on the way to school and flees to a bookstore where he takes a book from the bookstore owner after he tells him not to. Reading the book, you go to a world called Fantasia that is under attack by the Nothing. An entity for a better description that is making Fantasia disappear or no longer exist. In the hopes of saving their world, everyone goes to the Ivory Tower to try to get help from their leader: The Empress. Unfortunatly, The Empress has fallen ill and has sent for someone to save Fantasia from imminent destruction. A young boy named Atreyu who journeys on his horse Artax for answers. This is an amazing setting, the characters are well made, the music I still listen to with fond memories. The situations and emotions go from heart-wrenching, to joy, to fear, to everything else in the map as both Bastian and Atreyu journey through to save Fantasia from the Nothing. Bastian from reading the book, Atreyu from doing the journey itself. I won't go further because of spoilers and the emotions I think someone has to see for themselves. But I would recommend it to anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8iSYMkFO2A This was in October 31, 2006. After several heavy rainstorms, over a hundred horses were stranded on a small island of land surrounded by water well over 2 meters or six feet. The water also hidden barbed wire, broken bottles and other hazards that can injure, break legs or kill horses. 19 horses in three days died of exposure and exhaustion. Several boats tried to rescue the horses at first, but the boats got stuck in the sand. They did manage to rescue 20 horses that were trapped there, including the youngest foals. A few days after the flooding, the waters receded to 1 to 2 meters. Three to six feet, in desperation the government asked for volunteers on horseback to bring the horses to safety risking not only their own horses, but their own lives to bring these horses to dry ground. Four women volunteered and after the firefighters made a route, rode out on horseback to save the 100 horses trapped on the mini island. The video is showing the moments of the rescue.
Note, this post won't be pretty. I've had a past of sexual abuse and have a very strong opinion of it. I am absolutely disgusted by this idea. People already have problems bringing it up, and also the thing is... That most feel already either it's their fault or are too embarrassed to tell anyone about it. It's very, very, very, rare to accuse false rape. And even if it's true, most people don't believe them at first. With DNA testing, most rapists are caught unless they're really good. Like using a condom. And I think this person who brought it up should be hanged for suggesting it. Thank god it's not in my state or I would hunt the person down. *semi-joking* Sorry, but this is a sensitive topic for me, it took me YEARS to tell my parents, (I was under eighteen at the time) that my boyfriend was sexually abusing me. It took me more longer years to openly mention it outside of boyfriends and very close friends about what happened. If I ever heard someone give me pity about it, I'd blow it off, I know it happened and it doesn't effect me anymore nearly as much. Note, it still does, but not at a massive level as it used to. If someone ever called me an accuser of saying my boyfriend sexually abused me, I'd probably punch them. That's the damned truth.
There are some countries that recognize it. Lichenstein I think is one. The U.S. is one that doesn't. Now I want to check this out.
Molassia? I just found their website after watching some Nostalgia Critic. I can't believe it. It's actually a country that (technically) exists in the U.S. It's not recognized by the U.S., if you go there, you need your passport stamped and prior arrangements made. If you don't believe me, check out their official website via google. They have their own currency and national anthem too. And it's only 3.6 square acres. With this... I have officially seen it all.
I remember a comic where one person just asked if any ANY religious figure could disprove their god while not proving completely that the religious figures god exists or doesn't exist. Or something to that effect. The bottom line is... They couldn't. There's no way to prove God exists or any other God exists or doesn't exist. Yes, I do believe in God, I hate religion and church, but that's a personal preference for me. I think religion is something that even if it gives hope, has turned into something where most of the time it turns into a disaster or a money-making scheme. Again, not all churches. If you look in the history of religion, each and every big religion out there has had a controversy except a very few like Buddhism to my knowledge. Catholics it's the priests molesting children, Christianity has the persecution of Jews, the religious wars, and several branches that have either out there to make money, become a cult, or extremist. I think that the religion, even if labeled good in the beginning has been too badly used. Even if there's a God, the religion uses "God's words" and makes them their own. The bible itself was written 100 years after Jesus's death. Taken from a college religion class. Religion and God are two separate things, but back to the topic, God can never be disproved. As for the end of the world, there was a math tutor once who was a engineering scientist. He was a genius in math, and he loved all the miscellaneous facts that he could find. He told me once about all the ways the world could be destroyed, this included a black hole, a meteorite, weapons of mass destruction and several others. Not once he mentioned the world ending in God's hand. Also note about the weapons of mass destruction. In the 1970's or so, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed a armistice for all the nuclear weapons they had. They agreed, to disarm 50% of all nuclear weapons, including missiles that they had. With this, at the end of the signing, there was still enough nuclear weapons armed to destroy the world four times over. This was before most countries had even tried a nuclear program including North Korea, Iraq and several others. Just a thoughtful note to a thought-filled post.
Well, the video I picked it up from is a debate from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and the tragedy of the Russian airport bombing. As anyone who has played the NOTED M-RATED GAME!!! Or has seen it played by someone else knows of the terrorist attack in a simulated Russian airport that you play as an undercover agent trying to catch some terrorists by infiltrating the group and participating in their attacks. And yes, that's not spoilers, it's a very early mission. Basically, the whole thing is you participate attacking a simulated airport, which is an optional level which you don't have to play and get credit for. Which they tell you before you start the level, or stop the level at any time. Also, you don't have to do anything during the mission other than follow the others if you want to. I personally would skip it on my own preference because I don't like things like that. I know others have played it and that's up to them. The case a Russian television show was making was that the level at least at some level participated or caused the bombing in the Moscow airport. As much as I am deeply saddened by the tragedy of Moscow and the other noted shooting in Arizona. Both which are massive tragedies and my thoughts go out to them. I don't think neither were caused by violent video games. The warning I also think is just another way for excuses to be made. Why not put control on guns? Because there's a lobby that pays the government MILLIONS of dollars a year to not pass any laws. But we still hand guns to a schizo who goes and kills eight people. Or someone who causes a school shooting, it's tragic and sad, and the saddest thing is... I don't think it's going to change anytime soon.
