hagbard_celine
22-04-2007, 11:32 AM
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967&q=genre%3APOLITCAL+duration%3Along
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! I learned a thing or two from that show. I never knew that WWI began in Iraq, and that scam Salvador Dali pulled was a cracker! Maybe when I'm a famous novelist I can do the same by writing a short sketch on the back of every cheque.
The fact that we Brits first used chemical weapons in WWI is often forgotten by history, in the same way that these "Axis of Evil" countries only have them because we sold them to them. Have you read the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen? It gives the reader a in-your-face grisly desription of what it's like to die from a chemical weapon attack.
I was delighted by the bloke on an excersise bike. It was funny and nice to see Newman practicing what he preaches about alternative energy, but I think he needs to be aware of a few things. He's correct when he says that it's no good waiting for someone else to lead us; we have to do something for ourselves, but I'd take it a stage further: Even if politicians do take a lead, we should not follow. This is because they will use the threat of environmental destruction to introduce even more authoritarian laws and increase their power; and of course this process has already started.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! I learned a thing or two from that show. I never knew that WWI began in Iraq, and that scam Salvador Dali pulled was a cracker! Maybe when I'm a famous novelist I can do the same by writing a short sketch on the back of every cheque.
The fact that we Brits first used chemical weapons in WWI is often forgotten by history, in the same way that these "Axis of Evil" countries only have them because we sold them to them. Have you read the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen? It gives the reader a in-your-face grisly desription of what it's like to die from a chemical weapon attack.
I was delighted by the bloke on an excersise bike. It was funny and nice to see Newman practicing what he preaches about alternative energy, but I think he needs to be aware of a few things. He's correct when he says that it's no good waiting for someone else to lead us; we have to do something for ourselves, but I'd take it a stage further: Even if politicians do take a lead, we should not follow. This is because they will use the threat of environmental destruction to introduce even more authoritarian laws and increase their power; and of course this process has already started.