Now I try to stay out of controversial topics but this is one I cannot keep quiet about. This is so irresponsible it’s breathtaking. Not only does it tell criminals where to find guns to steal, but it tells them who DOES NOT own a weapon and where they can break in without consequences. Some people, especially on the far left and far right, don’t understand the law of ‘unintended consequences.’
Me-thos
Thos is pronouced the same as the word Those but drop the ‘e,’ which give your thos
Cry-oh-s
Dah-nay
The nay is the same as the word ‘hay’ just with a ‘n’ in front.
Ta-lee-yah
I was watching “Dr Who and the Snowmen” a couple minutes ago and I got to laughing at a particular scene. Clara’s run into the Doctor and, not wanting to be known for who he is, he has Strax get the memory worm. One touch, as he explains, and a person forgets the past hour. If it bites, then entire decades can be lost. This is where things get hilarious.
The Doctor: Sontaran. Clone warrior race, factory-produced. Whole legions at a time. Two genders is a bit further than he can count.
Clara: Sir, do not discuss my reproductive cycle in front of enemy girls. It’s embarrassing!
The Doctor: Typical middle child of six million.
Clara: Who are you?
The Doctor: It doesn’t matter because you are about to forget that you and I ever met. {to Strax}We’ll need the worm.
The Doctor: Where is it?
Strax: Where’s what, sir?
The Doctor: I sent you to get the memory worm.
Strax: Did you? When? Who’s he? What are we doing here? Look! It’s been snowing!
The Doctor: You didn’t use the gauntlets, did you?
Strax: Why would I need the gauntlets?
This was so ridiculous that I can’t even comment on it. I’ve dealt with two ABC agents in my life and both times they went for maximum intimidation. Both times I broke no laws and was in the clear, but their attitudes are only beaten by those of the BATF.
ABC official questioned U.Va. student’s arrest – Richmond Times Dispatch: Virginia News.
From the LA Times:
The books of the bestselling, award-winning “Ender’s Game” science-fiction series, about child soldiers in space, are almost universally beloved. The same cannot be said for their author, Orson Scott Card.
Over the years, Card has spoken and written publicly about his opposition to gay rights and gay marriage — to the extent that one group, Geeks OUT, felt compelled to speak up about it. On the website SkipEndersGame.com, they call for a boycott to the film adaptation coming in November.
They quote Card writing in 1990, “Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society’s regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.”
In the Mormon Times in 2009, he wrote, “Married people attempting to raise children with the hope that they, in turn, will be reproductively successful, have every reason to oppose the normalization of homosexual unions.”
Now with the boycott, he’s asking for tolerance. “Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute,” he wrote in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
Does it make sense to boycott a film because of the political views of the original work’s author? Geeks OUT urges people to pledge not to see the film in theaters, not to rent or buy the DVD, not to stream it, and to eschew its toys and merchandise. “However much you may have admired his books, keep your money out of Orson Scott Card’s pockets,” the group writes.
In his EW statement, Card wrote, “‘Ender’s Game’ is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984.”
In fact, the “political issues” he talks about were very much alive in 1984. The fight for the civil rights of lesbian, gay, and transgendered people had gone on for years, and back in 1970, Los Angeles held the first of many celebratory gay pride parades.
The boycott’s greatest effect may be to raise awareness — perhaps even Card’s.
What’s happening here proves why I say authors, and celebrities, should keep their private views to themselves. This world no longer allows for dissenting viewpoints and will crucify, and destroy the reputation and life of, anyone who had a viewpoint that is not ‘politically correct.’ It’s a disgusting destruction of freedom of speech that’s been coming in the US for years. I remember back in the 1990’s when PC arrived, and I knew back then it’d lead to ‘though police’ and stifling of speech. And I’ve been correct. Now one doesn’t have to actually do anything anymore. Just speak your mind and things will be used against you. As someone who values freedom of speech, and what writer would not, I find it frightening and discouraging at the same time.
per TGDaily.com
While this has been a very turbulent summer for blockbusters, Ender’s Game, which is coming in November, is one of the most anticipated genre films in recent memory. Except there’s a potentially big controversy brewing because of homophobic comments made by the book’s author Orson Scott Card.
Read more at http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/72419-enders-game-author-under-fire#ihYfRaciH6Y664sl.99
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