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For your consideration. Five Million Years to Earth The 1967 version was a remake of the original Quatermass and The Pit from 1953. If you're not desensitized by modern bombastic film making, it's a frightening film. Listen carefully, you'll hear it's a warning from the nascent world of the arts. 5 million years ago the primates were modified by the dying Martian race of arthropods. They evolved from that modification. And that hive mind lurks in us all and periodically, because that's their way, they purge all who do not respond to the power. Anyone who would not be affected...

I unknowingly damaged a bunch of my beakers and then mixed them back with my good ones. I then had no idea which ones were good or bad anymore, so I ended up having to sacrifice them all.

A Russian astronomer observed the planets thru a telescope made of ice. Henry describes his observations. Ever wondered what the opinion of equality of the sexes was in 1789? Henry's position is that "Love, and all its delectable concomitants was utterly unknown there [on Venus]; as that passion exists but where equality is found or understood." Interesting?

With a number of loonie lefties trying desperately to find ANY straw to grasp telling them that Trump and his voters are out of touch, the latest is the notion that the new "Star Wars" film "Rogue One" somehow is a parable about the (good) Rebels fighting the evil Trump empire. Nothing could be sillier. Anyone watching the film can see instantly, Trump IS "Rogue One" and the Force put together. The "Rogue One" title comes from the mission to steal the Death Star plans. When asked what their call sign is as they leave Yavin, the nervous pilot says,...

The groundbreaking new film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Les Misérables" features desperate people suffering under soul-shattering unemployment, naive university students decrying the rich and stoking the flames of socialist revolution, unyielding government official interested not in right and wrong but in following his government's rules and one heroic individual who follows his faith in God to guide him from one success to another all the while truly helping others by using his own private wealth rather than through the ineffective and neglectful government. In short, it is the perfect allegory for Americans living in the Age of Obama. In...

The American Tegdiw is a practice. Animal, vegetable or mineral, it can also be ethereal and represent the piece or the entirely. Its use is measurement and value, both individually and in the aggregate. The plural Tegdiw works in reverse of normal English words, being Stegdiw. Thus, is the plurality of all American Stegdiw, when considered as a group, the opposite of the individual Tegdiw. Metaphorically, the combined Stegdiw work against the Tegdiw as an opposing force, even though this might seem at first glance to be mathematically impossible. The impetus of the Tegdiw is toward self-reliance in the classical...

Chapter VI - A Star is bornOctober 24, 2008 It was during this time that darkness prevailed over Aretz; nor had it been so dark ever since the last great wars. Many other crises also loomed on the horizon, and anxieties beset the creatures throughout all lands. It was then that there arose a young baboon from out of the apes. His appearance was sudden and surrounded in ambiguity. From whence he came, or whither he went, it was difficult to ascertain; but he spoke audaciously, and boasted great things. When the fowl of the air heard him, they were...

The Sunday Times December 04, 2005 Narnia's lion really is Jesus Christopher Morgan AN unpublished letter from the novelist C S Lewis has provided conclusive proof of the Christian message in his Narnia children’s books. In the letter, sent to a child fan in 1961, Lewis writes: “The whole Narnian story is about Christ.” It has been found by Walter Hooper, literary adviser to the Lewis estate. It has emerged ahead of this week’s release of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The film, starring Tilda Swinton and Jim Broadbent, cost £75m to make and...

<p>Scott LoBaido's painting "Have Faith" portrays President Bush holding Osama bin Laden's severed head.</p> <p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- The National Arts Club puts patriotism on explicit display with a new exhibit to feature the work of controversial artist Scott LoBaido.</p>

Moby Dick is full of allusions to the Bible. A major theme in the Bible is salvation and (in the New Testament) new birth. This essay will summarize what the Bible says on the subject and then show ways in which this applies to Moby Dick. Moby Dick depends a lot on the Old Testament. Job and Jonah, Ahab and Noah stalk its pages. (Originally I had thought of doing a paper contrasting Melville's Ahab with Job, but I was overwhelmed at the magnitude of references and allusions--anyone willing to stake me for a two-year sabbatical?). Moby Dick does also...

Democrats Rip Bush on Terror War, Economy By RON FOURNIER ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman accused Howard Dean in a campaign debate Tuesday night of turning his back on Israel, and the Democratic presidential front-runner shot back that he and former President Bill Clinton held the same view on the issue. "It doesn't help...to demagogue this issue," Dean quickly added in the sharpest clash of the young Democratic debate season. Two days before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Democrats criticized President Bush's handling of the war on terror at the same time they began...

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: J.R.R.TOLKIEN, CATHOLICISM AND THE USE OF ALLEGORYText of a lecture to be given by David (Lord) Alton at the Catholic Society of Bath University and Bath Spa University College on Thursday 20th of February 2003Introduction:Politicians often get by on precious little knowledge about the subjects that they have been asked to address. Usually they rely on knowing marginally more than their audience. This lecture is a particularly risky endeavour as I can guarantee that most people here will have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Middle Earth and its origins. The younger the audience the riskier it...