She used to get rammed by ted turner, she has paid her penance13urnzz wrote:
unless you*re jane fonda
i'm not exactly cutting my wrists or dabbing the mascara... but let's just call a spade a spade here, shall we?Dilbert_X wrote:
I don't really care if oligarchs and their cronies are getting whacked.
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corrupt westI was at a conference in Moscow for international journalists to meet members of Russian political parties when the news came through of Boris Berezovsky’s death. ‘It’s the end of an era,’ someone said. The standard account, especially on Russian state news, is that Berezovsky’s era ended long ago: he personified the ‘wild’ 1990s, the antithesis to the ‘stable’ Putin era. But look closer and you see that the Putin era is not the antithesis but the apotheosis of the tactics, patterns and attitudes that Berezovsky put in place.
‘We raped the media,’ Berezovsky confessed in an interview with Snob magazine earlier this year, talking about the elections in the 1990s when he used his control of television and the Kremlin to buy off journalists, magic up pseudo-parties, transform Putin’s image from grey bureaucrat to strongman, and engender a politics where the show was all and content was nothing. One of the Kremlin’s many tricks in the late 1990s was to use the nationalist demagogue Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a potential (and puppet) fascist threat to frighten both Russians and Western observers into the arms of the Kremlin’s party.
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Super excited... about your future wedding with that gay vampire you're dreaming of?Macbeth wrote:
Supreme court is hearing cases for gay marriage and affirmative action. AA is expected to be gutted as it should. Gay marriage may go any way. Super excited.
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OMG STEM IS SUPERIORAt Orchard Gardens Pilot School in Boston, the results have been dramatic. In just three years the students at the once-troubled school have improved their basic academic skills and many say the arts have changed their lives.
That would be pretty much a full time job - at the rate Israelis slaughter innocent civilians - I'm already a busy munchkin.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i'm not exactly cutting my wrists or dabbing the mascara... but let's just call a spade a spade here, shall we?Dilbert_X wrote:
I don't really care if oligarchs and their cronies are getting whacked.
do you set up a shrine and have a cry every time a palestinian gets killed?
everyone deserves a fair trial. you look on russian oligarchs with the same distaste the israeli military looks at senior hamas officials.Dilbert_X wrote:
That would be pretty much a full time job - at the rate Israelis slaughter innocent civilians - I'm already a busy munchkin.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i'm not exactly cutting my wrists or dabbing the mascara... but let's just call a spade a spade here, shall we?Dilbert_X wrote:
I don't really care if oligarchs and their cronies are getting whacked.
do you set up a shrine and have a cry every time a palestinian gets killed?
If anyone deserves an assassins bullet its the Russian oligarchs TBH. That they're getting it - good.
see, i could almost get onboard with the rudimentary argument being put forth by that article... except that, for those high school students, at that high school level, 'the arts' basically translates to "dance class and glee club". no shit students are going to enjoy school more when a few hours a week are given over to running around on a sugar high to loud music. "the arts". hardly sitting them down with moby dick, is it? at my school the emphasis was always on formal learning - the classics, greek/latin, ancient history, languages, maths, tripos of sciences etc. - and nobody in my class turned into a juvenile delinquent.Cybargs wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21890033OMG STEM IS SUPERIORAt Orchard Gardens Pilot School in Boston, the results have been dramatic. In just three years the students at the once-troubled school have improved their basic academic skills and many say the arts have changed their lives.
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you're really comparing your school to inner city schools in the US?Uzique The Lesser wrote:
see, i could almost get onboard with the rudimentary argument being put forth by that article... except that, for those high school students, at that high school level, 'the arts' basically translates to "dance class and glee club". no shit students are going to enjoy school more when a few hours a week are given over to running around on a sugar high to loud music. "the arts". hardly sitting them down with moby dick, is it? at my school the emphasis was always on formal learning - the classics, greek/latin, ancient history, languages, maths, tripos of sciences etc. - and nobody in my class turned into a juvenile delinquent.Cybargs wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21890033OMG STEM IS SUPERIORAt Orchard Gardens Pilot School in Boston, the results have been dramatic. In just three years the students at the once-troubled school have improved their basic academic skills and many say the arts have changed their lives.
If they didn't flee the country with their stolen loot no doubt they'd get a trial of some kind.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
everyone deserves a fair trial. you look on russian oligarchs with the same distaste the israeli military looks at senior hamas officials.Dilbert_X wrote:
That would be pretty much a full time job - at the rate Israelis slaughter innocent civilians - I'm already a busy munchkin.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i'm not exactly cutting my wrists or dabbing the mascara... but let's just call a spade a spade here, shall we?
do you set up a shrine and have a cry every time a palestinian gets killed?
If anyone deserves an assassins bullet its the Russian oligarchs TBH. That they're getting it - good.
Fair trial in russia?Dilbert_X wrote:
If they didn't flee the country with their stolen loot no doubt they'd get a trial of some kind.
you do know that after you ingest said fresh food and drink it gets fucked over by bacteria and fungi of your digestive system for hours so that you can get anything out of it, right? fermented food like yogurt, cheese and pickled fish is actually very healthy and good nutritionally.globefish23 wrote:
I only really like distilled spirits mixed with fresh fruit juices in cocktails.
All those fermented alcoholic beverages (beer, wine,...) really suck.
Same way that mould cheese is an abomination.
I want my food and drinks fresh, not digested and fucked over by bacteria and fungi for months.
yeah. i've been on trial in russia. and i've sued other people in russia. it's been pretty fair. have you been involved in anything like that in russia?Cybargs wrote:
Fair trial in russia?Dilbert_X wrote:
If they didn't flee the country with their stolen loot no doubt they'd get a trial of some kind.
and that, of course, only happens in russia.Lol wat. You mean the same russia who kills and torture lawyers that expose corruption, names them enemy of the state and what not?
no, i'm not. but what i'm saying is that giving kids an excuse to run around and dance to get their hyper-activity out of them is not really the "triumph of the refined arts" that the article is trying to make out. it says the "heavy science emphasis of US education" is somehow detrimental, whereas the "arts" can mould them into better "thinkers". ok, that's a great argument... now let's see the evidence. oh, wait, a bunch of kids dancing and playing am-dram. not quite the same thing. more like they're just glad to be away from their physics question+answer textbooks.Cybargs wrote:
you're really comparing your school to inner city schools in the US?Uzique The Lesser wrote:
see, i could almost get onboard with the rudimentary argument being put forth by that article... except that, for those high school students, at that high school level, 'the arts' basically translates to "dance class and glee club". no shit students are going to enjoy school more when a few hours a week are given over to running around on a sugar high to loud music. "the arts". hardly sitting them down with moby dick, is it? at my school the emphasis was always on formal learning - the classics, greek/latin, ancient history, languages, maths, tripos of sciences etc. - and nobody in my class turned into a juvenile delinquent.Cybargs wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21890033
OMG STEM IS SUPERIOR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_MagnitskyShahter wrote:
yeah. i've been on trial in russia. and i've sued other people in russia. it's been pretty fair. have you been involved in anything like that in russia?Cybargs wrote:
Fair trial in russia?Dilbert_X wrote:
If they didn't flee the country with their stolen loot no doubt they'd get a trial of some kind.and that, of course, only happens in russia.Lol wat. You mean the same russia who kills and torture lawyers that expose corruption, names them enemy of the state and what not?
cretin.
Shahter wrote:
and that, of course, only happens in russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._WalesUzique The Lesser wrote:
can we get some links to examples of western lawyers being killed and called 'enemies of the state', please? or journalists?
i'm an arts scholar and i don't really know what the "behavioral aspects of the arts" are, sorry.Cybargs wrote:
Your best example of someone who "ought to be killed" by your standards is Julian Assange, yet he's still doing pretty well.
Zique: I was talking more about the behavioral aspects of the "arts." And that black kid could play the sax pretty well.
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