Revenge of the Sith
I saw Star Wars Episode 3-Revenge of the Sith today...
The special effects...amazing. the backgrounds, fight scenes, and sets were fantastic.
The acting...the only thing that stood out as really bad was Darth's "Nooooo!"
But I don't expect great acting from Star Wars, it's more about the whole story
than character development.
""This is how liberty dies: with thundering applause."-great political parallels to
our current situation in Iraq, "war on terra", etc. General Grievous easily parallels Osama Bin Laden/Al-quida.
“Because this is the back story (of the Star Wars saga), one of the main features of the back story was to tell how the Republic became the Empire,” Lucas says. “At the time I did that, it was during the Vietnam War and the Nixon era. The issue was: How does a
democracy turn itself over to a dictator? Not how does a dictator take over but how does a democracy and Senate
give it away?”
Lucas cited the Roman Empire in the wake of Caesar’s death, France after the Revolution and Germany with the rise of Hitler as historical examples of countries giving themselves over to dictators. “They all seem to happen in the same way with the same issues: Threats from the outside; they need more control; and a democratic body not being able to function properly because everybody’s squabbling.”
Overall, a redeeming movie considering how bad the first two episodes were.
I don't think it was as good as Empire Strikes Back but it's a close second.
Plenty of robots, no robot-sex. I'd see it again.
war=peace, freedom=slavery, now...religion=science
Kansas Debate Challenges Science Itself
By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press Writer TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas school board's hearings on evolution weren't limited to how the theory should be taught in public schools. The board is considering redefining science itself. Advocates of "intelligent design" are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what's observed in the world.
Instead, they want to define it as "a systematic method of continuing investigation," without specifying what kind of answer is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction to the state's science standards.The proposed definition has outraged many scientists, who are frustrated that students could be discussing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena in their science classes.
Stephen Meyer, a senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which supports intelligent design, said changing the schools' definition of science would avoid freezing out questions about how life arose and developed on Earth.The current definition is "not innocuous," Meyer said. "It's not neutral. It's actually taking sides."Jonathan Wells, a Discovery Institute senior fellow, said the dispute won't be settled in public hearings like the ones in Kansas.
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I think it will be resolved in the scientific community," he said.
"I think (intelligent design), in 10 years, will be a very respectable science program."
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE.
god money i'll do anything for you...
Reznor: Manager Duped Me Into Bad Contract By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer Mon May 16, 7:58 PM ET NEW YORK - Alternative-rocker Trent Reznor testified Monday against his longtime manager, saying he was stunned to learn in 2003 that despite millions of dollars in earnings by his band, Nine Inch Nails, he was left with as little as $400,000 in cash.
