Let them buy computers, soon they think they're free or something

"An appeals court in Vietnam has upheld the sentences of two prominent bloggers jailed in September for 'anti-state propaganda', a lawyer has told the BBC.

The court ruled that the sentences and convictions of writer Nguyen Van Hai and former policewoman Ta Phong Tan should not be overturned.

Nguyen Van Hai and Ta Phong Tan received 12 and 10 years in jail respectively after a brief trial.

The pair were found guilty of posting political articles on a banned website called Free Journalists' Club, as well as posting articles critical of the government on their own blogs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20856696

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General Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-2012)

"The day I left Riyadh to return to the United States, Gen. Khalid made a statement in a speech that every American should think about. He said, 'If the world is only going to have one superpower, thank God it is the United States of America.' When I think about the nations in the past 50 years that could have emerged as the world's only superpower -- Tojo's Japan, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China -- and the darkness that would have descended on this world if they had, I appreciate the wisdom of Khalid's words. Because we have emerged as the only remaining superpower, we have awesome responsibility both to ourselves as a nation and to the rest of the world. I don't know what that responsibility will mean to the future of our great country, but I shall always remain confident of the American people's ability to rise to any challenge."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg010113.php3

Top 10 anti-Semites of 2012

One American made the list. A German journalist said another Deutsch writer “only missed the opportunity to make his career with the Gestapo because he was born after the war. He certainly would have had what it takes.’"

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/the_ten_top_anti-semites_of_2012.html#ixzz2GjqdQaA1

And to follow the post below: Give me a break!

Another Yahoo headline: ‘Jessica Simpson Shows Off Her Baby Bump’

The first time I heard the name Jessica Simpson, I thought it was a relative of Homer’s. Too bad I learned differently.

I am not giving a link to that story, either.

Question of the century

‘Kim Kardashian Pregnant: Will She Tone Down The Nude photo shoots?’

Headline at yahoo.com “Entertainment” block.

I did not/will not read the story and definitely, certainly, absolutely will not post the link.

To people who follow the Kardashians: (1) Get a life; (2) Stay away from ballot boxes. (Explanation to Kardashian fans: #2 means DO NOT VOTE!)

Primal scream deadly

“The late North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, died from a heart-attack brought on by a temper tantrum over sloppy work on a crucial power station, reports in a South Korean newspaper claim.

“According to unnamed sources quoted in Chosun Ilbo, a conservative national newspaper, Kim Jong-il died in a fit of rage after being briefed about a leak at a hydro-electric power station.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-koreas-dear-leader-kim-jongil-died-in-fit-of-rage-over-dam-that-had-sprung-a-leak-8434010.html

Let it all hang out.

Let someone else do your killing

On the screen, of course.

What you will never hear a parent say in a television interview:

“'You know, Diane, I wish somehow I was there at the school, and I had a gun, and I shot that killer dead.'”

“If after watching a number of these tragedies play out on television, you are completely reprogrammed into some grotesque version of ‘love everybody all the time and forgive everything,’ and you need an outlet, a way to vicariously and subconsciously experience what you REALLY feel, you can always:

“Go to the movies. The movies give you a different slant. You can be Mel Gibson killing people to get his kidnapped daughter back. You can be Charles Bronson wiping out street scum to avenge the loss of his wife. You can be Stallone or Arnie. You can roam the countryside spilling blood at every street corner.

“The movies give you vicarious license to destroy evil. Television news takes it away.

“It’s called the whipsaw effect, and it’s modern mind control, and it puts you in the ‘excluded middle,’ where nothing happens and you remain locked up and passive.

“Where the powers-that-be want you to remain.”

http://www.infowars.com/sandy-hook-how-television-takes-your-guns/

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