Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

Marthin Luther King, un om care nu a mai putut sa taca si sa se abandoneze unei disperari in care conditia negrilor din SUA, chiar considerata nedreapta, e totusi acceptata ("the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity").
Un om care s-a opus biciului manuit de stapan si care cere totul sau nimic ("We can never be satisfied as long…").
Miscarea sa de revolta este mai mult decat un act de revendicare a unor drepturi (I have a dream today…) si elibereaza suvoaie vigurioase dar nu violente ("Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred").
Revolta nu se naste numai la oprimat, ci se poate naste si atunci cand asisti la spectacolul opresiunii a carei victima e altcineva ("for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny").
Miscarea negrilor este in primul rand spirituala ("Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force") si actioneaza in numele unor valori comune tuturor oamneilor ("Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!).

Pagina de pe care am luat acest discurs: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

StumbleUpon & Politics Explained

Am descoperit acest articol in timp ce faceam surf cu StumbleUpon, un program care te ajuta sa gasesti cele mai interesante site-uri, videoclipuri, fotografii,etc in functie de domeniile tale de interes. Programul e foarte simplu de instalat (dar din pacate e compatibil doar cu IE si Firefox), functioneaza ca un Toolbar iar eu sunt foarte multumit de el. Acesta este link-ul:http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Pe site-ul de unde am preluat acest minunat articol scrie: Original source unknown . . . this version expanded and Illuminated by SJ.
Nu pot decat sa ii multumesc lui SJ pentru spiritul lui de patrundere in aspectele esentiale ale unor regimuri politice. De asemenea, imi doresc sa ajung si eu la aceeasi maturitate politica...

POLITICS EXPLAINED

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

Instructiuni pentru parintii incepatori (partea 1)

Se pare ca tatal copilului s-a uitat de prea multe ori la filmul "300". Ce atitudine razboinica are iar bietul copil nici macar nu a facut o priza corecta (mainiile mai departate pe bara).

Probabil ati vazut pe la stiri ca, in unele familii bebelusii sunt tratati foarte rau: li se serveste alcool pentru a-i calma, sunt abandonati in fata televizorului, sunt bruscati, scapati in cap, imprumutati, etc. Deci, cred ca inca un ghid, care sa te invete cum sa devii un parinte bun, nu poate fi decat util.

The listening dead

Short movie&description from atomfilms.com

Director: Phil Mucci | United States

A hauntingly beautiful homage to the silent film era, this 13-minute tale reveals the hidden horrors between an obsessive composer, his forgotten wife and a ghost.

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In caz de pericol, Nietzsche te va salva

Prin cugeariile sale, vestitul filozof german a resusit sa starneasca destule controverse dar si sa aprinda imaginatia multor generatii.
Aforismele filozofului impresioneaza prin claritate, concizie si indrazneala, se citesc usor si nu risti sa te pierzi intr-o mare de contradictii indescifrabile.
Iar daca consideri ca filozofia e doar un paravan sub care se ascund jumatati de existente de tot felul te invit sa citesti cateva insemnari nedestinate, in fond, publicului.

Omul modern :suntem grosolani,directi, plini de ironie fata de sentimentele generoase, chiar si atunci cand sucombam in fata lor.

Societatea noastra de prim rang, societatea bogatiilor, a trandavilor: ei se vaneaza reciproc, dragostea sexuala este un fel de sport, in care casatoria reprezinta o piedica si isi pierde din farmec; lumea se distreaza si traieste de dragul placerii; se apreciaza avantajele economice in primul rand, se practica indrazneala si curiozitatea.

Atitudinea fata de morala: principiile au devenit ridicole, nimeni nu-si mai ingaduie sa vorbeasca fara ironie despre 'datoria' sa. Morala este considerata un instinct, iar restul este dispretuit.

Pozitia fata de politica:nu credem intr-un drept care se poate afirma fara sa se sprijine pe putere, intelegem toate drepturiile ca pe niste cuceriri.

Felul nostru dea aprecia oamenii si lucruriile importante: socotim pasiunea drept un privilegiu, nimic nu ni se pare maret daca nu cuprinde si o mare incalcare.

Atitudinea fata de natura: n-o mai iubim pentru nevinovatia, cumintenia, frumusetea ei; am diabolizat-o si prostit-o cat se poate de bine. In loc insa de a o dispretui pentru asta, ne simtim mai inruditi cu ea si mai acasa in sanul ei.

Atitudinea fata de arta:nu-i cerem frumoase minciuni amagitoare, domneste un pozitivism brutal care constata, fara a se enerva.

Pasi in doi

Un mic raboinic.

Things people said:Courtroom Quotations

The following quotations are taken from official court records across the USA, showing how funny and embarrassing it is that recorders operate at all times in courts of law, so that even the slightest inadvertence is preserved for posterity

Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

Lawyer: "Now sir, I'm sure you are an intelligent and honest man--"
Witness: "Thank you. If I weren't under oath, I'd return the compliment."

Lawyer: "You don't know what it was, and you didn't know what it looked like, but can you describe it?"

Lawyer: "Did he pick the dog up by the ears?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "What was he doing with the dog's ears?"
Witness: "Picking them up in the air."
Lawyer: "Where was the dog at this time?"
Witness: "Attached to the ears."

Lawyer: "When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?"
Other Lawyer: "Objection. That question should be taken out and shot."