I’m so excited! I was looking at books at Goodwill tonight and I find this one. I read it once when I was 14, forgot the name and author and never could find it again.
Now I re-read it and see if there was a sequel.
Tracks
God bless our troops!
![anexperimentallife:
“A few minutes ago Anderson Cooper asked [Charles Ramsey] if he would like a reward. Charles pulled his paycheck out of his pocket and said, ‘I get a Paycheck. Give the reward to the girls they rescued.’”
THAT’S what we should be talking about, not “how funny those quaint little black people are when they get on camera.”
This guy helps rescue three women, and people are making fun of him? Yeah, he used humor when he told the tale, and sure, it’s appropriate to chuckle when he does so. (Like when he said he “knew there was a problem when a young white girl ran into a black mans arms.”)
But to make fun of him? TO MAKE FUN OF HIM? TO DISRESPECT THIS MAN? THIS HERO?
Fucking shame on you. Dishonor on you, dishonor on your family, dishonor on your cow.
If you’re the kind of scumbag who makes fun of heroes, I suppose you can poke fun at him all you want, but if I’m ever in trouble and need someone to step up the the plate, I hope someone like Charles Ramsey is around.
I laughed at him because he was using humor and if you don’t laugh when someone makes a joke it’s sort of a dick move. It had nothing to do with his race, btw.
I agree that what the guy did is heroic, but he’s no angel. He is apparently a felon who was in prison a couple of times for domestic abuse. I give credit where credit is due though and he seems like a quality person.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/8bea2cab829b39387b2c8fb25c0ae38c/tumblr_mmhm17ch561qgikhco1_400.jpg)
“A few minutes ago Anderson Cooper asked [Charles Ramsey] if he would like a reward. Charles pulled his paycheck out of his pocket and said, ‘I get a Paycheck. Give the reward to the girls they rescued.’”
THAT’S what we should be talking about, not “how funny those quaint little black people are when they get on camera.”
This guy helps rescue three women, and people are making fun of him? Yeah, he used humor when he told the tale, and sure, it’s appropriate to chuckle when he does so. (Like when he said he “knew there was a problem when a young white girl ran into a black mans arms.”)
But to make fun of him? TO MAKE FUN OF HIM? TO DISRESPECT THIS MAN? THIS HERO?
Fucking shame on you. Dishonor on you, dishonor on your family, dishonor on your cow.
If you’re the kind of scumbag who makes fun of heroes, I suppose you can poke fun at him all you want, but if I’m ever in trouble and need someone to step up the the plate, I hope someone like Charles Ramsey is around.
I laughed at him because he was using humor and if you don’t laugh when someone makes a joke it’s sort of a dick move. It had nothing to do with his race, btw.
I agree that what the guy did is heroic, but he’s no angel. He is apparently a felon who was in prison a couple of times for domestic abuse. I give credit where credit is due though and he seems like a quality person.
(Source: mind-palace-impala)
Movie Review @ Damn Straight Politics: Star Trek Into Darkness: A Complete Waste of Film
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!—Spock. Possibly the worst line in the movie.
great review
Study well, my collegiate brethren.
“The Brave” Makeover Debate | Christian Michael
So I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion about this supposedly anti-feminist “makeover” that Disney gave Merida and one of my blogger friends wrote an awesome post about and I want to share it with you all.
Here’s a couple of points from the post:
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2) The new dress in the image is far more the kind of dress Merida would wear than the stuffy one she had to wear to her betrothal.
3) At the end of the film, Merida was learning greatly how to balance her own tomboyish and rebellious nature with the power of being a lady from her mother. The attire, to me, seems fitting as the marriage of rebellion and class finally come together.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
I love this scene in The Trouble With Tribbles
MCCOY: What’s the matter, Spock?
SPOCK: There’s something disquieting about these creatures.
MCCOY: Don’t tell me you’ve got a feeling.
SPOCK: Don’t be insulting, Doctor.
A random Star Trek thought
One of the great things about the most of the Star Trek shows and movies was always the subtle libertarian themes that were so typical of good science fiction. Cheat on the most important test in Starfleet, get an award. Ignore those in power, get a promotion. Everyone knows Romulan ale is illegal, every one drinks it, you ever see anyone even fined for it? Even when the liberal writers tried to make us hate the Ferengi for their pure capitalism, they end up showing us some of the best capitalism has to offer.
That was until J.J. Abrams. Where everyone abides by the rules. Where even showing any creativity in the Kobiashi Maru not only doesn’t get you an award it gets you court marshaled. Where even drinking regular liquor is frowned upon. The new Star Trek didn’t just change the characters, it changed the very thematic core of the show.
Damn you J.J. Abrams. Damn you to the special hell. (Firefly fans know which one I speak of).
bethifer asked:
Is it worth seeing for Benedict at least? Cause I already don't like JJ's work, didn't like the first Trek movie he made much, and was only going to see this one for Benedict.I cheered Benedict on. He was good, but the writing was so bad…it was a waste of a good villain and a great actor.
I was cheering him on when he said he would “walk over your cold corpses” to the Enterprise crew. I wanted him to win because everything else was so bad.
dream-crusher asked:
The part at the beginning with the Enterprise underwater was a bit of a cop-out.That whole first story arc was stupid, it had nothing do with the plot and there was no point to it. He lost his ship and got it right back 2 seconds later.
dream-crusher asked:
My friend asked me who the villain in Into Darkness turned out to be, so I told him that it's Benedict Cumberbatch as Harry Mudd, except secretly working for the Dominion.HAHA!
almostanarchic asked:
... Ouch.I’m usually the positive critic of movies I see with new-age-conservative. I find things to like while he rips most movies a new one.
On this one we are in agreement completely, so that tells you how bad it is.
I have to be honest.
Reasons I didn’t like the newest Star Trek movie (the short version)
First of all, LENS FLARES ARE NOT NEEDED IN EVERY OTHER FRAME!
There, needed to get that off my chest. Abrams needs Lens Flare rehab.
Next up:
The plot makes no sense, the only good scenes are ones that were lifted almost frame by frame and line by line from the old movies, 60% of the scenes do nothing to advance the plot, and there is so much contrived deus ex machina that I wanted to kill the writers.
Also at least 2 (maybe 3) fields of science were completely bastardized or outright ignored. (i.e. my comments during the movie were “Warp engines don’t work that way!”, “Physics doesn’t work that way!”, “Biology doesn’t work that way!”, and “Radiation does not work that way!”)
