-AND NOW IT BEGINS- 88 the Alien mixtape 10.25.2010(A New Day)
The Falcon Prince (Princes of Symtaria)
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Rhianna Lancaster has always been 'different' - and not in that quirky, small-town Texas way. Nope, Ria's unique qualities are downright bizarre, which is why she tries to keep them to herself, thank you very much. So maybe she should be glad when, out for a run, she encounters a guy even weirder than she is - not to mention naked. What Ria learns from this 'Prince Kristor' person is that he's an ...
Do you remember the first time you were abducted by aliens?
I do! I was standing out in a corn field drinking some moonshine, and all of a sudden I was laying a table. After the examination was completed, Zorphidus and the gang took me out on the town. We went to Zorphidus’ home galaxy, hooked up with some Zepheres (that’s space slang for “prostitutes”), and went to a karaoke bar. On the way back to Earth they let me drive the ship, which turned out to be a BAD idea, because I was drunk and had never driven a spaceship. I had to make a crash landing in Nevada, or it may have been New Mexico, I can’t remember. Anyway, a bunch of soldiers came running towards us, and I hauled a$$, leaving Zorphidus and the gang, along with the Zepheres, behind. I had a good time, to say the least! I just wonder what happened to my Zormies (that’s “spaceonics” for friends)…
YES, I remember.
Sadly, it wasn’t as fun as yours…
There I was watching over my cows when a huge light came over us. Three little green men came hovering out of a ship shaped liked a cigar. They wanted to take my prized cow Bessie. Of course I refused. They offered me Zorbels(alien money) but what good is that on Earth so I told them to get lost. Then things got hectic…
They picked me and Bessie up and zapped the rest of my cows with a laser beam! Including my dog Fluffy!!
They took me and Bessie to their ship and strapped us to tables and began poking us.
Then a tall blue alien came in and began slicing and dicing poor Bessie. The aliens were just about to call their chef “Pierre” over to cook them some beef stew when I picked up telepathetically that they should rather not since mad cow disease is going around. Then I blacked out…
When I awoke, I was in a strange place. A lady alien was before me and the entire room was black. She had a milky complexion and large blue eyes with radiant red hair. She told me that we needed to reproduce in order to save her people. Naturally I obliged and gave her a good earthling show of supreme stamina and skill. Needless to say she was highly impressed…
It was then that Zarta Shezang walked in. He was about 8ft tall was extremely hairy and had a face that strangely resembled a pigs. He told me that I needed to save his people as well…
After I woke up, I was back in my earth bed with strange spots on my skin. A bunch of flowers was waiting by the bed with the note saying “Thanks for the memories, from Zarta Shezang…”
Ender's Game
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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training p...
1. What did you mean when you told Joe the Plumber that you want “to share the wealth” when he asked about your pledge to raise taxes?
2. What did you mean in your July 2 speech in Colorado Springs when you said you wanted to form a civilian national security force?
3. Why did you lie on “The View” when you said that Rev. Wright had apologized for the hateful comments he made?
4. Why did you, as the first presidential candidate ever, pay ACORN $800,000 to get out the vote and not properly disclose this to the Federal Election Commission?
5. Why do you advocate giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens?
6. Why haven’t you released your medical records?
7. How do you feel about Louis Farrakhan declaring you the messiah?
8. Why did you tell ACORN members that they will shape the presidential agenda?
9. Why did you (and Sen. Biden) vote on June 6, 2007 against English being our official language?
Should but won’t
This man hides behind his blackness and knows that very few will challenge him because they don’t want to be called racists. I am starting to not care, I know in my heart what I am, I think this man is a crook and probably much worse.
Is it legal when writing a book to use real names?
I am working on a sci-fi book and using names as and other information I have read and heard in the past. I am not copying it directly but am stretching the truth to an extent.
Is this ok to do, should I just change the names, do I have to list them as sources?
For “example” could I use something like: John was convinced President Truman covered up Roswell because Bob Lazar told him he saw the photos of the dead aliens at area 51.
The main characters are fictitious but the story involves some actual events. The background is real in the eyes of the main character but it’s for the reader to decide what they think could be real or could be his paranoia. The facts are all from his perspective and no one else really believes him.
Wow, I just thought of a great ending, thanks.
Stick with the real names, teams and other brand names…as long as they’re just background. You might want to create fictitious names if your story purports to tell (say) the inside story on corruption in pro baseball.
By the same token, you can mention real people as long as you don’t invade their privacy or defame them. So father and son could go to the game and watch Barry Bonds hit a home run—and I hope that describing such an event helps to advance the story or throw light on your characters. Not sure you’d want to have them go on to discuss his drug issues.
So you can make fair use of companies, government agencies, and real people. Back in the 1930s, Upton Sinclair wrote a series of thrillers in which President Roosevelt was a running character, giving orders to secret agent Lanny Budd.
The problem lies in defaming or invading the privacy of such persons. Then you could be in trouble.
Apart from legal trouble, the chief reason for creating a fictitious agency or community is to meet the needs of your story. Maybe you want a town something like Evanston, Illinois, but with a tough neighbourhood that doesn’t really exist. So you create “Hunterston,” and design the town to your specifications.
I’ve chosen my examples consciously: Evan Hunter (a pen name) used another pen name, Ed McBain, to write his 87th Precinct novels. They’re set in “Isola,” a city a lot like New York, but with its own geography and neighbourhoods. That made it possible to develop plots that wouldn’t work in a “real” New York.
S4 Info V1 – Area 51 Guard’s Firsthand Account of Captured UFOs and Aliens
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake (Matthew Bourne)
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Swan Lake became an unexpected popular hit when radical choreographer Matthew Bourne took Tchaikovsky's traditional ballet by the scruff of the neck and reworked it with a myriad of modern influences and themes to astonishing effect. Seldom have the dark psychological riptides at the heart of so many classical ballets been so brilliantly exposed. The Prince (Scott Ambler) is a wretched and diss...
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Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
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Soon astronomers expect to find alien Earths by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that they harbor life may be found. If they are, the ramifications for all areas of human thought and endeavor--from religion and philosophy to art and biology--will be breathtaking. In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front ...
Isn’t rural America the only place in the U.S. that is not polluted by illegal aliens?
I am from rural Oklahoma and I’m getting tired of people from New York City or Los Angeles, going to cafes, etc, just to watch Soccer World Cup matches and support their ancestors’ national teams, what the hell?
Aren’t we Americans? I just watched Fox and they showed a cafe where there were at least 100 flags, NONE OF THEM AN AMERICAN ONE.
Isn’t rural American the only place in the country where we still respect the U.S. flag above the other flags and respect the wishes of our ancestors who came to the U.S. to make us feel proud of being AMERICANS, not Dutch, British, Italian…
3rd answer, yes, that’s fine, real Americans don’t like, and shouldn’t like soccer, that’s not American and we should keep and protect our own sports and customs and don’t let others to destroy those customs.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all-
Wonderful !
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” –Theodore Roosevelt
EDIT: I’m reading a book right now by the late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington called “Who Are We?” I think you’d enjoy it.
The X-Files - Fight the Future (Widescreen Edition)
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The definitive American television series of the '90s comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving on...
Getting married, can you mentally trade the marriage for the engagement?
my soon to be wife / fiancé is a resident alien, we’ve been dating for almost 2 years, I can see her as my wife and things are going well… she’ll need to leave the US in about 8 months if we aren’t married… now, what I was thinking is that we go ahead and get married but make it just “legal” like with a prenuptial agreement to keep our assets separate… no big ceremony because we both live in Hawaii with parents all over the world. This would be for convenience and would be treated like an engagement mentally… and then when we relocate in a year or so we would have a ceremony and have the families come when its easier… I know it’s not traditional and I don’t want to cheapen the experience… but we love each other and want to make this an easy transition, and under the circumstances this feels ok… any suggestions on how to make it go smoothly? Legal advice? Just don’t want to rush in, but I still want us to stay together. Thanks…
If you already know you are going to marry her, make it legitimate. Let this be the special life altering thing that is truly is (no matter what you call it) make her feel special and loved, and let her step up to the plate as your wife and life partner. You WILL cheapen it by calling it by another name.
UFO’S, DRAG QUEEN SEE’S ALIEN CRAFT OVER WAIKIKI, HAWAII OAHU MOUNTAINS 8:15 PM 6 / 4 / 2011
Last night on my way home from Chelsea area about 5.30, loads of helicopters in the sky over river thames, then when I got home, it was dark about 6.45, looking out from my balcony over towards Canary Wharf….about 25 helicopters again over the Thames towards Canary Wharf. Anyone have any idea what was going on? it was NOT aliens, loads of people from my balcony was watching it for about an hour or so, then off they went. Have checked news and london papers, but have not heard anything… Anyone know anything?
I saw them too!
I want too know what they are too, they were so noisy!
Alien War London – TV promos & news reports, Aliens theme park ride
Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Sellers at the Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1904 from Mary Evans
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Photo Puzzle, Sellers at the Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1904. Engraving showing some of the sellers at the Petticoat Lane market; an old lady selling herbs and vegetables and a man and his son selling offcuts, London, 1904. This engraving was part of an article in the Illustrated London News entitled The Alien in England Scenes of the Foreign Invasion of the East End of London. Chosen by Mary ...
Now is the time to get serious about immigration reform with a total re-thinking. For the sake of national security, immigration needs to slow to a trickle until a new system is implemented. We must secure our borders by doing whatever it takes. If troops need to be deployed on the borders, so be it. Being politically correct is no longer working as Americans are growing weary of the problems caused by illegal aliens. We are also tired of being the world’s “chumps”. We don’t need any more economically challenged to support. Enough is enough as our economy is in a deep recession. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” should be relegated to history and no longer applied.
The new Arizona law is a product of this frustration. Many are up in arms over the racial profiling provisions but recent polls have shown that, otherwise, the bill has a lot of support. What most people don’t get is the mere publicity of the law has prompted many illegals to flee Arizona, not to Mexico but to other states. The illegals can’t take a chance by staying in Arizona. This is selfish (and maybe brilliant) on Arizona’s part but the other states can pass their own legislation. The spineless congress is not going to do anything on a national level until at least next year as they don’t want the issue to effect the fall elections.
One of the biggest issues to deal with is what to do with the millions of illegal aliens now in this country. Most are decent, law-abiding people who came here for a better life. I’m not comfortable though with granting blanket amnesty to those who have broken our laws. It’s also not fair to those who have applied to immigrate here legally. On the other hand, would it be practical to deport 12+ million? The lack of some sort of path towards a visa to stay here with potential citizenship (with the requirement to learn English) would still force most illegals to remain anonymous.
It is a complicated situation that will require thought and compassion. After all, most of us are the descendants of previous immigrants. I’m not as cold-hearted as I may sound but overpopulation has the potential to destroy our planet which we don’t need in the US. We also need to stop the flow of potential terrorists and dangerous contraband from entering the country. Who knows, the next group sneaking across the border may have a “suitcase” nuclear device. Can we take that chance for the sake of being magnanimous to our downtrodden neighbors? I think not.
Globe Trekker: Bolivia
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Bolivia is a country of unique qualities. Unpredictable and extreme, it needs no embellishment to entice visitors. landlocked between Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, it has managed to escape mainstream tourism, quietly retaining its mystery. Globe Trekker Ian Wright explores Bolivia, finding that one of the poorest countries in South America is also one of the richest in culture an...
May 19, 2011
Not long ago, the Washington Post reported on one of my clients from Eritrea, who was smuggled through a dozen countries before entering the U.S. and gaining asylum. (((Amazing))) Real Ghost or Alien caught on cell phone in Venezuela
Globe Trekker: Bolivia
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Bolivia is a country of unique qualities. Unpredictable and extreme, it needs no embellishment to entice visitors. landlocked between Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, it has managed to escape mainstream tourism, quietly retaining its mystery. Globe Trekker Ian Wright explores Bolivia, finding that one of the poorest countries in South America is also one of the richest in culture an...
