haha, i gotta say, I DO love Bones. tis a great show. it's about as close to a soap opera as i'm probably gonna get. :P also, it teaches me (along with Ducky ((Dr. Mallard)) from NCIS). I now know terms like "post-mortem" (after death) :)
What?! It makes me feel stupid when i'm watching the show, but when I can use phrases like that, I feel uber smart.
ya know, what does "uber" even mean?! it's German, right??? or at least, that's what I heard. but we Americans are fairly ignorant... so idk. LET'S RESEARCH!!!
...or not. >.>
It's not even a word... that translates, anyway. I put it in the "translate" thingy on dictionary.com (it's pretty cool), & it said something about German... if anyone is German & reading this, or if you know someone who speaks German, or if your best friend's cousin's uncle's fiancee's nephew's friend's friend's friend (who happens to be your milkman ((totally random, i know, but still!!))), or whatever, please comment & tell all those curious people like me in the world what the word "uber" means, that'd be AWESOME. :)
sooo... i was gonna say something else on here, but watching tv has fried my brain. I can afford that now because TODAY WAS MY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! YAY!!! I must say, i will miss being a fish (haha we watched B- OOOOHHH!!! i remember now!!!), but being a sophomore might make things WAY easier. I hate how sophomore is spelled. It's pronounced like "sophmore", so that's how I wanna spell it. To me it looks like "soph-oh-more". ANYWAY!!!
I remembered (obviously). Today in English, we watched the movie Big Fish. It seems preettty awesome, if you ask me. Though I wasn't able to finish it (what?! we only have 1:30 min classes!!!), I highly recommend. Same to The Village (AWESOME!). Planet of the Apes was... strange, to say the least, & unless you are crazy obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio, I don't recommend his version of Romeo & Juliet. Trust me. The only part I like is in the beginning- if you've read Romeo & Juliet, the part with the "Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?!" haha. If you haven't read it, READ IT! it's pretty awesome, I must say. But anyway, yeah. English teacher is crazy, yet uber (haha) awesome, so these last... WEEKS probably... have been filled with watching movies. We had to answer questions, but these last few days we just watched them. Movies we've watched in English this year:
- Minority Report
- Planet of the Apes
- The Village
- The Lady in the Water
- Big Fish*
- Romeo & Juliet*
- Julius Caesar*
- Some stuff for The Lord of the Flies
- (at least, that's all i can remember. the *'d ones= didn't finish)
Colored ones I recommend, btw.
oook. So i'm gonna go eat dinner now... watching technically-not-soap-opera-soap-operas makes me hungry... well, scratch that. Thinking makes me hungry. Yes, as a matter of fact, blogging is NOT brainless, after all!! O.O (i know, who would've thunk it?!)
Rian (needs Kristin to turn in The Physics of Superheroes so she can read it soon! :P)
psst: jk. take your time!!! :)
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We are not getting out of this depression anytime soon. Its going to get a lot worse for most of us. It didn't have to be this way. Greed ruins everything. If you don't believe it, then ask any professor of economics.
"As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery. Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. This served them as capital accumulations. But by taking purchasing power out of the hands of mass consumers, the savers denied to themselves the kind of effective demand for their products that would justify a reinvestment of their capital accumulations in new plants. In consequence, as in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped."
Marriner Eccles, FDR's Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank - 1959
In other words, the first Great Depression was caused by greed. The rich couldn't settle for reasonable pay. They had to have more and more and more. That caused a giant shift in buying power from the majority to the rich. When the majority lost their buying power, they lost their ability to support the economy. Einstein said basically the same thing in 1949.
Its even worse now. Ordinary people havn't only lost their relative buying power. They have also lost their savings, home values, pensions, and benefits. This didn't happen overnight. Its been happening gradually for the last 30 years. Meanwhile, the rich have become super incredibly rich. The richest 500 Americans are worth about two trillion dollars. More than the bottom 40% of American housholds combined. The richest 1 percent are worth about 15 trillion dollars. More than the bottom 98% of American households combined. Thats just insane. I don't care how much work for humanity the rich claim to do. Its nothing but a cover for their own greed. We don't need anymore rich people to create jobs or make donations for charity. We need them to get reasonable about how much money and assets they keep for themselves.
Don't believe their excuse about paying more income taxes. They don't pay enough. For every tax they pay, they get an obscene profit, bailout, or kickback from our government to cover it. We had a progressive tax system that worked for over 40 years. It prevented too much wealth from accumulating at the top. In 1976, the middle 80% owned about 2/3 of America's total wealth. Reagan lowered taxes for the rich. Bush lowered them again. Now, the richest 5% own about 2/3 of America's total wealth. The lower 95% own about 1/3. America's wealth has been transfered from poor to rich again. Now, we have another depression.
Don't believe it when the rich claim to be getting poorer. Property values have gone down for everyone. Thats because of the concentration of wealth and income. When the economy slows down, property values tank. So when rich people complain about lower net worth, its a trick. They still have the same buying power on average.
Everything that is happening with the economy is happening because too much wealth has been taken away from the majority and concentrated into the private vaults of rich people. The same ones on TV telling us how much they want to help the world. Its a big lie. Just another way to promote their own business and get more of our money. Rich people don't want to help the world. They want to own it.
Now, the economy is ruined. Obama can't fix it because the rich won't let him. There will be no bailout for the people because the ones with all the money won't settle for less. They want more. Its going to get a lot worse. Say goodbye to the American dream and hello to the American nightmare.
^^DOOM BRINGER^^
^^Seconds that^^
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