Jessica Alba Corrects Bill O’Reilly
Jessica Alba correcting Bill O’Reilly and many others on World War II history is not what you would expect from the lass. Her comment to be Sweden about her light tussle with O’Reilly made headlines with everyone claiming that she was wrong without any research. It’s because she played a character that was a stripper in Sin City, right? What type casting.
If they would have performed a simple Google search, they would have known that Sweden was, indeed, one of the great neutral countries in Europe during WWII. In the early 40s, they saved thousands and thousands of Jews from certain death and torture and gave home to somewhere around 50,000 Norwegians. Their efforts seem to have been forgotten by most of history. The humanitarianism aside, why would anyone assume that Sweden was not neutral during WWII?
Sweden traded millions of tons of iron ore and also ball bearings to Germany. Even during the war. Sweden had dealings with Germany that actually could have turned the tide of war, or even stop Germany altogether, if they would have discontinued exporting mass amounts of ore. Because of their neutrality policy, they could not have interfered. Sweden also feared an economic collapse if they stopped trading and an attack from Germany as a result.
There were several other neutral countries, but many only decided to declare neutrality late in the war. While the United States did not immediately declare war on Germany, and there is speculation if the US would have if Hitler did not declare it first, we did declare war on Japan first because of Pearl Harbor. Several days later, Hitler declared war on the US. That is when we entered a German First policy with the British. The US was no longer neutral in 1940 because of the Lend-Lease Act, but did not enter the war until over a year later.
There are stories about the US denying asylum to immigrant Jews are true, but most of these stories were from when the US did not want to break their neutrality and stay out of the war for as long as possible. It wasn’t just the US, of course, as many countries either took as many Jews as they could handle or refused to take any at all. There were little moral justifications in doing so aside from getting involved in a long and bloody war.
Sweden did accomplish rescue efforts that saved thousands, but the question will always remain of what would have happened if Sweden cut off Germany completely when a second world war became more than a rising fear. Even in the year 1944, the Swedes continued to trade with Germany. Sweden relied on compensation for their concessions and Germany relied heavily on the raw materials to create weapons and vehicles. Even with the loss of 1,500 Swedish sailors and attacked shipments from the British, the trade continued.
While Jessica Alba corrected a man I hope plants a bullet in his brain as a consequence of his hateful ignorance, it only shows that the media is quick to label a person without any knowledge or research beforehand. Everyone that had any negative criticism towards her comment should be fired or at least severely reprimanded on the sole basis of stupidity. May the typist responsibly for the ignorant slander receive severe carpal tunnel syndrome.
World Ends December 21st, 2012
Mathematically speaking, the Mayan calendar had to have an ending. Every calendar man-made will have an ending. When New Years rolls around, do we cry out rapture? Well, we have in the past while waiting for the years 1000AD and 2000 (Y2K). Nothing happened except several reported suicides, panic in the streets, and then life goes on as normal after the first. Time is a man made concept, man cannot predict the end of time. Hence, a calendar created by man cannot pinpoint the end of time, because time only exists within the minds of man.
The Mayan Long Count calendar will simply “reset” itself when it hits 13.0.0.0.0. It will return to 0.0.0.0.1. When the trip odometer reaches 999.9 on an automobile, does the car stop dead to never run again? What if the mileage were to reach 999,999. Would that matter aside from a quick milestone picture? Do people realize an automobile is a lot more complicated than a calendar? The Mayan’s were not the only ancient civilization to master arts, mathematics, and astronomy. Take a look at the technology the Greeks held at one point.
The Antikythera mechanism: The first known mechanical calculator.
Many ancient civilizations had their own tales of the end. Many predictions have passed their visioned date and several actually came to fruition, but we are still here. White Buffalo have been born and bombs have been dropped. Several Antichrist candidates have been born and rained fire across a continent of their choosing multiple times, but they have been proven to be only human. This planet can withstand a beating, but mankind cannot.
Even if there were a God, He obviously knows that we are a greedy, panicky, self-centered, arrogant, murderous, cannibalistic, easily frightened, wild pack of animals. We were created in His image. Another cheerful thought is that there is no great destiny for man except to evolve our mind, body, and civilization until the day our time on this rock ends to usher in an era of another dominate species to rule the Earth. It has happened before and those that know their history know that history will always repeat itself.
Revelations of the Cthulhu Mythos
This is a topic I’ve had my mind on for quite some time. Although horrifying, it still remains to be an interesting theory of mine and others. H.P. Lovecraft created a series of fiction that revolves around ancient gods who ruled this Earth for millions of years with powers that we cannot begin to comprehend. This article is a theory on how Cthulhu could exist and why we all are possibly doomed to become enslaved by the Deep, Ancient, Old Ones.
Many of you already know this story, but I will briefly touch up on it. In 1997, scientists that were great distances from each other picked up a very low, loud, and repeating sound somewhere along the coordinates near S 50″, W 100″. Now, this sound was said to have been made by an animal much larger than any whale known to us. The noise has been said to be similar to a whale’s song.
In the early 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft wrote many classic horror tales set in first-person taking place in the madness of the Cthulhu mythos. It was a horrifying tale of men being driven to madness as their environments begin to change dramatically for the worst. Things that go bump in the night that we cannot begin to comprehend slowly entering our reality. While Cthulhu is not the most powerful being in the Cthulhu mythos, he certainly has gained the spotlight.
We know that this was a huge collaboration of some rather gifted minds working together to create a new and horrifying mythology. They were pretty detailed in their work and companions that followed. They even gave a location to where the monster lies under the ocean. The coordinates for where Cthulhu sleeps in the city of R’lyeh were given as S 47° 9′, W 126° 43′ 47″. Now, this may simply be a coicidence, but it is certainly not a hoax. The recordings were made my deep underwater microphones used to direct Soviet submarines during the Cold War. Both coordinates are incredibly close. Interesting to think that a sunken city could really exist, but that’s all legend, right?
Most people will immediately assume Atlantis for a once proud city, but swallowed by the abyss. The lost city of Atlantis was made famous by Plato, and Plato only, a very long time ago in unfinished writings. It is said that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic ocean and sank to a watery grave. The exact location is never given, only that it was an absolute powerhouse. To think that a continent could sink deep into the ocean overnight sounds as realistic to me as California breaking off from the United States during a major earthquake. Though, what if Plato had a solid lead on a civilization with advanced, ancient beings? It is written that humans existed around the time of the Old Ones.
While many authors and others tried to build up Atlantis more and more over the last few centuries, I believe it to be a legend based on the truth. In every instance, the lie becomes the legend and then the legend becomes the truth. Atlantis was supposedly a highly advanced city, but so was R’lyeh. The epic scope of the unknown architecture was enough evidence to allow justification of worship by the first humans as they were led to the temples. If sights such as these were left in oral history passed onto generations, it might have ended up like a very long game of telephone with many liberties taken to the literal interpretation of what was originally said.
What if Cthulhu does exist in his watery tomb under the South Pacific Ocean? Could this mysterious noise called The Bloop be Cthulhu snoring violently? I for one am glad that it did not appear to awaken the Great Old One. Although, what if the science behind this giant creature is different than what we can imagine? Human beings wake themselves by snoring all of the time, but a creature of his sheer mass and unbelievable power may take a great amount of time to fully awaken from a few million year slumber.
Enough theories and thought. What still prevails in all of this is the unknown noise that was dubbed Bloop. It was given this name after what the noise resembled after the recording was sped up substantially. This noise was traced back somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The location given shows R’lyeh in the Pacific Ocean as well. The two locations are only 1,230 miles from each other. The Bloop location is only relative, of course, and could be closer than estimated.
This could have been a warning in an alien language spoken under tons of water that we can barely attempt to decipher. It may have been an extremely large man made vessel, but that doesn’t quite explain the pattern of the noise. Resembling a whale’s song, perhaps it really could be a great deep monster slumbering uncomfortably in a cold, water tomb.
How No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Screwed Next Gen
It’s obvious that the first horror of NCLB is that schools begin to look at kids as a statistic instead of caring if they actually learn, as long as they test well. Though, there are errors in the schools way of thinking that make them think that if a child doesn’t test well, but still passes, the average test score will drop. Because of this, kids are being hassled and put under a phenomenal amount of stress at an early age. So much for being a kid these days, right?
Now, that is definitely not the worst aspect of this atrocious act. There are many statistics and articles how the NCLB Act fails minorities by increasing the margin between whites and minorities. Not only that, but how are failing schools supposed to progress if their funding is cut by a ridiculous amount? Schools that are already failing from overcrowded classes because of a lack of teachers and new books are being punished enough as it is, they do not need further financial cuts.
Though, perhaps the most devastating section of the No Child Left Behind Act is the provision that grants the Pentagon direct access to public school records. These records contain all student information to allow contact for military recruitment. This is a big change from the rights students used to have prior to Bush Jr. Just like Big Tobacco, the Pentagon’s motto is “Get’em While They’re Young”.
Obama has more to do than most people can imagine. McCain would have continued a lot of these constitutional breaking laws, acts, and provisions either out of laziness or the fact he does not care about the rights and well being of the general public.
Now for the inevitable Bush Family related scam regarding the No Child Left Behind Act! The Bush family benefits directly for NCLB! Neil Bush started a company that provides software to help students take standardized tests. Ignite, Inc. wanted 30 dollars-per-year-per-student for its software for this deal, netting 60 million dollars. “Having one brother selling something to help students on a test spearheaded by another brother and sanctioned by the president doesn’t look good.”
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