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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #15 on Aug 13, 2008, 2:38pm »
LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
Hey, I sprained my ankle last night, so I'm taking the day off. For your musical enjoyment, here's a blast from the past and The Rocky Horror Picture Show....Yes, I was a regular Frankie Fan in my youth! I've participated at the movie in Pittsburgh, Danbury Conn., NY, Philadelphia, and Boston...but my favorite place to engage in this audience participation show was Pittsburgh. Nowhere else did they let us have such fun...dancin' in front of the screen, in costume, and throwing the stuff from our bag of tricks around the theater....Surely the members/guests who are my age remember the show? With nearly a million and a half hits, The Rocky Horror Picture Show still lives! You youngsters, watch and see how wild we were...'cause your generation just can't cut the FUN we used to have! So, Are you ready?.....Do just what it says.... It's just a jump to the left, and a step to the right..... LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN! Michelle [I'll be tapping' my good foot with you ]
The Time Warp! From: lemonboy18 Joined: 2 years ago Videos: 5 Added: July 05, 2006
Actors and Actresses Barry Bostwick, Little Nell Campbell, Meat Loaf, Other Actors, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #17 on Oct 29, 2008, 3:26pm »
New Government Seal
Official Announcement: The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed!
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #18 on Nov 6, 2008, 2:02pm »
If anyone's interested, here's the Astrology Profiles For President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden:
President Barack Obama Level-Headed Leo by Jeff Jawer
U.S. president Barack Obama ran as the candidate of change since he began competing for the Democratic presidential nomination about 18 months ago. Although he has moderated some of his positions since edging out Hillary Clinton, demonstrating his role as unifier, his birth chart suggests that his presidential term or terms will show him to be a transformative leader as the Chief Executive.
Obama is a Leo, born August 4, 1961 at 7:24 pm in Honolulu, with Uranus, the planet of surprises and breakthroughs, at a highly significant point in his horoscope. It was conjunct the Moon’s North Node in Leo, indicating Obama's karmic path as a change agent. But as his campaign has shown, he’s a cautiously bold builder who is likely to be a competent innovator, not a reckless revolutionary.
Obama has the charisma and personal power of his Leo Sun, but the sometimes autocratic nature of this sign is tempered by his Moon, symbol of emotions, in adaptable Gemini. He is not a rigid man with fixed ideas; he is a flexible pragmatist whose plans are carefully measured to include the input of others. The Moon in airy Gemini is often cool and sometimes appears aloof, yet this position also reflects his dislike for personal drama among his staff. Some individuals with Leo and Gemini are all show and no go, but that’s not the case with Obama. You don't make it through Harvard Law School with sloppy work habits or a superficial mind, and you don't run a massive campaign organization without a strong sense of strategy and an eye for detail. Barack was born with Mars, the action planet, in efficient Virgo, where results count more than appearances. His Mars is strengthened by a harmonious 120-degree trine to responsible Saturn in well organized Capricorn, reinforcing his image as a highly competent manager.
Aquarius rising indicates that he is, in some ways, a man who may be free of narrow prejudices, dedicated to innovation and individual rights. We’re unlikely to see fear-based repression of speech under Obama's watch. Still, his earthy efficiency and charismatic cool is nicely balanced with the emotional depth of his Venus in Cancer. The affection this planet of love inspires in his family is not an act. It is an honest expression of a desire to nurture and protect, as demonstrated by his work as a community organizer in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.
Jeff Jawer is the co-author of Barnes & Noble's Your Astrology Guide 2009. A professional astrologer since 1973, his articles have appeared in astrology journals and magazines and Web sites around the world. He holds a B.A. in The History and Science of Astrology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and teaches and lectures both in the United States and abroad.
Vice President and former Senator Joseph Biden, Barack Obama's running mate, is a Scorpio with the warrior planet Mars in this indomitable sign. This makes him well-equipped to take on a rough and tumble campaign -- fighting for and winning Obama's election.
The traditional role of a vice presidential candidate in a U.S. election is to act as an attack dog for the person at the head of a ticket. We expect future presidents to be above the fray and show strength without being overly aggressive. On that score, Barack Obama's choice of Joseph Biden as his running mate is a good one. Biden was born on November 20, 1942 at 8:30 a.m. in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His Rising sign is outgoing Sagittarius, but behind the friendly persona are four planets in Scorpio that give him plenty of bite. His Sun (will), Mercury (intellect), Venus (charm) and Mars (aggression) are all in this passionate and persistent Water sign.
Most Scorpios aren't overtly aggressive, preferring to keep their claws in until they are ready to be used, but they don't tend to give up easily. Biden is one of the longest-serving members of Congress, a man who has survived the death of his wife and child and a brain aneurism, yet seems to have the enthusiasm of a newcomer. He's a battled hardened veteran of two campaigns for the presidency and decades of debate in the U.S. Senate, but he still has a bounce in his step and a ready quip for the media.
Joe Biden is famous for his love of talking. This is not typical for a Scorpio, a sign better known for careful speech or total silence than for garrulousness. Biden, though, has Mercury in a free-flowing trine (120-degree angle) with expansive Jupiter. This unfiltered connection between the planets of communication and excess is a clear reflection of unrestrained speech. However, this positive alignment also indicates an interest in foreign cultures and faraway places. Biden is, of course, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a recognized expert in the field. Another asset Biden brings to the campaign is his working class roots, which endears him to blue collar voters. This is a part of the electorate that any Democrat must have to win the presidency.
It's Biden's Moon in down-to-earth Taurus that reflects his background and his appeal to the common man and woman. Taurus, the sign in which the Moon is said to be exalted in traditional Astrology, has a degree of directness and simplicity that makes a person seem more real and accessible.
Biden and Obama are as different astrologically as they appear to be temperamentally. Biden is earthy and intense, while Obama is calm and cerebral. The passion of Biden's Scorpio Sun contrasts with the shining confidence of Obama's Sun in Leo, and the solidity of Biden's Taurus Moon is far from the flexibility of Obama's Moon in Gemini. These men are complementary rather than comparable. Although this might cause conflict between them down the road, it proved to be a winning combination for the 2008 election.
Jeff Jawer is the co-author of Barnes & Noble's Your Astrology Guide 2009. A professional astrologer since 1973, his articles have appeared in astrology journals and magazines and Web sites around the world. He holds a B.A. in The History and Science of Astrology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and teaches and lectures both in the United States and abroad.
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world. The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com, and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO's website. Some visitors don’t notice the site is a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts don’t notice the joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up with. Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a whole new approach for one final lecture.
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
I have broken any attachments I had to the Ascended Masters and their teachings; drains your chi!
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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #20 on Dec 23, 2008, 3:23pm »
Dog Having a Blast in the Snow - Video
This is a great video....Yes, dogs certainly do like to have fun! Set to fabulous music by Harry Connick Jr., Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer....Share this with your kids; they'll get a giggle from it.....Michelle
Dog Having a Blast in the Snow
It was during a blizzard in the late 1990's where 54 inches of snow fell in 48 hours near Ward, Colorado. And this dog loved every moment of it. No snow hill was too deep for him to run around in.
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
I have broken any attachments I had to the Ascended Masters and their teachings; drains your chi!
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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #22 on Dec 28, 2008, 1:41pm »
Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt, artists and opponents of imperialist war 27 December 2008
British playwright Harold Pinter died Wednesday at the age of 78, and American singer and actress Eartha Kitt died Thursday, Christmas day, at 81.
Both were known for the seriousness with which they pursued their respective artistic activities, and both will be remembered as well for speaking out against imperialist war—in Kitt's case, the war in Vietnam, in Pinter's, the US-British invasion of Iraq in particular.
It would be artificial to find many obvious commonalities. Pinter worked primarily in the theater, carving out a space for himself as a playwright conveying the menace and tension beneath the complacent surface of everyday life. Kitt was a dancer, an actress, a singer, one of the first African-American "sex symbols." Orson Welles cast her as Helen of Troy in his adaptation of the Faust legend in 1950, calling her "the most exciting woman in the world."
However, at critical moments, each stuck his or her neck out, enraging the authorities and speaking for millions who had no voice. Their artistic achievements will always be associated with their commitment to the truth.
Kitt was born into poverty in South Carolina in 1927, the daughter of a black-Indian mother and a white father she never knew. Passed about between different and unsympathetic families, she eventually went to live with an aunt in Harlem, who also abused her. After working in factories and occasionally sleeping on rooftops and in doorways, Kitt became a dancer and found fame in the postwar period, when the stereotypes of blacks in American popular culture began to break down.
Famed for her renditions of songs such as C'est si bon, Love for Sale, Monotonous and Santa Baby and appearances in cabaret, films and television (including a slinky Catwoman in the Batman series), Eartha Kitt burst into the headlines for her courageous criticism of American policy in Vietnam during a visit to the White House in January 1968.
Kitt once explained: "I was sent an invitation by Lady Bird Johnson [the president's wife] that said, ‘What Citizens Can Do to Help Insure Safe Streets.' A car was sent for me and I walked into the White House by myself. The ushers at the door were in white gloves, and that made me feel like I was in the South again, which wasn't a good feeling.... I remember the ladies at the table with me were more curious about the china we were eating off of than what we were there to talk about....
"After dessert the question was asked: what can be done about the beautification of America? And they went around the room, calling on people to give their opinion. It was mostly about planting trees and flowers and such. I raised my hand several times and Lady Bird kept saying, ‘You'll get your turn, Eartha.' When I finally did I repeated the question that was supposed to be the topic, and everything got quiet.... When I got outside, suddenly I didn't have a car anymore. I had to take a taxi back to the hotel. That about said it."
According to a UPI reporter present, this is what Kitt told Mrs. Johnson at the luncheon: "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. They will take pot and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam."
Kitt told the media later that day: "I see nothing wrong with the way I handled myself. I can only hope it will do some good."
Of the president's wife, she said: "I'm afraid she became a little flustered." Kitt, "her eyes flashing while she puffed on a cigarette and jabbed a finger at her startled audience," according to a reporter, said that American youths were "angry because their parents are angry, because there is a war going on that they don't understand, that they don't know why."
As a result of her outspoken opposition to the Vietnam war, Kitt suffered a virtual blacklisting in the US. Lyndon Johnson was furious and reportedly asked the FBI to dig up dirt on her. Kitt's offers in the US dried up and she was forced to work in Europe for nearly a decade, before returning home in triumph.
It speaks volumes about the American media that Kitt's comment at the White House is generally treated as something foolhardy and self-destructive. Risking your career—perhaps even seeing your income go down!—for a principle is hardly conceivable to the timid souls who write for the US media. Back in 2001, George Wayne of Vanity Fair, in an interview with the singer, referred to the January 1968 luncheon at the White House as an event "you probably wish you had never gone to."
To her credit, Kitt replied, "I'm glad I did go to it."
Wayne continued, "You expressed your opposition to the war, which upset the FBI and CIA and got you blacklisted for years. Where did you gather the strength and courage to move on, knowing that you didn't do anything wrong?"
The singer-actress replied, "That I didn't do anything wrong—that gave me the strength. Parents still thank me for helping to stop the war."
Rob Hoerburger, in the New York Times obituary December 26 couldn't help himself either. He writes: "But she [Kitt] took the steeliness with her, in a willful, outspoken manner that mostly served her career, except once," referring to the White House episode. This is sheer philistinism.
Harold Pinter, who spent the last 15 or so years of his life in particular as a conscious opponent of imperialist war and especially US policy, was born in 1930 in modest circumstances also, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Hackney, northeast London. Pinter early on experienced anti-Semitism and street fights with fascists. After the war, he refused to do compulsory national service and was fined.
Pinter came to prominence in the theater in the late 1950s and early 1960s, for a series of concise, elliptical, sometimes frightening plays, including The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker and The Homecoming. He also collaborated with Joseph Losey on The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). Something about the submerged contradictions and stresses of postwar life, all the more malignant because they were denied and submerged, comes out in the plays and screenplays.
Pinter spoke out publicly against the 1991 Gulf War and denounced the US-NATO war against Serbia in 1999. But his outrage and eloquence in response to the criminal US-British invasion of Iraq in March 2003 perhaps brought him the greatest notoriety and international admiration.
In March 2005, accepting the Wilfred Owen Award for his anti-war poetry, Pinter described the attack on Iraq as "A bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of International Law. An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public....
"We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery and degradation to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East.' But, as we all know, we have not been welcomed with the predicted flowers. What we have unleashed is a ferocious and unremitting resistance, mayhem and chaos."
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October of the same year (See "Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize speech: a brave artist speaks the truth about US imperialism"), Pinter took the time in his acceptance speech to explain something of his own approach to drama, insisting, for example, that "Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air," before turning to the political problems of the day.
Pinter delivered a short but devastating history of US foreign policy since World War II, explaining at one point: "Direct invasion of a sovereign state has never in fact been America's favoured method. In the main, it has preferred what it has described as ‘low intensity conflict.' Low intensity conflict means that thousands of people die but slower than if you dropped a bomb on them in one fell swoop. It means that you infect the heart of the country, that you establish a malignant growth and watch the gangrene bloom. When the populace has been subdued—or beaten to death—the same thing—and your own friends, the military and the great corporations, sit comfortably in power, you go before the camera and say that democracy has prevailed."
After once again scathingly denouncing the Bush and Blair governments for their savagery and mass murder in Iraq, Pinter took up the responsibility of the writer and intellectual:
"A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection—unless you lie—in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician....
"When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror—for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
"I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
"If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us—the dignity of man."
A complex, but distinct connection exists between the artist's position on the fundamental moral and political challenges of the day and the quality of his or her work. The artists, as Trotsky once noted, are not empty machines for creating form. They are living people with psychologies that are the result of social circumstances.
Important impulses, including outrage at the crimes of the ruling elite, propel important work. Nothing artistically serious in our day will be accomplished without a commitment to intellectual and social truth.
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
I have broken any attachments I had to the Ascended Masters and their teachings; drains your chi!
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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #23 on Jan 1, 2009, 11:59am »
Ring out the false, ring in the true! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!.............Should auld acquaintance be forgot/And never brought to mind?/ Should auld acquaintance be forgot,/ And days of auld lang syne?/ Sin' auld lang syne./Sin' auld lang syne, my dear, Sin' auld lang syne/We've wandered mony a weary foot/Sin' auld ang syne./We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet/For auld lang syne.......Michelle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
First Footing: Animated Flash e-card for the New Year...I so like this one! Notice the lump of coal the dog drops on the hearth....This is a favorite custom of mine [I can go outside and easily find a piece of coal on the ground] At the end of the animation, click on About New Year Customs...Enjoy!
The Year is Going, Let him go Ring out the false, ring in the true
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Auld Lang Syne Traditional Scottish, collected by Robert Burns
Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the British Museum with this comment: "The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man's singing , is enough to recommend any air."
Throughout the English-speaking world, Auld Lang Syne is traditionally sung on New Years Eve (known as Hogmanay in Scotland). That tradition does not hearken back to Burns but rather only to Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo who sang at midnight January 1, 1929 in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Guy Lombardo's orchestra played the song every New Years Eve, in live broadcast from New York, until 1976. Since then, their recording has been played each year as part of the Times Square "ball drop."
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne?
Chorus: For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp! And surely I'll be mine! And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne.
We twa hae run about the braes And pou'd the gowans fine. We've wandered mony a weary foot, Sin' auld lang syne.
We twa hae sported i' the burn, From morning sun till dine, But seas between us braid hae roared Sin' auld lang syne.
And ther's a hand, my trusty friend, And gie's a hand o' thine; We'll tak' a right good willie-waught,, For auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forqot, Tho' they return with scars? These are a noble hero's lot, Obtain'd in glorious wars; Welcome, my Varo, to my breast, Thy arms about me twine, And make me once again as blest, As I was lang syne.
O'er moor and dale with your gay friend You may pursue the chase, And after a blythe bottle end AII cares in my embrace. And in a vacant rainy day You shall be wholly mine: We'll make the hours run smooth away And laugh at lang syne. Shall Monarchy be quite forgot, And of it no more heard? Antiquity be razed about And slav'ry put in stead? Is Scotsman's blood now grown so cold, The valor of their mind, That they can never once reflect On old lang syne?
We are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. We work to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression.
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Re: just GOTTA post this... « Reply #24 on Jan 7, 2009, 10:57am »
This is creepy! I guess OLPC and Yoko disagree with me; I'd think John Lennon might wish for the children of the world to go to bed with full stomachs rather than with a new laptop. Or how about, in some cases, first having a school [and/or money for] to go to....Michelle
John Lennon "One Laptop Per Child" Commercial
John Lennon Imagines One Laptop per Child in Ad for Nonprofit Organization Stirs Up Controversy Once Again for Use of Artist's Voice and Image By Beth Snyder Bulik Published: December 29, 2008
YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- Almost three decades after he was murdered, John Lennon reappeared on Christmas Day -- or rather his voice and video image reappeared in an online and TV ad supporting the nonprofit program One Laptop per Child.
The commercial features a Lennon voice-over as multicolored icons representing the organization "fly" together to eventually form a video image of Mr. Lennon, with his mouth moving roughly in time to the very modern words.
What Mr. Lennon says, thanks to digital production, is: "Imagine every child, no matter where in the world they were, could access a universe of knowledge. They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want. I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very different way. You can give a child a laptop, and more than imagine, you can change the world."
The ad was created by Taxi, New York, which was given permission to use Mr. Lennon's image free of charge by his widow, Yoko Ono. Taxi itself did the ad pro bono, and it will air both online and on donated media through January.
'Power to change the world' "With his music, John Lennon tried to get the powers that be to imagine a better world. His message is that with the XO laptop, today we all have the power to change the world," Paul Lavoie, chairman and chief creative officer of Taxi, said in a news release.
Still, the ads have mostly been polarizing. Comments at the YouTube page where the ad has been posted by the foundation range from "It's a good message, but this is too far" to "This is an abomination." Writers on the popular website Boing Boing said, "Resurrecting the dead to shill modern products is not going to catch on," adding, "Digitally, it's creepy."
The foundation, of course, believes that its mission -- its tagline is "Change the world" -- and the ad are a good fit with Mr. Lennon's oft-spoken and sung sentiments. "John Lennon's vision of a better world aligns perfectly with the mission of One Laptop per Child," Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of OLPC, said in a press release. "We deeply appreciate Yoko Ono's support in allowing us to create the spot and we hope that its message will get people to imagine the power of education to change the world."
OLPC, which was launched in 2005 by MIT Media Labs and Mr. Negroponte, aims to get small, rugged and inexpensive XO laptops into the hands of children in developing nations. OLPC runs three programs -- individual donations, business donations and a matching "give one, get one" holiday-only program -- to accomplish that.
Other controversial efforts Until this year, the foundation had kept a relatively low marketing profile, but this autumn's efforts have generated much chatter, and even some controversy. An early December ad used disturbing and powerful images of children around the world, including machine guns and child prostitutes, with the message "Children are fast learners. Let's give them the right tools." The ad ran online only and received much kudos, but also a few concerns.
An earlier November ad featuring celebrity NFL quarterback and frequent media gossip target Tom Brady -- out for the season with a knee injury -- also garnered quite a bit of attention for its star centerpiece.
Joe Deeley, a comedian on the Geek Comedy Tour, laid out a common opinion, writing in the comments of Laptop Magazine's blog discussion. "John Lennon probably would have endorsed the OLPC. I seriously doubt he would have endorsed manipulating dead celebrities to say things we 'IMAGINE' they might have said. ... Congratulations on a bold new level of newspeak. George Orwell would be proud. What's next? Elvis for peace in Darfur? Why not? I believe he would have supported it. John Wayne would probably have gotten behind AIDS education and prevention measures. ... Where does it end? Why do we need dead people to help us envision a better future? I suppose there's nobody alive that would agree to this? Sad times."
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