Forum Topics

Primary tabs

Uncomfortable/amusing plot summaries.

published by You on 24 April, 2009 - 20:05

Mainly from here, but feel free to add your own.

A few that I liked:

  • ALIEN: Ship fails to deliver cargo, crew don’t get bonus.
  • ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.
  • BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
  • DEMOLITION MAN: In a future where crime is completely eradicated, a black man steals and murders.
  • DIE HARD: Dysfunctional cop saves marriage by murdering foreign national.

ok, max 5 per person, otherwise I would post the full list.

PS I think I need to watch Blade Runner to see what all the fuss is about.

Pakistan's Swat dream turns into a nightmare

published by You on 24 April, 2009 - 17:48

he Taliban has failed to keep its side of the bargain in the Swat Valley – and Pakistan is facing criticism at home and abroad

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Rather than endlessly engage in inconclusive, on-off guerrilla warfare with Taliban insurgents, Pakistan's security forces cut a deal. The Islamists would have de facto local administrative control, including implementation of sharia law. In return, they would accept federal government authority, stop fighting, and lay down their arms.

Parents 'refuse genetic tests'

published by s.b.f on 23 April, 2009 - 12:55

Children are being born with severe genetic abnormalities because their parents are being refused funding to screen their embryos, those working in the field have claimed.

Fairer provision of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) - in which embryos can be screened for a particular abnormality - could also mean fewer abortions when problems are picked up further down the line, experts from the Assisted Conception Unit at Guy's Hospital say.

The new, fully integrated IVF and PGD centre in London opens on Thursday and will serve couples from across the UK who want to ensure their baby does not carry a potentially life-threatening inherited condition - from cystic fibrosis to some forms of early onset cancer.

Gay marriage row at Miss USA show

published by You on 21 April, 2009 - 20:03

The runner-up at the Miss USA beauty pageant says her outspoken opposition to gay marriage cost her first place in the competition.

...

"We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage," said Ms Prejean, in a section of the show that has become a popular clip on YouTube.

"I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman," she continued.

"No offence to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

...

Hilton said he had been "floored" by Ms Prejean's answer, which, he said, "alienated millions of gay and lesbian Americans, their families and their supporters".

He told ABC News: "She lost it because of that question. She was definitely the front-runner before that."

...

A letter from George Galloway

published by dark^knight on 18 April, 2009 - 22:56

Here is a letter from George Galloway dated 14 April 09 to the Charity Commission Investigation Unit after they started harassing his mission VIVA PALESTINA aid convoy for the people of GAZA and confiscated £100,000 of the aid money.

Please publicise the issues raised by Mr Galloway in his letter about harassing of Muslim Charities in Britain helping the Palestinians as compared to the treatment met to the Jewish organisations helping the aggressor Israeli army.

PRINTED FROM OFFICIALWIRE

George Galloway Writes To The Charity Commission

Open Letter

by George Galloway

LONDON, ENGLAND -- (OfficialWire) -- 04/14/09 -- George Galloway

Louise Edwards

Compliance Investigation Unit (London)

Charity Commission Direct

PO Box 1227

Liverpool L69 3UG

Racist escapes terror charge after threat to behead and bomb Muslims

published by You on 18 April, 2009 - 22:26

THE Crown Office has been accused of double standards by Scotland's biggest Islamic group for not bringing terrorism charges against a man who threatened to blow up a mosque and behead Muslims.

The Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF) has written to Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini querying the decision to prosecute Neil MacGregor for a breach of the peace, not terrorism offences.

MacGregor, 35, has admitted threatening to blow up Scotland's biggest mosque and to behead one Muslim a week until every mosque was shut down...

Read more @ The Scotsman

Freed Red Mosque cleric defiant

published by You on 17 April, 2009 - 21:31

A hardline Pakistani cleric has delivered a defiant sermon at the Red Mosque, his first since being freed from house arrest over a 2007 siege.

Chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz had been detained when troops stormed the Islamabad mosque to end the siege.

He told thousands of supporters at the mosque on Friday: "The day is not far away when Islam will be enforced in the whole of the country."

The storming of the mosque left more than 100 people dead.

The action led to a wave of suicide bombings by militant groups in the north-west.

'Peaceful work'

Religious eulogies rang out from loudspeakers as Maulana Aziz arrived to deliver his Friday afternoon sermon.

His followers said they were in memory of those "martyred" two years ago.

Shaykha Halima Krausan U.K tour

published by ali.zahoor on 17 April, 2009 - 00:24

The Radical Middle Way and An-Nisa Society presents a series of exciting programmes with Shaykha Halima Krausen on the theme of Community Building and Social Change!

Admission Free! All are Welcome!

An Evening of Recitation and Discussion:
"Making Our Case to God: The Call to Action in Iqbal's Shikwa & Jawab-e-Shikwa"

Thursday 16 April, 18.30pm - 20.30pm

St Ethelburga's Centre,
78 Bishopsgate

These two poems were Iqbal's complaint to God and its response. They are a powerful call to agency and action - a commentary on the Qur'anic verse about changing one's...more info and bookings

Keynote Lecture:
"From the People, For the People: The Prophet's Way of Social Change"

Friday 17 April, 18:30pm - 20:30pm

Friends House,
173-177 Euston Road

Man bites snake in epic struggle

published by You on 16 April, 2009 - 00:04

Man bites snake in epic struggle

A Kenyan man bit a python which wrapped him in its coils and dragged him up a tree during a fierce three-hour struggle, police have told the BBC.

The serpent seized farm worker Ben Nyaumbe in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast at the weekend.

Mr Nyaumbe bit the snake on the tip of the tail during the exhausting battle in the village of Sabaki.

...

He added: "It's very mysterious, this ability to lift the man onto the tree. I've never heard of this before."

The police officer said they took the snake to a sanctuary in Malindi town but it escaped overnight, probably from a gap under the door in the room where it was kept.

Pages