this is the original ART WAR by used universe image cobbled together without photoshop from the cover of a 1978 kids book called 'STAR WARS the mystery of the rebellious robot'.

UPDATE SINCE Yesterday's POST: LINK TO AN ARTICLE ON THE ISSUE WHICH I HAVEN NOT READ YET HERE
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UNbeamtet. on the topics of :Germany, Deutschland, Lehrer and Lehererinenenenenen

Just a little impromptu thought-for-the-day here, but an important one, I think:

My German teacher told me that teachers in Germany - who were usually "beamtet" are now being phased out as beamter... so that, basically, whereas before a teaching position was a very good-paying government job (with excellent benefits and a generous retirement plan) which you could not get fired from, it will now just be lesser paid contractual work...
The reasons, she said, were: to save money.
But... really, guys, -teachers? I thought Germany was smarter than this...
Why not buy-out the legions of letter-writers and stamp stampers clogging the whole bureaucratic system? Why not think long term an sent those unnecessary dinosaurs to an early retirement and streamline this ancient machine with technology which would make it thousands of time quicker, cheaper and more efficient? And, above all:
WHY NOT REPLACE PEOPLE WHO CAN BE REPLACED WITH MACHINES WITH MACHINES AND CONTINUE TO PAY TEACHERS A DECENT WAGE?

Uhmm... yea, so
I say: BOOoooo!
One of the tragedies of America is - of course - low teacher pay, and I don't think many people would dispute that - and low pay can translate to crabby, burnt-out people... that should never be the case when it comes to education. On the other hand, being beamtet (well-paid and un-fireable) can lead to sloppy work... so there clearly needs to be a balance, but really- of all things to cut corners on - this should not be one.

Think about it... and then get your priorities straight, Deutschland!

NOTE: This entire post is based on a casual conversation I had, there are no articles to cite and I make no claims to any facts...

Ladies and Gentleman,

USED UNIVERSE
(if I didn't already post it?)
anyhow, it is my foto blog.

What is the song in KONY 2012?
Long story but I actually came across the KONY 2012 video because of the song I can't stop by Flux Pavilion which i had posted to facebook and then a friend simply commented "KONY 2012"


(at around 25 mintues in) there is a song:

finally learned how to create a GIF a few weeks back... yea, they are creepy/

Brief review I wrote about Jim Henson's the Storyteller series which apparently just came out on DVD. :

The Storyteller: Darker side of the Muppets is well worthwhile.
The Storyteller series - most of which I saw as a child when they aired in the last half of the Jim Henson Hour (when they aired in 1989-ish) are amazing, mysterious and quite unique - there really isn't anything else quite like them as far as I can tell.
I would imagine that almost anyone describing the segments would use the term 'dark' but perhaps that is the first term which comes to mind since they just seem so extremely UN-Disney to our 2012 eyes.
The Storyteller stories are bleak, and sometimes even borderline brutal, indeed - but they are nevertheless visually stunning and the intriguing situations in which the characters often find themselves in are not at all typical, predictable old good-vs.-evil fluff.
In short, watching these as a child never quite gave me nightmares but they did make me thing and the stories have stuck with me ever since.
Never seen it?
It is pretty gooood