‘Tis the season for sharing and gift giving and I guess my cat took the hint from his human relatives. When I opened the front door yesterday, I found this offering.
It was just a couple of weeks ago that I opened the back door and found a dead bird, lying on its back, legs straight up in the air. What’s next?
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It’s strange that the last two DVDs that I’ve watched were so timely even though they were made in the early ’60s. While Elmer Gantry looked at the impact of religous fundamentalism on the human psyche, HUD is about a family tied to cattle ranching and what happens when the cattle get sick and must be slaughtered.
HUD is the story of an aging cattle rancher, played by Melvyn Douglas, and his son, Hud, played by Paul Newman. The performances are excellent all around; both Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas won Oscars for their supporting performances. Paul Newman was nominated for best actor.
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In one of the most deadly acts of terror in recent years, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the ancient city of Bam, in the Islamic Republic of Iran. No known earthly terrorist organizations have claimed responsibility leaving officials to speculate that this diabolical act, which may have killed as many as 5,000-6,000 people and wounded another 30,000, is the handiwork of the Father of all terrorists, God, or as many know him in that part of the world, Allah.
Terrorism expert, Dr. Eyeno Everything, when interviewed on NBC’s Today program said, “It’s too big for al-Qaida. This was an earthquake under a population center clearly intended to kill thousands and destroy an entire city. Truck bombs and airplanes are not in the same league. All the early information that we have points to God’s handiwork. It’s definitely His M.O.”
Images shot from a moving car, accompanied by somber music, showed some houses had been reduced to nothing more than piles of brick, while men near one building embraced each other, shaking and sobbing. Other footage showed dead and injured being brought into hospitals with crowds of people outside.
Reports said the earthquake destroyed Bam’s medieval fortress, a massive, 2,000-year-old structure that sits on a cliff near the city and attracts thousands of tourists each year. The fortress includes scores of ancient mud huts.