There were two endings. This is the one that didn't make the cut.
Maybe that's a good thing.

"US and UK versions feature different endings. The first ending has Ash battling a she-demon in a department store in the present. The alternative ending has Ash imbibing a secret potion that would make him sleep one century for each drop of the potion he drinks. He then goes to a cave to sleep. However, he drank one drop too many and wakes up to find a barren post-apocalyptic landscape. The final shot is Ash screaming in rage at a red sky. The Great Britain video version shows the ''potion'' ending, and the version shown in US theatres showed the ''she-demon'' ending."

from IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/alternateversions

At what point did "through" change from "throw" to "throo" and how is it pronounced in modern-day Great Britain? (You know, "daughters" used to be pronounced "dafters" in the US at least until 1800. [If you're interested in history, explore the diary of Martha Ballard.] I wonder when "laughter" will be pronounced "lotter.")

don't sweat it, swampgirl-The generation after X, and this next (Eris save us), tend to be fueled by the cynicism created from having grown up in a time when the world is transitioning from creativity and burgeoning self-awareness, to a form of regurgitated pseudo-entertainment and unconscious, ineffectual de-evolution...

America will soon become dick-less and powerless like Great Britain, and her culture consumed by flavor-of-the-week ideals, and abandonment of her language and culture as well.....people in so-called first-world countries, who regard guns as something unnecessary in a paradigm which is still ruled and shaped by them, have self-preservation issues, and would justify a world of total control, as being ..."necessary"-

>> ^moodonia:
The Thrills are not British


agreed, and indeed. British is for "Citizen of the British empire (which we dont have anymore) and being part of Great Britain. Ireland isn't part of that. Irish, are Irish. Northern Ireland is complicated.

whilst, as the wiki puts it, "There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ireland (also described as the Republic of Ireland in cases of ambiguity)."

British is not for the islands and archipelago, but the citizenship of one of thoes two soverign thingys.

^HOLD IT! why would a conservative group attack Ron Paul :-) lol. sheesh, who won't they attack?

I think you overstate your case. I look into the validity of the claims being leveled before I see who it's coming from. Does who it comes from make a difference? yea, sometimes it does, but the truthfulness and validity of the claims should come first.

With statements like this from Rumsfeld I can see how you would be fooled into believing the WMD lies.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And is it curious to you that given how much control U.S. and coalition forces now have in the country, they haven’t found any weapons of mass destruction?

SEC. RUMSFELD: …We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat....I would also add, we saw from the air that there were dozens of trucks that went into that facility after the existence of it became public in the press and they moved things out. They dispersed them and took them away. So there may be nothing left. I don't know that. But it's way too soon to know. The exploitation is just starting. (why hasn't this been sifted?)

Bush Administration Caught Contradicting Itself on WMD's
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bush-Administration-Caught-Contradicting-Itself-on-WMDs

Closed Room Plans Reveal Attempt to Dupe Public
http://www.videosift.com/video/Olbermann-Closed-Room-Plans-Reveal-Attempt-to-Dupe-Public

Interesting how each of the Intelligence Committee members voted, considering what Sen. Durbin claims they knew:(thanks FLETCH)

http://intelligence.senate.gov/members107thcongress.html
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

I personally could see why you would take Rumsfeld at his word about Iraq's WMD's with this knowledge of history (too bad the wmd ingredients we supplied them had such a short shelf life, or perhaps we would have found them in iraq)

Donald Rumsfeld -Reagan’s Envoy- provided Iraq with chemical & biological weapons December 20, 1983.

July, 1984. CIA begins giving Iraq intelligence necessary to calibrate its mustard gas attacks on Iranian troops.

January 14, 1984. State Department memo acknowledges United States shipment of “dual-use” export hardware and technology. Dual use items are civilian items such as heavy trucks, armored ambulances and communications gear as well as industrial technology that can have a military application.

March, 1986. The United States with Great Britain block all Security Council resolutions condemning Iraq’s use of chemical weapons, and on March 21 the US becomes the only country refusing to sign a Security Council statement condemning Iraq’s use of these weapons.

May, 1986. The US Department of Commerce licenses 70 biological exports to Iraq between May of 1985 and 1989, including at least 21 batches of lethal strains of anthrax.

May, 1986. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of weapons grade botulin poison to Iraq.

March, 1987. President Reagan bows to the findings of the Tower Commission admitting the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages. Oliver North uses the profits from the sale to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua.

Late 1987. The Iraqi Air Force begins using chemical agents against Kurdish resistance forces in northern Iraq.

February, 1988. Saddam Hussein begins the “Anfal” campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq. The Iraq regime used chemical weapons against the Kurds killing over 100,000 civilians and destroying over 1,200 Kurdish villages.

April, 1988. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of chemicals used in manufacture of mustard gas.

August, 1988. 65,000 Iranians are killed, many with poison gas.

September, 1988. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of weapons grade anthrax and botulinum to Iraq.

September, 1988. Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State: “The US-Iraqi relationship is… important to our long-term political and economic objectives.”

December, 1988. Dow chemical sells $1.5 million in pesticides to Iraq despite knowledge that these would be used in chemical weapons.

Realizing it is a complex situation, considering the fact that Iran has aspirations to develop some nuclear program or another (of course not weapons)-coming from the munchkin mulllah moron Akkboobhimongeddjob, what the hell are the people of Iran doing, supporting a fella who does not believe the Holocaust even happened? Why would a nation like saaaaay America or Great Britain want to try and work with a throwback like Maaakmoody, to work towards anything but making sure his little ass has NO ACCESSS to anything remotely radioactive? Is a leader that spews, and a peoples that believe the spew, worthy of the split atom???....Fuck no, let em burn oil candles, and go to bed when the fucking sun goes down.

You need smoke alarms? Contact the countries that have made some progress along the path of 20th century sensibilities.
You need some Geiger-cracklin' substances for your hospitals? Ok....supervised.

You want to build a reactor? Fuck off and die-Live in the dark until you get rid of batshit-insane leaders.

Now, Mr. Ritter, you are obviously disillusioned from your tenured career as weapons inspector or Marine corps intelligence, who knows.....but man, kick the dead horse which is only a symptom of a larger problem, till ya have a heart-attack, your arguments are moot-So what if there were no weapons of mass destruction: At issue, is how leaders can make shit up to get a country behind a war, or why let adolescents play with matches.....
If Saddam had had WMD's, ya think he would have used them? Yes. Did he use chemical weapons to gas Kurds? Yes. Should he have swung by his neck until death...We think so.....so, get rid of lying fuckers before they turn into a major clusterfuck for the planet-

Why do we let Kim Dung Illness continue to fuck up the minds and souls of N. Koreans daily? Because nobody....NO world leaders, have what it takes to call a fucking spade a spade. WHY? Because they are greedy bastards.Why? Because we let them-we are too distracted with shopping and entertainment, to give a flying fuck.

Believe it or not, the only reason we are littering the planet with the numbers of humans in the conditions of imbalance that exist, is energy.
Energy without charge, would alleviate the the need for a world economy, that works for so few, and destroys so many, and so much of the planet.

This addiction to creature comforts in the last 100 yrs, and our willingness to let financiers, lawyers, and governments continue to build this house of cards, is what has caused men (mankind) to turn into pussies, the Brazilian rain forest into a charcoal factory, etc etc etc etc.The New York Society for Ethical Whateverthefuck.....ineffectual circle jerk.

and there you have it all twisted up, which ilustraights the point

UK= United Kingdom :> "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the U.K., or Britain)

Or Great Britain or GB.

England, is a part of the UK.
So is Wales.
So is Scotland.
England, in no way, and never has, included scotland as part of it.

It would be like reclasifying Californian authors as Texan authors because the people needing to look up the Californian authors had never heard of California and had assumed they were all Texans.

Or doing it the other way around, because so few Texans were literate that the number of authors was tiny and didnt warrant its own category.

This any clearer? Need your own map?

Maybe Miss South Carolina was working at the "Library of Congress" at the time, or perhaps their classification system was so bad, they couldn't find their own maps. Or maybe their maps were burnt, as being heretical, for claiming there existed places outside th borders of the USA.

here are some items that you may have overlooked in the article about thimerisol.(that have nothing to do with wakefields paper)

1.) In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children's vaccines twenty years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.

2.) Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage -- and even death -- in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to twenty-two patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected -- a fact Lilly didn't bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal's safety "did not check with ours."

3.) During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it "poison."

4.) In 1967, a study in Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly's own studies discerned that thimerosal was "toxic to tissue cells" in concentrations as low as one part per million -- 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as "nontoxic" and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants.

5.) The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccine programs, warned the company that six-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, "especially when used on infants and children," noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. "The best way to go," he added, "is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives."

6.) Before 1989, American preschoolers received eleven vaccinations -- for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of twenty-two immunizations by the time they reached first grade.

At two months, when the infant brain is still at a critical stage of development, infants routinely received three inoculations that contained a total of 62.5 micrograms of ethylmercury -- a level 99 times greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies -- including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health -- suggest that ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain longer than methylmercury.

The House Government Reform Committee discovered that four of the eight CDC advisers who approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine "had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine."

7.) Paul Patriarca of the FDA blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby vaccines. "I'm not sure there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at the switch re: thimerosal until now," Patriarca wrote. The close ties between regulatory officials and the pharmaceutical industry, he added, "will also raise questions about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use" of thimerosal in child vaccines.

But rather than conduct more studies to test the link to autism and other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics over science. The agency turned its database on childhood vaccines -- which had been developed largely at taxpayer expense -- over to a private agency, America's Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it could not be used for additional research. It also instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC "wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe," Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001. "We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect" of thimerosal exposure. According to transcripts of the meeting, the committee's chief staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM would conclude that the evidence was "inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation" between thimerosal and autism. That, she added, was the result "Walt wants" -- a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program for the CDC.

Even in public, federal officials made it clear that their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to dispel doubts about vaccines. "Four current studies are taking place to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal," Dr. Gordon Douglas, then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health, assured a Princeton University gathering in May 2001. "In order to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to assure parents of safety." Douglas formerly served as president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored warnings about thimerosal's risks.

9.) In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather than reviewing the large body of literature describing the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining European countries, where children received much smaller doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study included children too young to have been diagnosed with autism and overlooked others who showed signs of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and -- in a startling position for a scientific body -- recommended that no further research be conducted.

The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no one. Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from Florida who serves on the House Government Reform Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying it relied on a handful of studies that were "fatally flawed" by "poor design" and failed to represent "all the available scientific and medical research." CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth, Weldon told me, because "an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who would want to make that conclusion about themselves?"

10.) the government continues to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries -- some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown prior to the introduction of thimerosal by U.S. drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua and other developing countries that are now using thimerosal-laced vaccines.

I just finished "the life and times of the thunderbolt kid" by Bill Bryson and now I read "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell," which is really getting fascinating and spooky (alternate reality thing set in a great britain where magin works.

Gross oversimplification, given the current paradigm....


How about, "Stop the Bullets, kill the gun."..because this is what will have to be done to get guns outta the hands of folks in the United States....in cases of re-loaders, they will have to stop gunpowder-

Always keep guns that have calibers manufactured for purposes of war....military rounds will never stop being produced.....

Or, you could be like the Canadians.....they don't need guns to protect their rights.....they simply don't feed their citizens violence.....although, they don't have a history like the U.S. either.....plus it's to goddamn cold for most gang-bangers....

What the hell can be done for Great Britain???? Nothing that another freekin' Dark Ages would not cure.......Get enough sympathy for 13th century religious practice in any country, and you have problems....Bon Jour, Salaam.

One of the more annoying parts of this interview is Bush's lack of tact in knowing his audience as well as who he is speaking to.

In Europe, especially Great Britain, interviewers favor a more conversational and back-and-forth dialogue style. Bush only knows the Question-and-Answer format from pre-screened reporters as seen in press conferences.

If I recall correctly, he came off as incredibly arrogant and rude to the Irish and English public. But then again, he comes off as that to everyone now.

lol. could you possibly have discredited yourself more with such transparent buffoonery? Let's have a little rundown of the people who somehow escaped your ever so erudite realization that he's a "bad second rate writer" shall we? Here's a wiki sampling of some of the prestigious literary awards he's won:

Booker Prize for Fiction
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction)
Arts Council Writers' Award
English-Speaking Union Award
Booker of Bookers or the best novel among the Booker Prize winners for Fiction
Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
Whitbread Novel Award (twice)
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Children's Fiction
Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Sweden)
Prix Colette (Switzerland)
State Prize for Literature (Austria)
Author of the Year (British Book Awards)
Author of the Year (Germany)
Mantua Prize (Italy)
Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy)
Hutch Crossword Fiction Prize (India)
India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award (USA)
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism (Harvard University)
Aristeion Prize (European Union)

Fletch posted the following videos
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sleeper-Cell-The-True-Islam
http://www.videosift.com/video/Londonstan-Sharia-Law-Islam-holy-war-in-Great-Britain
http://www.videosift.com/video/Blaming-the-jews-Hate-in-Islam
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Trouble-with-Islam-Pat-Condell
http://www.videosift.com/video/Truth-about-Islam-from-an-ex-muslim-lady

Reacting in such a manner instead of talking it civilly is a bit immature, especially since a thread was here regarding the issue. And VS Muslim PR club? Hah.

Let videos float in the queue. What do you achieve from this dissemination of information?

Is it representative of the entire religion? Clearly not. The largest population of Muslim doesn't actually reside in the Middle East.

Is it the same as Christian bashing? Well are there American tanks rolling around Christians lands or Islamic lands? What do you think misunderstanding and fear breed?

Are you giving credence to a small minority and thus giving them power? Absolutely. This is clearly seen in current politics, just yesterday Iran and it's leader were being built up as some kind of war mongering nuclear armed dictator. No one of course talks about the massive sea and air power the US and UK field in the Persian gulf, capable of crippling nay destroying the entire nation of Iran in seconds back to the stone age. The misrepresentation of power politics in the Middle East is perverse.

What are the solutions offered? None.

So what is the basic conclusion. Let the war escalate, destroy every terrorist cell and Islamic nation for that matter. Where do the paths lead. Think about that. Understanding and diplomacy or more strong arm politics and war mongering.

I cannot fathom how I can have lived in the Middle east for as long as i have and strangely never been exposed to any of the garbage i have seen online. Clearly I am blind.

Excuse me.

You wanna talk about hypocrisy? the pilgrims colonists originally left Great Britain because of RELIGIOUS PROSECUTION, why the hell do you think there is a vast separation between church and state, because the founding fathers didn't want that repeated. So now we are supposed to go back on that?

So a human being needs to be religious to develop a feeling of morality? Of what is right and wrong? that is a innate quality in all human beings. Thinking that one attains that only from religion is very naive.

And the last statement the woman makes, about Europe being mostly atheists, thus becoming more Islamic? So Islamic is instantly not religious and somewhat evil or worse? No wonder Paula Zahn ends it there because that was blatantly racist and xenophobic.

Strong Christians? Am sorry but Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard and Pat Robertson don't constitute strong Christians.

sidepipe ... it's a slang for someone from one of the new england states (such as myself).

per wikipedia:

The term Yankee refers to those Americans from New England whose ancestors arrived from Great Britain before 1700; by extension it is applied to any resident of the Northeast (New England, Mid-Atlantic, and upper Great Lakes states), to any Northerner during and after the American Civil War, or to other citizens of the United States. In certain Commonwealth countries - notably UK, Australia and New Zealand - "Yank" refers to any American and is sometimes mistakenly applied to Canadians. Internationally, "Yank" is today roughly analogous to "Brit" (someone from the UK), "Aussie" (someone from Australia) or "Kiwi" (someone from New Zealand).