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*controversy.

From the Time article linked above (the other side of the story is that the president's enemies did it to make him look bad... a bit of a stretch, but you wonder - a conspiracy to stop a leftist? Hmm....).

"Colom has said the Rosenberg video is part of a right-wing conspiracy designed to destabilize the government and ultimately bring him down. In a broadcast interview, he suggested that Rosenberg was coerced into making the video. Colom pointed to a radio journalist, Mario David Garcia, as the key link to the conspiracy. Garcia, a presidential candidate for an ultra-right-wing party in the 1980s, told TIME he helped Rosenberg record the video in his office the week before the murder. "It's outrageous. There was never any coercion," Garcia says. "I even left the office while he was recording the video." Garcia says Rosenberg came to him for help and to appear on Garcia's radio show but changed his mind and decided to record the video. (Read a story about the turmoil in Guatemala in the 1980s.)

Nevertheless, Colom supporters have seized the conspiracy theory to defend the President. "We're here in support of our President and against these lies trying to bring him down," said Anita Lopez, 32, as she rallied in front of the presidential palace on Wednesday. Students of the left-leaning public university and indigenous Mayans joined her. Many said the government bused them to the city from the suburbs.

Steps away, thousands of protesters, including students from right-leaning private universities, marched in front of the presidential palace, carrying signs calling Colom an "assassin" and demanding his resignation. The competing protests are the most visible sign of a politically charged environment that has the potential to cause Colom to resign, Isaacs says. "This country has for so long been paralyzed by the pervasive violence and the potent mix of gangs and narcotraffickers," she says. "Now that paralysis has turned into rage. And if these demonstrations pick up momentum, they could have a snowball effect.""

Only if he follows some rules first.

"Take your son, your only son yes, Isaac, whom you love so much and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you." (Genesis 22:1-18)

media whore seems a tad harsh, simply because he enjoys being more of a theorist.

where would you place isaac asimov?

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clark
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Call of the Wild - Jack London

This list is the product of a few moments of reflection. I read many of these books when I was young but their subject matter combined with where I was in my life left me with indelible memories.

Also, the people above me have good taste.

Why is it wrong to murder someone? The only rationally defensible answer is The Creator Commanded men not to commit murder. Exodus 20:13 and Matthew 19:18.

Abraham knew God, knew his Commands, and knew that he wouldn't actually have to kill his son:

"And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Genesis 22:9-13

*The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!) - Alfred Bester

*The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov

*On the Road - Jack Kerouac

*Zadig or Fate - Voltaire

*Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Honorable mention: The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

1. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

2. Hamlet - Bill Shakespeare

3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

4. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

5. Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

honorable mention to The Left Hand of the Electron by Isaac Asimov, and The Dictionary

I've read so many great books that it's really hard for me to whittle it down to five that I think are the best, so I'm going to go with the first five that come into my head. I'm guessing that the first five must have made the greatest impression on me, so it's a reasonable place to start a favorites list.

1. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut is probably the single most influential author to me. His protagonists and story lines always clicked with me. It was like he was writing them just for me.

2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. Everyone's heard of this one, and it's considered by many to be one of the best novels of the 20th century. If you haven't read it yet, put it next on your to-read list. Notice my first two novels are both set in World War II. I don't know if that means anything or not.

3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon. Considered by many to be Chabon's greatest work. I noticed you read one of his book's, dag. I think you owe it to yourself to read this one. I plan on reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union soon, because I've heard good things about it too.

4. The Trial - Franz Kafka. A dark novel, to say the least. To me it's about the absurdity of life and accepting fate. I don't believe in fate, but I sometimes wonder about the futility of existence. Can't help it.

5. The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov. Read the series when I was a teenager. The idea of being able to use science to not only predict but also control future events fascinated me, and that it was set in the future, complete with space travel, made it even more interesting. I liked how Asimov later was able to merge the Foundation series with the Robot series.

Other novels worthy of mention:

- Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller - Almost made the Top 5
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
- God Knows - Joseph Heller
- Something Happened - Joseph Heller
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

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Hey alien_concept, would you mind doing me a favor and calling dupeof on this video:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hurricane-Isaac

It's a dupe of one of mine and I can't call dupe for one of my own. You can take the dupeof command from my comment in the video.

Thanks

Allison Carrol is Lara Croft ( promoting a game not a film)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7556000/7556131.stm

World's Smallest Burger
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/08/10/worlds-smallest-burger-fries-soda-meal-yummy.html

World's Smallest Balloon
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14501-worlds-smallest-balloon-inflated.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain
http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product/whatsnew/bloody+serial+killer+shower+curtain.do?WT.svl=84002#

Styrofoam Dome Homes
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/styrofoam-dome-homes/

eBay Slot Machines
http://technologizer.com/2008/08/10/ebay-its-a-gamble/

The 10 Oddest City Names
http://blog.hotelclub.com/the-10-oddest-city-names/

GMail outage pours rain on Cloud Computing parade
http://broadstuff.com/archives/1140-GMail-outage-pours-rain-on-Cloud-Computing-parade.html

Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/isaac_hayes__shaft__live_1973?id=L2cHkMwzOiM

Scientists Closer to Invisibility Cloak
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Scientists-Closer-to-Invisibility-Cloak/story.xhtml?story_id=030003EKTENC

John McCain
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/7927/suckerpunchhw9.jpg

Kites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7BB84CAD-258C-4980-A42B-D963F1685E75/

Lego Sushi Sculptures
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/08/11/lego-sushi-sculptures/

McDonalds Visual Kidnapping
http://pingmag.jp/2008/08/11/zevs-visual-kidnapping/

Chuck Norris Facts
http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=chuck

Odd One Out
flickr.com/photos/benpearce/2225087667/
Rocketboom's Andrew Baron to Speak at Portable Film Festival
http://portablefilmfestival.com/symposium.php

Google Streets: Now With Drunks And Fire!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/google_streets_now_with_drunks.php

Protest at Russian Embassy
http://flickr.com/photos/snapperjack/2752846173/

Stella and the Speech Accent Archive
http://accent.gmu.edu/

Twitter Fail Whale
http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png

U is for You
http://images.google.com/images?q=mirror

Beijing opening night lures 15 percent of world
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080811/tv_nm/olympics_viewers_dc

The Beer Belt
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/pure_class_and_alcohol_the_bee.php

Monster Segway
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/08/monster-segway.html

Rocketboom on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/rocketboom

Whats up with pronouncing the letter Z as Zed?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070801222415AAjcFd8