Origins

As all of the educated world already knows, X-men Wolverine's Origins comes out 12:00 am May 1st! I could not resit a post about what I feel will (or at least should be) the greatest movie of the summer maybe whole year. If you grew up at all in the last century then you know the Marvel masterpiece X-men. Details may evade you at the moment but you know the general synopsis.
A world of divided species due to a leap in evolution, mutants and humans. Mutants are generally rejected from society, laws prohibiting their movement cast them into chaotic frenzy. Xavier a brilliant and powerful telepathic has built a school to help mutant children learn to control their powers and use them for the greater good. But Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr), desires mutant domination his belief in his cause has severed his relationship to Xavier and triggered a war.
The greatest comic book character of all time emerges from this chaos, until recently his past has been kept secret by Marvel fearing that releasing this information would ruin the intrigue and power of the character. He was built to be a weapon, a weapon against the hardest targets, dragged through war after war, "he's the best at what he does, but what he does isn't very nice." Wolverine is one of the first major comic book antiheroes of all time his dangerous and mysterious past always thwarting his good intentions. Finale a character in the comic book world that represented depth and grudge, a character who knew the hard parts of life and could fight fire with fire.
At 12:00 am the world will have a chance to finale know the truth, unless your a comic reader then you've known for awhile, of Wolverine. And will have a chance to experience a legend. And if that doesn't get them, just remind that, that Huge Jackman and Dominic Monaghan are in it. In all seriousness this movie should fulfill the life long dreams of nerdy children like myself that have been waiting for a decent Wolverine movie (don't get me wrong loved the first X-men, but they were not up to par with Wolverine statues). So please don't miss out on the chance of a lifetime see Wolverines Origins...(cheesy much).

Post Rescue

This is me taking a picture behind much taller people, it was a sea of humanitarians.
Here people are setting up tarps for what they are willing
to make a long night if necessary.
Rocky Anderson rallying us to continue to organize,
organize for others.

Bennett reading the Invisible Children anthem

Photos by Jonathan Morrison

The Rescue

Tomorrow April 25th is a big day for 100 cities around the world and one small country in need of the worlds biggest commitment to humanity. A country that for over twenty years has waged a war against cruelty, anarchy, injustice, economic instability, and Joseph Coney. A war that was waging invisible to much of the world, until a documentary and the story of three people forced the world to see reality.
Millions were impacted by what we saw on the rough cut documentary, which exposed the night commuting of thousands of children all traveling miles to escape a tyrannical maniac and his force of LRA soldiers. The DVD showed children from all over northern Uganda traveling to towns to escape or postpone their abduction into the LRAs' force of child soldiers (which reaches to nearly 30,000 90% of the LRA).
Soon after this documentary penetrated the chasms of our mercantile driven minds, a Global Night Commute was organized marching thousands of young people from college campuses too major public square where we stayed the night writing letters and making art for our political leaders. We commuted and slept on the ground for the thousands of Ugandan children.
Latter on came Displace Me, and now The Rescue. Where we will again march under one banner with one mission. And again we will bunker down and the stay the night, and the next night, and the next if necessary. We will wait until we are rescued, just as 30,000 of the most invisible children still need to be rescued.
With each event has come major change, we have stopped the Night Commuting and brought aid the to Displacement camps, but now its time to end the longest running civil war in Africa and bring 30,000 children home. Come to the Rescue.
www.invisiblechildren.com

Ramblings before a test

So I'm sitting here at my local Beans and Brews coffee shop studying for my government test, instead of being in my first class of the day. But as I sit here I am wondering if the testing policy we see in our educational system today is effective in encourage attendance, or if in general a policy based not upon heavy weighted test taking would produce an incline in the attendance of students. Though it could be that if the major test were removed from our system then maybe it would be replaced with some form of student lethargy... I guess that's an interesting question, does not having heavy test produce some form of anarchical lethargy? But the most likely answer is I'm stalling and justifying MY procrastination, but it takes a big man to admit that, I think... I'm pretty sure it does.

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