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Zerstörung des Todessterns – ein Inside Job?
Websurdity, via Classless:
>>1) Why were a handful of rebel fighters able to penetrate the defenses of a battle station that had the capability of destroying an entire planet and the defenses to ward off several fleets of battle ships?
2) Why did Grand Moff Tarkin refuse to deploy the station’s large fleet of TIE Fighters until it was too late? Was he acting on orders from somebody to not shoot down the rebel attack force? If so, who, and why?
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5) Why did Lord Vader decide to break all protocols and personally pilot a lightly armored TIE Fighter? Conveniently, this placed Lord Vader outside of the Death Star when it was destroyed, where he was also conveniently able to escape from a large-sized rebel fleet that had just routed the Imperial forces. Why would Lord Vader, one of the highest ranking members of the Imperial Government, suddenly decide to fly away from the Death Star in the middle of a battle? Did he know something that the rest of the Imperial Navy didn’t?
6) How could any pilot shoot a missile into a 2 meter-wide exhaust port, let alone a pilot with no formal training, whose only claim to fame was his ability to “bullseye womprats” on Tatooine? This shot, according to one pilot, would be “impossible, even for a computer.” Yet, according to additional evidence, the pilot who allegedly fired the missile turned off his targeting computer when he was supposedly firing the shot that destroyed the Death Star. Why have these discrepancies never been investigated, let alone explained?
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Michael Kramer und das N-Wort II
John Safran vs.
Michael Richards und das N-Wort
Die Figur des Kramer in „Seinfeld“ war für Michael Richards wohl die Rolle seines Lebens. Im folgenden Auftritt ruiniert er seinen guten Ruf nachhaltig.
Nicht neu, aber immer wieder bemerkenswert ist, dass der Fernsehsender das F-Wort zensiert, das N-Wort jedoch nicht.Natürlich entschuldigte er sich später in einem konfusen Auftritt bei David Letterman (nicht mehr auf Google-Video zu finden), den ihm Jerry Seinfeld organisiert hatte:
Folgt man diesem Blog, ist Richards Ausbruch kein Einzelfall:
- >>…The Michael Richards „news event“ is amusing to me, not because of his comments, but because I’ve had the displeasure of seeing him perform on many occasions, and working with him in the Aspen comedy fest years ago. The thing is, this wasn’t an out-of-the-blue occurance. He does these abusive/racist flip-out rants nearly EVERY TIME he goes on stage. Remember, HE IS AN ACTOR. The Laugh Factory knows that, and in fact he performed there again the very next night. Jamie Masada (aka Satan), owner of The Laugh Factory, only made his public statements of shock and demanded an apology when the press and the protesters started showing up.
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It was only when the public outcry and the viral video got sent around that this went from nightly rant to newsworthy event. I’m not defending Richards. I don’t like him, never have. He’s a weird man, not right in the head, as anyone who’s met him can attest to.
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In subsequent standup performances I’ve seen him do, and in „A“ rooms, he always explodes with a studied „rage,“ verbally abuses the audience, often with racial slurs…<<
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