YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett

If you like Sevdelinke this is where to be! it's really and truely good. Mujo, Fikret, Fata and Ivo all say to check it out, as does Katja. You don't want to disappoint Katja do you?
I didn't think so!
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Cinco De Mayo on campus at the Yakima Gulag People's Institute of Higher Re:education was good, but hte Jalapeno contest was a little scary. A guy named Chris won despite the fact of jalapenos which were dangerously cheap. For a non-Mexican to do that is quite amazeing.
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President Bush in Moscow to mark the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. This victory was damned important and the Russians took terrible casualties. The Russians still call it the 'Great Patriotic War'. The old vetrans still come out wearing their medals. Russians who have earned medals wear them on a daily basis. The Russians fought with great courage. It is wrong for Americans to forget it. Yes Stalin was in charge. I don't give him that much credit, I give the Russian people the credit.
Russia lost so many men that the Stalinist government seriously considered legalizeign polygamy to make sure that women could marry. In the event, even under Communism the influence of Christian ideas kept that from happening. General Zhukov was strong enough to give Stalin what for was one of the great generals of this war.
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David Hackworth Died today.Hackworth, known familiarly as 'Hack' died and it's a loss to the American people as he was a voice for common sense in military matters. Given how much time this country spends at war it's bad to have such a loss.Hack Joined up at age 15, lying about his age. He went against the war after he was into his 4th term. He said 'the generals went from inspirational leaders who cared about soldiers and then became 'corporate leaders' He was 74 and died in Tiajuana, Mexico, while recieving treatment for bladder cancer.
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'Kingdom of Heaven' pisses off both Muslims and Christians. Movies about the Crusades tend to upset Muslims. Inflamatory and shocking scenes normal in such films.
Anyway the movie seems to have a modern and secular type of film. That right away is what makes the movie not quite right.
It's not pure history, it's historical fiction, whith is because according to him the historical documentation is short.
I was raised around sources of medieval documents so I think the 'history is short' line is gluposti! raimish! tonteria!
At what point will there be a really good movie about the Crusades? Probably never.