Hi V,

That was quite a good site that you linked to. I have seen 10 or 12 of the pictures elsewhere, but there where some really good ones that I was unaware of.

Guess who is being touted as a role model in that school speech that Obama is making? JK Rowling of Harry Potter fame. I must have done at least 6 or 7 Harry Potter threads over the years. But people don't respond anymore so I stopped doing them. Elaine who was the founder and owner of GLP, before Trinity took over in late 2004, was closely associated with Anton La Vey and a Buddhist witch. She used to pretty much let me have a go at anything else, but start bashing Buddhism and it was... thread deleted.

I don't know if you have seen this one...



This is an extract from the publicly released, latest draft of Obama's speech.

Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."