The Thin Blue Line is a truly wonderful film which had real life wonderful repercussions. Released in 1988, it is a documentary film directed by Errol Morris, concerning Randall Dale Adams, a man who was sentenced to die for a murder which he did not commit. The happy repercussion of the film was the reviewing of Adams’ case and his subsequent release.
In 1976, a Dallas police officer named Robert W. Wood was murdered at a traffic stop. A 16 year old named David Ray Harris told the police he had committed the murder alongside Randall Dale Adams. Adams was charged with the crime, though there was a wealth of evidence against Harris, purely because Harris was a juvenile and thus could not be given the death sentence. The prosecutor’s comment that the police constitute the “thin blue line” separating society from “anarchy” is where the title of the film derives. “Thin blue line” is adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Tommy” in which British soldiers are referred to as the “thin red line” due to their formation and uniform colour. Why not get your ipad some sweet ipad 3 accessories so you can sit back and watch the film at ease.
In 1976, a Dallas police officer named Robert W. Wood was murdered at a traffic stop. A 16 year old named David Ray Harris told the police he had committed the murder alongside Randall Dale Adams. Adams was charged with the crime, though there was a wealth of evidence against Harris, purely because Harris was a juvenile and thus could not be given the death sentence. The prosecutor’s comment that the police constitute the “thin blue line” separating society from “anarchy” is where the title of the film derives. “Thin blue line” is adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Tommy” in which British soldiers are referred to as the “thin red line” due to their formation and uniform colour. Why not get your ipad some sweet ipad 3 accessories so you can sit back and watch the film at ease.
There was a recent case in real life where a fox and a dog did become close friends. An abandoned male fox cub was found in a quarry he had fallen into by a family who took him to a fox rescue centre to see wildlife expert Gary Zammit. The almost painfully cute fox cub went on to become close friends with Zammit’s one-year-old lurcher Jack. Regular play fights on the sofa and chasing each other around the garden, the two have become the closest of friends. I bet if there was a cat around the three of them would share its 
In City of God, St. Augustine argued against the continuing presence of the goddess Fortuna in popular mentality: “How, therefore, is she good, who without discernment comes to both the good and to the bad? It profits one nothing to worship her if she is truly fortune...let the bad worship her...this supposed deity”.
The image of the Wheel of Fortune proliferated throughout the Middle Ages, depicted in stained glass windows, manuscripts...etc. To emphasise her supreme importance, Fortune was always represented as larger than life. The medieval representations of her usually depict her as an unstable dualism with one face smiling and the other frowning. Often she was depicted as blindfolded and without scales to suggest her blindness to justice.
Mushrooms, known as the meat of the vegetable world, are used extensively in cooking throughout a variety of cuisines. The most popular of the commercially grown mushroom is the Agraricus bisporus which is cultivated in controlled, steralized farms. You may arch your eyebrows as you have yet to hear of this mushroom yet its many varieties are household ingredients; portobello, crimini, shiitake, enoki, 
I feel drained, I've had a bit of a cold for the past week but I'm getting over that now, so I think it's just a lack of mental stimulation. I'm just bored with everything. I'm bored with my job, my routine, my nobody to come home to.
And to top it all off, it's really gloomy outside and looks like it will probably rain today. Oh it's going to be one of those miserable days isn't it?
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