Fay, are you going to be able to take Daniel with you when you leave?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2006 12:41:55 pm PDT #9619 of 10001
brillig
Fay - Apr 08, 2006 12:46:53 pm PDT #9620 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Insh'allah. Getting him into Thailand sounds doable; finding cat-friendly accommodation will be a bitch, but isn't impossible. It's the whole business of leaving Egypt that's going to be tricky - I don't think I can take him from Egypt to the UK, so that means flying to Bangkok from Cairo.
....er, in short, I haven't got it figured out yet.
Typo Boy - Apr 08, 2006 1:28:59 pm PDT #9621 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh according to Hersch and the Bush administration is (among other things) considering tactical nukes against Iran. Cause we, unlike Iran, can be trusted with nuclear weapons.
quotations:
One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that “a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.”
Cause that always worked out so well in the past.
The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he added, and some officers have talked about resigning. Late this winter, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans for Iran—without success, the former intelligence official said. “The White House said, ‘Why are you challenging this? The option came from you.’ ”
On Edit - sorry to mix this with your post Fay. Cause yay on trip to Thailand and all that.
brenda m - Apr 08, 2006 1:48:12 pm PDT #9622 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
At least until we decide to start bombing Thailand. Which I'm sure will be for a very very good reason. Trust us.
ION, it is way too nice a day for me to be working. Feh.
Lee - Apr 08, 2006 2:20:03 pm PDT #9623 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I didn't mean to (help) make people cry.
Emily - Apr 08, 2006 2:20:08 pm PDT #9624 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
“a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.”
Er. Maybe he means our government?
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2006 3:03:10 pm PDT #9625 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sometimes there are good reasons to cry.
I admit, I haven't listened to it yet.
"It sounds like a high class escort service. Women who can kick your ass and fuck like rockstars."
Does that sound like what I should be running out of thevelvetedge.com?
Jesse - Apr 08, 2006 3:15:37 pm PDT #9626 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not should, necessarily, but it works.
Smooth healing to your dad, Spidra.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 08, 2006 3:16:28 pm PDT #9627 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Am I just imagining that nuking another country out of the blue would effectively push the other 5.75 billion inhabitants of the planet into direct opposition of the US as a rogue nation?
Perhaps hour 26 of DeathMigraine 2006 is muddling my thinking, but I can't imagine how the neocons could spin that sort of action as warranted.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2006 3:28:04 pm PDT #9628 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not should, necessarily, but it works.
Hmm. I should work on a business plan, then.
Am I just imagining that nuking another country out of the blue would effectively push the other 5.75 billion inhabitants of the planet into direct opposition of the US as a rogue nation?
Oh, it's just atomic war.
Sorry to hear about the migraine, Matt. And sorry to hear about your father, Spidra.
Watching NUMB3RS, I'm thinking it's much like what you'd get if you crossed S1 Veronica Mars with Earshot. And then some.
God, I'm achey and sore. Why am I getting older? It doesn't seem fair.