Unforeseen problems with the one child rule!
No kidding. With the mass school structure failures, there's actually an unofficial mass movement of bereaved parents. China's officialdom has to mitigate it somehow to preserve itself. t /cynic
Fred: The size and depth of the wound indicate a female vampire. Harmony: Or gay! Fred: Um…it doesn't really work like that.
'Harm's Way'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
sarameg - Jun 06, 2008 5:36:27 pm PDT #1699 of 10003
Kat - Jun 06, 2008 5:39:02 pm PDT #1700 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And they are putting parents who have lost a child in the earthquake at the head of the (now very long list) list of people who want to adopt a child who lost parents in the earthquake.
sarameg - Jun 06, 2008 5:49:57 pm PDT #1701 of 10003
I actually don't have that much of a problem with that, except for the emotional repercussions, which are kind of scary. So I do have some problems, I guess.
Aaaand since I'm acquainted with someone who was right ready to adopt a child from China and then got booted to the end of the line due to antidepressants (after all the multitude of fertility treatments she'd been through, who wouldn't be on them?!!) and fatness (also a factor of the treatments. And antidepressants!) I wouldn't want, and she wouldn't want, to be put before local able adoptive parents.
But still. I don't really believe the gov't has the children's best interests. Just theirs.
Kat - Jun 06, 2008 5:53:50 pm PDT #1702 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Did you all, at one point, push the Free Sterling Silver Jewelry site? Or am I on crack?
brenda m - Jun 06, 2008 5:59:57 pm PDT #1703 of 10003
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
Not on crack. Got some nice stuff from there. I don't understand how it's not a scam, but it's not.
tiggy - Jun 06, 2008 6:09:28 pm PDT #1704 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
i've gotten a couple of nice things from there too, Kat. hey, what was that link you posted yesterday, i think it was, with the free cell phone services? the google thing and so on. i meant to bookmark it, but forgot!
§ ita § - Jun 06, 2008 6:28:41 pm PDT #1705 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've gotten a handful of stuff off that site, Kat. Nothing that I love, but some small and pretty things. Quiet jewelry, not destination pieces. I wish you hadn't brought it back to my attention, though...
Hey, Kat... was it you that had the link to that site where you register to not get paper catalogs? I lost that URL in the crashes of ought eight.
Torque - Jun 06, 2008 7:30:32 pm PDT #1706 of 10003
Bad Wolf
is IMDB down?
Torque - Jun 06, 2008 7:30:41 pm PDT #1707 of 10003
Bad Wolf
Hil R. - Jun 06, 2008 7:44:20 pm PDT #1708 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. Two people climbed the NY Times building today. One was Alain Robert, that French guy who keeps climbing tall buildings. He said he did it to bring attention to global warming. The other was a guy from Brooklyn that doesn't have a history of climbing buildings and said he did it to bring attention to malaria. (edit: OK, he says he's climbed the Hearst Tower, but no one's ever seen him doing it before.)
(Actually, my first reaction to that building was, "I bet I could climb that." It's just so clearly climbable.)