Slow peace year.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2009 4:40:17 am PDT #12973 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2009 4:42:12 am PDT #12974 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It kinda' makes me think of all the Medals of Freedom that Bush gave out to... people who didn't promote freedom.
Amy - Oct 09, 2009 4:48:03 am PDT #12975 of 30001
Because books.
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2009 4:48:35 am PDT #12976 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Theodosia - Oct 09, 2009 5:03:43 am PDT #12977 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I got to break the news to my roommate while she was brushing her teeth. She choked, most gratifyingly.
I suppose the whole thing about stopping torture as a policy also played into the decision. If they'd just waited until he'd actually, you know closed Guantanamo already and finished making decisions on who gets prosecuted and who gets released w/o a trial because the US FUCKED UP the cases against some of them so badly.
Aims - Oct 09, 2009 5:06:32 am PDT #12978 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I wrote this response to a friend on FB who is a little woo-hoo and believes that Obama is pretty much the second coming. Friend brought up Wilson's winning even though the League of Nations was a joke.
But the difference here is that those two presidents did something measurable. They had something more concrete to show for their efforts. I know that the prize isn't about attaining peace - but it should be more about what has been done. There is no League of Nations, there was no war ended, Gitmo is still open for guests and we still have troops in Iraq. It's going to take time to accomplish all that Obama wants to accomplish and I believe that he will and it will be good. But giving him this prize now is going to do more to fuck him with the opposition. If he doesn't accomplish those things in a timely or succesful fashion, he'll never win re-election and he'll go down in history as a total joke who couldn't live up to the hype. He already had so much to live up to when he took office and now, with this prize, he has even more and good president or not, he is still a human. And he's going to fail. And now, he gets to fail with a Nobel Peace Prize which ain't good.
I believe in him. I think he'll do great things for our country, but for the love of all that's holy, let's wait for him to do those great things before putting him higher on the pedestal than he already is.
Mark my words - this will fuck him more than it will help.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 09, 2009 5:06:55 am PDT #12979 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
xkck is funny today.
The mouseover text is hilarious. Also making me feel really, really old.
Shir - Oct 09, 2009 5:07:15 am PDT #12980 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Yeah, I don't get the Peace Noble Prize this year either.
They had 205 candidates, and a part of me thinks they picked one randomly.
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2009 5:10:41 am PDT #12981 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mark my words - this will fuck him more than it will help.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of....
Jessica - Oct 09, 2009 5:16:15 am PDT #12982 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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