Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


Jesse - Apr 20, 2011 7:46:33 am PDT #4266 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Well, it's the CIA releasing them, but of course you're right:

The six documents were first held by the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War I, and at least one was obtained from the French.

But, as the CIA said Tuesday, the intended recipients of all this secret stuff are not always clear.

One document listing seven formulas is on Department of Commerce letterhead, and a chemist at the Bureau of Standards recommends that some of the invisible ink solutions be used with a quill pen rather than a steel pen because of the risk of corrosion.

Another document in the collection was intended to teach U.S. postal inspectors how to detect secret ink. The pamphlet, listing 50 possible scenarios in which invisible ink could be employed, was prepared by a handwriting expert in San Francisco.


-t - Apr 20, 2011 7:47:51 am PDT #4267 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's just cover for the time machine, which is still classified.


Daisy Jane - Apr 20, 2011 7:51:30 am PDT #4268 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

This may be relevant to our interests. Mini-crossbows [link]


tommyrot - Apr 20, 2011 8:05:46 am PDT #4269 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.

Baby Laughs Hysterically at Dog Eating Bubbles


DavidS - Apr 20, 2011 8:07:10 am PDT #4270 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This may be relevant to our interests. Mini-crossbows [link]

Oh god, Emmett's going to go nuts when he sees that.


DavidS - Apr 20, 2011 8:09:19 am PDT #4271 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Baby Laughs Hysterically at Dog Eating Bubbles

...and Matilda will want to watch that about 19 times in a row.


§ ita § - Apr 20, 2011 8:12:35 am PDT #4272 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So babies will laugh at anything and also cry at anything, but the crying gets either less filming or fewer pageviews?


Steph L. - Apr 20, 2011 8:13:04 am PDT #4273 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

This may be relevant to our interests. Mini-crossbows [link]

Tim said I'm not allowed to have a crossbow. Something about the fact that I'm already a klutz.

...I don't know if that applies to mini-crossbows, though. Hmmm....

t edit I'm misrepresenting him. He *did* say I could have a Nerf crossbow. I told him that would not protect the world from vampires.


tommyrot - Apr 20, 2011 8:17:26 am PDT #4274 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.

This is news to me (eta: The part about not challenging these new laws for fear of Roe v. Wade being overturned):

Analysis: The death of Roe v. Wade

Since the start of this year, 916 measures seeking to regulate reproductive health have been introduced in 49 states. According to the Guttmacher Institute, by the end of March, 15 laws had been enacted in seven states. These laws include an expansion of the waiting period in South Dakota from 24 to 72 hours and a requirement that counseling from "crisis pregnancy centers" include scientifically flawed data on risk factors. There are new regulations in Utah and Virginia governing abortion clinics. Legislation has been introduced in 13 states requiring that women have an ultrasound procedure before having an abortion—and in seven of those states, the woman must view the fetus and listen to a detailed verbal description as well. Measures have been introduced in 17 states copying a Nebraska law banning abortion at 20 weeks, on the theory—again based on questionable medical data—that this is when a fetus can feel pain.

It hardly bears observing here that most of these measures are against the law. That law is Roe v. Wade. Making abortion illegal after 18 or 20 weeks doesn't meet the viability test that was laid out in Roe, and 72-hour waiting periods and doing away with health exceptions for the mother would also violate both Roe and its progeny.

...

The risk of challenging these clearly unconstitutional laws and then losing at the Supreme Court is evidently so high, according to Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, that it's not worth taking. As she explained last week to Rachel Maddow, the fear that Justice Samuel Alito would vote to overturn Roe is so deep that reproductive rights groups may be opting to leave the state bans in place. And, as she conceded in that interview, wherever unconstitutional state abortion bans go unchallenged, they become law.

Part of me wants to say, take it to the Supreme Court anyway, and if Roe v. Wade is overturned, the resulting public outcry will result in more liberal Supreme Court justices in the future. But if it's overturned it could take many years before abortion is made legal in all states again.


DavidS - Apr 20, 2011 8:19:53 am PDT #4275 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Part of me wants to say, take it to the Supreme Court anyway, and if Roe v. Wade is overturned, the resulting public outcry will result in more liberal Supreme Court justices in the future.

Yeah, that's the wrong part of your brain to listen to. I remember progressive lefties saying the same shit about Bush getting into office. "And that will galvanize the left and la la Utopia."