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Curry goat, rice and peas, orange spiced carrots, and a tossed salad.

Krensky wrote:

Oh, some are just as dangerous and scary, they just don't look like it in comparison.

Think of Father Ted. Ted and Dougal are both crazy, but put them in the same room as Jack they seem perfectly normal.

DRINK!!

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Jill Stein, well, that's not really fair, she's more a left-wing flavored version of Trump with worse branding.

Proponents of Critical X Theory.

The current crop of students whining that their teacher made them read something that upset them because they should have to think or even be made aware of alternate views.

Anyone who says that we should defund the military.

Anklebiter (kidding!)

Etc.

Oh, some are just as dangerous and scary, they just don't look like it in comparison.

Think of Father Ted. Ted and Dougal are both crazy, but put them in the same room as Jack they seem perfectly normal.

Yes there is, but the loony right and altright are so b##!~%@ the left wing equivalents by and large seem to be merely eccentric or hopelessly idealistic and naive.

Potroast with veggies and mashed potatoes.

Its funny because more than half of anime seems to make its characters look noneastern

That's a common misconception by people in the West. In Japan the characters are usually seen as Eastern unless they have a Western name.

Or the People's Republic in David Weber's Honor Harrington series that is a combination of France and America, and so on.

Point of order, that's the Second Republic of Haven. Based on the comments of Theisman and Pritchard the First Replublic was probably similar. The People's Republic of Haven is more People's Republic of China with a little North Korea until the Revolution and then it's a pastiche of the First French Republic.

Mystic_Snowfang wrote:

Well there is, as stated, Andoran. It's a true republic.

Andoran is rapidly becoming a republic in name only,as the old families are recreating an ogliarchal society. That's the problem with republics, as it happened and Greece and Rome, they're fragile constucts at best.

Citation?

Because that doesn't match with anything I've read. Certainly the old families want that and the Lumber Consortium is getting away with murder due to pragmatic naval concerns, but those are more conflicts for PCs to overcome than the Republic disintegrating.

I liked the more Adam West delivery. It's not better than Patrick Warburton, just different and entertaining.

I think someone is massively overstating the concern or control most authors have over layout too.

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Kryzbyn, Edmund Burke famously said that working people shouldn't be able to vote, supporting it with scripture.

Conservatism has never been about what you said you believe. Sorry.

Both of you compleyely missed the point.

As pointed out earlier, Ms Clinton is not paid a lot for her speeches, she's paid less than market rate.

On the literary side Steven Brust's Dragaera series has the Empire becoming the Republic when house Tekla (the peasants) ascends to the top of the Cycle.

There's also strong indication that the objectively 'correct' form of government in his universe is a left leaning social democracy, but Dragaera isn't ready to go back to that (the world is somewhat old school in that it's fantasy on top of science fiction).

Which particular option? I need to replace my just out of school paste board bookshelves with grown-up bookshelves in the next few years.

So you want to go from cheap particle board to expensive particle board?

thejeff wrote:

and Stein's equivocation on vaccines and homeopathy is pathetic at best.

Source? Clinton has a well known smear machine and this seems pretty unbelievable.

Stein is well known for her anti-science and anti-intellectual pandering and support for quackery and assorted b%@+&~@!.

Patheos.com

We'll see, but from what they've said they made the main character too high a rank. If they want to tell a story of someone growing up an learning about themselves and to work with others you should not use a department head. That's what ensigns or midshipmen are for.

Well, for non-traditional fantasy settings, I'm fond of Dragon Star,
Mistborn, Rokugan, Théah, and Deadlands. Not counting stuff like Star Wars, etc.

Plenty of non-fantasy settings in my like column though.

Yeah, considering how... Serious the Secret Service takes even oblique refrences that might vaugely be interpreted as a threat to the President or other people under their protection and how little humor they have regarding it...

I believe CNN.

You mean most of the Star Trek movies have the same plot when reduced to one sentence with wild cards? Say it isn't so!

I discovered I had missed the last two Taltos novels, so I'm rereading the series to remind myself since I last read he early stuff almost fifteen years ago.

Your facts loose to our truthiness and state based chauvinism!

My spouse went to get his after he stopped driving due to the fact that his vision is almost entirely useless. That did not stop the now privately-run NJDMV from pushing him to renew his driver's license instead. You see in NJ, once you get your driver's license, you can be legally blind and and they'll still renew it as the fee costs more than the non-driver's ID. About the only way to lose your license in the state is to kill someone with a vehicle.

That explains so much about NJ drivers... ;)

I kid, I kid.

They're better than DE drivers.

captain yesterday wrote:

In the small town I used to live in, the county DMV office was only open every other Tuesday.

Good luck getting an I.D. with those hours.

In Nashua, for most of the time I've lived here, you had to go to Merrimack (a neighboring town) for your driver's license, as Nashua (a town of 86,000 people) didn't have it's own DMV.

If you didn't have reliable transportation (I took the bus or walked everywhere), it was pretty much a non-starter. Elderly, without a personal chauffer to run you over there? No DMV for you.

It's finally improved, and you can now get your license renewed in town, but Nashua's the second-largest town in the state, so it always seemed weird to me.

This is the general problem with tying a right (voting) to infrastructure intended to support a privilege (driving).

Voter fraud is a non-issue. It does not happen in numbers distinguishable from background noise.

All of your purging the rolls stuff will hurt far more people than it will prevent from fraudulently voting.

If you want to increase the quality of the elections, focus on election fraud. Things like caging, fraudulent roll purge, not putting enough voting machines in polling locations, etc.

captain yesterday wrote:

Voter fraud is a myth, it doesn't exist enough to warrant action.

Can't agree with this one despite hearing it a lot. People are paid to get voters to the voting both. Some people are going to take advantage of the situation to get paid, just like tax fraud by identity theft, only easier. Proof of voter registration by ID to prevent fraud is required by almost every EU member, for example.

Now, discrimination is evil, and requiring proof the voter is a voter absolutely shouldn't be done in a discrimatory fashion. But claiming voter fraud doesn't exist only serves to disenfranchise voters.

Except for the fact theres absolutely no evidence of in person voter fraud in any meaningful fashion. There have been something like 31 suspected cases of it over the past fifty years.

On the other hand, we have lots of evidence that the whole voter ID thing is a red herring used to suppress voter turnout.

That's really sad because the I-9 lists the acceptable documents on the last page.

Faygo... Which is beloved by Jugalos... Who are fans of Insane Clown Posse... Juggles also sound like Jokers... Who is an insane clown... Who is in this movie...

Coincidence?

I'll let you decide.

Sadly, captain, you'll be paid in mangos and shipping containers.

That's Vice President of the United States Keith David!

There is nothing really damming or embarrassing in those emails. The only people who think they're some some of smoking gun evidence are juviniles. Phrases involving sausage and making come to mind.

Do you likeep musical comedy?

And people say Americans are wasteful. ;)

Lunch was beef and barley soup, and a sandwich of chedder, pickles, and salad cream on toasted whole wheat. Plus a Tasty Kake cherry pie.

Yes.

Turin the Mad wrote:

Wally World = Wal-Mart.

I thought it was the amusement park that Chevy Chase tried to take his family to?

Hey!

Clark succeeded in taking them to Wally World!

Also, it's interesting that this thread has turned into an argument over historical candidates for president rather than the modern deal. It's almost like people are uncomfortable with the current year's options...

Krensky, I don't think so. I'm not a big fan of his personal privacy platform. I use Malwarebytes these days.

* Adds the Beaver's dog-lizard-thing to the list of people under double secret discordian excommunication.

Pillbug, can I ask which NPR station you listen to? WGBH hasn't been bad, imo.

Yeah, I've heard plenty of truth seeking and hard questions and very little false equivalency 'both sides' BS on NPR (Whyy here).

Not a lot of shouting or John Stewart or Jamie Oliver type stuff, but that's not their job.

Ok, this is a little weird...

Did the Democratic Party tent just expand to try and cover everyone from democratic socialists to Roosevelt Republicans? And become the snti-Russia party too?

Ok, someone stop the world, I need to get off.

Krensky wrote:

Princess Sapphire, Atsuko Kagami, and Sally the Witch want to have a word with you about "first".

they didn't have transformation sequences. They don't count.

You mean they didn't have enough nudity or implied nudity. Either that, or the weren't written by Go Nagi.

Which is the same thing, really.

If memory serves the first Magical girl transformation thing was Cutey Honey (notable also because it's not just a visual thing, Honey really is naked when she transforms) in 1973. Wonder Woman was, I think, 1975. No idea how much influence there was.

As an aside, while some aspects of the magical girl and magical girlfriend are Japanese, the primary inspiration for them was Bewitched which was stupidlystupidly popular in Japan.

Wait...

There were still places renting movies via physical media that were not Redbox or a library?

The mind boggles.,.

No, ABC and NBC and Fox and CWs streaming service is called Hulu. Which has far fewer ds and way more content. PBS has lots of stuff on Hulu, but also run their own setvices, one completely free and one that is a benefit to donors.

CBS is not poised for anything, They're trying to create their own version of Hulu, and failing miserably.

I'd like to see someone pull off the mythological physicality of an Amazon and still act competently, but such actresses are currently rare (Frankie Adams pic). I'd like to see a much wider range of body types for both women and men onscreen in superhero/action movies, but it's often easier for an actor to shatter that glass ceiling after previous actors have put cracks in it. And right now, the glass ceiling is even lower at just getting a solo superheroine movie.

But Bobbie's only a superhero when she's wearing her formal wear.

Like anyone cares what Snyder wants anymore.

Potentially tying the fate of the first Star Trek show in a decade to a me-too streaming service seems quite foolish.

And yes, the CGI in that trailer is shockingly bad.

Even so, I'll definitely check this out.

That's why I think CBS is epically failing on this. All of their marketing needs to be a complete and total hypefest because it needs to justify spending $6 a month to watch the show on a service with commercials. And not like one or two every ten or twenty miutes like Hulu, but five or six every five to ten minutes like broadcast TV.

This trailer seeks to have been met with complete disinterest to dislike which would be bad for a series on broadcast, but there is no way this will make anyone but the super hard core trekkie subscribe, and they would anyway.

I had never heard that Jill Stein was anti-vax. Here's a statement that she made that is being passed around as proof of her anti-vax, pro-homeopathy position, but, personally, I don't see it:

** spoiler omitted **...

Because she answered two yes or no questions with rambling, vaguely supportive answers, pandering to the wackadoo fringe of the left instead of giving the answers you would expect from a rationalperson, especially a physician. "Vaccines work, homeopathy is b++~&$$*."