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Hadn't seen this photo from the Charles Cobb and Judy Richardson event until now. Kinda like it.

Man, I hang out with good-looking people.

Somebody warn those beautiful people that there is a horrifying hairy humanoid sneaking up behind them!

Brust is a lot of fun. I don't think he's 'Trotsky-leaning', though, I think he's just a flat out out Trotskyite/ist.

Have spoken with her all of twenty minutes since Wednesday night. It's weird. Usually I have to recharge my phone every day, but not since Wednesday. Hmmm.

:(

At least you know it isn't because you screwed something up?

It may be a good song sign, for your health, at least, that she is working on things by herself for a few days.

...stand by and let you fight your secret war

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

Add a few shanty homes and

you will have lots of dead bodies after first winter.Russia and shanty homes don't match well.

Didn't say that it was a *good* idea. :)

Besides, some of the folks from that thread would say that the shanty-dwellers should generate heat by pulling harder on their bootstraps!

For the record, I also don't have a mobile phone even though the comrades keep telling me to get one. Apparently, it's easier to plan picket lines and paper sales with one. I prefer e-mail.

You should get one, we ...I mean they, totally won't use it to track you come the revolution!

Sissyl wrote:

Violence breeds violence? Wow, that's just so ridiculous. I mean, talk about obviously false!

So, what's your explanation?

I feel safe in asserting that Sissyl's post had an implied 'sarcasm' tag.

229: Heinlein's Battlefield Earth:

Bite your tongue! L. Ron Hubbard.

231: The moment in Firefly when they are threatened with destruction by the Federation fleet, and then the whole mass of Ravers comes out of the nebulae behind them...

Wouldn't have posted just for this, but as long as I'm here and already being a je...

"Alliance"
"Serenity"
"nebula"

Anyway, it did point me in the direction of Mr. Nuland's relatively recent article in The Atlantic, In Defense of Empire.

Should be a good read.

Huh. "A measure of equality"? "America should intervene around the world to improve it, while avoiding entanglement"?

The author appears to be somewhat confused. Though bonus points for admitting that he was cribbing from "White Man's Burden".

So I will ask again, in as clear a language as I can.

If the Palestinians have a right to kill Israelis, as you say they do, do the Israelis have a right to kill Palestinians that are trying to kill them?

So, you realize that we can *see* his post, right? The one where he specifically answered this question and explained his answer? Why are you asking again?

I've always liked Steven Brust's definition from the Vlad Taltos books.

Gods are incredibly skillful and powerful individuals who have the ability to be present in more than one location at a time and cannot be summoned or controlled by magic. The second part of that is the only difference between them and demons, in-setting (but they aren't like Pathfinder demons, more like generic Outsiders).

Well, I'm not talking about core hippy habits like pot smoking (though one must wonder at people who enjoy drug use where the altered state is in-house referred to as "being stoned" or having a "head full of zombie". Because being hit in the head with rocks is such fun and zombies are known for clarity of thought. Do they even consider that the name "pot" is derived from "going to pot"?). Now back to the topic.

Interesting- in my country we have something called 'alcohol' that people use for many of the same things. I'm surprised that you've never heard of it.

I say we reexamine the dog's proposal bit. a small efficient house on a few acres outside the city and a bit of education on agriculture is better than packing the city full of crime and full dependence. Might be far better off delivering a regular ration than a blank check to waste on overpriced junk. But once again it would make the corporate masters unhappy so it cannot be.

A) Farming isn't as easy as you think it is.

and, most importantly,

C) Your plan is basically a reenactment of what the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia. Even you should be able to figure out the likely results of trying it again.

2) How come Mr.T'sFloatingHead never says "I pity the fool..."?

His pity was cut off along with the rest of his body.

Absolutely a loss for Israel as a country... but probably still in line with factional forces within the Knesset.

Case in point

Sometimes it's really hard to like you, human race. :(

Ah, you've discovered the Northites, Usagi-san.

...maybe?

Google thinks that I've spelled the name of a type of feldspar wrong when I try to look it up, though.

Freehold, you've already gotten him to move from "welfare is taking from others which is theft which is wrong!!!" Frankly, I don't think you're going to get anything else.

Yah. Take what you can get. Remember that in his world, bad things like having premature babies and housing-market crashes only happen to bad people who should have been more responsible.

Color me dense but how does the mincing of 'adding to your spells known' differ from 'adding to your class' spell list' other than some interaction with spell completion items? Is that the only thing it's meant to address? If there's some other reason I'm just not seeing it.

Think spontaneous casters. Spells Known is a small subset of Spell List.

You are not the only person who had to read the FAQ a couple times, though.

[Flashes union card]

FMLA works like clockwork at UPS, no problem.

Just sayin'.

Most large companies I've seen run FMLA with no problems.

Watch Your Mouth, Or The Village Of Arena Police Department May Get Violent

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

Jeez. I forgot there had been one of these recently.

If it helps, at least the shooter in Vidal's case has been indicted. That's Mr. "We don't have time for this".

Cool. links?

Not a "bad shoot"

I don't know the website, it's just what came up on google.

Also, I meant to type "more than one if these recently" in my previous post.

Bitter Thorn wrote:

Parents say their schizophrenic son was killed in ‘cold blood’ by police who were called to help

"We don't have time for this!" the officer said, as he shot the 90-lb boy 70 seconds after arriving.

This lacks a video, thank god, but I'm still enraged.

Jeez. I forgot there had been one of these recently.

If it helps, at least the shooter in Vidal's case has been indicted. That's Mr. "We don't have time for this".

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

Bet you a dollar that it stays a "temporary" tax increase for the rest of our lives.

Deal. Bury yourself with the dollar, I'll get the shovel.

And this is why I never want to be the one working out the wording for the Wish.

Well, America, we had a good run:

SWAT Teams are not subject to open records because reasons...

Note that this is in New England. This may just be Anklebiter's fault. Darn commie!

We can trust the government, right? ...right?

As an Earthist, not an "environmentalist", I say we go to Mars and pollute the living hell out of it! Who is with me?

Sounds eerily like the plot of Red Mars/Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Watch out, though, if you pollute too much the Reds will drop the beanstalk on your head.

(No, not *those* Reds, sit down, Anklebiter)

Aren't most of the gods beings that existed far before there were humans or ethnicities on Golarion? The only ones that I can recall that were at one time human were Aroden, The ascended,and Nethys. The rest just take forms that are familiar to their worshipers, because, lets face it, they rule over a universe full of planets.

You are correct. For example, there have been hints that when Desna is out in the deep black, she looks a lot more like a giant bug than a fairy-butterfly lady.

The idea makes a lot of sense, but it would still be cool to show other versions. For a 'Real World' example here are the different ways Morpheus of Dream appears to his... clients.

Minkaien

Akitani

Garundi

Avistani

Jeven wrote:

Varisian Wanderer wrote:

The Bonuwat people are the ones that worship Desna and Gozreh as Shimye-Magalla.

Shimye-Magalla would be a really good one to develop as a distinct Mwangi god. The bit about her being nothing more than a Desna-Gozreh hybrid could be written off as a conceit of arrogant Sargavan colonists.

I would totally support this. Heck, she could be like some sort of spiritual child of Desna and Gozreh, or a being that arose from the combined faith of the Mwangi who tied those two gods together.

Not bad, but I actually liked the original flavor of "is Shimye-Magalla two gods sharing a face or one composite god? Is it Garundi or Avistani?" " ... Yes."

We need some mysteries for the gods!

In the meantime, of course, we absolutely need some more art of gods who aren't always choosing to appear Caucasian.

Ross Byers wrote:

Is there anyone who would disagree with Idris Elba for the Pathfinder movie?

I was going to say Morgan Freeman.

Nope, we need him for Old-Mage Jatembe.

But Idris Elba should be in All The Things, I agree. :)

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

Yeah, sadly- but Obama has done real things that happened in the real world that people could complain about. People still make up things to get angry about. :/
He is NOT an atheist-Muslim lizardperson. He is someone who has a questionable amount of respect for the 4th Amendment. Which one do you see people talking about?

He isn't up to the task, he's a poor "constitutional scholar" is his track record so far is any indication, and he is shielded from any hard core criticism from the mainstream press not because he's a Democrat (Clinton, a MUCH better president took a hell of a lot more heat from the press), but because the three major networks, quite a few of the news papers and a few of the cable news outlets are run by, editorially controlled by, or employ a bunch of people who either served in his admin or are married to people that serve/d in his admin. Quite a bit of the press will never call him out, too many people are either true believers or want that paycheck from the spouse working for the guy.

I'm more worried that he isn't that bad a Constitutional scholar... And is pulling this }%~€ anyway. :(

And of course to deflect blame away from those actually at fault.

Wait a second, you are trying to cast Summon Anklebiter, aren't you!

If you want to haz a sad, consider whether we can blame all of that on demagogues, or whether a good part of the sentiment is just because that's how people work.

Really if you want to be green you need to get rid of most industry and most people, nothing else will really do much

Right, the 'learned helplessness' argument. That's where the anti-science folks admit that climate change really is happening, but that nothing can be done about it because it is too expensive.

It at least has the virtue of being more honest than yelling 'there's no consensus!' :)

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

If you mean the fighting in the... 1920s? That's almost a century ago on its own, the situation is hugely different. The EU isn't going to let a member state start annexing parts of neighboring countries.

No,i mean Poland From Sea to Sea.Pretty popular nationalist idea there.

Who said there will be EU in 10 years?In 20?
And who cares?You saw how people reacted to Crimea's return to Russia.
In Poland,man who restores Republic to it's rightful borders will be remembered for all eternity.
Here's a scenario for you:Ukraine five years from now,total failed state,Poland moves it's peacekeeping force in the area,stabilizes the situation,and grateful citizens overwhelmlingly vote to join Poland on a "spontaneous"referendum.
Which of course will be recognized by US on the same day because polish lobby.

The Polish lobby?? Thank you. That's a good one.

Polish expansionism? Yeah, not a thing. You may have found a group of ten weirdos hanging out on a forum somewhere who want to create a Polish Imperium, but that does to make it real. You assume that just because you think annexing your neighbors is a good idea that te rest of the world does as well.

I understand people disagreeing with me on Global Warming. We all read various authors and make our own opinion based on the information presented to us. But to say there is a consensus is a joke.

You might want to consider reading that article before claiming that it supports your position. The author admits that the survey he is talking about polled a bunch of engineers and geoscientists and they did not have any consensus about climate change.

The author was very careful not to quote the opinions of, for example, climate scientists, aka people who actually know what they are talking about.

EDIT-

Ah, I wrote the above before seeing that even the authors of that study say it doesn't mean what you claim it means.

Please, I must know. What does it say about Aroden?

The Aboleths did it!

Biden's Son, Kerry Family Friend Join Ukrainian Gas Producer's Board

Saw a link to that titled 'okay, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but what the hell?'

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

Full-scale alien invasions aren't all that common. Maybe once every eight to ten years? Five at best?

In context your statement makes perfect sense- without context, that is hilarious. :)

Back on topic, I don't think anybody is saying that registration and superhero concentration camps are a good idea... Just an idea that *somebody* would be pushing if supers were real.

Orfamay Quest wrote:

Was it Bismark who defined politics as "the art of the possible"?

I'm not sure what that stooge of the junkerocracy said, but, IIRC, he had to hand out socialized health care in order to buy off the Socialist-led German proletariat.

Revolt, comrades, revolt!!

Speaking of that, could you lot get back to scaring the powers that be into at least pretending to a belief in egalitarianism?

As a simple example, name any organized left-wing hate groups.

I don't know about organized, but I once saw Comrade Anklebiter shoot a bougie in Reno- just to watch him die.

McCain birthers. McCain's eligibility even went to court.

I assume you didn't read the complaint where the plaintiff identified himself as a member of the Republican Party?

Or did you just hope that none of us would read it?

Charlie Bell wrote:

Then perhaps you'd like to discuss it in the other thread. Maybe there you will address things I actually said rather than strawmen you think I implied.

*snip*

I don't endorse everything he wrote in the other thread, but none of it sounded as over the top to me as it did to you. May I suggest that you are misinterpreting his tone?

What were they running from?

We do not speak of it, mammal!

Andrew R wrote:

I just find it funny that players can be rapists, drug dealers, gang members, commit gun crimes etc without such viscous backlash

You'd think he'd have had time to dodge the backlash if it was as viscous as you say.

But it gets into *everything* :(

Ah, yes. Now the No True Scotsman fallacy comes into play. We haven't seen that one yet in this thread among Holocaust apologists.

Not a Libertarian (or a libertarian), but that is their favorite fallacy and has reached the status of an in-joke in the same way Democrats complain about trying to herd cats. It's basis in truth is because even libertarians can't agree exactly what True Libertarianism is.

Also, dude- not cool. There is one, count 'em, one Holocaust apologist in this thread. Everybody else is supporting free speech. There is a difference, for example: the ACLU providing lawyers to Nazis in the US. Doesn't mean the ACLU doubts that the Holocaust occurred.

of course i could be completely full of s%&$..but you never truely know do you

I feel safe in asserting that we do.

I think im depressed but will not be seeking any help because i believe im dealing with it well. Might not be the best idea but it's working for me so far

While neither is any fun, hopefully you "are depressed" instead of "having depression". The first is a perfectly reasonable response to things that would make anyone unhappy, the second is more like this:

Hyperbole and a Half - Adventures in Depression

I recommend that link to everyone, by the way. It's a very good description of Major Depressive Disorder from the inside.

Kelsey MacAilbert wrote:

If I continually accuse people of theft and robbery is it true or an overly hostile barb that eliminates the chance for civil debate?

What else do you call forcible taking from a man what he has earned?

Andrew, up thread you said you agreed with the government forcibly taking money to pay for things you agree with- roads and defense.

So, I think people want a bit more consistency.

In place of Clockwork Orange (which I have, shamefully, not seen) I comend to you all the Babylon 5 episode, "Passing Through Gethsemane".

They don't have a Helm, instead they can sentence you to 'death of personality'. The subject ends up agreeing with the people who applied the sentence.

EDIT: In related news, Magnuskn... I really Really REALLY think you should have your players build 10 point characters next campaign, using only options from the Core Rulebook. Tell them it's Paizo's Creative Director issuing them the challenge of playing an AP on "Nightmare Mode!" If they're as bad-ass as they sound... this is what they need to do next to win the game! :-)

Hey, what's that on the floor there?

... It appears to be a gauntlet! :)

Seriously, my groups both have to upgrade the APs we are running, but one has a pretty fair level of system mastery and the other uses avg 35 point but characters and some unusual house rules.

Then you are disgusted by your own lack of reading comprehension Jessica because that is not what I said.
(snip)
...
I frankly am amazed that you fail to understand that.

You may want to consider that this post is not following Rule One. There are plenty of other ways to phrase disagreement.

[edited to follow rule one and avoid hypocrisy]

Any other fans of the Lensman books out there?

Absolutely! They are great fun.

If people get disability because of mental illness, based on notes from their regular doctors (or any free clinic they attend) then I will give that there's a problem with the system. Those kind of diagnoses shouldn't be given by anyone but professional psychiatrists, who are trained to diagnose them. It also shouldn't be as simple as just visiting one for a session or two. Diagnosing mental illness takes much longer time and should be done under proper circumstances.

I do not disagree with you, but remember most of us are talking about the US, the people in question are probably lucky to have a primary care doctor or someone they see at a free clinic

<ninja'd by damnitall- cut that out!>

I'm rather confused by the last few comments that equate having manners with tricking people into liking me. That's like saying going to a formal event in a suit and tie is lying because when I'm at home I wear jeans and a tee shirt.

You wear WHAT?!

Liar!