Letters to the Editor
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Good to Know!
Kitt is a fair bondsmen who aims to serve the truth
Good Celery
Thanks, it's a service of which I might never know when I need it, and when I do, I'll probably need it bad.
After all, identity theft is a felony.
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@ Dirigo
I'm particularly fond of a line from Russia House. As an American interrogation team disembarks from the floatplane which has carried them to the remote safe house, the CIA officer watching their progress from a large picture window in the house above, turns to his friend from the SIS and says: That's General so-and-so. He's Army from the asshole up. He likes simple answers.
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Derbig ask bucky1, "who are you??
Gosh, I think he's been perfectly frank about showing us that. Now I'll do my best to forget it.
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dust
derbig mooser mentions dust in the context of what befell the first responders of 9/11...but what of our military's failure to factor in dust's effect on equipment due to prolonged exposure.
those that say disengaging will require huge logistics problems miss the point.
we will be bringing home sand encrusted stuff that will be recycled as scrap. maybe we should let the iraq government set up a recycle center. oh, right...that is hard work.
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They feel they are the wizard to hold the one ring and that it will not corrupt them as it has done to so many others.
Everything I know I learned from The Lord of the Rings..
Or was it Star Trek?
I like to think that in the Star Trek universe, humans have become wise enough not to give power to those who lust for it the most.
In my perfect world, leaders would have to be literally drafted, no one who is really suitable and wise enough to be president would possibly want the job, they would have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the oval office.
I kind of like the idea of a tax return with a checklist of where you want your money spent.
You think the environment is the most important issue? You can earmark your entire tax payment to environmental causes.
World hunger? Your entire tax payment can go to alleviating world hunger..
And so on and so on..
I wonder how many, in such a world, would vote for their entire payment to go to making war?
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I know William T. loves spicy nasturtiums and nature. He likes desserts.
Nasturtiums are yellow, white, red, and pink.
In Latin I've read, narris 'nose' + torquere 'to twist.'
We need to ask questions and not 'know everything.
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W.T. what toupee and false tooth molar glue to you use?
What you *wrote reminded me of a "The New Yorker' sketch.
A Arizona resident was selling flowers at a urban farm marker.
The Flower Sign read: For Sale * annuals, perennials, and a eternal.
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. 9-11 or Bust!
derbig mooser mentions dust in the context of what befell the first responders of 9/11
Derbig Mooser mentions dust in the context of 9-11 cause if those planes are what knocked down the towers, there wouldn't have been so much of it, nor would it have been as finely powdered, nor spread so far, among many,many other things.
And yes, the implosion of the buildings took the lives of many first responders.
Let me make myself clear so we don't have to go into 9-11. I'm convinced there was much more kinetic force applied to those buildings than that supplied by the planes. Who supplied this energy, and how, or why, I have no idea, nor do I expect to get any for a long time. (yes, of course it was supplied in the form of explosives)
So there's not much point in arguing about it, and if you want to, there are lots other places to do it.
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Aych
In Star Trek, they apparently solved the universe's problems by killing all of the people of color except Sulu and Uhura.
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Aych II
Same for LOR. Except in the movie, you get to watch it happen.
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Uhura-hubba-hubba
Lt. Uhura! Ah the memories come flooding back! How I used to dream about repopulating a planet with her. With my looks and her brains, we would breed a super-race of LWMs! Creatures able to assume any identity or form!!
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Yoiks
The threshold has been passed, now the talk gets just plain silly. The theme, as I recall, was about how some ingenious folks are using the big lie, and seem to be getting the response to what they are doing. Let's get back on track and stop this silly p!ssing contest.
Sheesh, enough already -- Only two things you gotta know in life;
1) Politicians lie (there are no exceptions to this). Some more than others, others are more grandiose in their lies. But in the end, politicians lie.
2) People are lazy. Laziness breeds ignorance, ignorance begets stupidity, stupidity leads to laziness.
BTW: "it may be time to cross the border if repugs have their way with this election." I doubt the Canadians want you. And remember, it's very very easy to leave America. It sure is difficult to get back in.
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I've seen an interview with Nichelle Nichols..
Uhura..
She wasn't going to take the part until her mother urged her to do it. Her mother pointed out that she would be almost unique on TV at the time. A black woman playing a non cliche role.
As for LOTR, I read it when there were graffito scrawled around that said "Frodo lives", color never entered my mind.
Ever see the ST episode where there are two aliens who hate each other? Both are half black and half white, just mirror images of each other. But they both hate the other in a mindless show of bigotry.
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@WT
As far as I know, the Army Field Manual has never had a chapter on how to deal with irony on the battlefield.
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With my looks and her brains, we would breed a super-race of LWMs!
In the spring, a young man's fancy turns to love..
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@ Derbig
But what was that thing in her ear? Was she already spoken for, d'ya think?
As for alternate universes, I prefer the one in Blade Runner. For one, thing, I love LA, and for another, I can see myself as a dealer in artificial hamsters. (You like? Come also in brown-and-white, albino in one week, you wait? Du, Arschloch, Hände weg! Wenn du gelt hast, dann darfst du wieder 'rein!)
L.W.M. could be happy there, too, until Bucky called the cops.