Quote:Oh, god, another musical universe.  I hate musical universes.

We've got yet another party leadership fight brewing. At least it's not the party in overall power this time, just the other third of their coalition. Which means we'll be changing deputy PM, not the top chair. *Sigh* I am really sick of the eternal dick waving contest Canberra's been doing for the past decade and a bit. It's nothing but a distraction that doesn't really change the government's overall policies anyway, and it keeps them from getting yelled at properly for that.

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Mitch McConnell Calls for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Cuts After Passing Tax Cuts, Massive Defense Spending

Quote:"It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem," McConnell said of the deficit, which grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018. McConnell explained to Bloomberg that "it’s a bipartisan problem: Unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future." The deficit has increased 77 percent since McConnell became majority leader in 2015.

YouTube has crashed and has been down for about an hour as I type this.  The most anyone has gotten out of them is "we're working on it."

Starting this in Politics because it's about a political statement.

This is one of those things that Canadians like to pretend doesn't exist: racism biased negatively toward aboriginal peoples, leading to hundreds if not thousands of missing and confirmed-murdered native women over the last half-century (if not longer).

On Thursday, we start acknowledging it.

Fast to show that you're at least aware of the problem, even though nobody has yet come up with any sort of plan to stop teenage girls from being raped and murdered with nobody caring simply because of the colour of their skin.

58 guests on right now.

And it maxed at 86 at some point yesterday.  Yeesh.

Rooster Teeth has sent out links to the trailer in email today.  I've just watched it.  Wow.  And four hours ago they posted it on YouTube, so here:

Trump said that he'd give $1,000,000 to charity if Sen. Elizabeth Warren could prove she has native American ancestry. (Captured on video here - scroll down to "Hear Trump make his promise to Warren on July 5, 2018 in Great Falls, Mont.")

Warren has provided both documentary and DNA evidence.

Trump is now saying he never said what was captured on video that he said.

Readers south of the 49th, I'm not going to tell you how to vote in your midterms next month; I'm just asking whether you want to be associated with a person who tries pulling this sort of stunt.

It's good to have you back on the boards.

When I get home tonight I'll reassociate all your old posts with your new account, and you'll have your entire posting history back.

Rob made a list of hot items from the planning thread, and I figured that was so very useful to have because things keep changing at a moment's notice and you quickly lose sight of the target.

This thread won't be open to new replies.  Rather, what I'll be doing here instead will be to update the list on a weekly basis.  Sure, we can do it on the wiki, but I think it's better for it to be here instead.

• Rajvik is on leave from the writers' circle. (Temporary? Don't know yet. Rob hasn't changed Rajvik's wiki rights.)
  
• BlackAeronaut wants the SIs to get abilities of some sort. Dartz is still a 33-S. BA will be developing his "mages can't sense him" trick, and has plans for "Squishy" to give him an arm cannon. Rob's been to Hvergelmir and is now all wet (and has been geased into having a third girlfriend). Labster... seems to be having trouble coming up with something for Brent.
  
• The PiratePad document has proven itself to be unstable; we have a wiki now for notes. We still need something for real-time collaborative works.
  
• We're still working on the Halloween party story.
  
• Lensman Arms Races are off-limits.
  
• Rob needs to give Luna, Artemis, and Diana more spotlight time. (Diana, Chibi-Usa, and Last Order as a band of junior do-gooders? They all have powers, and they're all 6 years old or equivalent. TMB stories for the pre-tween set, or in that style?)
  
• "What if Jareth the Goblin King was running around?
  
• Idea for later: a permanent portal network between cities with displacees. Portals? Will there be cake? (chokes down the stock response because Makoto Kino's gone starry-eyed.)
  
• River Tam's trying to learn how to be normal, so no front-line combat for her for a while.
  
• Rob wants Brent to watch Ai Yori Aoshi. Brent wants Rob to watch Murdoch Mysteries.
  
• Brent's looking for "someone beautiful" to take a gondola ride.
  
• Rob needs to get better numbers for Mikoto's abilities, to determine how much power she can generate.
  
• Towers with observation decks... In Space! And other appropriate Googie architecture, too.
  
• Ginormica vs. Ultraman Belial, once the secret's out.
  
• BA goes bugs.
  
• Were we going to do anything with the "race what you bring" league? (this post and the seven following it)