"You know what I really dislike?"

"George Bush classifies salsa as a vegetable for school children. The media lets this go. This contradicts the way they acted with Clinton. He wanted
ketchup to be classified as a vegetable. Federal funding says two vegetables must be served in compulsory education. He got ragged on it. If the ECC can
classify carrot as a fruit and Elizabethan cuisine can classify a puffin as fish, there is no reason ketchup cannot be a vegetable. Salsa has meat. "

"I don't see this whole problems with Clinton's sex life. What I do have a problem with is the fact that he fought tooth and nail against the
balanced budget submitted by Congress and then claimed all the credit for it when there was a surplus. Anybody who uses his sex life as a basis for impeachment
is either out to get something from it, or an idiot. It's not new. Lots of famed Presidents has had a mistress, lover, or affaire d'coeur. Look it up.
"

"Another thing. Federal funding is cut off to any clinic or doctor who even mentions the option of abortion. Things should be discussed so there is an
option, rather than taking the option away. Also, I don't see the problem with taking human life in this instance. The same philosophy means that soldiers
shouldn't fire guns at the enemy soldiers either. I don't see this taking place any time soon. Pro-life/antiabortionist bombers who bomb clinics should
figure out this contradiction. They violate their own principles. Logically, they should kill themselves. :

"Genetic engineering is banned by the government on the basis of taking life. What this really means is that while the United States dithers around
embroiled in religious questions, the new Mecca for genetic engineering in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore take gigantic leaps forward in learning stuff. There are
arguments that people aren't meant to know. What I wonder is who profits from moving genetic engineering to a foreign country?"

"Homeland Security. Use a domestic crisis to declare broader-than-normal powers. Then promise you can stop the emergency. G.W. Bush had a nice fillip to
his credit once he was voted back in office with the orange juice dynamite crisis. This way, he can actually show he did something and he didn't even have
to get his hands dirty. "

"People who forbid their children from taking gun classes or any sort of defense classes hate their children. There's no other conclusion. The early
Revolutionaries learned to shoot by the time were they twelve for their dinner. Now people pass laws to take away guns from other people. They have not learned
that this does not work. The examples of the Pope banning crossbows at Crecy and Agincourt, War on Drugs, or Prohibition show this. People will shoot you even
if you don't have a gun or are not using a crossbow. "

"Police officers often say that a person who carries a gun and you take it away from them, they'll be hunched over and won't even look at you.
Curiously, that would mean this same contradiction would apply to a police officer. This seems never to come up in the discussion. "

"Police officers say that criminals want to be caught. I am quite certain that abolitionists of the North who were helping slaves escape from the South
did not want to be caught. This principle is false and ten percent of criminals get caught, mostly because it's not difficult when you see the wife holding
the gun over the husband who shot the guy. It does not require Sherlock Holmes to solve that murder. "

"Biological and chemical agents are banned for a reason. It's the same reason bomb-throwing anarchists were vilified in the Victorian age. They
remove the monopoly of mass destruction from the government. A disease spread on cats and dogs is contagious and can easily immobilize an entire population, or
even more if the vector is a travel center. Chemical agents can be passed by one person. The anthrax threat proved that mail can be used from a single address
to kill a lot of people. There is no -moral- objection to it. The danger is that one person can take down the government. "

"These formal complaints in systems? Do they even do anything?Instead, they nod, smile. and do absolutely nothing. I'm certain that Customs agents are
as unpleasant as possible to forbid people from leaving the country. I thought serfdom, being tied to the land, ended with feudalism. "

"The new gun replacement initiative in which police officer's guns will be replaced by tasers. Have the people who thought up this harebrained scheme
gone in some of these places?"

"The part where three white detectives shot a black guy on his wedding day. An insightful question to ask is if three white guys had shot a white guy or
three black detectives had shot a black guy on their wedding day, would the issue ever come up?:"

"The eight-hundred mile wall rumored to be built on the Mexican border. What I'm thinking here is. so these illegal immigrants have trekked a thousand
miles, paid a lot of money to a coyote, to be smuggled into the States. What do you think they're going to do when they see the wall? Think' Gee gosh,
I'd better trek back over a thousand miles, bankrupt instead of you know.. climbing over it?"

"The real fact that the government has the ability to retrieve the key algorithms to read any computer's data since it's required by law. The
pro-civil liberties bill morphed into a pro-government snooping bill. "

"The fact that all religions require you to die and give up your worldly goods before you get into Nirvana/Paradise/Heaven-whatever. If you truly believe
in that, give me all your worldly goods. I will happily accept your burden. You'll have to get somebody else to kill you. "

Amended. "Creationism taught in science classes. I don't mind if Creationism is taught in schools as long as it's an elective. Put it in Myths and
Folktales. If Creationism is to be taught in science classes, put it through the scientific method to prove it. If it produces conclusions, use those
conclusions. So far no scientific method available has proven the existence of God. It has however, proved that the Earth moves around the sun, the Earth is
round, and that the Earth is billions of years old. "

Amendment: "The fact that Creationists tried to get Harry Potter banned in schools. The claim was that Harry Potter taught witchcraft. Witchcraft
qualified as a tax-exempt religion. It was argued that allowing Harry Potter books in schools was a violation separation of church and state. "

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"More jobs is profit for the unions. This means when you say less jobs on the national level means that the unions are against more profit on the national
level. More jobs locally and less jobs nationally is a direct contradiction of each other. The way forward is apparently to lie,cheat, and steal in ways that
cannot be checked or have been legalized such as Social Security. "

"The business of law is not justice. Justice is not law. Anybody who saw the guy who got released after eleven years in prison for a murder he didn't
commit sees this. O.J is not an illustrative case since he's a famed sports star and the system is designed to let ninety nine guilty people go free as
long as the innocent also goes free. In France, if accused, you're guilty until proven innocent under the Napoleonic Code. "



"Talk shows were invented by the evil of humanity. If you want to to do something that's against society's norms, do it anyway. Anybody who says
that's what society does means that's what they don't want you to do. If you want to go do plastic surgery, go do it for yourself. It doesn't
matter if a thousand housewives are asking if you'll trade at the screen. Just because everybody jumps off a bridge, doesn't mean you have to go along
with it. Be dead certain that's what you want to do, and then go do it. "

"When you hire a lawyer to give you advice, take the advice . Otherwise you wind up paying money for absolutely nothing. "

Also, Wendy's has a tea refill as a matter of policy. It is not a case-by-case manager basis. Tea refills are are automatic. If you want people to stop
yelling at you, know your own damn company's policy. "

There's very few people who actually have the courage to say things such as Your boom box is too loud. Also, if you're the driver, and I want you to
throw him off the bus because he's threatening everyone around him in order to pick a fight, throw him off the bus!

So yeah, the idea just sort of popped into my head this afternoon and WOULD. NOT. LEAVE.

I modeled her on Blossom of the Powerpuff Girls - specifically the PPG Z version. There's even a reference to them in her bio.

So yeah - yet another addition to my "Going to hell in a handbasket" resume. ^_^

Okay, I'll admit I'm cheating here.

There's a http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=42750]friendly trivia contest about GURPS books (not the game, the printed or e23 products) going on over on the SJGames forums. http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php? ... tcount=138]One question has us stumped:

Quote:There is a certain GURPS book with a Pink Floyd pullquote. That book includes another, unattributed Pink Floyd quote as an Easter egg in the main text. What is the book and what is the quote?

In the same video!

Edit: Or not... (sigh) Here's the http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... okyo-event]ANN story about the video...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Genres: action, comedy, romance

Themes: Harem

Plot Summary: Minato Sahashi is extremely intelligent, yet due to his inability to cope under pressure has failed the college entrance exam twice. As a result he has been branded an idiot and loser by many. One day after talking to his yet again disappointed mother he comes into contact with a girl named Musubi who was under attack. The girl runs but takes him with her and soon finds that Minato, while unknown to him, is an Ashikabi, one of the mysterious set of masters that have the genetic trait that can become partners with some of the 108 cute girls, buxom women, and bishonen called "Sekirei". The reason for the partnership allows the Sekirei to use all their power to win in the competition held by the mysterious MBI corporation.
Call it a cross between Fate/Stay Night nd Ikkutessen. Interesting chemistry between Minato and Musubi
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

For those of you that haven't seen the series, or have seen it recently.
we have pics of Yomiko:

and Nancy:


hope this helps
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

In this case, it's spelled "Jet Li."

Yeah, I just got back from watching "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." And, frankly? It ROCKED.

I really wasn't expecting too much, especially since Rachel Weisz wasn't reprising her role in this one. But my low expectations got their socks
blasted off. While the second "Mummy" movie was not up to the first, this one... this one could actually rival the first film for grabbing you and
sucking you in.

IMO, the scriptwriters really hit the "Sequel Sweet Spot," retaining enough of the old familiar (the jokes, the chemistry, the references to the
last two films) while adding enough new elements to avoid the "been there, done that" problem.

I was pleasantly surprised by how well the film stood up to losing Rachel Weisz. Her replacement, Maria Bellow, wisely *doesn't* try to duplicate Ms
Weisz's acting -- instead, the character has been subtly tweaked to fit the new actress, and the fit is good enough that I, for one, actively ignored the
minor discrepancies in favor of immersing myself in the story. It was worth it. I haven't had this much fun in a theater since seeing "Iron
Man."

A recently leaked draft regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services (PDF available here) attepts to redefine many forms of contraception, including IUDs and many forms of oral
contraception, as "abortion," and allowing employees of any agency, public or private, to refuse to perform or dispense any such measure if they have
a moral or religious objection, including even those responsible for instrument sterilization (see here). The result of this could very well be a drastic reduction in the
availability of contraception to American women.

Sources:

The Wall Street Journal

RH Reality Check

Women's Health
News

"The Questionable Authority"

"GrrlScientist"

"PalMD" at Denialism Blog

--The Twisted One

Hey Fox, I was playing with Genin, and this popped up like a ninja in a whack-a-mole game (Which means I really should have smacked it back down)



The genin was a first try at ninja suits; classic Sho Kosugi styling with a bit of sex appeal.

Spotted on The Register: Misheard Lyrics Blamed on Technology

(The article links to kissthisguy.com, a site named after something which apparently mignt not be a mondegreen after all...)

--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012