Posted on 06/28/2010 12:43:57 PM PDT by DagonofAlbion
I deposit the Risk into the account of a dummy finance company for management, called the republican party.
Then, I deposit the damage into the account of a dummy corporation for control, called the democratic party.
I leave all the bible belt religions as spoilers, or third parties; putting them down as department store chains. To stave off the profit into the mints money burning facility, to insure that the money is worthless in terms of pragmatic value, and is only practical believed values.
And the Black market is pimped as bad but, even losing even your kindeys in a hotel bathtub on a drunk, is a value laundering scheme...
Thank you all for your input and participation!!!
I prefer my basement frogs rare.
Lawn frogs are good for soup.
Only diabolically if you're not one of their protected, IIRC.
No fishing?
When your tummy is twitchy, opt for soup (nothing creamy) and garlic bread. Your tummy will thank you. And maybe some clear soda. Stirred, or course.
I’m sorry to hear you are not doing so well. Reminds me of the last few years that I was able to work, so I’m a little anxious for you.
Hang tough, sion. We’re on your side.
And I’m off to bed. I was up at 0415 this morning, and I hate early reville.
Be good to you!
Ghost-writing for the UFO Society.
Or something like that.
Ya got my back, I know I'm good! *\;-) Garlic bread -- hmmm...
It's just a nasty confluence of a couple of "issues" and should go away shortly.
Schlafen Sie gut!
Try the Scalzi books. Very entertaining.
Evidently, he and I share some avante-garde ideas, but he writes well.
LOL, "Unidentified 'Frigeration Object Society": not quite accurate but close enough. But I hope I'll still be corporeal when I write it.
The alternative would just be spooky.
Yes, it becomes difficult to judge, and impossible to criticize.
Not that I’ve heard.
Never heard of Scalzi but my return to the realm of science fiction has been slow, with only rare purchases outside of Dozois' annual anthology.
But this is funny in a way; a year ago (8/19/2009) I got to see first-hand and crawl though a B-17. Watching the movie "Memphis Belle" a little later I wondered why they had to send young men on those missions? Why not the older men who'd already made most of their contributions to society? (And yes, I know, the young ones think they're indestructible.)
Scalzi works out a reasonable premise, and of course it involves technology.
Oddly, what makes his “outlandish” technology work in the story is the human attitude component.
Just as young men think they are indestructible, old men are intimately acquainted with the sad reality, but have different reasons to not be fearful of the inevitable.
"Sad" conveys a particular (set of?) perspective(s) to which I do not subscribe, NnBob, and you know that. But it will be interesting to see what Scalzi makes of this.
Well, I meant that a young man’s delusions of invulnerability are often, particularly in wartime, met with a reality that is sad in its lost promise and portent.
Whether one’s transition from corporeal to non-corporeal is sad or not depends a great deal on one’s philosophy and circumstance.
My philosophy is this; I am a poet.
This means more than simply being an idiot-savant who strings words together like beads in a necklace.
It is a way of looking at things; the eight sides of a cube, the point of the rainbow, the other side of anything and everything.
Being a poet is not merely to have a voice, it is also to have the kind of vision that is not limited to eyes.
Good night -- this day has run too long for me and I need rest.
It rained. We washed the boat. This is like washing the car, but is done with seawater and buckets of bleach (for the white paint.) Bosn came and sprayed everyone with a fire hose. It was cold and wet, and my work boots got full of water so now I have to wear the ones that I specially shined for when the new D-13 Admiral visits the ship..but ah well.
Ivanhoe isn't worth reading and definitely isn't worth writing about. He [Bill] should read The Three Musketeers, or another interesting book which teaches important values. Um, such as ... "Lf someone pisses you off it's okay to swordfight them, but you're only allowed to draw blood (unless it's a revenge killing or you're really annoyed with them, in which case it's fine if you slaughter them outright.)" Also patriotism, honor, bravery, drinking a lot, killing the bad guys, political intrigue, etc. The kinds of things which are important later in life. Ivanhoe isn't even well written, and has no interesting characters. It's like reading Heidi ... both boring and pointless.
Or, if he continues to be a stick and is too cool to read the great adventure serials, he can always read Shakespeare. Hamlet, perhaps, or The Merchant of Venice. I like the second one better. Or Titus Andronicus. These all teach excellent life lessons about paying very close attention to what your siblings/coworkers/employees/distant cousins are up to. You never know.
Bill has bad taste in music. He listens to Nirvana. (Those are the people whose lead singer blasted his skull out with a shotgun, which, I'll admit, requires some talent. [I did actually know that, because I lived in the 1990s.] People keep claiming that this was a terrible tragedy, but since Nirvana's music sucks, it isn't really.) I'll give him copies of some of my Megadeth albums. I also have "Master of Puppets" and "Ride the Lightning." And Van Halen's greatest and not-as-great hits on two CDs. And I think I have a Motley Crue album somewhere in my locker. I have Rob Zombie's new CD, too, but Bill won't like that. It's too buoyant. He only listens to whiny music.
We are [going to San Francisco]. But only for a day or so. Then we are moving on. We're supposed to go past Alcatraz. I don't know if I'll have time to visit. Some other time, maybe. I read a book where they refitted Alcatraz and put captured aliens in it.
I hope you’re out in the coolth getting the truck working. You’re in our prayers (as we hunt, again, for the cord to connect my camera to the computer). Tom found my film camera, at least.
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