Iranian Protestors Shot As Obama Goes for Ice Cream
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Quote:Nothing that you're particularly good at?
Originally posted by RIPWash:
I am shocked and appalled that you could forget me, Chris. Though what I may have to contribute is beyond me.
Okay, then you run Congress.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Nothing that you're particularly good at?
Originally posted by RIPWash:
I am shocked and appalled that you could forget me, Chris. Though what I may have to contribute is beyond me.
Okay, then you run Congress.
The laughing Chrisisall
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Pay raises and extended vacations for everyone!!!
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"It's okay! I'm a leaf on the wind!!!"
"What does that mean?!?!?!"
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Hero, you may have missed it, but there is evidence that at least SOME of the "fanatical" Republican Guard forces are showing signs of fealty to the opposition. Besides, it's not as if Musavi is some kind of radical reformer. He's still basically a figurehead for a theocracy, and he's still a fundamentalist. He's just not Ahmidinejad, although you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart by their policies.
What I'm interested in is what happens if the "loyal" military forces are ordered to crush the insurrection... and then they don't do it. What happens if they don't open fire? What happens if they actually turn on their "masters" who currently seem to be controlling the government?
Mike
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Nothing that you're particularly good at?
Originally posted by RIPWash:
I am shocked and appalled that you could forget me, Chris. Though what I may have to contribute is beyond me.
Okay, then you run Congress.
The laughing Chrisisall
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Pay raises and extended vacations for everyone!!!
*********************************************
"It's okay! I'm a leaf on the wind!!!"
"What does that mean?!?!?!"
I've no doubt that you'd do a better job of it than either Reid or Pelosi have done - and that's coming from a "liberal"!
Mike
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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But, if you've read my stuff, would you say Better to Beg Forgiveness...had a similar flavor?
Little bit, yes indeedy, also has a dash of Slammers flavor too, gonna make it a two-fer-one, as both CwC and this one are going on my "next batch" list.
Ringo's "The Road to Damascus" obviously occupies the must-read shelf, since most folk aware of political dangers from one end of the spectrum don't seem to realize the dangers from the other, and that book does the most fearfully accurate representation of how a liberal establishment can go bad that I have ever seen.
CwC is a bit closer to my world though, the dirty business of string pulling and manipulation, which if done WELL, when the knives *do* come out (and they always do, in the end) your opponents first awareness of your actual intentions is a shank in the spine...
Thus alleviating the problem of more direct confrontation, yes ?
Most certainly will be pickin up both books in my next batch from Baen.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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CwC is a bit closer to my world though, the dirty business of string pulling and manipulation, which if done WELL, when the knives *do* come out (and they always do, in the end) your opponents first awareness of your actual intentions is a shank in the spine...
Thus alleviating the problem of more direct confrontation, yes ?
Damn. You already know how it ends
Recent novels by Michael Z. Williamson
CONTACT WITH CHAOS, Apr 09 from Baen Books
BETTER TO BEG FORGIVENESS..., Nov 07 from Baen BooksNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Actually no, I just know History, and Human Psychology as it relates to politics really, REALLY well - besides, I am far less interested in where the story goes than I am in how it's told.
That said, you're a right bastard, and a smart one - I just got done reading the preview for Beg-Forgiveness, and that's just eeeevil, cast the line, set the hook, pay out a little slack, and YOINK!
*laughs*
That just moved my next batch acquirement up to tomorrow afternoon, cause it's damn good stuff, and a wonderful reminder that there are worse frustrations than trying to run security in the badland burbs west of detroit in opposition to, and without support from, local police forces.
While never a truly viable option, oft-times nuking from orbit is a damned attractive one, isn't it ?
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Detroit?
Eww.
You DO realize that Kuwait City looked better after the invasion, and Baghdad still does, right?
Recent novels by Michael Z. Williamson
CONTACT WITH CHAOS, Apr 09 from Baen Books
BETTER TO BEG FORGIVENESS..., Nov 07 from Baen Books
http://www.MichaelZWilliamson.com
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I want HKC for President, and Frem for vice.
THEN something good would be done in this gorram country.
Hell yes! Where do I send donations?
SergeantX
"It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah"
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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
This is the weirdest conversation. Meddlesome. Yeah, all this talk about "what we should do" is itself utterly meddlesome. When are y'all gonna get it through your skulls that we DON'T run the world.
You know what we should do? We should, in a dignified way, simply apologize and see what comes of it.
The voice of reason, once again.
The only thing I'd add is, we kinda need to think about cutting back on the meddling along with the apologizing or it rings a little empty. I mean, it doesn't mean much for a bully to apologize for beating someone up while he's still standing over them with his fists clenched, ya know?
SergeantX
"It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah"
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