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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
And basically makes any excuse to have nude women in a hard military setting.
>.>
New Survey coming this weekend!
Like reflections in the glass!
And it turns out it was Lensman that made the Powered Armor concept, leaving Starshit Poopers (the book) with absolutely nothing that could be considered good.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
True, but that, along with many other number of concepts introduced in Lensman, may have been the only good thing about that book. Was it a milestone for Space Opera and Sci-fi that introduced many concepts the genre uses today? Without a doubt. Is it an actual good novel? Ehhhhhhhhh...
This picture sums things up pretty nicely, especially in regards to climate denialists: i.imgur.com/O0UjOJZ.jpg
edited 29th Mar '17 10:01:39 PM by Bat178
edited 29th Mar '17 10:06:28 PM by sgamer82
That bathroom bill repeal comes with a lot of qualifications.
What kind of qualifications?
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Lots of concessions to the transphobic crowd, which means they still haven't realized they're on the wrong side of history.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
What kind of concessions, specifically?
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Like reflections in the glass!
I presume the bathroom law repeal is a part of these concussions?
Couldn't you read the article since it was already linked?
Didn't the last "repeal" turn into a scam to get Charlotte to drop their ordinance but without actually removing the law?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I reread the article, so I understand it better now.
It's a start, I guess. :/
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
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AP Breaking: China president Xi to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 6-7.
Grab the popcorn!
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Hope Xi speaks slowly and uses small words. Really don't want to see how this can go awry, especially after Trump's first impression.
Polite Little Scrapes in Atlanta—
Staff raids and social media hijinks: GOP infighting ramps up in Georgia Sixth
Behind the scenes, they bicker on Twitter over hashtags and trade claims of doctoring Facebook posts and cannibalizing one another’s staffs. And on the airwaves, a roughly $5 million ad blitz includes one memorable spot that depicts the GOP front-runner as a lumbering, bejeweled elephant.
Smack at the center of many of the swirling attacks is Bob Gray, a former Johns Creek councilman. Hardly known among Georgia politicos before he entered the race, the snowy-haired telecom executive has emerged as a leading Republican contender in poll after poll.
He hired a string of veterans from Trump’s operation, including ex-Trump Georgia campaign manager Brandon Phillips, and he proudly brandishes the president’s banner in a district Trump won by 1 point in November.
“It’s time to stand with President Trump, and I intend to be a willing partner to move this country forward,” Gray said at a recent east Cobb gathering of Republicans. “It’s time to drain the swamp.”
An affable presence on the campaign trail, Gray and his team play a no-holds-barred version of political gamesmanship that has gotten under their rivals’ skin.
His campaign won a bidding war for the staff of another rival, tea party organizer Amy Kremer, after they quit en masse. And it swiped the #takethehill hashtag used by another rival, former state Sen. Judson Hill, in his campaign ads.
Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, the Republican in the race with the highest profile, faces her own challenges.
She’s the top Republican in many of the polls despite spending no campaign cash yet on TV advertising. But an influential super PAC that’s endorsed Gray has telegraphed a coming attack on her. The Club for Growth in a memo called her “surprisingly weak” and on Tuesday launched an attack ad that cast her as a “big-spending career politician that we can’t trust with our money.”
...former state Sen. Dan Moody, included a not-so-subtle dig at Handel in his first campaign ad depicting him with a shovel trailing a pack of donkeys and elephants — including one pachyderm wearing Handel’s signature pearl necklace.
David Abroms, a Republican newcomer running as a consensus-builder, talks frequently on the campaign trail about working with Democrats in Washington and being a check on Trump. And he’s pumped $250,000 of his own fortune into his bid for office.
But that message doesn’t always play well at GOP meetings, including a recent debate where he was jeered for not supporting Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
Democrats have happily rushed to present a united front. Although five Democrats are in the race, Democratic voters appear to have largely consolidated behind Ossoff, an investigative filmmaker and former congressional aide who has built a fundraising juggernaut that has raised more than $3.5 million.
With his “Make Trump Furious” campaign, Ossoff is also soaking up much of the national attention with the help of endorsements from U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a string of Hollywood supporters. Actress Alyssa Milano on Monday even ferried Ossoff supporters to the polls on the first day of early voting.
I'm not sure "bickering on Twitter" counts as "behind the scenes", given tweets are usually public
Re: A comment a couple pages ago about a card creator offering to buy Congress's web history: "You can’t buy Congress’ web history — stop trying"
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Well, that's a shame. 
On second thought, I guess it's a relief that it's not possible to do that kind of thing in general.
edited 30th Mar '17 7:22:38 AM by henry42
One does not shake the box containing the sticky notes of doom!
They could still buy data in aggregate, use it to identify demographics that lawmakers would be in, then use that data in some way. Sure, you can't buy individually identifying data, but there's plenty of ways around that and plenty of other ways to use the data.
After the Trump Regime asked the Judge from Hawaii to restrict his temporary stay stopping the second Muslim Ban, that same judge turned right around and made his ruling permanent until further Judicial Review, calling Trump's statements a neon sign no matter how his lawyers downplay them.
The court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has, Watson wrote. [1]
edited 30th Mar '17 7:50:41 AM by ViperMagnum357
Reminder that no matter what you or I say, I still like you guys ;-;
I lurk here every single day
Oh, bother.
Oh this should be good. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Ah Starshit Poopers, the progenitor of the concept of Powered Armor and revolting enough to have a film adaptation that serves to say "F*** you" to the source material.