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First, a PSA for those who might not have caught tersa's posting of this and are local to the Bay Area:

[Books Inc. is holding a] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince party Friday, July 15th at 11pm, complete with costume contest and prizes, and with 20% of all sales of the book that night going to a local arts charity.

I'm so there and kickin' it as Trelawney, I need to memorize her speech to Hermione about her soul being all withered up like the books to which she so desperately clings. I have a feeling I'll need it. I'll pick up a copy of the book that night to tide me over until my real one comes from England. The money's going to charity and I can always find a home for it afterwards.

Had a great time getting to see jakejr and elo_sf this weekend, it seems like forever since I spent time with either and I've missed them both. And I got an early birthday dinner to boot, go me! :) Aelf gifted me with the coolest Dominion t-shirt with Odo, the Female Changeling, a Jem'Hadar warrior and my beloved Weyoun plus an entire Dominion fleet on it. I'm pretending it's the one that wiped out the Obsidian Order and Tal Shi'ar because I'm a flaming geek girl and it amuses me to do so.

( Also saw Episode III finally, I'll put my short rant behind here. )

Fun games day over at E-'s yesterday, I quite liked "Eye to Eye", and "Linkity" wasn't bad either. If I actually had friends who enjoyed sitting down and playing games fairly regularly aside from E- it'd be worth picking one up. Of course it would also mean taking time away from crafting and costume work, which I can't afford to do at the moment.

Also colored my hair last night, I refuse to face 36 with gray.

And tomorrow the Comcast tech doesn't get to leave until I have internet, dammit.

I have a dream...

Maybe, just maybe if enough of these kinds of stories come out, somebody in our media might start taking them seriously. Maybe.

via Pandagon

MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.

The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.

The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal.

This was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal US action.

“US plans assume, as a minimum, the use of British bases in Cyprus and Diego Garcia,” the briefing paper warned. This meant that issues of legality “would arise virtually whatever option ministers choose with regard to UK participation”.

Yeah, I know it's just a dream, but it's an awfully nice one...

And then No More Mister Nice Blog goes and ruins it all with his damn "logic" and "reason":

Mainstream press outlets in the U.S. aren't taking the memo seriously -- and they never will. The reason, I'd say, is that, on some level, they feel they can't -- taking it seriously would mean taking seriously the question of whether the president of the United States should continue to hold office.

The press won't go there.

The press publishes plenty of critical articles about the war and about Bush's domestic policy -- but a story that suggests the president deliberately lied his way into this war, which would mean that perhaps he ought to step down or be removed from office, just won't get traction.

*sigh*

Can I get an amen?

Fuckin' hell I love this man:

Asked by a reporter Sunday to reply to Cheney's criticisms, Dean said: "My view is that Fox News is a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party and that I don't comment on Fox News." The response drew applause from the room.

via Rising Hegemon