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Hot damn this is a great icon:



by probodie

A kiss! The Doctor and Jack kiss! Onscreen! *swoon*

Sadly I did not get to see this as most of the episodes worked until the halfway point and then they all started freezing up. One, the last with the Slythine (sp?), froze solid on both machines and wouldn't play past the point where the Doctor takes the evil Slythine to a nice restaurant in Cardiff for dinner. If anyone heard a scream of anguish from the general Peninsula area, it was me.

I'm going to try them on my desktop tonight and see if it's just my DVD players being too fussy. Sadly this means I won't be able to make copies at present, but if they do work on the computer I can at least loan them out to folks who want to see them. In the meantime you will never know how sad I was not to see how the episode where all 3 are trapped in the reality game shows from hell. Let's just say Jack gets tapped for "What Not to Wear" and spends a great deal of time naked. *squee* Also, best line ever, fashion droids to Jack, "But you're naked, where could you possibly have concealed that gun?" Jack grins and replies, "Ladies, you really don't want to know."

I'm feeling a bit lightheaded now, I hope it's the hormones rather than the illness I'm still trying to shake off. Speaking of which, I'm going to stick it out at work as long as my body will hold out. Too much to do after a long weekend away. *sigh*

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Another brilliant post from Digby:

We kidnapped this man off the street as he left a courthouse that freed him for lack of evidence. He was sent to Guantanamo. And he has no further recourse anywhere to assert his innocence.

We have no way of knowing how many people we have done this to, but clearly there are quite a few. It makes me sick to my stomach to contemplate that innocent people are caught up in it. And without due process we simply cannot be sure that there aren't. In fact, we know there are.

I'm getting old now and I don't know how long it will take for this stuff to sort itself out. Maybe I won't be alive to see it. But at some point there is going to be some sort of reckoning. It's happening in Argentina right now. Cambodians are beginning to come to terms with what was done. And no I'm not comparing us to them, except to say that unless we get some transparency there is every reason to fear that we are heading into that territory. As I wrote in that post in February:

We are disappearing people, rendering them to friendly governments that aren't afraid to put the electrode to genitals and threaten with dog rape. And we are building our own infrastructure of torture and extra legal imprisonment. It is a law of human nature that if you build it, they will come. This infrastructure will be expanded and bureaucratized. It's already happening.



John Yoo, one of the primary architects of the Gitmo regimes said:

“Why is it so hard for people to understand that there is a category of behavior not covered by the legal system?”



Because we are supposed to be a nation of laws, not men. If we can fashion laws that cover behavior like genocide, war crimes, child molestation and serial killing, surely we can find a way to cover terrorism.

Your daily dose of wisdom

...from Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum via Catholic Online:

"It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning "private" moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."


So, for those keeping score, liberals are now guilty of encouraging priests to molest little kids. What nefarious uses will we put our near god-like power to next? Only the Shadow knows...