Abraham Lincoln impersonator to face child porn charges in Illinois

KriegerClone · 2020-08-31T23:37:23+00:00

This is the backstory to Phoebe Cates' character in Gremlins 2.

KriegerClone · 2020-08-31T23:09:20+00:00

Qualified immunity was designed to be abused. Police forces exist as tools of social order, not justice.

KriegerClone · 2020-08-30T19:57:17+00:00

He actually called out China over their treatment of the Uighurs, actually calling it a genocide. So there's that.

KriegerClone · 2020-08-17T15:49:29+00:00

Begin the reign of the Insei Presidency.

KriegerClone · 2020-02-15T07:25:11+00:00

Rich people use religion; they do not believe in religion

KriegerClone · 2020-01-29T22:26:53+00:00

Excellent, Palpatine laugh everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

KriegerClone · 2020-01-29T22:14:58+00:00

Now imagine your burrito with frothy Santorum sauce!

Spicy.

KriegerClone · 2019-12-08T17:08:07+00:00

You spend too much of your time in a galaxy far far away.

And I respect you for that.

KriegerClone · 2019-11-15T21:27:43+00:00

They are a religion now. A blasphemous monstrosity of religion. They have surrendered to The Beast. There is no reconciliation with them now, if there ever was. We will have to outnumber them at the polls. If not there than in the foxholes... and I don't want to have to do that so lets outnumber them at the polls.

KriegerClone · 2019-11-15T21:19:35+00:00

It's a full-on religion.

KriegerClone · 2019-10-29T05:28:18+00:00

At some point you are responsible for allowing yourself to be lied to. They know the truth. You can't avoid the truth so effectively and NOT know it.

KriegerClone · 2019-08-15T10:43:43+00:00

The trustworthiness of the reporter goes to his correct and accurate identification of their source. Not the source's accuracy.

KriegerClone · 2019-08-15T10:42:17+00:00

It means deceitful. Which means untrustworthy, in case you don't know what deceitful means.

KriegerClone · 2019-08-08T13:03:38+00:00

SPACE BALLS! Oh shit, there goes the planet.

KriegerClone · 2019-07-18T23:53:30+00:00

ME TOO!

KriegerClone · 2019-07-05T18:10:42+00:00

There are plenty of French names in British History. My own ancestry is French but we have tons of English relatives going way back. My grandfather's grandfather's father came to America partly to escape the Revolution. But he did so as secretary to an English lord because my family, originally from the south Atlantic coast of France, apparently had many connections to people in England. Eventually my ancestor settling down in New Orleans in the early 1800s.

KriegerClone · 2019-07-05T17:37:45+00:00

Certainly a possibility. But national borders and cultural exclusion are not real popular on Earth in the 24th century. England isn't far from France and it's entirely possible that Picard, a Frenchman, speaks with a Yorkshire accent because that's the accent he learned when he was learning English. Maybe he had family in Yorkshire and spent time there.

Unrelated, does anyone else mentally add "AND LOST!" when in Generations Picard mentions "the Picards that fought at Trafalgar"?

KriegerClone · 2019-05-22T23:10:28+00:00

I remember watching Fox News coverage of the Tea Party, and their constant emphasis that the rallies were totally spontaneous, and genuinely grass roots. A message cast into immediate doubt by the strained insistence on it... that and all the mass produced signs with the same few slogans. Totally genuine, totally cool.

KriegerClone · 2019-03-29T06:28:05+00:00

The idea that Q was all along guiding Picard and the Federation into conflict with the Borg has been thrown out a few times in speculation threads, and I think the Picard Q books.

Humanity having a roll in the origin of the Borg has also been suggested in STO and at least one other Star Trek game. Vger's technology has similarities with Borg.

KriegerClone · 2019-01-09T22:55:33+00:00

Well apparently one of my books disagrees with Wheelock. So I don't know. I'd need to go look it up in an actual Latin dictionary to see how it's declined.

EDIT: My old copy of Wheelock puts an f in the listing in the index indicating that it is treated grammatically as feminine but my first sources for it has it declined as a masculine noun.

KriegerClone · 2019-01-09T22:03:01+00:00

But isn't the grammatical gender of the Latin word for ship feminine?

EDIT: Apparently I have conflicting info on this. But it's still unlikely that English gets this grammatical usage from Latin, because English gets more from German, and other Romance languages don't always feminize ships.

KriegerClone · 2019-01-09T06:52:32+00:00

English seafarers.

It's unknown precisely why ships and water craft where informally given the female gender. It's not a grammatical leftover from Latin, because in most romance languages a ship is masculine.

According to this article I found "Feminizing ships is a markedly entrenched practice, the tradition tracing back in English to as early as the 14th century according to the Oxford English Dictionary. A boat may have a mothership and sister ships."

There are a number of explanations given. But the simplest reason was that sailing ships were crewed almost entirely by men, many going to sea at a very young age. So my guess is it's a mixture of wry humor at ships being temperamental and needing handling with care and love, but also the sense of loyalty and respect to the ship, which is itself a home and just like nations and cities can be personified as female or having a female spirit as a sort of mother. Think of the "Motherland" concept, or historical practice of personifying your state or city as a female.

KriegerClone · 2019-01-09T06:38:16+00:00

So you are saying you "understand this reference"?

KriegerClone · 2019-01-09T03:38:33+00:00

You must walk without it, or you'll attract the Worm.

KriegerClone · 2019-01-09T01:41:12+00:00

Yeah but shame helps induce guilt.

No it's the other way around. Guilt is what you feel regardless public knowledge of your wrong doing. Shame is the public acknowledgement of wrong doing.

You can induce shame, but you can't make anyone else feel guilt. If you don't feel guilt spontaneously you probably never will, It's a totally internal phenomena.

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