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| Dr. Charles Krauthammer Dr. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is an M.D. and a lawyer and is paralyzed from the neck down. A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer.. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. The ramifications are staggering for us, our children and their children.
Last Monday was a profound evening, hearing Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center for the American Experiment. He is brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post. The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have summarized his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally. Even 2 Dems at my table agreed with everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded and have not drunk the Kool-Aid, feel free.
Summary of his comments:
1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a cool customer who doesn't show his emotions. It's very hard to know what's behind the mask. The taking down of the Clinton dynasty by a political neophyte was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.
2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he's on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!
3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come toWashington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can't be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada .
4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus.. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada. God forbid!
5. He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can't work in the long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he's a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.
6. Obama doesn't really see himself as President of the United States, but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour inGermany and England was a prime example of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!
7. He is now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.
8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future. We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and state's rights.
9. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We are spending trillions that we don't have.. This could lead to hyperinflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn't work, nor will the stimulus package.These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama's allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.
10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the mantra of change caused people to act emotionally. Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.
11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Dems continue to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight. It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets you really thinking about what's happening in Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we're right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it's far too late.
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| Title: To The Bone
Author: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) copycatgirl
Rating: PG-13 for eating disorders
Characters/Pairings: Arthur, Merlin, Arthur/Merlin
Spoilers: Very slight spoilers for “The Lady of the Lake”
Disclaimer: Merlin does not belong to me.
Summary: Merlin’s comments to Arthur cut deeper than intended. What is wrong with Prince Arthur, and can Merlin help him?
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| Actor/Actress: Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Colin Morgan & Katie McGrath, Bradley James & Angel Coulby, Billie Piper, David Tennant, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd TV Shows: Gossip Girl, Merlin, Torchwood, Doctor Who Banners: Leighton Meester, Merlin    Graphics Here | |
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| I'm looking for Doctor Who merchandise, and it's obviously hard to find in America. Is Who North America a reliable place to shop online? I figure this would be a good group to poll, and any opinions would be appreciated (or if you know another good website that sells Who things, that would be very helpful too!). | |
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| Okay, I have two questions.
1. If people suspected that a woman who was married had a child with someone else, because of the child's appearance (ex. dark auburn hair and brown eyes from a blond-haired blue-eyed set of parents) how would the child and the mother be treated in about 1959 to about 1967? I'm having trouble figuring out how to google it and am not coming up with anything.
2. The hippie movement in the UK. Wiki says that they had "peace convoys" and went to musical festivals at Stonehenge, but doesn't give much more information, when did the movement really come to the UK? Would the term "hippie" still be used, or is "New age traveller" more appropriate? Wiki seems to say that these were more popular in the 1980s, and if they had a permanent home and didn't travel constantly, would it still be a proper term?
I learned that the peace symbol came from the UK and was embraced by the US, but was it widely used to mean peace in the UK or just nuclear disarmament? | |
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| Time: Modern day but the main action for the situation in question is early 2000s. Place: An alternative universe United States that was conquered by Japan at the end of World War II (because Japan managed to develop the atomic bomb first and dropped it on Akron and Detroit). Technology level: Relatively the same as this universe. ( Situation ) | |
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| More specifically, my Very Very Late Review of episode 209: The Lady of the Lake. I never remember to post these things on time...*sighs* Anyway, my entire review of the thing is less of a review and more of me playing devil's advocate, as it's also quite largely a response to everyone else's reviews on the episode. Even if you don't read it, take away just this one point about 209: This episode was NOT about Merlin and Freya - it was about Merlin. And- I've started a discussion thread on the trailer for 210: Sweet Dreams. It can be found here. | |
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| Was told I should try posting this here, so... I do cosplay at cons I go to, and when I have my Doctor costumes, try to do a sort of IC video report of the whole thing. Just finished editing the one for a con I attended this past weekend. I had my Ultimate Adventure 6 costume, so.... 3 parts: 1, 2, and 3Not my best one, admittingly. That still goes to my Dragon*Con video where I had a bunch of other Whovians to play off of. | |
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| Okay, just finished watching "Midnight" on a sudden whim, and whoa! I think it might really be fitting into what has yet to come. ( Read more... ) | |
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|  Scott Brown on Why America Is Finally Ready for Doctor Who in Wired Magazine November 2009There are nerds. And there are science fiction nerds. And then there are American fans of Doctor Who — those who dare to combine the exquisite dweebery of Anglophilia with the delicious dorkdom of old-skool SF. I’m of that last tribe, a real Who-head. I can tell you what Tardis stands for (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space), and, more important, I can say “ Tardis” over and over again — not just with a straight face but with reverence. Bargain-basement BBC production values? Alien monsters made from trash cans and toilet plungers? Anachronous kibitzing with Shakespeare and Dickens? That’s my flavor, mate. It’s the sort of thing that’s hard to find on this side of the pond (especially now that Syfy has foolishly ceded new Who episodes and specials to BBC America). I suppose US culture simply isn’t advanced enough to appreciate the longest-running, most successful (and, yes, also the cheesiest and chintziest) science fiction series in television history. And by advanced, I mean defeated. Luckily, that may be changing. Before you brand me a Benedork Arnold, let me explain: There’s a fix I just don’t get from mainstream American science fiction, perhaps because of its grinding obsession with the imperialistic (and its depressive sibling, the dystopic), not to mention its wearisome push for ever-shinier effects. Like its not-so-distant cousin American religion, American sci-fi is fixated on final battles, ultimate judgment (particularly on questions of control and leadership), and an up-or-down vote on the whole good/evil issue. Even the most morally restless imaginings — the Losts and Battlestars — eventually prolapse into Bruckheimer-esque excerpts from the Book of Revelation. As an antidote, I turn to the Doctor — a fussy 900-year-old neurotic who’s part Ancient Mariner, part Oxford don, with a whimsical fashion sense, a close acquaintance with defeat and futility, and a tendency to rattle on. He subscribes to no Force-like creed. No enlightened military Federation stands behind him, photon torpedoes at the ready — indeed, his race, the Time Lords, is more or less extinct. His signature gizmo isn’t a blaster or a phaser but a souped-up screwdriver. His Millennium Falcon? The Tardis, which looks to the unschooled like an old telephone booth. It’s actually a police call box, a relic from the ’50s, and the ship’s most spectacular feature isn’t artillery; it’s feng shui: It’s bigger on the inside.The Doctor is courageous and heroic, sure, but in the Mèdecins Sans Frontiéres vein. Oh so Euro! True, Who does take a little adjusting to. Like room-temperature Guinness and universal health care, it’s an acquired taste. But in 2005, writer-producer Russell T. Davies (creator of Queer as Folk) relaunched the show — which had been more or less on ice for 15 years — as a zippy, cheeky, Buffy-esque melodrama, which grasped the appeal of the initial series of the ’60s. It was TV’s first real postimperial science fiction, devised in a time of scarcity, dispossession, and massive social deflation — but also great hope for the future. Sound familiar, America? Oh, I can hear the teabaggers now: This is defeatist talk! Doesn’t sound like your cup of Tetley, eh, Glenn Beck? Fair enough: Enjoy your Transformers and the baby-faced club kids of the new Enterprise. But I’d highly recommend a field trip to Whoville. And I’m not the only one. Thanks to BBC America and Who spinoffs like Torchwood, the Doctor’s growing popularity here in the States may signal a dawning recognition that size and might and flash aren’t everything — that there are less bombastic futures to contemplate, that sci-fi can be elegiac without the boom and bust of dystopia. Perhaps we can appreciate a complicated hero and some tricked-out trash cans instead of relying on gi-normous, eye-stabbing “set pieces.” Join me, my Yankee brethren. There’s plenty of room in the Tardis — maybe even enough for two ex-empires on their way to the Great Beyond.
Scott Brown on Why America Is Finally Ready for Doctor Who in Wired Magazine November 2009
Sadie Brown on Why America Is Finally Ready for Doctor Who on LiveJournal
Two words: thank you. America needs the Doctor. Now, more than ever.
Why?
Because almost none of the American produced shows are of any interest to me. I mean, it’s sad. I have at least a hundred channels that I never even bother flipping through at times in search of a good flick or show. I never find anything new. If it’s interesting, it’s either a repeat of NCIS, Battlestar Galactica, or a reality show. There are still some good shows out there, yes, but far too few. People are so obsessed with great graphics, blood, and detective work in this day and age that they forgot how amazing low-budget, amatuer-ish shows can be with a good story line and even better actors
We need a revolution!
And, no, J.J. Abrams is NOT the one to do it! (Cloverfield. ) We need actors who can act, and writers who actually have some original or, at the very least, creative ideas. I used to be as mindless as the rest of my generation. And then I found dreamy Chris and even dreamier David. I discovered the wonders of Whoville one cold winter afternoon when my roommate said if I was bored I could watch the dvd set she borrowed from the library. I was hooked after that first episode with Christopher Eccleston. I mean, I was a little revolted at the terrible graphics, but at the same time enchanted by the balls of whoever shunned the idea of CGI. And, in time, that became part of the charm. Now, I make sure to watch every episode and google the show every other week or so for any updates that may be had through that amazing invention call the internet. It’s redefined and refined my idea of a great yarn, and I’m thankful. It’s even encouraged me to stay true to what I want to do, even if it is for the small, irrational hope that one day, a Doctor who happens to look just like David Tennant may pick me up and my best friend and whisk us away to another world.
I look at my peers and see what I once was: a mindless, accepting dolt. Doctor Who was one of the first shows that actually made me start questioning not only if what history teachers are teaching is accurate or not, but also the workings of the world and what we can and can not change. I wish that people would watch it and see the same. That is what our society, not only our entertainment industry, needs. Some show that can open people’s minds to absurd ideas and make them think about new things that may actual help us instead of postponing the ‘inevitable’. I mean, you see people glued to things like CSI, am and, I know for a fact, that they learn things from that that can help in some real life situation or other. Our entertainment industry is our school. For everyone. So make shows that can better the world, open the mind, and actually entertain us; shows like [wait for it......] Doctor Who! Well, again, thank you for the article. It’s a gleam of hope in a dark age of entertainment. I hope that the rest of America opens up to the idea of the Doctor and shows like it. | |
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| So I have to write a short story! Blah I hate short stories... lol, but I was in the middle of writing my book and I was like, this first chapter I have.. I could change a few things here and there and BAM! I had my short story. I was just wondering if anyone could read it and tell me what they think. Sadly I haven't had time to check the grammar and spelling for everything yet, but luckily I have an “editor.” I just want some fast input, like before Sunday because I want to try and finalize it by then. I have to cut out a lot too. I read the requirements and it was five pages which I have… double-spaced… lol.. So yeah I have to cut. So another think.. Tell me what you think might not be needed? Useless stuff, you know? Thanks for the help! Title: ( Unwritten ) | |
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|  I CAN'T BELIEVE I FUCKING DID IT. I was RIGHT over the line, but I finished the epilogue four minutes before I had to leave work, and I wasn't going to go back and add right then. I told myself I would finish the damn thing today, and I DID IT. HOLY FUCKING SHIT I WROTE A BOOK. It's utter and complete crap, but I DID IT. For anybody who hasn't finished theirs yet, KEEP GOING. If you have, CONGRATS. This was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I'm self-publishing this shit some day if I have to, but either way, IT IS GETTING OUT THERE. I have to share this madness with the world. SO FUCKING HAPPY | |
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| Post your thoughts/musings what ever you like on the animated episode that concluded on the Red Button today.
The Omnibus full episode is on Saturday 5th of December on BBC2.
But in the mean time those that have seen the full thing on Red Button can post their thoughts here.
Spoilers for Dreamland in comments,
No spoilers for future episodes please. | |
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| I was wondering: is there any way to get your hands on older audio commentaries? I mean, the podcast commentaries.
I'm out on the hunt for the commentary on The Next Doctor but no luck yet (at least not without signing up to sites that want me to pay for it).
Any suggestions or tips, maybe? | |
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| Pic has spoilers for The End of Time CIN clip. ( Preview ) | |
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| I just remembered a throw away line by Riversong (in her diary) in Forest of the Dead ( Read more... ) | |
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