I don’t fully support this comment, but I think the point about the refusal of both Israel AND the U.S. to recognise the democratically-elected Hamas government is something that should get more attention, hence why I un-greyed this, for anyone who questions why it was lifted.
ballofstress
ballofstress
If you know anything about the history of the Middle East, specifically the British involvement in it, you would know the significance of the Mossadegh....a inevitable confrontation between the U.K. and Iran that was CLEARLY foreseeable during the mid-late 1940s. So please, don’t try and confuse the issue here by…
Sadly, deleting it will do nothing...that information lives forever and if it comes to that, it will come back to haunt many, many people.
The sheer glee I felt when I heard that he’d died was, as my grandmother would say, ‘unbecoming and entirely appropriate’!
OH, ok, that’s completely different! I certainly wouldn’t want to be polygraphed by a foreign government that was trying to break me! I can only *imagine* the nightmare that must be.... My comment was aimed at the TS/SCI polys in the US for the IC - it’s not wonderful to have your life picked through on every level,…
I’ve taken one for similar (work) reasons and it actually wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected. But I’m also a compulsively honest oversharer, so YMMV.
Look, those of us who were/are willing to cut her some slack based on what may potentially be an abusive marriage aren’t the enemy here. Having empathy when we don’t know all the facts isn’t a negative thing and the amount of people on here slamming the legitimate concern for her that has been expressed by DV…
I’d be more than happy to introduce you, leave you two alone with these topics for a few hours, and then come back for your non-biased take....
When I found out Mr. BallofStress hadn’t read it, I promptly pulled it off the bookshelf, handed it to him, and was like “If you ever want to have sex again, you need to read this IMMEDIATELY!”
Oh it’s worth the read! It’s so terrifyingly prescient that I’m working my way through it slowly in order to absorb the shock of how exactly Trump and Buzz are the same person basically, just from different ends of the spectrum.
Um, I am so that person!
Why we aren’t willing to admit in this country that sometimes people can have pain and have it last. That punishing the many because the actions of a few is a terrible way to practice medicine. That the reason heroin rates and overdose rates have skyrocketed is because of all the laws and all the demonization of pain…
Same with my best friend and I. She’s super Type-A, very driven and into making her career in the business world, cares about making investments, living to a certain standard (in the last 10 years, in two major world capitals)vis a vis fashion, dinners out, vacations, etc. But she’s not married yet, no kids, no pets,…
HA, I *wish* that were the case at my college! It’s frowned on, but there’s no official policy against it. Source: wayyyyyyyyy too much drama at said university.
Yeah, the one super-not-ok thing about the show is that the main characters are all supposed to be sophomores, so 15-16 years old. I know in some states (including MD, where I grew up) the age of consent is 16, but I knew exactly ZERO kids who were 16 the summer between freshman and sophomore year, which is when their…
I find Reign so great, mainly because of Megan Fellows. It’s such a change from her-as-Anne-Shirley that I had in my childhood but being deliciously scheming and complex as Catherine de Medici is just perfect.
I am so, so happy Jez/The Muse is covering this show, because it is already my guilty pleasure and I love it way more than a 30-something should! There are so many nods to Gen X and Millenial things that it’s perfectly campy and a self-mockingly noir! #TotalFanGirl
Given what complete sluts they seem to think all women are, I’m rather shocked there hasn’t been a GOP attempt to conduct paternity tests at birth, so that no POOR MENZ have to risk raising children that aren’t biologically theirs.