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Jul. 6th, 2012 11:02 pm* There's been more negotiation between Syria and the UN. I'm not convinced that anything real will be done to stop the genocide, but I'd love to be surprised. It's nice to see Hillary Clinton out working to stop it though. I have a whole lot of problems with the Clintons over a bunch of stuff that happened in the '90's, but I have huge respect for both of them when it comes to political intelligence and foreign policy just generally. I may not trust either of them when it comes to domestic policy, but it's hugely reassuring to me to have someone as tough and able as Mrs. Clinton out negotiating to try to help the Syrian people.
A Sunni general has defected. There is hope that Sunni officers might follow suit.
* I forgot to mention, that in the UK MI5 has busted two terrorist cells and is investigating further.
* Mitt Romney would like to remind all the people in the Midwest and South who have been without power for a week that if he were President he would prevent wasteful stimulus spending on infrastructure upgrades like burying the powerlines to prevent power loss. After all, which is more helpful to the average person, electricity to run the refrigerator in July and job creation, or tax cuts for the super wealthy and corporate welfare? Tax cuts for the rich and corporate welfare obviously, right?
* "Manitoba Trans Human Rights Code Expansion Bill Gets Royal Assent:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/07/manitoba-trans-human-rights-code.html
* Hector's been escalating since the 4th. It took hours of drama to get him to eat and take a nap today. I do not think the occasional random mortar outside in the driveway is helping.
* Squirrel and I (separately and together) watched a lot of movies that I've been trying to figure out how to write about. Here is the best I managed:
1. Prometheus: ( No spoilers: )
2. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. ( Structural spoilers, but no real plot detail ) So problematic and unpleasant and just generally something to avoid.
3. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: ( I can't explain what's wrong with this without telling you huge spoilers: )
I just... there really was enough to like here that I wish they had had a bigger, better vision, instead of falling back on the same old, same old cliched problematic bullshit.
4. Spider man: I did not see this one, Squirrel did. Everything I'd heard about the film made me want to avoid it. According to Squirrel, it's actually significantly more incompetent than even I expected it to be, with gigantic plot holes and boneheaded continuity issues such as breaking glass in a scene and having the glass magically unbroken later in the same scene. No thanks.
The thing is, I'm bored with Spider Man anyway. ( Cut for length, under the cut I talk about what's wrong with Spiderman as he currently is written and ways to fix that that Marvel will definitely never adopt: )
A Sunni general has defected. There is hope that Sunni officers might follow suit.
* I forgot to mention, that in the UK MI5 has busted two terrorist cells and is investigating further.
* Mitt Romney would like to remind all the people in the Midwest and South who have been without power for a week that if he were President he would prevent wasteful stimulus spending on infrastructure upgrades like burying the powerlines to prevent power loss. After all, which is more helpful to the average person, electricity to run the refrigerator in July and job creation, or tax cuts for the super wealthy and corporate welfare? Tax cuts for the rich and corporate welfare obviously, right?
* "Manitoba Trans Human Rights Code Expansion Bill Gets Royal Assent:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/07/manitoba-trans-human-rights-code.html
* Hector's been escalating since the 4th. It took hours of drama to get him to eat and take a nap today. I do not think the occasional random mortar outside in the driveway is helping.
* Squirrel and I (separately and together) watched a lot of movies that I've been trying to figure out how to write about. Here is the best I managed:
1. Prometheus: ( No spoilers: )
2. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. ( Structural spoilers, but no real plot detail ) So problematic and unpleasant and just generally something to avoid.
3. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: ( I can't explain what's wrong with this without telling you huge spoilers: )
I just... there really was enough to like here that I wish they had had a bigger, better vision, instead of falling back on the same old, same old cliched problematic bullshit.
4. Spider man: I did not see this one, Squirrel did. Everything I'd heard about the film made me want to avoid it. According to Squirrel, it's actually significantly more incompetent than even I expected it to be, with gigantic plot holes and boneheaded continuity issues such as breaking glass in a scene and having the glass magically unbroken later in the same scene. No thanks.
The thing is, I'm bored with Spider Man anyway. ( Cut for length, under the cut I talk about what's wrong with Spiderman as he currently is written and ways to fix that that Marvel will definitely never adopt: )